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My dear and beloved roommate (otherwise known as Samuel J. Rascoff '96) argued in his Crimson column ("Trying to Teach Creativity," Feb. 17, 1995) that creative writing courses "do not belong at Harvard." I couldn't disagree more.
I am taking a creative writing class this semester as I did last semester. Not only do I (as most other students) enjoy these classes tremendously, but I also learn a great deal from these classes.
Rascoff claims that creative writing can't be taught because literary quality is difficult to gauge. "If it is un-judgeable, it is also un-teachable," he argues. I agree that it is difficult to find a standard for evaluating creative prowess, but this does not mean that it is impossible. Also, if something can't be judged, it does not mean that it can't be taught. Having taken Philosophy 140 (Deductive Logic) last semester, I can safely say that "un-judgeable" does not imply "un-teachable."
Sam says that teaching writing in a university promotes the mistaken idea that education requires a turning inward into one's self, rather than outward towards the world." Creative writing classes, he claims, take away valuable classroom time reading the writing of great minds such as Milton and Joyce. I agree that turning outward towards the world, learning the ideas bestowed unto us by the Great Minds, is of utmost important. But turning outward does not mean the repression of turning inward to oneself.
As it is necessary to read the Greats, it is also necessary to find one's own voice. This search is something which I found lacking at Harvard. Harvard students are great at name-dropping. Often I would get into philosophical arguments with my fellow concentrators only to realize that it wasn't them with whom I was arguing but rather Kant, Hegel and others. Creative writing classes allow students to find their own voice within the numerous voices of past minds. This is the academic ideal--being able to synthesize the voices of the Great Minds with one's own.
It is important to have the opportunity of writing creatively in conjunction with taking regular classes. When writing for a creative writing class, I often find myself implicitly drawing on that which I have learned in other classes. Rather than forgetting the material the day after the final exam, I am assimilating the knowledge by using my own voice.
Rascoff claims that "one can write--creatively even--without going to writing classes." But the same argument can be made for most classes. It is possible to study--Milton even--without going to a class on the subject. Extensive literature (often by the professor teaching the course) about the subject matter of most courses is readily available.
The mere presence of other writers in the writing classes is of great benefit to the writer. The value students derive from being in an environment with other writers is analogous to learning a language in an environment that speaks that language. The workshop environment that the creative writing classes provide is ideal for the young writer's development.
As a writer, one confronts obstacles such as writer's block, a blank screen, getting stuck, not finding the right words, and many more creative problems. Sharing the difficulties with an experienced teacher and with other writers who are facing the same problems is of immeasurable help. Classes also familiarize one with different techniques used by writers. If anything, Harvard needs more creative writing classes to meet the increasing demand. Tal Ben-Shachar '96 | <urn:uuid:0050ab67-c2a5-4437-9b6d-b46820911da8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1995/3/11/creative-writing-class-worthwhile-pmy-dear/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283301.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00509-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964392 | 726 | 1.632813 | 2 |
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I am so excited today because I get to introduce you to Megan of Chickadee Lit! Megan is all about picture books, a world that I miss so much now that my kids are older. I absolutely love Megan’s Instagram feed because it brings me back to the days of reading on laps and snuggling with a beautiful book.
Today Megan will be introducing us to the five best new picture books of 2016 that inspire young children to be creative. And oh my word, they are so good!
Here is Megan…
“Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination.” —bestselling author Sidney Sheldon
Off the top of my head, I could name a few dozen compelling reasons to read with children every day. Reading helps kids form loving bonds, sets them up for academic success, expands their perspectives on the world, and builds their critical thinking skills. In the summer months, reading takes on a special importance. Kids who read over long breaks from school retain more skills and knowledge than those who do not.
Best of all, reading can spark creativity and lead to tons of hands-on fun. Here are five picture books from the first half of 2016 that will inspire kids to paint, doodle, glue, collaborate, photograph, build, collect, dance, and more!
Swatch: The Girl Who Loved Color, by Julia Denos (Amazon link)
Do you have a Swatch your life? Swatch is a wild girl who tames colors. She collects hues such as “Rumble-Tumble Pink” in jam jars until she meets her match in “Yellowest Yellow.” This special color teaches her to tune in to her collection; colors have voices of their own and aren’t meant to be tamed.
I enjoy reading this story because it is celebration of creativity and living out loud, but the writing is wonderful in itself. Here is my favorite sentence: “Morning came, and there it was, fast fading and fierce, the King of All Yellows, blooming in the sidewalk crack in spite of the shadows.” I love the assonance that Julia Denos creates here, and I love modeling this inventive use of language for my kids.
When my children and I read Swatch, they become deeply still—completely captivated by the story and images—which is unusual considering the illustrations in this book are all about motion. Vivid and richly-textured colors twirl, swirl, and soar along with Swatch, who reaches, leaps, and rides. These grand gestures seem to transport them somehow.
Let’s Play!, by Hervé Tullet (Amazon link)
Hervé Tullet is back in 2016! Have you seen this third interactive book, Let’s Play? A perfect companion to his popular titles Press Here and Mix It Up!, Let’s Play! is a tactile experience that gets readers pushing, shaking, and swirling in a delightful chain of cause-and-effect.
In this book, the main character—an outgoing yellow dot—invites the reader to trace along a continuous line that goes up, down, around, through, over, and every-which-way. My daughter loves all three of Tullet’s books, but this one is especially fun for her because of the dot’s persona; it expresses emotion and breaks the fourth wall to speak to her directly.
This is an all around fun read that can be extended for tons of creative (what else) play.
Maybe Something Beautiful: How Art Transformed a Neighborhood, by F. Isabel Campoy and Theresa Howell, Illustrated by Rafael López (Amazon link)
What good can a splash of color do in a community of gray? Maybe Something Beautiful: How Art Transformed a Neighborhood answers this question in the best possible way.
This book tells the story of Mira, a little girl who sees possibility in art and in color. She says to herself, “Hmmm, maybe…,” and begins passing her drawings to neighbors and taping them on buildings. She soon meets a man with a pocket full of paint brushes—a muralist who inspires her whole community to draw, paint, dance, sing, and imagine.
Maybe Something Beautiful is based on the true story of San Diego’s East Village neighborhood. Now a vibrant destination alive with the color in the form of murals, mosaics, and other public artwork, the East Village was gray and drab until husband-and-wife team Rafael and Candice López began the Urban Art Trail organization and inspired their community to create. Rafael López illustrates this book, and his pictures are vibrant and thriving. I think you will especially love his vertical two-page spreads, which are an exciting surprise punctuating important turning points in the book’s plot.
Louise and Andie: The Art of Friendship, by Kelly Light (Amazon link)
Do you want to draw together? Louise and Andie is an adorable book (the follow-up to Kelly Light’s 2014 book Louise Loves Art) all about collaboration. Louise is delighted when a new neighbor named Andie moves in. And—even better—Andie loves art, too. But what happens when two friends have creative differences?
Raising children who have the ability to communicate with others and creatively solve problems is high on my priority list, so this is a book that I’m absolutely loving. It helps that Louise is a fantastic character—a great and relatable role model for itty-bitty creatives. I love her un-ironic enthusiasm and how her signature red glasses pop against the book’s simple color palette. Also lovable are the book’s charming action spreads, which are somewhat reminiscent of Archie comics, and the clever allusions to modern art. (Look for the stack of Campbell’s Soup cans in Andie’s moving boxes…get it…Andie?)
Rain Fish, by Lois Elhert (Amazon link)
“When blue sky turns gray and it rains all day, that’s when rain fish come out and play.
They hide in debris until rain sets them free. Do you see them, too? Or is it just me?”
Lois Elhert, the Caldecott Honor–winning illustrator behind children’s classic Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, has a new book. Rain Fish features over forty mixed-media fish—collages made from trash and other items Elhert collected over the course of a year. The book’s bright blue pages and elongated shape show off the creations, and the rhyming text is tons of fun to read aloud.
The inventive art shows readers a brand new way to look at litter. Just try and read this book without wanting to create some rain fish of your own.
I would really love to see your projects! Please tag me on Instagram if you make some art based on these or any other picture books.
A little about Megan: “I’m Megan Lingo: veteran teacher, Educational Therapist, and lifelong lover of books. I read to my three kids every day. Just because I love them. And their books. And how quiet they are when I’m reading their books. Connect with me on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest or my brand-new blog Chickadee Lit, where I write about reading for kids and families.”
Ok, I don’t know about you, but I have a deep need to own all of these books immediately. I may not have small children anymore, but I teach little artists! So there’s my excuse to buy more books. Of course, I might also just take a stroll down to the library and check them out for free!
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Venus is regularly called Earth’s twin. The two planets are the same size, share many physical qualities, and moreover appear to be the same planet – just two different colors. However, the atmosphere of Venus is rather unique. Obviously, it’s incredibly hot, but now scientists believe that there was enough moisture on the planet at one time to actually cover the entire planet with at least 80 feet of water. That would mean the entire planet would be covered by one massive ocean.
However, due to the chemical makeup of the planet – those oceans wouldn’t have been traditional water filled oceans – like scientists once believed. When the planet was cooler, and the moisture could actually precipitate – scientists believe that the liquid on Venus would have been carbon dioxide. The thought of carbon dioxide oceans coating the entire planet might seem like a stretch to some, but the truth is that it might have been entirely possible on Venus.
Scientists at Cornell University in New York found through investigating supercritical fluids that the physical properties of them did not change gradually like many before them had thought. In fact, the new research points to the supercritical fluids changing more quickly with pressure changes and that ultimately changes the way the entire process is evaluated from a molecular standpoint.
Today Venus has an atmospheric pressure that is roughly 90 times of that on Earth, but researchers believe that this was probably significantly higher just a few hundred million years ago. “This in turn makes it plausible that geological features on Venus like rift valleys, riverlike beds, and plains are the fingerprints of near-surface activity of liquidlike supercritical carbon dioxide,” according to Dima Bolmatov, the lead study author and theoretical physicist at Cornell University.
What they found was that it would be entirely possible to have massive clouds of liquid trapped within gas – thus creating the potential for these massive bodies of water that were otherwise thought to be implausible or just something that didn’t seem realistic. This is a significant breakthrough for Venus, who is now getting more attention from scientists as the properties seem more obtainable than those on Mars for making life on another planet – or near another planet possible. | <urn:uuid:f094b1ab-47bf-4471-af5d-f37b875d4374> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.inferse.com/21504/venus-covered-co2-oceans/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.972107 | 438 | 3.859375 | 4 |
An MRI is a non-invasive and painless procedure in which radio waves and powerful magnets linked to a computer are used to create remarkably clear and detailed pictures of internal organs and tissues without the use of radiation. These pictures show the difference between normal and diseased tissue and enables doctors to determine what the inside of a particular structure looks like. This makes it very useful in diagnosing abnormalities. The technique has proven very valuable for the diagnosis of many conditions in all parts of the body including cancer, heart and vascular disease, and joint and musculoskeletal disorders. For some MRI studies, a contrast agent may be given intravenously to enhance visibility of certain tissues or blood vessels.
MRI is one of the most useful tools physicians have to make an accurate diagnosis and select an appropriate treatment for their patients. Thanks to advanced designed features, your MRI experience will be made as comfortable as possible.
All-inclusive MRI for $900 or less!
No hidden fees. The price includes the cost of your scan, the radiologist interpretation and results. As always, check with your insurance company for coverage.
Here are some details you may find helpful as you prepare for your exam.
- A typical exam lasts between 30 to 60 minutes for each body area being scanned. You should allow extra time in case the exam lasts longer than expected.
- The magnet makes a “knocking” sound as images are being taken. In between scans the machine is quiet. The MRI technologist will provide you with either ear plugs or headphones for you to listen to music during your exam. These will not prevent you from hearing the technologist if he or she speaks to you during the exam.
- It is important for image clarity and for the best scan results to hold still during the exam. The technologist will try to make you as comfortable as possible during the exam.
- If you have trouble holding still for 25 to 45 minutes and/or are afraid (claustrophobic) of being in small or cramped places, you may want to ask your physician for medicine to help you relax and lie still during the test.
- You will be in contact with a technologist at all times. Even when he or she is not in the MRI room, you will be visually monitored by the technologist.
- Immediately following the MRI you can begin normal activities, diet and medication, unless you are having other tests done or your physician has advised you differently.
Preparing for your exam
MRI may be performed through clothing, but for your safety you may be asked to put on a patient gown for the test. Clothing with metal or pockets will not be allowed in the scanning room. Certain types of metal in the area being scanned can cause significant errors, called artifacts, in the images. It is important that metal objects are not brought into the scanning room. You will be asked to remove your jewelry, watch, hairpins, bobby pins, hearing aids, removable dental work and glasses.
Any woman who is pregnant or suspects she may be pregnant should let her physician know before scheduling this exam.
MRI is a very harmless test but you will be in a powerful magnet. There are times when some people should not have an MRI or times when certain precautions need to be taken. You will be asked to complete and sign a screening form on the day of the scan for your safety.
It is very important that you inform your physician if any of the following apply:
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- Have a cardiac pacemaker/pacing wires
- Have an internal cardiac defibrillator
- Have aneurysm clips
- Have electrical stimulators/Pumps
- Are claustrophobic
- Weigh more than 350 pounds
Every year, approximately 10 million patients undergo MRI procedures. MRI has been shown to be extremely safe as long as proper safety precautions are taken with regard to metal objects. In general, the MRI procedure produces no pain and causes no short-term damage of any kind. MRI eliminates any exposure to radiation.
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Perfectionism is one of the major issues INFJ writers deal with on a daily basis. Perfectionism often blocks writers from finishing projects because they spend countless hours trying to make things perfect and never actually move ahead. It also blocks writers from ever starting anything because the moment they write that first sentence and see how flawed it is, they feel overwhelmed and lose all hope that they can continue.
Perfectionism is especially frequent in INFJ writers, and it doesn’t just extend to their writing life. Most INFJ personality types experience the crippling effects of perfectionism in their day-to-day lives, whether that’s in their jobs, their relationships, or with other personal issues. This is also why many INFJ personality types tend to gravitate toward personal growth and improvement. We are always trying to make ourselves better, because we can very clearly see where exactly we are lacking.
Why is perfectionism so strong and all-consuming for INFJ personality types, and INFJ writers in particular?
The answer is our dominant introverted intuition.
Every personality type within the MBTI system includes a “function stack,” which is made up of four conscious functions on the top and four unconscious functions on the bottom. Your top function (also known as the “dominant” function) is the function for which you have the most natural talent, consequently making it the one that is strongest within you, and so, not surprisingly, it’s the one you tend to use the most. For INFJ writers this function is introverted intuition.
Introverted intuition compares all experience with inner ideal possibilities. This means that INFJ personality types move through life having experiences, and then compare those experiences to what they imagine the ideal would be for that experience, inside their own mind. They base these ideals on the patterns they’ve observed in the world and the creative ideas they’ve generated to make those patterns better.
For example, INFJs in the workplace frequently come up with new and innovative ideas about how systems can be changed to become more efficient, more compassionate, and more exciting for everyone involved. As they work with the existing system, they see the flaws and how those flaws are affecting people. This is one of our great gifts. We can usually immediately and very clearly see what is not working with anything that involves relationships and people. Once we see what is not working, our brain then begins generating new possibilities for what would work if changes were made.
As writers, we do the same thing, and this is why writing the sloppy first draft can be so hard for INFJ writers. There is no way to write a sloppy first draft without it being messy, clumsy, flawed, and fragmented. That’s what sloppy first drafts are, and that’s what they have to be, in order to have the energy space they need to expand, play, and take form into something more tangible. But what happens is the INFJ writer sees the messiness and the flaws as they are writing those first sentences, and then freaks out and tries to go into improvement mode and make everything better.
While this might work well when we’re dealing with relationships and systems that have already been established and need only an overhaul, or major adjustments and minor tweaks, this does not at all work with something that is just coming into form. When we try to perfect something that is just coming into form, we instantly shrink the energy space it has to work with, because any kind of perfecting or sculpting or polishing comes with rigidity. The more “perfect” you make a form, the more rigid it is. This line needs to be exactly this measurement and so on. That kind of energy kills creativity because it’s just like throwing a blanket over a fire. It smothers it.
So that’s what’s really happening when INFJ writers freak out over the flaws in their first draft and start trying to edit as they write in order to make it “perfect” as they go. They’re smothering their own creativity.
This can be overcome, if the INFJ writer realizes what’s going on and makes a conscious effort to accept the necessary messiness of the first draft stage. However, they will then need to let go of something else too if they really want to move forward, and that’s their own expectations.
Because dominant introverted intuition is always presenting the INFJ with ideal possibilities of how things “could be,” and because this is the INFJ’s strongest function and the one they feel the most at home with, we tend to get very attached to these ideal possibilities. So attached, in fact, that we really don’t want to let them go and we will cling onto them even if they’re not actually realistic or not really in our best interest. This is what happens for many INFJs when they go through a constant cycle of being disappointed by other people and the world around them. It’s very difficult for us to let go of the ideal we’re upholding in our mind, and as long as we cling onto that ideal in the face of all contrary evidence, we are bound to be let down over and over by reality.
The most helpful strategy an INFJ writer can adopt is being willing to accept the chaos of the first draft without trying to change it in the moment, and at the same time, let go of any expectation that the story will measure up to what we see in our mind. It won’t. That’s already a given. Because that’s not how real stories work. Real stories don’t slide out of your mind onto the page looking sharp and vivid, and they don’t read as compelling, masterful works of art. That’s an ideal held in the mind. Real stories are awkward and cringe-worthy when they first come out, and they usually read like stiff-sounding book reports or clunky descriptions of confusing conversation with some vague action sprinkled in.
That’s what’s real. And that’s okay. Because that’s something you can work with. The worst sloppy first draft in the world is easier to work with than the best ideal story that never made it to the page and is still held in the writer’s mind. For INFJ writers who are serious about moving forward with their writing, it’s essential to know the difference.
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There is considerable antagonism in some quarters to food stamps, recently manifest by some Republican “leaders” referring to President Obama as the “Food Stamp President,” a dysphemism because the fact that his mother was actually able to access and use this form of social support is not considered a good thing by the coiners of what they consider a pejorative phrase. The anachronistic image of a coupon with the legend “U.S. Department of Obamaculture” is clever, but superficial.
There’s much more to be considered.
In addition to the announced intent of providing assistance to impoverished families, the food stamp program constitutes an indirect subsidy to the food processing and distribution industries and a secure revenue stream for grocery chains.
Besides, since neither dollar bills, coupons nor plastic cards are edible. Indeed, debit cards and credit cards are simply alternate currencies, making the same difference as whether a person writes with ink on paper, carves letters in stone or sends electronic blips from a computer. All are using symbols to communicate information, relationships or obligations. It’s only money.
The cons, people who object to assistance on principle, do so, one suspects, because, for some reason, they do not perceive relationship and obligation. What they ‘get’ is ownership — having something or someone else as their own and holding on to what they have for dear life. What they have has to be conserved, because without it, they are as nothing.
Think of it as comparable to
“you are what you eat.”
“you are what you consume.”
“you are what you own.”
The ownership society. It’s where Dubya felt at home. “I am because I own.”
owe and own
Look what a difference one letter, one symbol makes!
“I owe” sits at the nexus of past and future and anticipates completing an act, a transaction. “I own” is static, not even an end point.
In the beginning, EuroAmericans traded their properties (the basis of human rights) for the right to own others as property. And that bargain persists in the parental right to own children, in the interest of which ownership right, a woman’s right to privacy and bodily integrity is to be dismissed.
Who owns the sperm that fertilized the egg? It is a legal question? Much of our jurisprudence is focused on ownership.
We say our natural rights are God-given. The petty pols respond, “then let God enforce them.”
I think Obama made reference to that concept in his inaugural speech. I’ll have to check. The whole thing was pretty much a challenge to the cons.
For people who accept the dictum that there is “no free lunch” and that they have to be subservient just to survive, that some people are cared for and get a share of the earth’s bounty, apparently for free, seems like an insult and prompts their jealousy. People who have bought into ownership as their defining principle consider themselves challenged by other people sharing. And they’re right. Ownership is a sop and those who buy into it have been suckered. But, that doesn’t give them cause to resent those who share. | <urn:uuid:47dd6b37-cbe1-446f-a4f1-8a3bc961433f> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://hannah.smith-family.com/?p=6108 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988725475.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183845-00510-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971283 | 706 | 2.25 | 2 |
OBD - Office Binder Document is a file extension that was made for linking Microsoft document files together. It was created by Office Binder. You will also be able to use this extension to store files. They all include a wide range of office document objects. It can also be used for linking the contents of the files together right from Word, Excel, and many others. You will simply be able to go online if you would like to download and take advantage of this file extension. It is also included with Microsoft Office 95,97, and even 2000 but not in any of the newer versions. | <urn:uuid:d07ffe7b-8950-439e-a84a-11af53e5cccb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.softango.com/extensions/obd | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00351-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970793 | 121 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows 7,
Xlinksoft Total Audio Converter is program for encoding audio files. Some editing tools are available such as the selection of a segment of a video or audio to convert.
Audio converter: input formats are various such as MP3, OGG and FLAC. Once entered into the program, the encoding can start. The user will need to select the file to convert, the output format and the destination folder.
Settings: this process has to be filled before completing the encoding. Video and audio settings can be adjusted such as code type, video ratio, audio channel and sampling. Of course, the aim is to have an output of high quality.
Video extractor: Xlinksoft Total Audio Converter can also handle video files such as AVI, MPEG and XviD to name just a few. It can extract the sound out of the video and save it in an audio format. Note that the output will be saved in the program's supported ones.
Batch process: via dragging the file to the interface or browsing files, the user can add more than one file to convert. This method is meant to avoid time wasting on encoding files one by one.
Xlinksoft Total Audio Converter is supporting a wide range of formats whether for the output and input.
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On this day January 20, 1855
Limerick and Clare Examiner
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- 1846–55 The Limerick and Clare Examiner.
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Despite shrinking budgets and soaring enrollment, the Virginia Community College System has embarked on an ambitious six-year plan to improve student achievement, keep tuition affordable and increase job training opportunities for the state's workforce.
To do more with less, VCCS is revamping the way it does business and finding creative ways to improve education and operate efficiently and cost-effectively. And technology plays a critical role.
VCCS, which serves 400,000 students, has begun implementing a shared-services strategy. Instead of buying technology on a campus-by-campus basis, the community colleges now combine their buying power to get better prices. They also have begun centralizing enterprise applications, such as Active Directory. In addition, they are collaborating on distance learning to increase the amount and types of courses students can take.
"We have 23 colleges, and they are very independent in some ways. But the idea is to do things together to make the lives of Virginians better," says Dr. Joy Hatch, vice chancellor of IT services. "The goal is to become more efficient, provide more services and find innovative ways to get business done. IT is a partner in all of this."
Lofty Goals for 2015
Chancellor Glenn DuBois created the VCCS Reengineering Task Force in 2009 to examine the college system's entire organization. DuBois identified five key goals, which he calls "Achieve 2015," that he wants VCCS to meet:
- Increase student enrollment, particularly in underserved populations, such as first-generation students.
- Keep tuition at half the cost of the state's public four-year colleges while boosting the number of students who receive financial assistance.
- Increase the number of students who graduate, transfer to four-year colleges or complete a workforce credential.
- Bolster the number of employer-provided job training programs.
- Raise $550 million in gift donations and grants.
Three years in, the college system has already met more than half its milestones. For example, VCCS has kept tuition at about one-third the cost of the state's public four-year colleges and is awarding 90,000 scholarships annually to students, surpassing its goal of 36,000 additional scholarships per year. VCCS has also met its goal of increasing by 50 percent the number of students who graduate, transfer or earn a workforce credential.
The college system is well on its way to reaching its other goals too, DuBois says. VCCS has raised more than $300 million in grants and donations, and more than 7,267 employers provide job training programs.
In the meantime, system leaders continue to pursue strategies to reshape campus operations. These efforts range from creating new types of full-time teaching positions to investing in professional development for faculty and staff. Strategies that have a technology component include redesigning developmental education, streamlining the financial aid process and building a business intelligence system.
"Fixing" Remedial Education
Nearly half of high school graduates who enter VCCS are not ready to take college-level math or English and must take remedial courses. To increase student success, the system's curriculum team has redesigned developmental courses to simplify and speed up the process for students who need to acquire basic math, reading and writing skills.
In the past, students had to take semester-long developmental math courses. It could take a year, possibly up to two years, to pass all required courses and be ready for the college-level math courses. If a student failed a four- or five-credit course, he or she had to take the entire class again. That caused frustration and put students at risk of dropping out, says Dr. Susan Wood, vice chancellor for academic services and research.
In January, VCCS math instructors streamlined the math content into nine one-unit courses, each of which emphasized specific math skills. If students have mastered some of the skills, they can test out of those one-unit courses and focus on the specific areas where they need remediation, she says.
From a technology standpoint, VCCS created online tests. Some of the system's colleges offer the new developmental math courses online, while others teach them in a classroom lab setting, where students learn collaboratively with faculty providing assistance, Wood says. In some of those cases, students are in computer labs and do math problems on computers as well.
The early results of the new math courses are promising. Students complete their remediation work faster, says Leslie Smith, the dean of distance learning and technology at Rappahannock Community College in eastern Virginia.
VCCS next plans to introduce new developmental English classes, in early 2013.
"It's huge because we are getting students to their college materials sooner. They will be able to graduate and enter the workforce sooner and spend less money on tuition," Smith says.
Dive into the Pool
Sharing services is not new to VCCS. About a decade ago, the central IT department installed a learning management system and student information system used by all the community colleges in Virginia. But because of the chancellor's re-engineering effort, the central IT department now seeks to centralize even more enterprise applications, Vice Chancellor Hatch says.
VCCS, for example, is consolidating Active Directory settings. Previously, students had one set of user names and passwords for the learning management system and student information system, and another for accessing network resources, such as Wi-Fi and local printers.
Soon, all students will need only one set of IDs and passwords. About two-thirds of the colleges have made the switch. "It's single sign-on," Hatch says. "It just makes it easier for students to log in to the services they need."
To reduce costs and improve financial aid services, VCCS also has installed a new enterprise document management system to centrally process financial aid paperwork, she says. Tidewater Community College in Norfolk, Va., has launched a pilot to test a new document workflow and verification process for the financial aid offices of eight community colleges.
Previously, some financial aid departments had to shut down for a few days each week just to process paperwork. Now, those offices can devote "more face time to students," says Matt Lawson, director of VCCS enterprise services.
Additionally, almost a dozen colleges have begun sharing distance learning courses as part of a test initiative to increase student access to courses. Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA), the system's largest college, with 75,000 students enrolled at six regional campuses across three counties, is leading the pilot by making its vast portfolio of online courses available to other VCCS campuses.
If one of the state's smaller or rural colleges doesn't offer a language or science course, students can now take some of these classes online from NOVA. During the 2011–2012 school year, about 1,000 students took advantage of distance learning courses.
"It's a way for our community colleges to leverage and share our resources and give students more options," says Dr. Richard Sebastian, VCCS director of Teaching and Learning Technologies.
VCCS recently installed analytics software that will let administrators analyze financial, human resources, student and student aid data to detect trends and patterns, measure performance, and find ways to increase operational efficiencies and improve education.
The new decision support system, which runs on four Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) servers and connects to data stored on a NetApp storage area network, will be able to generate reports on the fly.
By analyzing student demographics and class enrollment information, for example, individual campuses can determine whether they need to eliminate some educational programs or create new ones, Wood says.
The central IT department, which has a staff of 70, has collaborated closely with the IT staffs at the individual community colleges to plan and implement these systemwide projects. The central IT team has also looked inward and is making infrastructure investments to enhance services, bolster reliability and reduce costs.
Three years ago, for example, when the main VCCS data center began to run out of space and max out power and cooling, central IT deployed virtualization to consolidate servers, reduce energy consumption and improve continuity of operations, Lawson says.
The central tech staff also upgraded to the new NetApp SAN, which further improved redundancy and let VCCS turn its secondary data center into a hot site. "We've moved from tape-based backup to disk-to-disk replication, and it has drastically improved recovery times," Lawson says.
More recently, VCCS has begun migrating to Cisco UCS blade servers. The blades' fast networking speeds will allow the IT staff to pack more virtual machines on each server. In fact, the IT department will soon offer private cloud services to individual colleges so their IT departments can reduce capital expenditures.
"We view ourselves as a private hosting provider," Lawson says. "With our resources, the IT staff at each college is freed up to focus on more important projects."
The benefits are clear to the colleges' IT teams, particularly to those at the small and midsized colleges, says Rappahannock's Smith: "We get to leverage so many things, from purchasing to sharing knowledge and helping each other out."
Taking the Sting Out of Textbook Costs
As part of its systemwide re-engineering effort, the Virginia Community Colleges System launched an initiative this year to lower the cost of textbooks for its students.
Dr. Richard Sebastian, director of teaching and learning technologies, is leading a workgroup that will explore ways to reduce textbook costs and keep education affordable.
"We have goals for student success and the affordability and accessibility of education, and they are affected by outrageous textbook costs," he says.
The workgroup is collecting data about how much students are paying now and exploring alternatives.
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The economics of climate change
The problem of avoiding dangerous climate change requires analysis from many disciplines. Mainstream economic thinking about the problem has shifted with the Stern Review from a single-discipline focus on cost-benefit analysis to a new inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary risk analysis, already evident in the IPCC Third Assessment Report. This shift is more evidence of the failure of the traditional, equilibrium approach in general to provide an adequate understanding of observed behaviour, either at the micro or macro scale. The economics of the Stern Review has been accepted by governments and the public as mainstream economic thinking on climate change, when in some critical respects it represents a radical departure from the traditional treatment. The conclusions regarding economic policy for climate change have shifted from “do little, later” to “take strong action urgently, before it is too late”. This editorial sets out four issues of critical importance to the new conclusions about avoiding dangerous climate change, each of which have been either ignored by the traditional literature or treated in a misleading way that discounts the insights from other disciplines: the complexity of the global energy-economy system (including the poverty and sustainability aspects of development), the ethics of intergenerational equity, the understanding from engineering and history about path dependence and induced technological change, and finally the politics of climate policy.
The diagrammatic representation of climate change, adaptation and mitigation is important in conceptualizing the problem, identifying important feedbacks, and communicating between disciplines. The Synthesis Report of the IPCC's Third Assessment Report, 2001, uses a “cause and effect” approach developed in the integrated assessment literature. This viewpoint reviews this approach and suggests an alternative, based on stocks and flows. The alternative gives a much richer representation of the problem so that it includes the enhanced greenhouse effect, ancillary benefits of mitigation, the distinction between climate-change and other stresses on natural systems, and a more refined distinction between adaptation and mitigation. | <urn:uuid:fe1a1df5-4484-4d53-877d-eecc2159f33c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.researchgate.net/project/The-economics-of-climate-change | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.918472 | 433 | 2.546875 | 3 |
APLBAONWSJAS, or A Programming Language By Any Other Name Would Smell Just As Sweet, is an esoteric programming language designed by User:Vriskanon. It consists of only one command and has never been implemented with an interpreter, although an interpreter for it could be made using APLBAONWSJAS.
Every program consists of a single line of code. That is EXECUTE(n), where 'n' is the name of a programming language and nothing else. APLBAONWSJAS upon being run will run the EXECUTE command and display an interpreter for that programming language. From there, the user must input code manually and then re-run the program, which will run in the executed language. This second-wave programming is considered input in the code, though.
To do this, the code must be run, followed by the user inputting the following:
The code for the hello world program is:
although there are many ways to produce the hello world program.
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Today, the State Department announced that it has okayed a new oil pipeline between Canada and the United States. A press release hails the decision to break ground on the Alberta Clipper Pipeline for sending “a positive economic signal, in a difficult economic period, about the future reliability and availability of a portion of United States’ energy imports” and for providing “shovel-ready” jobs. What it doesn’t mention is that the pipeline between Alberta and Wisconsin will be pumping oil from Canada’s tar sands—some of the world’s dirtiest petroleum. As Mother Jones‘ Josh Harkinson reported in a gripping first-hand dispatch from the “Tar Wars,” Canada’s oil boom is exacting a heavy toll on the rural areas surrounding the massive pits that comprise the largest industrial zone in the world. For every barrel of oil produced from the tar sands, another two of toxic waste are left behind. Indigenous Albertans worry that their water and wild game have been dangerously contaminated. And that’s not all: Squeezing oil from tar sands emits 151 percent more greenhouse gases than the production of conventional oil (including 80 percent more CO2). The official justification for the new pipeline echoes the Bush administration’s policy, which put “energy independence” ahead of environmental considerations. Yet the State Department insists that the US is still committed to taking “ambitious action to address climate change” and getting Canada to follow suit. Sounds like a pipe dream. | <urn:uuid:8366e009-4b47-4974-8a1b-a06d41745168> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://develop.motherjones.com/politics/2009/08/pumping-dirty-oil-canadas-tar-sands/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.936772 | 315 | 2.875 | 3 |
AAA Chicago 2013 Call for Papers: The social lives of biomedical technologies in global health development
Global health development policy and practice has made a noticeable return in recent years to technical and entrepreneurial solutions to world health challenges. This panel will consider the social lives of new and re-purposed biomedical technologies including devices, medicines, and protocols in low resource settings generally or as specific features of health development projects. How do these devices and drugs fit the new mandate for simple, high impact, and low cost solutions? How do local clinicians, policy makers, development workers, and users experience them and adapt them to their own contexts? We welcome papers that focus on a particular moment in the life of a biomedical device or drug or that seek to cover longer career histories and trajectories; familiar issues of access, distribution, and consumption are all important areas for the anthropological study of biotechnical solutions for global health challenges as are issues design and manufacturing. Both ethnographic and theoretical papers are welcome. Paper topics may include, but are not limited to:
- theoretical approaches to understanding the design, manufacture, and use of biomedical technologies in low resource settings
- creative uses of biomedical technologies by users (including clinicians and lay persons)
- non-biomedical technologies used in health projects (ie cell phones)
- the domestication of medicines and devices usually reserved for clinical settings
- scientific and social debates around evidence and particular uses of biomedical technologies, protocols
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Real Estate Lien Lawyers
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What Is a Lien?
A lien is a specific claim against certain property of the debtor. It is a legal claim that changes a general court judgment against the debtor into a specific claim. If the debtor sells or refinances the property you have attached a lien to, you can be paid out the proceeds. Liens are usually attached to property that often changes hands or is refinanced. It often produces enough cash to pay you the judgment with post-judgment costs and interest. The down part is that it takes a couple of years for you to get paid.
Can a Lien be Created on Real Estate
A lien can be created on any real estate by registering your judgment with the land records office in the county in which the debtor's real state is located.
What Should I Look out for before Placing a Lien?
You also want to check if other creditors have placed liens on the property, or you may find yourself at the end of a very long line and may even get nothing in the end. If there are other liens on the property, you can still place the lien but you should also pursue other strategies in trying to get your money.
Can the Property Be Transferred without Removing the Liens?
A lien doesn't have to be removed before the property is transferred. The lien simply remains on the property and the new owner of the specific property has to deal with it. If the new owner wants to transfer the property to someone who wants a clear title, the lien has to be paid off.
Are There Any Limits on Real Estate Liens?
When the owner sells the real estate you will get paid off if there is sufficient money after the mortgage lender and other liens ahead of are paid. There are a couple of limits on your right as a real estate liens holder:
- If the owner falls behind on his/her mortgage payments and the mortgage lender forecloses on the property, your chances on collecting on the lien are low. A foreclosure sale rarely brings in more than paying off the mortgage lender.
- If your lien is attached to the debtor's home, there is another potential limitation. In most states there is a law, called a homestead, which provides homeowners with the right to exempt an amount from being collected of the equity in their home. This amount is from $7,500 to an unlimited amount depending on the state. This exemption only applies to a forced sale of the debtor's home.
- If the debtor declares bankruptcy you?ll face another possible limitation. A debtor can use something called a lien avoidance. It allows a debtor to completely wipe out a lien. This is possible on liens that cut into the debtor?s homestead exemption after the mortgage has been withdrawn.
What About Jointly Owned Property?
To find out what forms of ownership your judgment debtor has of his/her real estate, you can check the deed in the county recorder's office. If the deed doesn?t specify a particular type of joint ownership, property is seen as a tenancy in common. In jointly owned real estate, a lien works differently depending on the form of joint ownership:
- Joint tenancy: The lien attaches to the debtor?s share of the joint tenancy, and it's enforceable if this share is transferred. If the debtor dies your lien is not valid anymore. Joint tenancy rules state that a lien attached to a share is extinguished by that debtor's death.
- Community property: This can also be called tenancy by the entirety and a lien attaches to the entire property when it's held by married couples. The lien stays attached to the property if it's transferred.
- Tenancy in common: A lien here is attached to the debtor's particular interest. The lien remains attached even if the debtor transfers, or leaves in a will, his/her ownership to someone else.
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JURUPA VALLEY (AP) – California’s youngest city on Thursday moved closer to disbanding over financial troubles after the state shifted crucial revenue away from municipal coffers.
In a unanimous vote, the Jurupa Valley City Council authorized officials to start the disincorporation process, which would make the city of 97,000 people east of Los Angeles the first to disband in California in four decades.
Local officials have pleaded with state lawmakers to restore roughly $5.5 million a year in revenue to the city. But they say they no longer can wait to consider beginning the disincorporation process as Jurupa Valley – a diverse cluster of communities ranging from suburban housing tracts to trail-lined equestrian neighborhoods – could run out of cash in July 2015.
“It’s highly disappointing that we would be put into a circumstance like this when it could be so easily solved,” Councilman Verne Lauritzen said Thursday, according to the Riverside Press-Enterprise.
Days before the city incorporated in 2011, California lawmakers shifted motor vehicle license fee revenue away from cities to pay for a statewide prison overhaul. The move affected all cities but especially Jurupa Valley and three other newly formed Riverside County municipalities, which relied on different state funding than older cities.
Since then, Jurupa Valley officials say the city has missed out on roughly $18 million in funding. The city has been running like a startup, using donated furniture and computers and hiring staff via a contracting agency to avoid incurring pension and other costs.
Officials estimate the disincorporation process could take up to 18 months. A public hearing would be held, and residents would need to vote on whether to revert back to county control.
The city formed in 2011 to give residents a greater voice in development decisions and preserve horse-friendly neighborhoods. On the main thoroughfare, residents can buy goods ranging from supermarket food and pizza to hay and feed.
Earlier this week, Gov. Jerry Brown said he would look at the problem plaguing the four cities but could not immediately commit to a solution, the Press-Enterprise reported. Brown’s comments came after a meeting with county officials who asked for a fix for the cities in the state budget.
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Whenever you implement your business plan, there are always risks associated with creating it. The commonly expected hazard is fire. If you fall victim to a fire, all of your capital will be stolen from you. Examples of these consequences are job loss, business disruption, and financial bottlenecks.
-Once you become a burning victim, it is hard to rebuild your job. There is also a high possibility that you will not start your business if affected by accident. Fires exist due to the inability to secure working fire alarms. Indeed, this component should be one of the most important elements of a fire protection system. Many commercial buildings do not have these fire protection systems.
-The first minute or two is the most important time during a fire. Appropriate fire protection systems must be in place during this time to detect the initial release of smoke and the first fire sparks. Acknowledging this will prevent further problems. If you are looking for fire alarms or other items for fire alarm systems, you should use the most popular equipment. Once you do this, your business and workforce are at their best. This then prevents ruining your business investment.
-The alerts you choose should be able to transmit signals to your employees. Aside from this feature, the fire fighting system you select should also warn the appropriate department to help extinguish the fire. In this case, a quick solution to the fire will be found. In some cases, multiple fire alarms alert the fire department in your area. Hence, you can use these functions.
-You have to be more discerning in helping others. Note that the device you purchased has both fire alarms and fire alarm systems. Once a fire is detected quickly, potential hazards are avoided early on. There are components for fire alarms and fire control systems that you must review. This includes blankets, first aid kits, fire extinguishers, and other essential items.
-When it comes to why your job requires a fire alarm, you need your company and your employees to be in the most secure and safe situations. Fire detection can be done early with this device. If you cannot provide security, your property will be destroyed. The need for fire alarms is very clear due to the increasing number of fire accidents worldwide. It’s really scary to think that these accidents only happen because fire alarms are unsafe. This work item should be safe when starting your business. This way, the security of your resources and workforce is possible.
-Once a fire is identified, there must be some type of information system. In most cases this system includes audio and visual alerts. The audible tone provided by the notification system is loud and matches your style. The visual component of the notification is usually a bright flashing light to aid with hearing loss in your area. Some advanced notification systems include a sound that you can use to figure out the best way to evacuate your building.
-Ensure that some fire and building codes require fire alarm systems to comply with established regulations. This must be observed. Therefore, check the specifications of these items before installing the system in the office. A good fire alarm system can mean the difference between life and death. So take your time and do the right research. | <urn:uuid:31796829-6d8b-4a76-b1a2-9b890ab7c866> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://dentandholiday.com/category/fire-alarms/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.941532 | 646 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Photography courses can be great sources of information for both beginning and professional photographers. New photographers can learn the skill involved with creating artistic photographs even before they own their first cameras. Aside from getting oriented with camera features, photography courses also teach the basics in photography, from framing to composition, to how to take the right photo using manual controls.
Features of Photography Courses
Typical photography courses tend to be composed of indoor theoretical discussions and studio work. In shorter courses, especially those that last for one to three days, half of the day is spent indoors where the participants engage in theoretical discussion with the instruction. The other half of the course is spent outside, where participants work on shoot assignments with or without models. Photography courses typically give out certificates to successful participants at the end of the activity.
Types of Photography Courses
There are various types of photography courses. Some courses are a one to three day affairs, while others are part of a university program and last the duration of a semester or even one whole year. Most short photography courses are offered by expert photographers and cover specific areas of photography. For example, beginner courses cover the basics of camera use and the fundamentals of photography. Other courses may offer lessons on how to use digital imaging software, which photographers can use to post-process their photos.
Some courses may be designed with professional photographers in mind, and may focus on the business side of photography. A camera store may actually offer a diverse field of photography courses to choose from, although the choice depends on the areas that the hobbyist photographer wants to learn. Most people also have the option of taking photography courses as a weekend getaways. Participants enjoy not only the lesson but also for the chance to stay in beautiful locations where the outdoor shoots are breathtaking.
Who Should Take Photography Courses?
Photography courses are open to anyone who wants to learn anything from the basics to the most specific areas of the medium. Even professional photographers can take something away from each class or seminar they attend. For example, there are some courses that focus on how to use sophisticated photo editing software, and some professional photographers may want to take advantage of this in order to improve the images that they take. Professional event or wedding photographers who are just starting out, may want to join a photography course where they are taught how to market their work in order to attract clients, how to create portfolios, and how to set prices for their services. There are even some courses that give advice on what to wear and how to behave during assignments. | <urn:uuid:6f859627-108f-4f01-8d87-42218291b56c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://movieguid.net/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00252-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964782 | 509 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Who Was Johnny Dumfries, The Modest Marquess With A Necessity For Pace?
Who Was Johnny Dumfries, The Modest Marquess With A Necessity For Pace?
However, rather than spending the household fortune, he tried to make it on his own, not using his name to open doors. Never one to suffer fools gladly, he retained a dry sense of humour – and at all times had a down-to-earth perspective on his career. At the same time, that was the top of an F1 profession for the Scottish aristocrat however his greatest success in racing still needed to come.
Dumfries struggled to ascertain himself however was quietly dropped on the end of the yr. He turned as a substitute to sports activities cars and became a Jaguar driver in 1987, profitable several races together with the 1988 Le Mans 24 Hours. He finished off his career with the Toyota factory sports car staff in 1989 and 1990. His only season of F1 was in 1986 for Lotus, the place he scored three factors to finish 13th in the championship.
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He got to Lotus in 1990, but their finest days had been long gone, so then it was into sportscars before an F1 revival in 1993. Currently his Triple Eight Race Engineering runs the Vauxhall Vectras within the BTCC, which he himself drove in ’97-‘ninety eight, with a win at Knockhill. Lotus secured a second supply of the Honda engines already utilized by Williams, and a condition of this was to offer the second seat to Satoru Nakajima of Japan. He would do some take a look at driving for Benetton, but then it was into sportscar racing with Porsche, Toyota, Jaguar.
In reality, he was a way more achieved driver than the naked 1986 statistics suggested, as he had already proven in his F3 days, and would subsequently reveal in sportscar racing. He was born on April 26, 1958, in Rothesay, Isle of Bute, in one of many nation’s oldest aristocratic households. Johnny later adopted family custom and attended Ampleforth College but did not full the studies. As an adolescent, he grew to become passionate motorsport lover and determined to try his luck on the earth of racing. He recorded 15 starts with Lotus within the 1986 Formula One World Championship season. He participated five occasions at 24 Hours of Le Mans, scoring an general victory in 1988 with Silk Cut Jaguar XJR-9.
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He then moved to London the place, adopting the name Johnny Dumfries, he labored as a painter, decorator and jobbing builder and later as a mechanic at a garage at Elephant and Castle, earlier than happening to pursue his profession as a racing driver. Dumfries turned as an alternative to endurance racing, first for Sauber then, from 1987, with Tom Walkinshaw’s Jaguar team, profitable several races including the 1988 Le Mans 24 Hours. After a couple of years with the Toyota and Cougar teams, in 1991 he retired from racing to run the family estates, his father having fallen unwell. In 1988, Bute scored the biggest racing victory of his profession when he received the Le Mans 24 Hours, driving a Jaguar XJR-9 for Tom Walkinshaw’s Silk Cut Jaguar Team alongside Dutchman Jan Lammers and Englishman Andy Wallace. Inexperienced, and with the team focusing on Senna, Dumfries had an underwhelming season, ending only 5 races and including one further points inserting to his Hungarian outcome when he was sixth in the season-closing race in Australia. A new driver mixture, a refreshed mentality and winter developments focused at the weaknesses of its 2020 Formula 1 automotive puts Ferrari in a much stronger position heading into the new season.
John Colom Crichton-Stuart, the Earl of Dumfries, preferred to make it in his own right, so stuck with the extra basic Johnny Dumfries. Ironically, it seems, his profession lost momentum through lack of adequate backing. In 1980 he made his start, driving karts, and in 1981 it was on to Formula Ford. His ability was enough that he moved to F3 with Dave Morgan, two years later. Then, in 1984, he really blossomed with the Dave Price Racing / BP Ralt-VW. From the primary seven rounds of the British series, he gained six and had one second place. That just about set him up for a dominant display, and he was in a position to slot in loads of rounds within the European championship, where he additionally challenged for supremacy in opposition to such abilities as Ivan Capelli and Gerhard Berger.
Senna felt his unique number one position in Team Lotus could be threatened by the underrated but extremely talented Warwick so the Brazilian exercised a contractual veto in opposition to the signing of Warwick. Senna even threatened to leave Team Lotus for Brabham – following De Angelis! Needless to say, the Chapman-less Lotus staff, now headed by Peter Warr, were impressed and duly gave way – which trying at the wins Ayrton gave them wasn’t totally unjust. The upshot of it all was that Derek Warwick had no Renault team to go back to, forcing him to look to sportscars.
His family released an announcement which described him as a “devoted husband, father, brother, uncle, son and grandfather and beloved by all”. While finding out Sports Journalism on the University of Central Lancashire, Chris managed to talk his way into working at the British Grand Prix in 2008 and was retained for three years before becoming a member of ESPN F1 as Assistant Editor. After three years at ESPN, a spell as F1 Editor at Crash Media Group was adopted by the major task of launching F1i.com’s English-language website and working it as Editor. Present at each race for the reason that begin of 2014, he has continued constructing his freelance portfolio, working with worldwide titles. As properly as writing for RACER, he contributes to BBC 5Live and Sky Sports within the UK as well as working with titles in Japan and the Middle East. “The indomitable spirit and power which Johnny brought to his life will be greatly missed, and the immense heat and love with which he embraced his family,” the statement learn.
Johnny climbed out and raised his palms in direction of his helmet in despair but fortuitously the XJR9 proved much more durable than the Maserati Birdcage that had gone off some time earlier than and was towed away with a severely bent nostril. The Toyota years of 1989-‘ninety did not deliver a lot for Johnny in the way of outcomes. Unreliable vehicles and robust opposition from TWR Jaguar, Sauber-Mercedes but in addition – little question much to the dissatisfaction of the Toyota individuals – the improving Nissan vehicles prevented that. A seventh place at Jarama and an eighth at Spa-Francorchamps have been Johnny’s poor rewards. The early promise shown at Jacarepagua wasn’t fairly fulfilled and the remainder of the season was not on par with his debut drive. An early accident throughout qualifying at the twisty Monaco monitor meant that poor Johnny even had to put a DNQ on his 1986 resumé.
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Back in 1984 Johnny had been topped British F3 champion, driving a Ralt RT3/eighty three-Volkswagen for Dave Price Racing. The blue-blooded Scot was on his method to the double in 1984 but he ultimately finished second in the European Formula three Championship on fifty three points, Ivan Capelli taking the title on 60 factors. Thanks to his four wins Dumfries finished forward of Gerhard Berger, who scored forty nine factors. 1984 had also seen Johnny pattern a Lotus-Renault 95T at Donington Park as his testing abilities had been highly regarded. He retired from racing in 1991 due to the sickness of his father, and took over the family property in 1993. An unassuming and unpretentious individual, he has few airs or graces and prefers to be called John Bute. | <urn:uuid:a6154628-720c-4d27-bd04-8b43e640f1d6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://phuquocislandtourism.com/2021/05/22/who-was-johnny-dumfries-the-modest-marquess-with-a-necessity-for-pace/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.980268 | 1,714 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Since 2012, undocumented immigrants called Dreamers have received deferred deportation, work permits and — at one time — federally-backed mortgages, which have lower credit score and downpayment requirements for potential homebuyers.
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program gives protections to about 800,000 children who grew up in the United States without immigration documentation. Major U.S. lenders, including Wells Fargo, assumed that these Dreamers qualified as lawful U.S. residents and granted them federally-backed mortgages (FHA loans).
But as early as 2018, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development started telling lenders that Dreamers have never been eligible for FHA loans. The communication that ensued was confusing, contradictory and even misleading, according to a complaint filed on June 9 by Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.), Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Rep. Juan Vargas (D-Calif.).
“It was an administrative trainwreck — and yet another example of what happens when the Trump administration’s disregard for immigrants and inability to govern collide,” said a statement by Robin Thurston, senior counsel for Democracy Forward, a Washington D.C.-based legal services and public policy research organization that requested an investigation into HUD’s actions, on June 5.
HUD’s Office of the Inspector General would not confirm or deny an investigation, but HUD Secretary Ben Carson agreed to cooperate with any investigation. In the meantime, HUD has denied a “formal or informal policy change” on multiple occasions, including in a letter to Rep. Maxine Waters, chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, in December 2018, according to records.
“FHA’s policy has not changed… Any entity asserting that the Obama Administration deemed DACA recipients eligible for FHA loans or that the Trump Administration changed this policy is incorrect,” a HUD spokesperson told Yahoo Finance in an email, explaining that FHA’s 2015 handbook “clearly states that ‘non-U.S. citizens without lawful residency in the U.S. are not eligible for FHA-insured mortgages.’ This policy has never changed.”
But internally, HUD employees admitted that HUD began enforcing DACA ineligibility recently, when the housing agency noticed that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) defines Dreamers as unlawful residents, according to internal emails, memos and documents that Democracy Forward obtained by a Freedom of Information Act Request.
“The decision was made to enforce [Dreamer ineligibility] only at this time… Everyone just assumed they [Dreamers] had lawful status,” said an email from the assistant secretary for housing – Federal Housing Administration commissioner to the Philadelphia quality assurance director in November 2018.
HUD made its decision based on USCIS’s definition, but the law is not consistent on whether Dreamers are “lawful.” According to regulations by the Department of Homeland Security, which is the parent organization of USCIS, a person “who has approved deferred action status” is in “lawful status.”
“HUD made a choice to exclude DACA recipients from FHA loans by defining lawful residency in a different way, in a manner to exclude them, which is made clear in the FOIA documents,” said Menendez.
‘Wide eyes and a puzzled look’ among lenders
For U.S. mortgage lenders, the confusion began at a May 2018 HUD training session, where a mid-level HUD employee allegedly told lenders that DACA recipients are ineligible for federally-backed mortgages.
“Just about every lender representative at the roundtable had wide eyes and a puzzled look on their face” when it was stated, wrote Jana Holmstrup, CEO of Kings Mortgage Services in an email to HUD officials in August 2018, adding that the mortgage industry was at odds on the matter and the policy needed to be officially announced.
After May 2018, HUD doubled down on the Dreamer exclusion in private emails, internal memos, a confidential briefing book and a HUD roundtable discussion. HUD explained that the government has “deferred” prosecution against Dreamers — not made them legal. But when lenders sought official public guidance, internal documents showed that HUD did not provide any.
Lenders complained that private correspondence about the issue resulted in some lenders advertising and granting federally-backed mortgages to Dreamers, while others — like Northwest Mortgage Group (Ore.), Kings Mortgage Services (Calif.) and Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation (Wisc.) — were obliged to stop offering loans to Dreamers.
“Due to the fact that I was invited and attended [the discussion where HUD staff stated DACA recipients are ineligible for FHA financing] — and heard [them] say it — we now find ourselves at a competitive disadvantage,” said Holmstrup, who said that Kings Mortgage’s competitors, including Alterra Home Loans (Nev.), American Pacific Mortgage (Calif.) and Country Club Mortgage (Calif.), continued to offer FHA financing to Dreamers because they hadn’t “heard” of the change. Altera, American Pacific and Country Club Mortgage did not respond to requests for comment.
Wells Fargo and, allegedly CitiMortgage, also provided FHA loans to Dreamers, according to complaints. CitiMortgage did not reply to a request for comment, but Wells Fargo told Yahoo Finance that they offered a “small number of FHA loans to borrowers with DACA status prior to HUD’s definitive statement on the issue.”
Some local HUD bureaus, like the Denver Homeownership Center, also advised lenders to go ahead with loans to qualifying DACA recipients, according to a letter from a lender on October 18, 2018.
The lack of guidance from HUD has hurt not only lenders but Dreamers as well. In December 2018, Direct Mortgage Loans (Md.) denied an FHA loan to a DACA recipient who was about to close on the purchase of a house, according to a letter from Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.).
“My family is so excited about this house we are giving up Christmas, and I pawned all my jewelry to get the money to buy the house. Because the lender said everything looked good, I gave my landlord notice that I would be leaving the end of December. Now I find out that because I have DACA, I don’t qualify to buy a house with FHA,” wrote the DACA recipient, who has lived in the U.S. over 20 years, has a social security number and pays taxes.
It is unknown how many Dreamers have applied for or received a federally-backed mortgage, but some 13.6% of Dreamers have purchased a home, according to a 2019 survey of over 1,000 DACA recipients by the National Immigration Law Center, the Center for American Progress and a University of California professor.
‘Just post the freaking DACA FAQ’
In response to lenders’ requests for clarification, mid-level HUD staff drafted a short DACA policy explanation for a HUD “Frequently Asked Questions” web page in May 2018, which was actually never published for the public.
“FHA’s longstanding policy has been that Non-U.S. citizens without lawful residency in the U.S. are not eligible for FHA insured mortgages. According to the USCIS [U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services]… DACA recipients are not granted lawful residency status… and therefore are not eligible for FHA financing,” an amended draft of HUD’s unpublished DACA policy reads, according to an email on October 11, 2018.
Employees insisted in emails that the FAQ get published but it was never posted. Internal emails, memos and documents reveal a year-and-a-half long correspondence between employees and high-level officials about publicizing the FAQ.
“It wouldn’t be private if [a HUD manager] would just post the freaking DACA FAQ,” wrote a HUD employee in an email some six months into the battle, calling for clarity.
The first record of management action on the FAQ came on December 19, 2018, five days after a BuzzFeed News article alleged that the Trump administration is ‘Quietly denying federal housing loans to DACA recipients.’
The draft FAQ on DACA “was reviewed by program counsel but I do not know if it was shared with OGC [Office of General Counsel] leadership,” wrote a manager. According to an OGC email two weeks prior, OGC had in fact reviewed the FAQ and was told by management not to publish it.
“[The documents] don’t say exactly why the FAQ wasn’t published, and honestly I don’t think there’s any reasonable explanation why. They had internally reached a conclusion that would have provided clarity to the lending market and borrowers, and for no reason we can tell, failed to publish it,” said Thurston.
But HUD Secretary Carson told a different story before Congress on April 3, 2019. Democracy Forward alleges that Carson deceived Congress about DACA eligibility in a testimony to the House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies.
“His failure to reveal that there was at least an informal policy change and imply DACA recipients were still getting loans suggests either an unwillingness to reveal the policy change, or that [he was] unaware of a significant change within his own agency,” said Thurston.
At the Appropriations Subcommittee meeting, Aguilar asked Carson whether DACA recipients are eligible for FHA-backed loans and whether it was possible someone outside of HUD had issued guidance.
“I inquired of the appropriate people, including the FHA commissioner [Brian Montgomery], and no one was aware of any changes that had been made to the policy whatsoever. I’m sure we have plenty of DACA recipients who have FHA mortgages,” replied Carson. “That would surprise me,” if folks in the mortgage industry heard guidance that DACA recipients should not receive FHA mortgages, he said, adding that it was possible that an unauthorized entity had provided guidance.
Thurston told Yahoo Finance that Carson’s answer showed either ignorance of a significant change within his own agency, or an unwillingness to reveal the policy change.
Homeownership for Dreamers
In June 2019, Vargas introduced the “Homeownership for Dreamers Act”, which would make Dreamers eligible for FHA loans, but the bill never passed the U.S. House of Representatives even though it was backed by Waters, chairwoman of the house financial services committee.
The National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP) has urged Congress to pass the Homeownership for Dreamers Act, citing that 92.6% of Dreamers are Hispanic or Latino — a demographic group that is responsible for more than half of homeownership growth in the U.S. over the past decade. These homeowners rely on federally-backed mortgages, twice as much as other groups: some 42.8% of hispanic homebuyers have an FHA loan compared to 20.6% of non-hispanics, according to NAHREP.
“We must ensure that DACA recipients eager to contribute to our economy through homeownership are given the tools to do so,” said Noerena Limón, senior vice president of public policy and industry relations at NAHREP. “Reviving and rebuilding our economy will require input from all sectors of our economy, including from our DREAMers.”
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Nov 21, First, you will want to slowly and carefully form the shrub into a basic geometrical shape. For example, for a cat, trim the bush into an oval shape. Then, place some sticks to act as reference points where you want the head or the tail. Tie the sticks with a string to the shrub if bushmulching.barted Reading Time: 3 mins. Jun 09, Experienced gardeners usually do their major structural pruning when shrubs are dormant, then perform follow-up shaping during the growing season, after the spring growth spurt.
Prune your flowering shrubs to shape them after they've bloomed and before they set buds for the following year, so you don't inadvertently remove the buds and ruin next year's bushmulching.barted Reading Time: 3 mins. Apr 20, The Dos and Don’ts of Pruning Shrubs.
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The author's aim in this commentary was to explain the text accurately, to clarify the geographical and historical references in Judges, and 'to endeavour, in dependence on the Holy Spirit, to draw forth from the narrative and the inspired Word the spiritual lessons designed by the Divine Author'. Andrew Fausset (1821-1910) graduated from Trinity College, Dublin. He was curate of Bishop Middleham from 1848 until 1859 and rector of St.Cuthbert's, York, from 1859 until his death. He is well known for his work in the Jamieson, Fausset, Brown Commentaries.
An exegetical commentary in the Geneva Series which deals with the text in its historical setting, but also draws out 'the spiritual lessons designed by the Divine Author', especially those concerning Christ, in whom 'all history, type and prophecy find their centre.'
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Aims: Gout is a growing health problem worldwide especially in affluent countries, such as Australia. Gout and hyperuricaemia are associated with the metabolic syndrome, diabetes mellitus, obesity and hypertension. More importantly, Australia has a growing prevalence of these important health problems. The aim of this study was to systematically review published information regarding the prevalence of gout and hyperuricaemia in Australia.
Methods: A systematic search was undertaken of the MEDLINE, EMBASE and Web of Science databases, as well as relevant websites for journal articles and reports relating to the prevalence of hyperuricaemia and gout in Australia.
Results: Twenty-five journal articles and five reports were included in the review. Data collected in a standardised way show gout increased in prevalence from 0.5% population prevalence to 1.7% population prevalence from 1968 to 1995/1996. There has been a significant rise in the prevalence of gout in the Australian Aboriginal population from 0% in 1965 to 9.7% in men and 2.9% in women in 2002. Consistent with the rise in gout prevalence, serum uric acid in blood donors has increased from 1959 to 1980 (17% in 30- to 40-year-old men).
Conclusions: The rate of gout and hyperuricaemia in Australia is high in relation to comparable countries and is increasing. The prevalence of gout in elderly male Australians is second only to New Zealand, which has the highest reported rate in the world. Further research on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander gout and hyperuricaemia is required as a result of the lack of contemporary data.
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GENEVA – Geneva School District 304 board officials were receptive to hearing about proposals from a resident regarding the safeguarding and preservation of salvageable materials from the Coultrap facility.
The board voted to raze the old school, which opened in 1923, because it is too expensive to maintain. Coultrap has served as high school, junior high, middle and elementary school. It was closed as an attendance center in 2009.
Colin and Glorianne Campbell had first spoken out against demolishing the school. But this week, Colin Campbell asked board members to consider forming a committee to create a list of things to be salvaged.
School board members said they were interested in more information.
Campbell proposed forming a committee including school board members, the Geneva History Center and the community “to go through the building in great detail and salvage everything that we can that might be a memento for the history center or whatever purpose we can salvage it. We don’t know yet.”
Campbell said the committee would take photos of everything, make a list and talk it over with school officials.
“And then – before they demolish it – take out everything we can,” Campbell said. “The second thing would be to build a permanent memorial on the property after the building comes down.”
The memorial would honor the Coultrap building and Geneva’s late superintendent, Harry Coultrap, for whom the building was named, Campbell said.
Over the Peyton Street entrance, cement blocks spell out “Coultrap Middle School.”
“Salvage the blocks that say ‘Coultrap School’ and use those, along with salvaged bricks, in a memorial,” Campbell said. “And have plaques on that to commemorate both the school and Harry Coultrap.”
The memorial would be structured on a diagonal on a corner of the property so it will not get in the way if officials want to rebuild or put in a parking lot, Campbell said.
Campbell also is requesting to work with the high school’s video class and use footage taken at Tuesday’s Memories of Coultrap program and create a 45-minute documentary.
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Simon Featherstone. Englishness: Twentieth-Century Popular Culture and the Forming of English Identity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. 202 pp. $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7486-2365-5.
Reviewed by Paul Ward (University of Huddersfield)
Published on H-Albion (March, 2010)
Commissioned by Thomas Hajkowski
Many historians, political scientists, cultural critics, and other commentators have convinced themselves that Englishness was largely absent from discussions of national identity until the last three decades of the twentieth century. As Simon Featherstone points out in this wide-ranging and interesting examination of what it meant to be English across the twentieth century, it could be considered that there now exists a school of “Englishness studies.” The school includes academics such as Alison Light, Anthony Easthope, Linda Colley, Robert Colls, Stuart Hall, and Paul Gilroy (one could add Peter Mandler, Wendy Webster, Jeffrey Richards, and Arthur Aughey to this list) as well as non-academic writers such as Simon Heffer, Roger Scruton, Jeremy Paxman, and Billy Bragg. This makes for a crowded field and Featherstone seeks to develop a distinctive approach from his employment in a university drama department, suggesting that “the focus of the nine chapters is upon performances” (p. 5). He combines this with another distinct perspective in the consideration of place, explaining that the book will take as one of its themes “the suppressed significance of regional identity in both the establishment and problematising of Englishness” (p. 5).
There is an impressively broad assortment of themes discussed in the book. Across its 180 pages, there is consideration of English nostalgia and modernity, folk-dance and Scouts, festivals, the Miners’ Strike of 1984-85, literary journeys, northern England, race and ethnicity, sport, accents, and romance. Each chapter has a mix of the familiar and the unfamiliar. One stimulating juxtaposition is in the chapter on the north. George Orwell and a discussion of Blackpool sit alongside analysis of the visits of Mohandas Gandhi and the cricket writer C. L. R. James in the 1930s. Likewise, the chapter on “race” discusses the English nationalist and racist Enoch Powell, but also Randolph Turpin, the black middleweight boxer from Leamington Spa, who defeated Sugar Ray Robinson in 1951 to become world champion and a national hero. Sometimes these linkages work less well. When discussing “festivals,” Featherstone includes the Festival of Britain in 1951 and the Millennium Experience in 2000, but also the Miners’ Strike of 1984-85. Given that the Miners’ Strike was fundamentally a very real class conflict fought by people defending jobs, families, and communities, its discussion as “festival” seemed strained.
Featherstone’s justification is that the strike provided “a disorderly, unofficial commentary ... [that] dramatised arguments about national identity and cohesion,” and he is surely right in such an argument (p. 47). The strike might be seen as “political theatre” that took place away from the customary places of English self-representation, and it was “performed” in films like Brassed Off (1996) and Billy Elliot (2000), yet at its root the strike was not a performance but a battle in which lives and livings were at stake. This also points to one of the book’s two flaws. While Featherstone claims that his is a book about performance, discussion of the theme has not been followed through. It makes fleeting appearances, so Powell’s “Rivers of Blood” speech, in which he forecast racial violence, is seen as performative, as is the Bodyline cricket tour of 1932-33, when English cricketers bowled balls directly at the upper body of their Australian opponents. So too are the Notting Hill riots of 1958, which are described as “a performance of a moment of change in the politics of English identity” (p. 109). There is much discussion of actors, so Gracie Fields and Frank Randle from Lancashire appear, as do films like A Canterbury Tale (1944) and Brief Encounter (1946). There is, though, no discussion of Englishness as performance in the otherwise strong conclusion.
The second flaw is a common one in discussions of national identity in the United Kingdom. It has become something of a commonplace to conclude that the English did not express an English identity while they had the empire to divert them. Following Krishan Kumar, Featherstone argues that “instead of inventing its own nation, as the rules of nationalism demand, England had invented entirely different national and colonial structures to stand in for it” (p. 178). Yet one wonders how it is that so many writers have found so much material about English national identity/character that the number of books on Englishness rises so steadily.
In part at least, the cause is that Englishness was so complex. It did exist in a multinational United Kingdom. Like the Scottish and the Welsh, the English were also British. They could combine both national identities, not in a hyphenated form, but as Englishness within Britishness, merging, infusing, and blending at the boundaries and at the core. It was different and the same. This is why reading through Featherstone’s Englishness it is so frequently the “B” word--Britain--that is found, rather than England: the Festival of Britain, the British National Party, the miners’ strike in England, Scotland, and Wales, the Scouts (in which the first Glasgow troop claims to be the first officially registered), and the British Empire, which brought Gandhi and James and hundreds of thousands of other immigrants to Britain. “I was British,” C. L. R. James wrote (p. 106). Yet “Britishness” is mentioned only once in the book. Without doubt, place matters in the United Kingdom and Featherstone uses a sense of locality and region very well to explore the ambivalence within unified versions of Englishness, but the same perspective might have been considered in terms of the way England fitted into Britain. As Bolton was a continuum with Lancashire and the northwest and the north and Britain and the empire, so too did England fit within this continuum.
The reason for so many words being written on Englishness is because we, as academics, have not come to terms with the way in which the English found it so remarkably easy to perform so many identities all at once. Englishness was neither absent nor anxious for much of the twentieth century. In the end, Featherstone draws his book to a close with a recognition of this. As he says, “England, then, remains in search of itself as a nation and that search has been an integral part of its culture and politics for over a century” (p. 182). This book provides an engaging addition to “Englishness studies,” but not yet the last word.
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Paul Ward. Review of Featherstone, Simon, Englishness: Twentieth-Century Popular Culture and the Forming of English Identity.
H-Albion, H-Net Reviews.
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The candidates for the Republican nomination for president have had, at last count, about 4,000 debates. One topic that apparently hasn't come up yet is the proposed merger of AT&T and T-Mobile.
That could change. The move by the Federal Communications Commission - which, after all, is headed by an old buddy of President Obama - is said to be close to inserting itself in the middle of the deal in a way that makes it far less likely that it will close. That is in addition to the Department of Justice suit against the deal.
This week, many sites report that the FCC intends to refer the merger to an administrative law judge. AT&T will be required to show that the deal is in the public's interest. Clearly, that's something the FCC doesn't think can be proven, because it doesn't think it is the case. This is how GigaOm puts it:
The FCC has found plenty to criticize in AT&T's proposal, refuting Ma Bell's claims about the supposed benefits of the merger from all sides in a press conference held Tuesday. FCC lawyers found the merger would kill jobs, rather than create them, that the sum of the two operators' 4G wouldn't be greater than the parts, and that a merged AT&T-Mo would likely stifle wireless competition in 99 of the 100 largest markets-basically every major city but Omaha, Neb.
It is not certain that the move will be made. Wired points out that the draft that is circulating can be squelched, amended or approved. If it is issued as written now, it will be interesting to see how this plays out as the presidential race starts to gather momentum. The reaction is likely to sound like this:
Larry Solomon, senior vice president of Corporate Communications, told Mashable, "The FCC's action today is disappointing. It is yet another example of a government agency acting to prevent billions in new investment and the creation of many thousands of new jobs at a time when the US economy desperately needs both. At this time, we are reviewing all options."
The FCC working to scuttle a deal is red meat for advocates of small government. The deal was conceived in the marketplace and, according to this line of thinking, should be off limits to limitations imposed from a bunch of lawyers and bureaucrats in Washington.
In addition to not accepting the basic right of the government to interfere, the specific conclusions of the FCC lawyers will no doubt be questioned. It also will be pointed out that the FCC is battling the incumbent phone companies on Net Neutrality and the all-important details on the way in which broadband access is provided to rural citizens. Its moves should be seen, critics will say, as one chess move in that bigger mosaic.
None of this is reason for the FCC to hold off, if the thought truly is that cell phone users will be worse off if the deal goes through. The bottom line is that if the draft order is approved and issued, the subject will get a lot of play from the candidates simply because it is a stark and accessible juxtaposition of the very different ways in which Democrats and Republicans approach business and telecommunications. | <urn:uuid:e28b8ae0-8698-422b-a67e-2aed1409b910> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/government-actions-to-stop-att-t-mobile-merger-will-fuel-gop-candidates/?cs=49170 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00084-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970047 | 645 | 1.953125 | 2 |
Hindi translation of worldly
worldlyPowered by COBUILD /ˈwɜːldli ˈवअल्ड्ली/
Word forms: worldlier, worldliest
Definitions and Translations
Worldly is used to talk about the ordinary things of life, especially things like possessions, rather than spiritual things. [literary]
⇒ He hadn't left many worldly goods behind him.
Someone who is worldly is experienced, practical, and knowledgeable about life.
जीवन के अनुभवों से युक्त
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Example Sentences Including 'worldly'
She had a far more discriminating worldly sense than ever he, or Luke, could hope to have.MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY (2003)
And for all her emotional strength and maturity, Bella was so innocent in worldly affairs.Compulsion
He was standing next to one of his pieces exhibited at the Tate - an old wardrobe stuffed with his worldly possessions.GYPSY MASALA (2004)
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Seeing as how 6 awg cable is only good for 50 or so amps (edit: correction- 101 amps as stranded wire). How can we get more current than that through an XT-150 connector? Perhaps this is a solution?
1/4" braided copper ground strapping is good for 30 amps x 3 = 90 amps. The inside of the connector is exactly 1/4", so they fit inside nicely. Does anyone see any problems with this?
You’d have to heat shrink the while wire I imagine.
6awg is good for 100A continuous without issue…200A runs hot but workable
Looks good for sure can carry watts.
I’m not sure it’s needed in the vast majority of boards though. 10awg gets people by fine usually. We’re not running meters ofbattery leads.
It is? Look at the various wire codes, I see 50 and 55 amps, and 75 amps at 90c degrees.
Sure feels like it sometimes though huh lol. I could trim mine down…
Are you sure that’s a multistranded wires chart?
Seems like stats for solid single stranded cables
You’re right, 101 amps as stranded wire.
I had no idea stranded wire could carry almost double the current of solid core. That’s just ridiculous that something with less mass can carry more current. The skin effect of electricity, I guess.
6awg cable is almost impossible to get into an XT-150 connector, so there’s that. I needed a low profile battery cable.
I wonder if I’m interfering with the skin effect by laying them on top of one another like that?
edit: after thinking about it a bit more, no way. Stranded wires wouldn’t be able to carry more current if that were true.
how about using 8mm bullets
use them for coupling 2x10awg
and then there’s the QS10, utilizing 10mm bullets, 400A rated and antispark
For big wires that dont fit into small holes, i like to tin the end of the wire and then carve it down to size with a dremel
I use wire cutters and cut them to 10awg but strip the sheathing a little farther back so I can get solder to all strands
I must confess I do this too. Have been known to spread the cup a tad too and split the hole types. I done all the bad things.
Wow, that’s like the OSE 8mm Anti Spark Connector, but freaking 10mm’s, 400 amps…
That chart is for AC usage and for long runs of wire inside buildings.
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FDI in the hotels and tourism sector increased dramatically in 2008, compared with previous years.
Many factors contributed to this increase, including the low-fare airlines boom, which revolutionised travel overseas. But as the global recession took hold in the third quarter of 2008, has the fall in FDI in 2009 been caused by the recession as consumers tighten their purse strings, or has the era of cheap travel passed its peak?
FDI in the hotels and tourism sector remained at a relatively steady level prior to 2008. Between 2003 and 2007, the sector accounted for an annual average of 289 FDI projects, a combined investment of $31.75bn and the creation of an estimated 67,663 jobs. Yet in 2008, FDI in this sector boomed, with project numbers increasing by 92%, investment up 92%, and job creation more than doubling, up 116% on the 2003 to 2007 annual average.
The latest results released by fDi Markets show that FDI in the hotels and tourism sector declined slightly in 2009 but has not dropped to pre-2008 levels. In 2009, 370 FDI projects were recorded, constituting $37.2bn of investment and resulting in the creation of an estimated 87,288 jobs. Only 2010 will tell whether FDI in the hotels and tourism sector has passed its peak, or if 2009 is just a glitch in its growth pattern.
By the numbers
Since 2003, FDI in the hotels and tourism sector has accounted for a total of 2370 FDI projects, which consisted of a combined total investment of $257bn and the creation of an estimated 571,526 jobs. Between 2003 and 2009, FDI in the hotels and tourism sector experienced an annual average increase of 9% in project numbers. The majority of this growth occurred in 2008, when FDI project numbers increased by 87% on 2007’s figures.
China ranked as the top destination for FDI in the hotels and tourism sector, attracting 8.6% of all FDI projects. Together, the top five destination countries – China, the UK, the United Arab Emirates, India and Russia – attracted nearly one-third of all FDI projects in the hotels and tourism sector. Although China was the top destination country, the UAE’s Dubai ranked as the top destination city globally. Between 2003 and 2009, 71 FDI projects were located in Dubai and 24 FDI projects were located in Abu Dhabi. These two cities accounted for 86% of FDI projects into the UAE in the hotels and tourism sector. US-based companies were responsible for the vast majority of FDI in the sector, accounting for 28% of global projects.
Due to the nature of the hotels and tourism sector, most of the FDI projects were involved in construction activities. The construction of hotels and tourist attractions accounted for 83% of all FDI in this sector, whereas sales, marketing and support activities accounted for 13% of projects.
Major hotel groups have been responsible for the bulk of FDI projects in the hotels and tourism sector. Hotel giants Accor, InterContinental, Marriott, Carlson and the Hilton group accounted for one-quarter of all investments. Dubai Holding accounted for half of all FDI projects created by companies from the UAE, with 97% of these projects set up in 2008 and 2009.
The most popular motive for investing in the sector, stated by 51% of companies, is ‘domestic market growth potential’. Other motives stated included ‘proximity to markets/customers’ and ‘regulations/business climate’.
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The reproducibility of the Angelus Novus in the moment of danger
Institute of Jewish Studies
Forum for world literature studies
, p. 398-405
University of Antwerp
Walter Benjamin's "Angel of History" inspired by Paul Klee's artwork "Angelus Novus" has become a modern icon that continues to receive international acclaim in markedly different contexts and situations. This reception raises questions about the conditions and implications of carrying Benjamin's allegory and, by extension, modernist icons as such, across cultural, temporal and political borders: Under what conditions can this arguably most radical of canonized mnemonic images of the past century be saved from conventionalization in order to continue to testify to the violence and destruction perpetrated over the course of human history until today? This question is addressed in a juxtaposition of several contrasting interpretations of Benjamin's famous allegory. | <urn:uuid:7832b7ea-ea25-4bdf-aa0a-8b9ffa21f8ab> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://repository.uantwerpen.be/link/irua/131113 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00514-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.772354 | 180 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Help needed: disease identification
bertheau at solair.inapg.inra.fr
Sat May 25 04:34:24 EST 1996
> Unidentified Arabidopsis disease
> Information search...
> I seek help to identify and find a cure to a disease destroying some
> of our Arabidopsis plants. This disease attacks plants grown in soil
> in growth chambers. Up to now, attempts to identify this pathogen were
> The first symptom detected is a senescence of the basal leaves. This
> senescence later spreads upward along all (or sometimes only one) of
> the stems. A premature wilting of higher stems and inflorences is also
> often observed, associated with a hook-like bending at a dried stem
Did you made observations of brown color into the vascular system?
> The disease is presumed to be spreading vascularly. It does not appear
> to be transmitted through seeds since a normal amount of disease is
> noted among individuals originating from seeds collected on affected
> plants. Furthermore, our seeds are routinely sterilized and germinated
> in vitro. It seems also unlikely to be related to a nutrient
I do not work with Arabidopsis but the efficiency of sterilization is
highly dependent on the surface of the seeds and of the chemicals
duration... used. Moreover, some diseases are transmitted by seeds
(some fungi, bacteria and viruses). In these cases the sterilization is
> deficiency or an air-borne pathogen since it is often noted that only
> one or a few plants per container are affected, even when several
> plants touch each other.
But did this disease extend from an initial point?
With most of the vascular diseases, the symptoms develop on a plant
then extend to the surrounding ones (if the time of plant culture
is long enough...)
Otherwise insects (flying or not...) are also good vectors
> We have experienced in the past a few, sporadic, occurrences of this
> disease. The number of plants affected has, however, recently
> increased severely. I would be very grateful for insights from anyone
> facing a similar problem and/or having successfully identified and
> defeated this pathogen. Thank you for your attention.
I do not know this disease, but the symptoms you described are quite
similar to those of other vascular fungal disease. Test this hypothesis
by using a systemic fungicide e.g. Alumine Phosethyl (in France
the trade name is "Alliet" from Rhone Poulenc) but maybe could you find
> Martine Jean
> Université Laval
> e-mail: mjean at biota.rsvs.ulaval.ca
Did you send also your message to sci.bio.phytopathology?
Maybe are there some phytopathologists they know this disease...
Hoping it will help you...
Yves Bertheau, INRA INA P-G, Pathologie Vegetale, 16 rue Claude Bernard,
75231 PARIS cedex 05, FRANCE, Tel +33 (1) 44.08.16.98 or 44.08.17.04
Fax: +33 (1) 44.08.17.00 or 16.31, Internet:
bertheau at inapv.inapg.inra.fr
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The Honorable George W. Bush
President of the United States of America
The White House
Washington, DC 20502
Dear Mr. President,
In this decisive hour of our nation's history we are writing to express our deep appreciation for your bold, courageous, and visionary leadership. Americans everywhere have been inspired by your eloquent and clear articulation of our nation's highest ideals of freedom and of our resolve to defend that freedom both here and across the globe.
We believe that your policies concerning the ongoing international terrorist campaign against America are both right and just. Specifically, we believe that your stated policies concerning Saddam Hussein and his headlong pursuit and development of biochemical and nuclear weapons of mass destruction are prudent and fall well within the time-honored criteria of just war theory as developed by Christian theologians in the late fourth and early fifth centuries A.D.
First, your stated policy concerning using military force if necessary to disarm Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction is a just cause. In just war theory only defensive war is defensible; and if military force is used against Saddam Hussein it will be because he has attacked his neighbors, used weapons of mass destruction against his own people, and harbored terrorists from the Al Qaeda terrorist network that attacked our nation so viciously and violently on September 11, 2001. As you stated in your address to the U.N. September 12th:
"We can harbor no illusions. . . . Saddam Hussein attacked Iran in 1980 and Kuwait in 1990. He's fired ballistic missiles at Iran and Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Israel. His regime once ordered the killing of every person between the ages of 15 and 70 in certain Kurdish villages in Northern Iraq. He has gassed many Iranians and forty Iraqi villages."
Disarming and neutralizing Saddam Hussein is to defend freedom and freedom-loving people from state-sponsored terror and death.
Second, just war must have just intent. Our nation does not intend to destroy, conquer, or exploit Iraq. As you declared forthrightly in your speech to the U.N. General Assembly:
"The United States has no quarrel with the Iraqi people. . . . Liberty for the Iraqi people is a great moral cause, and a great strategic goal. The people of Iraq deserve it; the security of all nations requires it. Free societies do not intimidate through cruelty and conquest, and open societies do not threaten the world with mass murder. The United States supports political and economic liberty in a unified Iraq."
This is clearly a just and noble intent.
The world has been waiting for more than a decade for the Iraqi regime to fulfill its agreement to destroy all of its weapons of mass destruction, to cease producing them or the long-range missiles to deliver them in the future, and to allow thorough and rigorous inspections to verify their compliance. They have not, and will not, do so and any further delay in forcing the regime's compliance would be reckless irresponsibility in the face of grave and growing danger.
Fourth, just war requires authorization by legitimate authority. We believe it was wise and prudent for you to go before the U.N. General Assembly and ask the U.N. Security Council to enforce its own resolutions. However, as American citizens we believe that, however helpful a U.N. Security Council vote might be, the legitimate authority to authorize the use of U.S. military force is the government of the United States and that the authorizing vehicle is a declaration of war or a joint resolution of the Congress.
When the threat of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba presented a grave threat to America's security, President Kennedy asked for the support of the U.N. and the Organization of American States, but made it clear, with or without their support, those missiles would either be removed by the Soviets, or we would neutralize them ourselves. The American people expected no less from their president and their government.
Fifth, just war requires limited goals and the resort to armed force must have a reasonable expectation of success. In other words, "total war" is unacceptable and the war's goals must be achievable. We believe your stated policies for disarming the murderous Iraqi dictator and destroying his weapons of mass destruction, while liberating the Iraqi people for his cruel and barbarous grip, more than meet those criteria. | <urn:uuid:1efb5054-db18-4c51-a9c4-5c74619e4ed2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.beliefnet.com/news/politics/2002/10/a-letter-from-conservative-christians-to-president-bush.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00097-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957374 | 876 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Faculty, staff earn statewide honors for pioneering educational work on equality.
Early in 2008 a number of racial conflicts erupted at Ithaca High School, affecting the entire community. Associate professor of theater arts Cynthia Henderson wanted to help high school students express their feelings about what was happening, and she wanted to make the community...
IC kicks off 2008 by honoring Martin Luther King Jr. by Greg Ryan ’08
Flyers blanketed the campus. “Why are you in classes today?” they demanded. The question caught many students venturing to class that blustery Martin Luther King Jr. birthday in 2005 by surprise, and that’s what the MLK scholars... | <urn:uuid:aa018922-b447-4f1b-add5-a5c996c03052> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ithaca.edu/icview/stories/tags/martin_luther_king_jr._day/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00316-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951256 | 147 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Mars is weird. Right? I mean, it’s a whole other planet. So you expect it to be weird.
But then I see pictures like this one from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s HiRISE camera, and I am reminded just how weird it is:
[Click to chicxulubenate.]
Most craters you see are pretty simple: something impacts the ground at high speed, BOOM!, and you get a crater like a dish tossed into soft sand. But this one has two rings, one inside the other. That can happen with huge impacts producing craters hundreds of kilometers across, but this one is small, only 230 meters from side to side – an American football stadium would just fit inside this crater.
The most likely explanation for the double ring is that the Martian landscape here is layered. There’s rock and sand on the surface, but underneath that is a layer of ice. The big rim is from the displaced rock, and the inner, smaller ring is from the impactor plowing through the ice. Each layer has a different strength – rock is harder than ice – so it’s as if two craters were formed, one inside the other. Radar observations of Mars from orbit have indicated there’s ice under the surface in this region, so that fits.
Similar double-ringed craters have been seen on Mars – though the structure and history is by no means well understood! – and some have been found on the Earth’s Moon as well. Those tend to be big, as I mentioned, though they don’t have to be.
By the way, the image above is color enhanced to show details. The blue may be from carbon dioxide frost, which can be seen in similar color-enhanced HiRISE images. The ripples in the center are sand dunes, sculpted into parallel waves by the ceaseless Martian wind.
Craters this small on Earth are extremely unlikely to form; the impactor would be maybe 20 meters or so across, and objects that size tend to break up when they ram through our thick atmosphere at high speed. Mars has much thinner air, so rocks that size can hit intact. Studying craters on Mars is a chance to see what these hypervelocity impacts are like under very different conditions, which helps us understand them. The physics of extremely high-speed collisions is hard to study experimentally – accelerating large objects to that kind of speed is both difficult and more than slightly dangerous – so it’s nice to have a lab like Mars where we can observe these effects.
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WinHEC Photo Blog: Zeed+
The Zeed+, which finished third in Microsoft's contest. Like the MADE in China PC, the PC doesn't actually house its own components. The "stalks" actually are designed to hide a hard drive, CPU, etc., allowing users to literally arrange their form and function into a composite whole. Designed by Kenneth W.K. Wu of Toronto. | <urn:uuid:65b29f8b-3527-4a4e-9465-b6cde995540a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow_viewer/0,3253,l=207715&a=207633&po=18,00.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00402-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943851 | 87 | 1.625 | 2 |
After news last month that the economy added 200,000 jobs in December, there was talk that this month’s job numbers would be disappointing by comparison. Earlier this week, for example, economists predicted the economy had gained just 135,000 jobs in January.
It was more than a pleasant surprise then, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ monthly employment report showed that 243,000 jobs were added in January, the largest monthly gain since April 2011. The increase was significant enough to drop the unemployment rate to 8.3 percent, a three-year low point. According to the New York Times, today’s report is “the strongest signal yet that an economic recovery [is] spreading to the jobs market.”
Other signs that the job market recovery is picking up speed?
1. According to the Conference Board’s monthly Help Wanted Online report, the number of advertised job openings online increased by 61,300 in January, to 4,383,400. Online job postings increased by 207,118 year-over-year.
2. Yesterday, the U.S. Labor Department reported that the number of first-time filings for unemployment insurance fell to 367,000 last week. Economists consider fewer than 400,000 new filings per week to be a sign of strong hiring trends.The four-week filing average, a more stable indicator of UI claims, fell to 375,500 — the second lowest four-week average since June 2008.
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with presents of jewels and gems, dismissed them one after another. And after all the monkey-chiefs, and the apes with bovine tails, and the bears, had gone away, Rama re-entered Kishkindhya with Sugriva. And accompanied by both Vibhishana and Sugriva, Rama re-entered Kishkindhya riding on the Pushpaka car and showing the princess of Videha the woods along the way. And having arrived at Kishkindhya, Rama, that foremost of all smiters, installed the successful Angada as prince-regent of the kingdom. And accompanied by the same friends as also by Sumitra’s son, Rama proceeded towards his city along the same path by which he had come. And having reached the city of Ayodhya, the king despatched Hanuman thence as envoy to Bharata. And Hanuman, having ascertained Bharata’s intentions from external indications, gave him the good news (of Rama’s arrival). And after the son of Pavana had come back, Rama entered Nandigrama. And having entered that town, Rama beheld Bharata besmeared with filth and attired in rags and seated with his elder brother’s sandals placed before him. And being united, O bull of Bharata race, with both Bharata and Shatrughna, the mighty son of Raghu, along with Sumitra’s son, began to rejoice exceedingly. And Bharata and Shatrughna also, united with their eldest brother, and beholding Sita, both derived great pleasure. And Bharata then, after having worshipped his returned brother, made over to him with great pleasure, the kingdom that had been in his hands as a sacred trust. And Vasishtha and Vamadeva then together installed that hero in the sovereignty (of Ayodhya) at the eighth Muhurta of the day under the asterism called Sravana. And after his installation was over, Rama gave leave to well-pleased Sugriva the king of the monkeys, along with all his followers, as also to rejoicing Vibhishana of Pulastya’s race, to return to their respective abodes. And having worshipped them with various articles of enjoyment, and done everything that was suitable to the occasion, Rama dismissed those friends of his with a sorrowful heart. And the son of Raghu then, having worshiped that Pushpaka chariot, joyfully gave it back unto Vaisravana. And then assisted by the celestial Rishi (Vasishtha), Rama performed on the banks of the Gomati ten horse-sacrifices without obstruction of any kind and with treble presents unto Brahmanas.’”
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One highlight of the three-day Fortune Brainstorm:Tech conference, which just wrapped up in Pasadena, came when Howard Dean, former presidential candidate and former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, began riffing on the Internet’s impact on national politics.
Some highlights from the 11-minute video:
• Howard Dean: “The technology is moving so fast and it’s having an enormous, enormous effect.” He briefly traced the influence of the Internet on U.S. politics, citing YouTube flipping the U.S. Senate to Democratic control in 2006 because of Va. Sen. George Allen’s Macaca moment.
• The 2008 campaign by Barack Obama made spectacular use of social networking. “2008 was the first election in the lifetime of everyone in this room in which more people voted who were under 35 than over 65,” Dean told the audience. “This is the president of the younger generation.”
• Dean: “Then along comes the 2009 Iranian election and they could shut down the Internet but they couldn’t shut down their cellphone network without shutting down their whole country. How did information get out? Twitter.”
• Want to clean up the local stream? Why lobby your local government “when you can get 100 of your friends to get together and go down there and clean it up?” Dean suggested.
• Dean on the plight of the newspaper industry: “I don’t know what I would do if I were trying to run a newspaper today.”
• “We’re seeing a huge democratizing effect, taking power away from governments and giving it to individuals because of the extraordinary power of electronic communications,” Dean said. “The Internet puts politicians out of business because it makes it easier to get around authority structures. ”
Well, perhaps some day, but that’s just not true yet, given the 95 percent re-election rate in House races in the last few cycles. Incumbents have access to the power of the Net, too.
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45 CFR 1624.4 - Discrimination prohibited.
(a) No qualified person with a disability shall, on the basis of disability, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or otherwise be subjected to discrimination by any legal services program, directly or through any contractual or other arrangement.
(b) A legal services program may not deny a qualified person with a disability the opportunity to participate in any of its programs or activities or to receive any of its services provided at a facility on the ground that the program operates a separate or different program, activity or facility that is specifically designed to serve persons with disabilities.
(c) In determining the geographic site or location of a facility, a legal services program may not make selections that have the purpose or effect of excluding persons with disabilities from, denying them the benefits of, or otherwise subjecting them to discrimination under any program or activity of the legal services program.
(1) A legal services program that employs a total of fifteen or more persons, regardless of whether such persons are employed at one or more locations, shall provide, when necessary, appropriate auxiliary aids and/or other assistive technologies to persons with impaired sensory, manual or speaking skills, in order to afford such persons an equal opportunity to benefit from the legal services program's services. A legal services program is not required to maintain such aids at all times, provided they can be obtained on reasonable notice.
(2) The Corporation may require legal services programs with fewer than fifteen employees to provide auxiliary aids and/or other assistive technologies where the provision of such aids would not significantly impair the ability of the legal services program to provide its services.
(e) A legal services program shall take reasonable steps to ensure that communications with its applicants, employees, and beneficiaries are available to persons with impaired vision and hearing.
(f) A legal services program may not deny persons with disabilities the opportunity to participate as members of or in the meetings or activities of any planning or advisory board or process established by or conducted by the legal services program, including but not limited to meetings and activities conducted in response to the requirements of 45 CFR part 1620. | <urn:uuid:0842235b-4a55-4989-8fcc-722f10dd453e> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/45/1624.4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719041.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00167-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949547 | 436 | 1.78125 | 2 |
From the award-winning author of The Dictators, Richard Overy's The Battle of Britain: Myth and Reality is the best introduction available to a defining moment in British history.
The extraordinary struggle between British and German air forces in 1940 was one of the pivotal events of the Second World War.
How close did Britain really come to invasion during this time?
What were Hitler and Churchill's motives? And what was the battle's real effect on the outcome of the war? 'It is harder to imagine a sounder and more succinct account of the Battle of Britain' Max Hastings, Evening Standard 'No individual British victory after Trafalgar was more decisive in challenging the course of a major war than the Battle of Britain ...the best historical analysis in readable form which has yet appeared on this prime subject' Noble Frankland, The Times Literary Supplement 'The Battle of Britain is hard to beat' Saul David, Sunday Telegraph 'Exemplary ...a compelling account' Boyd Tonkin, Independent 'Succeeds brilliantly ...along the way a lot of myths bite the dust' Time 'A captivating and brilliant analysis of the fragile circumstances of Britain's victory' Observer Richard Overy has spent much of his distinguished career studying the intellectual, social and military ideas that shaped the cataclysm of the Second World War, particularly in his books 1939 - Countdown to War, Why the Allies Won, Russia's War and The Morbid Age. Overy's The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia won the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hessell Tiltman Prize.
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 176 pages, maps
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date: 06/05/2010
- Category: British & Irish history
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Synne Movik and Fieke de Jong
Licence to Control: Implications of Introducing Administrative Water Use Rights in South Africa
In recent years, there has been a prevalent trend towards implementing administrative water use rights in a number of countries. South Africa was one of the pioneers in this respect, implementing a progressive new water law in 1998, which introduced the concept of administrative rights in place of the old riparian system. This paper examines the implications of introducing administrative rights in the South African context. The main argument is that the institutionalisation of tradable water use licences in the face of an inherently uncertain resource – which is likely to become even more unpredictable due to climate change – is fraught with difficulty. The paper contends that the institutionalisation of administrative water use rights caused a profound shift in relations of authority, shifting from user-user correlative relations to State-user relations. This shift left the State with a large degree of discretion in terms of deciding on how to allocate rights but also burdened it with a cumbersome and unwieldy system of administration. Though the State’s new powers allowed it to embark on an effort to redistribute water to historically disadvantaged individuals, the progress is slow and with very mixed results due in part to the nature of the licensing system. The paper draws on individual empirical research by the authors in 2006 and 2009, focussing on policy-level processes as well as case studies from the Inkomati and Limpopo Water Management Areas.
Anwuli Irene Ofuani
Environmental Regulation of Offshore (E&P) Waste Management in Nigeria: How Effective?
The advancement of technology has led to the rapid development of the offshore oil and gas industry and a corresponding increase in the amount of wastes generated from the industry. These wastes must be properly managed so as to curtail their potential to negatively affect human health and the environment. As a result, environmental regulation of offshore oil and gas operations is becoming more stringent worldwide. The Environmental Guidelines and Standards for the Petroleum Industry in Nigeria (EGASPIN) were issued to ensure that oil and gas industry operators do not degrade the environment in the course of their operations in Nigeria. Nonetheless, more attention has been focused on the economic aspects of offshore oil and gas industry rather than environmental aspects such as waste management. This article examines the legal aspects of offshore oil and gas waste management in Nigeria. It assesses the effectiveness of the mechanisms for the management of offshore E&P wastes in Nigeria as provided under EGASPIN in relation to other jurisdictions.
Social Exclusion in Watershed Development: Evidence From the Indo-German Watershed Development Project in Maharashtra
The concept of social exclusion is context-specific and there is no uniform paradigm of exclusion across the world. This paper attempts to analyse exclusion of resource-poor groups in watershed development programmes in the Indian context. It aims to explore excluded community groups from the perspective of people’s equal opportunity and equal access to newly generated economic benefits in watershed development programmes. The paper also traces the determinant factors responsible for denial and exclusion of resource-poor groups and describes the detailed processes involved in their exclusion from institutional and livelihood opportunities in watershed programmes. At the same time, the paper also explores suggestions and views of resource-poor groups about their meaningful social inclusion in watershed programme. The Gadiwat Indo-German Watershed Development Project in Aurangabad district in the State of Maharashtra is studied in detail in terms of its social, economic and political realities through mix-method and multi-stakeholder approaches.
The key findings of the paper are that landownership, caste, gender, membership in village institutions and/or watershed institutions or close relationship with members, as well as the limitations of the programme guidelines, are the major determinants of institutional inclusion and the extent of resulting economic benefits. The exclusion of resource-poor groups mainly takes the form of their exclusion from institutional representation. In order to promote meaningful social inclusion of resource-poor groups, there is need for a more livelihood-oriented focus and their equal representation and participation in watershed institutions.
Indigenous People and Customary Land Ownership Under Domestic REDD+ Frameworks: A Case Study of Indonesia
Deforestation is an immense, complex and multifaceted problem, responsible for approximately fifteen percent of global emissions of carbon dioxide. The primary international response to deforestation and land degradation has been the development of the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Land Degradation (REDD+) mechanism whereby developed nations pay developing nations to keep their forests standing and well-managed, and generating carbon credits that can be sold on international carbon markets or used to offset other emissions.
The international legal arrangements for REDD+ are not yet finalised, yet projects are already being implemented, adding new voices and complexities to forest governance. A particular concern is the well-being of the people that live in forests – customary land owners and Indigenous People – and the need to ensure the recognition and protection of their rights.
This paper aims to explore the interaction between domestic legal frameworks implementing the REDD+ mechanism and customary land ownership by using the regulatory regime of Indonesia as a case study. The paper will analyse the domestic legal framework for land ownership, customary law and customary tenure, forestry and REDD+ in Indonesia, and assess how REDD+ projects interact with the rights of Indigenous People under this framework. This analysis explores how threats to Indigenous People and customary land ownership are entrenched at the domestic level.
The paper concludes that very little security of tenure is provided to Indigenous People by Indonesia’s domestic REDD+ legal framework and that this shortcoming is likely to result in poor protection of customary land rights under the REDD+ mechanism, regardless of the protection afforded by an eventual international agreement. The paper also notes that Indigenous People are unlikely to be protected unless land tenure reforms are undertaken as a matter of priority to ensure secure customary land tenure. Strong tenure must be used as the basis for the interaction of Indigenous People with the REDD+ mechanism.
Aboriginal Determination: Native Title Claims and Barriers to Recognition
The Australian government has proposed a referendum in 2012 to decide the constitutional status of its indigenous people. There is at present no mechanism to define the indigenous people as a domestic or foreign entity of the Commonwealth. This is an important issue because other settler governments have developed a framework to implement their relationship with the native people. As a result, it is difficult prove title to land that has been abrogated by the deeds of the settlers. In Mabo v Queensland (2),the Commonwealth government was found to have breached its fiduciary duty to the Aboriginal peoples. The judgment led to the Native Title Act 1993 that established the process of asserting native rights that were held to coexist with pastoral ownership. The promulgation of the Native Title Amendment Act 1998 reversed this process and augmented the powers of non-native landlords by providing the device to extinguish native rights. In Western Australia v Ward, a mining lease was held to have precedence over native title that was adjudged to be part of a bundle of rights. In implementing the Native Title Act the issue turns on the determination of the ties to land/ sea that the government allows to the Aboriginal peoples. The judgment in Harrington-Smith on behalf of the Wongatha People v Western Australia indicates that title can be excluded on procedural grounds and that there was an incompatibility between the claims of the Aboriginal peoples and the settlers’ claims. The road map towards a more effective regime of proving title can be achieved if the Aboriginal peoples are granted recognition as a nation in the Constitution and a treaty is signed with them.
Constitutionality of the Plachimada Tribunal Bill, 2011: An Assessment
by Sujith Koonan
The Plachimada Coca-Cola Victims Relief and Compensation Claims Special Tribunal Bill, 2011 was passed by the Kerala Legislative Assembly on 24 February 2011. The Bill provides for the establishment of a special tribunal to settle disputes between the local residents and the Hindustan Coca Cola Company in Plachimada for recovery of compensation for damages caused to individuals, property and the environment by the company. The Bill is reserved for the assent of the President of India. In the meantime, the central government has sought clarifications on the Kerala government’s competence under the Constitution to adopt the Bill. The major issue is the perceived inconsistency between the Bill and some of the central environmental laws. Thus, the constitutional validity of the Bill is in doubt. In this background, this paper examines the issue of legislative competence of the Kerala government to adopt the Bill.
Groundwater Security in Yemen: Who is Accountable to Whom?
by Frank van Steenbergen, Omar Bamaga and Adel Al-Weshali
The overuse of groundwater in Yemen is now recognized as a national security issue. Groundwater exploitation has increased rapidly over the last four decades. While this has boosted high value farming and created rural jobs, there are grave concerns whether agriculture is not bound for a potentially destabilizing setback. This paper discusses the emergence of local management rules – by water users themselves – and their interplay with formal state institutions. It argues that the existence of formal institutions – including the National Water Law – was more important than their actual almost non-existent implementation. Groundwater where managed is managed locally in Yemen – but in spite of this autonomy, the presence of the Water Law creates the context in which these otherwise contentious local rules develop. The implication is that further strengthening and promoting local regulation is the best option for groundwater management rather than refining and investing in national regulatory institutions.
Technology Transfer and Climate Change: Additional Considerations for Implementation under the UNFCCC
Technology transfer is recognised as playing a central and critical role in the global response to climate change, as embodied in the Unite Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). However, technology transfer is a complex process, and despite numerous attempts to prescribe approaches to optimisation, there remain serious obstacles to its effective operation. The breadth of technologies and range of would-be recipient territories under the climate change regime serve to complicate things even further. Against this background, the Expert Group on Technology Transfer have produced a robust Strategy, which it will now fall to the Technology Mechanism announced in Cancun to implement.
However, despite the rigour with which the technology transfer strategy was produced, it is never possible to cover all possible eventualities. It is on this basis that this article presents a number of tactical and strategic issues which may merit further consideration as the implementation process moves forward. At the operational level, such issues include a possible role for a centralised or regional technology procurement effort, the need for greater emphasis on sectoral specific approaches to technology transfer, and a pragmatic approach to reducing the impact of some barriers to transactions by the expedient use of insurance to reduce risk, as opposed to the longer term approach of international standardisation.
At the strategic level, there are major issues with regard to prioritisation of resources applied to technology transfer, and in particular the resolution of the tensions existing between achieving sustainable development and the time critical need to achieve climate stabilisation.
Hans Morten Haugen
Approaches Towards Valuing Local and Indigenous Peoples’ Use of ‘Non-Timber Forest Products’ in the Context of Land Acquisition
The undervaluation of traditional harvesting from forest and other lands is a common pattern. This has made many persons claim that certain lands singled out for biofuels projects is ‘not in use’. Such erroneous statements can easily be challenged, but it is considerably more demanding to calculate the overall value of harvesting for local communities. The term “ecosystem services” has gained increased attention, primarily by emphasising the carbon capture capacity of both forests and other lands. This approach has enhanced the motivation for conserving the land. By acknowledging the need not only to conserve the land, but also allow sustainable harvesting from the land, in accordance with the governing the commons framework, the article identifies the most central human rights provisions and analyse their relevance in order to better acknowledge the importance of non-timber forest products. The emphasis will be on identifying the content and scope of the substantive human rights as they apply to control over and use of natural resources. The relevance of the article is evidenced by FAO’s initiative to adopt Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land and other Natural Resources, scheduled to be adopted in 2011. FAO itself says that the Voluntary Guidelines-initiative seeks to build on a human rights approach, which makes the present analysis most pertinent.
Kabir Bavikatte and Daniel F. Robinson
Towards a People’s History of the Law: Biocultural Jurisprudence and the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing
The Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing adopted by the Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity has had its share of supporters and detractors. While some of its detractors rightly bemoan the limits of the Nagoya Protocol in living up to the standards set by the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Protocol nevertheless makes significant rights gains for communities vis-à-vis their traditional knowledge and genetic resources. In the present article we trace the trajectory of struggles of indigenous peoples’ organisations in securing these rights within the Nagoya Protocol. The article argues for a writing of the history of multilateral environmental agreements not as a litany of the efforts of State Parties but also as a result of the struggles of indigenous peoples and local communities. Through mapping a bottom up history of the Nagoya Protocol, the article also identifies the emergence of a discourse of biocultural rights that advocates for legal protection of the stewardship role played by indigenous peoples and local communities with regard to their ecosystems.
Hacia una Historia de la Ley de los Pueblos a través de la Jurisprudencia bioCultural y el Protocolo de Nagoya sobre Acceso y Participación en los Beneficios
El Protocolo de Nagoya sobre Acceso y Participación en los Beneficios aprobado por la Conferencia de las Partes en el Convenio sobre la Diversidad Biológica ha tenido una serie de partidarios y adversarios. Mientras que algunos de sus adversarios se quejan con razón de los límites del Protocolo de Nagoya, en relación a los estándares establecidos por la Declaración sobre los Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas, el Protocolo, sin embargo, hace grandes avances en los derechos de las comunidades con respecto a sus conocimientos tradicionales y a sus recursos genéticos. En el presente artículo se traza la trayectoria de las luchas de las organizaciones de los pueblos indígenas para asegurar estos derechos dentro del Protocolo de Nagoya. El artículo argumenta a favor de una escritura de la historia de los acuerdos ambientales multilaterales no solo como la historia de los esfuerzos de los Estados Partes, sino también como el resultado de las luchas de los pueblos indígenas y de las comunidades locales. A través de un recorrido desde el principio de la historia hasta la adopción del Protocolo de Nagoya, el artículo identifica el surgimiento de un discurso de los derechos bioculturales que aboga por la protección jurídica del papel de guardianes de los ecosistemas desempeñado por los pueblos indígenas y las comunidades locales.
Joseph Henry Vogel et. al.
The Economics of Information, Studiously Ignored in the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit Sharing
The economics of information has been studiously ignored in the ten Conferences of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity. Nevertheless, an academic literature exists which recognises genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge as natural and artificial information. Its unambiguous prescriptions would widen the scope of the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit Sharing (ABS) and resolve almost all of the contentious issues identified by Kamau et al. One begins with retroactivity: because biological resources exhibit tangible and intangible aspects, the latter can be conceptualised as a set of natural information where value currently added in a patent is access to a subset not previously accessed. The economics quickly leads to a justification for a biodiversity cartel among countries of origin, wholly analogous to monopoly intellectual property rights. To achieve such a sea change in policymaking, the justification must be accompanied by a narrative that can penetrate the social sphere, much as Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights achieved through the World Intellectual Property Organisation. Several examples of bio-discoveries drawn from a popular medium are analysed in terms of the contentious issues of the Protocol and the distinct ABS that would eventuate under cartelisation. History also offers an analogy. The Parties’ eighteen years of resistance (1993-2011) to applying the economics of information to genetic resources is reminiscent to the twenty-seven years that the British Parliament rebuffed David Ricardo’s economic analysis of the Corn Laws (1815-1842). | <urn:uuid:dc28867d-8f23-4bc7-9d74-4f7d39051abc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lead-journal.org/volume07/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.885004 | 3,631 | 1.945313 | 2 |
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Good classroom design should include good acoustic design. A classroom with bad acoustics will hinder the learning environment, making speech difficult to hear or hard to understand, a big problem for small children.
Three main acoustic issues should be addressed in classrooms. The first is controlling reverberation — a factor that can make speech unintelligible. This can usually be reduced by using sound-absorbent finishes in ceilings and walls.
The second issue is isolating the classroom from outside noise, such as street traffic, other children in the hallways or sound from neighboring classrooms. This can be achieved through construction methods and materials and is measured by sound transmission class.
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In the past 20 years, the bottled water industry established a niche for its product to such an extent that approximately one third of Canadians drink bottled water as their primary source of drinking water.
Initially, Canadians saw the bottling and reselling of water for profit as a money ploy, since people had easy access to clean water from their taps at no extra charge. However, the bottled water industry had determination, financial backing and carefully planned marketing schemes to scare Canadians into believing that tap water was bad for your health, untrendy, not refreshing and inaccessible. The bottled water industry targets youth, mothers, the elderly, athletes, and the general public, eventually misleading and seducing people to opt for bottled water over tap water.
Public water systems are bottled water’s biggest competitors. The expanding bottled water market erodes people’s confidence in their public water systems, paving the way for higher prices and corporate control of our water resources.
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Summary Report for:
43-5051.00 - Postal Service Clerks
Perform any combination of tasks in a post office, such as receive letters and parcels; sell postage and revenue stamps, postal cards, and stamped envelopes; fill out and sell money orders; place mail in pigeon holes of mail rack or in bags; and examine mail for correct postage.
Sample of reported job titles: Bulk Mail Technician, Clerk, Distribution Clerk, Part Time Flexible Clerk (PTF Clerk), Postal Clerk, Sales & Service Associate (SSA), Sales and Distribution Clerk, Sales and Service Associate (SSA), Window Clerk, Window/Distribution Clerk
Tasks | Tools & Technology | Knowledge | Skills | Abilities | Work Activities | Detailed Work Activities | Work Context | Job Zone | Education | Credentials | Interests | Work Styles | Work Values | Related Occupations | Wages & Employment | Job Openings | Additional Information
- Weigh letters and parcels, compute mailing costs based on type, weight, and destination, and affix correct postage.
- Check mail to ensure correct postage and that packages and letters are in proper condition for mailing.
- Sort incoming and outgoing mail, according to type and destination, by hand or by operating electronic mail-sorting and scanning devices.
- Obtain signatures from recipients of registered or special delivery mail.
- Answer questions regarding mail regulations and procedures, postage rates, and post office boxes.
- Transport mail from one work station to another.
- Sell and collect payment for products such as stamps, prepaid mail envelopes, and money orders.
- Keep money drawers in order, and record and balance daily transactions.
- Register, certify, and insure letters and parcels.
- Complete forms regarding changes of address, or theft or loss of mail, or for special services such as registered or priority mail.
- Receive letters and parcels, and place mail into bags.
- Put undelivered parcels away, retrieve them when customers come to claim them, and complete any related documentation.
- Respond to complaints regarding mail theft, delivery problems, and lost or damaged mail, filling out forms and making appropriate referrals for investigation.
- Provide assistance to the public in complying with federal regulations of Postal Service and other federal agencies.
- Rent post office boxes to customers.
- Provide customers with assistance in filing claims for mail theft, or lost or damaged mail.
- Set postage meters, and calibrate them to ensure correct operation.
- Feed mail into postage canceling devices or hand stamp mail to cancel postage.
- Cash money orders.
- Order retail items and other supplies for office use.
- Post announcements or government information on public bulletin boards.
Tools & Technology
Tools used in this occupation:
- Automatic postal or mailing machine — Automated mail processing equipment
- Bar code reader equipment — Barcode scanners
- Bin handlers — Bin stackers
- Box sealing tape dispensers — Packaging tape dispensers
- Carts — Mail transport carts
- Cash box trays — Money drawers
- Dollies — Warehouse dollies
- Franking or postage machines — Postage meters
- Hand trucks or accessories — Hand trucks
- Mailing bags — Mail bags
- Material handling racks — General purpose mail containers
- Optical character recognition systems — Optical character readers
- Point of sale POS terminal — Point of sale workstations
- Postal scales — Mail scales
- Rubber stamping stamps — Hand stamps
- Security tag detacher — Security device removers
- Security tags — Security devices
- Sorters — Barcode sorters; Doubles detectors; Electronic mail sorting devices; Sorting machines
- Stamp canceling machines — Stamp cancelers
Technology used in this occupation:
- Accounting software — Budgeting software
- Enterprise resource planning ERP software — Delivery operations information system DOIS
- Human resources software — Time and Attendance Collection System TACS
- Inventory management software — Inventory tracking software
- Operating system software — Microsoft Windows
- Point of sale POS software — NCR Advanced Store
- Time accounting software — Electronic Time Clock ETC
- Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
- English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
- Mathematics — Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
- Clerical — Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.
- Sales and Marketing — Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.
- Computers and Electronics — Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
- Transportation — Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.
- Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
- Service Orientation — Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Social Perceptiveness — Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Time Management — Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Category Flexibility — The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Manual Dexterity — The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
- Trunk Strength — The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing.
- Arm-Hand Steadiness — The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
- Finger Dexterity — The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
- Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Mathematical Reasoning — The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- Number Facility — The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
- Perceptual Speed — The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
- Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
- Selective Attention — The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
- Performing for or Working Directly with the Public — Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events — Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
- Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards — Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
- Handling and Moving Objects — Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
- Interacting With Computers — Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
- Processing Information — Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
- Communicating with Persons Outside Organization — Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
- Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
- Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge — Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
- Documenting/Recording Information — Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
- Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others — Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
- Performing General Physical Activities — Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials.
- Selling or Influencing Others — Convincing others to buy merchandise/goods or to otherwise change their minds or actions.
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work — Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
- Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings — Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
- Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People — Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
- Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others — Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.
- Analyzing Data or Information — Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
- Training and Teaching Others — Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
Detailed Work Activities
- Order materials, supplies, or equipment.
- Execute sales or other financial transactions.
- Collect deposits, payments or fees.
- Prepare documentation for contracts, transactions, or regulatory compliance.
- Obtain written authorization to perform activities.
- Maintain financial or account records.
- Explain regulations, policies, or procedures.
- Sort mail.
- Sell products or services.
- Deliver items.
- Respond to customer problems or complaints.
- Calculate shipping costs.
- Weigh parcels to determine shipping costs.
- Assist individuals with paperwork.
- Load materials or equipment.
- Arrange insurance coverage.
- Prepare outgoing mail.
- Refer customers to appropriate personnel.
- Verify shipping documentation.
- Store items.
- Adjust office equipment to ensure proper operation.
- Receive shipments.
- Contact With Others — 90% responded “Constant contact with others.”
- Deal With External Customers — 78% responded “Extremely important.”
- Indoors, Environmentally Controlled — 86% responded “Every day.”
- Spend Time Standing — 52% responded “Continually or almost continually.”
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate — 55% responded “Extremely important.”
- Physical Proximity — 54% responded “Moderately close (at arm's length).”
- Work With Work Group or Team — 56% responded “Extremely important.”
- Deal With Unpleasant or Angry People — 47% responded “Once a week or more but not every day.”
- Importance of Repeating Same Tasks — 44% responded “Extremely important.”
- Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions — 37% responded “Continually or almost continually.”
- Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls — 65% responded “Continually or almost continually.”
- Telephone — 62% responded “Every day.”
- Sounds, Noise Levels Are Distracting or Uncomfortable — 57% responded “Every day.”
- Face-to-Face Discussions — 66% responded “Every day.”
- Time Pressure — 62% responded “Every day.”
- Duration of Typical Work Week — 66% responded “40 hours.”
- Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results — 30% responded “Very important results.”
- Frequency of Decision Making — 48% responded “Every day.”
- Frequency of Conflict Situations — 32% responded “Every day.”
- Spend Time Bending or Twisting the Body — 32% responded “More than half the time.”
- Exposed to Contaminants — 43% responded “Every day.”
- Freedom to Make Decisions — 24% responded “No freedom.”
- Coordinate or Lead Others — 37% responded “Not important at all.”
- Responsibility for Outcomes and Results — 33% responded “Limited responsibility.”
|Title||Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed|
|Education||These occupations usually require a high school diploma.|
|Related Experience||Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is usually needed. For example, a teller would benefit from experience working directly with the public.|
|Job Training||Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.|
|Job Zone Examples||These occupations often involve using your knowledge and skills to help others. Examples include orderlies, forest firefighters, customer service representatives, security guards, upholsterers, and tellers.|
|SVP Range||(4.0 to < 6.0)|
Percentage of Respondents
|Education Level Required|
|68||High school diploma or equivalent|
|18||Some college, no degree|
|8||Less than high school diploma|
Interest code: CR
- Conventional — Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.
- Realistic — Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.
- Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
- Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
- Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
- Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
- Self Control — Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
- Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
- Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
- Independence — Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
- Achievement/Effort — Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
- Persistence — Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
- Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
- Concern for Others — Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
- Analytical Thinking — Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
- Social Orientation — Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job.
- Leadership — Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
- Innovation — Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
- Support — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical.
- Relationships — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment. Corresponding needs are Co-workers, Moral Values and Social Service.
- Working Conditions — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are Activity, Compensation, Independence, Security, Variety and Working Conditions.
Wages & Employment Trends
|Median wages (2015)||$27.30 hourly, $56,790 annual|
|Employment (2014)||70,000 employees|
|Projected growth (2014-2024)||Decline (-2% or lower)|
|Projected job openings (2014-2024)||8,400|
|Top industries (2014)|
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics 2015 wage data and 2014-2024 employment projections . "Projected growth" represents the estimated change in total employment over the projections period (2014-2024). "Projected job openings" represent openings due to growth and replacement.
Job Openings on the Web
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July 21, 2008 By Patrick Michels
To anticipate the future, take a look at the past. It makes particular sense in health care when critical decisions are based on patients' medical history. However, for foster children who arrive at new homes with little or no record of treatment, knowing the past poses a major challenge. Documented allergies, immunizations and illnesses are often shrouded in mystery when foster parents take in a child.
That changed for Texas foster children on April 1, when the state Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) rolled out the online Health Passport. Today more than 30,000 foster children have electronic records that update most information automatically and follow the child when they move to a new home.
The Health Passport, one feature in an overhaul of Texas' foster child health-care system, is the latest program in a larger trend toward electronic health records. It's the first program of its kind in the country, but project developers say other states may soon follow Texas' lead.
From insurance claims to food allergies, a foster child's medical data is housed by an array of companies, state agencies and practitioners. Texas' Health Passport draws these data sources together and presents them side by side. Through a Web-based interface, each child's guardian, doctors and "medical consenter" (a legal designation often awarded to the foster parent) can access the passport, review the child's medical history and make necessary updates. Meanwhile, insurance claims, lab results and most other medical data update automatically. The result is a more complete and accurate snapshot of the child's medical history.
Rooted in Negotiation
The Health Passport is rooted in SB 6 from the 2005 state Legislature. The bill is loaded with measures to improve programs under the state's Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS). The bill included a mandate that foster children's health care be streamlined under a single management program, and included a "Medical Passport" section covering information the electronic passport should contain. Once the bill passed, the HHSC held sessions with the DFPS, foster care providers, advocacy groups, health-care providers and technology companies, to sketch a blueprint of the passport.
Yvonne Sanchez, senior health policy analyst of the HHSC, said the Health Passport that's online today is the product of a long negotiation among all stakeholders. "Those were really intense sessions because we have two different agencies, different providers. Everyone has different needs, different things they wanted to get out of the Health Passport," Sanchez said. "Ultimately we were just steering the process, trying to come up with a design and a model that would really work to benefit the users."
Texas received a $4 million federal grant from the Department of Health and Human Services to build the system, as part of a larger push to advance health-care IT countrywide. In March 2007, the HHSC awarded the blanket contract for foster child health-care management to Superior HealthPlan, operated by St. Louis-based Centene Corp. The management solutions Superior developed under the contract, including the Health Passport, formed a new program called Star Health.
Superior's Health Passport program manager, Sloane Cody, said her team had a short learning curve because the company was already managing parts of Texas' Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program. "We're lucky - we had worked with a lot of the vendors before and had a relationship with the community we cover in Texas," said Cody. "We were lucky that SB 6 gave a fair amount of detail and the contract we went into offered a lot of detail."
To build the passport, Superior assembled groups of four or five full-time staff members to handle specific project areas: data interface management, access security, integrating whole assessment forms and reports into the system, demographics, and integrating the child's and caregiver's personal information. To build the framework technology, Superior contracted with Cerner Corp., a Kansas | <urn:uuid:8d5b7c89-7bcd-4503-95c6-006cd40c6eaf> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.digitalcommunities.com/articles/Electronic-Health-Records-Document-Foster-Childrens.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00439-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956716 | 804 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Tools and Tips: Power Down, Find a Job
Google announced a new service this week designed to help electricity users -- also known as "everyone" -- to monitor how much power they're using. The company is going to release the free Web-based software PowerMeter service later this year. The service will receive information from utility smart meters and energy management devices and show how much energy you're using on an iGoogle homepage. Many local electricity providers already offer "smart meter" technology to customers. The D.C.-metro area's main provider, Pepco, started a smart meter pilot program in July. In California, Pacific Gas and Electric plans to install more than 10 million by the end of 2011.
Give Me Five, a partnership between American Express and Women Impacting Public Policy, is hosting online training sessions about doing business with the federal government. The archived podcasts and more information on upcoming events are available here.
The U.S. Postal Service announced that it's raising the price of a first-class stamp to 44 cents May 11. Postcard stamps increase by 1 cent to 27 cents. Additionally, the first ounce of a large envelope increases 5 cents to 88 cents; the first ounce of a parcel increases 5 cents to $1.22, and new international postcard and letter prices are, for one ounce, 75 cents to Canada; 79 cents to Mexico; and 98 cents to other parts of the globe.
YesCircle, a D.C.-based peer-networking group for entrepreneurs and small business owners, has started a regional job board.
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The Slip Knot
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
THE SLIP KNOT
(R8x32) 3C (4C set) John Drewry Greenburn Book 3
1- 8 1s set, cast 1 place and dance RH across (Lady with 2s and Man with 3s)
9-16 1s dance reels of 3 across (Man with 2s and Lady with 3s) and end BtoB Lady facing up
17-24 1s circle 3H round (Lady with 2s and Man with 3s), 1M dances up between 2s and casts to 2nd place opposite sides while 1L crosses down and casts up
25-32 1s dance reels of 3 on sides giving LSh to 1st corner and end crossing RH to 2nd place own sides
(MINICRIB, Dance Crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)
A slip knot (or running knot) is one of two different classes of knot. The most common are knots which attach a line to an object and tighten when tension is applied to the free end of the line. The other is a type of knot designed to bind one end of a rope to the middle of another, while allowing the knot to slide along the rope.
The Running Bowline, A Type Of Slip Knot
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What does KLOE mean?
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Your pet’s dental health is no less important than your own. Do not ignore your pet’s dental health as poor dental health can give way to other more dangerous health problems.
But that is not all, poor dental health can also be a sign of a bigger issue, so catching it early can save your pet’s life.
Get a veterinarian to check your pet’s teeth and gums at least once a year and provide the necessary care regularly yourself.
Don’t let your pets fall victim to the common myth that cats and dogs have self-cleaning teeth. It would have been true if they were not leading a domesticated life, but their natural source of flossing which was their prey has now been completely removed from their life.
So, to ensure that your pet has proper oral hygiene familiarize yourself with what is pet dental health and what you can do to ensure your pet’s dental health is not neglected.
Understanding Veterinary Dentistry
Anything ranging from the cleaning, filing, adjustment, repair, to extraction, can be filed under veterinary dentistry. Only a board-certified veterinary dentist or a veterinarian is allowed to perform these procedures on your pets.
When examining your pet’s teeth and gums, the veterinarian might often suggest radiographs to ensure that the jaw and tooth roots of your pet are healthy. Special attention is given to the space below the gumline as diseases often sprout here and they are impossible to identify unless through an x-ray.
If this area shows signs of disease or infection, the veterinarian will advise a thorough dental cleaning while your pet is put under anesthesia. This procedure is very similar to the one given to humans where the teeth are scaled to remove dental plaque and tartar and then polished.
What Are The Signs That Your Pet Might Have Poor Oral Health?
There are a plethora of reasons that could indicate that it is time to take your pet to the veterinarian. If you identify any of the following signs in your pet, get their teeth checked immediately:
- Damaged teeth
- Poor breath
- Discolored/yellowed teeth
- Multiple teeth at one place indicating retained baby teeth
- Dropping food while chewing or chewing abnormally
- Excessive drooling
- Showing signs of pain in or around the mouth
- Diminished appetite or denying food
- Swollen areas surrounding the mouth
You should not, however, wait for one of these signs to appear before taking your pet for a routine dental checkup. Even something as small as behavioral changes like irritable deportment can indicate problems.
You should get your pet’s teeth checked at least once a year. Always maintain caution when examining your pet’s mouth, because if they are in pain, you might suffer a bite.
What Are The Causes Of Your Pet’s Poor Dental Health?
Many of the dental problems faced by your pets are similar to what you would face. Following are some of the reasons that can cause poor oral health of your pet if not checked:
- Damaged teeth and roots
- Gum disease
- Infection or presence of abscesses
- Presence of cysts or tumors in the mouth
- Misaligned jaw or teeth
- Fractured jaw
- Palate defects (such as cleft palate)
Gum infections and disease are the most common dental problem faced by pets. Statistics show that periodontal diseases affect over 87% of dogs and 70% of cats over three years of age.
Preventive measures need to be taken before the disease sets roots as due to its cyclical nature, once present its hard to get rid of. Further, if not detected early and treated this disease can start affecting your pet’s other organs as well such as the liver, kidney, and heart muscle.
You can identify the early onset of periodontal disease at home itself. Be vigilant about the amount of plaque on your pet’s teeth and do not let it harden into tartar. Tartar above the gumline is not as big of a problem as below the gumline as it is difficult to see and remove.
Once set, it can start causing infection and damage to the jawbone and the connective tissues.
Get your pet’s teeth cleaned periodically to avoid periodontal diseases.
Should You Allow The Doctor To Put Your Pet Under Anesthesia?
You do not need to be afraid when the veterinarian advises that your pet be put under anesthesia for a procedure. It is recommended for the safety of your pet as well as the veterinarian examining your pet.
Unlike us humans, your pet doesn’t understand that the doctor is trying to help them. So, any discomforting techniques the doctor uses such as a little pressure or an injection will agitate your pet and they might move and try to escape, which may cause them further harm.
What’s more, is that they may try to bite the person handling them, so it is best for everyone if your pet is unconscious while a procedure is being performed.
Under anesthesia, your pet will not feel the stress or pain that a dental procedure may cause them. It also allows the procedure to be completed to perfection as your pet will not be restricting the movement of the veterinarian.
Everything ranging from teeth cleaning to radiographs can be done with little to no harm to your pet under sedation. However, some risks are there but they are nothing compared to the benefits of anesthesia.
You can even take your precious pet home after the procedure is completed. They may remain a little out of it for some time due to the sedation but their health will remain intact.
Easy Steps You Can Take At Home To Ensure The Good Oral Health Of Your Pet?
The most basic and simple thing you can do for the best upkeep of your pet’s dental health is to regularly brush their teeth. This will help avoid the accumulation of plaque on their teeth which is the root cause of most dental health problems in pets.
However, do not presume that you brushing their teeth at home will suffice. You still should take your pet for deep dental cleaning at least once a year.
Ideally, you should brush your pet’s teeth at least once a day. But more realistically, you should consider brushing their teeth at least 2-3 times a week.
It is easier to train dogs to accept brushing but cats can be difficult to get into the habit of getting their teeth brushed. Be patient with them, with a little training, love, and treats they will soon accept the brushing as well.
You must select the right dental-care products for your pets and always make sure that you never use human products on them because it can be dangerous for them. Ask your veterinarian for recommendations regarding dental products. Even check with them for acceptable diets and treats that will not cause harm to your pet’s teeth.
Your pet needs as much dental-care as you. You must understand why it is important to take your pet for dental checkups and get them treated. So, show your love to your pets by taking them to the veterinarian even if they try to scratch and bite their way out of it.
Look out for common symptoms to catch early onset of the disease so it can be prevented or cured at an early stage so your pet can enjoy a happy and healthy life and provide you with companionship for a long, long time.
The co-founder of Hiration and proud parent of three dogs. What time Aditya finds when he is not assisting people to find their dream jobs, he spends playing with and caring for his dogs.
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IPTV is the recent sensation in the media content telecasting arena of this digital era. If you plan to subscribe to an ip tv services, it would be better to look at the glossary of video streaming as below.
Video on demand – It is a recent sensation throughout the world as the number of internet users increased throughout. The concept of VOD is simple. The content head or the main server would contain all the movies, television shows, and other shows. The user will have a website or an application on his device that will show him all the available contents in the thumbnail format. So, the user will search for the movie he wishes to watch now and select it. So, the content head will receive an input signal from the user regarding his wish for the movie. So, the server will breakdown the data of that video into small packets and use the internet to transfer it to the user. The user’s device would have the necessary receptors to receive these data packets and the movie will begin to get streamed.
Internet video – Everyone would have spent three to four hours a day on YouTube. However, we would not know under which category of video transmission do YouTube videos come. If you do not know the answer, it is an internet video. Videos uploaded on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and all other social media platforms are known as internet videos. Since there is no necessity for a storage hub and anyone could start an internet video channel on these platforms, the concept seems outdated. However, still, several videos are roaming around the world in this format. You should have the internet to watch these videos and your environment could also be different.
Live streaming – Live is nothing but the present. Telecast or streaming is the process of showcasing an event through various devices like the television by a broadcaster. Hence, the live streaming process is nothing but the telecast of an action happening anywhere to the people who are watching the television or other video platforms at the same time of happening. There would not be any delays between the actual event and the events happening on your screen. If you ask for an example, you can consider sports events and their telecasts as an example. All the cricket and football matches you watch with “Live” below the channel’s logo would be live programs. Not only sports but also other vital news shows could also go live.
Time-shifted content – The major issue with a lot of people and their television is that the telecasting of programs that the users wish to watch at a duration when they would be unavailable. If you are a working professional, you would face this issue a lot of times. However, the time-shifted content is nothing but the media content that is telecasted a bit earlier that you watch after a few hours by recording it at the time of telecast. | <urn:uuid:00439d9e-f6e8-4a50-9539-51283c02a490> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hiphopapi.com/glossary-of-video-streaming-to-know-before-using-an-iptv/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.966073 | 577 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Clinical Nuclear Medicine:
In the article beginning on page 582 of the June 2014 issue, an abstract was inadvertently omitted. The Society regrets the omission. The full text of the abstract is below.
The Clinical Utility of Stress Myocardial Perfusion Imaging for Symptomatic Patients Within Three Years of a Prior Normal Study
Erica J. Cohen, D.O., M.P.H., C.C.D.
Loyola University Medical Center, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Maywood, IL
Objectives: There is a 99% negative predictive value for a major cardiac event or cardiac death over the 36 months following a normal myocardial perfusion exam. The American College of Cardiology Foundation along with key specialty and subspecialty societies recently released updated Appropriate Use Criteria for the evaluation of stable ischemic heart disease. In the setting of stable symptoms and a normal stress imaging study performed within the past 2 years, regardless of global CAD risk, repeat myocardial perfusion imaging is rarely appropriate. For those patients with a normal study performed greater than 2 years ago and with intermediate to high CAD risk, a repeat nuclear imaging exam may be appropriate. The purpose of this study was to determine the utility of performing a stress myocardial perfusion study for a clinically symptomatic patient within three years of a prior normal study, regardless of CAD risk or change in symptomatology.
Methods: Patients at Loyola University Medical Center were retrospectively reviewed between November 2011 and November 2013 for history of a prior normal stress myocardial perfusion study and a second study performed within 36 months in order to evaluate cardiac symptoms. Patients were excluded from the study if they were a recipient of a heart transplant, if testing was performed as part of a pre-operative evaluation, if patients had a history of CAD but were asymptomatic, if they did not reach at least 85% of maximum predicted heart rate during treadmill stress, if stress imaging was non-gated, or if there was any abnormal finding on their original stress exam (i.e., left ventricular dilatation, decreased ejection fraction, fixed or reversible perfusion defects, or transient ischemic dilatation). There were 206 patients who met inclusion criteria. These patients were subsequently evaluated for any new finding on their second exam, such as fixed or reversible perfusion abnormalities, left ventricular dilatation, or decreased ejection fraction. Patients who had a new finding on the second exam were further investigated in the electronic medical record to determine if there was any significant change in clinical management, such as percutaneous coronary intervention, addition of cardiac medications, or adjustment of prior cardiac medications. Four patients were excluded from the study as no information about further clinical management was available.
Results: Of 202 patients, 21 demonstrated new abnormal findings on their second examination (10%). Of those patients with new abnormal findings, 7 patients had a change in clinical management. The other 14 patients were not recommended any change in clinical management; this was based on normal findings at coronary angiography (5), a normal follow-up echocardiogram (4), or the cardiologist’s determination of only minor abnormalities on myocardial imaging (5). In total, only 7 of 202 patients (3%) had a significant change in clinical management. The average time between scanning was 20.5 months.
Conclusions: Stress myocardial perfusion imaging performed within three years of a prior normal study has low clinical utility, even in the setting of symptomatic patients. Only 3% of patients in this study had a change in clinical management as a result of a second examination. These findings generally support the recommendations of the American College of Cardiology Foundation, but do not discriminate based on CAD risk or change in symptomatology. It is therefore reasonable to conclude that rather than undergo repeat myocardial perfusion imaging, these patients may be treated by medical optimization with concurrent evaluation for other non-cardiac etiologies of their symptoms.
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Definitions for tunaˈtu nə, ˈtyu-
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word tuna
tuna, Opuntia tuna(noun)
tropical American prickly pear of Jamaica
tuna, tuna fish, tunny(noun)
important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks
any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters
tuna, Anguilla sucklandii(noun)
New Zealand eel
A type of cactus native to Mexico in the genus Opuntia.
The fruit of the cactus.
Origin: From American Spanish alteration of the atún, from تن, from thunnus.
the Opuntia Tuna. See Prickly pear, under Prickly
the bonito, 2
A tuna is a saltwater finfish that belongs to the tribe Thunnini, a sub-grouping of the mackerel family – which together with the tunas, also includes the bonitos, mackerels, and Spanish mackerels. Thunnini comprises fifteen species across five genera, the sizes of which vary greatly, ranging from the bullet tuna up to the Atlantic bluefin tuna. The bluefin averages 2 m, and is believed to live for up to 50 years. Their circulatory and respiratory systems are unique among fish, enabling them to maintain a body temperature higher than the surrounding water. An active and agile predator, the tuna has a sleek, streamlined body, and is among the fastest-swimming pelagic fish – the yellowfin tuna, for example, is capable of speeds of up to 75 km/h. Found in warm seas, it is extensively fished commercially and is popular as a game fish. As a result of over-fishing, stocks of some tuna species, such as the Southern bluefin tuna, have been reduced dangerously close to the point of extinction.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
tū′na, n. a prickly pear, also its fruit.
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Common name for various species of large, vigorous ocean fishes in the family Scombridae.
The numerical value of tuna in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
The numerical value of tuna in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Sample Sentences & Example Usage
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I've never seen what all the fuss is about, it's about as challenging a taste as tuna fish salad.
To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.
Bumble Bee recalled specific codes of canned Chunk Light Tuna produced in Chicken of the Sea's Georgia production facility, a third-party supplier for Bumble Bee.
Most people that are in the middle of the country just away from the ocean, never knew that Bluefin Tuna of this size and magnitude existed, so for them they are just totally fascinated by the sheer size and power of the fish in addition to the money.
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Translations for tuna
From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary
- تونة, سمك التنArabic
- tonyinaCatalan, Valencian
- atún, nopal, tunaSpanish
- atún, túnidoGalician
- マグロ, 鮪, ツナJapanese
- 참다랑어, 참치, 다랑어Korean
- orkinos, ton balığıTurkish
- cá ngừ đại dươngVietnamese
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Successful Aussies to assist budding entrepreneurs to boost success rates, increase employment and reduce the high failure rate of new businesses in Australia*
Sydney, July 30, 2014 – An initiative designed to help new Australian businesses start to grow and succeed and provide budding entrepreneurs with the necessary and important skills and tools to avoid the pitfalls and traps, was launched today by the Federal Minister for Small Business, the Hon Bruce Minister Billson.
Start Up Australia offers a world-first Entrepreneur Academy, free of charge, and available to anyone thinking of starting their own business, but lacking the necessary skills, confidence and information required to make it a success.
Top Australian entrepreneurs will mentor and inspire participants during an online five-day conference, where 50 of Australia’s business leaders will give away their secrets for success, and a 12-week free Small Business MBA, sponsored by The Fortune Institute and hosted by Siimon Reynolds, will provide a step-by-step, how-to guide. Up to one million businesses will receive free educational tools and regular webinars to educate them on how to succeed in the marketplace.
“Business is the engine room of the economy and our goal is for Australia to become the most entrepreneurial nation by 2020. We want to tell the world that Australia means business,” said Miriam Feiler, from Start Up Australia.
“We want to create greater numbers of business start-ups here by providing the skills, encouragement, mentoring and training of people with big ideas, others who may have been retrenched, new mums working from home, retirees wanting to become self-employed, in fact, any Aussie who has ever dreamed of running their own business and wanted to have a go.”
Federal Minister for Small Business the Hon Bruce Billson said the Abbott Government’s policy agenda was designed to energise enterprise, encourage more small business start-ups, drive entrepreneurial behaviour and economic growth, and improve productivity and competitiveness.
“I am very pleased to officially launch Start Up Australia, a great initiative encouraging entrepreneurs and innovators to embark on the journey of starting and owning a small business,” he said.
“There are more than two million active small businesses in Australia employing around 42 per cent of private sector workers, making a vital contribution to the Australian economy.
“Together we need to support the inspiration behind the creation and growth of start-ups; the invention of new technologies, products and services to boost Australia’s economic activity and international competitiveness,” Mr Billson said
A not-for-profit organisation, Start Up Australia is part of a global Start Up movement formed by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. It is already established in 44 countries including the United States, Britain, Canada, Chile and more recently, Malaysia. It is strongly supported around the world by respective governments and Heads of State including US President Barack Obama and UK Prime Minister, David Cameron.
Some of the Australian entrepreneurs behind Start Up Australia are advertising greats, Siimon Reynolds and Brian Sher, real estate guru, John McGrath, with support from Naomi Simson, the success story behind RedBalloon, online e-tailer Paul Greenberg, serial entrepreneur and dynamic businessman Creel Price, Larissa Robertson, SCO Recruitment, who took over a business that went into administration and within weeks had employed more than 200 staff and James Stevens, who established the Roses Only Group.
James Stevens said Start Up Australia was a unique opportunity for Aussies to realise their dream to start up their own business.
“Having started my own business from scratch, I know how much it would have helped to have access to successful mentors and vital information to help me avoid some of the challenges along the way. Start Up Australia is an excellent way to help grow this economically-important sector.
“I would encourage anyone who is thinking about starting a business, or is struggling in a new business, to sign up and take advantage of the millions of dollars of free knowledge and experience on offer,” he said.
Founding sponsors of Start Up Australia include American Express, MYOB, ACCI and The Fortune Institute.
American Express Australia Managing Director, Rachel Stocks said the decision for American Express to be a founding sponsor of Start Up Australia was an easy one.
“This has the potential to fuel significant growth of the Australian small business economy and we are thrilled to be part of it. Anyone with the passion and dedication to see their dreams of starting a business realised deserves all the support and encouragement possible.”
MYOB CEO and start-up advocate Tim Reed said Start Up Australia would provide solid assistance in educating and supporting today’s budding entrepreneur and help improve the alarming insolvency rate of new businesses.
“We know it takes courage, hard work and determination to start and run a business and the rising rate of insolvency shows how much encouragement today’s potential entrepreneur needs to move a business idea into reality.
“Start Up Australia’s Entrepreneur Academy, combined with the right tools and resources such as online accounting software, can certainly help. For example, our MYOB Essentials range helps business owners keep on top of their finances, giving them more time to spend on building the business or enjoying life outside it.”
MYOB, Australia’s leading business management solutions provider, is supporting the Entrepreneur Academy as part of its ongoing commitment and dedication in helping start-up businesses succeed.
John Osborn, Chief Operating Officer, Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and National Campaign Director, Small Business Too Big to Ignore Campaign said his organisation welcomed initiatives such as Start Up Australia.
"At every level of government, regulation is suffocating small business and entrepreneurship. We must achieve a bipartisan commitment to making it easier for startups to establish and become successful innovators and wealth creators," he said.
To join the Start Up Australia Academy, visit www.startup-australia.com.au.
*The Australian Bureau of Statistics research showed 42 percent of new businesses failed between 2003 to 2007 and more than 30 percent since 2008. A further 1,095 Australian businesses were placed into insolvency or external administration in March 2009 and 1,123 businesses in February 2012, as reported by ASIC.New businesses account for 96% of Australia’s 2,141,280 actively trading businesses, as of June 2013. This comprises 1,306,093 sole traders (61%), followed by 514,859 businesses with 1–4 employees (24% – micro business) and 231,591 businesses with 5–19 employees (11% – small business).
For messages of support from Heads of State for the global StartUp movement, visit:
US President Barack Obama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwsGC8x6yBU
UK Prime Minister David Cameron: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6pbAMZbA6s
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Benjamin Rush State Park
Benjamin Rush State Park is located in the North East section of Philadelphia and is the only state park within the city boundary. The park provides the visitor with an area to enjoy the natural beauty of open spaces along with some Pennsylvania woodlands, places for study, recreation and the solace of gardening. The park offers much needed open space in this busy area. It is popular with hikers, bicyclers, birders and wildlife enthusiasts and is primarily used for passive day use activities. The park features one of the largest community gardens, a large area devoted to flying radio controlled model airplanes, multi-use trails that meander through open meadows and shady wooded areas.
Seasons and Hours: The park is open every day of the year, sunrise to sunset. Day use areas close at dusk. Contact the Fort Washington State Park office for facility seasons and hours.
Trash Disposal and Recycling: Benjamin Rush State Park participates in a carry-in/carryout trash disposal program. There are no trash collection or recycling facilities. Visitors are asked to limit the amount of disposable items brought to the park and to take all trash, garbage and recyclables home.
No Hunting: Hunting is prohibited at Benjamin Rush State Park.
Law enforcement officers and individuals with a valid Pennsylvania License to Carry Firearms are authorized to carry a firearm concealed on their person while they are within a state park.
Hiking: 3.5 miles of trails
Dog Walking: Pets are permitted in Benjamin Rush State Park. All pets must be controlled and attended at all times and on a leash or otherwise safely restrained. Be considerate when walking your dog and carry a container to clean up after your pet. Also, please try to stay away from the community gardens and radio controlled airplane field.
Bicycling: 3.5 miles of trails
Community Gardens: The park hosts one of the largest community gardens in the area. Gardeners may rent a plot in the community garden to grow their own flowers and vegetables. For more information about how to be involved, contact the Benjamin Rush Garden Association. 215-969-0507.
Radio Control Airplane Field: The park provides a radio-controlled model airplane field including a 400-foot runway and surrounding fly zone. For more information about the Northeast Philadelphia Radio Control Club visit their web site at www.neprcc.org.
Explore the Winter Report for the current snow and ice depths.
Cross-country Skiing: Skiers can enjoy the 3.5 miles of mostly level trails.
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Start With The Vowels
The Garmin nüvi can help you get away when you really need it. Like, literally.
Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Today we stand before the Town Square to carry out our traditional sentencing! Bring forth the accused -
- and his hangman!
Accused, you stand, well, accused, I guess, of stealing a Garmin nüvi! How do you plead?
"I plead not guilty!"
Very well. Put him on the little hook thing!
Now, then, you know the rules! The citizens will shout out letters and we'll tap areas on the body of the accused! If we tap all his body parts before they guess all the letters, the accused goes free! But if the citizens guess all the letters first... the accused is found guilty. Ready? Let's begin!
I CHOOSE A G!
G is there!
I CHOOSE AN N!
Very good! There's two Ns up there!
I CHOOSE A V!
A V, you say? It's there!
I CHOOSE AN R!
I CHOOSE AN M!
I CHOOSE AN I!
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Slow down! Okay, let's see what's up there. Looks like the board says "G-A-R-M-I-N N-space-V-I". Okay, who wants to finish this guy off?
I CHOOSE A U!
Um... no. That's a leg tap.
I CHOOSE, UM, A K?
Nope, no K. That's another leg tap. Come on, people, think a little, okay?
I CHOOSE A Z!
No, Pierre, there's no Z. There's never a Z. Torso tap. Come on, people, think! Think European!
I CHOOSE A P!
No, that's not what I-
I CHOOSE AN N!
There already was an N! That's two arm taps now! Look at yourselves, he's almost free! This town prides itself on being the center of the Hangman Championship world, and you can't even convict a Garmin nüvi thief? Come on! Just say the letter and close it out!
I CHOOSE A SCHWA!
A schwa? A schwa? It's an umlaut, you idiot! Haven't you ever bought a heavy metal record? Oh, go on, head tap, let him down.
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A scholarly look at the Bible and its value as a moral guide.
This in-depth work begins by chronicling the history of how the Old and New Testaments were written. Through well-researched facts from other biblical scholars, Garcia supports his assertion that there is no evidence for most of the stories in the Bible; rather, they are legends invented by scribes to create a common cultural heritage for the Judeans and Israelites. The time gap between when events actually occurred and when they were recorded seriously undermines the credibility of its “prophesies,” which were written well after the fact. Garcia goes on to argue that Jesus was probably only one of many insurgents whom the Romans crucified. Garcia skewers the morality shown in the Bible; its directives are more concerned with how to worship rather than how to behave towards one another. He gives many examples from the Bible of God acting in an immoral way, deceiving and murdering, as well as the obvious immorality of the Bible’s acceptance of slavery, war, and rape. He addresses the existence of God, and not by falling into the common assumption that if the Bible is fictitious, then there must be no God. He asserts that our universe, and life itself, is so complex that it is statistically impossible that it arose out of pure chance. Here, his writing can get rather dense with scientific jargon. However, though he seems to believe in the existence of a creator, a “biochemist of omniscient intelligence,” in the end, he says, it doesn’t matter if God exists or not. His (Garcia uses the masculine pronoun exclusively when writing about God) existence isn’t essential to morality. Therefore, the author argues, we must create a morality based not on religion, but on human dignity. Garcia’s only real weakness is his habit of belaboring the point. In the end, though, the book offers a scathing criticism of religion (Christianity in particular) backed up with plenty of research.
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33 Eton Street was built in 1937 as one of a set of two masonry houses constructed adjacent to each other, the other being 1359 Sandgate Road. Both houses were designed by Brisbane architect C. E. Plant. The house is a two storey rendered masonry building designed with Spanish Mission features, popular in this period. The houses were owned and built by Mrs Florence Rose, the widow of Charles Rose, the proprietor of the Imperial Picture Theatre on Sandgate Road, Nundah. The house is important as one of a set of two architecturally designed interwar masonry houses built as an alternative to the predominant timber and tin homes constructed in the Nundah district in this period.
By the turn of the century the Nundah district had a population of 1675 people. Between these years many new houses were built in the area. The interwar period heralded major population and residential growth in the Nundah district. In 1921 the population in the area had reached 3870 and by 1931 was 15, 831. This can be attributed to the sale and subdivision of many of the remaining farms in the area.
In 1935 Mrs Florence Rose purchased a block of land on the corner of Eton Street and Sandgate Road. In January 1937 Mrs Rose was listed in the Register of New Buildings as applying to build two brick houses on Sandgate Road and Eton Street, Nundah. The builder was recorded as being B. J. Bartlett. The houses were estimated to cost £2000 and £1900; it is unclear which was the most expensive.
The Rose family were prominent residents in Nundah. As proprietors of the Imperial Picture Theatre on Sandgate Road (demolished), Charles and Florence Rose played a large role in the Nundah entertainment scene. Charles died in 1930. His Obituary stated “Mr Rose…identified himself with the various bodies formed to promote the progress of the Nundah district”.
On 26 October 1937 The Courier Mail published an article entitled “Multiple Home Building that Avoids Charge of “Mass Production” Advantages Illustrated Well by Houses at Nundah”. The article considered the benefits of building two homes under one contract thus benefitting the owner “by using in each the same medium of building”. The article drew on the example of the two newly built houses by Mrs Rose at Nundah. Each house was individually designed to face their respective streets. The architect, Clifford. E. Plant, “advised the erection of two double-storeyed brick houses but insisted that if the monotony of repetition were to be avoided each house was to be distinctive in character”. The article went on to state:
the harmony of the two houses is contained in line and colour. Added to the modern character of both is the Spanish Mission touch about the verandahs and entrance porches. In each case the exterior brick walls are finished in texture plaster, and red tile roofs are uniform. Though the similarity between the two houses is strong, yet a subtle difference stimulates interest.
At the time the house was considered luxurious. Internally the design included ‘modern’ conveniences such as separate electricity systems, internal toilets, and continuous hot water. The two-storey home was unusual in Nundah when it was built. In this period the majority of housing stock in the district was the traditional timber home commonly known as the ‘Queenslander’. 33 Eton Street and 1359 Sandgate Road were striking exceptions. The Spanish Mission style was popularised in the interwar period in Australia by the influence of Hollywood on popular culture. Many of the Hollywood movie stars’ homes were designed in the style and so became sought after and fashionable in home design in Australia. As a proprietor of the Imperial Picture Theatre in Nundah, Mrs Rose’s motivations for the design of the two houses may have been influenced both by the movies and the desire to build fashionably in Nundah.
The house is a two storey rendered masonry building designed with Spanish Mission features. The house has a roughcast rendered finish with a terracotta tiled roof and a prominent two-storey gable presentation to the street. Window fenestration generally consists of pairs of casement leadlight windows set in a reveal with exposed face brick sills. The upper storey includes a gabled front with symmetrical leadlight pairs of casement windows with a flat awning projection above. The lower storey includes a series of separately roofed window bays and small arcades. The main elevation includes a small arcade projecting from the building’s two storey gable and an arcaded entry integrated with the main lower roof of the house and the garage. The arcades include solid masonry balustrades with a face brick header course. Internal features include an original silky oak timber staircase and solid balustrade, brick fireplace and timber joinery with lead lighting inserts with an art deco design. The property includes a quarter height face brick fence of attached brick pillars with wrought iron infill panels and gates in an art deco design.
Statement of significance
Relevant assessment criteria
This is a place of local heritage significance and meets one or more of the local heritage criteria under the Heritage planning scheme policy of the Brisbane City Plan 2014. It is significant because:
The place demonstrates rare, uncommon or endangered aspects of the city’s or local area’s cultural heritage
as one of a set of two intact and distinct architect designed two-storey masonry houses built in 1937 they are uncommon in the Nundah district.
The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class or classes of cultural places
as one of a set of two intact and distinct architect designed masonry homes that incorporate Spanish Mission features that were popular in the 1930s.
The place is important because of its aesthetic significance
as one of a set of two two-storey masonry interwar architect designed houses that incorporate Spanish Mission features and are situated on a prominent corner site in Nundah.
The Courier Mail, Tuesday 26 October 1937, p 12
The Brisbane Courier, Thursday 19 June 1930, p 19
Judy Gale Rechner, Brisbane House Styles 1880 to 1940: a guide to the affordable house, Brisbane: Brisbane History Group Studies No. 2, 1998
Historic Titles, Department of Natural Resources and Water
Queensland Post Office Directories
Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Survey Map
Queensland Electoral Rolls
Apperly, Richard et al. A pictorial Guide to Identifying Australian Architecture Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1989
Johnston, Anna “‘God being, not in the bush’: The Nundah Mission (Qld) and Colonialism, Queensland Review, v. 4, no. 1, April, 1997, p. 71-80
From Pioneering Days: Nundah, Northgate, Virginia, Nundah and Districts Historical Society Inc, 2002
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Information acquisition in committees
The goal of this paper is to illustrate the significance of information acquisition in mechanism design. We provide a stark example of a mechanism design problem in a collective choice environment with information acquisition. We concentrate on committees that are comprised of agents sharing a common goal and having a joint task. Members of the committee decide whether to acquire costly information or not at the outset and are then asked to report their private information. The designer can choose the size of the committee, as well as the procedure by which it selects the collective choice, i.e., the correspondence between agents' reports and distributions over collective choices. We show that the ex ante optimal device may be ex post inefficient, i.e., lead to suboptimal aggregation of information from a statistical point of view. For particular classes of parameters, we describe the full structure of the optimal mechanisms.
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Market and survey researchers need at least a bachelorís degree,
but a masterís degree may be required for employment; continuing
education also is important.
Employment is expected to grow faster than average.
Job opportunities should be best for those with a masterís
or Ph.D. degree in marketing or a related field and strong quantitative
Nature of the Work
Market, or marketing, research analysts are concerned
with the potential sales of a product or service. Gathering statistical
data on competitors and examining prices, sales, and methods of
marketing and distribution, they analyze data on past sales to
predict future sales. Market research analysts devise methods
and procedures for obtaining the data they need. Often, they design
telephone, mail, or Internet surveys to assess consumer preferences.
They conduct some surveys as personal interviews, going door-to-door,
leading focus group discussions, or setting up booths in public
places such as shopping malls. Trained interviewers usually conduct
the surveys under the market research analystís direction.
After compiling and evaluating the data, market research analysts
make recommendations to their client or employer on the basis
of their findings. They provide a companyís management with information
needed to make decisions on the promotion, distribution, design,
and pricing of products or services. The information also may
be used to determine the advisability of adding new lines of merchandise,
opening new branches, or otherwise diversifying the companyís
operations. Market research analysts also might develop advertising
brochures and commercials, sales plans, and product promotions
such as rebates and giveaways.
Survey researchers design and conduct surveys for a variety
of clients, such as corporations, government agencies, political
candidates, and providers of various services. The surveys collect
information that is used for performing research, making fiscal
or policy decisions, measuring the effectiveness of those decisions,
or improving customer satisfaction. Analysts may conduct opinion
research to determine public attitudes on various issues; the
research results may help political or business leaders and others
assess public support for their electoral prospects or social
policies. Like market research analysts, survey researchers may
use a variety of mediums to conduct surveys, such as the Internet,
personal or telephone interviews, or questionnaires sent through
the mail. They also may supervise interviewers who conduct surveys
in person or over the telephone.
Survey researchers design surveys in many different formats,
depending upon the scope of their research and the method of collection.
Interview surveys, for example, are common because they can increase
participation rates. Survey researchers may consult with economists,
statisticians, market research analysts, or other data users in
order to design surveys. They also may present survey results
Market and survey researchers generally have structured work
schedules. Some often work alone, writing reports, preparing statistical
charts, and using computers, but they also may be an integral
part of a research team. Market researchers who conduct personal
interviews have frequent contact with the public. Most work under
pressure of deadlines and tight schedules, which may require overtime.
Their routine may be interrupted by special requests for data,
as well as by the need to attend meetings or conferences. Travel
may be necessary.
Training, Other Qualifications, and Advancement
A bachelorís degree is the minimum educational requirement for
many market and survey research jobs. However, a masterís degree
may be required, especially for technical positions, and increases
opportunities for advancement to more responsible positions. Also,
continuing education is important in order to keep current with
the latest methods of developing, conducting, and analyzing surveys
and other data. Market and survey researchers may earn advanced
degrees in business administration, marketing, statistics, communications,
or some closely related discipline. Some schools help graduate
students find internships or part-time employment in government
agencies, consulting firms, financial institutions, or marketing
research firms prior to graduation.
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consumer behavior, prospective market and survey researchers should
take other liberal arts and social science courses, including
economics, psychology, English, and sociology. Because of the
importance of quantitative skills to market and survey researchers,
courses in mathematics, statistics, sampling theory and survey
design, and computer science are extremely helpful. Many corporation
and government executives have a strong background in marketing.
A masterís degree is usually the minimum educational requirement
for a job as a marketing or survey research instructor in junior
and community colleges. In most colleges and universities, however,
a Ph.D. is necessary for appointment as an instructor. A Ph.D.
and extensive publications in academic journals are required for
a professorship, tenure, and promotion.
While in college, aspiring market and survey researchers should
gain experience gathering and analyzing data, conducting interviews
or surveys, and writing reports on their findings. This experience
can prove invaluable later in obtaining a full-time position in
the field, because much of the initial work may center on these
duties. With experience, market and survey researchers eventually
are assigned their own research projects.
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data analysis, so those considering careers in the occupation
should be able to pay attention to detail. Patience and persistence
are necessary qualities because these workers must spend long
hours on independent study and problem solving. At the same time,
they must work well with others: often, market and survey researchers
oversee interviews of a wide variety of individuals. Communication
skills are important, too, because researchers must be able to
present their findings both orally and in writing, in a clear,
While certification currently is not required for market and
survey researchers, the Marketing Research Association (MRA) offers
a certification program for professional researchers. Certification
is based on education and experience requirements, as well as
on continuing education.
Market and survey researchers held about 212,000 jobs in 2004,
most of whichó190,000ówere held by market research analysts. Because
of the applicability of market research to many industries, market
research analysts are employed throughout the economy. The industries
that employ the largest number of market research analysts were
management of companies and enterprises; management, scientific,
and technical consulting services; insurance carriers; credit
intermediation and related activities; computer systems design
and related services; marketing research and public opinion polling;
software publishers; professional and commercial equipment and
supplies merchant wholesalers; securities and commodity contracts
intermediation and brokerage; and advertising and related services.
Survey researchers held about 22,000 jobs in 2004. Survey researchers
were employed mainly by professional, scientific, and technical
services firms, especially in market research and public opinion
polling; scientific research and development services; and management,
scientific, and technical consulting services. State government
also provided many jobs for survey researchers.
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job in government, academia, or business with part-time or consulting
work in another setting. About nine percent of market and survey
researchers are self-employed.
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Marketing faculties have flexible work schedules and may divide
their time among teaching, research, consulting, and administration.
(See the statement on teachersópostsecondary in the Careers database.
Employment of market and survey researchers is expected to grow
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openings are likely to result from the need to replace experienced
workers who transfer to other occupations or who retire or leave
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Job opportunities should be best for those with a masterís or
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skills. Bachelorís degree holders may face competition, as many
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or higher degree. Among bachelorís degree holders, those with
good quantitative skills, including a strong background in mathematics,
statistics, survey design, and computer science, will have the
best opportunities. Ph.D. degree holders in marketing and related
fields should have a range of opportunities in industry and consulting
firms. Like those in many other disciplines, however, Ph.D. holders
probably will face keen competition for tenured teaching positions
in colleges and universities.
Demand for market research analysts should be strong because
of an increasingly competitive economy. Marketing research provides
organizations valuable feedback from purchasers, allowing companies
to evaluate consumer satisfaction and plan more effectively for
the future. As companies seek to expand their market and as consumers
become better informed, the need for marketing professionals will
increase. In addition, as globalization of the marketplace continues,
market researchers will increasingly be utilized to analyze foreign
markets and competition for goods and services.
Market research analysts should have the best opportunities in
consulting firms and marketing research firms as companies find
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businesses to allocate advertising funds more effectively and
Median annual earnings of market research analysts in May 2004
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After a century of attempts, will the House of Lords be reformed?
LONDON LETTER:David Cameron says he will try one more time to get an agreement from his MPs, but he faces a tough task
IT IS difficult to defend the existence of an unelected parliamentary chamber often filled with elderly occupants, including some still there by hereditary right. However, such a case, oddly, can be made for the House of Lords.
For a century, many have demanded the reform of “the other place” in Westminster. Lloyd George wanted to do it. So did Winston Churchill, although he later changed his mind. So, too, did Harold Wilson.
Going into the 2010 election, the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats all agreed in their manifestoes – to varying degrees, admittedly – that the Lords should be turned into a senate, filled mostly by elected members.
Once in power, Liberal Democrat deputy prime minister Nick Clegg produced a plan that would involve 80 per cent of the chamber being elected over three elections, using a regional list and a partly proportional voting system that some say would enshrine his party’s influence in British politics.
On Tuesday night, Conservative rebels forced British prime minister David Cameron and Clegg to abandon a Commons motion that would have limited debate of the reforms to just 10 days, even if the legislation itself was cleared for later debate.
However, as Cameron said, approving the legislation – which would see four out of five senators in a new upper house elected over 10 years – is useless until means are also agreed that would give it some chance of getting into law.
For many outside the bubble of Westminster, the issue that has brought 91 Conservative MPs into open rebellion against Cameron is incomprehensible: reform of the House of Lords.
The focus on the time to be put aside is understandable. Labour’s Harold Wilson tried, but failed, to reform the Lords, finally giving up when his ministers collapsed in exhaustion after one all-night debate after another.
Cameron is accused by Clegg of not having done enough to persuade, or force, his backbenchers into line. Clegg has pointed out that he and senior Liberal Democrats have gone to the wall frequently to get their people to vote for unpopular legislation, notably tuition fees.
Just over two years into their coalition, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have come to a fork in the road. The choice in the coming weeks will determine not just the effectiveness of the union but, perhaps, its very existence.
On Wednesday night, Cameron told Conservative MPs that he would make one further attempt to get an agreement over the summer months, although he faces a tough task since many of his people voted on grounds of principle, not just political devilment (although there was much of that too).
Clegg has laid great stress on the programme for government, saying the Conservatives agreed to an elected upper chamber. The difficulty for Clegg is that the text does not actually go that far.
Instead, the agreement pledged both sides to “establish a committee to bring forward proposals for a wholly or mainly elected upper chamber on the basis of proportional representation”. Such work would be done by December 2010.
Understandably, the Liberal Democrats argue that this must be read as a statement of intent, saying trust would be impossible if everyone was to parse and analyse every line.
Most Conservative MPs believe an elected senate would threaten the primacy of the House of Commons, destroying the long- held conventions and laws that have governed the relationship for 100 years.
The Lords can only delay legislation for a year. If the legislation is passed once again by MPs, it passes using the powers of the Parliament Act – first brought in to deal with Irish demands for Home Rule. It has been used only four times.
Equally, the Lords do not oppose promises made in election manifestoes, which is why a Conservative-controlled upper house did not block the creation of the National Health Service by Labour after the second World War.
Clegg’s opponents insist that all these conventions will be lost.
Elected senators will seek to expand their powers over time, threatening a logjam in British politics, where a government with a Commons majority could be unable to rule.
Equally, opponents point to the work done by the House of Lords, which could often teach lessons to MPs in how to delve into every clause and subclause of legislation at committee stage.
The current reform of the NHS is a case in point.
British health secretary Andrew Lansley produced a badly written Bill. MPs failed to make it a whole lot better, while the Lords, to their credit, did much to improve it.
To doubters, one can but recommend reading the publications by MPs on European Union matters and comparing them with the work penned by “the other place”.
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The coronavirus has quickly spurred significant changes in most people’s daily lives and routines. In light of the widespread closure of public places and a growing number of safer-at-home orders, nearly everyone has found themselves spending much more time at home. Residential deliveries have surged, and many Americans have construed social distancing guidelines to permit small gatherings of friends and families inside homes. But what if an insured with coronavirus exposes someone to the virus? Or what if a guest becomes infected with coronavirus at an insured’s home? These interactions could result in an uptick of homeowners liability insurance claims arising from an insured causing someone to be exposed to COVID-19.
As with all insurance coverage evaluations, the first step is determining whether the insuring agreement has been met. Most homeowners policies protect the insured from an “occurrence,” which policies typically define as bodily injury or property damage caused by an “accident.” However, the specific language and terms of a policy will determine the particular coverage provided. Likewise, jurisdictions across the country have interpreted these provisions in divergent ways, especially in regard to what qualifies as an “accident.” Importantly, many homeowners policies contain communicable disease exclusions—which would likely bar the majority of coronavirus-related claims—but some do not. In the absence of a communicable disease exclusion, several courts have determined that homeowners policies cover the negligent transmission of and exposure to similarly communicable diseases. See, e.g., N. Star Mut. Ins. Co. v. R.W., 431 N.W.2d 138 (Minn. Ct. App. 1988).
Whether Exposure to Coronavirus Was Caused by An Accident
The term “accident” is not usually defined in insurance policies. Therefore, the term is given its common and ordinary definition. In many states, negligent acts are not excluded from the term “accident,” but virtually every homeowners policy contains exclusions barring (1) expected or intended bodily injury and (2) willful and malicious conduct resulting in bodily injury. Accordingly, where someone is accused of intentionally exposing or infecting another with coronavirus, such conduct would typically be excluded from coverage. Coverage can be denied for an insured’s intentional conduct under either the “expected or intended” exclusion or the “willful and malicious” exclusion. The expected or intended exclusion is typically governed by whether the insured subjectively expected or intended the bodily injury caused by their actions. While an act may be intended, it is not expected or intended if the insured did not intend the resulting injury. Unlike the expected or intended exclusion, the willful and malicious exclusion applies an objective standard, and the terms “willful” and “malicious” are interpreted based on their plain meaning.
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Calif. Law Puts Sex Offenders on the Streets
JACKI LYDEN, host:
This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Jacki Lyden.
In 2006, the state of California passed a new law aimed at keeping sex offenders away from children. It was called Jessica's Law, and required monitoring of some of the state's over 67,000 sex offenders.
But a new report by the California Sex Offender Management Board says that the law is having some unintended consequences. It's made it impossible for many sex offenders to find homes and sent them onto the streets to live.
Joining us to discuss this report is Dr. Tom Tobin who's vice chairman of the board monitoring California's management of sex offenders.
Dr. Tobin, hello.
Dr. TOM TOBIN (Vice Chairman, California Sex Offender Management Board): Hello. It's nice to be with you.
LYDEN: So what part of Jessica's Law has made it difficult for sex offenders to find housing?
Dr. TOBIN: Well, one part of the law, and even though it's in terms of words, it's one of the very smallest parts, in terms of consequences, it's one of the most significant parts, is the part that says that no registered sex offender in California may live within 2,000 feet of a school or a park where children gather.
So those few words have had ripple consequences that some were anticipated, some were not anticipated.
LYDEN: Do you have any rough count of how many people have actually become homeless as a result of this?
Dr. TOBIN: What we know is that the number has increased from something like the low 100s to the, I believe, 400 or 500 number since the law has passed. Now, we have to remember that this law at this point is only being applied to those who were released from prison after the date the law was passed. So as that number increases month by month by month, the number to whom the law is applied increases as well. So, we're just seeing the beginnings of this, but we're seeing significant changes in the rate of homelessness.
LYDEN: So how do authorities monitor sex offenders? Is this very hard?
Dr. TOBIN: Many people think that sex offenders are monitored forever. That's not really true. As with any other person convicted of an offense, they come out of prison, and they have a limited period of formal criminal-justice supervision.
LYDEN: But isn't it always hard to monitor somebody who doesn't have an address, who's homeless?
Dr. TOBIN: Oh, absolutely, and that's really one of the main concerns, and I think from almost every direction you find people making the statement that I would rather know where a sex offender lives and be able to find him when I need to than have him homeless, transient and have no idea where he is.
LYDEN: What about the recidivism rate? I mean, how does homelessness affect that?
Dr. TOBIN: Well unfortunately, we do not have any really good studies of the recidivism rate of sex offenders as related to homelessness. What we do, however, have is research that tells us what increases the risk of a sex offender re-offending, and we know that there are some factors that are changeable, and those factors that have been identified have to do with the failure of the individual's support systems, have to do with what we could call emotional meltdown, a feeling of sometimes depression or anxiety or anger, the increased use of alcohol or other drugs. I think common sense would tell us that it's more likely to affect someone in a negative way emotionally than if that person was stable, had a support network, had a family and so forth.
LYDEN: All right. Dr. Tom Tobin is vice chairman of the California Sex Offender Management Board. Thanks very much for speaking with us.
Dr. TOBIN: You're very welcome.
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Fossil record of anapsids: Abbreviations: Jur, Jurassic; Pen, Pennsylvanian; Per, Permian; Tri, Triassic. You can click on the names or stratigraphic ranges of the anapsid taxa in the image above.
Anapsid diversity appears to have reached its peak in the Upper Permian (about 260 million years ago), at which time lanthanosuchids, millerettids, nyctiphruretians, pareiasaurs, and the first procolophonoids constituted a large proportion of the terrestrial vertebrate fauna of South Africa and Russia.
Apparently, only procolophonoids survived the large extinction event at the end of the Permian, and a large evolutionary radiation of that group took place in the Triassic. However, procolophonids also became extinct by the end of the Triassic (about 210 million years ago), at which time turtles were the only remaining anapsids. The oldest known turtles (Proganochelys) date from the Upper Triassic, at which times they had already lost their marginal teeth (although they retained the palatal denticles characteristic of early amniotes) and acquired the shell and plastron. The oldest known crown-turtles (members of Chelonia) only date from the Jurassic period (the cryptodire Kayentachelys).
Laurin M. and R. R. Reisz. 1995. A reevaluation of early amniote phylogeny. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 113: 165-223.
Lee, M. S. Y. In press. A taxonomic revision of pareiasaurian reptiles: implications for Permian terrestrial palaeocology. Modern Geology 66 pages, 17 figures.
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From Magicpedia, the free online encyclopedia for magicians by magicians.
- (1977) Cardboard Connection by Paul Harris published by Chuck Martinez as a one-trick manuscript. Reprinted in The Art of Astonishment, Book 2 (Harris, 1996). Done impromptu from any deck of cards
- (1978) The Crabtree Connection by Roger Crabtree. A variation of Paul Harris' Cardboard Connection utilizing an alternate gaff, published by Supreme Magic Co. as a one-trick manuscript.
- (1979) The Complete Card Linking by Sixten Beme. The first linking-card routine where the cards end up genuinely linked and examinable. Published by El Duco.
- (1979) The Best Gosh-Darn Impromptu Linking Card Effect You'll Ever See, by Harry Lorayne. Published in Quantum Leaps (Lorayne, 1979).
- (1983) The Immaculate Connection, by Paul Harris, published in the New Stars of Magic series (Vol. 2, #1). An impromptu method using three cards (as opposed to two), thus allowing for a wider variety of "links." Performed by David Copperfield on national television shortly after its publication. Reprinted in The Art of Astonishment, Book 2 (Harris, 1996).
- (1986) Boromian Link, by Terri Rogers. A version of The Immaculate Connection published as a one-trick manuscript (sold with sample cards) by Martin Breese. Does not require gaffs but isn't impromptu due to an exacting procedure for cutting out the centers of the cards. The advantage (some feel) is a more aesthetically pleasing linking and unlinking sequence.
- (1988) Linking Cardboard by Toru Suzuki. Published in New Magic of Japan (Kaufman & Goldstein, 1988). From the introduction (pg. 98) - " Instead of linking two playing cards together, the performer introduces four small squares of cardboard, each with a large hole cut out in the center. Despite the fact that there do not appear to be any slits, these four squares are magically linked together one at a time, then visually unlinked."
- (1993) Osmosis by Sylvain Mirouf. A four-phase linking-card routine using only two cards that employs The Immaculate Connection as its jumping-off point, but quickly veers into more topological areas. First published in France as a one-trick manuscript, then later reprinted in The Art of Astonishment, Book 2 (Harris, 1996).
- (1996) One Card Link by Sixten Beme, distributed by El Duco. The center of one card is torn out and discarded, then, from the remaining card frame, a new inner frame is torn out, whereupon the resulting card ring is linked to the card frame.
- (2006) Hypercards by Andrew Mayne. Impromptu two-card method released as a one-trick DVD. Distinct from other impromptu methods in that the two cards never actually link, though the illusion of their being linked is perfect.
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- Smoke Rings by David Forrest (uses one card) (2005)
- DVD Klink by Kris Nevling (2008)
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I think I have somewhat of a solution for (b) when only one card is dealt per hand. I made a number of errors writing this, so my logic needs checking carefully.
Let N be the number of cards recorded at a point in time. You need a function K(N) giving the number of subsequent deals with no new cards recorded before you conclude there are no new cards. Suppose for now that N* is the actual number of cards in the deck. Then given the function K(N), the probability that you will stop in error at any one N < N* is E(N,N*) = (N/N*)^K(N). The probability that you will not stop before N = N* is the product from N = 1 to N*-1 of (1-E(N,N*)). This is the probability of success; call it P(N*). You must choose the function K(N) so that P(N*) >= C, your confidence level, for all possible deck sizes N* > 1.
Now when N* >= N+1,
E(N,N*) = (N/N*)^K(N) <= (N/(N+1))^K(N) = E(N,N+1). [**]
Let Q(N*) be the product from N = 1 to N*-1 of (1-E(N,N+1)). Since Q(N*) is a decreasing function, the limit Q = lim N* -> infinity Q(N*) exists. Since [**] implies (1-E(N,N*)) >= (1-E(N,N+1)) when N <= N*-1, P(N*) >= Q(N*) > Q for all N* >= 1 and it is sufficient that you choose K(N) so Q >= C. There are an infinite number of functions K(N) that will do this. You have to choose one.
You can simplify the problem by taking logs so the condition is log(Q) >= log(C). log(Q) is sum N = 1 to infinity log(1-E(N,N+1)), which is approximately equal to sum N = 1 to infinity -E(N,N+1). log(C) = log(1-(1-C)) ~= -(1-C). Then K(N) can be chosen so sum N = 1 to infinity (N/(N+1))^K(N) <= 1-C. You could choose K(N) so that ((N/(N+1))^K(N) is term-wise equal to any convergent geometric series with sum <= 1-C. So for any r < 1,
K(N) = ceiling[log(r^(N-1)(1-r)(1-C))/log(N/(N+1))]
will do. The function ceiling[x] is the least integer greater than x; it is used since K(N) must be an integer. This is an approximate solution to Q = C, but should satisfy the original condition that P(N*) >= C for all N* > 1. (I verified that it does using a computer program.)
To choose one function K(N) and say it is optimal, you will at least need to define a loss function and perhaps a prior distribution on the size of the deck.
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Finding Educational Resources on the Web: Exploiting Automatic Extraction of Metadata
Workshop on Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining
Sempetmber 22, 2003
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The Semantic Web is a great idea: expose all of the information on the web in a machine-readable format, and intelligent agents will the be able to read it and act on your behalf (“Computer: When can I fly to San Diego? Where can I stay that has a hot tub? Ok, book it and add it to my calendar”). There’s just one problem: the humans writing web pages are writing them for other humans, and no one is labeling them for computers. (A notable exception are blogs, like this one, whose authoring tools also generate machine-readable versions in RSS or Atom that can be consumed by sites like Bloglines. In a way, Bloglines is one of the few sites making good on the vision of the Semantic Web.)
What do people do when they’re looking for a piece of information, say a list of syllabi for NLP classes? There’s no database that lists that type of information in a structured and curated form. Rather, there are a set of web pages that describe these classes, and they’re all a bit different. But most of them contain similar information–the title of the class, the course number, the professor, and so on. So, in a way, these pages do constitute a database of information, it just takes more work to access it.
That’s where NLP comes in. One of the ways we were using information extraction in the Stanford NLP group was to automatically extract structured information from web pages and represent it in a semantic web format like DAML+OIL and RDF. The idea is that you send your intelligent agent out to the web (“find me a bunch of NLP classes”) and when it comes across a page that looks promising, it first looks for semantic web markup. If it can’t find any (which will usually be the case for the forseeable future), it tries running the information extraction engine on the site to pull out the relevant data anyway. If the site allows it, it could then write that data back in a machine-readable format so the web becomes semantically richer the more agents go looking for information.
Specifically, we built a plug-in to the protege tool developed by the Stanford Medical Informatics group. Protege is a Java-based tool for creating and managing ontologies (a form of knowledge representation used by the semantic web). Our plug-in let you load a web page, run our information extraction tools on it, and add the extracted semantic information to your ontology. You could build up a collection of general-purpose information extracton tools (either hand-built or trained from data) and then use them as you found web pages you wanted to annotate.
Cynthia Thompson, a visiting professor for the year, used this system to find and extract information about educational materials on the web as part of the Edutella project. It ended up working well, and this paper was accepted to the Workshop on Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining as part of the annual European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML). I declined the offer to go to Croatia for the conference (though I’m sure it would have been a memorable experience), but I’m glad that my work contributed to this project.
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investigation of government industrial policy on small business development
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1.1 Background of the Study
The role of the small and medium enterprises (SME) as a catalyst for economic growth and development has been well documented in the economic literature and recognized in most countries. For example, in many of the newly industrialized nations, more than Ninety eight (98) percent of all industrial enterprises belong to the small and medium enterprises sector and account for the large mass of the labour force.
Small and medium enterprises enjoyed competitive advantage over large enterprises in serving dispersed local market. Knowledge of this fact, programmes of assistance especially in the area of finance extension and advisory services, as well as provision of infrastructure have been designed by the Nigerian government for the development of small and medium enterprises.
Specially, successive government in Nigeria have in the last three decades shown interest in ensuring satisfactory financing for small and medium enterprises (SMES), by establishing various schemes and specialized financial institution to provide suitable financial to the sub-sector.
The role of small and medium enterprises in fostering economic development has also been well activated in different forms of this nature. The specify attention on them is based on their expected impact and potential contribution on board and diversified production base as well as their accelerative effective in achieving macro objectives pertaining to full employment, income distribution and the development of local technology. They are particularly most conducive for diffusion of management skills and stimulation of indigenous entrepreneurship overtime.
Effective role in promoting the growth of small and medium scale enterprises in recognizing the flexible and adaptive nature as well as the economic development in believing that a dynamic and growing small and medium manufacture sub-sector can control significantly to the implementation of a wide various policies to encourage their proliferated and make them credible engine grown and development.
The basic objective of growth and development policies as contained in the monetary policies are fiscal policy measures to improve financing and other supportive service to small and medium scale enterprises by expanding and improving their access to credit and infrastructural facilities reducing their production costs, boosting their profitability, enhancing by making their products competitive in the export market. This seminar aims at examining various government policies and their effects on the survival and growth of small and medium scale enterprises. It is important for us to understand and appreciates what constitutes of small or medium scale survival, growth and proliferation for which government policies have been formulated to address.
1.2 Statement of Problem
An important feature associated with small and medium scale industries, which is particularly relevant to our economic problem, is that these industries characteristically depend less on imported inputs relatively to their local capital investment than large firm.
In view of the economic situation and alarming rate of the unemployment in society, it is important to determine the effective of government policies on small and medium enterprises have on our economic development and their impact on the society at large.
The study of intents to examine constraints encountered by small and medium scale industries. Hence, the federal government continues to lay emphasis on self-reliance industrialization through the encouragement of small and medium scale industrial development. New lending schemes and credit institution at both local and federal levels has been establishing to encourage the development.
They include the national economic reconstruction fund (NERFUND), the national, Directorate of Community Bank and other Development Bank.Â
Inspite of these measures, small and medium scale industries in all parts of the federation has continued to face high rate of business failures because of their reliance of foreign raw material imputs.
Small and medium scale industries are the pivoted on then which any developing economy like Nigeria stands.
They creates more jobs per units of investment then large scale ones the there is a problem as to whether their poor performance in as a result of dependence of foreign raw material inputs. This problem raised this question, will the establishment of small and medium scale raw material processing industries such as palm oil processing plant help to boost the development of small and medium scale enterprises in Nsukka zone in particular and the country in general it is the answer to this question that is focus in this research.
1.3 Objective of the Study
The objectives of this study are as follows:
To find out the commercial banks that assist small and medium scale enterprises as stipulated by the government.
To find out if government policies affect the production of palm oil at Nsukka.
To determine the attitude of people towards innovation and how it affect the source of raw material for production.
To determine if the small scale industries can produce at a large commercial quantity.
To make general and specific recommendation based on the finding of the study.
1.4 Research Questions
In order to facilitate the study, the following basic questions will be reflected in the interview.
Can government polices affect the production of palm oil at Nsukka?
Can the attitude of  Nsukka people toward innovation affect the source of raw material for production?
Does SABGO palm oil processing industries produce palm oil at commercial quantity.
Have the industry ever encountered any environmental constraints?
Do the commercial banks in the area assist small and medium scale enterprises as stipulated by the government?
Will there be adequate finance and manpower around the Nsukka area to help raise the industry production capacities.
1.5 Hypothesis Formulation
H0: Commercial banks in the area do not assist regulatory as stipulated by the government as regards to small and medium scale industries.
H1: Commercial banks in the area assist regularly as stipulated by the government as regards to small and medium scale industries.
H0: There is no enough manpower around the area of help raise the industry’s production capacity.
H2: There is enough manpower around the area of help raise the industry’s production capacity.
1.6 Significance of the Study
In realization of the advantages of promoting small and medium scale enterprises the federal government has countries to play pioneering and active roles since 1970’s in stimulating small and medium scale enterprises .
Its policy objectives in this context could be summarized as:
Provision of greater employment opportunities
Industrial development and natural integration through industrial dispense
Increased production of manufactures exports
The development of indigenous technology.
The government has according employed combination of monetary and fiscal measures as well as industrial incentive to enhance the achievement of the desired goals.
1.7 Scope of the Study
This study aims at examining various government policies and their effects on the survival and growth of small and medium scale enterprises in Nigeria.
It is important to understand and appreciate what constitute a small and medium scale enterprises, what factors militates against their survivals, growth and proliferation for which government policies have been formulated to address.
It also examines how government policies can help small business, owners in Nigeria, with reference to SABGO oil Enugu.
1.8 Limitations of the Study
A research in this nature cannot be carried out without some constraints and possible witcher, which made the work highly demanding and difficult.
It was therefore common that the researcher found conducting of this research on uphill task.
As any other researchers in the society such as ours, lot of problems was encountered in the process of conducting this research. government industrial policy
Some of these limitations include the finance required to carryout the research project that was really enormous some of these limitations include the finance required to carryout the research project that was really enormous. government industrial policy
This was as a result of high cost of producing the questionnaires, typing and binding its and of course transportation expenses. government industrial policy The researcher could have been extended but fro time and huge financial requirement involved in running about for the required information, the researcher decided to settle for one location only. government industrial policy
The researcher also had problems in getting literature material treated on topics that are related. government industrial policy
However, inspite of the numerous constraints encountered in the course of this study the researcher believed that on appreciable work was finally carried out. government industrial policy
1.9 Definitions of Terms
1. Policy: Policy is the guideline laid down in general or specific terms to make a company or other organization to reach the long range target or targets bet by the objectives. government industrial policy
2. Fiscal Policy: This is a macro-economic tools which involves the used of government spending and taxes in guiding the nature economy to achieve pre-determined economic goals. government industrial policy
3. Monetary Policy: This is the attempt to regulate the economy by regulating the supply of monetary and terms availability of credit. government industrial policy
4. Finance: This is the activity of managing money, especially by the government or commercial organization.
5. Budget: This is financial statement items and amount of expected expenditure are source amount of expected revenue of economic unit over a period ahead, usually one year. government industrial policy
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Administration competencies help driving people today and factors successfully. Communication, management, experience, pleasantness, diplomatism, and so on., are essential management expertise. Enable us seem at a couple of them in detail, although these may perhaps range in accordance to the market.
Top Management Competencies Each individual Supervisor Ought to Have
Top quality supervisors are a true asset to any business. Their conversation with the staff members is vital. Mainly, an economical manager identifies employees’ strengths and encourages them to enrich their interpersonal capabilities. At the exact same time, suggest concepts and rectify the shortcomings for a much better potential.
A supervisor also tracks employees’ development and celebrates their victories to stay concentrated and know how beneficial they are to the organization. Yet another crucial component is to set clear and attainable targets. Some of the vital qualities are as down below:
- Produce a motivational office
- Aid the tense employees
- Market having possession
- Give benefits for amazing performance
2. Speedy methods :
Supervisors need to be strong more than enough to establish the challenges, face them, and establish the correct answers. The professionals have to be warn about the future difficulties ahead of they get everyone’s notice and should really be equipped to trace the root induce of the trouble. Some of the very certified capabilities consist of the subsequent :
- Determine the elements creating problems
- Forecast the concerns prior to they crop up
- Obtain assets throughout crises
- Evaluate the important marketplace information
- Repair the complications swiftly and effectively
Recognizing employees’ fears and worries will permit making a good and productive staff. To fulfill the responsibilities on time, professionals should be excellent adequate to communicate exactly and understandably, both of those orally and written. Also, they need to bridge a gap among many departments and various amounts of the corporation. The essential skillset involves the next:
- Build apparent and concise resources
- Communicate openly with all the co-employees
- Boost pleasant conversation to solve any disputes
- Motivate shy workforce to an open interaction
- Conduct conferences looking at the time constraints and not disrupt the efficiency
4. Specialized expertise
The personnel will have to have the complex knowledge to operate. So, the appropriate awareness and schooling will have to be rendered to achieve the bigger ambitions of the firm. Drastically, you are supposed to impart the necessary knowledge and secrets to the staff members so that they will provide the most effective. Some best common leadership competencies involve the pursuing :
- Render purchaser support
- Take care of data protection
- Offer technological support
- Create Microsoft workplace shows
- Execute advertising and marketing strategies, controlling social media accounts and site content material.
Becoming imaginative means is to develop something new and exclusive. In today’s marketplace, levels of competition is so big that one particular can not endure except if a little something new is formulated. Modern business enterprise is usually on the top rated edge by refreshing each individual time, preserving the customers and the clients joyful with the most recent items and providers.
The top administrators have to retain up with the existing trend, update the staff about them, and inspire them to think creatively. Also, the new workers have something inventive to share with the current workers. So, the professionals have to notice them, determine their positivism, and really encourage them accordingly.
6. Knowledge :
Managers ought to act skillfully by setting a clear illustration for their fellow staff members. Honesty really should be the crucial skill driving the managers. It is often a lot more effective to do the job than to converse. Some of the other features an particular person should really possess:
- Show substantial ethical values
- Find immediate and functional solutions at the workplace
- Just take portion in seminars
- Execute client assistance skillfully
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The new Paradise Elementary School is expected to be the first elementary school in Lancaster County, Pa., to achieve LEED gold certification. The design of the building took into account several environmental and economic considerations; the predominant one was improving the core learning spaces and reducing energy. The design maximizes the daylight flowing into the COST PER SQ FT$195.05FEATURED IN2009 Educational InteriorsINTERIOR CATEGORYClassrooms spaces. The classrooms are stimulating and productive environments for children to learn, with furniture and cabinetry that optimize the storage space.
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|First flight||December 1943|
|Primary user||Imperial Japanese Army|
The Kawasaki Ki-64 (Allied code name: Rob) was a one-off prototype of an experimental heavy, single seat, fighter. It had two unusual design features. First; it had two Kawasaki Ha-40 engines in tandem; one in the aircraft nose, the other behind the cockpit, both being connected by a drive shaft. This combination (called the Kawasaki Ha-201) drove two, three-bladed, contra-rotating propellors. The second feature was the use of the wing surface as a radiator for the water-cooled engines. The aircraft first flew in December 1943. During the fifth flight, the rear engine caught fire; and while the aircraft made an emergency landing, it was damaged. The aircraft was subsequently abandoned in mid-1944 in favour of more promising projects. The airframe survived the war, and parts of the unique cooling system were sent to Wright Field for examination.
- Crew: 1 (pilot)
- Length: 11 m (36 ft 1 in)
- Wingspan: 13.5 m (44 ft 3 in)
- Height: 4.25 m (13 ft 11 in)
- Wing area: 28 m2 (300 sq ft)
- Empty weight: 4,050 kg (8,929 lb)
- Gross weight: 5,100 kg (11,244 lb)
- Powerplant: 1 × Kawasaki Ha-201 coupled liquid-cooled V-12 engine, 1,750 kW (2,350 hp)
- Propellers: 2 × 3-bladed contra-rotating propellers
- Maximum speed: 690 km/h (429 mph; 373 kn) at 5,000 metres (16,000 ft)
- Range: 1,000 km (621 mi; 540 nmi)
- Service ceiling: 12,000 m (39,370 ft)
- Time to altitude: 5.5 minutes to 5,000 metres (16,000 ft)
- Wing loading: 182.1 kg/m2 (37.3 lb/sq ft)
- Power/mass: 2.91 kg/kW (2.17 kg/hp; 4.78 lb/hp)
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- Are Crestor and Zetia the Same Thing?
- What Are Possible Side Effects of Crestor?
- What Are Possible Side Effects of Zetia?
- What is Crestor?
- What is Zetia?
- What drugs interact with Crestor?
- What drugs interact with Zetia?
- How Should Crestor Be Taken?
- How Should Zetia Be Taken?
What Drugs Interact With Crestor?
What Drugs Interact With Zetia?
Zetia may interact with blood thinners.
How Should Crestor Be Taken?
Crestor is available in tablets of 5, 10, 20 and 40 mg strengths. Usual dose ranges from 5 to 20 mg per day. Crestor should be taken with water once a day at the same time of day, with or without food. Dosage may be adjusted depending on what medicines the patient is already taking.
- Take Crestor exactly as your doctor tells you to take it.
- Take Crestor, by mouth, 1 time each day. Swallow the tablet whole.
- Crestor can be taken at any time of day, with or without food.
- Do not change your dose or stop Crestor without talking to your doctor, even if you are feeling well.
- Your doctor may do blood tests to check your cholesterol levels before and during your treatment with Crestor. Your doctor may change your dose of Crestor if needed.
- Your doctor may start you on a cholesterol lowering diet before giving you Crestor. Stay on this diet when you take Crestor.
- Wait at least 2 hours after taking Crestor to take an antacid that contains a combination of aluminum and magnesium hydroxide.
- If you miss a dose of Crestor, take it as soon as you remember. However, do not take 2 doses of Crestor within 12 hours of each other.
- If you take too much Crestor or overdose, call your doctor or go to the nearest hospital emergency room right away.
How Should Zetia Be Taken?
- Take Zetia once a day, with or without food. It may be easier to remember to take your dose if you do it at the same time every day, such as with breakfast, dinner, or at bedtime. If you also take another medicine to reduce your cholesterol, ask your doctor if you can take them at the same time.
- If you forget to take Zetia, take it as soon as you remember. However, do not take more than one dose of Zetia a day.
- Continue to follow a cholesterol-lowering diet while taking Zetia. Ask your doctor if you need diet information.
- Keep taking Zetia unless your doctor tells you to stop. It is important that you keep taking Zetia even if you do not feel sick.
- See your doctor regularly to check your cholesterol level and to check for side effects. Your doctor may do blood tests to check your liver before you start taking Zetia with a statin and during treatment.
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by Arendt, Hannah (1963)
In On Revolution Arendt argues that the French Revolution, while well studied and often emulated, was a disaster and that the largely ignored American Revolution was a success, an argument that runs counter to common Marxist and leftist views. The turning point in the French Revolution came when the revolution's leaders abandoned their goal of freedom in order to focus on compassion for the masses. In America, on the other hand, the Founding Fathers never betrayed the goal of Constitutio Libertatis. Yet Arendt believes the revolutionary spirit of those men was later lost, and advocates a "council system" as an appropriate institution to regain it. In an earlier book, The Human Condition, Arendt argued that there were three states of human activity: labor, work, and action. "Labor" is, essentially, a state of subsistence—i.e., doing what it takes to stay alive. For Arendt, this was the lowest form of human activity (all living creatures are capable of this). "Work" is the process of creating—a painter may create a great work of art, a writer may create a great work of fiction, etc. For Arendt, "working" is a worthwhile endeavor. Through your works, people may remember you; and if your work is great enough, you may be remembered for thousands of years. Arendt notes that people still read the Iliad, and Homer will be remembered for as long as people keep telling his stories. However, Arendt argues the Iliad is only still read because of its protagonist: Achilles. For Arendt, Achilles embodies "action." Only by interacting with others in some sort of public forum can your legacy be passed down through the generations; only by doing something truly memorable can a person achieve immortality. Arendt believed that the leaders of the American Revolution were true "actors" (in the Arendtian sense), and that their Constitution created "publics" that were conducive to action. The leaders of the French Revolution, on the other hand, were too focused on subsistence (what Arendt called their "demands for bread"), as opposed to "action." For a revolution to be truly successful, it must allow for—if not demand—that these publics be created. The leaders of the American Revolution created "a public" and acted within that space; their names will be remembered. The leaders of the French Revolution got their bread; their names have been forgotten.
What were absent from the American scene were misery and want rather than poverty, for 'the controversy between the rich and the poor, the laborious and the idle, the learned and the ignorant' was still very much present on the American scene and preoccupied the minds of the founders, who, despite the prosperity of their country, were convinced that these distinctions - 'as old as the creation. and as extensive as the globe' - were eternal. Yet, since the laborious in America were poor but not miserable - the observations of English and Continental travellers are unanimous and unanimously amazed: 'In a course of 12oo miles I did not see a single object that solicited charity' (Andrew Burnaby) - they were not driven by want, and the revolution was not overwhelmed by them. The problem they posed was not social but political, it concerned not the order of society but the form· of government. (p.68)
KeywordsMarx, Revolution, French Revolution, American Revolution, Freedom, Liberty, Achilles, Homer, Constitution
ThemesOn Revolution
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I have what hairstylists refer to as “virgin” or “unicorn” hair. No, it is not rainbow-colored, it simply means it has never been dyed or chemically treated. In fact, the only thing I’ve ever done to my naturally blonde hair in 30 years is cut it.
It’s a rarity in the beauty world, where it’s estimated that 70% of women in the U.S. use hair-coloring products. That’s why every stylist I’ve ever been to says, “you should donate your hair!” as soon as they meet me. The last time I had my hair professionally done for a wedding by someone who I had never met, she enthusiastically asked if she could cut it afterward because she could “tell by touching it” that “it’s special.”
What none, except my current stylist, realize is that I am actually growing my hair out so I can donate it. It’s why my hair has remained dye-free and why my grumblings about it being shut in car doors (true story) and “in my face all the time” mean nothing when I remember the reason I do it and that those who don’t have hair would love to have my problems.
Cancer has affected my life in more ways than one and I have watched loved ones and close friends suffer physically and mentally — and lose their hair. When treatment is saving your life, hair may seem unimportant, but while most side effects take place inside your body, losing your hair is one more thing out of your control and a physical reminder of the illness.
While many of us can’t really help those we love while they go through treatment, if you have the means to donate your hair, it’s a simple way to help strangers either touched by cancer or other causes of hair loss, like alopecia or trichotillomania, an anxiety disorder that causes a person to pull out their hair.
If you’re interested in donating, but don’t know where to begin, let me put your mind at ease: The process is incredibly simple and perhaps easier than you think. The only cost to you is the time it takes to grow it, the price of the hair cut and the envelope and stamp you’ll use to mail in your lovely locks. Some hair salons will even do the last part for you, so the only thing you have to do is keep your hair free of dyes and chemicals, grow it out and then cut it off.
I just donated my hair for the third time. While everyone’s hair grows at a different pace, it takes about three years for mine to go from a bob to it being long enough to donate, so it’s been about nine years since the first donation. Take a look at how much I was able to donate the first time:
This time around, I donated 12 inches to a charity I had not donated to before, Wigs 4 Kids of Michigan. I chose this charity because I wanted to send my donation somewhere new and they do not require families to pay for the wigs, while some do if the wig recipient is able. If you’re thinking of donating, it’s best to find where you want to send your hair before cutting it. You can donate to a national organization like Locks of Love, where I donated last time, or simply Google “donating hair near me” to find a local organization instead.
It’s important to note that each organization has a different length requirement, so while some require 12 inches to be donated, others only ask for 10, 9 or even 7. So, you could grow your hair longer and donate more at once, or donate more often but a lesser amount each time. Be sure to check the requirements for the organization you wish to donate to. Most organizations will accept layered hair, divided into multiple ponytails and then cut (as I did this time) and it’s usually OK if there is some gray in the hair, though most places will not accept donations that are fully gray.
When it comes time to donate, you will first need to wash your hair. That may seem backward before a haircut, as most stylists will wash your hair for you before it’s cut. When donating, however, you need to arrive at the salon with clean hair, as all donated hair must be washed and dried. Your stylist will then put it in a ponytail or braid and cut it, leaving the donation in the hair tie. Obviously, you won’t just leave your hair as-is now, so your stylist will then wash and finish cutting your hair.
Anyone can actually cut your hair, so you do not need to have it done at a salon. If you’re having a friend or family member cut it, just be sure it is cut 1 inch above the hair tie to keep the strands bundled together. The inch above the hair tie counts as part of the donation. Once it is cut, place it in a zipper storage bag, then in an envelope and mail it off. That’s it — your hair is on its way to create a wig for someone in need.
Here is my final result this time around:
Because you are mailing in your hair and it takes 10 to 12 donations to make a full wig, you do not get to see how the wig with your hair turned out. It will simply be combined with donations from other people with similar hair until a wig can be completed. You also will not meet the person who has the wig with your hair due to the HIPAA Privacy Rule, which establishes national standards to protect individuals’ medical records and other personal health information.
No matter where you send it or how long it takes to turn your hair into a wig, however, you can rest assured that your donation will brighten someone’s life when they need it the most.
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This time, several factors fatally coincided at once: shortly after takeoff, when the plane had not yet gained altitude and speed, one of the engines failed, the plane was overloaded - there were 22 people in it instead of 19, there were obstacles at the emergency landing site - a log warehouse and concrete fence, not an open field. All this led to the death of 16 people.
One could blame everything on an unfortunate combination of circumstances, but in the last few months alone, there have been 3 accidents in Russia with the participation of L-410 aircraft. On September 12, 2021, L-410 made a hard landing near the village of Kazachinskoye in the Irkutsk region and completely collapsed. 4 people were killed, 12 were injured. On June 19, 2021, near the village of Zhuravlevo, Kemerovo Region, an L-410 crashed due to engine failure. 4 people were killed, 12 were injured. And, by the way, in that case, just like in Tatarstan, the plane belonged to DOSAAF and transported paratroopers. The statistics are depressing: by 2019, only 38 aircraft of this model were operated in Russia.
In general, the L-410, which began carrying passengers 50 years ago, does not look like a safe enough aircraft. For the entire time, 1207 aircraft were produced, of which 133 were lost in various flight accidents, in which 495 people died. According to the independent aviation expert Vadim Lukashevich, this is a completely unacceptable level of security for modern aviation:
- You have to understand that the plane was created in Czechoslovakia - a country that at that time did not shine with any serious aviation traditions and schools. This all happened a long time ago. And the safety requirements were different from what they are today. For example, if you take our first jet plane TU-104 and look at the statistics, then every tenth plane there was simply lost along with the passengers. And at that time it was quite acceptable. Which is completely unacceptable today.
Non-compliance with safety standards is a reason for criticism of the aircraft itself. Surely a lot of negativity will pour out on him in the near future. Moreover, in the foreseeable future, it will continue to remain an uncontested basis for the development of transport accessibility in the Far East and the Far North. But the reasons for dangerous flights go much deeper. The L-410 itself, according to Lukashevich, is quite suitable for its tasks. Taking into account age, of course:
- L- 410 - it was a very good aircraft, this is a small aircraft, an intermediate version between the AN-2 and AN-24 maize. Such an intermediate model, which at that moment met all the requirements. It does not need special aerodromes, it is used between settlements at a distance of up to 1000 km. The removal of paratroopers is a normal story, a normal plane. But now the car is both morally and technically old - the plane that crashed was produced in the 80s, when Czechoslovakia itself still existed. In addition, the Mechanic says that this plane arrived to them in some kind of disassembled state. How they assembled it is a big question. Then it turns out that the pilots complained about engine problems...
The technique was good, but everything comes to an end. Not the safest designs should be replaced by more modern and perfect ones. For this we have the whole United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), which is part of Sergey Chemezov's Rostec, which practically monopolized the aviation industry. Moreover, projects of small regional aircraft have appeared more than once. They have been trying to replace the same An-2 since 1993. At first glance, the possibilities are colossal: the Superjet has been made, the MS-21 is being prepared for serial production, and even a fighter of almost the fifth generation, the Su-57, has been made. Is it really hard to make a simple small passenger plane? Vadim Lukashevich claims that this is an almost impossible task for the domestic aviation industry:
- We cannot create a replacement now. We have had alternative projects in development many times. There was, for example, the Gzhel plane, now at MAKS another plane, Baikal, was presented, there was a project to modernize the An-2 with a new engine - AN-3 ... But it turns out that now such an aircraft cannot be replaced ... There is an interesting incident in aviation: the smaller the plane, the more difficult it is to make it good. Because there are a lot of requirements for weight design and everything else. So there is no normal adequate replacement: this plane should be unpretentious like a Zaporozhets, should fly quietly from the smallest, unadapted, unpaved airfields, not equipped with any special complex systems, be practically all-weather, should be economical and cheap if we we are talking about the application in the regions. The combination of these qualities cannot be realized. And at the moment, this L- 410 turned out to be the most acceptable and convenient. In general, we have problems with regional aviation. If we are talking about replacing the AN-24, AN-26 - here we have made a beautiful IL-112 B , the first prototype of which crashed beautifully in front of everyone. It would seem that the new plane is also a problem with the engine. And the same engine is installed on the "new" passenger Il-114.
The L-410 is the future of Russian local aviation. There are no options. Moreover, it began to be produced in Russia at the facilities of the Ural Civil Aviation Plant - one of the few private aviation enterprises. But there is still enough government money. The assembly production was established in 2016 within the Ural special economic zone "Titanium Valley" with corresponding tax incentives. Investments amounted to 1 billion rubles, two thirds of which were financed by the state. And the first customer was the State Transport Leasing Company (STLK), which received 1 billion rubles from the federal budget for the purchase of five L-410 assembled domestically. In 2018, UZGA produced 5 aircraft with a localization rate of 35%, and all of them went to STLK. In 2010, UZGA received another contract from GTLK for 10 aircraft for 2 billion rubles.
Only with an increase in the degree of localization has not yet worked out. Yes, UZGA switched to domestic radio and navigation equipment, skis and floats were developed for the aircraft for landing on snow and water, respectively. But with the transition to domestic VK-800 engines, the process was clearly delayed. They talked about them in 2017, when the plant was just under construction, in 2019 Denis Manturov announced his readiness to transfer L-410 to them. And in July 2021, Evgeny Sergeev , director of the Aircraft division of the UZGA, announced that the plant plans to replace Czech engines with domestic ones. Again plans... In general, Vadim Lukashevich is very skeptical about import substitution and localization:
- I am very careful about all statements that we are getting something domestic and we will replace everything. In general, import substitution is such a big snag. Take, for example, MS-21: the first 50 aircraft fly with American engines, and then PD-14 should fly - our engine, which is installed on the MS-21, and it is also the basis for a line of engines of different thrust, up to very large ones. Literally a month ago, a message passed unnoticed that import duties on engines for MS-21 had been canceled. We present pompously and say that we have solved the problem with the engines, and we ourselves are quietly removing duties on American engines. The same is true when we say that domestic avionics will appear on the L- 410, I would be very careful about this. There are problems with the element base, with semiconductors, microcircuits, and in general with electronics in general. We cannot produce our own smartphone, computer, washing machine, even a normal one ... How can we say that a country with such a level of electronics will have good avionics? When you start digging, it often turns out that there are Chinese derivatives with re-glued nameplates.
Aviation is a globalized human activity. There are 3-4 companies in the world that make avionics, the same number - engines. And this technique is used by all the planes of the world. Therefore, we can try to do something of our own, but I am absolutely convinced that we will not be able to make avionics of the same class as is done in the best samples. The same goes for engines. We are now talking about the fact that we have the latest version of the TU-160 - this is a unique engine, but let's start to figure it out: firstly, this is still the Soviet groundwork, and secondly, we have a problem not only in avionics, but also in the machine tool park. Equipment for production is imported. Therefore, even if we make some kind of our own engine, we say about PD-14 that this is our Russian engine, we just hide the imported component at a stage earlier. It's like electronics for Roskosmos - they buy it in China, at the border they redraw it to the conditional Dandelion LLC, put it on rockets and say that this is our domestic electronics. Yes, we have organizations that produce domestic avionics, God forbid, that this is enough for the original L- 410, but I am somehow very careful about this.
It turns out the following situation: UZGA assembles an outdated aircraft model, pulls on localization, in the future it is going to expand the production line by assembling a Czech aircraft not of the first freshness L-610 for 40 passengers, but at the same time receives state money. By the way, the UZGA is also preparing a replacement for the An-2 maize workers. The Ministry of Industry and Trade has already spent 1.2 billion rubles on the Baikal project (the flight prototype was supposed to be ready in 2014), and in the future the state plans to purchase 300 Baikals for 36 billion rubles. In July 2021, Mikhail Mishustin visited the enterprise and promised further support through development institutions.
Why is money flowing like a river at UZGA? This is a question for the state. But there are some surprising coincidences worth noting. The Minister of Industry Denis Manturov was at first the deputy of the current owner of UZGA Viktor Grigoriyev at the Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant. Then, when Manturov headed Oboronprom, Grigoriev became his deputy. And the Czech company Aircraft Industries (formerly Let - developer and manufacturer of L-410) belongs to the Urals businessman - the head of the UMMC Iskander Makhmudov.
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WebRTC: Seizing the opportunities, mitigating the risks
Web real-time communication (WebRTC) technology enables real-time communications between web browsers and across all devices to deliver richer forms of unified communications services.
Although WebRTC provides amazing opportunities for service providers to extend existing VoLTE, ViLTE, VoWiFi and RCS services and create entirely new, customer-driven services, it’s not without its challenges.
A WebRTC deployment must be carried out using a well-defined and standardized strategy. Moreover, service providers need to consider architectural requirements as well as testing challenges—from end-to-end orchestration to ensuring optimal service uptimes.
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What is faith and begorra mean?
Faith and be gore ah, is a phrase attributed to the Irish, who reportedly use it as an exclamation much like Americans use the phrases "By gosh" or "by golly!" Its literal meaning is "by God," a mild oath.
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By Heather Frey Blanton
Copyright 2014 Heather Blanton
Eastern Montana is, in my opinion, one of the most beautiful and lonely places in the US. It is not an area for the faint of heart. The weather, the wide-open spaces, the solitude…it’s the kind of place that makes you or breaks you.
Which is why the story of May, Myrtle, and Mabel Buckley is all the more remarkable.
When Franklin and Susannah Buckley started having children, surely they hoped for boys. After all, farming in the Dakotas and ranching in Montana was man’s work. But the Buckley daughters were born for this land. Franklin was smart enough to know it…or perhaps his precocious, fearless, ambitious daughters gave him no choice. They bloomed on those prairies like a wildflowers after a snowy winter. They took to the saddle as if they’d been born to it. Their father’s ranch hands taught the girls to ride, rope, shoot, brand, round up, even break broncs, and called them, with affection, the Red Yearlings.
Confident in his daughters’ abilities, Franklin turned his 160-acre ranch in Terry, Montana over to the girls. This freed him up to manage the farm in North Dakota, other business ventures, and serve as a state representative. Papa was also confident that men would be men, especially where his three pretty daughters were concerned. Hence, he did not leave them unattended. The girls’ mother stayed close, keeping a watchful eye on her lovely Red Yearlings.
In 1914, neighbor and friend Evelyn Cameron photographed the girls working and playing on the ranch. Cameron wrote an article about Montana cowgirls and featured the feisty ranching sisters doing what they did best. While this article spread their fame to Europe, the girls had already been fielding invitations from Wild West shows and even President Roosevelt. Turned’em all down flat. May, Myrtle, and Mabel were ranchers. The profession was no game to them. The most play-acting they did was posing for the now famous and very collectible Cameron photos.
And I’d like to point out, they did all this in skirts. Oh, there was a brief scandal whereby the girls tried wearing split skirts. Apparently, Montana was not ready for culottes. The lady photographer was threatened with arrest over in Miles City for wearing the things. So the girls went back to skirts, wearing said culottes when nobody was looking.
May, the oldest of the sisters, never married. The more reserved of the three, she nursed her mother for years after a stroke, then died at only 50 years of age.
Myrtle, the middle sister, was a handful. One could guess she occasionally had bouts of the “Marsha, Marsha, Marsha” syndrome. She eloped with a ranch hand and had two children with him. The marriage failed and Myrtle late married rancher and neighbor George Straugh. That one stuck.
Mabel married Milton Gile and lived to a ripe old age.
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There are those who still don't understand the SDP's strategy and approach to politics. Why do Singapore Democrats insist of defying the law and ending up in court instead of doing the ground work necessary to win elections?
The answer is simple: Because the PAP has absolutely no intention of allowing the opposition to win power through elections.
The ruling party will continue to introduce new laws and amend existing ones to block any meaningful inroads the opposition makes in elections. The introduction of the GRC system, the increase of election deposit, the restriction of the use of the Internet by opposition parties, etc are done to ensure that opposition parties remain crippled.
There is even a law that prohibits five or more people from “demonstrating opposition to the actions of the Government” or to “promote a cause or campaign” under the Miscellaneous Offences Rules.
Already the SDP and its supporters have been charged under such a law simply for distributing flyers. What's there to stop the Government from applying this law to the other opposition parties especially if they start making political headway?
And isn't the opposition's work all about promoting a campaign or cause? How can we limit our numbers to less than five in public if we want to reach out to the public more effectively? Most important, if the opposition cannot demonstrate opposition to the actions of the Government, why exist at all?
The one reason why the opposition has fared so poorly at the polls is that we have always been one step behind the PAP. When its support eroded, it introduced the GRC system. When the opposition adopted the by-election effect, it threatened the voters with HDB upgrading. When we started to attract more quality candidates, it upped the election deposit.
If we don't arrest the rules-changing, we will forever be chasing our tails. We need an independent elections commission, not an elections department that says "Yes sir" to the PM all the time.
We must stop letting the PAP fool us. More important, we must stop fooling ourselves that under present arrangements the opposition will be able to entrench ourselves as an institution.
Does this mean then that the opposition should abandon electoral politics in Singapore? No, of course not. The Singapore Democrats have said many times before: Elections are the only way for a party to come to power and govern society.
So why does the SDP participate in elections that are neither free nor fair?
Because they are good a opportunity to raise awareness of political issues. With the advancement of cyber technology, we can use elections to educate the people on their rights and responsibilities as citizens, as well as the benefits of an open and democratically accountable government.
But remember, elections only last for nine days and the excitement dies down very quickly. It is the interim four or five years that the opposition needs to get down to serious work to reform the system.
With the Internet, our work is greatly facilitated and there is no excuse for the opposition to retreat into its shell in between elections.
The success of the SDP's effort may not be immediately apparent, but like all responsible leadership we understand the need for delayed gratification. We are confident our work will bear fruit in the not-too-distant future.
In that vein we ask all Singaporeans not to be seduced by the temptation of instant success. Just as Rome was not built in a day, democracy in Singapore will take time to entrench.
But the work to reform the political system must start now.
Elections must be part of the strategy, not the strategy itself. We need to work amongst our own opposition parties to foster greater cooperation and understanding. We need to help civil society to develop civil society. And we need to encourage our fellow citizens to become actively involved in this coming elections and thereafter the work in democracy-building.
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Summer Semester 2020
Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology
Due to the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus the whole world had to switch to a different mode of operation, which of course affected our sphere of education. However we at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology managed to very efficiently transfer our entire curriculum to the remote mode of distance learning.
Thanks to the Microsoft Teams platform, students were automatically moved to the virtual world so they could communicate with their teachers and colleagues. It was because of this software that we were all able to manage our time and credits in accordance to the study program and syllabuses. In addition to this, PJAIT still works on the proprietary administrative and educational platform Gakko, which allows for smooth communication between the dean's offices and students, and most importantly, allows for the safe conduct of exams and sessions.
Both educators and students had to adjust their habits and change the methods of providing knowledge. But through hundreds of hours of webinars, language courses and distance learning we discovered new opportunities and new challenges: rising to all of them.
Our full-time studies were conducted online and in accordance to the respective timetables and modes of working:
- Classes took place in compliance with the students’ schedules; while teachers and students communicated via the Microsoft Teams platform;
- The more specialised programs that students and lecturers have access to on PJAIT computers were also made available through the special VMware Horizon virtualization product.
- The additional materials from the classes are always saved and made available to students immediately afterwards;
- Consultations and exams take place in the form of pre-arranged online meetings via the Gakko program;
- Student works are presented in the form of a virtual exhibition. The laboratories and classes that require specialist equipment are carried out in compliance with all precautionary rules;
- The classes are fully interactive, so you can ask questions and have in depth conversations.
Please watch this video we recorded with Piotr Gago, lecturer at the Faculty of Computer Science, to see it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGEKIJvdOJU: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGEKIJvdOJU
During the winter semester of 2020/2021, there will be three forms of teaching:
- Traditional (least likely): all classes will take place at the Academy's premises according to a structure similar to previous years;
- Hybrid (preferred by PJAIT): lectures on MS Teams, with other classes taking place in two options (depending on the decisions of individual students):
- At the seat of the Academy;
- Via MS Teams.
For full-time studies, lectures are held on two days and the remaining classes on the remaining three days of the week. For part-time studies, lectures take place on the 1st day of the conference, while the remaining classes take place on the 2nd day.
Remote (if this is the decision of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education): as was the situation during the 2020 summer semester, all classes will be held via MS Teams according to a similar plan developed the previous year.
Don’t forget to watch our #mood video that features shots from this year’s in-Academy defense of diploma theses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUChwbbXW_8
Our online studies offer remote working and give the first-year students of the faculties of Computer Science and Information Management the choice whether they want to take part in in-house classroom exercises, or would prefer to conduct them online. The first-years can study in a hybrid form. This new academic year will bring changes that will allow us to continue our studies and lead academic life depending on our abilities and willingness.
The study program provides:
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Similarly, the program will apply to part-time studies (during weekend meetings):
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In the 2020/2021 academic year, lectures and language courses will be conducted online via the Microsoft Teams platform.
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A major safety initiative was launched today, focussing on reducing the factor of human error in road accidents that claim more than a lakh lives in India annually.
The campaign will see the distribution of stickers on responsible driving across the country in its first leg.
According to official data, with around 1,622 deaths, Delhi topped the charts among the states in terms of road fatalities last year.
Haryana Transport Minister Krishan Lal Panwar along with Joint Commissioner of Delhi Police (Traffic) Garima Bhatnagar released the campaign during the second annual conference on 'Ways to Improve Road Safety' organised in association with industry body ASSOCHAM.
"Road usage is the right of every individual. Rights should not be taken away, rather be bestowed upon," said S L Ahuja, Chairman of Big Boy Toyz, which has initiated the campaign .
In 2015, there were about 5 lakh road accidents in the country, of which 1.46 lakh people were killed, a report released by the Union Road Ministry data says.
"Drivers' fault has been revealed as the single most responsible factor for road accidents, killings and injuries on all roads for a long period of time. Driver's fault accounted for 77 per cent of total accidents in 2015," it says.
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England is the last place Nona Fells wants to be. No one asked her if she wanted to leave sunny India to live in a chilly English village with her aunt's family -- and her cousin, Belinda, just hates her! But when two dainty Japanese dolls arrive at Nona's doorstep, everything begins to change. Like Nona, Miss Happiness and Miss Flower are lonely and homesick, so Nona decides to build them their own traditional Japanese house. Over time, not only does Nona create a home for the dolls, but one for herself as well.
Originally published in 1961, Rumer Godden's classic story of friendship and being part of a family is now back in print for a new generation of readers to cherish.
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Relatively equal ratio of boys to girls
Six identified ELL students:
Two of the students have entered the class within the last two months with no prior English language.
Three of the students have been in the ELL program for two years.
One of the students can speak English, but is not yet reading grade-level text.
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Create a chart to plan for your assessments. Include the following:
Purpose of each assessment
Specifications of the assessments
Define the content.
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Performance standards to be assessed
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Accommodations that need to be provided
Relationship between the development of the instruction and the assessments
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Develop two original assessments for your imaginary class. Ensure that one of your assessments is related to reading and writing.
Note: Use the work completed in Part 1 and Part 2 to guide your development.
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Write a 700- to 1,050-word summary of your assessments, in which you address the following questions:
What TESOL standards for assessment did you address?
What are the benefits of or the value in the assessments?
How can authentic assessment tools be used across the curriculum?
How will you incorporate multiple intelligences in the assessment process?
How will data from the assessments be used to determine individual student goals and objectives? How will you use the data to modify instruction?
How will this information be communicated to students, families, and other stakeholders?
How will you involve families in the assessment processes?
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Book DescriptionCombinatorics on words, or finite sequences, is a field which grew simultaneously within disparate branches of mathematics such as group theory and probability. It has grown into an independent theory finding substantial applications in computer science automata theory and linguistics. This volume is the first to attempt to present a thorough treatment of this theory. All of the main results and techniques are covered. The presentation is accessible to undergraduate and graduate level students in mathematics and computer science as well as to specialists in all branches of applied mathematics. Topics discussed include: Thue's square free words, Van der Waerden's theorem, Ramsey's theorem; factorization of free monoids including application to free Lie algebras; equations in words, etc.
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Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Flipboard 0 When it comes to answering a programming question, a programmer has to ruffle all the feathers of the various websites, books, blogs, comments, tutorials, endless documentation pages which may have the remotest bit of connection to the problem at hand. This leaves you with a refined version of your original question, so now enriched with a power tank full of key terms and the right search words, you begin the cycle again and then repeatedly until you hit your answer. This sort of recursive algorithm is unacceptably choppy for the programmer, so Y Combinator-backed Omniref aims to discard this speed-breaker by introducing lightweight search over documentation and ready examples to meet the programmers needs. The co-founders Tim Robertson and Montana Low set out to build a code reference tool, as they believe that – “Programmers live in code. Coding knowledge should live there too.” It aims to be the ultimate Ruby documentation search with answers in the form of code snippets instead of more tunnel clues. It is a code referencing tool that could help developers get assistance from others having hit the same brick wall or who are building upon the same code. It is documenting code to answer the queries of coders, in essence, building a huge library for all the coding knowledge. Originally launched as a code search tool for Ruby in November 2013, the site has since added a Q/A feature resembling Genius’s annotation feature, as made famous by Rap Genius. It employs a version-aware system which ensures that the answers to your query stay relevant and reject any irrelevant or out-of-date information. Omniref can be linked to your browser, Ruby source code on Github, and even as instant answers to your Google queries. In addition to this, there’s also a news feed in the works that helps keep you up-to-date with which technologies to use and updates related to the code in your projects. All said and done, Omniref is an emerging and a huge database of comprehensive search over every version of every ruby gem, and all of the code from every version of the ruby standard library. Twitter Tweet Facebook Share Email This article was written for Business 2 Community by Kane Pepi.Learn how to publish your content on B2C Author: Kane Pepi Kane Pepi is an experienced financial and cryptocurrency writer with over 2,000+ published articles, guides, and market insights in the public domain. Expert niche subjects include asset valuation and analysis, portfolio management, and the prevention of financial crime. Kane is particularly skilled in explaining complex financial topics in a user-friendlyView full profile ›More by this author:VoIP Basics: Everything Beginners Should Know!Bitcoin Investment, Trading & Mining: The Ultimate Guide for BeginnersIs This a Better Way to Set Your 2020 Goals and Resolutions? | <urn:uuid:d858159b-61b4-4326-9354-d9f84e3ee78b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.business2community.com/tech-gadgets/yc-backed-startup-omniref-building-code-reference-tool-01111740 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00679.warc.gz | en | 0.925519 | 579 | 1.820313 | 2 |
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- 1 Can I build my own above ground pool?
- 2 How much does it cost to build an above ground swimming pool?
- 3 Is it cheaper to build a pool above ground?
- 4 What’s the best thing to put under an above ground pool?
- 5 Can you DIY a pool?
- 6 How do I level my ground for a pool without digging?
- 7 How long do above ground pools last?
- 8 Why are Intex pools so expensive now?
- 9 What is the deepest above ground pool?
- 10 What is the least expensive pool?
- 11 How often should you change the water in an above ground pool?
- 12 Why are above ground pools trashy?
- 13 Should I put a tarp under my above ground pool?
- 14 Can you put a tarp under an above ground pool?
- 15 Can you partially bury an above ground pool?
Can I build my own above ground pool?
Above–ground swimming pools are considerably easier and faster to build than in-ground pools. Beginning with a prepared pool base, do-it-yourselfers working with two or three other people can assemble an above–ground pool in as little as a day or two.
How much does it cost to build an above ground swimming pool?
The average above-ground pool kit costs $2,500–$7,500, depending on the quality. Rectangular inground pools with a deck can cost over $10,000. Inground vinyl liner pools cost $20,000–$55,000. Inground fiberglass pools cost $45,000–$85,000.
Is it cheaper to build a pool above ground?
An above–ground pool is, by far, the least-expensive option for a pool. The main disadvantage of an above–ground pool is that it generally adds no value to your home. They also have some of the same problems as in-ground pools, such as water evaporation and maintenance issues.
What’s the best thing to put under an above ground pool?
Concrete pads are excellent to use as a base for your above ground pool, but you’ll want to add another cushion between the two. Concrete is an abrasive material and will wear on the liner if it’s in direct contact. Concrete is the best choice for a solid base because it is perfectly flat.
Can you DIY a pool?
While some people do opt to take on a DIY inground fiberglass pool project, most DIY inground pool projects are with vinyl liner pools. This is because the kits with most of the materials you need are readily available offline and online.
How do I level my ground for a pool without digging?
Hit a metal rod through the hole securing the boards to the ground. Next, take some sand and pour it over the area with the majority of the sand in the low range of the pool. Add as much sand as necessary and rotate the boards until the sand is level. Once that step is done, you can begin to tamp down the sand.
How long do above ground pools last?
The market average life of an above ground pool may be shorter than you think at about 7-15 years. However, when you buy from a quality brand and maintain your pool properly it will last many years longer than that.
Why are Intex pools so expensive now?
Usually, this event occurs after a demand or supply shock. In this case, the good is above ground pools. This has started happening because there are very low levels of these in stock now and there is a very high demand for them. This situation has thus created a higher demand for above ground pools.
What is the deepest above ground pool?
You may be thinking above ground pools cannot be that deep, but they can actually go as far down as 8 feet or more! This is due to the elasticity of the vinyl liners. The vinyl liner can accommodate a space that may not be shaped exactly like a perfect pool. When installing, make sure it is over a gradual slope.
What is the least expensive pool?
Overall, vinyl liner pools are the cheapest inground swimming pools that money can buy. It’s rare to find a pool builder who can build a concrete or fiberglass pool at a vinyl liner pool price.
How often should you change the water in an above ground pool?
Generally, pool water needs to be replaced once every five to seven years. This should be done during mild weather, so that your pool surface is not at risk from strong sunlight and heat. Your pool maintenance company can recommend when it is time to drain your pool.
Why are above ground pools trashy?
Because poor people wanting to have fun and splash in some water without going to a public pool or breaking the bank is apparently trashy.
Should I put a tarp under my above ground pool?
Plastic sheeting is the absolute worst material to place under an above ground pool during installation. It does not prevent weed growth and does not control bugs and critters. But the biggest reason to avoid plastic sheeting is the fact it causes a swimming pool to rust out very quickly.
Can you put a tarp under an above ground pool?
It’s OK to use a tarp under the sand but not in place of it. A tarp will allow all the lumps and bumps of a dirt base to show through into the base of your pool. With just a tarp you still have to have a cove for the pool to be safe. The cove can be dirt, sand or foam, but it has to be there.
Can you partially bury an above ground pool?
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Apple was granted a patent Tuesday by the USPTO (via AppleInsider) that describes a system for implementing multi-touch in a mobile device even when there the display itself isn’t actively showing any images. It’s a neat trick, and one that could help portable gadgets save battery life by not invoking the most battery-hungry element in their construction nearly as frequently.
The patent also notes that the screen doesn’t have to be off for these no-look commands to work; a user could do things like swipe a finger in circle to change volume or tracks, for instance, even while a display is active. That adds new control options, but also makes it possible to both remove external buttons should a design benefit from that, and also make the device easier to use when in a pocket or clipped to an armband or waist during a workout.
While the display is inactive, the patent describes that it could use gestures that mirror the button press actions on current iPod and iPhone headphone remotes. So, a single click could play/pause, a double click could skip tracks, and a long press could call up Siri, for instance.
In terms of recognizing when touch is and is not wanted, the patent suggests implementing a special mode that would allow it to both keep the screen dark but also receive touch inputs. This might involve a way to activate a mode between a full lock and a completely on and active device, which can be selected specifically for when a user is commuting or using the device while working out, but disabled when there’s risk of accidental touch.
It’s an interesting patent, and one which Apple has shown off as working with its previous iPod nano design, which essentially featured a square display and little else in terms of physical buttons. The trick might be making this work in such a way that it still completely eliminates any chance of accidental input – the lock screen concept is synonymous with touchscreen devices for a reason, after all.
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Meteorologists and academics have stated in no uncertain terms that climate change contributed to record-breaking temperatures this week in British Columbia and the U.S. Pacific Northwest.
Those temperatures played a role in a fire that raced up and down a hill in the Fraser Canyon last night, forcing residents of Lytton, B.C., to flee for their lives.
It came after Lytton set Canadian heat records on three consecutive days, peaking at 49.6 C (121.28 F).
A CBS News report described the heat dome that formed over B.C. and the Pacific Northwest as a once-in-a-millennium event.
This heat dome was created when hot air blown in from the sea, encounters hot summer air on land, and is unable to rise because it's trapped by high pressure from the atmosphere.
Michael Mann, an oft-quoted climate expert at Penn State University, has cited the jet stream as one factor contributing to extreme heat waves.
In the current situation in B.C. and the Pacific Northwest, the heat dome diverted the jet stream to the north. That blocked cooler temperatures from flowing south.
Jet streams are currents of fast-flowing air in the troposphere that travel in both hemispheres. The energy for the northern hemisphere's jet stream comes from the difference between cool Arctic air and warmer temperate-zone air.
Because the Arctic air has warmed considerably in the summer, these air currents travel more slowly and loop more broadly—or so goes this theory.
B.C. heat waves are deadly
This week's extended heat wave likely led to hundreds of deaths in B.C.
The province's chief coroner, Lisa Lapointe, stated that there were at least 486 sudden and unexpected deaths in B.C. between June 25 and 1 p.m. on June 30. Normally, there would be 165 of these deaths over that period.
This suggests that more than 300 fatalities could have been linked to the high temperatures.
It's not the first such incident in B.C.
A 2009 heat wave in Metro Vancouver was the subject of a study published in Environmental Perspectives in 2017. In this instance, researchers concluded that in one week that year, 110 people died due to high outside temperatures.
Mann has noted that these types of heat waves are increasing in frequency.
In a paper that Mann coauthored in Science Advances in 2018, he and other researchers highlighted the impact of a "quasi-resonant amplification (QRA)" on extreme summer weather in the Northern Hemisphere.
These QRA events are likely to increase by about 50 percent this century "under business-as-usual carbon emissions", they wrote.
If they're correct and if greenhouse-gas emissions are not slashed, we could see more of these heat waves in the future.
"Some predict a near tripling of QRA events by the end of the century, while others predict a potential decrease."
The paper, which was written two years before the shocking Siberian heat wave of 2020, pointed to numerous other extreme-weather events in the summer in recent years in the northern hemisphere.
"A series of persistent, extreme, and costly summer weather events over the past decade and a half, including the 2003 European heat wave, 2010 Pakistan flood/Russian heat wave, 2011 Texas drought, 2013 European floods, 2015 California wildfires, and 2016 Alberta wildfires have led to ongoing discussion in the scientific literature regarding the relationship between anthropogenic climate change and warm-season weather extremes," the researchers wrote.
They noted that some increases in these extremes of summer weather "can be explained by relatively straightforward thermodynamic processes", such as upward shifts in temperature distribution or the impact of a hotter atmosphere on precipitation.
However, they also maintained that "mechanisms involving atmospheric dynamics are necessary to explain the characteristics—particularly the unusually persistent and amplified disturbances in the jet stream—that are associated with persistent extreme summer weather events".
More recently, Mann wrote How to Win the Climate War and Avoid Disaster. Check out the trailer in the tweet below.
Jet stream linked to Siberian heat wave
The World Weather Attribution website was created several years ago as part of an international effort to communicate the impact of climate change on extreme weather events, including heat waves.
In a WWA analysis last year, scientists from six countries collaborated to examine the links between human-induced climate change and the heat wave in Siberia in the first six months of 2020.
"The results showed with high confidence that the January to June 2020 prolonged heat wave was made at least 600 times more likely as a result of human-induced climate change," they concluded. "We note that even with climate change, the prolonged heat was a very rare event expected to occur less than once every 130 years."
Moreover, they wrote that by 2050, the Siberian region can expect to see temperatures 2.5 C above the average in 1900, but it could rise as high as 7 C above the 1900 level.
The researchers linked very warm conditions in the 2019-20 winter in Siberia to a strong jet stream, which caused more ice and snow to melt. This, in turn, resulted in more darker surfaces that could absorb more heat.
"Overall, the 6 months from January to June 2020 were more than 5 degrees Celsius warmer than average (1981–2010) over the study region," they noted. "This extremely hot period led to local heat records being broken, including at the Verkhoyansk weather station which recorded 38 degrees Celsius on 20 June." | <urn:uuid:3ddcb981-e37f-4601-a23b-6639c912455e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.straight.com/news/expect-more-heat-waves-like-one-thats-occurring-this-week-in-british-columbia-washington-and | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.960102 | 1,135 | 3.78125 | 4 |
Painful but necessary moves by the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design to tackle its dire financial problems have given the internationally respected Halifax-based art college some much-needed breathing space.
Thanks to tuition and fee increases, wage restraint and increased leasing out of its Granville campus space, NSCAD in the last two years has cut its annual operating deficit from $2.5 million to about $500,000 today, while overall debt has shrunk from $18 million to $13 million.
Though those moves were unpopular, and essentially forced upon the art college by a provincial government unwilling in 2011 to continue bailing out NSCAD, the improvement in the college’s fiscal state is welcome.
NSCAD’s leaders are rightly proud of the achievement, but it’s a stretch to say, as an art college statement this week asserted, that the institution’s financial distress has been “substantially eliminated.”
That claim came in an announcement by NSCAD’s board of governors that the art college would remain autonomous. A consultant’s study concluded there were little to no cost savings to be had in formally affiliating with either Dalhousie or Saint Mary’s. The school’s financial distress had prompted the study, NSCAD said.
We don’t disagree with the consultant’s findings, although the study’s terms of reference — which made clear NSCAD would not give up its independence in most areas — certainly limited the scope of possibilities.
That said, a strong, independent NSCAD is certainly an asset for Nova Scotia.
The path forward NSCAD has chosen, however, hardly promises to be easy.
The art college’s board of governors says it will keep all the properties for now, including the Granville campus (called a major long-term liability and “unfit for function” in another consultant’s report).
Given the Granville campus’s need for $11 million in deferred maintenance, and an estimated $15 million to $20 million to bring the set of historic buildings up to modern standards, the recent generous donation to NSCAD of $3 million by the Fountain family for the campus will not go very far.
College officials plan to keep Granville until its mortgage is paid off in eight years, while hoping its value goes up due to nearby developments — essentially land speculation. So for now, they’re stuck with facilities their own consultants warned will limit their options in terms of programs and new opportunities.
All this while NSCAD is forecasting increasing enrolments.
Little wonder there are also questions about the art college’s hopes to build a $60-million to $70-million new facility to house all its programs sometime after 2020.
Along with its fiscal moves, NSCAD also deserves credit for pushing to collaborate more. But with more government bailouts likely off the table, fiscal realities may again force NSCAD to change course. | <urn:uuid:791cd9a0-c076-4930-bc8b-9f0359121f74> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://thechronicleherald.ca/editorials/1223391-editorial-tough-road-still-ahead-for-nscad | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00182-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962222 | 625 | 1.53125 | 2 |
In a report titled ‘Taking Sides’, advocacy group The Syria Campaign has criticised the United Nation’s humanitarian efforts within Syria.
The report, undersigned by 56 Syrian humanitarian and local self-governance groups, also accuses the “UN of giving undue preference to the Syrian regime, therefore sabotaging its own efforts to deliver aid to besieged areas”.
While the UN maintains a presence in Damascus, attempts to distribute aid by its various agencies to areas under siege by the Assad regime have until recently been completely cut off. Syria’s capital, a stronghold of government control, is surrounded by several towns which have been held under long sieges by the regime.
One such town is Daraya, where aid was delivered earlier this month for the first time since 2012. Crucially, this aid delivery was restricted to medicine and baby milk, and did not contain any food. An earlier convoy in May, which similarly did not contain food aid, was refused entry to Daraya.
It was only on 10 June that the first food aid delivery in 4 years reached Daraya. On the same day, the Assad regime released at least 28 barrel bombs upon the town, claims the Local Council of Daraya, impeding efforts to distribute aid. An official of the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) claimed that the delivery contained 480 food rations which could feed around 2,400 people for 1 month. The UN estimates Daraya’s population between 4,000 and 8,000 people.
While the Syrian government exercises control over UN agency operations in Syria, through various measures such as the imposition of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) as a necessary distributor of aid and threats to revoke agency staff’s visas, The Syria Campaign claims that “the UN has more leverage over the Syrian government than it has exercised.”
The report notes regime-controlled areas’ dependency on UN aid, and states that UN convoys have previously travelled through, but not stopped in, besieged areas en route to regime-controlled areas to deliver aid. UN advisor Jan Egeland states, for example, that UN convoys cross through besieged Douma on their way to Kafr Batna, yet do not stop and off load in Douma.
Requests to directly deliver aid to besieged areas are either blocked, with almost 75% ignored by the Syrian government in 2015, or “censored at the agency level,” meaning that UN agencies often deliberately do not submit requests in order to not agitate the Assad regime.
Such actions have lead The Syria Campaign to claim the UN has chosen to “prioritise cooperation with the Syrian government at all costs,” leading to a “serious breach of the humanitarian principles of impartiality, independence and neutrality.”
Where almost one million people live under siege in Syria, a mere 12% of aid reached areas not under government control in April 2016. Siege Watch estimates that 85% of besieged areas are under siege by the Assad regime, with a further 14% under siege by both ISIS and the regime.
The Syria Campaign accuses the UN of fostering a “culture of compliance” with the Syrian regime dating back to 2011. Claiming that the UN failed to learn lessons from a similar “culture of compliance” with the Sri Lankan government in 2009, the group states that the UN failed to break the regime’s first siege in Daraa in 2011.
By refusing to deliver aid to Daraa, in order to curry favour with the regime and maintain visa privileges, the UN taught the Assad regime a lesson that “it could shape the UN’s aid operation without consequence,” The Syria Campaign claims. With such knowledge, the regime has been able to enforce sieges and aid blockades on tens of more areas since 2011. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said 100% of a total 414 deaths from starvation occurred in areas under government siege.
The report recommends that the UN should draw a line with the Syrian regime, defining criteria under which they can cooperate with it “while still upholding their humanitarian principles.” If this line is crossed, The Syria Campaign suggests withdrawing cooperation lest the UN violate core humanitarian principles. The report gives similar suggestions to NGOs operating in Syria.
UN: Report discredits the work of humanitarian aid
UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric responded to the report, stating that it “discredits the work that so many of our humanitarian colleagues, mostly Syrians, are doing on the ground to try to bring help to the 13.5 million Syrians who are in need of humanitarian aid.”
Furthermore, he stated that “Security Council resolutions recently gave us the right to conduct cross‑border convoys into areas not controlled by the Government. We do that. We inform the Government. But, we have been given the authority to do those cross‑borders. Within Government‑controlled areas, we do have to work with the Government.” Such cross-border operations, unanimously sanctioned by Security Council resolutions since 2014, are criticised in the report as still being influenced by regime control.CLICK TO READ THE FULL REPORT | <urn:uuid:b5b274d3-5602-41eb-81b3-63d9cc904253> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.agos.com.tr/en/article/15675/syrian-organisations-criticise-un-humanitarian-efforts | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.957952 | 1,069 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Write excellent code examples
Code examples are what makes your posts and articles very relevant to developers. They say more than dozens of pages about a certain product and – even more importantly – they invite people to play with your products.
Solve a problem with your example
One of my biggest bug-bears are “hello world” examples that don't do anything useful. Instead I aim to give out code that solves a real problem. I will come back to the “hello world” dilemma in the presentation tips chapter but for now, let's just say that writing “hello world” code teaches people to write code, but not how to solve issues with it.
Good code examples should answer the “how does this technology help me solve a problem?” and not the “how do I use this?” question. The“how do I use this?” question can be answered by documentation. Code examples should get people excited about using the product and entice them to dive into the documentation to find out about the details.
So instead of starting by reading the docs yourself, check what the tool can do and look for a problem you always wanted to solve that can be solved with this technology. Then solve it using the product and explain what you've done as the code example.
Show a working example
One of the first things to show in a code example is a working implementation. There is nothing more powerful than a way to see what the thing does by clicking a link or entering some data and sending off a form. You telling the readers that it works is one thing – the readers being able to try it out and seeing it for themselves is much more rewarding.
Tip: If the code you explain is part of a larger interface, behind a firewall or needs authentication then you can still show how it works by recording a screencast.
The working examples should of course work but also be pretty and smooth. A lot of examples fail to please the eye or actually violate a lot of usability basics – don't give a shoddy first impression.
Explain the necessary environment
One of the things you want to avoid is people getting excited about your code and then not being able to make it work in their own environment. You get around this issue in several ways:
- Write defensive code – check for dependencies before trying to access them.
- Check online and HTTP status – If your code needs to pull data from a web service say that the user needs to be online to run it. For example I've had many a complaint that my Ajax examples don't work offline or without running a localhost. Obviously I failed to explain that Ajax is meant to work over HTTP.
- List what is needed – say what your specs are, f.e. “needs PHP5 with cURL and imageMagick” or “Firefox 3.5, Opera 9 or Safari 4 needed”.
- Provide a simple test script that checks for the right setup. (For an example see the test file for GeoMaker).
- Provide a developer key for the demo – but make it obvious to tell people that to implement your code they'd need an own key. Provide a link where to apply for one.
You won't be able to predict all things people can do wrong when implementing your code but these are some good ways of preventing frustration. Which brings me to a very important part of code examples: allowing for copy and paste.
Write working copy and paste code
Copy and paste is probably the most used way of learning code. You can write documentation until your fingers bleed, but the biggest use case is that developers will check a code example, copy and paste it, fiddle around with it until they get stuck and then start reading the docs.
Therefore it is immensely important to write very good copy and paste examples. Any bad coding habit you add in your code will be copied and become part of a live implementation.
Copy and paste examples that don't work are not only useless but also disastrous to your reputation and very frustrating for implementers. Therefore make sure that the following points are covered:
- Link all resources – point images, CSS and script resources to web locations rather than linking them locally or relative. People will copy the code and paste it in a local HTML file and not download the dependencies.
- Provide the full script upfront – people will copy and paste chunks of a script and complain that they don't work without realising that other parts are missing.
- Validate and secure your code – copy and paste code needs to be excellent as in many cases it will be what people use. Make sure your code plays well with other code and doesn't cause any warnings or errors.
Tip: The best way to keep code examples and code in sync is to generate the code from the source comments. I've written a PHP script that does that for me called Tutorialbuilder which automatically applies some of the tips here.
Have the example as a download
Providing the demo code for download as a zip file should be one of the first things you do in your example. You can ask readers to download, unpack it and code along with you (this works well with screencasts and video tutorials).
In any case it keeps your article in the mind of the readers as they have something on their hard drives reminding them of it.
Offering a zipped version of your demo code can be annoying as every change means you have to re-pack the demos. Luckily by using a hosted code solution like GitHub this job is done for you automatically.
Write clean and clever examples
Again, I cannot stress enough that your code examples should be the cleanest and cleverest code you ever write.
It is very tempting to show a quick and dirty solution to get people going and earn immediate kudos for creating the shortest code ever but this is what coders do to impress each other and not what evangelists do.
You want to show how to write excellent solutions with the product you evangelise and every shortcut you take will be copied and taken as an excuse not to write excellent code in live projects. This is not what we are here for.
Build code generators
A very nice touch to add to a solution are code generators that allow implementers to just add some parameters, hit a button and get the code they wanted. This is amazingly powerful.
Example: Probably the most impressive example of this is Dav Glass' Grids Builder which made it dead easy for people to use the YUI grids without needing to learn all the class names and IDs. Another success I had lately was GeoMaker showing off the power of Placemaker.
The only danger there is that some people will never bother learning the real implementation tricks, but on the other hand these readers are not likely to do that anyways. In any case you'll get a lot more people look at the product. | <urn:uuid:6a4d027e-a2af-4dd1-a68d-e6be57da379a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://developer-evangelism.com/code.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00010-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94659 | 1,420 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Lee Marvin was one of the quintessential movie tough guys -- an actor who could not only act the part, but one who'd lived it. The gravelly-voiced performer was a Marine sniper during World War II and was shot by machine gun fire during the Battle of Saipan (a battle where most of his platoon died ... ). He was discharged with a Purple Heart. It's hard to imagine any of today's movie tough guys doing things like that, which is just one of the reasons why I miss Lee Marvin and his performances so much.
Known primarily for war movies and action films, Marvin forged a lengthy Hollywood career thanks to his talent, no-nonsense demeanor, and intimidating presence. Standing 6'2" tall with white hair and a glare that could make paint wither and fall off the wall, Marvin was the quintessential man's man. He was the kind of guy who'd turn down the role of Quint in Steven Spielberg's 'Jaws' because he didn't think his deep sea fishing buddies would ever respect him again after seeing him fight a rubber Great White Shark. Lee was the kind of guy who'd have gone out and caught the real thing. | <urn:uuid:623dc272-d3f3-4cae-bff5-767f9c78248a> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.moviefone.com/2010/09/21/actors-we-miss-lee-marvin/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720962.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00386-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987053 | 240 | 1.921875 | 2 |
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