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The importance of transformation and growth cannot be over-estimated as a creator. Turning life’s experiences into growth experiences is not only intelligent, it is imperative in today’s world. Most artists have tremendous growth through their work in the studio.
It’s not the intention in this statement to go into these particular transformative possibilities, however each of us has experiences in our studios that form our own individual transformations. This can happen by making spectacular jumps in perception, through being alert to the accident occurring in your work. It’s important to learn from your experiences in life. A unique way has been found personally through both creativity and by developing an inner awareness. In order to have a form of creativity that is largely free of self-obsessive angst and tragedy, it has been necessary personally to work on my own growth. This has been tremendous through resolving issues that are essentially outside the creative process.
Developing a sense of personal awareness has opened the doors to be able to create art that has positivity at its core, art, which has the ability to share a transformative message for others on a global level. This wouldn’t have happened, or it would have taken many years longer, had I not consciously worked to come to terms with some of the issues that were faced, realizing that at one point it was up to me alone to find an inner resolution.
To paint a picture about the inner processes, here’s a metaphor:
“A woman goes to the doctor and complaints about everything hurting, when she touches all parts of the body, it hurts. She touches her ankle and it hurts, she touches her hips and that hurts, she touches her belly and that hurts and she touches her head and it hurts. The doctor has a good look and says; “I think I have really good news for you.” – And then says. “Your finger is broken.”
The answer is not always found on the outside. The greater shifts in perception happen within. Suffering is not in the fact; it is in the perception of the fact.
On a deep level, creating wealth for example, is adding value. A state of not being divided internally will automatically attract a state of prosperity, you could call this a state of ‘Oneness’, and for a creative person this state has to be paramount for success.
From time to time it’s important to identify the state you are in and how much of you is in conflict with yourself and how much of you is in a state of completeness within yourself. How is your health? How is your state of prosperity? How are your relationships? Which part of your consciousness are you aligned to – the higher or the lower?
With creativity, you need to have a very strong intent. Intent is different from desire. It is desire with tremendous passion. Intent possesses you. You are obsessed. You are driven. You also need to know where your intent is sourced. Is your creativity rooted in what will benefit humankind as a whole, or is it more of a selfish pursuit? This is not a value judgement. They are questions that are important for to you to consider and to address. If your intentions are misaligned, your creativity will always be misguided.
To prompt yourself into action you need to have a strong enough intent. You need to make sure that your effort is mutually nourishing and is essentially beneficial to others. You need to know that you’re capable of putting in constant effort and preferably have this effort be inspired over a long period, and then you will see the results of your effort.
A further metaphor helps to explain this concept:
There is a boy with a dream to be a doctor. He became a great student, but failed three exams for universities out of his fear and nervousness at the last moment in the examination room. He and his father were on a train to the last university, the fourth university, where he was going to sit for his fourth exam and he was worried. There was a man sitting in the carriage of the train and they got talking. The man found out all about the boy’s desire to become a doctor and how good he was as a student and that he just had nerves in the exam.
The next day, when the boy and the father went to the interview, the boy was very nervous. As he opened the door to go into the room to meet the headmaster, he looked up to see that the headmaster was the man that was on the train. As a result, the exam went well because he felt comfortable and relaxed and he received an entrance into the university. This boy went on to become one of the country’s greatest physicians and helped countless people.
Another story describes how a child was on the beach building sandcastles. He’d gotten almost to the end of his constructions and found himself coming across a giant rock, which he tried moving and tried building around until he knew he needed to move the rock. After many attempts to move the rock he collapsed onto the ground and cried. The father noticed the boy crying and went over to him and said, “What’s wrong son?” and the boy said, “I can’t move the rock” and the father asked, “Did you use all your strength?” And the boy said, “Yes I did.” The father said “No you didn’t, son, you didn’t ask me to help.” Then the father ended up helping the boy move the rock together and the boy was able to complete his project.
You can use that story as a metaphor about tapping into the higher consciousness. You’re not using all your strength unless you use the higher consciousness. It is important not to lose your path, whether you are a gardener a soldier, a businessman or an artist. Whatever it is you do, you need to discover the inner nourishment that brings fulfilment to your life. One time an interviewer asked the Australian painter Brett Whiteley; “What is more important for you art or life?” He responded by saying: “That’s simple, life is”.
A man goes to the spiritual master and says he can’t hear. He was gradually loosing his hearing. The master asked him, “Do you have a grandchild?” And the old man responded, “I didn’t come here about my grandchild, I came here because I can’t hear.”
The master said again, “Do you have a grandchild?” and the old man said, “Yes” and the master said, “Buy two ice creams and sit together underneath and old trailer and eat the ice cream.” The old man goes home and finds his grandchild and they find a place to eat their ice creams and they enjoy it so much, talking, listening to each other and making plans for the next adventure. They end up spending more time the next day running around finding different things to do and miraculously as this is happening, the old man’s hearing gets better and better.
The old man had found his childhood again. Why he stopped hearing others was because he went into the army at a very young age and became a soldier and took up a position of responsibility. Later in life he ended up taking positions of responsibility in his own company and got used to not hearing people, only giving orders. He got used to ignoring what other people were saying because of his position of responsibility. He lost his childhood, so this experience with his grandson ended up changing the way that he approached life and as a result he started hearing again.
The artist’s journey has many rewards, some obvious and some quite hidden, only to be miraculously revealed towards the end of a career. Through attention to core issues at the beginning of the journey and continued focus throughout a lifetime of being an artist, where clear renewed definition of yourself as a professional in your field, has provided you with the confidence needed to envision your future without fear, you will see these rewards come your way. With this necessarily precise attention, you will always see results. You will not only see your career take massive strides ahead, you will also experience an alignment occurring with your own personal transformation.
This inner alignment will help you to understand that when you connect with higher consciousness you access infinite intelligence and wisdom. If you don’t use the higher consciousness you’re not using all your strength.
After thirty active years in the industry, there has been a discovery that being an artist comes with a certain territory that is anathema to most other occupations and careers. This unique territory is singular for each artist and provides its own opportunity for revelations. Certain key elements have surfaced, with hindsight, as major factors in life and the career. These revelations have been enormously beneficial in shaping an artistic world as the next thirty years are approached.
Artistic revelations are a regular occurrence for all creative people. The opportunity for revelations to appear for an artist, as their individual creative territory is explored, is immense.
Artists in many cases have certain issues or life’s experiences that may affect their ability to live a ‘normal’ life and desire ‘normal’ jobs. It’s not that they are not able to take on run of the mill jobs, it’s often just that they may have had a constant need to do something more ‘edgy’, things that have more possibility – and greater risk – than merely mowing lawns all their life or serving drinks behind a bar.
By providing personal examples of influences and revelations, there is the hope of offering deeper insight into the complexities of the artist’s journey and deliver glimpses into the reality of the artist’s career.
The artist’s career walks the fine line of marriage between the material and the spiritually creative planes.
This career will, on the one hand, include inventiveness, income generation, awareness of the ego and a willingness to seek financial support, perhaps in the form of patrons and benefactors – and, on the other hand, a remembrance that there remains the importance of romance, sensitivity, meditation and the maintenance of a balanced spiritual life.
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A TEACHER at a primary school in Vale says pupils in her class pushed her to organize a visit to the ‘inspiring’ restoration of the Maid of the Loch.
Seven primary school pupils from Levenvale Primary were given a special behind-the-scenes tour of the famous steamship last week, the very latest paddle steamer to be built in the UK and the only remaining example of an ‘Up an Doon” – a ship that has been built twice.
And teacher Grace Dornan told the reporter it was the class that asked her to organize the trip.
She said: ‘This month the children were doing engineering challenges and they were allowed to choose their own topic, and many of them chose to research the Maid of the Loch and steam engines, and the kids actually asked me if I could arrange for them to come downstairs to see it.
“Unfortunately they are only open on weekends.
“But when I contacted them they said they would be happy to arrange for some people to come and show us around the helmet and tell us a bit about the steam engines and the Maid of the Loch over the week. ”
Children were able to learn about the history of the boat, the technology behind the steam engines and how they work and heard about the current restoration of the ship which should be completed by the end of this year.
“In class, you can tell them so many things and you try to inspire them,” Ms Dornan continued.
“But how inspiring is it – to come down and see the steam engine, and see how it would work, and see around the Maid of the Loch who sits on our shores?
“For them to come down and be really inspired by the whole project to try to restore it and go home with that message, that can only be good for the community, as well as for the project.
“You don’t learn from someone telling you. You learn by someone showing you and being immersed in something.
Charlie Summers, Maid of the Loch’s activities co-ordinator, explained that school trips like the one to Levenvale are important to the ship’s legacy.
She said: ‘For Balloch the Maid of the Loch was so important, and so much of the history and the local community is an important part of it because it’s their ship. It is a ship for the community.
“And when we put it back to sea, hopefully in the next few years, we want kids to be able to look at industrial and maritime collections and lifestyles and try to bridge the gap between the old and the new.
“We want to tell these stories so that young people are inspired to come to the museum and read about the ship’s importance in Scottish social history.
All photos were taken by Connor Bryce.
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News : Customer Service Skills Course
Barry, UK, June 11, 2015 -- Vale of Glamorgan Council led Barry Communities First, in partnership with the WEA, are running a free customer service skills course for those interested in working in call centres or a retail environment.
On the course you will be taught how to provide good customer service, how to deal with complaints, how to make a good first impression and more.
The three day course run at Castleland Community Centre, Belvedere Crescent, Barry.
In order to be eligible for this course you must live in a Barry Communities First area that includes parts of Buttrills, Cadoc, Castleland, Court and Gibbonsdown.
Posted by Veronica Silva Cusi, news correspondent
Today's Tip of the Day - E-mail Management
About Vale of Glamorgan Council:
The Vale of Glamorgan is a county borough in Wales.
Published: Friday, June 12, 2015
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It is a well known fact that laughing is one of the best things you can do to feel good.
Yet, I have to meet the first doctor to prescribe that for a patient.
Laughter relaxes the body. A good hearty laugh they tell me, relieves physical tension and stress, leaving your muscles relaxed for up to 45 minutes after.
Laughter boosts the immune system. Laughter decreases stress hormones and increases immune cells and infection fighting antibodies, therefore improving your resistance to disease.
Also laughter protects the heart.
It improves the function of blood vessels and increases blood flow, which can help
protect you against heart attack and other cardiovascular problems.
Laughter triggers the release of endorphins, the body's natural feel-good chemicals.
Endorphins promote an overall sense of well-being and can even temporarily relieve pain.
There goes a warning with all this. Please, do NOT laugh your head off!
I did that one time and had a heck of a time finding it back!
Smile! It's only me, JB.
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Injury, disability, or diseases are among the factors that can affect the ability to carry out activities of daily living (ADLs). Stroke, for example, is the number one cause of disability among American adults. According to the National Stroke Association, about 5.4 million Americans face every day hampered by the effects of stroke, while millions more of their family members are involved in helping them recover.
Occupational therapy is an important part of this rehabilitation process. Occupational therapy practitioners will guide the rehab process, but it is essential for the stroke survivor and family members to be involved. For occupational therapy to be successful, the activities associated with it must be meaningful to the patient, and that meaning becomes most apparent when the family participates.
In occupational therapy, the objective is to enable the patient regain the ability to perform personal tasks (such as household activities) and professional tasks (such as job-related activities). Occupational therapy is primarily concerned about the ADLs because these enable the individual to live independently. The approach to rehab therapy will be individualized, taking into account the personal needs and interests of the patient. The program should be designed to improve motor skills, cognitive and communication capabilities, as well as the ability for social interaction.
Before occupational therapy can begin, there must be a referral for rehabilitation from the patient’s physician. The referral is like a prescription: it contains information on the nature and history of the injury or disease and defines the goals of the therapy.
After a period of observation to find out what the patient needs, the occupational therapist determines routines to promote health and develop the impaired skills. Appropriate exercises are recommended to motivate performance and encourage more active life both in the house and the community.
In some cases, it may be necessary to eliminate, alter or modify items in the daily routine. The patient and the caregiver are trained in efficient and safe techniques of transferring between toilet, chair and other surfaces. Modifications, such as shaving or changing clothes with just one hand, are taught. Ways to prepare food without unnecessary movements may be demonstrated. The therapist may recommend clothing and dressing aids like fasteners to help put on clothes and shoes. To get around memory problems, the patient may be taught how to use drug organizers and to write down things they need to remember.
Suitable means of adapting to work functions and facilitating community activity are taught, such as ways of going to the grocery without driving, using hearing aids in different situations and traveling safely with or without assistive mobility devices like canes. In particular, ways to maneuver a wheelchair in grocery aisles or office corridors need to be learned. Patients may be trained in the use of ergonomic keyboards to reduce physical strain on their arms.
The choice of assistive mobility devices from among various options will be important. Grab bars for use in the bathroom help those with balance problems, while shower chairs are suitable for those unable to stand for any length of time. Difficulty getting in or out of the tub may be solved with bathtub benches, while difficulty eating due to hand tremors may be addressed with weighted or large-handled eating utensils like a swivel spoons.
Assistive mobility devices should be chosen just as carefully. The suitability of walking canes or walkers depends on the strength of the hands and legs, as well as the balance and coordination. The occupational therapist must make sure a wheelchair is properly fitted to the patient’s dimensions; if necessary, upper-extremity amputees need to be trained in its use.
Occupational therapy offers immense benefits to patients. For a stroke sufferer, the likelihood of needing to move to an assisted-care home goes down 40 percent if occupational therapy is provided. Further deterioration is arrested and the individual is more likely to regain independence in performing ADLs. As added benefit, the interventions also result in fewer burdens to family members who provide care to their loved ones.
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The men who kept Harvey Weinstein's secrets safe are all around us
Hollywood is having a moment of reckoning over the allegations Oscar-winning producer Harvey Weinstein harassed and abused numerous women over several decades, but the culture of complicity that safeguarded Weinstein for so long goes far beyond Tinseltown.
Sexual violence is about more than sex, experts say, it's also about power. That people in the industry remained silent for so long shows just how much power Weinstein wielded — over women and men. Powerful men who abuse women count on the silence of those around them, and powerful men exist everywhere women work. It's why the abuse isn't just happening on casting-couches and in hotel rooms, but to everyday women working in restaurants, in healthcare, in retail, in manufacturing, and in offices around the country far less glamorous than the Weinstein Company's.
"There are a lot of disincentives for speaking up — for women and men," said Abigail Saguy, a professor of sociology at UCLA who studies how power shapes culture. "Power inequalities [are] a big part of what allows sexual harassment to happen in the first place ... and what allows it to happen and not be discussed openly."
For many of the women who came forward with allegations of abuse against Weinstein, they said their primary fear was retaliation. And while the same may be true for some of the men, there is for them something else at play: A fear that dismantling that power could ultimately make them more vulnerable, too.
"In reality, most men don't behave as [Weinstein] did," said Jaclyn Friedman, an educator and author of the forthcoming book Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All. "It's not an accident, and it's not capricious. It's that he's a predator." But men are taught to believe accusations like this are almost random, she said, which makes men "feel like they need to be in solidarity with each other, because it could easily be them."
It's not just Hollywood
Public outrage seems to fixate on high-profile cases like those of Weinstein, Bill O'Reilly and Roger Ailes, who was also ousted from the company he founded over allegations of serial sexual harassment. But sexual misconduct in the workplace is pervasive, spanning industries and putting low-income women at particular risk.
"This is something that happens everywhere," Saguy said, especially to "women who are in vulnerable situations, who are younger, who are single moms and who really, really need that job."
One in four women report experiencing "sexual harassment" in the workplace, according to a June 2016 EEOC report on workplace harassment. When asked more specifically about unwanted sexual attention or sexual coercion, 40% of women reported being harassed, the report found. Additionally, almost 60% of women surveyed reported some form of gender harassment, which includes sexist, crude or offensive behavior at work.
A 2014 study from the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United found 66% of female restaurant employees reported having been sexually harassed by managers.
"We don't read lots of news stories about fast food workers experiencing harassment and retail workers experiencing harassment and hotel maids experiencing harassment, but that's not because it's not happening," said Emily Martin, general counsel and vice president for workplace justice at the National Women's Law Center, a non-profit organization that champions equality for women. It's a "huge" problem for women at the top and bottom of the income spectrum, she said.
The power dynamics may be even more complex than they seem. University of Maine sociology professor Amy Blackstone said a 2012 study she co-authored, "Sexual Harassment, Workplace Authority, and the Paradox of Power,” found sexual harassment was also used as an "equalizer" against women in power.
"As more women gain power in the workplace, harassing them is a way of keeping them in their place," Blackstone said.
The pervasiveness of the issue was reflected in the disturbing personal stories threaded under a tweet asking people "When did you meet YOUR Harvey Weinstein?" It has more than 5,000 responses and counting.
Comparing Weinstein to a restaurant manager, Angelina Jolie to a waitress and an A-list actor to a busboy turning a blind eye may seem far-fetched, but it's not. The same issues of power are at play.
Why the silence from women? See #WhyWomenDontReport
On Tuesday, actor Terry Crews, well known for his tough, muscular appearance, revealed he was groped by an unnamed powerful man in Hollywood. He said he understands why women don't report.
It took several decades of misconduct before Weinstein was dethroned in Hollywood. The Twitter thread #WhyWomenDontReport provides some answers as to why.
"Why does it take that many women to pay attention?" asked Carine Mardorossian, author of Framing the Rape Victim: Gender and Agency Reconsidered. "That, too, is a form of silencing. ... This is beyond the Weinstein example. It's happened with every case we've been dealing with. Think about Cosby — 60 women!"
For years women made allegations of sexual assault against Bill Cosby, but the public turned away until at least 60 women publicly claimed Cosby drugged and/or sexually assaulted them. His sexual assault trial in June ended in a mistrial.
"No other crime necessitates that burden of evidence," Mardorossian said. "No other crime necessitates a group coming forward before allegations are taken seriously. And it's a double-edged sword, because the moment you have a slew of accusers it's cast as a witch hunt. Either it's de-legitimized because it's one person, or it's de-legitimized because it's many women."
But why the silence from men?
In a statement to the Times, Weinstein said, "I came of age in the ‘60s and ‘70s, when all the rules about behavior and workplaces were different. That was the culture then."
It's impossible to know which men in Hollywood knew, and what they knew. But it's clear Weinstein was counting on the fact that those who did know wouldn't expose him.
"What he means when he says he thought it was OK, was he thought it was OK with the men around him," Friedman said. "The people whose opinions he cared about."
George Clooney said he never witnessed the behavior of which Weinstein has been accused, but "heard rumors, and the rumors, in general, started back in the ’90s." Matt Damon said "I did five or six movies with Harvey. I never saw this. I think a lot of actors have come out and said, everybody’s saying we all knew. That’s not true." Ben Affleck said learning about the allegations made him "sick." In a tense Twitter exchange Tuesday, actress Rose McGowan called Affleck's statement a "lie" and suggested he knew about Weinstein's actions for years.
Yet even McGowan on Saturday specifically called out women, tweeting "Ladies of Hollywood, your silence is deafening" — perhaps reflecting a societal expectation of understanding from women and complicity from men.
"There is a lot of pressure on women to speak out against this stuff. There isn't the same expectation that men will get involved," Friedman said. "It's treated like a 'lady' issue, which puts all the onus on women who are targets of this behavior to be the people who do something about it."
Men as allies
"Instead of focusing on victim behavior, it is so much more important to educate men on coming forward and intervening when they see red flags," Mardorossian said.
Begin young: Friedman said culture must adopt a new definition of what it means to be a man: "We have to start raising boys to think girls are cool. ... If we raised boys to assume that girls are fully three dimensional and human and interesting, then they will be more horrified when people don't act the same way," she said.
Identify situations or comments that are sexist, racist, homophobic or transphobic: Mardorossian said people have a tendency to try and separate "language from behavior," which she calls dangerous. "There is no smoke without fire," she said. Words, images and practices that marginalize or objectify others can lead to violations.
Be an active bystander: Active bystanders have dual roles. They may get involved when they hear or see something problematic, but they don’t have to wait until something happens — they also proactively send messages of violence prevention even before someone crosses a line.
More gender parity in the places where power resides: Part of ending sexual harassment toward women in the workplace means having more women in leadership roles. "If there were a lot more women in those rooms, then men would have to deal with them as equals, and not as anomalies," Friedman said.
Don't let men be silent: "We need to start acting like men in the industry are expected to have an opinion about this, and that neutral is not an option. Neutral means you're standing for Harvey Weinstein," Friedman said.
Many men may be afraid of what speaking out against sexual misconduct will mean for them. But it doesn't outweigh the price of staying silent.
"It's hard to come forward," Saguy said. "I think we want to create a culture in
which standing up for those with less power, for those being mistreated, becomes something you do regardless of the cost."
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Sir William was not only fabulously named but he was one of the most significant lawmen of his time, acting as both Solicitor General (he replaced Richard Rich whom we have described earlier in this book) and then Attorney General under the reign of King Henry VIII.
Sir William’s father John, formerly John Percy, had been bestowed the name “Whorwood” by Richard III in 1484 in recognition of his family’s ownership of a popular “Whoring Forest” near Kinver. Under the Foliatus Laws in the 1400s, whoring in England was legal only in forests and other dense woodlands, due to the lingering druidic belief that one would be safe from contracting venereal disease or the sweating sickness if one did one’s business in and around native deciduous foliage, preferably that of the European Beech. After the introduction of these laws, intrepid entrepreneurs such as John Whorwood quickly snapped up most of England’s European Beech forests and charged merrymakers a hefty price for entry.
Wentwood Forest in South Wales, though technically a dense woodland, was a popular "forest of ill-repute" in 16th Century Britain.
Upon his father’s passing, the stable cash-flows provided to Sir William from his Whoring Forest allowed him the security to concentrate on his legal studies. Sir William took to the law with relish and his fantastic success as a lawman saw him become a man of great means. Sir William ultimately bought the manor of Kinver with Stourton as well as the rectory impropriate, quite a step up from the tree-house bordello his father had once occupied!
Sir William was survived by two (2) daughters:
a) Anne who married a man named Ambrose Dudley who was almost certainly a West Indian fast bowler; and
b) Margaret, who married Thomas Throckmorton, with whom we deal with in chapter 7.
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The Green Shadow Cabinet stands united in opposition to the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and is committed to defeating this Obama administration effort to enrich and empower global corporations at the expense of people and planet.
For three years, the Obama administration has engaged in 16 rounds of secret negotiations to develop the TPP. Those negotiations have included hundreds of representatives of global corporations. The TPP negotiations have excluded representatives of the vast majority of the American people. It is a fact that the TPP is global economic policy for the 1%, at the expense of the 99%.
Today, all five branches and 81 members of the Green Shadow Cabinet begin to act in concert to not only defeat the TPP, but to show America that another government with another global economic agenda is possible. There is an alternative to the corrupt political establishment that produces economic terrors like the TPP. Our Cabinet is proof of that alternative.
Daily this week, the Green Shadow Cabinet will release over a dozen statements in opposition to the TPP; these statements describe the threats posed by the TPP, and offer better alternatives. This month, our Cabinet members will begin participating in the broader movement against the TPP through actions and events across the United States and urge all Americans to join this effort. We are bringing our networks and communities into this critical struggle.
The TPP Threatens All of Us
If you oppose the industrial farming practices of Monsanto, Cargill and other giant food and agribusiness corporations, with their intense use of toxic herbicides and other harmful chemicals, production of untested genetically modified food, efforts to control the seed supply and patent life, their pollution of the water, air, soil and food supply, then you must oppose the TPP.
If you oppose the actions of the big banks and financial institutions that led to the world economic crash, exploding wealth inequality, risky investments that endanger the economic future, and their ability to dominate national economies, then you must oppose the TPP.
If you are committed to protecting the rights of working people to a living wage, the right to organize, and to safe working conditions, then you must oppose the TPP.
If you favor a free and open Internet where free speech is protected and creativity and communication flourish, then you must oppose the TPP.
If you understand that healthcare is a human right and that the inflated prices of pharmaceutical drugs should not be protected by law, then you must oppose the TPP.
If you want to see the air, waters and lands protected from toxic chemicals and pollution, and know that the ecological crisis of species extinction and environmental breakdown must be reversed, then you must oppose the TPP.
If you would live in a world where local, state, and national governments are allowed to take urgent action to deal with the global climate crisis, and to implement a Green New Deal, then you must oppose the TPP.
We look forward to working with you in the coming months to defeat the Trans-Pacific Partnership and to prevent its sister trade agreement, the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, from following the same path. The first step is to stop enactment of Trade Promotion Authority legislation, also known as “Fast Track,” that would prevent Congress from holding hearings on the TPP or amending the TPP. There must be no end-run around the Constitution, or the right of the American people to petition the government for redress.
Defending the New World
We know that another world is possible. We are building that world every day through local governments, cooperatives, community organizations, and publicly owned financial institutions.
Those who defend corporate capitalism also understand that another world is possible, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership is their attempt to foreclose our new world. The TPP gives major corporations legal personhood to sue in transnational courts dominated by judges who themselves are lawyers for major corporations. Under the TPP, corporations would be able to claim that environmental, labor, financial, health and other laws cost them profits, and to extract damages from our governments – and from us as taxpayers – if they enforce those laws.
The current administration in Washington D.C. is committed to passing the TPP and to defeating America’s grassroots movement for economic democracy. The Green Shadow Cabinet is committed to defeating the TPP, and to strengthening the U.S. democracy movement. We and our allies are the many, they are the few. Let us defend our communities and our future and stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Statement of the Green Shadow Cabinet of the United States of America.
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A new article appearing on ReadWriteWeb is about the international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). The writer is part of the group that thinks SOPA, PIPA, and OPENA have been stopped. They have not. See: SOPA, PIPA, OPENA articles.
Now we have word about an international attack on our rights from another quarter: ACTA. Read the article: What You Should Know About ACTA and Your Rights.
This is important for our SL community because other counties will be adopting, or not, this treaty. Many countries still have opportunities to stop their countries from signing onto the treaty.
This law comes to us in the forum of a treaty. Pres. Obama has signed this treaty. Few people are aware of the attacks on our freedom in the US mounted by this admiration. A treaty must be approved by the US Senate. The House of Representatives has no say in treaties. So, in many ways the Senate is more important than the House.
There is confusion as whether ACTA is a treaty. Obama says it is an Executive Agreement. However, there is no Constitutional foundation for any other type of agreement with another country than a treaty. This has not stopped Pres. Obama from signing this treaty, circumventing Congress, circumventing the Constitution, and having the Dept. of Justice enforce it effectively allowing the executive branch to make a law. See: Obama Tries to Bypass Congress with Deadly Global Internet Treaty ACTA.
For Americans this is an outrageous tragedy and there is no easy way to fight it. Since Congress has been circumvented complaining to your representatives is mostly pointless. Getting the President to reverse himself is probably impossible. In the US we will not be able to do anything about this until elections in November. If your country has not signed the treaty, contact your representatives.
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Broad Range of Wavelengths Available
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Micro-optic technology is based on the use, precise positioning and alignment of miniaturized traditional optical components such as Graded Refractive Index (GRIN) lenses, mirrors, gratings, beam splitters, etc. Lfiber’s micro-optic fiber components/devices are based on a rather simple concept, but they require a precise mechanical alignment and a careful assembly to ensure long-term stability of performances.
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Opt for 360° automation and student-centric college management
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In today’s competitive world, institutions should opt for technological changes that can help them in providing better opportunities to students along with providing a direction to grow. A college management system is a cloud-based software that helps in managing the entire administrative processes of a higher education institution. It manages a smooth relationship between students, faculty, and parents satisfying everyone’s needs effectively and efficiently.
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In the future, job seekers will be required to undergo even more rigorous testing in order to snag that much sought-after career.
British recruitment agencies report that by 2011, job applicants will be required to fill out a psychometric evaluation, as well as their application. The exam determines self-confidence, initiative, general intelligence, attention and reaction times.
According to the companies listed to implement these tests, they cite that sifting through the hundreds of job applicants is time consuming and does not give hiring managers a balanced measurement of how strongly environment realities match up with the career the applicant might have in mind.
Employers state they have experienced hiring someone who may be smart and competent, but not necessarily a good performer in that career role. The tests gauge how well job seekers will perform if they are pointed toward their strengths in the capacity in which they are hired. They will be more apt to soar, enjoy what they do and ultimately, work harder.
Hiring managers will not only use these “Strength Based Tests” to identify where the new recruit’s talents lie, current upper management will also be tested to benchmark and develop their strengths and weaknesses. Their goal is for everyone to excel in their various roles.
It would appear that these “practical” intelligence exams are the next wave used to whittle down the competition.
Low cost recruitment – RecruitmentRevolution.com
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After being shaken by an earthquake and stirred by a hurricane in the last few weeks, it was a crane accident that finally forced the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. to move its 9/11 commemoration events elsewhere.
Sunday, September 11th's "Concert for Hope," will still be attended by President Obama, but he will speak and take in performances by Alan Jackson and Patti LaBelle at a different venue: the Kennedy Center. Friday's "A Concert to Honor" will take place at the Kennedy Center as well, but will still feature Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, as well as the Marine Chamber Orchestra, and the United States Navy Band Sea Chanters.
The National Cathedral was forced to shut its doors after an earthquake in Mineral, VA caused minor structural damage August 23. Further damage was feared, but avoided, when Hurricane Irene blew through town just last week. And the crane that fell over on the National Cathedral's grounds was in place to stabilize debris that came loose during the earthquake. The accident damaged the gift shop on the grounds, as well as the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, but the Cathedral itself did not suffer a direct hit. The crane's operator was hurt, but has been released from the hospital.
"The safety of our visitors and the staff of the Cathedral is our top priority, and we will make no compromises when it comes to that responsibility," says Cathedral Dean Samuel T. Lloyd III. "At the same time we will not let obstacles put in our way stop us from fulfilling our mission as the spiritual home for the nation."
The National Cathedral was the site of several significant historical events in the 20th century. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his last Sunday sermon there in 1968. A year later, in 1969, President Dwight D. Eisenhower's State funeral was held there. In 1956, President Woodrow Wilson's tomb there was dedicated.
Peter Doocy is currently a Washington D.C.-based correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC). He joined the network in 2009 as a general assignment reporter based in the New York bureau.
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“Data is public in the same way the White House is.”
So said Jer Thorp, a Brooklyn–based software artist, in an “AI Now” workshop on 7 July organised by the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy. Thorp meant to highlight the uncertain ownership status of our personal data. He might just as well have been referring to the inscrutability of the White House itself: AI now?
This was the final session in the White House’s series exploring the uses of artificial intelligence and their implications. But why, in the final months of Barack Obama’s administration, and faced with a host of social and environmental problems, is the focus on artificial intelligence?
It’s natural to imagine that this is just a spot of legacy-burnishing from a president who made the drone strike integral to his country’s foreign policy. Is the White House simply hitching itself to the current AI hype cycle, or does it actually have a position on the subject? The answer seems to be neither. It looks as though the US government genuinely does not know what its position should be, and is trying to learn as much as possible, as fast as possible – a vision that’s as strategically disconcerting as it is intellectually admirable.
There is a great deal of anxiety here. The White House’s report on big data, published in May, highlighted the way data, algorithmically processed, can worsen social discrimination. Ask an expert system a mean-spirited or wrong-headed question, and it will surely answer in the same spirit.
Kate Crawford, a principal researcher at Microsoft Research, pressed the point in the first AI Now workshop in May, citing a recent article about how algorithms which predict future criminals are biased against black people.
Worthy of Monty Python
The next session also focused on the real-world implications of high-level processing. You could unclog city congestion, track bird flight, or anticipate police brutality. Here too, we had a barn-burning speech by Roy Austin, of the White House Domestic Policy Council, explaining the myriad problems the criminal justice system faces in exploiting big data: “We are not ready for machine learning,” he said, also emphasising that it would accentuate racial bias.
But though the conclusion of the White House’s report called for “accountability mechanisms” to address the problem of discrimination, its suggestions are weak beer indeed: “Encourage market participants to design the best algorithmic systems”, it says, exhibiting a faux naivety worthy of Monty Python.
Across the series, little distinction was made between AI, machine learning and advanced algorithmic processing. Questions of cognition, consciousness, personhood and potential citizenship were not explored. Few speakers bothered to mention that a potential AI might quite likely approach problems in a distinctively non-human manner and so be able to tackle problems that humans seem utterly unable to grapple with (climate change, for instance).
The determined if slightly muddled focus on the here and now was a relief in some ways. At least attendees did not have to sit through yet another retelling of Nick Bostrom’s deeply paranoid Superintelligence (2014), which warns of the rise of a “singleton”, defined as “some form of agency that can solve all major global coordination problems”.
A kind of corporate-hacktivist ethos permeated the most recent session, and an atmosphere of quiet positivity. No one felt any pressing need to ask Yann LeCun, now director of AI Research at Facebook, how much fun he was having, playing with all the data he now has access to. Latanya Sweeney, professor of government and technology at Harvard University, and a computer scientist, noted that she seemed to be the only techno-pessimist in the room.
It is heartening that federal government, at least in its current guise, is speaking plainly about the failures of the criminal justice system. But dire warnings, without proscriptive legislation or executive orders, do little. For instance, whistle-blowing news site The Intercept has revealed that the FBI is expanding use of its flawed facial–recognition technologies.
Worryingly, it appears that the White House called a conference on AI primarily so that it could warn people that AI should not be allowed anywhere near some sections of government. As one colleague remarked, “This shows you how scared they are about this happening.”
Brendan Byrne is a writer and critic based in New York
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Dead Satellite Not Falling As Fast As Expected
All week, I've been hearing about a non working satellite free falling in outer space and going to hit Earth.
The people at NASA weren't really sure where it was going to hit. The good news, if there is any good news about this, is they have determined that it is slowing down. In a story AP, the "dead 6-ton satellite baffled NASA experts today by slowing its descent toward Earth and delaying its ultimate crash until the early part of the weekend."
They think it will hit earth either later today or early Saturday morning. The estimated time they're saying is between 6:00 p.m. tonight and 4:00 a.m. tomorrow. I don't know about you but I really wouldn't like this humongous piece of machinery landing in my backyard, or anywhere where people might be.
At least they say the odds of being struck have been estimated at 1-in-22 trillion. I wonder if there's a plan for people to run and hide to protect themselves. Don't they have some sort of a device to detect when it will hit Earth as it gets closer?
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You can make your computer more personalized by using custom and high-resolution wallpapers. Fortunately, some ways will allow you to get a high-resolution wallpaper using underrated yet well-functioning online tools.
What is a Wallpaper?
A computer wallpaper or background serves as the representation of the desktop surface. Wallpapers come in different designs that suit various operating systems. A desktop wallpaper will allow you to achieve a more personalized device. You can display random images, a single picture, or even live wallpapers.
Why Use Wallpaper On Your Computer?
Aside from personalization, you use wallpaper on your computer to make it look more appealing. You can set a clean and sleek wallpaper to make the file icons pop out. This will help you to navigate the icons easier. On the other hand, others may also use more complex and brigAIhter colors for aesthetic purposes.
How To Get A High-Resolution Desktop Wallpaper
Selecting a desktop wallpaper seems easy, but it can significantly boost your productivity and mood. Considering that impressive displays are now available, it would be great to pair them with a high-resolution desktop wallpaper.
Here are some ways you can do to get a clear wallpaper to display on your website:
Three Websites to Download Free High-Resolution Wallpapers
Pexels is a legal website that houses thousands of free desktop wallpapers uploaded by amateur and professional photographers. This website uses CCO )Creative Commons license) and Pexels License to protect you against copyright infringements when downloading and using photos from it.
How To Download Wallpaper from Pexels:
- Visit pexels.com
- Create an account (optional)
- Type the keyword in the search bar to sort available images
- Click the photo you want to download
- Click “FREE DOWNLOAD”
Wait for the picture to be downloaded
Pixabay is a website that offers free music, videos, illustrations, and completely downloadable images. You can use images without worrying about copyright issues because they were launched under the Pixabay License. You can use images from the website for commercial applications.
How To Download Wallpaper from Pixabay:
- Open pixabay.com
- Search for specific keywords (sunflower, sunset, clouds)
- Click the photo and FREE DOWNLOAD
- Select your preferred size and click DOWNLOAD
- Creating an account is required to download high-resolution video and image files
Unsplash is a popular source of high-definition images that are free to use. The website contains millions of high-resolution photos taken by professionals and creative photographers.
You can access Unsplash on their website or their mobile app.
How to Download Wallpaper from Unsplash:
- Open unsplash.com
- Search for images you like
- Hover over the picture
- Check DOWNLOAD
- You can select your preferred photo size before proceeding to download
Create High-Resolution Wallpaper by Photoshop
PhotoShop is a unique online tool designed to let users create more customized photos by modifying its features and the background. The tool offers a free trial and a standard subscription plan of 27.62 US Dollars per month.
How To Create High-Quality Wallpaper by Photoshop
- Check the exact screen resolution of your desktop background to create a document that matches your desktop wallpaper size.
- Upload your favorite images and resize them one by one.
- Export layers into different files that should be uploaded to PhotoShop
- You can make some image modifications, color depth, size, and background.
- Download your created wallpapers to your computer.
- Open the file and set it as your wallpaper.
Watch the following video and learn how to create personalized wallpaper by Photoshop:
Enhance Photo Quality by Online Photo Enlarger
There is no doubt that PhotoShop is quite complicated to use to enlarge and enhance the photo to be your wallpaper. If you find the pictures and wallpapers you downloaded from the websites above are quite blurry, you may use various online tools to enhance quality and size of the picture.
ImgLarger is a great tool for improving the size of a photo. You can use this to enlarge the images you have downloaded from the sites mentioned. Aside from enhancing its size, you can also use this tool to improve image resolution.
Enhance Wallpaper Quality by ImgLarger
ImgLarger is packed with features that are designed to boost photo quality. You can do this by following a few easy and simple steps.
Increase Image Size
- Upload or drop a picture you want to enlarge
- Select your preferred size
- Click Start and wait for the process to finish
After enlarging the picture, you can use the sharpening feature of the tool to make the wallpaper appear more appealing and clearer.
- Upload the resized image.
- Click the “Start” button to let the imglarger sharpen the uploaded image.
- Wait for the AI robot to finish the image sharpening process
- Download the final result and you get the high-resolution wallpaper.
How To Get A 4K Anime Wallpaper
ImgUpscaler is a good tool that will let you create the best anime or cartoon photos to use as wallpaper. The good thing about ImgUpscaler is that you can upload multiple images, and the tool will immediately start the batch processing. Plus, you can download your 4K anime wallpaper in different file formats.
To sum up, you can find various tools on the internet that will let you download high-resolution desktop wallpapers, including Pexels, Unsplash, and Pixelbay. In addition, you can also use PhotoShop to make a more customized wallpaper. ImgLarger and ImgUpscaler are great tools to create brighter, clearer, and more appealing wallpaper. Are you still for looking great ways to get high-resolution wallpapers for your computers? Don’t hesitate to try these tools!
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The assets—both tangible and intangible—of a business often represent a very large component of any deal. Additionally, some transactions include large amounts of goodwill, putting the price of both securities and assets well above typical fair market value. Assessing both tangible and intangible assets in this process has been laid out by the FASB in detail here and even more recently here.
The FASB defines intangible assets as “assets (not including financial assets) that lack physical substance.” In most transactions we might think of goodwill as such an intangible asset. However, for the purposes of the FASB, intangible asset does not refer to goodwill. It is everything with the exception of goodwill. The FASB’s objective with Statement 142 and more recently with Topic 350 was to make the recognition of intangibles based more as a reflection of actual business operations thus separating goodwill from all other operational intangible assets of the business.
How are intangibles recognized by an acquirer?
When such an intangible asset is acquired as part of some sort of business combination, it is necessary the acquirer separate the asset from goodwill if:
1. It arises from a legal or contractual right
2. It is actually separable
Separable means that the acquirer is able to parse or divide the asset outside of the target business and potentially sell, rent, license or exchange to another company or entity. A legal right or some form of contractual obligation may give rise to an intangible asset even if it cannot be separately sold or transferred. A “separable” asset is always defined in this case as intangible even if the acquirer does not intend to subsequently or separately divest of the asset after the overall transaction is completed.
Here are some prime examples of such intangibles.
Patent or IP expiring in 15 years—Because patents and IP are a legal right, regardless of whether or not there is an intent to sell, they are by definition an intangible asset.
Customer lists—Such customer lists may not represent a legal right, but they are separable as part of a business combination. Thus, they are considered an intangible asset.
Employee five year non-compete agreements—Because such an agreement is based on a contractual right it is an intangible asset. The one exception would be at-will employee contracts unless an employment agreement is in place.
Tech that is un-patentable—Because technology is separable, regardless of the ability to claim so as a legal right, it is still considered an intangible asset. A specific example could include software code that is not patented, but is an asset that could be easily transferred.
In the event that an asset acquired during an M&A transaction does not qualify as an intangible based on these definitions, the asset will then be included as goodwill.
How goodwill is calculated for M&A
The excess of the purchase price of the target business over the fair market value of the net assets is known as acquired goodwill. When determining the net assets, the acquirer will look at both tangible and intangible assets (excluding goodwill) less assumed liabilities. In short, goodwill is the total of intangibles that do not meet the separation requirements previously discussed above.
In short form: Goodwill = Assets (both tangible and intangible) – Existing Goodwill – Assumed Liabilities
Intangible Treatment for M&A
If we’re following the rules laid out by the FASB, there are four requisite steps when it comes to the treatment of intangibles when a business combination occurs:
1. The acquirer must recognize separable and thus qualifying intangibles at their Fair Market Value (FMV). FMV is typically estimated at what the asset could be bought or sold for in the open market between two willing and reasonable parties, not necessarily the price for which the asset could be liquidated.
2. The useful economic life of the asset must be estimated. This is the length of time the asset is expected to contribute to future cash flows of the business. Once the economic life of the asset is complete, no value is assumed unless particular criteria are met.
3. In each reporting period the acquirer will deduct the amortization expense against the intangible asset in each period. This is typically done in straight-line fashion unless of course some other method better reflects the reality of the amortization. Throughout the useful life of the asset and in each reporting period the acquiring firm must evaluate the remaining useful life of the asset to determine the reasonableness of the original economic life assumption.
4. Regular impairment tests must also occur when any indication comes to light that might indicate any of the assets have been impaired. Timing on impairment tests for useful life of an asset is different from the timing for goodwill or for an intangible asset with an indefinite life. Assets with a finite life (both tangible and intangible) as well as goodwill are typically assessed annually for impairment and may be marked down to the lower of cost or FMV.
If the useful economic life of an intangible asset is found to be of an indefinite timeline, the acquirer will be required to test the asset for impairment on an annual basis and sometimes even more often. Write-downs on the asset only occur when the comparison between book value and FMV of the asset yields a negative spread.
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Introduction to Feng Shui with Johndennis Govert, Roshi
January 26, 2014 @ 10:00 am$2 - $20
The ancient Chinese practice of Feng Shui means “Wind and Water” and has been used as a method to create a more harmonious life in relationship to your environment. Learn practices and techniques to determine the most favorable location, floor plan, and layout of your home, or even a room, to promote energy to flow in harmony for your home, office and life. The underlying principles of Feng Shui encourage us to live in concert with with our environment, with free flowing energy for increased vitality, peace and abundance. Text can be purchased in class for $20.
Interested in advancing your teaching skills? This workshop is part of the Yoga Connection’s 300 Hour Advanced Hatha Yoga Teacher Training and Personal Growth Intensive weekend and FREE to anyone pre-registered for the 300-Hour program.
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Quincy Jan. 19. 1816
Your favour of the fifth, and Judge Sewalls Letter to his son Samuel, have convinced me that No Parson Hull existed. Doctor and President Hoar, who was the Guest of Hull the Coiner deceived me. This Hoar lies buried within half a Mile of me, under a Monument and a long Inscription much obscured by Age. He was connected with Hulls and Quincys so nearly that they buried him here.
But why Should I care for Hulls or Hoars more than Father Flynt did.
Some Sixty Years ago I was acquainted with Colonel Hoar a Smart Sensible Fellow a Descendant of President Hoar. He claimed Kindred with Father Flynt and asked him to remember him in his Will. “You know Sir the Connection between your Family and the Hoars.” The Old Gentleman Smacked his Lips as you and I have often heard him and answered “Prithy, Young Man, I am too old to give Money to Hoars Whores.”
Our political Sentiments, as you well observe, are of no Consequence to the Community.
You and I agreed very well at Colledge in calculating Eclypses and in all our Astronomical and Algebraical Studies. We have ever Since as I hope, agreed in private Friendship. But We have gazed at the Great Political System of the Universe through different Telescopes. The Great Globes have been Seen by Us, rolling round their Axis and revolving round their Primaries, from different Stations in different Longitudes and Latitudes. Conjuntions, Oppositions and Eclupses, have been visible to you when they were invisible to me; and Vice versa.
It appears by the Conclusion of your Letter that We differ toto Cœlo in Sentiment relative to the late War. Butt as our opinions are of no consequence, it would be Useless to discuss them. And moreover, it would require more Volumes than you or I shall live to write or read.
I am Sir your Sincere Friend till death, hoping And expecting, Soon, very Soon, to meet you where We Shall be known to each other, as we are known on high.
MHi: John Langdon Sibley Collected Papers.
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70% of female students and over half of men experience some kind of sexual hostility by the time they finish their third level education according to new research from NUI Galway
NUIG’s SMART Consent research team have been conducting studies on consent in students experiences of sexual harassment on campus since 2014.
Using a survey on students sexual experiences they found that 54% of 1st Year female students experienced some form of sexual hostility or gender harassment, rising to 64% in 2nd Year, and 70% of students third year or beyond.
The study also found that more than a third of male students experienced sexual hostility or gender harassment in 1st Year, which increases to 48% in 2nd Year and 54% in third year or beyond.
632 undergraduate students at NUIG, 206 men and 426 women, took part in the survey which covered 19 items in five different categories of sexual harassment.
The results of this study are being published this week by Minister of State for Higher Education Mary Mitchell O’Connor which she says show major gaps in how young people are prepared to make decisions about their sex lives.
“This research demonstrates that formal school experiences do not currently prepare most young people well
for managing the sexual decision-making scenarios likely to arise during their time at college.”
“The issue of sexual consent has emerged as a focal point that crystallises our concerns in this area. Consent
covers both the positive and negative components of sexual health. Consent is achieved when two people freely,
willingly and clearly give their continuous agreement to engage in sexual intimacy. ”
This year, PhD students Kate Dawson, Saoirse NicGabhainn, and Pádraig MacNeela also surveyed 2,150 students on how satisfied they were with their sex education.
The vast majority of respondents, 71% of women and 63% of men, said that their sex education at secondary school wasn’t satisfactory, with those number going even higher for students who identified as LGBT+.
Beginning in 2015, the SMART team have been running sexual consent workshops at NUIG, Queen’s University Belfast, DCU, and the National College of Art & Design.
They focus on training facilitators at each institution who can then teach students about obtaining sexual consent and developing the tools needed to make confident decisions about their sex lives.
Since piloting the programme over 2,000 students have taken part in their workshops.
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And truly it is a most glorious thingAuthor: William Bradford (1623)
Tune: SONG 24
Published in 1 hymnal
Printable scores: PDF, MusicXMLAudio files: MIDI
1. And truly it is a most glorious thing
Thus to hear men pray and God’s praises sing,
O how great comfort is it now to see—
The churches to enjoy full liberty.
And to have the Gospel preachèd here with power,
And such wolves repelled as all would else devour.
2. But God will still for His people provide
Such as be able them to help and guide,
If they cleave to Him and do not forsake—
His laws and truth and their own ways do take.
If thou hast viewed the camp of Israel,
How God in the wilderness with them did dwell.
3. His great and marvelous works they here saw,
And He them taught in His most holy law,
A small emblem hereof thou mayest see,
How God hath dealt with them in some degree,
For much of Himself they now there have seen,
And marvelous to them His works have been.
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I think of life as a banquet set before us to deliver choices – flavors we enjoy or those we decide we don’t like or want in our lives. The experience of choosing determines who we become as we age.
As children, most choices taste good because we’re hungry to learn and grow and decide for ourselves what we’re willing to eat, what we want in our lives. Parents offer us a selection of food and experiences and we may choose to accept or reject them. As little people, control of selection is not always ours, and usually we eat what is put before us, sometimes under protest. We mostly do as we’re told to earn the satisfaction and goodwill of our parents. Very slowly, control is born and begins to grow as we do.
Then adolescence arrives and we’re still hungry but more selective of what we eat and do. The importance of choice begins to assert itself and we struggle for greater control. The banquet grows to include a wider selection of new flavors, like driving a car, choosing the people and school classes that interest us and eventually being able to vote. Often we eat only what we like, much to the frustration of our parents. But becoming independent and who we want to be is hard work and we relish it. Control is our goal.
The reward is young adulthood, where we finally have a greatly enlarged portion of control and choices. And the banquet doubles in size as we earn new flavors, such as selecting jobs and mates, becoming parents and living in a home of our own. Working for a living can be sweet or sour depending upon our preparation, job selection, hard work and just plain luck. And as young adults, we learn to taste what interests us and accept the consequences of our choices – whatever they may be.
As middle age arrives, we expect to be happy and satisfied with what we’ve chosen to taste. And we begin to hunger for different things, including independent children, the end of college tuitions and the taste of retirement. With learned patience, those things come and we’re hopefully satisfied with the meal we’re still eating.
And finally, dessert arrives! The flavors of retirement, senior living and the free choice to do whatever pleases us make the banquet complete. Careful in our selections, with hard work and luck we’ve eaten a full and healthy meal. We’ve made choices, chewed, swallowed and digested them, and they have enabled us to survive and thrive.
Hopefully, seniorhood is replete with satisfaction. We have eaten what we wanted and needed. And it’s with both amazement and appreciation that we now see our children and grandchildren sitting at life’s banquet making their own choices. In the quiet privacy of our minds and hearts, we encourage each of them to look at what is on the table and decide what they want to taste and whom they want to become – because with careful choices, life can be delicious.
Freelance writer Judy Kramer can be reached by email at JudyandOz@tampabay.rr.com. She is author of “Changing Places: A Journey with My Parents into Their Old Age.”
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Providing educational, emotional,
Head Start is built upon the understanding that the development of young children is deeply influenced by the family, by their community, by their health, as well as the educational experiences to which they are exposed. The 1975 Head Start Program Performance Standards defined high quality services in early childhood education, parent involvement, social services, and health. These standards have been the foundation of Head Start, and they have served as a model for state and local early childhood initiatives, including the state of Tennessee's pre-K program.
This knowledge of the foundations of early childhood development is based on research on the long-term benefits from similar comprehensive progams, such as High Scope, the Abecedarian Project, and the Chicago Parent Study. In 1996, the original Performance standards were strengthened to incorporate new research and higher expectations of program performance and management.
A Model for the Nation
Head Start's Foundation
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From the Journal of International Climatology and the “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em” department.
To me, this feels like vindication. For years, I’ve been pointing out just how bad the U.S. and Global Surface monitoring network has been. We’ve seen stations that are on pavement, at airports collecting jet exhaust, and failing instruments reading high, and right next to the heat output of air conditioning systems.
We’ve been told it “doesn’t matter” and that “the surface monitoring network is producing good data”. Behind the scenes though, we learned that NOAA/NCDC scrambled when we reported this, quietly closing some of the worst stations, while making feverish and desperate PR pitches to prop up the narrative of “good data”.
Read my report from 2009 on the state of the US Historical Climate Network:
That 2009 report (published with the help of the Heartland Institute) spurred a firestorm of criticism, and an investigation and report by the U.S. Office of the Inspector General who wrote:
Lack of oversight, non-compliance and a lax review process for the State Department’s global climate change programs have led the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) to conclude that program data “cannot be consistently relied upon by decision-makers” and it cannot be ensured “that Federal funds were being spent in an appropriate manner.”
More recently, I presented at AGU15 : Watts at #AGU15 The quality of temperature station siting matters for temperature trends
And showed just how bad the old surface network is in two graphs:
Now, some of the very same people who have scathingly criticized my efforts and the efforts of others to bring these weaknesses to the attention of the scientific community have essentially done an about-face, and authored a paper calling for a new global climate monitoring network like the United States Climate Reference Network (USCRN) which I have endorsed as the only suitable way to measure surface temperature and extract long term temperature trends.
During my recent trip to Kennedy Space Center (Thanks to generous donations from WUWT readers), I spotted an old-style airport ASOS weather station right next to one of the new USCRN stations, at the Shuttle Landing Facility runway, presumably placed there to study the difference between the two. Or, possibly, they just couldn’t trust the ASOS station when they most needed it -during a Shuttle landing where accurate temperature is of critical importance in calculating density altitude, and therefore the glide ratio. Comparing the data between the two is something I hope to do in a future post.
Here is the aerial view showing placement:
Clearly, with its selection of locations, triple redundant state of the art aspirated air temperature sensors, the USCRN station platform is the best possible way to measure long-term trends in 2 meter surface air temperature. Unfortunately, the public never sees the temperature reports from it in NOAA’s “State of the Climate” missives, but they instead rely on the antiquated and buggy surface COOP and GHCN network and it’s highly biased and then adjusted data.
So, for this group of people to call for a worldwide USCRN style temperature monitoring network, is not only a step in the right direction, but a clear indication that even though they won’t publicly admit to the unreliable and uncertain existing COOP/USHCN networks worldwide being “unfit for purpose” they are in fact endorsing the creation of a truly “fit for purpose” global system to monitor surface air temperature, one that won’t be highly biased by location, sensor/equipment issues, and have any need at all for adjustments.
I applaud the effort, and I’ll get behind it. Because by doing so, it puts an end to the relevance of NASA GISS and HadCRUT, whose operators (Gavin Schmidt and Phil Jones) are some of the most biased, condescending, and outright snotty scientists the world has ever seen. They should not be gatekeepers for the data, and this will end their lock on that distinction. To Phil Jones credit, he was a co-author of this new paper. Gavin Schmidt, predictably, was not.
This is something both climate skeptics and climate alarmists should be able to get behind and promote. More on that later.
Here’s the paper: (note they reference my work in the 2011 Fall et al. paper)
Towards a global land surface climate fiducial reference measurements network
P. W. Thorne, H. J. Diamond, B. Goodison, S. Harrigan, Z. Hausfather, N. B. Ingleby, P. D. Jones, J. H. Lawrimore, D. H. Lister, A. Merlone, T. Oakley, M. Palecki, T. C. Peterson, M. de Podesta, C. Tassone, V. Venema, K. M. Willett
There is overwhelming evidence that the climate system has warmed since the instigation of instrumental meteorological observations. The Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that the evidence for warming was unequivocal. However, owing to imperfect measurements and ubiquitous changes in measurement networks and techniques, there remain uncertainties in many of the details of these historical changes. These uncertainties do not call into question the trend or overall magnitude of the changes in the global climate system. Rather, they act to make the picture less clear than it could be, particularly at the local scale where many decisions regarding adaptation choices will be required, both now and in the future. A set of high-quality long-term fiducial reference measurements of essential climate variables will enable future generations to make rigorous assessments of future climate change and variability, providing society with the best possible information to support future decisions. Here we propose that by implementing and maintaining a suitably stable and metrologically well-characterized global land surface climate fiducial reference measurements network, the present-day scientific community can bequeath to future generations a better set of observations. This will aid future adaptation decisions and help us to monitor and quantify the effectiveness of internationally agreed mitigation steps. This article provides the background, rationale, metrological principles, and practical considerations regarding what would be involved in such a network, and outlines the benefits which may accrue. The challenge, of course, is how to convert such a vision to a long-term sustainable capability providing the necessary well-characterized measurement series to the benefit of global science and future generations.
INTRODUCTION: HISTORICAL OBSERVATIONS, DATA CHALLENGES, AND HOMOGENIZATION
A suite of meteorological parameters has been measured using meteorological instrumentation for more than a century (e.g., Becker et al., 2013; Jones, 2016; Menne, Durre, Vose, Gleason, & Houston, 2012; Rennie et al., 2014; Willett et al., 2013, henceforth termed “historical observations”). Numerous analyses of these historical observations underpin much of our understanding of recent climatic changes and their causes (Hartmann et al., 2013). Taken together with measurements from satellites, weather balloons, and observations of changes in other relevant phenomena, these observational analyses underpin the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change conclusion that evidence of historical warming is “unequivocal” (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007 2007, 2013).
Typically, individual station series have experienced changes in observing equipment and practices (Aguilar, Auer, Brunet, Peterson, & Wieringa, 2003; Brandsma & van der Meulen, 2008; Fall et al., 2011; Mekis & Vincent, 2011; Menne, Williams Jr., & Palecki, 2010; Parker, 1994; Sevruk, Ondrás, & Chvíla, 2009). In addition, station locations, observation times, instrumentation, and land use characteristics (including in some cases urbanization) have changed at many stations. Collectively, these changes affect the representativeness of individual station series, and particularly their long-term stability (Changnon & Kunkel, 2006; Hausfather et al., 2013; Karl, Williams Jr., Young, & Wendland, 1986; Quayle, Easterling, Karl, & Hughes, 1991). Metadata about changes are limited for many of the stations. These factors impact our ability to extract the full information content from historical observations of a broad range of essential climate variables (ECVs) (Bojinski et al., 2014). Many ECVs, such as precipitation, are extremely challenging to effectively monitor and analyse due to their restricted spatial and temporal scales and globally heterogeneous measurement approaches (Goodison, Louie, & Yang, 1998; Sevruk et al., 2009).
Changes in instrumentation were never intended to deliberately bias the climate record. Rather, the motivation was to either reduce costs and/or improve observations for the primary goal(s) of the networks, which was most often meteorological forecasting. The majority of changes have been localized and quasi-random in nature and so are amenable to statistical averaging of their effects. However, there have been regionally or globally systemic transitions specific to certain periods of time whose effect cannot be entirely ameliorated by averaging. Examples include:
- Early thermometers tended to be housed in polewards facing wall screens, or for tropical locales under thatched shelter roofs (Parker, 1994). By the early 20th century better radiation shielding and ventilation control using Stevenson screens became ubiquitous. In Europe, Böhm et al. (2010) have shown that pre-screen summer temperatures were about 0.5 °C too warm.
- In the most recent 30 or so years a transition to automated or semi-automated measurements has occurred, although this has been geographically heterogeneous.
- As highlighted in the recent World Meteorological Organization (WMO) SPICE intercomparison (http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/IMOP/intercomparisons/SPICE/SPICE.html) and the previous intercomparison (Goodison et al., 1998), measuring solid precipitation remains a challenge. Instrument design, shielding, siting, and transition from manual to automatic all contribute to measurement error and bias and affect the achievable uncertainties in measurements of solid precipitation and snow on the ground.
- For humidity measurements, recent decades have seen a switch to capacitive relative humidity sensors from traditional wet- and dry-bulb psychrometers. This has resulted in a shift in error characteristics that is particularly significant in wetter conditions (Bell, Carroll, Beardmore, England, & Mander, 2017; Ingleby, Moore, Sloan, & Dunn, 2013).
As technology and observing practices evolve, future changes are inevitable. Imminent issues include the replacement of mercury-in-glass thermometers and the use of third party measurements arising from private entities, the general public, and non-National Met Service public sector activities.
From the perspective of climate science, the consequence of both random and more systematic effects is that almost invariably a post hoc statistical assessment of the homogeneity of historical records, informed by any available metadata, is required. Based on this analysis, adjustments must be applied to the data prior to use. Substantive efforts have been made to post-process the data to create homogeneous long-term records for multiple ECVs (Mekis & Vincent, 2011; Menne & Williams, 2009; Rohde et al., 2013; Willett et al., 2013, 2014; Yang, Kane, Zhang, Legates, & Goodison, 2005) at both regional and global scales (Hartmann et al., 2013). Such studies build upon decades of development of techniques to identify and adjust for breakpoints, for example, the work of Guy Callendar in the early 20th century (Hawkins & Jones, 2013). The uncertainty arising from homogenization using multiple methods for land surface air temperatures (LSAT) (Jones et al., 2012; Venema et al., 2012; Williams, Menne, & Thorne, 2012) is much too small to call into question the conclusion of decadal to centennial global-mean warming, and commensurate changes in a suite of related ECVs and indicators (Hartmann et al., 2013, their FAQ2.1). Evidence of this warming is supported by many lines of evidence, as well as modern reanalyses (Simmons et al., 2017).
The effects of inhomogeneities are stronger at the local and regional level, may be impacted by national practices complicating homogenization efforts, and are more challenging to remove for sparse networks (Aguilar et al., 2003; Lindau & Venema, 2016). The effects of inhomogeneities are also manifested more strongly in extremes than in the mean (e.g., Trewin, 2013) and are thus important for studies of changes in climatic extremes. State-of-the art homogenization methods can only make modest improvements in the variability around the mean of daily temperature (Killick, 2016) and humidity data (Chimani et al., 2017).
In the future, it is reasonable to expect that observing networks will continue to evolve in response to the same stakeholder pressures that have led to historical changes. We can thus be reasonably confident that there will be changes in measurement technology and measuring practice. It is possible that such changes will prove difficult to homogenize and would thus threaten the continuity of existing data series. It is therefore appropriate to ask whether a different route is possible to follow for future observational strategies that may better meet climate needs, and serve to increase our confidence in records going forwards. Having set out the current status of data sets derived from ad hoc historical networks, in the remainder of this article, we propose the construction of a different kind of measurement network: a reference network whose primary mission is the establishment of a suite of long-term, stable, metrologically traceable, measurements for climate science.
Each site will need to be large enough to house all instrumentation without adjacent instrumentation interfering with one another, with no shading or wind-blocking vegetation or localized topography, and at least 100 m from any artificial heat sources. Figure 2 provides a site schematic for USCRN stations that meets this goal. The siting should strive to adhere to Class 1 criteria detailed in guidance from the WMO Commission for Instruments and Methods of Observations (World Meteorological Organization, 2014, part I, chap. I). This serves to minimize representativity errors and associated uncertainties. Sites should be chosen in areas where changes in siting quality and land use, which may impact representativity, are least likely for the next century. The site and surrounding area should further be selected on the basis that its ownership is secure. Thus, site selection requires an excellent working and local knowledge of items such as land/site ownership proposed, geology, regional vegetation, and climate. As it cannot be guaranteed that siting shall remain secure over decades or centuries, sites need to be chosen so that a loss will not critically affect the data products derived from the network. A partial solution would be to replace lost stations with new stations with a period of overlap of several years (Diamond et al., 2013). It should be stressed that sites in the fiducial reference network do not have to be new sites and, indeed, there are significant benefits from enhancing the current measurement program at existing sites. Firstly, co-location with sites already undertaking fiducial reference measurements either for target ECVs or other ECVs, such as GRUAN or GCW would be desirable. Secondly, co-location with existing baseline sites that already have long records of several target ECVs has obvious climate monitoring, cost and operational benefits.
For a reference grade installation, an evaluated uncertainty value should be ascertained for representativeness effects which may differ synoptically and seasonally. Techniques and large-scale experiments for this kind of evaluation and characterization of the influences of the siting on the measured atmospheric parameters are currently in progress (Merlone et al., 2015).
Finally, if the global surface fiducial reference network ends up consisting of two or more distinct set-ups of instrumentation (section 4.1), there would be value in side-by-side operations of the different configurations in a subset of climatically distinct regions to ensure long-term comparability is assured (section 3). This could be a task for the identified super-sites in the network.
There are many possible metrics for determining the success of a global land surface fiducial reference climate network as it evolves, such as the number and distribution of fiducial reference climate stations or the percent of stations adhering to the strict reference climate criteria described in this article. However, in order to fully appreciate the significance of the proposed global climate surface fiducial reference network, we need to imagine ourselves in the position of scientists working in the latter part of the 21st century and beyond. However, not just scientists, but also politicians, civil servants, and citizens faced with potentially difficult choices in the face of a variable and changing climate. In this context, we need to act now with a view to fulfilling their requirements for having a solid historical context they can utilize to assist them making scientifically vetted decisions related to actions on climate adaptation. Therefore, we should care about this now because those future scientists, politicians, civil servants, and citizens will be—collectively—our children and grandchildren, and it is—to the best of our ability—our obligation to pass on to them the possibility to make decisions with the best possible data. Having left a legacy of a changing climate, this is the very least successive generations can expect from us in order to enable them to more precisely determine how the climate has changed.
Read the full open access paper here, well worth your time: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/joc.5458/full
h/t to Zeke Hausfather for notice of the paper. Zeke, unlike some of his co-authors, actually engages me with respect. Perhaps his influence will help them become not just civil servants, but civil people.
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I am a man first, a footballer first
I am not a creature
The pitch is not a cage, I will leave it
Rosa Parks, Frustrated, Need that frustration in football
Yes, would receive booking, Yellow card is a small price to pay
How can we have an effect on behaviour of crowd
Will Balotelli change racism?
UEFA has a process - referee responsiblity, Implementation, Platini
Consequences, moral hazard, shaming UEFA into action?, But, English model, education, training, Kick Racism out of Football, fanzines ..., no football player had to leave pitch for that, thought through approach could do this
Isn' t it an admission of defeat to leave the pitch?, Clavane, Cantona attacked racist in the crowd, Shock the world with extreme action - get the authorities to do something, happened in Italian lower league, it led to debate and action, Saha, Yes, understood, But right now, we can still make the institutions move, Guadeloupe background, slavery ..., Don't tell us you've suffered more than the ancestors, they suffered so that I can be successful today
Balotelli will do a lot more than kicking UEFA into aciton
Blata says all racist issues can be solved by a hand-shake
Team captain could mediate and go to referee
Stopped being Leeds fan because disgusted @ racism
black friends stopped being fans ... voted with their feet
Jewish chants against Tottenham fans, watching England/Spain with son, Like watching Nuremberg rally - why allowing son to watch it, Why did England allow ti to keep going
Needs one person to take an action, Rosa PArks argument
Fines do nothing, laughed off by associations
Needs one brave person, if a black or Jewish player were abused in the street, they wouldn't tolerate it
Racist individuals can be punished
yes, dignity of footballer, but ...
The black footballers are already victims
good if game did end
we are complicit if we continue with game
accept the background noise of racism, just normal that these are not men buyt high performance animals
leaving the field won't change things
Fans are not really fans, but do it to relieve their emotions
Need to be prosecuted under the law, racial abuse on stadium is psycho pressure, find them, arrest them, ban them ... like English system - blacklist people
Do education of society, Bird watchers won't abuse anyone, this is an aggressive crowd, they fell safe in a crowd
Musa, What if country is so prejudiced that they won't police it OK?, Blata laughing about gay sex, What do you do when institution itself is racist/homophobic
What he did yesterday was best response to racial abuse
young people watching you
the gesture depends on the amount of abuse
England/Spain was too much
Clavane, It is not a duty to do it, but it is a right - up to individual, And what if Balotelli had not played well ... would it then have been OK to insult him racially, Saha, You need to discipline the press, not the job of the footballers, Yes, you have bad days ..., still understand your role, you have to fight racism, but with intelligence, Your duty is to play well, yes, stand as an anti-racist role model, but also be strong and shrug it off
not to teach UEFA president
not just revenge for organisations
walk off because others not taking it seriously
If you stay on, you're saying "this is OK"
Walk off for yourselves, for your peace of mind, Otherwise, they'll always wonder if they could have made a difference, Fascinu, stand up to racism, stand up to homophobiia, We die a bit inside every time we don't do something, That's the real role model, Do it for his family
All the family should go with him, All the fans should sing him off the pitch
SAHA, Yes, he would be a role model, Bit what is the role model for someone suffering day to day in their jobs. May not be a great model, FEMI, Courage is the effect, SAHA, You're trying to solve the whole problem of society
Surely whole team should walk off
Force people to think
Raising awareness bigger than a game of football
Auclair, It is a team sport, it needs to be a team act, would have more weight, you need to do this collectively
Clavane, Agree!, Philip Auclair has conceded that leaving the pitch is right, You agree with us!, SAHA, I agree with that too, Collective action is what I would prefer, Don't be selfish, But yes, make decision @ 1/2 time, FEMI, That's my image!, Kurkov, Agree on collective
Gives racists victory
"what sort of a man gets upset by name-calling"
MUSA, game is already ugly ..., what sort of man, you prove you're a man by responding morally
FEMI, you're not making problem worse - by allowing it to continue,, SAHA, role is not to stop racism in game, we're also role models as citizens, FEMI, Yes, everyone needs to chose their fight, SAHA, It's not because I don't walk off pitch that I accept abuse
UEFA and FIFA did wrong by hosting it there
What about stadium staff
P Auclair, Putting spotlight on this actually makes it better - is a learning experience, Ignoring won't make progress, Spain is pretty bad, so is Italy ... so which is the perfect country?
SAHA, Toleration of racism by players, yes, racists should be exposed ... by UEFA
MUSA, Should be penalised
Andrey Kurkov, Many views, very active ... tracing is easy, Can take responsibility; can be publicised
Press perpetuating racism , how do we react?
FEMI, Use all methods, Respond to everything that appears in press, Use social media!
Was devil's advocate .... not clear-cut
yes, big institutions need to be spurred. Referees have power. Needs teams to take it seriously. Do it collectively. Most powerful.
Yes, let's be practical. Balotelli would be a catalyst. Too much pressure on referee. Not reacting puts too much pressure on players to score!
Louis talked about history of discrimination ... but that is not yet won
His role is to make his children proud of being black ... Balotelli is an example - great athlete, and fighter. But we're all different, and collective approach is better
UEFA, FIFA needs to take action
Finding protagonists is not easy
Yes, need education
Need to do all of these things ... but it won't work without a shiny creature around it will all coalesce
Racism exists everywhere. Easier to fight in stadiums than in street. Need a qualification for civilised fans!
Any mind change?, Kurkov, Collective, Philippe Auclair, awareness of need for defining moment, Saha, Collective; defining moment, Musa, Loves Ukraine, Philippe's writing ... Image of Femi's is what I take away, Femi, Andrey need to show that they can deserve to watch football
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ESSENTIAL ELEMENT: Functional Fitness – Part II
Critical Concept: A Constantly Varied Approach
Variety is the spice of life – and of true fitness. The key to extraordinary fitness is diversity. In order to achieve optimal health, one must achieve optimal fitness. In other words, to move toward greater health, you must move toward increased fitness.
Fitness is defined by Crossfit Founder Greg Glassman as having optimal physical competence in all ten physical skills (cardiovascular/respiratory endurance, stamina, flexibility, strength, power, speed, coordination, balance, agility and accuracy). If you desire to become healthier, you must desire to become more fit. These ten “Pillars of Fitness” should be considered a virtual “wish-list” that outlines your approach to exercise and activity.
Most people today train or exercise with a very narrow approach to fitness. They do one thing (like running, rowing, yoga, biking, etc.) and do it repeatedly for years. There are fantastic benefits to be gained from each of these individually, but on their own will not produce a well-rounded, truly fit person. These activities produce “specialized athletes” with a limited scope of fitness. It is not hard to expose a marathon runner’s weaknesses: simply ask them to demonstrate a strength maneuver, challenge their flexibility, or simply jump for height. Similarly, ask most power lifters to run down the street. It is easy to expose the limitations created by specialized training.
If your goal is optimal fitness, you must vary your training constantly. You must expose yourself to a wide variety of challenges and activities. You should regularly recruit constant low-grade activities (such as walking), periodic high intensity activities (full exertion), pick up heavy things occasionally, and get plenty of rest in between. Mark Sisson, author of The Primal Blueprint, has it right: “Move frequently at a slow pace, lift heavy things and sprint once in a while.”
So where do you start? Start where you are. If you are not exercising at all, anything that you add today will simply move you towards greater health. Out of everyone, you stand to gain the most. According to a Harvard study, the greatest gains in health and fitness are achieved in the population that goes from zero exercise to 3 times per week. So get to it.
For those that consider themselves “super-fit,” audit your fitness levels and methods against the 10 Pillars of Fitness; find your weaknesses or over-sights and have at it. You will never achieve your fitness potential if you do not expand your definition of fit.
For everyone else in between, do what moves you. Get creative. Find new ways to exercise or add activity. Break through old boundaries, get out of your rut, and get into a groove. A vital behavior is to train a different way every time – never repeat a workout. Your body thrives when it has to adapt to a variety of stressors. Whether you are trying to lose weight, gain muscle, tone your body, or increase your energy, you will find that your results will accelerate under a wider variety of challenges.
Train movements, not muscles. Train for health. Train for life.
- Add activity every day in every way
- Calculate Energy Balance
- Add Functional Training
- Add variety and activity patterns to your exercise
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First and foremost, Justice H.I.O. Oshomah of the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt deserves encomiums for doggedly concluding the long-drawn suit filed by law graduates of the National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN which challenged the Council of Legal Education over their obstructed admission into the Nigerian Law School. However, the judgment, archetypal of well-orchestrated calligraphy, is glaringly unpragmatic and aggregately falls below the bar of justice. It is a verdict against the beleaguered common man with colossal manipulations and dangerous implications.
Without mincing words, his lordship erred in his position that two accreditations; one from National Universities Commission and another from CLE coexist for Faculty of Law unlike other faculties in the universities. Indeed, this is strange, fallacious and aptly burlesque.
Perhaps, as NUC uncompromisingly and audaciously maintained that NOUN is duly accredited to run LL.B, the two-fold accreditation stratagem suddenly was conceived.
The court also goofed that the council does not share its powers with any other person, body or institution. The question is; could CLE discretionally admit persons without a law degree? If not, then, no absolute powers.
In Okonjo v Council of Legal Education, (1979) Digest of Appeal case: FCA/L/16/1978 delivered on the 12th March 1979 which his lordship largely relied upon, the contention was on ancillary requirements and not accreditation. Of course, the council has powers to refuse admission where applicants have substantiated records of gross misconducts prejudicial to the noble profession.
The above scenario is akin to a university refusing admission to applicants that meritoriously met JAMB benchmark in any faculty but with criminal records, and therefore unlike with NOUN’s case. The council’s powers to admit are restricted within the list of universities with NUC’s accreditation. For emphasis, Nigerian Law School is a federal institution and usually, NUC accreditations take into consideration all professional bodies’respective rubrics and standards, hence they function cooperatively contrary to the position of the court.
More worrisome are the submissions of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubarkar Malami, SAN against NOUN, a federal institution which the court relied upon to zero the plaintiff’s prayers. The AGF’s written address diplomatically paved the way for the incongruous verdict, sadly without adducing any previous memo to NUC or NOUN against the programme. This is the height of sabotage and betrayal.
Above all, the court strategically overlooked the taciturn war between NUC and CLE; instead, it magnanimously fashioned dual accreditations to skillfully play out the script in axing the plaintiffs.
Without a doubt, CLE makes regulations for the Nigerian Law School, but, such rules exist for its students whereas admission requirements are never different from provisions NUC earmarked for the legal profession. The basic academic requirements to become a lawyer, medical doctor, architect, engineer, accountant and other disciplines through Nigerian universities are clearly outlined by JAMB alongside professional bodies, including CLE.
Interestingly, all the above professions also undergo professional examinations for certifications akin to enrolment in the bar. It is therefore illogical, grossly partisan and extremely bizarre to regard or classify any degree obtained from universities whilst accreditation subsists to be deficient for career advancement or certification in Nigeria.
There is no doubt that the council sets standards, regulations and recommends candidates for practice, it is stringently through its bar examinations and code of conducts. Generally, any applicant with LL.B from any university accredited by NUC has met the basic prerequisite for admission into the law school. The primary duty of the law school is to train and scrutinize law graduates for practice. If after the training, bar examinations alongside the code of conducts assessment, a candidate performed below benchmark; that is a different ballgame. Admission into law school doesn’t guarantee call to the bar.
The decision of the Court of Appeal in Albert Omobolaji Adeogun v University of Ibadan & Anor (2012) LPELR-7825 (CA) that academic matters should be left for the academicians’ does not apply in this case; the dissimilarities are apparent. The contention specifically bothered on the fate of bona fide students that studied a law programme accredited by NUC. It wasn’t a battle challenging the council’s powers to review curriculum in the law school but alleged autocracy as CLE anachronistically refused their admission despite subsisting accreditation.
By generalizing the statement, it implies that students in distress can no longer run to the court but at the mercies of their management. By that impression, political matters should also be left for politicians; matrimonial issues for married folks and business transactions for businessmen.
On the way forward, President Muhammadu Buhari as the overall head could resolve the matter. Section 4 of Legal Education (Consolidation) Act, for example, provides thus: “Subject to this act, the Attorney General of the Federation may give the council directions of a general character with regard to the exercise by the council of its functions and it shall be the duty of the council to comply with such directions.”
Thus, the President can competently oblige the AGF to issue a directive to the council for NOUN’s admission especially for existing graduates while a roundtable with all stakeholders is set up for ultimate resolution of the quagmire.
Written By: Umegboro, a public affairs analyst from Lagos, Nigeria.
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Conway has 11,788 residents. It is located in Horry county.
Civil Engineering schools in Conway charged students an average tuition of $5,935.00 if they were South Carolina residents, and $11,765.00 if they were non-residents, during the 2009 - 2010 school year.
Books and supplies for civil engineering schools in Conway cost an average of $1,035.00. Students living on campus at civil engineering schools in Conway paid an average of $7,200.00 for room and board during the 2009 - 2010 school year. Students living at home incurred costs of $1,615.00. There is one civil engineering college in Conway for students to choose from. In the 2008 - 2009 school year, reportedly 13 students completed civil engineering programs in Conway.
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In a message dated 6/19/2005 7:03:26 A.M. Central Standard Time,
<<<I asked him if he had any thoughts about what the true
He said his guess had always been CATAWBA RUBY by EBONY
Yet, Chuck grows one named BLACK ANDROMEDA that looks exactly as one would
expect the iris to look, based on the parentage in the R & I. (And I
can't imagine why it would carry the name BLACK.)
If Will is correct, where did the iris come from that Chuck grows?
Chuck is there any chance Chet sent this to you as a seedling, before it was
introduced to the public?
Linda, I'm afraid this is one mystery we will never totally
solve. There are others! <vbg>
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You’ve chosen to follow your dreams! You’ve handed in your resignation letter. You’ve said goodbye to your coworkers. You’ve fielded every “What’s next?” question with a brave smile and a generic “I’m not sure yet but I’m excited for this adventure.”
Then you go home, collapse on your bed…and stay there.
All that goes through your mind is: What have I done?
When you choose to follow your dreams, it often means doing things differently. And it’s not always easy to be different.
As a social species, humans are programmed to follow the pack. So it’s no wonder our mind and body freak out when we challenge the status quo. You know what I mean: the racing thoughts and physical sensations that stop you in your tracks.
Do these physical sensations sound familiar?
- Heavy shoulders
- Pounding heart
- Tight throat
- Holding your breath
- Punch in the gut
They may be signs that you’re afraid of something.
Knowing your body’s fear response is an important step in recognizing and naming your fears. When you know your fears, you can better deal with them.
In a room of purpose-driven people with interests in sustainability, development, education, the collaborative economy, and more, we all had surprisingly similar fears:
- Self doubt (e.g. I’m not good enough.)
- Making excuses (e.g. I should be looking for a job.)
- Failures / Rejections (e.g. They don’t like me.)
- Negative self talk (e.g. I have nothing to offer here.)
It’s a telltale sign that your fear is speaking when you feel closed in. It usually has a critical and urgent voice.
With a bit of courage and vulnerability, you can expand from fear’s restrictions.
First, recognize that fear can serve a purpose.
Fear asks you questions. You can respond back. Fear challenges you. You can choose to accept the challenge. (Even if not now, hopefully later down the road.)
You might want to seek extra support as you listen to fear. Call up a friend, find a counselor or coach, or attend a support group. Get yourself into a place of courage and vulnerability so you can truly receive fear’s message.
Second, know that fear will show up again and again. Prepare for it.
It takes practice to build resilience and to reduce the impact of fear.
Learn about short and long term strategies for doing so. Head to Part 2 of the Fear series.
What is the SIGroup?
The Social Impact Learning & Support Group is a monthly gathering of purpose-driven people in Vancouver, BC. Someone called us a “creative, caring, and authentic” group. Sign up for the newsletter to stay in the loop.
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Thanks for all of the info, Bill.
I think I will try boiling water on the soil, heating the roots and
potting it up for observation, and I'll surely keep my fingers crossed
that the surrounding plants don't get infected.
I just sent an email to the nursery in question, and have to say I am
mortified that I didn't have any better sense than to post only that I'd
got it at First Look, which will most likely be of concern to all of the
vendors there. I'd misplaced my receipt, so didn't know, at the time, just
who I'd gotten it from.
I think that the only way that I could make amends, is to offer to field
email from people wanting to order plants from any of the vendors, so that
I could tell them mano a mano (or, gee, well, womano a mano. heh) whether
the specific vendor they want to order from, is safe, if they have any
"Hey, Alttara, I want to order plants from Naylor Creek. did you happen
to get Kinkaku from them? Love, John."
"Nope, John, order with no worries!"
Assuming the nursery in question is licensed to use the aforementioned
chemicals, and them being aware of the situation, it shouldn't be a problem
for long, right?
Bill Meyer wrote:
Yes, it's that time of year again when the nematodes become obvious and
everyone starts squirming about what to say and who to say it to. For everyone
who is new here, foliar nematodes leave brown stripes on hosta leaves that
are clearly bordered by the veins. They are a serious pest that can spread
at least five feet in any direction in the garden in one year. They greatly
slow the growth of infested plants and may even kill them in a few years.
When the leaves are wet they come out into the water on top of the leaf
and can move from plant to plant either that way or through the soil. Moving
through wet leaves in a garden which has them can make the problem much
So what can we do? The laws vary from state to state on what chemicals
can be applied and where they can be applied. I would first suggest checking
with your state to see what controls are legal there. The control measures
showing the greatest effect on them are as follows in descending order
1. Nemacur--This is a chemical that is highly restricted in most states
(to turf and agricultural use only) which gives near-total control of nematodes.
If you are permitted to have someone with an applicators license use it
on your property, this is the best solution.
2. Vydate or Oxymyl----These are the same chemical in liquid and solid
form. These are showing very good control, second only to Nemacur. These
too are restricted, but not as tightly as Nemacur.
3. Heat--- heating the plants can totally destroy the nematodes in that
plant. If you are not careful, it can destroy the plant too. The soil where
the infested plant was should also be treated with boiling water.
4. ZeroTol--- Just mentioned in the last Journal, and unrestricted, it
appears to give approximately 80% control. This is better than nothing,
but still leaves them in the garden.
If your state will not permit use of the first two chemicals, maybe the
best bet would be a combination of the third and fourth methods. Plants
can be potted if they are worth saving and placed in a car on a hot day.
While this may destroy the foliage, it usually won't kill the plant. Careful
heating in water, monitoring the temperature and time, should work better.
This combined with ZeroTol may work very well.
By all means, please contact the nursery that sold it to you and tell them
about their plant. They may not know they have a problem.
To sign-off this list, send email to email@example.com with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE HOSTA-OPEN
Doing a daily survey of my gardens (which I haven't had a chance to
do in several days), I saw a sight that chilled my veins, despite the 90+
degree outside temperature.
I've seen pictures, I've heard talk, but now, I get my first "in the
flesh" peek: H. Montana Kinkaku has nematodes. Unmistakably.
I summarily dug it up, and ran to my hosta reference library. It is
currently soaking, isolated, in a bucket. (Now I'm wondering what to do
with the water in that bucket, once I decide what to do with the plant.)
Can anybody tell me if they've had much success with the hot water treatment,
or should I just throw the poor, afflicted, yet beautiful thing away?
I also hesitate, oh, yes, verily I hesitate, to say that this hosta
was purchased from one of the vendors at First Look.
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The existence of minute pores confers marked capillary properties on brick ceramics. In particular all bricks absorb water by capillary action.
Testing Of Bricks:
Water Absorption Test (IS: 3495 (Part II)):
The existence of minute pores confers marked capillary properties on brick ceramics. In particular all bricks absorb water by capillary action. The percentage of water absorption is a very valuable indication of the degree of burning. Vitrification, in the true sense, corresponds to such a dgree of compactness that the absorption of the brick is not over 3 per cent after 48 hours of immersion. It has been reported that for absorption less than 5 per cent danger from frost is negligible.
Water absorption does not necessarily indicate the behavior of a brick in weathering. Low absorption (< 7 %) usually indicates a high resistance to damage by freezing, although some type of bricks of much higher absorption may also be frost resistance. Since expansive force of water freezing in the pores of a clay product depends upon the proportion of pore space occupied, the ratio of the absorption after 24 hours submersion to the absorption after boiling for 5 hours (C24/B5) appears to be a better criterion of resistance to freezing than the percentage of absorption.
The durability of a brick may be tested by frost action, i.e., by alternate wetting and drying. The absorption test has long been considered a measure of durability, although the basis for this assumption is questionable. The suction rate of the brick at the time it is laid exercises a mark influence on the mortar bond. Too rapid withdrawal of water from the mortar by the brick produces a weak bond. The rate at which a brick absorbs water, frequently called its suction rate, maybe measured by immersing one face of the brick in water. The one minute water uptake (initial rate of absorprion) is taken as the suction rate. For long periods of immersion in theis test, the total wieght of water absorbed per unit area,
w = AÖt
where, A is the water absorption coefficient
and t is the time elapsed in the test.
The standard methods of finding the absorption value of the bricks are discussed below. If absorption by volume is desired it can be obtained by multiplying the weight percentage by the apparent specific gravity.24 Hours Immersion Cold Water Test: Dry bricks are put in an oven at a temperature of 105° to 115°C till these attain constant mass. The weight (W1) of the bricks is recorded after cooling them to room temperature. The bricks are then immersed in water at a temperature of 27°
± 2°C for 24 hours. The specimens are then taken out of water and wiped with a damp cloth. Three minutes, thereafter it is weighed again and recorded as W2.
The water absorption in % = w2-w1/ w1 x 100
The average water absorption shall not be more than 20 per cent by weight upto class 12.5 and 15 per cent by weight for higher classes.
Five Hours Boiling Water Test: The weight of the oven dried bricks (W1) is recorded as above. Then the specimen is immersed in the water and boiled for five hours, followed by cooling down to 27° ± 2°C by natural loss of heat within 16–19 hours. The specimen is taken out of water and wiped with a damp cloth and the weight is recorded as W3.
The water absorption in % = W3W1 / W1 – 100
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Many people have many questions about how to calculate Sukanya Samriddhi Account maturity amount. If you are also planning to invest in this small savings scheme, then you must want to know how much you can expect on maturity. In this article I will share a simple calculation with which one can calculate the maturity value of Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana.
Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana is one of the most popular government schemes for girl child. As this scheme is linked with Beti Bachao Beti Padhao campaign, there is a huge chance of success of this Govt. scheme.
But before proceeding, one thing you have to remember that the interest rate of Sukanya Yojana is not fixed. Means, it will be changed periodically. And for that reason the below calculation may not be accurate for the coming quarters as I am assuming 8.5% interest rate throughout.
Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana Maturity Value
Before calculating the Sukanya Samriddhi Account maturity amount, let’s assume that you have opened Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana immediately on birth of your girl child. Means we can assume that the age of the girl child is = 0 years in 2017. In that case your deposit period will be till 14th years. And you are going to invest monthly Rs 1000 in your SSA account.
How to Calculate Sukanya Samriddhi Account Maturity Amount
How much I will get after 18 years
We can calculate the maturity value of Sukanya Samriddhi Account with any of the excel based calculators available in internet. Check out the Sukanya Samridhi Account maturity calculator I have used to calculate.
Now, the first Sukanya Samriddhi Account withdrawal is possible at the 18th year after opening the account and the purpose for that is education expense of the girl child. Now the amount one can withdraw is upto 50% of accumulated value till the previous month of 18th year.
E.g. if 18 year will complete in the month of June, then 50% of amount accumulated till May 31st can be withdrawn from the SSA account. In the above example the amount will be 4,36,620/- after 18 years. So you can withdraw 50% of 4,41,622/-, i.e. 2,20,811/- in the year 2035 to spend for your child’s education.
Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana – Calculating Maturity Value after 21 Years
So after withdrawing 50% amount, the remaining balance will be there in the SSA account. By the time your kid will be 21 years, the amount will grow up to Rs 2,82,820/-. Now as per the law the maturity period of account will be 21 years completion years from the date of opening or marriage date of the girl child whichever is earlier.
In this example if your daughter doesn’t get married till 21 years, then account will be closed automatically. In case marriage happened between 18 – 21 years, then on that year account will be mature.
So if you invest monthly Rs 1000 in the SSA account and don’t withdraw at the age of 18 years, then your Sukanya Samriddhi Account maturity amount will be around Rs 5,65,650. You can use the Sukanya Samriddi Yojana calculator and do further calculation as per your need.
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In its simplest definition, an ally is someone who another person can trust and count on despite them not fully understanding what it’s like to be in a certain position. An ally advocates and assists a marginalized group that they are not a part of. For example, a white person who advocates for racial justice can be considered an ally to people of color. The definition of ally is rather simplistic in concept, but is much more complicated in practice. People often find themselves messing up when their actions coincidentally work against the supposed title they claim.
Calling yourself or someone else an ally is just an identifier word; what really matters the most is your actions and reactions. You can call yourself anything you want, but it definitely doesn’t mean it’s accurate. Anyone can say that they are an ally, but that doesn’t really mean anything if they still do shitty things. If you claim that title, then at the very least you should extensively think about what that exactly means to you and more importantly, how you can assist a community in a way that is respectful and beneficial. Many times, this is where allyship can easily fall apart.
If, as an ally, you are imposing your own beliefs and ideas on a group you are not a part of, that isn’t really okay. It is up to you to take a step down from your platform of privilege and let others speak because you don’t know where they are coming from. It isn’t your place. This is also important in order to ensure that the same oppressive ideals are not being perpetuated. If we continue to prioritize the same voices, nothing will ever change.
The most important thing to remember about allyship, no matter what the community you’re acting as an ally for, is that there is no such thing as a good ally because everyone can easily make a mistake. Even though I’m writing this article, it doesn’t exempt me from being wrong or doing something problematic. I try to be respectful and kind to everyone, but that doesn’t mean I exist without fault. I don’t, and can’t, know everything; I’m learning everyday. Everyone has the potential to say or do something that could easily “discredit” their allyship to a community. It is also important to recognize when people do get upset when someone says something wrong, it is for a reason. Whatever was done, usually has some kind of impact on the person or group involved. People may react with however their feeling, which is completely valid.
As an ally, it is a person’s job to listen and take in what is being said, even if it’s emotionally expressed criticism. Again, because an ally is unable to fully understand a person’s perspective, they have no idea where what they are saying is coming from. Despite the idea of a “good ally” and a “bad ally” being questionable, there is definitely a good and bad way of responding to criticism. As stated before, an ally should be listening; but if someone is instantly defensive and upset after someone expresses how they feel, then that is a huge problem. Someone’s reaction is almost always indicative of their sense of entitlement and their own struggle of not being the center of attention for once. A good example of this is when someone makes a white person joke and a white person, who is supposedly isn’t racist, gets offended. That kind of difference between concept and practice just doesn’t add up.
This is not just relevant for white people acting as allies to people of color, but also relevant within communities of all marginalized communities. We cannot focus on ourselves and forget others who may be suffering from a different kind of oppression. Even if I’m in a group of other Latinx people, it doesn’t mean that people can get away with saying problematic things because we’re all coming from similar ethnic backgrounds.
A lot of the time when I have interacted within groups consisting of people of color, people have still said racist or misogynistic things. I have had men of color talk down to me, talk over me and talk to me without space for my own input. This has happened to me multiple times within these first few weeks of school alone. Just because you are someone from a marginalized community, does not mean you don’t have to be considerate of other people. If someone comments on a cisgender straight man’s masculinity taking up too much space in a conversation, the response should not be instantly defensive and upset. The response should be to consider why that might have been said and maybe ask the person who said it what they might have done wrong. If a man who claims to be an ally to women or femme presenting people still doesn’t seem to get it and continues to express how upset he is about, then that is an issue.
There are all kinds of issues that can come up in regards to allyship because there are so many different people that face different kinds of struggle. Knowing your place and being respectful towards people with experiences you’ll never have is a good thing to keep in the back of your mind, which is what I personally try to do.
Sarah Zumba is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at [email protected] Zumba Works it Out appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.
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Quentin McDermott’s Four Corners report on Telstra’s management practices and their effect on employees was powerful and polished. I found it useful for several reasons.
First, it revealed the secret of a large part of the productivity miracle of the 1990s. Of course this is not just a Telstra issue. McDermott spoke of Telstra being a national icon, ‘one of our biggest and most powerful companies’ and so on, but the real point is that its new culture is probably representative of how many big companies operate. It adds flesh to the bones of John Quiggin’s argument that much of what has passed as productivity growth in th last fifteen years is not productivity growth as properly understood, but merely a raising of the intensity of work. This has been achieved through the implementation of sophisticated bullying methods in the interests of extracting greater surplus value from the workforce.
Replying to a commenter (called ‘stressed’) on the on-line forum, John Buchanan, from the Workplace Research Centre at Sydney University, puts it like this:
You are exactly right. There is a large literature on the problem of modern day management that refers to the widespread fashion of ‘management by stress’. Many companies explicitly push their staff to the limit – and then pull back. Unfortunately as market pressure increases they are reluctant to pull back. It is only if there are effective unions decent labour standards that this problem can be overcome. Unfortunately we are living in an era of weak unions and declining labour standards. But this is not necessarily the way it will be forever. The union movement was badly beaten in the 1890s and came back from the dead. The same is possible in the future.
The comments on the forum are as revealing as the story itself. Here’s one from another Telstra technician on the forum:
As a worker of around the same vintage as Leon I can guess what he was going through. The story just touched the tip of the iceberg. They monitor everything we do in the field, either by having people going around checking our work, ringing customers or dozens and dozens of electronic/computer generated statistics. All the time raising the bar higher and higher but putting more stupid processes in place so they can monitor what we are doing but in so doing making the job actually harder to do.
Other comments on the forum show that the culture is not confined to Telstra:
I also became a union member when I worked for a major bank because I could see the bullying that was happening. I ended up being the one bullied to the point where I had a nervous breakdown in 2001. Companies don’t care anymore, they all have the same attitude, if you don’t like it, get out, there is always someone more desperate for a job.
This raises the second issue, which is that the story starkly shows the consequences of the erosion of union representation in workplaces, making nonsense of the free marketeers’ assurances that the pressures of the marketplace will by themselves weed the bad employers out of the labour market.
Third, it’s not just about producing more widgets, but about selling, which doesn’t create any output, but merely raises Telstra’s market share, or causes consumers to shift their preferences away from one product toward another. It adds nothing to GDP, but merely subtracts from the psychological well being of the staff, who feel that they are using and manipulating customers. From a call center worker:
I worked at the Como call centre circa 2001, I always felt under immense pressure to achieve the sales and other targets. Some pressure in a workplace can be good, but to feel sick in the car on the way to work,to be penalised for going to the toilet, to see people crying in the tearooms, for staff to be on edge or god forbid have wrap time to help a customer is disgusting. I left because I felt so undervalued. The people in the team are the ones who made it bearable…Its really sad to see that all these good people and their families have been affected. Good on those who spoke out in this story.
Finally, in the answers of John Rolland, Telstra’s Executive Director of Customer Sales and ‘Service’, we were treated to a glorious exhibition of the repertoire of your modern corporate spin master.
McDermott takes the title of the story from a general comment by Rolland: ‘In that cultural change you do need to make some very tough calls.’ This is already a classic manouevre from a manager trying to portray himself as a brave navigator steering a course through stormy seas, doing his best to please everyone while knowing that, tragically he can’t — when the self-evident reality is that he is a willing tool of a merciless predatory organisation.
Here are some other highlights (not really, because I could hardly bear to leave anything out), in each case introduced by a bit of background, and the relevant spin technique in brackets:
An early quote, with no specified context (emphasising or inventing the benefits of the practices):
ROLLAND: ‘We are making huge strides in how our employees feel about the organisation and the kind of forward progress we’re making and certainly we’re getting huge accolades from many of our customers who can really feel the difference in the way the company’s heading.’
On why staff have to flog new products when people ring in for help with their current services (misinterpreting the question):
MCDERMOTT (to Susan Dousset): If someone rang up with a a problem with their international roaming for example and they were standing in the middle of Trafalgar Square, did you feel that you had to sell them a plan?
SUSAN DOUSSET, FORMER CONSULTANT, TELSTRA COMO CALL CENTRE: Absolutely. It changed when the new training program came in. Even if they were in the middle of the night in any country in the world, we had to ask them could we look at your plan?
And all the people wanted to do was get their telephone working and personally I thought it was totally inappropriate. We’re an inbound call centre, we’re not an outbound call centre and that’s not what the people are on the phone for, they want customer service.
ROLLAND: It has moved to a sales and service program because our customers have been telling us for years that when they call in they want to deal with one person. They want to deal with someone who can solve all their problems and that includes not just the service element but whether we’ve got new products and services that might benefit them.
On why staff are punished (brazenly evading the question):
PAUL GIRDLER, COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC SECTOR UNION: What that means is that, say for example you’re on a total remuneration package of $40,000, about 10,000 of that is at risk and in order to get that $10,000 you have to meet targets which are ever increasing.
ROLLAND: Under the AWA program they have an uncapped opportunity to earn more if they make and exceed their targets.
MCDERMOTT: But only if they make those targets and if they don’t then 20 or 30 per cent of their base salary is at risk.
ROLLAND: They have the opportunity to earn much more than their base salary if they exceed their targets.
On firing people who don’t reach their sales targets (unblushing euphemism):
MCDERMOTT: What happens if they don’t achieve the targets?
ROLLAND: We continue to work with them.
MCDERMOTT: And what happens after that?
ROLLAND: If a person who joins us over time is not able to achieve the balanced scorecard that we’ve got and it’s not just about sales; it’s about customer service and other issues then we will have a discussion about them finding other opportunities outside Telstra.
On the need for monitoring (transparent bullshit):
MCDERMOTT: Why does Telstra monitor every minute of their employees’ days?
ROLLAND: A call centre environment is an environment where we need to make sure we’ve got all the staff available to take the calls our customers are making, and so to do that with 10,000 staff it requires us to have a pretty rigid approach to who’s on a phone to take a call.
On the need for bullying managerial language implemented at an institutional level (blaming the victims for ‘not getting it’):
MCDERMOTT: Savages, submarines and dragons. What are they?
ROLLAND: Dragons in particular are the things that hold us back from achieving what we want to achieve as leaders.
MCDERMOTT: The way the team leader described it, they referred to people in her own team, or they might refer to people in her own team. That’s a profoundly negative way of talking about members of your own team isn’t it, to call them a savage?
ROLLAND: I agree.
MCDERMOTT: Well, why is Telstra teaching that?
ROLLAND: We had a program put together and the vast majority of those people that went on that course found it very beneficial. I understand there’ll be some individuals that didn’t get it, didn’t understand it and didn’t accept it.
On training managers to bully (trying to somersault to the moral high ground):
MCDERMOTT: Isn’t it teaching team leaders how to bully their staff?
ROLLAND: No, absolutely not.
MCDERMOTT: To talk about their staff as savages?
MCDERMOTT: Or dragons?
MCDERMOTT: To tell them not to mother them.
ROLLAND: Well not mothering staff is probably a good thing. Most people want to be treated as adults.
On what happens to staff who defy the order not to talk not talk to Four Corners (bare-faced lying):
MCDERMOTT: You just don’t want them to speak out.
ROLLAND: They can speak out.
MCDERMOTT: What will happen to them if they do?
ROLLAND: We’ll respect their views.
MCDERMOTT: They’ll be fired, won’t they?
ROLLAND: No, they won’t be fired
On the meaning of Gregg Winn’s (Chief Operations Manager) advice to managers that if staff won’t cooperate ‘then you just shoot ’em and get them out of the way’ (audacious airbrushing):
ROLLAND: Colourful language. It’s not like that. I work in that quote, dictatorship, and I can tell you it’s not like that.
MCDERMOTT: Metaphorically shooting people who can’t get with the reform program.
ROLLAND: Greg’s language, in reality we work with people to help them understand where we’re trying to head. In the end though, if a person doesn’t believe in what we’re really doing, then to be quite frank, you know, they’re probably people that don’t want to work for this company anyway.
Interesting use of the word frank.
On the accusation that work stress drove technician Leon Dousset to suicide (shameless resort to technicalities):
MCDERMOTT: His treating doctor has written this in a letter.
She says, “I have been looking after Leon who had been suffering depression related to stresses at work. He never mentioned any problems at home but did tell me he was upset at finally being forced to have a GPS in his work vehicle to track his movements. Unfortunately he committed suicide as a result of his severe depression.”
Do you accept her view?
ROLLAND: We were not aware of Leon’s depression and so therefore for us to be aware therefore and take action was very difficult.
On the accusation that work stress and work stress alone drove Sally Sandic to Suicide (making another desparate charge for the moral high ground, this time invoking the privacy of the victim):
MCDERMOTT: Do you accept that she was under great pressure at work?
ROLLAND: We do accept that Sally had a number of issues in her life, which was causing her distress.
MCDERMOTT: What were those issues?
ROLLAND: I’ve got no interest in going into the details behind Sally’s issues. We were aware of them, we were working with her on them and out of respect for everybody I don’t see any benefit in going into that.
MCDERMOTT: Well, we’ve spoken at length with her family, with her parents, with her sister, with her friends. They say there were no issues in her life, apart from the pressure she was undergoing at work.
MCDERMOTT: Do you accept that?
ROLLAND: I understand that Sally had a number of issues going on in her life, some which were work-related, which we were working through with her.
The pièce de résistance, making sense of Sally’s suicide (euphemism, but this time heroic euphemism):
MCDERMOTT: Natalie Sandic says Sally resigned because it just became a horrible place to go to work and she used to dread it. Given that she was one of your star performers, that’s a terrible indictment of Telstra, isn’t it?
ROLLAND: The call centre business is not for everybody and we respect people’s choices if they no longer find that work compelling, to make the choice to leave, and Sally made that choice..
And apparently in response to a questiin about the high staff turnover (when all else fails, invoking confidential data):
ROLLAND: The union, bless their hearts, have a particular point of view and when we look at the employee opinion survey, the vast majority of staff are telling us something different
My only disappointment with the program was that McDermott didn’t ask to see the surveys. They would have been very enlightening, I’m sure, if the ’employee satisfaction’ surveys I’ve seen elsewhere are anything to go by.
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The Triumph of Marriage: Painted Cassoni of the Renaissance
Besorgung - Lieferbarkeit unbestimmt
Beschreibung"Cassoni" is the Italian word for the chests, painted with scenes from myth and literature, central to upper-class weddings of the 15th century. Little known today, cassoni deserve recognition as masterworks of the Renaissance. Botticelli, Pesellino, and other superlative artists painted them. And they are precious early examples of the mythopoetic subjects that would form the core of European art until the 20th century. The essays in this book shed new light on the meaning of cassoni through informative discussions of Renaissance wedding rituals, male-female relations, and daily domestic life. A catalogue section on cassoni in the exhibition that this book accompanies provides a unique guide to the stories of love, marriage, and politics depicted on these sumptuous objects.
PortraitCRISTELLE BASKINS is chair of the History of Art Department, Tufts University.
Untertitel: Sprache: Englisch.
Erscheinungsdatum: Oktober 2008
Seitenanzahl: 182 Seiten
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Anthem Blue Cross, Blue Shield of California, Delta Dental, Health Net, Liberty Dental and Premier Access Dental were the firms selected Tuesday by Covered California, the state exchange.
Unlike comprehensive health insurance, Californians are not required under federal law to purchase pediatric dental care, which is available to serve children and teenagers up to age 19.
But Covered California Director Peter V. Lee said that providing affordable dental policies is a key part of the exchange's mission to boost health statewide, particularly for young and vulnerable residents.
"Dental care is a vital component of overall health, and especially critical for our state's children," he said. "Access to dental services as a youngster means better health, both for children and as they get older."
Only one of the six insurers, Health Net, will offer its pediatric dental care only in conjunction with its comprehensive health insurance plans. Policies from other providers can be purchased as stand-alone products.
Prices will vary within 19 California regions, but most of the insurers will compete in each region. Stand-alone premiums range from $9 to $39 per month, depending upon the provider, region, and type of plan chosen.
In Sacramento, Placer, El Dorado and Yolo counties, the lowest-priced plan will be $10 for a Blue Shield Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) plan. The highest premium will be $33 for an Anthem Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) policy.
HMO plans cover services provided by participating dentists in a network and generally require referrals to a specialist. PPO plans offer choice among participating dentists in a network and cover some out-of-network services.
In some regions of California, a third type of plan will be offered, Dental Exclusive Provider Organization (DEPO), which resembles a PPO but does not cover services by dentists outside its network.
Policies with the lowest premiums tend to require the highest out-of-pocket costs - and vice versa.
The plans encompass dental services ranging from office visits to X-rays, exams, cleanings, crowns, casts, prosthodontics, endodontics, periodontics and oral surgery. Deductibles and maximum out-of-pocket costs vary.
Policies will be offered at two tiers; one will cover roughly 85 percent of total average costs for benefits offered by the plan, the other will cover roughly 70 percent of such cumulative costs.
A breakdown of plans by region and cost is available at Covered California's website, www.hbex.ca.gov.
PHOTO: Covered California Director Peter V. Lee addresses the media in May 2013. The Sacramento Bee/Lezlie Sterling
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s two new weather and climate supercomputers, expected to improve forecasts and warnings protecting life and property, became operational at 8 a.m. Eastern time Tuesday.
Dogwood in Manassas, Virginia, and Cactus in Phoenix are configured identically: operating three times faster than their predecessors at 12.1 petaflops and boasting double the storage at 26 petabytes each.
NOAA awarded General Dynamics IT the first, $150 million task order on the $505.2 million Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputing System (WCOSS) contract in February 2020 with the goal of improving models guiding forecasts.
“As forecasts become more accurate, and weather and climate events become more extreme, the public needs more detailed forecast information further in advance,” Ken Graham, director of the National Weather Service, said on a press call Tuesday. “And this takes more advanced computing.”
- high-resolution models that better capture small-scale features like severe thunderstorms,
- more realistic model physics that better represent the formation of clouds and precipitation,
- a larger number of individual model simulations to better quantify confidence in results, and
- improved use of billions of weather observations to better forecast.
Dogwood and Cactus will further pave the way for fall upgrades to the Global Forecast System (GFS), air quality models, and ocean-going and Great Lakes wave prediction systems.
NOAA is moving from deterministic models to ensemble-based systems that couple atmosphere and oceans, giving forecasters the ability to assess the probability something might happen.
“Being able to provide probabilistic information to the public, through the use of ensemble-based modeling systems, is going to be a very exciting change coming up,” said Brian Gross, director of NOAA’s Environmental Modeling Center.
NOAA further plans to launch a new hurricane forecast model, the Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System (HAFS), ahead of the 2023 hurricane season — pending tests and evaluations. HAFS replaces two legacy systems, and will predict the track and intensity of tropical cyclones.
NWS will be able to extend hurricane forecasts to seven days, Graham said.
Dogwood and Cactus’ predecessors were located in Reston, Virginia, and Orlando, Florida — a problem if a catastrophic weather event hit the East Coast downing both. That’s why the new supercomputers are hosted on opposite sides of the country.
WCOSS is an eight-year base contract with a two-year renewal. While its predecessor included performance enhancements on the front end — requiring IBM to guarantee price performance 10 years out — NOAA only required GDIT to propose the first task order award for this contract.
“I’m actually really excited about that because it leaves us open to be able to look at what are experiences on the existing system, where we need to make improvements in balance in the computing system, or as different technologies evolve we can take advantage of those and not be strapped to that initial price performance guess,” said Dave Michaud, director of NWS’s Office of Central Processing.
NOAA anticipates the second phase task order, covering the last five years of the contract, will be awarded in the 2024-25 timeframe.
The agency will work with GDIT to identify industry trends and incorporate those, along with any new computing requirements, into the next phase of WCOSS.
“We’ve actually left that wide open,” Michaud said.
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This chapter proposes an efficient hybrid training technique (ALOMLP) based on the Ant Lion Optimizer (ALO) to be utilized in dealing with Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) neural networks. ALO is a well-regarded swarm-based meta-heuristic inspired by the intelligent hunting tricks of antlions in nature. In this chapter, the theoretical backgrounds of ALO are explained in details first. Then, a comprehensive literature review is provided based on recent well-established works from 2015 to 2018. In addition, a convenient encoding scheme is presented and the objective formula is defined, mathematically. The proposed training model based on ALO algorithm is substantiated on sixteen standard datasets. The efficiency of ALO is compared with differential evolution (DE), genetic algorithm (GA), particle swarm optimization (PSO), and population-based incremental learning (PBIL) in terms of best, worst, average, and median accuracies. Furthermore, the convergence propensities are monitored and analyzed for all competitors. The experiments show that the ALOMLP outperforms GA, PBIL, DE, and PSO in classifying the majority of datasets and provides improved accuracy results and convergence rates.
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Text Trapunto Technique
I’m so excited to share the Text Trapunto Technique with you! This workshop is coming to the San Antonio Modern Quilt Guild on January 10th. We’ll be making the Ampersand Quilt Block shown.
Can’t make the workshop? Grab the Text Trapunto Technique pdf over on Craftsy.
We’ll be using regular home sewing machines to create this 15″ square block. An ampersand stencil will be provided, but you can, of course, use any letter/monogram you choose.
I’ve added the alphabet trapunto letters to a few quilts in the past. They seem to go over really well and a few folks have asked how I get the letters to appear “puffed” or “stuffed”. Well, that is the magic of trapunto.
Trapunto, from the Italian for “to quilt,” is a method of quilting that is also called “stuffed technique.” A puffy, decorative feature, trapunto utilizes at least two layers, the underside of which is slit and padded, producing a raised surface on the quilt.
In the workshop we’ll go over the basics; as well as, talk about other ways to incorporate text into quilting. Unlike the definition above, we will not be making any cuts/slits into the fabric to actually stuff or pad. We WILL be trying out Free Motion Quilting (FMQ) designs and sharing tips for which styles work best with the puffed-letter-look.
If you’d like to grab the trapunto technique directions for yourself, you can find them over on Craftsy.
If you’d like the Text Trapunto workshop to visit your guild or shop, read more over on the ReannaLily Designs Lectures & Workshops page.
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Recipient of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 1986.
The inhabitants of this satellite town are the employees of a sugar processing concern nearby. This company's long range plans are to provide its workers not only with individual row housing, but with communal facilities and infrastructural services, to include a shopping centre and bazaar, a mosque, a community and cultural centre, a school, sports facilities, a bus station and a bridge to the old town across the river. The development is intended to revitalise the old town and to accommodate expansion generated by industrial growth in the region. The project was planned in five stages, to have been completed by 1985. Construction was started in 1976, and most of the first phase, comprising housing for about 4'000 inhabitants, was completed by 1977. Political unrest in 1979 disrupted the work. During the hiatus in construction, squatters and refugees moved into the complex, overcrowding and straining its infrastructure and resources. The work is currently ongoing depending on the availability of funding.
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Pepto-Bismol is the brand name of bismuth subsalicylate, which is used to treat several stomach conditions, including diarrhea, gas, heartburn (acid reflux/GERD), nausea, and stomach discomfort.
Pepto-Bismol belongs to a class of drugs called antidiarrheals, which are used to relieve diarrhea and related symptoms.
While it is still unclear exactly how bismuth subsalicylate works to combat diarrhea, the chemical element bismuth is thought to have some antibiotic activity, while the salicylate portion is believed to have an antacid effect.
You should avoid taking Pepto-Bismol if you are taking any of the following drugs:
If you are allergic to Pepto-Bismol, salicylates, or related products, you should not take Pepto-Bismol.
Talk to your pharmacist or doctor about drug allergies if you have a concern before taking this or any other medication.
Pepto-Bismol could possibly cause harm to a fetus.
Pregnant women who have passed their twentieth week of pregnancy should avoid taking Pepto-Bismol.
Regardless, you should tell your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant before taking this medication.
You should also alert your physician if you are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed.
It's not recommended that breastfeeding mothers take this medication.
Because Pepto-Bismol contains an active ingredient in the salicylate family, you should avoid giving it to children or teenagers if they have the chicken pox or the flu virus.
You should also avoid giving your child this medication if he or she has received the chicken pox vaccine within the last six weeks.
This is because medications that either contain or are related to salicylates can cause a condition known as Reyes' syndrome.
Pepto-Bismol is not considered safe for cats and should only be administered by a veterinarian in cases where it might be medically necessary.
However, Pepto-Bismol can be given to dogs to treat diarrhea and stomach discomfort.
If your dog has problems with bleeding or is taking medications that can thin the blood (like non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs), you should be very careful when giving your dog Pepto-Bismol.
In those cases, it's probably a good idea to ask your veterinarian first before giving your dog Pepto-Bismol.
It is always important to share with your doctor and pharmacist all prescription, non-prescription, illegal, recreational, herbal, nutritional, or dietary drugs you're taking.
The following drugs are known to interact with Pepto-Bismol:
Because alcohol can contribute to digestive-tract problems, you should not drink alcohol while taking Pepto-Bismol.
Pepto-Bismol does not interact with grapefruit juice.
Pepto-Bismol is available in liquid, caplet, and chewable tablet form.
You should take no more than eight regular-strength or four extra-strength tablets a day.
If taking the liquid, you should take no more than 120 ML a day (8 tablespoons).
Adults should take no more than two regular-strength tablets at a time (262 mg/tablet), every 30 to 60 minutes as needed. The regular-strength liquid contains 525 mg of the active ingredient per 30-ml (two tablespoons).
The extra strength Pepto-Bismol liquid contains 1,050 mg of bismuth subsalicylate per 30-ml.
It should be noted that Children's Pepto-Bismol does not contain bismuth subsalicylate but instead contains antacids to treat upset stomach in children.
If you suspect an overdose, contact a poison control center or emergency room immediately.
You can get in touch with a poison control center at (800) 222-1222.
Also, if you are taking Pepto-Bismol for diarrhea, be sure to drink plenty of water since diarrhea can cause you to lose a lot of water and electrolytes.
Because Pepto-Bismol is generally only taken as needed when self-treating, there are no concerns with missing a dose.
As long as you do not take more than the maximum amount allowed in a day, it should be safe to take until your diarrhea stops.
By Frieda Wiley, PharmD | Medically Reviewed by Sanjai Sinha, MD
Latest Update: 2015-03-02
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Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbɛstʃəlˌlɪtɪ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌbɛstʃiˈælɪti/
- Rhymes: -ælɪti
bestiality (plural bestialities)
- (archaic) A status of lower animal.
- (archaic) An animal-like instinct or behaviour.
- (archaic) A mark, trait, or emblem of a beast.
- "What's your bestiality?" (What's your mark?)
- Sexual activity between a human and another species.
- (dated) Bestial in nature, savagery, inhumanity, like (or akin to) an animal: "Man's bestiality to man"
- (dated) Any abstract entity similar to a beast.
status of animal
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WE ARE DEDICATED
TO INNOVATION & ADVANCEMENT
Serving as a leading powerhouse in the environmental world, The Everglades Foundation has a history of influencing environmental policy by providing bipartisan solutions backed by sound scientific research.
Rooted in science and inspired by these solutions, The Everglades Foundation takes on a powerful democratic approach when advocating for the restoration of America’s beloved wetland.
ACTION WITH REACH,
SOLUTIONS THAT WORK
The Everglades Foundation is working to ensure that the Central Everglades Projects, including the vital Everglades Reservoir, is constructed on an expedited schedule. To accomplish this goal, the Foundation invests in project and solutions that bring lasting results.
Qualifying undergraduate students work on independent Everglades research, in collaboration with Foundation staff and partners during the summer program.
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In Hinduism, Char Dham Yatra in Himalayas comprises of pilgrimage to
Badrinath Temple, Kedarnath Temple, Gangotri and Yamunotri in . These are some of the most important temples in Hindu religion remains closed (October to April) for major part of the year due to harsh winter and heavy snowfall. In 2011, the Char Dham Yatra begins on May 6. The date of opening of Uttarakhand, India and Gangotri Shrine is May 6, 2011. Yamunotri Temple
During the Chardham Yatra period, Garhwal Mandal Vikas Nigam (GMVN) conducts spiritual tour. Online reservation facility is also available. Helicopter Services are also available from Agastyamuni to Kedarnath and Badrinath.
Closing Dates in Char Dham Yatra 2011
Gangotri Temple will close on October 26, 2011 – on the Diwali day
Yamunotri Shrine will close also close on the Diwali day.
Badrinath Temple will close 10 day after Deepavali.
Gangotri, located at an altitude of 3200 meters, Yamunotri, at an altitude of 3165 meters, Badrinath, at an altitude of 3135 meters, and Kedarnath, at an altitude of 3580 meters, attract more than 1.5 million visitors each year from
and around the world. India
It must be noted here that the visit to four important temples dedicated to Lord Vishnu is also known as Char Dham Yatra and this involves visiting the shrines at Puri, Dwarka, Rameshwaram and Badrinath.
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Although there were some Reindeers and Elves in the 1911 census, the angels and fairies were a far more interesting bunch. For some reason, angle is often mis-transcribed as angel (in terms of steel workers) but there are two actual, real angels in 1911.
Firstly, Annie Victoria Catherine Wing, the 52 year old wife of Edgar Wing who, having been born in Geelong in Australia was recorded in 1911 as a house angel! How lovely….
Then, there was Thomas Tallintire who Ancestry decided was actually called Henry…. but it is clear as crystal, Thomas…. And when you read into why he was recorded as ‘angel’, it’s quite a sad story. Thomas and Dorothy had ten children ‘born alive to present marriage’, nine were alive and one had died. This Thomas aged 16 had sadly gone to live with the angels and a younger brother aged 13 was named after him.
Fairies were not too prevalent in 1911. However, it would seem that until we had trawled through them, many dairy farmers/workers etc. were in fact working on fairy farms! Mary Ellen Parr was apparently undertaking fairy work…. more than likely, away with the fairies….
George Steell actually worked in a biscuit factory in Bermondsey doing the fairy cake mixing and Florence Stoker, a 31 year old patient at Brentford Union Infirmary, was a fairy light finisher. Lizzie Taylor‘s profession was recorded as ‘fairy wack’ until we amended the transcription…. Great Scott! Perhaps more likely to be ‘dairy work’!
Tomorrow, Holly….? Ivy….?
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It’s no secret that cops regularly profile people for no other reason than their race or gender, and the history of police brutality against queer people specifically is sprawling. But a recent study has shed new light on just how wide the gaps in treatment are for transgender people in the U.S.
California’s Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board (RIPA), created in 2016 to monitor law enforcement actions across the state, released its annual report on Friday, analyzing data collected from 18 law enforcement agencies during 2020. While previous reports have analyzed data about racial and disability profiling, this is the first year that RIPA has provided focused analysis on transgender profiling — and the results are galling.
Though the overall number of trans people stopped by police was low compared to the larger cisgender population, the RIPA report found that people who officers perceived to be trans women were 2.5 times more likely to be searched, detained, and/or handcuffed than cisgender women. Overall, police officers who stopped trans people took actions against them over 60% of the time, and arrested nearly 29% of trans women stopped. People generally perceived as LGBTQ+ were also more likely to have their stop justified by “reasonable suspicion” than those assumed to be straight, backing up previous studies on LGBTQ+ profiling.
“The data showed that regardless of race or ethnicity, there were large disparities in the search and discovery rates for transgender individuals,” the Board concluded, recommending that law enforcement agencies work with trans advocacy groups to increase police accountability for the harm done by these stops. The RIPA board’s recommendations also included additional LGBTQ-specific training for police, specific education on transgender competency, and the specific prohibition of using a person’s gender identity as the basis for suspicion of a crime.
Black people, unsurprisingly, were the most racially profiled group of people represented in the report; RIPA found that Black people stopped by police were 2.5 times as likely to also be searched as white people.
As the RIPA board notes in its summary, police officers can’t always accurately judge someone’s gender or racial identity, so these numbers aren’t hard-and-fast representations of how often discrimination happens. But the overall trends shown in the report illustrate the vast disparities in how police tend to treat people who they believe to be visibly trans, particularly when those people are also Black.
While RIPA’s recommendation that police work with the trans community is noble in its long-term goal to increase accountability, it’s vital in the short term for everyone to take direct defensive action protecting trans people from police. As 2022 shapes up to be another bloody year for Black trans women in particular, allies and accomplices to trans liberation are more vital than ever as we fight for dignity, safety, and justice — including fighting police violence wherever it rears its head.
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Electrical safety for kids
Electrical safety tips for kids
- Never put fingers or other objects in an outlet
- Keep metal objects out of toasters
- Never use anything with a cord or plug around water
- Never pull a plug out by its cord
- Stay away from substations and power lines
- Don't climb on power poles
- Never fly kites near power lines
- Stay away from broken or fallen power lines
- Never touch or climb trees that are near power lines
- Never touch big, metal transformer boxes with warning signs
- Obey warning signs
Child proofing your home
Keep curious kids safe from the temptation to stick foreign objects into outlets or plugs.
- Unused wall outlets should be secured. Plastic inserts can be used but they can be pulled off and stuck in the mouth. Consider using safety outlets that prevent foreign objects from being inserted. You can also block outlets with the creative arrangement of furniture.
- If you're temporarily using extension cords, hide them behind furniture or use a hide-a-cord device. You can also put electrical tape over unused plug holes on cords.
- Put electrical devices such as DVD players on a shelf out of reach, or behind a barrier.
- Store bathroom and kitchen electrical appliances – like hair dryers and toasters – out of reach of curious children.
Our classroom education programs teach electrical safety and inspire a culture of conservation:
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Over the past few weeks, we have discussed two types of printing that USA Quickprint specializes in: offset printing and digital printing. If you have not had the opportunity to read these posts, you should! What does USA Quickprint Do? (Part 1) and What does USA Quickprint Do? (Part 2)
This week… it is all about Large Format Printing! Large Format Printing, also sometimes referred to as Wide Format Printing, is a type of digital printing that produces products that are too big to be produced on your home printer or even on high production copiers. USA Quickprint considers anything larger than 12” x 18” to be large format. Other attributes about large format printing, other than size, is media and ink. Media and inks used for Large Format Printing are typically more durable than offset and other digital printing methods and great for many outdoor uses. For example, banners, decals, parking lot signs, and yard signs are the popular outdoor products USA Quickprint produces using Large Format printing. We also produce indoor point of sale (POS) signage, posters, blueprints, and canvas prints.
Recently we upgraded our 52” inkjet printer and had to bring it through the window to get it upstairs. Big equipment for big jobs! Check out the video below!
Also, I found a video that gives a great example of what digital printing is, How It’s Made: Digital Printing, and it also shows some Large Format Printing in action.
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April 19, 2010
Real average hourly earnings for all employees fell 0.2 percent from February to March, seasonally adjusted, while real average weekly earnings rose 0.1 percent over the same period.
The over-the-month decrease in real average hourly earnings stems from a 0.1-percent decrease in average hourly earnings and a 0.1-percent increase in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U).
The increase in real average weekly earnings over the month results from a 0.3-percent increase in the average work week offsetting the decrease in real average hourly earnings. Over the past 9 months, real average weekly earnings have changed little.
From March 2009 to March 2010, real average hourly earnings fell 0.6 percent, seasonally adjusted. The decrease in real average hourly earnings combined with no change in average weekly hours resulted in a 0.6-percent decline in real average weekly earnings during this period.
These data are from the Current Employment Statistics program. Earnings data are preliminary and subject to revision. To learn more, see "Real Earnings—March 2010" (HTML) (PDF), news release USDL-10-0467.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Real earnings in March 2010 at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2010/ted_20100419.htm (visited August 11, 2022).
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There are numerous marketing methods that companies can make use of either to achieve their customer base or provide new potential prospects with their basic. Social media marketing, affiliate marketing online, and website marketing are just some of them. An intriguing advertising and marketing method to be aware is e-mail marketing, which there are actually much more about in the following paragraphs.
Establish a constant format and agenda for your advertising and marketing e-mail. By doing this, your prospects will become familiar with when and what to prepare for. Locate a specialist web template that suits your company and used it every time. Alert your potential customers for the most relevant information at the outset of the email.
Reduce conventional email marketing actions throughout the holidays. Consumers are busy with loved ones, and they are much less probably going to be watching enterprise e mail. Your probability of ending up in the spam box are substantially greater, which may have long term effects for your financial well being. The main different to this is a business straight related to the vacation routines. Normally, give yourself a break and savor some downtime oneself. Company is going to be back to normal in a day or two.
To be able to improve your customers’ enjoyment in terms of obtaining e-mail, you should try offering discount rates and present restricted-time promotions with the notifications. This type of e-mail marketing supplies readers with worth for participation, plus it provides all of them with encouragement to send their close friends. In truth, recommendation programs are efficient ways to improve your e-mail bottom as well you might be growing your subscriber base Temp Mail
Increase the outcomes of your email marketing by stimulating readers to respond to every single electronic mail. Constantly read through and answer to these e-mails quickly. Constructing a individual relationship with each of your respective readers is the best way to convert them into loyal buyers. This really is a sensible way to find more specific responses on the success of your efforts.
You might already know, there is a wide variety of marketing techniques that businesses use to have interaction with recent and potential clients. Among these are typically social media advertising, online marketing, and of course, email marketing.
Since you now learn how to create a well-received electronic mail marketing campaign that will deliver the sales pitch for your audience, go for it! Use all of the methods you’ve study here and you’ll be well on your way to improving earnings and driving a vehicle website visitors to your blog again and again.
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By Garry Maddox and Kelsey Munro
THE director of the film Rabbit-Proof Fence, Phillip Noyce, has hit back at a claim by the historian Keith Windschuttle that it is ''grossly inaccurate'' and should not be used in schools.
In a new book Mr Windschuttle says the girls depicted in the film were removed from their home for their own welfare, not because of a racist policy designed to ''breed out the colour''. Mr Windschuttle says the two older girls, Molly Craig and Gracie Fields, were involved in ''sexual activity with white men working in the area''.
Noyce rejects the historian's criticisms of the film, saying: ''Keith Windschuttle is so desperate for a story to sell that he abuses his false authority as an historian by slandering the reputations of those who cannot defend themselves.''
The 2000-kilometre trek home of three young Aboriginal girls' to Jigalong in 1931 has become the most famous story of the stolen generations, largely thanks to the 2002 film.
Mr Windschuttle's criticisms of the film are based on a letter from 1930 to the man responsible for the girls' removal, the West Australian chief protector of Aborigines, A.O. Neville. Mrs Chellow, a pastoralist's wife from a nearby station, wrote that the two girls, then aged 14 and 11, were ''running wild with the whites''.
His claims appear in the next volume of his series The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, to be published next week.
Speaking from New York, Noyce said Mr Windschuttle was either ''extremely lazy or just plain dishonest'' in his examination of the archives.
In a joint statement, Noyce and the film's scriptwriter, Christine Olsen, said Mr Windschuttle's research was incomplete. They point to a later record contradicting Chellow's report, where Mr Keeling, the superintendent at Jigalong, wrote to Neville to say: ''They live with their mothers in the black fellow's camp and therefore have not been in touch with the whitefellow much. They lean very much towards the black and on second thoughts I don't suppose there would be much gained in removing them.''
Mr Windschuttle yesterday acknowledged that Neville ''did support a program to 'breed out the colour' '', but said it was ''a policy about fostering the marriage of part-Aboriginal women to white men'' and not his motive for removing children from their families.
He said that by not including the information from Mrs Chellow's letter suggesting ''sexual promiscuity'', the film ''thereby misled its audiences''.
He also pointed to ''fictitious scenes'' in the film that were not in the book by Doris Pilkington on which it was based, Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, including the inclusion of a sympathetic black tracker
''I have had many parents of students at various Sydney high schools complain to me that film is compulsory viewing,'' he said. ''[The film] is a work of dramatic fiction masquerading as a true story.''
The NSW Board of Studies said the film had only ever been prescribed as a text in the English as a Second Language course, as part of a unit exploring the theme of ''belonging''. ''It does not appear as a text for History in our materials, but we don't prescribe texts in other areas than HSC English,'' said Rebecca Lloyd from the board.
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Broccoli. We eat it out of duty, not desire. Retirement plans are the broccoli of personal finance. You want to spend your money now. But you also know there will come a time when you will need retirement income. Unfortunately, then it is too late to begin saving for retirement. In fact, five years before that time is too late. Ten years before you retire might give you enough time to be able to put enough money aside, but you will need to live at a much-reduced standard (before and after retirement).
Let me take this broccoli metaphor one step farther. People generally begin healthy eating only after unhealthy eating has damaged them. Likewise, people often do little about retirement until they realize they cannot afford to retire.
There is good news, however. You can easily save enough for retirement, if you start early. In fact, the earlier you start, the less you have to save.
Let’s say you put $75 a month into a savings account earning 5 percent annually. After five years, you have deposited $4,500, but the account balance is $5,100. You got $600 free money from five years of interest — eight months of additional savings that didn’t come out of your pocket. Your money “earned” that money; you did not have to. Over the long term, this is powerful.
A Tale of Two Brothers
Let’s imagine twin brothers, Jim and Rob. Jim is a man of fleeting interests. Milk has a longer shelf life than his resolve. At age 25, Jim starts putting money into a retirement account. He saves $2,000 annually at 6.5 percent interest. Ten years later, he decides saving for the future is bogus. He never contributes another dime.
Then there is Rob. Once he finally makes up his mind, he follows through with lemming-like persistence. Rob could not decide to begin saving until he was 35. Then, just when his brother stops saving, Rob begins saving $2,000 annually at 6.5 percent interest. Rob — unlike fickle Jim — continues saving $2,000 each year until he is 65.
Time marches on. Jim and Rob are now both 65 years old. Jim has saved $20,000 ($2,000 a year for 10 years) and Rob has saved $60,000 ($2,000 a year for 30 years). But here’s where life can seem unjust: At age 65, Jim has a balance of $178,515, but Rob has only $172,750. Rob saved $40,000 more than Jim, but Rob end ups with almost $6,000 less.
Is this fair or just? No. Is the math correct? I am afraid so. Here’s the key point: Money saved early is worth much more than money saved late. The moral of Jim and Rob’s story? Besides proving that the world is unjust (Rob is a nice guy; he deserves better), it shows how difficult it is to put aside enough money for retirement. But if you begin early, it is possible for your money to earn enough money for you to retire on…
To read the rest of Reed’s feature on Retirement Plans for Artists, including the differences between traditional IRA, Roth IRA and SIMPLE plan, download the February/March issue, all about making, spending and saving money for your art business, in the Professional Artist Store.
DISCLAIMER: This article offers general tax and financial advice. If you need advice specific to your particular situation, consult a professional (which, by the way, is a tax deductible expense).
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Franciscan Friar Minor. Saint Francis of Assisi to evangelize the Moors of the West. He and his fellow missionaries preached in Italy, Aragon, Coimbra, Seville, and finally in Morocco, where they were banished and, upon their return, martyred.
- 16 January 1220 in Morocco by being scourged till his ribs appeared bare, having burning oil and vinegar poured into the wounds, body rolled on sharp stones and potsherds, then his head split by a sword
- relics were ransomed, and are now in the monastery of the Holy Cross in Coimbra, Portugal
- “Saint Accursies of Morocco“. CatholicSaints.Info. 16 August 2016. Web. 18 January 2017. <>
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Keep it moving in childcare: Yoga with children
Physical activity is an important part of any childcare program. Using yoga during the day can help children focus and calm themselves to reduce stress.
Increasing physical activity is important for everyone, but it is especially important for children. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) children and teens get 60 minutes or more of physical activity each day. A lot of children already meet these guidelines and if they don’t, there are many ways to increase physical activity throughout the day. Trying a variety of different types of activity can help to keep you and the children from getting bored with doing the same thing over and over. s
Michigan State University Extension encourages yoga, as it is a great activity for adults and children alike. Some of the benefits of yoga include a greater sense of self, increased ability to relax and calm down to reduce stress and improve flexibility, balance and coordination. Yoga has even been shown to help children with ADHD and autism, as it helps children to focus on breathing and become more aware of their own physical space.
Children of all ages can benefit from adding yoga into their day. There are some simple yoga exercises that kids can do to help calm them and stretch their bodies. Many yoga poses for adults are the same for children or can easily be adapted for them, some examples are shown on Namaste kid. You can also print off pictures of yoga poses to show children what they look like and encourage them to imitate what they see in the picture. In a childcare setting, using yoga to begin the day or taking a yoga break to welcome school age children into the center may help them transition from home or school to childcare. The Nemour’s foundation has some great resources and videos to help explain the poses to children. Another great time to integrate yoga into the day is before naptime or bedtime to help children calm down and be ready to fall into a peaceful sleep.
One very important thing to remember is that yoga may look different for every individual. Each person has a different strength, ability level, balance and flexibility, so as long as the child is taking the time to focus on the pose they are doing, what they look like is not as important. Yoga, like any other sport or physical activity, takes practice. Try to find simple ways to add yoga into the day to relieve stress and to help you and the children focus on just being in the moment.
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Working class Irish in New York City, angered by the Conscription Act that allowed exemptions from military service for $300, burned a provost marshal's office and the Colored Orphan Asylum. The act triggered a three-day anti-black race riot.
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TeachMeFinance.com - explain date-time group
date-time group 'date-time group' is an military term meaning '(DOD) The date and time, expressed in digits and time zone suffix, at which the message was prepared for transmission. (Expressed as six digits followed by the time zone suffix; first pair of digits denotes the date, second pair the hours, third pair the minutes, followed by a three-letter month abbreviation and two-digit year abbreviation.) Also called DTG'.
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Ada '83 Quality and Style:
Guidelines for Professional Programmers
Software Productivity Consortium, Inc.
, Herndon, Virginia.
CHAPTER 4: Program Structure
Chapter 4 Summary
In this section...
4.1 high-level structure
4.1 high-level structure
Place the specification of each library unit package in a separate file from its body.
Create an explicit specification, in a separate file, for each library unit subprogram.
Use subunits for the bodies of large units which are nested in other units.
Place each subunit in a separate file.
Use a consistent file naming convention.
Use subprograms to enhance abstraction.
Restrict each subprogram to the performance of a single action.
Use a function when the subprogram's primary purpose is to provide a single value.
Minimize the side effect of a function.
Use packages for information hiding.
Use packages with private types for abstract data types.
Use packages to model abstract entities appropriate to the problem domain.
Use packages to group together related type and object declarations (e.g., common declarations for two or more library units).
Use packages to group together related program units for configuration control or visibility reasons.
Encapsulate machine dependencies in packages. Place a software interface to a particular device in a package to facilitate a change to a different device.
Place low-level implementation decisions or interfaces in subprograms within packages.
Use packages and subprograms to encapsulate and hide program details that may change.
Make each package serve a single purpose.
Use packages to group functionally related data, types, and subprograms.
Avoid collections of unrelated objects and subprograms.
Avoid putting variables in package specifications.
Use tasks to model abstract, asynchronous entities within the problem domain.
Use tasks to control or synchronize access to tasks or other asynchronous entities (e.g., asynchronous I/O, peripheral devices, interrupts).
Use tasks to define concurrent algorithms for multiprocessor architectures.
Use tasks to perform concurrent, cyclic, or prioritized activities.
Put only what is needed for the use of a package into its specification.
Minimize the number of declarations in package specifications.
Do not include extra operations simply because they are easy to build.
Minimize the context (
) clauses in a package specification.
Reconsider subprograms which seem to require large numbers of parameters.
Do not manipulate global data within a subprogram or package merely to limit the number of parameters.
Avoid unnecessary visibility; hide the implementation details of a program unit from its users.
Nest package specifications within another package specification only for grouping operations, hiding common implementation details, or presenting different views of the same abstraction.
Restrict the visibility of program units as much as possible by nesting them inside other program units and hiding them inside package bodies.
Minimize the scope within which
those units directly needed.
Carefully consider encapsulation of tasks.
Declare a different exception name for each error that the user of a unit can make.
Declare a different exception name for each unavoidable and unrecoverable internal error which can occur in a unit.
Do not borrow an exception name from another context.
Export (declare visibly to the user) the names of all exceptions which can be raised.
In a package, document which exceptions can be raised by each subprogram and task entry.
Do not raise exceptions for internal errors which can be avoided or corrected within the unit.
Do not raise the same exception to report different types of errors which are distinguishable by the user of the unit.
Provide interrogative functions which allow the user of a unit to avoid causing exceptions to be raised.
When possible, avoid changing state information in a unit before raising an exception.
Catch and convert or handle all predefined and compiler-defined exceptions at the earliest opportunity.
Do not explicitly raise predefined or implementation-defined exceptions.
Never let an exception propagate beyond its scope.
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Both Pennsylvania senators signed a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking her to identify what steps the United States is taking to end "incitement" of Jews and Israel by the Palestinian Authority. Twenty-six senators, including Bob Casey and Pat Toomey, signed the letter. It was sent in response to the murder of a Jewish family in Itamar and a bus bombing in Jerusalem.
"The Itamar massacre was a sobering reminder that words matter, and that Palestinian incitement against Jews and Israel can lead to violence and terror," the senators wrote. "We urge you to redouble your efforts to impress upon the Palestinian leadership that continuing to condone incitement is not tolerable. We also urge you to consider focusing adequate training and educational programs in the West Bank and Gaza that promote peaceful coexistence with Israel."
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency wrote about this letter and others, noting how members of Congress are eager to show their "pro-Israel credentials" when violence occurs.
Let us be honest. There is incitement on both sides, hence violence. Most of the violence comes from the Israeli Occupation Force and the illegal settlers. And there is mass indoctrination and incitement in Yeshivas and settler schools. http://sajepress.com
Incitement like putting Mickey mouse on Palestinian TV as a martyr? The incitement is one sided, and the defense of incitement is one sided. The rest are details to be worked out peacefully, not with more standard Muslim terrorism...
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It’s important for potential dog owners to consider their lifestyle when choosing a new canine companion. For energetic people who thrive on physical activity, the following breeds might be a good match. Just be sure you have plenty of time to dedicate to these fun-loving dogs’ exercise needs.
- Australia Shepherd (pictured): These beautiful dogs are known for both their energetic personalities and their intelligence. They make great companions for families who love the outdoors. Australian Shepherds were originally bred as herding dogs, so if not given an outlet to use some of their energy, they might try to herd their family.
- Boston Terrier: If you’re looking for a friendly little dog that’s full of energy, a Boston Terrier might be the dog for you. These spunky dogs tend to do well in agility and obedience classes, which can be a fun activity for both dog and owner.
- Australian Cattle Dog: These dogs make wonderful running buddies due to their high endurance level. However, it’s important to make sure Australian Cattle Dogs get enough exercise every single day, otherwise their extra energy may present itself as destructive behavior.
- Jack Russell Terrier: Originally bred to hunt rats, the Jack Russell Terrier is a very active breed. For families with plenty of time and attention to devote, the Jack Russell Terrier makes a loyal and fun-loving companion.
- Border Collie: For potential owners looking for a dog that likes agility courses or long games of fetch, a Border Collie may be the perfect match. The Border Collie is considered one of the most intelligent dog breeds, so they need daily activity as an outlet for that intelligence.
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Cork is a versatile, natural material that is suitable for all sorts of inventive applications. Of course, you’ll find it in wine stoppers. However, it can also be used to produce paper, sporting equipment, cosmetics, and cinema special effects. NASA has used cork for decades to protect heat shields on spacecraft. Clearly, it’s an exceptionally durable and energy-efficient material. Now, thanks to exterior cork spray insulation, you can harness the power of cork for your own eco-friendly home or business.
The Disadvantages of Fiberglass Insulation
Since the 1930s, pink batts of fiberglass insulation have been the go-to insulation of choice for American homebuilders. Unfortunately, there are many disadvantages to using fiberglass. First, it’s a low-density material, which means it’s prone to air leaks. Second, it’s hard to make it fit into unusually shaped crevices. It’s also extremely vulnerable to moisture. When fiberglass insulation becomes wet, it loses all of its R-value, or its insulating properties. And of course, wet fiberglass invites toxic mold into the home. Furthermore, fiberglass isn’t an environmentally friendly building material.
The Application of Exterior Cork Spray Insulation
Exterior cork spray insulation is an ideal alternative to old-fashioned fiberglass batts. A contractor can spray it directly onto the wall surface. One unique characteristic of cork is that it contains micro-suction cups. These enable it to securely stick to virtually any building surface, including vinyl siding and stucco.
ThermaShield’s proprietary blend of cork and resin is excellent for exterior applications. This is because it retains its insulating properties, even with minimal thickness. In fact, contractors have applied this product with thickness levels ranging from one to three millimeters. Even with the thinnest of applications, ThermaShield’s exterior cork spray insulation retains its optimum insulating properties.
Another benefit is the aesthetic quality of sprayed cork. Unlike those ugly pink batts of fiberglass insulation, sprayed cork is a building material you’ll want to show off. It’s available in a range of colors to match your preferred color scheme and décor. Custom colors are also available.
The Cellular Structure of Cork
Sprayed cork is a better insulator than traditional options due to its unique cellular structure. Cork is composed of organic foam tissue that features small, closed cells that lack intercellular voids and are arranged in a honeycomb fashion. The dimensions of the cells are smaller than those of synthetic foam insulators. As a result, cork has a higher density than synthetic foams.
Thanks to the unique cellular structure of cork, it boasts a very low solid mass volume fraction—only about 10%. This means the rate of heat transfer is exceptionally low. In other words, cork is a poor conductor of heat. In addition, because the cells are quite small and completely closed off, cork eliminates the potential for convection and significantly reduces radiation. The application of exterior spray cork insulation onto your home or office building will mean that you can look forward to significantly reduced utility bills.
Spotlight on Suberin
Suberin is a complex polyester biopolymer that contains long chain fatty acids, or suberin acids. Cork in particular has a high concentration of waxy, waterproof suberin within its cellular structure. This is significant because suberin lends an impressive degree of thermal stability to the material.
This means that buildings protected with exterior cork spray insulation are free from the adverse effects of sudden changes in temperature. Buildings with ThermaShield’s proprietary blend of cork can better maintain a constant interior temperature despite fluctuations in the external environment, even with only the minimal application thickness.
The Smart Way to Fill in Cracks and Gaps
Unlike other insulating materials, exterior cork spray insulation is flexible enough to completely fill in cracks and gaps. When sprayed cork is applied, it creates a breathable “skin” on the home that seals out moisture and improves energy efficiency. By sealing in the cracks and gaps, cork spray is able to eliminate air leakage in all the nooks and crannies of the building.
The Perks of Environmentally Sustainable Insulation
If you’re looking for a cutting-edge method of improving the energy efficiency of your home, there’s a good chance that you want to do more than just lower your heating and cooling costs. You may also be concerned about your carbon footprint—or the ways in which your daily living activities are contributing to climate change. Boosting your home’s energy efficiency is just one way that you can reduce your impact on the environment. After all, other insulators can also improve energy efficiency. But unlike cork, these insulators aren’t typically naturally sourced and minimally processed.
Cork spray insulation has the distinction of being sourced in an environmentally friendly and sustainable fashion. That’s because it’s harvested from the cork oak tree, which is native to the Mediterranean region of Europe. Cork is essentially the bark of this tree. It evolved to protect the tree from temperature fluctuations and extreme weather.
Cork is a sustainable product because the harvesting process does not involve cutting down any trees. In fact, the production of cork never kills or otherwise harms any trees. Cork harvesters take care of these trees so that harvesting can take place again in eight to nine years. A well-tended cork oak tree is capable of living for more than 200 years! During that time, the tree continues to release oxygen into the environment, helping to mitigate climate change.
Get in Touch with ThermaShield
Here at ThermaShield, it’s our mission to help our customers minimize their impact on the environment. This helps to preserve the ecosystem, as well as the health and quality of life of future generations. We offer ThermaShield anywhere in the United States. We also provide application services in select areas of Texas, Arizona, and California. When you’re ready to take the next step toward a more energy-efficient home or business, call our team at (520) 600-8722 to see if you are eligible for a no-obligation estimate.
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In a move that could lay bare the inner workings of the consumer data industry, eight members of Congress have opened a sweeping investigation into data brokers — companies that collect, collate, analyze and sell billions of details annually about consumers’ offline, online and mobile activities for marketing and other purposes.
Representative Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, and Representative Joe L. Barton, Republican of Texas, co-chairmen of the Bipartisan Congressional Privacy Caucus, along with six other lawmakers, sent letters of inquiry on Tuesday afternoon to nine leading industry players. In the letters, the legislators requested extensive information about how the companies amass, refine, sell and share consumer data.
Data brokers often collect details about people’s financial, retail and recreational activities to help clients like airlines, automakers, banks, credit card issuers and retailers retain their best customers and woo new ones.
The letter’s recipients included marketing services firms like Acxiom and Epsilon; consumer reporting agencies like Experian and Equifax, which have separate credit reporting and consumer analytics divisions; Fair Isaac, now known as FICO, the credit scoring services company; and Intelius, a company that offers reverse phone look-up and background check services. The letter gave the companies three weeks to respond.
The Congressional inquiry heightens the scrutiny of a largely unregulated industry whose companies sell their services to third parties, rarely interacting directly with consumers.
In 2010, the Federal Trade Commission began its own investigation into the practices of more than a dozen data compilers. One of those companies, Spokeo, recently agreed to settle charges with the government that it had violated federal law by selling consumers’ personal data for employment screening. Enforcement actions against several other data brokers are pending, the agency said.
Now Mr. Markey says he wants the Congressional investigation to further expose data broker practices, saying some had the potential to affect people’s access to education, health care, employment or economic opportunities.
But Mr. Markey’s ultimate goal is to determine whether legislators should enact a law regulating the industry. Unlike consumer reporting agencies, which are required by federal law to show people their own credit reports and allow them to correct errors, information brokers are not currently required to show consumers information collected about them for marketing purposes.
“We have gone from an era of data keepers to this new era where data reapers are able to create very complex profiles of every American,” Mr. Markey said in a telephone interview.
He said he was particularly troubled by data broker programs that categorize individual consumers as desirable or undesirable sales prospects, often without their knowledge and consent, a practice that he said raised privacy concerns. “I’m hoping to ratchet up the transparency so we can foster a system of oversight and consumer control over their data.”
The privacy caucus’s letter was prompted by an article last month in The New York Times about Acxiom, based in Little Rock, Ark. Mr. Markey’s office gave The Times a copy of the letter.
Jennifer Barrett Glasgow, the chief privacy officer of Acxiom, said company executives had testified before Congress numerous times to inform legislators about the steps they take to protect consumers. “We are happy to provide whatever information we can to further inform interested parties,” she said.
Other industry representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The privacy caucus does not have subpoena power. But Mr. Markey said other industries, like cellphone carriers, had complied with his requests in the past. He said he expected similar cooperation from data brokers.
The letter asked each company to provide a list of all of its sources of data; a list of the specific kinds of consumer information, including ethnic, race or religious data, it collects; descriptions of the data collection methods used, like tracking of social network or mobile phone activity; explanations about each product and service the company has marketed to third parties since January 2009, and the type of data used in such products and services; details about whether any of the products or services are federally regulated; explanations about the security measures used to protect consumer data; as well as descriptions of the opt-out, data access, correction and deletion options the company offers consumers.
The direct marketing industry already offers consumers choices about managing marketing pitches sent through the mail. Digital marketers have a program for people who wish to opt out of receiving online ads tailored to their behavior.
But Mr. Markey said consumers also needed greater access to data collected about them so they could make more informed choices.
“You have to make sure that the values of the physical world accompany the transition to the virtual, digital world,” he said.Continue reading the main story
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Acupuncture School in Indiana - IN
Acupuncture is enjoying increasing attention in the mainstream medical community. In fact, some residents at Indiana University Medical Center put in training at Essence of China Acupuncture and Herb Clinic in Indianapolis. Indiana is also among the states where addiction specialists can use acupuncture among the approved protocols for helping people quit addictive substances. Nationwide, it is becoming increasingly common for insurance companies to cover some services.
Acupuncture schools in Indiana allow students to pursue careers in this exciting branch of complementary medicine. The route that professionals need to take depends on their field and prior training. Chemical dependency specialists may use acupuncture techniques under the supervision of medical professionals with relatively little training. Chiropractors also have relatively low requirements for training hours. Medical doctors, as well as dentists, podiatrists, and osteopaths, will find that acupuncture is within their scope of practice.
The above groups should have an easier time finding resources within the state. People who are not licensed in a related health field, though, will need many hours of training from an approved program. Luckily, while the certifying body, ACAOM, does not list accredited programs within Indiana, it does list some schools with nontraditional scheduling, where a lot of the coursework is completed at a distance.
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The new president of FiBL Europe is Jürn Sanders. He took office on June 14, 2022, succeeding Beate Huber. The agronomist, political scientist and economist has been advising the EU Commission and various national and regional governments on agricultural and food policy since 2007.
On June 14, 2022, Jürn Sanders succeeded Beate Huber as President of FiBL Europe, the institute that represents the national institutes of the FiBL Group (FiBL Switzerland, FiBL Germany, FiBL Austria, FiBL France and the Hungarian Research Institute of Organic Agriculture ÖMKi) at the European level. Huber previously held the presidency for two years and now sits on the three-member FiBL Switzerland Board of Directors since April 1, 2022.
As an expert on the politics and economics of organic agriculture, Jürn Sanders has been advising the EU Commission and various national and regional governments on their agricultural and food policies since 2007. Having already worked at FiBL Switzerland for ten years from 2001 to 2010, Sanders returned to FiBL at the beginning of 2022 as Head of the Department of Socioeconomics. In between, he headed the “Environment and Sustainability” research group at the Thünen Institute for Business Administration in Germany from 2007 to 2021.
Sanders’ predecessor, Beate Huber, is pleased with his unanimous nomination by the Board and by Sanders’ commitment: “Jürn Sanders’ thematic focus is European agricultural policy. With his expertise, he will strengthen the interests of the FiBL Group’s national institutes and organic farming research in Brussels.”
“We may have a decade left to develop viable solutions for more climate protection and biodiversity conservation”, says Jürn Sanders
Commenting on his election, Sanders himself says: “I am very much looking forward to this responsibility. We are facing the great challenge of transforming food systems, and FiBL Europe can play an important role in this. We may have a decade left to develop viable solutions for more climate protection and biodiversity conservation. It is therefore all the more important now to develop powerful concepts across Europe and implement them together,”.
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Germans vote in a general election on September 26 that will decide who succeeds Angela Merkel as chancellor and becomes Europe’s most important leader.
POLITICO is tracking data on party support, key issues, candidates and political donations — factors that will all have a bearing on the outcome of the election.
The following charts are updated daily with the most recent information to give a live snapshot of the state of the race.
Tracking the polls
Even a well-conducted poll can be misleading if interpreted in isolation. To create a more robust measure of political opinion, POLITICO’s Poll of Polls amalgamates a set of quality polls on German voting intention into a single estimate of national election sentiment. That dilutes the impact of outlier results and shows trends in party support more clearly. (For more information on the methodology behind Poll of Polls click here).
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Which parties will form the next German government? Estimating exactly how many MPs each party will get — and how many will be needed for a majority — is not easy due to Germany’s complex method of allocating seats. That method means even the total number of seats in the next parliament is uncertain. But some pollsters are bold enough to project seat numbers for each party — and the threshold for a majority.
What’s driving those overall trends in voting intention?
Parties can benefit if voters think they have a strong response to an important issue: For example, the surge in voter concern over migration in 2018 was correlated with a poll hike for the far-right AfD party. Likewise, higher support for the Greens in 2019 came at a time of increased concern over climate change.
Unsurprisingly, polling by FG Wahlen indicates that the coronavirus shot to the top of voters’ concerns in March last year and has stayed high ever since. But it has dropped significantly since April this year as the crisis eased, with climate change increasing in importance even before the devastating floods across parts of Germany in mid-July.
In Germany, the chancellor is not elected directly by the voters, but by the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag. Its composition will be determined on election day.
But many voters will of course be thinking about who they see as the best candidate to lead the government. Polls asking voters which candidate they would pick if they could choose a chancellor directly give a good indication of the strength of the candidates, and whether they are a help or a hindrance to their parties.
Political parties in Germany are less dependent on donations from individuals and corporations than in some other countries as they also get significant income from state funding and membership fees. Nonetheless, big private donations can help give them an edge in election season.
By law, only donations larger than €50,000 must be registered with the German parliament “immediately.” Smaller donations only become public after about two years in the parties’ financial reports.
POLITICO scrapes data on large donations from the German parliament’s website as it becomes available, presented in the charts below.
It’s worth noting that in previous campaigns, smaller donations boosted the budget of parties such as the SPD and the Left party, so they’re likely on a stronger financial footing than the data below suggest.
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DESCRIPTION (Applicant's Abstract): Somatizing patients -- those presenting to physicians with multiple medically unexplained physical complaints - constitute an important and vexing problem for the primary health care system. Patients with this syndrome use health care resources extensively but receive little benefit. In addition, these patients experience significant distress and disability. To date, no medical or psychiatric intervention has been demonstrated in controlled trials, to produce clinically significant and lasting symptom relief or improved functional status in these patients. We propose herein a randomized controlled trial (N=240) of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) versus medical care-as-usual for primary care patients with high levels of medically unexplained somatic symptoms (patients who meet DSM-IV criteria for a Somatoform Disorder as well as 'minimum symptom thresholds for Escobar's "abridged somatization"). The intervention will take place at primary care sites as somatizers are often reluctant to use psychiatric services or even admit to psychiatric problems. In proposing this research, we are encouraged by the positive results of several uncontrolled trials of CBT for somatization, including a pilot test of our own manualized intervention. A secondary aim of the proposed work is to examine the effectiveness of the CBT protocol for a Latino sample, because high levels of unexplained physical symptoms are quite prominent in many subgroups of Latinos. Moreover, Latinos are the fastest growing minority population in the U.S., and are projected to account for 24.5% of the total U.S. population by the year 2050, from 10.5% currently (Bureau of the Census, 1996). In spite of the relatively high prevalence of somatization in this group, to our knowledge, there are no controlled trials of the effectiveness of treatments for somatization in the Latino community.
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I've been following Richard's post on the Cyberdojo for quite some time. Although I don't agree with everything he has to say, I find myself agreeing with him most of the time. I received an email from him, saying he was joining my monthly newsletter list while stating that he was surprised that I invited him, since most lists ask him to "go away". Well, here is one of his posts that I saved, meaning to ask his permission to post it. I forgot about it until he contacted me today. The post should provide some interesting discussion. GEM
Richard McEvoy wrote:
First off, I admit that this piece is almost entirely polemical in nature and makes no concession to any counter argument. Having said that, I hope it will provoke some new thinking on the subject.
The origins of Karate are supposedly lost in the mists of time. What we can be sure of however is that the majority of Karateka who are credited with founding the modern sport (Kanryo Higaonna, Matsumura etc) learnt their unarmed martial arts from Chinese martial artists either directly or via their teachers. Even if they had native fighting techniques of their own, they buried them in the Chinese forms and training methods that they learnt.
IOW Karate is neither more nor less than a variant of Kung Fu. And fights were conducted in accordance with Chinese fighting customs using some form of sticky hands type duelling.
However, when Karate went public, it was changed from a Chinese martial art to a form of physical callesthenics largely based around group teaching of kata to High School children with the aim of preparing them physically and mentally for service in the Japanese military machine. Little or no two man practice was involved.
Some Karateka continued to learn in the traditional fashion but the majority of new Karateka on the scene learnt in the new way and never saw or experienced traditional practice which was done in private.
During WW2 a lot of the traditionally taught Karateka died as result of the consequences of war reducing their number to a mere handful.
In the post war period, Karate again became popular but with so few traditional teachers around it was again not practised in the traditional fashion. Instead a new form of sparring based loosely on Kendo rules, not the rules/forms of Chinese boxing.
Sticky hands fighting where the loser was the one on the ground was replaced by points sparring where the loser was simply the one who was struck first. Instead of close combat techniques coming to the fore, striking from a distance became the important skill. Some teachers still retained elements of push/sticky hands in their training but the majority were forced by popularity to accept the new form of sparring.
Effectively at this point the Karate kata techniques which were based around the Chinese sticky hands/close combat duelling systems were rendered both ineffectual and irrelevant as training devices. They persisted only through custom.
So when Karate came to the West, it brought with it a training system based on sticky hands and a sparring system based on points scoring. IOW the fighting system taught and the training system were completely mismatched. And we wonder why western Karateka get confused about what the kata are for.
The problem is that without a knowledge of the history of Karate's development and in particular its radical departure from traditional methods around 100 years ago, Western martial artists are left scratching their heads over patterns supposedly related to combat which don't match either their sparring experience, sports combat experience from other arenas or even their street fighting/duelling experience (which also developed on different paths to the Chinese systems) because any attempt to interpret the kata without this knowledge is quite literally doomed to failure.
Perhaps more importantly because this knowledge was never passed to Westerners and indeed as you can understand from the above was never passed to the majority of oriental Karateka in the past century either, real Karate utilising the sticky hands duelling methods has effectively died a death.
NO ONE IS LEARNING TO DO KARATE LIKE THAT ANYMORE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.
Instead what is being taught and practised is an ersatz martial art cum sport which is neither an effective unarmed duelling method nor a good basis for learning self defence.
Having said this, some Karateka, westerners in particular, have gone in search of better and are teaching under the guise of Karate effective forms of mixed martial arts. But, once again, these are not the original way of doing Karate and the kata still remain irrelevant to training.
If we were interested in reviving Karate in its original form, we would have to take the katas we have been taught and combine them with a knowledge of sticking hands methods which can still be acquired in Kung Fu training halls. The alternative is to forget the katas and train in mixed martial arts and just call it Karate because it's a convenient label.
Which is the correct approach?
I think the answer depends on why you do Karate. If you are doing it with any notion whatsoever that someday it might come in useful on the street, it would be better to forget tradition and just practise mixed martial arts because Western street fighting does not use the Chinese sticky hands approach. OTOH if you are the Karate equivalent of the Society for Creative Anachronisms then returning to the sticky hands form of fighting is the way to go.
The choice is up to you.
Unless you think I am wrong and there is some better explanation for where Karate has gone wrong (or right for that matter).
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Imagine the "smart" kitchen of the future: 3D Food Printers, Ovens that can be operated from your smart phone, Refrigerators and Kitchen Units that scan the items stored in them; thus allowing them to reorder essential items from your home delivery shopping service. Imagine the things a fully interconnected, computerised kitchen could do and you begin to realise how much time and effort could be saved, freeing up your time by managing the mundane jobs in the modern family household.
Your smart-phone may become integral to modern home life in the future. There are many Apps for smart-phones that monitor your health, these could be linked to your kitchens central computer, making it possible for your kitchen to provide you with recipes that suit each individual family members nutritional needs.
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Dan Smith, the owner had this to say about future kitchen trends:
Dan said “In regards to Future kitchen trends, It doesn't end with just your Iphone 10 controlling your kitchen! You could have soil-less gardens that provide you with fresh herbs and salads. You may have an aquarium stocked with fresh live fish. The modern kitchen could easily be equipped with a recycling station that sorts and compacts waste. Energy consumption could be monitored and minimised, water consumption too. All of these great ideas would be great for the environment.
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BULLYING IS A BIG PROBLEM
70% OF YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE WITNESSED BULLYING.
ONE IN FOUR YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE BEEN BULLIED.
BULLYING DOES SERIOUS HARM.
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Bullying is a big problem in the world today. Some redheads have experienced redhead bullying first hand, and it is something that needs to stop. Part of our mission at How to be a Redhead is to give confidence and empowerment to those with red hair; so when a beauty brand comes out with a hair line with its target message about ending bullying, it hits a special place in our hearts.
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Meet Red Hat: the billion-dollar Linux company.
The 17-year-old Raleigh, North Carolina software vendor is set to release its fiscal 2012 earnings numbers on Wednesday, and if things go as planned, it should bump past $1 billion in annual revenue.
That would mark the first time that any open-source company has cracked the $1 billion barrier -- something that must have seemed pretty close to impossible back in 1993 when Red Hat's first CEO, Bob Young, decided to make a go of AAC Corporation, as Red Hat was originally called. At the time, the company was as much a bookseller as a Linux company.
Other companies have made big money selling Linux -- Intel, IBM, Dell, and others have used it as a way to sell hardware and support services -- but Red Hat has managed the tricky business of building a software platform that big businesses will pay for. Corporate types like Red Hat Linux because it's certified to run a lot of the business applications that they use. That means that when they call up Oracle or SAP for tech support, they don't get the run-around.
There are countless open source software projects under development. Few of them are hits, and even fewer are commercial successes, says Walter Pritchard, a financial analyst with Citigroup. "You kind of have to be in the right place at the right time."
Because Red Hat sells annual subscriptions to its Linux products and then books that revenue gradually over the course of the year, its earnings tend to be pretty predictable. Red Hat was already saying that it would break the $1 billion barrier back in June. But the company declined to comment for this story.
Pritchard expects Red Hat to report $1 billion in annual revenue on Wednesday when it announces earnings after the close of the market. But he's hard-pressed to think of other open source companies that come even close. So are we.
In fact, despite all of the chatter over the past 10 years about disruptive open source business models, Red Hat's landmark earnings report is only going to underscore what an exception it really is. It's closest rival, SuSE Linux, has pegged annual sales at $170 million. When it filed to go public back in 2006, open-source database vendor MySQL's annual revenues were just $50 million.
To a large extent, Red Hat is cashing in on a much broader community effort that has developed Linux and sold it as a viable platform to software developers, says George Weiss, an analyst with the Gartner technology research firm. But Red had a hand in this. "Give credit to Red Hat for fashioning a business model that created value from subscription support," he adds.
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Texas Instruments (TI) (Dallas, TX) (NASDAQ:TXN) has introduced two 3-phase, brushless DC (BLDC) motor drivers that allow designers to spin motors in minutes rather than months. Traditional BLDC motor designs require five to 10 components, along with firmware. The sensorless 5-V, 680-mA DRV10866 and the 12-V, 1.5-A DRV11873 cuts this component count to one with no firmware required, significantly reducing board space and system costs, while helping customers speed their time to market. Features include:
- A single motor driver that eliminates the need for external gate drivers, inverters, position detection, and feedback.
- A microcontroller (MCU) and firmware to cut board space, system cost, and development time.
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- An operating voltage range of 1.65 to 5.5 V.
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Local authorities can require an archaeological evaluation to clarify the extent, nature and quality of archaeological remains on a site before granting planning consent.
Evaluation techniques can include non-intrusive surveys such as geophysical survey, fieldwalking (collecting artefacts from the surfaces of arable fields) and topographic survey of historic earthworks. The most common evaluation technique is the excavation of trial trenches or test-pits to examine the presence or absence of buried archaeological remains and to determine their significance.
Cotswold Archaeology can carry out all necessary evaluation works for a project. Using our extensive experience of both urban and rural projects across the UK, we will negotiate a suitable sampling strategy to give the most effective results within the shortest possible timeframe.
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G20 Finance Ministers have welcomed a new OECD/G20 framework designed to help governments develop financial strategies for disaster risk management.
In both developing and developed economies, the awareness of the importance of financial education led to the development of an increasing number of tailored national strategies for financial education. These frameworks promote a smoother and more sustainable co-operation between interested parties and stakeholders, avoid duplication of resources and allow the development of articulated and tailored roadmaps with measurable and
OECD Working Paper on Finance, Insurance and Private Pensions, No.15: This paper presents the findings from a pilot study undertaken in 14 countries. The analysis focuses on variations in financial knowledge, behaviour and attitude across countries and within countries by socio-demographics.
The potential implications of gender differences in financial literacy are far-reaching. This paper describes the findings of a review of the literature on gender differences in financial literacy with the aim to better understand their causes and consequences, as well as possible policy responses. It provides a starting point to collect further evidence, develop analytical work and case studies, and to identify areas that deserve
This seminar focused on how to improve the monitoring of insurance markets through the provision of sound insurance statistics and indicators both in the Asia region and globally.
These articles were prepared for a symposium on bank failure resolution and crisis management which focused, in particular, on the use of guarantees and the spill-overs between the credit qualities of sovereigns and banking systems.
This symposium proceedings examines three aspects of financial education: monitoring and evaluation, use of behavioral economics, and financial literacy and defined contribution pension plans.
Policy actions proposed in this paper are based on initial OECD research undertaken and are intended to generate debate and discussion. Further research is planned on these topics within the framework of the project on institutional investors and long term investment. OECD Working Papers on Finance, Insurance and Private Pensions, No.13.
In the wake of the 2010 earthquake, this paper considers policy options for expanding the proportion of future Chilean earthquake losses that would be covered via new and expanded risk transfer mechanisms.
The Working Paper “The Role of Guarantees in Defined Contribution Pensions” argues that, while there is a clear need to better protect retirement income from financial market volatility, the costs and benefits of investment return guarantees should be carefully evaluated.
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History and Climate Change is a balanced and comprehensive overview of the links between climate and man's advance from early to modern times. It draws upon demographic, economic, urban, religious and military perspectives. It is a synthesis of the many historical and scientific theories, which have arisen regarding man's progress through the ages. Central to the book is the question of whether climate variation is a fundamental trigger mechanism from which other historical sequences develop, or one amongst a number of other factors, decisive only when a regime/society is poised for change. Evidence for prolonged climate change is not that extensive. But it is clear that climatic variation has regularly played a part in historical development. Paricular attention is here paid to Europe since AD 211. Cold and warmth, wetness and aridity can create contrary reactions within societies, which can be interpreted in vary different ways by scholars from differenct disciplines. Does climate change exacerbate famine and epidemics? Did climate fluctuation play a part in pivotal historical events such as the mass exodus of Hsuing-nu from China, the pressure of the Huns on the Romans and the genesis of the Crusades? Did the bitter Finnish winter of 1939-40 ensure the ultimate defeat of Hitler? These episodes, and many others are discussed throughout the book in the authors distinctive style, with maps and photographs to illustrate the examples given.Steered by how the Americas are configured, the advancing water does a vorticity flip, emerging from the Florida Straits as the Gulf Stream. ... Quite the steepest regional gradient anywhere in mean sea-surface temperature (from 21 to 4AdC in 600 miles along the ... On the Arctic Circle at 4AdW (in the Norwegian Sea ), there is a positive anomaly of 12AdC. The anomaly isopleth (i.e. line ... In July, its median latitude may be 15 to 16 degrees north yet in January it is only 3 to 4 degrees south.
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Donuts or pompom hats for often used as decoration. It can be either on top of the cap and at the ends of the ears - a variant hats with earflaps.
Pompon - a decoration of the thread spherical shape. bulky yarns can be used to make fuzzy pampushek.
For hard linen pompons, crochet, you need to tightly fill any suitable material (eg, cotton).
You will need
- Thick cardboard, thread color of your hat, a pair of scissors, a needle with a large eye
Make dumplings for hats is not difficult. On cardboard, draw a circle with a compass, the outer diameter of which is equal to 6 cm. Draw a circle with a diameter of 2 cm circle in the center of the resulting.
Cut both of the circle obtained. Make a second, exactly the same the pattern and fold the two templates with each other.
Take a string about two meters in length andstart making beaming. Wrapped in a circle your cardboard ring, passing thread through the inner circle. After three turns attach strings tail coiled beneath a circle and then continue coiling thread. Winding must be free, but not weak.
Cover the surface of your template rows. Second row superimposed on the first. And all subsequent rows stacked on the previous ones. Then pompom will be round and smooth.
Hide the thread ending at the turns and take another. Tails thread fasten under the turns. Do beaming up until the opening of the inner circle will not be quite narrow.
Thread the needle and continue wound. When the needle is held with great difficulty, complete this phase of the work. The end of the filament coils under secure.
Spread gently coils in one place. Find a cardboard circles under the turns of thread. Between them, cut the yarn in a circle. Cutting Carefully, strictly between cardboard patterns.
Pull the prepared strand between the cardboard circles, wrap the beam three times and tie a strong knot.
Now remove the cardboard template and trim the thread with scissors rough, giving a rounded shape pompoms.
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If a teacher decides to utilize the Class Portal and allow students who are under the age of 13 to submit their own artworks or enter titles, statements, or other information, they must either obtain parent permission prior to using the Class Portal, or choose to act as the agent of the parent and provide consent on their behalf.
The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) protects the online privacy of children under the age of 13 and requires Artsonia to obtain parental consent or notice (as appropriate) prior to the collection, use and disclosure of that child's personal information.
There are a couple ways to obtain parental consent for using the Class Portal. The first and simplest way is for teachers to agree to act as the parent's agent, and provide consent on their behalf to use Artsonia solely in the educational context. This form is commonly referred to as "school consent". Under this type of consent, no artwork or related content submitted by students will be shown publicly, unless parents give additional parental consent to Artsonia. For more information on "school consent" under COPPA, please see the FTC's FAQ Section N.
The second way to obtain parental consent for using the Class Portal is for teachers to send home a physical permission slip for parents to sign and return prior to allowing their child to use the Class Portal. Here is a sample template for teachers within the European Union (subject to GDPR) and a sample template for teachers from US and non-EU countries. If a teacher wishes to use this method (and does not wish to act as the parent's agent to provide consent on their behalf), please contact us here and Artsonia will update the teacher account accordingly.
NOTE: Schools in different states, countries and communities have different regulations and approaches, and Artsonia cannot advise you on compliance with the laws applicable to your school. You should obtain any parental consent that may be required by your school (including for COPPA and FERPA) in a manner that complies with the laws of your jurisdiction.
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Map of Germany (Western Sheet).
1891 (dated) 27 x 20 in (68.58 x 50.8 cm)
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This is a beautiful example of Rand McNally and Company's 1891 map of western Germany. It covers the western portion of the German empire, mainly focusing on modern day Germany. It includes the modern day nations of Germany and parts of the Czech Republic. This map was created a year after the dismissal of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the 'Iron Chancellor' who during the 19th century, pursued a policy of uniting the German principalities into a 'Lesser Germany' which would exclude the Austrian empire. Color coded according to territories, the map notes several towns, cities, rivers and various other topographical details with relief shown by hachure. This map was issued as plate nos. 58 and 59 in the 1895 issue of Rand McNally and Company's Indexed Atlas of the World - possibly the finest atlas Rand McNally ever issued.
Rand McNally (fl. 1856 - present) is an American publisher of maps, atlases and globes. The company was founded in 1856 when William H. Rand, a native of Quincy, Massachusetts, opened a print shop in Chicago. Rand hired the recent Irish immigrant Andrew McNally to assist in the shop giving him a wage of 9 USD per week. The duo landed several important contracts, including the Tribune's (later renamed the Chicago Tribune) printing operation. In 1872 Rand McNally produced its first map, a railroad guide, using new cost effective printing technique known as wax process engraving. As the Chicago developed as a railway hub the Rand firm, now incorporated as Rand McNally, began producing a wide array of maps and guides. Over time the firm expanded into atlases, globes, education books, and general literature. By embracing the cost effective wax engraving process Rand McNally was able to dominate the map and atlas market, pushing more traditional American lithographic publishers like Colton, Johnson, and Mitchell out of business. Eventually Rand McNally opened an annex office in New York City headed by Caleb S. Hammond, whose name is today synonymous with maps and atlases, and who later started his own map company, C. S. Hammond & Co. Both firms remain in business.
Rand McNally & Co., Foreign Countries. Rand, McNally & Co's Indexed Atlas of the World (Complete in Two Volumes)…, (Chicago) 1895.
Very good. Minor wear along original centerfold. Text on verso.
Rumsey 3565.014 (1897 edition). Philip (atlases) 1026 (1898 edition).
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Greg Medcraft, the chairperson of Australia's corporate regulator, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, believes that the blockchain technology employed by Bitcoin has the potential to dramatically change the global financial system.
Blockchain technology "has potential to fundamentally change our markets and our financial system," Medcraft said in remarks prepared for a speech at the Adelaide campus of Carnegie Mellon University.
Bitcoin's blockchain acts as a decentralised register of all transactions involving the cryptocurrency (the technology is also employed by currencies based on Bitcoin, such as Litecoin).
The ASIC chairperson said he saw four ways in which blockchain technology could potentially transform capital markets.
Potentially the technology could improve the speed and efficiency of transactions, he said.
"At present, when investors buy and sell debt and equity securities or transact derivatives, they generally rely on settlement and registration systems that take sometimes several days to settle trades. It can take even longer, sometimes, where the trade involves cross-border parties," Medcraft said.
"Blockchain holds potential to automate this whole process."
The second change is the potential disintermediation of transactions.
"Blockchain automates trust; it eliminates the need for 'trusted' third-party intermediaries," the ASIC chairperson said.Read more: Money laundering and digital currencies
"In the traditional market, buyers and sellers can't automatically trust each other, so they use intermediaries to help give them the comfort they need.
"With blockchain, the decentralised ledger offers this trust. Investors can deal with each other and with issuers in private markets directly."
The technology could also reduce transaction costs, the ASIC chairperson said.
"By eliminating the need to use settlement and registration systems and other intermediaries, there is significant potential to reduce transaction costs for investors and issuers," Medcraft said.
"A June report backed by Santander InnoVentures, the Spanish bank’s fintech investment fund, estimated that blockchain could save lenders up to $20 billion annually in settlement, regulatory, and crossborder payment costs."
Finally, it was possible that the technology could improve market access.
"Because of the global nature of blockchain, global markets have the potential to become even more easily accessible to investors and issuers; therefore making it easier for investors and for issuers to invest in and issue debt and equity securities," Medcraft said.
The blockchain "potentially has profound implications for our markets and for how we regulate," Medcraft said.Read more: Have journalists found the inventor of Bitcoin or simply been duped?
"As regulators and policymakers, we need to ensure what we do is about harnessing the opportunities and the broader economic benefits – not standing in the way of innovation and development.
"At the same time, we need to mitigate the risks these developments pose to our objectives. We also need to ensure those who benefit from the technology trust it. And, at the end of the day, we are working to ensure that investors and issuers can continue to have trust and confidence in the market."
Earlier this year a Senate inquiry recommended a major shift in the regulatory treatment of digital currencies such as Bitcoin in Australia.
The change would remove what advocates of Bitcoin have claimed is a major regulatory barrier to the success of Australian businesses based on the crypto-currency.
The headline recommendation of the inquiry's report would significantly alter how the Australian Taxation Office treats Bitcoin. Currently the ATO does not treat Bitcoin as a form of currency.
Instead, transactions involving bitcoin are treated as a form of barter.
The government is yet to respond to the report.
Earlier this year, Westpac invested in bitcoin-focussed startup Coinbase via Reinventure, a $50 million VC fund whose largest investor is the bank.
It was revealed earlier this week that the Commonwealth Bank had joined with a group of eight other major banks in a partnership that seeks to leverage blockchain technology.
Medcraft said that ASIC would continue to analyse how new developments, such as blockchain technology, fit into the current regulatory framework for financial markets and identify where changes may be required.
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Here’s How To Upgrade Your PC to Windows 11
It’s no longer news that the stable version of Windows 11 is now officially available for download. The company already allows all genuine copies of Windows 10 to upgrade to Windows 11 for free. The new OS was supposed to be released only on October 5, so, formally, the release took place a day earlier.
However, for those still running on Windows 7, you will have to upgrade to Windows 10 first before moving to Windows 11.
Minimum requirements for Windows 11
Microsoft has prescribed the following minimum requirements for Windows 11:
>> 64-bit processor with 1GHz or faster clock speed and two or more cores (Intel 8th gen or AMD Ryzen 2000 series or later)
>> 4GB RAM
>> 64GB storage space
>>DirectX 12 graphics card with WDDM 2.0 driver
>> UEFI, Secure Boot capable
>> Trusted Platform Module (TMP) version 2.0
>> 9-inch or larger display with 720p resolution, 8 bits per colour channel
>> Internet Connection for Windows 11 Home and Windows 11 Home in S mode
How to Upgrade to Windows 11
Check for Windows 11 Update on Your PC
The first, and possibly the easiest method to get the Windows 11 free upgrade on your PC is by simply checking whether Microsoft has rolled it out for your computer. Here’s how to do that.
- Open Settings on your PC and click on ‘Update & Security’.
- Click on ‘Check for updates’ to check if the Windows 11 update is available on your computer.
Download Windows 11 Installation Assistant here
This assistant is for those who wish to:
- Upgrade a Windows 10 PC to Windows11.
Before you begin, check to see if the following conditions apply to you:
- You have a Windows 10 license.
- Your PC must have Windows 10, version 2004 or higher installed to run Installation Assistant.
- Your PC meets the Windows11 device specifications for upgrade requirements and supported features. Certain features require additional hardware. We also recommend that you visit your PC’s manufacturer’s website for information about updated drivers and hardware compatibility.
- Your PC must have 9 GB of free disk space to download Windows11.
After you download the Installation Assistant:
- Select Run. You need to be an administrator to run this tool.
- Once the tool confirms the device hardware is compatible, you will be presented with the license terms. Select Accept and Install.
- Once the tool is ready, click the Restart Now button to complete installation on your computer.
- It might take some time to install Windows11, and your PC will restart a few times. Make sure you don’t turn off your PC.
Kindly share your thoughts and experience with us while trying to upgrade to windows 11 in the comment.
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My mother stood by me when I was jailed in Emergency!
Just a few minutes before the clock struck midnight, the State of Internal Emergency was declared on June 25, 1975 by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on the pretext that there were allegedly imminent internal and external threats to the Indian state. It was the darkest day in the history of Indian democracy. All top national leaders – Jayaprakash Narayan, Morarji Desai, Atal Bihar Vajpayee, LK Advani, Madhu Dandavate, George Fernandes, and many others – were arrested. Press was muzzled. The judiciary committed to the government. There were no democratic rights. The RSS was also banned. Police committed brutalities against those opposed to the Emergency.
As a young RSS pracharak, I was actively participating under the banner of Lok Sangharsh Samiti led by Jayaprakash Narayan in mobilizing the people against the Emergency. It was indeed India’s second struggle for independence. In order to avoid arrest I was not only underground but had also changed my dress to shirt, paint and tie with a different hairstyle. I had changed my name to Dharmendra and had adopted the nickname of Mamaji.
Lakhs of people had been arrested countrywide. The entire nation had become a virtual jail. Everything was suspicious. I was finally arrested under the Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA) and was put in Chanchalguda Central Prison at Hyderabad, which was my home for over a year along with fellow colleagues of RSS, Bharatiya Jan Sangh, and members of Naxalite groups, Jamaat-e-Islam and Anand Marg.
Life in the jail was different but quite disciplined thanks to our timetable. We used to get up at 6 am. It was also the time when the barracks were opened. For nearly one and a half hours, we used to do some exercise, Yoga and some Asanas like Surya Namaskar. 8.30 am was the breakfast time. At 9.30, we had classes along with other detainees.
After the class, we used to discuss news among ourselves which we were getting very secretly. It was followed by an hour-long lecture on different subjects like geography, sociology, history and political science. From 11 am to 1pm, we used to focus on studying books available in the jail library. After lunch at 1 pm, we were sent back to our respective barrack.
In the evening, normally between 5 pm and 6 pm, we used to play some games, while one hour was reserved for the evening Bhajan. Since there were detainees from different shades of thoughts, there was an atmosphere of discussion among us. At around 7.30, we were served dinner and then back to the barracks.
The time table was strictly followed by us. We had our own cook. So the food was well prepared. Except for freedom, we were able to utilize maximum time positively, though we were in agony over the state of affairs in the country. It was an unprecedented situation, which had been thrust upon the nation.
Meanwhile, a personal tragedy hit me during my imprisonment. My elder brother – Manik Prabu – died of jaundice. It was a big blow to me, mother and family. I had already lost my father when I was in 6th Class. I was granted the escort parole – from 12 pm to 8 PM – to perform the last rites of my brother. The same night I returned to the jail.
I still remember the agonizing moments and recall tears in the eyes of mother Eshwaramma. People were suspicious of my arrest. They did not know why I had been arrested and for what crimes. I was not allowed to speak to anyone as there were nearly 15-16 cops always surrounding me.
One day my mother came to see me in the jail. She had brought some fruits for me. She was happy to see that my health had not deteriorated in the jail. In fact, my maternal uncle, who was a close friend of a local Congress MLA and Mayor Hyderabad, had sent her to talk to me if I could sign a confession letter with the promise that I would never indulge in ‘acts’ against the government in the future. It will fetch me freedom from jail.
My mother, a small onion vendor in the local market, was not educated but very rich in character, self-respect and self-confidence, told Mama that her son would not confess having committed any wrong. She asked Mama and his friends: “Has my son committed any theft or dacoity? Has my son eloped with any girl? My son is innocent. He is in jail for the sake of the country and society.”
However, they pressured her to seek my view. Mother asked me if I was keen to sign the letter. I asked her – What do you suggest? She said that I should not as I was not guilty of committing any wrong. Our conversation took place in the presence of a member of the Special Branch of the Police Department. I told my mother: “You have rightly said. I will not sign any letter.”
This made my mother very happy. She was perhaps proud of what I did for the country. This also made me very happy and emotional as well. Her words and support gave me a lot of confidence to stand up against challenges and hardships. One should never compromise with self-respect whatever be the circumstances.
Later on, I was granted a month long parole but with the condition that I will not move out anywhere from home. At 10 am, I used to visit the police station of Afzalgunj to sign the register every day. On the way to the police station, there was a library where I was allowed to study. My mother and books were the real source of strength for me during the traumatic days of Emergency imprisonment!
I strongly feel that our youth should be aware of democratic values, rights and duty towards strengthening constitutional institutions so that democracy ever thrives and dictatorial tendencies are under check.
(The writer is Governor Haryana. The views expressed are his personal)
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Hundreds of companies are investing in electricity transferred through magnetic fields.
Nikola Tesla, the inventor and rival to Thomas Edison, in the early 1900′s built the Wardenclyffe Tower, a 187-foot-high structure on Long Island, which he said could transmit electricity wirelessly. Financier J.Morgan backed the Wardenclyffe Tower. The project failed, and Tesla ended up broke. (In an earlier experiment in Colorado, Tesla had wirelessly lit up 200 lamps over a distance of 25 miles, but pedestrians witnessed sparks jumping between their feet and the ground, and electricity flowed from faucets when turned on. Oops.)
Fast-forward over a century, and wireless electricity is finally gaining some traction. More than one hundred companies including startups such as WiTricity and ProxybyPower and giants such as Toyota (TM), Intel (INTC), Samsung, and Foxconn are investing in the technology. The challenge: to take the wires out of the power equation by transmitting electricity through magnetic fields.
When in the atmosphere, electricity exists as a magnetic field. The trick is to capture it safely to recharge devices. Today’s electric toothbrushes charge wirelessly — as power is transmitted through a magnetic field from the charger to the brush. You can already buy wireless recharging pads: Place your cellphone on a pad that’s plugged into the wall, and it will recharge. These pads, however, have their limitations — the cellphone has to be in the right position, and it can take a long time. A New Zealand company called PowerbyProxy has demonstrated a system where you can put multiple cellphones on a pad in any position, and it will charge the devices as fast as a traditional charger. Samsung last month invested $4 million in the company.
The next step: charging without being so tied to a pad. That’s the technology a Watertown, Mass., company named WiTricity is developing. Based on work done at MIT, the technology — on which the company holds exclusive patents — uses magnetic resonance to move power through the air — which means electricity can be moved farther distances without a wire. The way it works: Two devices resonate at the same frequency so that the magnetic waves can travel very precisely from one point to another. Plug a resonator into a wall outlet, and a device installed on a cellphone or an electric car receives the power and starts recharging. WiTricity says its system can move an impressive 3,300 watts — enough to charge an electric car — with little efficiency loss. Says Eric Giler, the CEO of WiTricity: “We all love electricity and are willing to do almost anything to get it. It will be the last thing to go wireless, but it will go wireless.”
Is the process safe? Because electricity moves through the air as magnetic waves that are similar to the earth’s magnetic waves, it poses no harm to humans, says Giler. The FCC has set limits for magnetic fields, and WiTricity claims its devices fall well below that threshold. The industry, however, will still face a tough time educating and persuading consumers that these devices are safe.
In recent weeks, Intel and Hon Hai/Foxconn, seeing wireless charging as a possible killer app for electronic devices such as laptops and cellphones, invested in WiTricity. Schlumberger, which is interested in cutting the number of wires in its oil rigs to save maintenance costs, was an early investor, as was Toyota, which is reported to have plans to test a wireless charging station for plug-in cars.
The technology has applications outside the consumer sphere as well. WiTricity is working with the Pentagon to wirelessly charge those robots that disarm bombs. When soldiers try to plug in the robots for recharging, they sometimes get shot by snipers. Doing it wirelessly would reduce the danger. In the medical world, patients with heart pumps have to have electric wires running out of their bodies, which can cause infections. WiTricity is working with heart pump maker Thoratec to create a wireless solution.
How long before this technology becomes a reality? All these applications are in the testing stage, but Giler says that within the next couple of years many of them will be hitting the market.
Until then, where did I put that cellphone charger again?
Photo credit: CBS News
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"A Roving Recluse" is the second volume of memoirs by Peter Frederick Anson; the eccentric monk, writer and artist who became Britain's leading authority on 19th and 20th century church decor and religious ritual. Whereas Anson's first memoir, "Harbour Head" chronicled the lives of fishermen and his abiding interest in the sea, this volume (published in 1946) is concerned with the religious life.In "A Roving Recluse", twelve of the author's elegant line drawings evoke the world he describes. He first joined the Benedictine order on the Island of Caldey just at the moment when the majority of the monks converted to Roman Catholicism. He next became attached to the Franciscans in Italy when he embarked on his career of connoisseur extraordinaire not just of church furnishings, but also of church characters: Abbot Sir David Oswald Hunter-Blair; Eric Gill at Ditchling pouring scorn on ungodly railway lines and typewriters; the enigmatic couple Raffalovich and Gray. Anson brings unrivaled insights into the strangely exotic world of 20th century monastic communities, most of them now dispersed and their buildings demolished or converted into luxury spa hotels.
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The current health crisis initiated by Coronavirus pandemic has made us all sit up and take note of the importance of maintaining our health. The need of consuming nutritious food got the long-due impetus and the problem of food scarcity got the attention it really needed. This year's World Food Day is devoted to highlight food and agriculture as a significant part of COVID-19 response. Back home in India, PM Narendra Modi will also be launching a commemorative coin to mark the special day.
World Food Day 2020: Date And History
United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) marked October 16 of every year as World Food Day in the year 1979. World Food Day 2020 also marks the 75th anniversary of FAO. Initially, World Food Day was launched to commemorate the establishment of FAO. Gradually, the day turned into a global event, creating awareness about food shortage and reviving food systems across the globe.
World Food Day 2020: Theme
Every year, World Food Day endeavours to promote food and preserve food resources. In light of the current pandemic this year, the day will be celebrated with the theme - "Grow, nourish, sustain. Together. Our actions are our future."
World Food Day 2020: Significance
World Food Day creates many programmes and activities to highlight and take necessary actions for food security and good nutrition for all, with a special focus on poor and vulnerable communities around the world.
In regard to World Food Day 2020, the official website of FAO says:
World Food Day is calling for global solidarity to help all populations, and especially the most vulnerable, to recover from the crisis, and to make food systems more resilient and robust so they can withstand increasing volatility and climate shocks, deliver affordable and sustainable healthy diets for all, and decent livelihoods for food system workers. This will require improved social protection schemes and new opportunities offered through digitalization and e-commerce, but also more sustainable agricultural practices that preserve the Earth's natural resources, our health, and the climate.
World Food Day 2020: How To Get Involved
FAO urges people to celebrate the people who produce, plant, harvest, fish or transport our food and call on the public to thank these #FoodHeroes who, no matter the circumstances, continue to provide food to their communities and beyond - helping to grow, nourish and sustain our world.
About Neha GroverLove for reading roused her writing instincts. Neha is guilty of having a deep-set fixation with anything caffeinated. When she is not pouring out her nest of thoughts onto the screen, you can see her reading while sipping on coffee.
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Map of England and Wales, taken from Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, a collection of 53 maps complied by Abraham Ortelius
Originally published in Antwerp in 1570, this is considered to be the first true modern atlas. This map by Humphrey Lhuyd (d. 1568), the Welsh librarian of Henry Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel, was one of three sent by him to Ortelius shortly before his death, along with a history of the British Isles, which Ortelius published in 1572, along with Lhuyd’s map of Wales, which became the first printed map to show that country on its own. This map shows England and Wales during the last few years of Elizabeth I’s reign, shortly after the destruction of the third Spanish Armada, and the passing of the Vagabonds Act, which introduced penal transportation of convicted criminals to England’s colonies. Lhuyd’s map set out to improve upon Mercator’s great wall map, published in 1564, and included many place-names, in English, Welsh and Latin.
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the “housing industrialization” green era
time：2020-07-19 count： source：sunwaysteel
Sunway Steel Building, embracing the “housing industrialization” green era
Housing industrialization aims for finished products-housing, perfectly combines each production factor by intergrated operation, reducing intermediate links and finally raising labor productivity, residential quality and performance. In the wake of the reform and opening-up policy, domestic building industry has undergone major development and made remarkable achievemetns. As the priority among priorities in modernization of building industry, housing industrialization, the concept of which was proposed formly in 1994, has been on the way to flourish after more than 20 years of development, showing great vigor and vitality.
Housing industrialization is of great importance to national economy. As a factory-like line production of building design standardization for housing production, factory-like member manufacturing, housing parts serialization, site construction assemblage, civil engineering integration and production & management socialization, with housing construction by modern industrialized production mode, the development of housing industrializaiton will effectively solve the conflicts between housing supply and demand, radically improving the quality of housing products. Moreover, the continuous improvement of housing industrialization is also conductive to the development of real estate, building, light industry, metallurgy and other industries, promoting social stability and prosperity.
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They are marketed as a stress-reliever to help children with learning difficulties concentrate in class.
Yet fidget spinners - the new craze sweeping playgrounds - have instead become such a classroom distraction that the hand-held toys are being banned in many UK schools.
The gadgets consist of a three-pronged, palm-sized piece of plastic or metal which spins around a central weighted disc - a modern version of the old spinning top.
They can cost less than €2 but deluxe versions change hands for nearly €50 and YouTube videos demonstrating how to do tricks with them attract millions of views.
Chris Hildrew, a headteacher in Somerset, shared a letter from one pupil complaining lessons were being disrupted.
"They are the latest craze and roughly seven people bring them into my lessons and share spares with other people," the unnamed girl wrote.
"When you are trying to focus on your work, all you can hear is it spinning round and round.
"If someone around you has one you kind of get attracted to it because they are trying to do tricks and everyone else is looking at it. This means that I am not doing my hardest on my work so I get less done.
"To sum up, I think they should be banned in lessons."
Mr Hildrew, posted a copy of the letter on Twitter and wrote: "We have banned fidget spinners from lessons - here's why."
A number of teachers posted on the Mumsnet forum, complaining that the toys were ruining lessons.
One said: "I've had two children bring them in today 'because it helps them to concentrate' - no, it helps them to annoy their peers and stops everybody else from concentrating [sic].
"They are now in my desk drawer waiting for their parents to come and collect them."
Fidget spinners are marketed as tools for children with autism and ADHD.
One primary school teacher said they were included in the school's budget: "Specialists coming into the school recommend them for children and we'll buy them in for the children that are identified."
There is no supporting scientific evidence and at least one expert has debunked the claims.
Dr Mark Rapport, director of the Children's Learning Clinic at the University of Central Florida, said: "Using a spinner-like gadget is more likely to serve as a distraction than a benefit for individuals with ADHD."
However, the UK's National Autistic Society said there was anecdotal evidence that the spinners are beneficial.
Carol Povey, director of the society's Centre for Autism, said: "Having something that spins or twists can help to ground and balance them [autistic children in school]."
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Here are four ways kids use self-monitoring to help with learning.
- Because kids don't come with instructions;
- The easiest way to supervise your kids online!
- Why Do My Text Messages Keep Repeating.
Kids use self-monitoring to help them learn skills like math and reading. They also use it for more basic things, like understanding directions, keeping track of due dates and checking work. If your child has weak self-monitoring skills, she may not recognize mistakes when proofreading a writing assignment or checking math for errors. This can make it difficult to know when she needs to ask for help.
When it comes to math, kids use self-monitoring to figure out the best way to tackle a problem and determine whether their answer seems reasonable.
11 Best Apps for Parents to Monitor Their Kids
Younger kids use it to decide which operation or operations to use for a word problem. Self-monitoring helps older kids check answers by using the reverse operation, such as using multiplication to check a division problem. If your child struggles with self-monitoring, she might get one or all of the steps wrong and not be able to see it. Kids use self-monitoring to become better, more effective readers. As they become better readers, kids replace those outside monitors with self-monitoring.
Vroom by Text
They can ask themselves questions like:. Do I understand the way information is presented? Such as a list, an alphabet book or a chapter book. But she might need some extra support. There are strategies that can be used at school and at home to help kids learn to self-monitor more effectively.
Regardless, every new toy brings its set of challenges for parents. For us parents, we want to know our kids and teens are using this service safely. Being able to see their iMessages for free from your own iPhone or iPad can be very useful! It allows kids and teens to text one another over WiFi or traditional carriers, as long as each of them both have Apple iOS devices. It is almost impossible to filter out, so parents everywhere are trying to figure out how to control it, or at least, have a way to monitor kids using the Apple iOS iMessage app.
First, we suggest that you have a conversation with your kids and teens to set the ground rules, expectations, and consequences. Studies have shown that being upfront typically ends up being more productive than to spy clandestinely. NOTE: This guide has many steps so we also provide it as a printable download, here.
Communication for the school, home, and everywhere in between.
Below, you will find the list of the requirements you will need to have before setting everything up. Features that work today may not work tomorrow. It is for this reason, everything below may not work exactly the way we outline as Apple may have made modifications.
Your combination may be different but it should all work similarly. The parent will monitor and set up their iPhone 6. Have both devices with you and online so you can see observe the behavior. Your child will get that iMessage, and you should also get a copy on your device. If not, go back and check all steps to make sure that each step was followed exactly. Once everything is tested, you need to go back to their device and add a device restriction.
Do this as follows:. Keep in mind that if you do NOT tell your child, you will run into some interesting situations. If you and your teen are cuddled up watching a movie on Sunday night and their friends iMessage them, your iPhone will also go off and you may be caught! To do that on iOS 9, for example, perform the following:. Of course, you have her in your contacts with her phone number and email, etc. Also, when you enable this, each phone will initially get a push notification from Apple letting you know which device is using which phone number or email so make sure you wait for that and clear it before handing back to your child.
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Beware of the process! There are bugs and it does take some care and feeding to get it right. Between iOS 7 — 9. We hope this will allow you to have some additional oversight. It can also be abused, so if you find your child or teen is in need of more oversight, use the above trick to be more involved and aware. If you need additional features that allow you to remote screen lock, block apps like Kik , MeetMe or Snapchat , filter website content, and more, you may want to try iPhone parental controls like Netsanity. Interested in more posts on modern parenting and technology?
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Everything You Know About the 1920s Is Wrong
With the publication of Amity Shlaes’ biography of Coolidge, you might expect a sudden burst of Twenties Nostalgia. Everyone will get it wrong. There wasn’t any such thing as “the Twenties.”
But we think there was. The Simpsons' Kent Brockman summed it up perfectly: “The Twenties! When Al Capone did the Charleston atop a flagpole.”
That’s as accurate as saying that everyone in Seventies was Kung Fu Fighting.
Decades get boiled down to songs, pictures, celebs, and fads, and we think we know them. The Forties: War! Then five years of something-or-other. The Thirties: everyone stood in breadlines waiting for the Wizard of Oz to be released so they could have some color. The decade before the Twenties -- well, not so clear. The Titanic sunk, triggering World War One, somehow. The Twenties? Jazz and bathtub gin and F. Scott Fitzgerald throwing up on a flapper during a Jolson movie.
So what was it like? I’m no expert on the era, but I’ve studied the pop culture -- movies, songs, magazines -- for the segment of my Website devoted to the 1920s. It can be a stubborn era to grasp. The Gatsby stereotypes loom too large; 1929 seems like a different world than 1921; the era that followed reinvented movies and created characters much more vivid than the overacting shades of the silent era. The ‘30s speak to us. The ‘20s gesture.
In retrospect, it seems rather goofy. Like this:
A Woody Allen movie parody -- except that’s exactly what it sounded like. Quaint to modern ears. Now try this: a tune made popular by the most unlikely fellow to be known as the King of Jazz, Paul Whiteman. Okay, it’s dated 1930, but this is right out of the top of the bubble.
The song is all over the place, throwing one instrument after the other -- full band, then violin and guitar, heading towards that 2:22 spo-de-oh-dee moment where everyone puts their hands up in the air and shimmies their palms. Because the good times are here and youth culture is finally giving grown-up culture a run for its money, and everyone’s spifficated on liquor the crooks brought over the river from Canada.
Here’s what it sounded like if you were there:
It’s different when you hear the Twenties in stereo, isn’t it?
(The graphics chosen for the video, by the way, are from the game “Fallout,” which uses '50s-style graphics in a post-apocalyptic world. But hey, does it matter? Anything that didn’t happen before 1995 is “retro” now.)
So is that the Twenties? Yes and no. The Twenties led up to that; the music evolved. Everything evolved -- or least got faster and racier, if you call that progress. You start with a naughty joke book in 1921, and by the middle of the decade, the lid’s off:
Architecture didn’t so much evolve as break the mold all at once. Classical styles had dominated the vocabulary for two decades, but the end of the Twenties brought designs that sprang from a new approach to the tall tower that had nothing to do with history. The Empire State is thought of as a ‘30s building, but the designs came from its architects’ late-’20s Reynolds Building in Winston-Salem. The “Art Deco” Chrysler building was begun in 1928 -- and looked gaudy in a few years when the stern, stripped-down competitors were finished. The Depression made the severe new style apt for an era of Sober Federal Post Offices everywhere, and Hollywood glamorized the style, softened it, and popularized Depression Moderne. The look of the cities was changed, for good. 1929, in other words, doesn’t fit in the same box as 1921.
What did it smell like? BO, hair tonic, cigarettes, cigars, probably. What did it taste like? Simpler, thicker, but probably recognizable. They ate Abba-Zaba bars (taffy with a peanut butter center), Baby Ruths, Bit-O-Honeys, and maybe a Charleston Chew when climbing up the flagpole. The magazine ads are heavy on bacon and the miracles of canned pineapples; Jell-o is presented as an elegant confection served in the finest homes. White Castle was the McDonald’s of the day, with its doppelganger White Tower serving tiny square hamburgers, cooked in front of everyone so you could see there weren’t any flies. (Really: the white ensured Purity, a big thing in the days of dubious meat.) You could reconstruct a day of 19’20s flavors without much effort.
For that matter, you could find a street in New York where it still looks like 1926, aside from the signage and fashion, but you couldn’t convince yourself it wasn’t 2013. The reason? Cars. I’m convinced this is why the ‘20s seem more remote than the ‘30s. The river of indistinguishable black Fords coursing down the streets, versus the streamlined vehicles of the ‘30s -- the ‘30s look like the start of the world in which we live. The ‘20s look like the end of the world that began with Verdun and the miseries of World War One, the last gasp of the old world in its familiar forms. In truth the transition was already underway when the ‘20s began -- we just see their end, and the spectacular flameout of its cultural and political assumptions, in the headlines of the Crash.
It would have been fun to stand on Gatsby’s lawn and watch the revels, but as Fitzgerald himself wrote after Gatsby was dead:
From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building and, just as it had been a tradition of mine to climb to the Plaza Roof to take leave of the beautiful city, extending as far as eyes could reach, so now I went to the roof of the last and most magnificent of towers. Then I understood — everything was explained: I had discovered the crowning error of the city, its Pandora's box. Full of vaunting pride the New Yorker had climbed here and seen with dismay what he had never suspected, that the city was not the endless succession of canyons that he had supposed but that it had limits — from the tallest structure he saw for the first time that it faded out into the country on all sides, into an expanse of green and blue that alone was limitless. And with the awful realization that New York was a city after all and not a universe, the whole shining edifice that he had reared in his imagination came crashing to the ground.
Crash it did, and to someone who rode the decade as high as it would go, it might still seem that everything that followed was just rearranging the rubble. Things were never quite fun in the same way. When youth culture returned in the '50s, people were dancing in the shadows of nuclear weapons; it curdled into an anti-technology culture in the hippie-60s that would have amused the progress-minded novelty-seekers of the ‘20s. The U.S. was on top, eager for joy, unchallenged. Party time.
Which is why it’s amusing that Coolidge is the symbol. Chris Rock wouldn’t call him the national dad, but he was a grown-up.
They come in handy when the juveniles start to think they know everything.
Related: PJM’s Ed Driscoll interviews Amity Shlaes on Coolidge.
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In 2015, Trout and Salmon Foundation made a grant to support Yellowstone Park Foundation’s efforts to control the Lake Trout population in Yellowstone Lake. Lake Trout are an invasive species and are the primarily culprit in the decline of native Yellowstone cutthroat trout. The decline of the Yellowstone cuttie has had significant impacts on the broader Yellowstone Lake food chain. Thankfully, the hard work of Yellowstone Park Foundation is beginning to pay off. The Great Falls Tribune did a nice piece on the eradication efforts.
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Many former confidential X-Files have already been opened, claims author Nigel Watson
It is called the disclosure movement and UFO conspiracists insist there is a worldwide cover-up to prevent the 'truth' that aliens have previously landed from getting out.
Alien believers feel if this came out it would spark mass hysteria among the general public - destroying their ideas of religion and causing society to crumble.
While many UFO investigators insist this full "disclosure" is a long way off, one claims the pressure over it has already had significant success.
Hilary Clinton, the Democrat US presidential candidate, has already vowed to enforce full disclosure, and send a team into the mysterious top-secret Area 51 military base where some suspect crashed UFOs have been stored, should she make it into the White House.
The truth is already out there according to Nigel Watson
But Nigel Watson, a British UFO researcher and author, claims we are halfway there.
He said: "You don't have to break into Area 51 or hack into government computer networks to discover thousands of top secret UFO documents."
He has written a new e-book - UFO Government Secrets - which he claims explains exactly where what is already out there can be accessed.
Mr Watson said many formerly top-secret and classified documents about UFO sightings and inquiries have already been released by government across the globe online, but they are not always easy to access or advertised.
Many were classified for decades, and have taken years of petitioning by ufologists to be made public
He said: "UFO Government Secrets reveals where you can find online access to these files that have been released by governments throughout the world.
"Many were classified for decades, and have taken years of petitioning by ufologists to be made public.
"For the first time ever this book provides the most comprehensive guide to these files, allowing you to outsmart even Sculler and Mulder before they return to our TV screens for the new X-Files series."
Mr Watson said although the amount of information was now plentiful, it has still not satisfied many researchers who believe the documents released are just "a smokescreen to obscure the real nature and extent of dealings between our leaders and alien beings. These ufologists are demanding that governments now come clean."
Meanwhile, sceptics argue the documents that have been released so far do not prove aliens exist - because there have been no real encounters.
Last month Express.co.uk reported how Gary Mckinnon, a British man who hacked into the computers of NASA and several US defence agencies over several years looking for the truth about aliens found next to nothing on the subject.
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Finding water in your basement can make your stomach sink. You don’t know where it came from, you don’t know how to repair it, and you have no idea how much it will cost.
A customer in Ajax, Ontario, discovered water on his basement floor. He searched the basement and found a few foundation cracks that were allowing moisture through. Concerned for his home’s wellbeing, he decided to reach out to a few contractors. He wasn’t confident until he discovered Clarke Basement Systems and met with System Design Specialist Chris Luke.
Chris showed the homeowner our FlexiSpan® Crack Repair System, and he was happy to have a proven solution offered finally. Foreman Mark Dougherty started the repair by injecting a polyurethane sealant inside the crack. More polyurethane was used to seal the exterior, and a drain is placed on top. For added security, an in-floor drain was installed.
The customer is very pleased that his basement is dry. He appreciates the hard work and honesty of Mark and Chris and is confident that the repair will last.
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What's the issue?
Today, computing skills are the most sought after in the United States. Yet, women’s share of the computing workforce is falling. Women in the U.S. computing workforce will shrink in the next 10 years unless we take action now.
In 2015, there were 500,000 new computing jobs to be filled but fewer than 40,000 new computer science graduates. This shortage is a fundamental economic challenge for the U.S. economy and its global competitiveness. But this decline can be reversed… we can triple the number of women in computing.
Our research identifies the effectiveness of implementing a strategy focused on three clear stages of a girl's education. We have used these insights to create a strategy that is precise, targeted and sequenced.
Spark interest in junior high
SPARK girls' interest. Show them how computing can be cool and fun, and that it's not just for boys.
At this age, girls who play computer games are four times more likely to go into computing or coding as adults than those who don't. They're less likely to see the subject as just for boys, to think boys are better at it than girls, or to think of computing as "geeky" rather than "cool."
Sustain engagement in high school
SUSTAIN girls' engagement. Large numbers of girls who were engaged in computing in junior high lose interest in high school and never come back to computing. Make sure they don't fall into this "high school trap".
In the impressionable teen years, we must pay attention to their peer group and make sure that girls have friends doing computing as well and are not isolated in classrooms dominated by boys. Teaching is incredibly important at this age. 73% percent of high school girls who were interested in studying computing had a teacher who inspired them.
Inspire a career after college
INSPIRE young women through the use of role models, retooled courses and summer immersion programs.
When college women realize they can put computing skills to work in almost any career, in all industries and sector , they become much more open to computing as an option.
Who will crack the code?
No single stakeholder can achieve this alone, and this work demands collaboration around a widely shared agenda. Put simply, America needs more girls and young women in computing. It’s time to take the actions needed to make it happen. Together.
We have the opportunity to achieve the following:
Triple the number of women in computing by 2025
Boost women’s cumulative earnings by $299 billion
Increase women’s share of the computing workforce from 24% to 39
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The Obama administration has given another boost to big solar in California, finalizing the $1.2 billion federal loan guarantee for Abengoa Solar’s 250-megawatt (MW) Mojave Solar project. The financing, which had been conditionally set in June, joins a host of loan guarantees closing before the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Section 1705 program for renewable energy development wraps up at the end of the month. The program has been under fire of late due to the Solyndra bankruptcy.
The Mojave plant, set for about 100 northeast of Los Angeles, will use concentrating solar power (CSP) technology. Abengoa does both tower power and parabolic trough versions of CSP, but in this case it will go the trough route – and the DOE said the newest generation of this technology is easier and less expensive to build and install than the prior generation, and uses a heat-collection element that can increase thermal efficiency by up to 30 percent.
Around 900 jobs are expected to be created in building the plant, which Abengoa hopes to have operating by 2014. And there will be plenty of indirect jobs as well, the DOE suggested. It said about 80 percent of the total cost of the project – $1.6 billion, according to Abengoa – including both capital equipment and labor, will be sourced domestically. DOE said the project “will purchase all of the receiver tubes from a facility in New Mexico, the parabolic trough mirrors from a new facility in Arizona and other key equipment from different suppliers in several states across the country.”
DOE said the plant will produce electricity equivalent to that which would power 54,000 homes annually. The Northern California utility PG&E will get it, under a 25-year agreement.
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Overcrowding in hospital emergency departments generates headlines and a perception that there is a “crisis” in services. It has a negative impact on staff and patients in the immediate environment and risks compromising the safety of care. There are also knock-on effects such as the widespread cancellation of elective (planned) surgery and has even led […]
Celebrating Patient and Public Involvement in our research
A new short film celebrates the impact of involving patients and the public in our work! Some of our valued public contributors, alongside senior and early career CLAHRC researchers reflect on being part of the CLAHRC and look ahead to NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) North Thames. #getinvolved #todaysresearchtomorrowscare Reflections from contributors and researchers below […]
Evaluation in Public Health and Care, Level 2 – Tuesday 5th November 2019; 09:00 – 17:00
Are you tasked with carrying out or commissioning an evaluation, but would appreciate guidance on what questions to ask, what outcomes to look for, or how to plan for an evaluation? This one day, hands-on workshop, run by the NIHR CLAHRC North Thames Academy, addresses these challenges. It is aimed at staff from NHS Trusts, […]
Becoming Research Active: 27th November 2019; 9am – 5pm.
Are you a nurse, allied health professional, public health or local government member of staff who is interested in research or who has had some exposure to research? Our workshop is suitable for staff from NHS Trusts, CCGs, and Local Authorities who are keen to become involved in research. Engaging in research is a great […]
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PIERRE (AP) ó State officials say South Dakotans doing their holiday shopping online should remember that state and city taxes may be due on their purchases.
State Business Tax Director Doug Schinkel says many people donít realize that most Internet retailers are not collecting sales tax on items bought online. He says when sales tax is not charged on such purchases, the buyer owes a use tax.
The state use tax is 4 percent, the same as the state sales tax. Many cities also charge a sales and use tax.
Schinkel says online shoppers can find use tax reporting forms and other information on the state Revenue Departmentís website at http://www.state.sd.us/drr2/businesstax/st/usetax.htm.
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When I think of the word ‘politics’, I think of smartly dressed people behind lecterns proclaiming the ways in which they will stand up for the people of Britain, photographs of Theresa May staring sternly up at me from my online news feed, or Linda from Birmingham on Radio 5 Live angrily interrupting the presenters about why Jeremy Corbyn is a beacon of hope for our country.
The thing is, is that as much as I know how important politics is, I just can’t get myself interested in it.
When I see pictures of two world leaders in a very staged-looking handshake, or some smug man in a suit pontificating in the House of Commons, I don’t even bother to read the headline.
I just skim past it, and move on to more interesting things, like naked rioters in Venezuela.
However, even I could see the fact that we may or may or not be getting a new Prime Minister when our current one hasn’t even been in office a year, was quite a big deal.
So I turned to my phone, intending to immerse myself in the wonderful world of British politics, only to be hopelessly bewildered in about 49 seconds.
It might as well have been in another language: Despatch Box? Mandate? Seat Count? There were lots of references to Labour ‘getting seats’ and the Lib Dems ‘picking up more seats’.
I wasn’t exactly sure what this meant, but I’m sure it wasn’t about the British Government trooping through Ikea with their flatpacks.
For me, this was really quite concerning, considering I’ll be eligible to vote in just over a year, and my understanding of politics is about as extensive as my knowledge on Transylvanian Orchid horticulture.
It all left me with the ultimate question: why?
Why do schools spend years making sure we know about the Treaty of Versailles, and the formation of ox-bow lakes, and how to find angles in a trapezium, but not about how the fundamental running of our country works?
I remember once, during the 2015 election, our maths teacher cancelled our lesson, and showed us a live broadcast from Westminster, and drew diagrams on the whiteboard of things like parliamentary majorities and marginal constituencies and things like that, but I think that’s as far as my political schooling goes.
That’s pretty worrying, because it’s people like me, who are forced to read things like ‘An American’s Guide to British Politics’ and are still confused, that are the next generation of voters, and will hear things like Corbyn’s plan to provide four new bank holidays if Labour win and think ‘Oh, cool. More days off’, and unthinkingly tick the box.
For me, eligibility to vote is a symbol of adulthood, and when the day comes when there is an election I’m actually old enough to vote in, I will strut into the Polling Station and think, ‘Look at me, look how mature I am, I can vote now,’ even if I don’t really know what the vote’s about.
I won’t be the only one, either. There will be a whole generation of us, who, if the situation arises, will be able to whip out our Pythagorous Theorem, or explain about Dimitri Mendeleev’s development of the Periodic Table, but when asked about Britain’s Government?
Well, put it this way: when asked who is currently in power, one classmate responded, ‘Um… Ed Milliband?’
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How Much Does Outpatient Rehab Cost?
One alternative for those who are suffering from substance abuse problems is outpatient rehab. When a patient is in outpatient rehab, he or she will live with family and will travel to the rehab center for treatment.
Outpatient treatment programs can last anywhere from 30 days to 90 days. Some programs are for a set six-week timeframe. If needed, the patient can participate in the program longer.
For those who must pay for outpatient rehab out-of-pocket, the typical cost starts at $2,000 for up to 60 days of treatment. Outpatient treatment is much less expensive than in-patient rehab or residential facilities treating substance abuse problems.
The kind of program, its location, and your personalized treatment plan will all impact the overall cost of outpatient rehab.
What To Expect From Outpatient Rehab
Before your rehab program gets underway, expect to undergo a physical examination and to have a clinical assessment where you will be asked about your substance abuse problems, what substance is being abused, and your medical history.
These details will help the staff at the rehab facility come up with a personalized treatment plan with specific goals for your needs. If you have a physical dependence for specific drugs, such as opioids, heroin, or alcohol, you will have to undergo supervised detoxification, which might require spending some time as an inpatient.
While going through detox, the patient will suffer the symptoms of withdrawal, such as hallucinations, shaking, or nausea.
Once the treatment plan is created, it will include individual counseling or group therapy, or maybe a combination of the two. You will practice sober living, so you can adjust to not using the substance that you had been abusing.
The goal is to live a happy, productive life free from substance abuse and the effects caused by abusing illegal drugs, alcohol, or prescription medications. The process can take several weeks, depending on the length of the patient’s abuse of the drug, the kind of substance being abused, and the patient’s; response to treatment.
The goal is to emphasize control over the addiction and to learn how to use tools, which might include anti-craving medication, along with cognitive behavioral therapy to overcome the substance abuse problems.
Does Health Insurance Cover Outpatient Rehab?
If you have health insurance through a group plan, it will most likely cover the cost of your outpatient rehab. You will be responsible for any copays, coinsurance and deductibles. Sometimes if the deductible has been met, you might not have any out-of-pocket costs.
If you have a private health insurance plan, it might not cover rehab unless it was specified when the plan was purchased or unless you bought a separate rider that ensures you have that specific coverage.
If you don’t have outpatient rehab coverage, you will have to pay for your rehab treatment program yourself. Some programs require full payment upfront while others will set up payment arrangements.
Choosing A Treatment Program
Don’t just choose the first outpatient rehab facility that you encounter. Take the time to do research. Not all programs are the same, and not all costs are the same. You want to choose a program that fits your budget and, also meets your needs for substance abuse treatment.
Rehab and treatment abuse programs have proven to be overall effective and beneficial, reducing the costs of medical issues, the lack of productivity, and criminal offenses that result from substance abuse. Don’t hesitate to ask questions and to meet with program directors face to face before committing to an outpatient treatment program.
Always ask about success rates and any recommendations that they have that might help improve the success of patients entering the program. According to APA’s Psychiatric News, a study regarding Intensive Outpatient Treatment (IOP) determined that 50% to 70% of those who participated in an outpatient treatment program reported at their follow-up they were still abstaining from substance abuse, and that the outcome did not differ for outpatient treatment facilities.
There are two advantages to outpatient treatment, increased duration of treatment, which can vary depending on the severity of the patient’s condition and how she or he responds to treatment. Also, how patients are given the opportunity to engage in effective treatment while staying in their home environment, so they can practice their newly learned behaviors.
An advantage is how IOPs are often covered by health insurance when inpatient rehab is not. Discuss outpatient rehab with your doctor to determine if it is the right choice for you.
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Bosch Driver Drowsiness Detection can do this by monitoring steering movements and advising drivers to take a break in time. The required information is provided either by the car’s electric power steering system, or by the steering angle sensor, which is part of the car’s ESP® anti-skid system.
The feature can therefore be installed cost-effectively and helps further increase road safety. Bosch Driver Drowsiness Detection can be used in passenger cars and light commercial vehicles, and can also be integrated into various control units in vehicles.
The influence of fatigue on accidents has been demonstrated in a number of studies. In 2010, the American Automobile Association (AAA) published an analysis based on the accident data collected by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in the United States. The assessment showed that overtired drivers were at the wheel in 17 percent of all fatal accidents in the US.
Fading concentration and fatigue compromise the driver’s steering behavior and response time. Fine motor skills deteriorate, and steering behavior becomes less precise. The driver corrects small steering mistakes more often. The new driver drowsiness detection function is based on an algorithm which begins recording the driver’s steering behavior the moment the trip begins. It then recognizes changes over the course of long trips, and thus also the driver’s level of fatigue.
Typical signs of waning concentration are phases during which the driver is barely steering, combined with slight, yet quick and abrupt steering movements to keep the car on track. Based on the frequency of these movements and other parameters, among them the length of a trip, use of turn signals, and the time of day, the function calculates the driver’s level of fatigue.
If that level exceeds a certain value, an icon such as a coffee cup flashes on the instrument panel to warn drivers that they need a rest. The Bosch Driver Drowsiness Detection function addresses an important aspect of the driver’s condition, and can thus contribute to improving road safety
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Suffer the children at State's hands
How can the HSE's procedures and policies for dealing with abuse be so damaging, asks Shane Dunphy
Published 06/10/2013 | 05:00
IN THE past week we have been bombarded with stories that seemed to plumb the depths of human depravity. News headlines resounded with accounts of abduction and child pornography.
There are no words to express how damaging child sexual abuse can be. This, one of society's last taboos, warps the survivor's relationships with both parents and siblings, tainting even the most simple of interactions. Molestation skews a child's capacity to trust anybody, not least themselves.
Sadly it is just not possible for even the most loving family to guide their wounded progeny through the dark places to which abuse can lead them. It is simply too hazardous a journey, requiring highly skilled, specially trained help.
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