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London is Europe’s biggest financial center, with the EU its top export market, meaning that without contingency arrangements markets, banking, asset management and insurance across Europe would be left in chaos.
But preparations are underway on both sides of the Channel to avoid the worst effects of any no-deal Brexit.
Britain is approving a law that would allow branches of EU banks and insurers in Britain to continue serving UK customers, giving them time to apply for permanent authorization.
After the EU refused to reciprocate to cover British banks doing business with European clients, EU states have begun taking unilateral action.
Germany, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Luxembourg, Ireland and Norway are planning to allow UK financial firms to keep undertaking limited business for a fixed period of time after March if there is no deal, giving breathing space for new EU banking and insurance hubs to get bedded down.
British and EU regulators have agreed pacts to exchange information and cooperate on supervision in the event of a no-deal Brexit to avoid immediate disruption to cross-border activity in derivatives clearing, credit ratings agencies, trade reporting venues and asset management.
WHAT ARE THE BANKS UP TO?
Many international banks use London as their European base but with the possibility of a hard Brexit in the short term, and the likelihood of patchy EU access from Britain in future, they are moving to open hubs in the bloc by March 29.
The banks, which trade stocks, bonds, repos and derivatives, are moving 800 billion pounds of assets to make their new hubs in Frankfurt and Paris operational by next month, according to consultancy EY.
The new hubs will be allowed to continue booking some trades centrally in London for now, on condition they build up activities and staffing within their new operations over the next few years.
LLOYD’S OF BRUSSELS
Lloyd’s of London insurance market has opened a Brussels subsidiary to write European policies and avoid potential disruption to EU customers.
Insurers like AIG are shifting blocks of policies from EU customers to new hubs in the EU to become Brexit-proof by March.
EU insurance watchdog EIOPA has calculated there are 9 million customers across Europe still facing potential disruption to policies worth a collective 7.4 billion euros if there is a no-deal Brexit, but say that is not likely to threaten financial stability and require EU contingency action.
DERIVATIVES ON ICE?
ICE Futures in London is one of Europe’s two main derivatives exchanges – the other is Eurex in Frankfurt.
Unlike stock and bond trading platforms, ICE has no plans to shift trading to the continent. Instead it is obtaining permission from individual EU states like Germany and the Netherlands to allow customers there to continue trading on ICE in London.
Banks are shifting some outstanding derivatives contracts for EU customers from London to new hubs in the bloc.
DELEGATION WINS A REPRIEVE
Asset managers in Britain feared that a no-deal Brexit would stop them from managing funds listed in Luxembourg, Dublin and elsewhere in Europe, a cross-border activity known as delegation.
But regulators from Britain and the EU agreed a pact this month to share information in the event of a no-deal Brexit to allow delegation to continue, triggering a huge sigh of relief in the sector. [nL5N1ZV5A7]
SHARES GOING DUTCH
London-based Cboe Europe, the biggest pan-European stock exchange, is opening a new hub in Amsterdam to which its trading in euro-denominated shares will move from the start of April, irrespective of what sort of Brexit is agreed.
London Stock Exchange’s pan-European Turquoise platform is also opening a hub in Amsterdam by the end of March and could move trading in euro-denominated shares there.
Aquis is opening a new hub in Paris to which it will move its euro-denominated share trading. Shifting trading could be followed by a similar relocation in some clearing to EuroCCP in the Netherlands.
Cutting off Britain would, however, disrupt the operation of EU rules that ensure transparency in share trading.
EURO BONDS AND REPOS RETURN TO THEIR ROOTS
CME-owned BrokerTec, a bond and repurchase agreement (repo) trading platform, is moving its 210 billion-a-day euro-denominated trading to a new Amsterdam hub by March 18 to avoid splitting liquidity, even if there is a Brexit deal.
Likewise, MTS will shift Italian bond trading from London to Italy.
SPOT STAYS BUT FORWARDS FLEE
Spot forex trading is set to stay in London even if there is a no-deal Brexit.
But CME unit EBS is moving foreign-exchange forwards and swaps trading from London to Amsterdam by March 18, even if there is a Brexit deal.
Likewise, Refinitiv is transferring its $300 billion-a-day forex derivatives trading to Dublin from London, while leaving its $100 billion-a-day spot trading in London.
METALS IN FINE FETTLE FOR NOW
The London Metal Exchange has applied to German and Dutch regulators for dispensation from the requirement to be licensed as a foreign trading venue so that customers in those two countries can continue using the UK-based platform for trading copper, aluminum and other metals.
No such license is required in France, Cyprus, Ireland or Norway.
The EU has said if there is no deal, customers in the bloc could continue clearing their metals trades on LME for up to a year.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE EURO CLEARING EXODUS?
London dominates euro-denominated derivatives clearing but it would be impossible to shift trillions of euros of contracts to the continent by March to avoid disruption from a no-deal Brexit that could threaten financial stability.
Brussels has acknowledged this by saying that in the event of a hard Brexit it would allow EU customers to continue using UK-based clearing houses like LCH until the end of 2020 to give more time to shift positions, and for rival clearers like Eurex in Frankfurt to build up capacity.
EU securities regulators and the Bank of England have also agreed a cooperation pact for supervising cross-border clearing operations.
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Mauritius’ Cyber City: attracting businesses across the globe
Mauritius, an island of 1860sq km in the Indian Ocean, has since independence in 1968, transformed itself from a monocrop to a diversified economy.
The latest stage of growth for the Mauritian economy has been the transformation of the ICT sector into one of the main pillars of the economy, making the island a preferred ICT-BPO destination. Against this background, Business Parks of Mauritius Ltd (BPML) was created in 2001 as a government-owned private company to spearhead the development of ICT by providing state-of-the-art facilities for advanced software promotion and IT-enabled services on a par with the best in the world.
The most visible manifestation of Mauritius’s push to become an ‘information society’ was the Cyber City Project set up by BPML in 2003. The aim of the Cyber City has been to make Mauritius the preferred destination for business and professionals, and to create wealth and employment through the use of information technology. The Cyber City is a modern development on a site of 152 acres, strategically located at the center of the island at Ebene and provided with world-class facilities. Five distinct zones comprise the Cyber City: the Cyber and Multimedia Zone; the Business and Finance Zone; the Knowledge Centre; the Commercial Zone; and the Residential Zone.
The first initiative of BPML in the development of the Cyber City was the construction of a Cyber Tower, an ‘intelligent’ building of 12 floors. Facilities within the building compare favorably with the best in the world. Upon its completion in 2005, the Cyber Tower was awarded the Intelligent Building of the Year award by the Intelligent Community Forum of New York, from 250 applications received. This prestigious award – the first for a building of its type in the African region – played an important role in placing Mauritius on the map as a regional business hub.
Today, the Cyber City managed by BPML, comprises more than 40 hi-tech buildings covering a total constructed floor area of 500,000sq m. The ICT sector contributes seven percent of Mauritius’s GDP, while at the same time creating high-end employment for over 20,000 people. BPML has played a major part in the resounding success.
Techmode Outsourcing situated at the heart of the cyber city since 2007, offers you unique 24/7 multilingual customer relationship, marketing and sales services.
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The Yearn to Return: Homelands Beckon for Travelers and Refugees Alike
When she was young, Andrea Danziger’s family lived in Frankfurt, Germany. Ever since moving to the States, she felt the call to return to her childhood home, and her time abroad played a role in her academic interests. She ultimately chose a double major in Political Science and German, with a minor in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law (PPEL).
She spent a summer interning at the U.S. State Department in Munich in the section of the Consulate that monitors how political and economic development there can affect American foreign policy decisions. Soon, she took an interest in the Syrian Refugee Crisis.
“As Germany has been such a prominent player in the crisis, the event captured my attention,” Danziger said. “I was interested in learning more about refugee affairs. I wrote my PPEL capstone paper about the differences in the German and American asylum procedures, and how a country’s legal procedures may influence a population’s likeliness of accepting refugees.”
“I didn’t experience too much culture shock and travel anxiety the way many of my peers did. I had the experience of using public transportation and ordering French fries without ketchup that many of my travel companions lacked.”
The project only fueled her interest in learning more about the crisis from an international perspective and to put real faces with the numbers and legalese. She applied for and received the Stuart R. Givens Memorial Fellowship and the Hoskins Global Scholarship, and combined them with a year-long study abroad in Salzburg, Austria during the 2016–17 school year. The experience allowed her to study the impact refugees have on different European societies.
“I spent time researching refugee societal integration in Berlin, Dresden and Budapest and then was able to volunteer in a special cases refugee camp in Greece during my winter break,” Danziger said.
“The more than five million Syrians who have fled their country are straddling two cultures. Integration is often viewed as: the refugee leaves behind everything from home and learns how to live in a new society. But what is often forgotten is that refugees didn’t willingly leave, and their primary dream is usually to return home, not to assimilate, whether in Germany, America or anywhere else in the world. So for the host country, the question of where to compromise on cultural standards is just as—if not more—important as how to integrate. The responses of countries affected by the refugee crisis have been hugely diverse,” she said.
Within her Political Science major, Danziger has a specialization in International Relations.
“I hope to work in foreign affairs, and as a future political actor, my understanding of international perspectives will underpin my success.”
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School bags for all
The Christina Swart-Opperman Aids Orphan Foundation Trust recently launched the School Bag Project to contribute to the education of orphans and vulnerable children. Each learner’s School Bag includes a school jersey, lunch box, water bottle, stationary, socks and school shoes .The Trust asked companies to help with the project by donating funds or some of the items that must go into the School Bag. The target for this year is to give 300 orphans and vulnerable children each his or her own School Bag. NamPower responded first and donated 100 school bags and 100 water bottles.
The Olof Palme Primary School, a current project of the Trust, will be the beneficiary of these school bags and water bottles. “NamPower is happy to be able to contribute to this worthwhile initiative by the Trust. We know that our donation will greatly impact the status of the beneficiaries of the project”, said Ms Tangeni Kambangula (left), Manager: Marketing and Corporate Communications at Nampower. Here she is with Dr Christina Swart-Opperman, Founder of the Christina Swart-Opperman Aids Orphan Foundation Trust at the handing over of the bags and water bottles. (Photograph by Mandisa Rasmeni)
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Mexico’s Magic Town (Pueblo Mágico) designation is given to inland destinations that offer a complementary tourism based on historic and cultural attributes. Mexico’s federal Tourism Secretariat has announced there will be 52 Magic Towns by 2012, when the promotional program is due to end. Mexico currently has 48 Magic Towns. Since our list earlier this year (see Mexico adds three more Magic Towns to its list) – four more towns have been added to the select club. All are well worth visiting!
Magic Town #45: El Oro de Hidalgo (State of México)
The small town of El Oro (population about 6,000) is in the western part of the State of México, close to the state limit with Michoacán. It is a former mining town which was largely abandoned when its mineral reserves (gold) ran out. It has several very attractive old buildings and a state Mining Museum.
Magic Town #46: Xico (Veracruz)
Xico is located in the central part of Veracruz state, about 25 km from the state capital Xalapa, in an agricultural area known for tropical fruits and coffee. In the vicinity are the Texolo waterfalls, where the movie “Romancing the Stone” was filmed. Xico holds a lively annual fair every July, complete with colorful sawdust carpets and bull-running.
Magic Town #47: San Sebastián del Oeste (Jalisco)
San Sebastián del Oeste is another enchanting old mining town, founded in 1605, located in the rugged mountains which separate the interior valleys of central Jalisco from the Pacific Coast, at an altitude of 1500 meters (5,000 feet) above sea level. Local mines yielded a fortune in gold, silver and copper, before the town lapsed into quiet lassitude once the ore reserves were exhausted. It is amazing to think that all the salt used in the silver processing had to be brought on horseback over the mountains from a tiny primitive port called Puerto de las Peñas, at the mouth of the River Cuale, a port now known as… Puerto Vallarta!
Magic Town #48: Xilitla (San Luis Potosí)
The town of Xilitla is set in luxuriant rainforested mountains in San Luis Potosí. It is best known as the site of Las Pozas, Edward James’ surrealist jungle fantasy. To read more about Xilita, try the following articles on MexConnect:
- Xilitla is a magical place in San Luis Potosi
- Las Pozas: Edward James’ fantasy stands tall in a jungle in Mexico
- Xilitla And Las Pozas
- Mexico’s Magic Towns program to continue at least until 2012
- Mexico’s Magic Towns now include Zacatlán in the Sierra Norte of Puebla
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BMC Cancer: 10/2/13
Racial disparities in breast cancer survival have been well documented. This study examines the association of race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES) on breast cancer-specific mortality in a large population of women with invasive breast cancer.
We identified 179,143 cases of stages 1–3 first primary female invasive breast cancer from the California Cancer Registry from January, 2000 through December, 2010. Cox regression, adjusted for age, year of diagnosis, grade, and ER/PR/HER2 subtype, was used to assess the association of race/ethnicity on breast cancer-specific mortality within strata of stage and SES. Hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals were reported. read more
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Nuclear power may have to be embraced in a bid to combat climate change even though it is not a "sustainable" energy source, Margaret Beckett has admitted.
Nuclear energy provides 20% of Britain's electricity
The environment secretary said she was very reluctant to build new nuclear power stations, but that she had "accepted that it could happen".
But Mrs Beckett said any investment in nuclear must not be at the expense of renewable energy sources.
An energy policy review is set to be announced early this week.
In an interview with ITV1's The Jonathan Dimbleby Programme, Mrs Beckett was questioned about her view that nuclear power is not a sustainable energy source.
"I don't think you can argue that it meets the definition of sustainability," she stressed.
"But that's a separate issue from saying, however, despite those enormous problems, you're driven to it by other considerations such as climate change and I've always accepted that that could happen."
Nuclear power currently meets about a fifth of Britain's electricity needs, but that is set to fall to just 4% by 2010 when old power stations are decommissioned.
Mrs Beckett's comments come as a report in the Sunday Times suggested the government's chief scientific adviser Sir David King wants to put a levy on consumers' energy bills to fund a new generation of power stations.
Liberal Democrat environment spokesman Norman Baker said: "Rather than increasing fuel costs to pay for nuclear the government should be investing in renewable energy."
A Department of Trade and Industry spokesman said the government's policy was to carry out a review which looked at the entire energy mix.
"There is no silver bullet to meeting our objectives and we will continue to look at a mixture of energy sources including use of fossil fuels and developing renewable energy as well as energy efficiency measures.
"We will also examine the options for civil nuclear power and whether and to what extent we should replace the existing generating stations that will reach the end of their lives over the next 30 years."
Any further use of nuclear power would require an extensive public debate, he added.
Green group Friends of the Earth said research showed many potential sites for new nuclear power stations are at risk from sea level rises.
It called on the government to drop any idea of building new plants.
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AutoCAD is a computer aided drafting system that is sophisticated enough to produce architectural drawings that are both fast and accurate. There are many advantages to CAD drafting compared to manual drafting. For example, architectural firms are able to produce an increased amount of detail drawings because AutoCAD is very fast, accurate, and consistent. The greatest benefit of using this computer aided drafting system is to eliminate construction errors. Drawings can be revised at any given time with ease and speed and the very next time the drawing is printed, it looks like an original drawing. The drafter can easily add to the drawing, erase, and manipulate its geometry as instructed by the client. The drawings are electronically stored and can be reclaimed at any given time for reference purposes or revisions if needed.
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What you might ask are the different types of CAD drawings? Well, there are two major types and they are two-dimensional and three-dimensional drawings. AutoCAD is mostly used for two-dimensional drawings like floor plans, elevations, detail and section drawings. Drawings can be both simple and complex, depending on the scale of the project and the degree to which the architect or designer needs or wants to control the methods and details of construction.
Floor plans are drawings that represent a section of a building cut through by a horizontal plane looking down on an object, building, or scene from above. The horizontal plane is located 4 feet above the floor. Floor plans show things like walls, columns, location of doors and window openings, floor patterns, and the shape of the space. Floor plans serve as reference for other drawings, but final floor plans contain more specific information about an architectural design than any other type of drawing. This information includes anything from materials, sizes, description of locations, and dimensions. Dimensions usually show locations of walls, columns, windows, doors, stairs, and so forth. The purpose of the floor plan is to communicate as much information as possible to the building contractor to prevent any misunderstandings and delays. The simplicity or complexity of a floor plan depends entirely on the scale of the project.
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Elevations are two-dimensional drawings that show the vertical appearance of a structure. They are used to illustrate accurate information that has not been shown on the floor plan. They show height dimensions, texture and pattern of certain building materials, and location and dimensions of window and door openings. They are meant to give you a better understanding of the final appearance of the building’s interior and exterior.
Detail drawings are done on a larger scale to show building contractors details up-close. They reveal precise information about materials and construction methods.
Sections show a view of one slice of a structure, cut at a particular place revealing parts of that structure and its components. Sections also reveal the scale of the interior spaces, the door and window openings, and the connection between spaces.
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The development of international human rights law and human rights institutions was the great global legal work of the last half century. But the challenge of our time is transforming that law and the work of those institutions into meaningful, timely, positive results for affected individuals and communities whose rights need protecting. Forum Nobis offers clients unsurpassed legal expertise in the field of human rights combined with a practical, cost-efficient, client-centered approach.
Forum Nobis’ human rights practice routinely engages complex issues of socioeconomic rights, cultural rights, environmental rights, and, especially, indigenous peoples’ rights. The firm advocates in and closely monitors the all leading international human rights institutions, including
- the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH); Inter-American Court of Human Rights; the European Court of Human Rights; the African Commission on Human Rights;
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The core of Forum Nobis’ human rights work, however, is the firm’s ability to put the tools and resources of international human rights law to effective use in the national-level legal proceedings, policy debates, and public opinion dialogues that typically have the most direct impact on affected individuals and communities. Through its counsel, consulting, and communications practices, Forum Nobis works with affected individuals and communities on human rights issues and projects such as:
- preparation of human rights related amicus briefs, policy briefing papers and other reports, presentations, op-eds, press releases, speeches, and issue outlines;
- research and analysis regarding human rights laws, norms, precedent, principles, regulations, codes of conduct, and industry practices;
- preparation and implementation of human rights due diligence and other compliance efforts, programs, and investigations // assessment and critique of existing or forthcoming efforts by other parties;
- assistance on human rights issues for strategy development, public relations and awareness campaigns, creative media projects, fundraising drives, public policy dialogues, and other projects.
In addition to the fundamental human rights held by all people, indigenous and other protected communities have important additional rights under international law—and, increasingly, national laws—that arise from their fundamental collective right to self-determination as peoples. The positive right to self-determination has many facets, and includes as well a fundamental “negative” right to be free of any act which has “the aim or effect of depriving [the] integrity [of] distinct peoples, or of their cultural values or ethnic identities.”
Forum Nobis works with indigenous, tribal, and other protected communities to understand the extent to which national and international laws can protect their rights and to develop strategies and approaches for articulating and advocating for those rights in a variety of forums.
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The third generation MR2 had three different names, depending on country; Toyota MR-S in Japan, Toyota MR2 Spyder in the United States, and the Toyota MR2 Roadster in Europe. With the previous MR2 having been in the market for almost ten years, it was time for it to move aside as Toyota released the new MR2, designated ZZW30. The new MR2 was a part of Toyota Project Genesis, a plan from Toyota to attract buyers from the younger age bracket in an effort to increase sales in the United States, being one of Toyota’s worse flops, the project quickly ended in 2001, when Toyota launched its successful marque, Scion. The car received a complete makeover compared to the two previous models. One of the biggest changes was the replacement of the solid, T-Top, and sunroof options with a true convertible soft top, giving the car the ‘Spyder’ designation. Due to a new car design rule from SAE (The Society of Automotive Engineers), the pop-up headlights as seen on SW20 had to be removed. It is the only Toyota MR2 generation to not be sold in Canada.
The small and light MR2, chassis code AW11, was something no one had expected from Toyota, known for their economical and practical cars. The two-seat MR2 was definitely not practical as a family car, but the design criteria were different from that of most previous cars. Cars with a similar design and the same concept were the Lancia Beta Montecarlo, Fiat X 1/9 and the exotic Lancia Stratos, all produced in the 70s. The most important features of the AW11 were its light body (as low as 2,200 lb (998 kg) in Japan and 2,350 lb (1066 kg) in the US), superior handling and lightly powered, small-displacement engine. Toyota’s cooperation with Lotus during the prototype phase can be seen in the AW11, and it owes much to Lotus’s legendary sports cars of the 1960s and 1970s.
As a powerplant, Toyota chose to use the naturally aspirated 4A-GE 1587 cc I4 engine with Double overhead camshafts, which allowed the use of 16 valves for a better gas flow through the combustion chamber. The engine was also equipped with DENSO electronic multi-point fuel injection and a variable intake geometry (T-VIS), giving the engine a maximum power output of 128 hp (95 kW). US engines were rated at 112 hp (84 kW), European engines at 124 hp (93 kW), Australian engines at 118 hp (88 kW) and Japanese engines at 130hp (97 kW). The engine had already been introduced earlier on the Toyota AE86, gathering a lot of positive publicity. There was also a JDM model AW10 which used the more economical 1452 cc 3A-U engine, but it didn’t gain too much popularity. Some versions were also fitted with automatic climate control.
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(Photo Credit: Surrey Now-Leader)
Just released in the Journal of Pre-Hospital Emergency Care:
As more and more research presents on the previously perceived validity of the “Golden Hour” of trauma, this research article provides opportunities to consider a balanced approach of critical interventions versus a purely “load and go” approach. After many years of research showing reduced scene times are the defining factor, much of what is happening with advanced critical interventions with programs such as London HEMS and others, there seems to be a new trend toward advanced practitioners being the defining factor. This is something that we need to watch closely and participate in further research.
An example of an important question; Would advanced critical care practitioners in rural environments capable of treating severely life threatening conditions in the absence of a local trauma centre be better than rapid transport alone to a local emergency department? Recent Helicopter EMS (HEMS) studies have shown that advanced practitioners are perhaps the defining factor in those that are survivable and have not already declare themselves unviable.
Does this support the direction for the future of paramedic practice in British Columbia?
Quote from the study offers some thoughts:
“Our finding of an association between longer on-scene times and longer LOS in those who survived at least 30-days could be attributed to these patients being those who had their immediate life threats corrected in the additional time spent on-scene and thus were less
likely to die.”
Objective: To determine the association between prehospital time and outcomes in adult major trauma patients, transported by ambulance paramedics.
Methods: A retrospective cohort study of major trauma patients (Injury Severity Score >15) attended by St John Ambulance paramedics in Perth, Western Australia, who were transported to hospital between 1st January 2013 and 31st December 2016. Inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) using the propensity score was performed to limit selection bias and confounding. The primary outcome was 30-day mortality and the secondary outcome was the length of hospital stay (LOS) for 30-day survivors. Multivariate logistic and log-linear regression analyses with IPTW were used to determine if prehospital time of more than the one hour (from receipt of the emergency call to arrival at hospital) or any individual prehospital time interval (response, on-scene, transport or total time) was associated with 30-day mortality or LOS.
Results: A total of 1,625 major trauma patients were included and 1,553 included in the IPTW sample. No significant association between prehospital time of one hour and 30-day mortality was found (adjusted odds ratio 1.10, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.71-1.69). No association between any individual prehospital time interval and 30-day mortality was identified. In the 30-day survivors, one-minute increase of on-scene time was associated with 1.16 times (95% CI 1.03-1.31) longer LOS.
Conclusion: Longer prehospital times were not associated with an increased likelihood of 30-day mortality in major trauma patients transported to hospital by ambulance paramedics. We found no evidence to support the hypothesis that prehospital time longer than one hour resulted in an increased risk of 30-day mortality. However, longer on-scene time was associated with longer hospital LOS (for 30-day survivors). Our recommendation is that prehospital care is delivered in a timely fashion and delivery of the patient to hospital is reasonably prompt.
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WASHINGTON — A subcommittee of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs held a hearing Tuesday on a bill inspired by a Maine woman that would make it easier for veterans who are survivors of sexual assault in the military to receive compensatory benefits.
The bill is named for Ruth Moore, a Milbridge woman who was raped by her supervisor a quarter-century ago, when she was an 18-year-old Navy sailor. Moore attended Tuesday’s hearing, according to a release from U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, a Democrat who represents Maine’s 1st Congressional District.
Pingree sponsored the bill, the Ruth Moore Act, and testified to the subcommittee Tuesday. The bill would align eligibility for veterans benefits related to sexual assaults in the military with standards that apply to combat veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Veterans seeking benefits would simply have to show a medical diagnosis of a mental health condition and a link between an assault and that mental health condition.
“Whether the attack happened on a Navy base in Europe or a National Guard training facility here in the U.S., whether they were soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, the story too often has the same ending: the victims were blamed, the crime was covered up, and the survivors themselves became the subject of further harassment and recrimination. And too often, what followed was years of mental health issues, lost jobs, substance abuse and homelessness,” Pingree testified. “With the Ruth Moore Act we can change the VA’s policy so that veterans who survive a sexual assault can at least get the benefits they deserve.”
Pingree, who has made advocacy for military sexual assault victims a priority during her three terms in Congress, introduced a similar bill during the last session. Despite compelling testimony from Moore, the bill did not pass.
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“I’m still serving my country. Maybe not in a uniform, but I’m still serving my country,” Moore told the Bangor Daily News in February, when she talked about her experience and the problems military sexual assault survivors face when applying for benefits or seeking justice. “This is a problem that America has right now, but we’re still Americans, and I have hope that we can fix this.”
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2nd Annual "Lovin' Livingston" Trail Cleanup Day
In early September, the BlueRibbon Coalition learned that Heartwood, a radical environmental organization, and the Forest Service were about to cut a deal. They were about to reach a settlement on a lawsuit filed earlier by Heartwood in the United States Court for the Southern District of Illinois. Under the proposed settlement, an existing rule would be immediately changed, with the changes taking effect immediately nationwide.
At the time we received a copy of the draft settlement, it was not final. The draft settlement sped to many national forests and districts. BlueRibbon learned that word was informally passed on to officials that the settlement was a done deal and that they should plan to follow the new rules.
Despite the immediate change in regulations, no notice or opportunity for public input preceded the settlement. It required the Forest Service to undertake formal rulemaking to make the agreement permanent, but the settlement required certain terms to be included in any final rule. The terms were to apply immediately, before the formal rulemaking process.
The settlement agreement required the agency to subject ten types of activities to notice, comment, and administrative appeal procedures. The "new" rule takes procedural flexibility away from local forest managers.
Four of the activities specified single out OHV use for special scrutiny. They involve marking and signing trails for OHV use, construction of new OHV routes and support facilities, upgrading or modifying OHV trails, and issuing special-use permits for certain OHV activities. No other recreation activity would be affected.
Three forest health management activities are affected by the settlement. These activities involve prescribed burning, creating or maintaining wildlife openings, and cutting trees for thinning or wildlife habitat over an area greater than five acres. This settlement would assure that forest health management will be more bureaucratic, costly, and take longer to apply on the ground.
Heartwood's lawsuit was filed in November, 1999. The Forest Service requested and received from the court ten different delays in which to file their response to the suit. Heartwood never objected to these delays. In fact, the agency never did file a response to the suit before the court. The court was simply presented with the settlement agreement.
Heartwood's lawsuit did not discuss OHV recreation. The settlement agreement's terms went far beyond the original lawsuit in micro-managing localized OHV activities.
We were dismayed at the prospect of new forest service rules, made behind closed doors, that would further confine the ability of local land managers to make on-the-ground decisions. The Shawnee Trail Conservancy, an Illinois based regional non-profit multi-use recreation group that supports all forms of recreation equally, was similarly upset. Most constructive trail management on the Shawnee National Forest in Southern Illinois, promised in the Forest Plan has been thwarted by radical green lawsuits and other obstructionist tactics. The Shawnee Trail Conservancy and BlueRibbon agreed to do what we could to obtain a voice in any settlement agreement.
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We are dismayed that the Forest Service would be so willing to abandon proper rulemaking process and enter into a done-deal agreement that would further burden their local land managers. It is not hard to conclude that the settlement could have a profound effect on the agency's ability to manage for forest health. It would lengthen the time and increase the cost required to approve burning/thinning projects. We question why the agency would enter into such an agreement after this summer's catastrophic fires which dramatically illustrated the need for immediate forest health management.
Clyde Schmidt, Shawnee Trail Conservancy President said, "Local National Forest managers need sufficient flexibility for active management. The trend toward top-down micro-management needs to be stopped. The irony of this settlement agreement is that the lawsuit complains of the lack of public input into the specific items listed, yet the agreement was kept secret from the public."
Schmidt concluded, "The suit settlement is an example of what can happen when an agency and a special interest group go behind closed doors to cut a deal. The public is the loser. We hope our efforts will shed light on these important public issues."
At this time, our motions are pending before the court. We're appealing to everyone to support our extraordinary efforts to obtain a voice in the settlement of this lawsuit. We're acting on behalf of OHVers who may want to put up positive informational signs or enlarge a parking lot, on behalf of sportsmen who may support habitat improvements, on behalf of the American public who is concerned about forest health, and on behalf of the local manager who desperately needs some flexibility.
These legal actions are not cheap. We need your contributions to assist us in this effort. Please send a check today to BlueRibbon Coalition 9 Heartwood Settlement at 1540 N. Arthur, Pocatello, ID 83204.
--Adena Cook is Public Lands Director for the BlueRibbon Coalition. For questions or comments on this article, or on other Public Lands issues, she may be contacted at: BlueRibbon Coalition, P.O. Box 1427, Idaho Falls, ID, 83403. Phone: 208-524-3062, Fax:524-2836. Email firstname.lastname@example.org.
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In this course students wll come to understand the general ideas and concepts of ecology, to be able to integrate information, formulate solutions, and solve ecological problems in modern life. We will emphasize connections with mathematical, physical, and chemical processes, as well the application of ecology to conservation and global change issues.
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Plants are the basis of life as we know it. Unfortunately many of our activities, from eating to driving, are adversely affecting plants worldwide. Each spring, Dr. Ken Feeley of FIU's Department of Biological Sciences (http://www.fiu.edu/~kfeeley/) will teach a course on Plant Conservation Biology in which students will critically examine some of the many threats to plant diversity and the possible mechanisms for mitigating these threats. The course will be based on reading from the primary and popular scientific literature and will combine lectures, presentations and student-led discussions of current conservation events. Some example lecture topics include: "plant responses to global climate change", "why some of the wettest places on earth are at risk of burning down", "how fish farming could save Africa's rainforests", and "the costs and benefits of biofuels".
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At Newman College we shine through celebration of our faith, achievements, contributions and efforts. Celebration builds strong communities and plays a major role in socialisation, learning and faith development. It encourages a sense of belonging, coherence and purpose. Coming back to school has seen the power of relationship and coming together.
This has been exemplified by attendance over the last two weeks at approximately 95%.
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Dr Justin Coulson reminded all of us during the recent live stream of Newman Parents how being present to our children, actively listening to them and asking them, how can I help you, is critical to their development and wellbeing. Celebrating their achievements but also challenging their inhibitions and anxieties are an integral part of our relationships.
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Our College’s Vision for Learning – Shine through Discovery – has given us the foundation as a College Community to come together and become stronger as a result of the COVID crisis. The alignment of our PK-12 school through this Vision has enabled our teachers to individually and collectively build their capacity as was demonstrated through the development of our remote learning plan. In learning, it enabled students to recognise the value of formative assessment and that learning does not necessarily need a marked value to warrant its worth. Learning is about trial and error, asking questions, seeking feedback and strategies to overcome the challenges it presents. At the heart of this though is the relationships that are cultivated between teachers and students and in the collaboration and then celebration that is the result.
Congratulations again to our students for their transition back into face to face learning and we look forward to the future ahead.
Year 6 Leavers Shirt Presentation
It was a great privilege to honour our Year 6 cohort with the presentation of Year 6 Leavers shirts. Not dissimilar to Year 12, Year 6 is a legacy year for our students as they prepare to move into secondary school. We recognise their leadership on the Lavalla Campus and value their presence in our College.
Principal’s Assembly | RAP Launch / Reconciliation Week
Next week is Reconciliation Week across the country. Significantly, Newman College has developed a Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) which has been the sum of 18 months collaboration with staff, students, Catholic Education WA Aboriginal Team, with the support of facilitator Christine Sindley of Waangara Marra Consulting.
We will be launching our RAP with special guests, our local Federal member, Celia Hammond, and a special video presentation from Hon Ken Wyatt, Minister for Indigenous Australians.
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Why do we do this?
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– file shares
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– 1997-2007 … fall off in effectiveness of EDRMS, email, file shares, face-to-face
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KMWorld paper … 4 biggest disablers of knowledge sharing:
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– shared drives
Promise … for tomorrow’s LOB systems and technologies:
– EDRM services … disaggregation of the “big system” to smaller services
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– “instruments and mechanisms” … templates, workflows, approvals
– “transactional” … notes, reports, requests, correspondence
– self-help nuggets … access to short answers for short questions
– information know-how
Why are we doing all this? What’s the big deal?
– healthy information environments
– just in time NOT just in case
– power to the people
– the document links us to the people who wrote them
– feedback improves
– speed and enhanced performance
What choices do we have?
– (1) best of breed vs Swiss Army knife?
– (2) open source, Microsoft or a specialist vendor?
– (3) appliance, cloud, or software?
SharePoint … Swiss Army Knife, love-hate, massive use, default choice for many
– eg, Oslernet … law firm in Canada. Millions of documents. Success = designed and governed as though it was an EDRMS … liked and used.
Open Source … CapGemini … Drupal, phpBB, MediaWiki, Google Search Appliance
– 27000 users, 900 communities, 500 forums, 500 wikis
– organic growth … reduced the use of email
– conclusion: When you deliver the right tools, people will want to use them.
– (biggest challenge in NZ … hard to support in NZ due to lack of open source specialists, eg, for Alfresco)
If you don’t provide these, then what happens?
– end users find other / better tools
– or they leave the firm
– or they don’t join the firm
Wikis and Blogs in the Enterprise
– Web delivered
– can include approvals
– can do metadata
– very good for living documentation
– helpful in the beginning stages of a project … when things are forming (which is exactly what I show in Seamless Teamwork)
– it replaces … Word and PDF manuals, pretty / pointless intranets, email
– why it’s better … empowers people to contribute, multiple findability, online
– comments and moderation
– web delivered
– metadata and tags
– business uses … capturing insights, lessons, ideas, how to, rants and raves
– replaces … documents and memos, knowledge articles, pretty intranet, email
– why it’s better … people can contribute, creates network of trust, multiple findability, online
Blogs and Wikis together …
– become a business improvement platform … for ideas, issues and projects
– the content is starting to get tangled up in the technology … so for record keeping … makes the job a whole lot harder
– creates a new role and challenges for IM professionals, eg, metadata, taxonomy, folksonomy, governance, processes
– the rise and fall of technologies
– large scale use already
– it’s not going away
More on the conference: see #bs7im on Twitter
Questions and Answers
Q. Is the metadata the key to all this?
A. Two ways … taxonomy and folksonomy. Some firms are allowing people to start with folksonomy, and then converting some of that to taxonomy after 2 years.
Q. A lot of the newer tools are outside of the firewall … what are the record keeping implications?
A. Record keepers should be nervous. Will probably need to bring some things inside the firm. Also — how important are these records to us?
Q. What are the negatives or risks?
A. Disturbs me that people are doing things everywhere … you need to have information design from the get-go to make this work over the longer term.
Q. What is a record and what isn’t?
A. You have to come back to the business rules. What are the activities that need to become records?
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Scrabble word: NOMARCH
In which Scrabble dictionary does NOMARCH exist?
Definitions of NOMARCH in dictionaries:
- noun - the head of a nome
There are 7 letters in NOMARCH: A C H M N O R
Scrabble words that can be created with an extra letter added to NOMARCH
All anagrams that could be made from letters of word NOMARCH plus a wildcard: NOMARCH?
Scrabble words that can be created with letters from word NOMARCH
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IT security is, generally, defined as a defensive approach to protect a company and its assets from unauthorized access by an intruder. IT security efforts include network security appliances, HoneyPots, robust authentication, limiting authorization to least necessary privileges, as well as other perimeter security defenses. However, these approaches do not provide definitive protection of the company's most valuable asset, its data, because a single intrusion could result in sensitive data being compromised. Additionally, in today's workplace culture the disgruntled employee may be as much of a threat as any external threat.
Data encryption is a direct response to internal and external security threats that may also meet compliance regulations. Encryption provides strong security for data "at-rest"; in our case, the data stored in the database, but to be effective should be implemented as a part of a broader security plan. There are many issues involved with the implementation of encryption, details that require decisions and actions to ensure the success of the implementation and the security of the data. This document will discuss the issues associated with database encryption implemented using SQL Server's native Transparent Database Encryption (TDE) mechanism.
Encryption has been integral to human history beginning with the Babylonian use of Intaglio other historical examples include the Caesar Cipher, Scytale Transposition Cipher, Enigma, and even JimKryptos sculpture. Throughout history our society has enjoyed the ability to protect information using cryptographic methods including steganography, microdots, invisible ink, digital watermarks, and encryption which may be defined as the conversion of data so as to keep its meaning private. As the amount of sensitive data collected by commercial entities continues to grow the regulatory requirements for protecting the sensitive data will become more robust; meeting the regulatory requirements will necessarily require the continued use of data encryption methods.
Encryption requires the application of an algorithm to transform the target data into a form that is unusable to anyone that does not have access to the encryption process used. In practical terms encryption applies a cryptographic algorithm with a "key" to the target data producing the encrypted form of the data which cannot be accessed without the key used to encrypt the data. The two primary forms of key encryption are symmetric and asymmetric which are distinguished by the number of keys used in the encryption / decryption process. Symmetric encryption uses a single key while asymmetric encryption uses a pair of keys generally referred to as public and private keys.
While asymmetric encryption appears ideal for implementation because only the public key need ever be shared there are disadvantages with regard to performance. A sampling of asymmetric algorithms includes RSA, DSA, ELGamal, ECDSA, and XTR. Figure 1 demonstrates the asymmetric encryption process.
Figure 1 Asymmetric Key Encryption / Decryption Process
Symmetric algorithms require a single key for both encryption and decryption which allows for high-performance; however, with this approach the strength of the encryption is dependent on the security of the key. Common symmetric algorithms include AES/Rijndael, Blowfish, DES, Triple DES, Serpent, and IDEA to name only a few. Figure 2 demonstrates the symmetric encryption process.
Figure 2 Symmetric Key Encryption Process
Both symmetric and asymmetric encryption approaches are vulnerable to brute force attacks and cryptanalysis. Brute force is an attack during which every possible permutation of the key value is attempted. Cryptanalysis, on the other hand, applies computational techniques to circumvent the encryption. In general, the use of sufficiently long keys will mitigate these attacks.
In summary, a symmetric key algorithm is fast but less secure than an asymmetric algorithm. Another approach is a hybrid wherein a symmetric key is used to encrypt the data while an asymmetric key is used to encrypt the symmetric key. It may be important to know in order to maintain perspective that there is only one encryption algorithm that is impossible to crack, One-Time Pad (OTP), any other algorithm may be broken given sufficient time and / or computer resources.
Security concerns, in general, and encryption, specifically, are new concepts for most IT professionals; therefore, a Glossary of Security / Encryption Terms is included as an appendix for reference.
Overview of Transparent Database Encryption
The primary benefit of Transparent Database Encryption (TDE) is the ability to encrypt data without affecting any application that uses the data while providing security for the entire database. TDE is implemented at the database-level, unlike cell-level encryption TDE does not require modification to applications or database column data types; furthermore, database-level encryption allows for higher performance than cell-level encryption. However, TDE may allow more data leakage because encrypted data is decrypted when read into the buffer pool; therefore, the data is not protected if the operating system writes data from memory to disk during paging operations, or during hibernation, or memory dumps, nor is the data protected while in memory.
Database encryption is achieved by leveraging the Data Protection API (DPAPI) in Windows® which protects the Service Master Key (SMK) which protects the Database Master Key (DMK) which is used to protect the certificate or asymmetric keys which are used to protect the Database Encryption Key (DEK). These dependencies create a security chain from the operating system to the data eliminating user interaction thus strengthening security. The relationships and dependencies between keys is represented in Figure 3 below:
Figure 3 SQL Server encryption key hierarchy with TDE and EKM (Source: BOL - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc278098.aspx)
The hierarchy of keys in TDE is protected from the DPAPI to the DEK allowing the server to manage encryption and decryption automatically. The DMK and the certificate are stored in the MASTER database while the DEK is stored in the user database. This hierarchy and the key management chain provide TDE the capability to transparently encrypt and decrypt the database.
The process for encrypting a database is conceptually simple:
- Create a Master Key
- Obtain an Authentication Certificate
- Create DEK
- Enable TDE on the database
However, significant complexity will be introduced if the database encryption strategy is undertaken without proper planning that addresses important implementation issues. Those issues are discussed in the following section.
The level of security necessary to protect the database should be documented during the planning phase. Individually and in combination the following encryption mechanisms are available to secure the database:
- Encrypting File System (EFS)
- Transparent Database Encryption (TDE)
Discussion of the benefits and performance implications of each mechanism and their combinations is beyond the scope of this paper.
Data encryption must address two equally important issues: encryption technology and cryptographic key (key) management. Encryption technology provides for variable granularity of data protection, performance, and integration with existing applications, as well as ease of implementation and management. However, the success of the selected encryption strategy may depend most on key management policies and processes. Key management issues include: key access, key storage, and cryptographic algorithm. Key management is one of many important issues that must be considered when planning the encryption project.
The important issues to consider during the planning phase of the encryption project are listed below:
- Encryption Algorithm : DES, Triple DES, TRIPLE_DES_3KEY, RC2, RC4, 128-bit RC4, DESX, 128-bit AES, 192-bit AES, and 256-bit AES
- Key Management : Key Storage, Hardware Security Module (HSM), Key Scheduling, Key Availability / Mobility / Security
- Performance Impact. Encryption / Decryption - Microsoft claims 3-5%; however, independent tests indicate 6-12%..
- TempDB Encryption - Encryption of any one DB will encrypt TempDB.
- Transaction Log is encrypted.
- Log Shipping Implementation Changes - Encrypted database log shipping requires the recipient database to possess the key in order to apply the logs.
- Backup and Recovery Plan Changes - Encrypted databases cannot be recovered to a different instance without the key.
- Disaster Recovery Plan Changes - Encrypted databases cannot be recovered to a different instance without the key.
- Increased Disk Space Requirements - No SQL Server native backup compression. Third party tools may be available; however, in general, encrypted data cannot be significantly compressed.
- TDE operates during I/O; therefore, any data written to disk outside of the buffer pool is not protected
- No Support for FILESTREAM data-type
The diagram in Figure 4 represents a nominal encryption project planning process with each major area of consideration represented. The end result of the planning process is to produce a document detailing the decisions made that address the issues related to encrypting the database.
Figure 4 Encryption Planning Process
A comprehensive IT security policy provides a layered defense against threats to the system. However, even the most thorough perimeter network and physical defenses do not obviate the vulnerability of plaintext data stored in databases. Data encryption provides a means to protect sensitive data from unauthorized access as a part of a coordinated IT security policy that includes network security, robust authentication and authorization, as well as other physical security considerations. SQL Server and Windows® provide several mechanisms for the protection of data either at the file, database, or data levels.
Transparent database encryption (TDE) is a new technology available in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition which provides a simplified the data encryption option. TDE is a database-level encryption mechanism that reduces the implementation complexity by negating the need to modify the data and / or the client applications. However, the benefits of performance and simplicity are balanced by TDE's potential for data leakage; therefore, for the most sensitive data TDE alone may not suffice as a data security strategy.
Any data protection strategy must weigh the costs and benefits of implementation to arrive at a usable solution that meets the security requirements defined by the business. TDE's protection of sensitive data in low to moderate threat environments may be sufficient for some business requirements while highly sensitive data or data in high threat environments will require the combination of TDE with other encryption mechanisms such as cell-level encryption, EFS, or BitLocker.
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Irish public service pay in line with international norms
28th November 2011
Irish public service pay is on a par with OECD and EU averages when local purchasing power is taken into account, according to a new report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
The second edition of OECD Government at a Glance (2011) finds that Irish hospital consultants and top central government managers – like departmental secretaries – are the only public servants paid well by international standards. However, their equivalents in Italy, Britain, New Zealand and Belgium are paid more.
Far from being out of step with other countries, as is frequently alleged, the report says that, aside from these stark exceptions, the relative purchasing power of Irish public servants is about average. Relative purchasing power is routinely used in international comparisons of pay in the public and private sectors.
The report reveals that second-rank managers in central government departments are paid at around the OECD average once income is adjusted for social contributions and holiday entitlements. This places Ireland considerably behind the UK and USA. We also trail Australia, Austria and Chile, and are slightly ahead of Norway and Spain.
Irish middle managers are paid slightly more than the OECD average, while secretarial workers are paid well below the international norm. However, public sector economists and statisticians are paid above the OECD average.
The publication is designed to provide relevant information to policy makers by measuring the comparative performance of governments, allowing them to benchmark their performance against other countries. The income data in the report is adjusted for differences in purchasing power across countries, and establishes the relative living standards of workers in different OECD countries.
Its findings formed the basis of a recent Irish Times article by Fintan O’Toole, which challenged the received wisdom that that public servants in Ireland are overpaid (‘Truth’ about public sector pay fails to stack up’)
It’s well worth reading as one of those rare pieces of media commentary that bursts the myth bubble on what you earn.
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Conservation Grazing for Land Stewardship
Photo credit: Gary Kleppel, University at Albany
Controlled grazing by domestic livestock is a sustainable alternative to herbicide or mowing for control of invasive plants in natural areas. The use of sheep or goats to graze invasive plants can not only help meet DEC goals of pesticide reduction, but can also improve plant biodiversity and soil health. Grazing can be an effective substitute for mowing for vegetation management, especially in areas too steep to mow safely, while also reducing fuel costs, and minimizing litter and thatch. In areas with sensitive wildlife populations, such as the endangered bog turtle, managed grazing can be much safer for wildlife than mowing.
The growing popularity of targeted grazing for invasive plant control, especially in the Western United States, has helped change the impact of grazing from land degradation to ecosystem restoration. See the Targeted Grazing Handbook in the right column.
DEC has been working with Dr. Gary Kleppel at the University at Albany, SUNY to develop a conservation grazing protocol for State lands, the first of its kind in the United States. The process uses a technique called Intensive Rotational Targeted Grazing (IRTG). On State lands, livestock will be brought in on a temporary contract basis to perform specific grazing tasks to meet management objectives. The animals are managed with portable electric fencing, and rotational grazing techniques that minimize impact on the land. While the draft guidance document focuses on the use of sheep, the basic principles can also be used for management of goats, and even for larger animals such as horses and cattle. Please see the link to the Kleppel Lab at SUNY in the right column.
What Can Conservation Grazing Be Used For?
- Controlling invasive plants . Almost all of New York's invasive plant species can be eaten by livestock - even giant hogweed.
- Restoring grassland bird habitat. Because rotational grazing can be managed quite precisely, it is a wonderful tool for improving grassland bird habitat. Grazing not only increases plant species diversity, but also physical habitat diversity. While some bird species may require long grass cover for nesting, they may prefer shorter grass patches for foraging.
- Reducing fuel load. To reduce fire danger, and to prepare for manageable controlled burns.
- Removing woody vegetation and grazing maintenance at historic sites. The National Park Service has been using goats at Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island.
- Reducing weed competition around riparian buffer plantings. Newly planted trees and shrubs are very susceptible to shade competition from weeds. Since they are already protected from deer by tree tubes, they are also safe from small livestock. Grazing can be more effective than mowing, because livestock can graze much closer and will remove cover for voles and other small rodents.
- Cleaning up edges and fence lines. Which are so often havens for poison ivy. Sheep and goats love poison ivy!
- Restoring wildlife habitat. Much prime wildlife habitat is a mix of fields and patches of early succession brush and trees. Without maintenance, it will quickly go to thick brush and young trees. Grazing is very effective at keeping open areas open and increasing overall habitat diversity.
- Grazing capped landfills. To prevent growth of brush and trees with deeper roots, which could damage the cap. Steuben County has begun a grazing program to maintain capped landfills.
More about Conservation Grazing for Land Stewardship:
- Intensive Rotational Targeted Grazing - an ecologically sound management practice used to control the spread of invasive plants with the deployment of grazers, like goats, sheep and cattle
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How Instagram’s algorithm changes are hurting small businesses
Sana Javeri Kadri relied on Instagram for marketing when she started her fragrance company, Diaspora Company, in 2017. “I am totally grateful to them for our growth – then the algorithm changed and our market went awry,” he said. he said. “I have a place where I dream that Instagram can go back to the way it was, and my dream is for whatever reason that is impossible.”
By logging in to Instagram, Diaspora members grew to more than 100,000. “For the past three months, we have not been paying for advertising on Instagram,” said Ms. Javeri Kadri, even though the company has been used by a social media company. He added, “These are not solid numbers, but we used to see 2,000 to 3,000 likes in most posts for a 100,000-person audience,” he added. “Now it looks like 200 to 300.”
Since Instagram arrived in 2010, sharing photo feeds, thoughtful articles and adding important hashtags has been the foundation of many social media marketing strategies of many small food companies, as well as low-cost advertising. Then, by the end of 2021, parent company Instagram, Meta, changed the algorithm of the platform to provide a video path, called Reels. Accounts that do not publish short videos regularly appear under the system’s users’ Instagram feeds, leading to popular hits and submissions to posts – as well as, of course it, the market – for many small businesses.
“With the way Instagram has changed everything in the video, it really reduces the amount of traffic we get to our Instagram account, that means our website,” said Skyler Mapes, founder of Exau Olive Oil. “You have to fight harder than ever to get out there and see it.”
Adam Mosseri, chief executive of Instagram, announced the change video posted on his Twitter account by the last day of 2021. “We will double our focus on video,” Mr. Mosseri said. “We are no longer a photo sharing application.”
He added that the company is focused on growing Reels, which was launched in August 2020 as a clear response to TikTok’s progress. Reels appear on Instagram user list as well as content search pages; the videos can only be a minute long and can be shot and edited within the application.
The change has left small food companies and their advertising agencies frustrated. Instagram listing has worked as a buyer list and a way to damage a brand account.
Ms. Javeri Kadri said, “It was scary because I was so good at taking beautiful pictures and writing long emotional speeches,” said Mrs. Javeri Kadri, “suddenly, within months. “Six years ago, I was grieving for the value of the art.”
Although pivot and Reels do not require a lot of text, it does require a video production experience. Instagram tells its users that Reels’ success is high; use text, filters and camera effects; set to music and dynamic sound; and be “fun and entertaining,” displaying content that is “fun, interesting, engaging, funny or surprising. turn around. ”
This is no small task for business owners and unskilled video editors. Abigail Knoff, chief marketing officer at the smallhold mushroom company, says it is a huge boost for his team.
He said, “The design, editing and commentary and music technology for video content produced is very different from iPhone photography,” he said.
Mrs. Knoff was left with two options: “We can work sometimes with freelancers who are, rightly so, highly valued, or patient as we learn these new skills n ‘work. “
Some Instagram managers with these skills still have to pay for outside help. Danita Evangeline White, social media consultant for Trade Street Jam Company, has noticed a 38 percent decline in qualifications, or the number of employees viewing the company’s content, over the past 90 days. Traffic on the company’s website has dropped by one-third since the end of 2021. Ms. White has released more videos to the company’s account, which has about 25,500 followers, but she believes the content it still does not take precedence. algorithm.
After considering his options, Trade Street Jam hired a social media consultant to conduct an Instagram review. “Our founder is only a full-time employee; We don’t have a big budget for outsourcing or consulting, “Ms. White said, but” we think the investment will be worthwhile. “
One new recommended way for companies to stop relying on the algorithm of Instagram: Go to another platform.
PJ Monte, the founder of Monte’s gourmet cuisine, posted his thoughts on Instagram and thought of TikTok. Mr. Monte said, “Without TikTok followers, I have had two videos that got a few million views.”
Ms. Javeri Kadri commented on TikTok, and six months later, the Diaspora had her own virus video. It grows with the company on the platform, he said, “but unlike TikTok it does not suddenly make money,” because the application does not have a shopping spree or a combined connection, as Instagram does. (The company declined to provide a sales figure.)
The type of landline still unaffected is the first to see irreversible algorithm changes. Denetrias Charlemagne, founder of Avec Drinks, avoided investing in advertising advertising from the start, relying on advertising and marketing together.
“Our plan is not to build on Instagram,” said Mrs. Charlemagne, who has experience working in media. He pointed to Facebook’s decision to change its algorithm in 2018, which removed brand accounts and reduced advertising company traffic.
Finally, the success of small business and social media is in the hands of a few companies.
Mrs. Mapes of Exau said: “These collections are not ours, they belong to the technology industry. Now, as he has to “fight harder than ever to get out of there and see it,” he says, “I’m done.”
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PG vs. R Ratings: What’s the Difference for Summer Action Films?
A film’s rating ensures a certain kind of audience. Here, we discuss the logic and thought process behind making a summer action film.
Every producer working on a summer action film must make an R-rated film with a strong adult appeal or create something more accessible for larger audiences. So, how do you make this determination?
Earlier this year, Rossatron released a fantastic video essay about the importance of blood in film. The video essay explores how a lack of blood in violent action scenes also creates a lack of consequence for those violent actions.
I can’t disagree with that critique. When we see our hero plow through a warehouse shooting the bad guys, and they instantly fall bloodless to the floor, it somewhat diminishes the seriousness of the action.
I have a lot of misgivings about violence and PG ratings. A PG film might show hundreds of people dying, falling off buildings, getting mowed down by rapid-fire guns, but you don’t feel the deaths because the ratings system dictates the amount of agony being played by the actor.
In a weird way, that makes violence more palatable because when we excise the upsetting bits, we de-sensitize ourselves to death to the point where it’s almost like shooting ducks at a carnival.– Director James Mangold
Whenever we hear an announcement for a popular hard-edged character coming to the big screen, there are always anxious moviegoers pleading for the film to be R-rated, and show the violence in all its glory.
Notably, despite the glaring lack of gore from slices, stabs, and gunshots, many summer action films that play it safe are either top box office contenders or happily ensconced in the museum of classics.
But, are audiences longing for an adult take on a popular character (see Logan), or are they just bloodthirsty?
First, let’s look at the rating system.
Typically, suppose a film shows violence that’s both realistic and extreme. In that case, the film will garner an R-rating—or in the UK, a 15 rating (although these evaluations can become convoluted—we touch upon this below).
An R-rated film requires someone under the age of seventeen to be accompanied by an adult, and a BBFC 15 rating will only permit those who are fifteen and above to watch the film. It doesn’t matter if you have an adult accompanying you or not. But what do realistic and extreme mean?
Well, let’s look at two instances with the character Wolverine from films X-Men 2 (PG-13) and Logan (R).
In the following sequence from the PG-13 X-Men 2, enemy combatants invade the X-mansion, and in his savage-but-protective nature, Wolverine chops down any foe in his wake to protect the children.
Despite having razor-sharp claws that can cut through any material, the soldiers who regrettably find themselves in Wolverine’s path visually receive nothing more than torn clothing, despite the slicing and stabbing.
Conversely, in a scene that almost mimics the events from the 2003 film, Wolverine again goes berserk against a group of enemy combatants to protect young children.
The difference, however, is that if Wolverine slices an enemy soldier’s neck, we see the blood splatter from the initial cut, flesh flung in the direction of the attack, and a gush of blood running from the soldier’s wound.
This is an example of both realistic and extreme violence.
Of course, bloody gore isn’t the only factor involved in a movie’s rating. There’s also sex, nudity, language, drug use—each category has an extremity limit that will push the rating into the next class.
Regarding violence, the exact level of extreme is somewhat blurred, and both the MPAA and BBFC have been criticized—for decades—by filmmakers and audiences alike.
For example, in the clip beneath from the beloved 2018 summer action film Black Panther (PG 13), the character Killmonger (the antagonist) shoots and wounds another character named Ulysses Klaue. Not following the norms of PG-13, however, we see the two bullets penetrate Klaue, along with bloody entry wounds.
More frequently, we’d see the character being shot from an angle, where the bullet impact is hidden (see this clip from Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier). The effect is visible, but we only see damage to the clothing and not the flesh, or the character gets shot off the frame, and then we see a small amount of blood on the character’s shirt.
Of course, we cannot disregard the economic factor. Both The Dark Knight and X-men 2 are inherently violent, but a large portion of the core demographic for summer action films are teenagers and children.
And, without those adolescent seats, studios lose a ton of box office cash and merchandising. Not to mention that R-rated movies miss out on advertisements on teen-friendly spots—teen TV channels, Happy Meals, gaming websites, and so forth.
The Demand for Blood or Adult Tone?
With the recent news that Marvel Studios will be bringing Blade into the fold, the internet was quick to rally behind the mantra that Blade, like the first iteration, needs to be bloody and R-rated.
Over the last few years, we’ve unquestionably seen a demand for more R-rated action films. Not necessarily for action films such as Die Hard, but for comic book films like Logan and Deadpool, and future films based on more street-level characters.
But, are audiences longing for senseless bloody action in their summer action films, or do they merely want to see the characters they’ve grown up with now presented in a more adult-like tone?
While there’s an argument for visceral violence in these films (hey, I’m for it too), do we really need squirts of blood from every orc that Aragorn cuts down, in the same way we saw from those slain by Jon Snow’s sword?
The thing is, unless it’s a blood-soaked horror film where the gore is the selling point, the nature of onscreen violence is usually a by-product of the tone of the film. What do I mean by that?
Well, again, James Mangold has words on the topic. Speaking at the 2018 Writers Guild Association Beyond Words Panel, he said the following:
You have to have a slightly off-pedal goal for your film, and the people who are gonna go: ‘What the fuck is that eight-minute scene between Professor X and Logan? That’s light eight minutes of two guys in a tank talking.’ And, it’s like: ‘Yeah. That’s not gonna change because the vibe of this movie is an adult drama.’
That’s why, for instance, we wanted an R-rating. It wasn’t because of the violence and it wasn’t because of the language, but because I didn’t have to write a movie, and neither did my compatriots, for eleven-year-olds.
If we had a rated-R movie, there were gonna be no Happy Meals. There can be no action figures. There was gonna be no marketing on Saturday morning cartoons or anything like it. So that, suddenly, you’re not making a movie written for someone under fourteen, fifteen. And, that changes the length of scenes. It changes what they’re talking about.– Director James Mangold
This is, apparent, when we compare the likes of Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings. Both are fantasy epics, involve creatures and magic, and are set in a world different from ours. Yet, Game of Thrones is naturally more grounded in reality than Lord of The Rings. And, as such, when a character meets the sharp end of a blade, you expect to see the real consequence of that action.
With Lord of the Rings, not so much. The film, in tone, is fantastical. The unimaginable and unreal are around every corner and, as a result, the lack of blood in altercations doesn’t seem that outlandish.
Sum It Up
There’s undoubtedly a disparity between the content in teen-friendly summer action films and the absence of blood to make it age-appropriate. It seems impracticable to have Samuel L. Jackson‘s Nick Fury shoot down a dozen bad guys with a machine gun, but it’s okay as there’s no blood splatter.
As I said before, the rating system for domestic and foreign movies has been scrutinized for years. It was the focus of the documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated.
Going forward, it’ll be interesting to see if the hold over the use of blood effects changes.
Looking for more on the film and video industry? We’ve got you covered.
- “The Lucas Effect”: When Filmmaking Creativity Goes Unchecked
- What the Marvel Cinematic Universe Means for the Future of Film
- 10k Vs 100k Vs 500k: Feature Film Budgets Compared
- The History and Power of Sound Design in the Film Industry
- These Tribeca Docs Will Renew Your Faith In The Power of The Camera
Cover image via Marvel Studios.
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Guide to Dental Careers – Salaries & Career Outlooks
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Dental hygiene and health are important parts of a person’s overall health. That means that dentists, as well as dental assistants, hygienists, laboratory technicians, and others involved in dental care, are quite crucial to the healthcare system. There are many opportunities available for those who are interested in dental careers. No matter how much time or money you have to invest in education, there is likely a job that you can become qualified for in the dental field. This guide can help you choose which dental career is right for you as you determine your own career path.
Below you can find an overview of the certified dental assistant, dental hygienist, dental lab assistant, and dentist careers. These include job descriptions, salary ranges, outlook data, and a list of resources on career preparation and certification and “day in the life” interviews and videos.
Become a Certified Dental Assistant™ (CDA®)
The Dental Assisting National Board (DANB) offers the national Certified Dental Assistant (CDA) certification. A dental assistant who holds CDA certification works closely with dentists and other dental professionals as they complete different patient procedures. For instance, a CDA certificant might be one who prepares and provides sterilized instruments for dental procedures, takes dental impressions of a patient’s teeth, or assists in the placement of crowns for damaged teeth.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the demand for dental assistants in the U.S. is growing, with a 7 percent growth rate projected between 2019 and 2029 (BLS 2021). The median salary for a dental assistant is $41,180 per year. It is important to note that BLS statistics refer to all dental assistants and do not distinguish between those who are DANB CDA certified and those who are not.
Because a CDA certificant has proven their experience and knowledge, in many cases, they can expect to earn higher salaries than their uncertified counterparts. In fact, DANB’s latest salary survey information shows that dental assistants who hold CDA certification earn nearly $2 more per hour than non-certified dental assistants.
In order to become DANB certified, dental assistants must pass examinations in the following three topics: General Chairside Assisting (GC), Radiation Health and Safety (RHS), and Infection Control (ICE).
In order to qualify for the GC examination, applicants must either have graduated from a dental assisting program accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation or have accumulated at least 3,500 hours of approved work experience in dental assisting. All applicants must also be CPR certified prior to sitting for the examinations and have completed high school. You do not have to hold CDA certification in order to be a dental assistant in every state, but some states do require certification and/or state registration.
Learn more about becoming a CDA by visiting the following informative links:
- Dental Assisting National Board: The Dental Assisting National Board is the certification board for dental assistants, providing the examinations necessary to hold CDA certification. You will find all the necessary resources to prepare and register for national certification exams on their site.
- Dental Assistant Instructional Videos: The University of Florida School of Dentistry has made a number of instructional videos available for free on their website. These videos cover such basic assisting information as a review of basic dental instruments and how to assist during a basic dental surgery.
- Dental Assistant: The American Dental Association offers a range of facts about how dental assistants help dentists and the ways in which the career can be a rewarding experience. The ADA fact sheet and brochure can help explain the different educational pathways and career opportunities.
- American Dental Assistants Association: The American Dental Assistants Association is a professional organization for all dental assistants. Membership can provide insurance opportunities, professional services discounts, and educational and networking opportunities.
- Dental Assistant Requirements by State: The DALE Foundation compiled an interactive map that outlines the requirements for becoming a dental assistant in all of the 50 states.
- DentalAssistant.net Links to Resources: For even more resources on dental assisting, check out this list of links. It includes easy access to dental assistant education, career opportunities, and many state dental assistant associations.
- The DALE Foundation: The DALE Foundation, the official DANB affiliate, offers online review courses and practice tests to help dental assistants prepare for DANB exams and earn continuing education. There is also a free informational video about “Your Career as a Dental Assistant.”
Become a Dental Hygienist
The dental hygienist career is one that involves a high degree of patient interaction. Dental hygienists provide dental cleanings by removing plaque and tartar from teeth, take dental x-rays, compile and track patient care plans, and educate patients on proper dental health care routines such as brushing and flossing. In many dental offices, hygienists spend much more time with patients than the dentist, meaning this job requires not only a great deal of dental education but also patience and a good bedside manner.
Becoming a dental hygienist generally requires at minimum a two-year associate’s degree in dental hygiene. Many colleges and universities also offer bachelor’s degrees in dental hygiene. A bachelor’s degree can lead to more advanced roles, management opportunities, higher wages, and better employability.
As with many health professions, licensure for dental hygienists is dictated by the state where the hygienist chooses to practice. Most states have a basic education prerequisite and require hygienists to take the National Board Dental Hygiene Examination. Many states also have their own certification exam, so all prospective hygienists should be sure to check with their local state agencies to determine the specific requirements.
Because dental hygienists require more education, they can demand higher salaries than dental assistants. BLS statistics have the median wage for dental hygienists at $77,090 per year, which is nearly double the median salary for dental assistants (BLS 2021). Further, the demand for hygienists is growing quite quickly, at a rate of 6 percent through 2029. This is faster than the average for all jobs, which currently stands at just four percent. Clearly, there are and will continue to be many opportunities for dental hygienists in the coming years.
If you want to explore the career further, be sure to check out the following links:
- American Dental Hygienist Association: The ADHA is the largest professional association for dental hygienists in the U.S. The group provides its member with educational scholarships and grants, continuing education resources, networking opportunities, and information on emerging hygienist technologies.
- RDHMag: This online magazine for registered dental hygienists contains articles and opinions from hygienists around the country, designed to educate and connect those who are pursuing this dental career.
- Dental Hygiene: The University of Bridgeport offers a bachelor’s of science in dental hygiene. It can be completed as a stand-alone program or as a completer degree for hygienists who have an associate’s degree. Admissions are competitive, and students must complete prerequisite coursework, submit letters of recommendation, and write a personal statement.
- Resources for Dental Hygienists: This list of professional and educational resources is meant to be helpful for both practicing hygienists and those interested in pursuing the career. It includes schools, publications, and career opportunities.
- 6 Tips on How to Be a Successful Dental Hygienist: DentistryIQ provides some helpful tips to aspiring dental hygienists in this article written by an experienced hygienist.
Become a Dental Lab Technician
Those who want to work in the dental field but not necessarily in the mouths of patients may want to consider a career as a dental lab technician, sometimes referred to simply as a dental technician. These specialists work with dentists to create prosthetic and restorative devices for implantation in patients. This might include bridgework, dentures, and crowns. These types of creations cannot be mass-produced because each one is unique, making this an essential and highly detail-oriented job, perfect for those with an eye for detail and an interest in dentistry.
While there are no formal educational or licensing requirements to become a dental lab technician, most incoming lab technicians do have at minimum a high school diploma. There are also certifications available from the National Board for Certification in Dental Laboratory Technology (NBC). Prerequisites for this certification are either a formal dental technician education or at least five years of work experience. Certification is available in:
- Orthodontic appliances
- Crowns and bridges
- Complete dentures
- Partial dentures
According to the BLS, the median salary for a dental laboratory technician is $45,230 per year (BLS 2021). The demand projections tracked by the BLS include dental lab technicians as well as ophthalmic lab technicians and medical appliance technicians but overall is expected to grow at the rate of 9 percent through 2029 (BLS 2021).
The following resources may help you explore the career of dental laboratory technician:
- National Association of Dental Laboratories: The NADL is “the unified voice of the dental laboratory industry supporting dentistry and serving the public interest by promoting high standards.” It offers networking opportunities as well as education and other resources for members.
- Summary Report for Dental Laboratory Technicians: O*NET offers a wide range of information about what it takes to be a successful dental lab technician, including personality traits, technology skills, and specialized knowledge.
- The Foundation for Dental Laboratory Technology: The FDLT aims to advance the cause of dental lab technicians by working with educational institutions to create high-level curricula and useful standards for aspiring technicians.
- A Day in the Life of a Dental Laboratory Technician: Check out this YouTube video for a first-hand account of what it is like to work as a dental lab technician on a daily basis.
Become a Dentist
Certainly, the best-known dental career is that of a dentist. Along with their support staff, dentists work to ensure the overall oral health of their patients through regular cleanings, check-ups, cancer screenings, cavity fillings, and any necessary surgeries or implants. Dentists examine not only the teeth but also the jaw, gums, and tongue to ensure overall health. Many dentists work in private practice, either on their own or with partners and associates. It can be a rewarding and flexible career that also offers high rates of compensation for those who are willing to put in the work.
Becoming a dentist requires quite a bit of education. Most dentists start with a bachelor’s degree in a science such as biology or chemistry (although most dental schools do not require a specific major) and then proceed to dental schools where they can earn their Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) or Doctor of Medicine in Dentistry (DMD). Most dental schools do require that incoming applicants take the Dental Acceptance Test (DAT) during the application process to ensure their readiness.
Dentists are compensated quite well across the country, with the median annual salary being $164,010 (BLS 2021). Specialists such as oral surgeons and orthodontists can expect even higher salaries. The dental occupation is expected to grow by 3 percent through 2029, which is somewhat slower than the average for all occupations (BLS 2021).
Dentists must be licensed in the state where they practice, but state requirements vary. Most states require some iteration of a written exam, practical exam, and accredited education.
Review the following links for more information on what it takes to become a dentist:
- A Day in the Life of a Dental Student: This video from the toothcareers YouTube channel features an interview with a dental student and can therefore give some insight into what it is like to study to become a dentist.
- American Dental Association: The ADA provides resources not only for dentists and prospective dentists but also for dental patients and the whole range of dental professionals. There should be resources on their site that can help direct you towards an answer for any dental question you may have.
- Why become a dentist?: A personal perspective from the British Dental Journal gives some idea as to why people pursue dentistry and what they find most rewarding about the job.
- Pre-Dent Resources: This list of resources for undergraduate students who want to pursue dental school may be a great help to those who are not quite sure where to turn for pre-dental support.
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BELFAST, Maine — Brightly colored rainbow flags fluttering over more than 50 local businesses are one clear sign that Belfast has pride.
Another is that the city’s first-ever pride festival, called Belfast Has Pride, is scheduled to take place on Saturday, June 11. MaKayla Reed and Rachel Epperly said this week that they decided to organize the event after realizing that in Maine, there are no pride festivals in smaller cities. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month is celebrated in June to honor the 1969 Stonewall riots in Manhattan, a tipping point for the gay civil rights movement in the United States.
Reed and Epperly, who are married, believe that the Belfast event will be the first-ever pride festival in midcoast Maine.
“It seemed there were no small-town pride events, and if you want pride, you have to go to Portland or Bangor, one of the larger communities,” Reed said. “We wanted to create one big event that would pull the whole community together. I think we live in a really wonderful town that is the center of the midcoast, and we’re trying to redefine what pride is as a model for other small towns.”
Reed and Epperly said that in Belfast, the event will feature a parade that begins at 10 a.m. at Waterfall Arts on High Street and travels almost a mile to the festival site at Steamboat Landing Park on the waterfront. Anyone is welcome to participate in the parade, they said, adding that those interested are encouraged to bring flags, signs, balloons, banners, leashed pets and musical instruments.
At the festival, there will be live music, drag performances, hula hoop instruction and ukulele demonstrations, as well as a bounce castle, dunk tank and face painting. The event has two pride marshals — longtime educator Lila Nation and Belfast poet laureate Toussaint St. Negritude.
“One of the things I’m really excited about is honoring our pride marshals,” Epperly said. “I’m excited about honoring the past and paying tribute to the people who have gotten us to this place where we are in Belfast. And I’m excited about creating a space where we can look toward the future of what the [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning] community can be in Belfast. We have a really great population of elders who really have paved the way for where we are now.”
Epperly and Reed, who are both 21, said that while great strides have been made in recent years, there is still discrimination in the community. There also can be a sense of isolation, and they are hoping that the event may help change that feeling.
“Our hope is to really bring together people in the community,” Epperly said. “I’m really hoping that there will be a good feeling of community and bonding and friendship.”
For more information about the event, please visit www.facebook.com/belfasthaspride.
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Use SystemModeler for modeling and analysis throughout drug discovery, development, clinical trials, and manufacturing. The flexible environment supports application areas such as systems biology, bioinformatics, and more.
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Walt Arfons in 1965. Photo credit: Akron Beacon Journal
Walt Arfons Passes Away
Walt Arfons, a mechanical engineer and champion drag racer credited for building the first jet-engine dragster, died of pneumonia, June 4, at a hospital in Akron, Ohio. He was 96.
Arfons was born Walter Charles Stroud, December 10, 1916, in Muncie, Indiana. He grew up in Akron and took his stepfather’s surname, Arfons. He and his younger brother Art were among the best-known drivers during drag racing’s early years in the ’50s and ’60s. They were pioneers in achieving land-speed records at the Bonneville Salt Flats in western Utah.
The brothers learned how to use and assemble machinery at their father’s feed and hardware store in Akron during the Great Depression. They built cars from spare parts and, after World War II, they bought planes to work on. They participated in their first drag race in 1952; however, a reckless rivalry on the track later created turmoil between the brothers. They didn’t talk for years and became professional foes.
Art, who died in 2007, held three land-speed records; however, Walt was credited with introducing jet propulsion systems into motorsports and finding ways to make motorsports safer.
Walt bought a surplus military jet at auction, but the engine’s manual was classified. So in his shop, he assembled a new car around the plane’s turbo-jet engine by trial and error. He used parachutes to stop the car.
A later configuration of the jet-powered car—named the Wingfoot Express after the Goodyear logo—broke a land-speed record by reaching 413 mph over one mile, October 2, 1964, at Bonneville. Three days later, Art broke the record by going 434 mph in another jet-powered car.
In the late ’60s, Chrysler wanted Walt to install jet engines on some of their cars, and he hired several drivers to race them on the Funny Car circuit. He retired from motorsports by the early ’70s.
Walt is survived by his wife Gertrude, son Terry, daughter Patricia Stiff, sister Lou Wolfe, eight grandchildren and 19 great grandchildren. Another son Craig attempted to break a speed record on water in 1989 when his jet-powered hydroplane crashed on Lake Jackson in Sebring, Florida, killing him.
Leffler Program Established by USAC Benevolent Foundation
The USAC Benevolent Foundation has announced a $10,000 grant in the memory of the late USAC racing champion Jason Leffler, who lost his life last Wednesday night in a racing accident in New Jersey.
The 501-3C-designated Foundation will also accept additional donations earmarked for usage by Leffler's son Charlie Dean and his mother Allison. A designated cap amount to be announced by the Board of Directors of the Foundation will also result in additional dollar-for-dollar matching funds for this purpose.
All contributions earmarked for the Leffler program, which may include the Charlie Dean Leffler Education Fund, may be directed to the USAC Benevolent Foundation, c/o Executive Director Bill Marvel, 4910 W. 16th Street Speedway, Speedway, IN 46224. Marvel may be reached at 859-749-0646 or firstname.lastname@example.org. Donations should be earmarked for this program.
Mazda's Sylvain Tremblay and Tom Long took the win last weekend at Mid-Ohio.
Mazda Wins at Mid-Ohio
Mazda's Sylvain Tremblay and Tom Long took the win last weekend at Mid-Ohio. Long had won the pole position and the team led the bulk of the race. Similar to the races in Georgia and Michigan, it was a three-way battle for most of the race with a Porsche Cayman splitting the two Mazdas. Joel Miller and Tristan Nunez in the #00 VISITFLORIDA RACING Mazda6 scored third-place points after an oil leak took them off-track late in the race. After six races, Mazda is now four points behind Porsche for the Grand-Am GX Manufacturers Championship. The two SpeedSource cars are second and third in team points, while Miller is second among drivers—14 points behind Jim Norman. There are six races remaining to determine the champions, including September 7–8, at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. The next race is the Sahlen’s Six Hours of the Glen, June 30, at Watkins Glen.
Jimmie Johnson took the win at the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Party in the Poconos 400.
Castroneves Earns First IndyCar Win of 2013, Jimmie Johnson Takes Third Pocono Win
Team Penske’s No. 3 car, driven by Helio Castroneves, captured the team’s first IZOD IndyCar Series victory of the season at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, June 8. The win gave Castroneves a 22-point lead in the series championship standings. Castroneves led the final 132 laps to earn his fourth career victory on the track. In a separate venue, at the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Party in the Poconos 400, Jimmie Johnson continued his 2013 season with another win. Leading for 128 out of the 160 laps, Johnson won from the pole, taking his third win for this track as well as for the season.
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I believe that one of the best tools available for visualizing data within an Excel spreadsheet is conditional formatting. This post will feature what you can do with data bars and icon sets. See my earlier my post on how easy it is to use conditional formatting to find duplicates in Excel. In this post, I am using some data from major league baseball to explore how to visualize win/loss streaks and comparing team’s winning percentages. The example spreadsheet represents MLB standings as of 7/27/2012. I copied the data from www.mlb.com and pasted it into an Excel spreadsheet which you can download (see link at end of post). The following screen shot represents the data before any applied conditional formatting.
The first step to take is select the data that you would like to apply the conditional formatting to. I selected the range from C4 through C39. After selecting your data, click the home tab–>conditional formatting command–>data bars. The data bars will grant you a lot of choices. Simply click the one that you like the best.
As you can see in the screen shot above, I applied the data bars to the winning/loosing streaks. So Cincinnati currently have a 7 game winning streak and the data bar on its record is displayed to the right and is green. This is a great news for Cincinnati fans. Contrast that with Milwaukee Brewers who have a 7 game loosing streak and its data bar is to the left and is red. Now I could customize the colors and select what color I would like the data bar to be for positive numbers and what color I would like to be for negative colors under manage rules.
Another great choice for conditional formatting is the icon sets. Icon sets group your data into parts. For example, in the screen shot below I selected all the baseball teams winning percentage (Range F4:F39). Then I clicked conditional formatting–>icon sets–>traffic lights. This grouped the data with the top 3rd winning teams with green traffic lights, the middle third with yellow traffic lights, and the bottom third teams with red traffic lights.
Download my baseball mlb conditional formatting.xlsx file. I’ve included a practice sheet that you can work with.
Be sure to download my Excel keyboard shortcuts handout if you haven’t already.
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December 21 marks the official start of the winter. If you haven't done so already, you should use this time to prepare your car for the change of seasons. Winter weather can wreck havoc on automobiles, increasing wear and tear both internally and externally. So, what steps can you take to better prepare your car for winter?
Check Coolant Levels
When was the last time that you checked your car's coolant (antifreeze) levels? As the temperatures begin to drop, there's a greater risk of damaging occurring to your radiator -- especially when there's little-to-no coolant present. Coolant, which is a mixture of ethylene or propylene glycol and water, is primarily used to protect against overheating, but it's also used to protect against freezing. According to CarCare.org, coolant should be flushed and replaced at least once every two years.
Related Reading: Why is My Car Low on Coolant?
Check Your Tires
Drivers should routinely check their tires year-round, but it's particularly important to do so during the winter. Icy roads pose a serious risk to motorists driving with worn-out tires. If there's not enough tread left on your tires, you won't be able to gain proper traction with the road, placing you at a greater risk for a collision. Check both the tread and air pressure of your tries, ensuring it meets the manufacturer's specifications.
Related Reading: How to Choose the Right Tires for Your Car
Check the Lights
Headlights usually last roughly 5-10 years before dying. As they approach the end of their life, however, they become dimmer and produce less light. This can make driving in a snow storm downright dangerous, as you'll have a difficult time seeing the road, and other drives may also have trouble seeing you. Check your headlights, and if necessary, replace them with new ones.
Related Reading: Only 1 in 31 Cars Have 'Good' Headlights
Check the Brakes
Of course, you should also check your car's brakes, ensuring the pads are still intact and not worn out to the point where it's creating a grinding metal-on-metal noise. Worn-out pads pose a serious risk, especially during the winter.
Related Reading: 4 Signs Your Car's Brakes Need Servicing
Check the Battery
Pop the hood and check your car's battery terminals. Is there rust/corrosion present? Is the battery leaking acid? The dry air combined with the cold temperatures can disturb automotive batteries, which is why you see so many people jumping their cars during this time of year. Make sure your battery is connected with clean terminals, and that it has a strong charge.
Related Reading: Is it the Battery or the Alternator?
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Today marks the first day that Conde Nast staffers will report to work at 1 World Trade Center; The New York Times examines what the move will mean for Lower Manhattan, which seems to reveal as much about the decline of the media industry as it does about the rise of Downtown. And while Downtown Alliance president Jessica Lappin boasts that “Condé Nast’s arrival puts a stiletto in the heart of the outdated notion that Lower Manhattan is stuffy and gray,” it’s undeniable that generous incentives have played a major role in the relocation, which will mean somewhat reduced circumstances for the staffers: “This time around, Condé Nast did not bring in a star architect for the cafeteria on the 35th floor of 1 World Trade Center. Writers at The New Yorker will now have to share their offices with a colleague. There are fewer offices with windows and more employees will sit in open rooms.”
Nor has the reconstruction of the site gone as smoothly or as safely as previously believed. A New York Daily News investigation uncovered 34 serious injuries at the site that were never reported to OSHA. And for three years in a row, injury rates at the project exceeded state and national averages.
Globe-trotting parks commissioner Mitchell Silver is everywhere but New York City, DNAInfo reports, a state of affairs that has left community groups and staff upset at his inaccessibility. Not only has he attended countless conferences in far-flung locales, but he’s teaching a class on urban design every Friday at Harvard.
Single block streets are still charming, highly sought-after, The Times reports. And we must say, even if it is The Times, we’re in awe of this anti- nut-graf: are not enjoying a renaissance or resurgence in popularity. They have never lost their audience.
Developer Demot Co. has backed out of a deal to pay the Port Authority $175 million for the right to build a 50,000 square foot-plus residential tower in Hudson Yards, Crain’s reports. The decision to drop-out likely stemmed from worries about the trickiness of building on the parcel, which is located on the corner of W. 33rd and Dyer Avenue, and likely would have required cantilevering over part of Dyer, sources told the paper.
Locals and community groups are angry that Freedom House, a homeless shelter on the Upper West Side, did not meet its deadline to move half of the 400 residents out by Friday, according to DNAInfo. At the close of the month, 40 of the 200 people expected to move remained. Not unreasonably, the Department of Homeless services noted that it’s hard to relocate families.
Bernard Spitzer, 90, New York developer and father of Eliot, died on Saturday, The Times reports. Mr. Spitzer’s projects not only changed the cityscape, but also the political landscape, with the fortune he made in real estate going to fund the races, and hence the career, of his son.
And finally, Crain’s asks, will an accounting cover-up cause problems for real estate investor Nicholas Schorscsh? The investor, whose recent big deals include Worldwide Plaza and a Times Square tower, disclosed an “intentionally concealed” accounting error at his largest real estate vehicle, called American Realty Capital Properties. The CFO is gone and the move looks far from fatal, but Crain’s argues that it “raises questions that could threaten the dealmaking machinery Mr. Schorsch has assembled over the years.”
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Shoal Creek vitex is more vigorous, and the flower color is a deeper and more intense blue than the regular species. Photo by: Gary Bachman/MSU Extension Service
June 14, 2014 10:50:22 PM
Now that the truly hot days of summer have arrived, vitex is ready to show its colors. This is one of the few plants that make Mississippi gardeners and nongardeners alike stop and take notice.
Many people call with questions about the beautiful, blue flowering shrubs we have at the Mississippi State University Coastal Research and Extension Center in Biloxi. Whenever I need to take a little break, the gorgeous purplish-blue flowers of the vitex right outside my window provide an ideal location.
Vitex flowering begins around Memorial Day on the Gulf Coast and soon afterwards in north Mississippi. The main flowering period lasts up to six weeks, but the show continues sporadically throughout the summer.
The flowers, or panicles, are composed of many small, individual flower clusters. These panicles can be up to 18 inches long in some varieties. Most flower colors vary from lavender to lilac to pale violet. The color can even be a brilliant, nearly fluorescent blue. During the initial flush, the show of flowers may resemble a hazy blue or purplish cloud. On days when there is just the gentlest breeze, you can enjoy the delicate, slightly floral scent.
Shoal Creek is an improved selection that is worth seeking out at garden centers and nurseries. The spring and summer flush of flowers is more vigorous, and the flower color is a more intense and deeper blue than the regular species.
The flower color is not limited to the standard bluish purple. There are some pretty pink selections available. Pink Sensation produces clear, light-pink flowers. While the 4- to 6-inch-long panicles are not as big as some other vitex varieties, the abundant, clear, light-pink panicles are produced all summer long.
The leaves are arranged opposite from the blooms on the distinctly square stems. They grow in clusters, with five to nine finger-like leaflets radiating from a single point. When crushed, the stems and foliage smell sweet. The foliage is dark gray-green on top and bluish gray underneath. When mature, the leaves have slightly fuzzy bottoms.
Vitex tolerates our hot and humid weather extremely well, making this an outstanding small tree for Mississippi landscapes. This is also a good plant for the droughty periods we have each summer.
While vitex can be grown as a single-trunked tree, I think it is more attractive in the landscape when grown as a multitrunk specimen. Vitex tolerates a wide range of pruning styles. It can be easily maintained as an 8- to 10-foot small tree. Pruning promotes compact branching and results in a thicker, bushier plant. Since vitex flowers on new wood (current season's growth), flowering is actually encouraged and enhanced. A neighbor of mine cut his small vitex tree back to the ground last fall. The plant started growing back this spring and is now a beautiful 3-foot-tall vitex bush. If allowed to grow naturally, it will grow up to 20 feet tall and wide.
Plant the vitex in partial shade to full sun for best flowering performance. Make sure the planting bed has well-drained soil, but the plants will tolerate a wide variety of soil conditions and textures.
Vitex is a spectacular specimen plant in the landscape. It is particularly well suited to be grown in a large container near a patio or other outdoor living area, but be aware that it can bring in bees and other pollinating insects. It can also attract butterflies and hummingbirds to gardens and landscapes. So plant one today, and sit back and enjoy the view.
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two separate special customs invoices, issued by the U.S. Bureau of Customs and filed with the Treasury Department, which confirm that the mosaics were legally purchased in Beirut on May 19, 1972, and August 4, 1972, and shipped on the SS Concordia FJell and SS Star, respectively, and imported into the United States at the port of Baltimore on June 16 and August 23, 1972, respectively.It is unclear from the latest release if images accompanied the invoices or if they were just basic descriptions. It also appears that the mosaics remained in the donor's family from 1972 until 2013.
The first recorded published mention of the roundel seems to have been in 1994.
Why did Fordham forget to place this information in its original press release?
Fordham is keen to make its position clear:
Fordham University acknowledges the serious and legitimate concerns for the security of Syria’s ancient archaeological sites and artifacts, and more broadly, the importance of establishing provenance as rigorously as possible in acquiring artworks from antiquity. The University is committed to best practices in antiquities acquisition, documentation, and display.We look forward to seeing further information about the church where these mosaics were originally displayed.
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The Ethiopian Leap Year
A leap year in the Ethiopian calendar occurs every 4 years when an extra day is added to the last month of the year.
Adds Leap Day
The Ethiopian calendar consists of 13 months, where the first 12 months have 30 days each. The 13th month has 5 days in a common year and 6 days in a leap year.
It is a solar calendar, based on the solar (tropical) year. The Ethiopian calendar's historical roots are the same calculations that lie behind today's Gregorian calendar and its predecessor, the Julian calendar.
Why Add Leap Years?
Leap years are needed to keep the calendar in alignment with Earth's revolutions around the Sun.
It takes Earth approximately 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 45 seconds (365.242189 days) to circle once around the Sun. This is called a tropical year (solar year) which is usually measured from one March equinox to the next.
Every 4 Years Is Too Often
Like in the Julian calendar, a leap year in the Ethiopian calendar is added every 4 years, without exception. However, this is too often compared to the length of a solar year.
Because of this, both the Julian and the Ethiopian calendar are several days out of sync with the fixed dates for astronomical seasons such as equinoxes and solstices. This is the reason why the Gregorian calendar eventually replaced the Julian system to become the world's standard civil calendar.
The Ethiopian calendar starts the year on what corresponds to September 11/12 in the Gregorian calendar.
Since the beginning of March 1900 until the end of February 2100, the Ethiopian leap years have coincided with leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
The more advanced leap year formula makes the Gregorian calendar far more accurate than the Ethiopian calendar. However, it is not perfect either. Compared to the tropical year, it is off by 1 day every 3236 years.
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A aboard is a band of individuals elected or designated to lead a small business organization. Their members are responsible for overseeing the organization’s work and making sure that decisions and activities are used accordingly. The duties of a board affiliate vary depending on the type of organization. Underneath are some prevalent duties of any board member. Know the aim of the organization. Discover ways to read monetary arguments. Monitor and report on financial activity.
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Many project and business planning disasters have their roots in a lack of strategic thinking and in conceptual errors made at the start and in the planning stages.
In its training program for engineers, NASA notes that in its own history, disastrous consequences have arisen from the lack, or failure of critical thinking. NASA now trains its engineers to “Extrapolate Existing Data into Unknown Regions with Extreme Caution”.
But what does this caution look like? How can we avoid mistakes before they are made, predict outcomes and look for unknown unknowns? How can we identify distracting noise or biases from the past and make well informed decisions and plans? Under what circumstance is it right to trust our intuition?
The World Economic Forum ranks critical thinking and problem solving skills highest amongst desired employability skills for the coming years, including for the 50% of workers that it estimates will need to reskill by 2025. McKinsey and Co note that surviving and thriving in the extreme uncertainty of the current environment requires clear and decisive thinking that can cut through noise and avoid the common biases that can undermine decision making.
This Executive Education program will teach participants some common, specific errors in thinking, and ways to recognise and avoid them. There will be an exploration of common mistakes made in planning and decision making that we can all fall victim to; mistakes in thinking that are so common that they are foundational to the discipline of critical thinking that the World Economic Forum lists as essential future work skills.
Drawing on lessons from actual examples from history, corporate disasters both big and small, as well as the disciplines of business management, economics, philosophy, project management, and formal logic, this program will introduce and equip participants with the ability to recognise and avoid these common traps, and improve their thinking in ways that deal with uncertainty to produce reliable insights for the planning and execution of successful projects and strategies in a time of change.
Credit for recognised learning
When you complete this course, you can choose to study further, and may be eligible to receive up to 5 credit points towards Curtin’s flagship MBA Programs.
About the facilitators
Dr Jacqueline Boaks
Dr Jacqueline Boaks has a background in management, training, consultancy and academia. She is passionate about sharing her knowledge on ethics, leadership and critical thinking and has taught at tertiary level for more than a decade. She is the co-editor of Leadership and Ethics and has published widely on democracy, ethics and leadership.
Michael Baldwin has extensive experience in the public and private sectors, in areas including procurement, contracts and oversight of large-scale government projects. Since 2018 he has taught ethics to MBA and undergraduate business students, as well as classes on career planning and lifetime career management. He is currently researching the links between happiness, lifetime well-being and material wealth.
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At the heart of everything we do at St. Joseph's Prep stems from our Catholic faith and our Jesuit tradition.
Founded in 1851 as a Jesuit secondary school for young men, St. Joseph’s Preparatory School today strives to embrace a spirit of “cura personalis,” the Ignatian ideal which affirms the value and dignity of every individual and trusts that students and adults alike will prosper in an environment where all are nurtured and encouraged to make choices that manifest their most noble and generous instincts, the sign of the Spirit of God at work within them.
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Quantitative easing (QE) may cause problems, but the alternative is a nasty depression. Expect the EU to start the printing presses soon, says James Ferguson.
European Central Bank (ECB) boss Mario Draghi is famous for saying that he’d do “whatever it takes” to save the euro. This declaration, made at the height of the crisis in summer 2012, calmed the markets, and as a result Draghi has not actually had to do very much. But now the ECB is getting worried.
Draghi’s clever game of bluff persuaded markets that he wouldn’t allow a eurozone country to go bust. But while this bought the region some time, it hasn’t had any practical impact on the economy.
Growth in the money supply and bank lending is sliding slowly but inexorably towards 0%. As a result, so are economic growth and inflation. The ECB has slashed its inflation forecast for 2014 to 0.7%, an optimistic 1.1% in 2015 and 1.4% in 2016.
Given that the ECB is meant to keep eurozone inflation at just below the 2% level, that suggests the central bank has some work to do.
Yet, before last week, interest rates were already almost as close to zero as they could go. So what’s the solution? Well, Alfred Einstein defined insanity as constantly repeating a given action while expecting a different outcome. But Draghi is clearly no physicist.
Last week, he cut rates yet again. So is he wasting his time? Or is this just the starting point for something bigger?
At first blush, despite quite an excited initial market reaction, the ECB didn’t actually do that much. We’ll start with the least interesting bits. The ECB will stop ‘sterilising’ the government bond purchases it made several years back when the crisis was at its peak.
The idea behind ‘sterilisation’ is that what the ECB gave with one hand (in this case, buying the government debt of troubled eurozone nations), it took away with the other – it tried to suck money back out of the system by encouraging banks to deposit money back at the ECB, rather than lend it out.
The goal was to stop the bond purchases from driving inflation higher (which helped the ECB get the original scheme past the Germans in the first place). But sterilisation was always intermittent at best, so withdrawing it will make little if any difference.
The ECB also cut its benchmark interest rate (the equivalent of the Bank of England’s headline rate) from 0.25% to 0.15%. It cut the marginal lending rate – the rate at which banks can borrow money overnight from their national central bank – from 0.75% to 0.4%.
But given that the overnight EONIA rate (the overnight rate that banks pay to borrow from one another) was already below that, at about 0.19%, these reduced rates are just playing catch-up with the market.
More eye-catchingly, the ECB cut the deposit rate for banks from 0% to -0.1%. So it now costs banks money to hold reserves with the ECB. (Of course, banks charge us for our current accounts all the time, so they should be familiar with the concept.)
The goal is to encourage the banks to lend idle money out to the real economy, rather than let it languish at the central bank. But again this is not as significant as it sounds.
At one point during the crisis, bank deposits at the ECB went as high as €828bn. However, now only around €33bn is sitting there. The banks could take all of their funds out of the ECB en masse on a single day, and it would be no big deal at all.
There was one interesting development, amid this pointless rate tweaking. There will be €400bn of targeted ‘long-term refinancing operation’ (LTRO) funding. The ECB is planning something similar to Britain’s own (failed) Funding for Lending Scheme.
The basic idea is that banks get access to cheap funds as long as they lend them out to small businesses. But details were sketchy and the launch is not until September, so the ECB is hardly taking urgent action to avert deflation.
If this all sounds like a lot of fiddling, while Rome (and the rest of Europe) burns, that’s because, for the most part, it is. When asked why the ECB had not gone ahead with straightforward quantitative easing (QE), UK or US style, Draghi said: “Are we finished? The answer is no. If need be, within our mandate, we aren’t finished here.”
Well, I can tell you right now, he’s going to have to do more – I still expect to see QE in the eurozone before too long. Here’s why.
Europe’s core problem is that monetary policy isn’t working. Or rather, the transmission mechanism is gummed up. You see, while fiscal policy – taxing and spending – is delivered directly by governments, the delivery of monetary policy is almost wholly subcontracted to private-sector agents – the banks.
In normal times, if the ECB wants to stimulate the economy by making credit more easily available, then it cuts interest rates. The banks respond by lending more. These loans in turn create new deposits – in other words, the money supply expands. More money flowing around means more demand for opportunities to invest and spend it, which means growth.
Before the crisis, loan growth in the eurozone was around a healthy 12% a year, while GDP growth was just below 4%. But in the first year of the crisis, loan growth fell to 0% and the economy was plunged into recession.
The ECB’s main interest rate was slashed from 4.25% to just 1% in response.
The troubles in Greece held the recovery back in 2010, but by 2011, bank lending had sputtered back into life, growing by 2.5% a year.
The ECB, under Jean-Claude Trichet, believed the crisis was largely an American problem, and hiked rates twice in 2011, hoping for a return to normality. Then it all went horribly wrong – for reasons that the European authorities still don’t quite seem to understand.
Everything has slid into decline since the end of 2011. Bank-loan growth, which had stalled at a miserly 2.5%, fell back. Meanwhile, inflation rose as high as 3%, which meant that, in ‘real’ terms, bank lending was shrinking. Economic growth peaked in early 2011 at 2.75%, then headed sharply lower.
At the same time, the US, supposedly the root cause of the crisis, saw bank-capital ratios, lending and growth all recovering.
Meanwhile, the UK and even the sick man of the developed world, Japan, have apparently all returned to growth (we’ll just have to wait and see how much of this apparent recovery is actually owed to QE).
Draghi to the rescue?
Then in November 2011, Draghi replaced the economically myopic Trichet as the head of the ECB. Like some B-movie action hero, he swung into action. Within a month, he had reversed Trichet’s rate hikes and launched a massive €1trn LTRO to keep the banking system funded.
This stopped banks from going bust (it kept them liquid), but they were still not very well capitalised (in other words, their balance sheets were still in a bad way). Nor, given his remit and German law, could Draghi do anything to keep the money supply from shrinking – he couldn’t launch QE.
That’s why Draghi’s heroic efforts so far, including the press-pleasing, eye-catching announcements of last week, have done nothing to actually help the economy by getting bank lending going again. And that’s because the banks own too little capital – or to put it another way, they have too many loans.
Raising capital is not impossible, but it’s very tricky. So the natural strategy for Europe’s banks to follow is to reduce the number of loans they hold, by letting the old ones run off and not making new ones.
That’s why the stock of eurozone loans went quietly negative in the second half of 2012, and has been shrinking with a vengeance for the last 12 months. And that’s why cutting rates is near-pointless – a bank that won’t lend when money costs it 0.25% is not going to change its mind at 0.15%.
Draghi knows this. But having reached the end of what he could achieve by merely talking, he had to do something. But now he needs to do more.
If Europe is to make any progress, it has to go to the root of the problem of why banks can’t lend, and tackle it. Banks can’t lend because the regulator has warned them that they might have too little capital to back these loans.
In the autumn, the ECB’s own Asset Quality Review (AQR) will be published and will shed more light on the scale of the problem. But it’s likely to make matters even worse by forcing banks to redefine some loans as non-performing.
This will involve taking a loss, which will be deducted from their capital. What bank facing such an environment would increase its lending, even if the funds were very cheap? Clearly, very few.
Now, the regulator is in a tough position. If banks don’t have sufficient capital, it makes them vulnerable to an economic downturn, as we’ve seen. That in turn triggered the immensely unpopular taxpayer bail-outs. So it’s hard to blame them for taking a tough stance.
The trouble is, falling bank lending leads to a falling money supply and falling prices, as demand is choked off for want of credit. And outright deflation, which Europe is now explicitly flirting with (the consumer-price inflation is at just 0.5%), leads to economic stagnation.
You see, the deflation that Europe faces is nobenign super-sale, where the prices of things that Europeans want to buy keeps getting cheaper. A falling money supply is best described as a depression – a prolonged slump that no amount of ECB liquidity can mitigate. You just need to look at what happened in Greece, Portugal and Ireland to see the effects.
The US, the UK and, more recently, Japan, have aimed to avoid this by starting up their printing presses instead. QE does little to support banks, but it does go some way towards bailing out their customers.
And while the banks get on with the painful process of fixing their balance sheets over a number of years, QE prevents the rest of the economy having to endure deflationary depression.
There’s one big drawback, of course – if the initial problem was caused by a credit bubble and all the capital-allocation inefficiencies which that entailed, then these inefficiencies get baked into the cake during QE. That makes the eventual resolution potentially even more chronic – as the UK may find in the longer run.
Who will benefit from QE?
But that’s the long run. What is clear now is that the ECB has run out of road. Banks will keep reining in lending, meaning money-supply growth will go negative. All the ECB can do to mitigate the damage is keep money-supply growth on artificial life support via QE.
This is not perfect by any means – QE money enters the economy from the top, so it can’t filter down to the areas usually served by the banks. That means it disproportionately favours other areas of the economy (the corporate, wealthy and financial sectors).
So frankly, it’s not the sort of thing that will make life immediately easier for small companies, or the average person on the street. But it does beat a nasty depression. And it does offer opportunities for investors.
QE money tends to flow into the stock markets and high-end property – to the sectors and regions that need it least – leaving small businesses and most households without access to affordable credit. That means QE will be very good for European stocks, especially multinationals and those based in stronger countries, such as Germany.
QE also dilutes the currency – it proved harmful to the value of the dollar and the pound, and more recently the yen. The same is likely for the euro. So firms that export outside the eurozone should do well too. We look at promising markets and stocks in the box on page 28.
• James Ferguson is a founding partner of the MacroStrategy Partnership LLP (www.macrostrategy.co.uk) and regularly contributes to MoneyWeek.
The four investments to buy now
As James notes above, if Europe wants to avoid deflation, then it needs to use QE to keep the money supply in the eurozone growing, while the region’s banks are cutting lending as they try to repair their own balance sheets, writes John Stepek.
QE will, of course, have its own troublesome side effects in the long run, but if one of the central bank’s goals is to keep inflation at around 2% (which it is), then QE is one of the few ways to do it.
The main reason the ECB has yet to embark on QE is that Mario Draghi is in a much tougher position politically than any other major central banker in the world.
While politicians in most nations are quite happy for their central banks to keep credit as cheap as possible, Germany, the most powerful eurozone nation, neither needs nor particularly wants looser monetary policy. This resistance has made it tricky for Draghi to do much more than talk in recent years.
But now, with eurozone inflation significantly below the ECB’s target, Draghi’s latest actions suggest that he feels things are drastic enough to give him permission to act.
While full-blown QE might be a while off yet, the important thing is that markets now believe it’s possible, whereas before last week, Draghi was in danger of losing his hard-won credibility if he’d sat on his hands yet again.
So, what does that mean for investors? Well, as we’ve seen everywhere else in the world – from the US to the UK to Japan – QE tends to boost stock market prices, while weakening
So, should a sterling investor hedge their currency exposure? We wouldn’t worry too much about it. The ECB would clearly like the euro to be weaker than it is today, but it doesn’t want the single currency to collapse either.
Overall, we’d expect share-price gains to more than offset currency losses. So what should you buy?
We’ve been recommending buying the ‘peripheral’ stock markets since summer 2012, and they’ve done very well since. They’re not as cheap as they were, but we’d happily stick with them – Spain, Portugal, Italy, Ireland and Greece remain among the ten cheapest markets in the world judged by their cyclically adjusted price/earnings ratios (Cape), according to Mebane Faber of Cambria Investment Management – in fact, Greece is the cheapest in the world by Cape, even though it’s up by nearly 100% in the last two years.
If the periphery still feels too risky for you, think about the opposite end of the spectrum – Germany. A cheaper euro would be good for Germany’s already formidable export machine. One interesting play could be to invest in car manufacturer Daimler (Dax: DAI), which JP Morgan analysts reckon looks better value at the moment than rival BMW.
(As a side note, anything that makes German exporters even more competitive will make life tougher for Germany’s rivals and potentially spur more money printing from the Japanese. Take a look at page 36 to see how you could benefit from more stimulus in Japan too.)
Overly loose monetary policy also tends to lead to property and consumer-spending booms, which we’re already seeing starting in Germany. So if you‘re looking for a general play on Germany, you could go for an exchange-traded fund such as the Lyxor ETF DAX (Paris: DAX), which tracks the German Dax index.
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Please note: Tuition maybe transferable, but is not refundable.
Agility Classes and Workshops at Pup-A-Razzi Overview
Dog Agility is one of the fastest growing sports worldwide. In Dog Agility, we get to play with our canine teammates while they run over jumps, through tunnels, weave poles, and ramps (A-Frame & Dog Walk); we cue them as they navigate an obstacle course. Agility is a team sport with another species! It’s great fun for dogs and handlers at all levels of ability.
Most dogs and people who are physically fit, can do agility with some training. Puppies as young as 6 months old can start learning some of the required skills.
Let’s Get Started! The most important component of agility is building and reinforcing a happy, positive working relationship with your canine partner. If you can come to Agility Foundation class with a Tricks, Basic Puppy, CGC or other fundamental skills background, you and your dog will get even more out of it.
Agility Classes Pup-a-Razzi offers Agility Classes from Foundation through Skills ’n Drills. We also offer Agility Workshops on selected topics. Here’s a brief overview of our classes:
Puppy Agility is for puppies aged 6-12 months old who have completed Puppy Preschool, Training Basics, and/or AKC STAR Puppy class or equivalent. In this 7-week course, you and your pup will play games that teach skills useful in agility. The major focus is learning and reinforcing focus and attention between you and your partner. We also introduce selected agility obstacles at an age-appropriate level.
Introduction level class, to introduce dogs and handlers to equipment and concepts. 7 week Course for any dog under 12 months.
Foundation Agility is for dogs older than 12 months who have completed a basic training course, and who have some ability to work off leash in the presence of other (leashed or crated) dogs. In this 7-week class, you and your canine partner will solidify focus and attention skills, interact with all the basic agility obstacles, and learn basic handling moves. Obstacles will be adjusted for each dog’s age and ability. Many teams repeat this class, continuing at their own pace, to gain confidence and reinforce their skills.
For dogs and puppies over 12 months of age who have completed Agility Foundations and have trainer approval. Agility I picks up where foundation class left off – more proofing for steering and more advanced body work. Beginning contact targeting, one jump training & beginning jump grids. All teams must have successfully completed competition foundation class to take this class. Homework is assigned weekly and teams are expected to complete assignments in order to advance to the next level class. A minor equipment investment is required such as a practice contact board and two jumps. May be repeated to improve and build skills.
For dogs who have completed Agility I and have Trainer approval.
Agility Skills and Drills – Drop in
(Formally Agility II)
For dogs and puppies over 18 months of age who have completed Agility I successfully (or instructor approval). This class starts to refine individual obstacle performance while working to provide a consistent handling system. Advanced jump skills are introduced and refined. Contact equipment will be used. Weave entries are introduced while rhythm & footwork is perfected. Teams must have successfully completed Agility I. Homework is assigned weekly and teams are expected to complete assignments in order to advance to the next level class. A substantial equipment investment is required such as a set of two-by-two weave poles. May be repeated to improve and build skills. Instructor: Louise
- Tuesday 06:15 PM (ongoing) Instructor: Louise
Class Placement Consultation
Prospective students may ask to be evaluated before being placed into an appropriate group class. Consultations are charged at the private lesson hourly rate.
Jump Drills Workshop
2 hour Workshop. Max limit 6 Teams. $45.00 per Team.
Pup-A-Razzi offers agility workshops on topics including: Jump Mechanics, Agility Games, Contacts, Weave Poles, and Cross / Turn Selection. Have questions? Don’t see a class that fits your needs? Please contact us: Pup-A-Razzi (503) 259-8978 Agility Instructor: Louise Sivak email@example.com
Please note: Class fees are non-refundable. Classes are to be attended as scheduled.
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About as soon as FIFA awarded the 2022 World Cup to the tiny Middle Eastern nation of Qatar, snubbing the U.S. in the process, it was almost immediately faced with accusations of corruption (or corruption mixed with cluelessness).
But for all the speculation about palm-greasing, and as much as we would have liked to see one of the world’s greatest sporting spectacles back on American soil, if having the tournament in Qatar really leads to technological innovations like the one we heard about today, we’re not sure we can keep complaining much. That’s because, in an attempt to control the region’s sweltering temperatures for the tournament, a remote-controlled artificial cloud is under development. Let’s just repeat that for emphasis: remote-controlled artificial cloud. Behold:
Yes, the man-made cloud-like device is just hanging there, hovering. How, pray tell, does it (theoretically) do it? From Who Ate All The Pies:
[T]he cloud is positioned by remote control, made of 100% light carbonic materials, filled with helium, fuelled by four solar-powered engines (I imagine there’s a lot of that knocking about in Qatar) and it’s [sic] primary function will be to hover above the various stadiums in order to ‘filter both direct and indirect UV rays, as well as controlling temperatures at pitch level’ – all at a cost of around $500,000.
Truth be told, the $500,000 figure looks impressively low to us, considering technology of this magnitude. And while something like this being necessary at all doesn’t speak well to the feasibility of the “World Cup in Qatar” idea, if devices like this are up and functioning when the matches begin, consider us duly impressed. Then again, we’re talking about an event 11 years from now, so who knows – these things might be old hat by then.
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Patients’ confidence in coping with arthritis after nurse-led education; a qualitative study
Journal article, Peer reviewed
MetadataShow full item record
Background The aim of this study was to explore how patients with chronic inflammatory polyarthritis described coping with their disease after a nurse-led patient education program and compare these experiences to patients in a control group who did not receive any education. Methods This was a qualitative study nested within a randomized controlled trial (RCT) investigating the effect of nurse-led patient education for patients with chronic inflammatory polyarthritis. Twenty-six individual face-to-face interviews, 15 in the intervention group and 11 in the control group were conducted approximately two months after the educational program. The same opening question; «Can you please tell me how you have been these last four months, since last time we spoke», followed by questions about the informants’ experiences of coping with disease-related challenges, disease activity changes, coping with disease activity changes, the informants’ perceptions of good and challenging situations to be in were asked to all informants. Results Informants who attended the educational program expressed a strengthened confidence in coping with the consequences of having arthritis, which made them feel good. The strengthened confidence was attributed to sharing experiences with other participants in the group and learning something new. Informants in the intervention group further linked their confidence to 1) coping with disease fluctuations, 2) changed health behaviours and 3) knowledge about medications. Conclusions Patients taking part in nurse-led patient education described a strengthened confidence in coping with their arthritis stemming from sharing experiences with other patients and learning something new.
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Most people understand that once solar panels are paid off, the energy they provide is free.
But what about on a national level? Many haven’t really internalized the corresponding fact. The same people worry that government investment in solar, or policies that encourage it, is somehow wasting money. But solar works the same way at the national level. Once the infrastructure is paid for, the energy is free. The same with wind. It is money well spent.
A new coal plant must be paid for, too, but after that initial cost is paid, money must continue to be pumped in, day in, day out, shoveling a fresh train-car-load of coal into a furnace every 12 hours, for the next 30 years.
Some nations have invested in so much renewable power in the last few years, that their citizens will share a future golden age of free energy, starting as soon as 2020. And that investment will yield increasing dividends in the decades after that, as yet more wind and solar, now in the pipeline, gets connected.
Australia, a nation of only 20 million, has installed half a million solar arrays on homes. Germany has installed 17 gigawatts (GW) of solar power on homes in the past five years. Portugal went from 2 percent solar to 15 percent by the end of 2009. Morocco is actively implementing plans to get 42 percent of its power from solar. Citizens in all of these nations will be getting power that has no further cost, in just eight more years.
Only 1.3 GW of solar had ever been connected worldwide in 2001, but it took only eight years for that to zoom to 40 GW globally. Now there is yet another 24 GW in the pipeline, counting just five states in the U.S. alone.
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6 ounces semisweet chocolate pieces
4 ounces milk chocolate pieces (or white, mint, etc. chocolate)
flavorings of your choice (extracts, such as rum, almond, mint, etc,
or spices such as cinnamon)
20 plastic spoons
Place a piece of waxed paper on
a cookie sheet large enough to hold 20 to 24 of your plastic spoons.
Place semisweet chocolate pieces in a heavy saucepan over low heat,
stirring constantly until the chocolate begins to melt.
Immediately remove from heat; stir until smooth. Dip spoons into
chocolate, tapping the handle of the spoon against the side of the
pan to remove excess chocolate. Place spoons on waxed paper;
refrigerate for 30 minutes or until chocolate is set.
Place milk chocolate (or chocolate of your choice) in a heavy
saucepan over low heat, stirring constantly until chocolate begins
Immediately remove from heat; stir until smooth. Place the melted
chocolate in a small, heavy self-sealing bag. Using scissors, make a
small cut in the corner of the bag; drizzle on or both sides of the
covered spoons, making a decorative pattern. (Small dots, zigzag
lines, circles, etc.) Note: The above 2 steps can be reversed if you
like! Get 6 ozs. of white chocolate to cover the spoons and 4 ozs.
of chocolate of your choice to use to decorate the spoons. Also,
donít rule out various flavored chips- raspberry, butterscotch, etc.
Refrigerate spoons for 30 minutes to allow chocolate to set. Wrap
each spoon separately in clear or colored plastic wrap. Use ribbon
to tie off plastic wrap. Store in a cool dry place until ready to
give as gifts.
Place chocolate covered spoons in a new coffee mug and give along
with other homemade goodies.
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The Microsoft Kinect sensor is a peripheral device (designed for XBox and windows PCs) that functions much like a webcam. However, in addition to providing an RGB image, it also provides a depth map. Meaning for every pixel seen by the sensor, the Kinect measures distance from the sensor. This makes a variety of computer vision problems like background removal, blob detection, and more easy and fun!
The Kinect sensor itself only measures color and depth. However, once that information is on your computer, lots more can be done like “skeleton” tracking (i.e. detecting a model of a person and tracking his/her movements). To do skeleton tracking you’ll need to use Thomas Lengling’s windows-only Kinect v2 processing libray. However, if you’re on a Mac and all you want is raw data from the Kinect, you are in luck! This library uses libfreenect and libfreenect2 open source drivers to access that data for Mac OS X (windows support coming soon).
First you need a “stand-alone” kinect. You do not need to buy an Xbox.
You could also consider using the SimpleOpenNI library and read Greg Borenstein’s Making Things See book. OpenNI has features (skeleton tracking, gesture recognition, etc.) that are not available in this library. Unfortunately, OpenNI was recently purchased by Apple and, while I thought it was shut, down there appear to be some efforts to revive it!. It’s unclear what the future will be of OpenNI and SimpleOpenNI.
The easiest way to install the library is with the Processing Contributions Manager Sketch → Import Libraries → Add library and search for “Kinect”. A button will appear labeled “install”. If you want to install it manually download the most recent release and extract it in the libraries folder. Restart Processing, open up one of the examples in the examples folder and you are good to go!
Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to create images, animations, and interactions. Initially developed to serve as a software sketchbook and to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context, Processing also has evolved into a tool for generating finished professional work. Today, there are tens of thousands of students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists who use Processing for learning, prototyping, and production.
If you are comfortable with C++ I suggest you consider using openFrameworks or Cinder with the Kinect. These environments have some additional features and you also may get a C++ speed advantage when processing the depth data, etc.:
First thing is to include the proper import statements at the top of your code:
As well as a reference to a
Kinect object, i.e.
setup() you can initialize that kinect object:
If you are using a Kinect v2, use a Kinect2 object instead.
Once you’ve done this you can begin to access data from the kinect sensor. Currently, the library makes data available to you in five ways:
PImage (RGB)from the kinect video camera.
PImage (grayscale)from the kinect IR camera.
PImage (grayscale)with each pixel’s brightness mapped to depth (brighter = closer).
PImage (RGB)with each pixel’s hue mapped to depth.
int arraywith raw depth data (11 bit numbers between 0 and 2048).
Let’s look at these one at a time. If you want to use the Kinect just like a regular old webcam, you can access the video image as a PImage!
You can simply ask for this image in
draw(), however, if you can also use
videoEvent() to know when a new image is available.
If you want the IR image:
With kinect v1 cannot get both the video image and the IR image. They are both passed back via getVideoImage() so whichever one was most recently enabled is the one you will get. However, with the Kinect v2, they are both available as separate methods:
Now, if you want the depth image, you can request the grayscale image:
As well as the raw depth data:
For the kinect v1, the raw depth values range between 0 and 2048, for the kinect v2 the range is between 0 and 4500.
For the color depth image, use
kinect.enableColorDepth(true);. And just like with the video image, there’s a depth event you can access if necessary.
Unfortunately, b/c the RGB camera and the IR camera are not physically located in the same spot, there is a stereo vision problem. Pixel XY in one image is not the same XY in an image from a camera an inch to the right. The Kinect v2 offers what’s called a “registered” image which aligns all the depth values with the RGB camera ones. This can be accessed as follows:
Finally, for kinect v1 (but not v2), you can also adjust the camera angle with the
So, there you have it, here are all the useful functions you might need to use the Processing kinect library:
initDevice()— start everything (video, depth, IR)
activateDevice(int)- activate a specific device when multiple devices are connect
initVideo()— start video only
enableIR(boolean)— turn on or off the IR camera image (v1 only)
initDepth()— start depth only
enableColorDepth(boolean)— turn on or off the depth values as color image
enableMirror(boolean)— mirror the image and depth data (v1 only)
PImage getVideoImage()— grab the RGB (or IR for v1) video image
PImage getIrImage()— grab the IR image (v2 only)
PImage getDepthImage()— grab the depth map image
PImage getRegisteredImage()— grab the registered depth image (v2 only)
int getRawDepth()— grab the raw depth data
float getTilt()— get the current sensor angle (between 0 and 30 degrees) (v1 only)
setTilt(float)— adjust the sensor angle (between 0 and 30 degrees) (v1 only)
For everything else, you can also take a look at the javadoc reference.
There are four basic examples for both v1 and v2.
Code for v1:RGBDepthTest</p>
Code for v2:RGBDepthTest2</p>
This example uses all of the above listed functions to display the data from the kinect sensor.
Both v1 and v2 has multiple kinect support.
Code for v1:MultiKinect</p>
Code for v2:MultiKinect2</p>
Code for v1: PointCloud</p>
Code for v2: PointCloud</p>
Here, we’re doing something a bit fancier. Number one, we’re using the 3D capabilities of Processing to draw points in space. You’ll want to familiarize yourself with translate(), rotate(), pushMatrix(), popMatrix(). This tutorial is also a good place to start. In addition, the example uses a PVector to describe a point in 3D space. More here: PVector tutorial.
The real work of this example, however, doesn’t come from me at all. The raw depth values from the kinect are not directly proportional to physical depth. Rather, they scale with the inverse of the depth according to this formula:
Rather than do this calculation all the time, we can precompute all of these values in a lookup table since there are only 2048 depth values.
Thanks to Matthew Fisher for the above formula. (Note: for the results to be more accurate, you would need to calibrate your specific kinect device, but the formula is close enough for me so I’m sticking with it for now. More about calibration in a moment.)
Finally, we can draw some points based on the depth values in meters:
The real magic of the kinect lies in its computer vision capabilities. With depth information, you can do all sorts of fun things like say: “the background is anything beyond 5 feet. Ignore it!” Without depth, background removal involves all sorts of painstaking pixel comparisons. As a quick demonstration of this idea, here is a very basic example that compute the average xy location of any pixels in front of a given depth threshold.
Source for v1: AveragePointTracking
Source for v2: AveragePointTracking2
In this example, I declare two variables to add up all the appropriate x’s and y’s and one variable to keep track of how many there are.
Then, whenever we find a given point that complies with our threshold, I add the x and y to the sum:
When we’re done, we calculate the average and draw a point!
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Nov 6, 2022, 2:00 am
Forward 1 hour
Mar 8, 2020 - Daylight Saving Time Started
When local standard time was about to reach
Sunday, March 8, 2020, 2:00:00 am clocks were turned forward 1 hour to
Sunday, March 8, 2020, 3:00:00 am local daylight time instead.
Sunrise and sunset were about 1 hour later on Mar 8, 2020 than the day before. There was more light in the evening.
Back 1 hour
Nov 1, 2020 - Daylight Saving Time Ended
When local daylight time was about to reach
Sunday, November 1, 2020, 2:00:00 am clocks were turned backward 1 hour to
Sunday, November 1, 2020, 1:00:00 am local standard time instead.
Sunrise and sunset were about 1 hour earlier on Nov 1, 2020 than the day before. There was more light in the morning.
When Does DST Start and End in Canada?
Daylight Saving Time (DST) in Canada starts on the 2nd Sunday in March and ends on the 1st Sunday in November.
Which Provinces and Territories use Daylight Saving Time in 2020
Which Provinces and Territories in Canada don't use DST?
Yukon, most of Saskatchewan, some locations in Québec east of 63° westerly longitude (e.g. Blanc-Sablon), Southampton Island, and some areas in British Columbia don't use DST and stay on standard time all year. See table below.
DST in Provinces and Territories in Canada in 2020 (13 in total, 9 where all observe DST, 4 with parts on DST)
|Alberta||Mar 8 – Nov 1||Northwest Territories||Mar 8 – Nov 1||Quebec (east)||No DST|
|British Columbia (east, northeast, southeast)||No DST||Nova Scotia||Mar 8 – Nov 1||Quebec||Mar 8 – Nov 1|
|British Columbia||Mar 8 – Nov 1||Nunavut||Mar 8 – Nov 1||Saskatchewan (east, west)||Mar 8 – Nov 1|
|Manitoba||Mar 8 – Nov 1||Ontario (northwest)||No DST||Saskatchewan||No DST|
|New Brunswick||Mar 8 – Nov 1||Ontario||Mar 8 – Nov 1||Yukon||Mar 8 – Nov 1|
|Newfoundland and Labrador||Mar 8 – Nov 1||Prince Edward Island||Mar 8 – Nov 1|
Daylight Saving Time History in Canada
- Canada first observed Daylight Saving Time in 1908.
- Canada has observed DST for 110 years between 1908 and 2022 (DST in at least one location).
- Previous time with no Daylight Saving Time was 1913.
- See Worldwide DST Statistics
On July 1, 1908, the residents of Port Arthur, Ontario, today's Thunder Bay, turned their clocks forward by 1 hour to start the world's first DST period. Other locations in Canada soon followed suit. On April 23, 1914, Regina in Saskatchewan implemented DST. The cities of Winnipeg and Brandon in Manitoba did so on April 24, 1916.
DST in Canada Today
It is up to the legislation in each municipality in Canada to decide on the use of DST. As a result, there are some locations don't follow the DST schedule of their in provinces and territories. For example, while British Columbia uses DST, some locations in the province do not. These include Chetwynd, Creston, Dawson Creek, Fort Nelson, and Fort St. John. In Saskatchewan, it is the opposite. Most of the province does not observe DST, except for some locations, including Creighton and Denare Beach. From March 8, 2020, Yukon made DST permanent.
Since 2007, all provinces, territories, and locations in Canada using DST follow the same start and end dates as the United States.
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If you have a child, then you need to file the divorce in the state where the child physically lived in the 6 months leading up to the date that the divorce is being filed.
This is called the child’s “home state.”
Importantly Section 6.305 of the family code says that if you can indeed get personal jurisdiction over your spouse who does not live in Texas, as well as jurisdiction over your spouse for custody determinations (SAPCR cases), BUT section 6.305 only confers personal jurisdiction over the non-resident spouse, and does not confer subject matter jurisdiction over this spouse.
The only source for subject matter jurisdiction over a non-resident spouse is found in Section 152.201. This part of the family code makes it absolutely clear that the only court that can make any custody determinations is the court where the child has physically lived leading up to the date that the case is filed.
Other cases from the last decade of interpreting these parts of the family code have shown that they are consistent in their rules on this. If you file the divorce somewhere that the child has not lived, the court may be able to grant the divorce, but cannot render any custody determinations.
As you can see in section 152.201, if the child has not lived anywhere for 6 months leading up to the date of the divorce, then you can file it in Texas, IF you can show that the child has significant ties to Texas or no other court has jurisdiction.
Also, section 152.201 does not state that the divorce has to be filed in the state of residence or domicile, rather it just says the child’s home state which case law has interpreted to mean “physical presence.”
Texas Family Code- Sec. 6.305. ACQUIRING JURISDICTION OVER NONRESIDENT RESPONDENT.
(a) If the petitioner in a suit for dissolution of a marriage is a resident or a domiciliary of this state at the time the suit for dissolution is filed, the court may exercise personal jurisdiction over the respondent or over the respondent’s personal representative although the respondent is not a resident of this state if:
(1) this state is the last marital residence of the petitioner and the respondent and the suit is filed before the second anniversary of the date on which marital residence ended; or
(2) there is any basis consistent with the constitutions of this state and the United States for the exercise of the personal jurisdiction.
(b) A court acquiring jurisdiction under this section also acquires jurisdiction over the respondent in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.
Texas Family Code §152.201. Initial child custody jurisdiction
(a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 152.204, a court of this state has jurisdiction to make an initial child custody determination only if:
(1) this state is the home state of the child on the date of the commencement of the proceeding, or was the home state of the child within six months before the commencement of the proceeding and the child is absent from this state but a parent or person acting as a parent continues to live in this state;
(2) a court of another state does not have jurisdiction under Subdivision (1), or a court of the home state of the child has declined to exercise jurisdiction on the ground that this state is the more appropriate forum under Section 152.207 or 152.208, and:
(A) the child and the child’s parents, or the child and at least one parent or a person acting as a parent, have a significant connection with this state other than mere physical presence; and
(B) substantial evidence is available in this state concerning the child’s care, protection, training, and personal relationships;
(3) all courts having jurisdiction under Subdivision (1) or (2) have declined to exercise jurisdiction on the ground that a court of this state is the more appropriate forum to determine the custody of the child under Section 152.207 or 152.208; or
(4) no court of any other state would have jurisdiction under the criteria specified in Subdivision (1), (2), or (3).
(b) Subsection (a) is the exclusive jurisdictional basis for making a child custody determination by a court of this state.
(c) Physical presence of, or personal jurisdiction over, a party or a child is not necessary or sufficient to make a child custody determination.
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Aerospace & Defense
My startup BUTTERFLY LLC will initially design and manufacture UAV/Drones for Harvesting. The Focus will be Remote Controlled and Unmanned Aerial Agricultural Technologies.
In the future, the company will expand its products by design and manufacturing of Spacecraft, Aircraft and Space Exploration Technologies.
For my startup’s agricultural harvesting UAV,
Aerodynamic Design of Flow Analyzer with 9 Probe and 45 Pressure Taping Approach for Subsonic to Supersonic Flow
In general, prototype models of aerospace vehicle, aircraft or high speed wing bodies (even in automobiles), objects are tested in a wind tunnel test facility to get theoretical data to design the object at optimum solutions.
This system works by disrupting the surface tension of water that 1, forms a wedge under a tire due to a combination of velocity and water depth on the road/runway surface (Dynamic Hydroplaning) and 2, aerosolizing the thin layer of water on oil film that forms on paved
Before reading the theory know that I am basing it on three facts and assumptions listed below.
In space where there is microgravity, heavy objects move around easily. For example, astronauts can move equipment weighing hundreds of pounds with their fingertips.
Autonomous laser spacecraft for the purpose of redirecting asteroid trajectory.
A 300 KWH laser heating the rock face of the asteroid target produces about 400 tons per second of thrust. Deep space interception of the asteroid provides enough time to shift the trajectory into a solar intercept course.
Did you know that every plane is equipped with a so called fuel tank inerting system that is used to suppress the oxygen concentration at low level to prevent an unexpected explosion accident? Yes, every airplane has all that to secure the aviation traffic safety,
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As Nathaniel Kleitman had established through his sleep experiments in underground caves, our biological clock (the specific location of which has been identified as a cluster of cells located in the brain where the optic nerves intersect) determines the bodys rhythms for rising and falling body temperature, hormone secretion, and onset of drowsiness, which occurs not only at days end but also typically between 2 and 4 p.m. While that internal clock generally runs through its repetitive rhythms "about every twenty-five hours" even when there are no environmental stimuli, such as the sun rising or setting to cue wake and sleep cycles, it does seem to go through some adjustments at different stages in life. During adolescence, not only does the need for sleep increase from eight hours to ten or more hours nightly, but drowsiness sets in later than usual, as well, leading to the desire to sleep later in the morning--which is why teenagers suddenly can sleep until noon. And in later stages of life, sleep becomes fragmented, with even healthy elderly people typically awakening for a few seconds scores of times during the night, though they may not recall doing so because the arousals are often so brief as to be detectable only on EEG recordings. Interrupted sleep in turn leads to increased daytime sleepiness and the stereotypical image of grandpa nodding off in midsentence.
Another crucial question that was answered in the early days of dream research was whether REM sleep was exclusively a human phenomenon. Dement did initial work on the sleep cycle of cats, which had been favored subjects for brain studies since the 1930s. Not only were their brain structures similar to humans, but their size and cost made them convenient research animals. After French neurobiologist Michel Jouvet demonstrated in 1960 that EEG patterns in sleeping cats were similar to the human REM pattern, other investigators probed how widespread the phenomenon was in the animal kingdom. Subsequent research has shown that reptiles dont experience REM sleep, but mammals do, and so do the few species of birds that have been studied. REM sleep duration varies from as few as forty minutes a day in cattle to as many as seven hours a day in opossums. Predatory carnivores spend a greater proportion of time in all stages of sleep, and domestic cats, freed of the need to hunt for food, can spend more than two hundred minutes a day in REM. Researchers still have not come to a consensus on whether these variations are significant.
In humans, REM sleep begins in the womb and changes as we age. It has been detected as early as twenty-six weeks in the life of the fetus and appears to go on for twenty-four hours a day. Among newborns, REM accounts for about 50 percent of total sleep and declines steadily until a child reaches the age of four, when it stabilizes at the normal adult level of 20 to 25 percent of total sleep time. When we reach middle age, REM begins to decline, dropping to less than 15 percent of sleep time in our later years.
What purpose REM serves was a mystery to these pioneering scientists, but early clues were provided in a novel experiment conducted by Jouvets group in Lyon. Jouvet surgically disconnected the portion of the cats brain that normally paralyzes its muscles during REM and found that the cats, though still deeply asleep, would rise and appear to be stalking imaginary prey or attacking invisible enemies when they entered REM. Jouvet found that acting out pursuit behavior sometimes continued for as long as three minutes while the cat was fully asleep. As a result, he theorized that this stage of sleep in mature animals provided an opportunity for them to mentally rehearse behaviors essential for survival, so that the necessary neural circuitry could be maintained in peak condition even if that particular survival skill--say, defending against an enemy--wasnt actually required on a daily basis in waking life. When deprived of REM sleep for more than three weeks, cats subsequently fell directly into REM sleep from waking and spent 60 percent of their time in that stage. Cats deprived of REM for periods of thirty to seventy days also experienced changes in waking behavior, becoming abnormally hungry, restless, and hypersexual.
From The Mind at Night, chapter 1, pages 1-16. Copyright 2004 by Andrea Rock. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever, except for brief quotations embodied in critical articles with reviews, without written permission from the publisher, Basic Books.
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As pet owners, it is natural to provide your pet with the best – from premium food to the latest smart toy. Amidst the pet pampering however, it is important to also provide the basics of pet care – exercise.Not only does playtimes ensure a happier and healthier lifestyle, it also fosters the bond between your pet and you. From daily walks to laser tag, here are six ways to keep your pet active and healthy!
Dogs: 1. Daily Walks
While walks may be a common form of activity, it is an effective exercise for your pet. The walks will allow them to spend some much needed time outdoors, as well as to release any excess energy. In addition to health benefits, going on walks also reduces feelings of loneliness in your pup, improves its socialisation skills and most importantly, strengthens the bond between you.2. Playing Fetch
Looking to take your daily exercise routine up a notch? Try incorporate playing a game of fetch! You can choose to play it while out on walks or in the comfort of your home if there is sufficient space. Playing fetch is a great way for your pup to burn off calories while having fun! Chances are, you’ll tire out before your pup does.3. Cycling Source: Zase
Cycling is a great way for both the you and your furry companion to have fun while exercising. There are various benefits to this exercise, one of them being its effectiveness. Larger dogs for instance, will require more than the daily walks and cycling is a great way to clock in the required amount of exercise! Before riding off with your canine, ensure that the both of you are comfortable and familiar with this routine.Cats: 1. Play Exercise
Playtime can also double as an exercise for felines. However, it is only applicable to activities that require your cat to move as much as possible. Opt for toys like cat wands, mice toys or feathers that are found in Singapore pet shops, to encourage more interaction and interest from your feline. The inclusion of these toys will require your cat to continuously pounce, jump and run, allowing it to stay active, fit and healthy.2. Invest In A CatwheelSource: Ferriscatwheelinternational
A cat wheel may not be as commonly known but this exercise equipment is great for keeping your feline active. If your kitty is not one for the outdoors, this wheel will ensure your cat clocks in as much exercise as it would get from a trip outdoors. Running on the wheel also improves your cat’s joint flexibility as well as increases your feline’s metabolism, strength and muscle movements.3. Cat Laser TagSource: ife14
While no guns are involved, cats tend to chase after lasers to satisfy their hunting instincts – which makes lasers a great tool to encourage your feline to exercise. Additionally, it is said that lasers also provide mental stimulation for Kitty because its speed mimics that of a prey. If you’re manually handling the laser, be sure to move the red dot quickly to ensure your cat stays intrigued and involved in the game long enough for an effective workout.
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Call Centers Call On Multilingual Portuguese
Filipa Neves speaks five languages but still couldn't find steady work in her native Portugal. So she was about to move to Angola, a former Portuguese colony in Africa, where the economy is booming.
But she sent off one last resumé — to a call center. It was sort of a last resort. She'd heard the stereotype.
"You know, a contact center is like this dark hole they put you in. You're sitting all day with a headset, and it's like a scary movie and they don't pay you," she recalled thinking. "But then I saw this ad for French [language skills] and I said, 'You know, why not?' "
She got the job. Neves now works as a customer service agent for some of the biggest European companies, out of a glass office building overlooking Lisbon's riverfront. She's doing what she loves: speaking foreign languages.
"[At the office] it's kind of a whole new world of people speaking so many languages," she exclaimed. "During the day, I might speak five languages."
A History Of Migrating For Work
Sure enough, workers on their cigarette break outside Neves' new office are speaking perhaps a dozen languages. Many are half-Portuguese and half-French, or half-German, or half-English — the offspring of generations of Portuguese forced to go abroad to find work.
Many Portuguese went to France in the 1960s and '70s. Paris is currently the second-largest Portuguese city in the world, behind Lisbon.
Now Europe's debt crisis has sparked a new wave of Portuguese migration, as educated youth flee for jobs abroad. While Portugal's overall jobless rate is nearing a record 18 percent, youth unemployment tops 42 percent.
Fluency in Portuguese, Spanish, French, English and German virtually guarantees Neves a job elsewhere in Europe. But by landing a job at a call center at home, she won't have to leave her family.
As Portugal's economy tanks, there's one glimmer of hope and economic growth: the outsourcing industry. Multinational companies are increasingly turning to Portugal as a cheap base for their call centers and customer service hotlines.
They're taking advantage of Portugal's low wages, high unemployment and talent for languages. The average salary for new college graduates in Portugal is about $775 a month.
"This specific market is absolutely booming. We are almost doubling the size of our business, year on year," said Neves' boss, João Cardoso, the CEO of Teleperformance Portugal. The firm manages local call centers for multinational companies. "So this market is totally unrelated with the Portuguese economic situation."
A Rare Economic Bright Spot
Portugal's economy shrank by more than 3 percent last year. But call centers are adding thousands of jobs while other industries shed them. And Portugal is joining countries like Bulgaria, Ireland and Poland as outsourcing leaders in Europe.
Portugal is also benefiting from an outsourcing trend dubbed "near-shoring," in which Western companies base their call centers closer to home, rather than farther afield in countries like India, the Philippines and China.
"A lot of strong Western companies are coming back home, in terms of the operations that in the past they had placed in offshore locations," said Guilherme Ramos Pereira, executive director of the Portugal Outsourcing Association, which lobbies global firms to come to Portugal.
"They went [to India] because they needed large numbers of resources and low cost of operations. But stuff like innovation, quality of the service provided, quality and maturity of professionals — that's what we have. As we lobby, we use those arguments," he says.
For European companies, basing call centers in Portugal means there's no currency conversion, nor significant time difference. It's a bargain for companies, Ramos Pereira said — and also for the few foreigners recruited as call center agents in languages most Portuguese might not speak.
"It's a lot cheaper than living and breathing in Scandinavia," said Tommy Nielsen, a Danish citizen who grew up in Sweden and speaks several Scandinavian languages. He was recruited by a call center in Lisbon for his language abilities and made the move in part because his paycheck goes further there.
Economists say the growth of Portugal's outsourcing industry is promising and reveals how educated the population is, in terms of languages. But they caution against thinking of outsourcing at a cure-all for Portugal's economy, which had long relied on manufacturing.
"Portugal won't be the 'India of Europe' — that's just not realistic," said Pedro Lains, an economics professor at the University of Lisbon. "We shouldn't be thinking of a doomed, low-paid economy. We should be thinking of an economy that will remain poor but with some growth, and where wages will have to increase in the near future."
Until that happens though, Portuguese call center operators like Neves are happy to have a steady job. She wants to start a family.
"And that means that I need a stable job and a stable income," she said. "So that's one of my plans, to get pregnant and have a child. I think it's time now."
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Global council of industry CEOs and first zero-emission hydrogen-powered vessel join in common mission for energy transition as vessel arrives at 35th world-tour stopover
Amsterdam, 9 April 2019 – The Hydrogen Council, a global initiative of CEOs representing energy, transport, and financial institutions advocating for the accelerated deployment of hydrogen solutions, and Energy Observer, the first hydrogen vessel to travel around the world that emits no greenhouse gases, fine particles or noise, today announce their strategic partnership to advance hydrogen technologies. Together, the two groups are helping accelerate the energy transition by making wide-scale, decarbonised maritime transportation a reality – demonstrating that hydrogen is a viable, safe and sustainable option.
Maritime transport emits around 940 million tonnes of CO2 annually and is responsible for about 2.5 percent of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This could increase by between 50 percent and 250 percent respectively by 2050, according to the International Maritime Organisation (IMO). Hydrogen Council members, many of whom are part of the mobility sector, realise the potential for hydrogen to decarbonise transport as part of the emerging clean energy revolution, and view the Energy Observer voyage as a significant step toward making hydrogen more visible to decision makers around the world.
“The Hydrogen Council is proud to partner with Energy Observer. We support and are inspired by their core mission of using hydrogen to decarbonise marine transport. This voyage proves to the world that long-distance travel using hydrogen is a real possibility. Our new partnership will create greater visibility of how hydrogen is being developed and deployed today, with the view of being widely scaled up tomorrow,” said Pierre-Etienne Franc, Co-Secretary of the Hydrogen Council and Vice President of Air Liquide’s Hydrogen Energy World Business Unit.
“Energy Observer is pleased to cooperate with the Hydrogen Council, as we share the same ambition for hydrogen to foster the energy transition. Hydrogen is a real key to propel our vessel of the future that works through a mix of renewable energies and a system that produces carbon-free hydrogen from seawater. This technological and scientific challenge aims to test cutting-edge technologies in extreme conditions, anticipating the energy networks of the future that could be used on land,” says Victorien Erussard, founder and captain of Energy Observer.
Hydrogen is the most abundant chemical element in the universe. Inexhaustible, it displays exceptional energy density: it releases up to 4 times more energy than coal, 3 times more than diesel and 2.5 times more than natural gas. Its combustion emits neither greenhouse gases nor fine particles. Hydrogen’s potential is, therefore, immense, and in terms of energy transition, it opens up a significant field of possibilities.
A recent Hydrogen Council report, Hydrogen, Scaling Up, projects there could be thousands of passenger ships transporting people without carbon and local emissions by 2030. By mid-century, the Council also purports that hydrogen could power a quarter of passenger ships worldwide, contributing to roughly 20 percent of CO2 abatement as required by the Paris Agreement. The Council joins a robust group of visionary partners had by Energy Observer including the French Association for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells (AFHYPAC).
Energy Observer is currently embarked upon a six-year voyage consisting of 101 stopovers around the world. This joint announcement comes as the Energy Observer is docked in Amsterdam, on its 35th stopover, during which the Energy Observer team is also hosting the Energy Observer Village exhibition. Discover more about the Energy Observer Odyssey here.
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury has announced that four states have been approved to receive $357 million for broadband project through the American Rescue Plan’s Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund (CPF).
The four states are Kansas, Maine, Maryland and Minnesota. The CPF is a $10 billion program
to fund capital projects in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Broadband expansion is one of the goals of the program. Many states will undertake projects that combine CPF funding with money from their State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) allotments, according to a U.S. Treasury press release.
“The pandemic upended life as we knew it—from work to school to connecting with friends and
family—and exposed the stark inequity in access to affordable and reliable high-speed internet in
communities across the country, but especially in rural, Tribal, and low-income communities,”
U.S. Treasury Deputy Secretary Wally Adeyemo said in the press release. “This funding will lay the foundation for the Biden-Harris Administration’s historic investments to increase access to high-speed internet and reduce broadband bills for American households and businesses.”
All funding recipients are required to participate in the FCC’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), which provides a discount of as much as $30 per qualifying household per month for broadband — $75 per household on Tribal lands.
The CPF plans approved this week include:
- Kansas was approved for $83.5 million (representing 58% of its available CPF funding). The
project it will connect about 21,300 homes and businesses. The Broadband Acceleration Grant
Program, a competitive grant program, will also be support the project.
- Maine was approved for $110 million (representing 86% of its available CPF funding). The
funding will connect about 22,500 homes and businesses. The grant will support the Maine
Infrastructure Ready program to extend existing or create new networks.
- Maryland was approved for $95 million (representing 55% of its available CPF funding). It will
connect about 16,667 homes and businesses by supporting the Network Infrastructure Grant
Program, a competitive grant program that will fund large-scale broadband projects by ISPs in
areas lacking service.
- Minnesota was approved for $68.4 million (representing 38% of its available CPF funding). The
project will connect about 23,517 homes and businesses by using the funds for its Border-to-
Border Broadband Development Grant Program, a competitive grant program designed to
provide financial resources for new and existing ISPs to invest in building broadband
infrastructure in areas that lack high-speed internet.
In June, the Treasury Department announced that the Capital Projects Fund would support broadband deployment to more than 200,000 homes and businesses in Louisiana, New Hampshire, Virginia and West Virginia. The funding was for about $538 million.
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Remember when NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson set a record for women in space when she touched down on Earth after 288 days in the ISS? That was 2017. This is 2019, and Christina Koch is about to take one giant leap over that record.
NASA has just announced that Koch, who first landed on the space station a month ago, will be extending her stay until February 2020. That 328 days will be the most spent in space by any woman — ever. It will be just short of the 340 days that former astronaut Scott Kelly spent in microgravity from 2015-16, which is the longest time a NASA astronaut has ever stayed outside of Earth’s atmosphere.
Koch was that close to going on the first all-female spacewalk with fellow astronaut Anne McClain until a spacesuit shortage made that mission impossible. She will now be part of three expeditions, starting with Expedition 59, which is already going on, and ending with 61. When astronaut Andrew Morgan joins her during Expedition 60, he will also be in for a long stay even if it isn’t record-breaking.
After Scott Kelly and Peggy Whitson’s extended missions, Koch and Morgan’s will provide NASA scientists with additional data on how the human body withstands a long stretch of spaceflight (and we need of all of that we can get if we intend to send anyone to Mars). Anything beyond a six-month expedition is considered long-term, and a trip from Earth to Mars is supposed to be seven months. That doesn’t even count the time astronauts will spend exploring the Red Planet.
What NASA has learned from studying the effects of microgravity on astronauts is that they are highly variable. Koch’s mission will give NASA valuable data on how a zero-G environment affects women’s bodies over longer periods of time, which can be compared with Whitson’s results to further scientific knowledge of how far we can push the human body.
Congrats, Christina, and we’ll be waving from Earth!
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Are Boxer Dogs Good At Fighting
Do Boxer dogs like to fight?
It is rare that we see aggressive behavior in boxers, especially since they are such a fun loving, easy-going, clown around breed. But it can happen, and when it does- its cause is usually from extraneous stimuli or outside influences other than the breed itself.
Can Boxer dogs defend themselves?
Your Boxer’s Protective Side With a protective nature, Boxers make great guard dogs when properly socialized and trained. They form powerful bonds with their families and are especially patient and protective over children. So, they’ll face down potential threats with bravery.
Are Boxer dogs powerful?
In spite of their heritage as powerful and courageous hunters, one of the modern breed’s most appealing traits is a tremendous love for their humans and a need to be loved in return. A Boxer is happiest when he’s with his family, especially children. He’s protective and patient with kids and makes an ideal family dog.
How strong is a Boxers bite?
However, some experts put the bite force of a Boxer dog at about 230 pounds-per-square-inch (PSI) as a rough estimate. It is widely believed that the Boxer’s bite would be in the top five of bite power statistics across different dog breeds.
Can Boxer dogs be aggressive?
However, boxers are high-energy dogs who require plenty of exercise to remain calm. Without exercise, they may become hyper or aggressive. Similarly, without proper training or socialization, boxers may exhibit fear-based aggression, particularly with strangers and children.
Which is better German shepherd or Boxer?
One difference is that Boxers do tend to be a bit more playful and gregarious in general, particularly around those they know. German Shepherds tend to sit back more and observe, but are extremely energetic and playful when engaged to play, or when they want to be.
What owning a Boxer says about you?
People that own boxers are said to live life to the fullest and are known to be extremely playful. Boxer owners are busy, love life, and quickly welcome strangers as new friends. Boxers banish stress with their silly and playful demeanor and their owners are generally happy-go-lucky people.
Why do Boxers stand over you?
Some Boxers will try to stand over their owners or even sit on top of each other in an attempt to display their higher-ranking pack status.
Are Boxers dumb?
Boxers are average intelligent dogs for obedience & working intelligence. In fact, they’re the 90th smartest dog breed, according to canine psychologist Stanley Coren. Despite this, Boxers are intuitive learners and can easily learn from past experiences.
Why are Boxer dogs so special?
They tend to be affectionate to children, and they can be wonderful watch dogs, and terrific guardians of the whole family. They’re very intelligent animals, and they can be trained for obedience, agility and even as working dogs. They have been used as police dogs in some parts of the world.
Do boxers jaws lock?
The Root of the Behavior Among the breeds many believe to possess this quality are Boxers, American Staffordshire Terriers, and Bulldogs, though there are many other breeds considered to be “Pit Bull types” that also are credited with being members of the “locking jaw” family.
Are Boxers nervous dogs?
As a breed, Boxers are actually renowned for being fearless and generally have robust temperaments, if a little prone to overexcitement when young. However, some owners do report fear and anxiety in their Boxers. Fear in Boxer dogs is highly situational.
Do Boxers like to bite?
Boxers, like many dogs, are highly energetic. They need a lot of attention and therefore, can be prone to playful biting, especially as puppies. Teaching your dog not to bite is easiest when he is young, but you can also work on boxers when they are adults.
Do Boxers get along with other Boxers?
Having two Boxers can be a delight. But it’s far from a set-and-forget arrangement. Two Boxers commonly get along very well but there can be issues of dominance and aggression, sometimes severe enough to require separation or rehoming of one dog.
Are Boxer dogs a bully breed?
What are bully breeds? Bully breed is a generic term used to identify a variety of terrier-type dogs such as American Pit Bull Terriers, Bull Terriers, Bullmastiffs, Staffordshire Terriers, Boston Terriers, Boxers and French Bulldogs.
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The Characteristics of Color
in Home Decorating
Light and energy: that is what color
comprises! While transforming the world, it affects us deeply and impacts our
outlook on life. Color constantly changes. It is altered in different types of
light. It is altered at different times of the day. Its intensity changes when
it is seen next to other elements, such as metal, stone, wood, fabric. It is
affected by where you live, whether you are at the beach, in the desert, in a
metropolitan city or out in a field. It is affected by the environment in its
intensity and appearance.
For this reason, architects are particularly sensitive to the affects that
geography, climate and the cast light from the sun has on color. In an effort
to help you think beyond just the colors you like, think about color in the
context of your home's style and your location. Learn to balance the colors in
each room with nature. Think about the intensity and the light available in
each room throughout the day and in the changing seasons.
When you want to achieve an appealing environment, color is the least costly
way to transform a room, and at the same time, it is the single most important
influence. Strong, personalized color choices will make your home more
personable and easier for you to include art into your home. Art will then take
your home from mediocre to spectacular.
Here are some common associations of basic colors which will help you tap into
the historical wisdom. This should help you enrich your color palette. Bear in
mind, however, that the subtle variations of each hue will deepen or lessen its
influence on the atmosphere and mood of each room.
Make your entry stand out! Try to choose pieces that are unique, have a colorful and
artistic flavor. This will make your home really personable, unexpectedly
interesting and make you the envy of all your friends and family. Spend a
little more. Over time it is well worth the investment.
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The way we interact with technology is quickly moving from the screens in our pockets into the physical world around us. Smart homes, autonomous cars, cloud-based healthcare, and wearables are just some of the connected products currently dominating this conversation. With a predicted 50 billion connected products in market by 2020, UX designers will need to expand their view and be more collaborative than ever as they take on the many challenges and opportunities that come with this ever-expanding definition of omnichannel.
The good news is many of the UX principles we’ve defined in designing digital products will hold true in the highly connected environments of tomorrow. The even better news is that, as UX designers, we’re inheriting a hugely expanded set of tools and challenges as we collaborate more and more with architects, automobile designers, civil engineers, city planners, industrial designers, behavioral psychologists, and interior designers, to name a few.
Form Follows Function
As digital UX designers, we are only the most recent practice to take a seat at the experience design table. Architects and industrial designers, for example, have been taking a people-first approach to problem solving for a very long time—carefully considering how people develop mental models of the spaces they move through, or accounting for a variety of hand sizes and grip strengths when designing the handle of an ergonomically superior tool. Designing these products and experiences employs many of the same principles we use as digital UX designers, but there’s also a lot of expertise specific to these disciplines that we will need to become familiar with. We have a lot to learn from industries that have been designing user experiences for literally hundreds of years, and one of the most important things might just be the idea of justified design.
For the past year or so at Smashing Ideas, we’ve been working with a very old, very large physical technology company with thousands of employees spread across the world. To say they have rigorous processes in place would be selling it very short. Everything they (and now, we) do has been subject to what we’ll call justified design.
Justifying your design decisions means being able to prove they have a direct relationship to the needs of the user as agreed upon during the course of research and testing. This gets into things like very specific acceptance criteria and ultimately, requirements traceability. When you’re designing something that has to pass the scrutiny of regulatory bodies like the FDA and FAA, you absolutely want systems in place that ensure compliance and traceability. At the same time, we don’t want our design thinking to be so driven by rigid process that we end up with a digital experience that’s lacking in inspiration, originality and emotion.
Working with the Physical
So here’s what this looks like in reality. We worked closely with Mattel, and their technology partner Cywee in Taiwan, to create Barbie Digital Makeover—a virtual mirror that uses real-time face-tracking and a Bluetooth-connected makeup wand. Our designers and developers worked with physical prototypes that ranged from a plywood box packed with sensors and wires to progressively more complete versions of the toy.
As a UX designer, you can begin to imagine the very long list of user stories, conditional states, and related UX design challenges that emerge from the marriage of the physical toy and the iPad (kids slide the iPad into the light-ringed vanity frame which sits atop a base covered in physical UI), as well as the combination of BTLE makeup wand and face-tracking (kids are instructed to center the wand and then their face in view of the iPad to initiate tracking of each).
Two critical things to keep in mind here are: 1) never lose sight of the marriage of physical objects and the digital screens and devices we’re more used to designing for, and 2) wireframes and flows should illustrate all parts of the experience. With Barbie Digital Makeover as the continued example, if an iPad sits inside a plastic frame, include the frame in your wires and flows. This will reveal problems and opportunities that might be missed if only the digital screens are accounted for (see more here).
Advice on Partnering with Physical Tech
It’s important to note that in our role as digital partners—and because the physical products are often designed well in advance of their digital complement—what we do doesn’t always influence industrial design decisions, but can very much inform changes to how the firmware works. Below are some key insights we’ve found useful when collaborating with our physical technology partners. While many of these will be familiar, the important thing to keep in mind is your physical product partner’s amplified focus on justified design within each.
Aligning efforts and proactively seeking collaboration with your client-side counterparts is always good practice, but here it becomes more critical than ever. These folks are steeped in domain knowledge, often have a backlog of ideas, and will ultimately be your inside track to shepherding your award-winning concepts across the finish line. Make them as much a part of user story writing, story mapping, prototype testing, and any other aspect of development as you can. For example, we reserve rooms and desks in our office for our client-side peers to set up camp right next to our teams. There’s no substitute for this “one room” dynamic.
For physical technology partnerships specifically, collaborating with engineers as early as possible will yield better results. Revealing insights through good UX research can still lead to changes in the physical technology. For example, in a recent project our early research and testing revealed that the inclusion of a clock as part of the connected physical object would be important to its success. As a result, the decision was made to increase the cost of each unit by adding a microchip.
Research and Testing
Clients will often have years of very expensive research, complete with personas and consumer decision journeys, ready to inform the product and experience you’ve been challenged with designing. Because the existing research is often either marketing- or physical product-focused, Creative Directors and UX designers must be a part of all new research and testing efforts from the start—ensuring the inclusion of the more subjective concepts and features that will result in a digital/physical experience with heart.
On a more practical level, my advice is to include the connected physical technology (the ubiquitous computing object) in testing as soon as humanly possible. As any good UX designer knows, we can make as many smart assumptions as we want and they might look great on paper, but there’s nothing like testing even the most lo-fidelity version of something to quickly prove or disprove those assumptions. With connected experiences like these, the margin for error in assumptions multiplies.
Pitching the Imaginative
Successfully pitching an imaginative concept that uses, for example, New Yorker-style illustrations and a game-like journey for a digital/physical connected experience meant to help diabetes patients, can be much tougher than getting everyone on board with a concept or feature that simply responds to the known needs of those same diabetes patients. It can seem subjective or even silly to a client who must approve all design decisions. But, of course, a more imaginative concept or feature can also prove to be more valuable, motivating, and memorable for its audience. As such, it becomes our job to justify these design decisions or at least narrow the gap for their leap-of-faith.
One of the things we’ve found useful in gaining support for these harder to defend ideas is to write a magazine article or faux press release that envisions the product in market. Even though it will invariably change or evolve, this can act as a North Star for everyone as we move forward. In the end, even the most imaginative concepts will need to be proven through testing and justified by sound design thinking. There isn’t much room for guesswork here.
Protecting the Idea
Success! You got the first group of stakeholders on board with your imaginative idea. Now you’ll want to provide them with the materials to champion it and, more importantly, defend it as it makes the rounds to higher-ups and different departments internally. You’ll want decks and prototypes that describe not just the proposed feature or experience, but the research, insights, and design decisions that allow stakeholders a traceable view of your design thinking.
Research to Realization, Under One Roof
At this level of engagement—where large physical technology companies might typically work with one company for research or design, then take those designs to another company for development—we’re firm believers that the best results come from partnering with clients throughout every step of development. This unbroken collaboration, from research to insight to design, development, and launch is what leads to original and valuable experiences and products. The best example we have of this is our partnership with a leading consumer electronics manufacturer. We worked closely with them to research and validate a value proposition for a connected product. The physical product uses built-in Bluetooth, gyroscope, accelerometer, and haptic feedback and connects with phones or tablets.
Things like contextual inquiry and exhaustive experience mapping become critical to success when working with connected physical tech. For this project, the contextual research was done in-home, which allowed us to identify and refine the key insights that created the foundation of the value proposition. Getting a clear picture of how, when, and why users interact with each touchpoint throughout their home over the course of a day was invaluable in informing the experience we designed. My advice: educate the client on the importance of UX research and be as exhaustive as you can in mapping the experience.
When designing connected experiences that bridge the digital/physical divide within even the most challenging, rigorous processes, we need to remember that people are wildly individual, emotional decision-makers, who are enchanted by the imaginative. As a result, the most meaningful, motivating, and valuable experiences will always include some intuition and imagination. We just have to try harder to justify the design thinking behind them when working with our physical technology partners.
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SANDUSKY, Ohio - Twenty five years ago, Cedar Point introduced the world's tallest, fastest, steepest roller coaster in the world, the Magnum XL-200..
May 6, 1989, WEWS reporter Tony Gaskins made the trek to Sandusky for a momentous event. Magnum became the first coaster to be more than 200 feet tall.
The coaster has ranked in the top 10 of Amusement Today's Golden Ticket Awards for top steel coaster.
The coaster has aged well and seems as much of a thrill as it did when it first opened.
You may notice in Gaskin's story, he shows the gates opening, people riding, multiple angles of the new attraction and interviews riders and a member of the American Coaster Enthusiasts, but he doesn't take the challenge.
The coaster cost $8 million and Gaskins speculates it will be some time until another park passes it in height.
Cedar Point built its first 300 foot coaster, Millennium Force, in 2000.
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All haplogroups were Asian-specific, the haplotypes of 10 individuals are shared by modern Han Chinese, and the one-step neighbors to another 7 individuals also mainly distribute in modern Han Chinese (Yao et al., 2002). The phylogenetic analysis of the ancient population and extant Eurasian populations showed that the ancient population most closely related to the Han Chinese, especially the northern Han.American Journal of Physical Anthropology doi: 10.1002/ajpa.20894
Ancient DNA analysis of human remains from the upper capital city of Kublai Khan
Yuqin Fu et al.
Analysis of DNA from human archaeological remains is a powerful tool for reconstructing ancient events in human history. To help understand the origin of the inhabitants of Kublai Khan's Upper Capital in Inner Mongolia, we analyzed mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) polymorphisms in 21 ancient individuals buried in the Zhenzishan cemetery of the Upper Capital. MtDNA coding and noncoding region polymorphisms identified in the ancient individuals were characteristic of the Asian mtDNA haplogroups A, B, N9a, C, D, Z, M7b, and M. Phylogenetic analysis of the ancient mtDNA sequences, and comparison with extant reference populations, revealed that the maternal lineages of the population buried in the Zhenzishan cemetery are of Asian origin and typical of present-day Han Chinese, despite the presence of typical European morphological features in several of the skeletons.
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Understanding Neurotic Disorder.
Moore, Charlotte Dickinson
Understanding, one of the chief components of prevention in mental health, is not for the researcher or clinician only, but for all who may be concerned with their own conflict and pain or that of family members. Looking at neurotic disorders requires the examination of guilt which burdens individuals as they realize their failure to fulfill responsibilities to themselves and others, and also the resulting anxiety caused by hurtful experiences which may impede mature responses in the future. The condition of neurosis, which is virtually impossible to quantify statistically, does present one significant finding from numerous research studies, i.e., neurotic individuals frequently come from homes with a high proportion of persons having neurotic symptoms. Several therapeutic views provide strategies for dealing with neurosis, particularly psychoanalytic theory, behavior therapy, and humanist-existential therapies. Different types of neurotic disorder can be classified: anxiety, depersonalization, depression, hypochondria, hysteria, neurasthenia, obsessive-compulsive behaviors, and phobias. (Author/HLM)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adults, Behavior Patterns, Mental Disorders, Mental Health, Neurosis, Prevention, Psychological Characteristics, Psychological Patterns
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Publication Type: Information Analyses
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Sponsor: Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: National Inst. of Mental Health (DHEW), Rockville, MD. Div. of Scientific and Public Information.
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May 22, 2007
Hot Trends in Google Search
Google Trends has something new: a daily Zeitgeist. Google lets you see the 100 queries that had the biggest evolution in a certain day. For now, Google only shows the "hottest" queries in the US, but other countries should follow.
For each query, you can see a graph that shows the popularity of the query, related searches and the top results from Google News, Blog Search and Web Search. These results should explain why the queries are popular.
Like the old Zeitgeist, Google Hot Trends will be an archive of the most important queries. That means you can select a day from the past and see the people, the events, the questions which defined that day.
According to Reuters, "Hot Trends (...) will be refreshed several times daily, using data from millions of Google Web searches conducted up to an hour before each update".
The list for May 21 includes two very long and improbable queries:
* #26: [what did lawyer ellis rubin suggest prison inmates could donate in exchange for reduction in their sentences in 1992]
* #90: [who was the first new world explorer to take a dip in the springs of what's now hot springs arkansas]
... and is topped by Avandia, a drug prescribed to treat diabetes that was found to increase the risk of heart attacks.
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The CARD Act of 2009, which takes effect on Monday, reins in some nasty practices, but leaves some loopholes you need to be aware of.
It's still up to you to know the terms of your cards, read the fine print and stay on top of any shenanigans that card companies may pull.
Three things to do now:
- Take stock. In advance of the new restrictions, some companies have hiked interest rates, altered due dates, imposed dormancy fees—trying to squeeze more money out of you. Read your recent statements, and call the card company to fix unwanted changes—or switch cards. This article on CardRatings.com offers suggestions.
- Know your rights. Because the CARD Act covers many issues, it helps to laser in on the provisions that pertain to your situation. We like this pick-and-choose guide on CreditCards.com.
- Be proactive. "Use credit responsibly" used to mean that you should pay bills on time and in full. These days, to be a model credit citizen it pays to stay informed about the evolving world of credit. Join DW contributor and credit expert Erica Sandberg and others in a live discussion with the White House about the new law on Monday, 2 PM Eastern.
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This is a generic version of a class "Computer Programming for Information Management" that I taught twice a year at the School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University Bloomington. The materials in this course are mostly self-explanatory and can be used for self study. (There are some references in the materials to Indiana University accounts and settings which should be ignored.)
Notes: 1) The materials in this course are copyrighted.
2) Please only contact me in case you find errors in the text or have comments. Please, don't contact me with questions about how to solve the exercises.
3) I will not be responsible for any possible damage that any of the scripts and exercises in this course may have. This holds especially for CGI scripts that may pose security risks on a web server. It is up to the person who uses any of the materials in this course, to use the materials in a safe environment and to keep up to date with CGI security recommendations.
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Extreme sports are all about pushing the limits and living life on the edge of your comfort zone, but which extreme sport is statistically the most dangerous? While there’s no clear-cut answer to this question, one thing we can do to help us get an idea of how dangerous each extreme sport is looking at how many deaths occur per participant is, but that doesn’t tell us everything we need to know about how dangerous each extreme sport is. To get the full picture, let’s examine 10 of the most popular extreme sports and look at more than just fatalities!
Which Extremes Sport Has the Highest Rate of Fatalities?
It’s a question that has plagued athletes for ages: Which extreme sport has the highest rate of fatalities? Even though no sport comes without its risks, some pose a greater threat to your physical health than others. We know dangerous doesn’t mean fun; however, if you do plan on participating in one of these sports then at least you can do so with informed consent and full knowledge of what you’re getting yourself into. So which extreme sport is statistically the most dangerous? Let’s look.
How Many People Die from Each Extremes Sports?
10+ Best Gyms In Bradford All of these sports involve inherent risk. So, it’s a good idea to seek out insurance or cover in case something happens while you’re playing. You could also consider increasing your life insurance as an extreme sports enthusiast; since these activities have a greater risk of causing death, your family would be paid more money if you were to die during an extreme sporting event. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves—we all want to live long and healthy lives! As for how many people die from each sport, here are some statistics: Title: Statistically, Which Extreme Sport is the Most Dangerous? How Many People Die from Each Extremes Sports: 10+ Best Gyms in Bradford All of these sports involve inherent risk. So, it’s a good idea to seek out insurance or cover in case something happens while you’re playing.
The Average Person Is 3 Times More Likely to Die While Driving Than Diving (If They Do it Accidentally)
One could easily argue that jumping off a cliff with a parachute strapped to your back should be considered more dangerous than getting behind a wheel, but one of those sports has a better death rate per participant. Though there isn’t such thing as an average person—and for that reason alone it may be impossible to determine which extreme sport is statistically the most dangerous in real-world circumstances. Asking which extreme sport is statistically the most dangerous would seem to assume that everyone who participates in these activities will die doing so—but what about people who don’t participate at all? How do your account for age, physical fitness, and location when deciding like that? In other words: what if you aren’t exactly average? What if you are fit and healthy and living somewhere where weather conditions make driving difficult or even dangerous year-round?
The Average Person Is 14 Times More Likely to Die While Walking or Cycling than Hitting Their Head on an Asphalt Roof While Skydiving
If you’re skydiving in Bradford and are trying to maximize your number of near-death experiences, you may be wondering which extreme sport is most likely to kill you. The correct answer: skydiving! If you’re just looking for a crazy experience that won’t kill you (because we all have to live our lives somehow), then walking or cycling may be right up your alley. According to a study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, you’re 14 times more likely to die while walking or cycling than hitting your head on an asphalt roof while skydiving. You can read more about how they came up with these statistics here.
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Survey of South Africans at Ten Years of Democracy, Summary and Chartpack
South Africans at Ten Years of Democracy – Summary and Chartpack
Summary and chartpack from, “South Africans at Ten Years of Democracy,” comprehensive, nationally representative survey of South Africans was conducted by The Washington Post, Kaiser Family Foundation, and Harvard University to examine South Africans’ views about democracy and the challenges facing the country leading up to the April 2004 election. This extensive survey also sought to explore perceptions of how things have changed since the end of apartheid, as well as perceived challenges for the future, including issues such as unemployment, crime, race relations, and HIV/AIDS. Finally, the survey included many questions designed to illuminate the real-life experiences of South Africans, and the struggles and successes they face on a daily basis (March 2004).
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Women in Saudi Arabia who walk unaccompanied or are in the company of a man who is neither their husband nor a close relative are at risk of arrest on suspicion of prostitution or other moral offences Nieves a Filipina who was working as a maid in Riyadh in 1992 was invited by a married couple to celebrate the wifes birthday at a restaurant She and a female friend decided to go At the restaurant they were joined by a male friend of the couple A group of mutawaeen religious police entered the restaurant saw the group and arrested them They suspected Nieves of being there for an introduction to the male friend of the couple Nieves denied the accusation but was deceived into signing a confession written in Arabic which she understood was a release order That confession was the sole basis of her conviction and sentence 25 days imprisonment and 60 lashes which were carried out Women in Saudi Arabia whether Saudi Arabian or foreign emerge time and again as victims of discrimination and human rights violations because of the gender bias in law social mores and traditions While women have gained some ground in terms of economic rights their civil and political rights are systematically violated Equal treatment for women and men is a fundamental principle of international human rights standards Yet in Saudi Arabia discriminatory practices against women are not only prevalent they are also in some cases required by law Strict segregation of the sexes an integral part of Saudi Arabian society has adverse and unequal effects on women who are denied equal educational opportunities and may work only in certain vocations Womens freedom of movement is severely restricted They may not travel abroad unless they have the written authorization of a male relative usually their father or husband and may have to be accompanied
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Rotary encoders are great devices. Monitoring just a few pins you can easily and quickly read in rotation and direction of a user input (as well as many other applications). But as with anything, there are caveats. I recently had the chance to dive into some of the benefits and drawbacks of rotary encoders and how to work with them.
I often work with students on different levels of electronic projects. One student project needed a rotary encoder. These come in mechanical and optical variants. In a way, they are very simple devices. In another way, they have some complex nuances. The target board was an ST Nucleo. This particular board has a small ARM processor and can use mbed environment for development and programming. The board itself can take Arduino daughter boards and have additional pins for ST morpho boards (whatever those are).
The mbed system is the ARM’s answer to Arduino. A web-based IDE lets you write C++ code with tons of support libraries. The board looks like a USB drive, so you download the program to this ersatz drive, and the board is programmed. I posted an intro to mbed awhile back with a similar board, so if you want a refresher on that, you might like to read that first.
Reading the Encoder
The encoder we had was on a little PCB that you get when you buy one of those Chinese Arduino 37 sensor kits. (By the way, if you are looking for documentation on those kinds of boards, look here.; in particular, this was a KY-040 module.) The board has power and ground pins, along with three pins. One of the pins is a switch closure to ground when you depress the shaft of the encoder. The other two encode the direction and speed of the shaft rotation. There are three pull-up resistors, one for each output.
I expected to explain how the device worked, and then assist in writing some code with a good example of having to debounce, use pin change interrupts, and obviously throw in some other arcane lore. Turns out that was wholly unnecessary. Well… sort of.
Continue reading “Encoders Spin Us Right Round”
RADIO WONDERLAND is a one-man band with many famous unintentional collaborators. [Joshua Fried]’s shows start off with him walking in carrying a boombox playing FM radio. He plugs it into his sound rig, tunes around a while, and collects some samples. Magic happens, he turns an ancient Buick steering wheel, and music emerges from the resampled radio cacophony.
It’s experimental music, which is secret art-scene-insider code for “you might not like it”, but we love the hacking. In addition to the above-mentioned steering wheel, he also plays a rack of shoes with drumsticks. If we had to guess, we’d say rotary encoders and piezos. All of this is just input for his computer programs which take care of the sampling, chopping, and slicing of live radio into dance music. It’s good enough that he’s opened for [They Might Be Giants].
Check out the videos (embedded below) for a taste of what a live show was like. There are definitely parts where the show is a little slow, but they make it seem cooler when a beat comes together out of found Huey Lewis. We especially like the “re-esser” routine that hones in on the hissier parts of speech to turn them into cymbals. And if you scan the crowd in the beginning, you can find a ten-years-younger [Limor Fried] and [Phil Torrone].
Continue reading “Pulling Music Out Of The Airwaves”
Continuing his tradition of making bits of wire and scraps of wood work wonders, [HomoFaciens] is back with a unique and clever design for an electromechanical encoder.
There are lots of ways to build an encoder, and this is one we haven’t seen before. Not intended in any way to be a practical engineered solution, [HomoFaciens]’ build log and the video below document his approach. Using a rotating disc divided into segments by three, six or eight resistors, the encoder works by adding each resistor into a voltage divider as the disc is turned. An Arduino reads the output of the voltage divider and determines the direction of rotation by comparing the sequence of voltages. More resistors mean higher resolution but decreased maximum shaft speed due to the software debouncing of the wiped contacts. [HomoFaciens] has covered ground like this before with his tutorial on optical encoders, but this is a new twist – sort of a low-resolution continuous-rotation potentiometer. It’s a simple concept, a good review of voltage dividers, and a unique way to sense shaft rotation.
Is this all really basic stuff? Yep. Is it practical in any way? Probably not, although we’ll lay odds that these encoders find their way into a future [HomoFaciens] CNC build. Is it a well-executed, neat idea? Oh yeah.
Continue reading “Wheel of Resistors Form Unique Rotary Encoder”
On the surface, a cup of tea is a simple thing to make. Heat up some water, insert tea leaves, and wait for it to steep. The wait time is a matter of taste, and it is absolutely crucial to remove the bag or infuser before it’s too late. Otherwise, you end up with a liquid that’s almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.
[Adrian] and his son would often find themselves lost in conversation during the steeping process and let it go too long. But that was before they built ChaiBot, an automatic tea minder. This fine-looking machine uses an old CD drive to raise and lower the tea bags, which are held by a thin piece of stainless steel mesh. Once the bags are lowered, [Adrian] pours hot water into the cups. The weight of the water is detected by a capacitive sensor under the cup cutouts, and this triggers the timer to start counting down to the perfect cuppa.
One of the coolest features of ChaiBot is the built-in circulation. Every minute, the bags are lifted out briefly and reinserted, disturbing the water so the steeping is more uniform. Since the final step to making great tea is drinking it before it goes cold, ChaiBot sends a push notification to [Adrian]’s phone. Be sure to check out the demo after the break.
Here’s another CD drive-based tea bot we covered a while back. It’s not quite as pretty, but it gets the job done. If you’re not one to wander off while your tea steeps but prefer not to watch a clock, here’s a compact timer that’ll fit in your pocket.
Continue reading “ChaiBot: A Tea Robot Steeped in Utility”
One of the redeeming qualities of many modern cheap keyboards is the built-in volume control buttons. But this is Hackaday, and many of us (and you) have Model Ms or newfangled mechanical keyboards that only have the essential keys. Those multimedia buttons only adjust the system volume anyway. We would bet that a lot of our readers have sweet sound systems as part of their rig but have to get up to change the volume. So, what’s the solution? Build a color-changing remote USB volume knob like [Markus] did.
Much like the Instructable that inspired him, [Markus] used a Digispark board and a rotary encoder. The color comes from a WS2812 LED ring that fits perfectly inside a milky plastic tub that once held some kind of cream. When the volume is adjusted, the ring flashes white at each increment and then slowly returns to whatever color it’s set to. Pushing the button mutes the volume.
The components are pretty lightweight, and [Markus] didn’t want the thing sliding all over the desk. He took an interesting approach here and filled the base with the lead from a shotgun round and some superglue. The rotating part of the button needed some weight too, so he added a couple of washers for a satisfying feel. Be sure to check out the demonstration after the break.
Digispark board not metal enough for you? Here’s a volume knob built around a bare ATtiny85 (which is the same thing anyway).
Continue reading “Pump Up the Volume with Lead Shot and LEDs”
Rotary encoders are pretty interesting pieces of technology. They’re a solid way to accurately measure rotation including the direction. [David] recently wrote some software to handle these input devices, but unlike everyone else, his application can get by on only one microcontroller pin.
Most people will use three pins to handle a rotary encoder with a microcontroller: one to handle the switch and two to handle the quadrature inputs. With only one pin left available on his project [David] had to look for another solution, and he focused on the principle that the encoder pins behaved in very specific ways when turning the shaft. He designed a circuit that generates an analog voltage based on the state of those pins. He also wrote a program that can recognize the new analog patterns produced by his rotary encoder and his new circuit.
If you’ve been stuck on a project that uses a rotary encoder because you’ve run out of pins, this novel approach may help you get un-stuck. It’s a pretty impressive feat of circuit design to boot. Just think of how many other projects use these types of input devices and could benefit from it!
[via Hackaday.io Project Page go give it a Skull!]
When you look at the current methods of scanning 2D and 3D objects available today, you’re basically looking at an imaging process. Either you take a picture of a 2D object, or you grab a blob of point clouds with a 3D scanner and make a 3D object that way. It wasn’t always like this – real, hardware 3D digitizers were used all the way back in the 70s, and touch probes are standard equipment on high-end CNC machines.
[Nikolaj Møbius] needed a way to record points in physical space, and not wanting to deal with the problems of images, he made an open source DIY digitizer. It’s basically a laser cut arm with rotary encoders at each joint. By reading the rotary encoders with an Arduino, [Nikolaj] can digitize a few points on a workpiece – just enough to make a bracket, or find the critical dimensions of a part.
It’s a great tool for when you need a little more information than a set of calipers can provide, and a great example of some ancient tech made useful again.
Continue reading “An Open Source, DIY Digitizer”
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With some abandoned places in truly far-flung locations, the mystery is less about why they were abandoned – it is how there were people there in the first place. Take these seven wondrous examples of human stubbornness in the face of extreme environmental conditions, from one temperature extreme to another – and marvel at our ability to leave our mark in the remotest corners of the world, for good or ill.
1. St. Kilda, Scotland
(Image via: Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division)
Forty miles into the Atlantic Ocean, the archipelago of St. Kilda is the western tip of the the Scottish Outer Hebrides – and the most windswept, storm-tossed part of Britain with waves up to 5 meters high and recorded windspeeds as high as 130 mph.
(Images via: Daily Mail and Guideliner)
Its terrain is monstrously rugged (containing the sheerest drop to sea level in the whole of the UK). The climate is unsympathetic. In short, anyone would be mad to want to live there.
(Images via: National Trust for Scotland)
Tell that to its previous inhabitants. Not only are there traces of various prehistoric communities, they also appear to have endured, culminating in continuous human settlement for 2,000 years – ending in 1930 when a combination of factors including accidental pollution of the land, crop failure and an unsustainably low population drove the remaining St. Kildans off the inhabited main island (Hirta) and back to mainland Scotland. The archipelago has been uninhabited ever since.
(Images via: CaptainOates and Wikimedia Commons)
While there is no permanent population, St. Kilda still enjoys a wealth of scientific and cultural attention. In 1986 the islands became Scotland’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site, and is now administered by the National Trust for Scotland, Scottish Natural Heritage and the Ministry of Defense. In addition to the rangers, archaeologists and conservationist visiting and working on the islands, a number of cruise ships and charter boats bring tourists (and their charitable donations) in ever-increasing quantities. Some of the more substantial ruins are being rebuilt to provide tourist attractions – not to mention shelters, when the weather sweeps in.
2. Ballarat, California
(Image via: Wikimedia Commons)
Three and a half miles off California 178 and a short, dusty drive from Death Valley, Ballarat is a town on the verge of abandonment – and of disappearing altogether.
(Images via: Harry Helms)
Named after the Australian town where the largest gold nugget in history was discovered (a whopping 143 pounds), Ballarat attracted enough gold miners to swell its population to 500 souls in the first years of the 20th Century. It was a relaxation station and a watering-hole (all supplies shipped in from afar) for all those seeking their fortunes in the area, particularly at the Ratcliff Mine just to the east of town. When the mine closed, the town began to die – and today, the sun-baked ruins of the town contain just two permanent residents.
3. Dallol, Ethiopia
(Image via: Volcano Discovery via Artificial Owl)
Fancy living and working somewhere with an average yearly temperature of 34°C (94°F), where summer days never drop below a toasty 40°C? Then you may understand why Dallol in a remote corner of northern Ethiopia’s Afar Depression is an uninhabited, uninhabitable ghost town.
(Image via: Volcano Discovery and Photovolcanica via Artificial Owl)
Even getting there is a tall order – it is extraordinarily remote with no connecting roads. It owes its existence to the local production of potash, enabled in 1918 by the construction of a railway terminal 28km away to shuttle raw materials to Mersa Fatuma. After its short-lived heyday, the settlement fell into decline when demand for potassium salts was met by overseas markets – and when the British dismantled the railway after the Second World War, Dallol’s fate was sealed.
(Image via: Photovolcanica via Artificial Owl)
Today, the settlement is little more than a series of shattered, crumbling walls of salt-block bricking, littered with rusting vehicles and pieces of mining machinery – and apart from the occasional intrepid visitor, it is out of human influence, out of sight and out of mind.
4. Múli, Faroe
(Image via: FaroeIslands)
Don’t let the intact townhouses fool you – because Múli (population 4) is heading for the history books.
(Images via: FaroeIslands)
Lying on the bleak northern tip of the Faroese island of Borðoy, Múli has stubbornly clung to existence since the 13th Century, despite lacking a good road and basic utilities (it only acquired an electricity supply in 1970). The road came, but the people left – and while the summer months see a few previous inhabitants returning for a nostalgic vacation, the town is now considered derelict.
5. Cook, South Australia
(Image via: Rudolph Veldsman)
(Image via: Bigted27 via TripAdvisor)
Midway along the longest stretch of straight railway in the world (478 km) and the Indian Pacific’s only scheduled stop across the Nullarbor Plain section of its route, Cook is tiny and remote, offering little more than occasional overnight accommodation and shopping supplies for train passengers. All supplies, including fresh water, arrive by train – but that isn’t a problem as there are only 4 residents, officially making Cook a ghost town.
6. South Georgia, South Atlantic
(Image via: Wikimedia Commons)
If you thought there was nowhere habitable in the Southern Atlantic beyond the Falkland Islands…well, you are almost right. The British-owned isle of South Georgia may cover a thousand square miles, but every one of them is cold, windy and prone to sleet and snow whatever the time of year. Not somewhere to linger.
(Image via: Expeditions.com and Wikimedia Commons)
During the 19th Century, South Georgia was the home to a number of sealing and whaling communities containing factory ships, land stations and repair yards. In 1916, it was to South Georgia that Shackleton sailed in an open lifeboat from Elephant Island, 800 miles to the south – a staggering feat of not just endurance but also navigation, as Shackleton’s crew was only able to take four nautical sightings during the entire 17-day voyage.
(Image via: Wofratz via Dark Roasted Blend)
The longest-running station operated out of South Georgia’s best harbor at Grytviken – established in 1904, it even housed a permanent population until its closure in December 1966. Shackleton used the town to launch his rescue of the members of his crew he’d left behind on Elephant Island – and it was here that he was buried in 1922. His grave still attracts tourists from the cruise ships heading towards Antarctica, and the town’s church is still used to conduct remembrance services.
(Image via: Antarctic Diary and Richard Harrington)
Grytviken is South Georgia in miniature: once thriving with marine industry, now rusting and derelict but enjoying significant through-traffic of tourists, scientists, fishing boats and a British military presence. The latter was ousted on April 3rd 1982 when Argentinian forces attacked and occupied Grytviken. On April 25th, the British returned, bombarded the neighboring hillside with naval artillery to signal their intent, and unleashed a small group of Special Forces and Royal Marines on the town. After 15 minutes, the Argentinians surrendered.
(Image via: Dark Roasted Blend)
The enduring Argentinian claim on South Georgia led to a heightened military presence in the years after the Falklands War, finally scaling back and handing over their base at King Edward Point over to the British Antarctic Survey, who now staff the base for much of the year – the closest that South Georgia now has to a resident population.
7. Northern Siberia
(Image via: Adventure Travel)
There are few words that evoke such strong memories – and stronger opinions – as Gulag. The name of a branch of the Soviet State Security, it has instead become better associated with its detention and forced labor camps positioned along the fringes of the Soviet Union, some of them in arctic or subarctic environments.
(Images via: kiddofspeed)
Of the many hundreds of camps operating during Stalinist Russia, many still remain as ruined memorials to the 18 million people who passed through them – and the estimated million who died there, victims of cold, hunger and inhumanly hard labor.
(Image via: kiddofspeed)
Most of the camps were positioned in the remotest parts of northeastern Siberia and southeastern Khazakstan, in places of sparse population and few connections. The more remote the location, the less that security was a problem, as the severity of the environment worked as a better deterrent than any fence or guard-tower.
(Image via: Wikimedia Commons)
This final instance of remote abandonment is unique from the preceding examples – because it is abandonment without regret. It is unlikely that anyone will look nostalgically back to the days when Soviet gulag camps were operating. The inhabitants certainly didn’t choose to be there, and gained little or nothing from the experience. For those reasons, these were places where people lived and died – but probably never regarded as home.
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Dr Geoff Chambers, an expert in genetics who is based at Victoria's School of Biological Sciences, has led the project, which has spanned more than 25 years.
Now the conclusions are set to be published in four international academic journals which Dr Chambers says marks the culmination of his decades of hard work.
In a paper just published in the Global Journal of Anthropology Research, Dr Chambers investigates the Austronesian Diaspora settlement voyages.
"This really is the big picture story," explains Dr Chambers. "There are many theories and accounts of Pacific voyaging, but this is the first that brings it all together and provides the only complete description of the origins of Polynesian peoples, their complex ancestry, and how genetic variation was lost as people migrated across the Pacific."
In another study yet to be published, Dr Chambers explores how these ancient migration events caused the gene pools of Māori and Pasifika people to diverge markedly from Europeans, and explains why this has significant medical implications for present-day New Zealand.
"That genetic distinction explains why people of European descent are more prone to certain diseases than Māori or Pacific Islanders are, and vice versa," he says. "This research argues strongly for a special, ethnic view of medicine in New Zealand in order for the health system to be effective and equitable."
Dr Chambers worked on another paper (alongside researchers Paul Callister and Robert Didham) for New Zealand Sociology, which cautions of the complexities around official data-gathering.
"Having firm ethnic boundaries doesn't provide the full picture," says Dr Chambers. "The Government collects statistics via the census or its various agencies based on people's self-declared cultural affiliation—people might be living and identifying themselves as Māori even though they have a relatively small percentage of Māori genes. That's where this starts to get complex, because that data doesn't take into account what we now know about the important role genetics plays in a range of health issues."
A fourth paper Dr Chambers has completed was carried out in collaboration with researchers at Universiti Sains Malaysia in Kelantan, and reconstructs the population history of Malaysia.
Explore further: New findings show the impact of ancestry on health
The Austronesian Diaspora: A Synthetic Total Evidence Model. www.cosmosscholars.com/phms/index.php/gjar/article/view/515
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See Don't Judge, and Listen case studies in the blog post here.
Racism and stigma are barriers to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people seeking support for mental health and alcohol and other drug use. Strengthening cultural appropriateness and understanding, and harnessing input from Elders could be the key to better treatment, a new report has found.
The Queensland Mental Health Commission’s Don’t Judge, and Listen report is the outcome of research into the effect of stigma and discrimination on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with a lived experience of alcohol and other drug use.
It considers the negative stereotypes that affect the social and emotional wellbeing of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, irrespective of whether they engage in alcohol and/or other drug use.
Queensland Mental Health Commissioner Ivan Frkovic said the project had been designed to give Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people a strong voice in research, rather than to speak on their behalf, and was guided by their involvement.
“Research participants came from communities across Thursday Island, Cairns, Yarrabah, Rockhampton, Woorabinda, Mt Isa and Inala,” Mr Frkovic said.
“The research found that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience multiple forms of stigma and discrimination relating to race, and are stereotyped when it came to alcohol and other drug use, despite Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people being less likely to drink than non-Indigenous Australians.
“This stigma and discrimination often prevents people from seeking help – alongside issues such as a lack of access to culturally appropriate services.
“However, the project found that strong kinship support and strength in culture and community helped build resilience and improve support.
“The report shows the importance of ongoing cultural training, having services with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff, including Elders, and cultural healing as part of the solution.
“This reaffirms our commitment to working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and organisations in developing reform options to reduce racism and strengthen social and emotional wellbeing,” Mr Frkovic said.
Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council (QAIHC) Alcohol and Other Drugs Manager Eddie Fewings said he hoped the report would lead to positive change.
“While the Don’t Judge, and Listen report has given voice to a small number of the most vulnerable and traumatised people in our communities, it is sadly very much the daily experience of most Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with problematic substance use issues,” he said.
“In asking for and receiving their stories, we assume a responsibility to ensure the report findings maximise the opportunities that will significantly and positively change those stories in this generation and those to follow.”
Queensland Network of Alcohol and Other Drug Agencies (QNADA) CEO Rebecca Lang said the work highlighted how punitive approaches to substance use served to drive people away from help and further into problematic use.
“It provides a perspective on experiences of stigma and discrimination that remind us that substance use is sometimes a way for people to cope with other types of discrimination, including those stemming from racism in our communities and institutions,” she said.
“We have to elevate and amplify the voices of our first nations communities in policy and system planning, and this report provides a range of excellent ideas on where to start.”
Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Protection Peak (QATSICPP) Senior Workforce Development Officer Dion Tatow assisted with the project.
“This report clearly highlights that racism must be addressed in legislation, policies and service delivery as the first step to removing the barriers for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people seeking support to begin their recovery from problematic alcohol and other drugs use,” he said.
The Commission is grateful to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community members and service providers who took part in the research, and thanks them for sharing their insights and experiences.
The Commission also thanks key stakeholders QAIHC, QATSICPP and QNADA.
The project was led by ACIL Allen Consulting in partnership with the Seedling Group. See the final report here.
Media: Katie Rowney, email@example.com, 0419 787 551
Artwork by Ailsa Walsh. See more of her work here.
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The phenomenon of recreation and its role in the development of territories
The meaning of recreation can be understood only in the context of human evolution. Recreation has never existed on its own and has always carried a certain socio-cultural content. The only exception is the daily cycle, but this is a biological phenomenon. In the weekly cycle of recreation, social and socio-cultural patterns characteristic of all times begin to appear. The connection between quarterly and annual recreation with the processes of socio-cultural development of territories is attributive in nature and is equally inherent in all SCS. The state of the art is no exception. It determines only specific forms of recreation, the choice of areas and some particular features of implementation.
Recreation is not only an orientation towards learning something new, but also a reaction to stress, fatigue. It is widely believed that the more stressful the conditions of a person's life, the greater their need for recreation. Sluggish work, lack of fatigue does not generate much interest in recreation. This pattern allegedly leads to the fact that the most active recreants are often residents of large cities, as well as people with stressful working conditions. In particular, this behavior is most typical for residents of millionaire cities and specialists who are engaged in intensive work, for example, systematically working with computer equipment.
Despite its popularity, this statement has no real basis. The noted types of recreation are fully typical for all people, regardless of the intensity of their work. Computers as a mass product began to spread only from the late 1960s and later. Indeed, they have a very tiring effect on humans, and people who systematically work with computer equipment are potentially active recreators, which is also facilitated by the combination of high incomes with great fatigue. However, this does not lead to an intensification of recreation. Overloads are removed due to recovery within the same daily, weekly, quarterly and annual cycles - new cycles are not formed. Therefore, there is no reason to believe that the introduction of any technical innovation is able to change such a fundamental phenomenon as the cycles of recreation.
From a spatial point of view, there are two recreation standards - passive and active. By "passive recreation" we mean rest at the place of our main residence; “Active recreation” is associated with moving outside the boundaries of their main place of residence.
Based on the criterion of recurrence of recreational activities, five types of recreation are distinguished:
1. Daily rest - cycle of 24 hours. The immediate time allotted for rest can be roughly defined at 8 o'clock - this is sleep.
2. Weekly rest - a cycle of 7 days. The immediate time allotted for rest can be roughly determined at 6-8 hours. Usually this time is associated with visiting nearby places, pleasant for relaxation (parks, etc.).
3. "Quarterly" rest - cycle 65 - 90 days. The immediate time allotted for rest can be conditionally determined at 8 o'clock. Usually expressed in one-day visits to places not very remote from the main place of residence. As vehicles advance, the radius of movement increases, but the amount of time spent traveling and the very fact of a quarterly rest of about 8 hours remain rather unchanged. Quarterly rest can also be expressed in a stay at the place of permanent residence, but then the regular standard of spending time changes dramatically (for example, holidays with abundant feasts). The absence of displacements in space still does not say anything about the absence of a quarterly cycle of recreation - this is only a feature of its concrete manifestation.
4. Annual rest - 365 days cycle. The immediate time allotted for rest can be conditionally determined at 10 - 14 days. Usually associated with a very long stay in places remote from the main place of residence, the most attractive for one reason or another, for example, religious or cognitive. As vehicles progress, the radius of this type of movement increases dramatically. In particular, the development of civil aviation has made the radius of such movements to the limit. However, the amount of time spent on travel and the very fact of annual rest of about 10-14 days remain unchanged.
Annual rest can also be expressed in the place of permanent residence, but at the same time the usual standard of spending time must change dramatically. The absence of movements in space is not yet a sign of the absence of an annual recreation cycle, but only a feature of its concrete manifestation. The difference between the annual cycle and the quarterly spatially passive recreation cycle is in its time duration.
5. Life rest is a cycle spanning 10 to 15 years. The immediate time allotted for rest can be conditionally determined at 10 - 30 days. Usually expressed in very long visits to places that are extremely remote from the main place of residence, as attractive as possible for one reason or another, or in extremely excellent standards of spending time in the place of their permanent residence. Often timed to coincide with unique life events (for example, wedding celebrations and honeymoon travel). With the progress of vehicles, the radius of this kind of movement is constantly increasing, and the development of civil aviation has made it practically unlimited. In the conditions of the end of the twentieth century, the life cycle of recreation can be associated with a round-the-world trip. Despite the potential to increase the distance covered, the amount of time spent on travel and the very fact of life's rest lasting about 10 - 30 days remain unchanged. Unlike other types of recreation, this is not manifested in all people, based on random reasons (personal, social and others).
With the help of corporate tours, company management solves a variety of tasks, from staff motivation to establishing trusting relationships with business partners and clients.
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i reckon a robot is something that can respond to its environment and respond to do that by doing something.
i looked on wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot
)and found this:
A robot is an artificial or virtual agent which in the physical form gives the appearance of being alive.
The artificial form (the physical agent) is an electro-mechanical or bio-mechanical device or group of devices that can perform autonomous or preprogrammed tasks while interacting with its surrounding environment using sensors. A telerobot may act under the direct control of a human, such as the robotic arm on a space shuttle, or autonomously under the control of a programmed computer. Robots may be used to perform tasks that are too dangerous or difficult for humans, such as radioactive waste clean-up, or may be used to automate mindless repetitive tasks that should be performed with more precision by a robot than by a human, such as automobile production.
The virtual form is a software-based agent.
Physical robots take on many different forms, ranging from humanoid, which mimic the human form and way of moving, to industrial, whose appearance is dictated by the function they are to perform. Robots can be grouped generally as mobile robots (eg. autonomous vehicles), manipulator robots (eg. industrial robots) and self reconfigurable robots, which can conform themselves to the task at hand. Robots may be controlled directly by a human, such as remotely-controlled bomb-disposal robots and robotic arms; or may act according to their own decision making ability, provided by artificial intelligence. However, the majority of robots fall in-between these extremes, being controlled by pre-programmed computers. Such robots may include feedback loops such that they can interact with their environment, but do not display actual intelligence. "Robot" is also used in a general sense to mean any machine that mimics the actions of a human (biomimicry), in the physical sense or in the mental sense.
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Coding Dojo is a coding school that helps its students learn technical skills necessary to land a job as a Software Engineer or a Data Scientist. The school offers a full-time onsite bootcamp, a part-time online bootcamp, and an intro to programming course for their software engineer program. Let’s dive into the Coding Dojo Review.
They also offer a data science part-time program and an intro to Python and Machine Learning course for data science. While Coding Dojo provides online classes, it has campuses set up in Arlington, Boise, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Oakland, Orange County, Seattle, San Jose, and Tulsa.
Coding Dojo Overview
The Coding Dojo on-campus software engineering bootcamp teaches three stacks in 14 weeks. Students start by learning the fundamentals of front-end web development. Then, students will learn onto the back-end with Python. Later on, students have an option to choose between MEAN, Ruby, Java, or C#.NET as their next two stacks. They will be given job search guidance as well. The introduction to programming will take place on-campus.
The online part-time software engineering bootcamp allows students to pick their pace but recommends 20-25 hours per week for 16 weeks. The school teaches the same front-end fundamentals, back-end with Python, and then project-building and algorithms. Students are also given some career services after graduation.
Coding Dojo Cost and ISA
The Coding Dojo onsite software engineering bootcamp costs $15,995. Students can choose to pay upfront, in 3 installments, or monthly payments. If they choose to pay upfront, they may receive a discount of up to $2500. Candidates must fill out an online application. Then, they interview an admissions team member and pay their deposit. The online full-time Software Engineering program follows the same pattern of onsite courses with an additional online skills assessment.
The online part-time software engineering bootcamp is split into two formats, Accelerated program, and Flex program. The Accelerated, part-time program costs $7,995 – $15,995 depending upon the number of stacks the student is willing to learn. The Flex part-time program costs $7,995. The same payment options are offered. The application process is slightly different for where the candidate must take up an online skills assessment. Their deposit is required once they are accepted. The intro to programming course is free.
Coding Dojo offers its data science only on a part-time bootcamp basis. The course costs $4,995. The process is a combination, requiring students to apply, interview, do an online skills assessment, and then pay a deposit. The intro to data science course costs $2,795. Read through to complete this Coding Dojo Review.
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Coding Dojo Locations
Due to the current pandemic situation, Coding Dojo has moved all its in-person classes to online classes. The school facilitates social distancing by reducing the number of people and interactions on their campuses.
All their programs still deliver excellent tutoring by their world-class instructional staff and fully engage with their classmates. Though the classes have shifted to online platforms, their physical locations remain active with minimum staffing.
Locations of Coding Dojo
- Arlington, VA
- Bellevue, WA
- Boise, ID
- Chicago, IL
- Dallas, TX
- Los Angeles, CA
- Oakland, CA
- Orange County, CA
- Silicon Valley, CA
- Tulsa, OK
Coding Dojo Job Placement
As per the Coding Dojo’s 2019 report, 89.1% of students landed a job six months after completing their course, be it in-person or online class. The average starting salary stands at $72,048, with 23% of candidates doubling their pay after the bootcamp. Their student alumni population stands over 6,000 since 2012. They also claim to have placed grads at top companies.
Here is a list of companies that hired grads.
- Blue Origin
- Kaiper Permanente
- The Pokemon Company
- Sony Pictures
- Universal Pictures
Coding Dojo Curriculum
Coding Dojo continually refines its course materials to reflect new or rising technologies corresponding to employer demands. Their programs are powered by a proprietary Learning Management System that integrates data analytics and learner behavior to transform the learning experience.
The school is determined to teach top programming languages ranked in TIOBE Index so that the students will be equipped with the most in-demand skills to stand out on the web development job market.
Here is the highlight of the curricula.
We have reached the end of the Coding Dojo Review. With an extensive curriculum for the web development and data science course, Coding Dojo addresses a wide range of requirements that makes a student job-ready. The school has a reliable in-person and online bootcamp that teaches full-stack technologies in web development and data science part-time courses.
Invariably, we do not endorse or support any coding school. Our reviews are unbiased and honest opinions about that organization based on the information gathered from industry-related resources.
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The Meaning of Claddagh
The Claddagh is a traditional Irish ring given in friendship or worn as a wedding ring. The design and customs associated with it originated in the Irish fishing village of Claddagh, located just outside the city of Galway. The ring was first produced in the 17th century during the reign of Queen Mary II, though elements of the design are much older.
The Claddagh design features two hands clasping a heart, and this symbol are often said to correspond to the qualities of love (the heart), friendship (the hands), and loyalty (the crown). The expression associated with these symbols in the giving of the ring was: “with my two hands I give you my heart, and crown it with my love.”
Claddagh Restaurant and Pub
Tucked into the side street of East Parrish Avenue in High Point is The Claddagh—a small, yet cozy Irish pub owned by locals.
Over two hours west in Asheville, there is another location of The Claddagh. The manager describes The Claddagh as “cheers with an Irish twist.” However, their well-known and always-hopping restaurant is not the only thing that is grabbing everyone’s attention.
In the kitchen of The Claddagh, the chef is whipping up something fresh and potentially profitable: her one-of-a-kind blueberry jam. She said this jam is not just for your biscuit because it is a popular and widely used condiment at the restaurant. The jam is served to every table with their homemade scones, which he added, is an Irish tradition. Mayra’s Everything Blueberry Jam goes with their pancakes, their French toast and in their specialty blueberry martini. The jam also makes a blueberry balsamic barbecue glaze that she uses on the pork chops. However, this sauce is not on the market just yet, she said. Mayra’s Everything Blueberry Jam consists of smashed blueberries, sugar, lemon, cinnamon, cornstarch, flour, water topped off with a zing of ginger.
Mayra said that her jam could go on almost anything, but her favorite use is eating it on pancakes. Of course, she said, she also thoroughly enjoys drinking her blueberry martini creation.
Open 7 days a week...stop by and let them know keep up the Irish tradition.
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An external inspection of the four Gwynnes 24-inch and 48-inch mixed-flow vertical land drainage pumps operating at the pumping station since 1949 indicated that the pumps were old and in need of replacement and had exceeded their design life capacity. When later removed from service by AxFlow for a thorough evaluation it was clear that they could be renovated to a standard that would meet the future requirements of the Environment Agency. Most importantly, AxFlow would be able to undertake the renovation project in a time frame quicker than a full replacement programme and at a more competitive price.
Hull is unique amongst English cities because parts of the city are below sea-level when there is high tide and the plain around it is higher. This means that water from the Wolds tends to drain down towards the city, so it is important that there's a good, well maintained drainage system in the city. The purpose of the East Hull Works is to transfer water from the Holderness Drain into the River Humber over high tide periods.
East Hull is the older of two pumping stations that service the city and both stations have undergone an upgrade aimed at improving the capability to move sewage, surface water and land drainage out of Hull and into the River Humber. East Hull Works pumping station stands at the point where Holderness Drain flows into the Humber estuary and operates daily around high tide when the tidal gates on the Holderness Drain are closed. The four Gwynnes pumps are used to pump the drain into the estuary at times of high tide when the normal gravity discharge is prevented. However, in the past couple of years, the East Hull pumping station has been called into service more frequently so the Environment Agency, which has responsibility for the pumps, has implemented a £900,000 refurbishment programme in order maintain protection against flooding for 1000 homes in East Hull.
"The pumps needed an overhaul so we decided to do it alongside a major refurbishment being carried out by Yorkshire Water", comments EA Project manager, Richard Hartley. "We were looking at long term options for the pumping station, but whatever we decided depended on the funding being available and any necessary planning permissions. Meanwhile, we could not leave the Bransholme area unprotected so we decided to go ahead with a refurbishment, which buys us up to five years to review possible options."
AMCO were contracted to carry out the refurbishment and this involved a complete strip down and overhaul of the pumping equipment by pump maintenance specialists AxFlow. The EA also looked how we can control levels in the drain to maximise the efficiency of the existing pumping station.
The existing building housing the East Hull Pumping Station was enlarged in 1972 to accommodate a sewage pumping system to carry screened effluent from the eastern side of Hull into the estuary. In 1989 overall responsibility for the site passed to Yorkshire Water at privatisation, but the former National Rivers Authority took over maintenance of the four Holderness Drain pumps, passing to the Environment Agency in 1996.
"We undertook an on-site evaluation of all four pumps in the East Hull works, " says AxFlow's Mark Redgrove, " and made recommendations as to what work would need to be undertaken to put them all back into a reliable and efficient operating condition. AxFlow removed the four pumps with assistance from AMCO, and brought them to our Huddersfield works where we did a full strip down to allow dimensional checks to be made along with an overall condition report."
The two 24-inch pumps, which were the first to be refurbished, were found to be in a reasonable condition, according to Mark Redgrove. "We found that the bronze bushes, sleeves and grease-lubricated bearings were fairly well-worn but were serviceable, and the impellers had been repaired at some stage so there was no reason for additional work. The two 48-inch pumps did need more work and it was necessary to cast a new wear ring for the back of the impeller on the third pump as the original was cracked. When the impeller race was removed on this pump it completely disintegrated. As luck would have it, we found three new impeller races on site, so we were able to make use of one of these for this pump and also one for the fourth pump as it was necessary to cut the race in order to remove the impeller."
Looking at the refurbishment programme for all four pumps, AxFlow have balanced the impellers and replaced all of the wearing parts such as bushes and sleeves on the shafts. By their design, each of the pumps contain three or four shafts as the water flow from top to bottom of the sump is 7m, so the shafts are in sections. In addition, all the white metal Michell bearings have been overhauled, the pads re-metalled, thrust collars skimmed and all the internal surfaces of the housing shot-blast and repainted. Running together, the refurbished pumps will a have the capacity handle 7.5m3 sec and they will be expected to run for periods up to three hours at a time twice a day.
"The key to the success of this contract was that we were able meet the Environment Agency's request to work all four pumps at once, as opposed to instigating a rolling programme," continues Mark Redgrove. "Because of the size of these pumps, weighing up to 12 tons, it was necessary to dismantle them on site then rebuild them back in our workshops once the refurbishment jobs had been undertaken to check tolerance and dimensions. We then had to dismantle them again for returning them to the pumping station and once again rebuild them on site. Because of the logistics of the programme of works on both the East and West works, we were given a tight timeframe in which to undertake the project. From first day onsite through to having the pumps re-installed and ready to run we were given 12-14 weeks."
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Fall is a fun time of year. But in Central Florida, we do not experience the change of color. So I make my own fall leaves.
Cut two WOF by 4" to make a binding string.
Sew together then ironed them in half, folded onto themselves...
and fold again to sew. I used a zig zag stitch.
I traced around a leaf to use as a pattern.
And you know those left over pieces of batting?
They will work perfectly for this garland.
Cut 6" x 11 1/2" from several different pieces of fall fabric.
Fold the fabric in half, pin your pattern on the TOP piece of fabric,
and be sure that your stem is on the fold.
around the TOP piece of fabric only. Then place your batting in
between the folded fabric, and sure that your string is at the top of
(showing fabric for the free form leaf)
Sew around the edges of the sandwiched leaf. The edges will be raw unless you finish with a zig zag stitch.
Cut around the edges of the leaf.
This is probably a pretty basic way to do this, but I wanted to
show you how I made the free form leaf and how it is attached to the
string. Making it two sided allows you to use the garland where both
sides are finished.
And here is the garland, decorating my mantle.
Great way to use up scraps of fabric and batting.
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Relationship rules are the recommendations you should adhere to when primary meeting somebody for the first time in order to ensure your relationships work good. They are just like a map, installed your relationship on the right path so it’s on your way to living happily ever before after. This article will give you some good advice regarding dating guidelines and will offer you some examples on how you can apply them to the relationship.
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A relationship guideline you may want to adopt is to always be certain you take care of your self. This will offer you confidence to get more out bound in sociable situations which will help you attract more persons into your life. You may also find it helpful to be kinder to your self than you could be to others. This will make you look more attractive to others.
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Lastly, a romance rule you really should follow is usually to never ever particular date someone who has an enormous debt owed to them. This can be hard to keep in mind nevertheless, you want to make sure you aren’t making any financial mistakes that will cost you basically we.
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By Wes Annac, Culture of Awareness
You hear a lot of talk in our little community about being on a mission, but what exactly does that mean? Do the people who think they’re on a mission live or act differently than those who don’t?
Being on a mission means that we have a purpose for being on this planet, however we each define it, and we build our lives around that purpose in hopes of reaching others who also have something significant to give.
For me, having a mission means that I have work to do, and next to spending time with family, this work is the most important thing to me. Those who are on a mission are usually preoccupied with their work, and they’d rather discuss something that has to do with their mission than the cultural distractions we’ve come to accept as normal.
They hunger for authenticity, and the usual discussions about politics, television and other distractions don’t interest them. They’d rather discuss how we can move the planet forward, so they passionately commit to generating this kind of discussion and they invite others to contribute.
Personally, my mission is to help the world evolve by contributing to a conscious revolution that’s been around for decades and is growing stronger by the day.
I try to achieve this by sharing wisdom and good vibes in the forms of writing and music, even though I haven’t shared most of my music yet. I’m here to use these outlets to uplift people, and sharing good vibes is arguably the best way to inspire people to change.
There’s a reason so many people are passionate about music, writing and other forms of creativity. They know these things can distract or liberate the masses, and they’re dedicated to freeing people from the mental prison that’s enforced by our governments and religious institutions.
They use creativity to wake up the sleepy public and inspire people to become progressive with their own passions, and they stay away from distractions because they know their purpose is too important to stop what they’re doing, even momentarily. As they try to uplift others, they also challenge themselves and try to get better so they can reach more people in a more direct way.
As easy as it’d be to stop their work and indulge in the latest or most popular distraction, they’re more interested in getting better at their craft and using that increased talent to reach people they were unable to reach before. Their work has become their life, and while they still make time for other important things like family, their spare time is devoted entirely to the mission.
So, how do you know if you’re on a mission? Does your life purpose choose you, or is it something you have to find?
For some people, their purpose is obvious before they even realize they have one. Your purpose, and subsequently your mission, comes down to what you enjoy the most, and some people embrace music or writing.
Some choose other outlets like painting or poetry, and others choose activism. The thing you really enjoy is probably your life purpose, and you’ll want to embrace it if you hold even the slightest interest in uplifting and/or changing the world.
Some people have a hard time discovering their purpose, and they might drift from thing to thing in an effort to figure out what lights their fire. They might try and fail at a hundred things before they find what works for them, and some still haven’t found their purpose.
Some have realized they have more than one passion, and they try to keep up with three or four different things each day. It probably isn’t easy, but it’s worth it to them because they enjoy each outlet and they know they can do something positive with all of them.
Some people’s mission is to simply hold the light, so they meditate and do other things to raise their vibration and the vibration of the planet. They aren’t concerned with creativity, activism or any kind of work that can be used progressively, because they know that plenty of other passionate individuals have it covered.
They focus on their personal evolution, and they know they can affect the planet’s evolution significantly by doing so.
Their mission is to elevate their consciousness to higher and higher levels so they can share their love and bliss with a world that seems empty of authentic spiritual awareness, and while most of them work a job to pay their bills, they devote the rest of their time to spirituality.
In my opinion, we need more people to devote their time and energy to raising their consciousness if we want to enlighten our society.
Everyone’s mission is unique, and I think we should all search for our life purpose and passionately pursue it when we find it without worrying that we won’t be good at it or other people won’t care about it. Even if nobody shows an interest at first, you can’t help but get people’s attention if you practice and get better.
There’s no telling what you can achieve if you believe in yourself and stay dedicated to your cause, and you can be one out of millions of people who are waking up, discovering their purpose and striving to help others.
I like to think we’re all on a mission and most of us have yet to discover what it is, and the best way to discover it is to explore our passions and find that thing we can’t live without. We’ll know exactly what our mission is when we do, and our accomplishments will be determined by our commitment and our openness toward those who also want to be a part of this movement.
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Lavender Honey ice cream
Honey is universally beloved, and lavender is pretty popular too! Unlike the ancient Greeks and Romans, however, we won’t use it to make our baths fragrant. We will use its unique, beckoning flavour in a delicious honey ice cream!
On lavender and its many uses
The Lavender plant (or Lavandula, which is its proper botanical name) is actually a subshrub. It is believed to have originated in Persia and the Spanish Canary island and centuries and centuries of human cultivation have resulted in the various lavender plants of today. The name “Lavender” is derived from the latin word “lavare”, which means “wash”: both the ancient Greeks and the Romans used lavender to scent their baths and washed-up linen.
Highly priced for its pleasant fragrance, lavender is also purported to have medical qualities: while the scientific jury still might be out on that claim, many swear by its capacity to alleviate anxiety and sleep disturbances (historically, people have even tied lavender to themselves as protection against the plague … something which unfortunately probably did not help much).
Since the flowers yield a lot of nectar, the marketing of premium mono-floral lavender honey has also become a thing. Particularly Provence in France and Tuscany in Italy have longstanding stakes as prime producers.
On honey, lavender honey and the basics of our ice cream
Honey has been used, enjoyed and collected by humans for at least 8000 years, judging by pre-historic cave paintings in Spain.
The first written records of beekeeping come from the ancient Egypt and honey has even held religious significance in several religions. Honey is not only sweet but many also swear by its many positive health qualities: claims which unfortunately not always seem to be backed up by science. Since honey mainly is composed of sugar (notably about 38 % fructose and 32 % glucose), it should – as most sweet things – best be enjoyed in moderation.
Few of our are fortunate enough to live next to a lavender field, and fewer still probably have an easy access to premium lavender honey. But fear not! For this recipe, we will use good “normal” (non-lavender) honey and infuse the base with dried lavender flowers.
[If you do have access to lavender honey, feel free to use it of course! In that case, you should exclude the dried lavender, increase the amount of honey 1-2 tablespoons and consider adding another egg yolk to your base.]
While you may choose your own favourite base, I opted for a custard base in order to give a pleasant and rich body to the ice cream!
Making the ice cream is therefore quite simple: (1) gather some dried lavender, some good honey, milk, cream, eggs, sugar and a pinch of salt, and (2) prepare the custard base. For some added complexity, I actually also put in a little vanilla: however, while recommended (it won’t turn the ice cream into vanilla), the vanilla is by no means necessary.
The easy steps
Start by gathering some good quality honey (and not of the liquid sort), and some dried lavender flowers.
Once we have these two key ingredients, all we need to do is to add them to a classic custard base made up of egg yolks, cream, milk and – in this case – a little vanilla and a pinch of salt..
As avid readers know, I favour the faster, “Modernista” way of preparing the custard base: instead of tempering the egg yolks separately and do things in stage, I simply put the egg yolks together with the dairy (and here, the other ingredients) from the very start.
While whisking, bring the ice cream base to the so-called nappe stage (approximately in the 82-84º C /180-183ºF-bracket): at this point, the consistency-giving qualities of the egg yolks should have fully triggered, and the base should also have been pasteurised.
How to know if you’ve reached the Nappe stage? Personally, I tend to use a handy kitchen thermometer but if you don’t have any, try the Spoon test (a classic rule of thumb-estimation).
Once the Nappe stage has been reached, take the base off the heat and let it cool down. Once cooled down, let it chill further in your kitchen refrigerator for a few hours or over night.
When it is time to churn the chilled base, remember to first sieve off the lavender flowers. Then churn the base in your ice cream machine (or still-freeze using your household freezer).
The Honey Lavender ice cream
Honey and lavender go extremely well together and this pleasant creation should be pleasing to all ice cream fans regardless of age! In fact, having enjoyed this, you might be forgiven for believing that lavender flowers were edible and sweet on their own. Alas, that is not the case, but our sweet ice cream will provide all the consolation you may need!
Worried about the lavender flavour being overwhelming? Don’t fret too much about that. While dried lavender – like most dried flowers, herbs and spices – can differ in strength, the recipe should provide a harmonious, rather subtle, blend that should be cherished by most palates! The consistency is also very good. The custard base provides a pleasantly rich body, and the texture remains excellent and scopable even after several days in the freezer (no doubt largely thanks to the amount of honey).
So – send a thankful thought to the industrious honey bees and get going! After all, they did all the hard work. Get hold of a jar on good honey, do your thing and treat yourself and your loved ones to a delicious honey lavender ice cream experience!
- 350 ml (about 1⅓ cup) whole milk
- 300 ml (about 1¼ cup) cream
- 4-5 tablespoons (about 80 gram) of honey
- 4-6 grams of dried lavender flower
- 4 egg yolks
- about 70 ml sugar (60 gram or about ⅓ cup)
- ½ teaspoon good quality vanilla extract
- pinch of salt
- Mix all ingredients in a sauce pan.
- Heat the mixture and, while whisking, bring the base to the so-called Nappe stage (in the 82-84º C /180-183ºF-bracket).
- Take the base off the heat and let cool down, then preferably chill in your refrigerator for a few hours or over night.
- Sieve off the lavender flowers.
- Churn the base in your ice cream machine (or still-freeze, using your household freezer)
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The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has begun work on a large underground ice wall to isolate toxic water it has produced.
The 1.5km (0.9 mile) wall will be made by inserting 1,550 pipes into the ground. Coolant circulating in the pipes will freeze the surrounding soil.
Some experts have expressed concerns over whether the project will work.
The plant experienced several leaks of radioactive water since being crippled by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
Last week, the Nuclear Regulation Authority agreed that plant operator Tepco could begin construction work on the frozen wall.
The government-funded ice wall is intended to stop nearby groundwater from seeping into the plant and mixing with contaminated water inside.
"We plan to end all the construction work in March 2015 before starting trial operations," a Tepco official said, adding that the ice wall could be operational months after construction.
The 2011 disaster knocked out cooling systems to the nuclear plant's reactors, three of which melted down.
Water is now being pumped in to cool the reactors, but storing the resultant large quantities of radioactive water has proved a challenge for Tepco.
The operator has also struggled to safely store groundwater that has mixed with the radioactive water and become contaminated.
Last month, Tepco began releasing groundwater into the sea after checking its radiation levels.
This is the latest and most ambitious plan to isolate and contain the nuclear disaster at Fukushima, the BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Tokyo reports.
Nothing on this scale has ever been tried before, and keeping the ground frozen in an area with summer temperatures close to 40C may be very hard, our correspondent adds.
Some experts, including an American adviser assisting Japan with Fukushima clean-up efforts, have expressed doubts over whether the wall will work.
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Information Technology (IT) coordinates voice, data, spatial analysis (GIS), Internet, Intranet, image, and video at three major city locations - City Hall, the Operations Center, and the Library.
IT is responsible for the procurement policies regarding information-processing equipment and the operating software.
In-house technical / user support to the City and its employees
Maps and spatial analysis applications
Application Program development and support
The City has over 500 personal computers that are linked via speeds of one/ten gigabytes (GB). The major network operating system is Windows 2008 R2/2012 server with Windows 7/8 clients. Our major database engine is SQL2008/12 and the department develops internal applications using Visual Studio 2010/12.
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On Facebook (yeah, I spend too much time on Facebook; you got a problem with that?) a friend posted a slogan from Occupy World. The slogan says, “Inclusion means making ALL people feel empowered and welcome.” (The caps are in the original.) This slogan, according to the accompanying text, is in support of gender diversity.
Now, gender diversity and racial diversity are lovely things, and I support them wholeheartedly. But the use of the word “all” makes me a bit nervous. Here’s the squeaky bit:
Does “all people” include men carrying assault rifles? Does it include those who refuse to be vaccinated? Does it include people who would like to distribute racist pamphlets? Does it include pedophiles?
You may think I’m exaggerating or engaged in a straw man argument, but I’m quite serious. At the point where “all people” starts to mean, “all people who agree with you and me about certain basic things,” it’s not inclusion anymore. It’s just sloganeering.
I’m perfectly willing to embrace what we might call selective inclusion — accepting and embracing all races and all varieties of gender identification and gender expression, while slamming the door on racists and white nationalist terrorists. But that turns out to be an awkward position philosophically, because if I assert the right to discriminate based on what I perceive as these basic moral issues (and I do), then how shall I tell an evangelical Christian that he is wrong to discriminate against homosexuals based on what he perceives as a basic moral issue?
The broad-brush embrace of inclusion is not quite as simple as we might prefer to imagine.
I’ve seen this kind of muddled thinking at work in Unitarian-Universalism, a once-liberal sect to which I still, at least nominally and for the time being, belong. UUs are very big on inclusion — on being a welcoming congregation. I certainly approve!
And yet, over the past couple of years there has been a concerted attempt, by a number of highly placed people in the national UU organization, to sabotage the career of a UU minister named Todd Eklof. Why have a bunch of UU thugs, including hundreds of Todd’s fellow ministers, ganged up on him? Because he had the audacity to publish a book that contained ideas they didn’t like. They didn’t bother to dispute the ideas in a public debate; no, that would have required actual logical thought. Many of them didn’t even bother to read the book before condemning it, if you can believe that. Instead they have engaged in a campaign of character assassination and tried to destroy Todd’s career.
How can these people consider themselves participants in a “welcoming” faith when they do not welcome intellectual diversity? When they insist on lock-step ideology?
The question is not whether Todd’s views are right or wrong. I happen to think he’s right, but perhaps I’m mistaken. The question is whether UUism welcomes a free and open debate about important ideas, or whether the people who are running the denomination feel that certain ideas are not to be expressed and the people who dare to express them are to be shunned. Thus far, the evidence points strongly away from any interest by the national organization in actual diversity of thought.
You can’t be a welcoming congregation if you don’t embrace intellectual diversity. Sadly, the minister of my own congregation is one of the signatories of the odious Open Letter that condemns Rev. Eklof’s book. Since I’m not in charge of the local congregation, there’s nothing I can do to get rid of this flaming pulpit hypocrite. But I do think the question of inclusivity needs some serious examination. Is “welcoming congregation” just an empty slogan? Is it just a cloak that we wrap ourselves in when it’s convenient and we want to feel morally superior?
If you follow the logic of this through to where it leads, you’ll soon discover that there are no objective criteria at all by which one might structure a morality. The moral choices — what we embrace and what we abhor — are all socially constructed and subjective. That being the case, the real problem is not that the UU higher-ups feel justified in attacking Todd Eklof. Just about all of us, excepting only a few rare enlightened individuals, spend a fair amount of time attacking people we disagree with. The problem is that the UU leaders are hypocrites. They claim to be inclusive and welcoming, but they’re not.
On that basis, I suppose we ought to admire racists and homophobes. At least they’re honest. I’m not going to try admiring them, but if I were really to practice inclusion I suppose I ought to.
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Kabul – The authorities of the Logar Department of Education announced the holding of a professional training course for 66 teachers in the province.
The 66 teachers, including 19 female, had fourteen-day professional training classes,” said Mohammad Shahpoor Arab, Logar’s education department spokesman to Hasht-e Subh.
According to Shahpoor, the purpose of the program is to promote the scientific and professional orientation of novice teachers, in order to improve the quality of teaching for students in local schools in the province.
The program was launched by the Dawan organization in collaboration with the Logar Department of Education for 47 male teachers and 19 newly hired female teachers in the Barki Barak district of the province.
About a month ago, the Taliban Education Department in Logar province had also opened local schools for 12,000 children.
The post 66 Teachers Receive Professional Training in Logar appeared first on Hasht-e Subh Daily.
Source: Hasht-e Subh Daily
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Technology helps anglers find success on the lake
It is always enjoyable talking to my kids and describing what it was like growing up without cell phones and the internet.
Technology has changed our way of life so much over the past 20 years that it is sometimes hard remembering what it was like without those things. In nearly every aspect of our lives, technology has made things easier and more convenient.
When it comes to fishing, this same theme applies.
Advancements in electronics has dramatically improved anglers ability to catch fish. However, it only helps anglers to the degree they are able to interpret and utilize the information that their electronics are displaying.
Similar to our cell phones, computers and other gadgets, I’ve observed over the past few summers that fishing electronics have capabilities far beyond most user’s ability to utilize and understand them.
Despite instructions and tutorials available on resources like YouTube, it takes time and attention along with a dedication to truly learn how to make the most of the tools at your disposal.
Every time on the water I continue to learn and gain confidence in what my electronics are telling me and it is dramatically improving my angling results over time.
My hope is that by providing some high level insights into the features that have helped me over the past several years, it will inspire and encourage those that are struggling to get the most out of their electronics to push on and persevere.
There are four common attributes featured in top end electronics today. While each manufacturer will have slightly different nuances to their line of electronics, the basic attributes can be broken down into the categories of Sonar, Down Imaging, Side Imaging and GPS Charts and Mapping. Each of these features excels under specific applications.
Sonar is the oldest, simplest and still most popular technology of all of the attributes I listed. Sonar is simply a wave sequence that is emitted from the transducer toward the lake bottom in the shape of a cone and reflected back to the transducer where it is interpreted by the sonar unit itself into a scrolling display.
Whatever the wave sequence bounces off of will show on the display as a mark. The stronger the signal and reflection back to the transducer is, the heavier and darker the mark will read on the sonar display. To further aid with an angler’s ability to interpret the display, colors will also help distinguish the strength of the signal.
A common question I’ve received when speaking with other anglers is why fish sometimes show up as an arch on the screen while other times they show up as lines or circular blobs.
The easiest answer to describe this variation is it comes down to the speed the boat is moving in relation to the fish.
When traveling at a high speed over a fish, the mark on the sonar screen will appear like a vertical or angular line. If moving at a moderate to slow speed, a fish under the boat will appear as a boomerang shaped arch. When sitting nearly motionless, or at very slow speeds, fish under the boat will appear as a steady horizontal lines until they move outside of the sonars cone.
This may sound pretty simple and basic, but it takes time and attention to detail to become proficient at recognizing fish on the sonar under various circumstances.
More recently, down imaging has been developed to improve the detail of what anglers can observe on their electronics.
The basic concept is similar to the way basic sonar works. However, with down imaging the sonar signal is sent down in very thin ribbons. The thinner ribbons of waves allow for the electronic unit to interpret and display anything that the wave bounces off of with a much higher degree of detail.
The ideal speed for down imaging to create a vivid picture of the underwater world is 2-4 mph. Down imaging still works at higher speeds and lower speeds. But similar to regular sonar, it takes more interpretation to disseminate what the display is telling you. Again, time and attention using down imaging will continue to build confidence in what is being displayed on the screen.
Most units with down imaging also have basic sonar, and splitting the screen to display sonar on one side and down imaging on the other is a nice way to reinforce what you are seeing using both methods. Down imaging is very helpful in identifying structure on the bottom and within the water column, as well as identifying fish near that structure.
When it comes to identifying and locating structure, it is hard to beat side imaging. Side imaging sends out a signal in the shape of a fan 100 feet or more on each side of the boat.
The best way to describe how to interpret side imaging is to think about the transducer as being a bright light emitting a beam down and out to the side from the boat. Whatever the “light” hits, or in this case the wave frequency from the transducer, will appear brighter on the display. Whatever is beyond the object that the wave frequency is hitting will appear darker on the display, similar to the way a shadow would look if the transducer was truly emitting light.
While side imaging can be used to locate fish over deep basins or shallow flats, it is typically difficult to identify fish with side imaging in the presence of weeds, boulders or other structures. That being said, being proficient utilizing side imaging is undoubtedly the best and fastest way to locate and identify structure when out on the water.
Similar to down imaging, side imaging displays the clearest picture when traveling at 2-4 mph. It is also helpful to grid the potential fishing area that is being analyzed and drive the boat in a straight line. Not only does this create a clearer image, it makes it easier to mark the spots that you want to come back and fish on your GPS chart.
That takes us to arguably the biggest game-changer in the angling world in the past 20 years: the GPS charting system.
Not only has GPS technology allowed us the ability to accurately map and chart lake depths, it gives us a continuous visual reference to where we are at in relation to structure while angling.
GPS charts have been incorporated with sonars for well over a decade now, so the utilization of this technology is not exactly ground breaking. However, I’m still a little surprised how little or inefficiently this technology is utilized by many anglers.
Today’s electronics have the ability to store thousands of GPS data points, all of which can be saved on SD cards and backed up on home computers. When I am out on the water I am continuously dropping GPS waypoints. I utilize these icons for constant feedback as to where I am positioned in relation to the structure or school of fish that I am working with.
What I frequently find is waypoints I drop on schools of fish I am marking or catching produce for me years down the road as well. The same conditions that concentrated the fish the day I dropped the icon repeats itself over time and allows me to be much more efficient with my time on the water.
Technology has truly transformed the angling world. There is more data and processing capabilities in a $300 electronic sonar/chart combo mounted to a 14-foot flat-bottom boat today than there was on entire U.S. fleets of battle ships during World War II.
All of these technological improvements can make you a dramatically better angler if you learn how to use them. Taking the time to get the most out the electronics at your disposal will undoubtedly make you a better angler.
This is the opinion of outdoors columnist Jason Kron. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Malaria.com is delighted to present this latest e-issue in partnership with WWARN (the WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network). WWARN focuses on gathering data and collating resources related to malaria medication, and specifically factors affecting its efficacy.
One on-going effort relates to monitoring of drug quality – as one of the critical tools used for malaria control (along with long-lasting insecticide treated bednets, improved diagnostic tools, and vector control), it is extremely important that people have access to malaria medication that is appropriate and effective, both in terms of treating the patient but also not driving drug resistance in the parasite.
This e-issue focuses on the topic of drug quality in malaria medication. The series of articles, written by our collaborators at WWARN, describe the challenges related to the widespread distribution of falsified and sub-standard antimalarials, as well as various efforts dedicated to tackling the issue and ensuring global access to effective medications:
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On January 11, 2019, the Cancellation Division of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (hereinafter referred to as "EUIPO") issued a decision revoking (link: https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/trademarks/000062638 text: trademark No. 62.638 "BIG MAC") for non-use. Although this decision is not definitive, and McDonald's International Property Company, Ltd. (hereinafter "McDonald's") - owner of such "BIG MAC" trademark - may appeal to the Board of Appeal of the EUIPO (and where appropriate, the dispute may continue before the General Court, and even the Court of Justice of the European Union), the decision issued by the EUIPO is of particular interest when preparing proof of genuine use of a trademark in revocation procedures. The origin of the proceedings lies in an application for revocation for non-use of the mark BIG MAC filed by the fast food restaurant Supremac's. As a result, McDonald's had to prove to EUIPO that the EUTM BIG MAC - registered for goods and services in classes 29, 30 and 42 - had been put in genuine use in the territory of the European Union between 11 April 2012 and 10 April 2017. In order to prove the genuine use, McDonald's provided the following documents: 1. Three affidavits from McDonald's representatives in Germany, France and the United Kingdom (on sales turnover, promotional materials and sandwich packaging). 2. Printouts of the different national McDonald's websites in the EU Member States where the "BIG MAC" sandwich is published. 3. Printout of the information published in the Wikipedia® encyclopedia. After analyzing the documents provided by the owner of the trademark, the EUIPO finds that they cannot prove the genuine use of the BIG MAC mark in the European Union. The decision is based on the grounds that the documents provided in the proceedings are insufficient to corroborate the information transcribed in the Affidavits, since they are documents drawn up by the right holder himself and therefore, fail to prove that the mark has actually been put in genuine use in the course of trade. As far as affidavits are concerned, the EUIPO first reminds that they are admissible evidence, although they are less probative as they are documents drawn up by the parties. The Office also argues that the value of Affidavits will depend on whether the rest of the evidence provided allows the statements made in those certificates to be supported. With regard to the impressions of McDonald's websites, the EUIPO points out that while they do demonstrate that the mark is on the internet, they do not evidence that the trademark has been put in genuine use. In this sense, the EUIPO states that for an internet impression to be taken into consideration for demonstrating the use of a trademark, it will be necessary to provide, for example, a sample of the visits received on these websites in a certain period of time, as well as the access made by consumers to the websites from the different EU Member States. As regards the advertising brochures, the EUIPO asserts that McDonald's has not provided any evidence of their distribution to consumers, while the EUIPO states that the mere bringing of the packaging of the BIG MAC products to the procedure is not sufficient to prove genuine use, given that it does not report the products wrapped in that packaging which have been offered for sale. Finally, the EUIPO does not deem the printing of the information offered by the Wikipedia® encyclopedia to be an unreliable source of information. Despite this resolution, it should be noted that McDonald's has not lost all exclusivity on the BIG MAC trademark in the territory of the European Union, since there is another EU trademark that protects the same denomination, in addition to the different national registers in the different EU countries. McDonald's will be expected to appeal this decision, seeking to complete the evidence provided before the Cancellation Division. The success of its defense will then depend on the admissibility of the new evidence by the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, which has the power to decide whether or not such new submission should be made (see (link: http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=62135&pageIndex=0&doclang=EN&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=9048609 text: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 13 March 2007, Case C-29/05 P) and Decision No R 282/2009-1 of the First Board of Appeal dated 9 June 2010).
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Just as the familiar sugar in food can be bad for the teeth and waistline, another sugar has been implicated as a health menace and blocking its action may have benefits that include improving long-term memory in older people and treating cancer.
Progress toward finding such a blocker for the sugar with the appropriately malicious-sounding name "oh-glick-nack" was the topic of a report here today at the 243rd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS).
Linda Hsieh-Wilson, Ph.D., explained that the sugar is not table sugar (sucrose), but one of many other substances produced in the body's cells that qualify as sugars from a chemical standpoint. Named O-linked beta-N-acetylglucosamine or "O-GlcNAc" it helps in orchestrating health and disease at their origins, inside the billions of cells that make up the body. O-GlcNAc does so by attaching to proteins that allow substances to pass in and out of the nucleus of cells, for instance, and helping decide whether certain genes are turned on or off. In doing so, O-GlcNAc sends signals that may be at the basis of cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease and other disorders. Research suggests, for instance, that proteins loaded up with too much O-GlcNAc can't function normally.
At the ACS meeting, Hsieh-Wilson described how research in her lab at the California Institute of Technology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute implicate O-GlcNAc in memory loss and cancer. The research emerged from Hsieh-Wilson's use of advanced lab tools for probing a body process that involves attachment of sugars like O-GlcNAc to proteins. Called protein glycosylation, it helps nerves and other cells communicate with each other in ways that keep the body coordinated and healthy. When O-GlcNAc is attached to a protein, that binding process is known as O-GlcNAc glycosylation.
Hsieh-Wilson's team screened the entire mammalian brain for all O-GlcNAc-glycosylated proteins, using a new process that her laboratory developed. They identified more than 200 proteins bearing O-GlcNAc attachments or tags, many for the first time. The research was done in mice, stand-ins for humans in research that cannot be done on people. Some of the proteins carrying O-GlcNAc were involved in regulating processes like drug addiction and securing long-term storage of memories.
O-GlcNAc's effects on one particular protein, CREB, got the scientists' attention. CREB is a key substance that turns on and regulates the activity of genes. Many of the genes in cells are inactive at any given moment. Substances like CREB, termed transcription factors, turn genes on. Hsieh-Wilson found that when O-GlcNAc attached to CREB, CREB's ability to turn on genes was impaired. When the researchers blocked O-GlcNAc from binding CREB, the mice developed long-term memories faster than normal mice.
Could blocking O-GlcNAc boost long-term memory in humans?
"We're far from understanding what happens in humans," Hsieh-Wilson emphasized. "Completely blocking O-GlcNAc might not be desirable. Do you really want to sustain all memories long-term, even of events that are best forgotten? How would blocking the sugar from binding to other proteins affect other body processes? There are a lot of unanswered questions. Nevertheless, this research could eventually lead to ways to improve memory."
In a related study, Hsieh-Wilson found that O-GlcNAc interacted with another protein in ways that encourage the growth of cancer cells, suggesting that blocking its attachment might protect against cancer or slow the growth of cancer. And indeed, in mouse experiments, blocking O-GlcNAc resulted in much smaller tumors.
Again, a treatment for humans based on this discovery is far in the future, but the study singles out O-GlcNAc as a potential new target for developing anti-cancer drugs.
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Understanding the remarkable complexity of the brain on a molecular, cellular and systems level is one of the major challenges in science. The principles and tools of chemistry, when combined with biology, can be used to gain new insights into the molecules and interactions involved in cellular communication and memory storage. We will describe the synergistic application of chemistry and biology to explore the structure and function of carbohydrates and their impact in various biological contexts, including neuronal communication, long-term memory and cancer.
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Imagining the Future City: London 2062 (free download) is an edited collection based on the London 2062 project from UCL’s Grand Challenge of Sustainable Cities. The London 2062 project engaged academics, policy makers and practitioners, providing a forum for serious debate about the challenges and opportunities for London in the five decades following the Olympics.
The book is divided into four sections, considering London in terms of Things, Connections, Power and Dreams. The book features contributions from leading academic thinkers at UCL and from those involved in shaping London on the ground, through policy and practice. The authors consider the future of London from multiple viewpoints, including transport, energy, smart infrastructure, water, population, housing and the economy.
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We are learning about electricity. We did experiments with static electricity........we stuck balloons to the ceiling, picked up pieces of paper with a pen and made our hair stand on end!!!
Here is a good website we looked at during IT time all about electricity. Always be careful with electricity, it is very dangerous!! click on the button below
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Lecture 7, Children:
In this lesson, Dr. Sproul focuses on God’s call to children in the family, especially from the clear instruction in Ephesians 6 to obey parents in the Lord. Why should they obey? Simply, because God said so. Not only that, He also promises a good life to those who obey. Furthermore, fathers must not shy away from the directive to raise their children in the Lord, though they must beware of stirring up rebellion in their children. In the end, fathers must lead their families to find their identity in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Almost right out of central casting, we have the audio from the BBC - the audio timed to perfectly outline what this war is, in many respects all about. When it comes to the essential freedoms of man, there can be no, "but" with the following clause defined by its enemies.
Listen to every word.
Nothing says that The Enlightenment lasts forever. In some places, such as the United Kingdom, it is already in retreat or under pressure.
While we still try to figure out what to do inside our lifelines, what little light there is in the Muslim world is fading, and shadow turns to black.
The Islamic State is expanding beyond its base in Syria and Iraq to establish militant affiliates in Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt and Libya, American intelligence officials assert, raising the prospect of a new global war on terror.
Intelligence officials estimate that the group’s fighters number 20,000 to 31,500 in Syria and Iraq. There are less formal pledges of support from “probably at least a couple hundred extremists” in countries such as Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Yemen, according to an American counterterrorism official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss confidential information about the group.
Western officials, especially in southern Europe, fear that the three Libyan “provinces” could evolve into bases for Islamic State fighters traveling across the Mediterranean, into Egypt or elsewhere in North Africa. Eastern Libya has already become a training ground for jihadists going to Syria or Iraq and a haven for Egyptian fighters staging attacks in the neighboring desert.
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Posted 5 years ago
We think this was made around the mid 1950's. It belonged to my sister in law and has been packed away since 1981. There are no tags on it. When you roll the material back you can see the head is a round ball of pressed material that looks like dried hay. There is a finger opening (very small) which looks like a cylinder of thin cardboard. The material is not terribly soft. The nose and mouth are sewing thread. I have no idea what the eyes are made of or how they are fastened on.
Any input to help us research this would be appreciated.
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The fact that we, as a church, are still wrestling with how to confront the crime of clergy sexual abuse of minors invites all manner of emotional and programmatic responses. This weekend’s release of a new motu proprio on episcopal accountability makes those invitations clamant.
Some people, as we know, have left the church: The rise of the "nones" among Catholics in the Northeastern part of the United States is largely attributable to the clergy sex abuse crisis, although this cause melded with the rise of the Religious Right and its involvement with politics. Others, including some leaders of victims' advocacy groups have become fatalistic about reform: Understandably suspicious, each additional revelation of clergy sex abuse and, even more, of bishops covering that abuse up, only feeds their suspicion that the leaders of the church will always be more concerned with institutional self-preservation than with protecting children. Still others think the crisis only confirms their suspicions about the hierarchic organization of the church more generally, that this issue, like all issues, is really only about power.
There is no doubt that the Vatican curia is a unique subculture. I recall many years ago a friend who worked there explaining to me that the curia did not exist to help the Holy Father govern the universal church, but to get red for the more talented among its employees, that is, be made a cardinal. I doubt there is more ambition there than one finds at the summit of any large organization, but ambition has less competition: For example, curial cardinals do not have to worry about the kids, as most members of Congress do, nor about advances in technology as captains of industry do.
The Vatican curia, and the episcopacy more generally, have also been operating at major cross-currents to the ambient culture for a couple of hundred years. The dominant fact of political life for the last two centuries has been democratization, while the Church has seen the burial of Gallicanism, the great ideological opponent of Roman centralization, and the separation of Church & State yielding yet more control over local churches by Rome than could have been imagined previously. While monarchies fell, the Church embraced the doctrine of papal infallibility.
Vatican officials are not the only ones with a heady job: Bishops everywhere are the vessels by which God himself comes down from heaven to become present in the sacrament of the altar, by which the baptized are given new life, by which sins are absolved in the confessional, and priests are ordained. "Thou art a priest forever, by the order of Melchizedek," sang the psalmist, and some clergy, especially higher clergy, took this to heart. Too many bishops forget that they are a mere vessel for God's grace, their relationship to the Lord is that between a wine glass and the wine: They did not make the wine, and they are not the wine, they are the glass and, like all glasses, their job is to be clean and translucent.
Finally, and I think most, the inability of the leaders of the church to discuss sexual matters frankly, and the virtual suppression of such discussion during the long pontificate of St. Pope John Paul II, led to a situation in which everyone more or less knew that people no longer believed what the church taught, but no one wanted to admit it. Pastors looked out at congregations and saw families with two or three children, and yet they could not draw the obvious conclusion or, if drawn, had nowhere to go with that conclusion. The leaders of the church knew the inhumane reality of the closet for gays, indeed they knew many gay leaders in the church, but they could not admit this, still less discuss it. We are only just now coming to terms with the needs of the divorced and remarried, not all of whom are morally culpable for the break up of their first marriage. In this environment, is it any wonder that coming to terms with the sexual abuse of children by members of the clergy was unlikely to be dealt with in a forthright manner?
All of that said, many leaders in the church have confronted the sex abuse crisis and have done so with concern for the victims and a stern determination to protect children in the future. Many bishops do meet with victims and do try and find ways to compensate victims. In the matter of the motu proprio, I think all concur that it never would have happened without the leadership of Cardinal Sean O'Malley on this issue, leadership that first manifested itself back in 1992 in Fall River, when he confronted the Porter case, one of the first epic and public cases of sex abuse, and then in Boston, which became ground zero for the crisis in 2002. In my home diocese of Washington, cases were dealt with promptly and fairly. And, at Dallas, Archbishop Wilton Gregory steered the Dallas Charter to adoption over against the objections of many fine bishops.
In thinking about how the church has grappled with this crisis, however, I came back to the insights of a great psychologist whose work was recently called to my attention. The loss of confidence in the church has its secular counterparts: Most people have less trust in more institutions, from the church to government to the academy, than they did in previous times. Why? We can point to a Nixon here or a Cardinal Law there, but there is one place we do not like to point, and that is to ourselves. Here is a passage of a reading you may have come across recently, as I did, from this psychologist, whose insights shed light on why so many church leaders were reluctant, and still are reluctant, to get to the root of the problem:
Let us consider how it can happen so often that someone hears something unpleasant and goes away untroubled, as if he had not heard it; and yet sometimes he is disturbed and troubled as soon as he hears such words. What is the cause of this inconsistency? Is there one reason for it or many? I recognise several, but one in particular is the source of all the others. As someone has put it: it all comes from the person’s state of mind at the time.
If someone is engaged in prayer or contemplation, he can easily take a rebuke from his brother and be unmoved by it. Or again, his affection toward a brother may be a strong reason; love bears all things with the utmost patience. Yet another reason may be contempt: if a person despises the one who is trying to trouble him, and acts as if he is the vilest of all creatures and considers it beneath his dignity even to look at him, or to answer him, or to mention the affront and insults to anyone else, he will not be moved by his words.
All in all, then, no one is disturbed or troubled if he scorns and disregards what is said. But on the other hand, it is also possible for someone to be disturbed and troubled by his brother’s words, either because he is not in a good frame of mind, or because he hates his brother. There are a great number of other reasons as well.
Yet the reason for all disturbance, if we look to its roots, is that no one finds fault with himself. This is the reason why we become angry and upset, why we sometimes have no peace in our soul. We should not be surprised, since holy men have taught us that there is no other path to peace but this.
We see that this is true in so many other people; and yet we hope, in our laziness and desire for peace, we hope or even believe that we are on the right path even when we are irritated by everything and cannot bear to accept any blame ourselves.
This is the way things are. However many virtues a man may have -- they could be innumerable, they could be infinite -- if he has left the path of self-accusation he will never have peace: he will be afflicted by others or he will be an affliction to them, and all his efforts will be wasted.
Who is this insightful psychologist? The words were in the breviary last Monday, the Ninth Monday of Ordinary Time and they are from St. Dorotheus, a sixth-century monk who founded a monastery in Egypt. Don't they ring true?
Too many bishops came to believe that once they had that miter on the head, they were accountable to no one. And, if you are not accountable to anyone, you are never really responsible for anything that goes wrong. Loyalty descends into sycophancy and tyranny. These phenomena are not confined to bishops, to be sure. Do you think Senators Harry Reid or Mitch McConnell think they shoulder any of the blame for the fact that our politics are so dysfunctional? Do you think the captains of the extraction industry are anymore likely to assume some of the blame for climate change than the leaders of the cigarette industry accepted blame for rising cancer rates?
So, before we throw stones at the Vatican or your local bishop, think about the many ways you, dear reader, have left the "path of self-accusation" and become a source of affliction, to yourself and others. Of course, we should affirm that bishops are not only accountable to God, but to the people they serve. Of course, men of God should hold themselves to an even higher standard than they do the rest of us. Of course, covering up sex abuse, or being negligent in protecting children, is a grave sin, but its roots are in the same soil of original sin from which sprout all of our sinful thoughts, and words, and deeds done and not done. It should surprise none of us, but especially a bishop, that all of us are in need of a savior.
[Michael Sean Winters is a Visiting Fellow at Catholic University's Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies.]
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Yaganti Temple has located in the district Kurnool of State Andhra Pradesh. It is one of the most popular tourist places in Andhra Pradesh.
The temple of Sri Yagantiswamy is a lord shiva temple. This temple is a perfect example of the rich heritage of Andhra Pradesh. Yaganti Temple is also known as the Uma Maheshwara temple. The temple was built during the 5th and 6th centuries.
This is the only temple where Lord Shiva is worshipped in the form of an idol instead of the Shiv Linga. The temple also has the Agastya Pushkarni, where waterfalls are throughout the year. Devotees take a dip bath in it.
This temple is full of a great religious and spiritual atmosphere. Everyone should visit Yaganti Temple once in a lifetime.
Yaganti Temple Timings
|Yaganti Temple and Darshan Timings||Timings|
|Morning||6:00 AM to 11:00 AM|
|Evening||3:00 PM to 8:00 PM|
Yaganti Uma Maheshwara Caves Entry Timings
|Yaganti Uma Maheshwara Caves Entry Timings|
|From 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM|
Yaganti Uma Maheshara Temple Food Timings
Free and Healthy food is provided by the temple accommodation to the Devotees.
|Afternoon||11:00 AM to 2:30 PM|
|Night||8:00 PM to 9:30 PM|
Other Tourist Places near Yaganti Temple in Kurnool
- Belum Caves.
- Oravakallu Rocks Garden.
- Rollapadu Wildlife Sanctuary.
- Iswaraswami Temple.
- Shivaji Spoorthy Kendra, Kurnool.
- Adoni Fort.
- Gandikota – Grand Canyon of India.
Accommodation near Yaganti Temple
There are not many accommodation options available near Yaganti. Here, I have given some of the tourist places which are near Yaganti Temple. Here you can find accommodations. Just click on the name of the place for more details.
These are some of the options where you can stay close to the Yaganti Temple.
Guests can book accommodation at different tourist places in India through the website YatraDham.Org.
How to Reach Yaganti Temple
By Air: Nearest airport to Yaganti Temple in Tirupati which is 280 km. Guests can get state buses or private buses to Kurnool. Private taxis are also available.
By Train: The nearest railway station is at Rangapuram at 16 km. From here, local transportation is easily available to reach Yaganti Temple.
By Road: If one is traveling by the road, you can easily reach the temple by taking NH 7 which leads to Kurnool. From there NH18 will lead you to Banaganapalle which is 18 km from Yaganti Temple.
Q.1 Are food facilities available at the Yaganti temple?
Q.2 What are the Entry fees of the Yaganti temple?
Q.3 How much time is required for visiting the Yaganti temple?
Q.4 Which is the nearest airport to Yaganti temple?
Q.5 Which is the nearest railway station to Yaganti temple?
Q.6 Which festival is celebrated at the temple?
Q.7 What is the distance between the Yaganti temple and Kurnool?
I hope this information will be useful for you while visiting the temple. For such information about the different temples and tourist places in India visit our latest blogs.
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