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David Akers (1975/88): The 1926 is one of the most common issues of the Saint-Gaudens series, but it is still a distinct step higher in overall population rarity and condition rarity than such truly common issues as the 1924, 1927 and 1928 with which it is generally, but incorrectly, associated. Contrary to what some other experts have written, the 1926 is also significantly more rare than the 1925, especially in gem condition. A few superb (MS-67 or better) examples do exist but they are extremely rare.
The 1926 is always very sharply struck with full frosty surfaces and very good to excellent lustre. Color varies, but rich yellow orange gold or greenish gold are predominant. Many specimens have orange or rose-colored highlights and it is not unusual to see copper spots or stains. Top grade examples of this issue, like all the Philadelphia Mint issues from 1924 to 1932, are highly attractive, and it is obvious that all of these late issues were minted to a very high standard. | <urn:uuid:07b45407-c8ec-423c-be32-3fbf7259e332> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/coinfacts.aspx?i=1065742 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280791.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00361-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968692 | 206 | 1.898438 | 2 |
4.The tableau on the back of the watch is entirely made by hand.
Turn the watch over and you discover a world of hand-crafted imagery. Through the nonreflective sapphire crystal caseback, you can see a tableau suited to the watch’s namesake. At right, Christopher Columbus carries the waving flag of the Spanish crown. On the opposite side of the Gravity Control aperture, two indigenous Americans face Columbus, flanked by palm trees and a large orange parrot. At the top of the view, Columbus’s three ships sail over the Atlantic. All the elements are in gold and are hand-engraved; some are painted, while others (like the human figures) retain a silver-colored patina. The back of a watch isn’t always the ideal place for immense artistry, but the Columbus tableau has excellent composition: just look at how the tail-feathers of the parrot mirror and invert the feathers in the American’s headdress, and how both elements are echoed by the palm fronds.
5. The decorations were done with extreme precision to fit against the movement.
Manual-wind Caliber 8805 was used on previous Christophe Colomb models, as was the 45-mm rose-gold case. But in order to make them work with the highly decorated back of the Grand Voyage II, the movement had to be pared away. (From the front of the watch, the mainplate can only be glimpsed at the edges, where Zenith and the brand’s signature stars are engraved.) The decorations are also extremely close to the movement: in some places, there is less than 0.10 mm of space between the engraved figures and the caliber. Given the sparseness of the movement, it was also a challenge for the Zenith manufacture to anchor the appliques to the mainplate, keeping the whole tableau in place.
6. If you want one, it might be easier to discover a new continent.
Not unlike the Americas before 1492, the Academy Christophe Colomb Hurricane Grand Voyage II is going to be distinctly hard to find. Zenith is producing the watch in a limited edition of just 10 pieces. And, like Columbus, you might want a royal court to fund your venture: the watch costs $353,000. Still, for that price you’ll get a true original, and a timepiece that’s sure to surprise anyone who discovers it on your wrist. | <urn:uuid:379da8eb-303a-4db7-8d87-867eda8794a6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.watchtime.com/wristwatch-industry-news/watches/6-things-to-know-about-the-zenith-academy-christophe-colomb-hurricane-grand-voyage-ii/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.926633 | 514 | 1.648438 | 2 |
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The Four Main Body Locks
These techniques consolidate the effects of a Kundalini Yoga practice and direct prana within the physical and energetic pathways to promote healing, energizing, and strengthening of the whole human being.
Neck Lock (Jalandhar Bandh)
What: Neck Lock is the most basic and most generally applied lock. It regulates gross and subtle movement in the upper part of the body.
How: Lift the chest and sternum up while lengthening the back of the neck, by pulling the chin toward the back of the neck. Neck, throat and face muscles remain relaxed.
When: All chanting meditation, most pranayama. Breath held in or out.
Why: Concentrates the secretions of the glandular system, thereby increasing their interconnection. Regulates blood pressure. Minimizes external distractions. Seals energy in the brain stem and moon center (chin). Directs pranic energy into the central channel, calming the heart.
Root Lock (MulBandh)
What: Root Lock is like a hydraulic lock at the base of the spine. It coordinates, stimulates, and balances the energies involved with the rectum, sex organs, and navel point (i.e. the lower three chakras).
How: Three actions are applied together in a smooth, rapid, flowing motion. First, contract and hold the muscles around the anus. Then contract and hold the muscles around the sex organ (like stopping the flow of urine). Finally, contract the muscles of the lower abdomen and the navel point toward the spine.
When: Frequently applied at the end of an exercise. Sometimes applied – continuously or rhythmically – throughout a meditation or exercise. Breath held in or out. Women on their moon cycle should not apply Root Lock.
Why: Crystallizes the effect of an exercise. Blends prana and apana at the navel center which, when mixed, opens the entrance to the sushmuna for energy to flow up the spine. Stimulates the proper flow of spinal fluid.
Diaphragm Lock (Uddiyana Bandh)
What: Diaphragm Lock vertically integrates emotions, pranic energy, and functions that occur above and below the diaphragm muscle. Tightness in this muscle – and the emotions it stores – can make this lock more difficult to achieve.
How: Inhale, then exhale completely. Pull the entire abdominal region up and back towards the spine. The navel point is not contracted although it will move upwards. Lift the chest while gently pressing the lower spine forward. When held properly, the “notch” at the base of the front of the throat becomes accentuated. Hold for 10 to 60 seconds without straining. Then relax the abdomen, gradually inhaling without releasing the Neck Lock or raising the chin.
For many people it is easier to practice this lock in a standing position. With the feet shoulder width apart, bend forward slightly, hands on knees and back straight. Lifting the chest slightly, apply the lock.
When: On an empty stomach. Held after breath fully exhaled.
Why: Massages intestines and heart muscle. Stimulates cleansing, promotes youthfulness. Strengthens the fire element, Third Chakra, and opens the Heart Chakra, resulting in increased kindness, compassion, and patience.
Great Lock (MahaBandh)
What: The Great Lock is part of the central infrastructure of Kundalini Yoga.
How: With the breath held out, apply all three locks (Neck, Diaphragm, and Root) simultaneously.
When: On an empty stomach. Held after breath fully exhaled. Done in various postures and with different mudras.
Why: Rejuvenates glands, nerves, and chakras. It is said to cure many ailments such as improper blood pressure, menstrual cramps, intestinal irregularity, and more.
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The influenza virus causes flu in communities in certain seasons. And it’s becoming worse nowadays due to the pandemic happening worldwide.
Flu can cause mild to severe symptoms. It can even lead to life-threatening complications. In fact, hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations and deaths each year are due to flu. It is especially dangerous to people who are at most risk such as:
- Children younger than 5 years
- Pregnant women at any stage of pregnancy
- People older than 65 years
- People with chronic medical conditions
- People with an increased risk of exposure to influenza
The best way to protect yourself and your loved ones is to get a flu vaccine. Unfortunately, there are still people who are questioning the effectiveness of the vaccine. Asking questions such as “how does the flu vaccine work?” or “how long does flu vaccine last?”
Does the flu vaccine work?
Most cases of the flu resolve on their own. But if complications like pneumonia arise alongside it, flu can be life-threatening. How do you ask?
While flu is not always the primary cause of death, it can still cause fatal complications. These include severe inflammation of the lungs, which can cause acute respiratory failure. Flu can worsen chronic medical conditions like heart disease and asthma.
Flu can also progress into pneumonia, which can become life-threatening. It can cause inflammation of the brain, heart, or muscles as well. That’s why you need a flu shot to protect yourself and your loved ones.
Does the flu vaccine work? Yes, it does. In fact, there are studies showing that flu vaccines can lessen the risk of flu illness. It can reduce the risk by between 40% and 60% among the population. Moreover, it can protect you against more serious outcomes like hospitalization. It can even prevent you from dying due to complications.
The flu vaccine will start working two weeks after you receive the shot. The effectiveness of the vaccine actually depends on three factors. These are:
- Age. The flu shot is less effective on people ages 65 years and older.
- Virus Mutation. The influenza virus could change. As such, it’s possible that the flu shot will not be that effective as it no longer matches the virus.
- Vaccine Schedule. With more time passes, more flu antibodies will degrade.
How long does the flu vaccine last?
Health experts recommend everyone aged 6 months or older get themselves vaccinated. Although there are certain groups of people who shouldn’t get it. These are:
- Children ages less than 6 months old
- Those with egg or mercury allergies
- Those who have had a severe reaction to any of the ingredients of the flu vaccine
- Those with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS)
Wondering how long does the flu vaccine last? The flu vaccine can protect you against the flu for at least six months. That’s why you should get a flu shot every year. Flu vaccinations are usually done in October when flu activity begins to increase. This makes your immunity last until the following April.
This doesn’t mean that you can’t get your flu vaccine before or after October. In fact, you can get a flu shot at any time of the year. Regardless, it is better to get the shot as early as September or as late as January.
Keep in mind that if you’re aged 65 years and over, then the flu vaccine may wear off earlier than usual. This is due to the weakened immune response among older people. As for the children, the effectiveness of flu shots is not reduced.
Health professionals recommend adults, age 65 years and older, get vaccinated early. For children, they can get vaccinated as soon as the vaccine becomes available.
There are some children who need two doses of flu shots. For these kids, they should get their first dose as soon as the vaccine is available. Their second dose should be at least four weeks after the first dose.
For women in their third trimester of pregnancy, they should get early vaccination. This can help protect their infants during the first months of life.
Side effects of the flu vaccine
The flu vaccine is the most effective way to prevent yourself from becoming sick with the flu. Although you may experience some side effects. The good thing is, these will usually go away in a day or so. These side effects include:
- Low-grade fever
- Chills or headache
- Swollen, red, tender area around the injection site
- Minor muscle aches
Yes, it’s still possible for you to get the flu after you receive the shot. But your symptoms will be milder.
Flu Vaccine Facts
Are you still in doubt about whether you should get a flu shot? These flu vaccine facts might help relieve your worries:
- Flu vaccines are available every year.
- The flu vaccine contains an inactivated form of the influenza virus.
- Flu vaccines cannot give you the flu.
- Flu shots cause an immune response, not a flu infection.
- Flu shots can keep you from getting sick with the flu.
- Flu shots reduce the severity of illness in people who get vaccinated but still get sick.
- Flu vaccination reduces the risk of flu-associated hospitalization.
- Flu shots can reduce the risk of a flu-related worsening of chronic lung disease.
- Flu vaccination helps protect pregnant women during and after pregnancy.
- Getting vaccinated can protect people around you.
Learning about the flu vaccine can aid you in understanding how it can affect your health. If you want to stop the spread of the influenza virus, WellHealthWorks can help you with that. We offer flu shots and Covid-19 employee testing. We also provide wellness screening, helping you identify early certain preventable diseases. For more of what services we can offer, you can call us at 833-935-9355. You can also send us an email at email@example.com. | <urn:uuid:1220e548-ab43-45d8-ae22-cb5032a6f195> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://wellhealthworks.com/how-long-does-flu-vaccine-last/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.954685 | 1,260 | 3.40625 | 3 |
On March 5, 2018, the IRS released Notice 2018-12, which addresses the impact of coverage for male sterilization and contraceptives on an individual’s eligibility for HSA contributions. This is an important issue, as policies issued or amended in Maryland on or after Jan. 1, 2018, must provide coverage for male sterilization without cost-sharing for participants. Illinois and Vermont already have similar mandates for such coverage, with Oregon implementing the mandate effective 2019.
As a reminder, participants with qualified HDHP coverage aren’t eligible for HSA contributions if they’re eligible to receive benefits before the statutory annual deductible has been met. There’s an exception for certain preventive care services, which may be covered without regard to the deductible without impacting an individual’s eligibility for an HSA.
On that idea of preventive services, there had been confusion on this issue, as female contraceptive services are considered preventive care. Qualified HDHP participants may be eligible for benefits related to female contraceptive services prior to meeting the statutory annual deductible — and still remain eligible for HSA contributions. The IRS has clarified that while female contraceptive services are considered preventive care for HSA eligibility purposes, male sterilization and contraception are not. Therefore, an HDHP participant who is eligible for male sterilization coverage prior to meeting the statutory annual deductible isn’t eligible to receive or make HSA contributions. In other words, the HDHP wouldn’t be considered qualified HDHP coverage.
Importantly, though, the IRS has provided transition relief until 2020 for participants who are, have been or become participants in a health plan that provides benefits for male sterilization or male contraceptives without a deductible. Such individuals will continue to be eligible for HSA contributions until 2020.
The transition period gives states time to amend their mandated coverage, if desired. It also gives the IRS time to consider the appropriate standards for preventive care in regards to HSA eligibility. It also allows continued HSA eligibility (at least until 2020) for those that have already enrolled in a HDHP plan that covers male sterilization and/or contraception without charging any cost-sharing. The IRS is receiving comments on this issue as well as ways to expand the use and flexibility of HSAs.
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From the East Coast to the West Coast, many are thinking about the right to vote. The conversation among political scientists and the actions of policy practitioners reflects an important side of the public dialogue: how can states protect the right to vote?
On the East Coast, one political scientist theorized on how to protect the right to vote. Theodore S. Arrington, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, presented his ideas in an article for the Scholars Strategy Network. He writes,
"By now, Americans universally expect that all adult citizens have the right to vote. But an effective democracy must also ensure that votes are fairly cast and accurately counted. Ballot security mesaures can sometimes conflict with assuring that everyone has the right to vote."
In response to this conflict, Professor Arrington suggests that states take steps to protect proactively the right to vote. If states choose to use photo identification laws, he says,
"there are ways to implement such rules without harming anyone's legitimate right to vote or discouraging turnout. Laws can allow for the use of a wide range of types of photo identification, as the states of Georgia and New Hampshire already do."
On the West Coast, one state took proactive steps to protect the right to vote by making voter registration automatic. On Monday, March 16, Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed a new law that will automatically register all qualified citizens any time they interact with the DMV.
FairVote supports adopting a Right to Vote Amendment in the Constitution. Many do not realize that the "right to vote" does not appear in the Constitution. An explicit "right to vote" in the Constitution would reflect national values, put the burden on states to protect the right to vote, and place strict scrutiny on any laws that could impede citizens exercising their right. Several national organizations and major cities, including Pittsburgh and Atlanta, have passed resolutions endorsing this plan.
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Respond to a critical sentencing issue in criminal justice. Possible topics for the response include:
- The impact of sentencing guidelines.
- The constitutionality of a guideline sentence.
- The effectiveness of a Three-Strike law.
- The requirement of victim impact statements.
- The imposition/constitutionality of the death penalty
1. Be sure to clearly identify the issue to be addressed in the response.
2. Discuss the goals of sentencing in general, and the different types of sentences.
3. Review the constitutional rights important in criminal sentencing.
4. Discuss the relationship between the topic of the paper and these constitutional rights and considerations.
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011
by Mark Waterbury, PhD., with Anne Bremner
We all remember the tale of The Emperor’s New Clothes, by Hans Christian Andersen. Charlatans convinced the vain Emperor that they could weave fabric so fine, so beautiful, that only an idiot or incompetent would fail to see it. Not wanting to admit that he couldn’t see the fabric himself, the Emperor bought a pricey outfit and paraded about before his people.
The people, not wanting to be thought of as idiots or incompetents, all praised his fine clothes. They outdid one another in describing the beauty of the fabric and how perfectly it all fit together.
It was left to a child to point out the obvious: The Emperor had no clothes. Once the child spoke, the floodgates opened and everyone could admit the truth that lay before their eyes all along.
Now, at the appeal of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito in their trial for the murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, we see prosecutor Giuliano Mignini’s absurd charade of guilt coming apart at the seams. The prosecutor, it seems, has no clothes either. Much of the unraveling took place in just the last week. First, a report from court-appointed independent experts who are reviewing the DNA profiling evidence on two items claimed to be critical by the prosecution, was leaked to Italian media.
The experts report that they have found nothing. No blood on a kitchen knife that the prosecution claimed was the murder weapon, not even between the blade and the handle where it would have surely been wicked up and trapped. Neither did they find enough DNA to profile. The finding that there is no DNA or blood anywhere on the knife marks the beginning of the end for that critical item of evidence.
That result was not a surprise. It was an ordinary kitchen knife that did not match the wounds, did not match an imprint left at the scene, no blood was found on it in the first round of tests with TMB, and the profiler system reported “too low” for DNA. But it had woven, like the Emperor’s invisible fabric, into apparently damning evidence with a breathtakingly simplistic line, “Amanda’s DNA on the handle, Meredith’s on the blade.” Only an idiot or incompetent could fail to see that that meant guilt.
When presented in court it was carried in its own glass case, under armed guard in a melodramatic show. It was scientific nonsense, and now everyone can see it. That knife had nothing to do with the crime. It was also the beginning of the end for the bra clasp that was literally kicked around on the floor by investigators for 47 days, dug out from under a throw rug, dropped back on the floor, then finally retrieved.
The prosecution had no physical evidence whatsoever that associated Raffaele with the crime. So, they sent a team back in after the 47 days to fetch some in the form of that clasp. We learned from that same leaked report that there is no DNA to be found on the clasp. It was claimed by the prosecution to have contamination-level DNA on it from an unknown number of sources, one of them possibly being Raffaele. But now, nothing can be found. Why? Because it seems, the clasp has been stored, for years, in a jar of liquid. Not only has any DNA long since rotted away, the clasp itself has actually rusted. Any competent forensic investigator knows that DNA samples must be kept dry or they will decompose.
This leaves us with a question similar to ones that seem to come up again and again in this case while analyzing the prosecution, their forensics experts, and the judges in the court of first instance. Were they really so incompetent as to not know this? Or could it be that the destruction of the clasp evidence was not a mistake? We may never know. All that is certain is that the clasp will go down as a kind of monument to bad evidence handling.
The prosecutor’s new clothes looked even shabbier when Monica Napoleoni, the head of the polizia unit in charge of the hotly disputed interrogations of both Raffaele and Amanda, failed to show up to testify in court. The astonished judge fined her 300 Euros. There was a recess while they tried to contact her, but she could not be found. Oops! Got the wrong day of the week? The prosecution said that they didn’t really need her after all, but she will be summoned nevertheless. It is not the first time.
Why is it that key witnesses for the prosecution seem to no longer want to appear in court? But it was the testimony of Antonio Curatollo, also known as Toto, a perpetually homeless heroin addict that most clearly laid bare the prosecutor’s new clothes. Toto had been hailed as a “Superwitness,” a role he had practice at playing since this was no less than his third appearance as a critical witness in a murder trial. The man doesn’t get around much, but a lot must go down within sight of his perch on the park bench where he lived.
Toto testified in the trial that he saw Amanda and Raffaele engaging in a heated discussion in the plaza near her home, hanging out for hours on the evening of the murder. This contradicted their alibis that they were at Raffaele’s apartment that night. There were deep problems with Toto’s testimony from the outset, but these had been papered over, and he had emerged as the single, solitary, prosecution eyewitness who the defendants were near the crime scene. He had testified that he was sure of the night and the time because people had costumes on, and there were buses taking people off to the discos.
Trouble is, the buses and costumes are recollections of Halloween night, the night before the murder took place. There were neither costumes nor buses on the night of the murder, November 1, All Saint’s Day, a more sober holiday.
In answer to a question from the presiding judge, Toto explained that although he was addicted to heroin at the time of the events, heroin was not a hallucinogen. He replied that he lived “at home” when asked about his residence, but home turned out to be Capanne prison, where he is serving a sentence for sale of Heroin. He was uncertain about what day Halloween falls on and professed not to know why he is in prison. He was clear about where he relieved himself, in the bushes near the plaza. An assistant prosecutor, Manuela Commodi, dismissed Toto’s multiple contradictions, saying that it doesn’t matter that he confused the night of the murder with Halloween, since we know where Amanda and Raffaele were on Halloween.
But the leaked report, the no-show, and the almost-childlike statements of a bewildered man have now spoken for all to hear, and revealed for all to see - the prosecutor has no case.Tweet | <urn:uuid:b9465264-cf75-486f-8fbb-43d9425e1d03> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://womenincrimeink.blogspot.com/2011/03/prosecutors-new-clothes-and-amanda-knox.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00345-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981534 | 1,483 | 1.695313 | 2 |
The Northern Alliance and the U.S.-led coalition is continuing its fight against remaining Taleban forces and the al Quaida terrorist network led by Osama bin Laden. To date, thousands of Afghans have fled the fighting, resulting to a vast humanitarian crisis in the country. Some, according to observers, are already beginning to return.
International aid agencies will be called upon to help feed, clothe and house those Afghan refugees, while working with the successor government to rebuild the country. Pat Bodnar has more on the challenges facing these international agencies in this Dateline report. | <urn:uuid:10cfe7c2-1bfa-41c1-a919-a7c9391345d2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.voanews.com/a/a-13-a-2001-11-29-24-dateline-66433522/550391.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00169-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941051 | 115 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Florida contains 112 schools that offer forensic accounting programs. University of Miami, the highest-ranking forensic accounting school in FL, has a total student population of 15,629 and is the 69th highest ranked school in America.
Of the 112 forensic accounting schools in Florida, only 16 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, University of Miami comes out as the most expensive ($26,758/yr), with Sarasota County Technical Institute as the lowest recorded at only $2,150/yr.
Forensic Accounting students from Florida schools who go on to become forensic accountants, forensics specialists, crime scene forensics specialists, computer forensics specialists, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 1,106,980 people working as accountants and auditors alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $67,430. Also, Bill and account collectors make on average $32,560 per year and there are about 403,100 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Florida alone, there are 31,340 employed bill and account collectors earning an average yearly salary of $31,790. Accountants and auditors in this state earn $62,260/yr and there are 74,230 employed.
Also, within the forensic accounting schools in Florida, the average student population is 3,322 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 17 to 1. Aside from forensic accounting, there are 7625 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 2,875 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $2,879, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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Screen time is the time you spend each day using devices with screens, like TVs, video consoles, smartphones and tablets. There are benefits and risks to using these devices, so a healthy family lifestyle includes limits on daily screen time.
What is screen time?
Screen time is the time you spend watching TV or DVDs, using computers, playing video or hand-held computer games, or using tablets or smartphones.
Screen time can be:
- interactive – for example, playing video games, communicating via Skype, or using online tools to draw pictures
- not interactive – for example, sitting still and watching movies, TV programs or YouTube videos
- educational – for example, doing maths homework online
- recreational – for example, playing games or watching videos for fun.
Screen time guidelines
Child development experts recommend limiting children’s daily screen time. This is because real-life interactions with you and others are much better for your child’s wellbeing, learning and development.
The latest guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) suggest that:
- children under 18 months should avoid screen time, other than video-chatting
- children aged 18 months to 2 years can watch or use high-quality programs or apps if adults watch or play with them to help them understand what they’re seeing
- children aged 2-5 years should have no more than one hour a day of screen time with adults watching or playing with them
- children aged 6 years and older should have consistent limits on the time they spend on electronic media and the types of media they use.
What do screen time limits mean for your child?
Screen time limits are about making sure your child enjoys lots of healthy, fun activities – both with and without screens.
Limits mean looking at the time your child spends on screens and making sure it doesn’t get in the way of sleep and activities that are good for her development. These activities include things like physical play, reading, creative play like drawing, and social time with family and friends.
Limits don’t mean you should stop your child from watching TV or playing video games because he uses screens at school or for homework.
These guidelines aim to help you manage your family’s media use in a screen-filled world. The AAP suggests a good way to do this is by creating a family media plan
. Your plan could cover things like screen-free areas in your house, screen-free times, and programs and apps that are OK for your children to use.
Benefits of screen time
Television, movies, video games and the internet can be a positive influence on your child. This is especially when:
- you get involved when your child is using them and help your child make good choices about what games to play or things to watch
- you get involved and talk with your child about what’s going on in the game or program so she understands it
- your child uses good-quality content on screens – for example, playing a video game that involves solving creative puzzles to progress to higher levels
- using screens gives your child new ideas for traditional play – for example, playing Minecraft might get your child interested in designing buildings on paper
- using screens helps your child learn new skills – for example, doing a video about a school excursion might help your child learn video-editing skills.
Risks of screen time
Screen time can have physical, developmental, safety and other risks. If you reduce the amount of time your child spends using screens, you can reduce the risks for your child.
Using screens can cause physical problems. For example:
- Looking at a screen intensely can cause sore, irritated and dry eyes, headaches and fatigue.
- Looking down at a device can make your child’s neck and spine uncomfortable.
- Being inactive for long periods using a screen can lead to a less active lifestyle, which could lead to obesity.
You can reduce these risks by encouraging your child to:
- regularly look away from the screen into the distance
- keep his neck upright when he’s using a phone or tablet
- take regular breaks to get up and move around
- make physical activity part of his daily life.
Too much screen time can have an impact on children’s language development and social skills. This is because children need real-life interactions to develop these skills. Too much screen time can also affect older children’s development – for example, it can affect their ability to have conversations, maintain eye contact, pay attention in school or read body language.
Too much screen time can also result in children missing out on developing a wide range of interests, and the friends and learning associated with these interests.
You can reduce this risk by making sure your child balances time spent using screens with other activities.
Your child could encounter dangerous material or people on the internet.
You can reduce this risk by taking some practical internet safety precautions like checking the privacy settings on apps that your child uses. You can also help your child learn how to use the internet safely, responsibly and enjoyably – for example, by talking to your child about not sharing personal details online.
Screen-based media can influence children and their behaviour – for example, children can copy or be influenced by negative behaviour, sterotypical representations of gender, violent imagery or coarse language they see in advertising and other media.
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The True Story Behind the Oscar® Winning Film "The Counterfeiters"
Critical praise for the definitive new book about Operation Bernhard, the greatest counterfeit in history.
"The compelling story of the Third Reich's attempt to wreck the British economy by flooding Europe with millions of counterfeit British pounds....thorough research and authoritative voice enable this fascinating chapter of history to hold interest. Gripping proof that indeed all is fair in love and war."
"An astonishing and exciting tale. The
drama of how the Nazis mounted a complex counterfeiting
operation inside a concentration camp is matched by the chilling
life-or-death saga of the prisoners involved. It reads like
a thriller, but it's all true."
--Walter Isaacson, author
of The Wise Men and Benjamin
"The first comprehensive account of the saga."
--Wall Street Journal front page story.
"Larry Malkin has written so thrilling, so fascinating, so precise a story of the Nazi counterfeiting
of British pound notes that he might just find himself thrown
--David Kahn, author of The Codebreakers and Hitler's
"Many thwarted Nazi schemes were buried in the pages of history, but Malkin illuminates one of the most dramatic...He explores all sides of the plan, though his main focus is the team of Jewish prisoners that was forced to work for its deadly enemies."
-- New York Daily News
"The story unrolls like a gripping crime novel.
--Die Welt, Berlin
"A story of survival and intrigue with heroes, villains, and suspense worthy of the big screen...Lawrence Malkin does a great service to bring this remarkable, little-known episode of World War II to the world's attention. I would highly recommend it to anyone."
--Curled Up with a Good Book
"An amazing story."
Jay, author of The Wealth of Man
"Lawrence Malkin has written a hard gem of a book, just big enough to be respectable and sparkling enough to impress."
---Roger K. Miller in the Tampa Tribune
astonishing and hitherto hidden story of how the Nazis
tried to ruin the British economy by counterfeiting its
money. It combines thriller-like reality with unexpected
and cautionary insight into the workings -- and contortions
-- of totalitarian government. Fascinating in its documentation,
and brilliantly written by one of our best experts on finance
and the world economy."
Pfaff, author of The Bullet's Song
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At a time when a college degree has become a requirement to compete in the workforce, too many Maine students are graduating from high school unprepared for higher education.
Questions remain, however, on just why that is the case. How the state answers those questions will go a long way toward deciding how successful it is in growing the economy, raising wages and cutting poverty.
For the second consecutive year, the University of Maine System and the Maine Community College System, fulfilling the requirement of a new state law, released data about the number of freshmen — graduates of Maine high schools — who enrolled in a remedial class in the latest fall semester.
The numbers were not significantly different from last year’s — 11.4 percent of first-year students in the university system, and 52.2 percent at the community colleges. In both cases, the percentages are lower than the national average, but that does not mean that Maine is doing well.
Gov. Paul LePage has pointed to the data as proof that Maine high schools are falling short, and last legislative session he proposed a bill, ultimately unsuccessful, that would have penalized high schools financially if their students required remedial study.
Proponents of that approach point to the waste of time and money the remedial classes represent, and to research that shows students who take remedial classes stay in college and graduate at low rates.
It is unsettling that so many Mainers graduate from high school unable to jump directly into college courses, and more research is needed to understand why that is. Student achievement is complex, and there are more reasons than simply the quality of Maine high schools.
The issue of remedial classes, however, is only part of the story. Retention and graduation rates at community colleges are, in fact, low for all students — 25 percent, not including transfer students, according to a recent study by the Mitchell Institute, a Portland-based nonprofit that advocates for students pursuing college education.
The community colleges play a key role in preparing Maine students for work in today’s emerging fields. In order for Maine to create the workforce it needs, while raising employment rates and income levels, the state has to consider how to create not only successful high school graduates, but college graduates as well.
Family income and the parents’ level of education are certainly factors in the low graduation rates at Maine’s community colleges. Parents who do not attend college are less likely to push their children toward attending college, and to support them in their efforts once they are there. Income is a major indicator of a student’s educational achievement as well as their ability to stay in college through graduation.
Community college students, some of whom return to school after some time in the workforce, often are faced with these and other life challenges that prevent them from completing school.
The schools have adopted initiatives, including intensive tutoring and counseling, that give students the support they need to succeed. Those programs could serve as examples for what can be done systemwide.
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Things to consider while investing in hail net
Hail netting is an investment that can benefit the user in the longer run. These suppliers sell the net with at least 8-10 years warranty, but the life of material for real is 12 to 14 years. If appropriately installed with a steel or concrete pole, the structure can stand for longer years. Material life is long and strong enough, so it is an investment that can benefit you and your crops for a more extended period. Yet, a few considerations need understanding before investing in hail netting.
In places where snow is more common and the climate is colder, hail net installation is required when the temperature is lower enough to damage the plants. You should roll it and pack it appropriately during the remaining time of the year. Rolling the hail net in autumn and then expanding it spring to protect from hails, birds and insects. It is an added activity that demands time and cost too.
Reduction in light and its impact on Fruit color
As the hail net also acts as a shade, there are chances of reducing the sunlight that crops get. Depending upon the installation, the sunlight can reduce from 12 to 25%. The angle of the net matters a lot in this regard. Reduction in the light will also impact the fruit’s fruit maturity and color. However, studies show that harvest time and temperature matter more than light on the fruit color. Installing in a pyramid shape ensures that the plant gets maximum sunlight.
Hail netting is worth investing
There is no doubt in understanding the fact that hail netting is a worthy investment. It benefits
the crops in many different ways that result in a healthy harvest. It’s a long-term productive investment that can be seen and enjoyed at the end of the harvest.
Following are the few factors that ensure that hail netting is a worthy investment.
Sunburn reduction and improved growth
Hail netting not only serves the purpose of protecting from hail, but it also protects against the burning sun. The area with warmer climates burns the production and growth of plants. Fields of fuji get dry quickly in hot weather. In sum, seeding fuji seeds is beneficial if one decides to invest in a hail netting structure. High temperatures are likely to damage the fruits’ growth up to 20%. Even the stored products get damaged due to sun heat. Packed fruits have higher chances of getting spoiled due to heat. Ripe fruit gets overripe and loses taste once it reaches higher levels. Such a situation leads to double loss. Hail netting investment saves the growing plant and helps in saving packed fruit.
Wind reduction implying proper spray application
Controlling wind pressure is not an easy task for farmers. A strong air stream is enough to damage the crops. Hail netting protection works against intense wind pressures too. It controls the air streams, and row installation protects the farms from damage. Besides that, hail netting also ensures the sustainability of spray. Hail net installation moderates the air pressure, which helps grow crops to a fuller harvest. It is a worthy investment if installed in rows as wind pressure is more controlled.
Protection from frosting of plants
Just like sun frost also damages the growth of plants. For such concerns, hail netting plays multi roles. It also protects the farms from frosting. In cold weather, dewdrops freeze and are likely to hinder crops’ growth. The frosting and defrosting kill the development of the plant.
Hail netting provides a shade to the plants, which controls cold wind streams and sustains heat from the sunlight. During the night, the sustained heat serves the plant by protecting them from frost. In crux, this benefit of installing a hail net makes it a worthy investment for the future.
Guaranteed supply of fruit
Marketing benefits are on top of every other benefit. Everything works well if profit is hefty. Hail netting installation has many practical advantages.
If installed in time, hail netting protects the crops from birds, hail, and insects. They are producing healthy and wealthy harvest, which is advantageous for the farmers. Professionals suggest that hail net installation results in 10% more fruit packets. Everyone in the market looks for a superior quality product, and the hail net is the insurance to it. Damaged fruit and crops are sold at the lowest rate hardly covers the seeding cost. Hail net installation is an expensive investment, but it will benefit the user in the longer run. Spending a few at the right time will save many in the long run. It’s better to make a heavy investment at the start than to cry later.
Protection against birds, bats, and insects
Besides protection from a hailstorm and other diverse weather conditions, a hail net also prevents birds and insects. Hail netting protection is designed not to allow big birds and insects to damage the crops. Farmers have issues with birds like a crow in the morning and bats at night. These creatures damage their harvest leading to low yields at the sale time. Similarly, insects during early spring attack the pants, which has adverse effects on the plant’s growth. So, investing in a hail net would be wise if you face a bird and insect issue.
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Hot climate issue: Who pays?
In their second week, negotiators at a conference in the Netherlands push hard political bargains.
THE HAGUE — For US delegates to the United Nations climate talks here, Thanksgiving will have to wait.
Indeed, over the next five days, the heat could become sufficiently intense that negotiators may envy the birds basting in ovens back home.
This week, top-level ministers from more than 160 countries take the reins from their technical teams, who have been working to fill in the outlines of a three-year-old pact to combat global warming. The 1997 Kyoto Protocols call on industrial countries to cut their emissions of heat-trapping gases - mainly carbon dioxide (CO2) - by an average of 5.2 percent below 1990 levels.
The new arrivals are charged with driving the hard political bargains needed to seal an agreement by Friday that they can take to their legislatures for approval. In turn, many here hope to see the protocols take force by 2002, the 10th anniversary of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, which initiated the process that led to this meeting.
For the protocols to take effect, 55 countries must ratify them. Of those, ratifiers must include industrial countries whose combined emissions represent 55 percent of all industrial-country emissions. Although 84 countries have signed the Kyoto Protocols and 30 have ratified it, no industrial country has ratified the treaty.
During the past week, talks achieved what conference president Jan Pronk, Netherlands' minister of housing, spatial planning, and the environment, calls "a narrowing of differences."
"We've seen some good progress" on several technical issues, agrees David Sandalow, US assistant secretary of state for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. These include movement toward common standards for measuring and monitoring greenhouse-gas emissions and closing gaps on how to structure a panel that would oversee compliance with the protocols.
"There was real agreement on the need to ... find ways to be more responsive to the needs of less-developed countries," adds David Hale, an official with the US Agency for International Development and one of the negotiators.
"I don't want to overstate the progress in any of those areas" continues Mr. Sandalow, who headed the US delegation during its first week here. "Important differences remain. But there have been very useful discussions."
Yet if gaps have narrowed on some issues, they remain wide on others. One of the rifts involves the question of how best to achieve Kyoto's emissions targets. The European Union and a number of developing countries argue that nations should reach their targets by cutting emissions at home.
Countries such as the US, Japan, and Canada counter that nations should be free to use "flexible" approaches, such as getting credit for the carbon dioxide that forests, farms, and grasslands absorb. Or for helping developing countries cut emissions as they grow. Or trading emissions - in effect buying "clean air" from countries whose emissions already fall below 1990 levels. The protocols permit these approaches, but countries are divided over how extensively to use them. The EU wants limits; the US does not.
Even before the ministers arrived, some countries appeared to be jostling for the political high ground. On Friday, Britain's environment minister announced that his country was undertaking what was billed as the world's most comprehensive program to cut emissions. Under the plan, by 2010 Britain would slash greenhouse-gas emissions to a level 23 percent lower than 1990 emissions. Carbon-dioxide emissions would fall 19 percent. High oil prices would drive some of the reductions, he said. But the plan also relies on a broad package of fuel excise taxes, government grants to industry and low-income homeowners to improve energy efficiency, and other approaches.
Britain's plan mirrors the EU's stand on how to meet Kyoto targets: by directly cutting emissions at home to reach the lion's share of its targets. This issue is particularly thorny because it cuts across several of the protocols' provisions - and because it affects the cost of putting the protocols into practice.
The EU wants to limit the use of greenery as carbon "sinks" because the Continent doesn't have the vast reaches of farmland or forests the US, Canada, and Australia do, some analysts say. European businesses would have a harder time competing with US counterparts on global markets if US businesses were less burdened by emissions regulations and taxes that Eurobusinesses face.
The US, on the other hand, must muster 67 votes in the Senate to ratify an agreement - a prospect that some feel is unlikely regardless of who becomes the next president. The treaty's financial impact is one of two tests the Senate has pledged to apply. Thus the Clinton administration has an interest in trying to keep costs of compliance as low as possible. Relying on existing trees to soak up CO2 is one way to do that. "Can we get an agreement? In my view it's possible," says Mr. Pronk, the conference president. "For me, the most important things are environmental credibility, sticking to the target," and seeing that "the whole family stays together."
Family unity could be tough to maintain. By Friday, China and 77 developing countries threatened to walk out because they objected to the way Pronk organized the negotiations for this week. The real purpose, however, may have been to signal displeasure with the way developing-country concerns are being ignored by industrial countries, notes Kalee Kreider, the global-warming campaign director for the National Environmental Trust, a Washington-based group. Those concerns also have to do with money: inadequate contributions to a fund set up to help developing nations adapt to climate change. In addition, she says, developing countries are frustrated that developed countries haven't cut emissions as promised under the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change, which is in force and which the US has ratified.
She says that in the end, China and the G-77 countries are unlikely to leave; they also have a stake in working to solve the climate-change problem. But "developing countries only have a certain set of tools in their toolbox, and they're limited," she says. "I think we're going to go through some hard days of negotiation this week."
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New Year's is a great time to make plans to lead a healthier lifestyle, get organized and make other life changes. Keeping New Year's resolutions is something most of us struggle with, but it is much easier to stick with a goal when it is something when you know what small steps you need to take in order to achieve a big goal.
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In order to facilitate effective health promotion and treatment, it should be taken account of the extent to which traditional beliefs and behaviors of the Chinese population are taken into account in the field of oral health. There are a number of ethnic groups in China, and all people of Chinese descent are referred to as Chinese. Han Chinese are the largest ethnic group in China and are often simply referred to in English as "Chinese" or "ethnic Chinese.". The Han Chinese are the largest ethnic group in China and make up 92% of the mainland population. China recognizes 56 indigenous Chinese ethnic groups as the People's Republic of China. Of the 17 indigenous Taiwanese ethnic groups, 16 are considered as indigenous Taiwanese or indigenous peoples, and one is colonized by the Han Taiwanese population. Chinese are people and ethnic groups who identify with China because of their ethnicity, nationality, citizenship or other affiliations. The Han Taiwanese in Taiwan and the Republic of China are divided into three ethnic groups by the Taiwanese government: Taiwanese hoklo, Taiwanese hakkas and Waishengren. A Pew Research Center poll in October 2020 found that a median of 61% of citizens in the 14 largest economies have an unfavorable view of China. All in all, despite the negative perception of China as the dominant large economy, Chinese views of China in Europe are more diverse. Moreover, people outside China have positive and unfavorable views of all three countries. That jump pales in comparison to the deterioration of China's view of the United States: when the Eurasia Group Foundation surveyed Chinese opinion of the US in October 2019, only 17% said they had an unfavorable view. Our results suggest that the distinction between the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese people in the eyes of the Chinese public is likely to be lost, which has as much antipathy for Britain as Americans do for China. Most majorities, in many cases large majority of the 17 surveyed industrialized countries, agree that the Chinese government does not respect the personal freedoms of its citizens. Singapore stands out as the place where few take this view: 60% say that the Chinese government "does not respect" the personal freedom of the Chinese people. The sense that China does not respect its people's personal freedoms is at an all-time high in most public surveys. One in five referenced human rights issues in an open question asking us what people think about China, including 9% who said that the Chinese people lack freedom of religion, speech and assembly. Views of China, its president, respect for personal freedom, and its people should be examined in the context of long-term trends and data. China's population census shows an updated estimate of China's current population based on the WorldOpinion RTS algorithm, which is processing data from the United Nations Population Division. According to current projections, China's population is a record of 2030, with a shrinking labor force and a population of 240 million people over 65. By 2026, India and China are estimated to have 1.46 billion inhabitants, with India in first place, as growth will continue until 2060 and China's population will decline by 2030. China has a huge and growing cohort of older people and, if it can not replace them with nearly as many young people, it must maintain its overall size, promote prosperity and care for its citizens. China's most serious demographic problem is gender-selective abortion, as the one-child policy has resulted in a ratio of 120 boys to 100 girls. A little over three years ago the Chinese people led by the Chinese Communist Party awoke and organized themselves into a nationwide united front against imperialism, feudalism, bureaucrats and capitalism, and their general representatives in the reactionary Kuomintang government were supported in the People's War of Liberation to defeat the Empire of China and restore the Political Consultation Conference. Hong Kong -- As the second century begins, China is setting its priorities for the new era by tightening ideological control over China's 1.4 billion people. China is on the cusp of demographic change that will transform its society and economy, and the Communist Party is concerned. The People's Republic of China is part of the world's community of peace-loving and freedom-loving nations working together to promote their own civilisation and well-being, while promoting peace and freedom in the world. The Chinese people, who make up about a quarter of humanity, are a great, courageous and industrious nation, but they have fallen only in modern times. We believe that only the heroic struggle of the people of this country can overcome them. Ling Li, an expert on China and the Chinese politics and law at the University of Vienna, said: "In Mao's China, the Chinese people face a flood of digital information despite the best censorship efforts of the parties. Villages, for example, are increasingly focusing on ideological education and spreading the Party's propaganda through loudspeakers installed on the roofs of people's homes. It is possible that the current negativity in Europe will be short-lived and subside by the end of the pandemic, and that the Chinese will begin to travel to continental European countries, their favorite destinations. 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2012 Grants - Fitz
Effect of RXR Agonist on Alzheimer's Phenotype In APP Mice Expressing APOE-e3 and e4
Nicholas Fitz, Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh
2012 New Investigator Research Grant
Apolipoprotein-E (APOE) is a brain protein that normally is thought to play an important role in transporting lipids (fats) into cells. The genes that produce this protein occur in several forms. One of the forms, known as APOE-e4, has been shown to increase a person's risk for developing Alzheimer's disease. Yet scientists do not know exactly why this association between APOE-e4 and Alzheimer's risk exists.
In preliminary research, Nicholas Fitz, Ph.D., and colleagues have found that mice with the e4 variant produce less APOE protein than do mice with the more benign APOE-e3 gene variant. Moreover, the e4 mice also produce greater than normal levels of toxic beta-amyloid, a protein fragment that is a key suspect in Alzheimer's. These findings support the hypothesis that APOE protein inhibits beta-amyloid production, and that the e4 gene promotes beta-amyloid activity by failing to generate sufficient amounts of its own protein.
For their current study, Dr. Fitz and colleagues will expand their earlier research by studying the effect of a drug called bexarotene. This drug will be administered to mice that have either the APOE-e4 gene or the APOE-e3 gene. Bexarotene activates a protein called the retinoid X receptor (RXR), which can help boost the expression of APOE protein. The researchers will then compare how their bexarotene treatment affects brain beta-amyloid levels and cognition in their mice. If the treatment is able to ameliorate Alzheimer's symptoms in the e4 mice, this result could confirm the role of APOE protein in fighting dementia. It could also identify RXR as novel therapeutic target for Alzheimer's. | <urn:uuid:30cd60ec-69f5-4dfa-81b2-6eee65ff2052> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://alz.org/research/alzheimers_grants/for_researchers/overview-2012.asp?grants=2012fitz | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279915.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00278-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924563 | 439 | 2.140625 | 2 |
The Pros and Cons of Remote Working As an App Tester
A remote job as an app tester is an extremely lucrative profession. This job entails working from home. You will be required to follow a set of instructions and provide feedback as well as photos of any problems. You will need to use a laptop or a mobile phone to complete the testing tasks. An internet connection is essential. There are numerous remote testing jobs online You can pick from a range of industries.
One of the biggest challenges of remote working as an app tester is the communication. No matter what the issue is, whether it’s an obstacle to communication in a language or a the principle of religion remote work can be a challenge. The same holds true for managing project managers. In addition to dealing with the issues of communication, remote teams have to be able to recognize and fix any obstacles or issues that arise. While working from home could cause some difficulties but it can benefit companies too. Here are some strategies for overcoming these challenges.
Communication is a challenge. Remote work can make communication difficult and it can be difficult to communicate the message you want to convey. While tools for communicating such as Hangouts and Slack can help, text messages lack urgency and tone. Asynchronous communication can be detrimental to the productivity of a team that is working in different time zones. It can also be difficult to convey news and updates to colleagues as they are not all in the same place.
The heartbeat of remote teams is collaboration. Remote working tools facilitate collaboration by allowing teammates to work together. Slack, for instance, allows two users to be on the same screen simultaneously. Screenhero, a Slack collaboration feature for teams, lets two users collaborate and view the same screen simultaneously. You need a tool that allows everyone to work on the same screen simultaneously, especially if your team is spread over several locations.
To ensure the effectiveness of your remote team, you must to be proficient in collaboration and project management. Project management is a process that involves a variety of moving parts. A well-designed tool can assist in improving communication and task assignment. Asana is a task management tool, can help you collaborate on specific tasks and perform more effectively as together as a team. It helps teams collaborate effectively by grouping them onto task boards. This allows testers to assess the ways they can work together to improve an app.
Remote working as an app tester has many benefits. It is often difficult for companies to create a dedicated test team, or to invest in recruitment. Businesses are often under pressure to rush their products on the market and might find it difficult to hire the right individuals. By hiring remote testers, businesses can cut back on the cost of hiring a dedicated testing team, and can also get the same quality assurance as local teams.
Remote workers are more productive and more energetic because they have fewer days off. Furthermore, they work more efficiently since they don’t have to deal with the same types of stress and strain as a office worker. They also have a higher chance to recover faster from illness. They also tend to take less days off as they aren’t working in an office. This could lead to lower productivity and less motivation. However, if you’re determined to be more efficient, it will pay off.
If you’re considering becoming a remote app tester, you’ll need an undergraduate degree or a similar qualification and a demonstrable track record in testing software. Some employers will accept years of experience in testing instead of a four-year degree. You’ll need to be proficient in web-based applications and have excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills. You must also be familiar with software development and have a clear understanding of data security. Remote testing requires internet access at a high speed, time management skills along with security clearance and an understanding of data security.
Many of the best firms require a bachelor’s degree in computer science as well as other related fields. You must also be proficient using the most recent technologies and testing tools. You must also be proficient at communicating, interacting with colleagues, and being analytical. You may also be interested in quality assurance or project management. Companies that are hiring remote QA specialists include Salesforce and SAP.
Work from home
As an app tester you can work remotely. You’ll have to follow a particular scenario and note any issues you encounter. To provide feedback and to detail what went wrong you will need to take screenshots of your screen in the course of the testing process. You’ll need a laptop smartphone, or a computer, and an internet connection. You’ll earn an excellent living as a result. These are only some of the many advantages that come with this work from home job.
First, you’ll require a smartphone and a reliable internet connection. You will also need to know how apps are installed on various devices. You’ll have to be independent and follow the steps with care. This job will take up the majority of your time, however, it will pay you between $5 and $90 per test. You can also work from home and choose your own hours. Working at home as an app tester is a great alternative to supplement your current job or to pursue a job in a new area. | <urn:uuid:d30e6a5a-7fd2-495a-a85f-fdbd144d7ac2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mahiyuro.net/will-alexa-remote-work-on-differnet-network/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.955786 | 1,087 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Social media is a fun way to stay connected with friends and family, but it can also be a way to be connected with cyberbullies. Cyberbullies can make life miserable. This book teaches you how to protect yourself and how to stop a cyberbully.
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Re: [Histonet] Nuclear Bubbles
Tissues fixed in formalin are more susceptible to nuclear bubbling than a
mercury or zinc fixative, due to formalin being a poor fixative for nuclei -
it doesn't cross-link and stabilized the nuclear proteins as well as metal
fixatives (zinc-formalin, mercuric fixatives such as Zenker or B5)..
Tissues under-fixed in formalin are more susceptible to nuclear bubbling
than those tissues properly fixed, as the nuclear proteins do not have as
many stabilizing cross-links.
Placing slides in drying ovens over 60 degrees C. are more likely to show
nuclear bubbling than slides dried under 60 degrees C., especially those
tissues under-fixed in formalin. The theory is that the water under the
tissue "steams" at the higher temperatures, breaking the few cross-links in
the nuclei, thus rearranging the chromatin around the outside of the steam
bubbles. Well fixed tissue would have enough nuclear cross-links to resist
the chromatin rearrangement by steam. Nuclei fixed with metal fixatives have
more and stronger cross-links to resists the steam rearrangement than
formalin fixed tissues.
So look at fixation time and slide drying temperature.
Peggy A. Wenk, HTL(ASCP)SLS
William Beaumont Hospital
Royal Oak, MI 48073
----- Original Message -----
From: "Annette Hall"
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 11:09 PM
Subject: [Histonet] Nuclear Bubbles
> Over the past 6 months, our lab has struggled intermittently with an
> artifact on our H&E slides. The nucleus will appear to have bubbled. This
> seems to be most prevalent in prostate biopsies, but we have also seen it
> endometrial biopsies. We use a Leica Autostainer XL with Richard Allan
> reagents. We have adjusted drying times and oven temps but we still
> to occasionally see bubbles. Has anyone had this experience or know what
> causing this? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> Annette J. Hall, MT
> Micro/Histo/Cyto Supervisor
> United Clinical Labs
> 205 Bluff St.
> Dubuque, IA 52001
> 563.556.2010 x131
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Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 01/23/2016 - 14:21
According to TIOBE Index for January 2016, the Java popularity index again has reached 21%, leaving behind C++ (6%), while Python index is only 3.8%. These numbers can be different for data analysts positions, of course, where Python is likely to be more popular than Java.
Submitted by jworkorg on Sat, 11/14/2015 - 20:52
JTerm is an attempt to mimic Linux/Unix commands using 100% Java. Thus it works on Windows. This project is its infancy, but it is already very useful. For some, it may also look also more attractive than using Cygwin on Windows. First thing to notice - it is only 3M in size, a tiny program compared to the default Cygwin installation. Secondly, it has nice look and feel thanks to Nimbus L&F. In combination with JPort portable Java desktop, it may lead to interesting alternative to Cygwin.
Submitted by jworkorg on Sat, 01/17/2015 - 16:34
R-package - a software for statistical computing written in C. Script oriented. Pros: widely used, simple, extensive documentation. Cons: simpler graphics compared to competitors, no multi-threading, scripting is less powerful compare to other programming languages.
Submitted by jworkorg on Tue, 04/08/2014 - 20:17
Java can be rather fast! According to the article posted in ArXiv (http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.1229), Java is faster than C++ in reading data (to be exact, data in the ProMC format, which is based on Google's Protocol Buffers). See Table I of this article.
Submitted by jworkorg on Thu, 01/02/2014 - 10:55
We often hear the term "big data" (see "Big data" wikipedia link). Taking the path of finding cool words for description of something quite trivial (before we had "not quite big data", and in 10 years from now we will have "monstrously big data"?), how about a new term "small data"? The definition of "small data" is less ambiguous than for "big data": Data that has small enough size for human comprehension.
Submitted by jworkorg on Sat, 09/28/2013 - 20:17
jPort is finally out (and it is already release 1.4!). What is special about jPort project? jPort is a portable application launcher for Java-enabled platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac). It can launch dozens of free Java-powered programs for office, science, education, code development, entertainment and graphics. If you need a tool to organize all your applications in one place, a single menu (for example, on menuless Windows8) - this is the way to go.
Submitted by jworkorg on Sat, 04/27/2013 - 12:46
SCaVis is a successor of jHepWork. Why this change in its name? jHepWork has its origin in high-energy physics (remember, Higgs?). The "Hep" part of jHepWork abbreviates "High-Energy Physics". jHepWork is used in several HEP areas, but it is not very popular in this field since high-energy physics is almost completely based on the ROOT C++ package developed at CERN. The reason is that experimental data are written and stored in the ROOT format.
Submitted by jworkorg on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 12:42
As the name suggests, the award is now opened up to a wider range of Open Source projects. This year’s Award is our most exciting and we’re expecting up to 4 million visits during the Award period. Feel free to check out information about the Awards here. The winner will win a $2,500 prize fund, while the first runner-up will receive $1,000 and the second runner-up $500.
Submitted by jworkorg on Thu, 08/25/2011 - 21:55
There was recent discussion about Java7 performance for numerical calculations. Few people saw some 20-40% improvement for java7, compare to Java6. This simple script which can be executed in jhepwork shows no such improvement. Run this code above (here I'm using 2 cores) and see it yourself:
Submitted by jworkorg on Fri, 07/29/2011 - 10:28
According to the forum http://jwork.org/jhepwork/forum/viewtopic.php?id=13 just released Java7 has a bug on Linux platform. It seems like execution of the code for jhplot canvases compiled using jdk6 fails. This bug is perfectly reproducible on the Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora) and related to the graphics package org.freehep.graphics2d.VectorGraphics. Interestingly enough, Jdk7 on windows is fine. This bug was sent to the java7 developers, but they could not reproduce it. | <urn:uuid:b2fae955-b572-4550-8530-45080a09554c> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://jwork.org/main/?q=blog | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718296.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00538-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937582 | 1,074 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Are you looking for Energy Performance Certificate Whitstable….
Throughout the UK Power Performance Certificates are created making use of common techniques and also energy assumptions which permits structures to be compared to another rather. By doing this it permits owners, prospective customers or renters to view the predicted energy usage as well as carbon ratings over an annual basis, so they can take into consideration the general energy effectiveness as well as fuel expenses as component of their financial investment or living expenditures.
All Energy Performance Certificates are accompanied with a recommendations report which outlines cost-effective measures that can be put in place to improve the overall energy efficiency rating of a given property. A typical recommendation could be to upgrade a building’s heating system, increase insulation levels in a loft space or to upgrade single glazed areas to double glazing.
The Energy Performance Certificate is essential as greater than 50% of the UK’s power consumption and carbon discharges are created by the way that we light, warm and usually utilize buildings. Reasonably little changes such as setting up low power or LED illumination in all electrical outlets of a structure can have a profound result on energy consumption.
- A (92 PLUS)
- B (81-91)
- C (69-80)
- D (55-68)
- E (39-54)
- F (21-38)
- G (1-20)
When is an Energy performance certificate required?
Your residential or commercial property’s EPC needs to be offered to prospective purchasers as soon as you start to market your residential property to buy or lease. EPC Certificates became a regulative need in April 2008. You must obtain an accepted Domestic Energy assessor to generate the EPC
A need on all domestic residential properties, that are either being marketed, constructed, or rented, as well as need to be given to a prospective customer or renter free of charge.
Are there any cases whereby my building may be exempt?
The solution is of course! The complying with scenarios deem your building exempt.
Some listed structures.
Building due for demolition resulting in website due for redevelopment.
Structure to be marketed or rented with vacant ownership.
Places of worship.
Industrial sites, workshops and non-residential agricultural buildings that have a low power need.
Stand-alone commercial structures with a complete useful floor area of less than 50m ².
What are the penalties for not having an EPC?
As from the 1st April 2018, there will be a requirement for any properties rented out in the private rented sector to normally have a minimum energy performance rating of E on an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC). The regulations will come into force for new lets and renewals of tenancies with effect from 1st April 2018 and for all existing tenancies on 1st April 2020. It will be unlawful to rent a property which breaches the requirement for a minimum E rating unless there is an applicable exemption. A civil penalty of up to £4,000 will be imposed for breaches.
This guidance summarizes the regulations: Find out more
You do not pay anything until the survey is has been fully carried out and that you are happy with the service. Invoices will be issued at this point.
What is your Energy Performance Certificate process? Energy Performance Certificate Whitstable
- Upon arrival to the residential property, the power assessor will certainly introduce themselves, lug and discuss the process out a wellness & safety and security risk analysis for security functions.
The assessor will require accessibility to all of the rooms in the residential property, including (where applicable) loft space hatch, room in the roofing system, extensions, sunroom, electrical as well as gas metres.
The assessor will certainly draw a sketch strategy of the general flooring location of the residential or commercial property. As soon as this is done they will certainly resolve each area taking accurate dimensions and also recording all pertinent information (Building age, construction products, Wall surface thicknesses, furnace & controls, hot water cyndrical tube information, water cyndrical tube insulation, Second furnace (if applicable), Floor building and construction, glazing type and also reduced power lights.Please note that we appreciate your residence whatsoever times as well as will certainly ensure that it will certainly be left as it was before we conducted our study.
Schedule your EPC
One of our qualified EPC assessors will visit you at your properties. The study will certainly take normally between 1-2 hrs to complete.
We will publish your Commercial EPC to the government register within 24-48 hours of leaving your property and send you a copy directly via email.
What We Offer
Emphasis 360 has one decade’ experience in providing SAP assessments to a variety of customers based in Bristol and also all over the UK.
We offer a working as a consultant approach to compliance and also always have your needs at the forefront of what we do.
When dealing with tricky advancements as well as are yet to be defeated by a difficult ranking to day, we are well versed.
At Emphasis 360 Power we complete both layout stage as well as as-built components of your SAP Calculations in Bristol and also we will email your record within your target dates.
SAP Calculations for New Builds in Bristol
A number of the tasks we handle call for an improvement ranking of 40% or over which we have actually constantly handled to achieve in spite of occasionally having tight spending plan restrictions laid out to us.
For this reason alone, we are certain that you will not be disappointed in what we have to offer.
We recognize that you have target dates to fulfill so constantly offer the very same day reaction. We use a 48-hour rapid track solution as well as exact same day EPC Certification as conventional, so you won’t be kept waiting.
SAP Calculations (Common Evaluation Treatments) are a building law requirement and also the UK government’s selected method for examining the energy performance of all new develop expansions, conversions and homes.
Once SAP Calculations in Bristol have been successfully completed on a dwelling an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) is generated. The energy performance certificate is an additional document required for building control sign off and is a legal requirement when selling or renting out a home.
AP score is a way of comparing the energy performance of different residences as well as is racked up on a score scale between 1 and also 100 (100 representing a home with a zero-energy cost and 0 with a high energy price). Usually, the greater the SAP rating, the lower the gas price and also associated carbon dioxide emissions (CO2). From the SAP computations, we are able to work out a power price for an offered property. This is formed by analyzing the construction of the residence, its heater, internal illumination and any type of renewable innovations mounted.
SBEM Calculations (Simplified Building Energy Model) is a tool that is used to analyse the compliance of your new non-domestic building with Part L of the building regulations (England and Wales) and equivalent regulations in Scotland, Northern Ireland.
The SBEM estimations procedure is created by looking at the recommended buildings use of materials, heating unit, cooling, warm water, air flow and also lights solutions. The estimation also looks at what renewable energy resources have actually been utilized, such as solar photovoltaic or pv, solar thermal, ground/air-source home heating.
Once this data is modelled in our federal government approved software program, we can provide an accurate understanding of what the structures power efficiency and also carbon discharges will be. This outcome is gauged against a notional building of the exact same dimensions hopefully allowing cutting-edge and great design to prevail. By jointly measuring the textile, solutions, lighting, reduced and also sustainable carbon modern technologies to a notional structure we can permit some compensation between the various aspects.
Who needs SBEM Calculations?
BEM Computations are a compulsory demand for any kind of warmed new construct business home which exceeds 50m2 in dimension. In addition to new construct industrial buildings some remodelling as well as extension tasks will call for an SBEM computation too.
Structure control will certainly call for a style phase SBEM estimation to be submitted at the same time as your structure regulation application. Structure control will certainly not let the building commence without receiving both papers.
Structure control will need both the design stage SBEM Computation and also Industrial EPC once the structure has been constructed. Building control will unlikely authorize the structure off without both documents.
Air testing (Also known as Air Permeability, air leakage test and pressure test) is a measure of showing how good your building is at keeping the head in and the cold out.
All brand-new growths in the UK are required to have an air test lugged as part Accepted Paper Component L (England and also Wales) and section 6 of the technical handbook (Scotland).
Once the building has actually been ended up and before the occupier moves in, the Air examination will always be lugged out.
In essence, the lower the air leak, the far better the building goes to keeping out the cool and the reduced the energy expense will certainly be. Having a 100% air-tight structure is not required an excellent point as troubles may occur such as mould and also condensation. Striking a balance in the outcome is key.
You can select not to check all plots on a larger site, however it’s worth noting that the SAP score will certainly be punished on those not tested. This is generally referred to as confidence variable.
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Treatment Bristol and the surrounding areas, Focus 360 Power has one decade’ experience offering power efficiency certifications (EPC’s) in Bristol and also throughout the south-west. Energy Performance Certificate Whitstable
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One of the most difficult parts of goal achievement is simply getting started. It’s easy enough to dream and plan, but many people get stuck in this phase indefinitely and avoid taking action. Planning and dreaming might make you feel like you’re doing something about your goals, but if you never actually take a step […]
To many people, success is a “fairytale” and as elusive as a Yeti. In reality, success is just around the corner, and sometimes already exists, as hidden treasure.
Whether you’re a student job seeker or a polished and proven executive, the first thing you must come to terms with is, “Regardless of the position you seek, you are now in sales!” The product you are selling is YOU! The interview is your opportunity to differentiate yourself in the eyes of your customer [the […]
Your mind holds incredible powers and through understand how your thoughts and beliefs create your reality, you can discover the secrets for achieving your goals and living your dreams.
Life happens. It doesn’t matter how positive an attitude you have or how balanced and centered you are, there are going to be times when you are knocked down. Ties when your carefully organized life is turned upside down and you get knocked on your rear end. Life happens.
Happiness is something that so many people strive for each day and yet many times it eludes them. Often, they feel that happiness can be theirs if only their situations were different. Have you ever felt like that?
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YAHOO -- Back from my weekly Googling exercise, I've found only eight pages that offer "good uses for spam." Top honours goes to Robert Scoble who writes about a friend who "keeps a folder with gigs of Spam. When he goes on vacation he drags that folder over to his main server. His company only gives him a few hundred megabytes of space on their email server. So, then anyone who sends him email gets a bounce back saying 'sorry, the server can't accept any more email.' Then, when he gets back he doesn't have any email waiting for him."
I have seven more "good uses of spam."
- Spam Radio -- serves up audio bites from spam headers.
- Steganography -- make your email messages look like spam because snooping programs do not harvest them.
- Make a spammer eat spam by flooding a spammer with unwanted messages by auto-subscribing bogus addresses. It's easier than it sounds. Just leave the spam target as a highly visible e-mail address on a prominent website. (via Mick Cummingham).
You can also eat your own spam sandwich (compliments of Jim Bodle):
- Use 1 slice of Bread, 2 slices of Spam, 2 slices of Onion, 2 slices of Tomatom, 1 slice Provolone cheese and a dash of horseradish to taste.
- Place Spam on bread, top with onion, tomato and provolone cheese. Add horseradish to taste. Microwave on high until cheese starts to melt, about 2 minutes. Serves 1.
- Helps IT managers discriminate between good spam and bad spam.
- Once you collect known addresses and craft a bleeding heart message, you too can save lives by encouraging blood donations.
- Save spam to educate your spam filters.
- Send your spam messages back to your Gmail account and read the Google ads that spawn beside them.
Robert Scoble -- "A good use for spam"
Doc Searls -- "Spamming is like public urination. Only, on pedestrians"
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To become a major force in the world of food transport requires careful attention to detail, particularly as it relates to transporting those finished products to their final destination. Make those products temperature-sensitive salads, side dishes, dips, Mexican foods, and other specialty products, and that adds yet another layer of complexity.
But Beaverton, OR-based Reser’s Fine Foods has found solutions through the use of electricity and cold-plate refrigeration technology.
“We are a SmartWay compliant company and strive to support the SmartWay goals,” says Dennis Fullan, corporate fleet manager, adding that in following SmartWay best practices, the No. 1 goal remains the integrity of the cold-chain. “I would like to see more electrification as it would expand our universe.”
But for now, Reser’s is content with using cold-plate technology across its 140-vehicle direct store delivery (DSD) fleet to maintain temperature control. Reser’s uses a system from Johnson Refrigerated Truck Bodies.
The all-electric Johnson system operates much like an ice pack in a picnic cooler. Plug it in and the liquid inside the plates freezes, holding the temperature inside the truck body for up to 24 hours, depending on ambient temperatures. Most of the Reser’s fleet was converted from diesel-fired units to the electric Johnson system, Fullan says.
“We were introduced to the coldplate technology when we purchased several used trucks so equipped,” Fullan says. “It became apparent rather quickly how much more efficient the cold plates were—more efficient in terms of maintenance, more efficient with respect to operating cost, and more efficient from an environmental perspective.”
NO IDLING ALLOWED
Fullan says the cost to operate the entire fleet for a year is now equivalent to what Reser’s was spending to run 10 of the diesel-fired units before, including maintenance and fuel costs. And it ensures the company can meet its noidling policy while maintaining the necessary temperatures inside the van bodies.
With over $700 million in annual revenue, the fourth-generation, familyowned business operates a dozen manufacturing facilities in seven states, creating a vast network of locations needed to deliver product in all 50 states and Canada. While switching to the coldplate technology provided immediate benefits, there was still the issue of the DSD vehicles reaching the distribution centers and warehouses, sometimes resulting in unnecessary miles driven.
Many of the DSD routes involve an overnight stay, Fullan says. To combat that, Reser’s is building its own network of recharging locations, installing some systems at drivers’ homes and other locations closer to their routes to cut driving time and improve efficiency. The company says that by providing more localized sites for distribution trucks to plug in, it has cut the number of unnecessary trips to centralized distribution points from daily to once or twice a week in some cases.
“It would be nice to plug in at intervals,” Fullan says. “We plug in to recharge every day. We look for layover locations that have three-phase power so we can recharge en route but these facilities are rare.”
Shorepower Technologies is helping to fix that by embarking on a federally funded program to install plug-in systems at 50 truck stops along major freight corridors by the end of this year. Many of the sites will have highervoltage connections available to plug in trailer refrigeration and cold-plate systems.
“Building this network of plug-in sites is vital not just for reducing idling while keeping drivers comfortable but for providing a cost-effective way of protecting temperature-sensitive shipments,” says Alan Bates, vice president of marketing with Shorepower Technologies. “This is a critical issue in a time of rising fuel prices. By providing low-cost grid power as a replacement for diesel fuel, we can help companies like Reser’s not only hold the line on costs but costeffectively reach new markets.”
Reser’s also employs idle-reduction equipment on its over-the-road longhaul fleet, some 130 vehicles. Thermo King refrigeration units and auxiliary power units (APUs) for heating, cooling, and power were installed. According to Fullan, the payback calculated at the time on the APUs was 18 months based on a diesel-fuel cost of $2.50/ gal. Use of the APUs also has helped to eliminate an average of 11 hours of idling per day per truck. For Reser’s, that is a cool way to run green. | <urn:uuid:c94215d9-1a32-4107-9e8c-50a4b7e91688> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://fleetowner.com/running-green/green-fleet-month-fine-option | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00098-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94865 | 960 | 1.609375 | 2 |
The exhibition introduces the results of archaeological research, exploration and excavation in a range of local caves. it is also a part of the celebrations for International Museum Day, which falls on May 18 each year.
Thai Nguyen is home to rocky terrain, caves, rivers and streams, and abundant vegetation, which provided favourable residence for the primitive tribes. At present, there are still multiple archaeological vestiges with historical value, proving that prehistoric people once lived in the province.
There are 24 archaeological sites in Thai Nguyen. The province’s museum has collaborated with the concerned authorities, research institutes and universities to conduct research, exploration and excavation of a number of relics and caves, which have resulted in discoveries on the lives of prehistoric people in Thai Nguyen, attracting the attention of researchers from both at home and abroad.
The new archaeological results introduced at the exhibition provide the public with new awareness on the continuous developments in the study of prehistoric culture in the locale.
The exhibition introduces over 300 artefacts, documents, photos and books on archaeology. These are divided into three categories, namely the process of researching and discovering prehistoric archaeological vestiges in Thai Nguyen, results of excavation of Than Sa and Oc cave archaeological sites in Vo Nhai district, and preservation and promotion of the value of archaeological sites associated with tourism development.
It is expected to contribute to the preservation and promotion of heritage values, thereby orienting the planning on archaeological relics in Thai Nguyen for the future, while promoting the value of relics attached with the province’s tourism development.
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Hi Josch, On Donnerstag, 4. Februar 2016, Johannes Schauer wrote: > maybe we can merge Lunar's original suggestion Installed-Build-Depends (a > name which is missing the transitive/recursive-ness) with the new > suggestion and make it: > > Installed-Transitive-Build-Depends > > This way it would not be confused with the *actual* transitive build > depends
I'm sorry, but I think the opposite will be the case, this will cause *more* confusion: what are "installed transitive build depends" vs "actual transitive build depends"? I know that *you* have grasped the concept of transitive build depends very well, but I'm pretty sure that 97% of the DD population have no idea what transitive build depends are, especially compared to build-depends or alternative build-depends. And even 70% were too many. (AFAIK transitive build-depends are all possible build depends, so if a package build depends on python2 || python3 both python versions will be part of the transitive build depends. (Is that even correct?) Also see $(torsocks dict transitive) - what does this word even mean? ;-) cheers, Holger
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The “mini-agricultural” movements that are popping up in this country interest me. Whether it’s the Back to Eden gardening method, hobby farms, sustainable landscaping, or just nerds like me with a big container garden (60+ self-watering containers, plus a handful of traditional containers), it’s edifying to see people get their hands back into the soil, living manually a bit like monks, even if we don’t live like them in other areas of our lives (last Friday, I spent four hours in the garden while listening to a former atheist describe his conversion to Catholicism (The Journey Home) and BBC podcasts about the revolutions of 1848 and Neoplatonism . . . that’s good multi-tasking, but it’s not exactly monastic).
The latest mini-ag movement I’ve read about?
It’s pretty much exactly what you’d think: Grow stuff in the forest instead of the open fields. Of course, most fruits and vegetables need a lot of sun, so you’ll have to grow different foodstuffs (for a list, go here), but after you get past that inconvenience, it’s supposedly pretty easy.
I doubt I’ll pursue it, but if it’s something you’re interested in, you may want to check out this site.Bookmark it: del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList | <urn:uuid:555071b5-92ed-4c75-98c3-3777e6b00411> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://thedailyeudemon.com/?p=32527 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719155.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00332-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.886601 | 338 | 1.726563 | 2 |
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Tapping the cog icon to open up the settings is where all the fun and interesting parts of Stellarium Mobile can be found. The first thing you’ll probably want to do is tap the phone icon in the lower right corner. This will engage the phone’s sensors so that the sky map will align with the phone’s orientation. This interactive view gives you a window onto the cosmos. Every move you make will be augmented with a map of the stars. However, while this sounds fantastic - and it is - the reality is that patience is required because it’s quite slow to keep up with your movements. Furthermore, you will have to do the figure of eight swirling motion to calibrate the phone’s compass. Stellarium Mobile does not alert you to this, but it is necessary.
As for criticisms - when all of the overlays were turned on together, my N8 had difficulty coping and would sometimes crash. However, in ordinary use you shouldn’t have every overlay on at once. They create so much information it’s hard to make anything out at all. Also, there’s no data for man-made objects such as the International Space Station (ISS). Note that the competing application Astroller now shows the ISS. Lastly, Stellarium Mobile lacks a red monochrome mode for use during night time observations.
I thoroughly enjoyed using this application and will keep it around for whenever I’m curious about objects in the night sky.
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Starting Astroller presents you with a 3D globe of the Earth that you can spin around by just dragging. Overlaid on the globe are named shapes for all the major constellations. By default, the globe is shaded to show where day and night are, but this can be switched off by tapping the light bulb icon. As you move the globe, a box in the lower right of the screen shows the longitude and latitude for the centre of of the screen, with a place name and the option to view the sky from that location.
Fortunately, Astroller has an important function that any telescope companion should have; that is a night mode. With this, colours are replaced with shades of red, so as to not wipe out your night vision. It takes a while for the human eye to adjust to darkness, an ability crucial for astronomers. The last thing you want is to fire up your mobile app and be blinded with a bright colours!
Switching from globe view to ground view gives you a panorama of the sky from the location you've set. Again this can be dragged around but sadly there is no zoom ability in either view. In ground view, there are added options for customising the information presented on screen. A menu option called 'Star Count' gives a slider where you can set the minimum brightness (i.e. 'Magnitude' in astronomical parlance). It was this tool that first made me think of Astroller as a beginner's (possibly child's) application. Serious astronomers would want to set a numerical value of minimum magnitude. Since that is not the case in Astroller, we have a qualitative filter rather than quantitative. Another menu option is to switch off the representation of the atmosphere. The atmosphere view simply gives a background colour to the display; cyan in day time, deep dark grey/blue at night. The alternative being a pitch black background.
Overall, Astroller is a good tool for the curious adult or child. It might even be an aid mémoire for serious astronomers. I would like to see more from Astroller, it would have been good to have an option to overlay more types of objects, like nebulae and galaxies. Still though, for the low price tag, this is an excellent way to begin exploring and learning the night sky.
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SkyMap’s approach to overlaying information is to keep things simple. Graphics are shown for our local planets, and major constellation lines are included, but everything else is text based against the azimuth grid. This is in contrast to competing products that show constellation artwork and display Hubble images of objects once you zoom in closely enough. This simplistic approach is not necessarily a bad thing, as it allows you to concentrate on the content rather than being lost in all the frills. It also keeps the program running smoothly, unlike other titles in this genre.
There’s a strong educational element with SkyMap. From the main menu, there’s a gallery of popular astronomical objects, including everything from galaxies to the moon. Tapping any of them brings up a page with a high quality image and a paragraph of factoids. The menu on that page gives options to view the object on the sky map, or to view its Wikipedia page. However, if you opt for Wikipedia, you’ll land on an intermediate page at the developer’s website, which I assume has been done for analytic purposes.
SkyMap costs £3.00 in the Nokia Store, which puts it between Astroller (free with ads or £1.50), and Stellarium (£4.00). In terms of functionality, I have to rate both applications above SkyMap and so I can’t really justify the price. However, there is a question of personal taste for the different user interfaces. SkyMap is much cleaner than Astroller, even if it provides less information to the user. Therefore, based on screenshots, you may prefer the more polished user interface on SkyMap.
4. Star Chart
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As is standard on mobile astronomy applications these days, Star Chart has an augmented reality mode. As you tilt and rotate your phone, it will show you the view of space from the direction you’re looking. It automatically determines your location from the phone’s GPS receiver, but you can set a manual location.
The Nokia Belle style toolbar at the bottom has an icon of an eye which toggles the augmented reality mode. Turning it off allows you to navigate the sky by swiping across the screen. While it may be easy to lose your bearings in this mode, Star Chart helps by overlaying an equatorial grid, and a coloured hue above the horizon. When the time of day is upon your local sunset, you’ll find a glorious red haze surrounding our local star.
Tapping on an object in the sky will target it and bring up a list of its vital statistics. There is also a button to auto-zoom onto a targeting object. This is good for a quick look-up but you will have to go hunting out specific objects because this version of Star Chart does not have a search function!
Star Chart is currently at version 1.0, which is shown by not even having an option to overlay constellation lines and names. It is currently limited to toggling planet and star names. Neither is there an azimuthal grid option or the ability to set a future date so you can plot where objects will be in the future – e.g. if you were planning the evening’s observations during the day.
Star Chart is available in the Nokia Store for £1.50. What it lacks in comprehensiveness it makes up for in simplicity and could be a great way to get a child interested in astronomy.
5. Jodrell Bank Observatory
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The Jodrell Bank Observatory app has not been reviewed on All About Symbian before, and it's not a 'sky chart' type of application. Rather, it's one of the Ovi RSS applications, which gives you up to date news from Jodrell Bank and the wider astronomy world. It actually presents four RSS feeds, "The Night Sky This Month" which also includes an MP3 audio download, "Jodrell Bank News", "Astronomy News", and the "Jodcast" podcast. The latter adds a great new dimension to this relatively simple application. MP3s downloaded and played by the system player. If you're part of the astronomy world, this is a great little (free) app to let you keep updated both by reading or listening.
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Chronic lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL) has one of the highest familial risks among cancers. Monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis (MBL), the precursor to CLL, has a higher prevalence (13%-18%) in families with 2 or more members with CLL compared with the general population (5%-12%). Although, the rate of progression to CLL for high-count MBLs (clonal B-cell count ≥500/µL) is ∼1% to 5%/y, no low-count MBLs have been reported to progress to date. We report the incidence and natural history of MBL in relatives from CLL families. In 310 CLL families, we screened 1045 relatives for MBL using highly sensitive flow cytometry and prospectively followed 449 of them. MBL incidence was directly age- and sex-adjusted to the 2010 US population. CLL cumulative incidence was estimated using Kaplan-Meier survival curves. At baseline, the prevalence of MBL was 22% (235/1045 relatives). After a median follow-up of 8.1 years among 449 relatives, 12 individuals progressed to CLL with a 5-year cumulative incidence of 1.8%. When considering just the 139 relatives with low-count MBL, the 5-year cumulative incidence increased to 5.7%. Finally, 264 had no MBL at baseline, of whom 60 individuals subsequently developed MBL (2 high-count and 58 low-count MBLs) with an age- and sex-adjusted incidence of 3.5% after a median of 6 years of follow-up. In a screening cohort of relatives from CLL families, we reported progression from normal-count to low-count MBL to high-count MBL to CLL, demonstrating that low-count MBL precedes progression to CLL. We estimated a 1.1% annual rate of progression from low-count MBL, which is in excess of that in the general population.
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Friday, July 15, 2011 | 1:22 p.m.
- Nevada delegation to lawmakers touring Yucca Mountain: go away (4-27-2011)
- Yucca Mountain or not, nuclear waste resides here (2-13-2011)
- With GOP takeover of House, is revival of Yucca debate in offing? (11-24-2010)
- Nuclear agency’s rule change relieves pressure on Yucca Mountain (11-17-2010)
- State says report gives wrong impression about Yucca Mountain safety (9-10-10)
- Panel: Yucca Mountain waste dump process continues (6-29-10)
- Nevada files motion for Yucca application withdrawal (5-17-10)
- Yucca Mountain dump opponents see their momentum ebb (4-13-2010)
- Yucca Mountain foes hail historic step to kill nuclear waste depository (3-4-2010)
- Energy Department withdraws application for Yucca Mountain (3-3-2010)
Rep. Joe Heck broke ranks with Republicans today, voting against a bill that would have made cuts to renewable energy investment programs and provided funds to develop Yucca Mountain as a waste disposal site.
Heck's notable vote came on a bill to appropriate funds for energy and water development for fiscal 2012.
“The cuts contained in this legislation threaten Nevada’s chance to create jobs by becoming America’s leading renewable energy exporter,” Heck said, calling renewable energy research and development “critical to our nation’s energy future.”
“Additionally, this legislation continues funding a project that is unpopular and has long been considered dead, Yucca Mountain, despite other feasible options,” he continued. “We must move past ideas and technology from a bygone era and begin exploring options that will create jobs, and are supported by Nevadans.”
Heck had attempted to divert much of the funding for the nuclear waste disposal project at Yucca mountain earlier this week, through an amendment that would have diverted the $25 million the bill had earmarked for the project to research programs and local oversight activities. He did not offer an amendment to strip an additional $10 million in the bill set aside for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s licensing process.
But when that amendment was knocked down on procedural grounds, it wasn’t clear what Heck would do next.
Democrats in the state leapt on Heck as a sly supporter of screw-Nevada policies.
"With Nevada's economy suffering from the worst economy since the Great Depression, Joe Heck should be focusing on job creation, not spending taxpayer dollars on opening Yucca Mountain or voting to end Medicare in order to continue taxpayer giveaways to big oil companies," Nevada Dems spokesman Zach Hudson said yesterday in a statement.
But now that Heck’s voted against the legislation, it gives him a mixed record that his opponents are going to have a tougher time parsing out for the voters.
Heck and his former Nevada Republican colleague in the House, Dean Heller — who is now in the Senate — had voted earlier this year to support a Republican budget for fiscal 2012 (the one that’s come to be known by the surname of its author, Rep. Paul Ryan), despite the fact that it contained money for Yucca: money that Heller had attempted, unsuccessfully, to kill via a perfunctory amendment that would have stripped all Yucca funding from the bill.
The Ryan bill also made cuts to funding for renewable energy programs.
There are differences between the bills, and the climate surrounding them. The Ryan budget was a measure to fund the whole government, not just selected departments and energy and water-related programs; thus the stakes were much higher. Heck also had a little more cover: back in April, only four Republicans voted against Ryan’s legislation; this time, 21 Republicans refused to back the energy and water appropriations bill.
Voting against energy and water bills isn't all that novel for a Nevada Republican: Heller did the same with the energy and water bills that appeared before the House between fiscal 2008 and fiscal 2010 (there was no separate energy and water appropriations bill in fiscal 2011). The last two years, in budgets passed under the Obama administration, Yucca mountain funding wasn't an issue; the entire Nevada House delegation voted together against the fiscal 2008 energy and water bill.
Heck's shift on the energy and water bill likely won't protect him from Democratic cross-hairs over votes he already took on the Ryan budget (which is more tied to the bill's handling of Medicare than anything else, but Yucca funding was a part of it).
He might benefit a bit from favorable timing: the last vote he took on Yucca and renewable energy was to vote down a bill that continued to fund them, while the last vote Heller took on the subject was to give the Ryan budget a second endorsement, a vote he said he was "proud" to take.
But citing Yucca and renewable energy isn't enough, Democrats are saying, especially when Heck also voted against an amendment that would have diverted another $24 million from fossil energy research programs and put it toward renewable energy efficiency programs -- which as Heck said, are "critical" to Nevada jobs (which has negligible oil).
There may not be another opportunity. This is likely the last vote Heck will have to take on the Yucca issue in a while. Odds are that the House’s fiscal 2012 appropriations bills won’t make it past the Senate, but the House probably won’t independently consider another set of appropriations bills before the fiscal year ends on September 30 either; and if they consider a compromise package, it will have been pre-combed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for all traces of Yucca funding. Reid is also unlikely to present final appropriation legislation that includes Yucca funding to the Senate.
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Commuters said they would feel ‘wary’ of using public transport despite Mayor Dan Jarvis obtaining millions in funding for buses and trams.
People across Sheffield expressed concern over the safety of returning to public transport even after lockdown is over. This came as the Department for Transport reported an average 89% drop in UK bus journeys during April, as compared to bus journeys conducted in January.
Margaret Rutherford, from Millhouses, said: “I was a regular bus user, but since being identified as vulnerable due to my age and health problems, would feel very wary of using buses even when lockdown is over.
“They never felt very clean, and social distancing is impossible on them.”
In a poll conducted by JUS News, 77% of respondents reported they would feel unsafe returning to public transport even with Mayor Jarvis’ extra funding.
Many residents said they would only feel safe if precautions were taken, such as compulsory masks and gloves, and said they would continue to use cars in the meantime.
Joanne Gunn Peberdy, from Millhouses, said: “Unless strict penalties are put into place and put into action when precautions are ignored I think yet again the vulnerable and everyone will be at risk.”
Last week, Mayor Dan Jarvis secured a further £1 million in funding for Supertram in Sheffield City Region, further to the £10 million he acquired earlier this month for Sheffield buses.
The extra funding is to help keep services running for key workers and safeguard buses for social distancing.
Mayor Jarvis said: “I’m still encouraging everyone to continue following the national guidance for as long as is necessary.
“When restrictions are relaxed, I’m ensuring plans will be in place to enable us to adhere to social distancing and continue running public transport for all our communities.”
South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive have been working with Mayor Jarvis to decide how public transport will run as lockdown restrictions are lifted.
Currently, they are operating a reduced service across the city.
Tim Bilby, Managing Director of Stagecoach Supertram, said: “Supertram will also have a key part to play in the region’s recovery when we do come through this difficult period.
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ORONO – What do you get when you put 1,000 students with laptops in the Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine in Orono? Music, literally.
At this year’s Maine Learning Technology Initiative Student Conference at the University of Maine on Thursday, students learned about innovative ways they can use their state-issued laptops.
During the afternoon “uber session,” students turned their laptop keyboards into musical keyboards and performed a world premiere musical composition, along with 12 live musicians on stage, and two members of the New World Symphony playing live from Miami. Some of the students had used software available on their MLTI devices to pre-program their machines to create their own recording of a full octave of notes – using anything from the sounds of birds to objects around the house or digital sounds of their own making. All – including those with no musical experience at all – contributed to the performance.
“We’ve done some pretty cool stuff at the uber session in years past,” said Jeff Mao, director of learning technology for the Maine Department of Education, which organized the event with Apple, the University and other partners. “The student energy and engagement this time topped them all.”
The New England School of Communications greatly enhanced the event by providing wall-to-wall video and audio coverage, some of it projected live on a large screen, all of it to be available for posting online and in future promotion.
The annual conference, now in its ninth year, is a way to generate energy and excitement about using technology to enhance learning. It’s also a way to give middle school (and some high school) students a glimpse into college life: students navigate themselves to breakout sessions around campus and eat in one of the school’s dining halls.
Helping students use technology to develop their own learning plans and to enhance their learning experiences is a cornerstone of the Maine DOE’s strategic plan, unveiled by Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen in February.
“We need to put students more in charge of their own learning,” Bowen said. “Technology is one way to do that.”
Students started the day with three student keynote speakers who addressed the entire gathering. Tim Walsh, a freshman at Kennebunk High School, shared how he leveraged his access to his MLTI MacBook to become a design professional along with a team at Middle School of the Kennebunks. Emily & Katie Morse, juniors at Machias High School, talked about their experience studying Japanese through an online course via their MLTI MacBooks to meet their world language graduation requirement.
Students then spread out across campus for more than 20 breakout sessions on everything from video game design with Scratch (software) to tips on using GarageBand music-making software to developing smartphone apps and searching for planets.
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Is Wikipedia Biased?
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AbstractThis study empirically examines whether Wikipedia has a neutral point of view. It develops a method for measuring the slant of 28 thousand articles about US politics. In its earliest years, Wikipedia's political entries lean Democrat on average. The slant diminishes during Wikipedia's decade of experience. This change does not arise primarily from revision of existing articles. Most articles arrive with a slant, and most articles change only mildly from their initial slant. The overall slant changes due to the entry of articles with opposite slants, leading toward neutrality for many topics, not necessarily within specific articles.
CitationGreenstein, Shane, and Feng Zhu. 2012. "Is Wikipedia Biased?" American Economic Review, 102 (3): 343-48. DOI: 10.1257/aer.102.3.343
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Voters in two diverse U.S. states are expected to further clarify the races in the Democratic and Republican fields Saturday as the quest for the White House intensifies.
South Carolina is having a Republican primary while Nevada holds a Democratic caucus.
Ahead of the South Carolina primary, comments by Republican Party front-runner Donald Trump and Pope Francis about building a border wall between Mexico and the United States have ignited controversy.
On a flight to Rome following a trip this week to Mexico, the pope, responding to a reporter's question, said a person who thinks about building walls and “not building bridges, is not a Christian.”
Trump has called for a border wall to be built between the two countries.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop in Kiawah Island, South Carolina, Feb. 18, 2016.
In response to the pope's remarks, Trump initially called them "disgraceful," but said later during a nationally televised town hall Thursday that he has a lot of respect for Francis, and that the pope may have been given the "wrong information" about the border plan.
Republican presidential candidates joining Trump for the town hall downplayed the controversy. Ohio Governor John Kasich declined to criticize the pope for his comments, while former Florida Governor Jeb Bush said he did not think it was appropriate to question Trump’s faith.
“He knows what his faith is,” Bush said.
Trump leads among Republicans
Trump was also challenged by town hall moderators for his 2002 comments that appeared to support the U.S. invasion of Iraq. He noted that by the time hostilities started in 2003, “I was against the war.”
Trump continues to hold a commanding lead among Republican voters nationwide.
A Quinnipiac University poll found this week that Trump leads his nearest competitor, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, 39 percent to 19 percent, closely followed by Texas Senator Ted Cruz with 18 percent.
Senators Cruz and Rubio did not appear on the town hall but battled with each other Thursday over allegations the Cruz campaign doctored a photograph to make it appear as if Rubio and President Barack Obama were shaking hands.
Rubio told reporters at a campaign stop in Anderson, South Carolina, that the picture was a “fake” and represented a “disturbing pattern” from the Cruz campaign.
The Cruz campaign did not dispute the allegations but did post another photograph of Rubio and Obama on social media.
Mark Jones of Summerville, whose son Rig is perched on his shoulders, holds a Marco Rubio sign at a South Carolina rally Feb. 19, 2016. Even after the rally, Jones says he's still undecided, though "90 percent" for Rubio. (C. Guensburg/VOA)
South Carolina's popular governor, Nikki Haley, who officially endorsed Rubio on Wednesday, introduced him at a rally Friday in North Charleston by pointedly saying she'd sought a candidate with passion, principles and humility. She also said she wanted to back someone who would make her India-born "parents look back and say, 'Yes, moving to America was the best thing we could have done for our children.'"
Rubio told hundreds of enthusiasts, including those holding babies and young children, this could be the first generation of Americans "to leave our children worse off" than before. The key is to dislodge Democratic control of the White House, he said.
"If we lose, all the damage Barack Obama has done to America becomes permanent," Rubio said, accusing the administration of neglecting military veterans, among other things.
Voters arrive for an event with Republican U.S. presidential candidate Ben Carson (not pictured) at the visitors center in Gaffney, South Carolina, Feb. 11, 2016.
South Carolina is home to eight military bases. Rubio promised that, as president, he would improve health care access for veterans.
He also said he'd improve economic opportunities for families — a point that resonated at least somewhat with Mark Jones of nearby Summerville.
An employee of defense contractor Boeing, he was at the rally with his wife and six children. Though one of them held a Rubio sign, Jones said he still was undecided.
"I'm 90 percent for Rubio — but possibly Cruz," he said.
On the Democratic side, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders are locked in a battle for endorsements heading into Saturday’s Nevada Democratic caucus.
Both campaigns see multiethnic Nevada as a key test for electoral viability nationwide; with the Clinton campaign seeking the support of minority voters as a way of gaining ground on Sanders after his success in the low-minority states of Iowa and New Hampshire.
Clinton picked up a key endorsement from influential African-American South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn Friday.
Clyburn said the future of the Democratic Party would be best served by Clinton's "experience and know-how."
Democratic U.S. presidential candidates Senator Bernie Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrive on stage ahead of the start of the PBS NewsHour Democratic presidential candidates debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Feb. 11, 2016.
On Thursday, Sanders received the endorsement of the Clark County Black Caucus, an African-American group in the state’s most populated jurisdiction.
Union endorsements are also a crucial test for support in Nevada, which has the 11th-highest union membership in the country.
In a sign that Sanders may be gaining ground on Clinton, the Nevada AFL-CIO and the influential Culinary Workers Union announced they would not endorse a candidate ahead of the caucus.
Super delegate count
Clinton holds a significant lead over Sanders in the number of super delegates to the Democratic National Convention, picking up 87 endorsements since the New Hampshire primary, compared to Sanders’ 11 additions.
Delegates are allowed to change their minds but Clinton’s larger numbers mean that Sanders will have to pick up even more delegates in primary voting.
A Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday found Clinton and Sanders are still running neck and neck in the race nationwide, with Clinton ahead by a margin of 44 percent to 42 percent.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A smiling Pope Benedict XVI arrived in the United States on Tuesday afternoon to start the six-day, two-city journey that will take him from the White House to the halls of the United Nations.
The papal plane, Shepherd 1, touched down at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland to cheers from a crowd of invited guests gathered for the event.
After he stepped off the plane, Benedict did not kiss the ground, as his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, often did during visits.
The pontiff was greeted by President Bush, first lady Laura Bush and their daughter Jenna, each of whom shook his hand. Watch the arrival »
It was believed to be the first time an American president has greeted a world dignitary on arrival at Andrews.
"It had the look and feel of a monumental and historic event," CNN's Brian Todd reported.
This is the first U.S. papal visit since the attacks of September 11 and Benedict's first visit to the United States.
One of the stated goals of the pope's visit is to energize the U.S. Catholic community, which has an estimated 70 million members.
Three years after succeeding Pope John Paul II, Benedict is likely to address the sex scandal within the Catholic Church, the church's relationship with other faiths, the U.S.-led war in Iraq and the upcoming U.S. presidential election, said John Allen, a CNN Vatican analyst.
The fallout from the sex scandal has had a serious impact on the U.S. Catholic Church in terms of its finances, its moral authority and the demoralization of Catholics.
During the flight from Rome to Washington, the pope told reporters aboard that he was ashamed of the problem. Watch the pope express his shame about the scandal »
Meanwhile, security preparations were under way in the air, on land and in the water.
Twenty-seven state, local and federal agencies will protect the pope as he meets with religious leaders, celebrates Mass at a baseball stadium and makes his way around the capital in his distinctive "popemobile."
There are no specific threats against Benedict, according to the FBI, but a March audio message from Osama Bin Laden mentioned the pontiff.
The centerpiece of the Washington leg of the U.S. visit will be Thursday's Mass at Nationals Park, a new baseball stadium where 46,000 people will gather to watch the pope. Everyone will go through metal detectors on their way in, and nearby roads and bridges will be closed. Temporary flight restrictions will be in place over the stadium. Watch how Washington is preparing for papal visit »
A 1½-mile section of the adjacent Anacostia River will be closed during the Mass. The Coast Guard will patrol the river in boats with machine guns mounted on their bows.
"I am worried about a terrorist attack," said Lt. Lynda LeCrone of the Coast Guard. "We are here to detect, deter and defend against waterborne attack on this highly publicized event. ... We can use force."
The pope will be making his way around parts of Washington in the popemobile, a Mercedes Benz modified with bulletproof glass surrounding a seating area from which the pope can wave to bystanders along his route.
The vehicle, one of three popemobiles in the Vatican motor pool, arrived in the United States last week. It will be driven by a Secret Service agent. The agents have been training with the vehicle.
"We try best-case scenarios and also try worst-case scenarios so our staff will know how to react," said Secret Service Special Agent Renee Triplett, who oversees Secret Service training.
Benedict will travel to New York on Friday and address the U.N. General Assembly, linking the visit to the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. He'll celebrate Mass Sunday morning at Yankee Stadium.
Still a mystery
Despite three years as the head of the Catholic Church, the pope remains a bit of a mystery to many American Catholics.
"I think most American Catholics may not know a whole lot about him," Allen said. "He's not the sexy media icon that John Paul II was, but what they've seen, by and large, they've liked."
Of American Catholics polled by the Pew Research Center, 74 percent give Pope Benedict a favorable rating. But the survey points out that he's not as highly regarded as his predecessor. See other meetings between popes and presidents »
For one, their personalities are different. John Paul was known for his charisma. Benedict is known as an intellectual and introvert.
"He doesn't quite get the same energy from crowds that John Paul II got," said Cardinal Francis George, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. "John Paul II was extroverted and got energy talking to people, and the present Holy Father loses energy. He has to rest between all these encounters."
The energy factor is partly due to age. Benedict turns 81 this week. When John Paul became pope, he was only 58 and was able to keep a much more rigorous schedule traveling around the globe. E-mail to a friend
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Introducing our limited quantity of Dried Yellow Bhut Jolokia Chillies locally known in Ghana as ‘Kasoa Pepper’
Dried Yellow Bhut Jolokia is part of the Ghost Chilli family and is classified as one of the hottest chillies in the world measuring 1million units on the Scoville Scale.
In Ghana, the Green variety is readily available unlike the Yellow and Red varieties.
In comparison to the ripened Red Bhut Jolokia (which is extremely HOT), the Green and Yellow variety are milder in terms of HEAT ONLY.
The Yellow Kasoa pepper in my opinion is the best due to its citrusy flavour undertones
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The best choice of Chillies to add to your Hot Sauce due to its citrusy flavour and berry like smell.
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In the late 17th century the nations of Europe were starting to colonize, claim and conquer many parts of the world. In a conference between the European leaders, they agreed to invade Asia with a enormous naval invasion in an attempt to bring much of Asia under European control. The plot was discovered by Chinese spies and the Asian leaders and agreed to work together to resist the attempt to conquer their land.
In 1660 France, England, the Holy Roman Empire, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands declared war on the Asian nations of China, Khmer Empire, Nusantara, Mughal Empire, Bhutan, Tibet, Korea and Singhala. The European fleet set sail to Singapore (Malay: Singapura), where they planned to start their conquest with the Invasions of the Khmer Empire and Nusantara. The Asian fleet was well prepared and more than 1,500 ships led by Empress Kechang la-Choden awaited the arrival of the European invaders. On August 26, the two forces in the coast of Singapore met and started the Battle at Singapore. A short but enormous battle followed and with an overwhelming majority the Europeans were defeated and forced to flee.
The remaining European forces attempted to invade the Indian subcontinent and the Khmer Empire. They successfully landed at the shores, where they managed to capture some small villages. The Mughal Army defeated the Indian expedition at Dhaka on January 16, 1662 and the Khmer Army defeated the Khmer expedition at Krung Thep in March 5, 1662. The remaining forces were divided and the last of them were all captured or killed by 1663.
Following the defeat of the Europeans, both the European and Asian leaders met at the Congress of Angkor. Europe was forced to accept the conditions of the Asians under the threat of an invasion of Europe. The Europeans were forced to cover the costs of the war and Asian trade with Europe was extremely limited in the following decades, which caused a major financial crisis for Europe.
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I have a user control called 'ucForm', this 'ucForm' have a button to pop out a windows called 'pForm', I want to code it like this, when I press the 'Next' button it will close the 'pForm' and pass the textbox value in 'pForm' to 'ucForm' textbox. What code should I do in the button_click in 'pForm' and what event and method should used to detect the closing of the 'pForm' and perform passing value. Thanks
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The "Bible Code" is a way of looking for hidden prophecies and passages in the Bible, by using a software program to search for messages in the Old Testament Hebrew text. The spaces between words are eliminated, so that the Old Testament is a continuous block of Hebrew letters. Then, by skipping letters at a programmed interval, the program searches for words. There appear to be patterns to the passages where the words are found, in what is called a Bible code matrix.
The Bible Code also works in English in the King James Bible, as shown on this site. Its important to not only look at the search words in a Bible Code matrix, but other related words or phrases in the matrix, that I have underlined, that can add to the meaning of the matrix. Its been found that other related words and phrases are often found in the matrix.
Also see the other pages on the King James Bible Code:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
On this page I show a Bible Code matrix on the subject of Human Evolution of Homo Sapiens, Homo Erectus, and Neanderthal Man. Neanderthal Man was a cave man like relative of modern man, that existed across Europe (in particular in France and Germany) and parts of Asia, before modern Humans migrated from Africa. They were much stronger and heavier built than modern man, with heavy brow ridges and the same brain size as modern man. It is said that they did not have modern man's creativity; 80,000 years of living in caves in Europe, but no signs of cave art by Neanderthal Man, like that drawn by Cro-Magnon Man (Modern Man, Homo sapiens) in Europe. But it also has been claimed that there have been signs of Neanderthal creativity that have not been made public anthropologists. And they had a brain size equal to or greater than modern man's. Some have speculated that they may have had deveoped psychic powers.
Neanderthal Man used stone tools but supposedly didn't go beyond that. They coexisted with modern man in Europe for a while, about 35,000 years ago, before they became extinct. Much debated is the issue of whether Neanderthal interbred with modern man, or was exterminated in wars with modern man, or simply couldn't compete with the smarter and thinner modern man that came from Africa to Europe and Asia. So far, genetic evidence seems to indicate that they did not interbreed with Homo Sapiens (Modern Humans). But that is based on mitochondrial DNA evidence, from the direct female ancestor, perhaps there was some interbreeding. It is possible that there is some Neanderthal DNA in European peoples.
But here we will see what the King James Bible Code has to say about this. Previous to Neanderthal Man there was Homo erectus, found in Europe, Asia, China, Indonesia. Homo Erectus dates to about 700,000-200,000 years ago, and may have been the ancestor of Neanderthal Man and Modern Man. Homo Erectus used fire and was a hunter of animals, and had a smaller brain than modern man and Neanderthal Man.
Using Codefinder software, I searched for Old Testament and New Testament King James Bible Code matrices using keyword NEANDERTHAL, in an ELS (skip) -300000 to 300000 search. The word NEANDERTHAL was too long, and was not found in the searches, so I had to split it up. I tried an Old Testament search for NEANDER and THAL MAN as two words. With Row Splitting disabled I did then find a matrix, in an Old Testament search. This matrix was at Judges 1:7 - Nehemiah 7:19, ELS = -30711. It contains these words of interest:
-- NEANDER (ELS=-30711)
-- THAL MAN
And these other words of interest were in this matrix:
-- RED THEIR MEAT (apparently saying that Neanderthal Man ate uncooked meat from animals it hunted; actually its in "gathered their meat", which again could be about Neanderthal Man being a hunter)
-- THE MAN
-- HIS ARMS (Neanderthal Man was very strong)
-- WHEAT (later on, early Homo sapiens started agriculture)
-- THE PEOPLE
-- SPREAD UP TO HEAVEN (in 1 Kings 8:54, here it could be about Modern Man spreading out to the heavens by space travel)
-- THE ARROW
-- THE CHILDREN OF BIG
-- THE PHILISTINE, and DAVID (In the Biblical story of David and Goliath, in 1 Samuel 17, David defeated in battle the Philistine giant, the ten foot tall Goliath. The Philistines were the major enemy of ancient Israel. They may here in this matrix represent the strong and stocky cave-man like Neanderthal Man. This matrix may be telling us that Neanderthal Man did battle against Modern Humans in Europe, and was defeated and exterminated by the smarter modern humans with their spears and arrows. Superior technology and brain power won the war.
This matrix was at Exodus 28:43 to Exodus 30:7, and was a search for NEANDERTHAL MAN as 2 words: NEANDER and THALMAN.
This matrix was at Genesis 3:14 to 16:10, and again the search words were NEANDER and THALMAN, and also GENES, to see if Neanderthal genes could have ended up in modern man.
This matrix was at Genesis 30:29 to Exodus 35:35, and the search words were: NEANDER, THALMAN, GENES.
Next, I searched for matrices for Homo Erectus, using ERECTUS as the first search word and HOMO as the second search word.
The first matrix was found in the Old Testament at Psalm 107:16-111:4, and it resulted from a -1000 to 1000 Old Testament search. It contains:
-- ERECTUS (ELS=-122)
Also in this matrix, these relevant phrases:
-- THEY MOUNT UP TO THE HEAVEN, THEY GO DOWN AGAIN TO THE DEPTHS (about the future of mankind, and space travel and undersea travel)
-- ABOVE THE HEAVENS (also about the future of mankind and space travel)
-- UNTIL I MAKE THINE ENEMIES THY FOOTSTOOL (about the future of mankind becoming the dominant species on earth)
-- THEIR WITS (about the increased intelligence that began with Homo Erectus)
-- THAT DWELL THERE
-- A WILDERNESS (where Homo Erectus lived)
-- THEY MAY PREPARE A CITY FOR HABITATION AND SOW THE FIELDS (about man developing agriculture and cities)
-- MULTIPLIED GREATLY (about man multiplying greatly and taking over Planet Earth in the future)
-- PHILISTIA (another comparison of primitive man to the Philistines)
The next Old Testament matrix at Ezekiel 1:24 - 9:10:
-- ERECTUS (ELS=938)
Other relevant words and phrases in this matrix:
-- RECEIVE IN THINE HEART (about emotions and feelings developing in primitive man as he evolved)
-- SON OF MAN
-- AND YOUR IMAGE
-- ALL THE MULTITUDE (about mankind multiplying over earth)
-- FIRE (which was used by Homo Erectus)
Next, I tried a limited area search in Genesis in the Old Testament, and I found this matrix at Genesis 8:17 - 24:47:
-- ERECTUS (ELS=1022)
Other relevant words and phrases in this matrix:
-- ALL FLESH BOTH OF FOWL AND OF CATTLE (these were food for early man, and modern man)
-- THE CAVE (where Homo Erectus had shelter)
Next, I tried a New Testament search, and this matrix was found at Matthew 5:30 - 9:36:
-- ERECTUS (ELS=-427)
And other relevant words and phrases in this matrix:
-- FRUIT, EVERY TREE THAT BRINGETH NOT FORTH GOOD FRUIT (about food for early man, but also about the "dead end" of Neanderthal Man developing from Homo Erectus)
-- THE PEOPLE
-- THEY WERE DEPARTED, SPREAD ABROAD (about the spread of Homo Erectus, and later modern man, across earth)
Is the human brain a quantum computer?
It has been theorized that the human brain is a quantum computer. This could also may explain how psychic phenomena work.
Did a maximum New Testament search, with search words COMPUTER, BRAIN. Found this matrix with many interesting words and phrases in it, at John 1:9 to Acts 23:27. Most interesting in it is John 1:9 "that was the true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world".
Other relevant phrases in this matrix:
- shall live forever
- cometh to the light
- all the wisdom
- a skull (that the brain is in)
- being sent forth by the holy ghost
- come see a man which told me all things
- out of the world
- these things understood
- when the comforter is come
- hath made of one blood all nations of men
Also did an Old Testament search for: QUANTUM, MIND. Found this matrix at 1 Kings 1:10 to Ezekiel 41:21.
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By Tim Biggs
"Consider the source" has always been a sensible mantra for judging how much store to put into a particular report or piece of information. But on the internet, where sources are often amorphous and we face a barrage of hundreds of snippets of information at a time, that wisdom often flies out the window.
With US election fever hitting its climax as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump slug it out, the web is filling with dubious information, from concerted efforts to influence voters to straight-up trolling, to old-fashioned clickbait.
On Twitter, false information comes from fake accounts made to look like those of famous pundits, politicians or news sources. By sending out sensational or emotive messages the account-holder knows will show up in searches, these can rack up hundreds of retweets.
Of course, even if the post is from the person you think it's from, it isn't necessarily accurate.
That's a real Trump tweet, but CNN was reporting issues across the county, not the country.
Deeper in the bowels of the internet, groups gather on message boards such as 4chan to create false information specifically for the purpose of confusing or deceiving voters.
After disseminating fake posters that told Clinton voters they could send their ballots via text message instead of going to the polls (a campaign so successful that Twitter had to officially remind people that this was not true), groups on 4chan are preparing to hijack popular hashtags with fake Clinton campaign posters aiming to "shut down the black vote" with confusing messages.
Many more pieces of misinformation are less targeted, simply showing up on your feed as a headline after being digested and regurgitated by the web machine. Strangely, this can often make them more powerful.
Popular "viral" US election posts have asserted that:
- Jay Z rapped the phrase "middle finger to the Lord" at a Clinton rally (false, someone saw an incorrect caption and freaked out).
- Ivanka Trump held a press conference a day before the election to disavow her father (false, came from fake news site).
- Clinton was preparing EMPs to disable all of America's electronics (false, ridiculous, stolen from satire site and posted as news story on clickbait site).
- FBI director James Comey displayed a Trump/Pence sign outside his home (photo looks real, but anyone can take a sign to a house).
- Van loads of immigrants were being ferried from booth to booth to vote illegally for Clinton (false, fake news site).
- Eric Trump posted a picture online of the ballot he cast for his father, possibly breaking the law (oh wait, that one is real).
The recurring theme is that fake news posts speak to a pre-existing bias or belief in their audience that real news can never match. For example posts about Clinton's emails or "illegal immigrants" flooding polling booths are among the most popular.
The issue is well documented: the echo chambers we create for ourselves by choosing the online sources that feed us information are a breeding ground for conspiracy theories and lies. Regardless of truth (or even basic believability), a piece of information that aligns with enough people's biases will rise to become incredibly widespread.
"Pretty much everything conspires against truth [online]," wrote Farhad Manjoo of The New York Times in a recent article on fake online news. In the face of an overwhelming amount of information to choose from, "we are roiled by preconceptions and biases, and we usually do what feels easiest - we gorge on information that confirms our ideas, and we shun what does not."
Manjoo has continued to rail against fake news, most recently calling out conservative news aggregator Matt Drudge for his lack of rigour. But how many of Drudge's audience do you think are likely to follow Manjoo?
It's the same for information we don't necessarily already believe, but that we might wish was true because we find it funny or enjoyable. We've all seen Facebook posts, shared by family members, consisting of an image and text that could have been composed by literally anyone but is taken as gospel because it speaks to them. It's certainly been no different during the US election.
One very popular meme circulating on social media consists of a picture of notorious gangster Al Capone with the quote, "Elect a woman president? Hah! That will happen when the Cubs win the World Series".
Notes fact-checking website Snopes: "Not only is there no record of Al Capone's ever having uttered such a thing, but it makes little historical sense that he would have". Though the Cubs had become the butt of many baseball jokes before their historic drought-breaking win this year, the team won two World Series in Capone's lifetime.
A similar (but more mean-spirited) variety of meme pairs a picture of the recently-deceased former US attorney-general Janet Reno with the quote "Donald Trump will never be President in my lifetime". She said no such thing, according to Buzzfeed News, but the idea that she did say it and then died immediately before Trump's election is apparently so attractive to some that they're willing to accept it with no further scrutiny.
Some misinformation is not the result of any malice at all, but just plain mistakes. Unfortunately in these cases the false fact is usually much more interesting than the later correction and so it becomes internet fact anyway.
This morning, a rumour was going around that somebody had hacked Donald Trump's campaign site and left a poop emoji in the header. An image of the alleged hack had been doing the rounds and was even the basis for a post at Slate.
However, it soon became apparent it was not the result of a hack but just bad website design. Users could insert any text at the end of the URL on one of the site's pages and the text would appear as the header. Slate corrected its article, and in a matter of minutes (during which, presumably, people made Trump's website say all manner of nasty things), the flaw was fixed. | <urn:uuid:f8263e27-2607-4399-9e51-daf830687838> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.smh.com.au/technology/us-election-2016-malice-and-misinformation-as-fake-news-spreads-like-wildfire-online-20161109-gsl3hz.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.966866 | 1,254 | 1.945313 | 2 |
December 23rd, 2005, 10:36 PM
What is the real processor speed?
what is the real processor speed ?
its gets confusing when i see there are so many specifications out there
whereas i thought a sempron 2800+ is running at 2.8GHz but it actually
was only at 1.6Ghz???
what is the real processor speed for the below ?
where do i lookup on info pertaining to the real speed of the cpu ?
athlon 64 x2
pentium celeron 3.0
pentium 4 3.2GHz
December 26th, 2005, 10:20 AM
December 26th, 2005, 10:23 AM
Don't get too hung up on processor speed. That's why most processors are being named without the speed in the actual name. There's not that much of a difference between the actual speeds and slower speeds can actually outperform the faster speeds. It's not about raw GHz anymore.
Most processors are over powered for the average user anyhow. It really depends upon your intended use of the machine as to what processor you should be looking for. Are you a gamer or an office type? Both?
Not sure if you really wanted this information, but thought I'd pass it along.
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January 1st, 2006, 02:10 AM
^ What Sep said.
The CPU clock speed is a multiplier of the bus speed. This too affects things. But ultimately your performance will depend on how finely tuned the whole system is. I/O will continue to be one of the slowest aspects for the foreseeable future, so a faster hard drive might ultimately do more for you than a faster CPU, but that too depends on what you're doing with it.
Also you can overclock most new builds fairly easily. I usually do not overclock, but I sure do when I want to render an animation sequence that's going to take all night long. OTOH overclocking will make your system less stable, so you should expect it to crash (more) often as a matter of course if you do that.
But to directly answer this
Every manufacturer has CPU specifications. This will tell you specifically the expected bus speed, CPU clock speed, expected operating temperature range, and many other factors. I've never bought a CPU for my own build without referring to this, nor have I ever failed to easily find this info sheet by checking the manufacturer's website (e.g. intel).
“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” - Dr. Seuss
January 1st, 2006, 05:38 PM
only if you take them past their limits .
Originally Posted by medialint
careful overclocking with benchmarking to check for instability and then dropping back a little will give just as stabler performance as stock. true, some wild OC's will lead to BSOD, system hangs, and math errors, but that's why you bench them. if things crop up wrong, take it back down a step or two and try again.
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Describes high temperature corrosion of ceramics. In addition to pure single crystals or CVD materials, typical engineering materials of various purities were also studied. The environments used to produce corrosion were selected based on the likelihood of their being encountered in practice and their severity. The ceramic materials developed corrosion resistance by being immune to the environment or by developing passivity.
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Everyone who codes with SAS knows what the SASWORK directory space is, and everyone who has ever managed a medium-large installation knows that you need to monitor this space to avoid a huge buildup of worthless disk usage. One of the most common snarls happens when large SAS jobs go bust for one reason or another, and the work space does not get cleaned up properly. Here’s a technique you can use, with the help of SAS Environment Manger, to get a proxy for the amount of disk space being used–it’s not perfect, but it’s better than being in the dark.
Before illustrating the technique, a little explanation is needed. In SAS Environment Manager, you will find two types of SAS directories, both at the Server level:
- SAS Config Level Directory 9.4, referring to the …/Lev1 directory
- SAS Home Directory, referring to the …/SASHome/SASFoundation directory
The SASWORK directory is an additional Service level resource, underneath the SAS Home Directory, with the full name of:
<machine> SAS Home Directory 9.4 SAS work directory
Further, the SASWORK directory (or, “work directory”) can be located anywhere on the machine–it’s always some place outside the physical hierarchies of SAS Config and SASHome.
Here we are interested in monitoring the work directory. The problem is that the SAS EV agents are only able to scan and collect information about the disk volume where this work directory resides; they cannot get to the level of just the work directory by itself. Therefore the metrics we can observe provide the amount of space being used on the entire disk volume on which the work directory resides. We will use the metric called “Use Percent”–this is the same “Use Percent” metric that’s found in the alerts in the Service Architecture Framework:
Despite this limitation, it’s still useful for our purposes to monitor this “work directory” object, so here’s how it’s done:
1. Confirm the location and the resource for the SAS workspace. On the main interface, logged in as a SAS administrator, select Resource->Browse->Services, then search on the string “work directory”. Notice that there are two SAS work directories in this example, one on the compute01 machine, one on the meta01 machine, since this particular installation has two machines with base SAS installed:
Here we select the compute01 machine by clicking on it. The properties indicates the location of the SASWORK directory, which is /tmp :
Note that Use Percent is one of the metrics, and also note the file system location: /tmp on the Linux server. You can confirm this if you like by opening a SAS session and running a SAS PROC OPTIONS. The work directory is indicated below:
2. Go to the Dashboard interface, and add a portlet of type “Metric Viewer” to the interface. On the bottom of the right column, in the “Add Content to this column” portlet, choose the Metric Viewer option in the dropdown list and click on the plus “+” sign to add the new portlet.
3. Click on the configuration button located at the top right corner of the new Metric Viewer portlet:
4. Enter the following properties:
Description: SASWORK Disk Volume
Resource Type: – SAS Home Directory 9.4 SAS Directory
Metric: – Use Percent
Then at the bottom of the screen, select the Add to List button. Move the object called “compute01 SAS Home Directory 9.4 SAS work directory” to the right, using the arrow, and select OK. You should see this screen:
5. Select the OK button, and you will see your new portlet with the “Use Percent” metric displayed:
As stated earlier, this metric is imperfect because we are not getting the actual SASWORK space only but rather the work space plus the rest of the disk volume, but it’s better than nothing. There are two potential solutions to this problem:
1. It’s considered a best practice on a production site to create a separate disk volume to be used only for SASWORK–in that case the metric gives us the precise measure that we want. In the case of Windows that would be a separate new drive letter (D:, E:, etc.)
2. It’s possible to use a resource type of “FileServer Directory Tree," point it at the physical SASWORK directory location, and get the total disk space being used, HOWEVER, this will not work unless the userID running the SAS EV agent has read permissions to all the subdirectories of the SASWORK area. Each SAS user gets their own subdirectory within the SASWORK area, and each user is normally the only one that has directory read permissions to their own work area. Therefore this solution would only work in a few unique cases, such as where the agent userID has specifically been given read permissions to the entire SASWORK directory. | <urn:uuid:a2218a50-9760-4f7b-82e5-938d27cb9d12> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/2015/08/19/monitor-your-saswork-directory-from-sas-environment-manager/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00671.warc.gz | en | 0.896491 | 1,068 | 2.0625 | 2 |
So, you’ve just had that exciting call to let you know you’ve been invited for an interview for a role in Business Intelligence?
Business intelligence (BI) can be defined as an umbrella term that includes the applications, infrastructure and tools, and best practices that enable access to and analysis of information to improve and optimize decisions and performance. (Gartner IT Glossary).
The role of Business intelligence (BI) is to represent the tools and systems that play a key role in the strategic planning process within a corporation. These BI systems allow a company to gather, store, access, and analyze corporate data to aid in decision-making. (Webopedia Definition).
Business Intelligence (BI) is important since company data can indicate the viability of new products and help in the planning of future growth. Hence data can help maximize revenues and reduce costs. A business intelligence solution helps in producing accurate reports by extracting data directly from your data source.
Do you think you need what is required? Good luck with the interview! We’re sure you’re going to rock it. If you’re looking to apply for a BI role, get in touch with Moyo Talent Solutions, our talent specialists have a range of roles to match your skills. Or if you’re looking to improve your skills, we have a range of business and data-related training for you to choose from. | <urn:uuid:e06615c7-4ef5-4439-95f6-841405b7aa01> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://moyoafrica.com/tips-for-business-intelligence-interviews/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.873812 | 387 | 1.742188 | 2 |
What is Cryptocurrency
OneCoin bring users together in a global community that allows them to mine and use the OneCoin cryptocurrency. Essentially cryptocurrencies are protocols that allow the validation of transactions without the need of a third party such as banks, credit card companies or escrow agents.
The value of the OneCoin cryptocurrency is in its strong brand and global community of millions of people.
OneCoin is not a pre-mined cryptocurrency, meaning that the OneCoin miners create the market. By mining the coin, transactions are added and recorded to the OneCoin ledger, comprised of all past transactions. The ledger resembles a chain of blocks, which confirm that a certain number of transactions have been made.
OneCoin is the first cryptocurrency auditing its blockchain by an idependent auditor on a monthly basis.
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Opinion Makers is a new MedPage Today video exclusive weekly series, presenting leaders from all areas of medicine offering their views on current topics in clinical care, research, and policy.
In this video, Edmund Funai, MD, chief operating officer of USF Health at the University of South Florida in Tampa, discusses the future of academic medicine. Below is a transcript of his comments.
The question for today is whether academic medicine is at risk for extinction. To answer that question, let's take a deeper dive and look at how the average medical school funds itself.
The data from the AAMC shows that only about 4% of the medical school budget is covered by tuition -- this may be surprising to many of you who are still paying off your student loans. The majority of the funding for a medical school is from clinical revenue, be it hospital contracts or faculty practice collections.
The real take-home message is that it's the clinical practice that cross-subsidizes the research and education mission in academic medicine.
So, when the clinical mission catches a cold, the rest of the academic medical center gets pneumonia. The big problem is we're now in perennial flu season. And why is that? Well, let's look at how much we spend as a nation on healthcare.
As you can see by 2018 or 2019, about 20 cents of every dollar in the U.S. economy is going to be spent on healthcare.
To put this in real-world terms, if you drink Starbucks coffee, you already shell out more for the cost of employee healthcare in each cup of coffee than you do for the cost of the coffee to brew it.
If you drive a General Motors car, you pay more for the cost of employee healthcare than for the cost of the steel to make it.
The American people, and employers who shoulder the healthcare costs, are saying, "Enough is enough; we want more value for our money." And that is the shifting healthcare landscape we are all experiencing -- whether you're in academic medicine or not. It is a shift from fee-for-service to more emphasis on value.
And the whole concept is about value. That is, improving outcomes while holding costs, or even reducing them.
So what does this mean for the average physician? First off, it means that we are going to get paid less for many things at baseline, and will only see a raise if we can prove outcomes are better. So, we're going to be measured in ways that we never dreamed of before, and certainly in ways that we haven't been exposed to in medical school and residency.
We're going to get scorecards from our hospitals, or other partners, about how much is our average hospital admission cost, what our average length of stay is, how much we consume in supplies, and how often our patients are readmitted.
And we're going to be judged more on the total continuum of care, rather than quality in the acute hospitalization. It isn't just enough to get our patients safely out of the hospital -- they or their employers will judge us by how soon these patients get back to work and resume normal quality of life.
Is academic medicine at risk for extinction? Well, I think the answer to that question is largely in our hands.
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The vivid colour of this work suggests blood. Although Beuys sometimes painted with hare's blood, he used red in general to represent life and vitality. Colour was used sparingly by Beuys, as he often favoured the matt brown of Braunkreuz oil paint for his drawings and paintings. As a result, when he does use colour, it is extremely striking and significant. While this neat rectangle of colour may look like a piece of abstract art, this was not one of the artist's primary intentions, as Beuys's wider artistic goal was for the integration of art and reality. | <urn:uuid:7cd523d4-7b12-4f24-83b3-0a43173e4418> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/artists/joseph-beuys/6819 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720026.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00457-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980262 | 122 | 2.125 | 2 |
Is now a good time to buy mutual funds?
So, to sum it up, if you’re asking yourself if now is a good time to buy stocks, advisors say the answer is simple, no matter what’s happening in the markets: Yes, as long as you’re planning to invest for the long-term, are starting with small amounts invested through dollar-cost averaging and you’re investing in …
Is it safe to invest in mutual funds now?
If you’re concerned that mutual funds are a type of dodgy investment, rest assured that they’re completely safe. No mutual fund house can steal your money because it is regulated and supervised by the SEBI (i.e. Securities and Exchange Board of India) and the AMFI (Association of Mutual Funds in India).
What is the best mutual fund to invest in 2021?
Following are the funds that you may consider investing through SIPs keeping the long term horizon in mind.
- UTI Nifty Index Fund (20%)
- Mirae Asset Large Cap Fund (20%)
- Canara Robeco Blue Chip Fund (20%)
- Parag Parikh Flexi Cap Fund (15%)
- UTI Flexi Cap Fund (15%)
Is it too late to invest in mutual funds?
Unlike stocks, there is no need to time the market when investing in mutual funds; which means, there is no good or bad time to start investing.
Can I lose all my money in mutual fund?
With mutual funds, you may lose some or all of the money you invest because the securities held by a fund can go down in value. Dividends or interest payments may also change as market conditions change.
What are the top 5 mutual funds?
Top 5 Biggest Mutual Funds
- Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund Admiral Shares (VTSAX)
- Fidelity 500 Index Fund (FXAIX)
- Vanguard Institutional Index Mutual Fund (VINIX)
- Fidelity Government Cash Reserves (FDRXX)
- Vanguard Federal Money Market Fund (VMFXX)
Can mutual fund make you rich?
Benefits of mutual funds
High returns: Mutual funds are known to generate high returns since there’s no cap on earnings. Depending on the performance of the security where the money is invested, returns are generated. Since financial experts invest money on your behalf, returns are generally high.
Can a mutual fund go to zero?
In theory, a mutual fund could lose its entire value if all the investments in its portfolio dropped to zero, but such an event is unlikely. … In most cases, investors are protected from fraud or other losses of capital, but not from a fund’s poor performance or the risks assumed.
Why mutual funds are bad?
However, mutual funds are considered a bad investment when investors consider certain negative factors to be important, such as high expense ratios charged by the fund, various hidden front-end, and back-end load charges, lack of control over investment decisions, and diluted returns.
Which bank is best for mutual fund?
2. Top Sectoral Banking Mutual Funds
|Fund||3-Year Returns||5-Year Returns|
|Axis Banking & PSU Debt Fund Growth||9.22%||8.68%|
|DSP Banking & PSU Debt Fund Regular Growth||8.73%||8.60%|
|ICICI Prudential Banking and PSU Debt Fund Growth||8.06%||8.58%|
|SBI Banking and PSU Fund Regular Plan Growth||9.07%||8.44%|
Which mutual fund is best for beginners?
5 Best SIP plans to invest in 2021 for Beginners
|Fund Name||NAV||Expense ratio|
|Mirae Asset Tax Saver Fund||Rs 29||0.30%|
|PGIM India Midcap Opp||RS 37.29||0.45%|
|Mirae Asset Emerging Bluechip Fund||Rs 90||0.73%|
|Parag Parikh Flexi Cap Fund||Rs 43.13||0.91%|
Which mutual funds give highest return?
10 best-performing mutual funds in the last 5 years that could make you rich
- PGIM India Mid-Cap Opportunities Fund. …
- Axis Mid-Cap Fund. …
- Nippon India Small-Cap Fund. …
- SBI Small-Cap Fund. …
- Parag Parikh Flexi-Cap Fund. …
- PGIM India Flexi-Cap Fund. …
- Quant Tax Plan (ELSS) …
- Mirae Asset Tax Saver Fund (ELSS)
Is it too late to start investing at 45?
It’s Not Too Late
We recommend you save 15% of your gross income for retirement, which means you should be investing $688 each month into your 401(k) and IRA. … People age 45–54 are hitting their peak earning years, with the typical household income running a little more than $84,000 a year.
Is it too late to start investing at 60?
Perhaps you are wondering if it is too late to start any new retirement investments at age 60? The answer is no. It’s never too late to start investing to support your retirement. You can invest in your financial future via IRAs or 401(k)s.
Is it too late to start investing at 35?
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THE OLD DRIFT
By Namwali Serpell
Something is happening in African literature: The women are coming. For decades now, a river of original and important writing by female authors has been flowing out of that continent — books by writers such as Marlene van Niekerk, of whose second novel Liesl Schillinger wrote in these pages, “books like ‘Agaat’ … are the reason people read novels”; Tsitsi Dangarembga (“Nervous Conditions”); and, of course, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Now that river has burst its banks and become a flood. Namwali Serpell’s extraordinary, ambitious, evocative first novel, “The Old Drift,” contributes powerfully to this new wave.
Interestingly, many of the contemporary books overlap with and even echo one another. Petina Gappah’s forthcoming novel, “Out of Darkness, Shining Light,” takes on the subject of the explorer David Livingstone and his African companions; “The Old Drift” also begins with Livingstone (but then moves on). Serpell’s novel is a multigenerational exploration of Zambia’s past, present and even its near future; another recent debut, “Harmattan Rain,” by Ayesha Harruna Attah, looks at the story of Ghana through the lives of three generations of women. And in September Maaza Mengiste’s “The Shadow King” will take on the subject of the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, moving beyond history to a kind of modern mythmaking, and looking at history primarily through the eyes of its female characters. “The Old Drift,” too, incorporates elements of fabulism into the history of Zambia, and, again, sees that history mostly through women’s eyes. Novuyo Rosa Tshuma’s “House of Stone,” published in the United States in January, has already been highly praised in The Guardian for summing up “not only … Zimbabwean history, but also all of African colonial history” — a large claim on behalf of any novel. Equally large claims have already been made for “The Old Drift,” which early reviewers have garlanded with comparisons to Toni Morrison and Gabriel García Márquez. Meanwhile, another recent novel, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s “Kintu,” has been called a Ugandan “One Hundred Years of Solitude.” Trailing clouds of glory do they come.
“The Old Drift” is a strong and confident enough piece of writing to stand on its own two feet and is perhaps not well served by being placed on the shoulders of giants. Its structure is formal, three parts containing three sections each — “The Grandmothers,” “The Mothers” and “The Children.” Each of the nine sections is centered on one dominant character, all women in the first two parts, and, in the final section, two young men and one young woman. In between are to be found short, italicized sections narrated by an unnamed “we,” which work as a sort of Greek-chorus commentary on the action.
The novel tells the intertwined stories of three families — one white, one black and one the product of an interracial marriage — making jumps in time to tell the various dynastic tales until the three clans merge into one near the end. At first glance this may strike the reader as overly schematic. That it doesn’t read that way is a tribute to the energy with which the stories are told, and the vivid detail in which the world of the book is created.
Historical figures mingle with fictional ones in these family sagas. Two years ago, in The New Yorker, Serpell wrote a lengthy nonfictional account of one of these figures, Edward Mukuka Nkoloso, a schoolteacher, revolutionary and “Afronaut,” the head of the absurd Zambian Space Program, which trained young people to go to the moon “by spinning them around a tree in an oil drum and teaching them to walk on their hands.” Nkoloso and the Afronauts play important parts in “The Old Drift.” In addition, two of the patriarchs of her fictional dynasties are real people: the hotelier Pierre or Pietro Gavuzzi, who ran the Victoria Falls Hotel at the early settlement near the waterfall known as the Old Drift, and the colonial-era traveler Percy M. Clark, the author of a guidebook to the Falls written circa 1910. Percy is allowed to tell his story and the story of the Old Drift’s founding in the first person; after that, the third person, and fiction, take over.
The novel’s greatest strength lies in its creation of three unforgettable female characters. Agnes, the white upper-class English girl (and granddaughter of Percy Clark), loses her sight and falls in love with a black man without knowing he’s black, and, expelled from her family, follows him to Africa to become a gentle, grand presence throughout the book. Matha, one of Nkoloso’s Afronauts who, following a heartbreak, is afflicted by endless, unstoppable tears for the rest of her life, becomes known as the “crying woman.” Most striking of all is Sibilla, an illegitimate offshoot of the Gavuzzi family, who suffers from extreme hirsutism, every part of her body sprouting luxuriant hair (if one wanted to be unkind, one might think of Cousin Itt). Sibilla and her hair — weaving, dancing, whirling, whitening into old age — dominate the novel and give it its defining imagery, its infinitely variable leitmotif. Hair is everywhere: Trails of hair are left so that lovers can find each other, hair salons are opened and form the backdrop to crucial scenes, hair is shaven off the heads of women mourners. “What are you made of?” one character demands, and the answer is one that the novel itself might give: “Hair.”
Around these three iconic characters is woven a complex narrative of the founding and growth of Zambia, and, in the book’s second half, of the arrival of and battle against what is referred to only as “The Virus” — the H.I.V./AIDS pandemic, which, by the year 2000, affected more than 15 percent of the Zambian population, more than half of the afflicted being women. The book’s three dynasties are not spared, and the emotional devastation wrought by illness is keenly felt in these pages.
Which leads me back to the Greek chorus, the anonymous “we.” It transpires that “we” are mosquitoes, commenting on what the human beings are getting up to. For much of the book I wasn’t sure about these buzzy passages, especially in the Virus sections, when the bloodsucking Anopheles gambiae sing “Blood, blood, glorious blood!” Parodying the old Hippopotamus Song about glorious mud, they run the risk of confusing the reader (since mosquitoes are unable to carry The Virus or transmit it to human beings). However, in the final section of the book, when Serpell daringly pushes past the present day to take us into a technologically advanced future and a climax that combines revolution and catastrophe, the mosquito trope is cleverly transformed and begins to make sense.
“The Old Drift” is an impressive book, ranging skillfully between historical and science fiction, shifting gears between political argument, psychological realism and rich fabulism. It isn’t perfect. It’s long, and there are longueurs. Not all of the nine leading characters are as interesting as Agnes, Matha and Sibilla. Sometimes the history, the medical information and the science are laid on with too heavy a hand. But these imperfections should not detract from what is, by any standard, a dazzling debut, establishing Namwali Serpell as a writer on the world stage.
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‘‘As long as life,
Is dear, is free,
I am the Earth
And the Earth is me.’’
(Jane Yolen, 1995)
This Wednesday, April 22nd marks the 45th observance of Earth Day, promoting ecology and respect for our planet, as well as encouraging awareness of growing environmental pollution and damage to the natural world and environment.
Take action this year by saving water and energy, recycling materials or working to protect vulnerable animals. It doesn’t matter what you choose to do, any good cause counts and the planet will love you for it. Here are just a few ideas of ours on how you can get involved and contribute positively to the world!
- Plant a tree in your garden
- Go for a bike ride or a long walk
- Make nature crafts at home
- Join Earth Day Network
- Reduce, reuse and recycle
- Clean up litter in your housing area or a park
- Get involved with an environmentally based charity
Appreciate nature in the south west with a visit to the spectacular Eden Project in beautiful St. Austell, Cornwall. The Eden Project opened in 2001 and the stunning gardens and ongoing ecological projects encourage visitors to learn more about environmental education and art – ideal for a family day out. The project is also home a giant swing and skywire for adrenaline fueled fun for those brave enough to try them!
Staying in Cornwall for more than one day? Check our country escape offers, from a charming manor house hotel in St. Austell to an impressive 16th century coaching inn and Grade II listed building in Boscastle.
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Referendums in Australia
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Referendums in Australia are polls held in Australia to approve Parliament-proposed changes to the Australian Constitution or a state or territory. Non-binding polls are usually referred to as plebiscites.
Voting in a referendum is compulsory for those on the electoral roll, in the same way that it is compulsory to vote in an Australian general election. As of 2012, 44 referendums have been held, of which only 8 have been carried. Although there have been 44 referendums, there have only been 19 times the Australian people have gone to the polls to vote on constitutional amendments, as it is common to have multiple questions on the ballot.
Section 128 and section 51 of the Constitution specifies that alterations to itself cannot be made without a referendum. A bill containing the amendment must first be passed by both houses of parliament or, in certain limited circumstances, by only one house of parliament. If the bill has only been passed in one house, the Governor-General must, under the 'deadlock provision' of section 128, then decide whether or not to submit the referendum to the people. By convention, this is done on the advice of the Prime Minister. Since the Prime Minister normally controls the House of Representatives, the effect of this convention is to make it virtually impossible for a referendum to be put to the people if approved by the Senate, but not the House. In 1974, four proposals were put to the people by the Whitlam government without the support of the Senate. Two of the four proposals had been twice rejected by the Senate, a third had been rejected once and failed to pass a second time, the fourth had been twice amended by the Senate.
If the bill to alter the Constitution is approved by both houses or satisfies the deadlock provision, the bill is submitted to the electors for approval. If the bill is approved by an absolute majority of both houses, the Constitution provides that it must be submitted to the electors no less than two months but no later than six months after passage. Despite this, the Hawke government in 1984 failed to submit a proposed referendum that had been passed by both houses, claiming that they had a legal opinion supporting their action. There is no similar time limitation if the bill is approved by one House of the Commonwealth Parliament only.
To pass a referendum, the bill must ordinarily achieve a double majority: a majority of those voting nationwide, as well as separate majorities in a majority of states (i.e., 4 out of 6 states). In circumstances where a state is affected by a referendum then a majority of voters in that state must also agree to the change. This is often referred to as a "triple majority".
When a referendum question is carried, the amending bill is presented for royal assent, given in the monarch's name by the Governor-General.
Prior to the 1977 referendum, only electors in the six states could vote at a referendum. Since the 1977 amendment was carried, voters of the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory have been eligible to vote in referendums. Territory votes are now counted towards the national total but the Territories do not count as states for the purpose of the requirement for a majority of states.
Since voting at referendums in the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory has been allowed in 1977, compulsory voting has also applied there.
Residents of Australia's external territories do not vote in referendums.
Voting has been compulsory in Australia since 1924.
Similar to a referendum is a plebiscite, which is conducted by the government to decide a matter relating to ordinary statute law, an advisory question of policy, or as a prelude to the submission of a formal referendum question, rather than a binding and entrenched alteration (amendment) to the Constitution. Plebiscites can offer a variety of options, rather than a simple yes/no question. Three plebiscites have occurred as of 2010. Unlike in referendums, voting in a plebiscite has traditionally been optional.
In 1998 the Howard government amended the Flags Act 1953 to require a referendum to change the Flag of Australia. There is some debate over the constitutional validity of this legislation, since it involves Parliament acting to bind its own legislative power.
The No vote
Australians have rejected most proposals for constitutional amendments, approving only 8 out of 44 referendums submitted to them since federation.
Many attribute this to the double majority requirement for a referendum to be carried. There have been five instances – in 1937, twice in 1946, 1977 and 1984 – where a national Yes vote has been achieved but failed to win a majority of states. In three of these instances, the referendum received a majority in three states. The converse situation, where there is a majority of states but not an overall majority, has not yet occurred.
Apart from 1937, in which Victoria and Queensland were the only two states in favour, only these cases have followed a consistent pattern: a Yes vote in the two most populous states, New South Wales and Victoria, and a No vote in most or all of the other states. The rejection of these referendums was due to the less populous states voting contrary to the most populous states.
The primary cause of No votes has been committed opposition, which has been successful if the Commonwealth opposition has opposed it. Opposition by state political parties, or by powerful interest groups, has also contributed to referendum failure. In 1937, opposition by the states played an important role in the failure of the Aviation referendum. Similarly, many commentators pointed to the strong opposition of church groups as a reason for the failure of the 1988 Rights and Freedoms referendum.
A contributing factor to the predominance of the No vote comes from the unwillingness of the Australian voters to extend the powers of the Federal government. None of the votes was over additional powers over commerce and industry granted to the government, however, at least two successful referendums can be characterised as giving the Commonwealth more powers: in 1946, the Commonwealth was given power to make laws with respect to a range of health and welfare services; and in 1967, the Commonwealth was given a power to make laws with respect to Aboriginal Australians. However, in this case the aboriginal law was seen as a "bait" for the second referendum submitted at the same time, which would have abolished the nexus between the numbers of members in each House. This second law was not approved by the electors.
The impact of the compulsory vote has not been analysed.
List of referendums and plebiscites
Except for the song plebiscite, referendums asked electors to answer "Yes" or "No" to a proposed amendment to the Australian Constitution.
State and territory referendums
States and Territories of Australia may also hold referendums. Most are detailed in the external links. Some of the most important ones were:
- In the years leading up to the Federation of Australia in 1901, all six colonies (as the States then were) passed referendums in favour of Federation.
- In 1933, voters in Western Australia voted for their state to leave the Commonwealth of Australia with the aim of leaving to the British Empire as an autonomous territory. The Western Australian Government sent a delegation to Westminster, however the United Kingdom House of Commons refused to intervene, declaring it had no power to grant secession, and therefore no action was taken to implement this decision.
- In 1967, voters in north-east New South Wales were asked if they favoured creating a new state in their region. The no vote won, with 54.1% of the formal vote.
- In 1968, Tasmanian voters took part in a referendum to approve the granting of Australia's first casino licence to the Federal Group to operate the Wrest Point Hotel Casino in Hobart. The referendum passed with 53% of the formal vote.
- In 1975, voters in Western Australia voted against permanent daylight saving/summer time.
- In 1978, the Australian Capital Territory voted at a referendum on whether the ACT should be granted self-government. Voters were given the choice of becoming a self-governing territory, a local government or continuing with the Legislative Assembly being an advisory body to the Department of the Capital Territory. 63.75% voted to continue with the then current arrangement. Despite the outcome of the referendum, the Parliament of Australia passed the Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Act in 1988 and the ACT became a self-governing territory in 1989.
- In 1981, the Tasmanian government held a controversial referendum to decide the location of a hydro-electric dam on the Franklin River. With the electorate simply given a choice of two different dams, approximately 33% of the electorate voted informal by writing "No Dams" on their ballot paper.
- In 1984, voters in Western Australia voted against permanent daylight saving/summer time for a second time.
- In 1992, after trialling Daylight Saving in Queensland for a total of three years, a referendum was held, with 54.5% of Queenslanders voting against daylight saving. Regional and rural areas strongly opposed daylight saving, while those in the metropolitan south-east voted in favour of it. (Formally this was a 'plebiscite', since time zones can be amended at any time by state parliaments).
- In 1992, a referendum to amend constitutional law in Queensland to extend the maximum parliamentary term from three to four years was defeated by 51.1% to 48.9%.
- In 1993, voters in Western Australia voted against permanent daylight saving/summer time for a third time.
- In 1995, voters in New South Wales voted for a fixed four-year term for the state parliament.
- In 2009, after a three-year trial, voters in Western Australia voted against permanent daylight saving/summer time for a fourth time in four decades.
- In 2016, voters in Queensland voted for a fixed four-year term for the state unicameral parliament.
- Handbook of the 44th Parliament (2014) "Part 5 - Referendums and Plebiscites". Parliamentary Library of Australia.
- Select sources on constitutional change in Australia 1901-1997. Part 2 - History of Australian Referendums (PDF). Commonwealth of Australia. 24 March 1997. ISBN 0644484101. An Australian Parliament report, summarising the background, "yes" and "no" cases, and results, for each referendum up to 1988.
State and Territory Referendums
- "New South Wales Referendums". NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
- "Queensland Referendums". Electoral Commission of Queensland. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
- "South Australian Referenda". Electoral Commission of South Australia. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
- Referendum Results in Western Australia
- Referendums in Tasmania
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Some 45% of search marketers participating in Omnicom's Resolution Media and Forrester Research study, to be released Thursday, have run paid search or search engine optimization (SEO) programs for more than three years. But many still use basic metrics to measure campaign success. About 53% of respondents manage their SEO programs internally, either with no proprietary tool or purchased tools, and 47% do the same for paid search.
As campaigns become more complex, brand marketers will lose their edge.
The joint study aims to determine trends, marketers' view on the future of search, and gauge their preparedness to face the future, said Erica Barth, VP of products and partnerships at Resolution Media. "We saw social and video results serve up in search results," she said. "Now we see search making its way into other channels."
The study segmented the level of search marketing into four groups. Level 1 marketers suffer mostly from budget and staff limitations, and they have limited access to technology. Some 54% of respondents fall into Level 2, which indexes higher in financial services. Level 3 are mature search marketers who indicate a progressive attitude toward technology. Only 4% of respondents that fall into Level 4 have well-integrated programs and measurement systems.
Barth said search marketers need to prepare for the changes.
The study suggests that search marketers don't typically rely on search for its intended use. It shows that most marketers use search to drive sales and leads, yet 69% of respondents said search works best for increasing site traffic and 57% use it to raise brand awareness.
Search marketers will need to step up their skills and approaches to campaigns as engines begin acting as concierges, and governments regulate consumer data. Some 76% of survey respondents expect search engines will become answer engines. Engines have already begun to turn lists of Web links into content curators.
Search campaigns will require multiple media types, such as Facebook, Yelp or Gowalla and Twitter. Consumers will access information in real-time through status and social updates, as well as recommendations.
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Integrated Pest Management involves respecting 8 major principles:
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- The harmful organisms must be monitored.
- The thresholds of for action specified for the region, for specific areas, for crops and for special climatic conditions must be taken into account before the treatments are introduced.
- Biological, physical and other sustainable non-chemical methods must be prioritised over chemical methods.
- Phyto products are as specific to the target as possible.
- To maintain use of phyto products at the necessary levels (reduced doses, reduced frequency).
- Anti-resistance strategies must be applied.
- To verify the rate of success of the phyto-pharmaceutical measures.
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Recently, Pakistan Composite Show was held in Islamabad which consisted of a symposium, policy dialogue and industrial exhibition. The event was organised by the Composites Engineering Research Group of Department of Mechanical Engineering (DME) and NUST College of EME.
The event was attended by more than 150 senior academics, industrialists and government officials. They exchanged ideas on the evolution of the industry and discussed policies for industrialization in Pakistan.
The event also featured more than 20 companies. From the symposium, establishment of a joint technology center was proposed based on funding from both private and government sectors. The center would serve to increase export volume by 10 times within the next five to ten years, if it is established. If such a plan materializes, then the boost to the economy will be tremendous. Joint technology center will also serve better for coordination and centralization of efforts toward technological development of Pakistan.
The opening up of public-private partnership for the defence and security interests was also discussed. Already, private companies are handling defence contracts from developed countries. In Pakistan, matters of national security have always been handled by the military, but the trend could change if better private sector bids are offered.
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Many years ago, on what started as a typical Monday, I was summoned to the company auditorium of my employer along with a couple of hundred other managers.
Little did I know, the lives of so many were about to change dramatically and unexpectedly.
The meeting began with the President and two VP’s announcing (with a great deal of fanfare) that the company was going from two businesses to one. In 3-6 months, they would be eliminating several jobs due to redundancy and there would be a combination of mandatory and voluntary layoffs.
The President and VP’s stated how great this was for the future of the company. Their smiles indicated that they expected everyone to share the same positivity, joy and acceptance from the moment they walked out the door of the meeting.
As we all sat stunned and silent, the President said “oh and one more thing, I am pleased to share that Bob and Jim (the two VP’s at the front of the room with him) have been promoted from VP to EVP so let’s give them a round of applause!”
Unfortunately, scenarios like the one described above are not uncommon in organizations.
Did you know that only 1/3 of change efforts are clear successes, 16% show mixed results and half are clear failures? www.gartner.com/en/insights/change-management.
Your company can have the best, most necessary change initiative in the world, yet if the people who need to implement the change aren’t on board, how can it succeed?
Helping employees embrace change
Over the last 20+ years in our work in supporting leaders, we’ve seen how important it is for them to be better at helping employees understand, accept, support and embrace change.
At Living As A Leader we teach two models of change, The Rational Change Model and The Emotional Change Model.
The Rational Change Model represents the predictable evolution that organizations must go through to survive and thrive over time in response to changing marketplace and economic conditions.
- It illustrates from a rational, objective perspective, that change is necessary for organizations to survive and thrive!
- Organizations predictably hit a stage in their evolution where they must reinvent. They must change.
The Emotional Change Model illustrates that as change takes place in organizations, people go through an emotional process.
The Emotional Change Model shows the impact of change on employees at all levels within an organization. This model introduces three stages in terms of predictable, emotional reactions to change.
- Endings Stage - Upon initial introduction of a change, people typically victimized, shocked, sad, angry and a sense of loss.
- Transitions Stage - people feel uncertain and confused and need information.
- Beginnings Stage – people start to embrace and feel accepting of the change.
As a leader, you must know how to communicate with people in each stage to ultimately get them to move forward toward acceptance.
- A person in Endings needs supportive communication
- A person in Transitions needs informational communication
- A person in Beginnings needs inspirational communication
So, let’s revisit the experience I described. There were so many things that made this change announcement an epic fail. At the heart of it though, was that the leaders used the wrong type of communication.
The leaders of the change were communicating with excitement and a “you rah rah” approach at a time when they needed to show support for those of us who felt victimized, lost, shocked and angry.
That misstep set the stage for the failure!
Four Predictable Reactions to Change
Let’s look at four predictable reactions to change and how you can support those who are having those reactions.
Back to the story once more. If the leaders who announced the change would have addressed these four different emotional reactions then or as the implementation continued, they would have had a completely different result – success instead of failure!
At LAAL, we have a workshop titled Support Yourself and Others Through Change that does a deep dive into this topic and provides a Coaching Through Change Planner to help you communicate and support those you lead!
At Living As A Leader, we offer a Leadership Development Series designed to produce leaders that can positively shape the cultural environment, reduce turnover and achieve crucial business initiatives. We do this by providing training, coaching and consulting with a focus on pragmatic communication tools for leaders at all levels of your organization.
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Generally, end-of-life planning is a buzz kill. We don’t like to think about our own mortality, but without planning ahead, we could end up with our loved ones fighting over whether to “pull the plug” on us. Living wills are legal documents that can help you avoid this problem. A living will informs your health care providers of your wishes for artificial feeding, hydration and other life sustaining acts, should you become unable to communicate your wishes.
Living wills are frequently created in tandem with a health care power of attorney. A health care power of attorney legally creates a person or agent who’ll speak on your behalf for health care when you are unable to do so. For more information, see the Iowa Durable Power of Attorney Laws article. There are also financial power of attorneys that you may want to create as well.
The following chart outlines the main provisions of the living will laws in Iowa.
||Iowa Code Chapter 144A – Life-Sustaining Procedures Act
|Legal Requirements for Valid Living Will
||To create a valid living will or declaration relating to the use of life-sustaining procedures in Iowa, you must:
- Be a competent adult over 18 years old
- Sign the living will in the presence of two witnesses
- At least one witness must not be related to you
- The witnesses must sign in each other’s presence
- Give the living will to the attending physician
If validly created, your wishes are given effect when your condition is terminal and you can’t make treatment decisions. However, a living will won’t be followed through with when the patient is pregnant if the fetus can develop to a live birth.
|Specific Powers and Life-Prolonging Acts
||You can declare a desire to not have life-sustaining procedures used to prolong your life. Life-sustaining procedures are those that utilize mechanical or artificial means to sustain or restore a spontaneous vital function that when applied to a terminal patient would only serve to prolong the dying process.
This doesn’t include providing food or water except when required intravenously or though intubation. Also, administering drugs or performing medical procedures to provide comfort or alleviate pain aren’t included and can be done with or without declaration.
|Revocation of Living Will
||A living will or declaration can be revoked at any time in any manner that the patient can communicate intent to revoke, without regard to the mental or physical condition of the patient. The doctor will make the revocation a part of the patient’s medical records.
|Validity of Out-of-State Living Wills
||A similar advance health care directive legal document executed in another state that complies with that state’s laws is valid and enforceable in Iowa, to the extent the document is consistent with Iowa law.
|If Physician Unwilling to Follow Living Will
||A doctor will take all reasonable steps to transfer a patient to another doctor or facility if he or she is unwilling to comply with the patient’s requests or out-of-hospital do not resuscitate (DNR) order.
|Immunity for Attending Physician
||Health care providers aren’t liable civilly or criminally or guilty of unprofessional conduct for complying in good faith with the provisions of a patient’s declaration indicating a request to withhold or withdrawal life-sustaining procedures.
You can draft a living will on your own by using various online sample forms. However, to ensure the document’s legitimacy in Iowa, you may want to consult with an experienced Iowa estate planning lawyer.
Note: Because state laws are updated regularly, you should verify these health care laws by conducting your own legal research or asking a lawyer.
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It’s raining, it’s pouring
Nursery rhymes are supposed to be calming and help put us to sleep peacefully. That’s why the old nursery rhyme “It’s Raining, It’s Pouring” has always seemed disturbing. The rhyme tells us about an old man who slips and bumps his head on his way to bed – not the usual message you hear in children’s poems.
While it sounds gloomy enough as it is, Twitter user Sarah McGonagall has come up with a new explanation for the rhyme that is even darker than we’ve ever imagined. According to her interpretation, the rhyme has an important lesson – never go to sleep with a concussion. It seems like a strange advice for a children’s poem. | <urn:uuid:7ef7ddf0-53b1-41cb-8ee4-55cf45ae7a59> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://parentinfluence.com/today-years-old-is-nv/20/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00675.warc.gz | en | 0.967436 | 170 | 2.28125 | 2 |
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Although produced on a mass scale, stained, painted and leadlight glass windows are made using traditional craft practices. Even if they are created from standardised designs, ultimately someone has to cut the glass shapes by hand and fit each piece into lead framing and solder the whole together.
By Walter Cook
There is a huge number of stained and painted glass windows in New Zealand. From 1982 to 1984, Fiona Ciaran based at Canterbury University, located and photographed approximately 10,000 of these windows in churches and public buildings.
Many of the stained and painted glass windows in New Zealand churches were imported. The greatest number came from Britain, but a significant number came from Ireland, France, Germany and Belgium, as well as some from Australia. British and Irish imports from 1910 to 1940 included work by distinguished arts and crafts designers, examples of which can be seen in the Christchurch Hospital nurses chapel and the old crematorium chapel, Karori, Wellington.
From the mid 1890s, some New Zealand firms making leadlights established studios designing and manufacturing stained and painted glass windows. Leadlight manufacture in New Zealand predated studios making stained and painted glass by about thirty years. This craft was an adjunct to trade businesses such as plumbers, glass merchants, joiners and decorators. One of the earliest was Stallard and Mills, plumbers, painters and paperhangers of Nelson established in the late 1850s. By 1863 they were advertising ‘lead lights made to any pattern with stained glass of any colour’.
Much of the imported glass used in leadlighting went by the trade name of “cathedral glass.” This was mass produced and often textured, and is still in production today and still imported into New Zealand. Though cathedral glass included strong colours, many of the windows made from it tended more to pastel tints compared with glass used in stained and painted church windows. Taylor and Oakley, plumbers, gas fitters, and metal workers, a Christchurch firm established in 1875 were advertising leadlight services by 1884 . A large example of their work dating from 1886 can be seen in the sanctuary window in St Joseph’s Cathedral, Dunedin. The glass is pale and watery compared with the glass in the fourteen nave windows installed about the same time and made by Meyer and Co of Munich using mouth blown stained glass.
From the 1880s leadlights were increasingly used in houses, but the great age of domestic leadlights in New Zealand dates from 1900 to 1930. During this period leadlight design derived from the styles of art nouveau. As Jock Philips and Chris Maclean illustrate in their book In the Light of the Past there was a great range of art nouveau styles used, but one in particular had lasting appeal, whether in the houses of patricians or the builder’s bungalow. This pattern was derived from the Glasgow School of Art and is typified by segmental circular roses in tones of red with green leaves of simple shape, combined with clear, bevelled, and textured glass.
Leadlights were also used in furniture such as sideboards and china cabinets into the 1950s. By the 1970s New Zealanders were restoring old housing stock. This demanded the restoration of leadlights. As a result there was a revival of leadlighting ranging from art nouveau pastiche to modern designs. Artists also began to work in the medium. Currently the design and manufacture of leadlights is flourishing in New Zealand.
The earliest studio for stained and painted glass was established in Dunedin by Robert Fraser in about 1893. Fraser had trained in England and designed elaborate windows for houses in fashionable baroque and rococo styles in the late 1890s and early 1900s. The studio continued to make windows for houses into the 20th century, but Fraser focused more and more on designing church windows. In 1943 he his studio was sold to Dunedin sign writer Oswald Miller, whose son, Roy Miller, trained by Fraser, continued to manufacture stained and painted glass windows using New Zealand and English designers. From 1970 Roy Miller collaborated with designer Beverly Shore-Bennett until his retirement in 1980, and the studio continued this association until it closed in 1987. Examples of Shore-Bennett’s work can be seen in St Paul’s Cathedral, Wellington . Examples of other early studios making stained and painted glass were Bradley Brothers, Christchurch, Robert Martin, Wellington, and Smith and Smith, Dunedin, Christchurch and Wellington. These firms were also making leadlights for houses.
Today stained and painted glass windows are designed and made in New Zealand, though people with these skills probably spend much of their time restoring existing windows. One example are the windows in the nave and west end of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland. These were designed by artists Nigel Brown, Robert Ellis, and Shane Cotton, and manufactured by Suzanne and Ben Hanley at their Auckland studio, The Glassworks. As well as church windows this studio designs and makes windows for houses and public buildings, many of which could be classified as modern leadlights.
Header image: This stained glass window was manufactured by William Morris Co (1910-1935), a company synonymous with the British Arts Crafts movement. Morris Co stained glass windows can be viewed in a number of New Zealand churches, particularly in the Canterbury region. These include St James in Riccarton, Christchurch and St Mary's in the Esk Valley. | <urn:uuid:7ad72d2b-4d35-4edd-9039-e886973b9099> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/discover/research/crafting-aotearoa/stained-glass-windows | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.977621 | 1,139 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Coal/lignite PSUs have not only enhanced their production level over the years to meet the rising energy demand of the country but also shown their sensitivity and care towards native environment by adopting various mitigation measures including reclamation of mined out areas and extensive plantation in and around coal bearing areas.
Green Initiatives of coal/lignite PSUs
Returning the land disturbed by mining to stable and productive post-mining land uses is fundamental to responsible environmental stewardship. This means that the activities like ecological reclamation of mined out land and overburden dumps, plantation in and around mines, avenue plantation, and restoration of flora and fauna must go side by side along with mining with an aim to leave a lighter mining footprint after the closure of mining.
Coal/Lignite PSUs have been making constant and sincere efforts to minimize the footprints of coal mining through sustained reclamation and afforestation of areas in and around its operating mines.The reclamation activities are being carried out in various mines as per well-designed and approved mine closure plans, which carrydetailed provisions with regard toProgressive as well asFinal Mine Closure activities.
Mined out areas, OB dumps and other disturbed areas are concurrently reclaimed as soon as they get delinked from active mining zone. Top soil is segregated and stored in clearly demarcated area for use within the mine as soon the backfilling and concurrent reclamation starts. Three tier biological reclamation in both external and internal dumps is undertaken through expert agencies i.e. State Forest Development Corporations. Species for biological reclamation are selected in consultation with expert agencies like SFDC, ICFRE, NEERI etc.
In addition to bio-reclamation of mined out areas, green belt is also created around the source of air pollution like mine, infrastructure and roads to reduce air pollution. Green belt is also provided around the mine and residential colony for noise attenuation.
Satellite Surveillance for land reclamation
Reclamation of mined out areas is important for sustainable development. Emphasis is being laid on proper reclamation which includes both technical and biological reclamation as well as mine closure. Satellite surveillance for land reclamation is being given the requisite thrust in order to assess the progressive status of reclamation and to take up remedial measures, if any, required for environmental protection.
In the year 2020-21, total 111 mines/clusters of CIL were selected for monitoring based on satellite data. Till December 2020, satellite data based Image Analysis of 108 mines/clusters [51 (more than 5 mcm) and 67 (less than 5 mcm)] have been completed. The satellite surveillance of progressive reclamation activities in all 20 opencast mines of SCCL andall 5 opencast mines of NLCIL has been carried out.
Creation of Green Cover
Till March 2021, coal/lignite PSUs have brought about 56,000 Ha land under green cover by plantation of more than 135 million trees.
Coal/lignite PSUs have envisaged to bring about 30,000 Ha of addition area (in and around coalfields) under plantation by 2030, thus enhancing the carbon sink significantly. | <urn:uuid:b7921705-a125-44ab-b832-b722bc328825> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://coal.gov.in/sustainable-development-cell/greening-initiatives | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.955459 | 654 | 2.859375 | 3 |
What is geocaching?
Geocaching is a treasure hunt in real life. The hunters (called geocachers) look for the treasures using GPS device. They look for a container (geocache, or cache) hidden at the specific location marked by coordinates.
Since it`s better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times, watch this short 75 seconds video about geocaching with Slovak subtitles. The basic information about how to begin with geocaching can be found under the video.
What do I need to play?
Just two things – user account on Geocaching.com and GPS, either integrated into your mobile or as a separate GPS device.
How do I create an account?
To start looking for caches, you need to create an account on Geocaching.com. Basic membership is free of charge. Also, make sure that you pick a pronounceable nickname, just in case your friends want to call to you during the hunt.
Where are the caches hidden?
All over the world! There are more than 3 million active caches hidden on our planet. It`s only up to you, which ones you choose. You can go out to nature, explore new places, look for them in your town, even find them on your street.
How do I play?
Select any cache from the list and click on its name. We recommend you start with traditional caches, those are the ones with the green icon. There are many other types of caches and there are different ways to look for them. The listed caches can also be viewed on a map, just click on the button “Map these geocaches” in the top left hand side corner above the list.
Then let the GPS navigate you to the given coordinates and look for the cache hidden on a spot. Key rule of geocaching is that you cannot be seen while looking for the cache! If you want to learn more, read these 10 tips for geocaching beginners.
After you have found the cache, return it to its previous location, so the other cachers can find it too.
Log your success (“Found it’) on the cache page – click the button “Log geocache” in top right hand side corner of the listing. If you are still unsure how to do it, read the article “Logging a geocache found”.
What are the rules of the game?
Basic rules are:
Sign with your nick into the logbook which you should find in the cache.
Never tell anyone about the cache`s hiding spot, don`t destroy or move the cache to a different location.
Always stick to “leave no trace” rule – don`t destroy or move anything and be respectful of the environment.
If you take anything from the cache, always give back something of similar or higher value.
Log your find on Geocaching.com.
Share your searching experience with other cachers. You can also upload some pictures. Find out why you should log more than just simple TFTC.
Use your common sense and always be careful and safe when geocaching.
General geocaching guidelines can be found here. See also regional policies in your own country.
How did it all begin?
Geocaching origins is really a nice story, you can read all about it in English here.
Are you new to geocaching?
You think you still don`t understand all the abbreviations and phrases? Read about the abbreviations here. Is it still overwhelming? Then deep dive into the articles in our lexicon, they will help you on your way to geocaching.
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São José do Rio Preto, SP, 1988. – Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.
PIPA Online 2014 winner.
PIPA Prize 2014, 2019 and 2020 nominee.
The starting point of Paulo Nimer Pjota’s works is the nature of collectively originated phenomena. His research and practice focus on an in-depth study of a kind of popular iconography which can only develop through complex processes operated by numerous individuals. We can therefore think of his production as the representation of a plural and agitated dialogue, with ever-changing interpretations, running through multiple streams of consciousness. More than anything, he is interested in the processes and mechanisms that produce, edit and disseminate human expressions during a time that is dominated by the internet and ultra-communication. Through rhythm, rhyme and repetition, images arise, which index the common perceptions of a globalized planet and, consequently, expose deep inequalities. Indeed, it becomes possible to question the way in which we formulate information and distribute our affections, configuring our sensibilities towards our surroundings and promoting hither to unthinkable possibilities of social interaction.
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Up: The New AI: General
Hutter's frequently mentioned work was funded through the
author's SNF grant 2000-061847
``Unification of universal inductive inference and
sequential decision theory.''
Over the past three decades,
numerous discussions with Christof Schmidhuber
(a theoretical physicist) helped to crystallize the ideas
on computable universes--compare his notion
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Is dialling a Scrabble word?
Yes, dialling is a Scrabble word!
...and is worth 10 points in Scrabble, and 14 points in Words with Friends
Dialling is a valid Scrabble word.
Table of Contents
2 definitions of the word dialling.
- Operate a dial to select a telephone number
- Choose by means of a dial
What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in dialling?
Words that can be created with an extra letter added to dialling:
There is 1 word that can be made by adding another letter to 'dialling'.
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Dr Nick Odoni, Durham University
One of the aims of Researchersí Night all across Europe is to put people in touch with researchers whose work could directly affect their lives. Dr Nick Odoni is a very good example of this as his research looks at ways to mitigate and avoid flooding and in particular to protect the town of Pickering in North Yorkshire from the flooding itís so often prone to. Meera Senthilingam spoke to Nick to find out more.
Nick - Pickering is at the end of a melt-water gorge that was formed probably during the last one or two Ice Ages. The mean flow in Pickering beck is only a cubic metre per second or less over the year but occasionally you get really big storms over the North York Moors and the flow increases enormously, and thereís a history there for flooding in Pickering when get these really big thunderstorms or really big slow moving depressions. And we had a big event in June 2007 when this 1-metre average flow was suddenly increased to over 30 cubic meters per second and the town was quite seriously flooded.
Meera - What is the first line of defence against this? Just to, kind of, barricade the town?
Nick - Well, youíve got spot on. Normally, what would happen in this situation is we would think in terms of hard-engineered flood defences. Now this could mean various things. It could mean a bypass tunnel. It could mean making the channel deeper and wider. It could mean erecting hard concrete walls protecting the town say for two/two-and-a-half feet higher than the present banks of the river, extending some distance upstream or some distance downstream, or both. But there are two particular problems with these defence mechanisms. One, theyíre very expensive and two, they speed the flood wave downstream so you may protect Pickering but you may make it a lot worse for people further down the system.
Meera - What are your possible solutions to avoid this?
Nick - Well weíre looking for something which might be cheaper and also more sustainable in the sense that it fits in more neatly with the natural environment. We are looking at low impact upstream storage and structures which will slow the flow. So as we farm the landscape, remove the trees, remove vegetation to a certain extent, the water speeds up very easily into the channels and that gives you a very sharp responsive system. So what we are trying to do is by planting trees, by planting buffer strips by building ponds, and in this particular example we are seeing today, by building a small dam, small bunds; 1 or 2, 3 meters high at most, we can stretch out the flood wave again. We can lower the peak and thatís a much more sophisticated, but we hope sustainable way of preventing flooding in the town.
Meera - Now, are each of these different measures, so the planting of trees and the creating of ponds all equally important? So do you need the combination of all of these or some are going to make a bigger difference than others?
Nick - Some are going to make a bigger difference than others in theory. However, we have all the competing land uses and land management options to consider. So we have a national park. We have several SSSIís (Sites of Special Scientific Interest). We have multiple land users. We have the North York Moors railway. So although a scientific exercise might say, okay, bunds first then riparian buffer strips then ponds. We may find that for land use reasons, with the competing pressures, we canít do it that way so therefore we have to consider all of them.
Meera - Now you have a model set up here on the laptop as part of the exhibition in order to get a better insight into how these possible solutions will work. So what do we have to do here?
Nick - Okay. What weíve got here is a very simple bunding model. This is just one aspect to the things that we are looking at and the idea is that people can have a go at selecting places in the river network along Pickering Beck or the other tributaries in the catchments and saying Iím going to try a little bund there, and a little bund here and a little bund somewhere else. We can work out the storage volumes for bunds of different sizes. And by combining these, we can see how much storage can we get and therefore can we take off a critical amount of flow from Pickering and prevent flooding? Now, our target in this exercise is 10 cubic meters per second, 10 cumecs, so we have a flow which is theoretically 30 and weíre going to try and reduce it to 20 for as long as we can. Can we get two hours protection? Can we get five? Can we get 20 hours of protection?
Meera - A question Iím not quite to understanding about the whole prevention of flooding is you manage to keep this away for hours, and then what?
Nick - Well, we know that probably seven hours isnít likely to be enough. The extent the flood into 2007 was more like 16 hours, and in terms of a volume of water, it was something like 400,000 cubic meters of water. We also know from our modelling here, that these two structures weíve put in are giving us about 180,000 cubic meters of water. So we know we need to try other things. Now that might be more bunds or it might be some of these other measures like ponds or riparian buffer strips to further slow the flow. We can also consider the re-meandering the channels because by putting the meanders back into the network, the water travels more slowly and therefore again it attenuates the top of the flood wave. Finally, however, this is only an exploratory model. We must test these results rigorously using the standard engineering models that the Environment Agency use. But once they see our results they know where to test and they know what to test.
Meera - How transferable then do you think these solutions and these various methods of preventing flooding are for other towns in other geographical regions that are prone to flooding?
Nick - Generically, all of these ought to help to a certain extent but much will depend upon regional geology and land use and climate. For example, the Pickering system doesnít have much in the way what we called ground water flow. You might find on a chalk catchment or an area where thereís a lot of limestone, we have to try different types of solution because thereís so much more water coming from the ground. So, itís not perfectly transferable. But the idea is that you should use an exploratory model first such as this, and then go the more rigorous physically based models to work out the exact solution and the exact place. | <urn:uuid:cc6e40e0-fde2-4603-9b1a-014619f0e1d1> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/interviews/interview/1210/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721027.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00550-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962512 | 1,408 | 2.71875 | 3 |
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Surface stiction is a major problem during fabrication of MEMS components, such as silicon sensors, microactuators or microfludic devices. In addition, the same phenomena are a limiting factor for reliability and lifetime of these components on the customer’s side.
The gas-phase SAM (self-assembling monolayers) coating process for micro components reduces or eliminates adhesion related phenomena. Essential for the industrial use of hydrophobic SAM-based coatings is the existence of a process suitable to be integrated in an industrial environment for fabrication of large volumes (serial production). microfab has developed such a process and offers it for surface modification.. | <urn:uuid:de1428e2-123e-48f8-8a4d-6441ec50d5da> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://microfab.de/surface-treatment/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.904468 | 154 | 1.90625 | 2 |
How do laws and regulations affect competitiveness: The role for regulatory impact assessment
OECD Working Papers on Regulatory Policy No. 03, Feb 20201- Paul Davidson, Céline Kauffmann, Marie-Gabrielle de Liedekerke
The impacts of laws and regulations on competitiveness have strong implications for OECD economies, as they can lead to unforeseen negative externalities and considerable regulatory costs for businesses and citizens. Nevertheless, the use of regulatory policy to assess the impacts of regulations on competitiveness has seldom been examined.
This paper fills this gap by reviewing OECD members’ regulatory appraisal practices for competitiveness undertaken as part of their regulatory impact assessment (RIA) frameworks. This paper finds that most OECD members already assess the impacts of regulations on some components of competitiveness; however, they fail to present a holistic and comprehensive analysis that examines the full impacts of regulations.
Given these interlinkages, there is scope to develop a more complete framework for policy makers to define and assess the competitiveness impacts of regulation as part of their RIA processes. | <urn:uuid:2e76b169-01f6-41c0-b98f-00ec47fc1160> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.oecd.org/regreform/regulatory-policy/working-paper-how-do-laws-and-regulations-affect-competitiveness.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.917156 | 220 | 1.5 | 2 |
In 1874 American merchant William Blackstone gave his wife a surprise birthday present – a machine which removed and washed away dirt from clothes. This original washing machine consisted of a wooden tub, inside which there was a flat piece of wood with six small pegs. Dirty clothes were hung on the pegs and swished about in hot soapy water. Mrs Blackstone was delighted, and soon all her neighbours wanted a washing machine too. Mr Blackstone started to build and sell washing machines for $2.50 each, and by the 1890s moved his company to New York where it is still producing washing machines today.
The UK Washing Machine Market
98% of British homes have a washing machine , almost all of these are front-loaders.
Most of the energy use in washing machines comes from heating up the water from cold. As appliance manufacturers have invested in improving the efficiency of the water usage in the system so the required temperature has dropped. 30C is a standard wash for many machines and progressively detergent manufacturers have adapted their products to wash effectively at this temperature and even colder.
Using new measurements which came into force on March 1 2021, washing machine labels now display their energy efficiency on a visual scale from A to G. The new labelling also shows:
- Weighted energy consumption per 100 cycles (kWh)
- Rated capacity for the eco 40-60°C program (kg)
- Spin-drying efficiency class
- Duration of the eco 40-60°C program
- Weighted water consumption per cycle (litres)
- Airborne acoustical noise emissions (db(A) and noise emission class
Washer-dryers now get two ratings, one for washing and one for drying. There is also a QR code on the label for more product information This links to the product on the manufacturer’s website. By hovering a smartphone camera over the the code, a link to the webpage is opened, where the consumer can get more details on the product.
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ERIC Number: ED341555
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1989
Reference Count: N/A
Calculus in Secondary Mathematics. Dissemination Packet--Summer 1989: Booklet #2.
This booklet is the second in a series of nine from the Teacher Training Institute at Hofstra University (New York), and describes the capstone course on calculus in secondary school mathematics, which was planned in response to numerous requests from the participants of the previous cycles. Included in this booklet are: (1) an introduction; (2) the preliminary considerations for course set-up and planning; (3) the general course framework; (4) an outline of the course particulars; (5) a discussion of testing and grading procedures; (6) results in terms of student and instructor course evaluations; and (7) appendices which contain the preliminary student questionnaire form, homework assignments, the final examination, and the course and instructor evaluation form. (JJK)
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: N/A
Sponsor: National Science Foundation, Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: Hofstra Univ., Hempstead, NY. Dept. of Mathematics.; Hofstra Univ., Hempstead, NY. School of Secondary Education.
Identifiers: Hofstra University NY
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When there is a problem in your business you know you will have to deal with, you can do several things. You can give up, which isn’t a good idea if you want to keep your business profitable. You can make a snap decision, which can get you into even deeper issues. Or you can persevere. But what does perseverance mean? Well, perseverance is steady persistence despite obstacles or issues. There are three ways that people persevere.
1. Enduring – This is the first type of perseverance. Comparable to an ostrich sticking its head in the sand, someone who endures makes no move at all. In fact, they ignore the fact that anything is wrong. This is a good way to allow a bad situation to evolve into an even worse situation.
2. Struggling – This is the second type of perseverance. Immediately reacting to the issue, these people jump into a hornets nest without any prior planning. They fight and rail against injustice and difficulty, but to no avail. All flash and no substance, their struggles are in vain because they do not have a plan. All the effort in the world will be unsuccessful if you don’t plan ahead.
3. Waiting – The third type of perseverance is the productive one. The balance between endurance and struggle, waiting implies action in the future. No jumping in where angels fear to tread and no digging down in a fox hole. Just quiet, thoughtful planning before you make a move. Like a game of chess, every strategy and countermove must be thought out before the first piece is touched. This is the mark of a successful overcomer of problems; the ability to stay calm and rational and still make a decision.
But how do you stay calm? Stress is a huge part of life. We all go through stress at some point. It might be at work, it might be at home or with friends. Whatever the case is, getting upset just makes a stressful situation more difficult. But how do you stay cool, calm and collected in the midst of a storm? Well, here are three ways you can handle your reaction to the stresses in your life:
- Breathe – One of the most common reactions to stress is holding your breath. That or hyperventilating. Neither one is very effective. Those reactions are due to your fight or flight reaction, and just increase your anxiety level. Combat that by thinking about your breathing. Take deep, slow breaths, using your stomach and not your chest. You’ll be surprised at how much this lowers your stress level… and your blood pressure.
- Go to a quiet place – Now, I’m not suggesting you can always physically get away from the stress in your life. But even in the middle of an argument, you can find a quiet place. Shut your eyes for a moment and quiet your mind. Picture somewhere peaceful, safe, and serene and go there. Even just a second’s reprieve will keep you from being overwhelmed.
- What is the worst that can happen? – Worry about the future is a huge stressor. Even in a simple argument, your stress increases because you fear for the future- of that relationship or just of the night. But if you take a minute to think, you’ll realize something. What is really the worst that can happen, and how would you deal with that? Once you have a plan in place for the very worst, it no longer seems so stressful.
I’m not trying to offer you solutions to avoid stress, just to keep from being overwhelmed by it. The more upset you let yourself get, the worse the stressful situation will become. Be a rock in the middle of a storm, unruffled and unmoved. If you stay calm, the situation will only get better.
There are certain universal truths in the world. One of which is that there will be problems. In business, as in life, problems are inevitable. It is the way you handle those problems that determine how successful you are. Remember not to leap without looking, nor to ignore the obvious. Keep balanced stay alert, and make your move when the time is right. That is the way to successfully overcome obstacles.
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A self-titled solo exhibition from the minimalist artist, and former assistant to Sol Lewitt, includes sketches and strings
by Charlotte Anderson
Invisible Exports is a small gallery space that sits just on the border of Chinatown behind an unassuming door at 89 Eldridge Street. There on view until 2 March 2014 are the seminal works of Kazuko Miyamoto, one of the most iconic minimalist artists in New York. Pieces include several of her drawings on graphite paper made in the early to late '70s, as well as one of her signature installation pieces—a structure made simply of thread and nails that protrudes from the bare walls of the space.
Kazuko Miyamoto was born in wartime Tokyo and moved to New York in 1964. A few years later, she scored an assistantship with Sol Lewitt whom she met by sheer chance during a fire drill (their studios were in the same SoHo building). Over decades the two had an enormous influence upon one another: Both minimalists, both bent upon the destruction of the canvas, both meticulous, both incredibly abstract.
Even at the start of her career Miyamoto's work bore similarities to Lewitt's, but her style was strikingly less aggressive. To build her ephemeral sculptures requires patience, a contemplative methodology. She choses her traditionally feminized tools carefully and purposively. And yet these fragile structures jut out unapologetically, reminiscent of Tatlin's Tower. The forms are almost austere—too geometric.
Miyamoto's sketches are certainly not the focus of the room, and yet they are so essential to the intricate installation at center. They speak to her interest in subverting traditional formalism and painterly beauty in favor of creating complex systems, grids and unassailable compositions. Miyamoto calls them "string construction drawings." They are extensions, studies or better yet; alternate manifestations of that larger, more central work. In a way, they are the same: The string installation and the sketches are all drawings—just of different sorts.
Miyamoto (now the owner of Gallery Onetwentyeight, in Manhattan's Lower East Side) developed her signature nail and thread style of installation throughout the '70s. She continued building these site-specific sculptures throughout her career. And over time, she found herself gradually abandoning strict measurements. Her sculptures became increasingly organic. As Miyamoto once wrote of herself in a press release for her first solo exhibition in New York in 1973: "Kazuko create[s] linear system by extending string between nails on wall. These materials and lighting form an area of sensitivity and spaciousness. The most beautiful is to have nothing on the wall, the second most beautiful is to have line on it, and then the third is to break the wall."
Miyamoto's drawings supersede the bounds of the gallery wall and break the flat surface of drawing. She creates organic systems, topologies, rather than measured ones—and she does so softly, with imprecision.
Kazuko Miyamoto's solo exhibition is on view until 2 March 2014 at Invisible Exports, at 89 Eldridge Street in New York City.
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An Anthropology of Politics: Rituals, Representations and Violence
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The aim of this project is to comprehend politics in two senses of the term: as a principle of unification and identity designating ‘political communities’ (the party, city or nation); and as a specific domain (a world of professionals with its own rules and values). Analysis focuses on the overlaps between what from the native point of view is conceptualized as ‘politics’, and what is taken to belong to other domains of social and cultural life. Supported by ethnography of strategically selected events, situations, rituals, dramas and social processes, the project seeks to reveal social and cultural meanings particular to politics in Brazil. The ethnographies bring together three key dimensions of an anthropology of politics: the study of the rituals of politics, of its representations, and of violence in politics. | <urn:uuid:303a09b0-0f13-4604-bc43-2acf81cb67b6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://nuap.etc.br/en/nuap-working-papers-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.947191 | 184 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Scientists make depressing discovery about oceanic plastic pollution using depressing research technique
One of the best ways to determine how much plastic is polluting a region of the ocean is, unfortunately, to autopsy dead birds in the region. One species of bird in particular, the Northern fulmar, eats nearly anything, rarely regurgites plastic, and is populous enough to die in large numbers over a broad area. So scientists scour the beach for dead Northern fulmars and cut them open. Fun.
What they’ve found recently suggests a massive increase in the amount of plastic these birds are ingesting in the Pacific Northwest. From the Globe and Mail:
Necropsies of 67 of the beached gull-like seabirds collected between October 2009 and April 2010 from the coasts of B.C., Washington and Oregon indicated nearly 93 per cent of them had bellyfuls of plastic, she said.
One bird had 454 pieces of plastic in its gut, said [University of British Columbia researcher Stephanie] Avery-Gomm, the study’s lead author and graduate of the university’s zoology department.
Not only are more birds ingesting plastics, they’re ingesting more of it.
The mass of plastic that’s eaten also increased dramatically — from 0.04 grams in 1969-1977 to 0.385 grams in the current study, she said, adding the average northern fulmar weighs about 800 grams.
Of course, some of the birds that wash up dead have been killed by the plastic they’ve ingested. The material can’t be ingested properly and can block the birds’ intestinal tracts. It’s like a murder mystery where the victim leaves one last clue identifying the culprit.
The extent of the presence of plastic, Avery-Gomm suggests, indicates that plastic pollution is far more of a problem in the Pacific Northwest than was previously understood. For her, the takeaway is simple: People need to be more conscious of how much plastic they’re throwing away. Oh, and also, we need to better monitor the extent of plastic pollution.
I’ll get the scalpels.
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MTB TraIl nearby Cingles de Bertí natural area, in España and la Garriga population.
The largest locality in the area is la Garriga
, with a population of 14,991 persons, at a distance of 1.940 kilometers from the center of the map.
The following indicators give us an idea of the difficulty of the route:
- Trail length: 46.833 kilometers.
- Min height: 234 meters above sea level.
- Max height: 965 meters above sea level.
- Average height: 596 meters above sea level.
- Average slope uphill: 13.702 %.
- Average slope downhill: -10.651 %.
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DR. LEONARD HOROWITZ INTERVIEW ON CHEMTRAILS
REDDEN: What about the current controversy over chemtrails - the theory that airplanes are spraying the population with some kind of chemical or biological weapon. As I understand it, a number of researchers believe that many of the contrails in the skies these days are not the normal contrails formed by high-flying jets, but are actually trails of chemical or biological agents which spread out and then fall on the earth.
HOROWITZ: ... I believe the chemtrails are responsible for a chemical intoxication of the public, which would then cause a general immune suppression, low grade to high grade, depending on exposure. An immune dysfunction, which would then allow people to become susceptible to opportunistic infections, such as mycoplasma and other opportunistic infections.
REDDEN: So you believe that high-flying planes are, in fact, spraying something on the population, that the theory is real?
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The colorful and kaleidoscopic life of one of the world’s most original and talented musical artists.
Here’s the book every pop music lover has been waiting for—full of the scandals, addictions, affairs, and tantrums that underscored the life of arguably the world’s greatest pop musician. Flamboyant, iconic Elton John is as much part of the American musical landscape as he is in his native England.
In the 1970s, when popular music on both sides of the Atlantic fragmented into disco, soul, hard rock, pop, and folk, Elton John embraced them all with his signature creative panache. Emerging in the late 1960s as a singer/songwriter, Elton was widely acknowledged as the most prolific pop and rock star of the decade by the mid-1970s. His peerless musical style and ability to jump from sensitive ballads to bawdy rock anthems to campy pop have made him a musical superstar for the ages.
From his heartfelt ballads like “Tiny Dancer” and “Your Song” to his rock & roll hits including “Bennie and the Jets” and “Crocodile Rock,” Elton has lived one of the most outrageous and colorful lives in show business.
Having met the “Rocket Man” the first time in the 1980s, Bego has drawn upon his personal observations and vast research, and has been able to interview dozens of Elton’s collaborators and lifelong friends to produce the the ultimate story on the amazing and larger-than-life Elton John.
Mark Bego, described as “the #1 bestselling pop biographer” by Publishers Weekly, has written over sixty-five books involving rock & roll and show business. He is the author of the three-million-copy bestselling pop music biography Michael! and the million-copy selling Madonna!. Lego also wrote the biography Leonardo DiCaprio: Romantic Hero, which spent six weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. His writing often appears in People, Us, Billboard, Record World, and Cosmopolitan. Mark lives in Los Angeles.
“Bego narrates the ups and downs of musician Elton John’s career and music. In breathless prose, Bego cheerleads for John.” Publishers Weekly
“The life and times of Elton John are explored in this fascinating read--and no details are left uninvestigated.” Star Magazine
“Rocket Man is a formidable work that satisfies. A reader that doesn’t fall a little bit in love with Elton John after reading Rocket Man is hard-hearted indeed.” BookTrib
“Bego discusses John’s extensive recording output as well as his drug addiction and various health issues, his failed suicide attempt, his coming out, his forays into musical theater (Aida, The Lion King, Billy Elliot), his marriage to David Furnish, and the making of Rocketman...Elton fans won't want to miss this.” Booklist
“Whether readers have been listening to Elton John since Goodbye Yellow Brick Road or know him only from the film Rocketman, they’ll find this a comprehensive biography, infused with a satisfying dose of dishy gossip.” Library Journal | <urn:uuid:1434c49c-4d96-49dc-841c-282561fb1361> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://pegasusbooks.com/books/rocket-man-9781643133133-hardcover | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.947082 | 739 | 1.695313 | 2 |
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La Maddalena is the main town and main island of the La Maddalena Arcepaggio
Served as a statigic military post for most of Europes recorded history, due to its easy access to shipping lanes. Once bombarded by a young Napoleon.
A product of India slamming in to Asia and Europe millions of years ago, these islands are mainly jagged rock that form steep cliffs and high peaks with amazing views all around. Along with pristine beaches, one in particular so secluded because of its pink sand. Tourist would bottle up the sand and over years its began to disappear, so the local government marked to off limits, only to be seen from a boat.
Cold windy winters. Amazing Fall, Spring and warm Summers
Better to rent a house for 2 weeks. Not many hotels. Withe the Sardianian President restricting any building within 1.5 miles from the beach, most of La Maddalena is how it has been for many centuries.
Unless your a good uphill walker, small car is best.
Everything. The main island takes about 30 min to drive around.
Rent a privat sailboat w/ a captain. The local captains know of the best spots, and they usually cook for you too.
Most of the shops are expensive. The African Immergrants have vending usually in the piazzas. They are lower priced, and usually unique.
Anywhere along the water
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Obesity Childhood in Cuenca-Ecuador: Prevalence and Risk Factors
Hypothesis: Obesity in children of Cuenca is related with socioeconomical status and physical activity habits.
The prevalence of obesity and overweigh in all age groups are increasing rapidly in the world. Some factors like physical activity, socioeconomical status, dietary habits, gender, besides genetic factors influence in the development of obesity.
In Cuenca - Ecuador lack information related to prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and the risk factors related.
Socioeconomical status and quality of physical activity are assessed using specially designed questionnaires in a randomized sample of children 6 to 9 years of age of Cuenca city. Nutritional status is assessed using body mass index, relation weight/age and height/age. These data are helpful to develop programs focused to improve nutritional status in scholars of Cuenca.
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|Official Title:||Baseline Study. Obesity Childhood in Cuenca-Ecuador: Prevalence and Risk Factors|
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01381978
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A federal judge has blocked the expansion of Lake Tahoe's modest Homewood Resort, saying that regional planning agencies failed to consider a smaller development before approving the proposal. Ruling on a suit brought by residents and environmental groups, Judge William Shubb said that the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency would have to reconsider whether a reduced—and therefore more environmentally friendly—expansion would be financially viable. The ruling requires that Homewood investors evaluate a plan that would add a maximum of 284 housing units, as opposed to the proposed 336.
Both sides claimed it as a partial victory. "This decision is yet another reminder that the agencies entrusted with protecting beautiful Lake Tahoe, which has already suffered so much from runaway development, must not continue to allow private gain at the Lake's expense," said the lawyer for Earthjustice, the firm that brought the suit. An attorney for the developers said they would work with the Tahoe planning board to come into compliance.
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Journal of Second Language Studies 1:1
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[Journal of Second Language Studies, 1:1] 2018. iii, 230 pp.
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Grammatical gender processing in L2 speakers of Spanish: The role of cognate status and gender transparencyLauren Halberstadt, Jorge R. Valdés Kroff, and Paola E. Dussias | pp. 5–30
Suprasegmental information cues morphological anticipation during L1/L2 lexical accessNuria Sagarra and Joseph V. Casillas | pp. 31–59
Possibility of semantic involvement in the L1-L2 congruency effect in the processing of L2 collocationsJunko Yamashita | pp. 60–78
Effects of second language proficiency and working memory span on novel language learningKaitlyn L. Zavaleta and Janet L. Nicol | pp. 79–105
Early and late learners decompose inflected nouns, but can they tell which ones are inflected correctly?Kira Gor, Anna Chrabaszcz, and Svetlana Cook | pp. 106–140
The effects of transliterations, thematic organization, and working memory on adult L2 vocabulary learningAlison M. Tseng, Martin C. Doppelt, and Natasha Tokowicz | pp. 141–165
The use of lexical and sublexical cues in speech segmentation by second language learners of EnglishCandise Yue Lin and Min Wang | pp. 166–198
Associative networks from L2 words in early and late Vietnamese-English bilingualsJuliet Huynh and Naoko Witzel | pp. 199–230 | <urn:uuid:53d37e64-5019-4f06-a45f-d4c17ad5a8b7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://benjamins.com/catalog/jsls.1.1/toc | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.79179 | 422 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Agner Krarup Erlang
(1878-1929) A Danish mathematician. Erlang the language and unit were named after him.Interested in the theory of probability, in 1908 Erlang joined the Copenhagen Telephone Company where he studied the problem of waiting times for telephone calls. He worked out how to calculate the fraction of callers who must wait due to all the lines of an exchange being in use. His formula for loss and waiting time was published in 1917. It is now known as the "Erlang formula" and is still in use today. Biography, Biography.
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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1881 [= 1880]. [Extracts from 2 letters on the drift deposits near Southampton]. In Geikie, J., Prehistoric Europe. A geological sketch. London: Edward Stanford, pp. 141-142.
REVISION HISTORY: Scanned, OCRed, corrected and edited by John van Wyhe 2002-8, textual corrections by Sue Asscher 3.2007. RN3
The origin of these gravels1 has always been a difficult question, but a suggestion which Mr. Darwin some years ago (1876) did me the honour to communicate gives what appears to be the true explanation of the somewhat puzzling phenomena. Having since had an opportunity of testing the value of the suggestion referred to, I have found it extremely helpful, and believe that my co-workers will agree with me in this opinion. Mr. Darwin, after remarking that his observations were made near Southampton, writes as follows:—
"I need say nothing about the character of the drift there (which includes Palæolithic celts), for you have described its essential features in a few words (Great Ice Age, p. 506).2 It covers the whole country, even plain-like surfaces, almost irrespective of the present outline of the land. The coarse stratification has sometimes been disturbed; and I find that you allude to 'the larger stones often standing on end,' which is the point that struck me so much. Not only moderately-sized angular stones but small oval pebbles often stand vertically up, in a manner which I have never seen in ordinary gravel-beds. This fact reminded me of what occurs in my own neighbourhood in the stiff red clay, full of unworn flints, over the chalk, which is no doubt the residue left undissolved by rain-water. In this clay flints as long and as thin as my arm often stand perpendicularly up, and I have been told by the tank-diggers that it is their 'natural position'! I presume that this position may safely be attributed to the differential movement of parts of the red clay, as it subsided very slowly from the dissolution of the underlying chalk, so that the flints arrange themselves in the lines of least resistance. The similar but less-strongly marked arrangement of the stones in the drift near Southampton makes me suspect that it also must have slowly subsided, and the notion has crossed my mind that during the commencement and height of the Glacial Period great beds of frozen snow accumulated over Southern England, and that during the summer gravel and stones were washed from the higher land over its surface, and in superficial channels. The larger streams may have cut right through the frozen snow, and
1 Gravel of the Pleistocene or Glacial Age. Although dated 1881, the book was issued in late 1880. James Geikie (1839-1915), Scottish geologist. See Calendar: 10676 and 12663.
2 Geikie 1874.
deposited gravel in lines at the bottom. But at each succeeding autumn, when the running-water failed, I imagine that the lines of drainage would have been filled up with blown snow, afterwards congealed; and that owing to the great surface-accumulations of snow it would be a mere chance whether the drainage, together with gravel and sand, would follow the same lines during the next summer. Thus, as I apprehend, alternate layers of frozen snow and drift in sheets and lines would ultimately have covered the country to a great thickness, with lines of drift probably deposited in various directions at the bottom by the larger streams. As the climate became warmer the lower beds of frozen snow would have melted with extreme slowness, and during this movement the elongated pebbles would have arranged themselves more or less vertically. The drift would also have been deposited almost irrespective of the outline of the underlying land. When I viewed the country I could not persuade myself that any flood, however great, could have deposited such coarse gravel over the almost level platforms between the valleys."
Mr. Darwin writes me again recently to say that subsequent observations near Southampton and elsewhere have only tended to strengthen him in his conclusion. Referring to the structure of his own neighbourhood (Beckingham, Kent), he says the chalk-platform slopes gently down from the edge of the escarpment (which is about 800 feet in height) towards the north, where it disappears below the Tertiary strata. "The beds of the large and broad valleys, and only of these, are covered with an immense mass of closely-packed, broken, and angular flints, in which mass remains of the musk-sheep and woolly elephant have been found. This great accumulation of unworn flints must therefore have been made when the climate was cold, and I believe it can be accounted for by the large valleys having been filled up to a great depth during a large part of the year with drifted frozen snow, over which rubbish from the upper parts of the platforms was washed by the summer rains and torrents, sometimes along one line and sometimes along another, or in channels cut through the snow all along the main course of the broad valleys."
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Commercial Fishing Essay, Research Paper COMMERCIAL FISHING Commercial fishing is a worldwide enterprise that involves the capture of marine and freshwater fish and shellfish and their preparation for market. Fishing equipment ranges from small boats whose nets are cast and hauled in by hand to factory ships equipped with the most advanced technologies for finding, harvesting, and preparing huge amounts of fish.
Commercial Fishing Essay, Research Paper
Commercial fishing is a worldwide enterprise that involves the capture of marine and freshwater fish and shellfish and their preparation for market. Fishing equipment ranges from small boats whose nets are cast and hauled in by hand to factory ships equipped with the most advanced technologies for finding, harvesting, and preparing huge amounts of fish. These large catches are very costly, however, not only in the price of their equipment and fuel, but also in the depletion of fishery resources their use brings about.
The major portion of the total fish harvest consists of few fish species, which are divided into two primary groups. Pelagic species – those which live in the near-surface layers of the oceans, this include several species of herring, tuna, salmon, anchovies, pilchard, sardines, menhaden, and mackerel. Demersal species – fish that live in the near-bottom layers of the ocean, this includes cod, sole, halibut, haddock, hake, and flounder. Large catches are also made of a group of fish classed commercially as SHELLFISH – shrimp, lobster, scallops, oysters, clams, crabs, mussels, and squid. WHALING was once a major part of the fishing industry. Overfishing has endangered many whale numbers, however, and the field has lessened in importance.
Almost all large pelagic and demersal fish catches are made over or near the continental shelf, the underwater plateau around the continents and large islands. In these waters temperatures, water depths, and the currents that influence the amounts of available food create an environment that is highly favourable to the existence of large schools of fish.
The animals living in and on the bottom of the continental shelf serve as additional food sources for demersal fish. Also, most species spawn on continental shelves, and the main nursery grounds of many species are also in coastal regions. The main fishing grounds are located on the wider continental shelves of the mid and high latitudes. The single most important area is the North Pacific, where as much as one-quarter of the world’s fish catch is taken.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FISHING INDUSTRY
Prehistoric people were hunters and food collectors, and they found much of their food in lakes, rivers, and shallow coastal ocean waters. Shellfish were the most accessible food , and the large shell heaps found around the first fishing technique, the use of bare hands.
During 10,000-6000 BC, certain cultures that depended almost entirely on a diet of fish developed primitive fishing technologies. The Scandinavian Maglemosian culture used stone-pointed fishing spears, antler and bone harpoons and fishhooks, and lines and nets woven of bark fiber. Improved equipment increased the size of catches, and preservation techniques were developed for drying, smoking, salting, and pickling fish. As larger boats were built, fishing craft adventured farther into the oceans, and sea fishing developed into a well-defined business, with settlements whose main occupation was catching fish.
Early ocean fisheries were confined to the coastal regions of settled areas and to the Mediterranean Sea, which had been the traditional fishing grounds for large numbers of fish species, especially tuna. Slowly, the rich fishing regions of the Atlantic Ocean and the North and Baltic seas began to be exploited. The opening of these new fishing grounds had a significant influence on the spread of trade during the Middle Ages and on the establishment of new trade routes – for example, the herring fisheries in the southern Baltic and North seas that helped to establish the HANSEATIC LEAGUE.
The opening of the fishing areas around Nova Scotia and Newfoundland had a serious effect on European history. First fished by the French in the early 1500s, by the beginning of the 17th century the North Atlantic fisheries had become the main source of New World wealth for England.
The most important world fisheries are located in waters less than 400 m in depth. Major fishing grounds are in the North Atlantic including the GRAND BANKS and the Georges Banks off the New England coast, the North Sea, the waters over the continental shelves of Iceland and Norway, and the Barents Sea; in the North Pacific, specifically the Bering Sea, the Gulf of Alaska, and the coastal areas around Japan; and off the coasts of China and Malaysia. Other important fishing grounds are found off the coasts of the southeastern United States, Chile, Peru, Argentina, and the Falkland Islands, and off the coasts of Namibia and South Africa.
More than one-half of the marine fish catch in the United States is taken in the Northeast Pacific and in Alaskan coastal waters. In 1993 the total of all the Atlantic fisheries given slightly more than 18 percent, with the Gulf of Mexico fishery adding another 16 percent. Pollock, shrimp, sockeye salmon, and snow crab are the most valuable catches – and these, with the exception of shrimp, are all Northeast Pacific fish. Haddock landings off the New England coast decreased in the 1980s because of overfishing. The cod fishery in the Northeast Atlantic collapsed in the early 1990s for the same reason.
The profitable king crab fishery in the Bering Sea broke down in the 1980s, and much of the crab fleet was changed to trawlers, which yielded higher catches of Pacific cod and pollock in joint venture fisheries with foreign processors, who were mainly Japanese and Russian.
The local fisheries of the African coast, and many of those found elsewhere in the tropics, remain undeveloped. The main limiting factors are: first, the narrowness of the continental shelf, which doesn’t allow the numbers of demersal fish, and the existence of a straight coastline that doesn’t offer many possibilities for good harbors; second, the high temperatures, which affect the keeping quality of the fish catch; and third, limited access to the interior, making marketing difficult. Fish landings from these areas are usually dried, smoked, or salted immediately.
In most modern, commercial fishing fleets the most common fishing vessel is the trawler, equipped with a diesel engine and outfitted with a variety of equipment for fish finding and capturing. Factory ships are huge, operated by crews of 500 to 650 and accompanied by their own fleets of smaller ships called catcher boats. Some factory ships can remain at sea for months at a time and can process and store huge amounts of catch. Nations engaged in large-scale, distant-water fishing operate factory ships. Some of these nations have invested heavily in many of the factory ships owned by U.S. firms. Coastal fleets commonly use smaller vessels that deliver their catch to processing plants on shore.
Sophisticated electronic equipment, such as sonar, is used to detect the presence of fish schools and to verify water depths and the roughness on the ocean bottom. Airplanes and helicopters scout scattered schools of pelagic fish.
The standard methods of catching fish involve either nets, hooked lines, or traps. Pelagic fish are most often harvested using purse seine nets, which are set in a wide circle around the school of fish and then closed and drawn up. Straight drift or gill nets – whose mesh is just large enough to allow the heads of fish to pass through while trapping them at their gills – are used to catch salmon, tuna, cod, and other fish. Demersal fish may be caught in otter trawl nets pulled along the ocean bottom or netted with beam trawls that are used in more shallow waters, mainly for shrimp.
In halibut fishing, hooked groundlines, called long lines, may reach lengths of many miles, with baited hooks attached at intervals of 6 to 9 m. Floating long lines are used primarily in tuna and salmon fishing, and so are trolling lines, shorter lines towed behind a moving boat. Lights may be lowered into fresh waters to attract fish, which are then sucked up into the ship by vacuum pumps.
Beginning in the early 1980s, Japanese, Taiwanese, and South Korean fishing fleets began to use a new fishing technique to make large-scale squid catches in the North Pacific. Huge, 15m deep drift nets made of unbreakable nylon, each stretching 90 m, were lowered off the boats each evening. Together, the nets from a single boat formed a great wall just under the surface of the ocean. The nets drifted all night, catching any sea creatures that happened to swim into their meshes – not only the squid, but amounts of other fish and ocean mammals such as dolphins and seals. Drift-net assemblies began to be used to make catches of other commercial fish in addition to squid. The accidental catch, called “by-catch” in the trade, was thrown away. Large-scale drift-net fishing declined after a UN resolution that went into effect in 1993.
Fishing vessels that make their catches close to port store fish in crushed ice or in refrigerated sea water. Large fishing vessels on long trips are equipped to keep their catch edible by storing it in refrigerated facilities or by quick-freezing it. A fully equipped factory ship will also have machinery on board for fish filleting and freezing or canning. Fish fillets are frozen at sea into large blocks weighing up to 45 kg, these are later reprocessed on shore into individual portions. Some ships may also have facilities for drying and grinding fish into fish meal.
MAJOR FISHING COUNTRIES
By the early 1990s, China had emerged as the nation with the largest fish catches, totalling 16.5 million US tons in 1992. The Chinese catch is largely from fish farming. Japan is second, with about 9.4 million US tons. Peru is next, with a catch of 7.5 million US tons. Chile, Russia, and the United States follow, in that order. India, with a catch of 4.6 million US tons, is the seventh-largest fishing nation. The Pacific countries of Indonesia, Thailand, and South Korea complete the list of the ten main fishing nations. Britain, once a major fishing country, is now only a minor player, having caught only 895,000 US tons in 1992.
In 1948 the total world fish catch was about 19 million metric tons. The total catch rose to over 60 million metric tons by 1970, almost 77 million metric tons in 1972, and in 1989 – a record year – over 110.2 million US tons. The 1992 total was 108 million US tons. Despite the huge size of total world catches, fisheries scientists believe that the sustainable limits to the landings of many important commercial species of marine fish were reached long ago. Decreasing catches of valuable fish, such as cod and haddock, were payed for by capturing less desirable species that would have been thrown out in the past – pollock, pilchard, whiting.
In 1994 the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) announced that 13 of the world’s 17 major ocean fisheries are overfished. Overfishing, the harvesting of a species to a point where it can’t reproduce itself in serious numbers, is in large part responsible for the decline of cod, haddock, halibut, herring, several species of tuna, and whale. Not enough of these fish remain in the seas to maintain spawning stocks; the fishing industry has been consuming its capital.
Technology is one reason for the huge increase in fish landings since the 1960s. Catches were so rich that private industry and governments both poured money into higher quality fishing fleets. Since the 1980s, for example, the European Union quadrupled its support for fishing, subsidizing the building of new boats and arranging for member countries to exploit fishing grounds in other members’ jurisdictions. Since 1975, the number of trawlers on the high seas has increased by 30 percent, and the major fishing nations now suffer from overcapacity: the European Union could land its present catches with only half its present fleet.
In addition to overfishing, other factors play a part in the diminishing stocks of commercial fish species. Some are beyond human control. Most are traceable to human activity. For example, developing human populations along the world’s coasts have added to the pollution of inland rivers and streams; estuaries and lagoons that previously sheltered and fed juvenile fish have been filled in and developed. Almost three-quarters of the species in the US fisheries must live in estuaries at some stage in their growth.
By-catch, the netting and killing of unwanted fish, is another factor in the shrinkage of fish stocks. The dolphin and porpoise kill in tuna fishing became well known to canned-tunafish buyers in the 1980s, and the methods in which purse seine nets are used in the tuna fisheries were changed as a result. However, in the US shrimp fishery alone, an estimated 172,000 US tons of juvenile fish are thrown out each year, contributing to a noticeable decreases in the populations of snappers and groupers in the Gulf of Mexico. The estimated by-catch in Alaskan fisheries amounts to over one-half million US tons a year. Worldwide, as much as 30 percent of the fish caught may be wasted as by-catch.
As early as the 1890s it was acknowledged that fishery resources are limited and that they must be managed through international agreements. In 1902 the International Council for Exploration of the Sea (ICES) was formed by the major European fishing countries. The founding of ICES led to many conventions for the regulation of fisheries by quotas and by mesh size of nets, in order to obtain “maximum sustainable yields” – the highest yields consistent with the maintenance of fish stocks. Until recent years, such conventions were effective in the Northeast Atlantic, although they did not operate as well in other regions. The extension of national jurisdictions over fisheries resources to a 200-naut-mi (370-km/230-mi) zone, beginning in the 1970s, further limited the effectiveness of many international conventions.
In the United States the Magnuson Fisheries Conservation and Management Act of 1976 placed all marine resources from three to 200 naut mi offshore under US jurisdiction. Management is effected through eight regional fisheries councils whose members come mainly from the industry. Each council has the power to set quotas for the commercial fish species living within its jurisdiction in order “to achieve optimum yield from each fishery on a continuing basis,” and to prepare recovery plans when they have decided that overfishing is depleting stocks. In addition, the councils have granted permits to foreign countries to harvest specified quantities of certain fish species in return for a fee. Countries that have fished under US license included Japan, South Korea, the former USSR, and Poland. In their desire to maintain the prosperity of the fleets within their regions, however, the councils have not been harsh in their recognition of depleted stocks, the quotas they set, or their preparations for stock recoveries. In 1994, however, the New England Fisheries Management Council began a process that will lead to closing commercial fishing in the Georges Bank for a number of years.
Fishing in international waters has also proved difficult to control. While it is believed, for example, that most nations have obeyed the UN moratorium on drift-net fishing, monitoring compliance remains an unsolved problem. The US Navy’s Sound Surveillance System, a 48,000-km network of undersea cable, is capable of tracking drift-net operations, but budget considerations may eventually force the sound surveillance system shutdown.
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Sixth-grade friends chronicle their transition to middle school in a shared journal.
When best friends Piper and Olivia discover they have only one class together, they start a shared journal to communicate with each other. While the girls vow to remain best friends, each feels socially adrift at school. Piper’s unexpected opportunity to have a special birthday party motivates the girls to devise a plan to join school clubs in order to widen their social circles. From badminton to spelling bees, the girls valiantly search for a club that suits them, with some comical and a few calamitous results. Leavitt and Mellom address the self-consciousness and uncertainties of navigating social life in middle school. Their astute observations also reveal the girls’ family concerns: Piper yearns for personal attention amid her bevy of siblings, while Olivia longs for her father’s time and approval. As each girl struggles to find her niche, their journal entries become increasingly self-reflective. With their interests diverging, their friendship reaches a crisis point as the date of Piper’s party approaches. The book’s format, featuring journal entries between the girls, emails, text messages, and blog posts, combines with Dening’s whimsical artwork to create the feel of a well-tended journal.
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History of The Month of February
Well, the thermometer in the car was showing minus five on the way to work this morning, but it’s turned into a beautiful day here at Bluestone Towers. It’s still, bright, clear, and there’s a general feeling that we’ve broken the back of winter and spring is not too far away. So, as January ebbs away and February moves into view, it’s with a sense of cheerful optimism that we once more hand over the blog reins to Bluestone’s resident historian and storyteller, Terry John…
February was the month in which our ancestors began to look forward to the Spring. Although February weather can be colder and harsher than it was at mid-winter, the daylight hours begin to lengthen and the first plants of spring push their green shoots through the icy soil.
The people who lived more than two thousand years ago in the Iron Age settlement adjacent to Bluestone’s modern Nature Trail would have celebrated the ending of the winter darkness with the great pagan festival of Imbolc. One of four important festivals that punctuated the Celtic year, Imbolc or Oimelc was a pastoral celebration connected to the coming into milk of the ewes. The name is thought to mean ‘purification’ and was perhaps associated with the pure white colour of milk. Imbolc was held on what is now the eve of 1 February and may have been intended to ward off harm that threatened the pregnant ewes and their lambs.
Imbolc was dedicated to the goddess Bride or Brigit. In later centuries, this deity seems to have been merged with the Christian Saint Brigit, abbess of Kildare, who is remembered on 1 February.
An ancient custom practised by young girls on 1 February was to wash their faces in the early morning dew in the belief that it kept their skin fresh and youthful.
The following day, 2 February, was also marked by great ceremonial. This was Gwyl Fair y Canhwyllau, otherwise known as ‘Mary’s Festival of the Candles’, ‘Candlemas’, or the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin. Traditionally, it was the day on which it was believed that the infant Jesus, who was 40 days old, was taken by Joseph and Mary to the temple in Jerusalem.
On this day, in the parish of Newton North, where Bluestone now stands, and in parishes across Wales, mothers who had borne children during the previous twelve months took part in candle-lit processions. As people gathered in the churches to celebrate the purification of Mary after giving birth to Jesus, candles were blessed and distributed amongst the congregation.
The blessing of the candles was discontinued after the Reformation, but the idea of marking the end of winter with lights remained a powerful one. Houses were decorated by placing burning candles in the windows – in some areas, every pane of glass was illuminated in this way. On some farms during autumn the mistress of the house gave a lighted candle to the head maid for use in the outhouses. Traditionally, the maid gave back a candle to her mistress at Candlemas. It was also believed that on 2 February all artificial lights could be dispensed with and all farm animals could be fed before dark.
Another day that was specially observed in some of the churches of Pembrokeshire was 9 February, for this was St Teilo’s Day. St Teilo was a contemporary of St David and was born in Pembrokeshire at some time in the 6th century AD. Some legends identify his birthplace as Carn Rock, an outcrop of rock in the parish of St Florence about ten miles south of Bluestone. There are many legends concerning St Teilo’s life and work, but perhaps the best known one is that, in company with St David and St Padarn, he made a journey to Jerusalem. Once there, they were asked by the Patriarch of Jerusalem, who recognised them as particularly holy men, to take their places on three thrones. Two of the thrones were made of precious metals, but St Teilo chose the one made of cedar wood, demonstrating his humility. The Patriarch gave him a magical bell, which was later preserved at Llandeilo Fawr in Carmarthenshire. Teilo also visited Brittany, where he is remembered as the patron saint of horses and apple orchards. He founded a monastery at Llandeilo Fawr and was supposed to have been the second Bishop of Llandaff. When he died, three places claimed his body; Llandeilo, Llandaff and Penally in Pembrokeshire, where he spent part of his life. Miraculously, the saint’s body triplicated itself so that each site could receive a relic for burial.
Nowadays, February is the month in which we celebrate Valentine’s Day. The custom is actually much older than you might think, though it was not always marked in the modern way. The day commemorates the martyrdom of St Valentine at the hands of the Romans on 14 February 273AD. Valentine was renowned during his lifetime for his chastity, so what he would have thought of becoming the patron saint of lovers is anybody’s guess!
The commemoration of Valentine’s martyrdom became combined with the pagan Roman festival of Lupercalia, held on 15 February, in which young people of marriageable age tried to find a partner. Girls wrote their names on a piece of paper which was then placed in an urn. The boys drew out one name each and the couples paired off.
This custom of drawing lots was recorded in Britain in 1725, but was said to be practised only by ‘vulgar’ folk. Not much better was the custom of regarding the first man seen by a woman early that morning as her valentine for the day. All very well if the first person you see is the one you want, but not a comfort otherwise.
Valentine cards made of parchment existed in the 15th century, but the first written valentine message known in Britain seems to date to the 1680’s. In Wales an anonymous poem of the same period mentions a valentine’s gift. The lady concerned says that she would like to draw her lover as her valentine above all other men. She is not saying that she wants to make a sketch or picture of her love, but that she wants to draw his name in a lottery. It was quite usual to accompany a valentine with a gift, often a pair of beautifully embroidered gloves.
It wasn’t until the 19th century that the type of Valentine card that we know became popular. They were usually heart shaped and were decorated with pictures of flowers, love birds and with ribbons, silk thread and paper lace. They might be accompanied by a specially baked biscuit or cake – one of the recipes is given below.
3oz (75g) flour
3oz (75g) butter
1 egg yolk
rind of half a lemon
Quarter of a teaspoon of baking powder
1 and a half oz (3.75g) sugar
Cream the butter and sugar together, add lemon rind and beat in the yolk. Add the flour and baking powder and mix. Roll out and cut into heart shapes. Bake in a hot oven (425F/220C) for 20 minutes.
As Halloween draws near, we are once again indebted to Bluestone’s resident historian and storyteller, Terry John, for stepping up to the blog plate once more with tales of customs past(and a recipe)…
Now that Christmas is over, we can all relax a little – the annual orgy of giving and receiving gifts, sending cards, eating and drinking far too much is over for another year.
It’s time once again to welcome Terry John for another seasonal sojourn through the pages of history. Over to you, Mr John…
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With a group of people at the Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies at the Open Universiteit (Netherlands), I am doing research on so-called Learning Networks. Networked Learning or Learning (in) Networks is a popular catch phrase these days. As long ago as 1995 Linda Harasim and colleagues already dubbed their book Learning Networks: A field guide to teaching and learning online, and this May the fifth Networked Learning Conference was held in the city of Aalborg in Denmark. Inevitably the notion of a Learning Network harbours a great many different opinions on what it actually is. For Harasim cs, any form of learning and teaching for which networks (the Internet) were used, fitted the bill. The visitors of the Networked Learning Conference seemed very much interested in pedagogies for networked learning and in positioning networked learning properly with respect to such theories as Engeström's version of Activity Theory. And of course, ours is yet a different take. I don't necessarily see this is a problem: conceptual growth besides theory development is the hallmark of a growing and evolving scientific field.
For us, Learning Networks are online, social networks that have been designed to facilitate non-formal learning. Here, in line with what is customary, non-formal learning is like formal learning intentional (in contract with informal or accidental learning). However, it differs from formal learning in that it rigorously puts the demands of the learner centre stage. Therefore, it does not necessarily rely on such institutions as curricula, experts in the capacity of teachers, cohorts, schools as buildings or institutions, etc. So far, so good.
This definition of a Learning Network may seem rather weak. After all, it only specifies that the network should be designed in a particular way, not how that should be done. In terms of the how, it only determines that it should not contain such ingredients as cohorts as curricula. Yet, we feel this definition is an apt one as it serves as a workable starting point for empirical research into the how question. What network constellations work in the sense of allowing non-formal learners to learn, and what not?
There is a large variety research questions that we try to solve (see publications). A particularly important set relates to the role competences and competence taxonomies should play, for instance for inventorying someone's prior competences or for charting out someone's learning objectives. Since Learning Networks are online networks, another set of questions is related to appropriate software tools that should help the inhabitants of the Learning Network to learn collectively. The assumption is that being united in such an online network is an important asset, something that helps learning. However, a typical learner may only be acquainted with a few of his peers, if any. So what, in a social-network analytical terms, is a good mix of weakly and strongly linked people, and how can such a mix arise?
These questions are all about how to dress up, to tool the Learning Network. But there is one question that precedes all these: how do individual people learn in a Learning Network, how do they acquire the competences they need? In a recent paper on Connectivism in the Enterprise, George Siemens defines learning as 'the process of forming and pruning connections through social and technological networks'. Although I obviously have no quarrel with the network part, it cannot be that learning only is a matter of forming and pruning links. Ultimately, it is individuals who learn or do not learn. Networks may play a part in that, indeed I argue they should, but it is individuals who decide to make or break links and their decisions hang on what fosters their learning, which is different than being their learning. So, how can people be helped to learn in a Learning Network?
If anything, formal learning is teacher led. This means that teachers develop activities, in which their students engage with their help, through which the students learn; they organise the times and the order of engagements. A lot has been written about this by people such as Robert Gagné (nine events of instruction), Dave Merrill (first principles of instruction) and Jeroen van Merriënboer (4 components instructional design model), to mention a few. All have in common that they prescribe how what it is that needs to be learned should be 'packaged' so as to opimise learning effectiveness (what you learn), learning efficiency (at what costs you learn) and perhaps learner satisfaction.
Non-formal learning, on the other hand, is learner led. So students themselves should somehow organise their own learning. But how are we to understand that? As argued, making and breaking of links with fellow-learners may contribute to learning, it cannot be learning. Merely consuming content cannot be equated with learning either. After all, we do not lock up our students in a library for a few years, wish them all the best, and have them sit in on exam at the end. The various instructional principles and theories we have developed, including those just mentioned, indicate that there are more sensible ways to learn than being flooded with content. Put differently, if learners themselves develop learning activities, decide what learning activities to engage in, when and with whom to do so, how can they be sure they do so most effectively, efficiently and satisfactorily? This is the design question. Also, where do these learning activities come from in the first place? This is the library with books or an online network with content resources is not the same as a collection of learning activities. Perhaps teachers should develop learning activities according to sound instructional design principles and subsequently make them available to learners, for instance as open educational resources. This is the development question. But if teachers interfere in both the developing of learning activities and their structured provision, one could well argue that non-formal learning is teacher led after all. According to that argument, non-formal learning is an internally inconsistent notion: either it isn't learning or it is formal (teacher-led) learning in disguise!
I have no ready-made answer, I do have a couple of ideas. I'll discuss those in a next installment. Meanwhile, suggestions are welcome.
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Accelerating Essential Data Initiatives with Data Lakes
Why do businesses prefer data lake over data warehouse? Why is there so much sudden traction? Most probably due to the flexible data lake architecture, detailed analytics, and data science. But, saying this is not enough to understand the context behind data lake, and why there’s a sudden rise in the usage of AWS data lake and Azure data lake.
This blog provides information on what is a data lake, its history, and its traction. A brief section on data warehouse vs data lake is also listed for you to understand the differences between both. Moreover, we’ve also covered why businesses are shifting to data lakes over data warehouses.
What is a Data Lake?
A data lake is kind of a centralized library or a repository that is primarily used to store and handle structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data in its raw and native format. Such storages use a uniform data lake architecture storage to preserve the data. Moreover, there’s no size limit for a data lake, it can process any form of data in its raw format.
A data lake for business intelligence purposes allows enterprises to handle the data no matter if it comes from an edge-computing system or a cloud. Furthermore, a data lake provides the privilege to process the data batches or streams in its fidelity. It also offers enhanced analytics features those enterprises can use in any language format.
History and Evolution of Data Lakes
Initially, data scientists were analyzing, and mining huge chunks of data named “Big Data”. Before that, large amounts of data were still used but without any official name. The data was then named Big Data by Roger Magoulas in 2005 when he used traditional SQL tools to research and manage the data and it was sort of impossible to do at that time. Hadoop later in 2008 came up with a search engine that eased the processing and locating of raw data on a big scale.
Data lakes initially started on Hadoop, but now due to continuous evolution are migrating to multiple cloud platforms due to their significant data management features and the concept of utilizing the unstructured data into meaningful information.
After this evolution, Microsoft came up with its data lake named Azure Data Lake, and there’s one by Amazon too, named AWS Data Lake.
Why Businesses Prefer Data Lakes – The Benefits
With the rise in the evolution of big data into the usage of data lakes, businesses have started to prefer data lakes alongside data warehouses.
One of the major reasons businesses prefer data lake is due it its non-schema feature. Schema is a restriction to store data in a particular format. In data analytics applications, a schema is a useless restriction since the major goal is to analyze the data as it is without having to disturb its structure. This feature to decouple the schema is excellent for data scientists’ machine learning applications.
Data lakes allow for better expandability and scalability of the business. When you consider business scalability through a data warehouse, you’ll have to encounter additional costs like storage costs, more query time, etc. However, with a data lake, you can enhance the decision-making qualities, and better decisions often lead to enhanced scalability. Moreover, with a data lake, expandability is much easier and inexpensive.
One of the data lake’s features is the availability of large amounts of coherent data with advanced deep learning and machine learning analytics. These features enable you to get real-time analytics and insights into the streaming data.
Not just because of its advanced features, businesses prefer to use data lake because it stores data in native raw format i.e., storing the data as it is in an unstructured, semi-structured, and structured format. Thus, you can simply store the data without modeling it at the time of storage ingestion. However, you can always adjust the data at the time of its usage for detailed results.
Data Warehouse vs. Data Lake: What’s the Difference?
Although, all businesses require a data warehouse and a data lake for business intelligence. However, these two have completely different features but both are necessary for each other's existence and sort of complement each other.
A data warehouse is a database that is used to analyze the relational data stream coming from various business applications and data systems. Unlike a data lake, you need to define a proper schema (schema-on-read), strategy, and a working structure for a data warehouse in advance so you can get fast queries. In a data warehouse, the data is manually adjusted, purified, and then transformed into a kind of data that end users can trust for their applications. Data warehouses are generally used for analytics and reporting that is leveraged through highly curated data. A data warehouse provides fast results on queries, but it costs more storage to leverage such features.
Unlike a data warehouse, a data lake stores both relational and non-relational data, making it possible to store structured, non-structured, and semi-structured data inside the data lake repository. For a data lake, you do not need to define a schema or working structure in advance (schema-on-write). This feature enables you to store the data 'as is’ without molding or disrupting it for future needs. Unlike a data warehouse, you can use a data lake for business intelligence, and real-time big data analysis to obtain valuable insights, particularly for data science and machine learning algorithms. Moreover, a data lake provides fast query results without having to expand the storage.
Importance of a Data Lake – Final Thoughts on its Positive Impact on Businesses
In short, we can say that a data lake allows you to store raw data and is a centralized repository that allows you to easily democratize the data in its native format.
If your business lags and takes time longer than expected to gain valuable insights into the data that flows, a data lake is a great option for you. It will allow you to preserve your data in its raw form that you can explore later when needed. Moreover, a data lake speeds up the process of data handling which is a challenging issue in today’s big data world.
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John Watts has been described by a fellow artist as “a force of nature”. In the three decades of his career he has amassed a considerable body of creative work. His distinctive writing has steadily evolved against a variety of musical forms encompassing written word, poetry and humour. He has a distinguished catalogue of seventeen original albums with sales in excess of two million.
This self-confessed “follower of the troubadour tradition” was born in December 1954, into a family of singers. He progressed through school inspired musically by the late sixties Trojan catalogue and the great ‘maverick’ artists from Alex Harvey to Lou Reed, Captain Beefheart to David Bowie, Jake Thackery to James Brown. His childhood heroes were George Best and Pablo Picasso.
John was the mastermind of Fischer-Z, contemporaries of the Police and Talking Heads. He formed the band with Steve Skolnik at Brunel University in 1976. Arriving at a point where punk, art wave and reggae crossed over, they secured a record deal with UA in 1978 alongside the Buzzcocks, the Stranglers and Dr Feelgood. For the previous three years Watts had been studying clinical psychology and at the same time travelling up and down the country in an ailing dormobile van, playing the punk and new wave club circuit.
This was an era when small indie label credibility was paramount to English profile. The British music press’ attitude to Watts and Fischer-Z was somewhat suspicious. His stylish demob suits, ‘cheeky chappie’ persona and melodic literate songs singled him out from the black leather jackets of the punk and new wave majority. The first album Word Salad was released in 1979. It was a cult record in the UK (John Peel supported the single Remember Russia), but an even bigger critical success and commercial start across continental Europe. There were substantial appearances on The Old Grey Whistle Test and a first Top of the Pops with The Worker single. This first album firmly established Watts’ ability to convey worldly political issues in narrative songs against a background of quirky pop and reggae-influenced music.
The second album, cleverly titled Going Deaf for a Living (1980), reinforced Watts’ trademark insightful and humorous view of the world set against strong melodies. It included So Long, his first chart hit single across Europe and in Australia. The band toured extensively throughout Europe and also made their first trip to America. European success was growing fast and the demand for a new album brought Watts back with the powerfully atmospheric Red Skies Over Paradise (1981). This third album, “a candid and passionate appraisal of Cold War Europe”, struck a chord with a large audience. Berlin, Marliese, Cruise Missiles and the title track have all been described as ‘classics’ of that eraand contributed to the million selling status of the record. A performance at Pinkpop Festival that summer was described “as a major triumph”. He also performed on the bill with Bob Marley on his final European festival tour.
By 1981 Watts was firmly established across continental Europe as “a leading exponent of overtly political pop songs.” His TV appearances included a chat show confrontation with an American 5-star general over the continued US occupation of Europe, where he demonstrated a formidable grasp of military and political history.
Watts split up Fischer-Z in summer 1981 and quickly released an isolated single Your Fault. He felt his art could not evolve within the context of the band. His first solo album, One More Twist was subsequently released in 1982. The single One Voice is a favourite with Watts’ early fans. He was beginning to demonstrate his determination to evolve as a creative artist committed to reinvention, a trait that he most admired about his teenage hero David Bowie.
The record company and music business establishment expected Watts to go back and make another Fischer-Z record and so his first solo album was treated as a side project. He responded in his characteristically enthusiastic way by recording the highly ambitious The Iceberg Model (1983). This project incorporated Dexy’s Midnight Runners’ Brass section, strings, improvisations and experimental techniques usually associated with modern classical music. Critically acclaimed, it remains “something of an undiscovered gem.”
Although the sales of his solo work were not so big, he continued to build his reputation as a most accomplished live performer and also as a songwriter with a genuinely individual ‘voice’. Early in 1983 Watts demonstrated an eager involvement with World music, by producing a mini album for Zulu artist Busi Mhlongo in Amsterdam.
Watts began his career in bands as a drummer. His “percussive energetic rhythm guitar playing” has always been a testament to this background. The Quick Quick Slow album (1984), which he released as The Cry, was the first album to place an emphasis on crucial groove elements combined with strong song writing. This ability has developed in Watts’ latest albums. ( QQS has since become Watts’ most sought after rare album.) His collaboration with now famous dance producer Jimmy Douglass on this project was a typically forward thinking eclectic gesture.
Until 1985 Watts had produced an album per year and toured and promoted incessantly. At this point in his career he was trying to resolve his role of constantly touring artist with that of father of 2 young children. Consequently he spent the next couple of years developing and recording new material with the multitalented Ian Porter and honing his now considerable performance art skills. He was also very deeply affected by the political events unfolding as Thatcher tried to beat down the trade unions in Britain. His Dark Crowds of Englishmen song, written at the time, is “one of the most evocative musical records of the miners’ strike.” Ironically, although regularly performed live by Watts, this fine piece of work is not included on any of his albums. During this period he simultaneously produced a critically acclaimed live performance album for the Zap Club in his hometown of Brighton.
Reveal, Watts’ seventh studio album, appeared early in 1988. This included his biggest single success to date, The Perfect Day. Fans found it difficult to differentiate between Watts’ identity and that of his band Fischer-Z. This was a new sound and totally different personnel. His reluctance to perform older classic material in its original arrangement and his total emphasis on new work has become his trademark. “My only obligation is to be good, not to play what the audience want.” The album represented a commercial highpoint, but coincided with a lengthy period of personal and family upheaval for Watts.
A second album in this series, Fish’s Head, arrived a year later (1989). This included the evocative Say No single, with a politically charged black & white Nick Brandt promo clip, which was banned by Watts’ own record label on the grounds of it potentially “endangering the lives of their employees worldwide”. Watts, not for the first time, fell foul of the politics of combining spontaneous art with major record company sensibilities. In this period Watts performed to 167,000 people at a Peace Festival in East Berlin (before ‘The Wall’ came down) along with James Brown. He was interviewed about Thatcherism on German national news.
After a change of record companies and a particularly productive period of song writing, Watts combined two different sets of recordings to produce the “dynamic and cinematic” Destination Paradise album (1992). The title track was a chart single and it once again demonstrated Watts’ acute observation of political events. Will You Be There? Was another chart single and was adopted by the fans as a firm live favourite. This album showed Watts’ class song writing with themes ranging from the Gulf War to quizzical Latin love songs. The release was followed by extensive touring, which helped to build a new generation of fans.
During this period Watts introduced a new element of performance art into the live shows. He was accompanied on tour by performance artists Ian and Angie Smith. It was also the same year that Watts confronted attitudes to fascist politicians Haider and Schoenhuber live on the nationwide Thomas Gottschalk chat show (audience 15 million) with ‘Say No to the Fascist Response’ T shirts protest and a white picnic.
Watts’ next project was the “definitely darker” Kamikaze Shirt album (1994), which dealt with the international ‘have nots’ of the world. The single Human Beings, was a harrowing indictment of the low value of human life in many parts of the world. Protection, the first single from his next album Stream (1995), also dealt with the dark area of child exploitation.
1997 saw the release of one of Watts’ strongest guitar albums.The extremely tight three-piece line up with Phil Spalding and Steve Kelner was the perfect foil for him on Thirteen Stories High (1997). It was described as “the best set of narrative songs that Watts has produced so far.” Many of these tunes, such as Angel of Gardenia, are still popular in contemporary live performances. Watts chose to tour the album solo. This radical approach led to a series of interesting new contacts and some work with Alex Gifford of the Propellerheads, which took his career in a much more radical direction.
Until then Watts had worked with a variety of musicians and band line-ups. Instruments had been arranged around his song structures. From this point in his career he was to turn this method on its head. Bigbeatpoetry (1999) and the Spiritual Headcase Remixes (2000) signalled a much more radical approach to making music. This, Watts’ thirteenth album, combined his poetry, prose and song lyrics with Ingo Worner’s DJ beats, audio collages and dance floor rhythms. The title track, Bigbeatpoetry, was a substantial ‘Beat’ style poem half-spoken over a simple hip-hop beat. “The cascading bigbeat single”, Walking the Doberman, has become something of a cult classic. This was a dramatic illustration of Watts’ ability to experiment with form. This album also represented the start of a new ‘multigenerational’ following. Watts’ work appeared in the student charts. He toured with Ingo Worner – just voice, guitar and decks on concert tours and big outdoor festivals.
Watts’ interest in combining grooves and literate songs continued into his next project, Ether Music & Film (2002). He also decided to add a filmic dimension. He wrote and recorded an album of songs, just guitar and voice, over cut-up beats as a rhythm track. He then travelled throughout Europe and post 9/11 New York City to ‘find’ musicians at random and record them on his laptop in their homes or even in the street. Sarah Vermeersch filmed the process and edited the footage into a road movie, which accompanies the album as a DVD.
His next album, Real Life Is Good Enough (2004), was a “wild beast” of a two-piece fifteen track album made with drummer and multi-musician Sam Walker, recorded spontaneously in a raw ‘back to basics’ fashion. This was organic multimedia in a different form, the CD accompanied by a 60-page book of related poetry and short stories. Singles Birthday and What a Time to Live were both complimented by stylish short films. Watts’ connection with the student population was strengthened as he began to combine student concerts and university lectures on a variety of subjects including ‘connections’ between politics and art.
It has to be (2006) was the album that followed as a sequel to Real life is Good Enough. Again, Watts travelled and explored, with the intention of collecting strangers’ ‘real life stories’, filmed by Sarah Vermeersch. In return for these filmed interviews he wrote twelve songs for twelve people in twelve different countries. Singles ‘Adrian’s song – Brothers and Premila’s Song – 60’s Life both received much media attention. | <urn:uuid:9b6217b4-9068-41ff-8713-4d7da6982875> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lyonpartners.nl/john-watts-boeken/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.974967 | 2,529 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Publish Date: March 28, 2017
Performance-based regulation (PBR) is a regulatory framework that attempts to align the behavior and financial interests of regulated utilities with public interest objectives and consumer benefits. It does so by rewarding utilities for achieving well-defined performance metrics (outputs), as opposed to providing incentives related primarily to capital investment (inputs).
This paper summarizes the collective thinking of an industry-based Working Group, facilitated by AEE Institute, that met over several months to develop recommendations regarding the potential for PBR in Pennsylvania.
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Somebody has hacked a hot tub.
I’m serious – this isn’t a joke or exaggeration. Security researchers successfully breached the backend network of a smart hot tub brand. By exploiting holes in commonly used software components, they gained admin status to the entire network, using their connected hot tub as the access point. Vice Motherboard has published a breakdown of the hack – it’s interesting reading.
But so what? So some hackers can meddle with hot tub settings – is it a big deal? Putting aside that access to a backend network is a serious concern, I can see where you are coming from: we have bigger fish to fry than hot tub security.
Or do we? Hot tubs join a growing list of items we don’t typically associate with digital. From hacked air conditioners to cars, such reports demonstrate digital’s reach into everyday life. In that sense, a hacked hot tub isn’t a novelty. It’s a demonstration of the risks created in a digital world.
Grasping at the significance of a hacked hot tub is an excellent allegory for what companies face. They use and invest in digital as a means to an end. They don’t have the time or motivation to explore the nuances of a digital world. But that approach creates significant risks.
Channel companies’ future value and success depend on how they help their customers make sense of those risks.
Risk can be negative or positive. It can lead to opportunities or challenges. What’s important is to grasp that digital transformation is creating many new risks, some that are exotic and might even seem ridiculous, such as hacking a hot tub. Hence, we often speak about building a relationship with customers, understanding their strategy and acting as an advisor around how technology and business combine.
Derisking digital is becoming a crucial topic. Research by McKinsey proves that risk management has not kept pace with digital projects and the rush to digitise during the pandemic compounded risks. Digital is creating more risks, and companies are discovering that it’s not easy to untangle those risks.
McKinsey relates a case study to that point: a bank realised its developers were using shortcuts that put sensitive information at risk. While resolving that issue, a problem emerged with their applications – it was severe enough that the bank nearly reversed most of its digital culture changes. Yet had they invested in sufficient monitoring of the applications, they could have avoided a cascade of issues.
The bank’s service providers could have helped avoid those issues by motivating monitoring, a straightforward best practice to reduce digital risk. They had a good vantage point to see the customer’s digital strategy and point out crucial blind spots. While the customers are in the thick of things, service providers can wade into the action and offer fresh perspectives.
Maybe they did – you can lead a customer to a solution, but you can’t make them adopt it. Still, my point is that we in the channel have an advantage and a value that our customers can rarely create alone. We know that the hot tub is vulnerable and how compromising it can impact our customers. They often don’t.
Channel companies aren’t immune to digital transformation. We must change how we operate to help our customers change. This change means more than adding new products and skills. It requires a new attitude. Successful channel companies need three ingredients: strategic wisdom, agility and partners.
Most of the above explain the wisdom: can you grasp your customer’s strategy and make wise recommendations to reduce digital risks? Agility is important: can you add and enhance solutions as your customers’ needs evolve? And partners underpin that agility: do you have access to a network of partners with alternative skills and products that you can use?
At Axiz, we’re hard at work maturing such a model. Our business has always been about supporting our channel partners and their customers. That picture is expanding to include cloud services, training, finance, and cultivating an active marketplace where our clients can combine their strengths. The more we enable our clients to supply strategic and digital risk wisdom to their customers, the more we will thrive.
And so will channel companies. You don’t have to replace what you do. Many channel business models are still sound and lucrative. But today’s businesses need more than hardware and software. They want to know how to identify and mitigate digital risks. Even if they don’t realise it, they want to understand why hacked hot tubs represent more than a funny headline. In a world where digital is everywhere, it’s the channel companies that can answer such questions that will add real value. | <urn:uuid:5dc32a36-55c4-45f3-9e4f-356d6784da9a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://customercontactnews.com/what-hot-tubs-tell-us-about-derisking-digital/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.952982 | 970 | 2.09375 | 2 |
A bantam-sized guidebook brimming with tips on how to search for unclaimed property that belongs to you.
More than $1 billion goes unclaimed each year because of lost or unknown life insurance policies. Meanwhile, $200 million is waiting to be claimed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. Does any of this cash belong to you? Pitman explains there are troves of money hiding in inactive bank accounts, unredeemed savings bonds, unpaid tax refunds and elsewhere, just waiting for the rightful owner to step forward. With the passion of a treasure hunter and tenacity of a journalist, Pitman has compiled a detailed, step-by-step guide to help the average person unearth their missing money from layers of government and corporate bureaucracy. The book reveals a dizzying number of places where money may linger in limbo, from stocks and charitable organizations to oil and mineral royalties. Even more valuable are the practical search techniques as tested by the cyber-sleuthing author. Besides showing where to look, Pitman demonstrates the dozens of ways a person or business name can be stored in a computerized database. Novices will benefit from veteran tips such as entering “Mr.” or “Mrs.” as a person’s last name may yield better search results. The book also lists obscure sources of money, such as the $70 million waiting in a Native American trust or the $2,000 life insurance benefit for eligible survivors of retired railroad employees who died between 1964 and 2001. Rounding out this helpful text is advice on dealing with professional “money finders” and a handy checklist for changing a name or address. Well-organized and written in everyday language, the book makes searching the jungle of public records seem less daunting. A few real-life case studies on the claiming process from start to finish would have bolstered the author’s meticulous research. Still, despite its scant 72 pages, the book is complete enough to equip anyone with the tools to start hunting.
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Author of the award winning book To Kill A Mockingbird, Nelle Harper Lee followed her dreams to write and create early on in her life. She drew inspiration for her writing from her life and particularly the members of her tribe. Childhood friend Truman Capote was a constant friend and confidant throughout the years to Lee, and served as the inspiration for Dill, Scout's childhood friend in To Kill A Mockingbird. Lee then served as character inspiration for Capote's novel Other Voices, Other Rooms. This mutual support helped both individuals produce incredible work and find success. On July 14, 2015, Harper Lee published her highly anticipated second novel, Go Set A Watchman.
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