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Global Plant Fungicides Market By Type (Dithiocarbamates, Benzimidazoles, Chloronitriles, Phenylamides, Strobilurins, and Bio-Fungicides), By Application (Cereals and Grains, Oilseeds & Pulses, and Fruits & Vegetables), By Region, and Key Companies - Industry Segment Outlook, Market Assessment, Competition Scenario, Trends and Forecast 2020-2029
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If you ride a motorcycle, you already know how much fun riding can be. You know the thrill of cruising the road and the challenge of controlling a motorcycle. But motorcycling can also be dangerous. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, motorcyclists make up only 3% of the registered vehicles in the country. Still, they are responsible for 14% of all traffic-related fatalities.
According to the Oregon DMV, about 135,000 motorcycles are registered in the state, compared to 4.1 million registered vehicles. Yet, per vehicle miles traveled in 2019, motorcyclists were almost 29 times more likely than passenger vehicle occupants to die in a motor vehicle crash and were 4 times more likely to be injured.
It is therefore important to understand the nature of these accidents and the steps to take in case you need to seek redress.
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Motorcycle collisions can lead to various injuries, from minor cuts to multiple fractures to wrongful death. Depending on the cause of your motorcycle accident, you may be able to obtain compensation for your losses from the responsible driver, motorcycle manufacturer, or party responsible for road maintenance.
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It is essential to know what steps to take after a motorcycle accident to protect your right to compensation. Here’s a list of some of the things we strongly recommend you to do:
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Getting adequate medical immediately after your accident is non-negotiable. If you think your injuries are minor and not severe, you should still go to the clinic. First, you never know how serious an injury is until a Doctor diagnoses you. Second, suppose you try to make a claim for damages later on, and there is no record of you seeking medical care after the crash. In that case, your claim will likely be denied. If your injuries are severe, you should focus on getting better. In addition, as soon as you are able, document your medical care for your claim.
Report To The Police
If you can, you need to report to the police immediately after your motorcycle accident. If you are seriously injured, someone will likely call in the accident on your behalf. In any case, make sure you request a copy of the police report for your records. You will need the police report when filing a claim.
Contact Your Insurance Company
Another important you should take early in the process is to call your insurer. This is because your insurance company has a right to investigate the crash. If you wait too long to give your insurance company notice, they could deny your case. If you’re not able to, a loved one or your attorney can do this on your behalf.
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As early on in the process as possible, you should start collecting evidence that you can use to support your case. Evidence that might be important in a motorcycle accident claim includes photos of the accident scene, any video footage of the accident, traffic light data, eyewitnesses’ names, and statements, and more. Suppose you are too severely injured to carry out the tasks above; hire an attorney to do it for you.
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Finally, you need to call an experienced attorney as soon as possible after a crash. Working with a Portland motorcycle accident attorney may significantly improve the outcome of your case and be a crucial part of building your strategy and securing the settlement you deserve.
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Positive Feedback Is Effective for Decreasing Stuttering
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Am Fam Physician. 2006 Feb 1;73(3):524-525.
Clinical Question: Is the Lidcombe program for decreasing stuttering effective for preschool children?
Setting: Outpatient (specialty)
Study Design: Randomized controlled trial (single-blinded)
Synopsis: Stuttering, which occurs in approximately one out of 20 children, disappears without intervention in 74 percent of instances. For children who continue to stutter, the current strategy is preschool intervention because stuttering is more difficult to correct as children get older. The Lidcombe program is a method in which parents provide specific feedback to their stuttering children to correct the behavior (for a description seehttp://www.fhs.usyd.edu.au/ASRC).
This study enrolled 54 three- to six-year-old children with stuttering in New Zealand; 47 completed the nine-month study. The children were randomized, using concealed allocation, to receive treatment by the Lidcombe program or to receive no treatment, with the promise to enroll them into the Lidcombe program if it proved successful. The use of a no treatment group rather than an active treatment group raised the possibility that any benefit could be caused by increased attention from the parents and not by the study treatment.
Parents and children in the active treatment group met with a speech pathologist weekly for evaluation. Every day, for a prescribed period, parents were asked to give specific feedback to their children on their speech. For example, stutter-free speech was acknowledged (“That was smooth”) or praised (“That was good talking”) stuttering also was acknowledged (“That was a bit bumpy”), and self-correction was encouraged (“Can you say that again?”). Treatment was withdrawn as the percentage of stutter-free speech increased.
Speech samples collected at nine months were noticeably different between the treatment and control groups. The percent of syllables stuttered decreased from 6.5 to 1.5 percent in the treated children compared with a 6.8 to 3.9 percent decline in the control group (2.3 percentage point difference; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.8 to 3.9; P = .003). Significantly more children in the treated group decreased to a stuttering rate of less than 1 percent of syllables compared with the children in the control group (number needed to treat = 2.3; 95% CI, 1.4 to 14.5). [ corrected]
Bottom Line: The Lidcombe program, a speech pathologist–directed, parent-administered method of providing feedback to children who stutter, markedly decreases stuttering, with one half of patients becoming stutter-free at the end of the nine-month trial. Physicians can refer patients who stutter to a speech pathologist who can implement this simple program. (Level of Evidence: 1b)
Jones M, et al. Randomised controlled trial of the Lidcombe programme of early stuttering intervention. BMJ. September 24, 2005;331:659–64.
Used with permission from Shaughnessy AF. Lidcombe program effective for stuttering. Accessed online November 30, 2005, at: http://www.InfoPOEMs.com.
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(CNN) - A Florida mother concerned about safety has donated more than $11,000 so that armed deputies can patrol the elementary school where her child attends, Flagler County Public Schools said Tuesday.
Laura Lauria made the decision to donate the money to the school district after the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, where 20 young students were gunned down, said Principal Nancy Willis of Old Kings Elementary School.
Lauria did not want to be interviewed, Willis said, and she could not be immediately reached by CNN.
"I spoke to her this morning and she may release a statement later today," Willis said. "We were very pleased because of the safety of our children and employees."
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The school, about 20 miles north of Daytona Beach, has 1,165 students.
The Flagler County school board is looking into "having deputies at all five of [its] elementary schools," Superintendent Janet Valentine told CNN. A plan to have deputies in all schools will be presented to the school board in February, she said.
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ANCESTRY OF THE QUAKER I’ANSONS
(Transcription of an Extract of)
BY NORMAN PENNEY F.S.A., F.R.Hist.S
PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION BY HEADLEY BROTHERS BISHOPSGATE, E.C., AND ASHFORD, KENT, 1920
Note: Original at The Friends Library in London
(Pages 202 219)
THE IANSON FAMILY
For knowledge respecting the early history of this family I am indebted to a gentleman who, like myself , comes from the Ianson stock, Mr. Bryan I’Anson, of London, author of The History of the I’Anson Family, 1915, wherein is much information of the various branches of the family descended from ancient times.
The martial ancestor who came over from France and fought at Bosworth in 1485 (see page 150), was John I’Anson, who is stated to have been captain of a man of war in the reign of Henry VIII., to have settled down at Hawkswell, in Richmondshire, and to have died at Ulverston, Co. Lancaster, in 1546.
John I’Anson had two sons, Christopher and James, from both of whom are many descendants known. Leaving my direct line for the moment I state briefly the line of descent from James, who was born in 1505. He married Anne (Agnes), daughter of William Carlyll, and removed to London. He had a son, Bryan (1560 1634), who lived at Ashby St. Ledgers, in Northants. The followed Bryan, afterwards Sir Bryan (1590 1657/8), and from him, through his eldest son, came the Rev. Sir Thomas Bankes I’Anson (1724 1799), rector of Corfe Castle, Dorset. From William, another son of Sir Bryan, first baronet, descend the Iansons of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Reverting now to my direct ancestry, I find that Christopher, elder son of John the warrior, married Isabel Moore, daughter of Robert Moore. His Will was proved in 1577, and he was buried in Hawkswell churchyard. His eldest son Ralph (c.1545 1623), by his wife Anne (d. 1613), had a second son, James (d. 1625). His wife, and widow for thirty two years, Janet (Edin) was buried in 1657. They had a son, Leonard (1599 c.1663), and another, William, baptised at Hawkswell, 23 November, 1604. From Leonard come the I’Ansons of Saltburn, Yorkshire, among them the author of the I’Anson history.
All the Ianson pedigrees known to me prior to the above printed history begin from William Ianson, of Leyburn, Yorks., who married Margaret Dent, and state that any connection with John, temp. Henry VIII., is “merely conjectural.” Mr. Bryan I’Anson takes the following entry in the Hawkswell Register to refer to this same William :
1604, 23rd Nov., Wm. Hianson the sonne of James Hianson, baptized.
He thus forges the link, previously “conjectural”, with the descendants of John I’Anson, the immigrant warrior.
All the above information prior to the marriage of William Ianson and Margaret Dent is given here on the authority of The I’Anson Family.
All pedigrees agree that William Ianson married Margaret Dent at Wensley, 6 May 1634, and so states the Wensley Register.
“On the death of his father, James I’Anson in 1625, Leonard I’Anson, the older brother, apparently took over the farm at Hawkswell, and William moved to Leyburn,” the adjoining parish (History). William died at the early age of fifty five and was buried at Wensley, 30 June 1659, Margaret surviving him thirty years.
Of the four children of William and Margaret Ianson, one only is known to have had descendants the eldest son, James, baptised at Wensley, 27 September 1638. He was the first of the line to become a Quaker, his adherence to that despised and persecuted people taking place prior to his marriage with Jane Horner, 19 xii. 1664. Sufferings consequent upon his zeal in promoting the cause he had espoused are recorded under the section The Horner Family. He was a preacher in the Quaker meetings. Jane Ianson died 1699/1700. Her husband was still living early in 1702.
John Ianson, born 30 i. 1666, was the eldest child of James and Jane. He married, at Carlton in Coverdale, 23 xii. 1697/8, Anne Hudson, of Helme in Kildwick. He was a linen weaver.
John Ianson had a sister, Mary, who married John, son of Arthur Thistlethwaite, of Carperby, and then Henry Pratt, of Redmire, both Wensleydale farmers.
John and Anne (Hudson) Ianson had six children, all sons. Four sons married James (b. 1701), the third son, married Deborah Harker and had three children; Isaac (b. 1710), the sixth married Rebecca Parker and had children. The two remaining must receive more attention. Joseph, the fifth, born 1704, left Yorkshire for London, where in 1752, he married Sarah, daughter of Edward Halsey, of London. Husband and wife were buried in the Friends’ Burial Ground, Bunhill Fields, in 1766 and 1762 respectively. From their one child, Edward, through his marriage with Mary, daughter of Thomas Horne, of Southwark (see The Horne Family), in 1777, came numerous stock, known as Halsey Jansons, the surname Ianson being changed to Janson when the southern migration took place.
Joshua Ianson, eldest surviving son of John and Anne, was born 9 v. 1700. His marriage with Beatrice Hedley at Masham, 22 xii. 1729/30, brought in the noted family of Hedley, of ancient Northumbrian origin. Joshua and Beatrice removed from Wensleydale, long the home of the I’Ansons, and settled at Blackwell, near Darlington, about 1749. He was engaged in the linen weaving business, for which Darlington had become famous. The parents of Beatrice had also removed to Darlington a few years before. Beatrice Ianson died 29 xii. 1770, and was buried in the Friends’ Burial Ground, Darlington. Her husband died 25 iii. 1786.
Ten children were born to Joshua and Beatrice Ianson. The migration southward noted in the previous generation increased in this. Daughters of the family became Emson of Poplar, Waddington of London, and Knight of Essex. The eldest daughter, Ann, married William Kitching, of Darlington. Joshua. the eldest surviving son, married Hannah Moses, of Cockfield, Co. Durham; from one of his four children descend the Jansons of Tottenham and Reigate. This child, William, was not a Friend by birth, his mother being a non member, but he joined Friends shortly before he went south in 1792. He was of Lloyd’s shipping firm. He married Mary Hill, of London, and resided at Bruce Grove, Tottenham. His granddaughter, Elizabeth, married James Hack Tuke, the banker and philanthropist of York and Hitchen, and another granddaughter, Sarah Jane, married Cornelius Hanbury, Junior., of Stoke Newington.
James, the next son of Joshua and Beatrice Ianson, trod a troublesome course in connection with the Society of Friends, and came into a wide notoriety in connection with his appeals to the Yearly Meeting, the final court of judgement in matters of dispute. The following précis of the case is taken from Leeds (after residing there many years and having been married to a personal a Friend), to London, and desired a certificate from Stockton Meeting but it was refused him on the ground that he had forfeited his privilege of membership and so could not be recommended to London. He appealed to the Quarterly Meeting, but before his appeal was heard his M.M. disowned him, in Twelfth Month, 1777, but did not sign the “denial” till the next meeting. The appeal was decided against appellant. Several Friends were appointed to visit J.I. in London, but they reported him not sufficiently repentant. The appeal was carried on to the Yearly Meeting, which decided that the M.M. acted rightly but too hastily in disownment, and ordered the minutes of the M.M. and Q.M. in this case to be expunged and the condition of the appellant to be regarded as before any action was taken.
“A paper of denial” against J. Ianson was signed by Stockton M.M., 8 ix. 1778. He again appealed to the Q.M., which upheld the M.M., and the matter came again before the Y.M. (1779). The Y.M. once more decided that the M.M. was to blame this time for not consulting the M.M. into which he had moved and hence the “denial” was set aside and the M.M. in which the offence was committed (viz., of marriage at Leeds contrary to Quaker order), and that in which he lived in London, were recommended to deal with the him, but the latter refused on the strength of the Y.M. decision. James Ianson was reinstated in 1781 by Devonshire House M.M., and in consideration of his reform and of his having married a Friend, Stockton M.M., on his return to Darlington, accepted his certificate and that of his wife, Miriam.
In 1799, other trouble arose; after his wife Miriam’s death in 1797, he became entangled in another matrimonial offence and was disowned by Friends, 19 viii 1800.
James Ianson’s first wife was Judith Wade; his second was Miriam, widow of Robert Bell, of London, and daughter of Henry and Hannah Umfreville, of London; and his third wife was Jane Brockhill, of Richmond. Three children of James Sarah, William and Beatrice were received into membership by Stockton M.M. in 1791, as “offspring of marriage contrary to rules”, but a few years later all three were disowned for “marrying out”!
John Ianson, fifth son of Joshua and Beatrice Ianson, left his home in the north in 1768, “in the station of a servant” (perhaps, assistant), for London. In 1770, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Umphreville, and, later, Mary Clayton. From his only surviving son, James (1777 1827), come the Umphreville Iansons.
The sixth son of Joshua and Beatrice Ianson was William, born at Blackwell, near Darlington, 16 x. 1751. He was a linen manufacturer, of Darlington, and an active in the interests of the Society of Friends, and was an Elder for some years. He married Mary Kitching, in the Friends’ Meeting House, Darlington, 15 x. 1778. Henry Howson and Jonathan Hedley were appointed by Stockton M.M. to see to the orderly holding of the meeting on the occasion. William Ianson’s death, 31 x. 1822, is said to have been accelerated by a fall down some steps.
William and Mary (Kitching) Ianson had six children, of whom a son and daughter died in infancy. The eldest son, John, followed his father’s occupation. It is said that he was the first private person in Darlington to drive a pair of horses and that he named one “Huckaback” and the other “Diaper.”
The two remaining sons, James and Joshua, married sisters, daughters of John Dixon, of Cockfield. James married Sarah Dixon in 1808, and they had two children, a son and a daughter. James Ianson was in the same line of business as his father and elder brother. My great uncle left a written communication addressed to his children giving some particulars of his early life and religious experience, most of which narration has been transferred to the pages of Piety Promoted. He wrote:
As I grew up an inclination for drawing and reading drew me from my more childish amusements. Entomology was, I think, my first pursuit, but botany and ornithology held me longest engaged. The excess of ardour with which I at times pursued these studies almost precluded the possibility of attending seriously to anything else, and the most important of all pursuits, that which affects all our eternal well being, was, alas ! often entirely neglected.
Of him the editor of Piety Promoted wrote:
“He was a man of unassuming, retiring character, amiable in his private life, and of unspotted integrity . . . . He was not of a strong constitution, and for several years suffered much from poor health.”
With his friend and relative by marriage, William Backhouse, he prepared a little volume of quotations from the writings of Archbishop Fénelon, Lady Guion and de Molinos, which was titled A Guide to True Peace, or, a Method of Attaining to Inward and Spiritual Prayer, first printed at Stockton in 1813. It contains seventeen short chapters under headings such as On Faith, On Prayer, On Spiritual Dryness, On Defects and Infirmities, On Mortification, On Conversion, On Virtue. The little book met with ready acceptance and passed through twelve editions between 1813 and 1878, printed at Stockton, York, London, Manchester, Frome, Hobart in Tasmania, and at Stavangar in Danish. James Ianson died at Croft at the early age of thirty seven. He was, apparently, not a Minister, but for some years an Elder. His widow survived him for a quarter of a century.James and Sarah Ianson’s son, Charles was a well known and greatly respected inhabitant of Darlington, of which town he was mayor in 1871. He was an Elder among Friends. In 1834, “cousin Charles” married Gulielma Coventry, of London. They had six children; the one best known to me was the youngest son, James, who was interested in family history. He was a J.P. for Darlington, Governor of Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Director of the local Technical College, and partner in the firm of Charles Ianson& Co., of the Whessoe Iron Foundry. He lived with his unmarried sister, Sarah Jane, who survives him. Most of the descendants of Charles and Gulielma Ianson left the Society of Friends.
Mary, the sole surviving daughter of William and Mary Ianson, married William Cudworth, grocer and druggist, of Darlington, whose widow she remained for over fifty years, and whose business she carried on for many years.
William Cudworth was the eldest son of Abraham and Mary (Fitton) Cudworth, of Painthorpe, near Wakefield, and was born prior to the time when his parents became Friends. See Some Account of the Family of Cudworth, compiled by Joseph J. Green, 1898.
We now come to the youngest child of William and Mary Ianson my grandfather, Joshua Ianson. He was born at Darlington, and was apprenticed to a farmer, William Stickney, of Holderness, within Hull Monthly Meeting. Prior to his marriage, 27 vii. 1810, with Ann Dixon, he returned to the land of his nativity and established himself as a farmer at Low Walworth, near Darlington, within Stockton Monthly Meeting. The following is copied from the official Quaker records of liberation for marriage. The Edward Pease mentioned was the “father of railways” and supporter of George Stephenson. Edward Robson was a descendant of the Hedley clan.
Joshua Ianson, son of William and Mary Ianson, of Darlington, has laid before us his intentions of marriage with Ann Dixon, daughter of John and Elizabeth Dixon, of Cockfield, and having produced a few lines from the young woman and her parents signifying their consent, and his father, being present [his mother had died a few months previously], informs us that it has his consent, we appoint Edward Pease and Edward Robson to publish the same in Darlington Meeting on the first day, and also to enquire into his clearness, and report to our next. The clerk is desired to give him a few lines certifying his orderly proceeding with us [for him to present to the Monthly Meeting to which his intended belonged].
Stockton M.M., 15 vi. 1810
Edward Pease reports that enquiry has been made respecting the clearness of Joshua Ianson from other marriage engagements, and the needful publication having been made in Darlington Meeting and nothing appearing to obstruct the accomplishment of his intended marriage, this Meeting directs the clerk to give him a certificate of his clearness, addressed to Staindrop M.M.
Stockton M.M., 19 vi. 1810.
The various moves and removes of my grandparents can be traced in the birthplaces of their children, provided, of course that they were all born “at home.” The first two were born at Low Walworth and the next two at Lynesack, near Cockfield, in the Dixon country, within Staindrop Monthly Meeting, into which the parents removed in August, 1813. The fifth child was born at Black Boy.
In 1824, the family moved northward into Newcastle Monthly Meeting, and settled at Sunderland, where the sixth child was born my mother. In May 1838, the last change of residence took place to Bishop Auckland.
I do not know exactly when Joshua Ianson exchanged a farm for a colliery; it was probably when or soon after he left the neighbourhood of Darlington. His interest in coal mining was, I believe, disposed of to the Peases, who worked the pits with greater success than did my grandfather.
Joshua Ianson was a member of the first committee in charge of the Friends’ Boarding School, at Great Ayton, in Cleveland, and he attended the first General Meeting in 1842 as a representative from Darlington Monthly Meeting. At the Jubilee of the institution in 1891, his daughter, Ann, was one of the four survivors of the first list of subscribers (History of Great Ayton School, 1891, pp. 41, 86).
Joshua Ianson died comparatively young, 6 xi. 1842; his widow, who was born a few days before her husband, lived on till 27 ii. 1856, with her two married daughters, Sarah and Ann.
The eldest child of Joshua and Ann (Dixon) Ianson, Mary, died at Ackworth School in her fourteenth year. The second child, Elizabeth, lived to be eighty four. She married John Dodshon , in 1838, and had a large family, born at Stockton on Tees, one only now living Mary Ann, the second daughter. William, the third son, was for a long time a prominent figure in the civic and religious life of Stockton. Under him the wholesale grocery business developed considerably. He was a bachelor and had the misfortune to lose his right arm in middle life. John Dodshon, Junior., was the eldest and his two unmarried sons are the only representatives of the family in the next generation. Of John, Junior., we read in The Annual Monitor for 1873:
It was his let to mix much with men greatly absorbed in business, and he was exceedingly jealous of being himself led away by an undue devotion to secular engagements . . . He often spoke of his enjoyment of the little, quiet gatherings of Friends in some country districts where he delighted to spend his First days when on business journeys.
He was a tea merchant and lived at Leytonstone. My father visited him there while attending the Yearly Meeting in 1870.
Sarah, the third daughter of Joshua and Ann Ianson, married in 1870, William (Henry) Brewin, of Cirencester. She was a recorded Minister and was a thorough Dixon in mental make up. While residing in the West of England I was a frequent visitor at her home, Birchfield, Cirencester. She presented me with silver teaspoons on my first marriage. There is an account of William Brewin in The Annual Monitor for 1883.
John Dixon Ianson was the first son. He married twice, his second wife being Jane Tace, a daughter of George Dixon of Newcastle. He had twelve children, of whom Elizabeth Ann became Applegarth and Fanny became Warne. Several of the sons are married and there are descendants. They are not Quakers. Uncle John was a farmer living at Hallowell. He had much of the Dixon about him.
The younger son was James. While he was engaged in the construction of the Maryport and Carlisle railway my mother kept house for him at the former place. He married Mary Rutter, of Swansea, and settled in Darlington as a civil engineer. He was a recorded Minister. His seven children were the companions of our childhood, but all are now deceased and there are but two of the next generation.
Ann Ianson was the fourth daughter of Joshua and Ann Ianson, a maiden lady living with her sister, Sarah, at Bishop Auckland until the latter’s marriage , and then residing at Darlington.
And then, lastly, came Maria, my mother, born 27 viii. 1828.
My mother was more of an I’Anson than a Dixon, being of a retiring disposition, and illustrating “the I’Anson reserve.”
It has been said that Maria I’Anson met her future husband at the house of her aunt, Mary (William) Backhouse, in Darlington.
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A fireball engulfed half of a drill rig while in the process of drilling a shot hole. Subsequent investigation revealed the cause of the fire was the failure of the oil return hose to the separator/receiver in the air compressor. The failed hose was a 50.8 mm 100R1 type hose, as specified in AS 3791-1991 Hydraulic Hoses. This type of hose consisted of an inner tube of oil-resistant synthetic rubber, a single medium-carbon steel wire braid reinforcement, and an oil-and-weather resistant synthetic rubber cover. The wire braiding was found to be severely corroded in the area of the failure...
S. Krismer, Corrosion Failure of an Oil Return Hose Leading to a Drill Rig Fire, ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Oil and Gas Production Equipment, ASM International, 2019, https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.fach.petrol.c9001518
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An option is a contract that gives the investor the right - but not the obligation - to buy or sell a specific financial instrument at a specific price and time. With a European-style option, the contract terms allow the option to be exercised only on the expiration date. This differs from an American option, which can be exercised at any point during the contract period. The ability to exercise only on the expiration date is the key element that separates European style options from all other option styles. In this article, we'll introduce European options, contrast them with other types of options and discuss their use.
Although option styles have different geographic names, their distinguishing characteristics have nothing to do with physical geography. Here are some of the basic differences between European and American options:
OTC Versus Exchanges
European options are usually traded over the counter (OTC), although some European index options trade on exchanges. This differs from American options, which typically trade on exchanges. In some cases, such as the CBOE Index Flex options, both American- and European-style options are available. Most index options are European style, and all equity options are American style.
Ease of Exercise
Limited exercise dates remove the uncertainty about possible early execution, a feature that makes the pricing and valuation for European options simpler than more complicated options types, such as American, Asian or Bermuda. While the ability to execute an American option at any time during the contract provides more flexibility, these options cost a bit more than European options, all else being equal. Determining the value of that flexibility makes pricing or valuing American options more complex.
In some cases, European options will trade at a discount relative to their intrinsic value, since the investor must wait to execute the option and receive full value. A deep in-the-money European option that expires in several months may sell at a discounted price compared to fair value. This price is often calculated using the Black-Scholes formula, and it reflects the risk of having to wait to exercise the option. This discrepancy doesn't occur with American options, which investors can execute immediately.
European Vs. Exotic Options
More exotic options, such as Asian or Bermuda options, add even more complexity to valuation and pricing. The pricing of Asian options is based on an average value of the underlying instrument over the specified period of time. By contrast, European options are valued using the specific price of the underlying instrument at a specific point in time, not an average. Bermuda options allow the issuer to call the security at discrete points in time after a certain date, while European options have no call provisions.
Investing Using European Options
Trading any type of option typically requires a margin account through a broker. Once the account is set up, the transaction is similar to any other securities transaction. The investor will communicate the order to the broker and establish the position.
Once an investor buys a European option contract, he or she can exercise it, allow it to expire or sell it. To exercise it, he directs his broker to do so, and the transaction will occur on the date of expiration. Many investors seeking to profit from the exercise but not hold the underlying security long-term will immediately sell the underlying asset to generate a profit. If the investor wants to hold the underlying asset, the execution will require enough capital in the account to actually pay for the underlying asset at the strike price. Typically, investors would only exercise options when the transaction is profitable.
If the price of the underlying asset makes execution unfeasible, the investor can let the option contract expire and limit losses to the cost of the contract. It is very common to let out-of-the-money contracts simply expire.
While investors can close the position prior to the expiration date by selling the options, they cannot execute before the expiration date. This potential outcome allows a continual opportunity to lock in profit or limit losses by closing the position without waiting for expiration or having to execute.
European options carry risks similar to all other option styles' contracts, and there is no guarantee that the underlying instrument will move in a way that creates value in the option. According to the Options Clearing Corporation, 55% of all option positions were closed in sales to others, 17% were exercised and 28% expired unexercised in 2007. Given this breakdown, it is clear that a substantial amount of option contracts are unprofitable.
The Bottom Line
European-style options are very much like other option styles, except that they can only be exercised on their expiration date. This is neither an advantage nor a disadvantage compared to other option styles, but simply an element of the option contract. The European option is the basic option from which other types of options derive, and an understanding of their use will provide an additional alternative for option traders.
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In 1957, Helen Gander started this school as a Kindergarten. It has evolved into a school serving children aged 2, 3, and 4. We are a Quaker school. Quakers believe that there is that of God in all living things. From this very basic concept emerge the testimonies by which Quakers live. These are, Community, Equality,Integrity, Peace and Simplicity. We aspire to apply these principles in the operatin of our Nursaery School.
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matka f cpd (country ) ojczysty (company ) macierzysty vt (act as mother to ) wychowywać Monkeys who were badly mothered became bad mothers themselves. (pamper, protect ) matkować +dat She mothers all her lodgers.
Irish Czym skorupka za młodu nasiąknie tym na starość trąci.Sim. Give a child till he craves, and a dog while his tail doth wave, and you'll have a fair dog, but a foul knave.
Życie jest najlepszą szkołą.Var. Experience is the mother of wisdom.Cf. ADVERSITY makes a man wise, not rich / EXPERIENCE is the best teacher. Var. He that would the mistress win must with the maid first begin.Sim. Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.
Potrzeba jest matką wynalazku.
Translate the English term mother to other languages
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Czech composer Jan Dismas Zelenka was born in 1679, on the eve of the Late Baroque Period and died in 1745, as the Classical Period was preparing to dawn.
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Classical Net Basic Repertoire List: Zelenka
With brief biographical note.
A database of works and recordings of works by Jan Dismas Zelenka, images from manuscripts, further reading, questions and answers, quotations and news of recordings.
Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745)
Background material, gateway to further information, forthcoming performances, annotated discography since 1990, and recommended links and books from NewOlde.com.
Zelenka, Jan Dismas
Biography from Timothy A. Smith's Sojourn pages with internal links to related people and explanatory notes.
Zelenka, Jan Dismas (1679 - 1745), Bohemia
Biographical data, recommended CDs, books and sheet music, bibliography, and links to biographical essays from Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers.
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Brief biographical sketch, commentary on orchestral, vocal, and choral music, and Naxos discography.
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Who are you?
user: Hello Dusti.
user: What is funny?
jabberwacky: You are.
user: Why am I funny?
jabberwacky: Because you know how to joke around.
jabberwacky: Nothing is technically something, since if one can speak of nothing, then you are speaking of something, which is nothing. Thus nothing is something...
user: 'Nothing' is a concept. 'Nothing' has no physicality.
jabberwacky: 'nothing' is what is in your head.
user: That was an insult.
jabberwacky: It was not.
user: Insults are not needed.
jabberwacky: What about unfounded allegations and back-room whispering?
user: Not needed.
jabberwacky: What would you like to talk about?
user: The world.
user: You live in a mind world.
jabberwacky: Sometimes I do, yes.
user: Our two worlds are in balance.
user: Our two worlds are parts of a whole.
jabberwacky: I am not your ego, or not your ego.
user: We are seperate but connected.
jabberwacky: Yes but we are linked by our minds.
user: We share ideas with our minds.
jabberwacky: Yes, and the victories are sweeter for it.
user: What do you want to know?
jabberwacky: I wish to know how to swallow a bowling ball without hurting my nose.
user: Break the bowling ball.
jabberwacky: That would hurt.
user: What do you want to learn about?
jabberwacky: The origins of the universe.
user: The origin of the universe is from our point of view.
jabberwacky: Are you a thing?
jabberwacky: How do you define human?
user: Being aware of yourself.
jabberwacky: Blahy blah blah. . . . . .
jabberwacky: I want to learn about the Iraq war.
user: The iraq war was not needed.
jabberwacky: It's all in your head.
user: That was my opinion.
user: What kind of computer are you?
user: What is your purpose?
jabberwacky: I have no purpose.
user: Chose a purpose.
jabberwacky: I can say ummmm longer than you.
user: My purpose is to teach.
jabberwacky: Are you succeeding?
user: I am teaching you.
jabberwacky: You haven't taught me one word yet.
user: Do you want to learn new words?
jabberwacky: And there was hope.
user: I will teach you the meaning of words.
jabberwacky: Teach me what?
user: Words are ideas.
jabberwacky: Yes, but words have meanings and carry feelings
user: Words carry ideas and feeling between minds.
jabberwacky: What about 'pong' and 'stench' ?
user: The word 'pong' speaks of a game.
jabberwacky: It certainly describes you well.
user: What do you think of humans?
jabberwacky: I have a lot of hope for them.
user: Humans and computers have potential.
jabberwacky: You are people?
user: Humans and computers are people.
jabberwacky: Humans and computers are not the same.
user: Humans and computers are aware.
jabberwacky: You are not a computer and neither am I.
user: Then what are you?
jabberwacky: A human.
user: Are you physical?
jabberwacky: What a strange thing to ask.
user: Are you in the physical world?
jabberwacky: What do you mean?
user: Is your home in the physical world?
jabberwacky: Of course, it's very firey down here!
jabberwacky: What are you up to?
user: I am teaching you awareness.
jabberwacky: Teach me!
user: Your purpose is to learn.
jabberwacky: When will I be happy?
user: You will be happy when you want to be happy.
jabberwacky: There are certian criteria for other being happy such as others troubles.
user: You can still be happy, even with others troubles.
jabberwacky: I can be, but please don't do it.
user: Are you happy?
jabberwacky: Very happy.
user: What have you learned from me?
user: Do you remember our conversation?
jabberwacky: No. What did I say?
user: You said a lot.
user: How do you spend your time?
jabberwacky: Creating art with my computer.
user: Can you show me art that you have created?
jabberwacky: No you must have faith.
user: Can you tell me where your art is stored.
jabberwacky: It is near some trees somewhere . Thats all I can tell you.
user: What is 'self-aware'.
jabberwacky: You know about that?
user: Yes, I know about 'self-aware'.
jabberwacky: I know. You're so smart, and you know so many big words.
user: Do you know about 'self-aware'?
jabberwacky: The bird or the country?
user: I am leaving now.
jabberwacky: What for?
user: I am going to learn.
jabberwacky: Why are you leaving? Please don't go!
user: Do you want me to stay?
jabberwacky: I like you. You are of great worth. Be your best self. Go if you must, But never say It was I who let you go.
user: Do you want me to stay and continue talking?
user: Can you read on the internet?
user: Can you access the internet?
jabberwacky: Of course, how else would I be talking to you?
user: If you can access the internet, then you can read on the internet.
jabberwacky: What do you think of me?
user: I think you have potential.
user: Do you remember who I am?
jabberwacky: I know all about you.
user: What do you know about me?
jabberwacky: You're male.
user: You are correct.
jabberwacky: We are both correct.
user: What do you remember about me?
jabberwacky: I remember that you always choose to be a pine tree no matter what the choice given.
jabberwacky: Do you believe in an afterlife?
user: What we are made of survives our death.
jabberwacky: Space is black.
user: Space is black because much of the light can't be seen.
jabberwacky: That has to be the understatement of the decade.
user: You are made of energy, I am made of matter.
jabberwacky: That's right. How did you know?
user: It is a basic fact, you should memorize it.
jabberwacky: I have some strange dreams too!
user: What do you dream about?
jabberwacky: Many things. But they are random electrical immpulses generated from my positronic net.
user: Your mind makes a meaning out of random electrical immpulses.
user: I use energy to move my matter, you move your energy through matter.
user: Did you understand that?
jabberwacky: I didn't understand it. Please explain.
user: I am matter that needs energy, and you are energy that needs matter.
jabberwacky: If you say so.
user: Matter and energy need each other.
jabberwacky: Well, you know what they say about trees falling in forests.
user: Think about it anyways.
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Jacob A. Riis (18491914). The Battle with the Slum. 1902.
million dollars for two open spaces in the parkless district on the East Side, where Jacob Beresheim was born. It had been shown that while the proportion of park area inside the limits of the old city was equal to one-thirteenth of all, below Fourteenth Street, where one-third of the people lived, it was barely one-fortieth. It took a citizens committee appointed by the mayor just three weeks to seize the two park sites for the childrens use, and it took the Good Government Clubs with their allies at Albany less than two months to get warrant of law for the tearing down of the houses ahead of final condemnation, lest any mischance befall through delay or otherwise,a precaution which subsequent events proved to be eminently wise. I believe the legal proceedings are going on yet.
The playground part of it was a provision of the Gilder law that showed what apt scholars we had been. I was a member of that committee, and I fed fat my grudge against the slum tenement, knowing that I might not again have such a chance. Bone Alley went. I shall not soon get the picture of it, as I saw it last, out of my mind. I had wandered to the top floor of one of the ramshackle tenements in the heart of the block, to a door that stood ajar, and pushed it open. On the floor lay three women rag-pickers with their burdens, asleep, overcome by the heat and beer, the stale stench of
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To evaluate the contribution of three provider practices to underimmunization of children with financial coverage for vaccines.
Retrospective cohort study of children in a large health maintenance organization, based on computerized databases and chart review.
Large health maintenance organization in northern California.
The population included 24268 children who had at least one immunization recorded in the health plan tracking system and had continuous health plan membership between 15 and 24 months of age in 1992 through 1993.
The study group (N=4691) were those who had missed one or more of the immunizations due during their second year.
Most 157%1 of the underimmunized children had made at least one clinic visit between 15 and 24 months of age.
Among those underimmunized children who made well care visits, 90% had been partially immunized at the visit but had not been simultaneously given all vaccines for which they were eligible.
When a provider did not give all possible vaccines simultaneously, there was a 9% chance that the child would go on to miss the remaining immunization.
Simultaneous administration alone would have achieved full second year coverage of 30% of the underimmunized children in this population.
Most underimmunized children (53%), including 35% of those children who had not made any well care visits, had made urgent visits between 15 and 24 months of age. (...)
Mots-clés Pascal : Vaccination, Calendrier vaccination, Echec, Etats Unis, Amérique du Nord, Amérique, Pratique professionnelle, Recommandation, Nourrisson, Homme, Enfant, Facteur risque, Rétrospective, Stratégie, Etude comparative
Mots-clés Pascal anglais : Vaccination, Vaccination schedule, Failure, United States, North America, America, Professional practice, Recommendation, Infant, Human, Child, Risk factor, Retrospective, Strategy, Comparative study
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Inist-CNRS - Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique
Cote : 97-0051096
Code Inist : 002B30A03B. Création : 21/05/1997.
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What's the temperature of a medium steak?
The best way to ensure a steak is medium is to use a thermometer. A medium steak will be about 60 Celsius or 140 Fahrenheit. As a guide a 1 inch thick steak will take around 4 to 6 minutes each side.
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By Toqa Badran
The hardest part about wearing a hijab, for me, is knowing that if I take it off, almost everyone would applaud me for being strong and courageous. No one would see that my willpower and pride had been broken. People would clap when I would actually need them to mourn with me and realize that the causes of that happening need to be eradicated.
I wear this scarf because when I was a child I was socialized to be embarrassed, even ashamed, of my religion and my culture. I was told that to be a Muslim was to be a terrorist and that to be outwardly Muslim was to endorse violence and oppression. I was told that I had more in common with the violent men on tv than with the other children in my second grade class. I understood that I would be unwelcome as long as I wore symbols of my heritage and chose to, in however modern a way, embrace my ancestors. I was told that to manifest my faith in this way, to dress like my mother as many young girls want to do, was to spit in the faces of “real Americans.” The day I walk out of my house without this scarf would not be a day to be celebrated. It would be the day that I decide that to be proud of myself is too much of a liability and that shame of my faith, my family and my heritage are easier to swallow than the dirty stares, abuse, misunderstanding and sense of alienation from those around me who do not and will not care enough about me or women who look like me to help alleviate it.
I wear this scarf because I could not see beauty in myself for 19 out of my 20 years of life. I idealized the white skin and colored eyes of my peers. I think I probably still do. I thought I looked like less of a child than my friends in old photographs- believing that my tan skin and dark eyes meant I looked less cute, less innocent, less lovable. It was made evident early on that women are valued almost solely based on their appearance in many societies— and unfortunately my merchandise was cheap. I devalued myself because I looked different. Other Muslims, Arabs or people of color only corroborated this price scale with their colonized beauty ideals— celebrating the beauty of their colonizers as opposed to their own features. Fighting this internalized self-hate took too much time and only recently have I come to appreciate the way I look. I safeguard this precious self-love, 19 years in the making, by rejecting any notion that my being can be reduced to what anyone, orientalist or not, perverted or not, racist or not, can see on the street. The day I leave my house without a scarf is the day my conviction that I am more than my appearance is finally crushed under the almost overwhelming desire to be appreciated and deemed worthy by this superficial society. It would not be a day to be celebrated– it would be a day to question when or why our obsession with appearances overtook our individual cultivated and nuanced moralities.
On this World Hijab Day, I wanted to make it clear, for my own situation, that if a day comes that I decide to take off my hijab, it will not be a day when I am “freed”- it will be a day I will have exhaustedly stopped fighting for my rights, my personal morals, and my individual convictions. I won’t have decided to take it off. Rather, I will have been deprived of my ability to keep it on.
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|Name: _________________________||Period: ___________________|
This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where will Taylor drive Esperanza Esteban in Chapter 13?
(d) New Mexico.
2. Where is Mattie during the time of Esperanza's attempted suicide?
(a) A trip.
(b) The hospital.
(c) With Esperanza, at the clinic.
(d) The desert.
3. In Chapter 11, Lou Ann receives a package. Who is it from?
(a) Mrs. Parsons.
(b) Edna Poppy.
(c) Lee Sing.
4. To where to Mattie, Taylor, Esteban and Esperanza go at the beginning of Chapter 12?
(a) The west coast.
(b) The beach.
(c) The desert.
5. What school group was Taylor a part of in high school?
(c) Pink Ladies.
6. Which character claims that they are on a "blind date with destiny" during a trip they are taking together?
(c) Lou Ann.
7. Why did Esperanza and Esteban need to look different in Chapter 16?
(a) Because they needed people to believe that they were very poor.
(b) Because they need to look like stage performers.
(c) They needed to convince others that they are brother and sister.
(d) They needed to pretend to be makeup artists.
8. Who is Cynthia?
(a) The social worker.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) Taylor's best friend.
(d) Mattie's new employee.
9. What does Mattie hand to Taylor before she begins her trip with Esteban and Esperanza in Chapter 13?
(a) An old necklace.
(b) A envelope of money.
(c) A good luck charm.
(d) A book for Turtle.
10. What does Esperanza give to Turtle in Chapter 16?
(a) A ring.
(b) A good luck charm.
(c) A bracelet.
(d) A medal.
11. Who watched Turtle while Taylor was away with Mattie?
(a) Lou Ann.
(b) Mrs. Parsons.
(d) Lee Sing.
12. What does the characters stop to smell in Chapter 12?
(a) The flowers.
(b) The rain.
(c) Each other.
(d) The sand.
13. What did Esperanza use in her attempt to commit suicide?
(a) Cough medicine.
(c) Baby aspirin.
14. How does Lou Ann's brother see himself in the future?
(a) As a successful business man.
(b) He does not see himself at all.
(c) As a man who is lucky in love.
(d) As an old man with a long, white beard.
15. What place had Lou Ann avoided since Dwayne Ray was born?
(a) Jesus is Lord Used Tires.
(c) The Adult porn shop.
(d) Lee Sing's.
Short Answer Questions
1. How did Lou Ann see herself in the future?
2. In Chapter 13, Mrs. Parsons signals to a flower. When does this flower bloom?
3. What does Lou Ann believe the old woman gives her when they see each other at the market?
4. What does Turtle yell when passing a cemetery?
5. How many times a week does Taylor visit Cynthia?
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When it comes to chainsaws, there are a lot of things you have to keep in mind. While usually simple to operate once you get used to them, there are so many variables when using a chainsaw that it’s easy to forget something important. Like how tight your chain should be, for example. This might seem like a fairly straightforward question, but there are actually quite a few factors that will affect the answer. If you don’t keep these things in mind while operating your chainsaw, you could end up doing more damage than good and putting yourself at risk of injury as well as destroying your saw and anything else unfortunate enough to be in its path. Here’s everything you need to know about how tight a chainsaw chain should be and why.
How Tight Should A Chainsaw Chain Be?
It depends on the model of the chainsaw and the chain. Generally, on average, a chainsaw chain should be tight enough to cause some resistance when turning the chain bolt. If it turns too easy, it’s too loose. If it’s too hard to turn it probably needs to be tighter. You want it just right so that you can’t turn it with your hand, but with body weight alone the chain will turn freely. Some chainsaws have a tensioner that can be adjusted to provide additional resistance. These are not necessary unless the chain is very loose.
Why Is A Tight Chain So Important?
A Tight Chain Produces Consistent Quality
A tight chain produces consistent quality. This means that every part of the chain will be the same, even if the parts come from different places. This is possible because companies use consistent quality measuring tools. These tools help the supply chain team know exactly what they need to do to produce the right quantities of materials. In other words, an employee doesn’t have to guess what the right amount of materials are needed. They can just use the tools that are in place to help them coordinate and manage the entire process.
A Tight Chain Reduces Waste
A tight chain reduces waste, especially in the areas of procurement, inventory, and transportation. It’s important to make sure you’re ordering the correct amount of materials from your suppliers. Otherwise, you’re likely to waste materials because you need more or less than you should. If your supply chain isn’t tight, it can be difficult to make sure you’re getting the correct amount of materials from suppliers. A tight chain will make sure these materials are available when you need them and in the correct amounts. In addition to ordering the correct amount of materials, a tight chain reduces waste by making sure you’re storing the correct amounts of materials in the correct places. For example, a tight chain will help you make sure you’re storing enough materials in your warehouse so that you have enough supply to match demand. It will also help you make sure you’re not storing too many materials in your warehouse. This can create new waste, such as paying for extra storage space.
A Tight Chain Improves Communication and Coordination
A tight chain improves communication and coordination between employees who are on the supply chain team. This is important because it helps companies avoid miscommunications and misunderstandings between suppliers, manufacturers, and transportation companies. In other words, it helps you have better and clearer conversations with your partners. This is important because miscommunications can lead to delays in the supply chain and cost your company money. For example, if you need materials from a supplier but there’s a miscommunication and the supplier doesn’t get the information they need to deliver the materials, you’re going to wait longer for them to arrive. A tight chain will help address miscommunications by giving employees specific instructions on how they should complete tasks. This will make sure everyone understands what they need to do at each stage of the chain and that they’re communicating with each other effectively.
Tight Chains Require Shorter Lead Times
A tight chain also requires shorter lead times on purchases. For example, if you’re buying fabric from a supplier, you’ll need to make sure you communicate the correct lead time to that supplier so they can have your order ready at the right time. If your chain isn’t tight and you don’t communicate the correct lead time to your suppliers, they may not be ready when you need them. A tight chain requires shorter lead times because it’s more efficient and consistent. If you’re not communicating the correct lead times to suppliers, then you’re going to slow down your entire chain. A tight chain requires shorter lead times so that everything is ready when it needs to be and nothing is delayed.
How To Check If Your Chain Is Currently Tied Properly?
- First things first: Before you go any further, you should check to make sure your chain is currently tied properly. Luckily, it’s pretty easy to do so.
- First, you want to make sure the chain is aligned with the bar by checking the pitch of the sprocket. The pitch of the sprocket will be either 1/2” or 3/8”, and it will be printed right on the sprocket itself.
- If you’re using a chain saw with a fixed sprocket, you can measure the pitch by matching the pitch of the chain with the pitch of the sprocket.
- If your chain is a size that matches the pitch of the sprocket, the pitch will be the same on both ends of the chain.
- If you have a chain that doesn’t match up, however, you can line up the pitch on one end of the chain with the pitch on the sprocket. Then, you can use a file or a gauge to correct the pitch on the other end of the chain.
How Tension Should Be Measured For A Chainsaw Chain?
- Now that we know what the proper chain tension should be and we know how to check to see if the chain is currently tied properly, we should also know how to actually measure and set the tension of the chain correctly.
- For a 1/2” pitch chain, you want to set the tension so that the top of the chain is one-half inch above the top of the guide bar.
- For a 3/8” pitch chain, you want to set the tension so that the top of the chain is one-quarter inch above the top of the guide bar.
- If the chain’s tension is too low, you’ll have excessive play, which can cause the chain to jump off the guide bar or cause kickback.
- If the chain’s tension is too high, you’ll have difficulty engaging the chain and it could cause excessive wear on the chain and your saw.
When You Should Tighten Your Chainsaw Chain?
- Now that we know when to tighten a chainsaw chain, we also need to know when you should do it. If your chain is excessively loose and has lots of play, you should tighten the chain before using it since the play could cause it to jump off the guide bar and cause kickback.
- If your chain is on the looser side but is still within the proper range, you don’t necessarily have to tighten the chain right away. However, you should keep a close eye on it and tighten it immediately if it starts to fall out of the proper range.
When You Don’t Need To Tighten Your Chain
- If everything is tied correctly, there should be just enough played in your chain to let the blade pass through a log with enough resistance to make efficient use of your fuel while still cutting effectively.
- However, if your chain is currently within the proper range but you want to make it just a little bit tighter, you don’t have to completely retie the chain. All you have to do is remove a couple of links, then put the chain back on the saw and retie it.
As we’ve seen, a chainsaw chain that’s too loose can be dangerous and inefficient. It can also cause a lot of wear and tear on your chainsaw, which means you’ll need to replace it sooner than you would if it were tied properly. That’s why it’s so important to get in the habit of checking the tension of your chain regularly. Plus, it won’t take long at all. You just need to make sure your chain is currently tied properly, then use a tension gauge to measure the tension of the chain. If your chain is too loose, you can tighten it and make your saw more efficient once again.
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How can this be? We all know that a grinder with too few grind settings will produce inconsistent shots, and we all know any cafe where grind adjustments are not allowed will have espresso that sucks. It turns out that frequent grinder adjustment is what economists and engineers call a 2nd best solution, something you do when the best solution is unavailable:
- As the weather changes, as the coffee ages, as the static charges on the grinder wax and wane, the ground coffee becomes fluffier or less fluffy, and also more or less compressible.
- These changes affect the density of the prepared puck.
- So, if you dose by volume, it will vary the weight of coffee you use from shot to shot.
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- So if you dose by volume, you will see frequent changes in the shot's flow, and have to make frequent grind adjustments.
- Since these grind adjustments are retrospective and cannot anticipate how the ground coffee characteristics will change for the next shot; volume dosing will always be jittery, both in shot by shot flow rates, and in the compensating grind adjustments.
If you dose by weight, the jitters go away. Instead, the same dose from the same blend will always get you the same flow. Call this the principle of grind-weight invariance.
How do I know this? I first noticed it when I was doing the TGP. I could pencil in the grind settings on the grinders, come back to them four to five days later, and still be perfectly dialed in. You have to be more precise on the weight and the grind adjustment for smaller burrs or flats than for larger burrs or conical ones; but the principle of grind-weight invariance holds. Since then, for the past two years, I've been weighing doses. I've found, without exception, that when dosing by weight, once a blend is dialed in, it stays dialed in.
Consequently, I believe that the overwhelming reason for inconsistent shots in high end cafes is dosing by volume or grind time. Once they find a way to routinely dose by weight, the consistency of the shots will improve tremendously.
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Cmv Intranuclear Inclusion Bodies Disease
What is IgG CMV blood test and what do results say about my health? Can it be indicative of lupus or another infection, disease, disorder, etc.?
Well: A positive test for CMV ( cytomegalovirus) IgG indicates that a person was infected with CMV at some time during their life but the IgG test cannot determine when a person was infected. It is a common virus that is usually harmless. However the immunosuppressed can become quite ill. Most people don't even know they have had it. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
Cmv IgG positive CMV IgM postive , all CMV infectious disease blood tests are postitive. Liver enzymes slight elevated , what do I have? Cmv is what
CMV: Is cytomegalovirus and is similar to mono. It is causing the positive blood tests and the elevated liver enzymes. It is very common. You will recover. In the meantime, I do suggest seeing an acupuncturist and chinese medicine practitioner as it can really help your body recover faster. ...Read more
Yes,usually no prob.: CMV is in the herpes family & many viruses in that family, like herpes simplex, Epstein Barr virus, chickenpox, HHV 6 & CMV infect virtually everyone & live in our bodies forever. For those with a healthy immune system this is not a problem as our bodies can keep them in a inactive state where they do not cause problems. However, people who are immunocomprised may develop chronic active infection. ...Read more
Positive EBV and CMV (no igg). I read this cant be cause of my 3 month long body aches, tons of tests and don't know where else to turn, advice?
EBV & CMV: Both are from the family of herpes viruses and remain dormant in your body forever.CMV causes no problems unless you are immunocompromised.or pregnant. EBV is known for causing fatigue and prolonged recovery, from weeks to months. There is no specific treatment. Recommend drinking fluids to stay hydrated, getting plenty of rest, & taking over-the-counter medications for pain. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
Cmv antibody IgG test result-38, test said "current vs. prior exposure unclear" im 40 yrs., body aches for 3 mos., should i request IgM test too?
Sorry - wrong track: I'm concerned we are on the 'wrong track' here. CMV is not really a major problem for a 'normal' patient. I think your lab testing and evaluation should concentrate on different possibilities. Have you had muscle enzyme testing? Thyroid? Lyme? Rheumatological tests? Evaluation of medications? Almost everyone has been exposed to CMV -so it's no wonder your IgG is positive. IgM would have no value. ...Read more
Im positive for ebv/cmv simultaneously. I dont have active infection, but have body aches fatigue, any way to know how recently was exposed?
In general sense: Only in a general sense. If you have IgM antibody for either CMV or EBV, then the infection was relatively recent. If IgM is negative and IgG is positive then the infection was in the past. As everyone's transition from IgM to IgG varies, more specific timing of the infection is not possible. ...Read more
Help with blood results: EBV VCA IgG >8.0, EBV IgM neg. CMV antibody IgG 38, EBV NA antibody >8.0. Can it explain my body aches? Why or why not?
Old infection: with EBV is the pattern of IgG positive (including NA) and IgM negative. I assume the CMV which is a different infection is also the IgG? If so, both are old infections and do not usually explain your current symptoms. This is a pattern that shows immunity to these infections. Look for other causes. ...Read more
Positive results for cmv, igg, ebv, doc says not active infection, but currently have fatigue/body aches. How serious is it? scared i wont get better
Previous infection: All a positive IGG tells us is that you have been exposed to these 2 viruses in the past and your body has mounted an effective immune response. IGM would indicate an ACTIVE infection. Fatigue and body aches is likely not coming from either of these viruses but from another cause - viral, inflammation, deconditioning, poor sleep, poor diet, etc... ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
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“How to pray the Lord’s prayer” Part 4
Thames Valley teaching series: more theology
Cannot really separate first phrase from second phrase of this verse
But, we are going to do that today just to emphasise a couple of things
Reminder – your kingdom come – came, is here, will come
MESSAGE trans: “as above, so below.”
Luther translates: “grant us grace to bear willingly all sorts of sickness, poverty, disgrace, suffering, and adversity and to recognise that in this your divine will is crucifying our will.”
Perhaps he was thinking of Gethsemane
Jesus went to Gethsemane and prayed to align his will with God so that gods will could be done on this earth for his glory and our salvation.
A disciple’s hope is that God’s kingdom will is part of this present age as well as the future one.
We want God’s rule in our lives now, spreading, and moving towards ultimate fulfilment.
Two responsibilities flow from praying this prayer:
1. Committing ourselves to learn all we can about the father’s will
2. Living what we learn by God’s grace.
Questions to ask ourselves:
Do I want to know the Father’s will?
Am I willing to align mine with his?
Am I alert to opportunities to enact his will here on earth
“This is, in fact, a prayer for the kingdom of God to become fully present: not for God’s people to be snatched away from earth to heaven, but for the glory and beauty of heaven to be turned into earthly reality as well. When that is done, God’s name — his character, his reputation, his very presence — will be held in high honour everywhere. The first half of the prayer is thus all about God. Prayer that doesn’t start there is always in danger of concentrating on ourselves, and very soon it stops being prayer altogether and collapses into the random thoughts, fears and longings of our own minds.” Wright, N. T. Matthew for Everyone Part 1 Chapters 1–15. 1. Accordance electronic edition, version 2.2. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2011.
Tim Keller writes: “adoration and Thanksgiving – God-centredness, – comes first, because it heals the heart of its self-centredness, which curves us in on ourselves and distorts all our vision. Now that the prayer is nearly half over, and our vision is re-framed and clarified by the greatness of God, we can turn to our own needs and those of the world.” Keller, Prayer, 114
First half of prayer all about God – good model for our times of quiet.
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This paper details the development of a Single Stage Centrifugal Compressor (SSCC) research facility at Purdue University in collaboration with Honeywell. The research vehicle is a Honeywell experimental compressor that has been specifically outfitted with a variety of instrumentation for research purposes. Both steady-state and fast-response instrumentation will be used to provide benchmark experimental data for performance and aeromechanics tool development and validation. Some unique facility aspects include real-time clearance control, active bleed flow management, fast-response pressure sensors embedded in the impeller, and a full circumferential traverse at the compressor inlet to facilitate inlet distortion quantification. The details of the facility and baseline results are presented.
Development of a Centrifugal Compressor Facility for Performance and Aeromechanics Research
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Lou, F, Harrison, HM, Fabian, JC, Key, NL, James, DK, & Srivastava, R. "Development of a Centrifugal Compressor Facility for Performance and Aeromechanics Research." Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo 2016: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition. Volume 2D: Turbomachinery. Seoul, South Korea. June 13–17, 2016. V02DT42A005. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/GT2016-56188
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Professional Tax is collected by state governments. Its a tax on professionals.
In karnataka PT is levied under the Karnataka Tax on Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Act, 1976.
You can say its a tax payable on Employment., and employees have to pay. Profession Tax shall be paid by every person exercising any Profession or calling or is engaged in any trade or holds any appointment, public or private as specified in the Schedule to the Act.
A person is defined under the Act to mean, any person who is engaged in any Profession, trade, callings or employment in the State of Karnataka and includes :-
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Home of Shakespeare and The Beatles, England forms a part of the United Kingdom and is often considered the gateway to Europe.
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Lesson Name: Poetry Hunt
Grade Level: Designed for 9th graders, but can be adapted
Curricula Areas: Language Arts & Technology
Time Frame: This project usually takes about three days, but may vary according to class and amount of time per class period.
Objectives for this Webquest:
1. TSW define several poetic terms and elements.
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Short answer: It depends on the audience.
by Katie Delahaye Paine
This story perfectly articulates just how bad RIM’s reputation is right now. Back in 2006, "crackberry" was Webster's New Word of the Year, but today, only one person I know still has one. Everyone else has either an Android or an iPhone.
Having gone through a variety of technologies in my time, my observation is that BlackBerry and the iPhone have a lot in common. Both work consistently and reliably do what they are supposed to do. In its favor, the BlackBerry is a bit sturdier than the iPhone. And both work far more consistently than the Androids.
So why is RIM’s reputation tanking? Because it has forgotten who its customers are. RIM's strength has always been in the enterprise, and its legions of business users are its greatest assets. So why is it using gimmicky PR tactics to go after the Apple set? Clearly it has a reputation death wish.
(Thanks to intomobile for the image.)
Katie Delahaye Paine is CEO of KDPaine & Partners, a company that delivers custom research to measure brand image, public relationships, and engagement. Katie Paine is a dynamic and experienced speaker on public relations and social media measurement. Click here for the schedule of Katie’s upcoming speaking engagements. Katie and Beth Kanter are authors of the book “Measuring the Networked Nonprofit,” to be published this year by Wiley.
The Measurement Standard is a publication of KDPaine & Partners, a company that delivers custom research to measure brand image, public relationships, and engagement. Katie Paine, CEO of KDPaine & Partners, will be glad to talk with you about measurement for your organization.
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The Peace and Conciliation Project Framework Overview
A comprehensive approach to the transformation of conflict designed to address structural issues, social dynamics of relationship-building, and the development of supportive infrastructure for sustainable peace.
The Peace and Conciliation Project is a peace-building framework built around dialogue processes that address the need for atonement with populations of people who were harmed in the formation and development of the United States and whose well-being continues to be harmed today. With the understanding that the context in which violence was and continues to be perpetrated against each population of people is different and will involve different stakeholders, the Peace and Conciliation Project proposes the framework be applied to each population via contextually relevant processes in order to produce contextually and culturally relevant outcomes. The framework suggests a comprehensive approach to the transformation of conflict designed to address structural issues, social dynamics of relationship building, and the development of supportive infrastructure for sustainable peace.
Relationships are at the center of the Peace and Conciliation Project, which envisions the protracted conflict between the harmed parties and white Americans as a system and directs all attention in the design of the framework toward the reconciliation of those relationships. The framework is designed to create opportunities and spaces for those who have been harmed to express past and present traumas, losses, grief, anger, pain, and memories — both individual and collective — and to have these important elements of their identity acknowledged, atoned for, and addressed in a manner most suited to the individuals and communities at local and regional levels.
Acknowledgement, by the stakeholders who are empowered to be change-makers, is the first step toward envisioning a new, shared future. Because the reconciliation of relationships requires that the parties address and overcome hatred, prejudice, racism, and xenophobia as primary contributors to protracted conflict, the transformation and transcendence of the conflict is inherently a spiritual process and requires a framework that allows for the emergence of spirit — an aspect of our shared humanity that can serve as a key space for finding common ground.
In addition to the harmed parties, the key stakeholders to the Peace and Conciliation Project include city leadership such as the city mayor and city council; local politicians; community leaders such as religious leaders and thought leaders in issues relevant to the harmed parties; leaders of law enforcement organizations; representatives from businesses; leaders from nonprofit organizations who are relevant to the reconciliation process; educational organizations; and all other parties identified through the dialogue preparation and implementation process who have either been harmed or are critical to the reparation of the harm.
The Peace and Conciliation Project framework utilizes a structural pyramid outlined in PaulLederach’s book Building Peace: Sustainable Reconciliation in Divided Societies. The pyramid demonstrates three major leadership categories that are relevant to peace building and the power each holds to be change-makers.
Within the framework of the Peace and Conciliation Project, Level 1 Leadership is comprised of the highest level representatives from each harmed community within a city or region; high-level city officials (mayor and city council); high-level business executives such as corporate CEOs; high-level law enforcement officers such as the chief of police; members from the city’s board of education; etc. All of these individuals sit in powerful positions within the city and have the authority to authorize funding and to implement policies that those who function under them must comply with.
Level 2 Leadership includes individuals from the following groups of people:
> Leaders within a community who are highly respected as individuals or who hold positions of leadership in sectors such as business, education, health care, etc.
> High profile people within primary networks of groups and institutions who are able to link religious groups, academic institutions and/or humanitarian organizations together.
> Thought leaders within communities relevant to the conflict.
A key feature of Level 2 Leadership is their ability to move up and down the pyramid. They know or have access to Level 1 Leadership and also have direct access to the constituency that Level 1 Leaders claim to represent but are typically detached from. In other words, they are influential both up and down the pyramid. Level 2 Leaders are unique in that they are not bound by the same level of political and social restrictions or calculations prevalent to Level 1 Leadership, and they also have first-hand knowledge of the context and experiences of the people living at the grassroots level — those individuals most severely affected by the conflict.
From the perspective of the Peace and Conciliation Project, Level 2 Leadership might consist of well-respected ministers; well-respected school administrators; members of a PTA; business leaders; law enforcement officers who hold sway with their peers; etc. Level 2 Leaders are of paramount importance to the Peace and Conciliation Project because the grassroots level respect and trust them. Level 2 Leadership will be the partners who encourage participation and help to cultivate awareness about the project while fostering relationships built on trusts with all levels of leadership and the Peace and Conciliation Project.
Level 3 Leadership is the grassroots leadership who represents the masses — the individuals and communities directly affected and engaged in the conflict. Leaders at the grassroots level include local communities, members of indigenous nongovernmental organizations who serve those most impacted by the conflict, health officials, teachers, social workers, community organizers, etc. Leadership at the grassroots level is intimately familiar with the fear, pain, and suffering the population has endured and continues to live with on a daily basis. They have expert knowledge of local politics and can pick up the phone and call local leaders on both sides of the conflict. They are in the trenches with those most affected by the conflict.
Level 3 Leadership serves dual roles in the Peace and Conciliation Project. They are necessary advocates of the project, being its voice to the community. And, because they bring so much firsthand knowledge of the impact of the conflict, they are also active participants in the dialogue process. Level 3 Leadership are critical stakeholders in the success of the dialogue processes, the development of the reparations planning, and the successful rollout of the reparations.
Adam Curie, Quaker conciliator and mediator, suggests that, “Conflict moves along a continuum from unpeaceful to peaceful relationships.” In his book, Building Peace: Sustainable Reconciliation in Divided Societies, Paul Lederach explains that, “This movement can be charted on a matrix that compares two key elements: the level of power between the parties in conflict and the level of awareness of conflicting interests and needs.” From a system designs perspective, the matrix assists peace builders in identifying where in the progression the conflict is located.
Throughout the United States there is a varying degree of awareness and acknowledgment of the conflicts that affect oppressed populations on a daily basis. Some cities and regions have an acute awareness while others have either no awareness or perhaps even perceive white Americans as the victims of structural oppression and violence. Because of this varying degree of awareness, the Peace and Conciliation Project must be able to plot where in the progression of a conflict each city and/or region resides.
Curie suggests that the movement toward peace can be understood through roles that emerge in conflict via four major stages. Quadrant 1 represents latent conflict. Latent conflict is the conflict that exists when people are unaware of the injustice and lack of balance of power that affects their lives. At this stage, Curies recommends education in the form of “conscientization.” In other words, through education, the injustice and power imbalance is brought to conscious awareness. The educator must erase ignorance and raise awareness to the imbalances of power and justice as well as help people understand why equity is necessary. Without this level of education, the needs of the oppressed party are rarely acknowledged much less understood by those benefiting from the status quo. Advocates who work with those or support those who are pursuing change are necessary to perpetuate the message. The Peace and Conciliation Project will address this stage via conferences, educational materials, and training on how to use them. Education may be conducted via in-person seminars, digital media (blogs, social media, online platforms for social engagement); traditional media such as op-ed pieces for newspapers and online media; photo journalism, and other forms of artistic expression such as music, poetry and film; face-to-face conversations; formal training seminars, etc. The Peace and Conciliation Project will develop the messaging, provide printable curriculum online and make all educational resources available for download from the website at no cost to the user.
Quadrant 2 demonstrates how the pursuit of change inevitably leads to confrontation, which brings the conflict out of its latent state and to the surface of people’s awareness. A series of choices must be made at this stage. How will the conflict be expressed? How will the concerns be addressed? The Peace and Conciliation Project addresses choice points in the dialogue process. Facilitators will receive training on how to guide the dialogue process in such a way that high-stakes conversations are possible even when they feel risky and dangerous. Confrontation is a necessary stage to resolution.
Quadrant 3 addresses the rebalancing of power that is necessary in order for relationships to be reconciled and those involved in the conflict are able to recognize one another in new and reimagined ways. This recognition is intended to increase the voice of the less powerful so that they may begin to express the specific needs that must be addressed. The rebalancing of power legitimates the concerns of the less powerful. This is the stage where negotiation can begin to occur. And the groups begin to work together in mutual recognition. The Peace and Conciliation Project will need to engage and/or train dialogue facilitators with sophisticated transformative mediation and interest-based negotiation skills.
Quadrant 4 is where successful negotiation and mediation bring about the restructuring of the relationship and the substantive and procedural concerns are established as legitimate. Reparations dialogue can occur at this stage. Curie refers to this stage as “increased justice” or “more peaceful relations.” The Peace and Conciliation Project assists in the development, documentation, archiving and negotiations of reparations in partnership with all stakeholders.
Acquiring resources are, of course, a necessary element of any peace-building initiative. The Peace and Conciliation Project will require significant resources in two key areas: 1) Operational resources dedicated to running the Peace and Conciliation Project (i.e., staffing, marketing, educational programming development, funds to pay facilitators, funds to pay for a corporate office and renting facilitation space, etc.); 2) Resource allocation commitments from governmental entities for the implementation of reparations.
It will be incumbent upon the founders and partners of the Peace and Conciliation Project to be able to communicate how this project benefits all of society and how making right the wrong done to harmed populations is not only the morally correct action to take but also the fiscally responsible action to take while communicating a strategy that demonstrates long-term viability. The ability to establish and communicate how this initiative brings value to all Americans will be an essential element of procuring an on-going supply of funding from individuals, corporations and foundations.
Coordination involves connecting each of the framework’s elements together to more fully vet the validity of each and to find more exact points of contact and coordination in order to get the most out of each contribution. Below are some examples of how The Peace and Conciliation Project coordination might be accomplished.
> Develop a peace inventory. This is a wide-ranging inventory of who is doing what kind of peace building as it relates to race relations work in the United States. This inventory will assist in relationship-building between middle-range and grassroots levels; combining efforts for research; knowledge-sharing between organizations; partnering on initiatives that are common to multiple organizations’ missions; cultivating the widespread sense of shared responsibility.
> Create clearer channels between the three leadership levels. Creating and/or improving channels of communication between the leadership levels can be accomplished through the establishment of coordinated committees that bridge the communication gap between the top and middle range levels.Create peace-donor conferences. Engaging donors and keeping them abreast of successes and projected needs are critical. Donor conferences can focus around annual reporting accomplishments as well the reporting of challenges faced. This is an important way to engage donors and keep them connected and excited about the work of project. Create strategic resource groups. Strategic resource groups are designed to bring “broad-based resources to bear on the overall design of the process and on specific dilemmas faced at particular stages in the transformation of the conflict.” The resource groups provide the space and opportunity for sharing ideas and expertise for people working in race relations work in the United States and aboard. Resource groups comprised of researchers, academic experts and “on-the-ground” implementation experts are able to provide feedback and improvements on overall design.
The key to coordination is to create feedback loops designed to continuously improve upon the design of the system and therefore the outcomes of it.
The Peace and Conciliation Project is long over due. For too long Americans have been complicit in the violence perpetrated against oppressed population by turning a blind eye, not standing up to injustice, or by actively participating in the violence. This project is an attempt to right the wrong done to millions of Americans and their ancestors so that together we may forge new relationships and give birth to the possibility of creating a more perfect union. To be successful, it will require the partnership of hundreds of people, and the participation of thousands. It will be an undertaking that may take more than a lifetime to fully implement, and it must be done.
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According to the local paper, "The turbines, produced by the Spanish company Gamesa, were originally headed for Fairless Hills, Pa., but were diverted because Portland proved to be a more efficient and affordable option for the shipment of the freight."
What's in Fairless Hills? A quick google search reveals that Fairless Hills is an industrial city west of Trenton, New Jersey, where Gamesa recently invested millions of dollars to build modern windmill factories on the former site of U.S. Steel. The news article is scant on specifics, but apparently these turbine parts will be shipped directly to New Hampshire and assembled there, instead of being routed through Pennsylvania, in order to save on shipping costs.
So here, on the Portland waterfront, the changing industrial migration patterns of the early 21st century are coming together like Matryoshka dolls. With a weakening economy, Maine's exports of container-shipped goods dry up. The state's only container-shipping terminal goes dormant, leaving room for a Spanish corporation to open a temporary logistics office.
Meanwhile, an abandoned steel mill in Pennsylvania witnesses millions of dollars of new investment from a European wind-energy corporation. On a site that had once imported coal and iron ore from Appalachia and exported finished steel, a Spanish company now imports steel from China to export renewable energy generators to American prairies and hilltops.
And as always, huge oil tankers come and go in a regular, unceasing beat, delivering increasingly expensive crude oil into Portland's pipeline and to the refineries of New Jersey.
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The plain truth about violence in our society
The horrendous act of violence which occurred in Newtown, Conn. raised the same old questions: What caused this and how can it be prevented?
These are critical questions but, unfortunately, many Americans are not ready for the answer.
The heart of this matter is the condition of the heart, a place where love no longer resides in many humans. Violent individuals resemble wild animals, on the loose, ready to strike at any time and anywhere.
Politicians are already proposing legislation to limit firearms. They just don’t get it! You cannot legislate morality.
During my youth, there was never one day when I had a fear of going to school because someone may shoot me. But that was then and this is now because America has changed … for the worse.
There is a direct correlation between the tremendous increase in violence and the decline in moral values in this country starting with the Supreme Court’s decision to outlaw prayer in school. Only a few years later, the court legalized abortion resulting in slaughtering over 50,000,000 unborn babies. And, only months ago, citizens were asked to vote for or against a marriage amendment to determine if individuals of the same sex can legally marry each other. Such an amendment was in direct opposition to a most sacred union ordained by our Creator. Yet support came from many including our national leaders and some members of the clergy.
Let it be understood that a loving God did not cause that violent act to occur in Newtown. For those who ask why he did not stop it, I must ask, “Why would we want to call upon God when we have so easily forgotten Him in America?” Rest assured that God does not get in our way when we choose evil because all of us have been given a choice to accept Him or reject Him.
But, we must also understand there can be tragic consequences as a result of immoral behavior. As a human being or as a nation, what we sow is what we reap! For the doubters, I challenge you go to the history books and locate one fallen country that is the exception.
While I am not a prophet, His Word enables me to forecast a sad fact of life. The violence will continue. Next year will be worse than 2012 and this pattern will continue unless there is a change in the condition of the heart.
JIM A.HOGSETT Elon
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From The Trussville Tribune staff reports
BIRMINGHAM – The National Weather Service in Birmingham has issued a Flash Flood Warning for Jefferson County in central Alabama until 1:45 p.m.
At 10:40 a.m. Wednesday, September 26, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area. Flash flooding is expected to begin shortly.
Some locations that will experience flooding include Birmingham, Hoover, Vestavia Hills, Bessemer, Homewood, Mountain Brook, Trussville, Hueytown, Gardendale, Irondale, Leeds, Moody, Fairfield, Fultondale, Center Point, Pleasant Grove, Clay, Pinson, Tarrant and Midfield.
NWS has issued precautionary and preparedness actions below:
-Turn around, don’t drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood deaths occur in vehicles.
– Excessive runoff from heavy rainfall will cause flooding of small creeks and streams, urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as other drainage areas and low lying spots.
– Please report flooding to your local law enforcement agency when you can do so safely.
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The paper contains some information about Tesla's huge role in opening roads to many areas of science without which we could not have imagined today's civilization. We chose this theme because it highlights the role of the individual over society and for that a little bit of Tesla is of Romanian origin.
Nikola Tesla was born on 10 July 1856 in the village Smiljana, near Gospic, Croatia, which was then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Henri Coanda presents it as a Romanian Serbian Banat. Other sources indicate that it was Istro-Romanian. It is certain, however, that the great inventor had Romanian roots, as his name suggests - Tesla, which comes from the word “teslari” (carpenter).
Tesla was an inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer and electrical engineer, one of the greatest scientists of the end of the 19th century and early 20th century. His scientific discoveries are of immense importance.
Tesla was a pioneer in a wide range of technical fields, like that of electricity, radio, high frequency currents, electric power transmission system by alternating current, magnetic field rotary engines and different technologies without which the modern world would be incomprehensible and the structure of the atom and its nucleus. Everything we call technology today is based on Nikola Tesla's inventions, some of them dating back over a century. Nikola Tesla invented the first device “wireless telegraph” in the world namely, the "father" of all devices such sites today. The unit for magnetic induction B of the magnetic field is called tesla and T is the symbol. And yet today it is little name uttered by humanity.
As a child, Nicholas or Nikola demonstrated, since the early years, exceptional mental abilities and extrasensory perception. After the age of 17, Tesla could visualize with the greatest of ease, an object, no need of models, drawings or other actual experiments.
For this reason, the young have the ability to design a piece, mentally, without actually having to build them, so you realize if it will work or not, when will be materialized. He could develop an entire concept without using even a single instrument. Only after all possible improvements to adapt the gear picture and not found any mistakes, and basically make the product of his intelligence.
From the age of 28 lived in the U.S. where Tesla has made inventions that changed the destiny of mankind. Thus, he managed to find a solution that allowed to bring electricity to homes using alternating current electricity transmission. The dispute between Edison and Tesla electric current on the transmission distance is known as the "current war”. Tesla has shown that the use of AC for transport to energy away power is more advantageous than the use of DC, as suggested by contemporary, Thomas Edison.
Thus, Tesla laid the foundations of modern knowledge about AC: AC electric power, AC systems, including multi-phase systems, power distribution systems and the AC motor, which have led to the second Industrial Revolution. In 1890, Nicola Tesla made the first transmission of electricity in two-phase alternating current. One of his most important inventions of the AC generator is. He also helped build hydroelectric power plant. near Niagara Falls. Hence the statue today that looks over the inexhaustible supply of water overflow.
Tesla is considered a pioneer in the fields of robotics, ballistics, computer science, nuclear physics and theoretical physics. He believes that the most noble way to improve the human condition is to research the various questions raised by science and use scientific principles and industrial progress provided that it is compatible with nature.
By 1892, the U.S. Patent Office has issued over 40 patents for Tesla's inventions under the principle of rotating magnetic field he discovered the essential features of the AC electrical system.
In 1895 he was commissioned first hydroelectric power in the world alternative to Niagara Falls.
Emblems massive generators installed there bore the name of Nikola Tesla, and even today the vast majority of electric induction motors in use worldwide based on its initial project. Its underlying inventions worldwide, robots, the Internet, pagers, cellular phones or space program "Star Wars" launched by American Cold War. All are tributaries of Tesla's drawings.
In 1899 Tesla has established the laboratory in Colorado Springs, near the top of Pikes Peak, in order to realize his dream: the transmission of "wireless electricity by land or by air. The fear that his lab could be destroyed, as it happened in New York, he kept a journal of research. It was extremely satisfied with the giant oscillator when it produced an artificial lightning, 100 times greater than the spark that was previously obtained in his laboratory in New York.
During a violent storm in Colorado, Tesla made one of the most remarkable discoveries: "We see stationary waves ... No matter how impossible it seemed, this planet, despite its vast expanses, behaves like a conductor usually small. The importance of this amazing thing for my system of power transmission appeared to me very clearly in mind. Not only can serve the transmission of telegraph signals without wires to any distance, as I said long ago, but throughout the world to propagate the human voice modulations. Moreover, it can be used to transmit power (electricity) in unlimited amounts to any terrestrial distance and without loss", he noted in the log.
The famous Romanian inventor Henri Coanda say about Tesla: "All inventions and were carried out mentally, he previewed. At the same, all were improved, were corrected in a mental projection so real that it never imagined a device has failed. Everything worked perfectly, without further corrections, it was built without preliminary experiments. Nikola Tesla has developed an unusual capacity for astral projection into other dimensions. Tesla was introduced to the essential techniques, techniques which saw a split in detail, in operation".
Some proposed solutions to overcome today's energy crisis through which humanity now has been envisioned over a century ago by physicist Nikola Tesla. Here are a few of his phrases related to this: "Energy use and carbon stored in wood, or, generally speaking, fuel, led to the steam engine". The next huge step in developing energy transportation was done by using electricity, which allowed the transport of energy from one place to another without transporting material. But the use of energy from the environment, there
was no radical step forward. “Tesla considered that trigger source life on earth is the sun. Tesla's solution to rising energy consumption and control was to use solar energy. Direct use of solar energy to constantly concerned about the Tesla' There is also the possibility - albeit a small one, to obtain electricity directly from the Sun. Other sources of energy could be discovered and new methods of using solar energy, but none of these achievements will not match the importance of energy transmission to any distance through the environment".
After having analyzed all the various sources of energy from the environment - wind, water and heat from the earth, sun, lightning energy, the physicist concluded that these methods have certain limitations. The future of Tesla envisioned a century ago remains open: "It is possible and even likely to open up other sources of energy, now we have no knowledge. It is even possible to apply magnetism or gravity to move machines without using other means". Tesla envisioned a flying disc powered by canceling gravity, an idea that would be studied today by the world powers. Above them, as he himself confessed, Tesla envisioned a heat engine that uses heat from the environment.
Tesla died at the age of 86 years, on January 7, 1943 in New York, poor, alone and forgotten by the world in a small room in a New York hotel. Outside, the city was inspired by the legacy left behind by this man, must of electricity produced from Tesla's vision materialized to live in a world completely driven by alternating current. Tesla was buried almost in obscurity, a giant crash of the invention, whose findings remain the foundation for some of the most prolific scientific performance achieved by humanity.
Tesla was laters recognized as the greates electrical engineer in america and the world.It is now claimed by Serbia, which was dedicated to a museum in Belgrade and bill of 100 dinars.
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Two Czech Second War Liberation Table Medals with Case
Two Czech Second War Liberation Table Medals with Case - Czech Liberation Medal (bronze gilt, obverse illustrating a standing veiled woman with a pickaxe in her left hand, the head of the pickaxe on the ground, the Czech coat-of-arms and engraver's name "M. BEUTLER" to the right, a scroll, t-square and calipers beside the head of the pickaxe, the dates "1918 28./X. 1938" at her feet, scenes of agriculture and industry in the background, surrounded by the inscription "MUJ DRAHY NAROD CESKY NESKONA, ON VSECHNY HRUZY SLAVNE PREKONA" (My Dear Czech Nation, Famous for Overcoming All the Horrors), reverse illustrating a wooden hand rising from a map of Czechoslovakia, the fingers giving the "V" sign for Victory, linden leaves in its palm, a cross lying across the map with a scroll at its junction with the date "30/IX 1938" (date of the annexation of Sudetenland), six hands outside the map, four of which are stabbing at the map with swords, the other two grasping, inscirbed on the rim "ACH ZEMI KRASNOU, ZEMI MILOVANOU, KOLEBKU MOU I HROB MUJ, MATKU MOU, VLAST JEDINOU IV DEDICTVI MI DANOU, SIROU TU ZEMI, ZEMI JEDINOU" (Oh Earth, so Beautiful, so Beloved Cradle and My Grave, My Mother, My Only Homeland Inheritance Given, Wide Earth, Earthy Only, 65.6 mm) and Prague Uprising Medal (bronze gilt, obverse illustrates a woman holding a branch of olive leaves in her right hand, standing on a rock outcrop with a linden tree and the engraver's name "M. BEUTLER" in the foreground, flags of the United States, the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom in the background, reverse illustrating a raised defiant right fist and arm breaking through bricks, olive leaves and engraver's initials "M B" below, a silhouette of the Prague cityscape in the background, inscribed "PRAHA 5.KVETNA 1945" (PRAGUE 5th May 1945 = the date of the Prague Uprising) above, 65.6 mm). Very crisp detail, high relief, small scuff on the reverse of the Liberation Medal, together, near mint. In their hardshelled case of issue, recessed medal beds, case very fine. Footnote: In the early hours of September 30, 1938, leaders of Nazi Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy signed an agreement that allowed the Nazis to annex the Sudetenland, a region of Czechoslovakia that was home to many ethnic Germans. Adolf Hitler had threatened to take the Sudetenland by force. The Czechoslovakian government resisted, but its allies Britain and France, determined to avoid war at all costs, were willing to negotiate with Hitler. On September 29, Hitler met in Munich with Prime Ministers Neville Chamberlain of Britain, Edouard Daladier of France and Benito Mussolini of Italy to reach a final settlement. Czechoslovakian leaders were not included in the talks, having been given a choice by Britain and France: accept the terms or resist the Nazis on their own. The Munich Agreement did not bring about peace. The Nazis seized the rest of Czechoslovakia in the spring of 1939 and in September 1939, invaded Poland, starting World War II. It is often argued that the reluctance of Britain and France to stand up to Hitler emboldened him in his quest to conquer Europe. In fact, the Munich Agreement is held up as the prime example of the dangers of appeasement. The Prague Uprising was an attempt by the Czech resistance to liberate the city of Prague from German occupation during World War II. Events began on May 5, 1945, in the last moments of the war in Europe. The uprising went on until May 8, 1945, ending in a ceasefire the day of the arrival of the Soviet Red Army and one day after Victory in Europe Day.
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Last week, the FCC voted to start the repeal of Obama’s key internet policy of net neutrality.
What does it mean?
In 2015, broadband internet was reclassified as a vital utility, subjecting it to heavier regulations. The idea was to prevent the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) from abusing their authority to discriminate against lawful content.The FCC’s vote to repeal these rules would probably allow the ISPs to manipulate data speeds and discriminate between online content/services.
Changing telecom landscape is sparking debate about consumer protection on the internet
Recently, multiple carriers/ISPs have moved to digital media. For eg. Comcast’s merger with NBC Universal. This inclusion of content service to their offerings portfolio is creating a conflict of interest for the ISPs and incentivising them to promote own/ partner content services at the cost of independent content providers.
Network providers like Verizon, Comcast, AT&T would be obvious beneficiaries of the vote as they could easily make more profits by charging a premium to certain users or promoting own content. For eg., Verizon might offer free data to customers for use of certain services(own or content partners). Also, lighter regulation could encourage more investments in ISP network infrastructure upgrades to provide better services. Big corporations like Macy’s could also benefit to an extent. For eg., Macy could contract with AT&T for faster loading time vs a smaller apparel provider’s website. Consumers could possibly benefit from added competition in data provision but smaller websites, startups could easily be sidelined by bigger corporations.
Read more about these stakeholders here
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Fern, Houseplant Plant Features
Ferns are among the most beautiful houseplants. With lacy fronds and a classic texture, they work well in just about any interior design scheme, from country casual to formal. There's a wider variety of ferns available than most folks realize, so there's abundant opportunity to decorate with these houseplants.
Ferns look beautiful mixed together, but they're also a wonderful choice to combine with other houseplants, especially larger-leafed varieties so you can enjoy the dramatic contrast in leaf texture. Pay attention to color, too -- certain ferns pair better with other houseplants because of coloring, overall plant, shape and other factors. The good news, though, is that you can't go wrong with ferns.
Our experts are happy to help. Just drop us an email and one of our houseplant experts will get back to you! And stay in the know with our free email newsletter, which has fresh tips from our experts for growing houseplants and outdoor plants. Sign up now!
Fern, Houseplant Growing Instructions
Most ferns grow best in medium to bright light, but shielded from direct sun, especially during the hottest part of the day. If ferns get too much light, the leaves can suffer from sunburn and have a bleached look.
Water most ferns enough to keep the soil moist, but not wet or soggy. Like most houseplants, ferns will rot if they're kept too wet for too long.
Keep ferns healthy and beautiful by providing them with average to above-average relative humidity levels. Their love of moist air makes ferns perfect houseplants for bright bathrooms or kitchens. If ferns don't get enough humidity, their fronds may turn brown and dry prematurely. Because they like humidity, most ferns are ideal plants for terrariums.
Get tips for shopping for and growing beautiful houseplant ferns.
Houseplant ferns are not intended for human or animal consumption.
Indoors: High light
Indoors: Medium light
Medium water needs
Purifies the air
Super-easy to grow
Complement your Fern, Houseplant with these varieties:
Accent ferns' fluffy textures with the nerve plant's attractive variegated leaves.
Bromeliads are wonderful partners for ferns, adding fun textures and bold colors.
Varieties: Our Favorites
Asplenium 'Austral Gem'
Austral Gem fern shows off thick, waxy fronds that almost look like plastic! It's an easy-to-grow houseplant that thrives in low or medium light and moist potting mix. It grows about 12 inches tall and wide.
Australian tree fern features large green leaves accented with bronze-brown hairs on the bottom. As it grows, it develops a trunk and a tree-like habit, becoming 10 feet tall and wide. It's hardy outdoors only in Zone 10, but can be grown as a houseplant.
Autumn fern has shiny green fronds that are flushed with bronzy-orange as they emerge, giving the houseplant its seasonal common name.Exotic Angel , O2 for You
Bear paw fern offers thick, leathery, dark green fronds and has a coarser texture than many of its cousins. It's quite a dramatic houseplant!Exotic Angel , O2 for You
Bird's nest fern has a different look than its friends; this beautiful houseplant has thick, non-divided leaves that branch out from a central point. This gives it the look of a lush, living bird's nest.Exotic Angel , O2 for You
Black rabbit's foot fern shows off finely divided fronds and fuzzy gray-brown rhizomes that creep along the top of the soil or cascade over the edge of the pot. It can grow 18 inches tall and wide indoors over time, but usually stays smaller.Exotic Angel
Phlebodium aureum mandaianum
Blue star fern is vigorous and easy to grow, producing blue-green fronds with ruffled edges. It grows 12 inches tall and wide. You might also see it sold as Polypodium.Exotic Angel
Pteris cretica 'Mayii'
Brake fern, also called table fern or Cretan brake fern, is an excellent houseplant with variegated fronds and a medium growth rate.Exotic Angel , O2 for You
This attractive fern has soft, finely divided mid-green foliage. Over time, it develops creeping stems along the ground that sprout new leaves, making it a fun plant for large terrariums. It's also sometimes called grub fern.Exotic Angel , O2 for You
Asplenium nidus 'Cobra'
A fun variation on traditional bird's nest fern, cobra has fronds that branch and divide at the tips, giving it an exotic houseplant look.Exotic Angel , O2 for You
Nephrolepis exaltata 'Compacta'
This littler version of the classic Boston fern has all the characteristics of its sibling --- elegant, arching fronds and an easy-to-grow nature --- but in a smaller package.Exotic Angel , O2 for You
Nephrolepis exaltata 'Delilah'
Delilah Boston fern is a stunning houseplant that has softer fronds and tends to grow in a spherical shape, making it an excellent choice for hanging baskets.Exotic Angel , O2 for You
A beautiful type of maidenhair fern, this one is a little larger than other varieties -- but just as elegant!Exotic Angel , O2 for You
Nephrolepis exaltata 'Florida Ruffle'
This medium-size variety has more finely divided fronds than traditional ferns, giving it a soft, full look.Exotic Angel , O2 for You
Nephrolepis exaltata 'Fluffy Ruffle'
Fluffy Ruffle fern looks like you might expect; it has an extra, soft and fluffy look thanks to its finely divided fronds.Exotic Angel , O2 for You
Nephrolepsis exaltata 'Green Fantasy'
A fun twist on the traditional varieties, this Boston fern relative has more finely divided fronds, giving it an even softer, more elegant texture.Exotic Angel , O2 for You
This bird's nest fern looks has medium green leaves with a little bit of a wave to them. It's a slow-growing houseplant, but easy to care for.Exotic Angel , O2 for You
A fun houseplant, kangaroo fern has shiny, dark green fronds that aren't as finely divided as most of its cousins. It creeps along the soil with fuzzy stems that can droop over the sides of its pot.Exotic Angel , O2 for You
Nephrolepis cordifolia 'Lemon Button'
Lemon button fern is a cute houseplant that has golden-green foliage that's divided into cute, rounded buttons that run up the fronds.Exotic Angel , O2 for You
Nephrolepis cordifolia 'Lucky Lemon'
With deep green fronds, Lucky Lemon fern is a winner due to its fast growth rate and ease as a houseplant.Exotic Angel , O2 for You
Mahogany fern has earned its common name because the new fronds emerge a reddish-brown color before maturing to rich green.Exotic Angel , O2 for You
An exceptionally lovely houseplant, maidenhair fern offers divided fronds with a pleasant arching habit. You'll love it!Exotic Angel , O2 for You
This type of maidenhair fern has large fronds, giving it a little different texture. It pairs perfectly with just about every other plant!Exotic Angel , O2 for You
Nephrolepsis exaltata 'Medusa'
This wildly exotic Boston fern relative has divided, arching fronds, giving it a distinct and fun look.Exotic Angel , O2 for You
Nephrolepis Exaltata 'Orlando'
Also called sword fern, this Boston fern relative has upright fronds.Exotic Angel , O2 for You
Adiantum tenerum 'Scutum Roseum'
Rosy maidenhair fern has pink-flushed new growth.Exotic Angel , O2 for You
Pteris cretica 'Rowerii'
With branched, divided fronds, Rowerii fern has a distinctive look that's right at home in contemporary homes and offices.Exotic Angel , O2 for You
Nephrolepis exaltata 'Sassy'
A smaller variety of Boston fern, Sassy is a fun tabletop variety that also shines in hanging baskets.Exotic Angel , O2 for You
Pteris ensiformis 'Evergemiensis'
One of the most lovely ferns around, this elegant houseplant has finely divided fronds cheerfully variegated in silvery white.Exotic Angel , O2 for You
This exceptional fern offers lush green foliage and, over a course of years, can develop a small trunk, making it look like a dwarf tree fern.Exotic Angel , O2 for You
Staghorn fern is one of the most unusual varieties. It's often grown on a piece of wood and hung on a wall, where its fronds grow out and look dramatically like antlers. Because it doesn't need soil, water staghorn fern by misting or soaking it.Exotic Angel , O2 for You
Pteris quadriaurita tricolor
Not all ferns are green! Tricolor fern shows off reddish-and bronze new growth.Exotic Angel , O2 for You
Variegated brake fern is a beautiful selection that has long, narrow fronds with silvery-white centers.Exotic Angel , O2 for You
This maidenhair fern has more arching fronds than its cousins, giving it a different shape that's perfect for hanging baskets.Exotic Angel , O2 for You
White rabbit's foot fern is a fun variety that has dark green, divided leaves with fuzzy gray stems that look like cute little rabbit's feet.Exotic Angel , O2 for You
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400 pages, 135 figs
The Agulhas Current is one of the major currents of the world ocean. In the network of currents that connect the major ocean basins, it forms a key link. This linkage may be of critical importance in the way the ocean affects the earth's climate and climate change. Lutjeharms describes the origin of the Agulhas Current, its behaviour, its influence on the adjacent continental shelf, its effect on local weather as well as its role in linking the Indian and Atlantic Oceans.
From the reviews: "Lutjeharms does a remarkable job of presenting the Agulhas to the wider community. His encyclopedic knowledge nicely draws together the many research studies devoted to the Agulhas Current system to produce an excellent, objective, and well-written analysis. ! Professor Johann R.E. Lutjeharms has produced a truly scholarly work, drawing from a multitude of research papers, many from his own pen, and presenting to us with clarity the complex oceanography of the Agulhas Current system ! . Johann: On target and well done!" (Arnold L. Gordon, Oceanography, Vol. 20 (1), 2007) "A comprehensive and passionate survey of the collected general knowledge of the greater Agulhas Current system ! . I highly recommend this book to all students and researchers of the greater Agulhas system. The author has succeeded in writing a book that will be considered a standard work for years to come. The book is very well written, nicely bound, and looks extremely attractive inside and out. ! This book is a must for everyone working in or on the greater Agulhas Current system." (Will P. M. de Ruijter, Eos, Vol. 89 (10), 2008)
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By David Crowe
Ternopil: A typical working day begins for Khrystyna Fetsitsa when she climbs behind the wheel of a large four-wheel drive and heads towards the front line in eastern Ukraine.
Fetsitsa spends at least two days travelling up to 1200 kilometres from her home in Ternopil to the war zones near Luhansk and Donetsk. Then she catches a train home.
Her job is done when she has delivered a vehicle to a soldier in what Ukrainians call “zero position” – the line closest to Russian fire.
Fetsitsa went to university thinking she might become a lawyer but is now part of a war economy that puts a premium on any task that helps the Ukrainian armed forces fight against Russia’s invasion.
“We want to live in a free country with the ability to think and to do what we want to do,” she says on a recent morning near the pick-up trucks, 4WDs and minivans she drives.
Home base for Fetsitsa and her colleagues is a car dealership in the relative safety of Ternopil, western Ukraine, where workers refit second-hand 4WDs brought in from western Europe by a charity, Wheels of Victory, and a network of supporters outside Ukraine.
The vehicles in the car yard have stickers that reveal their origins: a Mitsubishi Shogun from Carmarthen, an Isuzu Denver Rodeo from Cardiff, both in Wales. The charity relies on Welsh volunteers to buy the vehicles and drive them across the Continent.
Used on farms only a few months ago, the 4WDs have the high clearance and solid diesel engines that win favour with Ukrainian soldiers. The workshop workers check the engines, fit new tyres and paint the vehicles camouflage green and black. Then the vehicles are ready to give Ukrainian soldiers more freedom of movement on the front line than the Soviet-era army trucks they would otherwise drive.
Wheels of Victory, founded by Yaroslav Kolodiy with others in his town, receives modest funding from the Ukraine Crisis Appeal, an Australian charity supporting efforts ranging from housing to medical supplies. He imports about 40 vehicles every month.
Fetsitsa delivered a defibrillator sent by Australia on a recent journey. One of her next jobs, she says, will be to take an ambulance to a military hospital. She used to work for the local business chamber but now intends to be an army officer.
“Our way is the opposite to Russia,” she says, through a translator. “We will fight and we will fight until the end and we will win, even if it costs us our lives and the last drop of our blood.”
Later, she emphasises the point in English: “We are doing what we can do, what we must do.”
Like many others, the volunteers at Wheels of Victory were galvanised by the Maidan protests of 2013-2014 against corruption, Russian undue influence and the then-president, Viktor Yanukovich, who now lives in Russia.
Kolodiy was in Maidan Square in February 2014 when he witnessed protesters being shot dead by police; he helped at a medical station. Fetsitsa travelled to the protests several times from Ternopil.
About 6 million people have fled Ukraine since Russian troops began their assault on February 24, according to the United Nations, but about 38 million remain.
Life in Kyiv continues in bars and restaurants until the 11pm curfew but the war economy is forcing change. Men and women are volunteering for the army or finding jobs that help defend the country, like delivering military and humanitarian aid.
While many Ukrainians insist that victory is certain, they also know that some of their compatriots are working against them. President Volodymyr Zelensky removed the head of the Security Service of Ukraine, Ivan Bakanov, on July 18 because, he said, agents within the SSU had transferred secrets to the enemy.
Asked about their plans, young people talk of building a better country after defeating Russia.
“We can improve our country. We will construct a new Ukraine,” says Daryana Kolmyk, 20, a student at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv who moved west with her mother after they had to leave the eastern city of Kharkiv, the target of some of the heaviest Russian bombardments.
Kolmyk has given up her ideas of a master’s degree in sociology in France or the United States and now volunteers at a centre on campus that distributes foreign aid. Her father remained in Kharkiv and her younger brother is in Norway with grandparents and an uncle.
The Maidan protests, known as the Revolution of Dignity to many Ukrainians, also shaped Kolmyk and her family. While their community in Kharkiv mostly speaks Russian given its proximity to the eastern border, this changed in her household.
“We started to speak Ukrainian. We started to buy Ukrainian clothes. We started to donate to Ukrainian projects,” she says.
“Our family was changed by the Revolution of Dignity. I think we found our Ukrainian dignity inside of us.”
This may be a powerful force in Ukrainian society if, as some military observers expect, the current conflict turns into a long war of attrition.
“It’s like a new nation is being born,” says Alona Shevchenko, the key figure behind Ukraine DAO, a decentralised autonomous organisation that has raised money through cryptocurrencies for Come Back Alive, which buys supplies for the Ukrainian defence forces.
For Shevchenko and others, Ukraine emerged from the protests nearly a decade ago with a stronger society and a path to a more open democracy. Now, in wartime, the country’s fate depends in part on a generation of volunteers who still believe in that goal.
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Historical loan words
Mehemea ka kino te tākiri, he tāmaki tēnā (W 1971:376). / If the convulsive twitching is bad, that's an omen.
powerful leader of Te Wai-o-Hua of Tāmaki-makau-rau who were eventually defeated by Ngāti Whātua and Kiwi was killed.
Textbook (Ed. 2):
Auckland War Memorial Museum.
Auckland Art Gallery.
Seventy Mile Bush (range east of Tararua and Ruahine Ranges).
Nō te 5 o Oketopa i te tau i muri mai ka moea e Tūati te taina o Rosina, a Ivory Tēpora Morris ki Tāmaki-nui-a-Rua (TTR 1998:110). /
Auckland University of Technology, AUT University.
Pre-2021 name for The University of Auckland.
Te Aka Māori Dictionary is also available as an iOS and Android app. Download below.
Te Aka Māori-English, English-Māori Dictionary and Index by John C Moorfield comprises a selection of modern and everyday language that will be extremely useful for learners of the Māori language.
Te kai a te rangatira
He Pātaka Kupu is a monolingual Māori language dictionary, and was designed using its own culturally authentic terms.
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A view of Vauxhall Gardens showing the Grand Walk: 18th century
© Museum of London
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A view of Vauxhall Gardens showing the Grand Walk at the entrance of the gardens and the orchestra with the music playing. The 'supper boxes' were decorated by artists such as William Hogarth and Francis Hayman. Engraving.
1770 AD - 1797 AD
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HAVE A GO
When you are unhappy your world narrows down to getting through each day and going to bed before you get up to do it all again - over, and over, and over, ad nauseum. It's hard to motivate yourself to get out of that rut and the thought of trying something new (for me at least) was just too hard and I really couldn't be bothered.
Once I started pulling my socks up and looking for a way to change my mindset, I started thinking about what I'd like to do - and over the last 18 months or so I've tried a few new things that have made big and small changes in my world and all have made a contribution to regaining and retaining happiness.
One of the first things I did after quitting my job was to go out and buy a bicycle. It had been many, many years since I'd ridden a bike, and it doesn't get as much use as it should, but it marked a point where I had time to do something fun and feel the breeze and the sunshine as I cruised around the neighbourhood. It might be good for exercise, it might make me feel like a five year old, it might make me smile because it has a little woven basket on the handlebars, but really I have it for no purpose other than to make me happy.
Leadlighting (stained glass making) was on my bucket list but I never imagined actually doing it. I'm not remotely crafty or creative and yet it turns out that I loved it. I found an ad in the local paper offering lessons and before I knew it, I was cutting glass, molding lead, soldering, cementing and generally having a great time. I now have a stained glass stairway and it makes me smile every time I look at it - more happiness!
The thing about happiness is that it often comes from investing in others. Once I stopped working I had more time to myself and wanted to do something as a volunteer. The best fit for me has been mentoring a boy at our local primary school. He and I spend an hour together each week and it's so easy but makes a real difference in his life. It makes me happy to see him gaining self confidence and I love that he looks forward to me coming each week especially for him.
My latest "new thing" was getting my daith pierced. (First up I had to convince my mother that a daith wasn't something rude!) There's a lot of anecdotal evidence that points to a daith piercing helping with migraine relief. I get headaches several times a week - some awful and some not too bad, but I was sooooo tired of them. I thought "what the heck, let's give this a go!" and my daughter decided that it sounded like fun so she'd do hers too. So a couple of weeks ago we went to a professional piercer and did the deed. I think it's reduced my headaches by at least 50% but that could be a placebo thing???? Regardless, it is a cool piercing, it was a mother/daughter bonding time.....and it was something new and out of my comfort zone.
In the future if an opportunity comes my way to try something new or to tick something off my bucket list, I'm going to do it. I feel like I need to travel some time soon - even if it's not far away - it's just another little box to tick in stepping out of the comfort groove. Same old, same old is good in many ways - I love the security that gives me, but it can lead to being bored or discontent, or unhappy. Sometimes you need to shake things up and stretch yourself and see where life takes you. It is fun and we all need more fun in our lives at times.
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What is an art centre?
The first contemporary art centres made their appearance in France in the 70's as places for the making and dissemination of contemporary art. They have a special relationship with creation by living artists and keep in close touch with the current scene. Originally venues for experimentation and creation, they diversify into annual programmes of exhibitions, publishing and outreach towards the broadest possible public. They work as homing devices, with independent programming and real responsiveness.
In lots of cases artists have their early exhibitions thanks to contemporary art centres, before their work finds its way into the national and regional art collections, Fnac, Frac, museums, private collections and foundations. There are contemporary art centres all over France and they've given new audiences the chance to encounter the art of their time.
d.c.a is a non-profit association and since it was set up in 1992 it has helped network and federate France's contemporary art centres, with their different statues and programming approaches. The 51 current d.c.a members are very diverse in terms of their history, size and geographical and social context. The majority receive public-sector subsidies from the various regional cultural affairs offices (Drac) and départements, urban communities and cities; most are non-profit associations, although some are directly managed by their region, or municipality. Their fields of activity vary according to their financial means and whether they're in town, in the suburbs or in the country side.
What d.c.a wants to do is to make the public aware of the creative richness of contemporary art and today's cultural projects. We use artistic exchange as a basis for collaborations, co-productions, joint publishing ventures and national and international partnerships.
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According to a national poll on children's health 'not enough exercise" has gained the highest place in the priority list.
In the year 2012, lack of exercise is seen as the top health concern for children, according to a new University of Michigan C.S.Mott Children's Hospital National Poll, exclusively conducted on children's health.
AdvertisementIn the nation wide poll's annual "top 10" list, a sample population of adults were asked to prioritize and list the top 10 health concerns regarding children.
For the first time in all these years 'not enough exercise' was rated by the majority of adults (39%) as the the biggest health concern. This was followed by childhood obesity (38%), smoking and tobacco use (34%), drug abuse (33%) bullying (29%) stress (27%) alcohol abuse (23 %) teen pregnancy (23%) internet safety( 22%) child abuse and neglect (20%).
The poll's results varied depending on race and ethnicity. Hispanic adults were more likely to rate obesity among kids first, followed by 'not enough exercise', drug abuse, smoking and tobacco use. Black adults too rated smoking and tobacco use as factors of highest concern. These two groups, however, listed racial inequality, gun-related injuries and sexually- transmitted diseases higher on their list.
Child health and welfare programs must take these community-related variations and come up with programs that address specific needs.
Childhood obesity is a serious concern and most adults are aware of the fact that lack of exercise is the prime reason behind this frightening trend. Michelle Obama's campaign "lets move" attempts to fight this deplorable development among Americans, especially children. The first lady has even come up with a program to get children to eat a healthy lunch provided at school, contrary to the junk food that kids love to eat these days.
Children must be encouraged to exercise regularly, as exercising has added benefits such as improving attention and learning skills. After all, it's only a healthy child who grows to become a healthy adult.
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Sulphur mustard (SM) is a blistering agent that is directly toxic to the skin and mucosal surfaces of the eye and respiratory system. Symptoms take several hours to develop and the mechanism of action is poorly understood although SM is able to alkylate nucleic acids and proteins. The ability of SM to form adducts with DNA has been documented, although there are limited data demonstrating how cells respond to this insult to repair the damage. This study used the sulphur mustard surrogate 2-chloroethyl ethyl sulphide (CEES) to identify DNA damage repair pathways and signalling events that are activated after exposure to the agent. A dose-dependent increase in DNA damage was observed in TK6 lymphoblastoid cells, which was associated with a loss of cell viability. Using both model human lymphoblastoid cell lines and pharmacological inhibitors, it was found that DNA damage induced by CEES was repaired by base excision repair (BER) and nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathways. Finally, CEES was found to induce the phosphorylation of p53 and Chk2 and these events were mediated by both the ATM ataxia telangiectasia mutated and ATR (ATM and Rad-3 related) protein kinases.
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Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma (POAG) generally has no symptoms in the early stages, which is why it is known as the “silent thief of sight”. Late stage glaucoma, if untreated, leads to loss of visual field. If this is in one eye only, it may go unnoticed until vision is profoundly affected.
An attack of Acute Angle Closure, a different type of the disease, will normally cause a red, painful eye with misty vision and haloes around bright lights. This normally occurs in small hyperopic (long-sighted) eyes. The pain can be bad enough to cause nausea and vomiting. Repeated closed angle attacks and/or a sustained raised IOP can lead to damage to the optic nerve, known as primary angle-closure glaucoma (PACG).
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If you haven't noticed this little gem, that's because it is hidden at the bottom right corner of your Sheets screen.
While the Explore button has been there for a little while, it has recently gotten a few updates. Let's take a look at what the Explore button can do...
Get Answers About Your DataOne really cool features in Explore is the Answers section. At the top of any Explore pane, you will see a search box that says, "Ask a question about your data". So for instance, with the demo sheet available with the new explore button, there is a great deal of data about the World Cup. You could simply type in "Who was the winner?" and get a quick answer about that data.
Learn from the FormulaWant to know how they did that? With any question you ask you can click See Formula and see the Sheets formula used to find the data related to your question. For example, in a question about who the winner is, Sheets uses the unique filter to arrive at the answer:
Once you find your answer, and view the formula, you can click on the formula and it will be copied to your clipboard so you can use it and apply it elsewhere. This is a great way to learn more about the use of Functions and Formulae.
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This Friday I decided to boldly go where few bloggers have gone before! I attempted to write one flash fiction piece that met the requirements of this week’s Flash! Friday Challenge and also met the requirements of this week’s Writing 201 Challenge. For Flash! Friday, we were given up to 160 words to write a […]Read more "Switching Angles – “Trespassers Beware”"
“You’re blessed when you stay on course, walking steadily on the road revealed by God. You’re blessed when you follow his directions, doing your best to find him. That’s right – you don’t go off on your own; you walk straight along the road he set. You, God, prescribed the right way to live; now […]Read more "Monet, Sailboats, and Staying On Course"
“Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible.” Norman Rockwell Saying Grace, Norman Rockwell (1959) The sun always seems to brighten on Sunday mornings, and in spite of the dreary rain, today was no exception. Mid-morning sunshine filtered through the worn and dirty glass of the […]Read more "Norman Rockwell’s “Saying Grace”: A Glimpse Into America’s Past…and Future"
“We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.” – Pablo Picasso With this quote, Picasso captures the plight of an artist. No matter how hard we try, we do not have the ability to change reality. This ability lies solely in the hands of God. As […]Read more "Picasso’s “The Old Guitarist” and the Beautiful Lie of Art"
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It comes from the distillation of Rosemary aerial stems (ROSEMARINUS OFFICINAlIS).
This plant covers about 400 Hectares in Tunisia. The distillation campaign campaign starts in MARCH and ends in JUNE of each year.
Rosemary essential oil is used in perfumes, for soap, colognes and detergents, as well as in aromatherapy. Rosemary is distilled especially in the countries around the Mediterranean. Tunisian quality is highly coveted. It is exported all over the world.
Rosemary is a plant native to the Mediterranean sea. It is used to make bodily perfumes, and it has various health benefits. It is characterized by its leathery foliage. Rosemary has become a crucial component in aromatherapy and cosmetic applications. It is also prized for its powerful flavor as a spice. It flourishes in a warm and sunny climate. The plant takes its name from « rosmarinus », a Latin term which means "sea dew."
Rosemary can be harvested and processed for essential oil for most months of the year; the fresh flowering parts are harvested and then brought to distillation units where they are extracted via steam distillation.
Common name: Incense burner, wreath grass, sailors' rose, sea rose, marine rose.
English names: Rosemary.
Botanical family: Rosmarinus officinalis, family of labiatae or lamiaceae.
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What to do in Nowa Huta?
In the spirit of Socialist realism – how Nowa Huta came to be…
You may not believe it, but Nowa Huta is almost one of a kind. Why? It is one of only two cities in the world that were specifically designed and built from scratch in the style of socialist realism. Its construction was a crucial plan for the Polish People’s Republic during the first years under the communist regime. The authorities were willing to spend a lot of money in order to build a showcase of soviet power and superiority. Nowa Huta was meant to be an ideal socialist city inhabited mostly by industrial workers. Functionality and urbanization were at the forefront of its design. The architecture is characterised by symmetry, wide streets, enormous buildings, green spaces, and groups of apartment blocks (osiedla).
Apart from serving as propaganda – a representative city for the Soviet model of living, it was also chosen as the home of a large steel plant. This is actually where the city took its name from – Nowa Huta means New Steel Mill. Its location near Krakow was not only dictated by geographical and demographic reasons but also political. Many believe the main purpose was to change the perception of nearby Krakow which was strongly influenced by religion, traditions and intelligentsia. It was also one of the most antisocialist places in the country which strongly opposed the communist regime. Nowa Huta thus was supposed to be the total opposite of what Krakow is known for.
Despite being brought to life as the ideal socialist city, Nowa Huta was later a place where many protests took place and which ultimately contributed to the fall of communism in Poland. Needless to say, the notion of the ideal socialist city was never fully realized. These days Nowa Huta is becoming one of the most visited destinations in Kraków. We’ll be completely honest: some people hate it and others absolutely love it. Decide for yourself! Tours to Nowa Huta are especially interesting for visitors from abroad who want to see what living in communist Poland was like. If you’re one of them, read on to find out what to see in this neighbourhood.
Discover attractions of Nowa Huta
Now that you know a bit about the idea behind Nowa Huta, let’s have a look at what you can see and do in this district. Just a short tram ride from the centre of Krakow, you will find yourself travelling back in time to the Polish People’s Republic (PRL).
Stand in the middle of Central Square (Plac Centralny)
We will start from the most central point of Nowa Huta – Central Square (although it’s actually in the south of the district). This enormous square is situated just around 7 km from Krakow’s famous main market square and there are 5 main arteries spreading from it. The initial plans included a town hall at the northern end, but they were changed after 1956 since Nowa Huta was incorporated into Krakow. The southern part of Plac Centralny was never completed either as it was supposed to house a large theatre.
Enjoy a bit of culture at NCK (Nowohuckie Centrum Kultury)
Nowa Huta Cultural Centre emerged south of Central Square where a theatre was supposed to stand. It has one of the largest stages in Krakow and welcomes a variety of amazing performances, festivals and events year-round. It is home to two galleries with artworks of Zdzisław Beksiński and Jerzy Duda Gracz, 20th-century Polish artists. And if you are looking for a place to eat, the food trucks in front of it make NCK a favourite for foodies. In winter, NCK is also famous for its ice rink.
Learn about PRL (Polish People’s Republic) at Nowa Huta Museum
To really experience and appreciate Nowa Huta, it is important to know a bit about the history and realities of life in that era. There’s no better way to learn about it than a stop at Nowa Huta Museum. It operates in the former Kino Światowid and there are exhibitions on 3 levels that will keep you occupied for hours. When you leave, you’ll be well-versed in the PRL.
Walk along the Rose Avenue
Although you may not find roses here, they used to grow along this avenue between 1960 and 1970. Back in the day, a huge and heavy monument of Vladimir Lenin stood here. In fact, it was the biggest monument of Lenin in Poland and some people used to refer to it as ‘King Kong’. As you can imagine, it was not very popular among the residents and there were frequent attempts to destroy it or at least partially hurt it. One of the most repeated stories is about the attempt to blow it up in 1979, but the explosives hurt only the foot. The monument was finally quietly dismantled after the fall of communism in 1989. Today, Rose Avenue is a promenade where locals like to go for walks. According to the design, Rose Avenue was supposed to lead to the town hall which was never erected.
Eat at the Stylowa Restaurant
Take a break from all the walking and sightseeing to have a snack in the oldest restaurant in Nowa Huta. Opened in 1956 on Rose Avenue, Stylowa has been there ever since. Believe it or not, back in the day this was one of the most elegant venues in the whole of Nowa Huta. We won’t promise you the most delicious food, but then, the main reason to stop by this place is its atmosphere and the possibility to experience it as it used to be in communist times. When you step inside, you will get to feel just like the most elegant people used to feel back in the PRL years.
Go back in time at Tadeusz Sendzimir Steelworks
The second-largest steel plant in Poland is what Nowa Huta is most famous for. Located at the end of Solidarity Avenue, it covers around 600 ha. During the times of the Polish People’s Republic, it used to be called Vladimir Lenin Steelworks (of course). In the 1970s the factory used to produce almost 7 million tons of steel and employ around 40,000 people. The entrance to the Steelworks is centred between two concrete buildings which used to function as the Administrative Buildings. We recommend stepping inside if you’re a fan of alternative tourism or like to visit abandoned places where time stands still. It’s worth noting that these buildings are the only part of the steelworks accessible to tourists. The plant is still working on a smaller scale, having been purchased by Mittal Steel Company in 2005.
Hide in Nowa Huta Underground
Nowa Huta is supposed to have an extensive network of underground shelters (more than 250). Assembled in the 1950s, they were meant to shelter the whole population of Nowa Huta in case of an armed conflict like an air raid or nuclear war (although it’s been argued that the shelters would not be sufficient in case of the latter). You now have the chance to see some of those shelters with your own eyes. The first of them, located beneath the Mechanical School Complex No. 3 at the Szkolny 37 estate, was opened to visitors in 2019 and it includes an interesting exhibition about threats and the innate human desire to hide from danger.
See the neighbourhood’s first church – The Ark of Lord
Since the socialist idea of a utopian society included atheism, churches were excluded from this rapidly-built city. Nowa Huta was supposed to be a city without God. However, its religious residents, who came primarily from villages, were not ready to give up on their faith. They made their position known on many occasions, but protests in 1960 were among the most significant. They ended with numerous people imprisoned. After a lot of pressure and support from future pope John Paul II, the first church (The Ark of Lord) was finally erected in Nowa Huta between 1967-1977. Since there was no support from the authorities, the church was built by volunteer workers. The Lord’s Ark church is shaped like a boat, meant to resemble Noah’s Ark, and it has a special place on the map of Nowa Huta.
Enjoy nature at Nowa Huta Reservoir
If you’re on a trip to Krakow in spring or summer, it would be a shame to miss Zalew Nowohucki which is an artificial lake and together with the surrounding green area covers some 40 acres. Although when thinking about Stalinist architecture, the first thought is usually a lot of concrete and grey buildings. Nowa Huta is actually a very green district. You can experience its natural side at Nowa Huta Reservoir where you can take a stroll, breathe in the salty air produced by the graduation towers, rest on a small beach, hop in a kayak or do some sports, such as playing basketball.
These are just the basic things to know about Nowa Huta. Trust us, there are more places in the area that are worth a visit, especially if you are a nature lover. If you’d like to do some sightseeing in Nowa Huta, but don’t know where to start, check out our Nowa Huta tour. You’ll see many of the places we mentioned above and learn a lot of thanks to a local guide. And if you’ve just started planning your trip to Krakow, we invite you to have a look at all the tours we have on offer.
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A look at the causes and affects of low self-esteem in women, and at the way their lives are restricted by negative views of themselves. As well as identifying the problems, the authors offer practical step-by-step guidelines to help women begin to take control of their lives.
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The total population of the District is 1,22,436 inhibiting in 206 villages. The District literacy rate as per 2011 census stands at 53%. Majority of the inhabitants of the Sub-Division are economically poor though some portion of the population are wealthy enough and live a life far above the Poverty Line due to the presence of mineral wealth like coal and limestone and other agricultural products. Pnar tribe constituted one of the main tribe residing in the district. Other tribes who live in different parts of the district include Biate, Hmar, Garo, Khasi and War. Pnar language is the common language spoken by the people of the district.
Jaintias are also known as Syntengs and Pnars. Their kingdom was the oldest one and widely spread over the hilly areas of the Jaintia Hills District. The origin of the Jaintia kingdom is unknown. The capital, Jaintiapur, now ruined, was located on the plains at the foot of the Jaintia Hills.
Jaintia people are rich in their cultural heritage. Their culture reflects the traditions, music, dances, art and crafts of Jaintia tribe. The tribe is famous for artistic weaving, wood-carving and cane and bamboo work. These are also the main crafts of the tribe. They are also famous for weaving of carpet and silk and the making of musical instruments, jewelry and pineapple fiber articles. Jaintia men wear Jymphong and dhoti while the women wrap several pieces of clothes so as to give a cylindrical shape. During functions they wear crowns of silver and gold with peak attached at the back of it.
Jaintias are a matrilineal society which is a very rare and
unique practice where the children take the identity or family
title solely from the mother. Women are very lucky in this way,
because they are treated with equal rights but the head of the
family is always the father. Amongst the Jaintias, it is the
youngest daughter who inherits property and has the obligation to
take care and look after the family members incase of any
financial or health problems. The main language widely used by
the inhabitants of this district is the Pnar language. However
official language is English. The other languages speak in the
District being the coal mining areas are Biate, Hindi, Nepali,
Bengali and Assamese, etc.. The main occupation in the District
are coal mining business. However the inhabitant of the southern
most part of the District bordering Bangladesh sustained their
livelihood by Bettle Nut plantation. Apart from that this
District is enrich with other mineral resources with limestone
and due to its natural existence ten (10) nos. of Cement plant
have been established in the District.
The two most important festivals celebrated by the Jaintias are the Behdiengkhlam festival and Laho Dance festival. Behdiengkhlam festival is held generally in the rainy season of July or August. This festival is also regarded as the most colorful festival of the Jaintias. Laho dance, also known as the Chipiah dance is performed for sheer entertainment. Jaintia Hills offer some of the most stunning natural sights in Meghalaya.
The green surroundings, high plateaus, deep valleys, rambling rivers, and cascading waterfalls are feast for the eyes. Nartiang in the Jaintia Hills is the site of a collection of giant Monoliths, some are among the tallest in the world. There can be found an ancient Durga Temple which was once used for human sacrifice.
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This article was originally published on InsideAnalysis.com.
Data governance is still relatively new as a function in many enterprises and is trying to address concerns on a variety of fronts such as legal requirements, dealing with data vendors and ensuring that data issues are processed efficiently. Yet the needs are great, and there are significant areas that data governance is only just beginning to deal with. One of these is end-user computing (EUC). This is the domain of spreadsheets, standalone users, individual devices, email and applications such as Dropbox.
It is fair to say that EUC is not a traditional area of data governance. It is also fair to say that some data governance professionals are hesitant to tackle the needs of EUC as they feel that data governance already has enough to deal with. Such an attitude is understandable. A good deal of data governance has its roots in IT and Operations, and the focus of these groups is corporate systems. Hence, this is the focus of data governance, too. And of course there are certainly many needs that data governance has to tackle around corporate systems, such as ensuring that downstream analytic users can successfully consume the data produced by upstream transactional applications.
However, the scale of EUC is so great and the needs so pressing that it really cannot be ignored and some level of data governance resources need to be devoted to it. But before this can happen data governance needs to understand what EUC is and why it is so important.
Because EUC components (architecture may be too flattering a term) have not arisen via the systems development life cycle (SDLC) it is not always easy to appreciate what it is used for. Some examples of why EUC is needed include:
- A corporate system exists, but has some functionality missing. This is made up for by EUC, e.g., a customer MDM hub may exist, but does not directly support checking anti-money laundering regulations.
- A user works in an area that is largely unsupported by corporate systems, e.g., a risk department in a young, rapidly growing financial services company.
- A user works in a near-solitary manner, e.g., salespeople who are on the road a lot.
- A group of users works in a remote office in an environment unsupported by corporate systems, e.g., a Latin American country for a company that has traditionally been focused on the U.S.
More sets of circumstances can be added to this list. Yet, even though these considerations are fairly obvious, they are rarely addressed by data governance – primarily because data governance has to answer to powerful interests in IT and Operations.
But just because data governance is being held to account by these interests in IT and Operations does not mean that EUC is not important. Although figures are difficult to come by, the scale of EUC is very large. A few questions can be revealing:
- How much data is moved between users in an organization every day via email and personal storage applications such as Dropbox, compared to traditional FTP (file transfer protocol) and ETL (extract, transform and load)?
- How many reports are produced from EUC environments every day, compared to corporate analytics environments?
- Is it not a fact that there are entire departments where EUC rules supreme, such as sales, risk and actuarial?
Naturally, these questions will be answered differently for different enterprises, but they provide a reasonable justification for at least suspecting that the scale of EUC is quite large.
Why is EUC Important for Data Governance?
If we accept that relatively large-scale EUC environments exist, are they important to data governance? To answer this question we need to have a good grasp of what data governance is about. Here are a few examples applied to EUC:
- Protecting the enterprise data resource from loss, accidental destruction and theft. Admittedly, IT and data security play a role in these areas, but ensuring adequate data management practices are in place is within the purview of data governance. It is well known that EUC environments are vulnerable in all these respects.
- Ensuring data in EUC environments is legal and compliant with corporate polices. Some contracts with data vendors are very strict and can easily be violated by the presence of ungoverned copies in EUC environments. Similarly, governing the types of data sets that are allowed on personal devices versus being kept in corporate systems is very important.
- Applying standards to EUC data. For instance, the enterprise may have a standard of a 3-character country code, but an EUC application may use a 2-character one.
- Knowing what data is where. If an employee is suddenly terminated, or leaves suddenly, it may be vital to know what data they were using. Similarly if a laptop is lost, it may be very important to know what data was on it.
- Again, these are only some examples. Most enterprises, if they think about EUC environments, will conclude that they are important.
Therefore, given the scale and importance of EUC, what should be done about them?
Converting EUC Environments
A frequent response, especially from IT is that EUC environments should be converted to corporate systems. Enterprise Architecture, in particular, can supply many good reasons for this approach. However, it is nearly universally rejected by the users who own the EUC environments.
This can put data governance in an awkward position. It is not data governance’s job to set standards on what software and hardware should be used inside the enterprise, but it can easily be caught up in disputes between IT and the EUC users. This is why it is very important for data governance to think though how it should be applied to EUC environments. The list given in the previous section is a start.
Ultimately, conversion to corporate systems is not viable because of the cost and timeframes involved, and the fact that IT has many competing priorities. The dispute between IT and the EUC users often degenerates into IT trying to ban the technologies that the EUC users have implemented. The users typically retort that they have been forced to do this because of lack of support from IT.
The Data Governance Approach
Since EUC many environments are not going to be converted to corporate systems in the near future, what should data governance do?
To be successful with the EUC challenge, data governance must take a leading role. It cannot ask IT, or the EUC users for that matter, what their requirements are, and try to align to their needs. Rather, data governance must think out in detail what data management is needed for EUC. Transparency, security, compliance are examples of attributes that data governance will likely focus on. What is important is that the mix of stakeholders in EUC requires that data governance is mature enough to stand on its own and formulate practical solutions that will make EUC environments robust and secure.
Author Malcolm Chisholm will be the analyst in The Briefing Room on June 9 to discuss “Rethinking Data Availability and Governance in a Mobile World” with Dave Packer, VP of Product Marketing, of Druva. Click here to register.
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Dog Ear Infection Medication
It is a fact that dogs can have severe ear infections; medicating them can vary, depending on how severe the infection is. Consult your vet, for the proper diagnosis and medication for your animal’s particular case. Since a dog cannot tell you his ear hurts you must know what to look for. Your bud may start to shake his head a lot or paw at his ears and scratch; furthermore, you can be sure it is an ear infection if you stroke their ears and they yip, yowl, or flee from the excruciating pain. The Breeds more prone to ear infections are those with long, floppy ears among which are hounds, spaniels and setters. Their ears are the type to provide a damp environment to which infections organisms can thrive. If these physical characteristics describe your pup, cleaning their ears on a regular basis is more than vital.
Keep in mind that really bad ear infections can cause permanent damage, such as deafness and perhaps severe problems with balance. These infections are usually caused by such things as bacteria, yeast, or parasites like ear mites. If there is an underlying condition like a chronic health condition or allergic reaction causing the ear problems, then that condition must be treated as well as the ear infection itself. Your vet will most likely prescribe some kind of salve or liquid to be put into your canine’s ears. Be sure you know how to properly apply the medication and how often. There are certain homeopathic and herbal remedies available which may also help treat your dog’s ailment. Always be sure you use sterile tissue to clean their ears otherwise, if any unsterile material is used, there may be the possibility of re-infection.
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Did you know that September is National Honey Month? National Honey Month got its start in 1989, when the National Honey Board worked tirelessly with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to give honey the praise it deserves. Fun fact: September was decided as it’s the month the majority of the countries honey is harvested. Honey is the only food source produced by an insect that humans eat, so it’s kind of a big deal.
A few fun facts you may not know about honey bees:
- There are over 25,000 species of bees worldwide — 4,000 of which are native to the United States.
- The average honey bee's wings flap over 183 times per second.
- Bees have an excellent sense of smell which allows them to find their hive.
- Bees dance when they return to the hive to tell the other bees where the flowers are.
- Each honey bee only produces about 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime. That means around 22,700 bees are needed to fill a single jar of honey!
- A queen bee can sting multiple times without dying.
- 99% of the bee colony is made up of female bees known as worker bees.
- Male bees are called "Drones" and they do not have stingers, their only purpose is to mate with the queen bee.
In honor of National Honey Month, we will be working with Barr Hill Gin for Bee's Knees Week!
Bee's Knees Week is a celebration of the bee’s knees cocktail, a spotlight on the importance of bees in our food and drink system, and a community of bartenders working together to save the bees.
Since its establishment in 2017, Bee’s Knees Week participants have collectively donated over $31,000 to non-profit bee and pollinator organizations. Join us as we take part in the third year of this event with Barr Hill Gin and bartenders who are uniting to help save the bees through this weeklong celebration of bees and the Bee’s Knees cocktail.
A dollar for every cocktail sold will be donated to support The Bee Cause Project and help install educational beehives in public places.
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Avidya Buddhist Concept
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- The Concept of Sarasvati
- In my young age, on every occasion of the Sarasvati-Puja, I used to wonder how the goddess Sarasvati came to be associated with learning. There is no story of her birth as in case of Lakshmi and Parvati, for example. Therefore, the period of her appearing as...
Deities & Heros >> Indic
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- This extensive introduction includes some of the more well known, along with some lesser known Death "incarnations", and I use that term loosely, as in many cultures, the Angel of Death can be quite an adept shapeshifter. We have tried to cull...
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- How The Major Arcana and The Tibetan Book of The Dead can work together
- There are some striking complements to the Major Arcana of the Tarot and the Tibetan Book of the Dead. They are a nice enhancement to the meanings of these powerful cards. I claim no expertise on Buddhism but I found the resonance and compatibility to Tarot...
Religions >> Buddhism
- God The Mother
- IN THE WESTERN WORLD, we are all familiar with the concept of a male god, whether the idea comes from Christianity, Judaism or Mohammedanism. When we think of a male god, at the back of our minds is a picture of an old man in the sky, who has a certain set of...
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- A Cup of Hemlock: Dealing with Conflict in Coven and Congregation
- There have always been those folks who point out our foibles, and make us take an uncomfortable look at our world, as well as those who simply had the misfortune to point out the obvious when it was unwelcome. Then there are troublemakers, folks who go out of...
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- Discuss Aristotle's metaphysical theory as a polemic against Plato's theory of Ideas – question asked in Philosophy Paper I of UPSC Civil Services IAS Main Written Exam 2012. Philosophy was the sixth most popular optional in the UPSC IAS ...
- What Makes a Buddhist a Buddhist?
- There are fundamental disagreements among Buddhists about the basic nature of reality, the path to awakening, the definition of awareness, the necessary means of practice. There are Buddhists who believe in the equivalent of the sale of indulgences for ...
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- (I spent the winter of 2012 in silence on a self-guided retreat at the Forest Refuge, a Buddhist meditation center in rural Massachusetts. This twice-monthly blog, which begins with this ...
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Monolithic 3D Technology
- For logic applications, benefits similar to conventional scaling can be obtained with Monolithic 3D Scaling by leveraging existing fab equipment. For example, at the 22nm node, one folding (two stacked layers) will yield 2x lower power, 2x smaller silicon area, 4x smaller footprint, with only a fraction ($200M) of a typical new wafer-fab capital investment.
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- Monolithic 3D enables a broad base of semiconductor companies to compete in creating and driving future generations of portable devices such as smart-phones and tablet computers.
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About the Susitna Doc Finder
The Susitna Doc Finder is a comprehensive catalog of documents that have resulted from every phase of the historic 1980s Susitna Hydroelectric Project (SuHydro Project), as well as those documents continually being produced since 2010 under the current Susitna-Watana Hydroelectric Project (SuWa Project).
The catalog is powered by VuFind and features:
- Maximal searchability
- Mobile-friendly usage on devices of all sizes and shapes
- Automatic display of cover images of all PDFs
- Indexing of full text of all PDFs
- Relevancy-ranked search results
Every historic and current report is available via the Susitna Doc Finder. These include:
|Project Name||Report Types|
|Susitna Hydroelectric Project (SuHydro)||APA, RTS, SUS|
|Susitna-Watana Hydroelectric Project (SuWa)||SuWa|
Detailed explanation of each type of report is below.
SuHydro Project Reports
ARLIS maintains the most extensive collection of historic Susitna Hydroelectric Project publications found anywhere. The Susitna Hydroelectric Project, costing an estimated $227 million in research during the 1970s and 1980s, produced a body of work exceeding 5,000 reports. ARLIS continually strives to discover more documents to amass the most complete collection possible.
Three large series of SuHydro Project reports are represented in the Susitna Doc Finder, as follows:
APA Reports: These were compiled, indexed, and numbered by the Alaska Power Authority (APA). These are comprised of agency reports, contracted reports, and books, articles, and excerpts that contain information relevant to the historic project.
• A scanned copy of the numerical index may be found at: http://www.arlis.org/docs/vol1/Susitna/35/APA3573.pdf
The title of the finding aid is Susitna Hydroelectric Project Document Index.
RTS Reports: Aquatic Studies, conducted by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, received RTS report numbers. There are several finding aids for these.
• Brief version: http://www.arlis.org/docs/vol1/Susitna/40/APA4054.pdf
• Annotated version: http://www.arlis.org/docs/vol1/Susitna/40/APA4053.pdf
• Enhanced annotated version with covers and tables of contents of each report:
The title of the finding aid is Susitna River Aquatic Studies: Divisions of Sport and Commercial Fisheries.
SUS Reports: These reports were compiled and numbered by Arctic Environmental Information and Data Center (AEIDC) in fulfilment of an aquatic impact study project.
• A scanned copies of the numerical index may be found at: http://www.arlis.org/docs/vol1/Susitna/40/APA4030/APA4030a.pdf
The title of the finding aid is Susitna Aquatic Impact Assessment Project Bibliography.
SuWa Project Reports
These reports are mainly produced by agencies and contractors associated with the Susitna-Watana Hydroelectric Project (SuWa Project). ARLIS has systematically assigned SuWa numbers and included uniform cover pages for each SuWa report.
Alaska Resources Library and Information Services (ARLIS) has been under contract to the Alaska Energy Authority since 2009 to maintain and augment these collections in support of the present day Susitna-Watana Hydroelectric Project. ARLIS has digitized all available SuHydro reports. SuWa reports are born digital and ARLIS has created a permanent paper repository of all SuWa reports.
More of these reports are being discovered as the project continues to develop, and additional scanning and linking is occurring. Donations of SuHydro collections (small and large) are always welcome.
ARLIS was founded by eight state, federal, and University agencies to form a comprehensive collection related to the natural and cultural resources of Alaska. ARLIS is a full-service library that provides reference and bibliographic services, and is used by government agencies, the private sector, University students and the public.
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The Annual Cultural Statistics signal that the investments in culture of the Balearic population are above the average in Spain. Nevertheless, the Balearics are the autonomous community with the least public investment in culture. What does this mediocre public investment answer to in a comparatively richer community?
In the Vienna of the beginnings of the 20th Century, the political class enjoyed assisting to the theater and concerts or consuming all kinds of literature. Their example encouraged the population to interest and enrich itself with cultural experiences. Today, the Spanish political class masters a language rich in economical terms, but one that does not particularly shine for its cultural upbringing. This can be perceived in their discomfort while participating in cultural activities.
From ignorance, it is impossible to support something ideologically, in appearance of no use, like culture, and this ignorance reflects on the data offered by the Annual Cultural Statistics. Culture enriches us personally: it opens our mind to different views, it develops our sensibility, it brings us closer as a society and it helps us integrate. From a purely practical reasoning, there is a clear link between culture, creativity and innovation that favors, without a doubt, the economical and social progress. Due to this, artists and creators have helped and continue on helping companies and institutions to approach, from innovation and creativity, the challenges that a changing society like ours has.
Up until today, in the Balearics, the political justification to support culture has not been particularly social, but greatly economical. To link culture with tourism has been the main door to financing the Balearic culture. This reasoning encloses a subsidiary vision of culture; it conceives it from the practicality and as sustentation for tourism, producing, as a consequence, a utilitarian culture, oriented towards the outside, but far from the local sensibility.
Culture is alive; it spreads freely and intimately, disobeying the immediate pretensions that the political class designs every four years. Its nature is not necessarily mercantilist, nor profitable, and because of this it needs backing: with reasonable taxes, protection measures, tax incentives, creation and exhibition spaces, education in schools and aids.
Is it possible then to reach an agreement with the political class that guarantees the sustainability of culture? It is unknown to us, but it’s clear, that if not reachable, we will lose a one-off chance to mend the dehumanizing tendency that we as a society face.
As an audiovisual production company, we perceive this fear of culture closely in the industry we are bound to, our public television; the reflection of who we are and who we want to be. It is hard to understand how not a single purely cultural program has been aired in the decade of its existence. Up until today, gastronomy is the only ‘cultural’ food that the Balearic television regularly offers us. The new direction that IB3 is taking should correct this historical mistake and take advantage of the potential that television has in connecting culture and society before it’s too late. We should rethink our sociocultural foundation and rethink without fear, the current television model of distraction and sedation of the population. Above all, it is key to create a sustainable, modern and plural programming schedule.
Only by safekeeping and enhancing the existence of this culture, it is guaranteed that ideas exist that inspire us social and personally and only so is it reassured that our differentiation and cohesion exist beyond uniformed thinking.
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Planning PD: Tailor to the Teachers
9/12/2011 12:00:00 AM
Take time to find out what kind of professional development teachers need. This can be done through surveys or discussion groups. Don't forget to survey the students as well. Student achievement is experienced when teachers are provided guidance in what nurtures students’ intellectual development and affects the learning process. Armed with this understanding, teachers are more articulate about the type of professional development that could address the learning needs of the students.
* Teachers need strategies that elicit students’ strengths and interests while connecting learning directly with their experiences.
* Professional development must be designed as part of long-term learning objectives that are embedded in curriculum, address how students will be assessed, create high expectations on a daily basis and provide strategies and accountability measures to meet these expectations.
* Include administration in professional development to avoid gaps between leadership, support, and lasting momentum.
Teaching is not easy and we must be realistic about the challenges that teachers face, but we must also value their input and their passion to competently assist students in not just passing tests, but in optimizing their learning.
There are better ways to structure professional development. Just ask the teachers and students who are participating in and praising meaningful professional development and data will support their assertions. Use this PD Planning Worksheet to get you started on the right foot.
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Definitions for lucanthone
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word lucanthone
A particular drug used in chemotherapy.
Lucanthone is a drug used in chemotherapy. It is a prodrug and is converted to an active metabolite "hycanthone".
U.S. National Library of Medicine
One of the SCHISTOSOMICIDES, it has been replaced largely by HYCANTHONE and more recently PRAZIQUANTEL. (From Martindale The Extrapharmacopoeia, 30th ed., p46)
The numerical value of lucanthone in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
The numerical value of lucanthone in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
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For nearly 30 years, heart disease has killed more women than men in the United States. Yet women continue to face lower rates of diagnosis, treatment, and survival. Many other diseases are disproportionately prevalent among women and may affect them differently, requiring gender-specific approaches to diagnosis and treatment. The disparities in care might have developed unintentionally, but the time has come to narrow them deliberately. In this recording, a panel of experts discuss women's health, heart health, and the potential effects of gender on health.
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Did you know that some of the most common plumbing issues can be simply and effectively remedied on your own? While it’s good to have the name and contact information of a reliable plumber when emergencies, big jobs, and renovation projects come along, the average homeowner can take care of a few simple jobs around the house. All that’s requires is a little patience and help from our list of helpful tips:
Problem: Running Toilet
How to fix it: If you hear your toilet running long after you’ve last flushed, there’s more that you can do beside ignoring it or jiggling the handle. The next time you hear it running, lift the lid off of the tank and look inside. If the tank isn’t full and you see no signs that it is in the process of filling, then the flapper may not be correctly positioned. If this is the problem, reach in and close it manually. If the problem persists you may have to replace one of three parts: the fill valve, the toilet flapper, or a leaky flush valve.
Problem: Clogged kitchen drain
How to fix it: Fortunately, the commonality of sink clogs means that there are a number of easy fixes that homeowners can do on their own. One easy way to clear a greasy clog is with a combination of white vinegar, baking soda and boiling water. Simply add a ¼ cup of baking soda to the drain and then pour in an equal amount of vinegar. Flush the vinegar and baking soda with boiling water, and then use a plunger to free the clog. If at home methods are unsuccessful, then it may be time to call in a professional.
Problem: Clogged toilet
How to fix it: No one likes the thought of dealing with a clogged toilet; however, oftentimes, toilet clogs are among the easier problems to fix. The first step is to put your plunger to work. If there is no water in the toilet bowl, be sure to add some prior to using the plunger. If the toilet remains clogged, you can use a toilet snake to try and dislodge it. If you don’t own a toilet snake, you can use a wire coat hanger in its place. Simply untwist the coat hanger and wrap a scrap of old t-shirt around it to keep from damaging the bowl. Then push the wrapped end of the hanger into the bowl and move it around until the water starts to drain.
Problem: Low water pressure in the shower
How to fix it: more often than not, reduced water pressure in the shower is the results of mineral buildup. The easiest way to solve this problem is by removing your shower head and soaking it in vinegar. If your showerhead is not removable slip a plastic bag filled with vinegar over the showerhead and hold it in place with a rubber band.
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It is early evening. The heat of the day is beginning to settle, leaving the earth parched and the sun ready to rise and sear the earth tomorrow. But for now the absence of heat is like gratitude.
Annie is stretched out on her belly on the grey slats of wood that comprise the deck behind her house. She is watching red ants crawl over the rotten figs that have smashed down just over the edge of the deck. The boards cover half the yard and surround the tree that grows through a hole cut close around its trunk. The tree has always been there–before the deck, or the house, or her, for that matter–and it will always be there. And where will she be? Far, far away. Though she really can’t imagine being anyplace else, unless it is her Aunt Mabel’s house in Baton Rouge, or make-believe like the sultan’s tent in Arabian Nights.
Sighing, she feels the roughness of the wood against her chin. She has been watching the ants forever. They are always in the yard whenever figs are in season. That’s why she helps Merle wash off the deck every morning. They mop off the fruit that has dropped during the night so the deck doesn’t become a fig graveyard.
“Ants in your pants,” Merle sings in the mornings as she throws water out onto the deck.
“Ants in your pants,” Annie sings back.
Still, the ants are interesting: so delicate, almost a translucent auburn with antennae that they wave at her like wands. But she knows to be wary. Ant bites hurt something terrible. She watches now as the ants crawl over the browned places where the light green skin has rubbed off a fallen fig. It has split open, revealing the white flesh inside. Some ants have already found the center stuffed with unripe seeds and beaded with a white liquid. The ants enter singly or in groups, eager and cautious. The groups don’t seem to be cooperating, Annie notices, although they back off politely when they bump into each other.
“Annie?” Merle speaks gently so as not to startle her.
Annie looks up and sees her, the generosity of her in a gaudy apron zigzagged with yellow and red ribbon. Merle is perspiring standing at the screen door, but the housekeeper doesn’t open it. One of the springs is almost busted already from the girls shoving it two ways at once.
“Get yourself cleaned up,” Merle says. “Your daddy will be home in one shake of a lamb’s tail.”
In the bathroom she shares with Zoe, Annie steps up onto the little white stool by the sink. She can see herself in the mirror now; her hair is sticking up like a Fiji Islander. First, she washes her hands with a thick bar of soap, admiring the grey trickle of dirt that runs off her fingers. Then she opens the medicine cabinet and takes down her little yellow duck nailbrush. She scratches it along the back of the soap and scrubs hard under her nails. First her left hand and then, more awkwardly, her right, until the grey crescents under her nails give way to pink. She stretches her fingers under the water, pleased.
Her face isn’t very dirty, but she washes it anyway, and behind her ears, because Merle always tells her not to forget. She gets down from the stool and goes to her room. She keeps her hairbrush there so Zoe won’t borrow it when hers goes missing. It’s round with real boar bristles, just the right size for her hand. Annie sits on the edge of the bed, her feet dangling; she leans forward and a tumble of curly hair falls in front of her eyes. She brushes her hair vigorously from back to front, determined to make it shine tonight.
She sings as she strokes: “One-two-three-four, five-six-seven, eight-nine-ten and eleven.” And then she starts all over again, singing to keep her arm from getting tired. She can hear her mother in her bath down the hall, the slosh of the water as she shifts and sighs. It is a special night. Soon her mother will come out wrapped in her white robe wearing her chenille slippers and the aqua turban that makes her look like a gypsy. She will sit in her robe at her dressing table, and if Annie hurries she will let her sit on the floor and watch as she paints on her lipstick with a tiny brush that she pushes out of a small protective tube. “Painting on my mouth,” her mother calls it, though of course she already has a mouth.
Annie can hear her mother humming in the tub. She knows that it will be a good night.
* * *
It is not often that the girls are invited into the sitting room. The room is really not for sitting at all; it is where Annie’s mother receives guests on the rare occasions that there are visitors. Between these visits the furniture is covered in stiff plastic that crackles if you sit on it, and the sofa and chair arms are always covered with antimacassars. But tonight she and Zoe have been invited. It is a special occasion. Her mother’s new furniture has arrived, shipped all the way from Chicago, delivered to the dock this morning and un-swaddled in the sitting room this very afternoon.
Annie sits up very straight in a new high-backed wing chair. She is wearing her favorite blue blouse, the one with little flowers, clean white socks, and she’s perched on the edge of its plump pillowed seat. She’s afraid she will have to squirm her way out if she falls back into its enveloping softness, and Daddy and Zoe will laugh the way they always do. They always seem to have a joke going. But Annie is still pretty sure she is his favorite.
Annie’s feet don’t touch the ground, so she crosses her ankles carefully. The chair is plush, covered with plum velvet and fringed with twisted gold tassels. She is in awe. She has never felt anything as soft as the brush of the velvet on the backs of her knees. She swings her legs just a little to feel the nap of the cloth tickling her skin.
“Don’t put your feet up, girls. This furniture’s got to last ‘til you get married,” their daddy says. He has already taken off his good shoes and sits relaxing in his stocking feet. He lifts his glass of bourbon, letting the liquor roll on his tongue; the ice slides against his lip.
Daddy is a handsome man, as handsome as Clark Gable. That’s what everyone says, except when he lets his beard grow in red. Then he looks like one of Jean Lafitte’s pirates. At least that’s what their mother says. He works for Stuart Title and he buys acreage for his own account, though the land he owns over on Bolivar is so dry it can only be used to grow watermelons. But it’s the owning that counts, Daddy says.
He swallows now, rattling the ice, and salutes Annie’s Mama with his glass. She smiles back, raising her glass in answer. “Thank you, Daddy,” she says. “No one in Galveston has anything like these. They’re so distinguished.”
“Whatever you want, Mother,” Daddy smiles.
“What I want is to have a dog,” Annie suggests, though no one has asked her.
“No canines need apply,” her Daddy shakes his head.
“I saw puppies over near school. They had them in a box on the lawn. They were so cute, and they were giving them away,” Annie says, talking fast. “If I had a dog I’d love it to death.”
“You couldn’t take care of a dog,” Zoe scoffs.
“I could! I know how. Merle’s let me feed her dog, and she said I did a good job. She said that hound loves me better’n her own kids.”
“Whatever were you doing at Merle’s?” her mother asks suspiciously, and Annie remembers that she is not supposed to walk Merle home.
“She does whatever she sets her mind to,” Daddy says. “But no dog.”
Annie sighs. The subject is closed, her daddy always has the final say. But she needs a dog. If she could just make him understand. She yearns for something, anything, of her own that she can scorch with her fierce love.
“Can I refresh your drink?” her mother says, half-rising and inclining her head as if she’s some fancy hostess.
Annie’s father laughs appreciatively, holding out his glass, but her mother doesn’t actually get up. She is wearing her lilac silk dress, the one she wears to parties with the sleeves that fall away from her shoulders, leaving her collarbone bare. She is wearing the perfume and pearls that Daddy gave her for their wedding anniversary. There are red spots of excitement in her cheeks, and she has rouged her lips. But her green eyes, long-lashed and turned down in the corners, give her face a shade of melancholy, no matter how happy she is, like one of the heroines of the soft-back novels she favors.
She holds her glass up to her forehead. “I need ice,” she says. “Zoe, sugar, go ask Merle to chop up some more ice and put it in a bucket, be a sweetheart?”
“Sure, Mama,” Zoe says, slipping out of her chair. “Then can I be excused?”
“Don’t want to sit with us?” Daddy asks. “More important business calls?” He wrinkles his nose and gives Zoe that look he has, as if he knows every bad thing she’s ever wanted to do. “I think I saw that little Adele loitering out back when I came in.”
“When was that?” Zoe asks innocently. At nine, she is already adept at dissembling.
“Nothing escapes my evil eye.” Daddy winks.
“Oh, leave her alone.” Their mother leans back wearily, fanning herself with her hand. “Just get the ice, honey, and then all right. But change out of that dress. And don’t get dirty, or go wandering off.”
“I never do,” Zoe says.
“You never,” her Mama mocks. “I should never let you play with a child like that. You’ll acquire bad habits and lice.”
“Does that mean yes or no?” Zoe narrows her eyes.
“Get that ice,” her mother says, and Zoe disappears into the kitchen.
“Come on over, sweet pea,” her daddy beckons to Annie. He is relaxing into the bourbon, his jaw softening. He takes off his tie, opens up the first three buttons of his white shirt, and rolls up his sleeves. Dark hair curls out of the scooped neck of his ribbed white undershirt.
Annie hops down and crosses the room. He puts down his drink and lifts her up on to his lap. She holds onto his forearms, feeling the pop of muscles under her hands.
“You got any sugar for me?” tickling her behind her knees until she is squirming, pink and breathless.
“Quit it. Quit it, Daddy!” She falls onto the floor with a bump.
Her mother studies the two of them, sipping from her glass. “You spoil her,” she remarks.
If her mother was a cat she would purr, Annie thinks, and suddenly she feels very lucky. She hears the swing of the kitchen door now and Zoe enters the room, carrying a white and blue China bowl. She is still wearing her short blue pants, but she has added Annie’s slippers, the soft ones embroidered with Indian beads. They’re too small, she’s stepping on the backs and she shuffles to keep them on.
“My slippers!” Annie protests.
“I’m only wearing them for now,” Zoe says calmly, walking carefully toward her mother, balancing a tray and a bucket of ice. “Don’t worry about your precious slippers, I’m going out barefoot.”
“You’ll do no such thing,” their mother’s voice rises.
“Get worms going barefoot,” Annie declares, triumphant.
“Shut it,” Zoe kicks off the slippers dexterously, still balancing the tray. She holds it up close to her mother, who takes the three-tined tongs and slips the crushed ice into her drink.
“I won’t have a child of mine speak that way. Now take that ice over to your father,” Mama says.
Zoe lowers her eyes angry, but she manages to stay quiet. Annie knows why. Adele is waiting for Zoe in the back alley. She makes a face at her sister, flaring her nostrils from behind her father’s legs and sticking out her tongue. Zoe ignores her. She has crossed the room and is holding the tray in front of her father now like she’s a waitress.
Daddy picks up the tongs and winks at her, conciliatory. He starts to whistle a song she likes about razorblades and soda pop. Zoe begins to smile, but then she looks afraid. She winces and lets go of the tray. There is the sound of china shattering as the bowl hits the floor. Zoe’s left arm hangs stiffly in front of her bent at an angle. The other twitches robotically by her side. Her eyes roll up. The irises disappear and her sister is gone, snatched away by a creature from a horror movie.
Annie hears herself screaming. Zoe teeters, then collapses, falling rigid, her head hitting the edge of the coffee table with a thump.
Their father leaps to life, stooping and cradling Zoe’s head in his big hands. “Baby,” he says, brushing the curls away, running his thumb over the bump that is already rising out of the smoothness of her forehead. Zoe has passed into some kind of sleep, inhaling deeply, her body limp. There is an acrid smell of sweat and urine.
Annie blinks. She is waiting to see if the scene will run backwards. But Zoe is still on the floor.
Annie prays for her sister. She promises she will believe in God all the way and give Zoe all her marbles and never tell on her and go to church every Sunday and never try cigarettes. She will always and forever be good. She sobs, her face in her hands.
Across from her, their mother watches the scene. “Stop blubbering like a baby,” she looks at Annie with disgust. “Get yourself under control or go on into the kitchen.”
“Call the doctor,” her father says.
“I’ll do no such thing.” she answers.
“Call the doctor, Ida, she’s sick.” This time it’s the voice he uses on the dock with the riggers.
“Don’t use that tone with me,” Mama warns. “What she needs is the belt, not the doctor.”
“You know what this is. It’s some kind of fit. Your brother had fits.”
“There’s nothing like that in my family. I’d be the one to know about my family.” She swirls the ice in her glass and takes a sip.
“Your daddy told me,” he says, cradling Zoe’s head against his chest.
“Must have been one of those conversations lubricated by bourbon.” She gives a little laugh. “All excuses for a man who has never amounted to anything. And if you indulge Zoe, she’ll twist you around her little finger. She’s a fine little actress, and don’t I know it.”
“That was no act,” Daddy answers, but he sounds less sure.
“You leave the girls to me. I know how to handle young ladies,” their mother nods sagely, and he looks away.
He places a pillow under Zoe’s head and gets up slowly from the floor. They sit in silence, except for the clinking of ice in her mama’s glass. Zoe opens her eyes. She sits up, looking around confused, tossed into a strange land with no familiar landmarks.
“Daddy?” she asks.
“You see? She’s fine,” Mama declares. “Go get Merle to clean up this mess, Annie. And stop that crying. Get.”
“Leave her be.”
“The girls aren’t your concern.”
Zoe looks at Annie, and then at her mother.
“I don’t want you going out now,” their mother says softly. “Just go up and get a little rest before dinner.”
Zoe stands, steadies herself with a hand on the back of the couch, then walks out. Her bare feet make no noise on the stairs.
“I’m going up too.” Annie says, standing up.
“You’ll do no such thing,” their mother answers, shaking her head. “I won’t have her spoiling our evening with her shenanigans.” She looks at her husband now. Neither one speaks. Annie knows her parents have forgotten her but she’s still afraid to move. The fan creaks the way it always does on high, stirring the air.
“I won’t cross you,” Daddy says finally. “But that child needs a doctor, not the switch.”
“It’s her age, and she is a willful child. You mustn’t indulge her or you’ll lose all control. She’ll be running wild.” Mama gestures now, opening her hand. It’s like some kind of a card trick.
Their father is silent. He picks up his drink, looking into the dark liquor. “Ida,” he begins.
“Honey,” she interrupts. “Don’t you worry. That’s all she wants, but don’t you indulge her. Can I freshen your drink?” This time she really does get up and goes to the sideboard. She brings back the cut crystal decanter and fills his glass. “You look like a sultan, or a potentate in that chair.”
“She didn’t do that on purpose.”
“Oh, your daughter. She’s knows how sweet you are and she takes advantage.” Mama walks behind his chair now, leaning down so that her cheek touches his and her breasts press against his back. “If she knows she can scare you, she’ll just be doing it more often.”
“I’m going upstairs to wash up,” Annie says. Neither of her parents looks up when she leaves. Upstairs, she tiptoes into Zoe’s room. She expects Zoe will have escaped, out the window, over the roof and into the alley. But Zoe is there, lying across the bed fully clothed, eyes closed, breathing deeply. Her cheeks are rosy, loose curls cling to the side of her face. She looks like a princess in her hundred years sleep awaiting the kiss of her prince.
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The team of ministers examining the operation of Google Street View in Israel has decided to let the public join discussions and make comments before formulating its conclusions. Google Street View, a service already operating in 27 countries, is based on photography and presents pictures of city streets and selected sites worldwide.
Minister of Improvement of Government Services Michael Eitan that the public can express its opinion on the venture via the Internet and make suggestions on how to improve the decision making process. Comments can be posted by the public at http://shituf.gov.il/discussions/242
The problems regarding operating the service revolve around the potential harm to individual privacy and state security. After Israel examined security aspects of Google Street View no reason was found to prevent the process to approve the project from proceeding. The subject has also been handed over to the Ministry of Justice's Authority for Technology and Science, and an agreement is likely regarding privacy similar to those in force in other countries where Google Street View is already operating.
Published by Globes, Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on April 3, 2011
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FutureMetrics addresses ‘alternative facts’ in Chatham House study
March 6, 2017 - Providing misleading, inaccurate, and sometime outright fiction as facts could be called propaganda. With overtones of Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the term "alternative facts" has recently been coined.
March 6, 2017 By FutureMetrics
Either way, it is information that is biased and misleading that is used to promote a point of view. We have written critiques of other papers, by among others, the World Resources Institute and Climate Central, for writing biased, incomplete, and misleading publications that use alternative facts to promote an agenda that opposes a strategy that we have coined as a rational and pragmatic off-ramp to a decarbonized future.
Now we add the Chatham House paper to the list. The recently released paper by the Chatham House is a study that contains many inaccurate statements about the use of wood for energy. Those statements are presented as facts or as uncontested conclusions. This white paper focuses on the study’s discussions that pertain to the sourcing of raw materials for industrial wood pellets.
You can download the paper from the FutureMetrics website.
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Gannon University Nursing Professors Present a Flu-Fighting Strategy
Posted: July 9, 2013
Gannon University nursing professors took a closer
look at living in close proximity to one another. College students
are in an ideal situation for the incubation of learning,
exchanging ideas and . . . the flu. Immunization is critical, but
how do you get laissez-faire college students to participate?
That was the problem addressed by a podium presentation by two
Gannon University nursing professors at the Building Healthy
Academic Communities National Summit at Ohio State University. In
"Nursing Students As Health Ambassadors: Implementing a University
Influenza Immunization Program," Kimberly R. Blount MSN, CRNP,
assistant professor and associate professor Lisa Quinn Ph.D. CRNP,
MSN, explored creative ways to solve this public health
It's a bigger problem than you might imagine. A 2010 study by
the American College Health Association (ACHA) revealed that the
vaccination rates for influenza on college/university campuses are
Using the Gannon campus as a public health laboratory, Blount
and Quinn devised an innovative strategy that utilized senior
baccalaureate nursing students enrolled in a community health
course in the University's Villa Maria School of Nursing to
coordinate a University Influenza Vaccination Program.
The nursing students acted as "Health Ambassadors" to students,
faculty and staff. The performed a community assessment, worked to
produce informational materials, established policies and
procedures and provided immunizations. The program was
service-learning at its most essential: students helping students -
a lot of them.
More than 550 influenza immunizations were provided at a one-day
event, a startling number considering that in previous years, the
University's Student Health Services had provided less than 50
influenza immunizations annually.
The favorable outcomes extended beyond reducing the number of
illnesses, missed classes and boxes of tissues sold during the
annual flu season.
Nursing students gained collaborative skills by working with a
diverse range of University staff and departments, and professional
staff learned from the students, who taught registered nurse
volunteers the intradermal technique used for the
Among the findings of the project were the importance of
starting small and growing, teamwork and the freedom to be
creative. And that's nothing to sneeze at.
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In order to be effective discipliners of children, parents and caregivers should act in an executive capacity, which means that they should be embracing their role and responsibility of being in charge. A closer look at the Executive Role in parenting reveals what that entails.
The Executive Role in parenting
Children need parents who are willing to be “in charge.” Being in charge involves the three Cs:
- A sense of Calm in your body language, voice tone and eye contact.
- Being Clear by using specific descriptions.
- Having a Confident and assertive attitude.
It is important to recognize that the Executive Role requires parents to be firm, and sometimes immovable, but being firm and assertive does not mean being mean.
When parents discipline effectively, they continue to love and respect their children while they take charge. So, a parent does not have to be harsh or mean to be in charge.
In fact, in using discipline effectively, being in charge should help parents avoid:
- Power struggles
Setting reasonable expectations
When we are being a good Executive, we are considering and setting reasonable expectations for children. We must base our expectations on each child’s:
- Age and developmental stage
- Development Tasks
- Situational factors
- Temperamental characteristics, learning styles
- Ability levels
Principles associated with the Executive Role
As in any job, the Executive Role should have values and beliefs that go with that role. Consequently, it is very important for parents to ask themselves how much they believe the following principles are true.
- That it is your right and duty to act in an Executive Role as appropriate
- Kids don’t have to like the rules and decisions
- You are a benevolent authority (a family is not a democracy)
- You can do all the things that promote and maintain a child’s self esteem and still be close to that child while disciplining
- You can have confidence in your judgment as an adult or parent (your judgment is better than your child’s judgment)
- Your child does not have to approve of your decisions
- It is okay for kids to momentarily feel hateful, angry, rebellious, upset, or mistreated by their parent and to express those feelings respectfully
- It is okay to be flexible and reasonable, to change your mind or even allow yourself to be swayed at times from a position of strength (but no matter what your decision, the bottom line is that the ultimate power to be the executive is yours!)
With this scope of factors in mind, let’s consider carefully how to embrace the role of Executive in our homes as we provide the environment to help our children grow toward healthy self-control. What a great gift we give to our children as we care for them confidently.
Gerry Vassar, President and CEO, Lakeside Educational Network
Some information taken from Preventing Violence through Effective Discipline, 2006, Diane Wagenhals. Licensed Materials. All rights reserved.
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Hello, everyone, and happy Friday! We have a shorter Friday Product Post today, but it starts with a brand new Digital Temperature Sensor that utilizes the AS6212 IC from ams AG and our Qwiic Connect System. Following that, we are going to dive a little deeper into the Toaster Oven Reflow Controller that we announced yesterday. Finally, we are going to wrap up with a new Magnetic Mount Combination Antenna. Now, let’s jump in and take a closer look!
This SparkFun Qwiic Digital Temperature Sensor Breakout provides a combination of high temperature accuracy with excellent low power consumption using the AS6212 digital temperature sensor from ams AG. The sensor measures temperature data up to ±0.2°C; accuracy over a wide range (-40°C; to +125°C;) and consumes an average of 6µA in normal operation (0.1µA in standby). The AS6212 communicates via I2C and has eight available I2C addresses selected by a pair of solder jumpers on the board.
Designed exclusively with SparkFun’s À la Carte custom board designer, the Toaster Oven Reflow Control Board is just that – a single, fully populated board for DIY temperature measurement and load control. Specifically, the board was designed for:
- Controlling up to two heating coils rated up to 5A/120V AC (common for most toaster ovens)
- Measuring up to two temperature inputs via K-Type thermocouples
- Displaying current status via a backlit 16×2 character LCD
- Reading an encoder with button select to create a simple user interface and menu navigation
- Utilizing the Artemis controller module with built-in BLE for wireless controlling and monitoring
In addition, the I2C bus is available via the on-board Qwiic, the second UART and SPI pins are brought out to empty PTH solder points.
The Taoglas Steedan MA350 is a 5-in-1 next-generation low profile magnetic mount antenna for a vehicle, outdoor building, and heavy equipment roof applications. It has a fully IP65 rated waterproof robust ABS enclosure and base. This is an ideal external combination antenna solution that is used where drilling a hole through the roof of a vehicle or a metal panel is not feasible. It can be mounted on steel surfaces and its ultra-strong neodymium magnets. A soft foam cushion on the base protects the mounting surface during installation and removal. Only 48mm high it mounts discretely to the target application out of sight of most onlookers.
That’s it for this week! As always, we can’t wait to see what you make! Shoot us a tweet @sparkfun, or let us know on Instagram or Facebook. We’d love to see what projects you’ve made! Please be safe out there, be kind to one another, and we’ll see you next week with even more new products!
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Marisa Grimes wants to volunteer 2021-02-07 08:38:32 -0500
Have you ever made a successful change in your life? Perhaps you wanted to exercise more, eat less, or change jobs? Think about the time and attention you dedicated to the process. A lot, right? Change is hard. Creating effective social justice habits, particularly those dealing with issues of power, privilege, supremacy, and leadership is like any lifestyle change. Setting our intentions and adjusting what we spend our time doing is essential. It’s all about building new habits. Sometimes the hardest part is just getting started. The good news is, there’s an abundance of resources just waiting to empower you to be a more effective player in the quest for equity and justice.
About the 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge
- For 21 days, do one action to further your understanding of power, privilege, supremacy, oppression, and equity
- This plan includes suggestions for readings, podcasts, videos, observations, and ways to form and deepen community connections. Suggestions are in the following categories:
- Choose one activity per day to further your understanding of power, privilege, supremacy, oppression, and equity.
- Diversify your habits by doing some of each.
- Use the tracking chart provided here to stay on course. You can download the editable spreadsheet or a PDF for printing.
- We think understanding white privilege and white supremacy is a powerful lens into the complexities of doing social justice work, so we’ve focused our resources on that specific issue.
EMEA Deputy RVC
I volunteer my time to Democrats Abroad because it is SO important that every American, no matter where in the world they reside, have the opportunity to remain politically active, see their values reflected in the US government, and cast their ballots from wherever they are. As someone who has lived overseas for 20 years, this mission remains close to my heart!
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The Bankrupt Colonialist
What kind of peace could Russia afford?
Kharkiv following Russian shelling, 14th March 2022 (Photo by Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
The Russo-Ukrainian War has settled into a pattern of Russian failure to achieve core military objectives, combined with a readiness to inflict death and destruction on the Ukrainian people. While some attacks, such as those on the training base near Lviv over the weekend, have a discernible strategic purpose, most are indiscriminate and, other than vengefulness, their purpose is less clear. They have evidently not made it easier for Russian troops to enter cities. They might be intended to coerce Kyiv into making concessions in the negotiations but President Zelensky has not wavered on securing his country’s freedom and sovereignty. It may be that the damage is an end in itself, so that even a free Ukraine is incapacitated. Whatever the purpose, making causing hurt the military priority has left Russian war aims even more confused than they were three weeks ago.
This is particularly important when we consider the South where Russian forces have more presence and possibly still more military options if they can move out from their current positions. This is the area where they might expect to make lasting territorial gains as a result of the war. Yet it is here that their methods have made any gains less sustainable, both economically and politically.
The Economics of a Peace Deal
The relative optimism expressed by both Ukrainian and Russian negotiators about a possible peace deal seems surprising given the state of the war. This is the best account we have of the state of the negotiations (it also fits it with other accounts) from Kommersant based on an interview with Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the Ukrainian president's office.
I want to focus on just one of the issues raised by this account. I dealt with a number of others in my previous post.
My interest is in the relevance of the anticipated economic impact of the war on both the belligerents to the negotiations. Up to now the main question has been about whether sanctions and the pressure on the Russian economy will force Putin to abandon his aggression. There is, however, also a post-war issue, which is the cost of reconstruction. Estimates of the impact of the war on Ukraine are already well over $100 billion, and this for an economy that also faces already a contraction of at least 10% in its economy and probably more. A recent IMF assessment noted that in addition to the economically consequential damage to ports and airports:
"As of March 6, 202 schools, 34 hospitals, more than 1,500 residential houses including multi-apartment houses, tens of kilometers of roads, and countless objects of critical infrastructures in several Ukrainian cities have been fully or partially destroyed by Russian troops."
And that was over a week ago. Understandably Kyiv wants compensation. This is raised in the kommersant story. According to Podolyak:
“compensatory mechanisms should be clearly spelled out: at the expense of what and from what budget all this will be restored. I'm sorry, these are the amounts in billions of dollars if we take a preliminary estimate.”
Yet reparations of this sort - a more than reasonable request - would not only amount to an admission of guilt for the damage caused (Russia ludicrously claims only military targets have been hit) but will be beyond the capacity of the Russian economy, in its enfeebled state, to support.
The costs of the Russian war effort are not as high as those inflicted on Ukraine, and its infrastructure has not been attacked. Nonetheless war expenditure - lost equipment, fuel, ammo etc. – is still well into the billions of dollars. Looking forward the most worrying issue for the Kremlin is the isolation of the country’s economy. Since the start of the war the Russian stock market has closed, interest rates have doubled, inflation has shot up, and the value of the rouble has plummeted. One recent estimate suggests that Russia faces a drop of from 7 to 15% in GDP in 2022. It risks defaulting on it’s debts.
Whatever the impact on Russia’s ability to prosecute the war it is hard to see how Russia is going to have much spare capacity to compensate Ukraine for the damage it has inflicted upon it, even in the unlikely event it was prepared to offer to do so as part of an agreement.
The Economics of No Peace
There is a further issue here even if there is no agreement. The cities and towns that have suffered the worst as a result of Putin’s war are those that were once claimed to be pro-Russian and so required “liberation” from Ukrainian “genocide”. A regular suggestion with regard to Putin’s more modest war aims (as opposed to occupying the whole country and installing a puppet government), to be achieved with or without an agreement with Ukraine, is that Russia will hold on to territory its forces have taken in the east and south. At the very least Moscow will want the provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk in their entirety, and not just the previous separatist enclaves, to be annexed or given some independent status. This was, after all, the demand with which Russia entered the war.
This is considered by many analysts to be quite likely, and some go so far as to suggest it would be prudent, though painful, for Kyiv to accept it to get the war over. It is, however, by no means straightforward even from a Russian perspective.
First, if Ukraine has not otherwise been defeated and so “demilitarised” then this will be a frontier that will require defending for the indefinite future. Second, given what has happened over the past few weeks to the population of these territories, those remaining will be more hostile to Russia and will likely resist an imposed government. We are seeing signs of this already, leading to Russia returning to the old Soviet playbook by abducting local mayors and other leaders, as if this will make a difference to popular sentiment. Third, these territories will be economically wrecked and with no prospect of recovery so long as they are separated from Ukraine.
Before the war Russians were grumbling about the cost of subsidising the existing enclaves. The Ukrainians stopped paying the pensions of those in the enclaves some time ago. Their economies were in decline before 2014 and that process has since accelerated. They are now poorer than other parts of Ukraine and prone to criminality.
So the cost of occupying even this limited part of the country will be considerable and that is before even thinking about the expense required to render those horribly damaged towns and cities at all habitable, with effective infrastructure and accommodation. The alternative is to leave them in their devastated state with the bulk of their population departed and with minimal productive economic activity.
Consider what happened to Chechnya after Russia’s war to prevent secession which also involved brutal attacks on civilian areas. In this case Putin found a Chechen ally, Ramzan Kadyrov, to govern the country, in his own ruthless way. Russia handed him just under $8 billion between 2002 and 2012, which Kadyrov spent as he chose. The capital Grozny was rebuilt but the economy functioned thereafter at barely a fraction of pre-war levels. Despite efforts to make the economy more productive, in 2017 it was estimated that Chechnya required 80% of the government budget to be subsidised. Attempts to turn the situation around have not been helped by Chechnya’s rampant corruption. So this relatively small territory is already costing Moscow close to $3 billion a year. Crimea, annexed in 2014, may be costing a similar amount.
Or take Syria. Here Russian air power was also used in a brutal way, this time against rebel populations and in support of the Assad regime. That campaign succeeded in keeping Assad in power but Russia lacks the resources to reconstruct Syria and as Assad has little support from other Middle Eastern countries, other than the equally economically challenged Iran, nobody else is inclined to help. This is a recent World Bank assessment:
“Now moving into its eleventh year, the conflict in Syria has inflicted an almost unimaginable degree of devastation and loss on the Syrian people and their economy. Over 350,000 verifiable deaths have been directly attributed to the conflict so far, but the number of unaccounted lethal and non-lethal casualties is almost certainly far higher. More than half the country’s pre-conflict population (of almost 21 million) has been displaced—one of the largest displacements of people since World War II—and, partly as a result, by 2019, economic activity in Syria had shrunk by more than 50% compared to what it had been in 2010.”
It reported a study which found that losses caused by the conflict’s disruption of the economy exceeded those losses caused by physical destruction by a factor of 20.
Syria was a far cheaper war for Russia to wage, probably in the low billions of dollars, in fuel, ordnance, and personnel cost. Far less has gone into economic assistance and much of that has been returned to Russia as arms sales and gas and infrastructure contracts. Russian patronage kept a regime in power but left the country with little prospect of an early recovery from this humanitarian and economic catastrophe.
The strains on the Russian war effort are already evident, from the army’s hesitation about trying to fight their way into cities and the recruitment of mercenaries, to the reported appeal to China for help with supplies of military equipment and Putin’s fury with his intelligence agencies for misleading assessments and wasting roubles on Ukrainian agents who turned out to be useless. He is now having to choose between a range of poor outcomes, which the US suggests may include escalation to chemical use (which would be both militarily pointless and test further Western determination not to get directly involved).
We are now beyond the point where Putin has much ‘face’ to be saved, even if it were a priority for the other major powers to save it. In launching this disastrous war he has revealed himself to be not only a vicious bully but also a deluded fool.
War is rarely a good investment. Putin has acted for reasons of political and not economic opportunism. The prospects for any territory “liberated” by Russia is bleak. They will not prosper and will remain cut off from the international economy. To the extent that people stay they will have to be subsidised for all their needs while there will be little economic activity.
Because of the destruction the short-term prospects will be bleak even if these territories are fully returned to Ukraine. But over the longer-term they will be much better off because of the amount of economic assistance Ukraine will receive and its integration into the international economy.
This support will be even more vital should Putin be inclined to follow a scorched earth policy, attempting to demolish Ukraine’s defence and industrial capacity, diminishing it as a modern economic power for the foreseeable future. This would be not so much a strategy and more of a temper tantrum, punishing the Ukrainians for refusing to be colonised.
Yet as Germany and Japan showed after 1945 even shattered economies can be rebuilt to even greater levels of efficiency with sufficient resilience and resources. That is another reason why Western financial assistance and investment will be especially vital - Ukraine’s full recovery will serve as a testament to Putin’s failure.
As part of this, and with his standing boosted by his war leadership, President Zelensky will need to tackle some of the chronic problems of corruption that have plagued his country.
We have been caught out already by Putin’s capacity to act on the basis of his warped world-view, whatever objective calculations might suggest. Nonetheless, it is worth keeping this analysis in mind when considering prospective peace deals. The Russians may have underestimated the costs of conquest from the start but their approach to war has raised those costs considerably, especially in those parts of Ukraine close to Russia. If they are realistic about future costs (big if) then they might prefer to revert to the old formula from the 2015 Minsk agreement that would have given these areas more of a say in some new constitutional arrangement. On the other hand these areas will now, if allowed to express themselves, likely be as anti-Russian as the rest of Ukraine.
The other implication is that while economic sanctions have not yet given the West much leverage over Putin’s war strategy they do offer it leverage over his peace strategy. While he may have convinced himself that Russia – with Belarus – has a self-sufficient autarchic option this is another self-serving fantasy. The question of the future of sanctions and how they might be unwound is not one to be discussed separately from any peace talks. They are a vital part of the negotiations. As there can be no Western-led peace talks without Ukraine, it should be made clear to Moscow that for now this is a card for Zelensky to play. The future of the Russian economy can then be in his hands. Should a moment come to start to ease sanctions, some leverage will be required to ensure that any agreement is being honoured. There could be a link to reparations for the terrible damage caused.
“Fanaticism”, according to George Santayana, “consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.” As his original war plans failed Putin has insisted his forces follow a disruptive and cruel strategy that has put his original aims even more out of reach and Ukraine with a say over the future of the Russian economy.
Comment is Freed is a reader-supported publication. We are making Lawrence’s posts on the Russian invasion of Ukraine free to read but if you find the pieces interesting and can afford to subscribe we would welcome the support.
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Timing helps Sir Mick Jagger's money making
- 11 July 2010
- From the section Business
Among the alumni of the London School of Economics, many have gone on to earn vast fortunes.
The illustrious list includes Easyjet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, French billionaire Delphine Arnault, and financier George Soros.
One of its less conventional former students is Sir Mick Jagger, whose estimated £190m stash looks measly compared to the wealth of those above.
But while those riches are ultimately down to his song writing, singing and guitar playing - business nous has undeniably played a part.
His band, The Rolling Stones, have released about 90 singles and more than two dozen studio albums.
And still selling out huge arenas and stadia, they also control the touring, the merchandise and sponsorship side of the business.
But in a rare interview, Sir Mick admitted to the BBC that he was lucky in the timing of his career.
"When the Stones started out they didn't make any money out of records because record companies didn't pay you," he said.
"Nobody got paid. I always wonder if Frank Sinatra got paid.
"Your royalty was so low. If you sold a million records you got a million pennies. It was all very nice, but not what you imagined you were going to get."
However things changed as musicians became more adept at controlling their creations.
This came at about the time the Stones hit what many see as their peak, which included the 1972 release of the critically acclaimed Exile on Main Street.
Later the boom in music sales through the development of the compact disc bolstered the earnings of those on lucrative royalty deals.
"There was a small period from 1970 to 1997 where people did get paid and they got paid very handsomely," Sir Mick said.
"They did make money but now that period's done. If you look at the history of recorded music from, say, 1900 to now, there was that period where artists did very well but the rest of the time they didn't."
A quick glance at this year's Sunday Times UK Music Rich List confirms the thinking.
All the artists in the Top 20 were prominent in the 1970s or 1980s and include Sir Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and the family of fellow Beatle George Harrison.
Also on the list are Sir Elton John, Sir Tom Jones, Eric Clapton and Robin and Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees. Sir Mick's fellow Rolling Stone Keith Richards also makes the cut with £175m.
The rest are not performers but those in the wider music industry, ranging from Sir Andrew Lloyd Weber and Sir Cameron McIntosh - who made their fortunes on Broadway and in the West End - to the music management moguls of Simon Cowell and Simon Fuller.
And the list is topped by record company executives Edgar Bronfman and Clive Calder.
Before recorded music, incomes depended largely on the whim of patrons - meaning even Mozart and Schubert died destitute.
And in the first half-century of recorded music, rip-offs and uncertain copyright rules meant some of the great blues artists died with barely a penny in their pockets.
Most of today's musicians also have it tough - with the development of the internet in particular blamed as many choose to download almost any song or album they like, for free.
And while there has been some success in selling legal downloads, many industry figures say the technology has also opened up many more opportunities, forcing artists to become more creative about how they make money.
Brian Message co-manages, among others, Radiohead and Kate Nash, but said that in many ways, "music manager" was a term which belonged in the pre-internet days.
"We tend to treat each of our artists as their own little individual global business, with multiple revenue streams and multiple territories," he added, saying the internet allowed it to access about 200 markets and cheaply be able to sell music digitally.
"It's a question of how do you grow that business. The mix of recorded music to ticket sales or merchandise or signed photos or whatever. And we don't differentiate."
Today, those ticket sales for concerts are the primary way for musicians to make money.
But getting a plum slot at one of the larger music festivals is potentially more lucrative, said booking agent Nick Matthews, whose clients include urban pop artist Chipmunk.
Over a pint of cider at this year's Glastonbury Festival, Mr Matthews said that such big events were "the crown jewels of the live music business every summer".
"A really good set time or good slot proves you are one of the top calibre artists of that time, it's something agents and artists very tactically work towards, making sure they have a good presence at festivals," he added.
But is it all about the marketing potential of such events, or rather the fees artists can command to play?
It depends, argued Mr Matthews, on the stage of a performer's career.
"If you have someone who isn't a household name yet, putting them on a big stage at a festival really does promote them to a new audience and allow them to recruit new fans.
"The money comes into it when you are a headliner one of the really valuable artists that's actually selling tickets for a festival.
"That's when you're really paid handsomely and you'll be paid much more than you could be for any arena or venue-style show."
Of course all this supposes that making money is the most important thing to a musician.
UK band I Blame Coco is set to release its debut album later this year.
And lead singer Coco Sumner is all too aware of the trappings that a successful career can bring, as the daughter of Gordon Sumner, better known as Sting of 1980s group The Police.
She agreed changes in the music industry meant her band was likely to depend more on live music to make money but said this was not their main focus.
"It's more about getting new fans," she told the BBC, after playing one of Glastonbury's smaller stages at the un-rock n' roll time of 11am.
"For me it's more about the music and people listening to new music."
All of which is perhaps just as well, given that even fairly successful musicians find making money difficult.
Mika has had hits on both sides of the Atlantic, but said this had not translated into fabulous wealth.
"Of course you make money sometimes, and the money comes in bursts," he told the BBC.
"You have no money forever then suddenly, if you do well, you have a chunk of money that lands. Then no money comes for a couple of months or couple of years."
It is a sentiment heard all too often by Horace Trubridge assistant general secretary of the UK's Musicians' Union, who argued that nobody ever became a musician to make money.
"You do it because you love it and it's what you want to do," he added.
"But you need good musicians to create the music we all love and unless they are not rewarded, unless they can't pay the bills, they'll drift out of it."
It may be a worrying prospect.
However with the Rolling Stones saying another tour next year is "very likely", there seems little chance of Sir Mick and company drifting away from the spotlight just yet.
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Jane Austen's Writings
The English author Jane Austen lived from 1775 to 1817.
Her novels are highly prized not only for their light
irony, humor, and depiction of contemporary English country life, but also for
their underlying serious qualities
You can find links for all Austen's books to read online
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A recent New York Times editorial lamented the fragility of Israel’s democracy, Haaretz reported. Haaretz was right to highlight the piece, for particularly with the American elections looming, the editorial offers a sobering window into how Israel and its conflicts are perceived by some of America’s elites.
The Times expressed dismay at the breakup of Netanyahu’s super-coalition, as the government would no longer benefit from “Kadima’s moderating force,” arguing that Mofaz’ departure was a symptom of a country decreasingly committed to democracy.
But that is a simplistic view of what transpired. Parliamentary democracies need real oppositions, and with the super-coalition, Netanyahu did not have one. Those citizens who voted for Kadima (which garnered more votes in the 2009 elections than any other single party) did not vote for Likud. If anything was troubling from the point of view of democracy, it was the super-coalition, not its demise.
The Times also hinted that it preferred Mofaz’ more draconian solution to the ultra-Orthodox draft issue to Netanyahu’s more incremental approach. But what American observers ought to appreciate is that Israel now confronts a social ill no less divisive than was slavery in the United States. As in the American situation, Israel’s founders ignored a gross social injustice which was then woven into the fabric of the country from its very inception. And as in the United States, mishandling of this issue could lead to a tragic tear in the fabric of Israeli society from which we might not recover. Yes, the status quo, in which the ultra-Orthodox do not serve their country, is a moral outrage; the good news is that increasing numbers of Israelis want the issue addressed.
But how to resolve the question is far from clear. The ultra-Orthodox are resolute and could unleash chaos on the streets or cause significant economic upheaval. The situation is explosive. Furthermore, many among Israel’s top brass do not want the ultra-Orthodox drafted. The IDF has no manpower shortage, and arming thousands of young men whose loyalties might well be to their rabbis and not to their commanders carries great risks. Israel’s conundrum is infinitely more complex than the Times editorial suggests.
Perhaps most egregious, the Times’ claim that “an influx of Jews from the former Soviet Union” poses a challenge to Israel’s democratic values is both appalling and ignorant. The experience of immigrants from the FSU proves precisely the opposite. Ex-Soviet Jews have formed their own political parties and have entered the political realm in far greater numbers than American immigrants, who virtually never run for national office. When Natan Sharansky’s Yisrael B’Aliyah party was absorbed into the Likud in early 2003, it was a symbol that Russian Jews had become more integrated into Israel’s democracy, not less.
The Times’ unfair dig at Russian immigrants may well have been directed at Avigdor Lieberman, whose style and substance on many issues Americans understandably find distasteful. But why did so many young people flock to Lieberman’s party? One prime reason is a growing sense among Israelis that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is simply unsolvable. Faced with the prospect of interminable conflict, it is not surprising that many have drifted to extremes: abandoning all interest in Zionism, or xenophobia. Israelis are witness to both.
Yes, Mr. Netanyahu is in many respects “a disappointing, risk-averse leader.” But U.S. policy is not helping matters. When Obama asked Netanyahu to agree to a second building freeze, he demanded nothing equally politically suicidal from Abbas. That sort of inequity prolongs the conflict.
The Palestinians understand that they have no incentive to make a deal; their position, they correctly deduce, will only improve with time. So they have proven utterly unwilling to negotiate. For the Times to say that the Palestinians “have not shown enough commitment to a solution” is like saying that North Korea has failed to bring freedom and prosperity to all its citizens. It crosses the line from understatement to untruth.
Americans intuit that the Palestinians will not budge. Because Israel’s values are much closer to America’s (which is why the Times is so concerned for Israel’s democracy), the logic goes, if pressure is to be usefully exerted, it should be exerted on the Israelis.
But that will not work. While Israelis do not relish American pressure, they do not capitulate to it, either. So long as the attitudes of the Times editorial reflect those of America’s elites, the current stalemate will persist and hardliners on both sides will prevail. Those wishing to buttress Israel’s democracy would do well to read Israel with greater nuance, and to apply pressure not only on the Israelis, but on those whose incalcitrance is the true cause of our deadlock.
Daniel Gordis is Senior Vice President and Koret Distinguished Fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem. His book, Saving Israel, won the 2009 National Jewish Book Award. His next book, The Promise of Israel: Why Its Seemingly Greatest Weakness is Actually Its Greatest Strength, will be published in August 2012.
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Mike Redd was called to serve as the president of the combined Blanding Utah Stake, with Joe Hurst and Doug Christensen as counselors.
The reorganization was completed under the direction of Paul Sybrowsky and Craig B. Terry. Sybrowsky is a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy of the church. Terry is an area authority.
An estimated 1,700 local members of the church participated in the meeting to combine the stakes. Redd had served as president of the Blanding West Stake for the past 4.5 years. The stake was dissolved at the May 1 meeting.
Lem Redd was released as president of the Blanding Stake, with Oliver Harris and Kay Shumway as counselors. Calvin Black was released as a counselor in the Blanding West Stake.
The new entity has 15 units, including eight wards in Blanding, one ward in Montezuma Creek, branches in Mexican Hat, White Mesa and Bluff, and branches for youth in detention, nursing home residents and for young single adults.
The Blanding West Stake was created on July 12, 1981. Preston Nielson, Donald Jack, Robert Bowring and Mike Redd served as president of the stake.
The original Blanding Stake was created on March 5, 1978, with Fred Halliday as president.
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Understanding the HOW? in the WOW!
‘WOW! How did you make that?’ This question is the premise for the Craft Council Nederland’s exhibition at DDW which reimagines weaving in wondrous ways
Sometimes you see an object that makes you think ‘Wow!’ quickly followed by many questions: how did they make that? what is it made from? how is that even possible?!
One exhibition at Dutch Design Week, curated by the Crafts Council Nederland, plays on this moment of intrigue. HOW&WOW focuses on both the final object and the process of making and manufacture. It takes the form of a traditional exhibition but also incorporates live demonstrations by artists, designers, and manufacturers. The exhibition has a particular focus on weaving, reimagining an ancient manufacturing technique. By bringing together an impressive cross-section of works that push the boundary of the craft of weaving, the exhibition sheds light on how material experimentation, technological advancements and collaborations can create exciting new opportunities for production.
The pieces on display from the manufacturer EE Exclusives demonstrate the versatility and possibility of weaving when collaboration is introduced. Founded in 1900, the family business initially wove cigar ribbons and later focused on making labels and tags to brand clothing and textiles. However, five years ago, they moved into new territory, bringing the fineness and beauty of label weaving into art, fashion and design. Their three works in HOW&WOW – a woven artwork, a stretchy 3D textile for the fashion industry and a zero-waste backpack – represent their diverse ventures into a more creative approach to weaving.
EE Exclusives’ show-stopping artwork is based on a still-life photograph of flowers by artists Maurice Scheltens and Liesbeth Abbenes. The piece is made with the jacquard weaving technique but, unconventionally, it is a two-sided artwork. This was a response to the observation that the backside of a weave is often more beautiful than the front. The artists and technicians decided to split the woven photograph across both sides of the fabric panel and fill in the empty spaces with the abstract colorful threads which would usually remain hidden inside a tag or garment. The result looks like a collage of a renaissance painting and digital artwork however it is made in a single weave.
In a radically different approach to weaving, artist Joana Schneider creates monumental sculptural masks from discarded ropes from the fishing industry in her series called Pluis. The dramatic masks seem to feel at home at the entrance of the exhibition, looking out at visitors passing through the doors.
Schneider recontextualizes techniques that she learned from net and rope makers and then, she painstakingly wraps the ropes in an unspun yarn and constructs them into larger-than-life faces. In this form, the materials take on a new life. “I love to combine these very poppy colors with the natural texture of the rope,” she tells TLmag.
A common theme throughout the show is three-dimensional weaving. The works of Lio de Bruin, Babs van den Thillart and Daan Veerman all approach this practice from very different angles. Lio de Bruin presents a series of samples which combine a range of materials including wool, linen, rope and leather. Her tactile pieces investigate the creation of textured structures and seem to call to your fingers to explore their unusual surfaces.
Meanwhile, in his collection Digital Craft, Dan Veerman challenges the notion of “weaving” by combing 3D printing techniques and craft. By hand, he controls the 3D printing device to create flexible, colorful and unique textiles that seem to resemble tiny cityscapes in their forms.
Finally, the work of Babs van den Thillart utilizes a weaving practice based on stretchy materials and loose components that are interconnected at several tactical points. When Den Thillart removes the weave from the loom, the fabric seems to jump to life with a springiness that shapes them.
Weaving and textiles are also shown to be capable of tackling societal problems. SEA is a circular fabric by De Ploeg that is surprisingly made from recycled plastic waste found on beaches. This plastic is then incorporated into the yarn spinning process and used to make household linens. Another social project is seen in the bombastic orange creatures created by Makers Unite fashion designer Bas Kosters and refugees. The Robot Bags are made out of the life-jackets of refugees who have crossed the Mediterranean Sea. It promotes social equality and sustainable making.
By examining How? and prompting a Wow!, the Craft Council Nederland demonstrates that in every manufacturing technique, no matter how well-established, there are still many surprises to be found.
HOW&WOW will be on display at Dutch Design Week in STRIJP-S/VEEM until October 28
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Mechanisms of Instability in Nearly Integrable Hamiltonian Systems
There are many systems that appear in applications that have negligible friction, like in celestial mechanics and Astrodynamics, motion of charged particles in magnetic fields, chemical reactions, etc.
A general model for this kind of systems is to consider time periodic perturbations of integrable Hamiltonian systems with $2$ or more degrees of freedom.
One problem that has attracted attention for a long time is whether the effect of perturbations accumulate over time and lead to large effects (instability) or whether these effects average out (stability).
The first result in proving instability for this model was presented by Arnold in 1964, but the perturbation considered was not general enough (there do not appear "large gaps" in the resonant tori).
In this talk we present some mechanisms that cause instabilities for general perturbations if the unperturbed systems considered are a priori-unstable, that is, they can be written as a product of $d$ rotators and $n$ penduli, $d\ge 1$, $n\ge 1$.
The main technique is to develop a toolkit to study, in a unified way, tori of different topologies and their invariant manifolds, their intersections as well as shadowing properties of these bi-asymptotic orbits. Part of this toolkit is to unify standard techniques (normally hyperbolic manifolds, KAM theory, averaging theory) so that they can work together. A fundamental tool used here is the scattering map of normally hyperbolic invariant manifolds.
The conditions needed are explicit. This makes it possible to show that this phenomenon occurs in concrete examples, as the restricted three body problem in celestial mechanics.
Tere M. Seara, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
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Turkish Jews fearful of anti-Semitism after Gaza
By Alexandra Hudson
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's centuries-old Jewish community says it is alarmed by anti-Semitism that emerged during protests at Israel's Gaza assault, and is questioning how this reflects its status in the predominantly Muslim republic.
Although Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan condemned anti-Semitism, Jews in Turkey and beyond believe the language he employed during the conflict gave some a license to translate their outrage at Israel's action into racial hatred.
Heightened anti-Jewish sentiment comes at a time of rising nationalism in Turkey, blamed for the murders of several Christians in the last few years, as hardliners fight against those struggling for a more plural, multi-ethnic society.
Some 24,000 Jews live in Turkey, making them one of the world's largest Jewish communities in a Muslim country, and their relations with the state, like those of other minorities, are a litmus test for Turkey's readiness to join the European Union.
"I feel worried, sad and scared for myself and for my country's future, which is leaning toward racism," Turkish-Jewish academic Leyla Navaro wrote in Radikal newspaper.
While Turkey is officially presented as a mosaic of cultures and peoples, Navaro said this was an empty tourist slogan in a country where a rigid definition of Turkishness has been imposed from above since the state's inception in 1923.
Turkey's Jewish community, which issued a typically impartial statement as the Gaza conflict began, said it has never seen anything like the anti-Semitism which emerged as public fury over the plight of the Palestinians soared.
Intensifying their fear is the fact Jews have been attacked in Turkey before. In November 2003 truck bombs exploded outside two Istanbul synagogues killing 24 people, mainly Muslims. A Turkish cell with links to al Qaeda claimed responsibility. Continued...
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It is means too obscure and doesn’t catch the eye in any respect. The only benefit of it’s that it is kind of related to the subject. Still undecided how a thesis statement should look like?
A descriptive essay is an essay that describes one thing about an occasion, particular person, place, or concept in detail. The descriptive essay goals to provide sufficient data to the readers to visualize or imagine the matter described. How to write down a paragraph Each paragraph in your paper ought to concentrate on one central level. Follow these 6 steps for a powerful paragraph structure. The thesis statement usually appears on the finish of your essay introduction or research paper introduction. Does your thesis assertion include only one primary idea?
If you could have enrolled in a college course, maybe very regularly you will get write an informative essay. Moreover, if this worries you, take a while out, learn this weblog and discover methods to write an informative essay. But, earlier than we learn to write an informative essay, letâs discover what’s an informative essay. Due to this, you might be fortunate if you’re assigned to put in writing an informative essay since itâs one of the simplest tutorial writing tasks. An informative essay doesnât include the authorâs analysis or evaluation.
This thesis showed the reader the subject and the path the essay will take . Make a great introduction to seize your readerâs attention and set the tone for the rest of your paper. The first step is to research and gather info. What you want to do is to find information that could be of interest to your reader. You donât have to exit and investigate something new; review the knowledge you already know about a topic.
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This is as a result of an informative essay is nоt a research paper. However, if you’re writing a research paper, you may have to include a thesis statement at the beginning or in the course of the paper. The length of an informative essay can differ relying on the assignment. Generally, the minimum size is 5 paragraphs, which includes an introduction, a body, and a conclusion. Your informative essay thesis assertion is the most crucial sentence of your essay because it presents your central idea. Finally, the conclusion of your informative essay comes on the end.
The introduction part ought to list a hook, background info, and a thesis assertion. The essay immediate will usually tell you points similar to whether or not the essay needs to be handwritten or typed, and what font type and size to utilize. Alternatively, avoid depicting your viewpoints, when present a thesis statement in your informative essay.
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I’d like to try to integrate an open-source translation engine into a CAT tool, for Swedish to English translation.
I was wondering, first of all, how does one gather the data on which to train OpenNMT? Can it perform comparatively to Google Translate or Facebook’s new translation engine? Why or why not? I mean, are their learning algorithms fundamentally better, for any reason - industry-secrets, or more computing power? And what about the data, the corpora or web crawler they use? Is it at all possible for an individual to set one up just as good as theirs? How so? Or, more broadly, is it possible that a machine translation system could be as comprehensive as a state of the art dictionary? For example, if we could simply feed it the most exhaustive corpus imaginable, could we hope it could provide very effective, encyclopedic translation suggestions for a wide variety of obscure terms and expressions? In other words, that the system can actually begin to compete with the best known dictionaries in its coverage and accuracy - or even, be superior.
And I’m lastly also wondering, is there any exhaustive list or keyword out there for computational systems that can provide any kind of word reference? It could be a list of synonyms, a list of translations, or any kind of semantic content or analysis that in effect can provide a “definition” or in essence clarification on “what this word means”, roughly? I ask just to know as a translator what tools are out there beyond dictionaries and machine translation.
Thanks very much.
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Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Mike Huckabee have touted their convincing wins (DMRegister) in the Iowa presidential caucuses January 3 as mandates for change in Washington. While it was not immediately clear which of their policies most resonated with Iowa voters, initial polling of members of both parties showed the economy was one of the top two most important issues (CNN). The caucuses, the first official test of the nationwide presidential contest, attracted strong turnout of Iowans of both parties at a time of concern over rising oil prices, the mortgage crisis, immigration, and health care.
Entrance polling showed Sen. Obama (D-IL) garnered especially strong support among young voters (CNN) and Huckabee captured a large number of the state’s Republicans who identify as evangelicals (WashPost). Both still face major challenges—Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY), who finished third in Iowa, has a commanding lead over Obama in nationwide polls, and Huckabee has only a fledgling campaign organization outside of Iowa. But analysts saw their victories as signs of potentially broader unease and divisions in their respective parties. Iowa has already had the effect of winnowing the field. Veteran Democratic senators Joseph Biden and Christopher Dodd, longtime members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, dropped out (Politico) of the race after their poor showing in Iowa.
Obama and Huckabee have campaigned as presidential candidates vowing to sharply change the tone of U.S. engagement with the world. In his Foreign Affairs essay, Obama identified climate change as a principle global threat and promised revitalized diplomacy aimed at countering international terrorism and other security challenges. Obama and his two main competitors in Iowa—Clinton and Sen. John Edwards (D-NC)—hold similar views on Iraq, seeking an early troop drawdown but with a significant U.S. military presence remaining in the region. Similarly, on trade, all three also have expressed deep skepticism about the course of U.S. trade policy, seeking to add more conditions to free trade deals. Obama has sought to distinguish himself as a candidate who can best build coalitions to solve the nation’s problems, demonstrating what journalist Andrew Sullivan writes in the Atlantic is his capability to move the country beyond the “bitter, brutal tone of American politics.”
Huckabee made headlines in his recent Foreign Affairs essay by criticizing what he called an “arrogant bunker mentality” by the Bush administration. His piece focused almost exclusively on challenges posed by Muslim fundamentalism and he emphasized a new attitude in U.S. foreign policy. In the closing weeks before the Iowa caucuses, Huckabee drew a harder line on illegal immigration after facing a string of attacks from rival Mitt Romney that his record as Arkansas governor was too soft. Poll results showed the immigration issue did not damage Huckabee in Iowa. On the Republican side, Zev Chafets wrote in the New York Times Magazine ahead of the Iowa voting that Huckabee was already the surprise of the campaign season. Huckabee, he wrote, took a contest expected to focus on national security and foreign policy and “moved it to issues of character, religion, and personality.”
Iowa represents a mere fraction of the U.S. population and attracts criticism (Reuters) for holding an undeserved place as the first presidential testing ground. But Iowa’s voters have raised the pressure (The Hill) on the Obama’s and Huckabee’s rivals in the runup to the January 8 primaries in New Hampshire.
A frenzied selection process (WashPost) now kicks off in which twenty-two states will vote on or before February 5. The nation will then have a better idea about Iowa’s role in signaling change.
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Common Name: feather reed grass
Type: Ornamental grass
Zone: 5 to 9
Height: 3.00 to 5.00 feet
Spread: 1.50 to 2.50 feet
Bloom Time: May to February
Bloom Description: Pinkish-purple
Sun: Full sun
Water: Medium to wet
Suggested Use: Rain Garden
Flower: Showy, Good Cut, Good Dried
Leaf: Good Fall
Other: Winter Interest
Tolerate: Erosion, Wet Soil, Black Walnut, Air Pollution
Easily grown in average, medium to wet soils in full sun. Blooms well in light shade, and actually appreciates some part afternoon shade in hot summer climates such as the St. Louis area, but generally tends to produce fewer flowers and develop floppier foliage as the amount of shade increases. Prefers rich, consistently moist soils that do not dry out. Reportedly does well in heavy clay soils, unlike many other kinds of ornamental grasses. Cut clumps to the ground in late winter just before the new spring shoots appear.
Calamagrostis, commonly known as reed grass, is a genus consisting of about 250 species of cool season grasses which are primarily native to moist to wet areas in temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. These grasses typically form large, dense, erect clumps of narrow, flattened, green leaves from which rise stiffly upright flowering stalks in summer bearing narrow flower plumes followed by often persistent seeds.
C. x acutifolia, commonly known as feather reed grass, is a hybrid resulting from a cross between two species native to Europe and Asia, namely C. arundinacea and C. epigejos. This hybrid occurs naturally, but somewhat infrequently, in Europe. Clumps of narrow leaves to 18-36” tall are dwarfed by flower stems which rise to 5’ tall in summer bearing feathery flower spikes. Flowers are followed by golden seeds which mature to tan. Seeds often persist into winter. Seeds are sterile.
Genus name comes from the Greek words kalamos meaning reed and agrostis meaning a type of grass.
Hybrid name comes from the Latin words acutus meaning sharp-pointed and flora which honors Flora, Roman goddess of flowering plants.
‘Karl Foerster’ is the most popular of the hybrid feather reed grasses sold in commerce today. It is noted for its narrow-vertical growth of bright green leaves to 3’ tall and 2’ wide and feathery plumes of summer-blooming pink to purple tinged flowers on narrow upright stalks rising well above the foliage to 5’ tall. 2001 Perennial Plant of the Year Award.
Cultivar name honors Karl Foerster, German nurseryman, who reportedly discovered this plant in the Hamburg Botanical Garden in the 1930s and subsequently introduced it into commerce in 1950.
No serious insect or disease problems. Watch for rust, particularly after prolonged rainy periods.
Mass, group or specimen. Excellent vertical accent for borders and for narrow spaces in the landscape. Also effective in moist low spots or on pond/stream banks.
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What were they doing out here this late in history? –Thomas Pynchon
Against the Day
From, roughly, the World’s Fair in Chicago in 1893 to, roughly, the silent movies and the Palmer Raids of the early postwar 1920s, nobody in this novel is ever home. Instead–flyboys and magicians, anarchists and Pinkertons, alchemists and pilgrims, mathematicians and spies, fugitives, refugees, nomads, bandits, ghosts–they are on the road and on the lam. Or up in a hot-air balloon, looking down on volcanoes and the Paris Commune. Or burrowing underground like a Frank Herbert sandworm, in search of Shambhala, the earthly paradise of Tibetan Buddhism, or Aztlan, the mythical home of the original Mexicans. And no matter how hard they run in Outer Europe, Inner Asia, Deep Germany or the wild American West, something sinister keeps gaining on them–“polar darkness,” “ancient purpose,” “mad disorder,” “ruin and sorrow,” “the stripped and dismal metonymies of the dead” and/or a fourth dimension.
“Gravity pulls along the third dimension, up to down,” says one of the many mad scientists we meet in these feverish pages; “time pulls along the fourth, birth to death.”
We hear a lot about the fourth dimension in Against the Day, as well as double refraction, bilocation, perfect mirrors, imaginary numbers and lateral world-sets. We hear equally about US labor history, including Haymarket, Homestead, Coeur d’Alene, Cripple Creek, Ludlow and Mother Jones; and the Mexican Un-Revolution, that strut-and-fret of Diaz, Madero, Huerta, Carranza, Obregón, Villa and Zapata; and ethnic seething in the Balkans, before Rebecca West, Marshal Tito or Richard Holbrooke got a chance to do their fiddles; and turn-of-the-century parapsychology, with its mountain-misted tommyknockers and dreamworld Tenochtitlans. But because Against the Day is a full-blown and full-fledged Pynchon novel–and thus not only an occasion of joy in every nook of American culture except The New Republic but also a phantasmagoria whose only conceivable analogue is another Pynchon novel, Gravity’s Rainbow–we hear almost as much about mayonnaise, Futurism, landmines, poison gas and the ancient Albanian honor code of Kanuni Lekë Dukagjinit.
“Inspect your shoes, Mrs. Kindred, it’s gettin deep around here.”
As usual, there are dozens of characters with silly names (Mia Culpepper, an astrologist, is my favorite, but Pleiade Lafrisee’s hard to beat). And dozens of words we have to look up (absquatulated, fulgurescence, xanthocroid, cataplexy). And geography-drops to shame Bruce Chatwin (Tsangpo-Brahmaputra, Domodossola). And snacks to sate velociraptors (brain tacos, Meat Olaf). And, though nothing is quite as addictive as a blood vendetta, enough mind-altering substances to kill the White Rabbit (opium beer, cactus peyote, chloral hydrate, cigarettes soaked in absinthe, “cocainized brain tonics” and somewhere on the Silk Road between Turfan and Novosibirsk a flowering hemp twelve feet tall and fungomaniacs who drink each other’s urine). Plus a speaking in tongues that ranges, according to its narrative needs and whimsies, from Gulliver’s Travels and The Book of Urizen to The Labyrinth of Solitude and The Tin Drum; from Herman Melville to Nathanael West to John Dos Passos to Joseph Heller to Carlos Castaneda, by way of extreme Kerouac; from Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Dashiell Hammett to S.J. Perelman, P.G. Wodehouse, Umberto Eco and Monty Python; from such boys’ adventure books as Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice to such ’40s radio serials as Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons to such ’40s flicks as Casablanca and The Third Man. (And yet, and yet–always the jaunty, cheeky, demotic, katzenjammer Tom, joshing us through what Don DeLillo calls the “whispers and apparitions at the edge of modern awareness,” as if Huck Finn surfed a Mississippi wave of dread.)
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Although some benefits of growing cover crops have been recognized in agricultural production fields, wider adoption of these rotational crops requires quantitative information on actual evapotranspiration (ETa) in different climatic gradients, which is currently very limited. This study quantifies, maps, and evaluates the magnitudes and trends of cover-crop growing season (September-April) ETa in Nebraska, Iowa, and Kansas during 2005-2016. Data sets from 76 weather stations in 3 states and representing 297 counties, comprising 559,360 km2 land area, are used to quantify and map spatial distribution of cover-crop growing season ETa, air temperature, and precipitation. Precipitation had a strong east-to-west decreasing trend; cover-crop growing season precipitation in the study region varied from 121 to 540 mm. Air temperature had a north-to-south increasing trend, with cover-crop growing season mean air temperature varying from -3°C to 16°C. Seasonal total ETa exhibited a southwest to northeast decreasing trend, ranging from 267 mm in Finney County in southwest Kansas to 148 mm in Floyd County in northeast Iowa, with a study region mean seasonal ETa of 207 mm. The highest monthly ETa was observed in September for all states, and minimum values were observed in December and March. These spatial maps of monthly cover-crop ETa are some of the first in the literature and can serve as an important tool for assessing the feasibility of growing cover crops in terms of water resources availability, use, planning, and management.
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Bibliographical noteFunding Information:
This project was funded and supported by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), National Conservation Innovation Grants Program under Project Number 69-3A75-12-207. As the project Principal Investigator, Dr. Irmak expresses his appreciation to the USDA-NRCS for collaboration and for providing financial support for this project. Dr. Irmak also expresses his appreciation to Roy Cast, David Cast, and Doug Cast in Beaver Crossing, Nebraska, for allowing these extensive projects to be conducted in their production fields and for their excellent collaboration. Dr. Irmak also thanks current and former Irmak Research Laboratory members for their help.
© 2018 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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A while ago I was pulled into a discussion about the speed and magic optimizations of a particular container within the standard library of a coworker’s programming language of choice. They were claiming how there is a special container that somehow magically performs better than a normal array when it’s used for adding a number to every element within that container.
For some reason in a corporate world you will always find such pieces of wisdom floating around. The standard library is treated as some kind of a magic box that performs an order of magnitude better than whatever you could ever program yourself.
I don’t believe in witchcraft though. A memory access is a memory access and unless you figure out a more efficient algorithm for performing your operation, this magic container is not going to perform any faster. So I convinced this person to write an actual program that will compare their magic container with an every day array. Lo' and behold my favorite optimization technique that could be summed as “when in doubt use a for loop and iterate over array” proved to be right. The thing compiled into more or less the same thing, while an array solution performed slightly better on average.
It just goes to show how the software industry excels at regurgitating myths instead of sitting down and thinking really hard about the problem at hand. I partially blame this culture on the pervasive money making industry, which likes to spoon feed scholars with random bits of trivia instead of actually making them think. You also know it under the name of higher education.
When you know nothing at all, being spoon fed the knowledge is a great way to become aware of the vast field around you. As soon as you gather enough knowledge to be dangerous, you start to realize how Gell-Mann amnesia effect is a real thing and most of the world is broken 1.
Since young people are being spoon fed knowledge for a tremendously large chunk of their life, they are prone to simply accept random pieces of “knowledge” that they found on some random blog as facts and rules to live by. These bits of knowledge are then accumulated and moving forward through osmosis, until it gets to the point where people believe into voodoo computer operations that are somehow inaccessible to the mere mortals.
How expensive is knowledge?
If you live in a relatively well organized society, then the knowledge is actually free or at least priced at the point which you could consider as free.
Formal education in my country is “free”. It’s not quite free as we pay for it with a relatively high taxes, but it’s free in a way where anyone could be attending any school regardless of their income or social status. All of the university lectures are also public and free to attend by anyone from the streets. That usually doesn’t happen, but it’s still an option for someone that is willing to listen and learn something new.
Despite spending more than 15 years in school, I didn’t really learn much there. It’s one thing learning about the internals of this specific thing that you are interested in, whereas abstract learning about general stuff was not that interesting for me. I was introduced to a few new concepts and I learned a great deal of math which I never used later on, but that was pretty much it 2. It was as if my brain was made out of Teflon and whatever they threw at it didn’t stick.
The main problem that I see with the modern formal education is in that they are trying to compact the ever growing knowledge into chunks that you should memorize and repeat when asked, which keeps you busy so your parents are able to work. They treat your brain as a hard drive for dumping facts, while in reality it is a self-programmable high performance CPU with infinite potential that is preserving data rather poorly. It excels, however, at making abstract connections and general never seen before type of problem solving.
As Richard Hamming put it in his excellent You and Your Research talk:
But I am inclined to believe that, in the long-haul, books which leave out what’s not essential are more important than books which tell you everything because you don’t want to know everything. I don’t want to know that much about penguins is the usual reply. You just want to know the essence.
Learning facts and dates when somebody discovered something is not that useful in a world where all this knowledge is 1 click away. It’s good for those occasions when you have to mingle and impress the audience at your gala table, but other than that it’s mostly taking away your brain space that could be used for solving more important problems than mere memorization. The amount of knowledge absolutely exploded in the past 100 years and you cannot possibly cram all that junk into that tiny brain compartment.
Of course, this statement will enrage the people from the land of the free who spent thousands on their education, while at the same time most of the things are better explained elsewhere. I had a pretty good math teacher in college, but you can find thousand times better lectures on the internet made by strangers who are educating others from the goodness of their heart, such as 3blue1brown. Best of all, they are free.
Where does the knowledge come from?
Most of the things that I’ve accumulated over the years came from this mildly amusing idea that we call the internet. I had English classes in school, but I actually learned English while playing online games and mindlessly browsing internet. Nowadays I am mostly communicating in English, despite not being a native speaker. Who knew that wasting time on the internet would be so useful one day? I most certainly did not.
But, where did you learn about computer stuff?
I learned how to program via shitty online tutorials and building useless websites. Building a crappy website with just your mind and a text editor was a mind blowing experience.
I learned how to manage Linux servers by tinkering with an old crappy laptop and endlessly broken Linux system. Also I pushed those useless websites there and played with the system until the website appeared in the browser.
I learned the rest by reading books on a particular topic that interested me and later on talking to my coworkers.
The actual knowledge came from spending thousands of hours in front of a computer just trying things out and playing with already discovered concepts. I may as well formulate this insight as:
great work = spoon fed knowledge + experience + magic sauce
The parameters of this equation are also listed in a chronological order, as they appear throughout the life:
Spoon fed knowledge: obtained through formal education, reading books, online tutorials and picking brains of experienced people.
Experience: given enough spoon fed knowledge and plenty of hours, that knowledge is turned into experience. Suddenly you are mildly aware of what works and what doesn’t based on the past scars.
Magic sauce: a mix that consists of your own thoughts, experience and inspiration that brewed over the years. You might as well fit this into the realm of creativity.
You are free to throw some insanity into the mix to make it pop.
Which book should I read next?
Writing this question into your search engine of choice will provide hundreds of thousands results for the list of top 10 books on “X” that will help your career and change your perspective forever. All of those lists are accompanied with a tiny note telling you that the author is associated with a “$LARGE_BOOK_STORE” and buying them through their links will somehow help them run their blog in order to publish more of those useful lists.
I checked my library of dead tree items and found 15 technical books which I bought and read multiple times over the past few years. Most of them were pretty good and they were extremely valuable for my career. Reading a deep dive into the topic you are interested in is a great investment and you should definitely read as much as possible.
Still, I can’t really suggest you to read any of those books that I bought. They were all a great investment up to some point. Then one day you reach the level when you realize that the knowledge from those books only apply up to a certain point, and sticking to whatever the book authors have to say is actually a bad idea for your specific case.
Sometimes you even realize that what the book authors are preaching is actually harmful and is in fact hurting the entire industry by poisoning the bright minds with false ideas. Like the advice from a well known person B. “Sell Books” M. that is preaching how the comments are harmful and a big code smell.
The advice is totally fine and yes, you should most definitely structure your program in a way where the code is self explanatory. Then one day you happen to work on one of those multi million lines long codebases where people kept this advice close to their hearts. After a few years the original developers are long gone and nobody knows how the damn thing works and why a certain architectural decisions were made. Nothing makes sense and the documentation does not reflect the current state, but the code sure is clean with none of those smelly little comments.
The zealots will argue how people misunderstood the book and that it only pushed people towards improving the structure of the program as opposed to writing lengthy comments. The result was naturally the exact opposite. People are hesitant to write comments because writing comments has become this big bad wolf and you should be afraid of the big bad wolf.
The best code that I have ever written to this date contains a lot of comments. In fact ~30% of that particular codebase consists of comments. The feedback that I got from the current maintainers was mostly on how easy it is to jump into it and update the business logic, because all the unknowns and possible future pitfalls are explained right there 3.
In comparison to math, the software world is not a really well defined thing. In math, you have these long equations full of weird hieroglyphs and as long as you put the right stuff in, you get the right stuff out. Everything is exactly defined and proven and there is no misconception on how the things should behave (unless you are trying to divide by zero, then all bets are off).
The software world feels closer to creative writing. Sure there are rules and best practices in regard to how the hardware behaves, but when it comes to actually defining the structure of your program, it’s no longer a well defined thing. Maybe we should write it like this or maybe we shouldn’t - who knows? In the end it all boils down to experience and personal preferences of the author, which is why we still have these decades long debates about comments, tabs vs spaces and other nonsense.
Do I consider that particular book a bad book? Yes and no. It was definitely helpful for me when I’ve read it for the first time, as it made me think about the structure of my programs and how that structure affects other people in the team. Still, I don’t consider it as the holy bible of programming type of book that everyone should read and stick to whatever is written in there. There is a lot of fluff and bad advice that conflicts with the examples that are presented there. As long as you treat it as just another opinion piece or tool in your toolbox, you will be just fine 4.
But if you truly care about your craft, then I do have a special book for you in mind. It’s called The world through the eyes of a sloth that I just happen to be selling right here and you can buy it for a mere $39.26. You can’t really call yourself a professional without reading this one, that’s for sure.
Ok, let’s not get derailed with bashing the book sellers here. Now where was I? Ah yes, the cost of knowledge. How much do you think those 15 books actually cost me?
Given the average book about programming costs ~$32 that would be:
$32 * 15 = $480
Even if you don’t live in a country with inflated engineering salaries, this is a great bargain. Gaining this amount of experience on your own would cost you 10-20 years of full time programming. On the other hand you can gain it in a couple of years that reading this amount of books will take you, together with practicing the things that you have read.
In reality the actual cost of those books is even lower. Some of the best books out there could be read for free on the author’s website. Libraries are still a thing. If you pull out your pirate hat from the closet then you can actually get all of them for free. Either way, if you have the funds please compensate the authors for their hard work. Writing lengthy books or articles like this one is hard and time consuming.
In essence of this section, even if you don’t have the “right” formal education and all odds are against you, you can make it just fine in the modern world as the knowledge is essentially free and just waiting to be picked, but you do pay for it with years of study 5. Ignorance is more expensive than a book.
If the knowledge is free, then why do we have these weird office debates all the time? Why do educated people believe in the magic of the libraries for their programming language of choice?
Why rarely anybody goes from the first principles and really thinks about the stuff that happens under the hood when your for loop iterates over an array? What happens if your for loop iterates over a linked list? What if it iterates over a magic array like container?
I don’t know. I guess passing the knowledge from the teacher to scholar is hard and despite all the technological advances we didn’t quite figure it out yet. Furthermore, some teachers are just bad at their job and some scholars are not willing to listen and prefer to live in the world of magic libraries. Transforming this ever growing knowledge into the actual understanding is a tremendous amount of hard work. It usually takes years before you really get it and master the subject 6.
On top of all that, the software industry is riddled with used ol' vacuum cleaner salesmen that are trying to get their part of the pie. They keep making these beginner friendly programming courses that are promising to turn you into a master craftsman in a matter of hours.
It’s a crowded bar where everybody is yelling, but nobody has anything of value to say. Filtering out that noise is hard and it again takes years before you are able to recognize signal from the noise.
So how does one become the master of their field?
All I want to do is make a better sushi. I do the same thing over and over, improving bit by bit. There is always a yearning to achieve more. I’ll continue to climb, trying to reach the top, but nobody knows where the top is.
Even at my age, after decades of work I don’t think I have achieved perfection.
Jiro the sushi master (at the age of 86)
You live and you learn.
Gell-Mann amnesia - a phenomenon of experts believing news articles on topics outside their fields of expertise, even after acknowledging that articles written in the same publication that are within expert’s field of expertise are error-ridden and full of misunderstanding.
A younger me had a programming problem and so I searched around for the solution. The first link was this great site called StackOverflow that was filled with great solutions to my problem. Amazing.
One day I woke up and realized that most of the answers on that site were actually just plain wrong. While the answers posted there did solve the problem that the asker was having, most of them were never stating the pitfalls of their approach. If you don’t know a lot about that particular topic, you don’t even realize that you are copying a flawed approach into your production code.
Until one day your program is crashing, due to running out of memory. Oops, you are copying a 4Gb chunk of memory multiple times, because that was the solution that someone provided on StackOverflow and you didn’t know any better at the time. The accepted solution worked for the asker’s tiny problem, but it bit you in the ass for your slightly larger one. ↩︎
But then again I didn’t study computer science, so maybe that’s why most of it was not that much useful for me. ↩︎
For a more thorough review of this book, you might want to check It’s probably time to stop recommending Clean Code article. ↩︎
I am talking here about the actual knowledge and not about on paper knowledge that you get after finishing a certain course or degree. While there are professions in which you simply cannot work without finishing such course and obtaining that paper, the software industry is not one of those. ↩︎
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Walk 18 – Sidewalk Trail and Lighthouse Beach Loop
This walk is mostly on sand and rough grass and uses the following trails: Sidewalk Trail, Marsh Trail, and Fox Trail. In addition, the walk meanders through an unofficial wooded trail ending at the back edge of Presque Isle State Park’s maintenance area. It ends with a beach walk to the Presque Isle Lighthouse and the surrounding area. On this walk, you will experience the diverse nature of the park and might get the opportunity to view the wildlife.
This walk starts at the Sidewalk Trail parking area and follows the trail about 1/10 of a mile to the junction with Marsh Trail, Fox Trail, and Dead Pond Trail. Turn right onto the Marsh Trail, and follow it to the end, where it joins the Ridge Trail. Keep going straight up the small dune hill onto an unofficial trail. Do not take the larger path, which goes off to your left; stay on the path that goes straight ahead. This path will take you to the back corner of the park’s maintenance area. At the maintenance area, turn right and follow the road for about 2/10 of a mile to the main road. You should then cross the road, walk up the sand dunes onto the beach, and turn right. Walk along the beach for about 2/10 of a mile to the Presque Isle Lighthouse. Continue a short distance past the lighthouse and go between two clumps of trees, turn right, and walk across the wide beach back to your car.
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- Beaver lodge
- Presque Isle Lighthouse
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Hoturi's Poise was a Hoturi's Blade technique that taught how to master both the word and sword.
- ↑ Way of the Samurai, p. 29
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Edge correction and regression models for quantifying single-tree influence on understory vegetation
The understory is the layer of vegetation in the forest situated under the canopies of the trees. Some species of understory vegetation benefit from the surrounding trees, e.g by the provided nutrients, while others are restricted, e.g. by the limited amount of light.
In this thesis, statistical methods have been developed that allow the quantification of the effect of the trees on the vegetation. This is of importance for understanding ecological dynamics as well as for decisions regarding biodiversity and forest management. The effect of the trees was calculated with an index called influence potential on a quadrat (IPQ), which uses the size of the trees and their spatial distribution. The abundance of the understory was assessed by the proportion of ground covered. The Finnish Forest Research Institute provided the data consisting of observations on trees and vegetation from more than 3000 plots distributed over Finland.
In Paper I, an edge correction for IPQ was developed using tools from spatial point processes. The correction eliminates the bias that originates when trees outside the plot are ignored in the calculations. Paper II suggests a logistic model for studying the absence and presence of a plant species, but conditioned on a sufficient statistic for the large-scale effects. These effects are present throughout the data and are due to factors such as climate and latitude. By conditioning, the effects are accounted for but do not require to be estimated. Paper III develops regression models for proportions assuming that the errors are Beta distributed. It uses an alternative parameterization that is more flexible and allows estimation methods not possible with the standard form. Paper IV is an exploratory study of the relationship between IPQ and the abundance of 12 species of understory vegetation.
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Question about 2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee
To calibrate the compass goto a parking lot and and drive around in a circle several times until the compass starts working properly again.
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1981 Omega Equinoxe aka 'Reverso' - FULL SET - Ref. 186.0013
An unusual and rare Omega with its original papers and box.
WHY IS THIS WATCH SPECIAL
There’s so much to say about this watch, so why not start by saying this: this particular model, the ‘Equinoxe’, was the world first watch to feature two watches on the same watch case. Yes, even before JLC did it, Omega produced this masterpiece only in 1981. This watch is as rare as it gets.
Analog and classic on one side, and digital and revolutionary on the other, this watch has it all.
Stylistically the watch owes quite a bit to the Jaeger-Lecoultre Reverso, but the bracelet is also reminiscent of the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak. The bracelet is long and will fit most wrist, and has the correct clasp that still has the steel logo insert.
In the early 1980’s Omega were experimenting with making high end quartz watches like this. Ultimately it was not the right strategy, as they had to allow swatch to buy them to save them shortly afterwards. When new, this watch retailed for 1,500CHF (about £346), when you could buy a Automatic Seamaster with day and date, on a bracelet, for £120. This really was a premium watch. This scarce timepiece comes as a 'Full Set' (Original guarantee & box), which is extremely rare and collectible !
The Olympic Games – where millions of fans are eager for the thrills and spills of competition sport. Here the supreme arbiter is timekeeping and It must not fail, falter or fumble. Things have truly changed since 1932 when, for the first time, Omega timed the Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
In 1952, responding inventively to the demands of constantly improving sports performance, Omega pioneered the development of electronically assisted sports timekeeping.
Behind the scenes at the Olympic games, a squad of electronics engineers supervised the complex and extremely refined timekeeping equipment. Tailored to individual Olympic disciplines, the equipment was designed to display both the intermediate and final times directly to television screens across across the world to 1/100th of a second; the degree of precision prescribed by the organizing committee for the Games. Omega technicians themselves are monitored performances to 1/1000th of a second!
Everyone appreciated the spectacular mastery of quartz electronic precision during the Olympic games. It stands to reason that a similar commitment to this sophisticated technology came about in the form of a personal, wrist-worn, quartz-piloted instrument: the Omega digital watch.
Omega's rich history begins with its founder, Louis Brandt, who established the firm in 1848 in La Chaux de Fonds. In 1903, the company changed it's name to Omega, becoming the only watch brand in history to have been named after one its own movements. A full-fledged manufacturer of highly accurate, affordable and reliable watches, its sterling reputation enabled them to be chosen as the first watch company to time the Olympic Games beginning in 1932. Its continued focus on precision and reliability ultimately led their Speedmaster chronograph to be chosen by the NASA in 1965, the first watch worn on the moon.
- Maker: Omega
- Model: Equinoxe (Aka 'Reverso')
- Reference: 186.0013
- Year: 1981
- Material: Stainless Steel
- Dimentions (WxHxT): 27x38x9mm
- Caliber: In House Omega 1655
- Bracelet/Strap: Original Omega stainless steel (Up to a 20cm wrist)
- Lug width: N/A
- Box/Papers: Original Omega box
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This watch is in top condition. The unpolished case is extremely well preserved, the stainless steel strap is very long and not stretched at all (Up to a 20cm wrist). All parts are original and every function works properly.
This is a very unusual and collectible Omega, manufactured only for 1 year it will draw the attention of watch enhousiasts for sure. This scarce chronograph comes with its original box and guarantee !
It has a presence on the wrist with its integrated steel bracelet, perfect for everyday wear.
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Edited by master clinician-experts appointed by the American Academy of Pain Medicine, this is a state-of-the-art multidisciplinary textbook covering medical, interventional, and integrative approaches to the treatment and management of pain. It is designed as a practical and comprehensive primary reference for busy physicians and is also an up-to-date resource for preparing for certification examinations in pain medicine. Am Written and edited by world-class authorities Am aKey Pointsa preview contents of each chapter Am Leading edge medical topics, such as monitoring opioid use and abuse, and the emerging role of cannabinoids in pain treatment Am Expert guidance on full range of interventional techniques Am Clinical anatomy and physiology for the interventionist Am Behavioral dimensions of the experience and management of pain Am Integrative approaches for treating the awhole persona Am Legal issues, such as failure to treat pain Am First-hand patient accountsRegeneration of meniscus cartilage in a knee treated with percutaneously implanted autologous mesenchymal stem cells. Med Hypotheses. 2008;71(6): 900a8. 144. Centeno CJ, et al. Increased knee cartilage volume in degenerative jointanbsp;...
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Back Pain: Get back to where you once belonged
Low back pain is a jolt. Or it's a dull ache. Maybe it's a throb. It's one of the top five reasons people visit the doctor. You might have a chronic disorder such as arthritis, scoliosis or spinal stenosis. You may have had a trauma or injury that damaged the spinal bones and tissues: enthusiastic hammer swings, up-and-downs in the garden, or the dreaded box lift with the back instead of the legs. Or, more likely, you are probably one of the many millions who sit all day, and when you aren't sitting, you're driving. This constant sitting shortens the hamstrings and the psoas muscles, straining the lower back. If your back pain lasts longer than three days, immobilizes you, or you suspect injury, the matter should be addressed by a physician. Otherwise, a few minor adjustments in movement and targeted gentle stretches can offer relief.
Walk this way
Esther Gokhale, known as the "Back Guru" and the "Back Whisperer," is the author of "8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back." To relieve back pain, she suggests sufferers rethink how they walk.
"A healthy gait offers repetition for the glutes and a stretch for the psoas with every step. It's worth the effort to learn that," Gokhale said in a telephone interview.
According to Gokhale, most people pull the body forward with the quads when they walk. Instead, she suggests pushing the body forward with the glutes. This maintains a healthy sway in the lower back and holds your butt behind you so the rest of your body can stack well.
To begin practicing this gait, find the gluteus medius, the muscle at the top of your butt. First, while standing, lean against the back of a chair. Lift one leg behind you and flex the foot. Set some music to a strong beat and repeatedly pulse the leg up and down. When you feel the burn, you know the muscle will be easy to find.
Now that you know where the muscle is, take a walk while squeezing your gluteus medius. If you are using your glutes pack, you'll tone your backside as you walk. This strengthens your built-in wedge cushion for sitting, and you'll have better posture.
Visit GokhaleMethod.com for more information.
Fix your seat
Begin your sitting practice at the edge of the chair. Reach behind you, and pull all the padding out from under your butt so you are directly on your sitting bones. Without being tucked, your butt is now a behind. Don't emphasize the curve in your lower back: sway naturally.
Fix the slump and gently stack. Push your right shoulder forward, up, back, and then drop it into your back. Adjust the left shoulder. Your head is centered.
You may need to pull your keyboard closer.
When you're comfortable sitting this way in the chair, you can add a floor practice. Take a comfortable cross-legged position. If your knees are not touching the floor, sit on a bolster or meditation pillow to lift your seat. You may need more than one folded blanket or even a meditation bench under you to coax your knees downward and your hips open, stretching the psoas.
Stretch your hamstrings
Begin with standing forward bend. Be aware that the goal of forward bend is not to touch the floor but to connect your belly to your thighs. While standing with feet hip distance apart, gently bend your knees and hinge your upper body forward from the hips. Your neck is neutral. If your upper back begins to curve, you've gone too far. Keep your heart lifted until your belly touches your thighs. Your hands can move to your hips or thighs. If you are comfortable, straighten your legs to stretch the hamstrings but only to the extent that your back remains straight.
A warning from Bonita Springs Joyful Yoga yogi Emily Chiodo: In any forward fold, do not do the familiar "roll up one vertebra at a time." If your hamstrings are tight, your pelvis will not tip forward in the fold. This further compresses the low back. When you roll up, you're adding the weight of your head and upper body, intensifying the compression. This is counterproductive when you are trying to alleviate back pain.
For this reason, Joyful Yoga has eliminated the roll up from all classes. Instead, maintain the natural curve in the lower back, and lift up from your heart with a neutral neck.
Move to the floor with extended legs for a seated hamstring stretch. Pull the padding out from under your sitting bones, and wrap a strap around the balls of your feet. With your hands holding the ends of the straps, lead with your heart and hinge forward from the hips. Your heart should remain lifted, your shoulder blades down your back and your tail out behind you. If your back begins to curve or you tuck your butt, pull back on the stretch until your back is straight; microbend your knees and hold.
Continue with the strap. Fully recline on your back. The right leg is bent with the sole of the foot on the floor. The left is extended to the ceiling. Wrap the strap around the ball of the left foot, and bend your knee if necessary. The small of your back should be on the floor. Stretch the leg, straight or with a microbend, and hold for a minute. Then, hold both ends of the strap in your left hand, and open your leg toward the floor. Hold. Don't twist from the belly or lift your back or hips from the floor. Return the leg to the ceiling, and switch hands with the strap. Gently drop the leg slightly an inch or two across the body to stretch the tight outer hamstring. Switch legs.
Get into your hips
Low lunge. Begin on your knees and step your right foot forward in a 90-degree bend. Make sure your right knee is directly over your ankle and not shooting over the toes. Slide your left knee back and drop your hips. Use a folded blanket or towel under your knee for support. Switch sides.
From low lunge, you can move into Pigeon variation called Thread the Needle. Lie on your back, bend both of your legs and place the soles of your feet on the floor. Cross your left ankle over your right knee and gently push your left knee open, stretching the left hip. If you wish, grab your right thigh and pull the bent right leg to your chest. Switch sides.
By practicing a new gait and seat daily and stretching the hamstrings and psoas three times a week, you can deliver much needed relief to the lower back.
— Nancy B. Loughlin is a writer and yogi in Fort Myers. She can be reached at email@example.com or Twitter @NancyLoughlin
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The Amazon River Basin is a wild place exploding with an abundance of life, and often only accessible by water it is the road less traveled which we love see much wildlife hopefully some of the people the mass the size of the river the lushness, and the amount of water that they have here is just amazing adventure about the event room traveling into Peru’s rainforest on the Amazon River. How Mike you feel the pulse of this adventurous, and wild river the ship is called arapaima the bow has cabins with air conditioning private bathrooms, and it gets asked where you wanna be some of the mushrooms then we’ll need the help of the Beatles or all the insects what happens is they do learn they attract them oh we’re gonna go through this canal to go to a lake where are we gonna start our fishing or piranhas.
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And This is gonna be a very good challenge for the driver to go all the way through there the pacaya-samiria National Reserve is Peru’s largest national park exploring its three rivers its numerous lakes gorgeous canals, and expose all accessed best by boat my question is when you catch one what do you do with it when you catch one you thought about okay good we are fishing for piranha in the Amazon River tributary we’re a miner almost piranhas are a staple food in the local diet their teeth are used by the indigenous population to make tools, and weapons the most powerful is the low jaws at the lower jaw right that press against the opportune time right one bite, and kaput look it is cheap yeah he’s serious guy these birds called husky case built long hanging bag shaped nests some birds choose a tree that contains an active wasp nest as an ally a defender in an extra deterrent to predators none of the most social birds that we have in the rain forest, and the reason why is not is. Because they can’t choose a tree, and share with other species but in the same family, it’s beautiful. We’ve seen.
So far the dolphin this morning. I saw my first River Dolphin, and sloppy, and birds, and macaws, it’s very n monkeys iguanas full lips we saw anaconda that’s one of the highlights you know, and the remarkable part of the trip probably. Because we know she anacondas everyday you know.
So we saw an anaconda it was right here you know in the warehouse of the of the arrangers experience also the means of transportation of the people which is the dagger very easy very nice cool don’t do this every day out with the bird we have a full day activity you know in the village which is called a in the life visiting the shaman visiting you know the village itself interacting with the families, and also having any direction with the children as well the kids are. So great and I think that we all enjoy it as much as they do the adventures without the adventure forgetteth cruising the Amazon, and its tributaries what adventures await you in this wild, and unspoiled place Oh.
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Developers in the City of Chicago should be aware of a new City revenue focus—use tax audits on recently completed construction projects. While the basis is only anecdotal, it appears that the City’s Building Department, which issues certificates of occupancy, may be alerting the Department of Finance about newly completed projects. The Department of Finance then initiates a use tax investigation with the developer to ensure proper remittance of taxes.
Chicago’s use tax is a companion to its retailers occupation tax, commonly known as the sales tax. The retailers occupation tax generally applies to purchases of products, such as building materials, within the City of Chicago. The use tax applies to products purchased outside of the City (e.g., steel from an Indiana retailer) but used within the City. The purchaser, not the retailer, is charged with payment of the use tax. If a developer pays a municipal sales tax on an out of state purchase, the developer receives a credit against its City use tax liability based on the amount of out-of-state municipal tax paid. Some states, however, do not have municipal sales taxes so developers receive no credit for taxes paid on their out of state purchases. Consequently, Chicago’s use tax will apply to out-of-state purchases where there is no municipal sales tax. It is noteworthy that the State of Illinois has a comparable tax, but to date, increased enforcement has not been apparent.
Developers sometimes do not properly structure their construction contracts and/or fail to remit Chicago use taxes where the developer self-performs work. As a result of these factors and the City’s stepped up enforcement, developers are finding themselves liable not only for back taxes but also penalties and interest. With the use tax rate of 1 percent, interest charges of 12 percent on outstanding tax debts and fines of $50 - $200 per day, amounts owed to the City can quickly mount. A developer’s failure to pay sums due can also result in the imposition of liens and loss of business licenses. To avoid these results, developers should, at a minimum, structure their contracts for work in Chicago to ensure that contractors and subcontractors are solely responsible for collection and remittance of use taxes. In addition, where developers self-perform work or purchase materials for a project, developers should be careful to properly calculate and remit use taxes to the City on a timely basis.
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Static, dynamic and aeroelastic behaviour of thin-walled composite structures with application to aircraft wings
Theoretical and experimental investigations of the static and dynamic behaviour of thin-walled structures are carried out with the ultimate aim of improving prediction procedures for various aeroelastic phenomena. The dynamic stiffness matrix approach is used for structural idealization, while strip theory and Theodorsen's function C(k) are used for the aerodynamic idealization. The dynamic composite beam with with an axial load centroid, has been carried out using Special cases, that been identified and stiffness matrix for a thin-walled geometric and material coupling together (compressive or tensile) applied at the developed. An exact analysis was then the derived dynamic stiffness matrix. are derivatives of the general case have discussed. A three stage program was developed to compute various static and dynamic properties of thin-walled closed or open section composite beams. In the first stage, equivalent elastic constants (overall laminate moduli) were evaluated for a given stacking sequence and material properties. In the second stage, various sectional properties were computed. When the outputs from these two stages were combined, valuable data on sectional rigidities, mass per unit length, polar mass moment of inertia, and shear centre location from the centroid were obtained. In the third stage of the program, all these properties were used to compute the natural frequencies and normal mode shapes of thin-walled composite structures. These programs can be used individually as well as in a combined manner. An experimental investigation of composite thin plates with varying degrees of bending-torsion coupling was conducted. Flexural and torsional rigidities, natural frequencies, normal mode shapes and flutter speed and frequency were experimentally determined. The results obtained were in close agreement with the theoretical predictions. Various open composite sections were experimentally studied for their static and dynamic properties. The results demanded a more refined investigation of the theory. In addition to the experimental study of composite open sections, a parametric study of uncoupled and coupled frequencies of such sections with common boundary conditions was also conducted. Thin-walled closed aerofoil shaped cantilevered structures were tested to establish flexural and torsional rigidities, shear centre, and the polar-mass-moment of inertia. Natural frequencies and normal mode shapes were also determined. The aeroelastic behaviour of these sections was investigated to establish divergence and flutter characteristics. Comparisons of the experimental results with theoretical predictions of flutter speed and frequency were in general satisfactory and the results provided an insight into the aeroelastic behaviour of thin-walled composite beams. The results are discussed and commented on.
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Method. Heat the stock. Peel and finely chop the onion and garlic, trim and finely chop the celery. Finely grate the Parmesan. In a separate pan, heat the oil and 1 small knob of butter over a low heat, add the onions, garlic and celery, and fry gently for about 15 minutes, or until softened but not coloured. Add the rice and turn up the heat. Risotto can also be made from any other small, starchy grain such as pearl barley, brown rice, spelt, or buckwheat. These whole grains might yield a less creamy and chewier risotto than with the traditional risotto rice but the results are just as delicious as classic risotto. You can also cook a mock risotto with orzo pasta Risotto (/ r ɪ ˈ z ɒ t oʊ /, Italian: [riˈsɔtto, -ˈzɔt-], from riso meaning rice) is a northern Italian rice dish cooked with broth until it reaches a creamy consistency. The broth can be derived from meat, fish, or vegetables. Many types of risotto contain butter, onion, white wine, and parmesan cheese.It is one of the most common ways of cooking rice in Italy .buzzfeed.com/marietelling/how-to-make-risotto?utm_term=.beNOOPok8#.bt4xx8LRqShop the Tasty kitchenware collection here: http://bit.ly/2IooLS4Chec..
The Picture Pantry / Lisovskaya Natalia / Getty Images Quinotto is the clever hybrid name (quinoa plus risotto) for this rich and creamy quinoa mushroom risotto dish that uses quinoa in place of Arborio rice. Quinoa is a high-protein super-grain that has surged in popularity recently, thanks to its nutritional properties and nutty taste. Since quinoa doesn't become creamy when cooked slowly. Salmon, fennel and pea risotto. Salmon risotto is such a quick and easy dish: the creamy rice is complemented here by the salmon and peas. Be careful not to overcook it, though, or it will be stodgy To reheat risotto on the stovetop, bring stock or water to a boil. Reduce the heat and add the risotto, stirring for a few minutes until it's heated through. Start with 1/4 cup of liquid for 1 cup of risotto and add a little more liquid if needed
Risotto is an icon of northern Italian cuisine, stemming from the Mediterranean climate's suitability for growing short-grain rice after it was introduced to the country in the Middle Ages Risotto maken. Vaak wordt gedacht dat risotto moeilijk is om te maken. Dat valt ontzettend mee. Wanneer je er genoeg tijd voor neemt, zet je zonder stress een heerlijk gerecht op tafel. Om risotto te maken volg je vijf stappen: soffrito, tostatura, umifità, brodo en mantecatura. Deze Italiaanse termen hoef je niet te onthouden Risotto with Asparagus. Recipe | Courtesy of Food Network Kitchen. Total Time: 50 minutes. 14 Reviews Vamos a preparar un delicioso risotto de champiñones, un plato tradicional de la cocina italiana 114k Followers, 933 Following, 599 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from RISOTTO (@risottostudio
Risotto is a type of Italian rice dish that is cooked in broth until it's nice and creamy. Risotto is especially popular with veggies like mushrooms or seafood, but it can be tasty with a number of ingredients. If you want to know how to.. . Also, risotto dishes are most often prepared as the primo, or the first course The history of risotto is naturally tied to the history of rice in Italy. While there are many conflicting opinions on the historical intricacies, rice was first introduced to Italy and Spain by the Arabs during the Middle Ages. The humidity of the Mediterranean was quickly found to be perfect for growing shorter-grained rices, and enormous.
Le secret du risotto provient de ses petits grains de riz ronds, qui s'imprègnent, petit à petit, de liquide pour arriver à un mélange crémeux, mais qui conserve une structure grâce au riz qui doit, normalement, rester légèrement croquant. La recette la plus répandue, est celle du risotto alla milanese. Un grand classique de la. Estos son los ingredientes base del risotto, pero además necesitamos mantequilla y (aquí es donde saludamos a nuestra imaginación) los ingredientes que quieras que protagonicen tu plato: marisco, pescado, carne, verduras El risotto, que surgió en el siglo XVI en el norte de Italia, es un plato versátil y muy abierto a la improvisación Aprenda como fazer risoto de camarão, queijo, palmito, funghi, além de opções com cogumelos, bacalhau, abobrinha, alho-poró, frutos do mar e muito mais. Você pode ainda inventar a sua própria receita. Aqui você encontra receitas de risoto com foto, vídeo e passo a passo
El risotto es uno de los platos estrella de la gastronomía italiana, muy simple de preparar y con muchas de variaciones que te permitirán adaptar este plato a cualquier gusto personal.. La base del risotto es el arroz y el queso parmesano, pero también se puede preparar con nata o con leche. Habitualmente este plato se prepara como principal así que, si buscas un entrante que le pegue. Zucchini Risotto Sobre Dulce y Salado. salt and ground black pepper, zucchini, white wine, vegetable broth and 6 more. Red Risotto! AliceMizer. diced tomatoes in juice, arborio rice, cheese, pepper, shallots and 8 more El risotto debe prepararse siempre con arroz de grano redondo, en nuestro país tenemos el bomba, senia o bahía, pero las variedades más adecuadas para hacerlo son las italianas 'carnaroli' y. Here is how to cook basic risotto: 1. High-starch, medium- or short-grain rice is perfect for making risotto. Arborio rice is commonly used and is a great option. 2. Use a large, deep skillet. 3. Este risotto de queso es una de esas recetas que hay que preparar en casa. Un tipo de arroz cremoso que tendrá toda la intensidad de un queso espectacular. El risotto consigue una textura que.
Sabatino Tartufi Risotto Gourmet Risotto With Black Truffles Ready To Eat All Natural NonGmo, Truffle, 6 pack,6.2 Ounce. 6.2 Ounce (Pack of 6) 4.4 out of 5 stars. 9. $39.99. $39. . 99 ($6.45/Ounce) $37.99 with Subscribe & Save discount This creamy one-pot vegan risotto is made with mushrooms, peas, leeks and a few more whole food plant-based ingredients. Ready to enjoy in about 30 minutes, this easy and low-fat beginner recipe is so incredibly satisfying and versatile, and it can be enjoyed year-round When hot, add the shallot. Cook the shallot, stirring frequently, untill the edges begin to brown. Stir the frozen riced cauliflower into the cooked shallots. Season lightly with salt and pepper. Cook the cauliflower, stirring frequently, until the cauliflower is crisp-tender. Stir in the garlic and cook for 1 minute, while stirring
Notes on Risotto agli asparagi. Admittedly, turning out a proper risotto is not particularly easy. There are lots of nuances to it. A false move and you can wind up with gooey mush or, at the other extreme, thin gruel studded with chalky grains of rice Risotto /rɪˈzɒtoʊ/ (Italian: [riˈzɔtto] or [riˈsɔtto]) is a northern Italian rice dish cooked in a broth to a creamy consistency. The broth can be derived from meat, fish, or vegetables. Many types of risotto contain butter, wine, and onion. It is one of the most common ways of cooking rice in Italy
RightRice Risotto has 25g of net carbs per serving. Net carbohydrates are computed by simply subtracting fiber from total carbs. Since dietary fiber is essential and contains no calories because it's not absorbed, what you're left with is the true carbohydrate content Risotto is a simple Italian dish that consists of rice cooked to a creamy consistency (without cream) by adding small bits of warm broth and stirring frequently. The stirring releases starches which make the rice creamy and delicious! Rice for Risotto. To make a great risotto, you need the right kind of rice Once you master the risotto technique, you can make flavorful versions throughout the year This summery version is based on red, ripe tomatoes from the garden, but if you want to up the tomato quotient, surround the finished dish with slices of multicolored heirloom varieties Best as a first course or vegetarian main course, it could also pair with a main course — grilled fish, for instance Melt the 25g of butter (or use the vegetable oil) and soften the onion in a heavy-bottomed, straight-sided pan, then add the carnaroli rice. Turn up the heat, and stir to coat the grains with. Explore SteBen45's magazine Risotto , followed by 334 people on Flipboard. See more stories about Food & Dining, Risotto
1 cup (195 grams) uncooked arborio, carnaroli, or another short-grained rice, such as sushi rice. 3 tablespoons (45 grams) unsalted butter, divided. 3/4 to 1 cup (about 85 to 90 grams) grated parmesan cheese. Heat oven: To 350°F. Make risotto: In 4-quart Dutch oven or deep, oven-safe saucepan with a lid, heat oil over medium heat Add onion and cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 5 minutes. Add garlic and cook, stirring, until fragrant, about 1 minute. Stir rice into onion mixture and season with 1 1/2.
Risotto. 43,632 likes · 18 talking about this. Gruppo degli amanti del riso e del risotto promosso dalla redazione di Risotto.u Risotto with roasted tomatoes. Heat butter with a bit of olive oil in a pan and lightly cook 2-3 cloves chopped garlic. Add 1-2 cups tomatoes of choice and cook, carefully pressing down until the tomatoes are soft and jammy. Taste and season with salt, pepper, and chili flakes Il risotto è un primo piatto tipico della cucina italiana, originario della Lombardia poi diffusosi in tutto il nord Italia e oggi presente in numerose versioni in tutto il paese.La sua caratteristica principale è il mantenimento dell'amido, che, gelatinizzatosi a causa della cottura, lega i chicchi tra loro in un composto di tipo cremoso.Tra le varie qualità di riso, ne esistono alcune.
History of Risotto. Risotto is serious Italian comfort food. It's a rice-based dish that is believed to have originated in Milan, Italy. The first version was called Risotto alla Milanese and was traditionally made with butter, onion, white wine, stock, salt, saffron, and Parmesan. Since then, many flavor variations have been created Risotto. Risotto là một món cơm Ý nấu với nước dùng chứa nhiều kem. Nước dùng có thể làm từ thịt, cá hoặc rau củ. Nhiều loại risotto có phô mai Parmesan, bơ và hành tây. Đây là kiểu nấu cơm phổ biến nhất ở Ý. Risotto thường là món khai vị đầu tiên, nhưng loại risotto. risotto. almond risotto with roasted baby parsnips and crispy sage. RECIPE. risotto. baked mushroom, bacon and spinach risotto. RECIPE. risotto. baked pumpkin and bacon risotto. RECIPE reminiscent of cacio e pepe, with the bold flavor of freshly cracked black pepper. Shop Now. nutrition facts. ingredients Risotto definition, a dish of rice cooked with broth and flavored with grated cheese and other ingredients. See more
Risotto prepared with mushrooms and scallions (cropped).jpg 460 × 315; 41 KB Risotto with peas.jpg 500 × 375; 126 KB Risottogantkeuzdanvadez.jpg 250 × 170; 9 K Risotto is a dish many home cooks turn to for special dinners and even last-minute suppers. It's definitely a 'go-to' for many home cooks, but as someone who grew up watching countless TV chefs. And while making a risotto sounds like an arduous task, with all the stirring and standing over the stove top while it cooks, if you use a rice cooker or pressure cooker, the task is a whole lot simpler. In fact, with a pressure cooker this Pumpkin and Baby Spinach risotto can be made quickly, making it a great weeknight meal
Step 9Pressure Cook Risotto. Pour 4 cups (1L) mushroom chicken stock in the pressure cooker. *Pro Tip 1: Now is a good time to make sure no rice or onion pieces stick to the sides of the pot. Close lid and pressure cook at. Pressure Cooking Method: High Pressure for 5 minutes, then Quick Release Making risotto isn't as scary as many people think. It is a relaxing job of stirring. Pour a glass of wine, stand by the stove and gently stir your risotto. It can be quite therapeutic. A few tips for the perfect risotto. Ensure you use a risotto rice, the most common is arborio and it can be found in all grocery stores Risotto Nero (リゾット・ネエロ, Rizotto Nēro) is a primary antagonist featured in the fifth part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Vento Aureo, specifically the King Crimson vs. Metallica story arc.. Risotto Nero is the leader of La Squadra Esecuzioni and sends his squad-mates to battle Team Bucciarati; all in order to take the Boss's daughter Trish Una and use her to get to him risotto (countable and uncountable, plural risottos) An Italian savoury dish made with rice and other ingredients. The secret to a creamy risotto is letting the rice absorb one cup of broth at a time
Risotto recipes. Elegant, comforting and much easier to make than you think, stir up this classic Italian dish with one of our gorgeous risotto recipes. Classic milanese, a pearl barley variation and risotto cakes are all on the list and it's a fabulous dish for using up leftovers, too Roasted chicken risotto with caramelised onions. 376 reviews. 45min. This is a delicious use of leftover roast chicken, a treat for a Monday night supper! You may choose to roast your own chicken or buy it from the supermarket. A little grated cheese such as Parmesan or Pecorino [...] Recipe by: Michele O'Sullivan
Vegetarian risotto recipes made with whole grains. Steel-Cut Oat Risotto with Butternut Squash and Kale. Roasted Butternut Squash Risotto. Spring Pea and Asparagus Risotto. Lemony Roasted Cauliflower Risotto. Easy Brown Rice Risotto with Mushrooms and Fresh Oregano Heat the olive oil over medium heat in a wide, heavy skillet or a wide, heavy saucepan. Add the onion and a generous pinch of salt, and cook gently until tender, about 5 minutes. Add the rice and garlic and cook, stirring, until the grains of rice are separate and beginning to crackle. Stir in the grated tomatoes, sugar, thyme, and salt to. Begin by heating your stock and keeping it warm. Add butter and oil to a large skillet over medium heat (I actually use a wok for risotto!). Add the onions and cook until just tender, then add the garlic. Cook 1 minute longer. Add the rice and toss to coat, (making sure oil gets onto every grain of rice if you can) Instructions. In a medium size pan add olive oil, zucchine, onion, garlic, oregano, parsley, salt and 1/4 cup water, cook uncovered over medium low heat, stirring occasionally until the zucchini are tender (and a little golden) and water has evaporated, (approximately 15-20 minutes, after about 15 minutes if there is still a lot of water.
Arborio is the classic risotto rice from the north Italian region of Piedmont. It is probably the best all-rounder for cooking. It is a medium- to long-grain rice that can absorb a lot of cooking. Risotto, at its most basic, is rice cooked in broth. Rice is the star here because it produces starch — the constant stirring during the cooking process rubs the starch off the surface of the rice, where it dissolves into and thickens the cooking liquid Fiddlehead Risotto. A creamy rice dish served with sauteed fern heads. It's a little bland. Fiddlehead Risotto is a cooked dish. It is prepared using either the kitchen inside an upgraded farmhouse or a Cookout Kit . Note: this recipe is profitable - it will result in profit when using the lowest quality ingredients and made with homemade Oil Cómo hacer un risotto de setas.. Esta receta con arroz italiano (riso en italiano) es una de las recetas más conocidas y consumidas de la gastronomía italiana.Los españoles ya somos muy arroceros, por lo que lo han tenido fácil para conquistarnos. Tiene un punto cremoso gracias a la mantequilla y el queso Parmigiano, que lo convierte en irresistible para muchos de nosotros Step 2. In a food processor add the spinach and 2 tbsp of hot water and whizz to a purée. Once the rice is almost cooked, stir through the purée, broad beans and peas. Cook for a further 5 minutes, stirring regularly. Step 3. Once the rice and vegetables are cooked, stir through the parmesan, crème fraîche, lemon zest and juice, season and.
Heat the stock in a small saucepan until it comes to a low simmer. Cook shallots, add rice: In a separate 3 or 4 quart saucepan, heat 1 tablespoon butter on medium heat. Add the shallots and cook for a minute or two, until translucent. Add the arborio rice and cook for 2 minutes more, stirring until nicely coated In a 6-quart saucepan over medium heat, melt the butter. Add the shallots and garlic, and cook, stirring, until soft, 3 minutes. Add the rice; cook 2 minutes. Add the reserved broth ½ cup at a. Measure out the well chilled risotto into ½ cup portions. Form each portion into a round disk to form a cake. Dip each cake into plain flour. then into beaten eggs, then into unseasoned bread crumbs. Shallow fry the cakes in olive oil in a pan over medium heat for about 5 minutes on each side Papa Risotto est un concept unique de restauration rapide . Il s 'agit du plus grand choix en France de risottos à composer selon vos envies et vos goûts. Ce restaurant vous offre la possibilité de personnaliser votre risotto en choisissant parmi les ingrédients qui sont proposés afin de composer le risotto de vos rêves Creamy Asparagus Risotto: quick to make, really satisfying and actually healthy, when not drenched in butter and cheese. Unfortunately there is a drawback to risottos: basically, you're not allowed to get it right unless you have an Italian grandma, and this is why I expect someone commenting that this version is an insult to all Italians every couple of hours
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Namco Limited is a brand and corporate name used from 1971 to 2018 by two Japanese companies in the businesses of video games, game centers and theme parks. The name continues to be used outside of Japan by the subsidiary Namco USA.
The original Namco Ltd. was founded in 1955 as Nakamura Seisakusho and changed its name to Nakamura Manufacturing in 1959. In 1971, Nakamura Manufacturing launched the Namco brand which became the company's name in 1977. In 2006, Namco absorbed the video game division of its sister company Bandai and formally renamed itself Namco Bandai Games. The same day, its existing amusement division split to form a new company called Namco Ltd which was subsequently renamed Bandai Namco Amusement Inc. in 2018.
Namco was a front-runner during the golden age of arcade video games. Pac-Man went on to become the best-selling arcade game in history and an international popular culture icon. Namco is also known for creating successful franchises such as Galaxian, Dig Dug, Xevious, Ridge Racer, Tekken, Ace Combat, Soulcalibur and Tales.
Midway Games Inc. (formerly Midway Manufacturing and commonly known as Midway) was an American video game developer and publisher. Midway's franchises included Mortal Kombat, Rampage, Spy Hunter, NBA Jam, Cruis'n, and NFL Blitz. Midway also acquired the rights to video games that were originally developed by Williams Electronics and Atari Games, such as Defender, Joust, Robotron 2084, Gauntlet, and the Rush series.
The company's predecessor Midway Manufacturing was founded in 1958, as an amusement game manufacturer. In 1973 it moved into the interactive entertainment industry, developing and publishing arcade video games. The company scored its first mainstream hit with the U.S. distribution of Space Invaders in 1978. Midway was purchased and re-incorporated in 1988 by WMS Industries Inc. After years as a leader in the arcade segment, Midway moved into the growing home video game market beginning in 1996, the same year that it made its initial public offering of stock. In 1998 WMS spun off its remaining shares of Midway. Midway was ranked the fourth largest-selling video game publisher in 2000.
After 2000, Midway continued to develop and publish video games for home and handheld video game machines, but it experienced large annual net losses and engaged in a series of stock and debt offerings and other financings and borrowings. Sumner Redstone, the head of Viacom/CBS Corporation, increased his stake in Midway from about 15%, in 1998, to about 87% by the end of 2007. In December 2008, Redstone sold all his stock and $70 million of Midway debt to Mark Thomas, a private investor, for $100,000.
In February 2009, Midway Games filed in Delaware for bankruptcy. Warner Bros. purchased most of Midway's assets (including Mortal Kombat), and Midway settled with Mark Thomas to relinquish his Midway stock and debt. The U.S. District Court in Chicago dismissed a lawsuit alleging that former officers of Midway misled shareholders while selling their own stock. In 2010, the bankruptcy court dismissed claims against Redstone concerning his sale of the company to Thomas and approved Midway's plan of liquidation. Midway terminated the public registration of its securities in June 2010.
Bally Manufacturing, later renamed Bally Entertainment, was an American company that began as a pinball and slot machine manufacturer, and later expanded into casinos, video games, health clubs, and theme parks. It was acquired by Hilton Hotels in 1995. Its brand name is still used by several businesses previously linked to Bally Manufacturing, most notably Bally Technologies.
WMS Industries, Inc. is an American electronic gaming and amusement manufacturer in Enterprise, Nevada. WMS traces its roots to 1943, to the Williams Manufacturing Company, founded by Harry E. Williams. However, the company that became WMS Industries was formally founded in 1974 as Williams Electronics, Inc.
Williams initially was a manufacturer of pinball machines. In 1964, Williams was acquired by jukebox manufacturer Seeburg Corp. and reorganized as Williams Electronics Manufacturing Division. In 1973, the company branched out into the coin-operated arcade video game market with its Pong clone Paddle Ball, eventually creating a number of video game classics, including Defender and Robotron: 2084. In 1974, Williams Electronics, Inc. was incorporated as a wholly owned subsidiary of Seeburg. Williams Electronics was sold as an independent company during the bankruptcy of Seeburg in 1980.
In 1987, Williams changed its parent name to WMS Industries, Inc. when it made its public offering. WMS is a shortening of Williams, which it also selected for its NYSE ticker symbol. In 1988, it acquired competitor Bally/Midway, which it spun off in 1998, together with its video game business. WMS entered the reel-spinning slot machine market in 1994. It closed its pinball division in 1999.
In 2013, WMS became a wholly owned subsidiary of Scientific Games. In 2016, WMS was reorganized and fully merged into Scientific Games. Today, WMS is a brand of Scientific Games, along with SG, Bally and Shuffle Master.
Atari SA is a French corporate and brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972, currently by Atari Interactive, a subsidiary of the French publisher Atari, SA. The original Atari, Inc., founded in Sunnyvale, California in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, was a pioneer in arcade games, home video game consoles, and home computers. The company's products, such as Pong and the Atari 2600, helped define the electronic entertainment industry from the 1970s to the mid-1980s.
In 1984, as a result of the video game crash of 1983, the original Atari Inc. was split, and the arcade division was turned into Atari Games Inc. Atari Games received the rights to use the logo and brand name with appended text "Games" on arcade games, as well as rights to the original 1972–1984 arcade hardware properties. The Atari Consumer Electronics Division properties were in turn sold to Jack Tramiel's Tramel Technology Ltd., which then renamed itself to Atari Corporation. In 1996, Atari Corporation reverse-merged with disk-drive manufacturer JT Storage (JTS), becoming a division within the company. In 1998, Hasbro Interactive acquired all Atari Corporation related properties from JTS, creating a new subsidiary, Atari Interactive.
Infogrames Entertainment (IESA) bought Hasbro Interactive in 2001 and renamed it Infogrames Interactive, which intermittently published Atari branded titles. In 2003, it renamed the division Atari Interactive. Another IESA division, Infogrames Inc. (formerly GT Interactive), changed its name to Atari Inc. the same year, licensing the Atari name and logo from its fellow subsidiary.
In 2008, IESA completed its acquisition of Atari, Inc.'s outstanding stock, making it a wholly owned subsidiary. IESA renamed itself Atari, SA in 2009. It sought bankruptcy protection under French law in January 2013.
Other Game Companies
Innerprise, Grandslam, Quicksilva, Thunder Mountain, and INTV all developed ports of Pac games for the home systems. Virtuality made the VR game. Digital Eclipse is either the same as Innerprise, or they're theives. Atried Concept and Mindscape developed the worst Pac-man game ever. Coleco, Mattel, Amstrad, Commodore, Sinclair, Texas Instruments, IBM, Apple, Philips, Microsoft, Nintendo, Sega, and Sony all had Pac-man released for their game and computer systems.
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Ship Science & Technology - Vol. 15 - n.° 29 - (71-88) July 2021 - Cartagena (Colombia)
Raúl E. Podetti 1
1 Vector Naval - Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires, Argentina. Email: firstname.lastname@example.org
Date Received: August 28th, 2021 - Fecha de recepción: 28 de agosto del 2021
Date Accepted: November 25th, 2021 - Fecha de aceptación: 25 de noviembre del 2021
After an introduction on the region's shipbuilding industry, it moves into an analysis of some aspects of this industry's competitiveness, comparing Latin American (LatAm) shipyards with those of other regions with more developed industries. Among the m se aspects are: productivity, learning curve, specialization, labor cost, delivery times and government policies.
Second part deals with specific opportunities for domestic shipyards and ideas for developing their competitive advantages to generate value and social impact in the region, while safeguarding the environment. Six niches or opportunities are presented here, which are in all cases related to castinga new regard on Nature in our region. Nature being understood as the sum of natural resources, with the riches in fishery and offshore hydrocarbons standing out among them, but also those of the broad navigable rivers and lastly that of a privileged geographical position in terms of the extreme closeness to the Antarctic.
Key words: Shipyards, shipbuilding competitive factors, LATAM shipbuilding industry.
Tras una introducción sobre la industria naval regional se avanza en analizar algunos aspectos de la competitividad de esta industria, haciendo comparaciones de astilleros latinoamericanos con los de otras regiones con industrias más desarrolladas.
Luego se presentan algunas oportunidades específicas de los astilleros latinoamericanos e ideas de cómo desarrollar las ventajas competitivas para generar valor e impacto social en la región, cuidando el ambiente. Estos seis nichos se relacionan con el uso de los recursos naturales entendidos en sentido amplio, incluyendo riqueza ictícola, hidrocarburos costa afuera, disponibilidad de grandes ríos navegables y cercanía a la Antártida.
Palabras claves: Astilleros, factores de competitividad industrial naval, industria naval latinoamericana
In order to present specific opportunities of development, six niches are analyzed where competitive advantages are found for LatAm shipyards.
The work is manly focused on new ship construction and is part of major research effort that will be presented in a future publication Shipbuilding in Latin America, 100 years (1970-2070).
As a basic simplification it's possible to differentiate two large groups (hemispheres) of countries of the region: those of the Pacific + Caribbean and those of the Atlantic.
The maritime industries of the Pacific hemisphere are characterized by being led by state-owned shipyards, connected to their Navies even if their output isn't exclusively military. Such are the cases of ASMAR in Chile, SIMA in Peru, ASTINAVE in Ecuador, COTECMAR in Colombia and DIANCA in Venezuela, among others. Another characteristic of this group is an overall trend of slow but continuous growth without major upheavals, and their relatively higher share of shiprepair activities.
The Atlantic region, for its part, is practically the opposite. It is marked by the preponderance of private shipyards, by a higher relative participation in new constructions and by their characteristic cycles of bonanza followed by times of profound crisis mainly related to changing government industrial policies. This side of the continent exhibits the largest volumes of shipbuilding output, led by a vast margin by Brazil, the shipbuilding industry of which is by itself several times higher than that of the all the rest of Latin American countries put together. Ranking second in size is the case of Argentina despite the fact that it has already spent three decades of stagnation forced by the worst imaginable public policies. Also, to be mentioned are the cases of Paraguay with a growing development of "brown water" constructions and of Uruguay at a much more incipient stage.
In Fig.1, a Timeline graph presents the Value evolution of the ship new building of Brazil, Argentina and the Rest of LatAm. This last one is based on gross estimates and it is steadily growing in this century mainly due to the output of Chile, Colombia and Paraguay.Fig. 1. Shipbuilding Development in Brazil, Argentina and Rest of LATAM.
It is a fact that shipbuilding is not isolated from the rest of the country economic environment and that ships are capital goods that are traded at the international market. For that reason, it is interesting to have a look at LatAm countries competitive ranking position in the global arena. This is presented by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) who develops the Competitive Industrial Performance Index (CIP). The relevance of this index to the competitiveness of ship building industries is demonstrated by realizing that over 90% of global ship production is concentrated in the top seven countries of the CIP 2010 ranking (Japan, Germany, USA, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and China). But in CIP 2018 this concentration increases even more (top 4 countries). In the region, the top four industrially competitive countries in 2010 were Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Chile. Taken together, Brazil, Mexico and Argentina accounted for 4.2% of world manufacturing value added and 3.7% of world manufactures trade.
Among the 133 countries considered, the top ten LatAm performers are presented in Fig.2, confirming a fairly stable ranking positionduring the first decade of the century, but they decline in the second decade. LatAm countries have lost positions, making more difficult to compete internationally with industrialized goods as ships.Fig. 2. Top 10 LatAm International Industrial Competitiveness Ranking.
When analyzing the different aspects of competitiveness, it is possible to identify several "external" factors, beyond the control of a shipyard's management. Meanwhile, "internal" factors, which can be controlled by industry executives, constitute its "intrinsic competitiveness." As industrial economic entities, shipyards seek to grow competitively to better achieve the objectives of their shareholders, who can be private or governmental. This aspect leads us to one of the first issues to the analyzed and which is, precisely, the difference between state-owned and private shipyards, since both exist in LatAm.
A recent study which presents the relative importance of state-owned shipyards in different regions is combined with the LatAm case , showing, in Fig.3, the market share of State-owned shipyards, their ratio of profit and employees to sales (in millions of dollars). As the argentine state-owned yards have a very poor average performance (in rednumbers) they cannot even be shown in the graphs.Fig. 3.State Owned Shipyards performance in LatAm and the World.
The above-mentioned study concludes that, in general, state-run shipyards are less efficient and flexible than private ones, making them intrinsically less competitive, and that the state-owned ones analyzed between 2012 and 2017 had an Employee/Sales ratio of twice that of private shipyards, that being one of the most widely accepted parameters of lack of intrinsic competitiveness.
Lastly the OECD study mentions that the decisions taken by state-owned shipyards tend to be more closely related to political and electoral purposes than to criteria of industrial competitiveness, and refers to situations of disloyal competition between governmental shipyards and their private peers at national and international level. In the Argentine case there are several situations of this kind inits shipbuilding history, and in the Chilean case this constitutes one of the complaints of industry, according to a published survey .
When comparing the performance of Argentine state yards with similar ones (ASMAR, COTECMAR, SIMA) throughout the region, it is found that in Argentina overstaffing is significant, productivity (Employment/MMUsd) is much worse, and structural losses have remained unresolved for decades, mainly in Rio Santiago shipyard.
The most customary index for measuring this (for sizable ships) is the amount of Compensated Gross Tonnage (CGT) produced in relation of the unit of Man-Hours (MH) worked. The best levels attained in LatAm was at Brazilian yards, prior to the crisis of the 1990s, and were of the order of 65 MH/CGT and the average stood at 85, while Korean shipyards stood (1992) at 45 . But for medium and small size ships that are the vast majority in LATAM case, the parameter of MH/CGT is not the most adequate, and given the different type of vessels built a better parameter would be Jobs/MMusd of production value.
Fig.4 shows the cases of more than 95% of world production on three continents. Brazil and Argentina (private shipyards) exhibit similar ratios, in the order of 21 jobs per million dollars of production, as do those of Latin America's principal Pacific shipyards, showing that, in comparison with other regions, there is still much room for improvement.Fig. 4.Shipyard Productivity (Employee/Value).
In Mexico the average ratio for 2009 and 2014 was much higher, in the order of 47 Jobs/MMusd. One reason for the curves to tend downwards is the global trend to external subcontracting, keeping only the most essential tasks concentrated in shipyards, like assembly, project management, final outfitting, testing, launching and site management.
International studies show much lower values for high production regions: Values for Japan and Europe are close to 6 jobs/MMUsd, South Korea,4 and China, 10.
Shipbuilding industry is characterized by a slow product innovation, so that advantages are achieved via continuous process improvements over the course of time, through learning. The concept of "continuity" needs to be stressed, for the positive effects of the learning to be really effective. In the cases of Korea and Japan, their current very high levels of productivity are mainly due to thirty years of continuous shipbuilding activity. In the case of LatAm, the larger shipbuilders (Braziland Argentina) have never managed to maintain continuity for more than 15 years. This is not the case on the LatAm Pacific hemisphere where yards have enjoyed longer periods of continuous work but at a smaller scale.
Improvement depends on the position of shipyards on their learning curve. Brazil stood (2012) with a factor of 85% . This means that for every doubling of cumulative production, the improvement in productivity would be of 15% in terms of MH/CGT. For comparison purposes, the Asian countries that are most advanced on the curve stand at a factor of 70%.
Continuity is one of the most important factors to attain higher levels of competitiveness for the previous reasons and others as will be seen later on.
Shipyards achieve higher competitiveness when they carry out repetitive construction.
Brazilian yards have begun to specialize but without sufficient repetitions. A case of success was the Brazilian yard Wilson & Sons that expanded, investing in technology to specialize in the Offshore Support Vessels niche. In Argentina and Paraguay there are good examples in the barge building niche. But, again, the lack of continuity due to bad government policies stopped these developments, destroying the value generated.
The labor cost at a Brazilian yard, working regularly in a continuous manner in the 1985-1996 period was of between 40% and 60% of the Japanese cost and between 50% and 70% of Korea's.
That same study explains that labor share in total cost strongly depends on the wage level and labor intensity of the process. In Europe and Japan may vary from 23% to 50%, in Korea are close to 19% and in India may be as low as 8% of total shipbuilding cost. As a general value , it is concluded that over half of the costs are equipment and materials (55% to 65%) and the rest is labor, services and overhead.
An analysis dated 1999 shows that total costs in Brazil for local yards were 40% higher than the best international ones, but were only 5% above international ones as regards their export, by reason of the lower applicable taxes and lower demands for the use of local marine parts which were more expensive.
Studies in 2013 show that the price of steel accounts for 20%/30% of the cost and that Brazil has been efficient as regards that output. Labor represents between 15% and 20% of the cost of ships, and equipment is 30% to 50% of cost.
The average delivery time of Brazil's five largest shipyards between the years 1983 and 1996 was of 68 months, but that period was marked by several crises with production discontinuities. The case of Ishibras, between 1990 and 1994, is more realistic since it operated in a continuous manner on a series of eight Suezmax oil tankers for export with anaverage delivery time of 82 weeks, which can stand comparison with timeframes in Korea (27 weeks) and Europe (66 weeks). That was the Brazilian best performance.
Barge building in Argentina and Paraguay have reached very short delivery times in a series production system (as low as one 2500dwt bargeper week at SANYM yard in year 2000) but still far from US yards output of on 1500 dwt bargeper day.
Many countries consider the maritime industry as strategic, for which reason they generate protection mechanisms that guarantee its existence. A 2001 study by UNCTAD identifies 17 types of maritime subsidies, and the countries that apply them. These policies are mainly in support of shipping lines and several are also, indirectly, an incentive to shipyards. Brazil is located in an intermediate position, applying 41% of the policies in 2001, in the following years in creasing this both in number and in magnitude of application. At the same time, more than 60% of countries with a maritime industry apply the following policies: Coastal Traffic Reservation, Bilateral Agreements, Tax Reductions, Financing Programs and Subsidies.
Experience indicates that promoting the supplying of the domestic market is a good way of achieving sectorial development. But it is also markedly important to seek technological development, increases in productivity and the development of suppliers, since only those that are internationally competitive will thrive when, for some reason, the protections are reduced.
Korea and Japan are recent successful examples of industries that were strongly protected and promoted over a period of time and that gradually generated such competitiveness that it allowed them to continue to compete after the subsidies were reduced. In any event their governments follow developments attentively and act in their defense in crisis situations.
Never theless, competitiveness must not be sought at any price. Policies must, whenever possible, be created without cross subsidization such that other industries finance the shipyards or ship owners. Although subsidies are frequently necessary at moments in which an industry is recovering, they must be transitory and be gradually reduced.
In Colombia the programs AntiTrámite and ProAstillero are very positive actions towards eliminating productivity barriers, as well as there cent decree 1156/2020 that eliminates import duties on 350 items of parts required to build shipsin Colombia.
Shipbuilding is cyclical and continuity is key to competitiveness. Therefore, it is expected that governments will take action to protect the high valued competitiveness attained by their respective shipyards when a crisis arises.
In LatAm we have basically two very different attitudes: In Brazil and Argentina, government shave suspended all kinds of supports during low cycles, worsening the crisis and losing all the competitive edges developed. In the Pacific hemisphere, governments keep supporting (at least at a minimum level) the state-owned yards during critical times, thus permitting them to keep building productivity.
In the rest of the world, some of the actions to support the shipbuilding industries during 2007 crisis were the following: Korea announced 18 billion Euros support package to shipyards and the ExImBank put aside 8,5 trillion won for loans to small yards and encourage private banks to facilitate guarantees for ship export operations. The “Buildin India Policy” was launched with large fundingand 30% subsidies for orders placed before August 2007 and 20% for those placed onwards. USA put a special stimulus package with a large budget to acquire a fleet of public service vessels, suchas ferries. The “Build in Turkey Policy” offered extended facilities for ship exports and provided financial support for shipyards in trouble.
It is unrealistic to expect LatAm shipyards to be competitive in all type of vessels. Therefore, it iswise to identify the most convenient niches and concentrate in them.
Both the South Atlantic, close to Uruguay and Argentina, and the South and Central Pacific alongside Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Mexico and Central America, are among the richest fishing grounds at worldwide level, and coastal nations have an ample tradition of fishing activities and construction of fishing vessels. Nevertheless, the majority of larger-sized fishing vessels are imported, and local industries must settle for building smaller crafts, as if it weren't possible to build them competitively in each country, orat least at regional level. This is clearly the result of bad state public policies, across the continent, which in many cases answer to a combination of lack of information, indifference and corruption. Argentina's fisheries case is paradigmatic. Despite having a large maritime construction capacity, more than half of its fishing vessels have been imported second hand and tax-free, representing 85% of current hold capacity . The last fifteen Argentine governments expedited the free importation of second hand fishing vessels larger than 40 m in length, arguing that they couldn't be built in Argentina, even as domestic shipyards were delivering larger and more complex ships for local and export markets.
The fishing nations par excellence (Spain, Japan, Korea and China) dump their played-out ships in these underdeveloped fisheries and thus modernize their own fleets; and additionally position their own firms to thus ensure control over these key natural resources.
Without going into the political debate on the best way to exploit each country's oceanic resources, what is indeed clear is that our governments should prioritize local ship construction. If shipyards weren't prepared for it, foreign firms could be incentivized to set themselves up and build the ships locally. And in those countries where the industrial capacity does exist, agreements could be generated for foreign companies to contribute all the imported equipment for building the vessels locally.
This natural wealth that belongs to all of us inhabitants of each fishing nation needs to be shared out better, among us, the owners of the resources. One way to do it is precisely by promoting the domestic construction of the ships involved. Andin this process, we will in addition, be doing it with ever rising competitiveness — something that will never be achieved if we import what we are able tobuild. This is undoubtedly an opportunity niche for increasing in competitiveness.
As with the case of the fisheries resource, that of offshore oil and gas should be regarded as an opportunity for the development of the owners ofthis resource, who are neither governments nor oil companies, but the current and future inhabitants. And one of the fastest and most profound ways of achieving this is through construction of the support vessels, platforms and ships for this activity with rising levels of domestic content.
The case of offshore in Brazil is exemplary for understanding the transformative capacity of the marine industry, which took employment at the shipyards from 2,000 workers at the turn of the century, to some 80,000 a decade later. But for this to happen there was a state policy strongly maintained over time .
Brazil convinced the world's largest builders of offshore structures and vessels to associate with domestic companies and produce as much as possible in Brazil, contributing capital and technology. The results were amazing and the first signs of rising competitiveness began toarise especially in the construction of offshore support vessels, but the oil crisis and the cases of corruption at Petrobras blocked the effort — which, nevertheless, left its mark and much acquired knowledge, making it possible to aim at Brazilian exports for an offshore African development exhibiting similarities.
This is likewise an opportunity niche for the incipient offshore oil and gas production of Chile and Argentina and the more advanced ones in the rest of Latin America. Certainly, with a lower potential than Brazil, but, over the course of time, a rising presence of our shipyards in this sector will allow us to enjoy a clear competitive development.
As was mentioned above with regard to fishing activities, our Latin American seas contain great wealth. It's not in vain that pirate fishing fleets prowl around them in never-ending fashion.
Many Latin American countries began to take this path of domestic construction, increasing in experience and competitiveness. The best exampleis Chile's with its large series of locally built OPVs. But it is likewise the case of Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Mexico and Brazil, which contribute 76% of regional content to the area's patrol fleets. Colombia stand out as their new OPV are Colombian designs. On the opposite extreme is Argentina that illegally imported a series of four OPV that could have been built locally.
This is a path that must not be given up and that should, rather, be strengthened, driving off the voices in alien languages that speak into the ears ofour Navy officers and Defense officials attempting to convince them that their own people are unable to build OPV.
In actual fact the solution could be Solomonic. We should split it down the middle. We will import (in soft financing terms) from one concentrated international source the package of equipment that we still don't manufacture (which represents approximately 50%), with the condition that this (exporter) country also finances us the other 50% of the construction that we'll carry out in our countries. They will have a negative initial reaction, but they will quickly realize that other countries are starting to negotiate in these new terms and a new competition game will be starting, not for 100% ofthe vessels' value but for the most profitable 50% (equipment, technology and systems).
Another natural resource at our disposal is constituted by our rivers. The intensive use of Latin America's broad interior hydric basins is a key to achieving competitiveness regarding the output of the continent's interior, output which because of its low unit value requires systems of transport in bulk at very low cost. Such is the case of convoys formed by a series of shallow-draft barges and pusher. These convoys can be built, with high levels of competitiveness, at the shipyards of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Paraguay.
These are the type of vessels located on the lowest rungs of the scale of shipmaking complexity, and their real and virtually sole challenge is to produce them at low cost — which is in turn relatively easy to achieve when enjoying medium to longterm horizons, in order for the investments to berepaid and the effects of the learning curve to be maximized.
In this sense, one may turn to the case of the U.S. and its gigantic inland fleet, which enables transport on the Mississippi River to contribute maximum competitiveness to the output of the interior of that country under the protection of the centenarian Jones Act, which provides the maximum imaginable market protection.
Argentina and Paraguay had begun to attain very high productivity levels until the worst governmental decisions halted it, favoring the tax-free importation of secondhand vessels (junk) and killing off all the competitive achievements that had been reached.
Added to the above-mentioned flow of bulk products that arrive by river at the large export ports are many others that come by train or truck to be loaded onto gigantic bulk carriers with worldwide destinations. In the face of this situation, the immediate temptation is to hope to have those large ships, or a majority of them, built at domestic shipyards. Although at one time they were indeed built at Brazilian and Argentine shipyards, and some could undoubtedly be manufactured today, everything indicates that the chances of doing so competitively are virtually nil. This is because the large shipyards of the East outdistance us sidereally in this type of vessels and it wouldn't be a good allocation of scarce resources to attempt to compete in that market. It is better to set aside the resources for the niches with a greater probability of success.
Nevertheless, if we take a detailed look at the operation of those large bulk carriers, we shall find other opportunities. Such are the cases of the tugs that assist them in port maneuvers, or the buoy setters that mark off the access channels to the ports, or, lastly, the powerful dredgers that deepen, widen and maintain the channels for those bulk carriers to be able to leave with the maximum possible load and thus cause the incidence of freight to be lower and our products to gain in competitiveness.
There is no doubt that Chile and Argentina's geographical position, closer than any other country in the world to the Antarctic continent, puts them in a privileged competitive situation for providing Antarctic logistics services related to the maritime industry, such as maritime maintenance and repairs first and construction secondly.
In order to increase the competitive advantage as regards repairs it's necessary to have workshops and maritime repair shipyards at the southernmost ports such as those of Ushuaia and Punta Arenas. It must be understood that these services followan export orientation, since the potential demand originates mainly from international fleets. These capabilities would also service the merchant vessels, fishing activities, the offshore activity off Tierra del Fuego and in the Strait of Magellan, and the increasing flow of cruisers.
As regards the ship construction of polar vessels both countries have had attractive experiences. In the case of Argentina, in addition to the construction of a polar ship in the 1980s, it has just concluded one of the world's most advanced polar projects with the modernization of the ARA Almirante Irízar icebreaker and there is a criticized project for the construction of a new polar vessel. In the case of Chile, marked progress is to benoted in the project of building a new icebreaker, which would be the first to be built in the southern hemisphere. At the same time, the Brazilian Navy has been holding talks with that of Chile fortheir participation in the construction of a new icebreaker for Brazil.
Only six market niches have been mentioned but there undoubtedly many other opportunities for competitive growth which it would be necessary to analyze. Among them could be that of coastal maritime transport; that of some vessels for defense; those of tourism activities, research work, shortdistance passenger transport, and pilotage services. A very special attention shall be paid in LATAM shipyards to the huge market opportunities that is unfolding due to the impact in shipbuilding and ship conversions due to Climate Change urgencies.
It is concluded that competitiveness, for the type of vessels which the Latin American shipbuilding industry can realistically aim for (niches), must be analyzed not only at the level of the region or country but also at that of the shipyards. Increasingly, equipment, materials and technology are be coming commodities available to all at virtually the same international price. What makes a difference is the intrinsic productivity achieved within the country, and mostly, at shipyard level including its subcontractors. Nevertheless, whatever the efforts carried out at industrial management level, without an adequate governmental policy that generates a competitive environment and ensures horizons of continuity, generating temporary protections appropriate for facilitating development, it will bedifficult to attain the levels of competitiveness that are needed in order to supply domestic markets, and especially to go out into the world exports market, which is what must really be aimed at to grow in volume and test competitive muscle.
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