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Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder in which the person alternates between periods of really low mood (i.e., depression) and periods of really elevated or irritable mood (e.g., mania). These intense mood fluctuations interfere with the person’s normal everyday functioning.
Are there different types of bipolar disorder?
There are several different types of bipolar disorder, with the main difference being the severity of the manic episode and the speed at which someone cycles between the highs and the lows. Some of the most common are:
Bipolar I disorder - This is when a person experiences one or more manic episodes. He or she likely will also experience depressive episodes over the course of his or her illness. Mood shifts from manic to normal or depressed mood can happen over the course of days, last for several weeks, or last even longer.
Bipolar II disorder - This is similar to bipolar I, except that the person experiences hypomanic episodes, instead of manic episodes, and at some point will suffer from a major depressive episode. Hypomania is a less severe form of mania where the person experiences mood disturbances but does not require hospitalization or experience serious impairment to his or her ability to function.
Cyclothymic disorder - This is when a person chronically cycles between periods of hypomanic symptoms and periods of depressive symptoms. Although the person doesn’t have enough symptoms (or severe enough symptoms) for a manic episode or for a depressive episode, the symptoms experienced cause significant distress or impairment. This cycling is ongoing for at least 2 years.
What are the symptoms of mania & depression?
People experiencing a manic episode may not realize there is a problem, as they may enjoy the excitement and positive feelings that accompany mania. Unfortunately, mania can intensify to a level that impairs the person’s thinking and judgment and they may act in ways that can lead to very negative consequences. Sometimes the mania can be so severe that the person becomes psychotic – losing touch with reality. The symptoms are: Extremely elevated, euphoric, or irritable mood lasting at least one week.
Other symptoms may include (3-4 are necessary to be diagnosed as having a manic episode):
- excessive confidence or a feeling that you can do anything (even if impossible)
- decreased need for sleep (e.g., feeling rested after only a couple of hours)
- feeling super talkative, like there’s a buildup of words inside you that need to get out
- racing thoughts that jump from one idea to the next without a logical flow
- easily distracted by unimportant or irrelevant details
- increase in purposeful activity or psychomotor agitation
- excessive engaging in risky pleasurable activities (e.g., unprotected sex, shopping sprees, drug use, speeding, risky business investments)
These symptoms are not due to substance use or a general medical condition.
Everyone feels sad or has a bad day occasionally but when someone has depression, their sad feelings last for long periods of time, often to a point where the person feels hopeless and cannot function. The symptoms are:
- Overwhelmingly depressed/sad/low mood
- Loss of interest in usual activities
- Change of appetite and weight
- Irritable or short tempered
- Loss of energy, fatigue
- Difficulty concentrating
- Guilty feelings
- Sleeping too much or too little
- Low self-esteem
- Loss of pleasure
- Feelings of worthlessness
- Feeling of hopelessness
- Restlessness or lack of movement
- Thoughts of death or suicide
- Suicide attempts
- Bipolar disorder affects approximately 1% of Canadians.
- It typically starts in late adolescence or early adulthood.
- It affects just as many men as women.
- People with bipolar disorder are at higher risk of suicide than the general population.
- It can take years for a person to receive the correct diagnosis of bipolar disorder. In Canada, the average is four years.
Bipolar disorder and substance abuse
Some people with bipolar disorder have problems with drugs or alcohol, sometimes in an effort to control their symptoms and sometimes due to difficulties with judgment or self-control. When substance abuse and bipolar disorder happen at the same time, the person will experience even greater difficulties.
How is bipolar disorder treated?
Most people with bipolar disorder respond well to treatment. However, if treatment is stopped, the illness will return. Bipolar disorder is treated primarily with medication and psychotherapy. People with bipolar disorder usually have to take medications continuously. A number of different medications can be used, including:
Mood stabilizers - Improve and reduce mood swings and treat both depressive and manic symptoms. They also help prevent the illness from returning once the symptoms have lessened.
Antidepressants - For certain people, antidepressants are used during depressive episodes, but they are not appropriate for everyone.
Anti-psychotic medications - Help improve psychotic and mood symptoms. Also prevents the illness from returning once the symptoms are lessened.
PSYCHOTHERAPY IS HELPFUL
In addition to medication, psychotherapy and psychoeducation can also be helpful and usually focus on dealing with the associated stressors that result from having bipolar disorder. Psychotherapy used in treatment of bipolar disorder may include:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) - CBT helps people learn to problem solve and change their negative thoughts and behaviours into more positive ones.
Family-focused therapy - This therapy helps family members understand the illness and develop healthy coping strategies.
Psychoeducation - This treatment may be done in a group or with family members and is helpful in teaching individuals how to better understand their illness and manage their symptoms.
HOW LONG DOES TREATMENT LAST?
There is a good chance that someone with bipolar disorder will always have to be on medication in order to control their symptoms, but the type and amount of medication may change over time. Psychotherapy, however, is not likely to be needed long-term. It only has to last as long as it takes for the necessary skills, coping strategies, and knowledge to be gained. People with bipolar disorder may occasionally need to be hospitalized, if their medications need to be readjusted or they have stopped taking their medication. For people who do not respond well to medication, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) may be recommended. After a severe manic or depressive episode, a person may need a period of rehabilitation in a day treatment program until they are feeling stronger.
Once an episode of mania or depression has ended (doctors call that “remission”), the next step is to keep another episode from happening (if that happens, it is called “relapse”). There are a number of things that a person with bipolar disorder can do to prevent relapse including:
- Taking medications as prescribed - Stopping medications is the strongest risk factor for relapse. Even though you might feel better, remember that it is the medication that is helping you feel that way.
- Eating health - Watching calories and eating healthy food, especially those rich in omega-3 (found in fish) may be a good idea.
- Avoiding drugs and alcohol - Some people with bipolar disorder may be able to drink small amounts of alcohol, but only after consulting with their doctor.
- Exercising - 30 minutes of good exercise (such as going for a fast walk) at least five days per week is good.
- Having a regular sleep/wake cycle - Going to bed and waking up around the same time every day is very important.
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I Am Biased
Media bias is common place in todays environment. There are at least two sides to every story. Some people claim that the left and the right are two sides of the same coin. They both engage in “spin” and hyperbole to make their statements known. The shift in political power comes around every so many years. I have always thought it is impossible to be neutral. Even for a news reporter, he comes on the scene having been around a while and has formed opinions based on his history and experiences.
How can one be totally objective? I readily admit that I am biased in my believes.
- June 2018
What We Differ..
Having said that, there are two distinct differences between the left and the right In my humble opinion. We see this played out daily between the Democrats and the Republicans.
Here are the the two differences. One, the Democrats will defend the indefensible to hold on to power. The Republicans will do the “right“ thing for the good of the public.
I will use Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon as example. In both cases, when scandals broke, Bill Clinton chose to stay and fight against impeachment while Nixon resigned and left Washington.
Second, the left will go even further as to wish the detriment of the country in order to regain power while the right will generally act in the interest of the greater good.
Recent events under President Trump illustrate this point. Here is an example of Bill Maher on youtube.
Republicans, under Obama would never wish the country ill...
Bill Maher Youtube...
What About Rush Limbaugh...?
You might object and say what about Rush Limbaugh’s famous quote saying he wish Obama fail...back in 2009 when he was elected president. Isn’t this exactly the same thing?
Not really and here is why. What Bill Maher said is that regardless of Trump’s success in restoring our economy with his economic policies, he wish a recession would cause Trump to loose in the next election. So here is the key point. He would rather have millions of american suffer a recession, lost jobs and income just to remove a political opponent, even if his policies are leading to good results for the nation.
What Rush said is totally different. He said, knowing what Obama’s progressive policies are and what they will do, he wish Obama’s policies will fail otherwise it will lead to the detriment of our nation.
To an uninformed public, these may seem equal. However, here is the major difference. In one case, Bill Maher wants to inflict pain on the American public in order to drive out an opponent, while in the case of Rush, he wants the policies to fail to spare the grief that will surely come from these very same policies. In other words, he is looking out for the people.
As it turned out, Rush was right. The progressive policies of Obama has lead to the most anemic recovery of modern recessions going back 50 years. His ACA has hurt jobs and increased healthcare costs for the majority of Americans. His deficit spending has put all of us in debt for years to come even generations with $20 trillion debt.
My Personal Bias
Getting back to my personal believes and behavior, I have a conservative view. My views are well documented in other articles on HubPages. I have no particular allegiance to one party or another. I have voted both Democats and Republicans in past elections both national and local. I usually vote for the person most qualified in my opinion and also most aligned with my beliefs. In some cases, it worked out well as with President Reagan. In other cases, not so well as with President Carter and Bill Clinton in his first term.
In my 40 plus years of adult life, I have realized that politics is very dirty. Party politics especially. Both parties engage in negative attacks and “spin” to advance their agenda. In most cases, they are not there for the people or the voters. They are both controlled by the same group of people behind the scenes. They have figured out they can get their way by donating money where it counts. They can help elect politicians who will do their bidding and in many cases at the expense of the voters.
The politicians put up a good show every election and demonize their opposition but after the election, they are back to their old tricks and wheel and deal.
I have to single out Senator John McCain as one of the worst example. Here is a war hero from the Vietnam era and member of Congress for over 30 years. He has little accomplishment to show for those years. In fact, he was wrong on many foreign policy issues over the years. He survived several scandals like the Keating five back in the late 1980s with the savings and loan collapse.
His most recent failure was the repeal and replace of the ACA. In fact, he was the single GOP vote that defeated the bill after having campaigned on repealing of this bill again and again and raising millions of dollars in contributions. He figured he is dying of cancer and it matters not to his political career any more. What a cynic?
Recent revelations have made it even worse for John McCain. It turned out one of his senior staff was involved with the IRS scandal going after conservative groups. He has been an enemy of Conservatives while running as a moderate.
A Recent Case...
Here are two incidents that are related...
1. A Christian baker refusing to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple.
2. A restaurant owner in Virginia refusing to serve Sarah Sanders, the press secretary for the Trump administration.
Is this the same situation? To most people, it appears at minimum very similar.
Here is the big difference.
In the first case, the gay couple took this to the Supreme Court and a decision was 7-2 in favor of the baker. On the other hand, Sarah Sanders issues the following statement -
"Last night I was told by the owner of Red Hen in Lexington, VA to leave because I work for @POTUS and I politely left," Sanders posted on Twitter Saturday. Her actions say far more about her than about me," Sanders said. "I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so."
The owner of the Virginia restaurant who asked White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave her establishment on Friday night said she did not regret her decision.
“I would have done the same thing again,” Stephanie Wilkinson, the owner of the Red Hen restaurant told the Washington Post. “We just felt there are moments in time when people need to live their convictions. This appeared to be one.”
A Case in point...
Socialism vs. capitalism. Some believe they are equally viable as an economic system of government. They will argue that some European nations such as Norway and Sweden enjoy some of the highest standards of living and their population are rated one of the happiest... They are both socialist democratic goverments. The US on the other hand has a capitalist system where private enterprise is championed.
You can take the position that they are two equal opposing ideology and deserves equal consideration. Any bias on the part of reporters would be wrong and prejudicial. The people needs to hear all sides and make an informed decision. Right?
Is that what we want?
To a conservative, the answer is no. We have had suffient evidence that capitalism is superior as an economic system than all others. It is far from perfect but it is the best among all other forms. If one wants to claim this is bias, so be it. I am biased towards capitalism. It has lead to the greatest improvement of the human condition and the standards of living and the wealth of our people. Why would I want socialism to be given equal status? Why would I want young students in our schools be taught this equal and in many cases the opposite. Is there any wonder that poll shows 40% of college students think socialism is a better form of government? They have been indoctrinated by the liberal professors in our higher education system.
My politics is conservatism. It is based not on party loyalty but on the adherance to the Constitution and limited govenment principles. I am biased towards good and honest government. Yes, I am biased conservative.
One last thing regarding the first image posted at the top of this article. Someone in a blog came up with this assessment of left vs. right in the media. From where I sit, this portrayal misses the mark. Anyone watching NPR and CNN and read the NYT cannot say with a straight face they are near the middle. These are extreme liberal media that are the source of some of the “fake” narratives. On the other hand, Fox news and Fox Business are less extreme than what is portrayed. These are right of center but often offer points of view of both sides. That is why they are top in the ratings beating out CNN consistantly.
In conclusion, media bias is in the eye of the beholder. To some on the left, they see no bias. To us conservatives on the right, it is as clear as night and day.
Next time someone tell you they are none biased or are moderate in their opinion, don’t trust them. Everyone has bias, it is just a matter whether they acknowledge it or not.
It may be beneficial to review what bias is. It is not always based on two sides of every issue. For example, one may disagree with our drug laws. On one side, a group will say illegal drug use is bad for kids and society. On the other hand, some will say smoking pot is perfectly fine. So what is bias in this case? A news report focus on the actions of police in cracking down on illegal drug trafficking and their sell, and how innocent people are caught up in this dragnet...
Do you see the bias in the news report? The reporter disagree with our drug laws. He uses an incident to sway public opinion against drug enforcement and siding with the ”innocent” users... To me, this topic is not an opinion with equal billing from both sides. It is well established by doctors and other specialists that illegal drugs are devestating to users and their families and society...therefore, the small minority who holds opposing opinions are the fringe. They don’t deserve equal billing. They are also against our laws. If they truly believe what they profess, then go and work to change the law. So just to be clear, there are several categories when we speak of bias.
There is opinion bias, there is bias based on distortion of facts and there are extreme bias where there is no justification and can be thought of as fake news. It is up to the consumer/reader to determine which one it is.
Some Related Info
- Supreme count decision 7-2 on the baker vs. gay couple
The court passed on an opportunity to either bolster the right to same-sex marriage or explain how far the government can go in regulating businesses run on religious principles.
- Extreme Conservative Beliefs?
What are some Conservative beliefs and are they really extreme?
- Judicial Watch Obtains IRS Documents Revealing McCain’s Subcommittee Staff Director Urged IRS to Eng
- Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails - The Rush Limbaugh Show
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- Mark Strama says Rush Limbaugh made it clear he’d rather see the country fail than President Barack
Texas state Rep. Mark Strama brought up conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh while speaking over breakfast...
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By Ghassen Trigui, Laurence Le Corre, Dominique Honoré and Karima Boudehri-Giresse - 2D/3D Imaging - R&D team, GEVES
At GEVES, Microtomography (micro-CT), which is a technique using X-rays to investigate internal anatomy and morphology of organisms without destruction, is applied to plant seed quality control and phenotyping. Several applications have been developed using micro-CT coupled with Avizo software development, such as for example in:
The Measurements of internal and external sugar beet seed structures for seed phenotyping
Morphological seed characters may be used for the assessment of complex and quantitative traits such as seed resistance, germination potential and other agronomic traits. Examples for such direct measurements are image-based analysis of internal and external seed structures. For the AKER 1project, we are running an analysis of internal and external sugar beet seed structures using high-resolution micro-CT imaging. The developed image processing pipeline allows 3D- measurements of volume and surface areas of the seed embryo and the seed coat thickness.
Segmentation of high resolution beet seed images acquired with 3D X-ray microtomography. (I) 3D volume rendering with a corner cut showing the structural components of the seed namely E for embryo, P for perisperm and C for seed coat, and with respectively transverse (II) and longitudinal (III) cross-section views. The result of segmentation shows separated components with different labels (blue for embryo, red for perisperm and green for seed coat) respectively showed with a volume rendering (IV), transverse (V) and longitudinal (VI) cross-section views.
The characterization of coated seeds in seed technology
Seeds are coated for seed sizing purposes, and protection against pathogens. Coated seeds are widely used as a standard product for many crops. The developed approach for coated seeds allows virtual separation and individualization of seeds from their coating material. The volume, the sphericity and the surface roughness are then evaluated for coated seed quality purposes.
The insect damage quantification
Insects can cause internal and/or external damage by feeding on seed and this infestation can take place before or after harvest. X-ray 3D microtomography and image processing are used to assess quantitative data of the damage without destruction.
The characterization of internal morphology on corn seeds
We also use micro-CT and Avizo software development to study qualitatively and quantitatively the characteristics of the internal morphology of corn seeds. The developed image processing procedure is based on the detection of edges that separate different seed structures (endosperm, embryo and scutellum), and internal cavities. This procedure includes also the detection and quantification of cracks. This analysis addresses issues related to physical and germination seed quality, including industrial processes, treatment products, but also as part of the varietal characterization.
Figure: High-resolution tomography of a corn seed (A) 3D Volume rendering showing the different contrasts. (B) , (C) and (D) virtual slices successively in different planes XY , XZ , YZ and after separation of internal structures showing the albumen (end) , the scutellum (scu ) , the radicle (rad) , Coleoptile (col) and the cavity in the endosperm (c1) the gap characterizing seed filling (c2) and the embryo cavity (c3). Automated crack detection and quantification (E)
GEVES is the French Group for the Study and Control of Varieties and Seeds. It is a Public Interest Group associated with INRA (National Institute of Agricultural Research), the French Ministry of Agriculture and GNIS.
Amira and Avizo are high-performance 3D software for visualizing, analyzing, and understanding scientific and industrial data coming from all types of sources and modalities.
Images and text are courtesy of GEVES
This work was sponsored by the French Government through the National Research Agency under the program "Investments for the future" (reference ANR-11-BTBR-0007).
1 AKER aims to improve the competitiveness of sugar beet by 2020 by doubling the annual increase in sugar yield / hectare (4% vs 2%). AKER is part of the "Programme d'Investissements d'Avenir" and is supported by 11 public and private partners, representing the whole of the French sugar beet sector. AKER is an original and innovative programme for research, development and training, confirming sugar beet as a crop and industry reference.
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Someone is waiting for another person to notice they are broken or alone. What happens when we don’t pay attention?
“My son said that he spoke about his life to classmates after the film which he’s never done!!! I was happy because I know how silence makes you feel isolated as if you’re the only one with issues. I think it also helped him to see that other classmates had it harder than him as I’m sure it seems most kids, especially in this school district, have a perfect life which we as adults know is not true.”
“This film emotionally shattered me on several levels, as an individual/my life experiences; as a friend/family member; as an educator; as a 37-year-old burnout educator. A reminder to “take a moment” – it’s important, more important than anything else we try/are asked to do and the emotional toll it places on those of us who do “take a moment” – we need a community too especially if we ourselves are part of the pain.”
“This film forced me to focus on the painful reality of the ongoing breakdown in communication, relationships, and systems in this country. I think this is an important movie that without glamour tells the simple truth that people need to listen as the basic step to grow, to learn, to care, and to love.”
“By watching this film we are made to understand the critical reasons that we should pay attention and reach out when we see that someone is in that dark place and needing help. I know that LISTEN WILL save lives!”
“I have trouble opening up and I never think of my thoughts mattering and this actually made me question that. Thank you!”
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St Theophan the Recluse, after advising a spiritual daughter about the when, why, and how of reading spiritual literature, adds this:
The question still remains unresolved as to whether one may read anything besides spiritual things. I would tell you with reservation, in a low voice: You may if you like, but just a little and not indiscriminately. Take this as a sign: When you are in a good mood spiritually and begin reading a book containing human wisdom, if the good mood begins to desert you, get rid of the book. This is a general rule for you.Excerpted from "On the Reading of Spiritual and Secular Books" (letter number 70) in The Spiritual Life and How to Be Attuned to It, pp. 285-287.
Even books containing human wisdom may nourish the spirit. These are the books that indicate to us the vestiges of wisdom, benevolence, truth and solicitous Divine industry in nature and history. Read books such as these. God reveals Himself in nature and history in the same way as in His Word. Nature and history are Divine books for those who know how to read them.
You will say, "It is easy to tell me to read such books, but where do you get them?" This I cannot tell you. There are presently more books on scientific subjects coming out. Most of them, however, have a very bad direction; namely, they attempt to explain the origin of the world without God, and all moral-religious and other manifestations of the spiritual in our lives without the spirit and soul. Do not get those books. There are books on scientific subjects without such false wisdom. These you may read. It is good to understand the structure of plants and animals, especially man, and the laws of life as they are manifested in them. Great is the Divine wisdom in all of this! Unknowable! Ask the fellow who enjoys discussing religious subjects which books are of this sort.
What about stories and novels? There are good ones among these. To find out whether they are good, however, you must read them, and after you are finished, you will have acquired such tales and images that – God have mercy! You will soil your clean little mind. Afterward, go get cleaned up. Why would you want to bring such labor upon yourself? Therefore, I think it best not to read them. When a benevolently-minded person who has read some story recommends it, you may read it.
There are good descriptions of geography. You may also read these. However, do a little of everything, and then only for variety. Keep up your spiritual work, and do not turn your attention away from it.
May the Lord bless you.
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SENTANI, Indonesia (UPDATED) – A baby trapped under rubble after flash flooding destroyed his home in Indonesia has been reunited with his father after the disaster killed the rest of their family, officials said Monday, March 18, as the death toll hit 79.
The 5-month old was plucked Sunday, March 17, from debris inside a house where his mother and siblings were found dead in the hard-hit town of Sentani.
The tot has since been returned to his surviving father.
“We took the baby to the hospital and had him treated,” Papua military spokesman Muhammad Aidi told Agence France-Presse.
“He was in stable condition and has been released. The father was distressed but happy to be reunited with his baby.”
The news came as Indonesia’s disaster agency raised the official death toll from 58 on Sunday, with more than three dozen people still missing.
Indonesia’s military took up the grim task of putting the corpses of mud-caked victims into body bags, after flash floods and landslides ripped through the area.
Scores have been injured in the disaster, triggered by torrential rain on Saturday, March 16.
“The death toll could still go up,” said national disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.
Rescuers battled mud, rocks and fallen trees in the hunt for survivors, as medical personnel treated the wounded in makeshift tents.
“People need food, blankets, clean clothes and clean water,” Nugroho said.
State of emergency
In Doyo, one of the most affected areas, a housing complex was littered with huge rocks believed to have rolled down from a nearby mountain, while sediment and waste were piled up on the pavement.
The military said 5,700 people have been evacuated from the hard-hit area.
“We have over 1,000 personnel searching for more victims,” Aidi said.
Disaster-prone Indonesia has issued a 14-day state of emergency in response to the floods.
Papua shares a border with independent Papua New Guinea on an island just north of Australia.
Flooding is common in Indonesia, especially during the rainy season which runs from October to April.
In January, floods and landslides killed at least 70 people on Sulawesi island, while earlier this month hundreds in West Java province were forced to evacuate when torrential rains triggered severe flooding.
Meanwhile, 3 people were killed – including two Malaysian tourists – and some 182 were injured after an earthquake Sunday triggered a landslide on the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok, next to Bali.
The 5.5-magnitude quake is thought to have caused the landslide at the Tiu Kelep waterfall in the north of the island.
Lombok was rocked by several earthquakes last summer, killing more than 500 people and leaving over 150,000 homeless.
Last September, the country was hit by an earthquake and tsunami in Palu on Sulawesi island which killed around 2,200 people.
The Southeast Asian archipelago of some 17,000 islands is one of the most disaster-prone nations on Earth, straddling the Pacific Ring of Fire, where tectonic plates collide. Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are common. – Rappler.com
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The subject of the excerpt is Ritu Karidhal, the deputy operations director of the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) and the mission director of Chandrayaan 2.
Ritu joined ISRO1 as a young engineer in November 1997. Her physics background led to her first posting in the Mission Analysis division with Dr Kesava Raju (who later became the Mission Director for MOM) as her boss.
‘The first problem he gave me was very difficult—how to manoeuvre a satellite to get a stereo image from the onboard camera. I was very happy that I could straightaway apply what I had studied in physics and mathematics in my first job. I completed the work he gave me in three or four months, and it was implemented onboard. Later, I got more projects, which were all very challenging. People talk about MOM deadlines today, but even then there used to be projects where we were very hard-pressed for time and the targets had to be met,’ she says.
The deadlines were often as short as three or four months, and Ritu remembers working round the clock to meet them. ‘I was a bachelor then and lived as a paying guest. I would work continuously from morning to evening, but I enjoyed it because I liked my work. Not many girls were working at ISRO at that time and when I stayed back at the labs, there would be very few people around. Even the walk down the long corridors from one lab to another, or from one building to the other in the URSC campus would be fairly lonely. But I never felt any fear.’
The universe was, and continues to be, her workspace. Besides her own passion, Ritu credits the senior scientists who expressed confidence and trust in her capabilities for her success.
I ask her about the work environment at ISRO, and more importantly, the gender equation, given that today women constitute approximately 18.8 per cent of the total workforce—3,188 out of 16,902 employees—with an even lower strength of 16 per cent in the technical category (1,978 women out of a total 12,300 scientists and engineers).
In keeping with the overall position of women scientists across India, where scarce or almost no updated data is available for those holding top positions, ISRO too has not had a woman chairperson or director for any of its sixteen centres. Although several women are project managers and project directors, while a smaller number are senior programme directors, group directors and deputy directors.
‘ISRO provides a very positive atmosphere. What matters here is your talent, not your gender. You get challenging work. For my first assignment, many senior men were eligible, but it was given to me.’ She concedes that the stereotypes in the world of science—the image of the male doctor and the female nurse, for example—need to change. ‘And it is slowly changing,’ says Ritu, with ISRO itself breaking the glass ceiling gradually. ‘Senior women scientists in the fields of remote sensing and communication satellites have become programme directors, and once the numbers increase, a woman director will not be a rarity,’ she adds. ‘Nor will the public recognition and awards for women scientists be as novel a phenomenon as it is today.’
India’s top national science award, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar prize has been given to over 500 scientists since its inception in 1958. Only sixteen of these have been women. In 2017, not a single woman took home an award. Not enough women are nominated for these awards to make the shortlist.
Globally too, out of all the 881 Nobel Prize winners from 1901–2016, only forty-eight were women, while the Fields medal for mathematics has only once had a female winner—Iranian-born Maryam Mirzakhani in 2014. Ritu received ISRO’s Young Scientist award in 2007 for her work in mission planning and operations.
She pays little heed to unspoken discrimination, whether it is a condescending remark by male colleagues or the fact that women are often overlooked for promotions and patronage at conferences and committees. ‘I don’t worry about what others might say. People can say anything, it does not matter to me. Even at home you find relatives or friends commenting in a certain manner, but ultimately when they see the depth of the work or its relevance to society, or view ISRO as a whole, they change their views.
‘God has created everyone equal, but due to pigeonholing—”Your work is this and only this”—they are not able to break out of their assigned gender roles. But if you work without the fear or assumption that others will stop you, or that you won’t be able to manage so much, if you break the internal glass ceiling first, those roles can change. The rules can change. You need to first show how high you can climb. Someone else not allowing you to get ahead—that comes later,’ she avers.
Ritu’s mantras combine pragmatism with hope, as she outlines how they have worked well in her own career. ‘Family, marriage, pregnancy breaks, children—these are all part of life and cannot be treated as mutually exclusive from your work,’ she reiterates. Time management is the key to a successful work-life-family balance for Ritu—a refrain I will hear several times over at ISRO.
‘When work began on MOM in 2012, my son was nine and my daughter was four, but it wasn’t as if I was only working and not available at home. Because if I am a proper mother, my own feelings will not allow me to do that. So we have to multitask and double the effort. Work here, then go home to your family and spend time with them… Then start your work again late at night when they are asleep. I did many things from home.’
Ritu configured a small setup on her laptop, and used to be up till three or four am, completing tasks for MOM. ‘I did feel physically exhausted, but you can overcome this exhaustion in different ways. When you see the output and what you’ve achieved by putting in extra effort, that is worth it,’ she smiles.
Did she have to work twice as hard as a male colleague to be taken seriously in the office?
‘Not really. We put in as much effort as our male counterparts do here, but then we have to put in equal effort once we go home. So we are a bit hard-pressed for time. But I feel women are capable of doing that… There were times when it was difficult to manage both home and office. I remember a time when my daughter had high fever and I was not able to take her to the doctor. My husband took care of her. I called regularly to ask about her fever—I felt really guilty about not being with her. There were times when I couldn’t attend school functions or PTA meetings or be home when I was needed. But the one thing that gave me strength was my family’s support. I am convinced that without the help of family and friends, it is not possible—for a woman at least—to cope with the increasing demands of the workplace.’
Does she think that the traditional mindset will change, so that the family is equally the man’s responsibility?
‘They [husbands] may not be able to fully do what we can do at home, but if they support us at the time of need, if they understand and at least allow, that itself is huge. Some women would not be allowed to stay back late in office, but my family understood the high pressure I was under. Mars, especially, was something new for all of us… I would come home late many times, work odd hours, but my children rarely complained and my husband’s understanding made a big difference. If I had had to face problems at home, then my mind would not have been at peace and my work would have suffered.’
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Web designing processes have the imperative tool that is creativity. It has visible shapes and ideas. All designers have the wide creative approach which develops unique designs. All human have creative thoughts in their mind that is helpful for web design when we use these techniques in web designing that will become a successful web design.
Creativity gives certain techniques which are innovative ideas. The web designer should have the wide creative approach which we can apply technical methods. Here we can see some techniques that are applied in web design procedure.
A group of four people is discussing about the creative ideas. If we will get creative designs that will give many points as well as views which will help with the products. Indeed, the group discussion is the best way of conversation that gives enormous development. Brainstorming discussion will give change and work efficiently.
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Each web design section need to plan this section carried all images or content. It may reach the high level of lucidness idea. Everything needs to plan which will give good conformation to web design.
Regularity should be between the clients and the designer. Then only we can design based on the needs of the clients. This discussion will lead a strong foundation. It will apply the designer to create which will be help and benefit for the business clients. The process of character listing is providing higher results because everything is attached down and crystal clear. The problems and negative are listed that have the need to make a list of designer’s relevant preferences. This proper discussion will help to the clients.
We will inspire by the observe things which will give excellent ideas. This method will give the all ideas. The ideas should be the difference between the original and creative things. These ideas must come with your mind not just looking but analyzing.
Analyzing the Ideas:
All designers must be tested and re-tested, his ideas for perfect because ideas created for final website. It will increase the company’s good name. Some defect make against the effects. Every design should give individuality to every business.
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On Wednesday, Biden officials spoke anonymously to the Associated Press, revealing that the administration has plans to end the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Title 42 order that gives federal immigration agents broad authority to quickly return border crossers and illegal aliens to their native countries.
As a result, Biden officials are readily admitting that about half a million border crossers and illegal aliens are expected to show up at the United States-Mexico border every month. This is the equivalent of a population the size of Atlanta, Georgia, arriving at the border over the course of just 28 to 30 days.
In a letter to Biden’s top agency officials, Reps. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) and Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) joined House and Senate Republicans representing Texas to urge the administration not to end Title 42.
“We urge you to consider the dangerous impact rescission of the Title 42 order would have on our communities at this time,” the lawmakers write:
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Since January 2021 DHS has eliminated measures designed to deter migrants from undertaking the dangerous journey to the southwest border. We strongly urge that DHS retain Title 42 authority until appropriate deterrent measures are put in place to ensure that Federal government facilities and local communities will not be overwhelmed by a sudden increase in migrant apprehensions. [Emphasis added]
Finally, at the current levels of cross-border migration, DHS currently lacks adequate capacity to process and detain all migrants apprehended along the southwest border under its Title 8 authorities. A report published by the DHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) in January of this year found that Border Patrol stations in the Rio Grande Valley were overcrowded and that the high volume of apprehensions limited the effectiveness of COVID-19 mitigation measures. DHS’s practice of releasing migrants with a so-called “Notice to Report” or otherwise releasing them on parole may have reduced the time they are held in detention at Border Patrol facilities, but likely acts as a pull factor for even more migration, imposes substantial costs on local communities, and is an inappropriate substitute for taking measures to construct adequate facilities and reduce the overall number of migrants crossing the border. [Emphasis added]
Furthermore, small border communities lack the appropriate housing, transportation, and healthcare infrastructure to manage the ongoing release of migrant populations into their jurisdictions. South Texas mayors inform us that the local non-governmental organizations are completely at capacity in terms of lodging and other services, and that local transportation hubs have been overwhelmed with migrants, many of whom lack the financial means to purchase tickets. If the CDC were to rescind its Title 42 order at this time, Border Patrol facilities and local communities would be forced to absorb at least double the current number of migrants, likely with catastrophic results. [Emphasis added]
The letter comes as Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) has warned Biden not to end Title 42, telling CNN, “I would be very reluctant for the administration to end this Trump policy until they had a real plan in place.”
“I think we are a generous country but we have to be a country of rule of law … I would be very worried about this notion that the border would be overwhelmed,” Warner said. “I would really want to hear a specific plan with adequate personnel … to try to stop the flow of some of these economic refugees.”
Likewise, Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) are asking Biden to continue enforcing Title 42 as they have yet to see any plans from the administration as to how they would deal with a massive wave of illegal immigration.
“To date, we have not yet seen evidence that DHS has developed and implemented a sufficient plan to maintain a humane and orderly process in the event of an end to Title 42,” Sinema and Kelly wrote.
In 2021, more than two million border crossers and illegal aliens arrived at the porous southern border — a foreign population larger than the resident population of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. From January 2021 to August 2021, for example, more than half a million were released into the U.S. interior.
This year, experts predict more than 2.1 million will arrive. Hundreds of thousands are likely to be released into the U.S. interior as part of Biden’s expansive Catch and Release operation that buses and flies border crossers and illegal aliens to various American cities.
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The Peacemaker’s Vengeance
The Peacemaker’s Vengeance is a fictional account of events that occurred in Columbus, Montana in 1912. In Eagles Nest, Montana, Sheriff Frank Drinkwalter is a well-respected, no-nonsense kind of man. He has been on both sides of the law, but he’s now the “heart that keeps the community going.” Into this relatively peaceful town comes a great danger: Jack Galt, the new blacksmith, who is suspected of having killed several women in other towns. However, no evidence can be traced to him. Frank cannot kill the man without cause, and so must find another way to drive Jack out. When Catherine Lang, Frank’s long-time sweetheart, arrives in Eagles Nest to wed him, Frank knows he has to take action to keep her safe.
Award-winning author Svee brings Eagles Nest to colourful life; from the very first paragraph, he draws the reader into turn-of-the-century Montana, with its bitter cold winds and its towering mountains. The characters, whether minor or major, are well realized, and there were plot twists, particularly at the end, that truly came as a surprise to me. Svee takes characters that could have been clichéd and gives them depth; I will be seeking out more of his work.
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Liddell, C and Rae, G (2001) Predicting early grade retention: A longitudinal investigation of primary school progress in a sample of rural South African children. BRITISH JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY, 71 (Part 3). pp. 413-428. [Journal article]
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Background. One hundred and fifty rural South African children, newly enrolled in Grade 2 in 1994, were retraced in 1998 when they were scheduled to have entered Grade 7. Only 39% of the cohort had progressed smoothly to Grade 7; more than a third (36%) had left their original primary school, and 25% had been retained at least once. Aims. The present study investigated factors that were measurable at the start of Grade 2 which proved useful in predicting subsequent retention. Method. Details of children's academic progress from Grade I in 1993 through all subsequent years including 1998 were collected. Predictor variables included age at school entry, sex of child, nutritional status, academic achievement in Grade 1, cognitive test status at Grade 2, teacher assessments of children's behaviour, and biographical variables such as caregiver education and household size. Results. Rural children's experience of primary school was relatively disrupted. For those who remained in the same school, a relatively good predictive model for retention was built, with Grade I academic achievement as well as caregiver education, and cognitive test scores being important predictors. Conclusions. Results corroborate those of developed world studies, in showing that early academic achievement is a strong predictor of retention. In addition, they highlight the importance of early curriculum mastery - rather than broader cognitive skills - for smooth progression through school.
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Contact: Jerry Dykstra, Open Doors USA, 616-915-4117, [email protected]
SANTA ANA, Calif., Dec. 20, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- "Silent night, Holy night, all is calm, all is bright..."
Many Christians all over the world will sing this Christmas carol in the next few days. Millions look forward to Christmas. What about the Syrian Christians in the midst of a terrible civil war? Will they have the "heavenly peace" this Christmas classic speaks about?
Christmas in Syria will be different for Christians this year. There will be few decorations and no big celebrations. Christians don't want to attract a lot of attention with their Christmas decorations, fearing that Christmas trees might make them a target for extremists. And, of course, the civil war itself isn't a good setting for big celebrations.
"We will use the Christmas time to visit the families that have been going through pain and suffering," a pastor in Damascus says. "Christians will come together in the churches of the capital to have their Christmas services, but no decorations and nothing big," he says. "The whole city is mourning the loss of their people, family and friends this year, so people will not really celebrate."
His church will focus on visits to refugee families to bring encouragement and comfort. The congregation in the capital will do "something small" for the children, but there will be no big celebration. "We will be just serving others. We will focus on getting together for prayer," the pastor states.
A church leader from the northern Syrian city of Aleppo explains that their Christmas celebrations will be very somber, too.
"We are not celebrating Christmas like before," he says. "We will have services in church and invite church people to come and bring their friends. The focus will be on children more than anyone else because they need to feel some joy."
Open Doors has heard the same reports from the cities of Latakia and Bloudan: "It will not be like the years before. We will celebrate and have services, but it will be limited. We will have a small program and prayer time," a pastor from Latakia says.
Over the past two years the civil war between President Bashar al-Assad's forces and the Free Syrian Army has resulted in approximately 40,000 deaths, mostly civilians, according to several reports. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have fled the country into Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon, according to the United Nations. In addition, about 2.5 million Syrians need aid inside the country, with more than 1.2 million displaced domestically.
Syrian Christians ask prayers for:
- Safety and strength of Christians who have chosen to remain in Syria. That God would not only protect them, but would provide them with His never-failing strength this Christmas.
- Christians will be able to meet during Christmas and Jesus will comfort and strengthen them.
- Believers will continue to share their relief packages and the Gospel with their Muslim neighbors.
An estimated 100 million Christians worldwide suffer interrogation, arrest and even death for their faith in Christ, with millions more facing discrimination and alienation. Open Doors supports and strengthens believers in the world's most difficult areas through Bible and Christian literature distribution, leadership training and assistance, Christian community development, prayer and presence ministry and advocacy on behalf of suffering believers. To partner with Open Doors USA, call toll free at 888-5-BIBLE-5 (888-524-2535) or go to www.OpenDoorsUSA.org.
(For more information or to set up an interview, contact Jerry Dykstra at 616-915-4117 or email [email protected].)
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1. Hunters are one of two classes that can have a pet. Warlocks and Hunters are the only two classes able to have pets. This gives the ability for a https://ammoshopinc.com/product-category/rifle-ammo/300-blackout-ammo/ companion, a tank, or an extra way to DPS. A Hunter’s pet is useful for many different situations.
2. Hunters are the only ranged class that deal physical damage. Hunters are the only ranged class that are not a caster. This gives them the benefits of a melee and the benefits of a caster. They can DPS at a distance, but not rely on resists or any other issues with casting spells.
3. Hunters are the only class able to use traps. A Hunter has a wide arsenal of traps, allowing them an edge against their opponents. They can freeze things, slow things down, or use one of three traps that deal damage in various ways. This allows a Hunter to have a surprise waiting for whoever their opponent might be.
4. Hunters are the only class able to feign death. This obviously has its advantages. Hunters are able to dodge death time and time again. With the addition of Jumper Cables, they can be an emergency pick-me-up. This ability will also save a Hunter from large repair bills.
5. Hunters have access to most weapons and armor. Hunters are able to use most types of weapons and can use all armors except for plate. This gives them a large amount of versatility for choosing their gear.
6. Hunters are a great kiting class. With Aspect of the Cheetah and a 40 yard attack range, Hunters can kite anything that they can outrun. There are even some bosses that can be kited by a skilled Hunter. This has lots of perks if players enjoy defeating harder than normal mobs.
7. Hunters are great at soloing. With the use of a pet, ranged attacks, traps, and many other utilities, Hunters are one of the best soloing classes in the game. They are often used for farming, as they can kill virtually nonstop.
8. Hunters are very easy to level with. With the use of a pet, traps, and many other abilities that make them incredible at soloing, Hunters can level very rapidly by themselves. They have hardly any trouble at all killing mobs consecutively.
9. Hunters can deal high amounts of steady damage. With a low amount of mana usage, a pet, and autoshot, Hunters can deal a high amount of steady damage over a very long period of time. This allows them to deal lots of damage on long fights.
10. Hunters are very good to PvP with. With a Beastial Hunter, they are able to PvP very well. Their pet can deal lots of damage while using their abilities to lock players down. Hunters are also very slippery and can escape bad situations.
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Materials Engineering Camp at UAB
205-975-3271 • UAB’s Hulsey Center, 950 13th St. South, Room 208
firstname.lastname@example.org • http://www.uab.edu/engineering/departments-research/mse/materials-camp
Ages: High school juniors and seniors
When: June 17-21, 2013
Description: Material engineers make things better, stronger, lighter, faster, safer and smarter. They study metals, ceramics, glass, plastics, composites, nanomaterials and semiconductors for everything from disposable contact lenses to computer chips and crankshafts. Camp will consist of interactive lectures, hands-on laboratory sessions and a multi-day engineering design project.
Cost: Free. All materials, instruction, transportation and meals during the day are provided at no cost to students. Participants also receive a UAB Materials Camp T-shirt.
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New Anti-Abortion Ad Calls Abortion The New Slavery
Tactics used by anti-abortion groups just keep getting uglier. The latest “ugh!” is courtesy of the Radiance Foundation, whose new billboards target black women and read “The 13th Amendment freed us. Abortion enslaved us” and “Abortion makes three-fifths human seem overly generous.” The billboards purposefully appeared on June 19, or Juneteenth, which is the anniversary of the end of slavery in America. Said Ryan Scott Bomberger of The Radiance Foundation:
“When you look at what abortion has brought to the black community, it can’t be typified to anything other than present-day slavery. It’s just like slavery, because you have a class of people who are considered less than human, and therefore they can be treated like property.”
Why, yes, having reproductive rights is just like slavery.Guilt-tripping black women about abortion is sadly not new. In February, another anti-abortion group called Life Always put up a billboard in New York City’s highly trafficked SoHo neighborhood which read, “The most dangerous place for an African-American is in the womb.” (After a public outcry, it was removed by the billboard’s owner.) And as I wrote last summer, other anti-abortion billboards targeting black people in Georgia and Arkansas read “Black & Unwanted” and “Black Children Are An Endangered Species.”
Comparing abortion to slavery is a disgusting new low. Firstly because it misappropriates the term “slavery.” But it’s also intentionally unclear whether Radiance is suggesting black women who abort a pregnancy are heartless, or whether society has brainwashed black women into not valuing their children and has therefore “enslaved” them. I suspect the tag lines are trying to suggest a little bit of both?
So, let’s review the facts. The website for That’s Abortion — the group responsible for that NYC billboard — claims that “Planned Parenthood targets minority neighborhoods.” But that’s just wrong. The Guttmacher Institute, an organization that collects statistics on reproductive health information, released a study (PDF) with findings that broke down the facts (as reported by Amanda Hess at TBD.com) about racial demographics where abortion clinics are located once and for all:
- 63 percent of abortion providers are in predominantly non-Hispanic white neighborhoods
- 12 percent are in predominantly Hispanic neighborhoods
- Nine percent of abortion providers are in predominantly black neighborhoods
- One percent of abortion providers are in other predominantly non-white neighborhoods
- 15 percent of abortion providers are in neighborhoods where no racial group is the majority population
So there you have it, anti-choicers. If legal abortion is like slavery and abortion clinics are targeting black women, why are almost two-thirds of clinics located in predominantly white neighborhoods?
Maybe, just maybe, anti-abortion activists are exploiting blacks’ well-deserved sensitivity to racism in American culture. And that’s a bigger problem than women having control over their own bodies.
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One of the conundrums created by the SEC’s new NMS II proposal is whether the market works better as a utility or a competitive market.
Some of the things the SEC proposes, like basing data revenues on costs and merging almost all market data into the SIP, speaks to the benefits that a stock market utility would create, although the usual benefit of a utility is avoiding duplicating fixed costs, which is not the case with creating competing consolidators.
Other aspects of their proposal, like creating multiple SIPs and competing consolidators, speak to a competition-at-all-costs approach to markets. Even though it’s well known that competition also adds to complexity and (fixed) costs.
NMS already tries to combine a competitive market (UTP) with nationalized data (SIP). But even with a data plan that rewards a market “good” (price discovery), we can still see the economic distortions it creates.
The costs of competition
Much of what happens in financial markets has a high fixed-cost component. Systems have to be built for peak capacity whether capacity is used or not. Critical (Reg-SCI) systems like the national quote also need to have fully functioning backups. That creates an interesting trade-off, where adding competition also adds fixed costs.
The SEC proposal suggested it costs around $10 million to run one SIP now. The UTP contract had been competitively tendered not too long ago, so that cost is already based in a (different) competitive process.
But let’s model out a hypothetical scenario under the new rules. Assume:
- Baseline cost of hardware and backup facilities and rent and power and compliance and people to run an SCI entity is $5 million.
- So making SIPs competitive could reduce costs another 50% based on the SECs suggested costs, meaning marginal cost savings of $5 million each are possible in this scenario.
- We model that each additional competitor is able to extract efficiencies of 20% on all providers. So adding one competitor would reduce the variable costs of both to $4 million each, adding another competitor reduces the costs of all to $3.2 million each, and so on.
- Even though all this competition will create a new SIP arms race, let’s pretend it doesn’t add costs (It would though, right?).
In this overly simplistic and far-fetched hypothetical example, after 12 competitors, the marginal costs of each competitor is reduced to less than $100,000 per year, adding theoretical efficiency gains of around $4.9 million per SIP provider (yellow line in Chart 1). But in the process of adding 12 competitors, we’ve duplicated fixed costs, adding $55 million to industry distribution costs (Chart 1).
Chart 1: Modelling how competing consolidators might add to industry costs even with competitive efficiencies
Source: Nasdaq Economic Research
So far, this just talks about covering the costs of the infrastructure (the new consolidators).
The larger economic “good” comes from having trusted public markets, getting companies to list, and participants to advertise quotes. Currently that’s also where most of the SIP revenues are spent.
What is the right “cost” for that?
So what’s the right cost for competitive prices data?
Interestingly, at FIMSAC this week, the SEC was busy discussing that for bonds.
We talked last week about how dealer markets work. Bonds are a classic dealer market.
The discussions at FIMSAC were focused on pre-trade transparency (public quotes), which don’t actually exist (TRACE only reports trades). Because of that, retail investors have no idea whether they are getting good fills or not. Not surprisingly, a detailed study found this costs retail investors (trading just corporate bonds) between $500 million and $1.2 billion each year.
FIMSAC also discussed how sophisticated investors (the buy-side) had built tools to save quotes sent to them by dealers. Given they connect to multiple dealers, their price data was more complete than the dealers themselves. During the COVID-19 selloff, this information asymmetry contributed to dealers widening spreads significantly. That proves it’s hard to quote competitively when you don’t know what the competitive price is, which speaks to the hidden value of a public and more equal market.
Ironically, SIFMA mostly supports the NMS II proposals to add depth and competing consolidators to equities, but they worry about the cost/benefit of developing a similar product for bonds.
Cost basis increases fragmentation
One of the complaints about the current SIP revenue formula is that, by paying any new exchange as soon as they print trades and quotes and the NBBO, they guarantee revenues which in turn supports more fragmentation.
However, the reason the SIP has revenue to distribute is because it currently gets all market data from exchanges and the TRF for free. Said another way, the two SIPs receive exchange data without a cost and revert the money the SIP collects back to the exchanges based on the amount of trading and price discovery (Chart 2). Contribution to price discovery is undeniably a “market good.”
Brokers know that unbundling can cause distortions where small cap stocks become under-covered, to the detriment of the market as a whole. SIP revenues are also mathematically “skewed” to thinly traded stocks, to add to incentives to provide quotes in those names.
Bond markets have realized price data is worth paying for, especially in thinly traded markets. Potentially it saves far more than the amount it will cost investors.
Despite that, there are still free-rider and other economic distortions caused by how the NMS market works. For example:
- Rebates paid (by exchanges) to the actual providers of quotes improve market quality, and therefore earn SIP revenues, but represent an engineered economic solution to pass the SIPs incentive back to risk takers.
- Equal access rules unbundle some market “rents” too. NMS allows competitors to trade using tickers and prices that other venues work hard to bring to the public market.
- A lot of trading is pegged to the lit NBBO without actually paying the liquidity provider who provides that quote. It’s estimated that price improvement on retail trading at sub-penny prices adds to around $1.6 billion a year, while midpoint orders save over $4 billion a year compared to crossing the full spread. That also puts into scale how much we should spend on keeping quotes tight and accurate.
In fact, most off exchange trades also earn SIP revenues for broker dealers (not exchanges). TRFs pass revenues from trading back to brokers based on their off-exchange market share.
Chart 2: SIP revenues are currently allocated based on contribution to market quality, although quote (pre-trade) data makes up only 50%
In contrast, the current proposal considers paying providers based on their costs.
Basic economics says that covering costs would support inefficient businesses. Covering costs also distorts the incentive to close an unsuccessful business down. With over a dozen exchanges and more on the way, covering everyone’s costs seems destined to support fragmentation.
Fragmentation increases costs
It seems counterintuitive, but competition for competition’s sake could cost the industry more.
How much? We need to think what exactly it “costs” to run an exchange. We could start with IEX, who only operate one exchange. Their reported data shows that operating expenses in 2018 were more than $50 million.
- If that were all fixed costs, then the cost of running 16 exchanges later this year adds to around $800 million ($50 million x 16). Add two more exchanges, and costs go up $100 million more.
- If instead all costs are variable, we could say it costs around $20 million-per-percent-market-share. That gives a “fair” industry cost basis of around $2 billion.
In reality, we know that costs are a mix of fixed and variable. So perhaps the right industry cost is somewhere in between. Ironically, a study we did a while ago looking at the competitive exchange market, pins the industrywide revenues, before dark pool revenues, (you guessed it) somewhere in between.
The data also shows that market forces lead most exchanges to competitively price data and colocation and trading, with the revenues they get from each of the byproducts of having tickers to trade split somewhat evenly.
Chart 3: Estimated all in costs of different venues
In the above chart we’ve also added dark pool costs-to-trade based on new form ATS-N disclosures. ATS costs range from “free” to around 500 mils. That’s mostly much higher than the cost of trading on exchanges, even though they argue it’s more efficient to avoid paying exchanges trade fees.
Importantly (to this debate), the ATS filings look to have “no link to costs.” That just highlights how hard it is for accountants to cost out byproducts on a platform accurately. This is especially true when fixed commission revenues pay for a combination of fixed and variable costs of running dark pools, such as buying tech for algorithms and employing human traders and compliance personnel.
Competition at all costs won’t make the market efficient
There are definitely economic distortions in the current system, many that encourage fragmentation of liquidity and trading. In a competitive market, basing payments on cost supports fragmentation and will likely end up costing the industry more.
The market could be more efficient if the right balance between complexity, fragmentation and competition could be struck. Although it seems we’ve done about as much work as bond markets in quantifying what the optimal economic incentives and market-wide fixed costs for good data really are.
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Today I’m sharing a list of simple but effective changes I made in my classroom to make my math program more successful. So often after a lesson I’d ask if there were any questions, and all little heads would shake “nope”, and everyone seemed fully confident as they went off to complete their task.
Soon enough, those early finishers start hovering around, wanting me to check their work and wondering what they should do next. How did they finish so quickly? Did I underestimate the time it would take to complete this work?
No, I didn’t. When I DO look at their work, I realize that there are a lot of little errors, and they’ve rushed through it, leaving ME with a bunch of correcting and scrambling for early finisher work.
I realized I’ve spent all this time creating, teaching, and marking something that took them 10 minutes and is filled with careless answers.
How did this become okay!? It’s NOT okay!
The students themselves should be more involved in:
*correcting their own work
*thinking about their work
*being engaged in discussions about their work
THEY should be self-checking, peer checking, and doing their best possible work before handing it to me.
With this in mind, I started making answer sheets available to them. This did help, but it didn’t actually offer a way to understand why they made mistakes or help them form habits of self-checking before marking. They had no way to understand why they had the wrong answers, or engage in discussions about multiple strategies with peers. I decided my math block needed a complete overhaul.
Step 1 – Self-Checking Page Format
My first step to change was when I decided to integrate the answers into the page itself, so that the work was self-checking. I wrote the answers on the page, but didn’t identify which answers belonged to which question. They had to search for it.
My students were intrigued! “You mean the teacher is giving us ALL the answers right there on the page?!” they asked. This seemed just too good to be true! Haha! Oh yes, the answers are right there! You just have to find them.
It was simple: students solve a problem, then find and color their answer in a circle below until there aren’t any answers left. If their answer isn’t there, then they have to go back and check their work.
Then, the idea grew: what if the answers were around the edges of the page?
What if you had to find and color two circles with matching question and answer?
What if you had to cut and sort, or build a picture that would be revealed as you answered the questions?
Throughout the school year, I tried to use the students’ favorite practice formats with each new math topic we studied:
*Find My Partner: Color the question and answer the same color. There should not be any circles without a partner by the end.
*Bubble Answers: The answers are in the “bubbles” at the bottom of each page. Students found and colored each of their answers as they went along. This gave students much more skill at problem solving and self-correcting when they didn’t see their answer in a bubble! Students also have a friend check their work before handing it in, so there’s lots of great peer-discussion going on.
*Border Answers: Sometimes we put the answers around the edges of the page to make a colorful border once we’re done. Each questions gets its own color, as shown below.
*We have lots of other cut and paste sorting pages where each answer has to fit within a category, so they are self-checking in that way.
The peer-checking component was a real game-changer and so popular. Students found a friend who was also finished to check over their work. Students take this very seriously because they are marking work and signing their name, and essentially that means they are PRACTICALLY the teacher (for that few moments, anyway!)
Step 2 – Differentiation
I teach a multi-age class, so the next step was to find a way to engage everyone. I needed practice pages that would challenge my older students, and more simple pages that would prevent my younger students from being overwhelmed. The solution was to make three different version of each task; this made everyone happy and I only had to explain one task. In the picture below, students have to simply color their question and answer with the same color.
Step 3 – Reference Posters
We turned all of our old anchor charts into reference posters that stayed up on a designated math wall. At least once per week, students volunteer to review/explain the concepts on all the posters to the class so we don’t forget what they are about!
Students love this chance to “be the teacher”! If you’d like to use the posters I have already created with my class, you can download all of my addition and subtraction strategy posters below – they’re free!
Step 4 – Hands-On Centers & Games
Next, we needed some fun math centers to continue with our practice. We have practiced the skills all year long with hands-on centers to reinforce strategies so that skills taught in September don’t get forgotten! We have over 80 different centers now!
My students also love board games, so I created some basic board games to practice core skills that could be played independently as a review.
Step 5 – Organization
With so many resources, there must be some organization involved. Otherwise you’ll find bags of sorting center pieces at the back of your art closet, or you’ll lose the differentiated versions of your favorite printable.
I’ve put everything together for each of the ten core math units: one set is just the printables, and the other set is just the printable math centers. I just take out the pages needed for each unit, and put them back under the correct tab for next year. My sorting centers and game boards are kept in clear pocket pages so we don’t lose any pieces.
It keeps us organized and efficient.
The reason I’ve separated the workbooks and centers is to make it easier to separate, especially for those who only wish to use one or the other. For example, if your school already uses a math workbook, you can choose just the centers, and vice versa. Or, you can choose each set individually – it will include both the workbooks and math centers for just that one unit skill.
Click to see the printable centers alone (925 pages).
Click to see the workbook pages alone.
Please note that each of these sets has been set to match a bundled price, so you can purchase them BOTH for a full year set at a price to match a much reduced bundle price.
If you’d like to see some of the reference posters in the binder, you can download these ones for free!
You may also find our blank Number of the Day template useful in your classroom! We use it for a daily warm up, a quick math center with differentiated numbers, and even as homework to do with parents.
Looking for more literacy or math resources – or clip art? Click the picture to get this clickable resource list!
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A large eight-spoked frozen wheel at one of the Island's electromagnetic pockets harnessed the Heart of the Island to manipulate space and time. A well originally accessed its chamber, and the DHARMA Initiative later built the Orchid station on top of it. People who turned the wheel teleported to a site in Tunisia. When Benjamin Linus turned it in December 2004, the Island moved, the wheel slipped off its axis, and those on the island started shifting through time, seemingly randomly. A few days later for him, but at an indeterminate time in the Island's/chamber's past, a time-shifting John Locke turned the wheel to stabilize it again and end the time flashes. He too then teleported to the Tunisia site. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 2") ("This Place Is Death")
Mother inspects her son's latest invention.
While living with Claudia's people in an early unknown time on the Island, the Man in Black constructed an early prototype of the frozen wheel. He planned to install the wheel to harness the Island's Source and transport himself into the outside world. When questioned by his mother on how he had learned such things, he answered that he was "special". Before he could complete his project, his adopted mother knocked him unconscious. Upon awakening, he found the well filled, the village destroyed, and Claudia's people slain. ("Across the Sea")
It is not clear who completed the planned wheel mechanism beneath the Orchid, which may or may not have been the same location where the Man in Black's prototype was built. The final wheel's frozen chamber featured hieroglyphics, likely dating its construction the same time as the Temple, the Statue of Taweret, and the Tunnels.
Discovery and experiments by DHARMA
An image of the chamber. ("Because You Left")
In 1977, DHARMA Initiative construction workers excavated rock at the site to build the Orchid station, unaware of the wheel's existence. (DVD commentary) They discovered an anomaly and melted six drill bits trying to reach it. The drill operator then became dazed and suffered a nosebleed. When Dr. Pierre Chang arrived at the site, the construction foreman showed him a sonar image of what lay beyond the wall - the frozen wheel's outline. Dr. Chang ordered them to halt drilling, stating that they were close to a source of "almost limitless energy" which would let the Initiative manipulate time. He warned that continued drilling could release this energy with dangerous consequences. ("Because You Left") ("The Incident, Part 1")
After the station was completed, Dr. Chang (using the alias "Edgar Halliwax") recorded the Orchid Orientation video, explaining that the nearby "negatively charged exotic matter" let DHARMA experiments with space and time. He cautioned that this pocket of matter was associated with volatile electromagnetic energy. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 2") DHARMA used polar bears to turn the wheel as part of their experiments. One such bear ended up in the Tunisian desert, where Charlotte later discovered its remains. ("The New Man in Charge") ("Confirmed Dead")
On turning the wheel, Ben is transported to the year 2005. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 3")
Believing Jacob had ordered the island to be moved, Ben took it upon himself to do so. He claimed that whoever turned the wheel could never return to the island, and Jacob wanted Ben to suffer these repercussions. To reach the wheel, Ben deliberately blew a hole in Orchid vault's back wall. He then crawled through into a rock tunnel, broke through a sheet of ice, and climbed down a wooden ladder into the wheel chamber.
Before turning the wheel, Ben looked upwards and uttered, "I hope you're happy now, Jacob." After much physical effort chipping away the ice around the wheel, he was finally able to turn it. As Ben turned the wheel, a loud humming and bright light surged outwards across the entire Island and for a considerable distance beyond. Ben was transported to "the exit" in Tunisia, the Island disappeared to the outside world, and the remaining survivors on the Island began moving through time. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 2") ("Because You Left")
Ben clearly showed foreknowledge of the wheel's existence, location, and use. He also knew to wear a parka before entering the freezing wheel chamber and to bring a crowbar to aid in removing ice from the wheel.
The wheel emitting green light while off its axis ("This Place Is Death")
At some unknown point, a time-shifting Locke descended into a well near the future location of the Orchid. During his descent, another time flash occurred, shifting his companions on the surface to a period before the Orchid well was even built, in or before 1867. Locke, meanwhile, may have shifted forward in time below the surface (possibly due to his proximity to the chamber's pocket of electromagnetism) as he soon encountered the Man in Black (in the form of Christian Shephard), who appeared to Locke in the chamber and told him to re-align the wheel. In great pain, Locke, who had fallen during the time flash and experienced a compound leg fracture, approached the wheel. It vibrated and oscillated erratically, bathed in a pulsating green light emanating from beyond the wall. He pulled the wheel in a clockwise direction, resetting it. The light flashed brighter, and the final time flash occurred. The remaining time-shifting survivors on the surface were transported to 1974 and Locke himself was transported to "the exit" in Tunisia in late 2007. ("This Place Is Death") ("316") ("LaFleur")
In 2004, Ben accessed the wheel chamber by blowing open a hole through the Orchid vault's back wall. It opened into a lateral rough-hewn tunnel, which led in one direction to the top of a ladder. The ladder led down a short distance to a ceiling entrance into the wheel chamber. A thin layer of ice sealed this entrance. A second wooden ladder led to the floor below. Another of DHARMA's sites that featured a complicated vertical entry also offered a separate entrance. The Polar bears that turned the wheel would likely need a entry for access. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 2") ("Orientation") ("The New Man in Charge") Sometime before 1974, the chamber could also be accessed by descending an ancient well. Charlotte appeared aware that one could access the wheel via the well. By 1974, however, the well had been filled in or had collapsed. ("This Place Is Death")
The wheel chamber
Hieroglyphs seen on the walls of the chamber ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 2")
The wheel was located in an ancient chamber deep underground. The walls were of rough-hewn stone except for the carved stone blocks that served as the wheel's mount. At least one rough column of rock adorned with hieroglyphs supported the ceiling. The column also held a hook supporting an old lantern which still contained fuel as of 2004.
When Ben visited the wheel, the temperature in the chamber was clearly below freezing, making it an unusual location on a tropical island. A fine layer of grime and ice crystals covered the walls, ceiling, and floor, and large icicles hung down the walls and covered the wheel itself. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 2") Much less ice was visible during Locke's later visit. ("This Place Is Death")
Metal bands appear to hold the wheel together. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 2")
The wheel itself appeared to be fairly elaborate and was made of wood, held together with metal bindings, similar in fashion to nautical construction. The tips of the wheel's spokes had holes bored through them for some unknown purpose. In attempting to free the wheel from the ice, Ben threaded his crowbar through one to gain more leverage. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 2")
The wheel turned an unseen mechanism that manipulated the Light. Bright light or energy emitted from behind when the wheel turns. When Locke found the wheel off its axis, green light flashed periodically behind the wall as the wheel rocked back and forth. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 2") ("This Place Is Death")
A thin amount of vapor exuded from inside the wall on one occasion while the wheel was quiescent during Ben's visit. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 2")
The wheel and chamber did not necessarily follow the same linear time flow as the surface. This is apparent because The Man in Black had already assumed Christian's form inside the chamber during Locke's visit. During the Man in Black's conversation with Locke, he gave Locke no indication what specific year it was from their perspective beneath the surface - although Locke's friends above ground had clearly shifted to a time period on or prior to 1867, as they could see the full Tawaret statue undamaged from their position in the jungle. It is possible that, when one moved closer to the wheel's chamber (as Locke did upon descending into the well) the temporal effects were be felt differently by the approaching individual.
The exit is monitored by CCTV. ("The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham")
Locke wakes up in the Tunisian desert at the exit. ("The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham")
Individuals turning the wheel were transported to "the exit": a location in the Tunisian desert. Upon turning the wheel, Ben was transported there sometime on October 24, 2005. He killed two Tunisian locals that confronted him, likely knowing that they were Charles Widmore's men, and made his escape. ("The Shape of Things to Come"). At some point after Ben's arrival, Charles Widmore had a CCTV camera installed to watch for others who might leave the Island in this way. After turning the wheel, Locke arrived at the exit point in 2007. He was picked up by Widmore's people soon after his arrival. ("The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham") Exactly how much time elapsed between turning the wheel and one's arrival in the real world appeared to vary: Ben appeared at the exit about ten months after he turned the wheel, but Locke was transported across a greater span of time. As The Man in Black had already assumed Christian's form, he must have been transported up to 3 years forwards in time.
|Picture||Name||First visit||Last visit||Reason for visit|
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|John||"This Place Is Death"||"This Place Is Death"||Locke pulled the wheel back onto its axis to stop the Island's time shifts.|
|The Man in Black||"Across the Sea"||"This Place Is Death"||The Man in Black began construction of the wheel or reconstructed a very similar version in Classical times (with the existence of Egyptian Hieroglyphs at the location it could had possibly predated the birth of The Man In Black), potentially at the same site. The Man in Black may have later appeared in the form of Christian Shephard when Locke fell into the chamber, in order to instruct him to place the wheel back on its axis. He offered no explanation as to how he arrived in the chamber, or why it was Locke that necessarily that had to turn it but did confirm what both Richard Alpert and "Christian" said himself that he had to bring the Oceanic Six survivors back to the Island and he had to die in the effort.|
|Mother||"Across the Sea"||"Across the Sea"||Mother visited The Man in Black while he was constructing the wheel, and after he ignored her pleas she knocked him unconscious. It is assumed she moved The Man in Black out of the well and filled it in.|
Fan mock-up of entire wheel, based on the over-head picture above, demonstrating that the frozen wheel is similar to the Dharmacakra.
- The wheel resembled a treadwheel, a device used by humans and animals (usually donkeys, mules, or horses) in which a wheel is turned to do some form of labor. While human tread-wheels could take the form used in the cave scene, animal tread-wheels require 360 degree access with which to completely circumnavigate the wheel axis in order to work properly.
- The wheel also appeared to be similar in form to the dharmacakra, or the "Wheel of Dharma". The eight-spoke wheel that is one of the oldest in Buddhism. To "turn the wheel of dharma" means to reveal the universal truths necessary to the path of enlightenment.
- The Kālacakra is a Sanskrit term used in Vajrayāna Buddhism. The term means "time-wheel" or "time-cycles".
- The Wheel of Fortune is a Roman and Medieval symbol often represented in art and Western literature as having eight spokes. The goddess Fortuna, as fate, controlled the four stages of life and spun the wheel as she wished. She was also known to favor the bold.
- Recent scientific literature suggests that the bridge of traversable wormholes of exotic matter can have negative temperature, as well as zero for the asymptotic exit in a certain model.
- "The Frozen Donkey Wheel" was the code name used by the producers to refer to the Season 4 finale's "secret scene". Before the episode aired, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse said in the March 21, 2008 Official Lost Podcast that while there would still be a cliffhanger, they were using this season's code name to refer to a secret scene earlier in the episode. Later, in the Season 4 DVD commentary, they implied that they referred to the earlier scene involving Ben in the cave in order to keep spoiler sources focused on that scene instead of the one with Locke's body in the coffin, in a sense making the earlier scene a decoy for the real secret scene with Locke. Regardless of which scene is considered the real secret scene, the surprise turned out to be that the too-bizarre-to-be-literal "code name" turned out not to be a code name at all, but a description of the frozen wheel that Ben turns to move the Island.
- To make the efforts to turn the wheel more realistic, a 250-pound man put his weight against it, so actor Michael Emerson really had to work on it to turn it.
- For fan theories about these unanswered questions, see: Frozen wheel/Theories
- Who completed the construction of the frozen wheel?
- Why is the wheel chamber so cold?
- ↑ Modern Physics Letters A: "Can Wormholes have Negative Temperatures?" Ewha Womans University, Seoul; 2006
- ↑ "Exactly Solvable Model of Wormhole Supported by Phantom Energy" O.B.Zaslavskii; 2005
- ↑ 'Washington Post: Catching Up with 'Lost's' Michael Emerson Liz Kelly; 02/06/2009
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he Signal channel begins to heat up late at night.
In the hours before dawn in Kabul, before the daily crush and chaos resumes at the airport where tens of thousands of desperate Afghans and American citizens vie to reach transport planes on the other side of armed gates, the members of the #AfghanEvac group share information they hope will enable friends and former colleagues to escape the reach of Taliban revenge.
The chat is frantic, a hypnotizing, disorienting kaleidoscope of spy-thriller drama (“anyone got any helos sitting around?” “I have one American citizen who won’t abandon his family of 15. If I secure a private jet, can we get them into the base?”); grinding logistical minutiae (“Can anyone remind me where the petrol station is near Abbey Gate?”); jerry-rigged efforts to paper over failures of traditional leadership (“I’ve been pushing DC admin for solutions…here is a draft of a giant poster we could make to show who is being let in where”, “Use visual markers so people can be picked out of the crowd. Balloons have been working well — kids carry them to the gate and then parents can lift them up for visibility”); and gut-wrenching personal details (“Please delete any tweets with my handle. I am getting death threats and need to have my phone free,” “lone female with no food or water for 48 hours, multiple fainting spells over last 24 hours,” “I have my entire family trying to get in! What do I do? There are 3 babies!!!”)
On balance the desperate appeals far outnumber the responses that proffer actual help. Even former chiefs of staff to Cabinet secretaries find themselves begging for basic info: “any word on what gates are open right now?” Nevertheless, the diverse group of volunteers — veterans, Hill staffers, private sector employees, members of the intelligence community and human rights advocates — persists through disappointment, frustration, and panic. Driven by anger at their own government’s failures and haunted by personal experience in the decades-long conflict, participating in the #AfghanEvac group is a chance at redemption, to wrench something meaningful from the wreckage of “nation-building.” One member describes it as “the finest organization I have been a part of.”
I joined the group on August 20, for much the same reason as the rest of the roughly 100 members of the group: The man who served as my interpreter in 2009 when I led a platoon of soldiers in Kandahar Province, who risked his life for me and my men, is in mortal danger.
I have been in touch with “Rock” (for his safety, I cannot reveal his real name) for years, but the pace of our communication has picked up dramatically since the Taliban came back to power. The members of #AfghanEvac helped me guide Rock from the northern province of Kunduz, past Taliban checkpoints (a map has circulated on the channel that shows Taliban checkpoints around the capital, almost like Waze for refugees) to a safehouse in Kabul where he was able to renew his Afghanpassport.
But he remains stuck on the wrong side of the walls at Hamid Karzai International Airport.
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A recent column from Spengler has me rethinking my rhetoric: is it smart to acknowledge the hell hole in an attempt to move the argument on?
... data confirm that Palestinians enjoy a higher living standard than their Arab neighbors. A fail-safe gauge is life expectancy. The West Bank and Gaza show better numbers than most of the Muslim worldWell gee, Spengler, basket weaving, when there's so much more money in Jew hatred?
Without disputing Obama's claim that life for the Palestinians is intolerable, it is fair to ask: where is life not intolerable in the Arab world? When the first UN Arab Development Report appeared in 2002, it elicited comments such as this one from the London Economist: "With barely an exception, its autocratic rulers, whether presidents or kings, give up their authority only when they die; its elections are a sick joke; half its people are treated as lesser legal and economic beings, and more than half its young, burdened by joblessness and stifled by conservative religious tradition, are said to want to get out of the place as soon as they can." Life sounds intolerable for the Arabs generally; their best poet, the Syrian "Adonis" - Ali Ahmad Said Asbar - calls them an "extinct people".
Palestinian Arabs are highly literate, richer and healthier than people in most other Arab countries, thanks to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency and the blackmail payments of Western as well as Arab governments. As refugees, they live longer and better than their counterparts in adjacent Arab countries. It is not surprising that they do not want to be absorbed into other Arab countries and cease to be refugees.
If the Palestinians ceased to be refugees, moreover, it is not clear how they would maintain their relatively advantaged position. They cannot return to farming; for all the tears about bulldozed olive groves, no one in the West Bank will ever make a living selling olive oil, except perhaps by selling "Holy Land" products to Christian tourists. Apart from tourism, the only non-subsidy source of income the Palestinians had was day labor in Israel, but security concerns close that off. Light manufacturing never will compete with Asia, and surely not during a prolonged period of global overcapacity.
An alternative is for the Palestinians to continue to live off subsidies. But why should they? Why should Western taxpayers subsidize an Arab in Ramallah, when Arabs in Egypt are needier? The answer is that they represent a security concern for Western countries, who believe that they are paying to limit violence. That only makes sense if the threat of violence remains present in the background and flares up frequently enough to be credible. One cannot simply stage-manage such things. A sociology of violence in which a significant proportion of the population remains armed [is necessary].
About one out of four Palestinian men between the ages of 20 and 40 makes a living carrying a gun.
That is, the economic structure of "pre-state" Palestine is heavily skewed towards the sort of institutionalized means of violence that is supposed to disappear once a state has been established. This is absurd, and creates a double disincentive for the Palestinians to maintain a low boil of violence. Just how this violence-centered society is supposed to make the transition to an ordinary civil society is an unanswerable question.
Once the problem is diagnosed with this kind of clarity, the solution becomes obvious:
# Cut Western support to the Palestinians with the aim of reducing living standards in the West Bank to those prevailing in Egypt, as an incentive for emigration.
# Demilitarize Palestinian society: offer a reward for turning in weapons, seize them when necessary, and give newly-unemployed gunmen employment weaving baskets at half pay.
Like many obvious solutions, this one never will be put into practice.
The Palestinians cannot form a normal state. They cannot emigrate to Arab countries without accepting a catastrophic decline in living standards, and very few can emigrate to Western countries. The optimal solution for the Palestinians is to demand a state and blackmail Western and Arab donors with the threat of violence, but never actually get one.But does Obama want what's optimal for the Arab cousins of Bill Ayers and the ACORN mob? What's more, can the Palestinians really be so rational given their "sociology of violence"? What about their religious imperatives to destroy Jewish power?
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Directed at the evangelical and conservative reader, Brannon Howse's "One Nation Under Man" is unique: readers finishing this book will have a poorer understanding of Humanism and other issues than if they had never picked up the book.
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- The group forming the regulation of cryptography was created by the Russian Federation Council
- The expert task force will take on the task of crafting an additional prescription for the country’s growing crypto ecosystem
- Using digital assets as payment is prohibited, but stopping other crypto-related operations remains a moot point.
Crypto regulations are important and also of concern to many. However, as governments around the world scrutinize the cryptocurrency industry, experts believe these guidelines need to be comprehensive, consistent, and coordinated. In recent developments, the Federation Council of the Russian Legislature was found forming a working group. The group should in particular propose such a complete decree for virtual currencies.
Additionally, the announcement revealed that the group will be comprised of officials from multiple government departments and agencies as well as members of the growing national digital asset industry.
Preparing for New Crypto Regulations in Russia
The Federation Council of Russia is the upper house of the nation’s parliament. In the current scenario, he is working on setting up an expert task force that will take on the task of crafting an additional ordinance for the growing crypto ecosystem in the country.
Indeed, these assets are now only partially regulated by the law “On digital financial assets”. And Russian officials have recognized the need to adopt more guidelines to cover various aspects such as traffic and taxation.
Who would make up the body?
The established body will include representatives from the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Economic Development, the Russian financial watchdog, Rosfinmonitoring, the Federal Tax Service, the Ministry of Digital Development and other enforcement agencies of the law. Nikolai Zhuravlev, the deputy of the organization also announced during the Finopolis 2021 forum that members of the digital crypto industry will also be invited to join the body.
Should Russia ban operations with cryptocurrency?
During Zhuravlev’s participation in the event dedicated to innovative financial technologies, he pointed out that the use of digital assets as a means of payment is prohibited in Russia. Later, Zhurablev also pointed out that the prohibition of further operations related to these assets is still a debatable question and difficult to answer.
Following an earlier statement by Yelena Perminova, First Deputy Chair of the Federation Council’s Budget and Financial Markets Committee, the legislative body is currently analyzing the presence of crypto in the Russian financial market. Moreover, Perminova had also mentioned that the chamber intended to seriously consider the matter.
Later at the end of last month, the State Duma, the lower house of the country’s Federal Assembly, revealed that it was setting up a working body made up of lawmakers. This body will attempt to answer outstanding questions regarding the regulation of decentralized crypto assets in the Russian Federation. At the time, Anatoly Aksakov, the head of the parliamentary committee on financial markets, announced that the group would hold its first rally in the near future. Indeed, its members would try to clarify crypto-related issues, including the legalization of digital currency mining and the introduction of taxation of digital currency holdings and profits.
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Washington (AP) - As the economy continues to struggle, the public is growing increasingly concerned about losing jobs, not having enough money to pay the bills and seeing their retirement accounts shrink, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll.
Nearly half of those surveyed said they worry about becoming unemployed -- almost double the percentage at this time last year.
The poll released Wednesday also found public support dipped slightly in the past month for the $787 billion package of tax cuts and government spending President Barack Obama signed into law this week on the promise that it will save or create 3.5 million jobs and re-ignite the economy.
"I lost a job myself," said Edd Winkler, 40, a married attorney and father of two in Grand Rapids, Mich. "There were just too many attorneys for the amount of work we had coming in to the firm at that time." Winkler has opened his own practice, and says most of his work involves bankruptcies.
"I know a lot of other people who have lost jobs," he added.
Mariann Lewis, 55, of Stewartstown, Pa., says she was laid off this month from her job in a grocery store's deli department.
"It's pretty sad when a food store lays people off," said Lewis, who is married. "It's not like people are going to stop buying food."
Lewis said she didn't work there long enough to qualify for unemployment, and her family has begun using credit cards to pay for expenses, including a relative's funeral. "We went through all of our savings," she said.
Winkler and Lewis are among those who are increasingly worried about their personal economic circumstances, according to the poll.
Nearly half of those questioned, 47 percent, worry at least somewhat about losing a job, up from 28 percent in February 2008. Nearly three-fourths, or 71 percent, say they know someone -- a friend or a relative -- who has lost a job in the past six months because of the economy.
Fear of being thrown out of work is so widespread that equal percentages of higher- and lower-income workers, 47 percent, worry about losing their jobs. Last year, only 20 percent of those earning $50,000 or more annually worried about joblessness, as did 35 percent of those earning less than that.
Nearly two-thirds of people, 65 percent, are at least somewhat worried about paying their bills, up from 46 percent last year.
More than two-thirds, 69 percent, worry that the value of their stocks and retirement investments will drop, up from 59 percent a year ago.
More than half, 53 percent, aren't confident they'll have enough money to live comfortably in retirement, up from a third, 34 percent, in February 2005.
Dean Verinder, a 40-year-old Houston engineer who fears declining oil prices will cost him his job, said he's saving money these days.
"I'm not putting any money into the stock market," he said. "I was lucky. I pulled all my money out before it crashed."
Support for the economic stimulus plan, which Obama signed Tuesday, was at 52 percent, compared with 55 percent last month.
Winkler said he wasn't confident the program would create jobs, and thinks that those it does create will be low-paying.
"Until we can somehow keep jobs here and create actual real paying jobs, not Wal-Mart greeter jobs, those things won't work," he said.
Risa Stoller-Black, a 24-year-old married homemaker from Wapato, Wash., said the stimulus package would create jobs.
"I don't see how it couldn't, if there's money to employ people," said Stoller-Black, who has a 4-year-old daughter. "It's just disappointing that we have to get to this point in the first place."
About a month into his new job as president, Obama's approval rating was at 67 percent, a slight dip from the 74 percent he received before his Jan. 20 inauguration. By comparison, just 31 percent approved of Congress' job performance, up seven points from December.
In other findings:
--Nearly two-thirds, or 62 percent, think Obama is making about the right amount of effort to cooperate with Republicans in Congress on solving the country's economic problems. About the same percentage, 64 percent, think the GOP isn't doing enough to cooperate with the Democratic president. Despite courting Republicans during negotiations on the stimulus bill, it passed with no GOP votes in the House and just three GOP votes in the Senate.
--People don't think much of last year's $700 billion bailout for the financial industry. Nearly half, or 47 percent, say it had no real effect on the economy, and about a third, or 32 percent, say it actually made things worse.
The AP-GfK poll was conducted Feb. 12-17 and involved landline and cell phone interviews with 1,001 randomly chosen adults. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
Associated Press Polling Director Trevor Tompson and Associated Press writer Christine Simmons contributed to this report.
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Photonics for the society of tomorrow
Light enables life on Earth since primeval times. For humans, natural light first was merely a means to brighten darkness. The classical optics gave rise to glasses, microsopes or binoculars. It was only with the development of modern optics that the full potential of the medium light was discovered - from the laser to optical memory and to communication technologies.
In the meanwhile, the control of light has reached a point that justifies the expectation that light technologies will become equally important as electronics. Thus, the goal of photonics is uncovering the full potential of using light for information and communication technologies. Photonics deals with topics from classical optics, nonlinear optics and quantum optics in order to develop new applications in technology, biology and medicine.
Photonics as a key technology
Photonics plays a key role in the solution of important problems in communications, production, biology and nano technology. The usage of light with all its properties and its targeted use as carrier of information as well as to analyse and modify matter will thus be of major importance in the next decades. This affects the generation of light as well as its guidance and its spectral, spatial and temporal shaping. Especially the research on the propagation of light in complex structures gains more and more importance. This comprises the control of propagation properties by nonlinear interactions and their modification by interaction with complex geometrical structures as well as a combination of both scenarios. These structures can depict new artificial media (effective media in the sub-wavelength regime or photonic crystals with different dimensions in the wavelength regime) or serve as light conducting structures in the super-wavelength regime.
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The opinions in this article are my own. I do not work for, or with, any brand mentioned in this article, nor do I have any official relationship with them. I have a relationship with GigaSavvy, for whom I create original editorial content.
One of the most frustrating things about being the parent of an infant or toddler (and any age for that matter!) is seeing them sick and not knowing what to do for them. It’s hard when they can’t communicate with you and explain exactly what it is that’s bothering them. Since we have entered the winter season, colds are sure to pop up in your family (if they haven’t already!). We have already been through several in our family now that the older kids are in school.
My 7-month old recently had his first cold, and I felt so bad seeing him congested and frustrated because he couldn’t breathe through his nose. While you can’t cure a cold, there are some things you can do to help your children feel more comfortable and manage their symptoms because healthy children make happy children!
- Offer your child fluids as needed to prevent dehydration. If your baby is nursing, allow him/her to nurse as often as needed–breast milk also has immunological benefits for baby.
- To help get rid of the extra mucus that can result from a cold, use a bulb syringe or my personal favorite, the NoseFrida to suction your infant or toddler’s nose. Be sure to clean the nasal aspirator after usage to prevent the spread of germs.
- You can use saline nose drops to help thin nasal mucus and make it easier to get out with a suctioning device.
- Use a humidifier (we have this one) in your child’s room to help keep the air moisten. Colds often strike in the colder months, when the heat is on inside and the air is drier. Moistening the air can help nasal congestion. Just make sure you change the water daily to prevent mold from growing in the humidifier.
- Encourage your child to rest as much as possible!
- Use a natural vapor rub (3 months and older), instead of the ones that can contain petroleum and parabens. Apply the rub to your child’s chest, neck, and back.
What are YOUR tips for helping babies and toddlers fight colds?
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The operating system has always been the most important piece of software on any computer system. Without the Operating system, no operation in the computer is possible. It is the software programme which provides an interface between various software programmes which includes both the utilities and the user applications with the underlying hardware. Operating systems along with their drivers provide the abstraction layer between the software and the hardware. This allows the same application to run easily in different varieties of hardware. All computers, as well as smart phones, gadgets, media devices as well as embedded hardware systems, have operating systems. It is the heart of the digital operation. In similar fashion, an ecommerce web hosting in Kolkata has got an operating system to function properly.
Whether the server of the Web Hosting service will have same operating system of PC:
In most of the cases, it is not necessary to have the same operating system of your computer as well of the Web Hosting server. This is due to several reasons for it. It will not be needed for the customers of Web Hosting service to run the software on their Website locally. Also, the Website applications which are very common like the Drupal, Word Press, or the Joomla, etc are the cross-platform type. The interaction with which is made with the account of the windows web hosting company in Kolkata will be mainly through the browser of the control panel. Any such interaction which is not based on a browser will be done through the platform agnostic tool like the SSH and the FTP.
There are of course certain exceptions to this rule. But these rules normally do not involve the majority of the hosting companies in Kolkata. When a Web Hosting server is needed to run on Windows OS, it is generally because of the reason that certain advantage can be gained for a particular enterprise application or for a particular Business. This will need additional Window-specific software on a local computer. When you want to make some development for a new application, you may like to use that operating system
If you need to run Windows Server, it is probably because you are running it to take advantage of some specific business or enterprise application. This may involve additional software which is Windows-specific to run on your local computer. If you are trying to develop a new application, you may like to use the same OS on your local machine for development. This is the test and the production servers. When you use certain application in Linux web hosting company in Kolkata like the Drupal or the WordPress, etc, you do not need to do this. These applications are independent of platform and even when you are developing new plugins and new themes, these applications may run on a local machine.
The Operating Systems for Web Hosting:
The Web Hosting services can use a large number of operating systems. Various operating systems are available in the market, however many of these systems may not be found commonly for the web hosting services in Kolkata. When you choose a Shred Web Hosting service, you may be limited with your choice of the operating system; however, in case of Dedicated Web Hosting service you are at liberty to choose any operating system that you like.
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Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini or Hussein? Those are the options in a rather hilarious poll at the Melbourne Victory Forum at the moment. From the comments:
Hitler would organise an invasion of the neighbours and have them exterminated or incarcerated in labour camps. Taking over the nighbours place would result in more “lebensraum” for Adolf and his roomies.
Stalin would liquidate anyone arriving at the house who had previously been at the neighbour’s on suspicion of spying, sending them to the gulag.
Mussolini would send his cronies to the neightbour’s house to invade it, only to see them humiliate him by surrendering after 5 minutes.
Hussein would, upon invasion, declare that the enemy was killing themselves at the front gate, when in fact they were making themselves at home in the lounge.
While we’re on the subject, those of you who are Stalin experts can shed some light on the following question: did Stalin create a personality cult surrounding himself, or was he modest and self-effacing, as claimed by soilride in a recent comment on this blog?
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One perplexing problem people often have when designing their log home plan is determining square footage. It’s more than simple math of multiplying length and width of all the rooms in your dream home, however.
In fact, experts in the log home design business say that the ultimate size of the home should start with a realistic and honest inventory of their lifestyle needs and habits:
- How will you use the house?
- Will it be a full-time residence or a retreat?
- How many people will be living there?
- How often do you entertain?
- How often and how extensively will you use the kitchen?
- Do you spend half of your time in the bedroom or most of your time watching football?
- Do you spend a lot of time outdoors?
- How much do you want to spend on maintenance and taxes?
- How much stuff do you have?
“People often start out by talking in terms of square footage, but that’s usually because they don’t know what else to talk about,” states Stephen Biggs, president of Town & Country Cedar Homes. “It’s kind of a lingo that’s very simplified, that’s easy to open a conversation. However, it is not a comprehensive piece of any of the architectural planning of the house.”
One of the most important issues, not surprisingly, is budget. Traditionally, the final cost of the home is calculated as a factor of square footage. A nice but not overly ostentatious log home can be built today for anywhere between $100 and $150 per square foot. Biggs notes that the calculation is useful for quick estimates, but is not a true indicator of price because it doesn’t consider two other critical size considerations that come into play in a log home: lineal footage and cubic footage.
For log home buyers, lineal footage is a critical measurement because it reveals the length of the exterior walls, the most expensive component in a log dwelling. As an example, two homes that boast the same square footage can have very different lineal footage dimensions. A 900-square-foot home that measures 30 by 30 feet will have 120 feet of exterior wall length, while a 900-square-foot home measuring 90 by 10 feet will have 200 feet of exterior wall length. The second example will require that a bigger portion of the budget be utilized to pay for exterior log walls.
Cubic footage, meanwhile, measures the volume of a home. As an example, two bedrooms with the exact same square footage can differ greatly in their cubic footage if one has a 9-foot flat ceiling and the other has a 25-foot cathedral ceiling. The price on the second bedroom could be as much as three times the price of the first. And Biggs says, since most home buyers are choosing a log home because they like the open, airy, natural feel it conveys, most log homes will boast high cubic footage dimensions.
Design plays an essential part in determining the final square footage. A designer can do wonders by reining in the home buyers who insist that they need a log home boasting 5,000 square feet because their last home was 4,500 square feet and not quite big enough. The first home might have had 500 square feet of hallway space which can be removed from the design — and the result is the same square footage, but more living space. Likewise, 4,500 square feet in a two-story house with a stairwell and extra hallway provides a huge amount of added space when laid out over a one-story plan.
And log home buyers, especially, need to consider window placement and cubic footage when calculating actual room sizes. Large banks of windows bring the outdoors in and immediately create the illusion of bigness, while tall ceilings eliminate the closed-in feeling that a similarly sized flat-ceiling room might construe.
Of course, the lifestyle needs of some people might call for a larger home, but what if their top-line budget is a definite constraint? Size can still be acquired if homeowners are strategic about where they gain their added space, says Ron Charon, a senior sales executive at Wisconsin Log Homes. A walk-out basement without plumbing, for example, makes for cheaper square footage than main floor living space, as does an extra room over a garage.
When budget precipitates adding any auxiliary space, buyers can look at how their square footage is being partitioned, says Drew Ridder, vice president of sales and custom design for Dogwood Mountain Log Homes. If your living room is the center of family activity, you might consider gaining more floor space in the great room by cutting down the size of the bedrooms. Or if you love the idea of having a sitting room in your master bedroom, you might be able to add the area by putting a first-floor laundry room in the basement.
“Home size is a culmination of so many different variables,” Charon states. “And it’s our job as professionals to guide people through the whole process of understanding what the mass of this home is really going to mean.”
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Best tennis racquet for beginners in India
What are tennis racquets and what are they made up of?
A racket or racquet is a games execute comprising of a took care of edge with an open loop crosswise over which a system of strings or catgut is extended firmly. It is utilized for striking a ball as a part of recreations, for example, squash, tennis, racquetball, and badminton. best tennis racquets for beginners in India are required as per demand.
Advanced tennis rackets are produced using a high modulus graphite and/or carbon fiber, which is utilized to keep the edge lightweight and hardened for expanded racket head soundness and execution. These graphites and carbon filaments take into account more streamlined shapes to be made which builds the velocity in which the racquet can go through the air.
The utilization of these materials in racket assembling, permit the tennis rackets to be hung at higher hanging pressures without debilitating the casing. High string pressures are utilized by tennis players to acquire control and feel from their tennis rackets.
Different materials known not utilized as a part of the maker of tennis rackets are titanium and tungsten. Both of these materials are utilized with graphite and carbon fiber to give the casing more firmness where fundamental.
Tennis rackets are mass delivered in production lines everywhere throughout the world, however, all the more as of late they are being made in China and Taiwan. Yonex still make some of their tennis rackets in processing plants in Japan utilizing a higher quality graphite to their tennis rackets being made in China.
Some less expensive tennis rackets are produced using aluminum, these are section level tennis rackets, generally much heavier than graphite casings, are more solid (they twist not snap), so useful for recreational utilization or back patio nursery play.
Wilson US open racquet:
Circular segment 2 Technology, Intertwined Graphite Construction, Twofold Hole Technology makes more power and hung in a way to make it closed.
Some of the features are:
Twofold Holes Technology adds more energy to every shot, Curve 2 Technology enhances control by adding additional solidness to the casing, AirLite Alloy development,Punctured grasp,Air Lite guard adds strength to develop the racquet’s life with the Head Size is 103 square inches, Hung Weight is 10.2 Oz, Length is 27″, Hung Balance is 1 point HL, String Pattern is 16×19.
One of the review is:
Soon after a few plays, handle extricate from the head. You can twist it and tell with your bare eye, or each time you strike. Officially supplanted one, yet the second one has the same issue. Wilson administration is extremely decent, yet this item is a long way from the nature of my past Wilson weapon ProStaff 5.0. I would rather not be troublesome, so I will supplant with another model. Trust this can be the last supplant.
One other review was:
I feel comfortable that I am by all account not the only one who had a break on the edge. I purchased 2 of these rackets (not in the meantime) , one for me and one for my wife. We are no expert’s however, we play at least a 3 setter 5 days a week. Inside of a month a break showed up on the edge of my racquet and we were intuition may be I dropped the racket or hit the ground while hitting low shots. Luckily we went to the store quickly and got it traded. At that point following 2 weeks my wife’s racket gave in. Same thing a break began showing up over the racquet outline. We then acknowledged there is most likely a deformity in this item. Lamentably she lost her receipt and we couldn’t get it supplanted. I said have perused this survey before buying. I trust Wilson takes this item off.
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When it pertains to soundproofing doors, most suggestions assume that the doors will certainly be maintained closed. But some doors might need soundproofing also once they’re open; particularly those that have actually a tendency to unexpectedly slam shut.
For instance, a door that’s left open up catches a breeze – probably from an open window, an HVAC vent, a draft that comes in from underneath another door, or also just the faint amount of wind that occurs as soon as someone walks past it – and also suddenly slams closed.
When doors unpurposely slam closed, it can be a very jarring experience. The unsupposed slamming sound have the right to be quit startling. If it keeps happening, you may have actually come to be desensitized to surpclimb, and also instead, find that slamming sound rather irritating.
Acomponent from rerelocating the door from its hinges, lets take a look at methods to proccasion a door from slamming shut.
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Why execute Doors Slam Shut?
Most world associate a slamming door through someone applying also much force once closing a door. While heavy-handedness deserve to absolutely reason slamming, what if the door is gently closed and also it still slams, or what if it simply slams shut as soon as nobody is there?
There are a couple of reasons why a door may be inadvertentlyslamming closed:The door is out of plumb; that is, it isn’t perfectly vertical. Therefore, the unevenness can lead to a swing as an outcome of the weight of the door or a current on air, which have the right to cause the door to slam shut. Changes in push can likewise cause a door to slam closed. If an additional door or a window is open, air relocating from a space of high push can pass to a room of low pressure, creating movement in the air. While the movement may not be solid sufficient for you to feel, it could be effective enough to slam a door closed.Tbelow can be a problem with the hinges. They might be installed wrongly or they may be warped, which could reason an imbalance and also reason it to slam shut.
How to Soptimal a Door from Slamming
So, how do you soptimal a door from unexpectedly slammingclosed? Tbelow are a variety of straightforward methods that you have the right to attempt.
Inspect the Hinges
First, examine the hinges. As stated, if the hinges aren’tappropriately set up or if they’re worn, the door might be imwell balanced, and also thatimbalance could lead to slamming.
To check the hinges, open up the door to a 90-degree angle and also location a level on the peak of the door. If the door isn’t level, attempt tightening up the hinges.
If that doesn’t job-related, the hinges can be worn and also replacing them might solve the problem. You don’t need to entirely remove the door to change the hinges. Replace the top hinge initially. Using a level, tighten the screws in the hinge till the door is entirely vertical. Once the new top hinge is mounted, replace the bottom one, aacquire, utilizing a level and tightening the screws until the door is entirely level.
Install an Automatic Door Closer
Anvarious other choice is to install an automatic door closer. Thesetools are designed to cshed a door instantly after it has been opened.Tbelow are several different kinds obtainable, however we recommend surface-mounted,as they tfinish to be the most basic to install. We likewise imply using one that’screated of steel or aluminum rather of plastic for magnified durability andreliability.
The speed and push of an automatic door closer can be adjusted, which indicates that you have the right to manage the rate at which the door will close, thus avoiding it from slamming shut.
To counteract the slamming problem, change the device to a rate and push setting that’s correct for your particular needs.
This approach is really simple and affordable, and it’s likewise rather efficient. Place self-adhesive felt pads along the edges of the door structure. We likewise suggest placing a couple of smaller sized pads on the door’s strike plates.
The felt pads act as cushions. They slow down the rate of rate at which the door closes, thereby avoiding it from slamming. They also absorb the sound that the door provides once it slams shut.
Apply Weather Stripping
While traditionally provided to seal up gaps roughly doors and home windows to proccasion air from blowing with, weather stripping have the right to also be provided to speak a door from slamming shut.
Like the felt pads discussed over, weather stripping gives cushioning, which helps to slow-moving the speed at which the door results with the structure, hence minimizing slamming. It additionally helps to absorb sound once the door comes in call with the structure.
To use this method, use weather stripping along the interior of the door structure. Make certain to wipe dvery own the door structure initially to encertain that you have actually a clean surconfront to use the product to.
Remove the backing from the adhesive and also use the weather stripping alengthy the inside of the door’s structure.
Try a Pinch Guard
A pinch guard have the right to additionally aid to prevent a door from slamming.This device is designed to be positioned over the door hinges, staying clear of thedoor from cshedding. While it’s intfinished to safeguard fingers from obtaining pinchedif they’re in the way of the framework as soon as the door closes, it have the right to aid through aslamming problem, also.
Place the pinch guard on the optimal of the door so that it’s a minimum of 6 inches from the exterior edge. The nice point around this choice is that it have the right to be easily removed once you don’t desire to use it.
Doors that unexpectedly slam shut are even more than just a nuisance; they have the potential to be dangerous. By using one of the tactics listed over, you deserve to put a halt to your door slamming problems.
James is a self-employed writer and also editor and has the privilege of functioning from residence. However before, he quickly discovered exactly how undesirable noise can disturb both work and sleep. Over the years he"s efficiently soundproofed his entire occupational room and a variety of rooms in his home. Needless to say he have the right to job-related and also sleep a lot even more peacecompletely.
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FRANCESCO de Ferrari, head of Asia-Pacific private banking at Swiss bank Credit Suisse, isn't the archetypal private banker. For a start, unlike many of his colleagues at Credit Suisse, he didn't begin his career in the banking or wealth management sectors. The former businessman, consultant, auditor and part-time social worker, who once worked for Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, often jests that he ended up in private banking "by mistake". After graduating from New York University's Stern School of Business with a degree in economics and international business in 1989, de Ferrari — like most of his cohort — wanted to work on Wall Street. Having secured an investment banking job in New York, de Ferrari, who was 20 years old then, didn't turn up for the job. Instead, prompted by a calling of a sort, he went off with a priest to visit leper homes in India. "My parents were contributing to fund some hospitals in the Missionaries of Charity's communities and I toured some of the leper homes in India with a priest," recalls de Ferrari in a recent interview with Personal Wealth. "I ended up meeting Mother Teresa. I was so struck by her that I had to stay to help." The devout Catholic attends the Church of St Ignatius in Singapore. After the encounter with Mother Teresa, de Ferrari ended up spending six months in Calcutta, picking up dying people and abandoned children on the streets and bringing them to the various shelters run by the Missionaries of Charity, the organisation founded by the Albanian-born nun in 1950. Mother Teresa, who died in 1997, was renowned for her unconditional caring of the destitute in India "That six-month experience changed my life completely because I didn't want to become an investment banker after that," says de Ferrari, who is an Italian. "I discovered that my passion was helping people and building businesses." Ferrari went on to work at Deloitte & Touche, Nestlé and McKinsey before becoming an entrepreneur in the retail distribution and technology businesses before the age of 30. "I ran three businesses of my own for four years and then Credit Suisse called me," he recalls. When he was a consultant at McKinsey, de Ferrari had advised the Swiss bank on a business project. "They said [the project] looked very good on paper, but the execution didn't turn out as expected and asked if I was willing to go back and fix it. I love challenges, especially impossible tasks. That was when I joined Credit Suisse [in 2002]," says the 43-year-old banker. "[The project] actually turned out okay." His private-banking career at the Swiss bank took off rapidly and he was chief operating officer for private banking in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region and CEO of Credit Suisse Private Banking in Italy before relocating to Asia last August. Based in Singapore, de Ferrari officially became Credit Suisse's head of private banking Asia-Pacific on Jan 1, succeeding Marcel Kreis, who took the role of chairman of private banking Asia-Pacific at the Swiss bank. Coming to Asia to drive private-banking growth for Credit Suisse was an easy decision for the ambitious de Ferrari. "I believe that if you want to work for a company, you should try to work in the most important region, where the business needs to grow. This is how you learn the most. So, coming to Asia was a pretty easy choice," he says. The Credit Suisse managing director also loves the warm weather in the region. "My wife is half-Argentine and half-Swiss and we love the weather. Otherwise, we won't survive in Singapore." De Ferrari and his wife have five children. "I take human capital very seriously," he jokes. Private banking contributes nearly 50% of Credit Suisse's revenues. The 156-year-old Swiss bank currently manages more than CHF800 billion (RM3.16 trillion) worth of private-banking assets, of which nearly CHF90 billion comes from clients in fast-growing Asia-Pacific. The region has generated double-digit growth in terms of net new assets for Credit Suisse's private-banking unit over the past few years. Balancing costs and growth To be sure, Asia's lucrative but increasingly crowded private-banking industry, which was once the playground of a handful of Swiss and US banking giants, is now a key area of growth for many wealth management firms around the world. Both big and small private-banking players, all vying to manage the burgeoning wealth of the region's millionaires, have aggressively ramped up their Asian operations in recent years with large-scale hiring in Singapore and Hong Kong, which are key booking centres for Asia's high-net-worth individuals. Many private banks have even resorted to a "hire for growth" policy to enable a wealth management newcomer in the region to capture market share quickly. But there is a high price to pay for such a strategy. The shallow pool of private bankers in the region means that wealth management companies will have to pay through their nose to attract talents from their rivals to their organisations in the hope that the assets of wealthy clients will follow the bankers wherever they go. "What surprised me when I moved to Asia were the high cost-to-income ratios of private banks operating in the region," says de Ferrari. Indeed, cost-to-income ratios of private banks in Asia have surged to lofty levels in recent years, according to a 2011 Asia Pacific Private Banking Survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). The accountancy firm estimated that the average ratio in 2011 of private-banking operations in Singapore and Hong Kong could be 88% to 90%. Looking at the average cost-to-income ratio of private banks in Asia, including big banks with shared networks and platforms for both their retail and private-banking operations that are able to "structurally run at a much lower cost basis", de Ferrari concludes that most of the other players are losing money from their Asian operations. He declines to reveal the cost-to-income ratio of his bank's regional operations, but insists that its ratio isn't as lofty as that of many of his smaller competitors. "Our size allows us to be well placed," says de Ferrari. He adds that his Asia-Pacific private-banking operation is a profitable one. With the high operation costs and a decreasing revenue stream due to clients' inactivity in investments on the back of risk aversion, de Ferrari warns of an impending consolidation in Asia's private-banking industry. "Asia has been a very nice growth story, but at some point, shareholders and investors will start to ask for bottom-line returns. Some competitors are paying huge amounts of money for people, and it just doesn't make any sense. Things will turn pretty ugly [later]," he says. "Our industry is going through pretty troubled times globally," adds de Ferrari. He has implemented various changes at Credit Suisse's Asia private-banking operations to ensure that the bank has a "scalable, efficient and sustainable" business model in the region. Improving efficiency Among the changes are the consolidation of Credit Suisse's private-banking operations in Hong Kong, China and Taiwan into one integrated Greater China business based in Hong Kong; the integration of subsidiary Clariden Leu's private-banking franchise and operations across Asia into Credit Suisse (as part of its global integration strategy announced in November 2011); and the launch of the "Grow our own" programme in Asia to develop a pipeline of relationship managers (RMs) by recruiting MBA graduates and undergraduates. The creation of one integrated Greater China private-banking unit within Credit Suisse since March isn't all about cost savings, according to de Ferrari. He points out that the new structure also helps to align the needs and interests of clients with those of advisers in the three markets. "We used to run teams in Hong Kong, Taiwan and China. We now open the [Greater China] region up to all the teams." He explains that Credit Suisse private bankers from the Taiwan team, who used to service only Taiwanese clients, can now take on other clients such as those from China or Hong Kong. "Given that private banking is a business of trust and many new clients are referred by happy clients, we felt this change made a lot of sense." Credit Suisse currently has four main private-banking regions in Asia: Southeast Asia (comprising Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia); Greater China; emerging Asia (which includes markets such as the Philippines, Thailand, non-resident India and other Asia markets); and developed Asia, which covers the domestic markets of Australia and Japan. "We run Southeast Asia from Singapore, which is our booking centre, and Greater China from Hong Kong. We are also present in Japan and Australia — our two domestic franchises — and we use Switzerland as a booking centre as well for our Asian clients. That is our footprint," says de Ferrari. Although the legal merger of boutique private bank Clariden Leu with Credit Suisse was completed in April, with the latter acquiring all of the former's assets and liabilities, the technical process of integrating all Clariden Leu's private-banking activities is still ongoing and should be completed by year-end. In Asia-Pacific, de Ferrari is still overseeing the amalgamation of Clariden Leu's assets, clients and RMs. "The Clariden Leu clients, at least the ones that I met, are happy to be part of a bigger platform. But there are a few RMs who decided not to join Credit Suisse. Our business model only fits certain types of RMs," he says. Credit Suisse expects to achieve annual cost savings of around CHF200 million as a result of the consolidation. "For clients, the selling point of Clariden Leu was about being a boutique bank. Credit Suisse is a much larger bank, with a bigger platform in terms of investment solutions, products and capability. We will continue to explain to our Clariden Leu colleagues how they can serve their clients better at Credit Suisse," says de Ferrari. Since April, more than 70 Clariden Leu members of staff, including RMs, investment consultants and product specialists, have joined Credit Suisse Private Banking in Asia-Pacific. Credit Suisse's recent absorption of Clariden Leu, a smaller private-banking player, is a reminder that size still matters in the cut-throat world of wealth management, according to de Ferrari. Clariden Leu, which managed around CHF90 billion in assets, isn't big enough to sustain a private-banking business with acceptable returns, he says. "It sent a message to the industry on how big you need to be if you want to be a standalone player. We think that there will continue to be an increase in regulations and cost of doing business in the private-banking industry. Therefore, it is a natural consequence for us to integrate this bank into our standard business." Managing talents Despite the "Grow our own" initiative to groom private-banking talent within Credit Suisse so as not to rely too heavily on external hiring for growth, which can be expensive, de Ferrari says his bank will continue to hire talented private bankers if they fit its criteria. "But hiring has to make sense for the bank, the employee and shareholders. You can't have people commanding very high salaries when you know from the beginning that they won't be able to generate the expected returns." To groom future RMs, Credit Suisse currently has a three-year associate programme that takes in talented graduates as well as MBA holders. "The grooming of talent within the organisation is going to be more and more important going forward," says de Ferrari. To boost its talent pool further, investment bankers from Credit Suisse's investment banking division are also welcome to join its private-banking division, which is in need of experienced bankers with in-depth capital-market expertise to serve its ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) clients. These sophisticated UHNW clients, defined as those with wealth of more than CHF250 million or those with more than CHF50 million of investible assets with Credit Suisse, often require intricate advice from the bank on capital-market fund-raising activities for their companies as well as complex investment solutions for their family offices, observes de Ferrari. "For this segment, we need a different type of RM with different skill sets. The UHNW business is like a private-investment-banking business. This is where we start to take on lateral hiring from our investment bank. The investment bankers would have the necessary product and market experience to be able to advise UHNW clients not only on their wealth but also on their corporate affairs," he says. To make Credit Suisse an attractive workplace for private bankers, de Ferrari has also established "separate management and client career tracks" for its 360 RMs in Asia-Pacific. RMs who enjoy servicing clients and have no intention of taking on a management role within Credit Suisse could take the "client career track", which will reward and promote them according to their client-servicing performance. Those who desire a role in management going forward could take the "management career track". "People can actually choose what they like to do best, with very clear promotion and performance criteria for each track. With the establishment of the client career track, we can go out and hire the top producers, who are only interested in servicing clients, and promote them without asking them to be managers," explains de Ferrari. Maintaining profitability High labour cost aside, private banks operating in Asia are also facing a "margin squeeze" on the range of investment products that are distributed, owing to intense competition in the industry. In recent years, the margins have been further eroded as risk-averse clients — spooked by the extreme volatility in global financial markets — are now flocking to safe-haven investments that generate near-zero fees for private banks. But de Ferrari doesn't seem too worried about the recent low level of clients' investment activity. To be sure, smaller private banks, which operate on a "brokerage system" by attracting clients with the best transactional pricing on investment products, have been hit hard by the low level of investment activity by clients. He points out that private banking at Credit Suisse isn't about selling products. "We are not a brokerage firm. Our real business is giving advice and we think we can provide more holistic wealth management services. If you really understand your clients' needs and get into the role of a trusted adviser, then the question of getting the best pricing on a single transaction becomes less important." De Ferrari insists that his private-banking business has multiple revenue streams that are not correlated with the markets. "Today, there are a lot of investment instruments that allow you to make money even in a down market. Furthermore, we actually make a lot of money by lending to our customers, who are mainly first-generation entrepreneurs. In times like these, we would partner them to help them grow their business. That is a revenue stream that is not correlated to [the ups and downs of the market]. I think over time, as the industry matures, private banks will be able to explain the value of their services." At the same time, the growing Asia-Pacific UHNW private-banking business, which continues to gain momentum at Credit Suisse, helps to maintain profitability at the Swiss bank, he points out. "Our UHNW business has been growing very quickly over the past few years and it is now more than 50% of our total business in Asia. UHNW clients are generally more active in exploring investment opportunities, whether the markets are up or down," says de Ferrari, whose bank has been making money by helping Asian UHNW clients with their capital-raising activities, especially through the debt market. "We are the No 1 global player in high-yield debt financing and No 1 in emerging markets in terms of structured financing," he points out. "Currently, we have a team within the UHNW solutions team, made up of ex-investment bankers, who help us structure the deals. This is something that is hard for our competitors to replicate." To be able to truly tap the growth of Asia's burgeoning wealth, a private bank — given the increasingly sophisticated needs of Asian millionaires — would require support from an investment bank. Even integrated big banks such as Credit Suisse that have investment banking, asset management and private-banking businesses under one roof aren't finding it easy to make good money in the region, de Ferrari admits. "If you want to be a part of the Asia growth story, not having an investment bank will be a big problem. Not being a truly global player will also be a big problem. That will shape the industry dynamics. I don't think everybody realised that until today," he says, adding that going forward, the weakest private-banking players will be weeded out of the increasingly crowded wealth management industry in the region. "We are already seeing a consolidation today. Merrill Lynch and BSI are for sale. A lot of players will divest their private-banking business if it isn't their core business. There will always be space for niche players, but there are just too many in the market today. So, there will definitely be consolidation." De Ferrari says his non-banking background certainly helps him get the right perspective in terms of balancing growth and managing cost at Credit Suisse. "When I was an entrepreneur, I always managed the business as if I was investing my own money. What I am driving through the organisation is to be able to run a more scalable and sustainable business model and to be closer to our clients. My goal is to make sure that we execute our strategies well over the next three to five years." This story appeared in The Edge Singapore on July 30, 2012.
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The mark of a leader is how he or she
responds to tough rather than favourable circumstances. By this standard,
Mikheil Saakshvili has so far managed well his military defeat in South Ossetia
and the subsequent Russian onslaught. Even the continuing presence of Russian
troops on the soil of "Georgia proper" - that is, excluding the territories of
South Ossetia and Abkhazia, almost all of which were outside Georgian control
before the war of August 2008 - has not put into question his legitimacy as the
president of Georgia.
Vicken Cheterian is a journalist and political analyst who works for the non-profit governance organisation CIMERA, based in Geneva. He is the author of War and Peace in the Caucasus: Russia's Troubled Frontier (C Hurst, 2008)
Also by Vicken Cheterian in openDemocracy:
"The pigeon sacrificed: Hrant Dink, and a broken dialogue" (23 January 2007)
"Serbia after Kosovo" (18 April 2007)
"Georgia's arms race" (4 July 2007)
"Lebanon: short memory, system failure" (25 September 2007)
"Armenia's election: the waiting-game" (19 February 2008)True, there was widespread criticism of his leadership in Georgia before the war and there is more immediate discontent about his decision to engage in an armed confrontation with Russia over control of South Ossetia. The latest national crisis may inevitably have muted political opposition, though there are increasing signs that the post-war political arena will see fresh challenges to Saakashvili's almost five-year reign (see Robert Parsons, "Georgia after war: the political landscape", 26 August 2008).
In addition, Russia's rhetorical
barrage as well its military pressure has been constant - including Dmitry
Medvedev's description on 2 September of his counterpart in Tbilisi as a "political
corpse". Yet amid all this, Saakashvili has - again, so far - not wilted; he
even seems on occasion to thrive on the challenge (and is himself no mean
performer in the art of political abuse).
The response of the Georgian people has in the main been to rally to the flag, providing their president with further much-needed breathing-space. A massive demonstration in Tbilisi and other cities and towns across Georgia on 1 September, for example, brought up to one million people onto the roads and squares of the Georgian capital to express their "unity" and oppose "Russian aggression". Indeed, for any political force to articulate a pro-Russian position would be political suicide in Georgia today. Russia's actions in and after the war have if anything consolidated Mikheil Saakashvili's position, to the extent that - most unlike the period of protest before the election of January 2008 - there are at the moment no significant forces calling for the president's resignation.
After the impact of the Russian version of "shock and awe" fades away, however, a full political accounting of what happened in the war will follow. Mikheil Saakashvili is bound to face tough questions. As early as 18 August, the former speaker of the Georgian parliament, Nino Burdzhanadze, said that while unity was paramount in times of war there would need to be once Russia withdrew a thorough analysis "of what happened, and why it happened". These words are even more potent as they come from one of the three leaders of the "rose revolution" of November 2003-January 2004 which propelled Saakashvili to the presidency (the other is Zurab Zhvania, a confidante of Saakashvili who became Georgia's prime minister, and whose death in 2005 remains unexplained).
These comments of Nino Burdzhanadze, and the wider political repositioning that (as Robert Parsons suggests) they may be part of, augur the coming contest for Georgia's future. But the country needs more than another domestic crisis out of which another leader emerges: it needs needs a serious internal debate about "what happened" not just in August 2008 but over the whole period since the rose revolution. What is the legacy of this event for Georgia today, and does it offer resources for the betterment of Georgia - with or without Mikheil Saakashvili?
Among openDemocracy's recent articles on Georgian politics, including the war with Russia in August 2008:
Jonathan Wheatley, "Georgia's democratic stalemate" (14 April 2008)
Robert Parsons, "Georgia, Abkhazia, Russia: the war option" (13 May 2008)
Thomas de Waal, "The Russia-Georgia tinderbox" (16 May 2008)
Robert Parsons, "Georgia's dangerous gulf" (30 May 2008)
Alexander Rondeli, "Georgia's search for itself" (8 July 2008)
Thomas de Waal, "South Ossetia: the avoidable tragedy" (11 August 2008)
Ghia Nodia, The war for Georgia: Russia, the west, the future" (12 August 2008)
Donald Rayfield, "The Georgia-Russia conflict: lost territory, found nation" (13 August 2008)
Neal Ascherson, "After the war: recognising reality in Abkhazia and Georgia" (15 August 2008)
Evgeny Morozov, "Citizen war-reporter? The Caucasus test" (18 August 2008) The rose revolution that brought Saakashvili to power was a reaction to the failure of his predecessor Eduard Shevardnadze to modernise Georgia, which was understood by the Georgians effectively to meand bringing the country closer to the west and away from its Soviet past. The most obvious and visible part of this failure was corruption. It was this issue that dominated Georgian politics in the months before the great protest-wave of November 2003. By contrast, little attention at the time was given to the de facto independent entities of South Ossetia and Abkhazia that had since the wars of 1990-92 and 1992-93 been outside the Georgian political framework. The tension over Adzharia, a rich Black Sea province ruled in feudal style by Aslan Abashidze - who had much influence over internal Georgian politics - was far higher on Tbilisi's agenda; but this was as much to do with corruption as with "separatism".
This is an indirect but real signal of
the real priorities of the young revolutionaries who came to power via the rose
revolution. They looked at the problem of the three (at the time) ‘breakaway"
territories and saw the same colour as that of "Georgia proper" under Eduard
Shevardnadze displayed: the colour of corruption, resulting from rule by
remnants of the old Soviet nomenklatura.
The internal dynamic of the revolution thus led to less of a focus on "reclamation" of the three statelets and more on attending to Georgians' immediate material and social needs: raising living standards, fighting corruption, reforming the economy, beginning modernisation, orientating the country to the west. All this, a large and ambitious programme even for already semi-modern states, was an even bigger challenge for an impoverished and war-torn country like Georgia. But the strategy was clear, and it posed the question of territorial reunification in a singular way - as part of a political project, not a military one.
Mikheil Saakashvili at the time articulated this strategy by pledging that the new Georgia would make the country so attractive to the South Ossetians and the Abkhazians that there would be no need to force them to return to Georgian rule. This aspiration drew on the most important legacy of the rose revolution: its non-violence. Many feared that the political crisis of late 2003 which followed contested parliamentary elections would plunge the country again into civil war. Instead, the revolution took an honourable course as an inspiring example of peaceable protest, civic unity and self-discipline leading to non-violent regime-change.
Many articles in openDemocracy have tracked the course of Georgian politics since that tumultuous period (see, for example, Neal Ascherson, "Tbilisi, Georgia: the rose revolution's rocky road" [15 July 2005], and Alexander Rondeli, "Georgia's search for itself" [8 July 2008]). Yet it remains unclear when the internal dynamic of the political strategy underpinning the rose revolution changed. Perhaps, again, Adzharia offers a clue. This was Saakashvili's first stage for territorial reunification, where - in May 2004, before the substantive effects of his reforms had been widely felt - his supporters organised a mini-revolution which ousted Abashidze (who fled to Moscow). The president's good news continued when the Russian leadership agreed to disband its old Soviet military bases at Batumi (on the Black Sea, in Adzharia) and Akhalkalaki (in the southern region of Javakheti).
These successes encouraged Saakashvili
to a repeat performance. He prepared a second mini-revolution in South Ossetia
in summer 2004, this time supported by interior-ministry troops. This time, it
was a disaster: around twenty-four Georgian fighters (and even more Ossetian
militamen and civilians of various ethnic origins) were killed, and the
fighting brought Russian tanks through the Caucasus mountains. Saakashvili
wisely declared a ceasefire before the fighting spread.
This was a moment when the Georgian leader could in principle have turned back, and reclaimed the non-violent and progressive legacy of the rose revolution. Instead, he reinforced the new military approach in a striking way (see "Georgia's arms race", 4 July 2007). The Georgian defence budget rose from the equivalent of $50 million under Shevardnadze to $567m in 2007, and almost $1 billion for 2008. This huge increase in expenditure has been an integral part of Georgia's strengthened military (and political) alliance with the United States, reflected in the deployment by Tbilisi of up to 2,000 soldiers to Iraq.
Saakashvili was emboldened by his alliance with the "last remaining superpower", a bond symbolised by the frenzied welcome of George W Bush to Tbilisi in May 2005. The extent of Saakashvili's departure from the rose revolution's best promise showed too in his readiness to challenge Russia. Again, the president was drawing the wrong strategic conclusions, and seemed unaware that in the international arena Washington's power and reach was diminishing not growing.
The accumulation of shiny hardware, training programmes and grandiose titles that accompanied Tbilisi's military drive proved to be no substitute for noticing which way the wind was blowing. Nato's summit in Bucharest on 2-4 April 2008 - when, over Washington's insistence, Nato member-states denied Tbilisi (and Kyiv) entry into the roadmap to membership - was a turning-point. Georgia might have learned from the experience and advice of its Israeli allies too. The Israeli army had been unable to crush Hizbollah in the war of July-August 2006, and Hizbollah confirmed its domestic power by crushing the United States's Lebanese allies in Beirut in May 2008. More broadly, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had stretched US capacities to their limits. What advice was Georgia receiving, or not receiving; who was it listening to, or ignoring; and where were its internal, independent sources of strategic thinking?
Gérard Chaliand, the French expert on military history, once told me that there is big difference between the military and warriors. The military are people who have jobs in armies, wear uniforms, classify documents, and follow orders. Warriors love making war. After spending $3 billion, Georgia had a modern military, but no warriors. In response to Mikheil Saakashvili's misjudgment of ordering an attack on Tskhinvali, Russia unleashed on the Georgian army its war-hardened kontraktniki from the Chechnya war-zone, as well as former Chechen resistance fighters (the special-purpose battalion Vostok) who have of late joined the Kremlin's cause in Chechnya. It was no contest.
The result of the war is a catastrophe for Georgia. Its young military is shattered, with over 200 soldiers dead from an army of 25,000 (even though Givi Targamadze of Georgia's ruling party reported a lower figure to parliament on 3 September) ; the two newly built, Nato-standard bases in Senaki and Gori have been occupied by Russian troops, then looted and burned; the army has been practically incapacitated. Moreover, the war has led to ethnic cleansing of villages in South Ossetia inhabited by Georgians, and the flight of thousands of Georgians to Tbilisi and other cities. For the foreseeable future, Tbilisi will have even less to say about or offer South Ossetia or Abkhazia than before the events of August 2008; the war has brought them closer to Russian control (notwithstanding the formal recognition by Moscow of their independence) than ever.
The war was also a huge blow to efforts to modernise Georgia's infrastructure and economy. In the month of the conflict, Georgia's central bank sold almost 13% of its foreign-currency reserves to preserve the value of the lari, the national currency. The aspiration of the rose revolution, Georgia's bid for modernisation, is at risk here too.
What comes next for Georgia? The autopilot-path is to continue to challenge Moscow, an approach symbolised by Saakashvili's promise to "bury Russian imperialism". A number of American politicians are lobbying to rebuild the Georgian armed forces; two senators, Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman, write that "the Georgian military should be given the antiaircraft and antiarmor systems necessary to deter any renewed Russian aggression" (see "Russian Aggression is a Challenge to World Order", Wall Street Journal, 26 August 2008) The logic here - to push Georgia into a conflict it cannot win (against Russia, or indeed against the Caucasian mountaineers) - is easy to follow and hard to fathom. It promises a repeat of the 1990-93 and 2008 experiences - only much worse.
Today, Georgia cannot afford both to follow the path of modernisation and democratisation and pursue a military build-up designed to allow the forced reintegration of the "lost" territories What it can do is to decide to embrace a strategy of non-violence towards South Ossetia and Abkhazia by accepting the current status quo; it could even go further, by recognising their independence in exchange for the return of ethnic Georgians to their homes (see Neal Ascherson, "After the war: recognising reality in Abkhazia and South Ossetia", 15 August 2008).
An approach of this kind - and as important, the evidence of creative and imaginative thinking that discussing it in today's Georgia would represent - could open a new page of relations with the Abkhazians and the South Ossetians. It would also enable Georgia to retrieve the legacy of the rose revolution, and once again offer the world an example of inspiration rather than militarism, rancour and enmity. Whether Mikheil Saakashvili or indeed his possible next rivals for the country's leadership are able to accomplish this task, at some point Georgia will be faced with the choice of following such a path.
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McCloud's Visual Styles and Transitions in a Title Sequence
We will discuss two of McCloud's primary ideas from Chapters 2 and 3:
I will ask you to work in pairs to analyze of 3 to 4 screen shots from one of the title sequences you provided via the forum "McCloud Transitions in a Title Sequence."
See my sample entry using four shots from the Mad Men Title Sequence at the at of the forum.
1. Take 3-4 screen shots from a title sequence, selected as examples of the sequence's visual style and of a variety of transitions, and insert the screen shots as visible images in a reply to the original message
To do this, you'll need to
A. save the screen shots as .jpg of .gif images on your USB in a folder "www/4260/exercises/mccloud3". Try using Photoshop's Help > Resize Image command. Make the screen shots 400 pixels wide.
B. upload the "mccloud3" folder to the web via the "My Web" icon (save it inside of "exercises")
C. visit the images with your browser
D. copy the first URL from your browser's location bar
E. paste the first URL via the Insert Image icon at the top of the Moodle message window.
F. space down in the message and then repeat for the next image.
2. With your partner, discuss how these screen shots use (or maybe fail to use) McCloud's principles/techniques of
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Be specific about what kinds of transitions your selections are demonstrating: that is, Moment-to-Moment, Action-to-Action. etc. How do theses transitions produce meaningful effects in the "story" of the sequence, in the "narrative" experienced of the viewer?
3. Be prepared to talk the class through your analysis of both visual style and transitions/montage, pointing to examples from McCloud with page numbers.
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About Dublin Roasters
Roasting Coffee Beans
Combining the science of coffee with our expert culinary palates, we choose to roast-to-order in small batches. All the flavor we seek in a coffee bean is locked in the green (raw) bean. The roasting process releases the oils and acids that give each variety of bean its unique flavor. Then, once these oils and acids are released from inside of the raw bean, they become vulnerable to flavor loss. So, in order to get the richest flavor in your coffee cup, it’s important to start with the freshest beans possible. And, we’re betting you won’t find a better bean anywhere else. The type and amount of acidity in a coffee bean can vary depending on the variety and the way it was roasted. Acidity in coffee provides a sparkle and complexity that are caused by the chemistry of bean varieties. This is what makes the coffee taste so interesting and lively! The darker the roast, the more body the coffee has. However, this is gained at the expense of losing the subtler acid overtones. Roasting is an art – it takes precise roasting techniques to bring out the best in every coffee bean. A good roaster varies the darkness of a roast according to the coffee bean variety – aiming at a precise balance between acid and body.
The flavor of our coffee can be described as earthy, grassy, winey, spicy, and fruity – just to name a few! Flavor is the main attribute that separates bean varieties. We encourage our customers to try different varieties to expose your palate to the fine differences, and help you decide which flavors you like best. And, it’s important not to give up on just one try! Occasionally, a different roaster may bring out the beans’ flavor in a way that tastes more appealing to you. So, much like the activity in our shop, no two days are exactly the same!
Darker roasts such as French, Italian, and Espresso are different because the oil of the bean comes straight to the surface. The body and flavor of these beans will come through if you prefer to add a lot of cream to your coffee. The darker the beans, the more caramelized they become. The darkest, Espresso roast, is very low in acid and has lost the subtle flavor that distinguishes one bean from the next. However, it is very heavily bodied. This is a necessity when brewing with the highest concentration of an espresso machine.
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Are you noticing lately how some black drops of oil coming out of exhaust? If this is the case, it should be alarming for you and you should immediately check the level of oil in your car. Because oil coming out of exhaust is not normal and this problem should be addressed as soon as possible. Now, we are going to tell you everything about this problem.
- What Is Engine Oil?
- Why Is Oil Coming Out?
- Probable Causes
- How To Diagnose?
- Cost To Repair
The engine oil is one of the core fluids that are in your engine and makes it work. Without oil, the engine can’t run. The components would simply melt because the oil is not there to dissipate the heat and lubricate the components. That’s why observing your oil level is essential in your internal combustion vehicle if you don’t want permanent damage to be done to it.
But even though the oil is securely stored in your engine. It could still find its way out of it. Yes, that’s true. The oil can escape and results in numerous problems that can cause a lot of headaches for car owners. For example, this problem of oil coming out of exhaust. This problem is really serious and needs proper diagnosing and solving. And we are going to explain how you can do this diagnosing.
In this article, we are going to learn everything you need to know when it comes to oil coming out of the exhaust. We will start from the basics and learn more about engines and oil. Then we will cover the probable causes for this problem and then we will tell you how to solve the problem. So, let’s discuss.
What Is Engine Oil And How Does The Engine Work?
The engine oil is the fluid that makes your engine work properly. If there was no engine oil, then the engine will simply be exposed to extreme amounts of friction. This friction will cause the engine to warm up to melting temperatures. Then many of the internal components will end up damaged beyond repair.
The engine oils were usually made out of crude oil. But modern oils are made out of synthetic materials that have that much better lubricating ability as well a lot more durability. Mineral oils in the past weren’t as long-lasting compared to modern fully synthetic oils. If the average life for mineral oil is between 5 to 7 thousand miles, for fully synthetic oils, this usable lifespan is beyond that.
Some of these oils are claimed to last more than 15 thousand miles. But to be on the safe side, it is best to replace your engine oil every 5,000 to 7,500 miles. Doing regular oil changes will guarantee the longevity of your engine and as well keeping your budget low. Because if you have engine damage, you are going to pay a lot of money to get it fixed.
How the oil works is pretty simple. The oil in most internal combustion engines is at the bottom of the engine, in the oil pan. And as the engine cranks, the oil pump starts to spin and this oil pump disperses the oil around the engine. That’s how the lubrication system works inside of the engine.
But what about my problem with oil coming out of exhaust? Well, we are going to cover that problem in the next chapter along with the probable causes that make this problem appear in the first place.
Why There Is Oil Coming Out Of Exhaust?
Oil coming out of exhaust is not a normal occurrence and this should alert you to take any action to solve this problem.
But you should also know how to be sure that this is oil and not water. When there is oil or water spilled on the tarmac, there are the same dark spots.
A small amount of water is also pushed from the exhaust when the car runs. This water is caused by condensation. And this water can be mixed with the carbon deposits inside of your exhaust system and confuse you with oil.
That’s why when you are in this situation, the best thing you can do is to check the leaks carefully. Inspect them with your hand and if the substance is greasy then your car is spilling oil from the rear and this has to be checked. Or, if you inspect the fluid and the fluid is not greasy, then this is most likely condensation water. It’s a completely normal issue, especially when you run your car in the winter.
In the winter, the level of condensation is much higher than in the summer. So, you can expect some white smoke when you start your car and as well some water to be pushed out of the exhaust.
And if you notice oil coming out of exhaust, this should alert you for sure. The first thing you need to check is the oil level in your vehicle. The oil level is an indication that there is an oil-burning issue.
Remove the dipstick and check the level. If the level is low, then you know that you need to add more oil and troubleshoot the issue. But how you can do that? We are going to find out in the next chapter.
Probable Causes For Oil Coming Out Of Exhaust
As we said, if there is oil coming out of exhaust, you need to take action to diagnose the problem. But what you can do about it?
The first thing you need to do is to learn the probable causes for oil coming out of exhaust. That’s why we are going to list all the probable causes that make this problem possible. This is for you to have a better understanding of where to look and how to diagnose this issue.
Then, we are going to learn how you can diagnose the problem and the costs that will be involved in this work. That’s since all the different problems prices cost differently.
Blown Head Gasket -Oil Coming Out Of Exhaust
A blown head gasket is one of the first things that can come to mind when you have an oil-burning problem in your car. But what is a head gasket?
The head gasket is a special gasket material that is placed between the head of the engine and the block. This head gasket makes sure that there is a perfect seal and the fluids don’t enter in the combustion process as well as not mix between them.
When the head gasket breaks, depending on the place that it fails, will show different symptoms later on.
If the gasket is material is damaged on the outside of the block, then the coolant will leak from the outside. If the gasket is damaged on the inside, the coolant or oil will leak into the engine and cause an oil coming out of exhaust problem to appear.
But let’s stick to the problem of oil in the combustion chamber, since this is the main focus of this article. How you can diagnose if your gasket is allowing oil to pass into the combustion?
The only way to make sure that this is the case is to open the engine. The head has to be removed for the gasket to be inspected.
After inspection, the problem can be patched with a new head gasket and all the fluids flushed. This will guarantee you, as the owner, that no problem in the future will occur and no more oil coming out of exhaust.
Bad O-Rings or oil rings as they are known can also cause oil coming out of exhaust problems to appear on your car and make your car spill oil as you drive on the road. But what are O-Rings?
The O-Rings are special material rings that are installed on the pistons of your engine. Their task is to make sure that no oil escapes from the oil galley into the combustion chamber. If the oil escapes through them, the engine in your car is going to start to develop issues and will start to burn oil.
The oil-burning problem is one of the most common issues found in internal combustion engines. This is the case because most of these oil rings are starting to lose their ability to hold the oil. Then, some fraction of this oil goes past the oil rings and ends up in the combustion process.
And if you have oil coming out of exhaust problem, then this means that some of the oil rings on your car are completely shut or broken. These broken oil rings don’t hold the oil and the oil goes past through them.
Since the oil is burning, your engine is constantly losing oil and is not lubricated. This oil loss will cause engine damage as well. So, when your engine is burning oil, make sure that you top off the oil regularly and avoid leaving your engine without oil.
These oil rings that are broken can also scar your cylinders and possibly damage other components in your engine. They will most likely end up in the oil pan.
How you can diagnose this issue we are going to discuss later in this article, but first, let’s look at the other causes why this happens.
Bad Valve Guides
The valve guides can also allow the oil to pass through, enter the engine, and cause oil coming out of exhaust problems to appear and ruin your day. But what are the valve guides?
The valve guides, as their name says, are guides that guide the valve. They are cylindrical-shaped components and are mounted on the top of the engine.
The valves basically get into the guides, and the guides are making sure that the valves are following this geometry. A good valve guide should not have any play. The distance between the valve stem and guide should only be a few fractions of an inch.
But when this distance is bigger. The valves are starting to have play and not seal properly. This bad clearance will allow the oil to pass through and enter inside of the cylinder.
Remember that the oil pump is pushing the oil even at the top of the engine when the head is located. This oil has to go somewhere and if there is too much play on the valve guides, it’s basically finding its way down in the cylinders.
And these oil leaks inside of the cylinder, firstly are going to increase your oil consumption and make your car puke oil from the exhaust if a couple of cylinders are affected by this problem.
Then, the second problem is the possible engine damage as there is a lack of lubrication in the engine by excessive oil burning. In this case, when you have oil coming out of exhaust problem is addressing the problem as soon as possible. But how can you do this work? We are going to answer that later in the article.
Bad Valve Seals
One of the most prevalent problems that cause oil leaks into the cylinder from the top side is the valve seals. But what are the valve seals?
The valve seals, as their name implies, are seals that are sealing the valves and prevent oil leaks into the cylinder. These seals are usually made out of plastic. And over time, they start to fail and the engine is starting to have increased oil consumption.
When the valve seals leak, you will notice how you have less and less oil in your oil pan. This is a clear indication that something is wrong with your engine and it needs checking.
The valve seals are not difficult to replace, but this work has to be done professionally and you will need professional equipment to perform this work.
Also, everything has to be realigned perfectly to avoid any future leaks and engine misfires if the valves are not adjusted properly.
When you are going to fix the valve seals, your problem with oil coming out of exhaust will be solved and your engine should be returned to proper working order. But how you can diagnose the problem and make sure which of these components that we listed is causing the issue? Let’s find out in the next chapter.
How To Diagnose And Repair The Problem?
Now, this is the important part. Diagnosing the problem and the possible outcomes. In this chapter, we are going to share some input on what you should be your next steps if you want to dive into the troubleshooting waters.
This can also be tricky to do since all the possibilities include massive engine work and tearing everything apart. This is the case because these problems are not visible and need some direct assessment to get them 100% diagnosed. Doing this will save you thousands of dollars if, for example, a mechanic misdiagnoses the problem on your car. That’s why if this car is old or a project, you can try doing the work by yourself.
Blown Head Gasket
The only way to diagnose a blown head gasket is to remove the engine head. For you to remove the head, you need to remove all the components that are on top of it. And these include the intake, coils, headcovers.
All these components need to come out for you to access the head bolts. Then, you will need a torque wrench to get the bolts loose. They are torqued to spec and without a torque wrench, it will be almost impossible to get them loose. Other components that you will have to remove before you get the bolts are the rocker arms and rods if your engine is a pushrod design engine.
Next thing is to remove the engine head. After removing the engine head, you can place it on a table.
Get the gasket out of the engine block and inspect places where could possibly the oil would leak. If you found your leak, great! But if you, didn’t you need to dive deeper and check the oil rings.
Broken Oil Rings
If your oil rings break, they can also cause a massive amount of oil to pass through and burn inside of the cylinder. But how you can check if they are good?
By doing the same process as we explained in the previous chapter. But in this case, you will also need to inspect the condition of the cylinders and see if they have damage. If they are damaged, you will need more than new oil rings for sure. Most probably, the block will require to be honed down to remove the scratches or machine worked.
Also, the pistons have to be removed and inspected. If you notice bad oil rings or missing rings, then you found your culprit. If not, you will have to check the heads.
Damaged Valve Stems And Valve Seals
Although we cover the valves last, they are the first items that you can check when you are dismantling the engine. That’s since they are the first ones that come out of the engine.
You need to see the conditions of the valves on the combustion side. See if there is any oil on them and if they are damaged, if you are having oil coming out of exhaust. These valves would be pretty much obliterated with oil and carbon.
In this case, the valve guides, valves, valve seals; everything has to be refreshed. And also, the head needs to be machined as well. And this can cost a lot, but how much? We are about to find out in the next chapter.
Cost To Repair The Oil Coming Out Of Exhaust Problem
The cost to repair this problem with oil coming out of exhaust can vary depending on the problem. The cheapest of the bunch of possibilities that can cause this problem is the head gasket.
In this case, head resurfacing and a new gasket will do the job. And this work is going to set you back between $500 to $800 depending much on how extensive the resurfacing work will be. Also getting a new head is an option if the old is too damaged. A new head is around $1,000. This is the way to go if you want everything to be perfect.
If the problem is the oil rings, then you will have to pay a lot of money to get this work done. A small refresh of the engine will be required and this will involve replacing all the bearings and piston rings.
These parts are cheap, but the work is very extensive and can cost between $1,000 to $1,500. Or if your engine needs machining work as well, you can expect to pay more than $2,000 for all this work.
That’s why considering a used engine if you are in this situation, is a good idea. With a used engine, you can be sure that it will work properly if the engine is low mileage. But with rebuilds, you never know.
If the valves are bad and the oil leaks from there. The only solution will be installing new head components. This is done by a machining shop as well. They are going to recondition the head and make it work for a price of $800. That’s why getting a new head sometimes is an option since a new head is around $1,000 and it’s much better than a used head.
Conclusion – Oil Coming Out Of Exhaust
In this article, we have covered a lot when it comes to the oil coming out of exhaust problem. We learned how the oiling system works and then we have covered all the possibilities when it comes to this issue.
As we said, the main culprits could be the valve stems and seals, the bad head gasket, and the oil rings. All these components when they fail, it can cause oil to enter into the combustion and cause a problem.
Then we have covered the diagnosing process and as well the prices that you can expect to pay to get this work done at a shop.
These tools have been tried and tested by our team, they are ideal for fixing your car at home.
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the answer is 20.54
Circumference of a circle: 2*p*radius or pi*diameter
It depends on the ratio of what of the circle? Its circumference, diameter, area?
It has a circumference of 50.3cm
Circumference of a circle = 3.14 x d 3.14 x 8 = 25.12 Therefore the circumference of a circle with the diameter of 8cm is 25.12cm.
The diameter of a circle may found by dividing the circumference by pi. 8cm/3.1416=2.546cm
The radius of a circle is circumference/2 pi .
A = 5.093 cm2
C=3.14*d<----diameter d=r*2 ex: what is the circumference of a circle if the radius is 4cm? 4*2=8cm 3.14*8=25.12cm c=25.12cm
The radius of a circle, if the circumference is 188.5, is 30.
The radius of a circle with the circumference of 19.96 is about 3.18
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For the pasta, pile the flour onto a bench, making a wide well in the centre, crack in the egg yolks, whole egg, milk and olive oil and with your fingers break up the eggs using a circular motion to incorporate the flour slowly. This will ensure smooth dough. Continue the process until you have a soft dough and it all starts to come together. It may look a little shaggy but as you then start to knead the dough it will become silky smooth. If the dough becomes too sticky add a small amount of flour to your bench. Continue kneading for 10 – 15 minutes, the dough should be tight to pull it apart not soft and stretchy. Flatten out the dough a little into a disk and cover with plastic wrap, rest for 30 minutes before rolling.
Using a pasta machine or rolling pin, roll out the dough thin enough so that you can just see your fingers through the sheets but not so thin that they break through, about 1mm thick. Although you will only need 4 sheets of pasta of about 20 cm lengths for this dish, rollout the remainder of pasta and freeze it for another dish.
To confit the salmon set your oven to 60c, pour the oil into a dish large enough to hold the salmon pieces but also to ensure that the oil will cover the salmon completely. Add in the lemon rind and garlic clove. Place the oil in the oven until it reaches 60c. You can use a thermometer for this or it will take about 15 minutes for the oil to reach this temperature.
Add the salmon fillets into the oil and place it back into the oven for about 15 minutes. You can test the salmon by sliding a sharp knife into the flesh; if it flakes apart easily then the fish is ready. It will appear raw but in fact the oil would have cooked it. Gently remove the salmon from the oil and set it aside covered with plastic film.
To make the sauce heat a frypan and add in the butter and sauté the shallots without colour for 1 minute, add in the asparagus and cook for 2 minutes, add in the mascarpone and the cream and season with salt, pepper and the lemon zest. Loosen the sauce with the fish stock and simmer for another minute. Add in the tomatoes and set the sauce aside.
Bring a pot of water to the boil, toss in a tablespoon of salt and cook the pasta for about 2 minutes, drain and rinse with a little warm water to cool the pasta enough to handle it.
Carefully wrap the pasta around the salmon and place it onto your serving plate, top with a couple of spoonfuls of the hot sauce and garnish with chopped parsley. Serve warm.
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This news is about a woman. She is from Peru. She is 22 years old. She has a tumour in her body.
Her tumour grows for eight years. It gets 50 centimetres long and 16 kilograms heavy. It makes the woman look pregnant.
It makes her life difficult. She cannot work or study. She can only stay at home.
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Difficult words: tumour (something which grows on/in your body; this thing is not good and is often removed), pregnant (with a baby inside the belly), remove (take out).
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A senior German Foreign Ministry official said on Tuesday that a solution to the problems in the Western Balkans can no longer be put off.
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She said that everyone should make sure that the people leaving the Western Balkans will return. “The European integration of the six countries of the Western Balkans is the priority of the European Union and Germany’s EU Presidency. The Economic Investment Plan will be a priority in the coming period,” Schutz said.
She said that the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue is a stumbling block for the region, that Bosnia-Herzegovina is divided along ethnic lines 25 years after the Dayton Agreement, that state structures are not functioning and that it’s hard to reach a consensus on basic issues.
Schutz said that Germany will work with the EU to bring Bosnia and Herzegovina closer to become a normal state, not a state led by ethnic groups and parties. She said that relations between North Macedonia and Bulgaria are very complex and that Albania has a number of conditions to meet.
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March 12, 2003 | Backgrounder on Federal Budget
The current fiscal crisis is the predictable result of overspending. The federal government will spend over $21,000 per household in 2003--a level exceeded only during World War II.1 Overall, Washington will spend $782 billion more between 2000 and 2003 than it did during the previous four years.2
Contrary to popular belief, defense spending represents less than a quarter of that increase. Massive spending increases for education, health, farm subsidies, unemployment benefits, highways, and dozens of small, low-priority programs combine to add more new spending than defense.
This excessive government spending is creating large budget deficits. Eventually, Congress will have to raise taxes to repay this debt, and those higher taxes will harm families and businesses and decrease economic growth for future generations. Restraining spending enough to balance the budget is the only way to prevent future tax increases.
Budgets are about setting priorities. The current priorities for the federal government are (1) fully funding defense, (2) providing immediate tax relief to help the economy, and (3) assuring that taxes can remain low in future years by balancing the budget. If Washington focuses on its priorities, it is possible to write a budget that:
Growing at a rapid rate since the 1970s, mandatory programs now comprise nearly two-thirds of all federal spending. Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid continue to grow at rates that, in the absence of reform, will eventually require large tax increases or benefit reductions. The 2002 farm bill and other recent mandatory spending expansions have accelerated this growth.
President Bush's budget seeks to raise mandatory spending by an average of 5.6 percent over the next five years, in part by creating a new Medicare prescription drug benefit.4 Yet mandatory spending includes tens of billions of dollars in waste and overpayments in programs such as Medicare, food stamps, and student loans. Billions are also spent on well-intentioned but failed programs such as farm subsidies, mass transit assistance, and public works. If Congress really wants to balance the budget, it can reduce the growth rate of mandatory spending by 1 percent, to 4.6 percent per year.
The portion of the discretionary budget allocated to non-defense spending has grown by 41 percent since 1999. This includes massive increases not only for education and health research, but also for corporate welfare, pork-barrel projects, and dozens of small, lower-priority programs like the Denali Commission, Power Marketing Administration, and Foreign Agriculture Service.
Many of these programs can afford to wait a few years before receiving additional spending increases. By freezing non-defense discretionary spending at its current level of $418 billion, Congress could still increase funding for priority programs as long as increases for such programs are balanced with equal reductions in wasteful and lower-priority programs.5
Incorporating Revenue Feedback
A realistic budget projection recognizes that tax rates affect economic growth. Reducing tax rates creates greater incentives to work, save, and invest and therefore increases national income. The tax revenue collected from this higher national income, known as the "feedback effect," recovers a portion of the revenue lost from the tax cut. Although virtually all economists acknowledge their existence, feedback effects are oddly excluded from Congress's budget projections. This budget blueprint corrects that omission.
Feedback effects vary wildly, depending on the type of tax reduction. For example, tax rebates do not significantly alter people's behavior; therefore, they have little or no feedback effect. Capital gains tax reductions, such as the one enacted in 1997, strongly affect investors' behavior and therefore often have a feedback effect of over 100 percent--meaning that tax revenues actually increase.6 In between these extremes, the 2001 tax cut combined rebates and pro-growth tax rate reductions to create a feedback effect of approximately 33 percent.7
President Bush focuses most of his current tax proposals on reducing tax rates for workers, businesses, and investors. Tax rate reductions typically have a relatively high feedback effect that will recover much of the lost revenue.
This is confirmed by a macroeconomic model of the U.S. economy known as the DRI-WEFA model. After analyzing the President's Economic Growth and Jobs Creation Proposal, this model estimated an average feedback effect of 38 percent from 2003 through 2008. (No feedback effect is assumed for other proposed tax breaks in areas such as health, education, energy, and charitable giving.) Other macroeconomic models, such as those used by PricewaterhouseCoopers, have produced similar results.8
No Easy Solutions
Some lawmakers are counting on a strong economic recovery and the accompanying tax revenues to balance the budget. They point to the 8.4 percent annual revenue increases from 1993 to 2000 that helped bring the budget from deficit to surplus. But those sharp revenue increases were a historical anomaly, created in part by a colossal stock market bubble that led to record capital gains tax revenues. Although President Bush's proposed tax plan is likely to unleash new economic growth, sustained 8.4 percent revenue growth is not likely to return soon.
Furthermore, even annual revenue increases of 8.4 percent would not balance the budget in the absence of spending restraint. The revenue increases from 1993 to 2000 helped balance the budget because spending was held to a 3.5 percent annual growth rate. Now spending is growing by nearly 8 percent per year. If this pace continues, balancing the budget would require revenues to increase 73 percent over the next five years--a very unlikely occurrence.
This leaves lawmakers with one option: restrain federal spending. If congressional spenders refuse to distinguish between necessities and luxuries, budget deficits will grow even larger. These budget deficits are harmful not because they significantly raise interest rates (the effect is minimal), but because they will require Congress to raise taxes in the future to repay the debt. Higher taxes will harm families and businesses and decrease economic growth for future generations.
Regrettably, many in Congress will consider this budget-balancing blueprint too bold. Lawmakers have grown accustomed to always spending more, and priority-setting means finally limiting that appetite. Yet past Congresses have showed the courage to restrain spending when necessary. To fund World War II, domestic spending was reduced by 36 percent. To fund the Korean War, domestic spending was reduced by 25 percent in just one year.
Addressing the current budget shortfall requires nothing so drastic. Limiting the average annual growth of mandatory spending to 4.6 percent instead of 5.6 percent could be done mostly by eliminating waste, overpayments, and corporate welfare. Increases in non-defense discretionary spending would need to be offset by reductions in other programs.
This would be a small price to pay for pro-growth tax relief, an improved military, a Medicare prescription drug benefit, and a balanced budget. Otherwise, Congress can wait until the budget deficit grows even larger--and then see what painful budget decisions really look like.
Brian M. Riedl is Grover M. Hermann Fellow in Federal Budgetary Affairs in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation.
2. In 2001 dollars, adjusted for inflation. See Brian M. Riedl, "How Washington Increased Spending by Nearly $800 Billion in Just Four Years," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 1581, September 4, 2002, at www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/BG1581.cfm.
3. This includes not only the $694 billion tax package unveiled in January 2003, but also the other tax proposals in the President's 2004 budget, such as tax breaks for health insurance, education, energy, and charitable giving.
5. The Heritage Foundation has identified more than $100 billion in potential savings from wasteful and ineffective discretionary programs. See Brian M. Riedl, "Ten Guidelines for Reducing Wasteful Government Spending," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 1622, February 12, 2003, at www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/BG1622.cfm. See also The Heritage Foundation's Budget Information Site at www.heritage.org/research/features/budgetcalculator.
6. See Daniel J. Mitchell, Ph.D. , "Lowering Marginal Tax Rates: The Key to Pro-Growth Tax Relief," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 1443, May 22, 2001, at www.heritage.org/Research/Taxes/BG1443.cfm.
7. See Appendix B in D. Mark Wilson and William W. Beach, "The Economic Impact of President Bush's Tax Relief Plan," Heritage Foundation Center for Data Analysis Report No. CDA01-01Rev, April 27, 2001, at www.heritage.org/Research/Taxes/CDA01-01.cfm.
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Yes, there are various types of Dwarfism. The most common form of dwarfism, achondroplasia occurs in about one out of 26,000 to 40,000 babies and is evident at birth. They have a relatively long trunk and shortened upper parts of their arms and legs. Other features of achondroplasia include: a large head with a prominent forehead; a flattened bridge of the nose; protruding jaw; crowded and misaligned teeth; forward curvature of the lower spine; bowed legs; flat, short, broad feet and double-jointedness, among others. A less common form of dwarfism, Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasias (SED), refers to a group of conditions characterized by a shortened trunk, which may not become apparent until a child is between ages 5 and 10. Other features can include: club feet, cleft palate; severe osteoarthritis in the hips; weak hands and feet and barrel-chested appearance. A rare form of dwarfism, diastrophic dysplasia occurs in about one in 100,000 births. People who have it tend to have shortened forearms and calves (this is known as mesomelic shortening). Other signs can include deformed hands and feet, limited range of motion, cleft palate and ears with a cauliflower appearance.
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What is purpose of Kernel Development - Example SMOAD Networks SDWAN Orchestrator Firewall Kernel Engine ↗Monday' 18-Jul-2022
Often aspiring students may have this question, that what is the purpose of Linux Kernel Development. Since Linux Kernel is very mature and it has
almost everything one would need. Usually, we need custom kernel development in the case of any new driver development for new upcoming hardware.
And this happens on and on. But at times we may also come across few features/modules/components which are already provided by the Linux Kernel which
are not adequate or atleast not the way we exactly intended to use.
So, this is the real-world example, sometimes no matter what Linux Kernel provides as a part of stock Kernel/OS features, sometimes we have
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Russia wants to fight terrorism jointly with the rest of the world, President Vladimir Putin said in an interview published on Monday, while again accusing the West of exacerbating international crises that had contributed to it.
"We are faced with common threats, and we still want all countries, both in Europe and the whole world, to join their efforts to combat these threats, and we are still striving for this," Putin said in a wide-ranging interview with Germany's Bild newspaper.
"I refer not only to terrorism, but also to crime, trafficking in persons, environmental protection, and many other common challenges," he said.
"Yet this does not mean that it is us who should agree with everything that others decide on these or other matters."
Russia's air force is attacking targets in Syria and Moscow says it aims to undermine Islamic State, which has been joined by thousands of Russian citizens and now poses a serious threat to national security. The group claimed responsibility for downing a Russian airliner over Egypt in October, killing 224 people.
But Russia has not joined a U.S.-led coalition carrying out strikes on Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, and Washington and its allies say Moscow's strikes are only aimed at helping embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad stay in power.
Putin said previous Western military interventions in Iraq and Libya had contributed to an upsurge in terrorism in these countries and elsewhere, reiterating what he had told the United Nations General Assembly in September.
He hit out at NATO's expansion toward Russia's borders after the Soviet Union's demise in 1991 and at an anti-missile shield being erected by the United States, accusing the West's expansion after the Cold War of exacerbating international crises.
Putin has repeatedly called the toppling of Ukraine's former President Viktor Yanukovich in 2014 after months of pro-European street protests "a coup d'etat", and has accused the West of inspiring and assisting it.
In February last year, France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine agreed on a set of peace accords, known as the Minsk agreements, which have helped to stop the war between pro-Moscow separatists and government troops in southeast Ukraine.
But a key clause of the peace deal, which stipulates a new Ukrainian constitution that enshrines the autonomy of the rebel regions, remains unfulfilled, Putin said.
"Everyone says that the Minsk Agreements must be implemented and then the sanctions issue may be reconsidered," Putin told Bild, referring to Western sanctions imposed on Russia.
"This is beginning to resemble the theater of the absurd because everything essential that needs to be done with regard to implementing the Minsk Agreements is the responsibility of the current Kiev authorities."
Putin drew attention to a clause in the peace agreement that required Ukraine to introduce constitutional reform by the end of last year, calling this "the main, the key issue in the settlement process".
The leaders of France and Germany, he added, "should scrutinize these matters more thoroughly".
On the economic front, Putin acknowledged that the country's economy had been hard hit by the plunge in oil prices but also said that there was a positive side insofar as it would force Russia to improve the structure of its public finances.
"I believe that our non-oil and gas deficit had risen to a very dangerous level. So now we are forced to lower it. And this is healthy," he said.
"It is very difficult ... to resist spending oil and gas revenues to cover current expenses. (But) it is the reduction of these expenses that improves the economy."
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Ontario and Quebec each have plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to convince drivers to go electric. The measures in place are certainly interesting for buyers of electric vehicles. The problem is that they’re insignificant from an environmental point of view.
Insignificant, but not inexpensive: The two provinces encourage the purchase of an electric vehicle and home charging station with subsidies totalling $14,750 in Ontario, and up to $8,600 in Quebec.
Each time an electric vehicle replaces a gasoline-powered one, greenhouse gases (GHGs) are avoided. Over the course of the useful life of a vehicle, around 10 years, this represents approximately 28.2 tonnes of GHGs avoided in Ontario, and 29.9 tonnes of GHGs in Quebec, where electricity is produced almost entirely from hydropower.
The cost of each tonne of GHGs not emitted thanks to these provincial programs can then be calculated by dividing the cost of the subsidy by the quantity of emissions avoided. We thus arrive at a total of $523 per tonne in Ontario and $288 per tonne in Quebec.
Yet, the real cost is likely much higher.
The main reason is that a certain number of buyers of electric vehicles would have made their purchases even in the absence of subsidies. One study estimates that this is the case for half of buyers in Quebec. The proportion is likely much higher for most subsidies paid to buyers of luxury vehicles. (In Ontario, a buyer of a Tesla can receive the same subsidy as for a Volt.) This means that half of these subsidies, which will total hundreds of millions of dollars in a few years, are a pure loss.
But let’s put on our green-tinted glasses and assume that our estimates of $523 per tonne of GHGs not emitted in Ontario, and $288 per tonne in Quebec, represent the real cost, and that each subsidy is well-targeted and helps replace a gasoline-powered vehicle with an electric one. The price paid is nonetheless very high compared to the result obtained, and compared to other existing solutions for reducing GHG emissions.
In the North American carbon market, which groups together California, Quebec, and soon Ontario, the price per tonne of GHGs, and thus the marginal cost for a company to eliminate this tonne, was C$18.51 in the most recent auction. The federal government, for its part, will tax carbon at $10 per tonne in 2018, climbing to $50 in 2022.
By subsidizing the purchase of electric cars, the Ontario government is paying 29 times more than the carbon market price, and 52 times more than the future federal tax when it comes into effect next year. For Quebec, the corresponding figures are 16 and 29 times more. Even if we take the maximum amount of the carbon tax, namely $50 in 2022, electric vehicle subsidies remain the most expensive option by far.
What about impact?
Another way of illustrating the inefficiency of these programs is to evaluate the portion of current GHG emissions that would be eliminated thanks to the replacement of gasoline-powered vehicles by electric vehicles. Even if the Quebec government achieved its goal of having a million electric vehicles on the road by 2030 (and assuming these were all fully electric), in the best case scenario, only 3 million tonnes of GHGs would be avoided annually, or 3.6% of current emissions, at a total cost of $4.6 billion to $8.6 billion. In comparison, the brand new Port Daniel, Quebec cement plant (itself the beneficiary of substantial subsidies) will emit nearly 1.8 million tonnes of GHGs a year all on its own.
The results would not be any more impressive in Ontario. Assuming that it achieved the same objectives, proportionally, that Quebec has set for itself, Ontario could not hope to eliminate more than 4.1 million tonnes of GHGs per year by 2030, or 2.4% of current emissions. This amounts to mere drops in the bucket.
Insofar as the reduction of GHGs is becoming a priority, the innovation that emerges naturally from the market remains the preferable path. If our legislators think that additional incentives are required, pricing carbon through a tax or a carbon market creates less distortion in the market than subsidizing the purchase of electric vehicles, which is expensive and will have little effect.
Germain Belzile est chercheur associé senior à l'IEDM, Mark Milke est analyste de politiques publiques indépendant. Ils sont les auteurs de « Les subventions aux voitures électriques sont-elles efficientes? » signent ce texte à titre personnel.
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Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned pro, every runner and yogi can benefit from strength training. By building strong muscles and joints, we can move better in our other hobbies. Here’s how.
Lifting weights isn’t just good for building muscle; it can also make you into a better runner. Running relies on having strong, balanced muscles, great endurance and good balance — all of which can be improved from strength training. In fact, experts tend to recommend that runners strength train at least twice a week if you want to avoid injury, run faster and move better. What you lift, however, also matters.
A new study has found that lifting heavier weights makes your muscles and joints much stronger and that can make you a faster runner who’s less injury-prone. Published in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, researchers looked at 28 studies which assessed what role weight lifting had on muscle growth. They found that it was only really when people lifted medium or heavy weights that they experienced a significant improvement in strength — and that relative newbies to strength training are the people who benefit the most from this muscle growth.
To reap those benefits, you want to lift heavier weights for between eight and 12 reps, three times round. Think deadlifts, squats and lunges — all of which work the key running muscles and movement patterns.
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But it’s not just runners who can benefit from strength training; get used to press-ups and renegade rows, and you’ll quickly find that Chaturanga becomes child’s play if yoga’s your thing. Though they might require slightly different skills overall, running and yoga both rely on a certain amount of muscular strength, and the stronger you are, the easier you’ll find certain core aspects of both. The reverse is also true: strength training practice can benefit from cross-training. If you do a lot of yoga and mobility, you’ll feel less stiff and after a heavy session, while running quickly improves your cardiovascular capacity – making it easier for the body to deal with longer sets.
To get stronger, you want to regularly move your body in various ways. If you’re a runner, for example, you need to run and do other kinds of exercise too.
Think of strength training as the béchamel sauce in a fitness lasagna. Your pasta sheets are your runs – the core activity of your week. The tomato sauce might be your mobility sessions and the creamy white sauce – arguably the stuff that brings the whole dish together – is your twice-weekly strength and conditioning that adds that extra fire to your engine. For yoga buffs, weekly strength circuits could be the missing piece in your pratice and the one that makes handstands, one-legged poses and flows that much more accessible.
Here’s how strength training benefits your other fitness hobbies:
Strength training prevents injuries
Perhaps one of the most important reasons for lifting weights if you’re into running, yoga, netball or any other sport, is injury prevention. For runners of any distance, it’s important that you’re able to utilise your glutes and core muscles efficiently so as to avoid smaller muscles, joints and ligaments further down the chain from taking all the flack.
Kate Carter is officially the fastest panda in the world (running a marathon in 3:48:32). Her non-panda 5k personal best? A mere 18 minutes and 16 seconds… which is about the time it takes most of us to get to the start line from the bag drop. She tells Stylist that “building in strength and conditioning (S&C) should reduce your risk of injury because you can really work on weaker areas and help build up strength.” She goes on to explain that when we get tired during a run, our form tends to degrade – we slump forward or to one side, our backs round, or we look at the ground. Having strong glutes and core muscles, however, can keep us upright for longer while protecting the calves and hamstrings from unnecessary pressure.
Yogis can also suffer injury – usually from overusing muscles or not having the comfortable range of motion needed for repetitive flows. Wrist injuries are quite common in yoga, and during the pandemic, Emily Harding, founder of the Yeh Yoga Co, picked up wrist tenderness and injury from overdoing her asana practice while demonstrating full classes multiple times a day. “Yoga asana is incredible but you can overdo it… you can absolutely have too much of a good thing,” she stresses, recommending that yogis mix up their practice with weight training and pulling motions that are more commonly found at the gym than on the mat.
Strength training improves balance
Being able to balance is one of the most important factors in staying mobile and healthy as we age. In fact, some experts believe that how well you can balance on one leg is indicative of how long you’ll live – and that’s not just because accidental falls can be fatal or irreversibly damaging to older people.
A large study carried out by the Medical Research Council recruited 2,760 men and women who began the study aged 53. Researchers studied three things: their grip strength, how quickly they could stand up from sitting and how long they could stand on one leg with their eyes closed. 13 years later, the researchers revisited their volunteers. 117 had died – 88 from cancer, 47 from heart disease and 42 from other causes. They also found that the leg balance test had been the strongest indicator of mortality; those who could only manage to balance for one or two seconds were three times more likely to die over the next 13 years than those who could stand for over 10 seconds.
A smaller study, this time published in the Journal of Physical Therapy Science, looked at whether strength training can improve balance in older adults (aged 65-82). 50 people were split into two groups: a training group and a control group, with the former made to do various lower body exercises for a 12-week period. Scientists found that after training, both lower limb strength and balance had “significantly improved” compared to the baseline.
Balance is important for our long-term health – when we train, we’re not just training for today but for our future wellbeing. It might feel easy to balance on one leg now but the point of strength training is to build foundations on which we can rely for years to come. More short-term, good balance is needed if you want to run, practice yoga, dance, box, and all kinds of other activities.
To improve your balance, try having a go at certain single-leg and core-carving moves such as single-leg RDLs, deadbugs and single-leg glute bridges (below).
Strength training can help us to run faster
If you find yourself at a running plateau, strength training could be the key to running faster. A 2009 study by Sato and Mokha divided 28 recreational runners with 5k PBs of just under 30 minutes into two groups. For six weeks, both groups continued their regular training but one was given an additional strength and conditioning workout while the other just continued running.
The strength and conditioning group was asked to perform a circuit of five exercises, four times a week in two to three sets of 10-15 reps each. Exercises using an exercise ball included crunches, back extensions, Russian twists and hip bridges, and the strength group was also asked to do alternating supermans (lying on the belly, while raising the opposite arm and leg). Researchers found that while the group who did these stability exercises didn’t see any improvement to their running form, they were able to shave an average of 47 seconds off their running time, compared to 17 seconds in the non-S&C group.
It’s not the only study to confirm that strength training can make us speedier runners; the fact is that running faster actually tends to make us run better. As you gain speed, you naturally run taller, more economically and with better foot control. A 2014 study on the topic published in the European Journal of Sports Science found that the reason strength training makes you faster is that it lowers the amount of energy required to hit a certain pace. Your body becomes more able to recruit fatigue-resistance muscle fibres, meaning that you’ll eventually exert less energy by moving faster.
Strength training increases overall power
It’ll come as no surprise to learn that strength training helps us become more powerful. In a sporting context, power = strength x distance / time. Take a triathlete, for example. To nail that triathlon sprint distance, they’ve got to have incredible strength to run, cycle and swim those distances in a certain amount of time, and the more powerful they are, the faster they’ll be able to complete that race. By increasing your muscular capacity, you’ll increase your strength and power – meaning that you’ll be able to lift heavier, faster and for longer, as well as go harder on your bike, swim more efficiently and run quicker.
Lifting heavy teaches the body to recruit more motor units (or individual motor neurons and the muscle fibres that they stimulate). The more motor units you’re able to recruit when doing any kind of activity, the higher the force you can exert. For boxers, that might mean being able to punch and jab with renewed strength over the course of a round while yogis may develop better control over how they move their body – whether that’s holding a wild thing (Camatkarasana), moving into a downward dog or going through a series of sun salutations.
Before you head out for your morning jog, have a go at some basic hamstring mobility. Good mornings are a great exercise for getting the backs of the legs warmed up and can be done before a run, during a mid-morning desk break or during your S&C session. Feeling brave? Have a go at a single leg version, for the ultimate test of balance and strength.
Check out the SWTC How-To video library for hundreds of exercises that’ll get you stronger for whatever activity you want to do.
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One of the most esteemed filmmakers of all time, Stanley Kubrick (19281999) was also one of the most enigmatic. He broke into the film scene at the age of 26 with the ambitious, independently produced Killer's Kiss and within a few years was working
with the likes of Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, and Peter Sellers on such seminal films as Lolita and Spartacus. Having gained the support of the actors, producers, and movie studios with his early efforts, Kubrick garnered the creative control he
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My Identity Has Been Stolen. Now What?
Don’t panic! The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the three major credit reporting agencies (Equifax, Experian and Transunion) have responded to the growing threat of identity theft with processes that you can follow to limit its impact on your credit.
If your identity has been stolen, your first move should be to download “Taking Charge,” a free PDF offered by the FTC. This 68-page guide offers a detailed plan for responding to identity theft, as well as expert advice, worksheets, sample letters and more.
Let’s take a look at the four basic steps you will follow to respond to the theft of your identity, protect your credit score and, ideally, seek justice against the perpetrators.
1. Start a Log.
Open a new document on your computer or grab a fresh notebook. You will be making a number of phone calls, and you need to log the date, time, phone number and name of every customer service representative and law enforcement agent you speak with. Prepare your questions before each call and take down all the information you get in response.
If you rack up any expenses, note those as well. The IRS allows taxpayers to deduct expenses incurred as a result of identity theft, and if the criminals are caught, you may be able to sue them for compensation.
2. Make Your Calls.
If all the fraudulent activity you have detected is on one credit card, and you haven’t lost your wallet, you need only call that credit card provider. They will close the account (and reopen it with a new card number, if you like) and you will work together to identify unauthorized charges.
If your wallet is missing or you have any reason to suspect the fraudulent activity is not limited to a single card, you have to contact the FTC and your credit card and debit card providers. If you keep your Social Security card in your wallet — which is not a good idea — you must report the theft to the Social Security Administration (800-269-0271) and the IRS (800-829-0433).
Next, you must contact Equifax (800-525-6285), Experian (888-397-3742) or Transunion (800-680-7289) to begin the process of “freezing” your credit so no one can open new accounts in your name. It doesn’t matter which agency you call; each is required to notify the other two.
If your personally identifiable information is exposed as part of a data breach of a third party’s computer system — such as the recent breaches that affected holders of Target and Neiman Marcus store credit cards — you will be contacted by the company that suffered the breach. Follow their instructions to the letter, and if they offer any form of ongoing credit protection, take it.
3. Create an Identity Theft Report.
Your identity theft report will represent the culmination of all your efforts. It has two components: an FTC-generated “identity theft affidavit” and a police report.
To create your identity theft affidavit, simply follow the instructions outlined in “Taking Charge.” To create a police report, contact your local police department, even if the theft of your information took place elsewhere. If your local police department tells you they can’t help you because the crime took place outside their jurisdiction, stand your ground. They are required by law to take your complaint and generate a report.
If your identity was compromised by stolen mail or you believe an identity thief has submitted a change-of-address form in your name, you should also contact the Postal Inspection Service (877-876-2455).
Your identity theft report, along with your own documentation, creates a paper trail that will prove you aggressively pursued the issue and sought remedy. This could prove extremely useful down the road.
4. Monitor Your Credit.
The freezes you place on your credit — and, in cases of third-party identity theft, the protection offered by your card provider — will entitle you to a free credit report from each of the three agencies. But you don’t have to wait.
Each of the bureaus is required to provide a free report upon your request once a year, and you can order them via AnnualCreditReport.com. You may also opt to sign up for a paid credit monitoring service, which will likely offer fraud alerts and the ability to order credit reports as frequently as you wish, among other services.
Identity theft is no laughing matter, but it’s not the end of the world. Follow the process, document everything, and be aggressive. With any luck, you will avoid catastrophic damage and justice will be served.
Have you dealt with identity theft in the past? Can you offer any advice we may have missed? Join the conversation by clicking the links below!
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New website offers start-ups barter option
FANCY getting paid in vegetables, buns or a suit? An online platform is tapping on old-fashioned bartering to help local start-ups get ahead.
The Platform Collective (theplatformcollective.com), created by four undergraduates, encourages start-ups - which often lack resources - to exchange their trades and expertise with other ventures, instead of paying for products or services.
For instance, an online bakery hoping to gain more followers on Facebook and Instagram could register on the website, and pay with cakes for another company's social media marketing expertise.
Since its launch in January, the website has been responsible for more than 20 successful tie-ups.
"There are young Singaporeans who are breaking away from the norm and starting their own businesses," said final year Nanyang Technological University communications student Isaac Tan, 25, one of the individuals behind the website.
"They have big dreams to get to places but they don't know where to find the support. Many start-ups end up working in silos, not realising there are others who could have helped to address their needs."
His co-founders are coursemates Caster Teoh, 25, Olivia Ng, 23, and Wong Yan Ting, 23.
The site lists the needs of the start-ups and allows them to touch base with each other. Over 60 local companies - including urban farmers, design agencies, boutique cafes and printing studios - have signed up.
One of them, design studio Fawn and Moss, contributed ice cream paper props for fashion photographer Lenne Chai, in exchange for photography services.
Said Fawn and Moss co-founder Amanda Poh, 28: "It is easy to start a business, but definitely not easy to sustain it. This initiative has a lot of potential for cash-strapped start-ups, helping to lower production costs."
Mr Tan explained that the collective does not get involved in the trades.
"The onus is on the start-ups to be upfront and willing to trade," he said.
The website does not charge for sign-ups or successful collaborations, but may do so later this year as the students hope to commercialise their venture.
Travelling tailor business Mr Gentleman is looking to exchange suits and shirts for photography services through the website.
Noted co-founder Gary Ong, 23: "The bartering concept is apt for most start-ups.
"It can be daunting when there is no support system for young start-up owners and many would crumble in times of need."
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George Bowering : Criticism
- A Record of Writing: an annotated and Illustrated Bibliography of George Bowering, by Roy Miki, Vancouver, Talonbooks, 1989, 401 pp.
- Essays on Canadian Writing, George Bowering issue, ed. Ken Norris, 1989, 127 pp.
- George Bowering: Bright Circles of Colour, by Eva-Marie Kröller,Vancouver, Talonbooks, 1992, 128 pp.
- George Bowering and His Works, by John Harris, Toronto, ECW Press, 1992, 62 pp.
George Bowering's works copyright © to the author.
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The Commens Dictionary
Quote from ‘Logical Tracts. No. 1. On Existential Graphs’
The sheet on which the graphs are written (called the sheet of assertion), as well as each portion of it, is a graph asserting that a recognized universe is definite (so that no assertion can be both true and false of it), individual (so that any assertion is either true or false of it), and real (so that what is true and what false of it is independent of any judgment of man or men, unless it be that of the creator of the universe, in case this is fictive); and any graph written upon this sheet is thereby asserted of that universe; and any multitude of graphs written disconnectedly upon the sheet are all asserted of the universe.
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It is useful to think of capitalism as a robotic savant, spectacularly gifted at doing one thing and cripplingly blind to everything else. Global capitalism is an incredible machine for extracting fossil fuels from our planet, refining them, shipping them to every corner of the Earth and making staggering amounts of money doing so. The humming of this machine, the fuel and the money that it spits out, has powered a century of unprecedented production and consumption by the Earth’s first-world nations. Unfortunately the machine is also poisoning us all. But one of its exquisitely evolved functions is to make it almost impossible to turn it off.
Oil and gas profits in the most recent quarter were astounding. Exxon Mobil made $18bn in profits in the past three months. Shell and Chevron each made nearly $12bn. Those are all record numbers. More major companies will announce their figures this week, and they are all expected to be bountiful. The war in Ukraine, which has devastated a region of the world and displaced millions, has helped energy companies by driving oil and gas prices higher. In this, we see another key characteristic of the machine: the fortunes of nations may rise and fall, but the oil companies will always survive and thrive, floating above the chaos of the world like passengers on a private jet, shaking their heads performatively at all the problems below.
The price of oil fluctuates, but that short-term volatility masks the industry’s long-term certainty of success. A recent study showed that for the past 50 years, the oil industry has made profits of more than $1tn a year, close to $3bn a day. These profits are driven not by some fantasy of free enterprise and perfect competition, but by the exact opposite – cartels, mega-corporations and the regulatory capture of governments, conspiring to create a market free of both competition and of a price that reflects the actual cost to the world of the product that is being sold.
Fossil fuels make enough money to corrupt politicians, cause wars and bend public opinion through the brute force of a firehose of propaganda. The machine does not just extract and sell fossil fuels; it also concerns itself with ensuring that the entire world is arranged in a way conducive to maintaining the demand for those fossil fuels. The growth of oil profits even as the reality of climate change is burning before our eyes is proof that no single crisis, no matter how existential, will be enough to shut this machine down naturally. The machine must either be broken by us, or it will break us all.
Capitalism is not designed to look several generations down the road. It is not designed to sacrifice for the greater good. It is designed to maximize profits. To pump every last barrel of oil on Earth, sell it, take the money and build a luxurious space ship to leave the planet that has been destroyed by burning all of that gas is a perfectly rational course of action according to the logic of capitalism. As long as there is a trillion dollars a year to be made, the fossil fuel industry will take the money. It is enough money to build a nice villa far, far away from the wars and droughts and floods and wildfires that fossil fuels are causing.
These profits are illusory. They are plagued by an externality large enough to outweigh a trillion dollars a year – the costs that the climate crisis will impose on billions of people who are alive now and many generations to come. The fact that capitalism is unable to properly price a barrel of oil to account for all the pain it will cause to your grandchildren whose home is wiped out by rising seas is proof that the whole idea of an impartial system of costs and rewards for labor and risks is a big sham.
The fossil fuel industry as a whole is not just another business, providing a service to meet a demand; it is a predatory drug dealer that works every day to keep the world addicted to its poisonous product, knowing full well that it will eventually prove fatal. It fights to keep the population fooled about its costs, to keep the political power structure incapable of keeping the public safe from its damages, and to keep the flow of supply coming at full blast despite any human or environmental toll. It is not something to be applauded. It is a problem to be solved.
It’s no big mystery how to change this toxic dynamic. Merely putting a price on fossil fuel that accurately reflects its costs – for example, through a carbon tax – would do the trick, with time, as it rapidly became economically unfeasible to mortgage the health of the planet’s future on a carbon credit card. Better, and faster, would be straightforward regulations paired with enormous public investments to transition to cleaner energy sources, a la the Green New Deal. The barrier here is not ideas, but rather politics, backstopped with a wall of money. So long as America fails to regulate the influence of money in politics, we will by extension fail to adequately regulate fossil fuels.
It is folly to assume that a system that has been constructed in part by the corporate power of the energy industry will find a way to rein in that same industry against its wishes. It’s willfully stupid to imagine that electoral politics will be up to this task. This is an issue that is, more than most, begging for radicalism. It will take more than installing a solar panel on your roof. For older people with means, it will take agitating within each and every institution you are a part of to divest from the fossil fuel industry; for younger people with passion, it will take agitating in the streets. For all of us, it will take treating the tremendous but slow-moving threat of climate change with the deadly seriousness it deserves.
So next time you see young people sitting in at a senator’s office or blocking the streets or hollering at Joe Manchin’s yacht, don’t mock them. Join them. They will be living through a grim future long after all that sweet oil money has been spent.
Friends, this isn’t the time to be complacent. If you are ready to fight for the soul of this nation, you can start by donating to elect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris by clicking the button below.
Thank you so much for supporting Joe Biden’s Presidential campaign.
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After the success of Frost Hollow Hall we return this Christmas with the first adaptation of award winning author Emma Carroll’s acclaimed novel Letters From The Lighthouse.
February 1941. After months of bombing raids in London, twelve year old Olive Bradshaw and her little brother Cliff are evacuated to the Devon coast. The only person with two spare beds is Mr Ephraim the lighthouse keeper, but it seems he has a secret!
But Olive has a secret of her own… Her older sister Sukie went missing in an air raid, leaving a coded note which suggests she is involved in something dark and impossibly dangerous. Olive embarks on a thrilling adventure determined to get to the bottom of the mystery.
Thursday 1st & Tuesday 6th December – 2 for 1 on all standard tickets
Wednesday 7th December, 2.30pm – Relaxed Performance* (see explanation at the bottom of the page for more information)
10th, 14th, 17th, 21st, 24th, 28th, 30th, 31st – Matinees
“A gripping adventure” – The Guardian
“A triumph” – The Bookseller
“Carroll sews together accessible history with a cracking plot and a character to love in the strong, principled Olive” – The Times, Children’s Book of the Week.
*What is a relaxed performance?
A relaxed performance is where the auditorium environment and our theatre “rules” are relaxed.
This performance is ideal for people with learning disabilities, autism, sensory communication disorders, or anyone who would benefit from a more relaxed environment. East Riding Theatre’s relaxed performance will have the:
- House lights slightly raised
- Freedom for people to walk around, and go in and out of the auditorium as they wish
- Music quieter
The Christmas show team will change certain aspects of Letters from the Lighthouse so that people’s needs have been considered. For example, specific lines or movements may be altered and sound effects may be turned down.
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SNOW HILL – The dumping of used carpet cleaning solution into the coastal bays may be an issue in Ocean City, but not in Worcester County, staff reported to the commissioners after looking into the matter.
Commissioner Judy Boggs asked staff to investigate possible dumping after reading a column by Dave Wilson, Maryland Coastal Bays Program outreach coordinator, in a local newspaper. Dumping such materials into local waterways is illegal.
“We’ve not seen any evidence of it. We’ve not had any complaints about it,” said Ed Tudor, head of Development Review and Permitting. “We stand ready to look into it.”
County Public Works Director John Tustin said, “At public works, we’ve never had any requests from carpet cleaners for disposal options. I’ve never seen anything like this either.”
Tustin called the matter a “non-issue” in the county.
Wilson, however, said he has witnessed four incidents in the county.
“I, personally, on four different occasions, have seen carpet cleaning trucks dumping waste, three times on Sinepuxant Rd. and one in the Isle of Wight Wildlife Management Area,” he said.
Ocean City sees more illegal dumping activity with the hottest spot on 94th Street.
While the dumping of the used cleaning solution is probably not a major problem, Wilson said, “We need to hand out some fines to show this will not be tolerated.”
Ocean City Environmental Engineer Gail Blazer said Ocean City does see dumping and that it’s hard to get a handle on it because the fines are so low.
“We’ve been struggling with it for a long time and trying to figure out what to do about it,” Blazer said.
Blazer said she does not like to resort to the legal system, instead attempting to educate offenders through letters and workshops.
Carpet cleaners are not the only people dumping unwanted material or substances into the storm drains, with Blazer targeting efforts to powerwashers, bulkheaders and car wash services as well.
“A lot of people think our storm drains go to the wastewater treatment plant but they don’t,” said Blazer. “Our storm drains dump right into the bay, shotgun right out to where we swim and fish.”
Carpet cleaning companies holding Ocean City business licenses can go to the Ocean City wastewater treatment plant and dump their used fluids for free.
Most respond positively to her efforts, according to Blazer.
“Ninety-percent of the people would do the right thing if they knew what the right thing was,” Blazer said.
Wilson said, “It’s a problem that’s solvable. We spend a lot of time on problems that are hard to get a grip on.”
Some, however, just do not care, and are not easily deterred by fines levied by the town, which begin at $25. The maximum fine under the littering law is $1,000, but it’s rarely handed out.
The Maryland Attorney General’s Environmental Crimes Unit is aware of the issue here, said Wilson.
The state can prosecute offenders under a law nixing ‘polluting waters of the state’, which carries a $10,000 maximum fine.
“That 10 percent needs to be fined and needs to be hit hard. They’re not going to change unless someone makes them,” said Blazer.
Wilson asked the public to report incidents to the police and to try to get photographic evidence. The state’s attorney’s office is often unwilling to prosecute without that proof, despite eyewitness accounts.
“I think Ocean City is going to be stepping up some efforts,” said Wilson.
“We want to keep our water clean because it keeps our economy going,” said Blazer.
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An estimated 36 percent of all Texans own a gun, and at least 1.2 million of them held an actively concealed carry permit in 2017. Texas firearms laws are primarily focused on who can carry a gun, where they can carry it, and how they can carry it. The law does not concern so much with who can own what type of guns.
“Shall Issue” State
Texas is considered a “shall issue” state where anyone, including a minor, can possess firearms subject to certain regulations under Texas firearms laws. The state also does not require gun owners to register their firearms or obtain a license.
When buying a handgun from federally licensed dealers, the buyer’s minimum age should be 21 years. Texas issues the license to carry (LTC) to residents as well as non-residents, provided they undertake a training course of four to six hours.
As long as the handgun is in a belt or shoulder holster, it is legal to carry the weapon openly in Texas. The state law also does not impose any restrictions on possessing large-capacity magazines or assault weapons. But to buy a rifle, the person should be at least 18 years old.
To ensure that you are on the right side of the law with regard to the ownership and purchase of guns, it is best to consult with an experienced Texas firearm attorney.
Which Weapons Are Prohibited in Texas
Section 46.05 prohibits the following weapons:
- Short-barreled firearms
- Machine guns
- Explosive weapons
- Brass knuckles
- Firearm silencers
- Chemical dispensing devices
- Tire deflation devices
- Zip guns
- Armor-piercing ammunition
Gun Carry Laws for Schools and Colleges
With a few exceptions, Texas prohibits firearms in and around school premises. Public four-year universities and two-year colleges allow concealed carry within campus grounds and buildings.
New Gun Laws in Texas from September 1, 2019
The following new laws came into effect in Texas on September 1, 2019:
- Senate Bill 535: permits the carrying of firearms in a church, synagogue, or another place of worship, except when it is specifically banned by the place with appropriate signage.
- Senate Bill 741: prohibits the banning of gun storage on rental properties by property owners’ associations.
- House Bill 121: legal protection for the owner of a licensed handgun who unintentionally enters a place which has banned guns, provided the person leaves when asked.
- House Bill 302: prohibits a property owner from banning a tenant or their guests from carrying a firearm.
- House Bill 1387: relaxes restrictions on how many school marshals can carry firearms at private and public schools in the state.
- House Bill 1177: allows the residents to carry firearms without a license for up to seven days following a natural disaster.
- House Bill 1143: prohibits Texas school authorities from banning licensed firearm owners from storing their firearms in their car in the parking lot.
- House Bill 2363: permits specific foster homes to store firearms in a locked place.
Who is Prohibited from Owning a Firearm in Texas?
Certain persons in Texas may not have the right to own or possess a firearm. These include individuals confined to penal institutions, minors who do not have the parental permission to own a firearm, and convicted felons until five years of their parole or release. If you are facing a firearm violation, choose a knowledgeable Texas firearm lawyer to protect your rights.
A firearm violation charge doesn’t mean you’re guilty. Your case can be fought, and it can be won. Flood & Associates has a team of dedicated Texas criminal defense attorneys that will fight tooth and nail for victory on your behalf. Call our team 24/7, 365 at 713-224-5529 for a free case review or contact us online to request a free consultation with one of our attorneys.
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The Château du Rouët is situated , at the foot of the red rock mountains, which are part of the Estérel mountain- range, nearby the Roman town of Fréjus.
Since its origin, the Vineyard, which has been established in fire- trenches, has contributed to the protection of the surrounding forest and is situated in an exceptional site.
The vines set between the Gorges de Pennafort and The Gorges du Blavet, are spread out on 70 hectares of preserved area, classed as Natura 2000.Surrounded by a remarkable forest of sequoias, cedars, palm trees, bambus, cork oaks and pine trees, the essence of the mediterranean forest, the vines are planted in fire trenches.
This vineyard is situated on a permian substratum of sandstone, which is covered with the fallen rocks of permian rhyolites or alluviums, generally of local origine. The vines are oriented towards the South and benefit of the Mistral as well as the breeze from the seaside. A few hectares of noble varietals are being planted. The soil, red sandstone from the permian period, acidic, volcanic (rhyolite), is the archetype of the "Terroir de Fréjus".
The terroir called "La Péguière of Victor" and the "Y", are part of the alluvium plane of the Paléo-Endre. This river draining the basin upstream the present Endre, crossed the massif Rouët through the Vallée Morte at the west of the estate.
During the Quaternary, a partial surrection of the Massif due to the Alpin fold deverted the flow of the water towards the present valley.
This genesis of the soil of the Rouët explains the presence of four types of soils:
- Shallow soils, essentially sandy resting on sandstone.
- Deep, sandy and acidic soils of gravel composed of granite and rhyolites. Among this gravel, some pebbles have been covered by tracks of cooking by lava.
- Sandy deep soils, containing some limestone in the alluvial valley of Paléo-Endre.
- Clayey, yellow deep soils with blocks and angular gravel of rhyolites; they correspond to the masses of fallen rocks of the massif of Rouët. The clayey part of these soils results from the chemical change of permienne rhyolites.
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Neurofeedback, also called EEG Biofeedback, is a state-of-the-art, non-invasive, drugless method for teaching the brain to function in a more balanced and healthful way. The goal of Neurofeedback is to improve the brain’s ability to self-regulate, maintain flexibility, and smoothly shift between states of relaxation and arousal.
To further explain, we know a healthy brain easily switches between Delta, Theta, Alpha and Beta brain speeds during the normal course of the day. When a brain has abnormal patterns, or there is dysregulation between the two hemispheres of the brain, unwanted symptoms and behaviors can occur.
Your brain is neuroplastic, which means it can change. Neurofeedback is essentially exercises for the brain that encourage this change to happen. Our technology allows us to monitor your brainwave activity and then give your brain feedback to help it learn. This feedback will be in the form of a video, movie, or sound that lets your brain know when it’s making improvements. By doing these exercises, your brain will learn to regulate its abnormal brainwave patterns. Ultimately, as brainwave patterns improve, you’ll have overall greater brain performance, including better control of your emotions and attention span.
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God-centered worship must be shaped by who God is, and the high-water mark of God's self-revelation is that he is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Yet, while the liturgies of the Eastern Church are permeated with Trinitarian prayers and doxologies, in the West the Trinity has in practice been relegated to a minor role.
Standard works of systematic theology in the Reformed tradition plow through page after page on the existence, knowability, being, attributes, and names of God; the Trinity usually brings up the rear, almost as an afterthought. This bias in Western Christianity is in stark contrast with Gregory Nazianzen, who states, "When I say God, I mean Father, Son, and Holy Ghost."
Examine any hymnbook and search for clearly Trinitarian compositionsyou won't find many. Many of our hymns could be sung by Unitarians, orthodox Jews, or Muslims. We may bring Trinitarian assumptions to these texts, but explicit recognition of the Trinity is often missing in them.
At each stage in covenant history, God revealed himself by name: in the Abrahamic covenant as God Almighty (Gen. 17:1), in the Mosaic covenant as "I am" and the Lord (Ex. 3:14; 6:3). At the apex of redemptive history, the founding of the new covenant (Matt. 26:28), Jesus gave instructions to make disciples of all nations, baptizing them into the one name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit (Matt. 28:19). Jesus, the Son, named God as the one God who is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. This is God's crowning revelation. Retrospectively, it casts light on all that led up to it.
The church's worship is grounded on who God is and what he has done. The Father has sent the Son "for us and our salvation." In turn, the Father, together with the Son, has sent the Holy Spirit to indwell the church. The focus of the Spirit's ministry is to speak of Christ the Son. This is summarized in Galatians 4:4-6: "But when the fullness of time had come, God [the Father] sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, 'Abba! Father!' " Here we see the basic premise of all God's actions: from the Father through the Son by the Holy Spirit. All three persons work together in harmonious indivisibility.
Paul writes that "through him [Christ] we both [Jew and Gentile] have access in one [Holy] Spirit to the Father." Access to God is ultimately access to the Father. This is through Christ, the one mediator between God and man (1 Tim. 2:5). The Spirit gives us life in place of death (Eph. 2:1), raises us in Christ (vs. 6), and graciously grants faith (vss. 8-10; cf. John 6:44). This is the reverse movementby the Holy Spirit through Christ to the Father. It characterizes our response to God in worship and indeed our entire relationship with him.
From this it follows that prayer is distinctively Trinitarian. The church and the Christian live in an atmosphere saturated by the Trinity. The Holy Spirit creates a desire to pray and worship God, brings us to faith, and sustains us in a life of faithful obedience. In turn, our access to the Father is exclusively through his Son, Jesus Christ, for no one comes to the Father except through him (John 14:6). Now that he has offered the one perfect sacrifice for sins for all time, we have access to the Father (Heb. 10:19-20), and so can approach with confidence the throne of grace, knowing that our great high priest is there to intercede for us. He has fully experienced the struggles of human life in a fallen world and so can help us powerfully in our weakness (Heb. 4:14-16). Indeed, Jesus introduces us to the same relation he has with the Father. He is the Son by nature; we are children by grace. We now call on God as "our Father." Moreover, the Spirit brings us into his own intercession (Rom. 8:26-27), eliminating the distance between us and God, creating in us the same relation he has with the Father and the Son. Prayer and worship is thus an exploration of the character of the Holy Trinity.
The Samaritan woman asked whether the proper place of worship was at Jerusalem (as the Jews insisted) or on Mount Gerizim (where the Samaritans worshiped). Jesus supported Jerusalem. However, he added, the time had come when the distinction between Israel and Samaria would be superseded. True worshipers now worship the Father in spirit and in truth.
What does Jesus mean? This hardly refers merely to physical location. Nor is "spirit" a reference to the human spirit, as if true worship were purely inward. Instead, we recall John's extensive teaching on the Holy Spirit, concentrated later in chapters 14-16. Every reference to pneuma (spirit) in John, bar two, points to the Holy Spirit. Jesus means that true worship is offered to the Father in the Holy Spirit. In the words of Basil the Great:
It is an extraordinary statement, but it is nonetheless true, that the Spirit is frequently spoken of as the place of them that are being sanctified.... This is the special and peculiar place of true worship.... In what place do we offer it? In the Holy Spirit.... It follows that the Spirit is truly the place of the saints and the saint is the proper place for the Spirit, offering himself as he does for the indwelling of God, and called God's temple.
As for "truth," need we look further than John's record of Jesus as the embodiment of truth (14:6), as the true light coming into the world (1:9), "full of grace and truth" (1:14), who as a result brought grace and truth into the world (1:17)? Is not Jesus pointing to himself, implying, as Paul does, that worship in the new covenant is Trinitarian? We worship the Father in the Holy Spirit and in the fullness of truth, his incarnate Son.
Let us put it another way. From the side of God, the worship of the church is the communion of the Holy Trinity with us, his people. We tend to view worship as what we do, but if we follow our argument, it is first and foremost something the Trinity does, our actions being initiated and encompassed by his. Christ offered himself up unblemished to the Father "through the eternal Spirit," probably referring to the Holy Spirit (Heb. 9:14). Since our salvation is in union with Christ, what is his by nature is ours by grace. In his self-offering to the Father, he offers us, his people, in him. We are thereby enabled to share in the relation he has with the Father. (Thus we pray to "our Father in heaven." He is our Father by grace because he is Jesus' Father by nature.) Jesus, remember, ascended to his Father and our Father, to his God and our God (John 20:17).
Christ is, in reality, the one true worshiper. Our worship is a participation in his. Further, our worship in Christ is by the Holy Spirit. This should reassure us, for, as John Owen reminds us, while "the love of God is like himself,equal, constant, not capable of augmentation or diminution; our love is like ourselves,unequal, increasing, waning, growing, declining."
Christian worship is determined, initiated, and shaped by, and directed to, the Holy Trinity. Therefore, we worship the three with one undivided act of adoration. The Father was determined that his kingdom be established and advanced principally by the Son. Christ was exalted to the glory of the Father (Phil. 2:9-11). In turn, the Son, having glorified the Father, will hand the kingdom back to him (1 Cor. 15:24, 28). Again, the Holy Spirit works anonymously and invisibly, not speaking of himself, for he hears the Son and bears witness to him.
Gregory of Nyssa writes of a "revolving circle" of glory: "The Son is glorified by the Spirit; the Father is glorified by the Son; again the Son has His glory from the Father; and the Only-begotten thus becomes the glory of the Spirit.... In like manner, again, Faith completes the circle, and glorifies the Son by means of the Spirit, and the Father by means of the Son." God is one indivisible being, three irreducibly distinct persons; three irreducibly distinct persons, one indivisible being. Our prayer and worship are to be shaped accordingly.
Gregory Nazianzen, Oration on the Theophany, or Birthday of Christ, 38.8.
See Dumitru Staniloae, The Experience of God (Brookline, Mass.: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 1994"), 1:248-49.
Basil of Caesarea, On the Holy Spirit, 26.62.
See Athanasius, Letters to Serapion on the Holy Spirit, 1.33, for a similar explanation.
A. M. Ramsay, The Glory of God and the Transfiguration of Christ (London: Longmans, 1949), 91ff.
John Owen, Of Communion with God, in Works, 2:29-30.
Gregory of Nyssa, On the Holy Spirit, in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, 5:324.
The author is senior pastor of Emmanuel OPC in Wilmington, Del. He is the author of The Holy Trinity (P&R, 2004). Reprinted from New Horizons, May 2006.
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Climate Change, Scarcity, & Global Access to Water: A Conversation with Yuvbir Singh
In 2020, seven in 10 Americans believed that at some point in their lives they’d need to move due to the impacts of climate change. Sixty-nine percent also agreed that water scarcity was a major environmental concern of theirs.
Communities across the globe share that concern. According to the World Economic Forum, by 2050 380 million people could face water stress.
For our CEO, Yuvbir Singh, water access is both a professional mission and personal passion. Growing up in India, where he still has a large extended family, he saw how some areas struggled to have consistent access to clean water. This firsthand experience has fueled his focus on helping communities achieve water security and partnering with industries to reduce their water footprints.
While everyone may have a different perspective or experience with water availability, we all understand the essential role it plays. Ahead of World Water Day, Yuvbir sat down to talk about what the value of water means to him.
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A Brief History of International Relations: The World Made Easy
Motivation for Writing The World Made Easy
Since her first international assignment in 1988, she had been fascinated with all things international. Her reading interests immediately became internationally oriented. When she studied for her Ph.D. in management, it had an international dimension and she began teaching international business. At gatherings, she seized any opportunity to educate people on what was occurring in different parts of the world. She could see people were interested, but like a student that jumps to an advanced course without studying the pre-requisites, they seemed a bit overwhelmed.
By 2009, American news channels were regularly broadcasting news from all over the world. It was clear to her that even news editors were missing pre-requisite knowledge. She decided that she wanted anyone interested in international events to be able to understand it and she would do this by writing a book that made the world easy to understand. Five years later, she sat wondering if she had taken on something impossible. Two years later, she realized she had not and began writing a story of why world happenings really can be made much easier to understand, enabling anyone globally curious to discover that the world is composed of completely fascinating people and places. This story became The World Made Easy.
Every week there are puzzling reports of events involving China, Russia, the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. They may not seem so baffling if media reports explained that the events are all part of an ongoing competition for global supremacy. This book’s objective is to make the world seem less perplexing by delivering essential context that facilitates connecting and grasping global events. Contextualization focuses on three areas: (1) the competition for global supremacy (1453–1945), (2) the 20th-century transition from giant empires to 193 nation-states, and (3) a shortage of qualified national leaders.
It strikes many as a shocking revelation that in the early 20th century the Chinese, Russians, Turks, and Europeans were still ruling most of the world and battling for global supremacy. Empires conquering, and subjugating populations sounds like the ancient history of gladiators fighting starving tigers, not something so recent that it provides simple explanations to many of today’s headlines, like Islamic unrest, obstinate China, Russian intransigence, European xenophobia, and American meddling.
What’s behind Islamic militants spewing venom toward “western imperialists?” The competition for global supremacy, the transition to nations states, and a shortage of adept leaders that are global citizens. It wasn’t long ago that Islamic empires were riding roughshod over Christian empires – the western imperialists. But in 1923 Muslim empires were gone, and Christian empires were “overseeing” their lands, which included allocating land for a new Zionist nation. For Muslims, these outcomes were mortifying, but it’s been worsened by political and religious leaders opportunistically interpreting history to cast Muslims as innocent victims of western Christian hegemons. Hence the venom.
In the 21st century, China’s rise has been inexorable; at some point it was inevitable. For centuries the Chinese Empire cut a daunting figure on the world stage. Then it suffered a Century of Humiliation (1839–1949) at the hands of Russian, Japanese, and European empires. Since 1949, China’s leaders have taken no prisoners. They have been executing strategies, some successful and some clearly not, to minimally re-dominate the world’s largest continent, home to 60 percent of the global population.
The Russian Empire shared the global limelight until its’ dissolution in the early 20th century. In the interwar years Russia, as the lead nation in the Soviet Union, was re-ascending. When World War II (WWII) ended it sat higher than it ever had on the global pecking order. It was positioned to redevelop an empire-like commanding presence on the world stage, but to do this, its leaders had to disregard the new zeitgeist of a world of sovereign nation-states providing fundamental freedoms for all. Soviet success lay in showcasing communism’s superiority to the democratic and capitalist systems used by western powers. Forty-six years later the showcase was a joke, and the Soviet Union lost its superpower perch and its empire. Their primary adversary had been the United States, a puny colony when Russia was a vast empire. Ouch. After the Cold War, Russia re-emerged again. It had all the appearances of round two with the western powers. The USA bore a bullseye.
In the early 21st century, membership was soaring for some anti-immigrant parties in European nations. Conjuring up memories of WWII’s very dark period of racism, many Europeans were surprised and horrified. But for centuries racism pervaded Europe’s global colonial empires and relations with non-European empires. Histories involving discrimination have a very long half-life.
The conversion from empires to nations occurred just in the nick of time. Early on competitors fought for religious converts. During the uber contests of WWI and WWII, there was no hint of moral purpose. Concentration camps, the vivisection of prisoners, and the murder and rape of millions of civilians reflected a competition for global supremacy that had gone too far. The global zeitgeist of massive imperial powers annexing tracts of land as large as continents and subjugating hundreds of millions of indigenous people had to end before it was too late.
Altering the course of history was a decision taken by WWII’s primary Allied Powers: China, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States. (France was later added to this group of decision makers.) A principal vehicle for transitioning the world from empires to nation-states was the newly created United Nations, an organization where new and old nations alike committed to respect sovereignty and protect equal freedoms for all people. The most powerful roles at the UN were allocated to the primary Allied Powers and France. Political giants dominating the world during the Era of Empire (1453–1945) were positioned to do it again in an Era of Nation-States (1945–?), with two material changes. The United States was in, and an Islamic power was out.
In the Era of Nation-States, colonial populations had the opportunity to self-determine independence. Ready or not they flocked to be free from the subjugation of foreign empires. Annually for the next fifty years three sovereign nations,[i]on average, were added to the global atlas. In 1945, there were fifty-seven nations.[ii]In 2018, there were 193.
Declarations of independence were joyous events as the yoke of subjugated rule was finally over. But the euphoria was short-lived. People had been so focused on dispensing with the imperialists they failed to adequately contemplate their state of preparedness. And they were not prepared. There was no shortage of men stepping up to the plate to be national governors. There were so many wannabes; coups were as common as elections. Many new national leaders arrived in office and refused to leave outside a coup or a coffin. Instead of building infrastructure and institutions, many used national treasuries like personal piggy banks.
The Cold War was another problem. Divisions among the former WWII Allied Powers shattered the UN’s effectiveness and reignited the competition for global supremacy. Between 1947 and 1991 pro-democracy western powers including France and the United Kingdom but led by the US global-power neophyte engaged in proxy wars with the advocates for global communism led by the Soviet Union and China.
The Cold War tread comparatively lightly on Muslim-majority nations, but this hardly left them conflict free. The controversial creation of Israel, as a homeland for Jewish people amid Muslim nations, instigated successive Arab-Israeli and Iran-Israeli wars.[iii]In 1979 there was a new source of conflict. Shiite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia commenced a proxy war for the leadership of Islam, the Middle East and North African (MENA) region, and the entire community of Muslims. It was reminiscent of a return to the 16th to 18th-century battles between the Safavid and Ottoman empires.
An estimated 20 million people died from Cold War-related conflicts. Most were from new nations that were vulnerable to the influence of global powers. In the Arab-Israeli and Iran-Israeli conflicts, there were over 100,000 fatalities and millions became refugees. Casualties from the Iran-Saudi proxy wars are unknown. What is known, is where there was conflict there were setbacks to nation-building.
When the Cold War ended, pundits imagined that finally, global peace was at hand, there would be global ideological unity behind democracy and capitalist-weighted systems, the UN would resume its enumerated responsibilities, and countries would focus on nation-building. These were the naive thoughts of people unfamiliar with the ongoing competition for global supremacy. The world has never been united on democracy and capitalism or fundamental freedoms for all, in agreement with the roles of the UN, or even the replacement of empires by nation-states.
But there would be no return to empire. The world had turned a corner. The Soviet Union was the last hurrah of empires, and it did not turn out well.
Nation-building continued to face enormous challenges. The responsibilities for oversight allocated to the United Nations were dogged by disunited former Allied Powers and the Organization of Islamic Powers. A void of global supervision was replaced with regional oversight by familiar global powers. China, the European Union replacing Europe’s empires, Iran and Saudi Arabia for the Islamic empires, and Russia were rebuilding spheres of influence in areas where people followed similar religions, spoke similar languages, and shared common histories. These were the same areas ruled by their predecessor empires. Aftermaths of the competition for global supremacy created a means for the grandest competitors of the Era of Empire to perpetuate global power in the Era of Nation-States.
The influence these nations/unions have on their respective spheres has been impressive. The global influence of the United States has also been impressive. But rarely does influence exceed that from sovereign leaders. Sovereigns’ control national resources and ultimately decide on the relationships with foreign powers. They manage national success or failure. Their collective track records are abysmal. Initially, this was foreseeable. Neither the empires nor the UN were running national leadership academies. A continuation of so much lousy national leadership decades later is harder to reconcile. There is nothing that prevents sovereign nations from developing qualified leaders.
Nineteen forty-five was a pivotal year in world history and not just because WWII ended. This is when the world began transitioning from the Era of Empire (1453–1945) to the Era of Nation-States (1945–?). The Era of Nation-States is historically speaking brand new. The world is filled with start-up nations built upon the aftermaths of empires by many inexperienced and misguided leaders. Examining these premises offers context to connect and simplify world events. Instead of events being hard to fathom, there is an easy path to make them understandable. Grasping high-level issues, like why some nations are rich and others poor, and why some nations see discrimination as bad and others see it as useful for organizing society can be streamlined. Insights into the nuances of relationships between China, the EU, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United States can become increasingly evident.
At a more granular level there is context to grasp things like: Why does the United States attract so many poisonous barbs from nations in Latin America? What possesses Russia to create havoc in western democracies? Why did Islamic militancy begin rising when the Cold War ended? Why can’t nations in Eastern Europe escape the clutch of Russia? Why do many small nations in eastern Asia live in trepidation of rising China? Why do so many take exception to Western European statesman as the pontificators of peace? And, why was the UN’s mission as a peacekeeper doomed at inception?
[i]. A sovereign by definition has ultimate power between its recognized borders.
[ii]. In this book, the term nation refers to a UN-recognized sovereign. However, applying this definition in 1945 would leave out nations like Germany, Italy, and Japan because initially the only sovereigns recognized by the UN were those that supported the Allied Powers. In this instance, the reference to fifty-seven nations is an approximate number of independent nations in 1945.
[iii]. With the Soviet Union supporting Arab nations and the United States supporting Israel, some consider these Cold War-related conflicts, but these wars had nothing to do with communists vs. democrats or anti-communists, and they continued after the Cold War ended.
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Launch of the European research and innovation program PARC
Published in 13/5/2022
On May 12 and 13, the European partnership for the assessment of risks from chemicals (PARC) was launched in Paris. This partnership aims to develop the next generation of chemical risk assessment, incorporating both human health and the environment in a "One Health" approach. Among the nine signatory entities that are part of this Platform is a team from the Center for Environmental and Marine Studies-CESAM, at the University of Aveiro.
PARC aims to bring together a broad community of research institutions and regulatory agencies to advance research, share knowledge and improve expertise in chemical risk assessment. The results of this partnership, which began on May 1, 2022, will be used to support new European and national strategies to reduce exposure to hazardous chemicals and their impact on health and the environment. PARC will contribute to the European Union's Chemicals Sustainability Strategy and the "zero pollution" ambition of the European Green Deal.
It involves almost 200 partners from 28 countries, as well as three EU agencies (the European Environment Agency - EEA, the European Chemicals Agency - ECHA and the European Food Safety Authority - EFSA), with the participation of European public partners, including European and national risk assessment agencies, universities and public research organizations. Five European Commission Directorates General (DG-RTD, DG-GROW, DG-ENV, DG-SANTE and JRC) and the ministries of the countries involved are contributing to the governance of PARC and will monitor its activities.
The partnership will run for seven years and is scheduled to end in spring 2029. PARC has an estimated budget of €400 million, half of which is being funded by the European Commission and the rest by the partner countries. ANS ES is the coordinator of the partnership. In Portugal, PARC is articulated by the National Platform for Environment and Health, which includes the Ministries of Health, Environment and Climate Change, and Science, Technology and Higher Education, and the signatories National Institute of Health Dr. Ricardo Jorge and Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon. Among the nine signatory entities that are part of this Platform is a team from the Center for Environment and Sea Studies-CESAM, coordinator at the University of Aveiro, and a team from the Institute of Biomedicine-iBiMED. These two teams will be involved in several working groups on environmental and human monitoring, chemical hazard assessment, ecotoxicology and toxicology, risk assessment of chemical mixtures, as well as a component of training and capacity building of human resources and dissemination and communication with the different stakeholders, including the general public.
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Even with Microsoft and Sony making big moves to boost their next-gen offerings, the Nintendo NX arguably remains the most intriguing console currently in the works.
With the company expecting to release it’s mysterious next step by March 2017, any word of potential production schedules is certainly worth taking note of.
As such, Nintendo’s director of manufacturing has revealed the mass production of the console is being prepared, but not yet underway.
All that’s left is to consider how much of the process Nintendo will automate, said Hirokazu Shinshi (via SegmentNext) during the recent annual shareholder's meeting.
Related: Nintendo NX: Everything we know
This suggests Nintendo may have completed the final designs and is simply figuring out how to go about building the NX in the most cost effective way possible.
Speaking on the subject of automation Hirokazu Shinshi said: “I’m in charge of manufacturing. Labour costs have shot up in the last 10 years in China and across ASEAN nations. Manufacturing automation has long been practised in Japan, and is now done in China.
“While making the same product for a long time, the amount manufactured changes based on things like the Christmas season. It’s easy to automate unchanging production amounts, but it’s difficult when they do change.
"We’re thoroughly communicating with our partners to make adjustments. As for the NX, manufacturing is being prepped. We’re considering how much to automate.”
Unfortunately we still know very little for sure about the Nintendo NX console, with Nintendo pulling a virtual no-show at the E3 gaming expo.
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This species was described from the Philippines, with a holotype specimen measuring 40 mm in length, alive, from Mactan Island, Cebu and a paratype measuring 35 mm from Anilao, Batangas. It is found in the tropical western Pacific, including: Indonesia, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Mabul, New Britain, the Davao Gulf, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Sulawesi, Great Barrier Reef and Taiwan.
This animal is one of a group of mainly white species of Halgerda with orange markings. It is characterized by a network of fine, solid, red-orange lines on the mantle. It has a white band around the mantle containing low rounded orange-capped tubercles. The mantle tubercles range in size from small rounded bumps to tall, prominent structures.
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An article by Elga Reyes, eco-business.com.
For all the energy innovations in the 21st century, over 1.2 billion people worldwide still do not have electricity at home. And yet on any given day, only one hour’s worth of energy from the sun is enough to sustain the energy consumption of the entire world for a year.
Recognizing the huge potential for solar energy to address existing energy poverty, Swiss power and automation giant ABB recently hosted a session on solar energy on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Manila. The discussion, held on May 22, called “Sharing the sun: The future of solar energy in East Asia”, centred on advancements in solar, as well as the opportunities and challenges for this sector in the region in the context of achieving equitable progress – the theme of the WEF.
Experts on the panel highlighted Asia’s energy poverty woes, particularly in archipelago nations like the Philippines and Indonesia where millions still do not have electricity, hindering development. Policies promoting deployment of solar and innovative business models that capitalise on existing solar technologies are key factors that can drive sustainable and inclusive economies, they said.
Maxene Ghavi, head of ABB’s solar industry segment initiative and a panellist at the Manila discussion, noted that ABB supports both traditional power applications and applications for off- or microgrids, especially in Asia where energy security and access to energy is “very, very critical”.
ABB is the world’s second-largest supplier of solar inverters. It also provides products that cater to the entire range of the solar photovoltaic (PV) value chain – from generation and transmission to distribution and maintenance. Some of its specific solutions include inverters for large-scale PV power plants and grid stabilization technology that integrates renewable energy into microgrids or off-grid locations for a reliable supply of power.
ABB believes solar energy decouples economic growth from energy consumption and improves lives, especially across various appliations, said Ghavi.
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A chromosomally abnormal child with psychomotor retardation and multiple anomalies, including agenesis of the corpus callosum and cleft palate, was born following artificial insemination by donor. Chromosomal and conventional markers were used to ascertain paternity. Varius banding techniques were employed to identify the origin of the extra chromosomal material as most likely a duplication deficiency of the short arm of chromosome No. 8.
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In my youth my grandfather and father would sit me down from time to time to share a pertinent piece of advice that suited whatever situation was at hand or to bestow upon me a bit of wisdom that they had either learned in their life or had been bestowed upon them by the men in their family. If I were to give just one piece of advice to everyone in the new year it would be a motto I live my life by, and that is "Be Mindful."
Be mindful of what you do, what you say, how you act and how you treat people. Be mindful of others. Be mindful that what you do affects others. Be mindful to not let others adversely influence or affect you. Be mindful that at the end of the day you are responsible for the things you do. Most importantly, be mindful of your passions, ideals and happiness.
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A group of human rights organisations representing hundreds of victims have announced they would not participate in the trial of Côte d'Ivoire's (Ivory Coast) former first lady Simone Gbagbo for crimes against humanity. She was arrested in 2011, along with her husband, former President Laurent Gbagbo, and has already been sentenced to jail on a separate charge.
Her husband's refusal to cede office to Alassane Ouattara in November 2010 sparked five months of violence that claimed at least 3,000 lives, according to UN estimates. During the unrest over 150 women were raped or gang-raped, people faced summary executions and villages were burned down.
In March, the former first lady was sentenced to 20 years in jail for her role in the violence that followed the 2010 elections, after being convicted of "attacking state authority". Last week, Ivory Coast's supreme court rejected her appeal against the prison sentence.
FIDH, MIDH and LIDHO dismiss 'credibility' of trial
As the second trial of Simone Gbagbo opened before the Assize Court in the capital Abidjan on 30 May, three rights organisations − the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Ivorian Human Rights Movement (MIDH) and Ivorian Human Rights League (LIDHO) − representing 250 victims and civil parties announced they would not participate in the trial. They object to everything being pinned on Simone Gbagbo alone, when there were others equally responsible for the atrocities that should stand trial with her.
From Abidjan, FIDH spokesman, Antonin Rabecq claimed the trial, where the first lady is appearing alone, is "held in a hurry" and that victims' rights have been violated casting doubts about the "credibility" of the trial.
"Our participation as civil parties to those proceedings arose from the belief that the Ivorian justice could face the huge challenge of the need for a judicial response to the post-election crisis," Rabecq said.
However, magistrates and investigators faced "blockages" in their search for the truth, and Simone Gbagbo appears before the court in the absence of those with whom she is accused of having planned and committed the most serious crimes, some of whom have now been charged with the same offences.
Victims' rights 'violated'
"It is in this context that our organisations have learned in an incidental manner and with amazement, the imminent upcoming trial of Mrs Simone Gbagbo. This amazement was even greater because the most basic rights of civil parties have been violated since our lawyers were never notified of the various steps that led to the organisation of this trial," Rabecq added.
"Therefore, how is it conceivable that, while the post-election crisis was punctuated by the perpetuation of the most serious crimes across the country with a multiplicity of perpetrators and victims in a tangle of criminal liability that justice must individualise, such a hastily organised trial with Simone Gbagbo as the only accused, can truly effectively bring justice to the victims?"
This comes despite the fact the organisations had always maintained publicly, in Côte d'Ivoire and on the international stage, the importance of the proceedings, welcoming any positive steps, such as the establishment of the Special Investigation Unit and Instruction (CSEI).
The rights organisations urged the judicial authorities to adopt a clear strategy, including holding a series of trials covering the different events of the post-election crisis.
Such an approach, based on analysis of the facts, evidence and testimony, would allow the courts to prosecute the main culprits in a coherent manner and to understand not only the "Gbagbo system" and its criminal drift after the presidential election 2010, but also the serious crimes committed by the Ivorian armed forces (FRCI) during their offensive in 2011.
Meanwhile, Laurent Gbabgo is standing trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes linked to the civil unrest. He is accused of having started a campaign of rape, intimidation and violence against opposition supporters.
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The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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By Oh Seok-min
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A Tour Of The Tragedy In Washington Mudslide Zone
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST:
In Snohomish County, Washington, crews are still digging through tons of mud and debris trying to find survivors. Some 90 people are still missing after Saturday's landslide. At least 25 are dead.
Reporters are now being let into the mudslide zone. Among them is Tom Banse of Northwest News Network. He joins us now.
And, Tom, describe what you saw on this tour earlier today.
TOM BANSE: Well, Audie, it's a scene that hits you in the gut even if you know, like I do, what to expect. And it reminds me most actually of Mount St. Helen's, which is in another part of Washington state, and the similarly deadly 1980 eruption and aftermath of that. A fire battalion chief was leading us today up to a bluff where we got a view over a wide, bumpy plain that's almost uniformly dark gray. Not ash in this case, but just gray mud and clay.
And there's water collecting in low spots and splintered, fully-grown trees scattered all over looking like spilled matchsticks, maybe. And around the edges of this forbidding debris field are signs of homes and human structures that are just barely - really unrecognizable, just all mixed up like they've been tumbled in a half-mile long washing machine or something.
CORNISH: And you call this a forbidding debris field. I mean, what are workers on the ground actually doing to make their way through it?
BANSE: Well, it's tough. And it continued to rain here today, which is really not helpful. And if the searchers aren't careful, they can sink into this slop up to their thighs or their armpits, even, and need rescuing themselves. So today I saw teams building log bridges. Elsewhere in the debris field, teams are using donated plywood to make pathways across it. And so what we have here is kind of a human-scale arterial network developing from the edges deeper into this square-mile disaster scene.
But there are still spots here where rescue workers would like to bring in heavy machinery to lift off roofs or whole tree stumps. But they can't get in with the heavy machinery because the terrain is like a swamp, to quote the local fire chief.
CORNISH: Obviously, you're describing a lot of danger that remains here. But I understand family members of some of the victims are also being allowed up to the landslide area.
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BANSE: That's absolutely right. And the battalion chief who showed me around today again said as much, that we're still treating this as a rescue mission. But the reality is sinking in that it's really unlikely that anyone is still alive out there. There had been no signs of life detected since Saturday night. And with that, the enormity of the loss facing this community is sinking in. And today, I heard comparisons for the first time to whether this will be the worst or among the worst natural disasters in Pacific Northwest history.
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BANSE: Thank you. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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The homicide of King Canute the Saint
The Danish King Canute the Saint was killed in St Alban church in Odense July 1086. According to a legend the king was kneeling in prayers when a lance thrust to his side killed him. Our re-examination of the skeleton presumed to belong to Canute showed a slimly build man with an approximate stature of 165-170 cm and an age of 27-38 years. There was a peri-mortem lesion on the sacral bone. It was a so-called hinge-fracture that consisted of a horizontal fracture on the ventral surface of the 3th sacral vertebra, and with a corresponding crack on the dorsal surface of the sacral bone. Computed tomography shoed these two fractures to be connected. We suggest that the fracture was caused by a thrust of a sharp instrument through the abdomen with direction posterior and to the right.
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MoAD focuses on hybrids of new traditions and old cultures that issue from forces such as slavery, war, famine, and technology. While several of the artworks examine our global connection to ancient Africa, the more recent dispersal of Africans during the time of the Middle Passage is also studied in the context of endurance and the universality of human struggle. And since people have both preserved and reinvented their cultures through movement, the collective story MoAD tells is not solely Africa's.
Two major exhibitions open the new museum: "Linkages and Themes in the African Diaspora" and "Made in Africa." The first is made up of pieces from art-collector heavyweights Eileen Harris Norton and Peter Norton, and consists of mixed media, photos, paintings, and video that blend folky primitivism with dystopic dreamscapes of urban life. Artists in the exhibition include Kenyan-born Wangechi Mutu, whose ink-soaked collages of idealized female body parts are signifiers of civil strife and political instability; and Cuban-born Belkis Ayon, whose wraithlike black-and-white prints fuse animal, plant, and human. Ayon's pictorial myths enact stories of the Abakua, an all-male secret society in the early 1800s that was essentially an underground resistance movement against Spanish rule on the continent.
"Made in Africa," on loan from London's British Museum, takes viewers back to the glory days of Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge, where some of the oldest cutting implements in the world were unearthed. The show comprises three stone tools mounted atop plinths, giving visitors a 360-degree view. The museum even ups the wow factor by allowing visitors the opportunity to handle the stones. In the words of MoAD Director V. Denise Bradley, in addition to inducing awe, "These objects speak directly to a key premise of our program -- that human life, society, technology, and art all began in Africa." For those of us who missed the dawn of civilization, MoAD's opening might be the closest we get to an encore presentation. -- Nirmala Nataraj
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KPMG, one the Big Four accounting firms in Canada, and the United States has announced the creation of its first metaverse collaboration center to assist its clients and employees in pursuing digital growth opportunities.
KPMG has launched a new collaboration hub to connect clients and employees with Web3. This year, the company will invest $30 million in Web3 experiences. The metaverse hub is the “signature” piece.
Fortune’s Tuesday report states that the hub will focus on education, collaboration and training. Cliff Justice, KPMG U.S. leader in enterprise innovation, stated that the hub is currently being used for these purposes but that KPMG plans to hire people to help build and expand it.
The company’s long-term goal is to explore other possible metaverse use cases, such as financial, media, health care, retail, media, and consumer services.
By 2030, global spending on the #metaverse could hit $5 trillion
#eCommerce, #VirtualAdvertising will be the primary sources of income for the space.
What do you think?
Read the full @McKinsey report on @Cointelegraph https://t.co/zrakjjxoja pic.twitter.com/yfwDFHyAkw
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June 28, 2022
Laura Newinski is the deputy chair and chief operational officer of KPMG USA.
“The metaverse offers a market opportunity, a means to re-engage talent and a pathway to connect people around the world through a new collaborative experience.”
As part of their innovation strategy, the companies will continue exploring possibilities in the cryptocurrency and Web 3.0 spaces, co-create tools and solutions that provide critical insight, launch immersive learning platforms and development platforms, and recruit talent to share knowledge and help navigate changing confluences of the digital and physical worlds.
Similar: Yahoo launches Metaverse events in Hong Kong for residents who are subject to restrictions
People’s interest was sparked by the COVID-19 crisis. As more people work online and attend school online, there has been an increase of interest in internet contact methods. JPMorgan, the largest bank in the United States, made headlines in early this year by publishing a paper suggesting that metaverse technology was “one trillion-dollar potential.” It also established its own virtual headquarters in Decentraland ( MAA) metaverse.
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[alsa-devel] How to enforce 32bit access?
xyzzy at speakeasy.org
Thu Oct 11 21:29:04 CEST 2007
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Joachim Foerster wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 10:50 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > The problem is that the driver still accepts the 16bit format mono
> > stream. That's what I pointed in my previous post. There is no
> > format conversion in alsa-lib at all. It's only channel expansion
> > >from mono to stereo. The hardware accepts 16bit stereo. So, there is
> > nothing wrong from this viewpoint.
> By "conversion framework" I actually meant the channel expansion - code
> which somehow "works in the data" before sending it to the hardware.
> And yes, 16 bit samples are the only sample format supported by the
> hardware. But "by design of the hardware" the smallest write access has
> to be 32 bit wide (2 samples, stereo only)
> So, do I understand you right, when I say: an ALSA driver does _not_ hav
> ethe possibility to force alsa-lib to write 32 bit entities, only?
Joachim, it sounds like your alsa driver memory maps your device's memory
buffer? And since this buffer is not normal system memory, it cannot be
necessarily be accessed the same way. In this case, it only supports 32-bit
ALSA doesn't put any requirements on a mmaped sound buffer. I think most
hardware has the buffer in system memory and uses DMA, so there aren't any
requirements about how to access it.
Even if alsa-lib only did 32-bit accesses, any random userspace program using
mmap mode might do 16 or 8 or un-aligned or whatever.
One could add a flag to ALSA for this, SNDRV_PCM_INFO_MMAP_32BIT, that means
the mmap area must be accessed with aligned 32-bit (or more?) operations. But
no software knows about this (yet), and it sounds like you've got the only
hardware that needs it.
You could modify your driver so that it no longer supports mmap. You would
need to create a bounce buffer in system memory (ALSA has code for this) and
then your driver will copy from the bounce buffer into your device memory. Of
course, this is less efficient and will have more latency.
It sounds like when alsa-lib does mono to stereo conversion, it does two 16
bit writes instead of one 32 bit. Duplicating the 16-bit data in a register
and doing one 32 bit write should be faster. Regardless of your deivce, this
seems like a good optimization to make. I know modern x86 processors don't
like combining 16 and 32 bit access to the same memory; it causes partial
Maybe you could make this optimization to alsa-lib, and then your device would
work well enough for your needs?
More information about the Alsa-devel
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has thanked Australia for its role in Iraq and predicted that democracy-building there will succeed. In Sydney, she encountered heckling by anti-war protesters in a forum with university students.
Though the Australian government has backed the United States with the deployment of several-hundred troops in Iraq, opinion polls here indicate that a majority of Australians are concerned about the war and the direction of U.S. foreign policy.
The misgivings were evident at a public forum Secretary Rice held with students at the University of Sydney. Anti-war activists demonstrated outside the hall, while inside, the secretary's appearance was twice disrupted by a handful of protesters who shouted, before being escorted outside, that the she is a war criminal with blood on her hands.
Protester: "Iraqi blood is on your hands, and you can not wash that blood away!"
Rice: "I am very glad to see that democracy is well and alive here at the university. I am also especially glad to note that democracy will now also be alive and well at the university of Kabul and the university of Baghdad."
The secretary said she understood that many oppose the approach the Bush administration took after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and that criticism in a democracy is fair.
But she said it cannot be argued that the Middle East of 2001 was a better place than it is today, with what she called the "malignancy" of the region's politics producing the terrorism of al-Qaida, with Saddam Hussein still in power in Baghdad, while Syrian forces controlled Lebanon, and the Palestinian Authority was in the hands of Yasser Arafat.
"It is not as if the administration's policies have somehow upset a pristine and stable Middle East that was marching toward progress," she said. "In fact it has overturned 60 years of policies that turned a blind eye to the freedom gap in the Middle East, that turned a blind eye or responded weakly to terrorist attack, after terrorist attack, after terrorist attack. And I know that that is hard. But I believe that history will demonstrate that it was the right decision
Earlier at a meeting with Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, she expressed gratitude for the sacrifices of U.S. allies such as Australia, who were determined, as she put it, "to see the Iraqi people of Iraq have this chance." She said despite daily headlines of violence, there is a very good chance that Iraqis, with the support of the U.S.-led military coalition, will build a good foundation for a stable and secure country over the next couple of years.
Australia has about a thousand soldiers in Iraq, mainly in the southern part of the country, protecting non-combat Japanese soldiers involved in reconstruction projects.
Several hundred more Australians are in coalition support roles in the Middle East, and the country's defense minister, Brendan Nelson, said this week Australia will maintain its presence well into 2007.
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[image-51]UPDATE June 24, 2011 - A high-speed solar wind stream is currently impacting the Earth's magnetic field. The mixture of the high-speed stream and CME that erupted from solar corona on June 21 is expected to keep the geomagnetic activity level elevated. Auroral displays are possible at high-latitude locations.
UPDATE June 22, 2011 - A CME propelled toward Earth on June 21 may be moving slower than originally thought. Analysts at the GSFC Space Weather Lab have downgraded the cloud's probable speed from 500 to 400 miles per second (800 to 650 km/s). Impact is now expected on June 24 at 3am EDT (0700 UT) with a weaker blow to Earth's magnetic field expected. A relatively mild G1-class geomagnetic storm is expected when the cloud arrives.
06.21.11 - Solstice Flare and CME
[image-94]Late in the evening on June 20 the sun emitted a long lasting C7.7 small class flare that peaked around 11:25p.m. EDT. A C-class flare is a relatively small flare.
The flare was associated with a coronal mass ejection that bloomed off the sun at 11:09p.m. EDT (0309 UT). The movie shown above was captured by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory spacecraft.
Preliminary NASA modeling shows the CME to be moving in Earth's direction at almost 500 miles per second (800 km/s). Geomagnetic effects and possible auroras on Earth should be moderate, appearing on June 23.
What is a solar flare? What is a CME?
For answers to these and other space weather questions, please visit the Spaceweather Frequently Asked Questions page.
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The California Museum
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The California Museum, formerly The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts – home of the California Hall of Fame – is housed in the State Archives Building in Sacramento, one block from the State Capitol. The building has more than 20,000 square feet (1,900 m2) of exhibit space, and facilities for lectures, performances, receptions and events.
- 1 History
- 2 Exhibits
- 2.1 California Indians: Making A Difference
- 2.2 California's Remarkable Women
- 2.3 Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience during World War II
- 2.4 Riding Concrete: Skateboarding In California
- 2.5 California Innovates: The Computer Chip
- 2.6 Mas Chisme de la Cultura/Spinning Cultural Stories
- 2.7 Women & Spirit: Catholic Sisters In America
- 3 Previous Exhibits
- 3.1 American Masterpieces: The Artistic Legacy of California Indian Basketry
- 3.2 Out of this World: Extraordinary Costumes from Television and Film
- 3.3 With Malice Toward None: Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition
- 3.4 Treasures From Hearst Castle
- 3.5 Latinas: The Spirit of California
- 3.6 Treasures from a Trunk: California Pioneers’ Quilts and Textiles
- 3.7 The Purse and the Person: A Century of Women's Purses
- 3.8 Under the Dragon: California's New Culture
- 3.9 California Canines: Dogs With Jobs
- 4 California Hall of Fame
- 5 Constitution Wall
- 6 Minerva Awards
- 7 Board of trustees
- 8 External links
Originally called the Golden State Museum, The California Museum opened in June 1998 as a unique public/private partnership. It was developed under the Secretary of State’s office with ste bond funding for the facility and the opening exhibits. However, the Museum’s long-term management and financial support are the responsibility of a nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation, no direct funding from the state supports the Museum. Private contributions, augmented by proceeds from admissions and the Museum Store, fund the Museum’s programs and operations.
In May 2004, former First Lady Maria Shriver, working with the Secretary of State and California State Parks, presented an exhibit titled “California’s Remarkable Women.” This trailblazing exhibit honors the legacy and celebrates the accomplishments of California’s remarkable women of yesterday and today. The exhibit’s success set in motion the idea for The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts—a Museum that tells the story of California and for the first time the stories of California’s women.
Shriver led a bipartisan effort to create this revitalized museum which operates as a nonprofit, non-partisan historical and cultural institution dedicated to telling the complete history of California, including the stories of California’s women and under-represented groups in history. A revitalized Board of Trustees oversees the operations and has launched a multi-million dollar capital campaign to design and develop the new Museum.
As of March 2011, Governor Jerry Brown and First Lady Anne Gust Brown are Honorary Chairs of both the Museum and the California Hall of Fame, along with an Honorary Board including former Governors George Deukmejian, Gray Davis and Arnold Schwarzenegger and former First Ladies Nancy Reagan, Gloria Deukmejian, Gayle Wilson, Sharon Davis and Maria Shriver.
California Indians: Making A Difference
Developed under a Native tribal advisory council over a two-year period, California Indians: Making A Difference is the only exhibit of its kind in California to use Native voice and to represent over 100 tribes across the Golden State. The 3,000-square foot gallery showcases the unique contributions of the state’s Native peoples through artifacts, art, 13 oral histories at 6 video stations and an interactive Native language kiosk. Over 400 artifacts are displayed, including:
- Buckskin jacket and revolver of Captain Jack (Kintpuash), the only Native Californian Chief executed by the U.S. Government (for Modoc War crimes)
- Fur cape and arrowhead of Ishi, California’s best-known Indian
- Rare basketry woven by 20th century Native artists Dotsolalee and Lucy Telles
- The Chipped Stone Bear, California's official prehistoric artifact
- Sacred white deer dance ceremonial dress and artifacts
- Creation mythology and art from Miwok
- Oral histories from notable Native activist L. Frank Manriques and anthropologist Bradley Marshall
- Life-sized reproduction of a Channel Island pygmy mammoth
- Works from contemporary Native artists Frank La Peña, Harry Fonseca and Fritz Sholder
Utilizing the voices and experiences of the state’s Native peoples, the exhibit presents stories of adaptation and triumph that ultimately prove California Indians have not only survived but continue to thrive in the state’s constantly changing conditions. This permanent exhibition will feature new artifacts during its second installation phase scheduled for display in March 2012.
California's Remarkable Women
This exhibit, inspired by former California First Lady Maria Shriver, honors the achievements of the extraordinary women who strengthen, shape and serve California. Focusing on the limitless opportunities awaiting present and future generations of women leaders. This permanent exhibition will be remodeled to commemorate the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in California and re-opened on October 10, 2011.
Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience during World War II
Each January, the California Museum presents a joint exhibit and school program that centers on the internment of Californians of Japanese descent during World War II. Artifacts and photographs follow the history of Japanese Californians from immigration to the internment and the ultimately successful struggle to obtain redress for their wartime losses. This year, an expanded version of the exhibit will include original art, furniture and crafts made in the internment camps. The exhibit highlights fundamental concepts of rights and responsibilities, while providing an inspirational message of personal strength and perseverance. This is a permanent exhibition.
Riding Concrete: Skateboarding In California
Curated by original Z-Boy Nathan Pratt, co-star of the 2002 documentary "Dogtown and Z- Boys", this all-new exhibit explores the California-created sport of skateboarding. From the earliest 1950s wood plank and metal roller skate wheel prototypes to the modern engineered marvels of today, rare boards and ephemera document the evolution of "sidewalk surfing." Highlights include many of the sports' firsts, including the first pro model skateboard, the first board with urethane wheels and the first Zephyr board. Over 200 unique items, many from The Sidewalk Shop, Skatelab and Z-BOY® Archive collections, are on display including Tony Hawk's autographed personal board, an extremely rare Willie Mays board and gear from over 30 California pros. Multimedia presentations featuring the revolutionary riders, artists and manufacturers reveal how riding concrete evolved from a subculture of teenage defiance to an iconic worldwide cultural phenomenon. Open July 2, 2011 through March 25, 2012.
California Innovates: The Computer Chip
California Innovates: The Computer Chip is the first in a new a series of exhibits focused on the Golden State as a hub of innovation. Dedicated to the California-created computer chip, this first display explores one of the state's most prosperous industries. Through a hands-on, interactive display, the exhibit introduces what chips are, where they are used and how they are made. Open August 26, 2011 through August 25, 2012.
Mas Chisme de la Cultura/Spinning Cultural Stories
In recognition of Hispanic Heritage Month, Mas Chisme de la Cultura/Spinning Cultural Stories opens on September 10 and features the original artwork of the Sacramento-based Chicana collective Las Comadres Artistas. The artists - Irma Barbosa, Carmel Castillo, Mareia de Socorro, Laura Llano and Helen Villa - have been leaders in the Chicana art movement for the past twenty years. Their bright and engaging paintings and installations speak to themes of feminism and community activism. Open September 10 through November 10, 2011 in the Maria Shriver Gallery.
Women & Spirit: Catholic Sisters In America
Women & Spirit: Catholic Sisters In America reveals the history of a small group of independent American women who helped shape the nation’s social and cultural landscape. Over the last 300 years, the sisters built and managed schools, hospitals, orphanages and other social institutions that have endured during eras when most women had few—if any—professional opportunities. As inspirational trailblazers, they corresponded with President Thomas Jefferson, talked down bandits and roughnecks in the Wild West and provided the first form of health insurance to Midwestern loggers. As an overlooked part of history, they played instrumental roles in significant American turning points—from the Civil War, Gold Rush and San Francisco Earthquake to the Depression, Civil Rights Movement and Hurricane Katrina. An adjoining installation features the history of a group of California sisters who came to San Francisco in 1872 and became pioneers in quality, affordable child care in 1878, long before its existence today. Open January 24 through June 3, 2012.
American Masterpieces: The Artistic Legacy of California Indian Basketry
Beautiful and rare baskets from over twenty different tribes will demonstrate why California Indian basketry is widely considered to be among the world's finest textile traditions. California Indians created baskets for a multitude of purposes; they used them for food storage and preparation, to carry their babies, to wear as caps, to exchange as gifts or dowries, and much more. A wide variety of utilitarian and decorative baskets will be on display.
Out of this World: Extraordinary Costumes from Television and Film
An exhibition of costumes from Star Wars, Blade Runner, The Terminator, Star Trek, and many more of the most popular films and television shows, to tell the story of how costumes play a crucial role in defining characters for visual story telling.
With Malice Toward None: Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition
This exhibit from the Library of Congress commemorates the 200th anniversary of the birth of the nation's revered sixteenth president. Charting Lincoln's growth from prairie politician to preeminent statesman, the exhibit addresses the controversies that marked the road to his presidency.
Treasures From Hearst Castle
An exhibit of objects was on loan from California’s legendary Hearst Castle collection. The 40 remarkably diverse and beautiful art objects, many of which have not left the Castle grounds since their acquisition, were on display in galleries designed to recreate the ambiance of Hearst Castle. In addition to these extraordinary objects, visitors had the opportunity to view reproduction drawings by Castle architect Julia Morgan.
Latinas: The Spirit of California
As community leaders and activists, politicians and entertainers, entrepreneurs and artists, Latinas have helped build California. This exhibit recognized their achievements from the 18th century to today.
Treasures from a Trunk: California Pioneers’ Quilts and Textiles
Women have been discouraged from becoming traditional artists but have expressed their creativity through textiles, an art form both beautiful and useful. For women in the 19th century a quilt could be like a diary. Much of what women packed for their journey to California consisted of their own handiwork: treasured quilts, best dresses, baby gowns, and other needlecraft. The meticulous stitches and the fabrics used give visitors a glimpse into the long-ago lives of California women. A few of the treasures that were displayed included: a baby coverlet made by Tamsen Donner (who perished in 1847 en route to CA with the Donner Party); a catalog of stitches – a sampler of diverse skills; a “best” quilt, Blazing Star variation, includes subtle stitched patterns of diagonals, wreaths, and feathers in the off blocks; quilted petticoats and much more.
The Purse and the Person: A Century of Women's Purses
This exhibit uses purses and their contents as a window on the changing roles of women over the past hundred years - from Edwardian matron to 1980s Superwoman.
Under the Dragon: California's New Culture
This colorful action photograph exhibit shows how traditions from all over the world mingle in unexpected ways in California, forging a vibrant hybrid culture.
California Canines: Dogs With Jobs
Mostly known as pets and companions, for thousands of years, dogs have helped people with daily tasks such as herding livestock, hunting for food, or hauling loads. More recently, dogs have been used to help people with disabilities, to assist in search and rescue missions, to protect the public in partnership with military and law enforcement units, helping scientists track endangered species, locating ancient burial grounds, or alerting wine grape growers to insect infestations in the vines. California has been a leader in developing specialized dog training, and California dogs have served in many capacities around the nation and the world.
California Hall of Fame
The California Hall of Fame was conceived by former First Lady Maria Shriver to honor legendary individuals and families who embody California’s innovative spirit and have made their mark on history. Since 2006, the California Museum has held annual ceremonies to induct approximately a dozen notable Californians per year into this hall of fame, on exhibit at The California Museum year-round.
Towering six stories over the Museum’s courtyard, the public art piece “RIGHTS” inspires thought and comment. Sculpted into the massive wall are words taken from California’s Constitution and chosen for their enduring meaning.
Depending on the angle of the light, different words leap forward. In the early morning or late afternoon, the giant word “RIGHTS,” the underlying theme of the piece, stands out, while at midday other “rights,” indicated by words such as “redress” and “assemble,” are more apparent. The artists’ grouping of the words adds another layer of meaning, punctuated by colors drawn from California’s own palette of forest, ocean, and desert hues.
The Wall was designed by artists Mike Mandel, Larry Sultan and Paul Kos, and built in collaboration with Frederick Meiswinkel Inc. and Esherick Homsey Dodge & Davis. The sculpture was funded in part by the California Arts Council’s Art in Public Buildings program.
(Annual, next awards Fall 2010) The Minerva Awards recipients are extraordinary women who have dedicated their lives to positive change in California. At the 2009 Governor and First Lady’s Conference on Women, Agnes Stevens, Helen Waukazoo, Dr. Jane Goodall and Dr. Kathy Hull received this year’s Minerva Awards. This exhibit highlights the careers of these courageous women as well as recipients from past years.
Board of trustees
Honorary Board Members: Governor Jerry Brown and First Lady Anne Gust Brown, Honorary Chairs | Gray & Mrs. Sharon Davis | George & Mrs. Gloria Deukmejian | Mayor Kevin Johnson | Nancy Reagan | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Maria Shriver | Pete & Mrs. Gayle Wilson
Dina Eastwood, Chair | Dave Pringle, Treasurer | Hillary Armstrong | Kevin M. Bacon | Debra Bowen | Maryles V. Casto | Ruth Coleman | Richard S. Costigan | Jens C. Egerland | Pam Giarrizzo | Kevin Herglotz | Christopher Lee | Nancy Lenoil | Lisa Ling | Robert Martin | Nancy E. McFadden | Kitty O’Neal | Mona Pasquil | Anne-Marie Petrie | Patricia Roboostoff Splinter | Brenda Sullivan | Tina Thomas | Jami Warner
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Re-identification Attack to Privacy-Preserving Data Analysis with Noisy Sample-Mean
Du Su: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Wenmiao Lu: Verizon Media; Hieu Tri Huynh: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Ziao Chen: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Yi Lu: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
In mining sensitive databases, access to sensitive class attributes of individual records is often prohibited by enforcing field-level security, while only aggregate class-specific statistics are allowed to be released. We consider a common privacy-preserving data analytics scenario where only a noisy sample mean of the class of interest can be queried. Such practice is widely found in medical research and business analytics settings. This paper studies the hazard of re-identification of entire class caused by revealing a noisy sample mean of the class. With a novel formulation of the re-identification attack as a generalized positive-unlabeled learning problem, we prove that the risk function of the re-identification problem is closely related to that of learning with complete data. We demonstrate that with a one-sided noisy sample mean, an effective re-identification attack can be devised with existing PU learning algorithms. We then propose a novel algorithm, growPU, that exploits the unique property of sample mean and consistently outperforms existing PU learning algorithms on the re-identification task. GrowPU achieves re-identification accuracy of 93.6% on the MNIST dataset and 88.1% on an online behavioral dataset with noiseless sample mean. With noise that guarantees 0.01-differential privacy, growPU achieves 91.9% on the MNIST dataset and 84.6% on the online behavioral dataset.
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Address: Bedford Street
Cranley QLD 4350
Phone: 07 4637 0984
Items collected: Includes reusable items that would normally go into landfill. All reusable furniture, lawnmowers, white goods, household items, clothes, toys, videos,radios and other useful items. Customers are able to access the smart tip Shop to purchase items Thursday to Sunday 10am - 4pm. Lifeline operate the Smarttip shop. Direct any queries about the Smarttip shop to Lifeline on 4637 0984.
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There are many small and compact Arm Linux SBCs, starting from the NanoPi NEO to the Raspberry Pi Zero or Rock Pi S, but lately a smaller board based on the MStar MSC313E Cortex-A7 SoC from BreadBee with a 64MB RAM appeared, enough to run embedded Linux.
Despite MStar MSC313E being a camera processor, the camera interface does not seem exposed in the board, so it looks to be designed to control I/Os over Ethernet. There’s no WiFi for now, but there may eventually be a future model that replaced the Ethernet jack with an Ampak WiFi module.Source: https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/04/14/breadbee-tiny-embedded-linux-sbc-mstar-msc313e-camera-soc/
- SoC – MStar MSC313E Arm Cortex-A7 processor @ ~1.0 GHz with NEON, FPU, 64MB DDR2
- Storage – 16MB SPI NOR flash
- Networking – 10/100M Ethernet (RJ45)
- USB – 1x Micro USB 2.0 port
- 24-pin dual-row header (2.54mm pitch) with SPI, I2C, 4x 10-bit ADC, 3x UART, GPIOs
- 21-pin header (1.27mm pitch) with SD/SDIO, USB 2.0, GPIOs
- Misc – RTC, Watchdog timer
- Power Supply – 5V via micro USB port
- Dimensions – 32 x 30mm
Raspberry Pi increase in IoT significance
More and more engineers and technology providers believe that it is suitable for industrial applications in the real world. Over the past few years, there has been a lot of discussion about the use of Raspberry Pi in industry, most of which emphasize that Raspberry Pi is a great tool for engineering experiments, but not so much for industrial applications in the real world. While it is true that the Raspberry Pi is not considered the best choice for mission-critical applications, it is also true that the Raspberry Pi is no longer a platform for experimentation.
Latest Raspberry Pi 4 development board, equipped with a 1.5GHz quad-core 64-bit ARM Cortex-A72 processor (approximately 3 times better performance than previous Cortex-A53 powering Raspberry Pi 3+ Model B and Compute Module 3 and 3+). can be chosen from 1GB / 2GB / 4GB LPDDR4 SDRAM options.
Raspberry Pi 4 continues the tradition of one of the most versatile and cheapest computer devices. It can be used for virtually anything from proprietary IoT solutions to a full-fledged desktop computer. The new Malinka has two micro-HDMI ports, a Gigabit Ethernet port, two USB 3.0 type A ports and two USB 2.0 type A ports.
Industrial use of Raspberry Pi 4
A year ago, TECHBASE released an updated version of the ModBerry M500 industrial IoT computer, replacing the aging Raspberry Pi 3 with a 3B+, giving it better performance. With the recent launch of the Raspberry Pi 4, TECHBASE has yet again, announced another upgrade to the M500, which now packs the latest single-board computer.
Over 10 million Raspberry Pi’s have been sold and the Raspberry Pi is likely to stay as a new standard in the industry. Official Raspbian OS is free operating system based on Linux Debian optimized for the Raspberry Pi comes with over 35,000 packages, pre-compiled software bundled in a nice format for easy installation. ModBerry devices are compatible with Raspberry Pi accessories, supported by Raspberry Pi Foundation. ModBerry M500 now with Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ / Raspberry Pi 4 Model B support.
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and his prudent and industrious wife, endowed
with the best qualities of a New-England
woman, knew how to work with her own hands, so that the small resources, which men of the least opulent class would have deemed a very imperfect support, were sufficient for his simple wants.
Yet such was the union of dignity with economy, that whoever visited him saw around him every circumstance of propriety.1
Above all, he combined with poverty a stern and incorruptible integrity.
His nature was keenly sensitive, yet he bore with magnanimity the neglect of friends and the malignity of enemies.
Already famed as a political writer, employing wit and sarcasm, as well as energy of language and earnestness, no one had equal influence over the popular mind.
No blandishments of flattery could lull his vigilance, no sophistry deceive his penetration.
Difficulties could not discourage his decision, nor danger appal his fortitude.
He had also an affable and persuasive address, which could reconcile conflicting interests and promote harmony in action.
He never, from jealousy, checked the advancement of others; and in accomplishing great deeds he took to himself no praise.
Seeking fame as little as fortune, and office less than either, he aimed steadily at the good of his country and the best interests of mankind.
Of despondency he knew nothing; trials only nerved him for severer struggles; his sublime and unfaltering hope had a cast of solemnity, and was as much a part of his nature as if his confidence sprung from insight into the divine decrees, and was as firm as a sincere
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- Press Release
- August 10, 2022
NASA Space Pioneer John Young, Astronaut Without Equal, Retires
Space pioneer John W. Young, a man who flew twice to the
moon, walked on its surface and commanded the first Space
Shuttle mission, is retiring.
Young’s achievements during his 42-year career at NASA are
unmatched. He was the first human to fly in space six times
and launch seven times, six times from Earth and once from
the moon. He is the only astronaut to pilot four different
types of spacecraft, flying in the Gemini, Apollo and Space
Shuttle programs. Young is the longest serving astronaut in
history. His retirement from NASA is effective Dec. 31.
“John’s tenacity and dedication are matched only by his
humility,” said NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe. “He’s never
sought fame and often goes out of his way to avoid the
limelight. However, when you need a job done and you want it
done right, John’s the person to go to. He’s a true American
treasure, and his exemplary legacy will inspire generations
of new explorers for years to come.”
Young, a native of Orlando, Fla., retired U.S. Navy Captain
and test pilot, joined NASA in 1962. His first mission was as
pilot of the maiden manned flight of the Gemini Program,
Gemini 3 in 1965. With Young and Commander Virgil Grissom on
board, Gemini 3 was the first American space flight with more
than one person.
He next flew in 1966, commanding Gemini 10. Along with Mike
Collins, he performed the first dual rendezvous maneuvers
during a single mission.
In 1969, two months before man’s first landing on the moon,
Young orbited Earth’s satellite.
Young orbited the moon in the Apollo Command Module, while
his fellow crewmembers, Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan,
descended to within 50,000 feet of its surface in the Lunar
Module. Apollo 10 was a full rehearsal for the first lunar
Young returned to the moon in 1972 as commander of Apollo 16.
He piloted the Lunar Module to a landing on the surface,
along with Charlie Duke. Young and Duke drove more than 16
miles across the lunar surface in the Lunar Rover Vehicle,
collecting more than 200 pounds of samples. It was the most
extensive lunar exploration mission to date.
“You run out of superlatives when you talk about Captain John
Young as a test pilot, astronaut and engineer,” said former
Space Shuttle astronaut and Associate Administrator for Space
Operations William Readdy. “John has an incredible
engineering mind, and he sets the gold standard when it comes
to asking the really tough questions. When he talks,
everybody listens. It’s impossible to overstate the positive
impact John has had on human space flight operations and
safety. Beyond that, he has set a standard for excellence for
all those who have served with him and those who will follow.
He’s truly an inspiration,” Readdy said.
Young was at the helm of Columbia for the first Space Shuttle
mission, STS-1 in 1981, with Robert Crippen as pilot. It was
the world’s first flight of a reusable, winged spacecraft;
the first landing of a spacecraft on a runway; and the
largest, heaviest craft to launch and land to date. It was
the first time a manned spacecraft was launched without
previous unmanned test flights. Young guided the 96-ton
Columbia to a perfect touchdown at Edwards Air Force Base,
Calif., after a two-day mission.
Young’s sixth and final space mission was again in command of
Columbia on the ninth Shuttle flight, STS-9 in 1983. It was
the first launch of the Spacelab laboratory in the Shuttle’s
cargo bay. It was the longest Shuttle flight to date, with
the first international crew working around the clock for 10
days to conduct more than 70 experiments.
When he was not in flight, Young’s extensive contributions
continued on the ground. He served as chief of NASA’s
Astronaut Office for 13 years. He also served eight years as
an assistant and associate director of NASA’s Johnson Space
Center, providing advice and counsel on technical,
operational and safety matters.
“John Young has no equal in his service to our country and to
humanity’s quest for space,” said the Director of NASA’s
Johnson Space Center, Jefferson D. Howell Jr. “He is the
astronaut’s astronaut, a hero among heroes who fly in space.
His achievements have taken space from an unknown environment
to the expanding frontier we explore today. His steady hand
and unflinching eyes have served our cause of space
exploration well, expanding our horizons with unshakable
dedication and calm courage. He will be missed,” Howell said.
For complete biographical and other information about John
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The 4th generation is obtained with the artificial synthesis of immunogenic EEV and IMV antigens highly, predicated on findings obtained through the advancement of the very first to 3rd generations . The properties of EEV of rapid spreading, dissemination between organs and immune evasion are linked to the enhancement of virus virulence [22,23]. discuss upcoming research directions within this specific area. Abstract The phenotype of the attenuated live vaccine depends upon gene mutation attained by, for instance, many passages in cultured cells. Viral clones with more suitable phenotypes are chosen as well as the causative hereditary mutation(s) are afterwards identified. LC16m8 can be an example of an extremely attenuated smallpox vaccine that originated and certified in Japan in the 1970s. LC16m8 was attained with the passaging of Lister stress, with indicators of little plaque temperature and formation sensitivity as virus phenotypes. This stress can replicate in mammalian cells and sturdy humoral and mobile immunity, aswell as long-term immune system memory. Recent research using proteome-wide antigen arrays possess uncovered that antibody creation against LC16m8 and various other VACVs differs generally among individuals. Furthermore, organizations between SNPs in immune-related genes and immune system outcomes have already been more and more found. These total outcomes result in predicting undesirable occasions of the vaccine, which really is a reason for vaccinomics. Research on VACV will continue steadily to donate to the knowledge of host-pathogen connections and to advancement of a vaccine for various other infectious and noninfectious diseases. Right here, we review research of VACV, including our latest analysis on LC16m8, using a concentrate on the genotype and phenotype, and we discuss upcoming research directions. solid course=”kwd-title” Keywords: vaccinia pathogen, vaccine, LC16m8, immune system response, Cobimetinib (racemate) humoral immunity, interindividual difference 1. Launch The introduction of vaccines is certainly underway on a worldwide range presently, as procedures against the coronavirus disease 2019 Rabbit Polyclonal to CNTN2 (COVID-19) pandemic. In vaccine advancement, high levels of efficiency and basic safety are needed, and these depend on multiple elements in the vaccine aspect as well as the web host aspect, including individual leukocyte antigen (HLA) gene polymorphism [1,2]. Live vaccines can stimulate solid humoral and cell-mediated immunity in the web host, but could cause undesirable events, a few of which are critical. Therefore, ensuring basic safety while keeping immunogenicity is certainly a Cobimetinib (racemate) major problem in live vaccine advancement. Live vaccines could be attenuated by passaging during cell lifestyle . When expanded under unfavorable circumstances, such as for example in pets or cell types apart from naive (organic) hosts, infections exhibit book phenotypes caused by gene mutation(s) that take place in passaging, plus some of the phenotypes present low virulence in human beings. Thus, passaging has an empirical Cobimetinib (racemate) way for obtaining attenuated viral clones with more suitable phenotypes, as well as the causative hereditary mutation(s) may then end up being identified by additional characterization. The VACV vaccine provides added towards the eradication of smallpox and therefore significantly, is definitely the most effective vaccine to time . LC16m8 can be an attenuated VACV created in the Lister stress by passaging in cell lifestyle, and continues to be used being a VACV vaccine [4,5]. Throughout passaging, mutations in particular Cobimetinib (racemate) region linked to the natural activity (plaque size and Cobimetinib (racemate) pock size; the power of the pathogen to disseminate from cell to cell) of VACV in web host cells were recommended to be engaged in the weakening of LC16m8 [6,7]. Right here, we explain the genotypes and phenotypes of LC16m8 regarding their efficiency and basic safety, latest developments in the knowledge of the natural system linked to these genotypes and phenotypes, as well as the potential usage of LC16m8 for therapeutic and preventive reasons. 2. Basic safety of VACV Vaccine through the LC16m8 Phenotype 2.1. Advancement of the Attenuated VACV Stress LC16m8 The idea of precautionary inoculation of the cross-immunizing but medically mild poxvirus to avoid severe situations of smallpox was set up by Edward Jenner in the 18th century, and regimen vaccination against various other microorganisms is widely accepted generally in most countries nowadays. In the 1950C1970s, the Globe Health Firm (WHO) created the global smallpox eradication plan, where first-generation smallpox vaccines had been utilized. These vaccines had been fabricated in leg skins and triggered rare but critical undesirable events, encephalitis among newborns particularly. As the real variety of sufferers contaminated with smallpox reduced, this concern became better in regards to to a risk-benefit evaluation, and more initiatives were designed to develop.
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"Ancient Bridges - still in use" Turkey Things to Do Tip by globetrott
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It was always so great to see one of these old bridges - like here close to Ankara - the main trafic will go over a seperate, modern bridge - and when you click on the pic, you may see our small Rotel-Bus under the bridge.
But for ordinary trafic in small cars, horse-carriages and for pedestrians, the old bridge is still working fine and used in everday trafic by the local population !
Directions: This lovely old bridge may be seen close to Ankara !
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Thousands of protesters descended on Washington DC on Sunday demanding Barack Obama shut down the Keystone XL pipeline project to show he is serious about taking action on climate change.
Organisers said a crowd of 35,000, carrying placards in the shape of bright red stop signs, gathered at the Washington monument on a bright but bitterly cold day for the march on the White House.
The event, billed as the largest climate protest in US history, was intended as a show of force before Obama renders his decision on the pipeline project in the next few months.
Protesters were bussed in from 30 states and Canadian provinces. Marchers held aloft banners proclaiming "Don't be fossil fools" and "It's time to cut carbon" during the rally.
The DC event was accompanied by smaller one in cities including Austin, during which protesters chanted that the president had "sold out Texas" over the pipeline.
Opponents of the project – environmental activists, indigenous Canadian groups, and landowners alone the pipeline route – have cast the Keystone XL as the defining test of Obama's second term.
They said Obama's entire presidential legacy rests on the Keystone XL, which they framed as a critical test of Obama's environmental credentials and his sweeping promises to use the next four years to protect future generations from climate change.
"Obama holds in his hand a pen and the power to deliver on his promise of hope for our children," said Michael Brune, the director of the Sierra Club. "Today we are asking him to use that pen to reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, and ensure that this dirty, dangerous, export pipeline will never be built."
Others said Obama owed it to his supporters to reject a project, which would open up a vast store of carbon. "I think it's really important for Obama to realise that his base, the people who supported him, do not want this," said Judy Dufficy, a former teacher from Chicago. She said she had volunteered for Obama in Iowa, where he started his run for the White House in 2008.
The president is under even stronger pressure from the oil industry, business groups and the Canadian government to approve the project, which will open new outlets for the vast crude reserves of Alberta's tar sands.
The Canadian government has deputed a well-connected Conservative MP, Rob Merrifield, to build support for the pipeline in Congress. The MP told the Globe and Mail he now spent about half of his working life in Washington.
But some pipeline opponents believe they now have a fighting chance in the David v Goliath scenario. They also consider they have already won a victory of sorts, just by hanging on.
Until late 2011, Obama had been expected to approve the pipeline, with barely any controversy outside a relatively small circle of activists.
Most of the big Washington-based environmental groups seemed resigned to the project.
But a relatively unknown activist group, 350.org, adopted the Keystone XL as their cause. Organisers called a series of protests at the White House and in 2011 the arrest of more than 1,000 activists, including high-profile climate scientists and celebrities, brought new scrutiny to the project.
Obama rejected the project early last year because of objections to the proposed route from the state of Nebraska.
Other events began to work in the protesters' favour. After a year of extreme weather events, crowned by Sandy, climate change returned to the public agenda.
Obama adopted climate change as one of the three priorities of his second term.
By Sunday afternoon, the protesters had been endorsed by Robert Redford, who has called the Keystone XL a "national disgrace", and Democratic members of Congress.
Meanwhile, Canadian newspapers were reporting the fate of the project now hung in the balance.
Sheldon Whitehouse, Democratic senator from Rhode Island, told the crowd in DC to keep fighting. "You know the polluters don't want you here. They've got their lobbyists. They've got their Super Pacs. They've got the whole town in their pockets," he said. "And then you came and showed them."
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A new, more robust PitkinAlert system will launch next week that will improve how the public receives emergency alerts and other urgent communication. PitkinAlert is used to communicate urgent local information in “real time” about everything from traffic accidents and hazardous conditions on Highway 82 to severe weather forecasts, a wildfire threat in the area or an evacuation notification in a crisis.
The new PitkinAlert system requires all users, even those signed up for the old PitkinAlert service, to create a new account online at www.pitkinalert.org. The sign up takes minutes and Director of Pitkin County Emergency Communications Bruce Romero hopes locals, second homeowners, visitors and anyone else who can benefit from receiving the information will sign up.
“Our goal is to have all 3,000 plus members of the old Pitkin Alert service re-sign up for the new Pitkin Alert and increase the total number of participants to 10,000 or more,” said Director of Emergency Communications, Bruce Romero.
PitkinAlert can send alerts to landline telephones, call and/or text cell phones, send emails and send TTY messages to the hearing impaired.
“Having multiple ways to contact you in an emergency is important,” Romero said. “For example, if we call your home telephone in the event of a wildfire evacuation and you aren’t home to receive the call, by being a member of PitkinAlert you will also receive the alert on your cell phone, email and text message. That will give us and you more peace of mind,” Romero said.
PitkinAlert is a free service. Sign up at www.pitkinalert.org.
“Remember, if we can’t contact you, we can’t alert you,” Romero said.
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We have now upgraded our Blackboard to version 8.0. Instructors will see the changes beginning with September 2008 courses. The new features are noted below.
Grade Center (gradebook)
Almost entirely redesigned, and newly named, the Grade Center offers new features and improvements over the previous gradebook. Here is a list of of those features.
A redesigned tool bar, titled the Action Bar, through wich mulitple functions are possible.
The ability to create and print Reports, such as final grades.
Inline editing:the ability to enter grades directly through the Grade Center spreadsheet.
New grade calculations, Average grade and Minimum/Maximum grade, and improvements to the creation of Weighted grades and Total points grade.
Smart Views — the ability to categorize Students into groupings based on selected criteria. These views can be displayed in the Grade Center.
The ability to create Grading Schema: multiple grading scales that match Assessment grades to chosen grade displays, such as text or percent grades.
Email users directly through the Grade Center.
Self and Peer Assessment
The new Self and Peer Assessment Building Block is a comprehensive and flexible tool for the self- and peer assessment of text, images, and digital-based resources within Blackboard Learning System. It allows an Instructor to create an exercise with a list of questions for the assessor. These questions can have a variety of grading or marking criteria, created or selected by the Instructor, to be used in the assessment. The Instructor then distributes the exercise with the questions and criteria to the Students. The Instructor can choose to have the Student assess his or her own work or the works of other Students. In turn, the Students submit the work, to be viewed by the Instructor. The Instructor can monitor the progress of the assessment, download the assessment submission and results, and add the assessment marking to the Grade Center.
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