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F or much of my childhood and early adulthood, there was little I enjoyed more than reading. I learned to read very early, inspired by my parents’ nightly ritual of reading the newspaper. I wanted to know why they spent so much time reading those large, noisy pages.
This made the transition into school pretty smooth. And there was a library there! I devoured science and Judy Blume books alike. When I got bored with the daily neighborhood kickball games played in the street in front of my house, I would grab a book and sit under the tree in our front yard, happy as can be.
Through middle school and high school, books were my main source of self-education; no computer searches in those days! I was hopelessly inept at advanced math, but I was happy to tackle anything on the suggested reading lists. If my friends were busy, I would ride my bike to our community library, scouring obscure reference books and other volumes.
In high school, I decided on journalism as a potential career because I figured it was the only way I would be able to find work in the art of putting words together. Years later, when I was finally employed in the field, I volunteered as a reading tutor. I couldn’t imagine not having the skills that are so important for navigating the real world, yet alone those that fueled my vast inner world.
For several years, I worked with an older gentleman. He could not read the labels on his heart medication bottles, but he was a hard worker and a proud grandfather. He wanted to be a role model for his kids and grandkids. Boy, was he! By the time we ended our collaboration, this man had learned to read his mail, the signs he saw while driving, and the ingredients in his food.
He had changed his life by learning skills that he had not had the chance to learn when he was young—skills most of us take for granted. Although he died long ago, I think of him often and consider my hours spent helping him to be some of the most enriching of my life.
The patience I honed as a tutor came in handy when I became a parent. There was much less time for me to engage in my own love of books, and my focus turned to making sure my kids became readers. With my older son, I thought I had succeeded. I read to him as much as I could, and soon he was bringing books with him everywhere he went. As a preschooler, his nap times evolved into quiet reading times.
My second son was much less enthralled with reading. He had a few favorites (thank goodness for Stella Luna and Where the Wild Things Are). But he was rarely, if ever, one to pick up a book to amuse himself. He was more of a small car or Lego guy, always wanting to move his hands, or re-enact something going on in his curious mind.
And learning to read was not a priority for him when he started school. My son’s early elementary years were peppered with “serious” talks with teachers and reading specialists. During those years, I would spend my evenings trying to help my son strengthen his reading skills. Several of his summers included reading “camps” at local colleges.
Thankfully, some the more creative educators he encountered supported and broadened his interest in science and nature. They, as I had, steered him toward non-fiction books and encouraged him to practice applying the information he read by creating projects. We still have some posters that he made during those years: One, a blood-tinged opus comparing salt and freshwater sharks, still hangs in our house. These projects ended up being good preparation for the critical reading skills children are now required to show on Common Core tests.
These days, my older son reads little for fun—unless a computer or smartphone is involved. But his honors English class ensures he spends many nights immersed in the classics.
My younger son has finally learned that, while reading may never be his first choice of activity, he can now tackle his grade-level assignments with confidence. He has also continued the nightly reading ritual required by teachers during the school year.
My heart still sinks if, say, I decide to make an unplanned stop at my favorite used bookstore and he is with me. Inevitably, I’ll hear the groans, tinged with panic. The sheer disappointment in his voice puzzles me, and reminds me that not everyone has that deep-down passion for books.
This is, after all, the guy who walks around with a field guide when we visit the seashore or go on long hikes. He has obviously found where reading fits into his life—just not the same place it does in mine.
I, too, read less than I used to for my own interests. And I accept that my guys do not need the same kind of retreat a good book gives me. But my day job, as a special education teaching assistant, now sometimes includes helping students get closer to reaching their own potential in reading.
There is, usually, a lot of ground for these young people to make up, and there are many things that make each student different. But I have the benefit of hindsight to know that when it comes to reading, it’s worth not giving up.[fbcomments url="" width="100%" count="on"] | <urn:uuid:66bf498e-b1dc-4502-aff9-b14fc12ca4de> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://familytimescny.com/2016/06/01/my-relationship-with-reading-has-evolved-over-the-years/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.990141 | 1,113 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Billingsley Family in America
Anyone doing research on the Billingsley family needs to check out the book,"Billingsley Family in America" by Harry A. Davis, published in 1936.
This book is invaluable to any Billingsley researcher and is often called the "holy grail" for Billingsley research.
I was lucky to have my mother actually named in the book and from her & my grandmother, I could trace my ancestors all the way back to England and beyond.
This book has helped in my research very much. It gives great starting points for further research. From this book, I have found relatives I didn't know about and some that I did.
From further research I've done, I have been able to find pictures of some of my ancestors homes that are still standing; both in the USA and in England. I also learned about the Billingsley family reunion trip to England that is held each year.
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On June 1, the Internal Revenue Service will close the comment period for its controversial proposed rule on uncertain tax positions. As written, the proposal would require companies to disclose how much they keep in reserve to cover the possibility that the IRS or state tax officials might disallow certain tax treatments. The proposal would also force companies to itemize or describe the tax positions, which essentially would create trails leading IRS auditors to aggressive tax schemes.
The proposal is just one of the measures recently taken by the U.S. government to curb corporate use of abusive tax structures to avoid paying taxes. For instance, audit firm Grant Thornton points out that Congress just passed legislation that changes the rules and increases the associated penalties for transactions that lack economic substance.
On the international front, there has been a rise in so-called simultaneous audits, the tax-return exams in which the United States shares taxpayer information with another government under a bilateral tax treaty. Also, this country is partnering with others through the Washington-based Joint International Tax Shelter Information Center to shut down abusive tax-evasion schemes.
Yet a new survey by Grant Thornton of nearly 500 CFOs and controllers from U.S.-based companies says a sizable majority of corporate tax departments are less concerned with aggressive tax planning than with “timely and accurate tax return and financial reporting.” The attitudes expressed in the survey paint a “very different picture” of business than what recent government actions suggest, say officials at Grant Thornton, which polled the executives during the second quarter.
Of those surveyed about their top tax priority, 41% listed timely and accurate tax-return preparation and compliance, and 21% cited timely and accurate financial reporting. Just 16% of financial executives said their top priority was tax savings or deferrals, while 12% ranked overall effective tax rate as the top concern. Ten percent said their top tax priority was accurate tax risk assessment and appropriate management.
“The survey confirms what we’ve known for a long time,” said Randy Robason, Grant Thornton’s national partner in charge of tax accounting and risk advisory services, in a statement. “Businesses don’t want to pay any more than they have to, but their first priority is always getting it right.”
More than half (54%) of the executives surveyed work at publicly traded companies, with 44% of those businesses generating $1 billion or more in annual revenues and 46% reporting revenues of between $100 million and $1 billion.
The survey also found that 63% of the respondents believed their aggregate state effective tax rates will increase during the coming year. Nevertheless, 69% asserted that their companies are not taking action in anticipation of a federal tax-rate change. However, for the 31% that are taking action, 34% are reorganizing their business structures, 25% are acquiring capital assets, 19% are dumping capital assets, 23% are accelerating dividend payments, and 13% are modifying terms on installment sales. (Respondents could select more than one answer.)
In the realm of international tax, 31% of the respondents were most concerned with the overall global compliance burden associated with tax, while transfer pricing and repatriation of offshore earnings were the top concerns of 28% and 21% of the executives, respectively. Fourteen percent were most worried about risk management in developing countries, and 5% were anxious about merger and acquisition transactions.
As for international tax proposals being floated by the White House, 75% of the respondents said they are not taking any action. But for the quarter of executives who plan to prepare for some sort of change in international tax rules, 36% will repatriate cash, 35% will reorganize international operations, 33% expect to work on foreign tax-credit planning, and 24% will make supply-chain changes. | <urn:uuid:9e59d5aa-ae10-4596-b861-d7c6d8ec4ea6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://ww2.cfo.com/accounting-tax/2010/05/tax-sticklers-not-schemers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00043-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96758 | 778 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Food for the Soul
When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. Genesis 28:11
The Torah portion for this week, Vayeitzei, which means "and he left," is from Genesis 28:10-32:3, and the Haftorah is from Hosea 11:7-12:14.
How many meals do you eat a day? Most nutritionists recommend eating three square meals a day - breakfast, lunch, and dinner. In Judaism, the Jewish sages recommend three prayer sessions every day shacharit (morning prayer), mincha (afternoon prayer), and ma'ariv (evening prayer). Like food is to the body, prayer is to the soul.
The sages teach that each of these prayers was instituted by one of the three patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. They further explain that each prayer speaks to a different time in our day and in our lives, and each reflects a characteristic of the patriarch who initiated it.
For example, the morning prayer, instituted by Abraham, can be traced to Genesis 19:27: "Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD." Morning prayer represents the times in our lives that are sunny and bright. We are thankful for what we have and hopeful for what the future will bring. We are used to turning to God in prayer when things seem bleak, but Abraham teaches us to pray to God when life is going well.
The afternoon prayer has its source in the life of Isaac: "He went out to the field one evening to meditate . . ." (Genesis 24:63). The afternoon is a busy time when we commonly are "in the field" - out in the world, doing our various jobs. However, Isaac, the patriarch who represents inner strength, teaches us that we must be strong and disconnect from the world for a few moments of conversation with God while we are "in the field." We can never be too busy to pray, only too busy not to pray. A few words to God go a long way when we are in the thick of things.
Finally, in this week's Torah reading, Jacob introduces us to evening prayer: "When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set" (Genesis 28:11). The sages teach that this verse's hidden meaning is that Jacob prayed at that "certain place," which he later discovered was the holy site of Mount Moriah, "because the sun had set." It was night, a time of darkness and uncertainty. Jacob, the patriarch who experienced the most hardship and uncertainty in his life, models for us prayer during the darkest times of our lives.
Together, the three patriarchs teach us that for every time and every occasion, there is a prayer. Whether you pray three times a day or not, the idea is to pray to God throughout the day, in all types of situations. God is always listening and ready to answer our prayers - morning, noon, and night.
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If you didn’t read a whole lot of classics growing up, chances are you’re feeling a little worried about how to read them with your own children. If so, then this episode of the Read-Aloud Revival podcast is for you.
Click that play button below to hear the podcast!
Books from this episode:
Links from today’s show:
- If your kids finished the May 31-Day Challenge, register for prizes here!
- Gail’s book: Timeline of Classics
- Jim Weiss on Episode 4 and Episode 5
- Adam Andrews on Episode 2
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Teaching the Classics by Adam and Missy Andrews
- Teaching Writing: Structure and Style
- Jim Hodges audio books
- The Timeline of Classics website
- Tarzan of the Apes audio
- Frankenstein read by Jim Weiss
- The RAR Booklist
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You can start with MLB itself. There were four divisions -- two in each league -- and a total of 26 teams, the game having already gone through several waves of expansion, the most recent one being in 1977, when the Toronto Blue Jays and Seattle Mariners joined the American League.
People were watching a new TV hit, "Seinfeld," grooving to Nirvana, jaw-dropping to Sharon Stone in "Basic Instinct," buying cars for an average of $16,000, and saying goodbye to Johnny Carson.
A gallon of milk ($2.78) cost more than twice as much as a gallon of gas ($1.13) -- but, to the best of anyone's recollection, Detroit was not looking into developing an engine fueled by milk.
One thing people were not doing was using cell phones. Well, not without some weight-training first. And the irony is, in those days they were called mobile phones.
People wanted something to carry in their pockets, not their backpacks. Motorola's first flip phone was introduced in '92 -- and could be pre-ordered for $3,500.
As for mobile-phone usage, the typical monthly plan was priced at $29.95 -- and gave you a whopping 30 minutes of talk. After that ... ka-ching!
A personal computer with 8 megabytes of memory and a 60-MB hard drive went for $2,800. Needed only a storage upgrade? You could get a 125-MB upgrade for $349.
(Now, eight gigs come on a keychain for the price of a good cup of coffee.)
Miley Cyrus was born.
Bill Clinton was elected president.
Red Barber passed away.
TWA went bankrupt.
Los Angeles rioted, over Rodney King.
Magic Johnson came out of HIV-forced retirement to join Team USA's first Dream Team for the Barcelona Olympics.
The most-recent version of Windows was 3.1.
And, most obviously, Barry Bonds threw from left field to Mike LaValliere, but Sid Bream slid in safe and the Pirates slid out of focus for 21 years.
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Facility management associations and professionals on six different continents celebrated the contributions facility management makes to international business and the built environment during the third annual World FM Day on June 23, 2011.
Global Facility Management Association (Global FM) member organizations and others held public events around the world to recognize the important role facilities management plays in business strategy, organizational development, and environmental sustainability. Activities included governmental partnerships, public information campaigns, networking events, seminars and workshops, luncheons, award presentations, and social media outreach.
Participating international associations including the Associação Brasileira de Facilities (ABRAFAC), the Association des Directeurs et Responsables de Services Généraux (ARSEG), the British Institute of Facilities Management (BIFM), the European Facility Management Network (EuroFM), the Facility Management Association of Australia (FMA Australia), the Hungarian Facility Management Society (HFMS), the International Facility Management Association (IFMA), the International Facility Management Institute of India (IFMI), the Middle East Facility Management Association (MEFMA), and the South African Facilities Management Association (SAFMA).
During the World FM Day 2011 celebration, the second annual Global FM Awards for Excellence in Facilities Management were announced. These awards recognize efforts by individuals or teams in the FM industry who made a positive contribution to the knowledge, application, and communication of strategies to promote sustainability and improve the work environment.
The 2011 Platinum Award for Excellence in FM went to BBC Workplace, the unit responsible for the British Broadcasting Corporation’s corporate property portfolio. BBC Workplace was recognized for creating an innovative solution for operating large property portfolios at multiple sites.
The Gold Award for Excellence in FM was presented to MITIE Facilities Management. The focus of the award entry was on the “Passengers with Reduced Mobility” (PRM) technology developed by MITIE Facilities Management for London Luton Airport. This technology improves services to a group of passengers for whom travel can be challenging.
The Silver Award for Excellence in FM recipient was Hines Gerenciamento de Propriedades for the Hines Green Office Programme. This voluntary program is a global initiative that focuses on bringing eco-efficiency already worked into its constructions to administrative offices.
Teena Shouse, Global FM chair, stated “It was hard to stay focused last Thursday, World FM Day, as I was teaching a class at IFMA HQ in Houston, TX. I kept wanting to sneak a peek at the Tweets or check the different event links across the globe. There is so much for us to be proud of related to this event….However you spent World FM Day, I hope it was a good experience for you. Between now and World FM Day 2012, let’s work together to create additional opportunities to raise the awareness of the value we bring to our organizations, network to improve our operations, and continue to grow as FM professionals. Thank you to everyone who supported the World FM Day efforts.” | <urn:uuid:08cc3e9e-5434-4750-8a66-f4888ce3a154> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://facilityexecutive.com/2011/06/recap-world-fm-day-2011/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00066.warc.gz | en | 0.930297 | 609 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Find such that in . Find such that in .
Note that . Using Theorem 9.3, it suffices to find an element and an ideal such that and . To that end, note that factors into prime ideals as , with distinct factors , , and . Let , , and . Now let , , and . Evidently, , , and , and . Following the proof of Theorem 9.3, let . Then . Indeed, we have , , and .
We first need to find an ideal such that . In a previous exercise we found that is such an ideal. Next we wish to find the prime factorization of . To this end, we note that (since ).
Claim: is proper. Proof of claim: Suppose to the contrary that this ideal contains 1. THen we have , so that and . This leads to a contradiction mod 3, so that is proper.
Claim: is maximal. Proof of claim: Let , and say and where and . Mod , we have . Now mod . Thus and . In particular, . Now since this ideal is proper, and so also . If , then , a contradiction. So is a field, and thus is maximal.
We can show very similarly that is proper and also maximal. Here we can show that .
Thus we have the prime factorization of , with distinct factors and . Let and . We see that and .
Next we find and such that . By our proof of Theorem 9.2, it suffices to exhibit , and likewise for . Noting that , we see that and are such elements. Let . By the proof of Theorem 9.3 in TAN, .
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The one who created the intelligence legend that was Lee Harvey Oswald might lead us to the men behind the death of President Kennedy.
There has been much controversy over the guilt or innocence of Lee Harvey Oswald in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Now, prepare for more controversy as New York Times Best-selling author Jim Marrs and award-winning photo analyst Jack White take you on a mind bending tour of evidence indicating that more than one Oswald existed in 1963.
See for yourself the inconsistencies within government records and examples of impersonation. Laced with dramatic reenactments, this documentary presents a wide array of documents and photographs that will leave you wondering who was the man killed by Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby two days after the JFK assassination. | <urn:uuid:f86ad50b-a69b-4e9c-9ba6-c6a2eb696963> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-many-faces-of-lee-harvey-oswald/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00399-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948896 | 152 | 1.671875 | 2 |
NIMs are constructed of periodic basic parts called unit cells, which are usually significantly smaller than the wavelength of the externally applied electromagnetic radiation. The unit cells of the first experimentally investigated NIMs were constructed from circuit board material, or in other words, wires and dielectrics. And in general, these artificially constructed cells are stacked or planar and configured in a particular repeated pattern to compose the individual NIM. For instance, the unit cells of the first NIMs were stacked horizontally and vertically, resulting in a pattern that was repeated and intended (see below images).
Specifications for the response of each unit cell are predetermined prior to construction and are based on the intended response of the entire, newly constructed, material. In other words, each cell is individually tuned to respond in a certain way, based on the desired output of the NIM. The aggregate response is mainly determined by each unit cell's geometry and substantially differs from the response of its constituent materials. In other words, the way the NIM responds is that of a new material, unlike the wires or metals and dielectrics it is made from. Hence, the NIM has become an effective medium. Also, in effect, this metamaterial has become an “ordered macroscopic material, synthesized from the bottom up”, and has emergent properties beyond its components.
Metamaterials that exhibit a negative value for the refractive index are often referred to by any of several terminologies: left-handed media or left-handed material (LHM), backward-wave media (BW media), media with negative refractive index, double negative (DNG) metamaterials, and other similar names.
- 1 Properties and characteristics
- 2 Materials
- 3 Applications
- 4 Manipulating permittivity and permeability
- 5 Physical properties never before produced in nature
- 6 Isotropic negative index in two dimensions
- 7 Experimental verification of a negative index of refraction
- 8 Negative refraction at visible frequencies
- 9 Experimental verification of reversed Cherenkov radiation
- 10 Other optics with NIMs
- 11 Implications of negative refractive materials
- 12 US patent on left-handed composite media
- 13 Anomalous dispersion
- 14 Institutional research
- 15 See also
- 16 Notes
- 17 References
- 18 Further reading
- 19 External links
Properties and characteristics
Electrodynamics of media with negative-index of refraction were first studied by a Russian theorist Victor Veselago in 1967. The proposed left-handed or negative-index materials were theorized to exhibit optical properties opposite to those of glass, air, and other transparent media. Such materials were predicted to exhibit counterintuitive properties like bending or refracting light in unusual and unexpected ways. However, the first practical metamaterial was not constructed until 33 years later and it does produce Veselago's concepts.
Currently, negative-index metamaterials are being developed to manipulate electromagnetic radiation in new ways. For example, optical and electromagnetic properties of natural materials are often altered through chemistry. With metamaterials, optical and electromagnetic properties can be engineered by changing the geometry of its unit cells. The unit cells are materials that are ordered in geometric arrangements with dimensions that are fractions of the wavelength of the radiated electromagnetic wave. Each artificial unit responds to the radiation from the source. The collective result is the material's response to the electromagnetic wave that is broader than normal.
Subsequently, transmission is altered by adjusting the shape, size, and configurations of the unit cells. This results in control over material parameters known as permittivity and magnetic permeability. These two parameters (or quantities) determine the propagation of electromagnetic waves in matter. Therefore, controlling the values of permittivity and permeability means that the refractive index can be negative or zero as well as conventionally positive. It all depends on the intended application or desired result. So, optical properties can be expanded beyond the capabilities of lenses, mirrors, and other conventional materials. Additionally, one of the effects most studied is the negative index of refraction.
When a negative index of refraction occurs, propagation of the electromagnetic wave is reversed. Resolution below the diffraction limit becomes possible. This is known as subwavelength imaging. Transmitting a beam of light via an electromagnetically flat surface is another capability. In contrast, conventional materials are usually curved, and cannot achieve resolution below the diffraction limit. Also, reversing the electromagnetic waves in a material, in conjunction with other ordinary materials (including air) could result in minimizing losses that would normally occur.
Furthermore, negative-index materials are customized composites. In other words, materials are combined with a desired result in mind. Combinations of materials can be designed to achieve optical properties not seen in nature. The properties of the composite material stem from its lattice structure constructed from components smaller than the impinging electromagnetic wavelength separated by distances that are also smaller than the impinging electromagnetic wavelength. Likewise, by fabricating such metamaterials researchers are trying to overcome fundamental limits tied to the wavelength of light. The unusual and counter intuitive properties currently have practical and commercial use manipulating electromagnetic microwaves in wireless and communication systems. Lastly, research continues in the other domains of the electromagnetic spectrum, including visible light.
The first actual metamaterials worked in the microwave regime, or centimeter wavelengths, of the electromagnetic spectrum (about 4.3 GHz). It was constructed of split-ring resonators and conducting straight wires (as unit cells). The unit cells were sized from 7 to 10 millimeters. The unit cells were arranged in a two-dimensional (periodic) repeating pattern which produces a crystal-like geometry. Both, the unit cells and the lattice spacing were smaller than the radiated electromagnetic wave. This produced the first left-handed material when both the permittivity and permeability of the material were negative. This system relies on the resonant behavior of the unit cells. Below a group of researchers develop an idea for a left handed metamaterial that does not rely on such resonant behavior.
Research in the microwave range continues with split-ring resonators and conducting wires. Research also continues in the shorter wavelengths with this configuration of materials and the unit cell sizes are scaled down. However, at around 200 terahertz issues arise which make using the split ring resonator problematic. "Alternative materials become more suitable for the terahertz and optical regimes." At these wavelengths selection of materials and size limitations become important. For example, in 2007 a 100 nanometer mesh wire design made of silver and woven in a repeating pattern transmitted beams at the 780 nanometer wavelength, the far end of the visible spectrum. The researchers believe this produced a negative refraction of 0.6. Nevertheless, this operates at only a single wavelength like its predecessor metamaterials in the microwave regime. Hence, the challenges are to fabricate metamaterials so that they "refract light at ever-smaller wavelengths" and to develop broad band capabilities.
In the metamaterial literature, medium or media refers to transmission medium or optical medium. In 2002 a group of researchers came up with the idea that in contrast to materials that depended on resonant behavior, non-resonant phenomena could surpass narrow bandwidth constraints of the wire/split-ring resonator configuration. This idea translated into a type of medium with broader bandwidth abilities, negative refraction, backward waves, and focusing beyond the diffraction limit.
They dispensed with split-ring-resonators and instead used a network of L–C loaded transmission lines. In the metamaterial literature this became known as artificial transmission-line media. At that time it had the added advantage of being more compact than a unit made of wires and split ring resonators. The network was both scalable (from the megahertz to the tens of gigahertz range) and tunable. It also includes a method for focusing the wavelengths of interest. By 2007 the negative refractive index transmission line was employed as a subwavelength focusing free-space flat lens. That this is a free-space lens is a significant advance. Part of prior research efforts targeted creating a lens that did not need to be embedded in a transmission line.
The optical domain
Metamaterial components shrink as research explores shorter wavelengths (higher frequencies) of the electromagnetic spectrum in the infrared and visible spectrums. For example, theory and experiment have investigated smaller horseshoe shaped split ring resonators designed with lithographic techniques, as well as paired metal nanorods or nanostrips, and nanoparticles as circuits designed with lumped element models
The science of negative-index materials is being matched with conventional devices that broadcast, transmit, shape, or receive electromagnetic signals that travel over cables, wires, or air. The materials, devices and systems that are involved with this work could have their properties altered or heightened. Hence, this is already happening with metamaterial antennas and related devices which are commercially available. Moreover, in the wireless domain these metamaterial apparatuses continue to be researched. Other applications are also being researched. These are electromagnetic absorbers such as radar-microwave absorbers, electrically small resonators, waveguides that can go beyond the diffraction limit, phase compensators, advancements in focusing devices (e.g. microwave lens), and improved electrically small antennas.
In the optical frequency regime developing the superlens may allow for imaging below the diffraction limit. Other potential applications for negative-index metamaterials are optical nanolithography, nanotechnology circuitry, as well as a near field superlens (Pendry, 2000) that could be useful for biomedical imaging and subwavelength photolithography.
Manipulating permittivity and permeability
To describe any electromagnetic properties of a given material such as an optical lens, two significant parameters should be noted. These are permittivity, ε, and permeability, μ, which could allow for accurate prediction of light waves traveling within materials, and electromagnetic phenomena that occur at the surface between two materials (interface).
For example, refractive index is an electromagnetic phenomenon which occurs at the surface (or interface) between two materials. Snell's law states that the relationship between the radiated angle of incidence, and the resulting refracted angle of transmission, rests on the refractive index, n, of the two media (materials). Mathematics provides a visualization with . Hence, it can be seen that the behavior of the refractive index is dependent on the association of these two parameters, as well as their quantitative values. Therefore, if designed or arbitrarily modified values can be inputs for ε, and, μ then the behavior of propagating electromagnetic waves inside the material can be manipulated at will. This ability then allows for intentional determination of the refractive index.
For example, in 1967, Victor Veselago analytically determined that light will refract in the reverse direction (negatively) at the interface between a material with negative refractive index and a material exhibiting conventional refractive index. This extraordinary material was realized on paper with simultaneous negative values for ε, and, μ, and could therefore be termed a double negative material. However, in Veselago's day a material which exhibits double negative parameters simultaneously seemed impossible because no natural materials exist which can produce this effect. Therefore, his work was ignored for three decades.
In general the physical properties of natural materials cause limitations. Most dielectrics only have positive permittivities, ε > 0 . Metals will exhibit negative permittivity, ε < 0 at optical frequencies, and plasmas exhibit negative permittivity values in certain frequency bands. Pendry et al. demonstrated that the plasma frequency can be made to occur in the lower microwave frequencies for metals with a material made of metal rods that replaces the bulk metal. However, in each of these cases permeability remains always positive. At microwave frequencies it is possible for negative μ to occur in some ferromagnetic materials. But the inherent drawback is they are difficult to find above terahertz frequencies. In any case, a natural material that can achieve negative values for permittivity and permeability simultaneously has not been found or discovered. Hence, all of this has led to constructing artificial composite materials known as metamaterials in order to achieve the desired results.
Physical properties never before produced in nature
These papers, along with Veselago's 1967 theoretical analysis of the properties of negative-index materials, provided the background to fabricate a metamaterial with negative effective permittivity and permeability. See below.
A metamaterial developed to exhibit negative-index behavior is typically formed from individual components. Each component responds differently and independently to a radiated electromagnetic wave as it travels through the material. Since these components are smaller than the radiated wavelength it is understood that a macroscopic view includes an effective value for both permittivity and permeability.
In the year 2000, David R. Smith's team of UCSD researchers produced a new class of composite materials by depositing a structure onto a circuit-board substrate consisting of a series of thin copper split-rings and ordinary wire segments strung parallel to the rings. This material exhibited unusual physical properties that had never been observed in nature. These materials obey the laws of physics, but behave differently from normal materials. In essence these negative-index metamaterials were noted for having the ability to reverse many of the physical properties that govern the behavior of ordinary optical materials. One of those unusual properties is the ability to reverse, for the first time, Snell's law of refraction. Until the demonstration of negative refractive index for microwaves by the UCSD team, the material had been unavailable. Advances during the 1990s in fabrication and computation abilities allowed these first metamaterials to be constructed. Thus, the "new" metamaterial was tested for the effects described by Victor Veselago 30 years earlier. Studies of this experiment, which followed shortly thereafter, announced that other effects had occurred.
With antiferromagnets and certain types of insulating ferromagnets, effective negative magnetic permeability is achievable when polariton resonance exists. To achieve a negative index of refraction, however, permittivity with negative values must occur within the same frequency range. The artificially fabricated split-ring resonator is a design that accomplishes this, along with the promise of dampening high losses. With this first introduction of the metamaterial, it appears that the losses incurred were smaller than antiferromagnetic, or ferromagnetic materials.
When first demonstrated in 2000, the composite material (NIM) was limited to transmitting microwave radiation at frequencies of 4 to 7 gigahertz (4.28-7.49 cm wavelengths). This range is between the frequency of household microwave ovens (~2.45 GHz, 12.23 cm) and military radars (~10 GHz, 3 cm). At demonstrated frequencies, pulses of electromagnetic radiation moving through the material in one direction are composed of constituent waves moving in the opposite direction.
The metamaterial was constructed as a periodic array of copper split ring and wire conducting elements deposited onto a circuit-board substrate. The design was such that the cells, and the lattice spacing between the cells, were much smaller than the radiated electromagnetic wavelength. Hence, it behaves as an effective medium. The material has become notable because its range of (effective) permittivity εeff and permeability μeff values have exceeded those found in any ordinary material. Furthermore, the characteristic of negative (effective) permeability evinced by this medium is particularly notable, because it has not been found in ordinary materials. In addition, the negative values for the magnetic component is directly related to its left-handed nomenclature, and properties (discussed in a section below). The split-ring resonator (SRR), based on the prior 1999 theoretical article, is the tool employed to achieve negative permeability. This first composite metamaterial is then composed of split-ring resonators and electrical conducting posts.
Initially, these materials were only demonstrated at wavelengths longer than those in the visible spectrum. In addition, early NIMs were fabricated from opaque materials and usually made of non-magnetic constituents. As an illustration, however, if these materials are constructed at visible frequencies, and a flashlight is shone onto the resulting NIM slab, the material should focus the light at a point on the other side. This is not possible with a sheet of ordinary opaque material. In 2007, the NIST in collaboration with the Atwater Lab at Caltech created the first NIM active at optical frequencies. More recently (as of 2008[update]), layered "fishnet" NIM materials made of silicon and silver wires have been integrated into optical fibers to create active optical elements.
Simultaneous negative permittivity and permeability
Negative permittivity εeff < 0 had already been discovered and realized in metals for frequencies all the way up to the plasma frequency, before the first metamaterial. There are two requirements to achieve a negative value for refraction. First, is to fabricate a material which can produce negative permeability μeff < 0. Second, negative values for both permittivity and permeability must occur simultaneously over a common range of frequencies.
Therefore, for the first metamaterial, the nuts and bolts are one split-ring resonator electromagnetically combined with one (electric) conducting post. These are designed to resonate at designated frequencies to achieve the desired values. Looking at the make-up of the split ring, the associated magnetic field pattern from the SRR is dipolar. This dipolar behavior is notable because this means it mimics nature's atom, but on a much larger scale, such as in this case at 2.5 millimeters. Atoms exist on the scale of picometers.
The splits in the rings create a dynamic where the SRR unit cell can be made resonant at radiated wavelengths much larger than the diameter of the rings. If the rings were closed, a half wavelength boundary would be electromagnetically imposed as a requirement for resonance.
The split in the second ring is oriented opposite to the split in the first ring. It is there to generate a large capacitance, which occurs in the small gap. This capacitance substantially decreases the resonant frequency while concentrating the electric field. The individual SRR depicted on the right had a resonant frequency of 4.845 GHz, and the resonance curve, inset in the graph, is also shown. The radiative losses from absorption and reflection are noted to be small, because the unit dimensions are much smaller than the free space, radiated wavelength.
When these units or cells are combined into a periodic arrangement, the magnetic coupling between the resonators is strengthened, and a strong magnetic coupling occurs. Properties unique in comparison to ordinary or conventional materials begin to emerge. For one thing, this periodic strong coupling creates a material, which now has an effective magnetic permeability μeff in response to the radiated-incident magnetic field.
Composite material passband
Graphing the general dispersion curve, a region of propagation occurs from zero up to a lower band edge, followed by a gap, and then an upper passband. The presence of a 400 MHz gap between 4.2 GHz and 4.6 GHz implies a band of frequencies where μeff < 0 occurs.
(Please see the image in the previous section)
Furthermore, when wires are added symmetrically between the split rings, a passband occurs within the previously forbidden band of the split ring dispersion curves. That this passband occurs within a previously forbidden region indicates that the negative εeff for this region has combined with the negative μeff to allow propagation, which fits with theoretical predictions. Mathematically, the dispersion relation leads to a band with negative group velocity everywhere, and a bandwidth that is independent of the plasma frequency, within the stated conditions.
Mathematical modeling and experiment have both shown that periodically arrayed conducting elements (non-magnetic by nature) respond predominantly to the magnetic component of incident electromagnetic fields. The result is an effective medium and negative μeff over a band of frequencies. The permeability was verified to be the region of the forbidden band, where the gap in propagation occurred - from a finite section of material. This was combined with a negative permittivity material, εeff < 0, to form a “left-handed” medium, which formed a propagation band with negative group velocity where previously there was only attenuation. This validated predictions. In addition, a later work determined that this first metamaterial had a range of frequencies over which the refractive index was predicted to be negative for one direction of propagation (see ref #). Other predicted electrodynamic effects were to be investigated in other research.
Describing a left-handed material
From the conclusions in the above section a left-handed material (LHM) can be defined. It is a material which exhibits simultaneous negative values for permittivity, ε, and permeability, μ, in an overlapping frequency region. Since the values are derived from the effects of the composite medium system as a whole, these are defined as effective permittivity, εeff, and effective permeability, μeff. Real values are then derived to denote the value of negative index of refraction, and wave vectors. This means that in practice losses will occur for a given medium used to transmit electromagnetic radiation such as microwave, or infrared frequencies, or visible light - for example. In this instance, real values describe either the amplitude or the intensity of a transmitted wave relative to an incident wave, while ignoring the negligible loss values.
Isotropic negative index in two dimensions
In the above sections first fabricated metamaterial was constructed with resonating elements, which exhibited one direction of incidence and polarization. In other words, this structure exhibited left-handed propagation in one dimension. This was discussed in relation to Veselago's seminal work 33 years earlier (1967). He predicted that intrinsic to a material, which manifests negative values of effective permittivity and permeability, are several types of reversed physics phenomena. Hence, there was then a critical need for a higher-dimensional LHMs to confirm Veselago's theory, as expected. The confirmation would include reversal of Snell's law (index of refraction), along with other reversed phenomena.
In the beginning of 2001 the existence of a higher-dimensional structure was reported. It was two-dimensional and demonstrated by both experiment and numerical confirmation. It was an LHM, a composite constructed of wire strips mounted behind the split-ring resonators (SRRs) in a periodic configuration. It was created for the express purpose of being suitable for further experiments to produce the effects predicted by Veselago.
Experimental verification of a negative index of refraction
A theoretical work in published in 1967 by Soviet physicist Victor Veselago showed that a refractive index with negative values is possible and that this does not violate the laws of physics. As discussed previously (above), the first metamaterial had a range of frequencies over which the refractive index was predicted to be negative for one direction of propagation. It was reported in May 2000.
In 2001, a team of researchers constructed a prism composed of metamaterials (negative-index metamaterials) to experimentally test for negative refractive index. The experiment used a waveguide to help transmit the proper frequency and isolate the material. This test achieved its goal because it successfully verified a negative index of refraction.
The experimental demonstration of negative refractive index was followed by another demonstration, in 2003, of a reversal of Snell's law, or reversed refraction. However, in this experiment negative index of refraction material is in free space from 12.6 to 13.2 GHz. Although the radiated frequency range is about the same, a notable distinction is this experiment is conducted in free space rather than employing waveguides.
Furthering the authenticity of negative refraction, the power flow of a wave transmitted through a dispersive left-handed material was calculated and compared to a dispersive right-handed material. The transmission of an incident field, composed of many frequencies, from an isotropic nondispersive material into an isotropic dispersive media is employed. The direction of power flow for both nondispersive and dispersive media is determined by the time-averaged Poynting vector. Negative refraction was shown to be possible for multiple frequency signals by explicit calculation of the Poynting vector in the LHM.
Fundamental electromagnetic properties of the NIM
In a slab of conventional material with an ordinary refractive index – a right-handed material (RHM) – the wave front is transmitted away from the source. In a NIM the wavefront travels toward the source. However, the magnitude and direction of the flow of energy essentially remains the same in both the ordinary material and the NIM. Since the flow of energy remains the same in both materials (media), the impedance of the NIM matches the RHM. Hence, the sign of the intrinsic impedance is still positive in a NIM.
Light incident on a left-handed material, or NIM, will bend to the same side as the incident beam, and for Snell’s law to hold, the refraction angle should be negative. In a passive metamaterial medium this determines a negative real and imaginary part of the refractive index.
Negative refractive index in left-handed materials
In 1968 Victor Veselago's paper showed that the opposite directions of EM plane waves and the flow of energy was derived from the individual Maxwell curl equations. In ordinary optical materials, the curl equation for the electric field show a "right hand rule" for the directions of the electric field E, the magnetic induction B, and wave propagation, which goes in the direction of wave vector k. However, the direction of energy flow formed by E × H is right-handed only when permeability is greater than zero. This means that when permeability is less than zero, e.g. negative, wave propagation is reversed (determined by k), and contrary to the direction of energy flow. Furthermore, the relations of vectors E, H, and k form a "left-handed" system – and it was Veselago who coined the term "left-handed" (LH) material, which is in wide use today (2011). He contended that an LH material has a negative refractive index and relied on the steady-state solutions of Maxwell's equations as a center for his argument.
After a 30-year void, when LH materials were finally demonstrated, it could be said that the designation of negative refractive index is unique to LH systems; even when compared to photonic crystals. Photonic crystals, like many other known systems, can exhibit unusual propagation behavior such as reversal of phase and group velocities. But, negative refraction does not occur in these systems, and not yet realistically in photonic crystals.
Negative refraction at visible frequencies
As of July 2013[update], several anomalous studies have announced negative refraction at single frequencies in the visible spectrum, but the results of some of these demonstrations are considered ambiguous by later studies.
Experimental verification of reversed Cherenkov radiation
Besides reversed values for index of refraction, Veselago predicted the occurrence of reversed Cherenkov radiation (also known simply as CR) in a left-handed medium. In 1934 Pavel Cherenkov discovered a coherent radiation that occurs when certain types of media are bombarded by fast moving electron beams. In 1937 a theory built around CR stated that when charged particles, such as electrons, travel through a medium at speeds faster than the speed of light in the medium only then will CR radiate. As the CR occurs, electromagnetic radiation is emitted in a cone shape, fanning out in the forward direction.
CR and the 1937 theory has led to a large array of applications in high energy physics. A notable application are the Cherenkov counters. These are used to determine various properties of a charged particle such as its velocity, charge, direction of motion, and energy. These properties are important in the identification of different particles. For example, the counters were applied in the discovery of the antiproton and the J particle. Six large Cherenkov counters were used in the discovery of the J particle.
Other optics with NIMs
Theoretical work, along with numerical simulations, began in the early 2000s on the abilities of DNG slabs for subwavelength focusing. The research began with Pendry's proposed "Perfect lens." Several research investigations that followed Pendry's concluded that the "Perfect lens" was possible in theory but impractical. One direction in subwavelength focusing proceeded with the use of negative-index metamaterials, but based on the enhancements for imaging with surface plasmons. In another direction researchers explored paraxial approximations of NIM slabs.
Implications of negative refractive materials
The existence of negative refractive materials can result in a change in electrodynamic calculations for the case of permeability μ = 1 . A change from a conventional refractive index to a negative value gives incorrect results for conventional calculations, because some properties and effects have been altered. When permeability μ has values other than 1 this affects Snell's law, the Doppler effect, the Cherenkov radiation, Fresnel's equations, and Fermat's principle.
US patent on left-handed composite media
The first US patent granted for a fabricated metamaterial is U.S. Patent 6,791,432, titled "Left handed composite media." The listed inventors are David R. Smith, Sheldon Schultz, Norman Kroll, Richard A. Shelby.
The invention achieves simultaneous negative permittivity and permeability over a common band of frequencies. The material can integrate media which is already composite or continuous, but which will produce negative permittivity and permeability within the same spectrum of frequencies. Different types of continuous or composite may be deemed appropriate when combined for the desired effect. However, the inclusion of a periodic array of conducting elements is preferred. The array scatters electromagnetic radiation at wavelengths longer than the size of the element and lattice spacing. The array is then viewed as an effective medium.
The research in the field of Metamaterials has diffused out into the American government science research departments, including the US Naval Air Systems Command, US Air Force, and US Army. Many scientific institutions are involved including:
- California Institute of Technology
- University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
- Duke University
- Harvard University
- Helsinki University of Technology
- Iowa State University
- Imperial College London
- Max Planck Society
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
- University College London
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of California, Irvine
- University of California, Los Angeles
- University of California, San Diego
- University of Colorado
- University of Rochester
- Clemson University
- History of metamaterials
- Metamaterial cloaking
- Photonic metamaterials
- Metamaterial antenna
- Nonlinear metamaterials
- Photonic crystal
- Seismic metamaterials
- Split-ring resonator
- Acoustic metamaterials
- Metamaterial absorber
- Plasmonic metamaterials
- Terahertz metamaterials
- Tunable metamaterials
- Transformation optics
- Theories of cloaking
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Companies offering public tours of their manufacturing facilities include Harley-Davidson, Louisville Slugger, Gibson Guitars, Maker's Mark and Mack Trucks. Automobile manufacturing locations with public tours include BMW's factory in Spartanburg, South Carolina, the Bowling Green Corvette Plant in Kentucky and Mercedes-Benz's factory in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Other must-see public tours include the Ford Rouge Factory in Dearborn, Michigan, the Martin Guitar manufacturing facility in Nazarath, Pennsylvania, and the Boeing Company's plant in Everett, Washington.Continue Reading
Harley-Davidson public tours are available at its plants in York, Pennsylvania, and Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. Louisville Slugger tour participants leave with a mini-Slugger souvenir. During the Gibson Guitar factory tour in Memphis, participants watch luthiers bind, paint, buff and tune the instruments and as part of the Martin Guitar tour, visitors make a stop at the Pickin' Parlor, where they can play high-end and limited-edition guitars. Tours of the Mack Truck factory in Macungie, Pennslyvania, require 1.5 miles of walking and visitors can also view truck models from 1907 to 1973 on exhibit at the nearby Mack Museum in Allentown. The Maker's Mark Distillery is a National Historic landmark, and tour participants not only view the fermentation process, but watch while workers hand-dip the red wax bottle tops.
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Dr. Bill Warner is a scientist who’s collated considerable new archeological data that wasn’t previously recognized concerning the Islamic faith and culture. Based on that new data, he offers a new hypothesis concerning the fundamental nature and historical impact of Islam.
I don’t know that he’s right. As with any new hypothesis–especially one dealing with the fundamental nature of a religion–we’re all hesitant and even anxious about accepting radical new ideas as true. And rightfully so. Anyone who comes up with a new “big idea” has to expect that idea will be avoided, ignored, ridiculed and even attacked before it is (if ever) accepted. These attacks can be painful but they’re a good thing in that they “test” the new idea to see how much of it, if any, is true–and how much is false or idiotic.
Still, the fact that Dr. Warner’s radical hypothesis might be mistaken doesn’t prove that his ideas can’t be fundamentally correct.
I’m not suggesting that you or I should automatically believe Dr. Warner. For example, I don’t agree with his argument that the Christian psyche has been so badly bruised by Islamic jihad over the past centuries that we Christians are innately fearful of Islam. More, his rage (at either the weakness of Christians or the violence of Muslims) seems so palpable (to me, at least) that his presentation strikes me as a little disturbing. Even so, on the other hand, I believe that Dr. Warner offers some valuable and intriguing insights into what may be the fundamentally violent history and foundation for the Muslim faith.
Perhaps more than anything else, Dr. Warner hints that the true nature of most conflicts and warsthat have shaped both the Middle East and Europe over the past 1,000 years has been spiritual. For example, where history books teach that “Turks” fought and slaughtered “Armenians” in a “political” struggle, Dr. Warner argues that actually Turkish “Muslims” fought Armenian “Christians” in a spiritual/religious war. The conflict was not about Turks vs. Armenians. It was about Muslims vs. Christians. The same pattern may be seen in much of history where the recorded wars are presented to us as political conflicts between nation-states rather than spiritual conflicts between religions.
Among other things, Dr. Warner argues that the fall of Rome and Europe’s subsequent “Dark Ages” were, in large measure, the result of spiritual war waged by Muslims against Europeans rather than “political” invasions by the Huns.
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If you’re looking for a vacation in a place that will offer you a multi-cultural community and an environmental oasis, look no further than Limon province
in Costa Rica. Limon extends along the entire Caribbean coastline of Costa Rica, stretching some 125 miles from the border of Nicaragua all the way down to Panama.
Tourists in this region can experience the unique Afro-Caribbean culture
which offers a fun, laid back atmosphere without the hustle and bustle of some of the busier tourist locations in Costa Rica. When you visit Limon, you can plan to explore lush tropical rainforests
, relax on some of the whitest, most beautiful beaches in the country, and enjoy the vibrant, colorful rhythms and cuisines of the local towns and villages. Your nights can be spent under the stars at a bungalow resort, after you are worn out from a night of reggae dancing!
Why October is a Great Time to Visit Limon?
One of the events that Limon is famous for is its yearly carnival festival. This is a great time to visit the province and experience a wonderful, colorful event that will completely immerse a tourist into a fascinating and spectacular culture. The carnival features a parade, music and live performances, dancing, and food and is suitable for all ages. This also coincides with some of the best weather of the year, while the rest of Costa Rica has the most rain of the year, the Limon Province on the Caribbean coast has the least amount of rain for the year, making it for a great time to visit. The carnival festival is usually planned for October, so if you plan on visiting then, try to book your hotel well in advance to score the best deal.
Limon Hotels Offer Everything You Need
Limon offers a variety of hotels for your stay, no matter if you are a budget traveler or have unlimited funds. You can easily find hotels that are a skip away from white sand beaches and a short distance from national parks that offer a close-up look at the amazing Costa Rica habitat.
If you are looking for an eco-tourism destination, Limon should definitely be a contender. In the beaches and national parks, visitors can hike, canoe, swim, surf, bird watch and even visit reserves where the inhabitants’ lifestyle is still traditional. You can also check out Barra del Colorado National Refuge
, the Cahuita National Park
and the Gandoca Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge
; some of these parks even offer their own accommodations.
Map of Limon
Many towns on the province offer affordable accommodations. Tortuguero
is a great place to stay, as it offers lodges, Bed & Breakfast's, and all-inclusive resorts. Hotels here are often described as being a remote, peaceful slice of paradise. You can find cheap, shared living for a tight budget, or you can pay $100 or more a night to have your own private room. Don’t forget to visit the Tortuguero National Park
and look for accommodations next to the park that put you right where you want to be for exploring all the animals and forests.
You can head to the southern region of Limon to visit towns that offer the natural beauty of Costa Rica but aren’t too overrun with tourists. Vist Puerto Viejo
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EC finalizes agreement to purchase millions of doses of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine.
The European Commission (EC) has reached an agreement with AstraZeneca on purchasing 300 million doses of a potential COVID-19 vaccine, with the option to purchase 100 million more, on behalf of European Union member states.
As reported in an August 14, 2020 press release, the purchase of the AZD1222 vaccine doses will commence once safety and efficacy of the vaccine have been proven and will be financed through the Emergency Support Instrument. This agreement represents the first between the EC and a pharmaceutical company for a COVID-19 vaccine, and discussions with other vaccine manufacturers and the commission are ongoing.
“The EC’s intense negotiations continue to achieve results. Today's agreement is the first cornerstone in implementing the EC’s Vaccines Strategy,” said Ursula von der Leyen, president of the EC, in the press release. “This strategy will enable us to provide future vaccines to Europeans, as well as our partners elsewhere in the world.”
“Today, after weeks of negotiations, we have the first EU advance purchase agreement for a vaccine candidate. I would like to thank AstraZeneca for its constructive engagement on this important agreement for our citizens,” added Stella Kyriakides, commissioner for Health and Food Safety, in the press release. “We will continue to work tirelessly to bring more candidates into a broad EU vaccines portfolio. A safe and effective vaccine remains the surest exit strategy to protect our citizens and the rest of the world from the coronavirus.”
In an AstraZeneca press release on the agreement, Pascal Soriot, CEO of AstraZeneca, said, “This first vaccine agreement with the EC will ensure that millions of Europeans have access to the AZD1222 vaccine following its approval. With production in our European supply chain soon to be started, we hope to make the vaccine available widely and rapidly, with the first doses to be delivered by the end of 2020.” | <urn:uuid:d548f3f3-2a85-4614-b369-9d76f977a705> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.biopharminternational.com/view/ec-reaches-agreement-with-astrazeneca-on-purchase-of-covid-19-vaccine | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.924172 | 435 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Cooking together can be great bonding time for families, and the holidays offer so many fun opportunities. Chocolate-dipped pretzels, popcorn balls, decorated sugar cookies and gingerbread houses are just a few traditional kid-friendly projects.
Cooking with kids can also be educational. Counting mixing strokes or measuring ingredients use math skills. Following a recipe helps with reading and logic skills.
But, simply turning a few youngsters loose in the kitchen is bound to lead to chaos and frustration. Kids tend to be messy, and they can lose interest in the middle of a project. You don't always get picture-perfect results to show off to the neighbors. Also, the kitchen can be a danger zone of hot stoves and sharp knives.
It pays to have strategies and age-appropriate recipes to make cooking together an enjoyable experience for children and parents, and grandparents.
Ruth Kendrick, owner of Chocolot Artisan Chocolates in South Ogden, grew up learning the art of candymaking from her mother, Pauline Atkinson. The chocolate tradition has been handed down through the family. Her grown son, Ryan Kendrick, remembers dipping chocolates during the holiday season when he was a youngster. His mother made the candy centers ahead of time and the kids had fun covering them with the chocolate.
"I think family traditions are always good, and nothing is as inexpensive and readily available as food. And it's something that the kids can carry on with their own kids," Kendrick said. "Certain smells bring back holiday memories, such as wassail or chocolate."
An easy kid-friendly project, she said, would be to make the typical Rice Krispies/marshmallow mixture, spread it on a cookie sheet, and let kids cut it with cookie cutters. Kids can use frosting and candy to decorate the Rice Krispies treats. These take a lot less time than traditional sugar cookies that need to be mixed, rolled out, cut in shapes and baked.
This year, Kendrick's grandkids are decorating houses made of molded chocolate instead of gingerbread.
The houses will already be assembled so her grandkids (age 7 and under) will only have to decorate them. Often young kids get impatient when they have to attach the roof and walls, then wait for the frosting to harden. But if they start decorating too soon, the walls fall down and the roof caves in.
"The kids don't care about building it, they just want to decorate it, and eat candy while they're at it," said Kendrick.
Joy Sundloff of Kaysville uses graham crackers for her grandkids' gingerbread houses, and firmly attaches all the walls and roof with a hot glue gun ahead of time. The glue can be covered over with frosting, and the kids enjoy the creativity of decorating.
Donna Kelly, a prosecutor in the Utah Attorney General's office, grew up in a family where siblings had a nightly assigned cooking task. (Hers was making the salad.) The cooking experience paid off, as Kelly has written seven cookbooks and co-authors two different blogs. One, Apronstringsblog.com, is written with her daughter, Anne Tegtmeier, showcasing family recipes; the other is "Everyday Southwest" with her sister, Sandra Hoopes. Her most recent book, also co-authored with Hoopes, is "200 Appetizers" (Gibbs Smith).
Savory Herbed Popcorn, a recipe from "200 Appetizers," offers a change of pace from sweet treats. It also gives kids an opportunity to stir big bowls of popcorn, and can be used for neighbor gifts.
"Our family does a Pass Around Fudge where you place all the ingredients in a Ziplock bag and then pass it around and the kids squeeze it with their hands," said Kelly. "The heat of the hands 'melts' the ingredients and fudge forms. It's great fun for kids. And their little hands are warm and perfect for the job. It keeps them occupied and feeling like they're contributing to the cooking process."
MINTY MARSHMALLOW POPCORN CAKE
These are fun to make as gifts for neighbors or a favorite teacher. Borrow a few bundt pans so you can make more cakes while you wait for the first cake to cool.
Equipment needed: One bundt pan
4 quarts (16 cups) popped popcorn (it's better if you use air-popped, as the microwaveable popcorn will be greasy)
Nonstick cooking spray or butter
1/4 cup butter or 100 percent margarine
1 16-ounce package mini marshmallows
1 teaspoon mint extract (more for a strong mint flavor)
2-3 drops green food coloring
1-2 cups mix-ins such as gummy bears, M&Ms, peanuts, raisins or craisins
Sort through the popcorn and remove unpopped kernels as you place the popcorn in a large, wide mixing bowl.
Spray the inside of the bundt pan with cooking spray or rub it with butter.
Place the butter and marshmallows in a large mixing bowl.
Microwave on high for 1 minute. Remove from the microwave and stir. Microwave on high for 30 seconds and stir again. If marshmallows haven't completely melted, microwave another 30 seconds.
Stir in mint extract and food coloring.
Pour marshmallow mixture over the popcorn, and gently stir the popcorn until it is completely coated. Add some of the mix-ins, reserving about 1/4 to 1/2 cup.
Pour the mixture into the bundt pan and press the mixture down so that it becomes more compact.
Wait 30 minutes for the mixture to set. Turn the pan upside down on a plate and tap gently until cake releases. Finish decorating the cake with the remaining mix-ins. To serve, cut slices with a knife. To give as gifts, wrap tightly in plastic wrap and tie with a festive bow.
— Valerie Phillips
Tips for making holiday treats with kids
1. If you have more than three kids younger than age 8, have another adult or teen on hand to help supervise.
2. Don't attempt a complex project if you're in a hurry, super-tired or feeling irritable.
3. Divide and conquer. Consider mixing dough and freezing it one day, then baking and decorating on another day. Or instead of expecting them to help with the whole process, just assign pre-school age kids specific tasks, such as cracking the eggs and stirring them into the batter, or rolling cookie dough into balls.
4. Start with simple recipes with a quick pay-off, such as chocolate-dipped pretzels or Rice Krispies treats.
5. Choose age-appropriate tasks. Don't let your 4-year-old loose with a knife, for instance.
6. Kids should be covered with an apron or old clothing to protect against spills, with sleeves rolled up to keep them from dragging in batter or frosting.
7. Use a sturdy stool so kids can safely be part of the action.
8. If the child can read, have him or her read the recipe it aloud to you before you start. It's good reading practice, and helps you both to see if you have all the ingredients, equipment, time or patience to make the recipe.
9. Gather ingredients and equipment beforehand and place on a cookie sheet. As you use each one, replace in the cupboard or refrigerator until the cookie sheet is empty. This helps to keep you from leaving an ingredient out of the recipe.
10. Clean as you go. Kids need to learn that clean-up is part of the process, but it shouldn't be the emphasis.
11. Wash hands before and after handling foods. Parents should supervise use of knives and appliances.
12. Use thick, dry pot holders. Moisture will quickly scald the skin when heated.
13. Use caution when making candies, whether it's for toffee, peanut brittle, fudge or molded suckers. Involve the kids in stirring the sugar and other ingredients together before you crank up the heat. They can butter pans or arrange nuts on a cookie sheet for peanut brittle. But pouring out the boiling syrup is a task for adults or teens.
— Valerie Phillips
Valerie Phillips is the former Deseret News food editor and the author of "Soup's On!" She blogs at www.chewandchat.blogspot.com.
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Robert Brown, Mechanical Engineering and Chemical Engineering,
Charles Glatz, Chemical Engineering, (515) 294-8472
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Teddi Barron, News Service, (515) 294-4778
IOWA STATE PREPARES STUDENTS FOR CAREERS IN BIOBASED INDUSTRY
AMES, Iowa -- Beginning this fall, Iowa State University students can learn how to turn plants into products for the emerging biobased products industry.
Iowa State faculty are creating three multidisciplinary academic programs - including a new graduate major - on the science and technology behind biobased products. They have received a National Science Foundation and two U.S. Department of Energy grants totaling more than $1 million to fund course development and start up.
In addition to the new graduate major, the new programs are an area of specialization for master's and doctoral students and new laboratory modules for undergraduates in chemical engineering.
Faculty heading the programs are Robert Brown, professor of chemical engineering and mechanical engineering; Charles Glatz, professor and chair of chemical engineering; George Kraus, professor of chemistry; and Lawrence Johnson, director of the Center for Crops Utilization Research and professor of food science and human nutrition.
Corn, soybeans, switchgrass and other plant and crop-based resources can be used to replace petroleum-based ingredients in the manufacture of value-added products like liquid fuels, commodity chemicals, lubricants, plastics and building materials.
In order for the biobased products industry to grow, key technologies need to be developed. These include technologies for separation to purify value-added products and to convert plant materials into simpler components such as sugars from which products can be. Very few scientists and engineers, however, have been appropriately trained in this burgeoning area, Brown said.
"The research and development that will drive this industry draws from many disciplines like chemistry, microbiology, agronomy and engineering. Students will need to learn outside traditional academic disciplines," he said.
The new master's-level graduate major in bioresource engineering may be the first of its kind nationwide, Brown said. It will be administered by the Center for Sustainable Environmental Technologies, an Institute for Physical Research and Technology center that provides support to faculty working in biobased products. Brown is the center's director.
Three new courses will serve as the foundation for the graduate major. The lecture, laboratory and seminar courses also will provide the area of specialization in biobased products for graduate students. Kraus and colleagues developed the team-taught, multidisciplinary courses for students in agriculture, science and engineering.
"We envision the three courses as a work in progress," Kraus said. "As the field of biobased products evolves and as new faculty members with interests in biobased products research enter the university, the content of our courses will change."
The lecture course will cover current applications, biological and chemical conversions, case studies, economics, environmental impact and future value-added applications.
The laboratory course will include experiments in milling, extrusion, biomaterials and polymer. Students will use facilities of the Center for Crops Utilization Research, a center of the Plant Sciences Institute administered by the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station.
In the seminar course, academic researchers and scientists from Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland, Grain Processing Corporation, Dow Chemical, DuPont, 3M and other companies will discuss current topics pertinent to the biobased industry. The seminar course will be offered this fall, Brown said
The new graduate major in bioresource engineering will consist of a 30-credit program of coursework, research and industrial interaction.
"The program is designed to help students develop a systems perspective of the biobased products industry with an appreciation of problems in plant sciences, production, conversion and utilization," Brown said.
In addition to the three new courses, students will take technical electives from existing classes in molecular biology, chemistry, biochemistry, agricultural and biosystems engineering, food science, chemical engineering and other disciplines.
Research will emphasize new pathways for using lignocellulose (such as corn stover, switchgrass and woody crops) in value-added products. "The existing research emphasis is on value-added corn and soybeans. Our new efforts will focus on value-added products from agricultural residues that are currently underutilized," Brown said.
Research will address problems of interest to the biobased products industry. Research projects will be built around joint activities involving Iowa State, the Iowa Energy Center, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and collaborating companies, Brown said.
In the third new academic program, Glatz and other chemical engineering faculty are developing four new laboratory modules on chemicals from biorenewables. The modules will be added to new and existing undergraduate courses and could be integrated into the two new graduate programs.
"Our focus will be on bringing important emergent areas from the development of biorenewable sources of chemicals into new and existing courses and to let students experience the differences between process and product development," Glatz said.
The modules include metabolic analysis of a yeast fermentation (a model system for plant metabolic engineering), bioinformatic analysis of enzyme function for cellulases (used for chemical conversion of plant materials), expanded bed chromatography for capture of recombinant proteins from transgenic crops, and development of materials for skin graft growth (a high-value use of biomaterials). The first laboratory module will be offered next spring.
The Department of Energy grants to Brown and Kraus will be administered through the Institute for Physical Research and Technology.
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July 3, 2012
Campus dining centers make the grade in boosting students' academics, social support
Students eating meals together may be a contributing factor to good grades and an active social life.
According to a Kansas State University researcher, eating with others in a university dining center is related to academic success and perceived social support.
Abigail Bauer, who recently earned her master's degree in public health from K-State, analyzed the effects that communal eating at a university dining center had on grades and perceived social support in first-year college students.
She discovered that students' grade-point averages escalated as they increased the number of times they ate in a campus dining center and with others. Students also reported having better social support.
"This preliminary finding supports the notion that eating with other people and in campus dining centers is helpful for freshman students," Bauer said. "Eating a meal is an important time for students to relax, talk to people and form relationships. It’s a time for nourishment for their bodies and for their well-being."
Bauer polled more than 300 freshman students who ate in Derby Dining Center, which serves Ford, Haymaker, Moore and West halls at K-State.
In online and in-person surveys, 62 percent of students said that eating in the dining center made them feel more socially connected, while 77 percent said they were rarely or never lonely when people sat near them in the dining center.
Students who ate at least 11 times a week in the dining center earned an average GPA of 3.4, according to Bauer's study, but those who ate fewer than seven times per week in the dining center earned an average GPA of 3.0.
"I can't really say why, because this was just a snapshot in time," she said, "but this study leaves a lot of room for further research."
The study supports the importance of family meals, Bauer said.
"A lot of literature and previous research has shown that family meals and meals with caregivers can be sources of social support," she said. "Most research focuses on the very young or very old, but in general social support is healthy for all people."
Some universities offer grab-and-go prepared meal options as a convenience for students, Bauer said, but those may not be ideal options.
"These findings show how important it can be for students to sit down and eat together," she said. "All students have to eat, and eating together is a great way for students to connect with one another."
Students in the study could enter a drawing to win gift certificates provided by housing and dining services after they completed surveys.
Sandra Procter, assistant professor of human nutrition, was Bauer's adviser.
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Good Content Has 10 Characteristics. What Are They?
Good content is content that is valued by your target group and contributes to the objectives of your company. The definition of good content will therefore vary from company
to company. But content will only work for your brand or company when it meets the 'commandments' below.
1. The content of your content has been verified
If you share valuable information, it must be correct. That seems to be an open door, but research shows that if people think that your content is not accurate, they appreciate your brand less.
A staggering 38% of consumers indicate that accurate content with accurate information is most important to them (source: Adobe Content Survey, 2018). Moreover, content can be viewed as controversial, because it is possible to discuss certain statements or because figures are out of date or can be interpreted differently.
In your own industry you know which subjects are controversial and when you have to be on your guard. That does not mean that you have to avoid controversial issues. It is precisely the type of content that creates fans and opponents. With a clear position you prevent your expressions from making an impression, because they are too much middle of the road.
Therefore make not only safe choices, but make sure that everything you share is double checked.
2. The content is well written or produced
Your content says everything about your brand. If you create a quality image, it must also prove everything. Not only must the content be valuable, that also applies to the packaging. Texts are well written, everything is well designed and the form in which you share your information must be pleasant to handle.
3. The message is relevant to your target group
Your content must bring a solution closer. For a burning problem that someone has or for a so-called HoeDoe question. Or you offer a look behind the scenes so that someone gets to know your company and vision. This shows the elements of your brand identity and you can lead your brand in the direction you want. But it always applies that good content hits a string or fixes a problem.
4. Good content is distinctive
If your competitors or other parties have already shared certain knowledge, it is not wise to create and share similar content. Instead, you can better search for content that is not there yet or that adds content to the existing content of competitors in terms of content, form, ease of use or originality.
Sometimes it may be opportune to make similar content as your competitor. For example, if the content is indispensable for your company and without this information would not be credible. Or when you are sure that you can surpass someone else's content in quality and reach.
5. There is sufficient demand for the content
Even if your eBook, blog or video is good, if only too small a part of your target group is interested, they do not contribute enough to your objectives.
The only exception is a target group that is very small in size, which can sometimes be the case with B2B content. Therefore, first investigate what your target group is interested in and what they are looking for. Determine to which topics the question is of greatest relevance and start with it.
6. The content offers opportunities in Google or on social media
In the battle for the visibility of your content, it is of course important that your content is seen. That means there has to be a good chance to get the first page of search results in Google.
Think about visibility and findability beyond Google. For example, YouTube is the second most popular search engine and Facebook is number three. If you manage to be visible
there, it has many advantages.
But depending on your subject, the competition for the first positions in search engines can be huge. Then look for niches, which may produce a smaller volume, but with which you can take a top 3 position in the search engines. On balance, this results in more reach and interaction.
7. The content proves the qualities of your brand/company
If you have defined certain core qualities or brand values for your company, check whether they also appear in the statements you make. Your content must be in line with your
brand and everything you do.
Not every piece of content can strengthen all brand values, but if you insist that all new content supports at least one brand value, you are on the right track to build your brand identity with your content.
8. The content is shareable
Of course you can distribute content yourself. Through your site, sales channels and social media. But ideally, others are going to share your expressions for you, so that your reach increases enormously.
In that case, your content should not only be distinctive and of quality, but also divisible. Therefore, link every form of content to the possibility to share via channels. Encourage this in a concrete way, because sometimes you have to really get people to think that content is interesting for their friends or relations.
When content is shared on social media, it increases your visibility. This extra visibility has the added advantage that more people and sites will link to your content. That benefits your position in Google and increases traffic to your website. This way social media shares can function as a flywheel.
9. The content is not promotional in nature
No target group likes promotions. Full stop. Do not make the content of your statements promotional in nature, but keep them objective and valuable. Do not talk about your brand,
your proposition and brand benefits, but let the reader / listener / viewer draw his own conclusions about the quality you offer. If you still link explicit promotions to your content, your content will be read less, less downloaded, less shared and less appreciated.
10. The content offers opportunities for a follow-up
If someone has read, downloaded or received your content, then you would like to set up a follow-up process for this lead so that you can keep in touch and prove your value for a long time. 'Loose' pieces of content offer no basis for this. Therefore, ensure content that consists of multiple parts that can be followed up and reinforce each other in a | <urn:uuid:6803f2f1-4992-4ba3-a3a4-c3a4aa113579> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.coachmee.com/post/good-content-has-10-characteristics-what-are-they | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.941818 | 1,264 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Jonathan Walton took to the stage rhyming.
“Couplets and quatrains bleed through my veins … because poetry is my release,” said the 22-year-old founder of the New York City Urban Project (NYCUP), an initiative to place students in internships while teaching them about Christianity and volunteerism. “A constant rhythm of rhyme is flowing through me.”
Walton rapped, rhymed and prayed his way through a presentation before members of the New Jersey Christian Fellowship (NJCF). NJCF is the on-campus division of InterVarsity, an interdenominational Christian organization for college students. Walton directs the NYCUP through InterVarsity.
During his presentation, titled “Poetic Justice,” the Columbia graduate discussed growing up in a small, impoverished town and how he discovered a larger world, activism and the Christian faith beyond its borders.
“(My high school counselor) told me I couldn’t get into an Ivy League school. So I googled ‘Ivy League’ to see what it was, and I applied. And I got in,” Walton said.
Walton enrolled in Columbia University that fall, moving from Broadnax, Va. — population 317 — to New York City – population 8 million, according to the 2000 U.S. Census. He remembered the lessons he scrambled to learn as a sleepy-town transplant in the city that never sleeps.
“I didn’t know that this world existed, where there were even bigger disparities between rich and poor, between haves and have-nots,” Walton said. “I did not know that I had a bigger chance of ending up in prison than ending up in college … what do you do when you learn about yourself?”
As an African American, Walton learned of the odds he surmounted without knowing they existed, and he developed a new perspective. His sophomore year, he saw the 2003 documentary “Invisible Children,” about child soldiers in Uganda. It was then that he turned his attention to humanitarian pursuits. Walton also credits his faith with this transformation.
“I started to think what it would be like to follow (Jesus), and that’s how the New York City Urban Project happened,” Walton said.
Walton waxed poetic about his goals for NYCUP.
“I want you to imagine a tree, and the roots are you – your passions, kids like you … The branches are opportunities. I want to be the trunk, to get (you) to that place,” he said.
Walton encouraged the audience to volunteer and to remember “don’t be concerned about the price of your shoes, ’cause if you look down, you’ve still got two feet.” He closed with a prayer.
Preceding Walton were three student performances by members of NJCF. Sophomore English major Kat Ashbahian and Alex Kim, international business major, performed the Christian song “Instead of a Show” by Jon Foreman. Ashbahian’s strong, clear voice accompanied Kim’s guitar for the stripped-down performance.
Freshman international business major Nelson Hernandez followed with a self-penned rap. Sophomore chemistry major Steve Malone closed the student performances with a reading from the Bible and the South African national anthem, read alternately in English and Xhosa, a South African language.
This was NJCF’s first large-scale event since establishing a Social Justice Committee. The organization will focus more on educating its members about social rights issues this year.
“It’s something that wherever you stand with your beliefs, you can (do something),” said senior chemistry major Devon Cocuzza, one of NJCF’s two presidents. “We know that the way the world is is not the way the world ought to be.”
Cocuzza was pleased with the outcome of the event.
“I think it was fruitful,” Cocuzza said. “Hopefully it stimulated people to think.”
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There is always something new to learn on Ask A Master Gardener! This week, Cathy Christie joined us for our monthly discussion about seed saving, introducing landrace plant varieties and the preservation of these species.
Landrace is a genetically diverse crop that is locally adapted that has grown in the same place long enough to become part of the local ecosystem and cultural heritageJoseph Lofthouse
The plants we grow face enormous challenges. Rain (or not), temperature extremes, insect pests, diseases, and more …. It is a wonder that we are able to put food on the table! And with our changing climate, these pressures are increasing.
What is a Landrace Variety?
Landrace refers to a plant (or animal) variety that, over time, has adapted to the local environment. They are genetically diverse traditional species that have evolved their characteristics without human intervention, as a result of a connection to the local conditions (soil, temperature, pests) in which they are grown.
A landrace population has not been deliberately bred for specific and consistent traits like cultivars, hybrids or clones might be. They freely exchange genetic material with their compatible neighbours; those that meet the challenges of the local situation will survive and thrive. Thus they are unpredictable in the sense of uniformity, but offspring are likely to grow well under the specific conditions in which they were developed.
Fun fact: The word landrace, which is not familiar to at least some, has origins in the Germanic languages (Landrasse) and translates as “country-bred”.
The Best Laid Plans
Cathy points out that industrial agriculture often cultivates just a few varieties of a particular crop. While this is an efficient way to produce high yields when things are going according to plan, there is a risk when genetically identical crops form the bulk of our agricultural production. A perturbation in the system, such as drought or abnormal temperatures, may result in decreased crop yields or failures.
Evolution in Action
The need for resilience in our food systems is illustrated by weather events such as the 2021 “heat dome” in Alberta, a period of four weeks with virtually no rain and 27C temperatures. Researchers at the University of Calgary’s Simon Farm Project had been testing whether locally-saved and traditional seed varieties could withstand climate events such as extended periods of heat and drought. According to researcher Tatenda Mambo, when the heat dome arrived “Most potatoes, kale and other plants from the seed of national distributors succumbed to the heat and withered away. The same plants from the locally-saved seed held on”, albeit with a modest harvest.
Cathy also described the work of plant breeder Joseph Lofthouse who has been working to develop landrace muskmelon adapted to his region, with its short dry season, cool nights and hot days. He began by planting numerous varieties of melons with the attributes he desired, and allowed them to freely cross pollinate, saving seeds from the very best to sow the following years. While it takes patience, generations of offspring have resulted in melons that are particularly suited to Joseph’s climate and are genetically diverse enough to continue evolving as conditions change. Think of this diversity as nature’s crop insurance!
The Open Source Seed Initiative
The Open Source Seed Initiative is a private foundation whose mission is to maintain “fair and open access to plant genetic resources worldwide in order to ensure the availability of germplasm to farmers, gardeners, breeders, and communities of this and future generations.” Their website includes a wealth of information as well as a searchable database of seeds. Some, although not all, all landrace varieties.
The plant breeders working with OSSI have committed to making their varieties available and have pledged the freedom to:
- save or grow seed for replacing or for any other purpose
- share, trade or sell seed to others.
- trial and study seed and to share or publish information about it.
- select or adapt the seed, make crosses with it, or use it to breed new lines and varieties.
Plant Breeding at Home
Begin with any open pollinated seeds. If you chose those from a local source, they will already have been grown out under our conditions for several plant generations.
Of course if you find landrace types, by definition they will be adapted to their own local environment. Initially not all seeds planted will necessarily do well in your home garden, depending on the source. Plant as many compatible varieties as possible, allow them to cross pollinate and harvest the seeds from the plants that thrive (and taste good!). Continue the process and watch the offspring continue to adapt.
Cathy is excited about exploring landrace cultivation in our bioregion. She joyfully mixed and planted seeds from twenty varieties of dry beans from the KASSI Living Seed Commons this weekend. We look forward to seeing and hearing how they grow!
Carol Deppe. Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties: The Gardener’s and Farmer’s Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed Saving, 2nd Edition Chelsea Green Publishing, 2000
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The following correspondence originally took place upon my Facebook wall…
Earlene E.: Rayn, I heard it through the grapevine that one of the ingredients in cigarettes is whales vomit.
Rayn: Don’t forget about the ARSENIC (rat poison), CYANIDE, FORMALDEHYDE (embalming fluid), AMMONIA, ACETONE (nail polish remover), and about 586 other chemicals that were approved by the FDA for use in cigarettes, including “fragrances,” in an effort to lure non-smokers into their death-trap. Of course, not all brands carry these toxic ingredients, of course, but the vast majority do.
I’m not sure if you remember, but I actually used to work for the New York City Department of Health’s “Youth Tobacco Cessation Unit.” The FDA is responsible for this fiasco because they have deemed cigarettes to be neither a “food” or a “drug,” and therefore, there is no real end to what can make its way into a typical pack of cigarettes.
Check out some of the facts here:
Harmful Chemicals in Cigarettes:
Another interesting fact: 90% of all smokers started before the age of 18! (There is a reason for this, too.)
Here’s something else: inhalation of tobacco smoke affects the brain in a very similar way as so-called “anti-depressant” and “anti-anxiety” drugs do. However, besides being much more quick-acting (seconds vs. weeks) cigarettes are hundreds of times less likely to induce suicide, or homicide. In some ways, they can be considered a form of “self-medication,” or even the “poor man’s” anti-anxiety-depressant. (By the way, did you know that almost every single person that has “gone postal” and tried to massacre innocent people was on some form of anti-depressant? Hmmm… I wonder if there is a connection?). Anyways, read these articles to understand:
Brain’s Nicotine Receptors Also Target For Anti-Depressants:
Cigarettes Can be an Anti-Depressant:
Cigarettes wouldn’t be nearly as bad for people if companies did not insert all kinds of poisonous additives inside of them in an effort to get consumers addicted to their particular BRAND OF POISON. Native Americans smoked tobacco out of peace-pipes (no filter), and did not succumb to nicotine addiction. They were pictures of health until America engaged in full on addiction-warfare against them using alcohol (not to mention bio-warfare with government issued smallpox blankets for Reservations.)
Personally, I don’t condone smoking at all, and I advise anyone against engaging in the activity based on EXPERIENCE as a smoker. But, if you are going to do it anyway, at least buy a brand that 100% ADDITIVE-FREE natural brands, like “Natural America Spirits” (who even remove tobacco stems, and only use whole leaf) or even “Nat Shermans”. Once you get used to either of these brands, you will soon notice that you have much less “BRAND LOYALTY.” You will feel satisfied by ANY 100% NATURAL BRAND you smoke! What this really means is that cigarette companies don’t want you “hooked” on tobacco or the natural nicotine that is within – they want you to crave their particular formula of toxic additives!
I picked up the habit of smoking at 11 years old, after my first year of living in the NYC shelter system. Four years later, I was finally living in a real home, but still smoking. After a while, I quit for two years, but stressful situations brought me right back. I also quit again for about six months, but again, went back. So, to lessen the damage to my health, I began exclusively smoking Natural American Spirits (and the occasional Nat Sherman). Though they took a few packs to get used to, I found them to be a much more enjoyable smoking experience than any of the well-known death-brands out there. Apparently, I never even knew what REAL TOBACCO tasted like because it was being adulterated with fake flavors and fragrances from the “manufacturer” to make it more palatable to CHILDREN – the main customer of most major brands! (Click Here to Continue Reading This Post) | <urn:uuid:9faa433a-67d8-4061-a8d6-67711c7e92b7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://acidrayn.com/tag/self-medicate/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.950834 | 1,048 | 2.203125 | 2 |
The Emerald Oasis by Troy Marden
09/21/2012, 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Memphis Botanic Garden map
The color green takes center stage, looking at the most dominant color in the landscape and how to make the most of it.
The design portion of the talk focuses on the importance of texture in the garden, while the plant portion looks at exceptional foliage plants and flowers, all in varying shades of green.
Troy Marden is a plantsman and garden designer who has been a passionate plant lover all of his life. His 25-plus years of professional experience include time spent in nearly every facet of the industry, from nursery production and retail garden centers to stints at some of the country’s best known public gardens. He has been a co-host of Nashville Public Television’s hit gardening show, Volunteer Gardener, for 10 years and also writes regularly for some of the country’s top gardening magazines. A passionate foodie, Troy’s blog, Gardener Cook, has become popular with plant lovers and food lovers alike. His latest venture, which will launch in 2012, is a Garden Tour division of his business that will take other passionate gardeners on trips to some of the finest horticultural destinations in the U.S. and around the world. 2012 will also find Troy writing his first book, to be published by Timber Press in early 2013. You can find more information at www.troybmarden.com. | <urn:uuid:bb5473d9-5103-455e-85b4-147e07453cb7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.memphisbotanicgarden.com/default.aspx?p=86596&evtid=71700&date=9/21/2012 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00395-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955924 | 308 | 1.734375 | 2 |
This article aims to answer basic questions around how indexing works in Liferay DXP. This information is applicable for all search platforms whether using Elasticsearch, Solr, or some other search. For a full developer’s treatment of developing for the index, please see: Introduction to Search.
- Liferay DXP 7.0 - DXP 7.4
- What is indexing and how does it help my platform?
- What sort of entities are indexed in Liferay DXP?
- When is the index created?
- When is the index updated?
- Can I "force" a reindex in Liferay?
- How do I write code in a way that allows my entities to be indexed?
Liferay stores its information in a database, so why not search the database directly? Why add the complexity of a search engine? First, because database table merges are expensive! Documents in a search index often contain searchable fields from multiple tables in the database. Traversing the date in this way takes too long.
In addition to the performance problem, search engines provide access to additional features, like relevance and scoring. By contrast, databases do not support features like fuzzy searching or relevancy. Moreover, search engines can apply algorithms such as “More Like This” to return similar content. Search engines also support geolocation, faceting of search results, and multilingual searching.
Here are the DXP entities that utilize search index out of the box:
- Bookmark entries
- Bookmark folders
- Blog entries
- Calendar & Calendar Events
- Change List entries
- Custom Fields (Expando)
- Documents and Media files
- Documents and Media folders
- Dynamic Data List records
- Dynamic Data Mapping fields (for example for Web Content Structures, Forms)
- Message Board Messages and Threads
- Segments entries
- System Settings
- User Groups
- Web Content articles
- Web Content folders
- Wiki pages
- Workflow metrics
To index custom entities, read:
The initial search index is initialized for each virtual instance the first time you start DXP with Elasticsearch or Solr. To fully index all entries you need to perform a “Reindex” from the Control Panel (see below).
By default, the search index is updated every time an indexable entity is:
There’s a number of reasons you may need to create a new index from scratch. Whether it’s following an upgrade or it’s just that the search isn’t pulling up the correct results, we’ve made it simple to delete the existing index and create a new one.
- Log in as an administrative user
- Click on Control Panel → Configuration → Search (in DXP 7.3 and 7.4, it is under Control Panel → Search, and the Index Actions tab)
- Click the Execute button for Reindex all search indexes and then Reindex all spell check indexes.
Please note that, depending on how many entities there are, the reindexing may be a time and memory-intensive operation. Please plan the timing of your reindex accordingly.
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On Friday, a putative class action against Kraft over the alleged presence of phthalates in its Kraft Macaroni & Cheese products was transferred from the Northern District of California to the Northern District of Illinois — joining an Illinois suit with similar allegations. Similar cases filed in Massachusetts and New York may similarly be transferred to Illinois.
The suit transferred from California (Clarke v. The Kraft Heinz Co.) was filed in April 2021, alleging that Kraft’s Macaroni & Cheese products have contained ortho-phthalates (more commonly known as “phthalates”), which are synthetic chemicals that are used to make plastics flexible — and “can migrate into food products during processing, packaging, and preparation.” Plaintiffs allege that because phthalates are endocrine disruptors, they can increase the risk of cancers, increase likelihood of asthma, allergies, bronchial obstruction, obesity, brain development, motor delays, and behavioral problems.
In 2006, the California complaint notes that the European Union “banned the use of certain phthalates in toys that may be placed in the mouth by children younger than 3 years old.” And in 2008, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act banned certain phthalates from children’s toys and child-care products as of February 2009.
The Clarke plaintiffs allege that “eight of the nine Kraft Macaroni & Cheese products tested” contained phthalates — and powdered-cheese samples contained “average phthalate levels … more than four times higher … than in hard blocks and other natural cheese.”
The two claims at issue in the California case are breach of implied warranty under California law, as well as fraud.
The California suit was filed just one day before a similar action in the Northern District of Illinois, Stuve v. The Kraft Heinz Co., No. 1:21-cv-01845. In June 2021, Kraft moved to transfer the California case to the Northern District of Illinois, prompting plaintiffs to amend their complaint to represent a California class only.
But on September 8, Judge Richard Seeborg granted Kraft’s motion to transfer the case, holding that both “private factors” and “public factors” weighed in favor of transfer, and “[t]he public factors scale is thus tipped most strongly by the possibility of consolidation, which weighs heavily in favor of transfer because the Stuve action is already pending in the Northern District of Illinois.” Those other, similar cases include Francione v. Kraft Heinz Foods Co. (D. Mass.) and Tarantino v. The Kraft Heinz Co. (E.D.N.Y.). The California court also noted that “Kraft asserts it is ‘in the process of seeking to transfer all of these cases’ to the Northern District of Illinois.”
The California court also noted that given the presence of Stuve in Illinois — and the potential that Francione, Tarantino and other similar cases might also be transferred there — could permit “disposition of two, or potentially four, cases revolving around the alleged presence of phthalates in Kraft Macaroni & Cheese [that] will be coordinated in some way.” | <urn:uuid:e04725ea-6bc5-439e-b8c2-047c8dd740ab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lawstreetmedia.com/news/agriculture/class-action-against-over-mac-cheese-and-phthalates-transferred-to-n-d-illinois/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.943716 | 671 | 1.59375 | 2 |
generative website project / music video
The generative animation is programmed with Three.js library and with two different 3D models of Russian shipwrecks sunken in the Gulf of Finland in the 18th century. The Finnish Maritime Museum generously published those models online for free of use.
The whole album is inspired by the philosopher Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi’s ‘Futurability’ book and the way it deals with the systematic failure of Neo Liberal Capitalism and the current inability to resist it.
The ‘Chaosmosis’ webpage project is a poetic rendering of the failing structures of current hegemony. The sunken imperialistic war and cargo ships of the Russian empire has of course political connotations of this current moment, but they can also be seen as more abstract remnants of the past. Disappearing and rotten forms.
Chaosmosis is also the second track of the recently released Forces album ‘Inertia’, released on the Mexico City based Infinite Machine. | <urn:uuid:4bdd2884-837f-427a-ad50-b23a10df0a89> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://joonassiren.fi/chaosmosis-web/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.929764 | 225 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Explore the words cloud of the INTHER project. It provides you a very rough idea of what is the project "INTHER" about.
The following table provides information about the project.
CLINICAL LASERTHERMIA SYSTEMS AB
|Coordinator Country||Sweden [SE]|
|Total cost||2˙136˙357 €|
|EC max contribution||2˙136˙357 € (100%)|
1. H2020-EU.3.1.3. (Treating and managing disease)
|Duration (year-month-day)||from 2016-08-01 to 2018-11-30|
Take a look of project's partnership.
|1||CLINICAL LASERTHERMIA SYSTEMS AB||SE (LUND)||coordinator||2˙136˙357.00|
The INTHER project will bring the groundbreaking immunostimulating Interstitial Laser Thermotherapy (imILTCLS) to the market and clinical practice. This minimally invasive therapy is designed to achieve local tumour destruction and stimulate specific antitumour immunity in a patient’s body. In recent years, anti-cancer therapies based on activation of the immune system have grown in significance and popularity. This approach is especially viable for patients who previously had very few treatment options. However, only approx. 20 % of all patients respond to drug-based immunotherapies of today. The key need of medical oncologists is to increase those response rates and thus decrease cancer-related suffering, increase life expectancy and survival rates for the patients. The project will meet those needs by delivering a novel device-based cancer immunotherapy method that destroys the tumour locally and induces long-lasting, vaccination-like, systemic immunity against the treated form of cancer. As the world’s first device-based laser immunotherapy, imILTCLS will curve its own market niche on the fast growing Cancer Immunotherapy Market and therefore have a significant disruptive effect on this market. The studies performed to date have confirmed the therapeutic capability of the new method. In the project, the method will be further validated for the two chosen solid tumour types: pancreatic cancer and breast cancer. This will enable CLS to shorten the time to full commercialisation, obtain the clinical acceptance and fully exploit the commercial potential of the new treatment method. The clinical uptake of imILTCLS in Europe will lead to reduction of costs associated with the treatment of solid tumours, especially surgeries, and reduction of costs related to the activation of immunotherapies. CLS’ strategy is based on intensive efforts towards validating imILTCLS and bringing it to the market. The project is a key step towards realizing this business strategy.
|year||authors and title||journal||last update|
Axelsson J, Pantaleone C, Åström S
Initial Findings of Immunostimulating Interstitial Laser Thermotherapy of Solid Tumours
published pages: 28-31, ISSN: 1758-5678, DOI:
|Journal for Clinical Studies volume 9, issue 4||2019-06-12|
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PanCareFollowUp: Novel, patient-centred survivorship care to improve care quality, effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and accessibility for survivors and caregiversRead More
Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases SecretariatRead More
CeLac and European consortium for a personalized medicine approach to Gastric CancerRead More | <urn:uuid:42349371-f6f5-4fea-9d93-9595e1f99899> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fabiodisconzi.com/open-h2020/projects/204993/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00671.warc.gz | en | 0.865611 | 975 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Today, I am proud to announce the United States’ first, comprehensive International Strategy for Cyberspace (pdf). The International Strategy is a historic policy document for the 21st Century — one that explains, for audiences at home and abroad, what the U.S. stands for internationally in cyberspace, and how we plan to build prosperity, enhance security, and safeguard openness in our increasingly networked world.
Today, Homeland Security Advisor John Brennan and I were joined by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Attorney General Eric Holder, Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Deputy Secretary of Defense Bill Lynn in announcing this landmark document’s release, here at the White House. The event was streamed live on WhiteHouse.gov, and you can view it here starting this evening.
The International Strategy lays out the President’s vision for the future of the Internet, and sets an agenda for partnering with other nations and peoples to achieve that vision. It begins by recognizing the successes networked technologies have brought us, in large part due to the spirit of freedom and innovation that has characterized the Internet from its early days as a research project. While the strategy is realistic about the challenges we face, it nonetheless emphasizes that our policies must continue to be grounded in our core principles of fundamental freedoms, privacy, and the free flow of information.
To achieve our vision, the United States will build an international environment that ensures global networks are open to new innovations, interoperable the world over, secure enough to support people’s work, and reliable enough to earn their trust. To achieve it, we will build and sustain an environment in which norms of responsible behavior guide states’ actions, sustain partnerships, and support the rule of law.
The International Strategy is larger than any one department or agency. It is a strong foundation for the diverse activities we will carry out across our entire government. It is about the principles that unite our nation, the vision that unites our policy, and the priorities that unite our government.
With our partners around the world, we will work to create a future for cyberspace that builds prosperity, enhances security, and safeguards openness in our networked world. This is the future we seek, and we invite all nations, and peoples, to join us in that effort. | <urn:uuid:a7a51343-5b88-4eee-86af-92f99914b310> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/05/16/launching-us-international-strategy-cyberspace | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00128-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937164 | 474 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Attitudes and behaviour towards GM food
The aim of this thesis was to examine attitudes towards genetically modified (GM) food and how these translate into behaviour. Research conducted divided quite neatly into two distinct sections. The first section explored explicit attitudes and other socio-cognitive constructs relating to behaviour towards GM food within the framework of different theoretical models including, most notably, the theory of planned behaviour (Ajzen, 1991). The second section measured implicit attitudes held towards GM food and the malleability of these attitudes, using an array of different reaction time tasks, e. g. the implicit association task (Greenwald, McGhee and Schwartz, 1998). A final experiment then linked these two sections by examining both implicit and explicit attitudes alongside various measures of behaviour in order to examine the predictive validity of these attitude constructs and how these may vary depending on the situation. Results indicated that socio-cognitive concepts of subjective norms, perceived behavioural control (PBC), self-identity and emotional involvement were useful alongside the construct of explicit attitudes in predicting intentions and behaviour towards GM food. In addition, measures of implicit attitude were found to be useful predictors of behaviour towards GM food, over and above explicit attitudes. Interestingly, measurementso f implicit attitude were found to be positive when measured in a context free manner but were also found to be malleable and differed considerably depending on the situational context of measurement. Actual behaviour was measured in a variety of different ways and these converged in demonstrating that the majority of participants would try GM food. Overall, findings indicated that within Britain more people than previously thought are likely to try GM food if it becomes more widely available. | <urn:uuid:88ecd0df-bc7a-4c81-82fe-45f00481740b> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.437072 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720845.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00086-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956139 | 331 | 2.1875 | 2 |
An employee’s tax liability can
increase when she receives arrears. However, one can get some amount of relief
under section 89 of the Income-tax Act, 1961. Here is a look at what is covered
under this section, and how one can avail of the relief.
WHAT IS SECTION 89?
The receipt of arrears can lead
to a higher tax incidence in the hands of the employee as the amount gets taxed
in the year of receipt. Had the employee received this amount in the year(s)
that it pertained to, the additional tax would have been staggered over the
years, instead of being paid as a lump sum. This is where section 89 comes in.
This section, titled “relief when
salary, etc., is paid in arrears or in advance”, comes under chapter VIII
(Rebates and Reliefs) of the income-tax Act. According to it, if you get salary
in arrears or advance in a financial year due to which your total income for
the year increases, which in turn increases your taxable income, you can claim
for relief under section 89. According to this section, arrears includes
salary/family pension paid in arrears/advance (additional salary), certain part
of gratuity, compensation received on termination of employment, and commuted
pension. The rules apply to both government and private sector employees.
HOW TO CLAIM RELIEF
Firstly, you should calculate tax
for the current year on income including the arrears or compensation. Then
calculate the tax for the current year on the income excluding the arrears.
After that, subtract these two figures; let us call this figure A. The next
step is to calculate tax for the year in which the arrears should have been
received—once with the arrears, and then without. Again subtract these two
figures; let us call this figure B.
To get the amount of relief that
you can receive under section 89, subtract figure A from figure B.
Here’s an example. Say, you earn
Rs.10 Lac a year in financial year (FY) 2014, and receive an arrear of Rs.4 Lac
for FY13. Your total salary in FY13 was Rs.8 Lac. For FY14, without the
arrears, your tax liability will be Rs.1.34 Lac, and with arrears (total salary
of Rs.14 Lac), it will become Rs.2.57 Lac. This is a difference of Rs.1.23 Lac.
Now, we have to calculate the tax incidence for FY13, on your salary of Rs.8 Lac.
Without the arrears, you paid a tax of Rs.92,700, and with the arrears (total
salary of Rs.12 Lac) you would have paid Rs.1.95 Lac as tax. This is a
difference of Rs.1.03 Lac. So, the relief that you can get under section 89 is
Rs.20,600 (Rs.1.23 Lac – Rs.1.03 Lac).
You will have to fill up Form10E
with these details and then submit it to your current employer to claim the
relief. Keep your salary slips handy to provide as proof of receipt of the
arrears. But do keep in mind that only if the tax paid is higher will you be
able to claim this relief. If you do not have to pay excess tax due to the
arrears, then you do not get the relief. | <urn:uuid:de40c7a3-1840-412e-b8a6-1cea2340cfa7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.tallyknowledge.com/2015/05/section-89-of-income-tax-ac.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00320-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946324 | 768 | 2.546875 | 3 |
In line with the new paradigm of the Factory of the Future (FoF) and the empowered worker, in which collaborative manufacturing and manufacturing focused on the individual are priority, AERTEC has developed a new support system for aircraft maintenance (MRO, Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul). It can resolve, by remote and in real time, the need for technical support at an aeronautical plant. It is based on augmented reality and can be used from any authorised mobile device.
The solution enables the technician to contact a team of experts from AERTEC by videoconference, using a tablet or a smartphone, without the need for a physical presence.
The system will allow, simultaneously, the setting of parameters and sorting of tasks in an information system that will record them to enable rapid identification in case they are repeated in the future. The recording of these data will allow further analysis with the aim of obtaining information that will help to optimise the time and cost of aeronautical production.
Of course, this system is fully compatible with the client’s own technology, since it is only necessary to have a mobile device or augmented reality goggles to be able to connect. The technician on the shopfloor of the plant, beside the aircraft, will be empowered, with an increased level of independence, improving the MRO tasks carried out, while an expert supervises in real time the different actions performed by the person requiring support.
This solution is focused on the development of a new MRO management model in which experts can provide support without the need to be physically present where the incident has occurred. | <urn:uuid:58cd716f-3def-4ccc-9148-c2c67bdeb7bd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aertecsolutions.com/en/project/expert-remote-support-systems-mro/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.93983 | 324 | 1.546875 | 2 |
To the Inhabitants of New Bern, North Carolina
[New Bern, N.C., c.20–21 April 1791]
I express with real pleasure the grateful sentiments, which your address inspires.1
I am much indebted, in every personal regard, to the polite attentions of the citizens2 of Newbern, nor am I less gratified by their patriotic declarations on the situation of our common country—pleasing indeed is the comparison which a retrospect of past scenes affords with our present happy condition, and equally so is the anticipation of what we may still attain, and long continue to enjoy. A bountiful providence has bless’d us with all the means of national and domestic happiness—To our own virtue and wisdom are referred their improvement and realization.
That the Town of Newbern may eminently participate the general prosperity and its inhabitants be individually happy is my sincere wish.
Df (incomplete), in the hand of William Jackson, DLC:GW; LB, DLC:GW.
1. When GW was met by New Bern citizens at West’s ferry on the Neuse River on 20 April, he probably was presented with an address signed by James Coor, Mayor Joseph Leech, Federal District Court judge John Sitgreaves, Benjamin Williams, Daniel Carthy, William McClure, Samuel Chapman, and Isaac Guion: “Sir, With hearts impressed with the most lively emotions of Love, Esteem and Veneration, We meet you at this time to express the joy We feel in your visit to the State of North Carolina. We Sympathize with You in those delightful sensations, which you now so fully experience when We reflect with you on our past difficulties and dangers during a long and arduous War—and contrast these with the bright, the glorious prospects which present themselves—of our beloved Country’s enjoying in perfect peace, the inestimable blessings of Civil and Religious Liberty. Our Souls overflow with gratitude to the bountiful Dispenser of all good Gifts, that He has committed to your hands the reins of Government in that Country during peace, of which you have been so lately the defence against the Arm of Despotism and Arbitrary Sway. May Almighty God prolong that Life, which has been so eminently useful to the Human Race, for it is not America Alone—but the World shall learn from your example to what a stupendous heigth of Glory, a Nation may be elevated—whose free-born souls are fired with a sincere love of Liberty. It is our most earnest Prayer to the throne of Heavenly Grace that the divine Benediction may accompany you here and hereafter” (DLC:GW). For GW’s trip from Petersburg, Va., to New Bern, and his activities at the latter, see Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 6:112–17.
2. The text from the middle of this word on is taken from the letter-book copy. | <urn:uuid:47e571b9-7300-40b3-88fc-a46c53ff15ab> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-08-02-0091 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00272-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9429 | 642 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Microsoft Association Algorithm
The Microsoft Association algorithm is an association algorithm provided by Analysis Services that is useful for recommendation engines. A recommendation engine recommends products to customers based on items they have already bought, or in which they have indicated an interest. The Microsoft Association algorithm is also useful for market basket analysis. For an example of a market basket analysis, see Lesson 3: Building a Market Basket Scenario (Intermediate Data Mining Tutorial) in the Data Mining Tutorial.
Association models are built on datasets that contain identifiers both for individual cases and for the items that the cases contain. A group of items in a case is called an itemset. An association model consists of a series of itemsets and the rules that describe how those items are grouped together within the cases. The rules that the algorithm identifies can be used to predict a customer's likely future purchases, based on the items that already exist in the customer's shopping cart. The following diagram shows a series of rules in an itemset.
As the diagram illustrates, the Microsoft Association algorithm can potentially find many rules within a dataset. The algorithm uses two parameters, support and probability, to describe the itemsets and rules that it generates. For example, if X and Y represent two items that could be in a shopping cart, the support parameter is the number of cases in the dataset that contain the combination of items, X and Y. By using the support parameter in combination with the user-defined parameters, MINIMUM_SUPPORT and MAXIMUM_SUPPORT, the algorithm controls the number of itemsets that are generated. The probability parameter, also named confidence, represents the fraction of cases in the dataset that contain X and that also contain Y. By using the probability parameter in combination with the MINIMUM_PROBABILITY parameter, the algorithm controls the number of rules that are generated.
The Adventure Works Cycle company is redesigning the functionality of its Web site. The goal of the redesign is to increase sell-through of products. Because the company records each sale in a transactional database, they can use the Microsoft Association algorithm to identify sets of products that tend to be purchased together. They can then predict additional items that a customer might be interested in, based on items that are already in the customer's shopping basket.
The Microsoft Association algorithm traverses a dataset to find items that appear together in a case. The algorithm then groups into itemsets any associated items that appear, at a minimum, in the number of cases that are specified by the MINIMUM_SUPPORT parameter. For example, an itemset could be "Mountain 200=Existing, Sport 100=Existing", and could have a support of 710. The algorithm then generates rules from the itemsets. These rules are used to predict the presence of an item in the database, based on the presence of other specific items that the algorithm identifies as important. For example, a rule could be "if Touring 1000=existing and Road bottle cage=existing, then Water bottle=existing", and could have a probability of 0.812. In this example, the algorithm identifies that the presence in the basket of the Touring 1000 tire and the water bottle cage predicts that a water bottle would also likely be in the basket.
For a more detailed explanation of the algorithm, together with a list of parameters for customizing the behavior of the algorithm and controlling the results in the mining model, see Microsoft Association Algorithm Technical Reference.
When you prepare data for use in an association rules model, you should understand the requirements for the particular algorithm, including how much data is needed, and how the data is used.
The requirements for an association rules model are as follows:
A single key column Each model must contain one numeric or text column that uniquely identifies each record. compound keys not permitted.
A single predictable column An association model can have only one predictable column. Typically it is the key column of the nested table, such as the filed that lists the products that were purchased. The values must be discrete or discretized.
Input columns . The input columns must be discrete. The input data for an association model often is contained in two tables. For example, one table might contain customer information while another table contains customer purchases. You can input this data into the model by using a nested table. For more information about nested tables, see Nested Tables (Analysis Services - Data Mining).
For more detailed information about the content types and data types supported for association models, see the Requirements section of Microsoft Association Algorithm Technical Reference.
To explore the model, you can use the Microsoft Association Viewer. When you view an association model, Analysis Services presents the correlations from different angles so that you can better understand the relationships and rules that were found in the data. The Itemset pane in the viewer provides a detailed breakdown of the most common combinations, or itemsets. The Rules pane presents a list of rules that have been generalized from the data, adds calculations of probability, and ranks the rules by relative importance. the dependency network viewer lets you visually explore how individual different items are connected. For more information, see Viewing a Mining Model with the Microsoft Cluster Viewer.
If you want to find out more detail about any of the itemsets and rules, you can browse the model in the Microsoft Generic Content Tree Viewer. The content stored for the model includes the support for each itemset, a score for each rule, and other statistics. For more information, see Mining Model Content for Association Models (Analysis Services - Data Mining).
After the model has been processed, you can use the rules and itemsets to make predictions. In an association model, a prediction tells you what item is likely to occur given the presence of the specified item, and the prediction can include such information as the probability, the support, or the importance. For examples of how to create queries against an association model, see Querying an Association Model (Analysis Services - Data Mining).
For general information about how to create a query against a data mining model, see Querying Data Mining Models (Analysis Services - Data Mining).
The process of creating itemsets and counting correlations can be time-consuming. Although the Microsoft Association Rules algorithm uses optimization techniques to save space and make processing faster, you should know that that performance issues might occur under conditions such as the following:
Data set is large with many individual items.
Minimum itemset size is set too low.
To minimize processing time and reduce the complexity of the itemsets, you might try grouping related items by categories before you analyze the data. | <urn:uuid:8fcd3f2b-c83b-4183-87e2-ee480f3fd3bb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174916(v=sql.105) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00026-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.890069 | 1,345 | 3.296875 | 3 |
Characterization of human zona pellucida glycoproteins
The human egg may only be fertilized by one spermatozoon to prevent polyploidy. In most mammals, the primary block to polyspermy occurs at the zona pellucida (ZP). Little is known of the human ZP and the changes occurring following fertilization to prevent polyploidy. Using antibodies directed against synthetic peptides predicted from the human ZP2 and ZP3 cDNA, we identified ZP3 as a 53-60 kDa glycoprotein and ZP2 as a 90-110 kDa glycoprotein in prophase-I oocytes. Characterization of the ZP from metaphase II arrested eggs (inseminated-unfertilized and fertilized-uncleaved), shows no visible modification of ZP3, but demonstrates that ZP2 undergoes limited proteolysis in the amino terminal domain, to a 60-73 kDa species, denoted ZP2(p), which remains linked to the proteolysed fragments by intramolecular disulphide bonds. A lack of ZP2 proteolytic activity in acrosomal supernatants is consistent with an oocyte origin for the protease. The ZP2- specific protease may be released during cortical granule exocytosis which occurs during meiotic maturation and following sperm-egg fusion as part of the block to polyspermy. Since mouse ZP2 acts as a secondary sperm receptor, it is possible that intact ZP2 binds a secondary egg binding protein, whereas cleaved ZP2 does not, suggesting a possible mechanism for the block to polyspermy. | <urn:uuid:c3d24353-c74d-4d10-bbe9-91b31e5b6ab0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/14204 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00300-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911981 | 355 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Fletcher known as concept of an enthusiastic invocation before a federal government conference unpleasant, and you can said that if a person is obtainable it should be offered to members of every religions instead of an authorities test so you’re able to weigh the new authenticity of a single religion up against several other, writing about the requirement off an “oriented exposure.”
The borough has been working in a lawsuit produced by American Civil Rights Partnership of Alaska since along the coverage, that your ACLU says is actually discriminatory. Homer resident Elise Boyer, an exercising Jew and something around 50 out-of “the fresh new Suspended Picked,” because the local Jewish society calls alone, joined the lawsuit among the plaintiffs into the immediately following this lady demand supply an invocation are denied according to the based presence stipulation.
According to a 2015 Homer News writeup on Judaism within the Homer, Boyer has hosted gatherings for Jewish someone on large holy days including Rosh Hashanah and you may Yom Kippur.
“My personal hope is that the the assembly and you may mayor only will get rid of the newest invocation therefore the entire procedure can be moot,” Fletcher said. “Which is really the whole section right here.”
Lance Check mais aussi al. v. Kenai Peninsula Borough, the fresh new suit difficult the newest borough’s invocation coverage, will probably wade in advance of a keen Anchorage Advanced Court court that it few days, said ACLU representative Casey Reynolds to the Monday. Both parties will present created and you can dental objections in the near future, the guy said.
“The clients features seriously stored religion. Among them was Jewish,” Reynolds told you. “He’s secured according to the Constitution.”
Fletcher applied to supply the invocation on assembly’s next appointment into the Homer, in , that was refuted from the set up president Wayne Ogle.
“We have to present it (presence) to ensure we are able to proceed to often force the brand new set-up to you better think again you to definitely variety of a keen invocation for the next Homer conference into the Sep, or get in on the suit,” he told you.
Fletcher has created a twitter web page towards Basic Down Peninsula Congregation of Pastafarians, and you can hosted an enthusiastic inaugural gathering to gauge need for this new course on their domestic close McNeil Canyon for the Cold weather Solstice. Approximately 9 members of attendance, the guy said there was passion about carrying future conferences, maybe significantly more centrally located during the Homer.
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With many different weeks kept up until the assembly’s 2nd Homer conference in the Sep, Fletcher said discover the required time both for FSM to determine a robust, typical visibility for the Homer and for the invocation in order to potentially feel decrease entirely.
According to invocation plan towards borough’s web site, Pastor Eric Rozeboom of your Alaska Bible Institute is placed to give the invocation in the Homer appointment inside the Sep. The latest borough assembly solution one to lay the invocation plan cites several judge viewpoints making it possible for regulators to let an invocation in advance of conferences.
The insurance policy says it “is intended to be and should be applied in a way that’s all the-inclusive of most of the diverse religious organization helping the fresh citizens of your Kenai Peninsula Borough.”
The new credibility of a religious connection is determined “by referring to the newest standards employed by brand new Interal Cash Services within its commitment ones groups who lawfully qualify for I.Roentgen.C 501(c)(3) exempt reputation,” the policy states.
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Yes, there’s a secret Japanese emoticon keyboard hidden in your iPhone! If you’ve grown tired of the usual emoji-filled conversations (We wouldn’t blame you), you can use this instead to breathe a touch of creativity into your texts and tweets.
Don’t get us wrong; those good ol’ emojis get the job done. But sometimes we want something a little different… a little more expressive. Something like this: @(・●・)@ or ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ. If you agree, then read on.
How to Unlock the Kaomoji Keyboard
Now, how do we actually type those characters in? Easy-peasy. You just need to make a few taps into your settings, and you’ll be typing away with dozens of these cute kaomojis before you know it. Yep, that’s what these are called—kaomojis. It literally means ‘face mark’.
These cute Japanese emojis are made the same way we used to make emoticons back in the days before the Unicode Consortium blessed us with the emoji keyboard. We type in letters, numbers, and symbols. The only difference is that Japanese keyboards have a lot of characters that Western ones don’t, so they can make more pictograms than the boring old QWERTY keyboard.
But I digress… Here’s how you actually install the kaomoji keyboard on your iPhone:
Go to Settings → General → Keyboard → Keyboards → Add New Keyboard → Japanese → Kana. It’s as easy as that! To use the emojis, tap (or long-press, if you have multiple keyboards) the globe icon on your existing keyboard and select the Japanese letters in the menu pops up. Then, tap on the small emoticon face on the lower left part of your keyboard. The emojis will show up above the letters, which you can maximise by clicking on the arrow-down button on the right of that panel.
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When internet searchers land on your website, are they met with a professional, easy-to-use, pleasant experience?
Or are they met with a lot of disappointment, disarray and confusion?
If it is the latter, you are losing these valuable leads to your competition.
What is Website Design?
Just as the name suggests, website design is simple – the design of a website. However, as a business, your goal is to have a website that is attractive, appeals to your target audience, and contains content to help convert your visitors into paying customers.
When it comes to business website design, it takes a serious collaboration between the business owner and a skilled website designer to create a site that will work towards bringing in more sales.
Why Is Website Design Important?
Because most people today are using the web to find the products, services and businesses they want, your company website typically will be the first point of contact they will have with your business.
But if it is not professionally crafted to bring results, it could be the last contact with your business.
Did you know that most visitors are unlikely to return to websites they browse? This is especially true for websites that are unprofessional, slow-loading, and hard to navigate.
Even more importantly, your website must be compatible and responsive to mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets. If not, you lose a huge portion of the potential market share because mobile users will move on to your competitors’ mobile-ready websites.
In fact, many consumers will choose whether or not to do business with you solely based on your website’s usability and ability to grab and hold their attention.
So you need to do everything in your power to make a solid impression the first time they visit so to increase the chances of them spending money with you.
Your customers will not give you a second chance to make the first impression
A website should not just draw attention. The role of a website is to attract and engage the user, as well as communicate your brand and raise awareness about a product or service.
6 seconds to grab your website visitor’s attention and captivate their interest, as they determine whether your business offers any value…Or is just a waste of their time. Why? Because FIRST IMPRESSIONS are 94% Design Related.
In a digital world first impressions count and an outstanding website design is the key to a website that meets the goals of the owner. Users enjoy visiting sites that look aesthetically appealing and are quite easy to navigate. Our team helps to make a good first impression are speed and accessibility.
LenaKhalid.com aims getting you noticed in a digital world, using website design ingenuity for creating brand personality that will have a long-lasting impact on all your visitors. We provide various design sets starting from scratch, we focus on creating a website to fit your brand and speak to all your visitors. Our team presents, revises and collaborates with you until we finalize the design.
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What is the EYFS Curriculum at Porthleven School?
We plan our curriculum each year to reflect the needs of the current cohort of children and the outcomes of the previous year’s curriculum.
We make full use of the children’s interest and fascinations. Sometimes these form the focus of short programmes of work for 3 -6 weeks.
But we also use new stimuli including stories so that children’s interest broaden to themes they may not have thought of, for example “what lives in the ocean”
We pay attention to coverage of each strand of learning, linking in learning where it is most appropriate within our themes. Some themes have a strong focus on one area of learning while others focus on another. Through careful planning, we ensure that by the end of the year, each strand has the coverage needed to ensure children progress towards the ELGs.
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How Many World Cups Has Uruguay Won?
While Uruguay has not had much international success in recent years, its men’s national soccer team does have two world cups to its name. They were the original World Cup champions in 1930, and they took home a second title in 1950. As for their women’s soccer team, Uruguay has yet to make the semi-finals at a World Cup. Let’s take a look at the two World Cup titles Uruguay has won.
1930 FIFA World Cup
The 1930 World Cup was the first edition of the tournament, and Uruguay took home the title. The tournament took place in Uruguay, so they were victorious on their home soil in front of their home fans. Since it was the first World Cup, there were only thirteen participants, so there was not as much competition as there is today (32 participants currently). To start the tournament, Uruguay was in a group with Romania and Peru. They defeated Peru 1-0 and Romania 4-0, so they were crowned group winners and advanced to the semi-finals of the tournament. The Uruguayan team was incredibly well-balanced in these two games, as their five goals were scored by five different players.
In the semi-finals, Uruguay was matched up with the United States, and they won easily 6-1. Carlos Peucelle and Guillermo Stabile scored two goals each, while Luis Monti and Alejandro Scopelli each scored once. In the first-ever World Cup Final, Uruguay faced off with Argentina. Pablo Dorado scored first for Uruguay, but Argentina managed to score the next two goals, meaning Uruguay was trailing for the first time in the tournament. They were not deterred, however, and Jose Cea, Santos Iriarte and Hector Castro each scored to lead Uruguay to a 4-2 win. Clearly, based on all of the players who scored goals along the way, Uruguay was a well-balanced squad that deserved the title of first World Cup champions.
1950 FIFA World Cup
In 1950, Uruguay was able to capture their second World Cup title, this time in neighboring Brazil. Just like in 1930, this tournament had a smaller field of only thirteen teams. These are the only two World Cups to have as few as thirteen teams. While in 1930, it was because it was the first tournament, in 1950, it was due to teams either being banned or refusing to participate in response to World War II, which had just ended five years earlier. This was the first tournament since 1938 due to the war.
As for Uruguay, they began the World Cup in a small, two-team group with Bolivia. They defeated the Bolivians quite easily by a score of 8-0 to advance to the final stage of the tournament. They were led by Oscar Miguez in this match, who scored a hat trick. Unlike other World Cups, there was no knockout stage in this tournament. Rather, each of the four group winners advanced to one final group, where the winner of that group was the winner of the World Cup. The three other teams to win their group along with Uruguay were Brazil, Sweden, and Spain. In their first two matches, Uruguay tied Spain 2-2 and defeated Sweden 3-2. They were led by Miguez and Alcides Ghigga, who each scored two goals between these two matches.
Going into the final match of the tournament with Brazil, Uruguay had four points in the group thanks to their one win and one tie, while Brazil had six points thanks to their two wins. Not only did they have two wins, but they had won quite easily, 7-1 and 6-1 over Sweden and Spain, respectively. That, combined with the fact that they were playing in their home country, made the Brazilians the heavy favorite in this final match. All Brazil needed was a draw to win the group (and the World Cup), while Uruguay had to win the match. Brazil scored first in the 47th minute, but Uruguay tied the match up in the 66th minute thanks to a goal from Juan Schiaffino. Then, in the 79th minute, Ghigga scored the eventual winner, and Uruguay shocked the Brazilians with a 2-1 victory. To this day, this remains one of the more surprising World Cup results in history. | <urn:uuid:d22c66b3-f987-4cbd-99a0-3e6f737a6448> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rookieroad.com/fifa-world-cup/how-many-world-cups-has-uruguay-won-6486126/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.991102 | 884 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Timeshares boomed in popularity during the 1980s when many British people took advantage of this opportunity to buy shares in holiday apartments in coastal resorts across countries like Spain and Portugal.
The Timeshare deal is that the owner pays a one-off lump sum in return for the right to use the holiday apartment for a set number of weeks each year. They must also pay maintenance charges on an annual basis.
The Timeshare industry has received a lot of bad press in recent years and as a result, you may now hear them being referred to as ‘fractional ownership’ or ‘holiday clubs.’ But the scheme is still the same—and they’re still a bad investment.
Timeshare scams are common. Often, you’re encouraged to buy a Timeshare on holiday when you’re relaxed and your defences are down. You might be encouraged to attend a presentation where salespeople pressure you into buying a share in a property, using gifts and expensive dinners to persuade you.
After you purchase the Timeshare, it emerges that the property isn’t exactly as described—or doesn’t exist at all.
Often Timeshare contracts are written in perpetuity, which means that they don’t have a specified end date. As a result, you’re locked into paying fees for your property indefinitely—even after you no longer want to use it. The Timeshare, and its fees, may even be inherited by your family members after you die.
Buying a Timeshare abroad often means you aren’t protected by the same consumer rights as in your own country. What’s more, you’re vulnerable to agreeing to contracts that you don’t fully understand because they aren’t in your native language. Post-Brexit, there’s additional uncertainty about the rights of Timeshare owners.
If you took out a loan from the Timeshare company to cover the cost of the Timeshare, the interest rates are likely to be high, which means you’ll be paying back more than you initially borrowed.
You can’t rent your Timeshare out, unlike other holiday accommodation. This means it won’t generate any income for you. Most investments are done with the intention of making a profit and so Timeshares are definitely not considered a wise investment.
Maintenance fees are another Timeshare cost, in addition to the initial payment. These are used to cover any property upkeep such as cleaning, gardening, and building work, and can increase year on year.
Timeshares are infamously hard to sell on. You might be able to convince the company to buy it back or ask a resale company to find a new buyer, but this will likely be for a much lower price than you originally paid.
This is because Timeshares depreciate in value from the moment you buy them, with sellers far outnumbering buyers. Plus, because Timeshares are co-owned, you can’t undertake any work to improve their value. What’s more, they are also originally sold at a high mark up because of the cost of impressive sales presentations, prize giveaways, and other incentives.
With so many people trying to get out of their Timeshares, there’s been an increase in the number of fraudulent Timeshare resale companies offering to find a buyer for an upfront payment before disappearing. There are also Timeshare release scams where fraudsters promise to help you get out of your Timeshare contract in return for a fee.
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When your employer pays you, whether by check or by direct deposit, you receive a paycheck stub. It will either be a paper stub or a report you find online Either way, there’s information on it that tells you what you earned, when you earned it and what was taken out for taxes, insurance, retirement and other items.
Look for the words “Gross Pay” or “Gross.” This is the total amount you earned, before withholding. There might be a pair of dates following this amount, indicating the first and last days of the pay period covered by the pay check.
Locate the phrase “Federal Tax.” It might be abbreviated as FT or FWT, which stands for federal withholding tax. This is the amount your employer has withheld from your check to pay the IRS on your behalf. It acts as a prepayment against the total amount of income tax you will owe at the end of the calendar year. It is based on your pay and your payroll deductions. State taxes are indicated by “State Tax" or the letter ST or SWT. This is the amount your employer has taken out to pay to the state government on your behalf in prepayment of your state tax liability. You may also be blessed with local, county or city income taxes. The labels on the boxes on the check are usually self-explanatory.
Look at the stub and find the letters FICA, OASDI, SS, or SSWT, or just look for the words “Social Security.” This is the money taken out of your check to fund the Social Security system and equals 6.2 percent of your gross pay. “Medicare” or MWT is the 1.45 percent of your gross pay that you owe Uncle Sam every payday for the Medicare services that, hopefully, will be available to you when you reach age 65.
Find "Other Deductions." This is where you might find the money taken out for health insurance plans, retirement plans and other benefits.
Find “Miscellaneous Deductions.” This might be abbreviated, too, often appearing as MISC or Misc. Ded. These items, if any, are those that you’ve elected to have your employer pay on your behalf, out of your paycheck. They include such things as union dues or purchases made through your employer for uniforms, equipment or tools.
Pinpoint “Net Pay.” This is what is left you all of your taxes, benefits and miscellaneous items have been deducted from the gross pay.
- Not all states have a state income tax. If you live in one of those states, you won't see the state withholding category on your check.
- The letters “YTD” or the phrase “Year to Date” may follow each deduction or tax. This is how much of each tax or each deduction you’ve paid during the current calendar year.
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Several people who fell victim to dengue or had family members who contracted it said they supported the recent move to stiffen penalties for those found to have mosquitoes breeding in their homes.
About 10 people The Straits Times spoke to said they supported the decision as they felt it was important to resolve the dengue problem before it spread to other parts of the neighbourhood.
From March 14, a home owner will be fined $200 if mosquitoes are found breeding in the premises, regardless of whether the house is in a dengue cluster or not.
Previously, only home owners in dengue clusters were fined.
Singapore Management University undergraduate Ko Ding Wei, 20, said he was surprised to find that, in the past, only those caught breeding mosquitoes in a dengue cluster were fined. He contracted dengue in 2008, despite not living in a dengue cluster. He said: "It's better to solve the problem early before it starts to spread."
Mr Segar Gopal, 48, who is self-employed, lives in Sing Avenue - off Rangoon Road - a dengue cluster in the past. He said: "Without the fine, many people wouldn't be bothered to keep their homes mosquito-free. Innocent people would get dengue because of other people's carelessness." Mr Segar's sister and her two children contracted dengue after visiting him in November last year, despite his efforts to keep his home mosquito-free.
A $200 fine is tough but medical expenses and, possibly, a family member dying, are even worse.
MR JAMES LEE, who was fined 10 years ago
The latest push against dengue by the National Environment Agency (NEA) comes after it said two weeks ago that dengue could hit an all-time high of 30,000 cases this year due, in part, to the El Nino weather phenomenon.
According to the NEA, most cases of mosquito breeding are in homes. It reported 513 new dengue cases in the week ending Feb 27, a fall of 80 cases from the previous week. Since Jan 3, 4,548 people have been infected and there have been two deaths.
Mr James Lee, 52, a director at a firm that sells mobility devices, was fined 10 years ago after a toilet in his house was found to be a breeding ground for mosquito larvae.
Since then, he has been more careful about making sure there is no stagnant water at home.
Others, however, felt more could be done to fight the dengue scourge. Retired secretary Winnie Tan, 62, who lives in Upper East Coast Road, said tougher quarantine measures should be put in place.
She contracted dengue three years ago, but her condition was initially determined to be not serious enough to ward her. So, she went home and went about her daily activities. She said: "I now realise I could have infected others."
For Mr Lee, despite doing his best to keep his home mosquito-free, his son, mother-in-law and maid contracted dengue three years ago. He said: "A $200 fine is tough, but medical expenses and, possibly, a family member dying, are even worse." | <urn:uuid:70a35efd-513e-4975-91ef-bb3ead8ac7b4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/environment/home-owners-back-new-dengue-rules | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00139-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984338 | 671 | 1.765625 | 2 |
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Friendly Endeavor, June 1939. Oregon Yearly Meeting of Friends, Newberg, Oregon June 13-18; Enthusiasts Attend Wauna Mer Conference Banquet; Narrow Bridge Being Built to Wauna Mer Conference; "Occupy Till I Come" Conference Theme; Ears That Can't Hear by Paul Cammack; Notice to Prospective Waiters and Waitresses. Publication of the Oregon Yearly Meeting of Friends, later known as the Northwest Yearly Meeting.
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As the first phase of its new program on U.S. Global Engagement, the Carnegie Council examines the critical and evolving U.S.-Russia relationship. To aid in this exploration, the Council entered into a joint project with the Moscow-based Institute for United States and Canada Studies [ISKRAN], the most established and prestigious of Russia's think tanks devoted to bilateral relations.
The cooperative project comprised a series of papers on three critical topics, in each case with submissions from both Russian and American experts. The topics are: arms control, with a particular focus on the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, with related missile defense questions; Afghanistan and the future of the NATO alliance; and security, military, and energy issues in the Arctic region.
We now present the first set of papers, those on arms control. The papers speak for themselves, but three general observations may be made: First, arms control and treaties governing both offensive and defensive military capabilities remain absolutely central to U.S.-Russia relations; second, much as the Obama administration may wish to do so, it is not realistic to expect that Russia will agree to "decouple" discussion of the different components of the arms control agenda; and third, the paper writers in general exhibit a healthy skepticism to temper long-range expectations following the recent meetings of the two presidents in Moscow—while offering suggestions for a way ahead to benefit both the United States and Russia. | <urn:uuid:1d64b36c-05a5-4e7b-bea7-04bbae162ea3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/publications/articles_papers_reports/0022.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00121-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930884 | 294 | 1.804688 | 2 |
FORMATION AND PROMOTION OF JOINT STOCK COMPANY
Q8. Discuss the legal formalities necessary for the formation of Joint Stock Company?
Ans: PROMOTION STAGE
It is a stage when concerned people (promoters) take following steps to form a company.
Before starting the business, promoters have to think about the nature and production of company’s business.
(ii). Preliminary Investigation:
After deciding the nature of business, promoters n preliminary investigation and make out plans as regard to the availability of capital, means t transportation, labour, electricity, gas and water etc.
(iii) Assembling Of Factors Of Production
If the promoters find preliminary investigation satisfactory then they try to accumulate different factors of production. For this, they also take help of several specialist persons and enter into agreements with them.
(iv) Estimation of Preliminary Expenses
The promoters also work out the estimated preliminary expenses, which are necessary to start and run the business.
(vi) Financial Sources
The promoters also decide the capital sources of the company. The public company can raise its capital by issuing shares and debentures or by making agreement with underwriters.
(vi) Preparation of Essential Documents
In addition to above discussed matters, the promoters also prepare following essential documents for the formation of company
(a) Memorandum of company
(b) Articles of company
(c) Prospectus of company
(vii) Name of the Company
The name of the company should be such which can indicate its functions and the name is easy to remember. For the name, the permission of the Registrar should be received in advance.
viii) Sanction for Capital issue
For the maximum issue of shares capital or debentures, promoters have to take permission from central government in advance.
(2) INCORPORATION STAGE
For registration or incorporation of a company, promoters have to perform following formalities.
(i) Filling of Documents
Following documents have to be submitted by the promoters in the office of the Registrar of the state in which the company is to be established.
(a) Memorandum Of Association
This document indicates the name of the company along with the address of its registered office and name of state. The most important clause of this document is the objects of the company. It also indicates the Authorized or Registered Capital of the company.
(b) Articles Of Association:
This document contains by-laws for internal control and management but it cannot go out of the objects mentioned in Memorandum of Association.
(c) List Of Directors
Promoters have to send a list of the names of directors, occupation, and address along with their declaration that they are ready to take the qualification shares to the Registrar. But private company is not required to send such list.
(d) Written Consent of Directors
All the directors, whose names are in the list, have to give their consent that they are ready to act as directors of the company. This consent should be sent to the Registrar.
(e) Declaration Of Qualifying Shares:
Directors have to submit a declaration certificate that they have taken up qualifying shares and paid up the money or paying it in near future to the Registrar.
Promoters have to file a prospectus or in lieu of prospectus with the registrar. This is not necessary in the case of private company.
(g) Statutory Declaration
At the end promoters have to send a statutory declaration to the Registrar that all legal formalities have been completed and fulfilled.
(ii) Payment Registration Fee:
For the registration of company, the registration fee is also paid to registrar, which can be divided into following three parts.
Application and documents filling fee.
Registration fee (varies with the amount of authorized capital of the company)
Stamp fee on memorandum and articles.
(iii) Certificate Of Incorporation:
If the registrar finds all the documents right and thinks that all the formalities have been done then he issues the’ certificate of incorporation to promoters. After this, the private company can start its business.
(3) CAPITAL SUBSRIPTION STAGE
After getting certificate of incorporation, the next stage is to make arrangement for raising capital.
For any kind of business, the company raises its capital through following sources.
(i) By issuing shares
(ii) By issuing debentures
(iii) By savings
(4) CERTICATE OF COMMENCEMENT
For the commencement of business, every public company has to obtain the certificate of commencement, which requires the fulfillment of following conditions.
(i) Issuance OF Prospectus
The Company has to issue prospectus for selling shares and debentures to public.
(ii) Allotment Of Shares
After receiving applications from the people for purchasing shares and debentures, the company allots the shares and debentures according to the provisions of memorandum.
(iii) Minimum Subscription
It is also certified that the shares have been allotted to an amount not less than the minimum subscription.
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The Poema Autunnale of 1925 was written for Mario Corti and dedicated to him. Once again Respighi ventured into Lark Ascending territory, as much of the writing was modal, creating the desired archaic atmosphere, and double-stops were much used for effect. The composer had in mind a programme conveying the “sweet melancholy” of an autumn day, enlivened at one point by a Dionysian dance until finally the great god Pan “wandered lonely across the fields under falling golden leaves”. Rather than have the woodwinds evoke Pan’s pipes, Respighi allotted this task to the solo violin. The première was given in Berlin by Georg Kulenkampff, on 12 January 1926, with Emil Bohnke conducting the Berlin Symphony Orchestra. The first American performances were with piano, which rather defeated the object of this romantic tone poem: Sante lo Priore played it at Aeolian Hall, New York, in 1926, partnered by Maria Carreras; and in 1927 Respighi himself accompanied Francis Macmillen at Carnegie Hall. In Italy, apart from Corti, the distinguished violinist Arrigo Serato championed the piece, giving the Roman première at the Augusteo in 1929 with Molinari.
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The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol are serviced by the
secretariat, also known as the Climate Change Secretariat, whose mandate is laid out in general terms in
Article 8 of the Convention.
The main functions of the secretariat are to:
- make practical arrangements for sessions of the Convention and Protocol bodies
- monitor implementation of the commitments under the Convention and the Protocol through collection,
analysis and review of information and data provided by Parties
- assist Parties in implementing their commitments
- support negotiations, including through the provision of substantive analysis
- maintain registries for the issuance of emission credits and for the assigned amounts of emissions of
Parties that are traded under emission trading schemes
- provide support to the compliance regime of the Kyoto Protocol
- coordinate with the secretariats of other relevant international bodies, notably the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and its implementing agencies
(UNDP, UNEP and the World Bank), the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC), and other relevant conventions.
Specific tasks include:
- the preparation of official documents for the COP and subsidiary bodies
- the coordination of In-Depth
Reviews of Annex I Party national communications
- the compilation of greenhouse gas inventory data.
The growth in technical work needed since the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol (e.g. on reporting guidelines
and the LULUCF sector) is leading to a trend of increased technical expertise within the secretariat.
The secretariat is institutionally linked to the United Nations without being integrated in any programme,
and administered under United Nations Rules and Regulations. It now employs some 495 staff, including
staff on temporary appointments, from all over the world. Its head, the Executive Secretary, is
appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations in consultation with the COP through its Bureau, and
currently holds the rank of Assistant-Secretary-General. The Executive Secretary reports to the
Secretary-General through the Under-Secretary-General heading the Department of Management on administrative
and financial matters, and through the Under-Secretary-General heading the Department for Economic and Social Affairs on other matters.
As an impartial body of international civil servants, the secretariat is accountable, through the Executive
Secretary, to the COP, CMP and subsidiary bodies and carries out those tasks that fall under its mandate in
the Convention and programme budget. The COP, CMP and subsidiary bodies will often request a specific
assignment from the secretariat within this mandate, for example, to prepare a background study on a
particular issue. The secretariat is guided in its work by the Bureau of the COP.
Since August 1996, the secretariat has been located in Bonn, Germany. It moved from its previous location in Geneva, Switzerland,
following an offer from Germany to host the secretariat, an offer accepted by COP 1.
Every two years, the Executive Secretary proposes a programme budget, setting out the main tasks to be
performed by the secretariat in the coming biennium and the funding needed to carry out this work. This
proposal is considered in the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI), which then recommends a programme
budget for approval by the COP. The Programme Budget is funded by contributions from Parties, their shares
being based on the UN scale of assessment.
The secretariat's structure is kept under review
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Global movement’s 10th switch-off slated for March 19
Earth Hour 2016 will be celebrated to bring together millions of individuals to shine a light on climate action and the potential of people to change climate change. It will focus on shining a light on various climate actions that individuals, communities, businesses and countries can take such as a transition to renewables, promoting sustainable food and agriculture, adopting climate-friendly legislation and business practices, supporting conservation projects and raising awareness on climate issues in schools and amongst the public.
As the world enters a new era of climate action, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) again urges its supporters to switch-off and shine a light on climate action.
From 8:30 to 9:30 PM on March 19, Earth’s most iconic landmarks will once more switch-off their lights for Earth Hour 2016. WWF-Philippines revealed its campaign plans at a kick-off led by its National Ambassadors Marc Nelson, Rovilson Fernandez and Iza Calzado, plus Earth Hour Steward Mikee Cojuangco-Jaworksi. Earth Hour, which began as a single-city event in 2007, celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2016.
Earth Hour Philippines’ main switch-off event shall be held at the Quezon City Memorial Circle from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM on March 19, Saturday night. “It shall be a showcase of climate solutions,” explains Earth Hour Philippines Director Atty. Gia Ibay. “Stationary bikes will partially power this year’s event to show that united, Pinoys can light up this country with their collective energy. Together, anything is possible.”
Earth Hour uses the simple action of turning off lights for 60 minutes to deliver a powerful message about the need for decisive climate change solutions. In the past decade, the movement has grown from a symbolic switch-off event in Sydney, Australia to the world’s largest open-sourced environmental campaign mobilising hundreds of millions of people in over 7000 cities and 172 countries.
The Philippines has been championing the switch-off since 2008 and has topped participation records from 2009 to 2013 – earning it the title of Earth Hour Hero Country. A growing list of allies has pledged to support this year’s efforts, led by government partners such as the Climate Change Commission (CCC), Department of Budget and Management (DBM), Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), Department of Health (DOH), Department of National Defense (DND), National Economic Development Authority (NEDA), Department of Science and Technology (DOST), League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP), League of Provinces of the Philippines (LPP), Local Government of Quezon City, Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) and the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP).
Corporate champions include ArthaLand, Banana Peel, Coca-Cola, Healthy Options, H&M Philippines, Philips, Starbucks and White Gold Club. Technical partners include Anakata and Solar Solutions.
Earth Hour is a media-driven campaign and shall be promoted through strong alliances with ABS-CBN, ABS-CBN RNG, ABS-CBN Sports and Action, BusinessMirror, BusinessWorld, CNN Philippines, Eagle Broadcasting Corporation, Eagle News, DZUP, FleishmanHillard, FocusMedia, Leo Burnett, Net-25, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Philippine Star, Orange Magazine TV, QCreativs, Radyo Pilipinas, Radyo Agila, Radyo Veritas, Rappler, Tech2Go, TV5 and Yuneoh. WWF is seeking more government, corporate and media support.
Social media users can promote their commitment to the planet by donating their Facebook feeds to spread climate awareness and action in a few clicks on earthhour.org/climateaction. Users can also use the hashtags #EarthHourPhilippines, #ChangeClimateChange, and #RenewableisDoable to promote climate solutions.
“Social media knows no physical boundaries and neither does climate change,” says Earth Hour Global Executive Director Siddarth Das. “A simple action on social media is the kind of powerful statement that can excite friends and communities to be a part of the climate action we need to take on this global challenge.”
Since 2007, WWF and Earth Hour teams worldwide have harnessed the power of the movement to raise support and funds for access to renewable energy, protection of wildlife and their habitats, building sustainable livelihoods and driving climate-friendly legislation and policy. WWF-Philippines in turn celebrates its 20th anniversary this 2016.
Earth Hour 2016 will be celebrated on Saturday, 19 March 2016 between 8:30 and 9:30 PM in the Philippines and across the globe.
Log on to www.earthhour.org and wwf.org.ph for more stories on Earth Hour and climate solutions.
Link to the official Earth Hour 2016 music video: http://ehour.me/EH2016-MusicVideo
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As Business Insider points out, every time you exceed 160 characters in a text message, your service provider charges you for another SMS. If you're on a limited SMS plan, you can keep track of your character count as you compose your messages.
Head to Settings > Messages > Character Count ON.
There are some phrases we use over and over again, like "On my way," "How's it going?" or even things like your e-mail address or signature.
To type these words and phrases faster, customize your own shortcuts. For example, typing "eml" would prompt your full e-mail address. Access the feature by going to Settings > General > Keyboard > Shortcuts.
Check out Rick Broida's very useful post, Ten handy AutoText shortcuts you should create.
Once upon a time, you had to go through a set of complicated steps to get emoticons like smilies, hearts, and other clip art symbols on your iPhone. Now, the feature is built in to iOS 5 and can be enabled in a few steps. Check out the guide here.
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In my experience, it is not easy to go through the entire process of sending a text message via Siri. It's frustrating, time-consuming, and has a (non-scientific) 50 percent failure rate. (To be fair, you can make Siri more efficient with some configurations.)
A more useful feature is speech-to-text within the Messages app. So, you do the work of selecting the recipient, but instead of typing your message, you speak it.
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Information for Researchers
Scope and Content
Collection Title: Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Collection Number: BANC PIC 1963.002:0001-1886
Honeyman, Robert B.
2371 items: oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, lithographs, engravings, etchings, lettersheets, clipper cards, ephemera,
2271 digital objects
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Information for Researchers
Restricted originals. Use digital facsimiles or selected viewing prints only. Use of originals only by permission of the Curator
of Pictorial Collections, The Bancroft Library.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish pictorial materials must be
submitted in writing to the Curator of Pictorial Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft
Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which
must also be obtained by the reader.
Copyright restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted
to research and educational purposes.
[Identification of item], Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material,
BANC PIC 1963.002:0001-1886, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Digital Representations Available
Digital representations of all original pictorial materials are available as a part of the
Container list of the finding aid. Digital image files were captured from originals by the Library Photographic Service. Most Library originals
were captured directly using a Phase One Powerphase digital camera back and a Hasselblad camera. Some flat, unmounted originals
were scanned using an Epson 836XL flatbed scanner. Some framed items were first copied on 4x5 color transparency film, then
scanned using the Epson flatbed. Lower-resolution viewing files were prepared from the high-resolution master TIFF files:
the master files were downsampled, sharpened, color-corrected, adjusted for a gamma 2.2 viewing environment, and saved in
JFIF (JPEG) format before being placed on the server.
The Honeyman Collection originally included books, maps, manuscripts, and printed matter in addition to pictorial materials.
The non-pictorial materials were transferred to other areas of The Library and catalogued separately: books have been cataloged
in the call number range
F591.H72.A-Z; maps have been cataloged in the call number range G9990.H6 No. 1-; manuscript materials have been cataloged with the provenance
noted and traced under the catalog entry,
Honeyman, Robert B.; Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. collection; selected printed materials, such as newspapers, were transferred to the Western Americana Collection of the Bancroft Library.
Baird, Joseph Armstrong.
California's Pictorial Letter Sheets, 1849-1869.
Catalogue of Original Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors in the Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. Collection.
The Friends of the Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley,
Honeyman Collection Inventory Sheets
(unpublished, held by The Bancroft Library).
Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs & graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays.
Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers.
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists, Third Edition.
St. Martin's Press,
Dakin, Susana Bryant.
The Honeyman Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material: a Project of The Friends of the Bancroft
The Bancroft Library,
Leeper, Blanche Magurn.
Early Prints of California: from the Robert B. Honeyman Collection.
Pasadena Art Institute,
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers.
Poughkeepsie, New York:
Fine Arts Patrons of Newport Harbor.
American Primitive Painting, [catalog of] an exhibition organized by The Fine Arts Patrons of Newport Harbor.
The Pavilion Gallery,
Groce, George C. & Davis H. Wallace.
New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America.
Yale University Press,
Early American Book Illustrators and Wood Engravers 1670-1870.
Princeton University Press,
Early American Book Illustrators and Wood Engravers 1670-1870, Volume II Supplement.
Princeton, New Jersey:
Princeton University Press,
Hart, James D.
A companion to California.
University of California Press,
Hughes, Edan Milton.
Artists in California 1786-1940 II.
Hughes Publishing Company,
Karolik, M. & M.
Collection of American Water Colors & Drawings, Volumes 1 & 11.
Museum of Fine Arts,
Kuchel & Dresel.
California in the '50's.
Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von.
Bemerkungen auf einer Reise um die Welt in den Jahren 1803-1807.
"Collection of Robert B. Honeyman, Jr." In California Pictorial 1800-1900; an Exhibition of Two Parts: the Collection of Robert
B. Honeyman, Jr. and Paintings by William Keith.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art,
Mills, Paul and Joseph R. Knowland.
Early Paintings of California in the Robert B. Honeyman Jr. Collection.
The Oakland Art Museum,
Peters, Harry T.
California on Stone.
Garden City, New York:
Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.,
Reps, John W.
Views and Viewmakers of Urban America.
University of Missouri Press,
Artists and Illustrators of the Old West 1850-1900.
Charles Scribner's Sons,
Van Nostrand, Jeanne and Edith M. Coulter.
Berkeley and Los Angeles:
University of California Press,
University of California Press,
A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the World.
Robinson and Edwards,
The Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material was purchased by The Bancroft
Library in 1963. It was funded by the UC Regents and private donations raised by The Friends of The Bancroft Library. Robert
B. Honeyman Jr. assembled this collection largely with the help of his agent Warren Howell of John Howell Books in San Francisco.
Many items were purchased abroad, chiefly in Britain, Germany, and Spain. The collection was previously housed in Mr. Honeyman's
private museum at Rancho Los Cerritos near Mission San Juan Capistrano, California, and until now has never been exhibited
in its entirety.
Scope and Content
The Robert B. Honeyman Jr. Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material is comprised of over 2300
items, with formats and media ranging from original oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, lithographs, engravings, etchings,
lettersheets, clipper cards, and ephemera, to plates and spoons featuring western themes, and a fore-edge painting. The collection
focuses on pictorial interpretations of the old West, with emphasis on the early California and Gold Rush periods. Views depict
the changing landscape of the West under the impact of westward migration, the development of towns and cities, early settlements,
California missions, railroads, gold mining scenes, pioneer and frontier life, native populations, social history, and many
Many items in the collection are of unique historical value as they represent some of the earliest records of a particular
scene, location, or event. Included are the earliest known views of the Presidio of Monterey, Mission Carmel, San Francisco,
and Yosemite. Geographically, the collection focuses primarily on California, but also includes images from the Pacific Northwest,
other Northern American states, South and Central America, Oceania, Europe, Russia, and other locations. The entire collection
covers from ca.1790 through the early 1930s, with the bulk of works dating between 1850 and the 1870s.
The Honeyman Collection contains original watercolors and drawings from important early voyages and scientific expeditions
to the Pacific Coast and California including: the Malaspina expedition (1791-1792); the Vancouver expedition (1791-1795);
the Rezanov, Kruzenshtern, and Langsdorff expeditions (1803-1807); the Otto von Kotezebue expedition (1816); and others. These
works include some of the earliest known depictions of native populations of North America and indigenous peoples from Oceania
and the Pacific Coast.
Numerous well-known painters of the West are represented in the collection, as noted by Susana Bryant Dakin in a brochure
produced by The Friends of The Bancroft Library in 1963 to aid in fundraising for the purchase of the collection:
"Well-known painters of the West... are represented by oils and watercolors and drawings in the collection. Charles Christian
Nahl may be considered the most important resident artist of the early American period in California history. Besides a sketch-book,
dated 1853 and 1854, Mr. Honeyman managed to acquire five Nahl oils, including the beautiful and exciting
Incident on the Chagres River. A watercolor by Charles Russell,
The War Party, is small but of prime quality. Alexander Edouart's
Blessing of the Enrequita Mine, New Almaden, in the Year 1859 is a superb documentary of an important mining activity. There is a magnificent oil painting of
Mokelumne Hill by A. D. O. Browere; and impressive scenes by the French artist E. E. Narjot de Francheville, an early arrival on the West
Coast, attracted by news of gold."
In addition, the collection includes works by Albert Bierstadt, Augusto Ferran, Alfred Jacob Miller, Jules Tavernier, William
B. McMurtrie, Charles Wimar, Joseph Lee, Thomas Hill, William Keith, Edward Jump, and other prominent artists. Lithographs,
engravings, etchings, and other prints were produced by such well known firms and individuals as Britton & Rey, Currier &
Ives, Louis Nagel, Charles B. Gifford, Sarony & Major, and others. Lesser known artists are also represented in this collection,
as well as artists of various nationalities, including French, British, Italian, Spanish, and Russian, many of whom were lured
to the Pacific Coast by the California gold fields.
Robert Brodhead Honeyman graduated in 1920 from Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, with an engineering degree. Mr. Honeyman
was an avid collector throughout his lifetime. He collected in a variety of areas including art, science, American and English
literature, stamps, British orders, decorations, medals, and others. His collection of books and manuscripts in the history
of science was quite significant, and was later auctioned at Sotheby's. Mr. Honeyman maintained two homes, one in Rye, New
York, and the other in Southern California, near Mission San Juan Capistrano, where he built his private museum at Rancho
Los Cerritos. He died in 1987 at 90 years of age.
Goals and Limits of the Project
The main goal of the Honeyman Digital Archival Project, funded by the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), was to make
The Bancroft Library's Robert B. Honeyman Collection available on the internet. As one of the premier sources of pictorial
documentation of the history of California and the West, this collection is a valuable resource for teaching, learning, and
research; access to which has primarily been limited to those who could travel to The Bancroft Library.
The Honeyman Digital Archiving Project sought to obtain full bibliographic control over the collection through creation of
USMARC collection, series, and sub-series records; a comprehensive and detailed online finding aid encoded using EAD (Encoded
Archival Description); and archival digital images of all items hyperlinked to descriptions. The project followed cataloging
rules established in Elisabeth W. Betz's
Graphic Materials: rules for describing original items and historical collections
and created internal conventions for data capture when necessary. The extent of the project was to create records sufficient
for access to the collection, but did not allow for extensive research of the collection holdings. Item-level description
relied primarily on pre-existing documentary resources for intellectual content, with other descriptive information (where
available) taken directly from the item. Numerous sources were consulted regarding the content of the collection (see
), but more extensive research and documentation of the collection still remains to be done. Any correction or feedback regarding
the collection should be directed to the Project Archivists (Eva M.M. Garcelon and Mary W. Elings) or the Pictorial Curator
(Jack von Euw) of The Bancroft Library; Email:
Descriptive Standards and Methodology
This finding aid grew out of several existing documentary resources compiled about the Honeyman Collection since its acquisition
in 1963. These included inventories, exhibition catalogs, sales catalog, shelf lists, and other documents related to the collection.
Resources which existed in electronic form were converted and imported to serve as the basis for the project control database.
The data records were then compiled, edited, expanded, and descriptive standards applied in order to provide more consistent
and comprehensive descriptive information for each item in the collection.
Because the collection was primarily comprised of original works of art and prints, the project looked at museum and visual
resource standards for description in structuring the data to be captured at the item-level. The following resources were
consulted during the development of the descriptive standards of the project:
The Honeyman project was a participant and the first major contributor to the Museums and the Online Archive of California
(MOAC) project [
]. This collaborative project between libraries and museums seeks to establish best practices for including museum and special
collections within the Online Archive of California (OAC). As a participant, the Honeyman project followed guidelines agreed
upon by the MOAC partners. For descriptive elements, the project used the REACH element set; for granularity of description,
the project used the Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA); and for data mark-up, the Encoded Archival Description
(EAD) standard, an SGML platform independent descriptive standard maintained by the Library of Congress. It is hoped that
the Honeyman project will, along with the other participants involved in the MOAC project, serve as a model for the implementation
of the EAD standard for similar collections.
History of Arrangment
The Honeyman Collection arrived at The Bancroft Library in various stages and was primarily unarranged. A systematic inventory
of the collection was never done by Mr. Honeyman, however, the collection was accompanied at the time of acquisition by a
sales catalog created by Warren Howell of John Howell Books of San Francisco. The present physical arrangement of the collection
was carried out at The Bancroft Library by Joseph Armstrong Baird Jr. from 1964-1965. Call numbers were assigned sequentially
and, whenever possible items were arranged in logical groupings, such as pictorial lettersheets, sketchbooks, etc. Items were
described in detail by Baird in the
Honeyman Collection Inventory Sheets (hereafter referred to as
Inventory Sheets) following standard American museum accession methods. Out of his work grew a publication
Catalogue of Original Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors in the Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. Collection published by the Friends of the Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, 1968, which has been a valuable resource in the creation of
this finding aid.
Arrangement of Container List
For purposes of this finding aid, the container list was organized into three hierarchical groups. The arrangement of these
not reflect the physical arrangement of the collection, but was created in order to facilitate online display and browsing. The
not represent all items in that area; other items may be searched via controlled terms or by keyword. The three groups are as
I. Individual items by geographical location:
Items, the primary subject matter of which was a geographical location, were organized based on locations predominantly represented
in the collection.
- Northern California: Sacramento
West (U.S.): Nevada
II. Individual items by subject or format:
Items, the primary subject matter of which does not represent a specific geographic location, were organized under general
subject or format groupings.
- California Gold Rush
Indians of North America
III. Series groupings:
Items which comprise a series or prearranged group (i.e. sketchbooks, survey drawings, albums, published series, collections
by format, etc.) were organized under a general series headings.
William B. McMurtrie drawings and watercolors
Clipper ship advertisement cards
Key to Item-Level Description
The format of the entries in the container listing is as follows:
Creator(s), dates, nationality, role (qualifying notes)
Date, place of publication (if available)
Physical description (technique and support: medium)
Dimensions (in cm., and other dimensions)
Call number - shelf location (qualifying notes)
Subjects (controlled vocabulary terms)
Genre/Formats (controlled vocabulary terms)
Note: all bracketed text indicates supplied information, i.e. not transcribed from the item. Justification for supplied information
is generally recorded in the Notes/Inscriptions section.
Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von (1773-1850)
[A dance of Indians at Mission of San Jose, New California]
[between 1806 and 1810]
drawing on paper: ink wash highlighted with gouache
22.4 x 28.2 cm.
BANC PIC 1963.002:1023--FR
Six Indians with elaborately painted and tattooed bodies, wearing native costumes and headdresses, dance in clearing near
river. Possibly the earliest known view of Mission Indians at Mission San Jose, California.
Supplied title. Handwritten title (LC): Ein Tanz der Indianer in der Mission in St. Jose in Neu-Californien. Signature (LR):
Dessiné par G. de Langsdorff. Handwritten (UR): XIII. Also attributed to Tilesius von Tilenau (see Van Nostrand's California
Pictorial). Ref. note: Langsdorff--German ed., Vol. II, Plate 10; text, p. 43; English edition, Vol. II, Plate 2; text, p.
48. Inscriptions in German.
Subjects: California, Northern; Clothing & dress; Expeditions & surveys; Indians of North America; Manners & customs; Missions; San
Francisco Bay Area (Calif.); Voyages to the Pacific.
Genre/Formats: Wash drawings; Travel sketches.
Explanation of Descriptive Elements
Creator(s), dates, nationality, role (qualifying notes):All creators (artists, lithographers, etchers, engravers, publishers, printers, etc.) associated with the production of an
item are listed by name; followed by dates (birth and death, or active dates), nationality (if known), and roles (if determined).
Creator names and roles were cited based on authorship information as it appeared either in printed or handwritten form on
the item. In cases where assignation of authorship did not appear directly on the item, a qualifying note indicating "attributed
to," "in style of" or "based on original by" was provided following the creator information. Justification for assignation
of authorship is given in the
Notes/Inscriptions area. Name types (personal or corporate) are indexed within the finding aid.
Creator biographies: [available in near future]:each entry is linked to brief biographical information compiled during collection processing and from variety of printed and
online resources (see
Title: titles were transcribed from the item or supplied. Locations (city, state, or country) and expansions of abbreviations were
added to some transcribed titles for clarity. Foreign titles were transcribed in the
Notes/Inscriptions area and an English equivalent supplied in the title area.
Date: transcribed from item (either printed or in the hand of the artist) or supplied. The following date forms were used in this
||date of copyright
Place of publication: transcribed from item or supplied, if known. In cases where place of publication is unknown or does not apply (as with original
works of art), no information is recorded.
Physical description: technique, support and medium. Ex.: Print on tinted paper: lithograph.
Dimensions: height by width in centimeters to the nearest tenth. Other dimensions, such as irregular shapes (oval, dome, etc.), visible
image (if full view obstructed), sheet or mount size (if significantly larger than image), folded (if published as such),
etc., follow dimensions.
Call Number -shelf location (qualifying notes):
the call number consists of the collection number "1963.002" followed by a colon and the item number. This number is followed
by two dashes and the
Example: 1963.002:0001--A. In some cases, this is followed by
provided in parenthesis, including:
Copy: exact duplicate (digital representation not provided).
Variant: similar item or copy, with clear variation in size, color, creator, date, etc.
Note: multiple copies or variants are numbered sequentially, example: 1963.002:0001--A (variant 1).
Supplement: item that provides additional information related to another item, such as keys, modern reprints with supplementary notes,
etc. (some digital representations not provided).
Enclosure: additional material shelved with item, such as reproductions, transcriptions, etc.
Recto: front, if images appear on both sides.
Verso: back, if images appear on both sides.
View: numbered or lettered views indicating relationship of several items to one another.
Content/description: textual description of image and supplementary information adding to content. Major and minor subjects are mentioned. Uncontrolled
and alternative vocabulary is used in order to complement controlled terms used in
subject access section (see
Notes/inscriptions: includes information transcribed from item, preceded by the form (printed, handwritten, or supplied) and its location on item
(see abbreviations below). Supplied information is indicated, as is justification for attributions and other descriptive information.
Some copy, variant, supplement, and other explanatory notes are included here. Notes related to "Inventory Sheets" refer to
Honeyman Collection Inventory Sheets (see
History of Arrangement). Other reference notes are indicated by 'Ref. note'. Language of inscriptions, if other than English, was indentified.
Abbreviations used for locations of transcribed notes:
| (UL) = upper left
(UC) = upper center
(UR) = upper right
(ML) = middle left
(MC) = middle center
(MR) = middle right
(LL) = lower left
(LC) = lower center
(LR) = lower right
Controlled access is provided via lists of selected subject terms (topical and geographic) and genre/format terms which focus
on the major themes and types of works represented in the collection. Access is provided to
major subject themes through controlled vocabulary terms applied to each item record, while
minor subjects themes (or alternate terms) were used in other descriptive areas, such as
Title, Series, Content/description, and Notes/inscriptions. Controlled vocabulary genre/format terms provide access to broad genre types and formats, with more detailed description of
the item's physical characteristics provided in the
The goal of this approach was to balance the use of both controlled and uncontrolled vocabulary in order to facilitate both
controlled term and keyword searches. In order to maintain limited lists of controlled terms, personal and corporate names
were not included in the list of subjects. An attempt was made, however, to use standardized name forms for personal and corporate
names in the descriptive areas (see above). These name forms were drawn from sources including: LC Name Authority File, ULAN
(Union List of Artist Names), and selected printed resources (see
Subject: topical and geographic subject terms were drawn from two sources: the
Library of Congress Thesaurus for Graphic Materials (hereafter cited as
lctgm), primarily for topical terms, and the
Library of Congress Subject Headings (hereafter cited as
LCSH) primarily for geographical locations and ethnic terms not found in
lctgm (the source of each term is noted within the finding aid mark-up).
List of topical terms used:
- Arms & armament
- Business enterprises
- Clothing & dress
- Discovery & exploration
- Environmental degradation
- Expeditions & surveys
- Frontier & pioneer life
- Funerary facilities
- Fur trade
- Gold rushes
- Indians of North America
- Indigenous peoples
- Lakes & ponds
- Lumber industry
- Manners & customs
- Military facilities
- Military personnel
- Overland journeys to the Pacific
- Rites & ceremonies
- Voyages to the Pacific
- Water works
- Westward movement
List of geographical terms used:
Terms designating major geographical areas (U.S. states, non-U.S. countries, and regions such as Oceania, Pacific Northwest,
Central America, etc.) were applied to items representing specific locations. Because California is predominantly featured
within the collection, the state was divided into California, Southern and California, Northern. Within these divisions, terms
for major cities and regions were applied. Specific locations, not in the list of geographic terms below, may be found via
- Bermuda Islands
- California, Northern
- California, Southern
- Canary Islands
- Central America
- Costa Rica
- Los Angeles region (Calif.)
- Monterey Bay region (Calif.)
- Monterey (Calif.)
- New Mexico (State)
- New York
- New Zealand
- Northwest, Pacific
- Sacramento (Calif.)
- San Diego (Calif.)
- San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
- South America
- Washington (State)
- West (U.S.)
- Yosemite Valley (Calif.)
Genre/Form: Genre and format terms were drawn from the
Library of Congress Thesaurus for Graphic Materials (hereafter cited as
List of genre/format terms used:
- Architectural drawings
- Bird's-eye views
- Botanical illustrations
- Cartoons (Commentary)
- Clipper ship cards
- Engravings, color
- Keys (Legends)
- Lithographs, color
- Marines (Visual works)
- Oil paintings
- Panoramic views
- Photomechanical prints
- Pictorial lettersheets
- Sheet music covers
- Travel sketches
- Wash drawings
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PURPOSE: The Institute for Healthcare Improvement has identified Rapid Response Teams (RRT) as an intervention that improves the care of hospitalized patients. Many RRTs utilize nurses and respiratory therapists because of the limited availability of physician support. We proposed using our remote intensivist in conjunction with a mobile telemedicine presence for real-time support to our RRTs.
METHODS: Our remote tele-intensivist currently covers 44 ICU beds in 5 hospitals with a combined hospital bed capacity of 752. Intensivist support for the system-wide RRT was initiated in October 2005 utilizing robots that are brought to the patient’s bedside along with the RRT team. The tele-intensivist can visualize the patient and any bedside monitors and can be seen and heard by the patient and care-givers in the hospital. We evaluated the preliminary outcomes and nursing satisfaction to this new RRT methodology.
RESULTS: There were 64 RRT calls from med/surg floors over the first 16 weeks of the program. Preliminary results found that the remote intensivist provided immediate care orders in 70% of the cases, and 55% of the cases required transfer to another hospital unit (ICU or telemetry). Since initiating this program, out of unit cardiac arrests have declined from a nine-month prior average of 38% to currently 28%. A nine-month prior average of codes per 1000 discharges has dropped from 11% to 8.7%. Nursing satisfaction scores averaged 4.7-5.0 (1-5 scale, with 5 strongly agrees) for improved communication and collaboration and better patient outcomes.
CONCLUSION: Mobile telemedicine units in conjunction with a remote intensivist can provide expert support to multiple hospitals RRTs concomitantly. Intensivist assessments and orders provide more timely urgent care interventions. This program has positively impacted preliminary data on out of unit cardiac arrests, codes per 1000 discharges and nursing satisfaction.
CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: Use of telemedicine technology can provide intensivist coverage to multiple hospitals from a central location and represents a significant capability for extending intensivist care out to floor-based patients in need.
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A dermatologist definition of what acne is…and isn’t.
Acne breakouts are a daily skin care concern for many people, both teenagers and adults. Acne isn’t limited by age, ethnicity or gender—it’s an equal opportunity skin condition. In addition to causing physical discomfort, acne and the lack of self-confidence caused by breakouts can also impact a person mentally and emotionally. The first step to treating and getting rid of acne breakouts, however, is to actually understand what acne is. After all, you wouldn’t try to treat a cold when it may actually be the flu. Different types of acne breakouts need to be treated differently. This section of the Murad Acne Resource Center will explain what acne technically is so that you’ll better understand the skin condition that you’re ultimately trying to remedy.
How Does Acne Form on Your Face and Body?
No matter what type of acne you have, all blemishes and acne breakouts form from the same process below the skin. It begins inside of a hair follicle and results in the clogging of the follicle’s pore. The follicle, for an unknown reason that could be related to hormones, stress or even diet, overproduces skin cells, which ultimately clog the pore. However, clogged pores can also occur as a result of not exfoliating your top layer of skin or not removing oil and dirt from the surface of your skin. When that happens, the resulting dry skin and dirt can be sucked down into a pore by sebum (skin oil) and result in a blackhead or blemish. Clogged pores can happen anywhere. Most typically, clogged pores and acne breakouts occur on your face,
but they can also occur on your back and body.
Once your pores are blocked, the sebum (oil) in your skin becomes trapped in your pores. If you have excessively oily skin, this can be an even greater problem and lead to more intensive breakouts. The trapped oil causes bacteria to begin to grow in your blocked pores, ultimately causing an infection, which is the blemish or acne breakout that results.
The best acne treatments will help prevent your pores from becoming blocked while also fighting the bacteria that cause breakouts. If you’re only treating the oil and not addressing the source of your clogged pores, you’ll continue to experience breakouts.
Though the same physiological process causes each type of blemish, there are two different types of acne that you may be experiencing.
Acne Type One: Non-Inflammatory Acne (Blackheads and Whiteheads)
Non-inflammatory acne breakouts, which in medical terms are referred to as comedones, are a type of acne that doesn’t create an inflamed, wound-like blemish. The two types of comedones (and the types of acne you’re probably most familiar with) are blackheads and whiteheads.
This lack of inflammation is because a comedone can release its contents to the surface of the skin and heal without growing into a larger infection. However, when a pore or follicle that hosts an acne infection ruptures, inflammatory acne can result. (See below.)
Whitehead blemishes may show up as tiny white spots or bumps, but they may also be so small that they’re invisible to the naked eye. A whitehead blemish forms when the trapped sebum and bacteria remain below the skin’s surface.
Blackhead blemishes, on the other hand, form when a pore opens up to the surface. Then the sebum, which contains the skin pigment melanin, is exposed to oxygen. The oxidation process of the sebum turns it to a brown or black color. Though blackheads may appear to simply be spots of dirt, they can’t be easily washed away. They may also last for a longer period of time, because the contents of the pore or follicle drain to the skin’s surface slowly.
While many people are tempted to treat whiteheads and blackheads by squeezing or popping them, that type of skin irritation can lead to inflammatory acne. Finding a proper acne treatment product regimen and treating the causes of acne rather than the symptoms of acne should be the focus of your acne treatment plan.
Acne Type Two: Inflammatory Acne (Papules, Pustules, Nodules and Cysts)
When follicles or pores erupt or explode, the result is inflammatory acne. This type of acne looks more prominent and severe and can cause extreme physical discomfort if left untreated.
Papules and pustules are the more common and less severe types of inflammatory acne. A papule is formed when the follicle or pore wall breaks from the buildup of bacteria inside. When that happens, white blood cells rush into the pore and the pore becomes inflamed. Several days later, the papule will turn into a pustule. A pustule forms when the white blood cells have made their way to the surface of the skin. You probably know a pustule by its more common name—a zit or pimple!
Nodules and cysts are the most severe forms of acne. These acne breakouts are so large that they may begin to encompass and infect surrounding pores and follicles. A nodule occurs when the pressure of the infection causes a rupture along the bottom of the follicle or pore. When this happens, the pore or follicle may completely collapse, causing a large, inflamed bump that hurts to touch.
Cysts, or cystic acne, develop as a result of a severe inflammatory reaction that can cause extremely large, puss-filled legions on the face or body.
Though papules, pustules, nodules and cystic acne are more severe forms of acne, the best approach for the treatment of breakouts and blemishes is to make the skin healthy overall while also preventing bacteria and clogged pores.
So, What is Acne? It Could be Many Things.
If the above explanation seemed like a lot of technical dermatological terms to you, that’s because it was. Explaining what acne is can be done much more simply. Here we go!
Acne is a skin condition caused when an overproduction of skin cells or excess dirt and oil clog your pores. The clogged pores result in a build up of sebum (oil) which allows bacteria to form. Clogged pores that do not develop an infection create blackheads and whiteheads. Clogged pores with an infection from the bacteria results in a zit or blemish.
Ready to learn more? Next we’ll discuss the causes of acne.
Or, if you feel like you’ve got enough of an understanding of acne, you can skip directly to information on getting rid of acne or acne treatments.
What Did You Just Learn About Acne?
In this section of the Murad Acne Resource Guide, you should have learned the following key points:
- Acne occurs when pores and hair follicles become clogged with dead skin cells, dirt or oil, trapping oil and causing a buildup of bacteria.
- Non-inflammatory acne includes whiteheads and blackheads. Whiteheads, which may be invisible to the naked eye, happen when the infected sebum stays beneath the skin’s surface. Blackheads occur as a result of the infected sebum coming to the skin’s surface and being exposed to oxygen, which alters its color.
- Inflammatory acne has two types. The first and least severe type includes papules and pustules. Papules are inflamed bumps beneath the skin, and pustules are inflamed bumps that have made it to the skin’s surface. Pustules are commonly referred to as zits or pimples.
- Nodules and cystic acne are more severe forms of inflammatory acne that can be physically painful. They are the result of follicles and pores that have burst from the acne infection inside of them and appear as large, infected bumps on the skin’s surface.
Product Resources for Acne Treatment
While your acne treatment solution will depend on the cause of your acne and should be part of an overall skin care program for optimal skin health, the following Murad Acne Products can help improve your skin and reduce acne breakouts, regardless of your skin type or the cause of your acne.
Murad Acne Complex® Kit
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Protect and Maintain Biodiversity
The protection of the full range of forest ecosystems and other environmental values is fundamental to sustainable forest
management. It entails the maintenance of the ecological processes that sustain forest ecosystems and the conservation of the biological
diversity associated with forests (particularly endangered and vulnerable species and communities). Conserving biodiversity through
forest management has at least three different components:
- Maintaining sufficient amounts of all native habitats across the landscape so that no species becomes endangered. This is referred to as the "coarse filter" approach (Hunter 1990).
- Addressing specific habitat and other needs of already endangered species - the "fine filter" approach (Hunter 1990).
- Providing some form of reserve areas (e.g. National Parks, wilderness areas) for each forest type.
The Natural Resources Management Department will strive to maintain each of the three components outlined above by:
- Setting objectives and targets to maintian a forest cover across the landscape that is composed of diverse qualities, features, and elements.
- Setting objectives and targets to incorporate stand level wildlife habitat elements into project plans.
- Establishing procedures to identify and protect plant and animal species that are endangered or at risk.
- Establishing Conservation Areas.
- Work with Regional Landscape Level Committees and adjoining landowners to research and develop strategies to protect biodiversity at a stand and landscape level. | <urn:uuid:6a6fc153-8da9-429a-94b3-756602e5c959> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://co.becker.mn.us/dept/natural_resource/section4.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.866783 | 282 | 3.75 | 4 |
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The Gulf of Maine shrimp fishing season could be a short one with the 2012 catch limited to a third of the 2011 harvest.
Shrimp fishermen have been given a catch limit of 4.4 million pounds for the upcoming season, down from the 13 million pounds they caught last season. The new season begins Monday and will end when the catch limit is reached.
Scientists say lower catch limits are needed because shrimp are being overfished, and the supply is declining. But fishermen say their livelihoods are at stake, and processors are worried that markets they've built for the small, sweet shrimp will be put at risk because they won't have enough product to fill orders.
Fishermen are expecting decent prices, but there also will be "dire economic consequences" with so little shrimp to go around, said Maggie Raymond, executive director of Associated Fisheries of Maine.
"I predict it'll be a miracle if they get through the end of January," Raymond said. "I can't see there being anything left in February."
Found in the cold waters of the Gulf of Maine, northern shrimp provide a winter fishery for hundreds of New England fishermen. Boats from Maine typically catch about 90 percent of the annual harvest, with small numbers from New Hampshire and Massachusetts catching the rest.
The shrimp population varies, and regulators each year set limits on how much can be caught. The season was cut short in each of the past two years because fishermen surpassed the target, by 28 percent in 2010 and 48 percent this year.
The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission based this coming season's lower catch on scientific surveys that showed a decline in the shrimp population. The catch limit was set despite objections by fishermen and processors.
Net fishermen can only fish three days a week — Monday, Wednesday and Friday — while those who use traps to catch shrimp can't do so until February and will be limited to 1,000 pounds per day per boat, said Michael Waine, a fisheries management coordinator with the commission.
"The intent is to slow the shrimp harvest to spread out the landings to extend the season," Waine said.
Fishery managers are also trying to keep closer tabs on the harvest. For the first time, shrimp dealers are being required to report numbers on a weekly basis, rather than monthly, so that regulators will know in a timely manner when the catch limits are being approached.
The ASMFC's shrimp panel is meeting Jan. 19 to evaluate where the harvest stands and possibly modify or adopt new regulations — such as trip limits for net fishermen — to slow down the catch rate even more if deemed necessary.
Not everybody agrees that such a small catch limit is necessary, said John Norton, owner of Cozy Harbor Seafood in Portland.
Fishermen have been seeing a high abundance of shrimp the past couple of years, he said, and a group of processors is petitioning the commission's shrimp panel to consider raising the catch limit when it meets Jan. 19. Another stock assessment formula suggests that fishermen could catch nearly 10 million pounds of shrimp this season without putting the stocks at risk, he said.
The shrimp industry in Maine employs more than 1,500 people, from fishermen and workers who help unload boats to truck drivers and processors, he said. Cozy Harbor alone employs 130 to 140 workers during shrimp season to process and pack shrimp bound for New England, West Coast and European markets.
"I'm just astounded that with the economic conditions we have in this state and this country that we're giving up those jobs and giving up those paychecks," Norton said. "It doesn't make any sense to me."
Many fishermen think now is the time for regulators to institute a "limited entry" system that restricts how many fishermen can get shrimp fishing licenses, based on their history of shrimp fishing.
Supporters say controlling the number of boats in the fishery will help keep the shrimp population at sustainable levels. Opponents say a limited-entry system would shut many lobstermen and others out of the fishery and change the culture of coastal communities by further limiting their ability to patch together a living when pickings are slim.
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Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester
The Rite of Spring is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. The video above is the concert version.
The Rite of Spring was written for the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes company, and when it was first performed at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées on 29 May 1913, the avant-garde nature of the music and choreography caused a sensation.
Stravinsky was a young, virtually unknown composer when Diaghilev recruited him to create works for the Ballets Russes. The ‘Rite’ was the third such project, after the acclaimed ‘Firebird’ (1910) and ‘Petrushka’ (1911).
Stravinsky’s score contains many novel features for its time, and has influenced many of the 20th-century’s leading composers. It is one of the most recorded works in the classical repertoire. | <urn:uuid:32771230-d0b2-483d-a541-57de7ce48f28> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://denneyhomeplace.wordpress.com/tag/the-rite-of-spring/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.953643 | 233 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Once upon a time … consolidation
This article takes a look at consolidation over the past decades. It includes some anecdotes which marked the pioneering adventure of the first groups. Our look at the past reveals an extraordinary evolution, primarily resulting from information technology and the culture of groups rather than from consolidation accounting principles themselves. We conclude our overview with an attempt to imagine how consolidation and the environment in which it is carried out may continue to change in the future.
Following subjects will be handled:
- (I) Why consolidate accounts?
- (II) The 1970s: The pencil and eraser age
- (III) The 1980s: The beginnings of the computer age
- (IV) The 1990s: The search for a miracle solution
- (V) The 2000s: Y2K and IFRS
Why consolidate accounts?
History shows that by the end of the 19th century companies, primarily established in the United States, were organising in groups. They were called conglomerates at the time. It soon became apparent how difficult it was to get an economic and financial picture of these groups of companies as a single entity. This was the difficulty faced by the financial world at the time.
Many questions arose as to how to handle, interpret and even obtain information given:
- The diverse activities of the companies
- The variety of currencies used by the countries where they were located
- The level of control or absence of control over the companies
- The range of accounting rules applied to individual accounts
- The many transactions between the companies which partially hid their actual performance outside the group.
In other words, rules soon became necessary.
The slow evolution of consolidation requirements
While the first holding companies, true economic conglomerates present in the international sphere, were already appearing in the second half of the 19th century, it took until 1904 for consolidated accounts to be put on the agenda of the first international accounting congress. Publications on the topic first appeared in the United States in 1918.
It took Europe much longer to become aware of the usefulness of these publications. Great Britain took the lead over other European countries and issued rules for consolidated account publication in 1939, but only made them compulsory much later with the “Companies Act” of 1948.
In France, despite studies and some concrete proposals from 1954 on, a first decree was issued in 1967 which, however, only provided for the possibility of attaching consolidated accounts to the ordinary accounts of holding companies.
A first royal decree was issued in Belgium on 29 November 1977 on the publication of consolidated accounts for companies with portfolios (holding). It was followed much later by the royal decree of 6 March 1990 which formulated rules for the establishment of consolidated accounts for a much larger number of companies.
The latter date was really the starting point for a definitive change in the landscape for groups of companies in Belgium.
It wouldn’t be right to leave out the international actions organised in parallel with these converging national rules, particularly in the 1970s. We should note that:
- In 1973, the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC), representing the main accounting organisations of a number of countries, issued standard number 3 which states that a parent company must publish consolidated accounts.
- The UN, within a commission of international companies created in 1974, expressed its wish to see the ordinary accounts of large groups completed by consolidated accounts.
- And, lastly, in 1976, the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) issued recommendations on the publication of consolidated information as part of its declaration on international investments and multinational companies.
However, it took until 13 June 1983 for the 7th European Directive on consolidated accounts to appear. It called for the implementation in all Member States, before 1 January 1988, of the requirement to publish consolidated accounts applicable, however, to the fiscal period beginning after 1 January 1990.
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Alopecia Areata Alcohol Connection
The Alopecia Areata alcohol link gives you an insight into how small changes like diet can influence your condition. Alopecia Areata produces thinning hair or bald spots on the body. Drinking alcohol reduces your ability to handle illness and recover from this skin condition. You should always find reliable sources of information on alopecia areata before beginning any treatment.
Alcohol works against your body's natural healing in several ways.
- First, the stress of processing a toxin out of your body increases the work your body is doing. Over time, this can wear out your body's strength. Skin is the largest organ of the body and can show signs of distress when your body is overworked. Skin conditions can happen just after your body deals with an illness or shock to the system.
- Second, alcohol can reduce your immune system's ability to handle troublesome illnesses.
- Third, alcohol interferes with your body's ability to use antioxidants the right way. Antioxidants are compounds in your body that prevent damage and breakdown within the cells.
Some patients notice that drinking alcohol can intensify another skin condition called psoriasis. Psoriasis consists of dry red patches and scaly skin, especially on the scalp and ears. Eliminating alcohol from your diet is not a guarantee for treatment, however. Very few studies have been able to prove that Alopecia Areata alcohol link. Most of the evidence that alcohol affect the skin diseases comes from personal experiences and not scientific studies.
What You Can Do
Reducing the stress in your life and eating a healthy diet may not cure Alopecia Areata, but it can certainly give your body a fighting chance against disease. The right nutrition and lifestyle can help you feel better overall, which will likely show up in your skin's health as well. While the environment you live in can trigger the beginning of alopecia, the actual cause is believed to be partly genetic and partly autoimmune. Autoimmune diseases happen when the body's natural defense system begins to attack itself.
Research any skin condition carefully and get all the information you can on treatment options. There is no clear cure for alopecia, but many companies claim high success rates to increase sales. Check the active ingredients and effectiveness of any treatment with your doctor. Most treatments have at least a few side effects. Ask questions about any treatment you are considering before you begin.
Your treatment may reduce symptoms of hair loss, but keep in mind that many treatments must continue in order to keep up the good work.
Once you stop using a treatment your hair loss may return.
Experienced and reliable sources of information should deal with your specific kind of alopecia.
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LAMU, Kenya, May 17- All is set for the official launch of the newly constructed Lamu port, in a function to be presided over by President Uhuru Kenyatta on Thursday this week.
The Kenya Ports Authority said the operationalization of the port will link Lamu to South Sudan and Ethiopia, the main targets of cargo movement.
KPA Board Chairman General Joseph Kibwana said that Berth 1 of the port is complete and can operate.
There are 3 berths in place but storage facilities for Berth 2 and 3 are yet to be completed.
“After the launch, we will start limited operations, then transit to full operation of domestic and transit cargo,” said Kibwana.
Kibwana said the port is expected to be fully operational by December this year.
On the day of the launch, there will be two vessels to mark the beginning of the operations.
The main vessel docking will be MV CAP CARMEL and there will be the additional vessel MV SEAGO BREMERHAVEN.
In terms of comparison to the port of Mombasa, he said the Lamu port has been constructed under higher standards.
For instance, the Berths at Lamu are longer that is 400 meters as compared to Mombasa’s 300 meters.
In addition, the Berths at Lamu have a depth of -17.5 against -15.5 those of Mombasa.
“This gives Lamu an added advantage as bigger vessels can dock here, bigger vessels translates to bigger volumes of cargo,” he said.
The port of Lamu will be run by the Kenya Ports Authority, as opposed to earlier proposal to have the facility run by a private entity.
Kenya Ports Authority General Manager Engineer Abdullahi Samata announced plans to have a high-level delegation to South Sudan and Ethiopia to market the port after the launch.
“The idea is prove that we are reliable partners by showing the advantages of using this port because remember we have competitors like Djibouti,” said Engineer Samata.
The Authority Acting Managing Director Engineer Rashid Salim also said as part of measures to attract investors they are working with the Kenya Revenue Authority to come up with incentives, including free storage for a period of 30 days and tax rebates.
On the issues raised by fishermen over disruption of their livelihood due to activities at the port, the Lamu County Commissioner Irungu Macharia said about 4700 fishermen are set to benefit from sh 1.7 billion allocated for compensation.
“65 per cent of the money will go towards cash transfers while 35 per cent will be used for sustainability,” said Macharia.
Macharia assured that security has been revamped in the volatile region, noting the deployment of the Navy, Kenya Defense Forces, Coast guard and the Administration Police.
Meanwhile, road links at the LAPPSET corridor are also in the works with the Lamu-Ijara-Garissa expected to be done within a year.
No works have started on the rail network however, with the Kenya Railways Corporation Board Chairman General (Rtd) Omudho Awitta citing ‘lack of funding.’
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Jewry on Edge
|Sputnik Staff||January 25th 2016|
As millions flee war-torn countries where anti-Semitism is rampant, several world leaders are calling on citizens to challenge this hatred everywhere they find it, especially when it comes to young people with anti-Semitic ideologies.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday urged citizens to remain vigilant and to beware of anti-Semitism especially when directed by young people coming from “countries where hatred of Israel and anti-Semitism is widespread.”
Currently, millions of people are claiming to seek refuge throughout Europe as they flee war-battered nations including Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. 1.5 million refugees including several from throughout the Arab world entered Germany in 2015 alone.
China on Edge
|Sol. W. Sanders||January 17th 2016|
Largely ignored by the mainstream media, Friday's Taiwan elections have enormous implications not only for the Island's 25 million people but also China - and the U.S.
Ironically, the election of the Democratic Progressive Party [DPP] leader, Tsai Ing-wen, a woman at that - reinstalled a movement dedicated to maintaining Taiwan's separate identity, the Island's culture remains Chinese. It marks only a second time in its 2,000-year a Chinese entity has peacefully transferred power. The DPP earlier won power in 100-1008 as a minority government.
The meeting last fall between Beijing's Pres. Xi Jinping and Taiwan's outgoing Pres. Ma Ying-jeou was not only unprecedented but finally marked the tacit recognition by the Communists of the Island's stature. Beijing now has to bite its lip, having apparently Communist leadership thought that protocol concession after six decades would help Ma's Party. Read more ..
Turkey on Edge
|Burak Bekdil||January 7th 2016|
In a 2012 speech, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, then foreign minister, predicted that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's days in power were numbered and that he would depart "within months or weeks." Almost three and a half years have passed, with Assad still in power, and Davutoglu keeps on making one passionate speech after another about the fate of Syria.
Turkey's failure to devise a credible policy on Syria has made the country's leaders nervous. Both Davutoglu and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have lately resorted to more aggressive, but less convincing, rhetoric on Syria. The new rhetoric features many aspects of a Sunni Islamist thinking blended with delusions of Ottoman grandeur. Read more ..
|Rachel Ehrenfeld||December 18th 2015|
Today’s U.N. Security Council’s resolution to curb the funding of ISIS is essentially the same as resolution 2199 that was adopted earlier this year, and the sanctions that were adopted in mid-2013 under the “Al-Qaida Sanctions Listâ€.
The major difference between today’s resolution and the previous ones is that higher level officials, the finance ministers of the Security Council’s member states attended the meeting, which added the ban on “the payment of ransoms to individuals, groups, undertakings or entities on the ISIL [Da’esh] and Al-Qaida Sanctions List regardless of how or by whom the ransom is paid.†Read more ..
|Richard L. Cravatts||December 17th 2015|
Of the many intellectual perversions currently taking root on college campuses, perhaps none is more contradictory to what should be one of higher education’s core values than the suppression of free speech. With alarming regularity, speakers are shouted down, booed, jeered, and barraged with vitriol, all at the hands of groups who give lip service to the notion of academic free speech, and who demand it when their speech is at issue, but have no interest in listening to, or letting others listen to, ideas that contradict their own world view.
This is the tragic and inevitable result of a decades of grievance-based victimism by self-designated groups who frame their rights and demands on identity politics. Those who see themselves as perennial victims also feel very comfortable, when they express their feelings of being oppressed, in projecting that same victimization outward on their oppressors. Read more ..
The Edge of Terrorism
|Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik||December 3rd 2015|
Jibril Rajoub, Head of PA Sport and Youth Affairs:
"The international community does not agree to a bus exploding in Tel Aviv. But the international community does not ask what happens to a settler or soldier in the occupied territories at the wrong time and in the wrong place. No one asks about him! Therefore, we want to fight in such a way that the world and the international community will remain by our side."
Official PA TV, Oct. 17, 2015
Hafez Barghouti, columnist and former editor of official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida:
"After the events of September [9, 2011] in New York, [Ariel] Sharon
applied the term 'terror' used to refer to those attacks, to our national struggle (i.e., terror campaign - Intifada). I warned about this at the time, and called to keep a low profile until the New York turmoil had passed...
Now, after the Paris attacks, we must keep a low profile so that we are not charged with the crimes of ISIS... We must learn our lessons and wait."
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 24, 2015
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Osraelis and Palestinians
|Sol Roth||November 3rd 2015|
Predicting the future is always a dicey proposition, especially in the Middle East. But one of Israel's foremost peace negotiators is doing precisely that, and in dramatic fashion.
According to Yossi Beilin, one of the architects of the Oslo Accords, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will unilaterally withdraw from most of the West Bank. And he will do so sooner rather than later.
Beilin claims such a move is inevitable due to demographic realities.
"It's a matter of three or four years before a minority of Jews is dominating a majority of Palestinians" between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, he says. "And what then? What will you say then? What will Netanyahu say? He is going to ask for a recount of the Palestinians?" Read more ..
China on Edge
|George Friedman||August 27th 2015|
The recent fluctuations in China's currency typify the best and worst of a globalized world, where developments in one place can instantly change the political and financial calculations of governments in others. For most of human history, the communities, cultures and economies of the world existed independently of one another, separated as they were by vast distances and difficult terrain. It would, for instance, take months or even years for news of China to reach Europe across the great Silk Road trading route during the height of its use some 1,000 years ago. Even then, the communities along that route could hardly be considered entirely coherent.
But that is clearly no longer the case. And now, as China continues to adjust the yuan, markets throughout the world will react accordingly, even as they react differently. Read more ..
The World on Edge
|Reva Bhalla||July 28th 2015|
Forecasting the shape the world will take in several years or decades is an audacious undertaking. There are no images to observe or precise data points to anchor us. We can only create a picture, and a fuzzy one at best. This is, after all, our basic human empirical instinct: to draw effortlessly from the vivid imagery of our present world and past experiences while we squint and hesitate before faint, blobby images of the future.
In the world of intelligence and military planning, it is far less taxing to base speculations on the familiar — to simulate a war game that pivots on an Iranian nuclear threat, a seemingly unstoppable jihadist force like the Islamic State and the military adventurism of Russia in Eastern Europe — than it is to imagine a world in which Russia is weak and internally fragmented, the jihadist menace is contained by its own fractiousness and Iran is allied with the United States against a rising Sunni threat. Read more ..
|Morton Klein and Elizabeth Berney, Esq.||July 21st 2015|
Cutting Edge Contributors
Virtually every treaty and agreement contains language clearly binding the parties to definitive terms, such as "the parties agree to the following terms." However, the Iran deal - formally called the "Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action" (or JCPOA) - is different. Strangely, supposed obligations are merely called "voluntary measures."
It is frightening and of great concern that even the minimal supposed obligations of the Islamic Republic of Iran in this disastrous, lopsided deal may not be binding on Iran.
Right at the outset, the introduction to the Iran deal's provisions calls these provisions "voluntary measures." At the end of the introductory "Preamble and General Provisions," which is immediately prior to key Section A (entitled "Nuclear"), the JCPOA states:
"Iran and E3/EU-3 will take the following voluntary measures" within the timeframe as detailed in this JCPOA and its Annexes." Read more ..
Greece on Edge
|George Friedman||July 14th 2015|
A desperate battle was fought last week. It pitted Germany and Greece against each other. Each country had everything at stake. Based on the deal that was agreed to, Germany forced a Greek capitulation. But it is far from clear that Greece can allow the agreement reached to be implemented, or that it has the national political will to do so. It is also not clear what its options are, especially given that the Greek people had backed Germany into a corner, where its only choice was to risk everything. It was not a good place for Greece to put the Germans. They struck back with vengeance.
The key event was the Greek referendum on the European Union's demand for further austerity in exchange for infusions of cash to save the Greek banking system. The Syriza party had called the vote to strengthen its hand in dealing with the European demands. The Greek government's view was that the European terms would save Greece from immediate disaster but at the cost of impoverishing the country in the long term. The austerity measures demanded would, in their view, make any sort of recovery impossible. Facing a choice between a short-term catastrophe in the banking system and long-term misery, the Greeks saw themselves in an impossible position. Read more ..
|George Friedman||July 9th 2015|
The Shanghai Composite Index fell 6 percent on July 3, rounding out a 28 percent decline since June 12, when the country's stock markets peaked. The deterioration occurred despite intensive government efforts to stabilize prices and revive investor sentiment. Overt attempts by Beijing included cutting benchmark interest rates and reserve requirement ratios and loosening restrictions on investor access to margin loans, in addition to less overt moves, such as direct interventions to prop up the market with government-backed purchases of blue chip stocks. On Friday, in a clear bid to win investor confidence in its oversight abilities, the securities regulator announced it would investigate signs of potential market manipulation. Yet so far, Beijing's efforts have failed to achieve the desired effect of stimulating, or at least stabilizing, China's leading stock markets. Read more ..
Greece on Edge
|George Friedman||July 7th 2015|
In a result that should surprise no one, the Greeks voted to reject European demands for additional austerity measures as the price for providing funds to allow Greek banks to operate. There are three reasons this should have been no surprise. First, the ruling Coalition of the Radical Left, or Syriza party, is ruling because it has an understanding of the Greek mood. Second, the constant scorn and contempt that the European leadership heaped on the prime minister and finance minister convinced the Greeks not only that the scorn was meant for them as well but also that anyone so despised by the European leadership wasn't all bad. Finally, and most important, the European leadership put the Greek voters in a position in which they had nothing to lose. The Greeks were left to choose between two forms of devastation — one that was immediate but possible to recover from, and one that was a longer-term strangulation with no exit. Read more ..
|Scott Stewart||June 25th 2015|
In recent weeks, I have found myself spending a lot of time thinking about the jihadist strategy of al Qaeda and how it compares to that of the Islamic State. Earlier this month, I wrote about the possibility that the al Qaeda brand of jihadism could outlast that of the Islamic State. Last week, I wrote about how ideologies are harder to kill than individuals, focusing on the effect that the death of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader Nasir al-Wahayshi will have on the group and the wider global jihadist movement.
But beyond the impact of leaders like al-Wahayshi, there are other facets of strategy that will influence the war for the soul of jihadism. Specifically, I am talking about time and place. Both al Qaeda and the Islamic State seek to establish a global caliphate, but both differ quite starkly in how to accomplish this task and how soon it can be achieved. Read more ..
Israel on Edge
|Richard Horowitz||June 11th 2015|
Cutting Edge contributor
This Monday the U.S. Supreme Court decided on Zivitofsky v. Kerry, a case which determined that a U.S. citizen born in Jerusalem can only have the city listed on his U.S. passport as his place of birth, and not Jerusalem, Israel.
In 2002, Menachem Zivitofsky was born in Jerusalem; his American mother requested of the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv to list his place of birth as Jerusalem, Israel, in accordance with Section 214(d) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 2003 which states for “purposes of the registration of birth, certification of nationality, or issuance of a passport of a United States citizen born in the city of Jerusalem, the Secretary shall, upon the request of the citizen or the citizen’s legal guardian, record the place of birth as Israel.†Read more ..
Greece on Edge
The deadline for a deal to resolve Greece's ongoing drama seemed to be pushed back last week. But new stresses could appear as early as this week if there is no noticeable progress on the talks.
Last week Greece decided to combine the four debt payments it owed to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in June — worth about €1.5 billion ($1.66 billion, £1.09 billion) collectively — into one, which will be due at the end of the month.
That delayed for three weeks the payment that was owed Friday and meant Athens could wait longer for a bailout deal. But at least according to some analysts, that will be little to no relief in the tense talks.
Much of the timeline actually remains the same, as Bank of America Merrill Lynch researchers pointed out in a note, titled "Brinkmanship in Greece: fasten your seat belts," on Monday morning. Read more ..
Europe on Edge
|George Friedman||May 26th 2015|
Last week I began this series with a Net Assessment of the World, in which I focused on the growing destabilization of the Eurasian land mass. This week I continue the series, which will ultimately analyze each region in detail, with an analysis of Europe. I start here, rather than in the Middle East, because while the increasing successes of the Islamic State are significant, the region itself is secondary to Europe in the broader perspective. The Middle East matters, but Europe is as economically productive as the United States and, for the past 500 years, has been the force that has reshaped the world. The Middle East matters a great deal; European crises can destabilize the world. What happens between Greece and Germany, for example, can have consequences in multiple directions. Therefore, since we have to start somewhere, let me start with Europe. Read more ..
|Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu||May 12th 2015|
The pro-Israel Canadian government may be planning to include boycotts of Israel as a hate crime, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reported Monday.
It said that such a move would target organizations such as the United Church of Canada, Canadian Quakers, campus protest groups and labor unions. It also would raise legal questions under Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Canadian Prime Stephen Harper is unarguably the most pro-Israel head of any government in the world. He sounded like an echo of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu during his visit to Israel last year.
Recently-retired Foreign Minister John Baird in January signed an agreement with Israel to fight the Boycott Israel movement, and government ministers have said they will show “zero tolerable†towards groups that are part of Boycott, Divest and Sanction (BDS). He described the Boycott Israel movement as “the new face of anti-Semitism.†Read more ..
Financing the Flames
Former Associated Press reporter Matti Friedman on Tuesday wrote a scathing criticism of the recently issued report from NGO Breaking the Silence on the conduct of Israeli soldiers during last summer’s Gaza war.
In an extended Facebook post, Friedman blasted the report, and simultaneously tried to put it in context.
Friedman began by addressing testimony presented by Israeli soldiers in the report, to the effect that their compliance with the laws of war was much more lax than it should have been. He noted that “War is awful†and “people come back feeling upset about things they’ve seen and done. Some observers are reliable, and others aren’t.†He said that “Some of the things described in the report no doubt happened as they were described. Others didn’t. Infantrymen at the bottom of the hierarchy often don’t understand what they’re seeing, or the reasons for what they’re doing, and I’m speaking from experience.†Read more ..
Turkey on Edge
"We would view an insult or humiliation against an Alevi citizen or an adherent of any other religion as an insult against all of us, and won't accept it." The powerful line is from a speech by Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Nov. 23. So nice. If only the reality were not worlds apart from the fairy tales Davutoglu keeps on telling.
Davutoglu's Putin-Medvedev-style master, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is notorious for his Sunni supremacist (and anti-Alevi) views. During his election campaign in 2011, he reminded tens of thousands of party fans at rallies in seven different cities that his political rival and main opposition leader, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, was an Alevi. "You know, he is an Alevi," Erdogan told crowds in a cynical way while thousands booed "the Alevi Kilicdaroglu." In that election, Erdogan's votes in all seven cities rose from the previous election. Read more ..
Turkey on Edge
|George Friedman||April 27th 2015|
The United States is not about to be weighed down by the historical baggage of the Caucasus. To Turkey's pleasure and Armenia's regret, U.S. President Barack Obama did not utter the word "genocide" on April 24 when he commemorated the 100th anniversary of a massacre of 1.5 million Armenians at the hands of Ottoman Turks. Obama is not the Pope; he is the president of the United States, and the global hegemon appears to be in tune with its geopolitical instinct.
A great deal of diplomatic energy has been exchanged between Washington and the Turkish and Armenian lobbies in recent weeks. Not only have decisions had to be made about what word to use to describe the historical event, but there are also questions about the level of official that should attend the Armenian commemoration versus the Turkish commemoration for the Battle of Gallipoli. Read more ..
|David Rothkopf||April 18th 2015|
President Barack Obama and other administration officials touting the qualities of the interim nuclear accord with Iran regularly cite “snap-back†provisions as a fail-safe within the agreement. The idea is that, if Iran violates the terms of the deal, sanctions that otherwise would be lifted as a reward for entering into the arrangement would immediately be reimposed.
It is an appealing idea. What’s more, it is a necessary one if anyone anywhere is to believe that the deal is truly enforceable. However, as former U.S. secretaries of state Henry Kissinger and George Shultz pointed out in their recent thoughtful, constructive critique of the interim agreement that appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the notion that somehow a button can be pushed and the entire panoply of multilateral and bilateral sanctions that have been put in place over the past dozen or so years to put pressure on Iran would suddenly be back in force strains credulity. Read more ..
The 2016 Vote
|Juan Williams||April 13th 2015|
The most stunning political news of the year to date is last week’s revelation that a group of super-PACs has already raised $31 million to support the presidential bid of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).
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And last week also brought the most intriguing political news of the year — the federal indictment of Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.). The heart of the prosecutor’s case against Menendez is that a PAC donation by a wealthy donor amounted to a bribe to get the senator to use his office to help the businessman avoid federal fraud charges.
Menendez denies wrongdoing, as does the businessman.
The bigger point, however, is that there is no restraint on the amount of big money suddenly flowing into political action committees. In addition, anonymous money pouring into non-profit groups affiliated with candidates is reaching flood levels.
And don’t forget the unprecedented big money being raised directly for each of the 2016 presidential campaigns.
America and Latin America
|Luis Fleischman||April 7th 2015|
Center for Security Policy
On April 10 and 11, the Summit of the Americas will take place in Panama. More than 35 heads of state are expected to participate, including the president of the United Sates, Barack Obama and the Cuban leader, Raul Castro. The theme of the summit is “Equality and Prosperity†which will give room for countless speeches highlighting the importance of equality, the fight against poverty, and other related issues. However, what really highlights this summit is that it is taking place in the aftermath of the new U.S./Cuba agreement.
Thus, this summit will not only have at its center, the heads of state and their often meaningless speeches but will also include civil society groups. These groups will be there and will bring back the elephant in the room: the question of democracy. Read more ..
The Edge of Tolerance
|Douglas Murray||April 5th 2015|
What would the U.S. President say if the blacks lynched in America's old South were referred to as "random folks" or "Americans"?
Al Shabaab of course has no problem emphasizing the fact that Christians were being killed because they were Christians: "There are many dead bodies of Christians inside the building," its spokesman said.
Can anyone explain why the West gives fanciful excuses for what these killers are doing, despite their perfectly clear explanations for what they are doing?
Muslims targeting Christians or Jews means, "don't focus on the motivations of the Muslims." Muslims defending Christians or Jews means "desperately focus on the motivations of the Muslims."
People could at least spare some time this Easter to think about -- and do anything they can to help -- the beleaguered Christian communities worldwide. Read more ..
The underlying flaw in the new nuclear understandings between the P5+1 and Iran is the fact that it leaves Iran’s vast nuclear infrastructure intact. Indeed, Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif boasted, after the understandings were announced, that Iran did not have to close down a single nuclear facility, it will continue to engage in uranium enrichment, and it can engage in research and development (meaning it can develop new generations of centrifuges that operate at 10 or 20 times the speed of the first-generation centrifuges that have been installed in uranium enrichment plants like Natanz and Fordow). Read more ..
|George Friedman||April 2nd 2015|
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The Obama administration has slipped past self-imposed deadlines and minced words over red lines before. Although certainly an embarrassment for the White House, another missed deadline in the seemingly never-ending Iran nuclear negotiations — which stretched beyond the latest deadline of March 31 — may not matter much in the end.
From Iran's point of view, it was a deadline to be exploited, not one to fret over. Iranian leaders, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, had expressed misgivings about a framework agreement, insisting that the deal is not done until all core issues are resolved in a final deal. The White House imposed the March deadline to prove to Congress that enough progress was being made to hold off on sanctions. Still, a dodged deadline and a diluted progress report are unlikely to calm dissenters in Congress. Even if a bill calling for additional sanctions in the event of a violation of an agreement makes its way through Congress, it will be vetoed in the Oval Office. Congress overturning that veto is a less likely prospect.
South of the Border
|Luis Fleischman ||March 17th 2015|
Center for Security Policy
On March 9th President Obama issued an executive order implementing The Venezuela Defense of Human Rights and Civil Society Act of 2014, which he signed last December 18th. This measure blocks the property and interests in property of seven top Venezuelan government officials and would also block the property and interests in property of any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State.
The presidential order has imposed sanctions on mostly the top echelon of the state security apparatus in charge of the repression during the 2014 anti- government demonstrations.
Although, this executive order is a good first step, it omits to punish the president, his cabinet and his closest civilian aides. Likewise, punitive measures are not being applied to lower ranking officers who have committed human right violations despite the fact that human rights organizations have provided names and details about these individuals and their transgressions. Read more ..
Russia and Europe
|George Friedman||March 12th 2015|
As part of our analytical methodology, Stratfor periodically conducts internal military simulations. This series, examining the scenarios under which Russian and Western forces might come into direct conflict in Ukraine, reflects such an exercise. It thus differs from our regular analyses in several ways and is not intended as a forecast. This series reflects the results of meticulous examination of the military capabilities of both Russia and NATO and the constraints on those forces. It is intended as a means to measure the intersection of political intent and political will as constrained by actual military capability. This study is not a definitive exercise; instead it is a review of potential decision-making by military planners. We hope readers will gain from this series a better understanding of military options in the Ukraine crisis and how the realities surrounding use of force could evolve if efforts to implement a cease-fire fail and the crisis escalates. Read more ..
Financing the Flames
|Edwin Black||March 12th 2015|
The controversial New Israel Fund and its social change and political lobbying organization known as SHATIL, have received more than $1 million from the State Department under a program designed to create political change, reform, and activism in the Middle East. The government program, Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI), has extended more than $600 million in grants to political and social activists and reformers in 18 Middle East countries, mainly with unstable or challenged political environments in need of democratic improvement. “MEPI supports organizations and individuals in their efforts to promote political, economic, and social reform in the Middle East and North Africa,†according to the agency's official self-description.
The list of nations in which MEPI operates includes such countries as Algeria, Libya, Lebanon, and Yemen.
However, MEPI’s sphere of engagement includes Israel — ironically the only pluralistic, stable, and democratic nation in the Mideast. Among the leading recipients for MEPI grants in Israel is the New Israel Fund and its SHATIL organization. The NIF is an international, US-based 501(c)(3) charitable organization which has generated intense acrimony within the Jewish community and Israeli establishment for its highly politicized activities.
While MEPI’s involvement with the New Israel Fund has been previously reported in print and online, the million-dollar nature of the partnership has not emerged until now.
Vocal critics in both the US and Israel charge that the New Israel Fund has knowingly financed groups that support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanction (BDS) movement, and worked to get Israeli soldiers prosecuted for so-called "war crimes." Benny Yanay of an Israeli military organization called Consensus, representing some 3,000 members of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), stated, "The New Israel Fund acts against Israel—against the soldiers of our country. It is supported by foreign governments and organizations so that Israeli soldiers will be weakened." Other Israel military men and women have alleged that the NIF is trying to "destabilize the IDF." Read more ..
|Nancy Menges and Luis Fleischman||February 28th 2015|
As negotiations move forward on a nuclear arms agreement with the Islamic Republic of Iran, the United States along with the P5+1 appears to be oblivious to activities of Iran in the Western Hemisphere and other regions of the world.
In the Middle East, Iran has most recently supported insurgencies in both Bahrain and Yemen. The pro-Iranian Houthis just overthrew the American backed government in Yemen which we were working with on terrorism related issues.
In Syria, Iran and its proxy, Hezbollah, continue to support the Bashar Al Assad regime with Hezbollah fighting together with Assad’s forces. So far 200,000 people have been killed in Syria with millions dispersed in refugee camps in Jordan and Turkey. Hezbollah now has a perfect excuse to be involved in supporting Assad by invoking the need to defeat the bloody Islamic State. Hezbollah may think that this card could play well in the West which is trying to avoid direct intervention to defeat ISIS and would prefer that local forces to do the fighting. Read more ..
Russia on Edge
|Reva Bhalla ||February 24th 2015|
By Within the past two weeks, a temporary deal to keep Greece in the eurozone was reached in Brussels, a cease-fire roadmap was agreed to in Minsk and Iranian negotiators advanced a potential nuclear deal in Geneva. Squadrons of diplomats have forestalled one geopolitical crisis after another. Yet it would be premature, even reckless, to assume that the fault lines defining these issues are effectively stable. Understanding how these crises are inextricably linked is the first step toward assessing when and where the next flare-up is likely to occur.
Germany and the Eurozone Crisis
Germany has once again become the victim of its own power. As Europe's largest creditor, it has considerable political leverage over debtor nations such as Greece, whose entire livelihood now depends on whether German Chancellor Angela Merkel is willing to sign another bailout check. Lest we forget, Germany is exporting more than half of its GDP, and most of those exports are consumed within Europe. Thus, the institutions Germany relies on to protect its export markets are the very institutions Berlin must battle to protect Germany's national wealth. Read more ..
The World on Edge
|George Friedman||February 17th 2015|
In recent weeks, we have been focusing on Greece, Germany, Ukraine and Russia. All are still burning issues. But in every case, readers have called my attention to what they see as an underlying and even defining dimension of all these issues — if not right now, then soon. That dimension is declining population and the impact it will have on all of these countries. The argument was made that declining populations will generate crises in these and other countries, undermining their economies and national power. Sometimes we need to pause and move away from immediate crises to broader issues. Let me start with some thoughts from my book The Next 100 Years.
There is no question but that the populations of most European countries will decline in the next generation, and in the cases of Germany and Russia, the decline will be dramatic. In fact, the entire global population explosion is ending. In virtually all societies, from the poorest to the wealthiest, the birthrate among women has been declining. In order to maintain population stability, the birthrate must remain at 2.1 births per woman. Read more ..
Europe on Edge
|Soeren Kern ||February 15th 2015|
"Wherever it goes now, in many respects PEGIDA has already served part of its purpose, in starting a debate on immigration, citizenship, and integration that has been silent for decades.... Perhaps it could even kick-start a new era of openness and discussion in Britain too." — Oliver Lane, British commentator.
The future of the German grassroots anti-Islamization movement known as PEGIDA has been thrown into doubt after a leadership split resulted in key members leaving the group.
Only 2,000 people attended a weekly rally held in the eastern German city of Dresden on February 9, a sharp decrease from the 17,000 who assembled at the previous rally held on January 25.
PEGIDA — named after the German abbreviation for "Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West" — has been organizing "evening strolls" (Abendspaziergang) through downtown Dresden on Monday evenings since October to protest against runaway immigration and the Islamization of Germany. Read more ..
The Edge of Tolerance
|Ben Cohen||February 13th 2015|
Twenty-three advocacy groups have signed a letter to Linda Katehi, the Chancellor of the University of California, Davis, demanding an investigation into Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), an antisemitic organization that has continually harassed Jewish and pro-Israel students on campuses across the United States.
The letter, organized by the AMCHA Initiative, was triggered by instances of antisemitic graffiti on the UC Davis campus just days after the student government, on January 29, passed an anti-Israel divestment resolution written and promoted by SJP. Following the resolution’s passage, a Jewish fraternity at UC Davis was spray painted with swastikas. In addition, anti-Semitic graffiti was discovered at the Hillel House. Authorities said a janitor found the words, “grout out the Jews,†etched into the bathroom wall.
“While we commend you for already taking some important steps in addressing these problems, we urge the university to conduct a full investigation into the conduct of the registered student group called Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and one of its members, Azka Fayyaz,†the letter declared. Read more ..
The World on Edge
|Ian Morris||February 12th 2015|
At an event in Beijing last November, I had the good fortune to meet the French economist Thomas Piketty, who has sold 1.5 million copies of his book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, since it was first published in 2013. Pacing up and down in front of a packed auditorium, Piketty explained that because the rate of return on capital is now higher than the growth rate of the global economy, the proportion of the world's wealth that is owned by a small elite will likely keep increasing; in other words, we should expect to see a divergence of wealth as the rich get much richer. As his book says, "capitalism automatically generates arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities that radically undermine the meritocratic values on which democratic societies are based."
No strategic forecaster can afford to ignore this alarming prediction — or the enthusiastic response it got from the audience in Beijing. In the 20th century, the two world wars were the only force powerful enough to reverse the concentration of wealth in the elite and the mounting class conflict; in the 21st century, we seem to be falling back into a comparable world of revolution, political extremism and mass violence. Read more ..
Israel on Edge
|Norman A. Bailey||February 7th 2015|
March 2015 is looking like it is going to be a very "interesting" month, to quote the well-known Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times".
First, Prime Minister Netanyahu will address the joint houses of Congress while he is in Washington to attend the annual AIPAC meeting.
Second, on the 17th, the elections take place in Israel. At this point they are entirely unpredictable as the maneuvering and jockeying proceed on what seems like an hourly basis...
Third, one week later, the 24th, is the latest "deadline" to reach an agreement between the six powers and Iran on the Iranian program to develop the ability to produce nuclear weapons.
The prime minister, John Boehner, Speaker of the House of Representatives and President Obama are engaged in a three-way political dance, each trying to gain political advantage from the impending address. Which will gain more from this exercise is not clear. Indeed, it is not clear that there will be any winner politically. Certainly relations between Israel and the Obama Administration, already bad have been getting worse and will continue to do so at a particularly crucial time. Read more ..
South of the Border
|Cameron McKibben||January 28th 2015|
The Northern Triangle countries, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, are often characterized by poverty and violence. With limited economic opportunities and individual security threatened by gang and drug violence, many citizens have opted to migrate north towards opportunity and safety.
An unprecedented number of migrants from Central America, including an increase in unaccompanied minors traveling north beginning in 2009 from an estimated 20,000 to over 50,000, have raised security and human rights concerns in the involved countries. These issues are not only pertinent to the United States and Mexico, but have had serious consequences in the Northern Triangle, which continues to suffer a significant human capital flight. An estimated 9 percent of the total Northern Triangle population has emigrated in recent years, with about 100,000 migrating to the United States yearly and 60 percent remaining as undocumented persons. Read more ..
The War on Terror
|Marialaura Conte||January 22nd 2015|
What is left after the viral and global outrage that led millions of people to the streets to express their identification with the victims of the massacre in Paris? The urgency to take the necessary steps to understand Islam and the radical challenge it poses to the West.
Clear, impacting, sensational. So must be in terrorist’s mind the message connected to his actions. He/she has no time to lose, he/she must obtain the most spectacular effect reaching as many targets as possible: hit the enemy, obtain a victory and this way glorify God. He/she wants to reach heaven, the reward for his/her courage.
What about the collateral damage, the innocent victims left on the ground? They're not a problem, because, above all, it is the intention of the action of the Jihadist that wins: affirm the truth of God eliminating the unfaithful. In this project the ‘communicative’ question is of the maximum importance for the global radical Islamic terrorists.
This is demonstrated by their online magazines, websites, videos-releases which they spread, their skill in the use of social media, ideal places for recruiting new militants. And perhaps, with this ‘media sensitivity’ view, you can also understand the target chosen last 7 January, a target capable of provoking a global reaction like the one recorded by the principal Western newspapers: break into the newsroom of a weekly, when the editorial meeting is taking place and everybody is present and make a killing. Killing the signatures of a newspaper well-known (and even threatened) for its corrosive, controversial and debated satire in France, but also defended as a symbol of freedom of expression, the pride of French laicité. Read more ..
Europe on Edge
|George Friedman||January 20th 2015|
European media has been flooded for the past week with leaks about the European Central Bank's forthcoming plan to stimulate the faltering European economy by implementing quantitative easing. First carried by Der Spiegel and then picked up by other media, the story has not been denied by anyone at the bank nor any senior European official. We can therefore call this an official leak, because it lets everyone know what is coming before an official announcement is made later in the week.
The plan is an attempt to spur economic activity in Europe by increasing the amount of money available. It calls for governments to increase their borrowing for various projects designed to increase growth and decrease unemployment. Rather than selling the bonds on the open market, a move that would trigger a rise in interest rates, the bonds are sold to the central banks of eurozone member states, which have the ability to print new money. The money is then sent to the treasury. With more money flowing through the system, recessions driven by a lack of capital are relieved. This is why the measure is called quantitative easing. Read more ..
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Emotion recognition has recently attracted much attention in both industrial and academic research as it can be applied in many areas from education to national security. In healthcare, emotion detection has a key role as emotional state is an indicator of depression and mental disease. Much research in this area focuses on extracting emotion related features from images of the human face. Nevertheless, there are many other sources that can identify a person’s emotion. In the context of MENHIR, an EU-funded R&D project that applies Affective Computing to support people in their mental health, a new emotion-recognition system based on speech is being developed. However, this system requires comprehensive data-management support in order to manage its input data and analysis results. As a result, a cloud-based, high-performance, scalable, and accessible ecosystem for supporting speech-based emotion detection is currently developed and discussed here.
|Title of host publication||Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade, IWSDS 2020|
|Subtitle of host publication||IWSDS 2020|
|Editors||Luis Fernando D’Haro, Zoraida Callejas, Satoshi Nakamura|
|Place of Publication||Madrid, Spain|
|Number of pages||10|
|Publication status||Published - 25 Oct 2020|
|Name||Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering|
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Acknowledgements This publication has been produced in the context of the MENHIR project. This project has received funding from the European Union’s H2020 Programme under grant agreement No. 823907. However, this paper reflects only the authors’ view and the European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
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Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, appeared in various guises throughout October’s Fakuma 2015 show in Friedrichshafen, Germany. Arburg (U.S. office in Rocky Hill, Conn.) brought three of its Freeformer machines, the first to use standard molding pellets, to Fakuma. Two of them formed part of “Industry 4.0” exhibits of “personalized manufacturing” in which the Freeformers applied individualized decoration to injection molded parts. One new wrinkle was an automated cell in which a Freeformer was tended by a Kuka robot instead of a human operator (see this month's Fakuma Close Up).
Arburg officials noted in a Q&A session with the press that its 3-axis Freeformer model is meeting current demands of the market and there is little push from customers so far to commercialize a more expensive 5-axis version. More immediate development priorities, the officials said, were nitrided components to resist wear, a larger build envelope, and printing of high-temperature resins.
While Arburg is the first plastics machinery company to offer its own 3D printer, Boy Machines (U.S. office in Exton, Pa.) announced at the show that it is offering a turnkey package with a Stratasys 3D printer for making plastic cavity inserts. Such tool inserts (which also appeared at multiple exhibits at NPE2015 in Orlando) are typically made of ABS and are said to last for up to 500 shots. Because there is no internal cooling for the inserts, Boy blew cold air over the mold face between cycles.
3D-printed ABS mold inserts were also shown at Fakuma by Hasco (U.S. office in Fletcher, N.C.) as prototyping accessories for its quick-change mold bases.
Boy Machines showed another application of 3D printing in end-of-arm tooling for a sprue picker (pictured here). KraussMaffei (U.S. office in Florence, Ky.) also showed 3D-printed EOAT on articulated six-axis and Cartesian three-axis robots, as well as a servo sprue picker, in three molding cells. KM noted that 3D printing allows the customer to make its own EOAT, to make it fast and lightweight and with optimized conformity to the shape of the part to be handled. (For more on 3D-printed EOAT, see Aug. ’14 Close Up.) | <urn:uuid:7a463ad0-552f-4048-8590-d4af364f8c21> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ptonline.com/articles/3d-printings-growing-presence-seen-at-fakuma-show | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00185-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955681 | 521 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Speak Out Safely
SOS is an online reporting tool that Knowle Park uses to encourage children to report bullying. We would always encourage children to speak to a trusted adult in school if there is something worrying them but sometimes that isn’t easy to do. The SOS button means worries and problems can be reported online safely with information gathered to pass to a designated member of staff.
If you are worried about something, just click on the SOS button and fill in the form to let us know what the problem is. We can then follow it up and help to solve the problem. | <urn:uuid:19282e0e-55ec-40da-a55f-5237987cfc50> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.knowlepark-pri.bristol.sch.uk/children-and-curriculum/speak-out-safely | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.966244 | 120 | 2.40625 | 2 |
A newspaper in Tennessee has just published an article about “Parental Involvement Standards” that the state has developed.
Standard 1: Welcoming all families into the school community- Families are active participants in the life of the school, and feel welcomed, valued, and connected to each other, to school staff, and to what students are learning and doing in class and school.
Standard 2: Communicating effectively—Families and school staff engage in regular, meaningful communication about student learning.
Standard 3: Supporting student success—Families and school staff continuously work together to support students’ learning and healthy development both at home and at school, and have regular opportunities to strengthen their knowledge and skills to do so effectively.
Standard 4: Speaking up for every child—Families are informed and enabled to be advocates for their own and other children, to ensure that students are treated fairly and have access to learning opportunities that will support their success.
Standard 5: Sharing power—Families and school staff are equal partners with equal representation in decisions that affect students and families and together inform, influence, and create policies, practices, and programs.
Standard 6: Collaborating with community—Families and school staff work together with community members to connect students, families, and staff to expanded learning opportunities, community services, and civic participation.
I’m personally skeptical about the effect any kind of state standards actually have “on the ground” in schools and in the classroom, but these do sound good. The only way they can hurt, though, is if it leaves people who publish them feeling like they’ve actually done something useful (like people who call into talk radio), and don’t feel like they have to actually help provide resources to schools to implement them and help teachers and administrators feel like it’s in their self-interest to do so. | <urn:uuid:65eb7794-ee7a-4508-9d2c-e71aba065305> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://engagingparentsinschool.edublogs.org/2010/11/20/parental-involvement-standards/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721558.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00044-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95839 | 390 | 2.875 | 3 |
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By Mr. Curmudgeon
Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Congress has the power to do just about anything it desires provided it’s called a tax. It’s hard not to notice that the Progressive march toward totalitarianism in America has a decidedly bipartisan feel. Chief Justice John Roberts, who wrote the high court’s majority opinion, is an appointee of “compassionate conservative” George W. Bush.
This ruling positions the Tea Party as the only alternative to our broken two-party system.
At the center of the controversy, stands the individual mandate, which orders every American to participate in government-run health care or face fines or imprisonment.
I know this is an election year, and most Americans are used to pretending that presidential elections highlight the “stark contrasts between the two parties,” but the Supreme Court’s ObamaCare ruling and the histories of both presidential candidates belay that tired fantasy.
The presidential contest pits the father of the individual mandate against his protégé. The father, of course, is Mitt Romney. The Republican faithful counter that Romney and congressional establishment Republicans have pledged to “repeal and replace” Obama and Pelosi’s dictatorial abomination. It’s the “replace” part of the equation that should give us pause.
That said, I intend to hold my nose and vote for Romney for one reason and one reason only: The Supreme Courts’ health care ruling serves as a recruiting tool, adding more Americans to the Tea Party army. If, as in the midterm elections of 2010, Tea Party candidates head to Washington, the Progressive wing of the Republican Party will be hard pressed to ignore their power.
If the high court says Congress has unlimited power to bleed taxpayers dry, the acronym “Taxed-Enough-Already” takes on greater meaning and urgency.
The Tea Party must intensify its crusade to repeal the tenure of big-government politicians in both parties and replace them with small-government constitutionalists.
That means a greater Tea Party presence in the House and Senate, and that requires a re-doubling of Tea Party efforts to overthrow the Progressive wing of the GOP. | <urn:uuid:863e98ee-c7a6-4745-bfd5-8f443751643c> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.teapartytribune.com/2012/06/30/im-a-tea-party-nose-holder/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720845.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00085-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939249 | 468 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Rio de Janeiro´s famously laid-back residents are in a state of panic. A string of high profile knifings in well-heeled areas of the city are putting Cariocas on edge. The recent stabbing of a doctor inspired the drafting of new legislation to control knives. Though well intentioned, this effort is misguided.
It is not so much knives, but rather handguns that are doing the most damage. Revolvers and pistols were responsible for 42,416 of Brazil´s jaw-dropping 56,337 murders in 2012. Across the country, gun-related homicide has increased by 387% since the 1980s. Simply put, guns are more lethal than bladed weapons. | <urn:uuid:d5360cb2-ea84-4bfd-a746-5f8d15fe0825> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://brazilportal.wordpress.com/2015/07/20/brazils-gun-violence-probem-is-made-in-brazil/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00496-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963479 | 143 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Srinagar: Srinagar witnessed its coldest night at minus 5.5 on Tuesday, a day ahead of 40-day harshest period of winters in Kashmir ‘Chillai Kalan’.
The MET department, according to a news agency, said that weather is likely to remain dry with clear night sky during the next 24 hours, indicating a further drop in the night temperatures across the state.
Some parts of the Dal Lake has already frozen, hampering the movement of the boats. Frozen water taps and slippery roads are causing inconvenience to the residents.
Leh in Jammu and Kashmir froze at minus 14 degrees Celsius.
According to the Met office, the minimum temperature in the Valley was minus 6.2 in Pahalgam and minus 3.0 in Gulmarg.
In the Jammu region, Jammu city was at 5.6 degrees Celsius in the night while Katra was at 9.6. Batote recorded a 5.4, Bannihal 0.7 and Bhaderwah 0.7 as the night’s minimum. | <urn:uuid:ada33069-3453-4bb1-90c3-16f527e083f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kashmirnarrator.com/srinagar-freezes-minus-5-5/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.943226 | 224 | 1.992188 | 2 |
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1. not attached; separated: a detached ticket stub.
2. having no wall in common with another building (opposed to attached): a detached house.
3. impartial or objective; disinterested; unbiased: a detached judgment.
4. not involved or concerned; aloof.
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GRIEF EXPRESSED: When a Mate Dies
by Marta Felber - 2008 New Edition
“This book will become a classic” was the prediction of persons in the field of grief, when it was first published, in 1997. It is well on its way, with a January 2008 new edition printing. It remains the only book available that offers a widowed person’s actual grief work, and invites others to journey by the side of the author. Space is provided, on pages with trees and flowers in the background, for the reader to make their own notes. The book becomes a treasure, and a testimony to “There is life during, and beyond, grief.”
The format lends itself to being adaptable to the loss of any adult. The arresting cover provides identification for the person in grief. The comforting interior embraces the reader. "The author understands," is such a relief to the person in grief. The text provides a direction in which to go, at a time when the person in grief feels out of control. A living person has made this journey before them. Grief Expressed is also being used as a means of understanding what a person deep in grief is going through, and what can be done to help that person. Grief group leaders use it as a text and as a handout to each member.
The Limited Edition of Grief Expressed: When a Mate Dies is available only at LifeWords. It has European type flaps on the cover, which can be used as bookmarks. There are two marble-like pages in the front and back of the book, to take you from the four color cover to the comforting inside. The book is put into a white sleeve that folds securely around it, protecting the book when not in use. The front of the sleeve when folded is a copy of the Title Page, in gold embossed lettering. The text in both editions is the same.
The Limited Edition is personally autographed by Marta Felber. This is a limited edition print. It makes a beautiful gift, in a white case, ready to give without wrapping.
Book Description: A journal for widows and widowers. Fifty-four short chapters cover the practical aspects of moving on with life after a loss—such as adjusting to the emptiness of a new home, taking care of financial obligations, dealing with insomnia, building a support system, and more. Each chapter is followed by a journaling/list-making exercise that helps the bereaved regain control of their lives.
Book Review: "An excellent resource that should be provided to every widow and widower! Though its sensitive reality brings tears, its practical wisdom provides the courage and assurance that healing is possible and grief can be turned in positive directions. The gentle exercises are not only straightforward and honest, they can be applied universally. This book reveals the emotions and challenges that face every widowed person, and it goes on to offer the compassionate, connective support that brings hope and courage in even the darkest moments. "—Andrea Gambill, Editor, Bereavement magazine.
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|How to pronounce Tutia|
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Latin: Melozone aberti
Information about birds and birding in the Rio Salado Habitat.
Photo: Jim Winters
Each and every day, birds are around us.
In fact, you’d be hard pressed not to spot at least one bird on any given day. Birds have fascinated people for centuries, for good reason. Many have bright bold feathers like the Summer Tanager; others have beautiful songs like the Song Sparrow. Some, like the Scott’s Oriole, flaunt both. It’s easy to see why so many people are enamored by birds. They grace our backyard bird feeders, our biggest cities, and the most remote areas on our planet.
Every time that you spot a bird, you have the opportunity to contribute to something bigger-- by recording your sighting in eBird, a major online database that has been tracking birds for many years.
Whether you spend 5 minutes or 5 hours birding, your sightings help piece together a larger puzzle about what birds do. By using data gathered by the public, scientists understand the timing and frequency of bird movements all across the world. It doesn’t end at migration; it helps track the spread of invasive bird species like the Eurasian Collared Dove and the European Starling.
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History Websites for Homeschoolers
As Winston Churchill famously said, “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” We all know the importance of learning the history of our country and world, but many of us did not enjoy the subject in school. History class consisted of long lectures, dry textbooks, and memorizing facts just long enough to pass a test. One of the best things about teaching history today, as a homeschooler, is the abundance of interesting and engaging free resources online. These free history websites can be used by students to learn more about topics that interest them, to supplement any history curriculum, or by parents to create a customized history curriculum.
Free History Websites for Homeschoolers
America’s Story offers biographies, articles, videos, information about each state, and more. This website is designed for younger students.
BBC’s Bitesize History focuses on British history, but also includes some world history. The site has articles, videos, and games.
Ben’s Guide teaches students of all ages about the American government. Some of the topics included are branches of government, how laws are made, the election process, historical documents, and federal vs. state government.
Biography offers an extensive collection of biographies about influential and famous people throughout history and in current times.
At Biography Online, you’ll find biographies of the famous, influential, and inspirational.
Discovering Ancient Egypt includes stories of Egyptian pharaohs, information about Egypt’s inventors, 3D reconstructions of temples, videos, an interactive hieroglyphic typewriter, and much more.
Ducksters offers a wide range of articles covering historical events, biographies, and geography.
At Eyewitness to History, readers learn about history, from ancient times to the present, through the eyes of those who lived it.
At History Bombs, students learn about history through video lessons. While the videos are available with a free membership, other website features require a paid membership.
History Central has an extensive collection of articles that cover both American and world history.
History for Kids’ articles provide an overview of historical events and people. There are also worksheets, coloring pages, and quizzes.
The Library of Congress’s Today in History page provides an article about what happened on today’s date in history.
Macrohistory World History contains an extensive collection of articles covering history from ancient to modern times, maps, timelines, and more.
Mission US is an interactive game that teaches middle school and high school students about American history.
National Humanities Center’s TeacherServe offers a collection of essays on Religion in American History, The Environment in America History, and African American Literature & History.
At New American History, students learn about American history through maps, timelines, articles, and more.
Social Studies for Kids provides a large selection of articles covering history, geography, economics, cultures, and more.
TimeMaps offers an online world history atlas and encyclopedia. While there is a premium version available, most of the content is free.
The Valley of the Shadow details life in two American communities, one Northern and one Southern, throughout the Civil War and the Era of Reconstruction.
We the Kids is a nonprofit organization that encourages kids to learn American History and become engaged in its government.
The White House offers short biographies on each of America’s Presidents.
At The Wild West, you’ll find history, lore, and biographies of the lives and times of those who populated the Wild West.
The World Digital Library, which is a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, includes books, manuscripts, historical documents, maps, newspaper articles, journals, prints and photographs, sound recordings, and films.
Additional Free History Resources
History Unit Studies and Lesson Plans – This post lists numerous sources of free history unit studies and lesson plans.
History and Social Studies Curriculum – Do you prefer a curriculum that’s already put together for you? On this page, you find free complete curriculum for history, social studies, geography, and government.
History Timelines – Help your children understand the chronological flow of history with one of these free timelines.
Homeschool History with YouTube – Learn about history with one of these YouTube channels.
Virtual Field Trips – Explore the world, including many historical sites and museums, through virtual field trips.
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When faced with a strike by their unionized employees in 2003, four supermarket chains in Southern California entered into a Mutual Strike Assistance Agreement. The chains agreed that they would lock out all union employees in the event of a strike against one of them, and that they would redistribute and share profits during the course of the strike.
While the lock-out agreement is a traditional tactic in labor disputes, the profit-sharing agreement drew the attention of the State of California, which sued the supermarkets alleging an unlawful agreement in restraint of trade, in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act. In California v. Safeway, Inc., the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last week held that the agreement was unlawful, and directed that summary judgment be entered in favor of the state.
The supermarkets argued that the profit-sharing arrangement was justified because it was designed to end once the labor dispute was resolved, and did not decrease the number of competitors in the market. Further, they argued, it served the pro-competitive purpose of resisting an increase in labor costs by allowing the supermarkets to fend off union demands. Finally, they contended that the agreement was subject to an exemption from the antitrust laws for the purpose of engaging in labor negotiations.
The Ninth Circuit rejected all of those arguments, holding "to exempt defendants' anticompetitive agreement from the antitrust laws simply because it was entered into in order to help employers prevail in a labor dispute would be contrary to the fundamental priciples of both labor and antitrust law, as well as the actions of both Congress and the courts in their efforts to reconcile those two important bodies of national law." | <urn:uuid:d1b185c3-00d5-4998-9aec-ea4ba2a5ca20> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.aterwynneblog.com/oregon_business_litigatio/2010/08/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00146-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976342 | 325 | 1.84375 | 2 |
President’s Message Jul - Aug 2005
It is with great pleasure that this issue of Healthy Living takes a broad look at the many health care issues facing our country. I am honored that Congresswoman Mary Bono, who was recently appointed to the Health Subcommittee, took time from her extraordinarily busy schedule to meet with us and highlight the latest health care news in Hot Off The Hill.An ardent advocate for our community, Congresswoman Bono explains, in straightforward terms, complex health care issues ranging from stem cells, to prescription drugs, to HIV/AIDS, to obesity.
Highlighting Healthy Living, our cover story takes us up-close with the Congresswoman and her husband, Glenn Baxley, to learn how they both balance careers, family, and healthy lifestyles. It is a struggle that is familiar to many people, and in Mary Bono Beyond Politics – Finding Balance, Mary and Glenn candidly discuss how they manage extremely dynamic lives, de-stress, stay fit, and find balance.
In addition, Healthy Living addresses the critical issue of cholesterol. In this country, more than 105 million people have elevated cholesterol, and of these, 37 million people have high cholesterol. Healthy Living’s Physicians Roundtable presents the newest information on cholesterol and heart disease. Three cardiologists from Eisenhower Medical Center, Drs. Sontz, Shaeffer and Shaver, define the new cholesterol levels, demystify HDL and LDL, and discuss statins and other medications available for lowering cholesterol.
Remember that Eisenhower Medical Center exists for this community. Each and every day,we live Eisenhower’s mission – to serve mankind with a selfless passion for excellence in patient care, research, and education.
Be well, and know that we are here for you.
Yours in good health,
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FRIDAY, Nov. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Evidence-based recommendations from six studies can help guide clinical practice in spinal surgeries, according to a review published online Nov. 14 in Spine.
Charles G. Fisher, M.D., M.H.Sc., from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and colleagues reviewed six studies and provided evidence-based recommendations which affect the clinical practice for spinal surgeries. The six studies discussed the impact of worker's compensation status in posterolateral lumbar fusion; decompression for degenerative scoliosis; bone union rates between autologous and local bone graft in posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF); anterior column support in adjacent segment degeneration (ASD) after spinal fusion; minimally invasive and open transforaminal interbody fusion in spondylolisthesis; and dynamic stabilization adjacent to single-level fusion.
The authors offered a weak recommendation toward consideration of worker's compensation status in surgical decision-making and patient counseling. Radiographic and clinical outcome measures were inconclusive for decompression, decompression with limited fusion, and decompression with full curve fusion for degenerative scoliosis with radiculopathy. There was low quality evidence, without clinical correlation, for local autograft bone compared to autologous iliac crest graft in PLIF. There were no differences for ASD after anterior lumbar interbody fusion with or without posterior lumbar fusion. The safety and efficacy of minimally invasive spinal surgeries need further research before application in clinical practice. It is strongly recommended that posterior dynamic stabilization should not be used above a fusion to prevent adjacent segment degeneration.
"Surgery for low back pain remains a controversial issue. A number of factors influence surgical outcomes and valid isolation of specific prognostically-important factors is challenging," the authors write.
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- The antler-less deer hunt season opens Thursday. Local legislators wanted to cancel the four day hunting season, but the DNR says that can't happen.It would take at least six months to get through the administrative process to cancel any hunting season. The DNR wants hunters to have a chance to hunt game before the season ends.Jeremy Holtz is a DNR wildlife biologist in Rhinelander. "The December antler-less hunt would simply be giving hunters who didn't get to hunt the first weekend--because they had to work, or they were in another part of the state--to fill a tag they already have," said Holtz. "So the odds of it having a significantly negative impact on the herd from a population management standpoint, I would consider them pretty low."Republicans Tom Tiffany, Rob Swearingen, and Mary Czaja disagree. They say last year's late winter and high number of predators hurt the deer. Now, legislators believe this year's early winter weather will continue to hurt the herd. "My office in Madison, Representative Mary Czaja from Tomahawk, and certainly Senator Tiffany, have been receiving a lot of comments from frustrated sportsman regarding the low harvest of the deer season this year," said Rob Swearingen, Wisconsin State Representative. "As well as with the natural predators out there, and the early on set of icy conditions, we're worried that all of this together is going to create the perfect storm and take it's toll on these deer."In August, two deer management units over-issued about 350 antler-less deer permits. The DNR says it got about 254 of those permits back. Last year in Oneida County, 74 deer were shot during the antler-less deer season. Antler-less deer hunting is open from December 12 through December 15.
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Venture capital, philanthropy and family business are not mutually exclusive concepts. They all reflect the same entrepreneurial values of long-term investment, personal commitment, building teams and thinking outside the box.
If you ask a family boss what makes them special, they will mention their long-term perspective. They are also likely to tell you that their family’s values shape who they are and how they do business. Families built the foundations of many industries, from high fashion to car making, and their longevity has often enabled them to build trustworthy names and eventually become prominent philanthropists.
As the next generation of family business leaders get positioned to run their family companies into the twenty first century, many are abandoning the “get rich first and give back later” philosophy. They want to create impact and meaning while they do it.
Beyond responsibilities to their stakeholders, their reputations mean more than quality products at affordable prices and they place more emphasis on giving back as part of their legacy, not just ensuring the continuation of the family firm to the next generation. Such values are increasingly being shared by their peers in the corporate world, especially those at inflection points in their careers, pondering their next significant career move.
There is much that can be learnt from those with the ability and the patience to play the long-term game in the interest of meaningful social impact, as the story of a prominent family philanthropist shows us.
Vision comes first
James Chen’s family has a long-standing tradition of helping the poorest in society, with a particular focus on education and literacy. James was brought up with the idea that with privileges come responsibilities. It was therefore natural that it was he who successfully argued for the creation of a philanthropic family foundation – the Chen Yet-Sen Family Foundation. Chen says he felt inspired by his father, who was very different from those of his generation in giving back. Unlike his peers, who would typically write cheques to their home towns, putting money behind schools and hospitals, Chen's father would get involved, travelling to those places and cajoling administrators to make sure things were done right. This had a huge influence on Chen and the way the foundation operates, especially when it comes to understanding the needs of a project and being “an informed donor”.
“We try to develop domain expertise and we try to understand the issues. So perseverance and persistence, as it was in the case of my father, was very much the keystone of our family philanthropic tradition today,” he told me.
Another project, funded by James directly, is Adlens, a company that makes adjustable-power lenses for spectacles, which can be produced fairly cheaply and sold to the sight-challenged in poor countries. Chen was captivated by some compelling statistics, and after seeing early prototypes of the product developed by Joshua Silver, the Oxford professor who he eventually co-founded Adlens with, he felt compelled to roll up his sleeves and get involved: Over 150 million people worldwide live with visual impairment due to uncorrected refractive errors; 90 percent of the world’s visually impaired people live in developing countries; 95 percent of sub-Saharan Africans who need glasses do not own a pair; and uncorrected refractive errors cost the global economy an estimated US$121 billion.
As an investor and a philanthropist, Chen was immediately taken by the potential implications Silver’s lens technology would have on developing countries, where access to the optical industry is, for many, non-existent. But there were many challenges (as shown in our three-part case study).
Chen had anticipated breaking even in two to three years, after investing some US$10 million. However the original product proved a failure: not only was it too expensive to manufacture, but aesthetically it was considered too bulky and heavy. Chen revised his sights: he hoped to break even after a decade, and acknowledged that re-designing the product would cost him several million dollars more than anticipated. However, he explained, this was all about ‘patient capital’, justified by the idea of eventual social return.
Adlens purchased the license to (and later developed) a new Dutch product called the ‘Alvarez system. This innovative design consisted of two plastic lenses that slid over each other. By twisting a small dial, wearers could adjust the overlap of the lenses – and thus the corrective power of the glasses. Not only were these easier to produce (though not less expensive), but their technology allowed for a more conventional, rectangular design. Another considerable advantage is that the glasses remained permanently adjustable.
Vision for a Nation
Chen also set up Vision for a Nation, a separate entity from Adlens dedicated to to supporting emerging nations build locally accessible eye care services and provide affordable glasses.
Put simply, Adlens is the commercial arm of Chen’s idea; its innovative products are designed to be sold in middle to high-income economies for profit, while Vision for a Nation is a registered charity. A “buy one, give one” model was developed: for every pair of Adlens glasses purchased, another pair (adjustable or traditional) would be given away free of charge to a needy community.
Developing Adlens and Vision for a Nation has been no easy task for Chen. The amount of time and money he has invested in these projects is considerable, and the company’s long-term sustainability has yet to be demonstrated. But Chen and his family are willing to look beyond the logic of short-term profitability.
Just do it
Chen urges those that have the capability to deploy patient capital to consider this option. He shares an anecdote about Tom Tierney, the chairman and CEO of Bridgespan, an advisor to non-profits and philanthropists and also the former Managing Director of Bain & Co, who told Chen “in my whole career, the thing that strikes me is that it takes 10 years for a good idea, a good technology to get to a point where you can really make a good decision as to whether this is going to work or not”. James says it’s clear to him that he should press on. Adlens sold 100,000 units in the developed world last year and has just started in the U.S. and Mexico, which will fuel the social mission in Rwanda.
James Chen is a perfect example of how running a profit-seeking and innovative company can also create a real sense of purpose and do some good for the world. As his success gathers pace, he has no intention of losing focus.
Randel S. Carlock is Senior Affiliate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise and Berghmans Lhoist Chaired Professor in Entrepreneurial Leadership at INSEAD. He was the first academic director of the Wendel Centre for Family Enterprise and is the director of The Family Enterprise Challenge, an Executive Education programme for family business leaders. | <urn:uuid:652dfa50-60fd-4673-b2fa-827f90bc722e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://knowledge.insead.edu/blog/insead-blog/entrepreneurship-lessons-from-a-family-venture-philanthropist-4340 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00492-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975118 | 1,430 | 1.6875 | 2 |
If you are looking for an answer to the question What is Artificial Intelligence? and you only have a minute, then here's the definition the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence offers on its home page: "the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines."
However, if you are fortunate enough to have more than a minute, then please get ready to embark upon an exciting journey exploring AI (but beware, it could last a lifetime) …
Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Unlocking greater performance gains in warehouses using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) helps make supply chains more resilient and capable of bouncing back faster from disruptions. Unfortunately, the severity and frequency of supply chain disruptions are increasing, with McKinsey finding that, on average, companies experience a disruption of one to two months in duration every 3.7 years. Over a decade, the financial fallout of supply chain disruptions in the consumer goods sector can equal 30% of a year's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA).
The auto industry has had a challenging couple of years. Demand is shifting, key components have been hard to get and workers are leaving the sector. Thankfully, AI in car manufacturing could provide a solution to all of these problems. AI has been steadily rising in manufacturing -- and after recent disruptions, it'll likely grow even faster. Here's a look at some of the ways this technology is improving auto manufacturing today and tomorrow.
Artificial Intelligence makes network evolution much more efficient than it was in the past. Between 2015 and 2019, internet connectivity has grown at a rate of around 2%. It has increased by 8% over the past two years, which is an incredible increase in connectivity. The user's expectations have changed over the past two years due to changes in their professional and personal lives. The transition from offline to online work has seen a rise in connectivity.
At the beginning of 2022 many parts of the world were adapting to living with the Covid-19 pandemic -- which is far from over and seems to be settling into a pattern of repeated new-variant waves and a relentless build-up of Long Covid. Digital transformation projects are about driving fundamental change across customer experience, tech and business culture. This ZDNet special report brings you the latest trends and insights you need to succeed. Then, in February, the Russian invasion of Ukraine delivered another global shock, further disrupting supply chains and pushing up energy prices. For businesses, the consequent rise in inflation and threat of recession has added further pressure after a difficult two-and-a-half years.
Technology already plays a vital role in modern warfare and, with the emergence of AI, it is expected to assume an even bigger role in the future of defence. So far, the Indian Army has undertaken various projects with many more in the pipeline aimed towards the integration of AI. However, not much has materialised in terms of improvement in its capabilities in an actual battle environment. "The scope of artificial intelligence is vast. And if I did say, what we have done till now is very rudimentary or very basic of what the scope or potential of AI in the Indian Army can be", said Lt. Gen. Shantanu Dayal, Deputy Chief of Army Staff while speaking at the'Artificial Intelligence in Defence' (AIDef) event.
The application of artificial intelligence (AI) in the rubber value chain will be a game changer in the nearest future and the sector can realise more value through predictive analytics, said Saji Gopinath, Vice-Chancellor, Kerala University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology. The aggressive use of data transformation tools has resulted in new business models, facilitating new products and services that can generate greater utility and a new culture of management. Th Vice-Chancellor was speaking on'Efficient use of Artificial Intelligence and Block Chain Technology in Rubber Marketing' at the Indian Rubber Meet here during the weekend. John Baffes, Senior Agricultural Economist, Development Economics Prospects Group, World Bank, pointed out that non-energy prices are expected to rise 20 per cent in 2022, with the highest increase in commodities where Russia or Ukraine are key exporters. He further said the outlook depends on the duration of the war and the severity of disruptions to commodity flows.
Over the past few years, computer vision applications have become ubiquitous. From phones that recognize the faces of their users, to cars that drive themselves, to satellites that track ship movements, the value of computer vision has never been clear. But hardware shortages and labor disruptions in the pandemic's wake are challenging companies' ability to make good on the promise of computer vision, even as the pandemic itself has accelerated the potential of its use cases. Following is a look at how companies across a range of industries are deploying computer vision to improve and optimize key business processes, from retail fulfillment to health-care diagnostics. Computer vision is a field of artificial intelligence that is focused on processing images and videos to extract meaningful information.
The first step towards understanding IoT is rather easy. Thankfully, in a welcome break from acronyms and complex nomenclature, the term IoT – Internet of Things – quite literally means just that. Things connected to the internet so the data they produce (or data about them) can be accessed from anywhere. Viewed through a different lens, IoT is a result of faster and cheaper Internet connectivity trying to meet our insatiable hunger for data. The underlying technology is not a complex one - college students rig up IoT proof of concepts as projects; electronics hobbyists can buy simple IoT kits online to play with.
The last decade has seen companies operating under increasing levels of disruption. Quickly changing customer preferences, as well as demand uncertainty and disruptions, are challenging planning systems to unprecedented degrees. National security interests, trade barriers, and logistics disruptions are pushing businesses to find alternatives to globalized supply chains. Major swings in demand are calling for drastic operational and capital cost reduction in some areas and rapid growth in others. Physical distancing and remote work are forcing manufacturers to reconfigure manufacturing flows and management.
AI brings the potential for disruption and transformation due to its ability to make decisions and take action much quicker than its human counterparts. It has been seen as a means of increasing productivity within a company and improving revenues through better customer engagements. But the use of AI is not without pitfalls, risks and detractors. Will AI used for good or just corporate greed? How should the use of AI be regulated? | <urn:uuid:110d0ea7-3ca9-4e12-ba10-9dcf64409c75> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aitopics.org/tag/disruption | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.954938 | 1,342 | 2.375 | 2 |
The subject of credit scoring has become an increasingly hot topic, and for good reason. For many years, the general public only associated the concept of credit scoring with the need to purchase high-ticket items such as a new car or a home. Today, credit scoring goes much further. Your credit score can affect your ability to get a good rate on commodities such as car insurance, cell phones, or even determine whether or not you get the job that you want. Indeed, the financial snapshot provided by the credit score has also become a gauge for many employers, especially those who seek to place employees in a position.
The Five Factors of Credit Scoring
1. PAYMENT HISTORY – 35% IMPACT
Paying debt on time and in full has the greatest positive impact on your credit score. Late payments, judgments and charge-offs all have a negative impact. Missing a high payment will have a more severe impact than missing a low payment, and delinquencies that have occurred in the last two years carry more weight than older items.
2. OUTSTANDING CREDIT BALANCES – 30% IMPACT
This factor marks the ratio between the outstanding balance and available credit. Ideally, the consumer should make an effort to keep balances as close to zero as possible, and definitely below 30% of the available credit limit when trying to purchase a home.
3. CREDIT HISTORY – 15% IMPACT
This portion of the credit score indicates the length of time since a particular credit line was established. A seasoned borrower will always be stronger in this area.
4. TYPE OF CREDIT – 10% IMPACT
A mix of auto loans, credit cards and mortgages is more positive than a concentration of debt from credit cards only.
5. INQUIRIES – 10% IMPACT
This percentage of the credit score quantifies the number of inquiries made on a consumer’s credit
within a six-month period. Each hard inquiry can cost from two to 25 points on a credit score, but the maximum number of inquiries that will reduce the score is ten. In other words, 11 or more inquiries within a six-month period will have no further impact on the borrower’s credit score.
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After upgrading a Windows 2000 Server computer to Windows Server 2003, most Web applications will run normally. Although IIS 6 includes ASP.NET, it also includes the so-called Classic ASP, which is included with IIS 5. Both ASP.NET and Classic ASP can run side by side with no problems because they differentiate between each other by using different filename extensions: ASP for Classic ASP and ASPX for ASP.NET.
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|Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom|
20 April 1785 – 21 May 1790
|Preceded by||William Whitehead|
|Succeeded by||Henry James Pye|
|Born||9 January 1728|
Basingstoke, Hampshire, England
|Died||21 May 1790 (aged 62)|
|Alma mater||Trinity College, Oxford|
|Occupation||Literary historian, critic, and poet|
Thomas Warton (9 January 1728 – 21 May 1790) was an English literary historian, critic, and poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1785, following the death of William Whitehead (poet). He is sometimes called Thomas Warton the younger to distinguish him from his father Thomas Warton the elder. His most famous poem is The Pleasures of Melancholy, a representative work of the Graveyard poets.
Warton was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, the son of poet Thomas Warton, the Elder, and younger brother of Joseph Warton and Jane Warton. As a youngster, Warton demonstrated a strong predilection toward writing poetry, a skill he would continue to develop all of his life. In fact, Warton translated one of Martial's epigrams at nine, and wrote The Pleasures of Melancholy at seventeen.
His early education was given to him by his father at home. In March 1744, at sixteen years of age, he entered Trinity College, Oxford. He graduated from Oxford in 1747, where he subsequently became a Fellow. Warton was selected as Poet Laureate of Oxford in 1747 and again in 1748. His duty in this post was to write a poem about a selected patroness of the university, which would be read to her on a specially appointed day.
In 1771 he was appointed rector of Kiddington in Oxfordshire, a post he held until his death.
In 1785, he was appointed Camden Professor of History, as well as Poet Laureate. He was a friend and rival of Samuel Johnson, and his poetry was greatly influenced by earlier English poets such as Chaucer, Drayton, Fairfax, and Spenser.
Among other important contributions, Warton, along with his brother, was among the first to argue that Sir Thopas, by Geoffrey Chaucer, was a parody. Warton contributed to the general project of the ballad revival. He was a general supporter of the poetry of Thomas Gray—a fact that Johnson satirized in his parody "Hermit hoar, in solemn cell." Among his minor works were an edition of Theocritus, a selection of Latin and Greek inscriptions, the humorous Oxford Companion to the Guide and Guide to the Companion (1762); lives of Sir Thomas Pope and Ralph Bathurst; and an Inquiry into the Authenticity of the Poems attributed to Thomas Rowley (1782).
Warton gave little attention to his clerical duties, and Oxford always remained his home. He was known as a very easy and convivial as well as a very learned don, with a taste for taverns and crowds as well as dim aisles and romances.
In a poem written in 1745 he shows the delight in Gothic churches and ruined castles which inspired much of his subsequent work in romantic revival. Most of Warton's poetry was written before the age of twenty-three, when he took his M.A. degree. In 1749, he penned The Triumph of Isis, a poem in praise of Oxford and the many students who had received their education there. Published anonymously, The Triumph of Isis rebutted William Mason's Isis, an Elegy published the previous year, which was anything but flattering to Oxford.
Following the success of The Triumph of Isis, Warton wrote Newmarket, a Satire, which was followed by a collection of verses. His complete poetical works were included in an anthology that has been reissued.
Although he continued to write poetry, Warton's main energies were turned to poetical reading and criticism. His first major academic work was Observations on the Faerie Queene of Spenser, published in 1754. He is, however, best known for the three-volume The History of English Poetry (1774–81), which covered the poetry of the 11th through the 16th centuries. Although the work was criticized for its many inaccuracies, it is nonetheless considered a highly important and influential historical tome.
As a poet, Warton was more inclined toward light and humorous verse, odes and sonnets. His sonnets helped to revive the form, which had fallen out of fashion. He was interested in primitivism, which was an important stage toward romanticism.
Ah! what a weary race my feet have run
In 1910 Frida Mond endowed the British Academy with a fund to establish an annual Shakespeare oration or lecture, as well as an annual lecture on English poetry to be called the Warton Lecture, as a tribute to the memory of Thomas Warton as a historian of English poetry. The inaugural lectures in these series were delivered in 1911 and 1910, respectively.
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London, Feb 23 : Scientists have developed a new theory to explain the formation of the enormous plume of dust and water vapour that spurts violently into space from the south pole of Enceladus, Saturn's sixth-largest moon.
According to a report from the University of Leicester, UK, physicist Nikolai Brilliantov and his colleagues in Germany, have revealed why the dust particles in the plume emerge more slowly than the water vapour escaping from the moon's icy crust.
Enceladus orbits in Saturn's outermost "E" ring. It is one of only three outer solar system bodies that produce active eruptions of dust and water vapour.
Moreover, aside from the Earth, Mars, and Jupiter's moon Europa, it is one of the only places in the solar system for which astronomers have direct evidence of the presence of water.
The erupting plume on Enceladus is ejected by geyser-like volcanic eruptions from deep, "tiger-stripe" cracks within the moon's south pole. Some astronomers have suggested that the myriad tiny grains of dust from these eruptions could be the actual source of Saturn's E-ring.
However, the dynamics and the origin of the plume itself have remained a mystery.
Now, Brilliantov, along with his team, has developed a new theory to explain the formation of these dust particles and to explain why they are ejected into space.
The researchers point out that once ejected the dust particles, which are in fact icy grains, and water vapour are too dilute to interact with each other and so the water vapour cannot be the cause of the dusty slowdown.
Instead, the team suggests that the shift in speed must occur below the moon's surface before ejection.
The numerous cracks through which the plume material escapes from the moon's icy surface, and which can be hundreds of metres deep, are narrower at some points along their length. At these points temperature and pressure of vapour drop drastically down, causing condensation of vapour into icy grains and hence to formation of the dust-vapour mixture.
These peculiar conditions allow the water vapour to erupt rapidly carrying with it the dust particles.
However, these particles undergo countless frequent collisions with the inside of the channel walls which causes friction that slows them down before final ejection. In fact, the larger the particle, the slower the ejection speed.
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Emission Monitoring Systems Market Size And Forecast
Emission Monitoring Systems Market size was valued at USD 3.86 Billion in 2020 and is projected to reach USD 8.58 Billion by 2028, growing at a CAGR of 10.50% from 2021 to 2028.
Increasing restrictions by the governments, with an increase in awareness regarding health and safety of the environment, and increasing usage of Oil & Gas and petrochemicals are the factors driving the growth of the Emission Monitoring Systems Market. The Global Emission Monitoring Systems Market report provides a holistic evaluation of the market. The report offers a comprehensive analysis of key segments, trends, drivers, restraints, competitive landscape, and factors that are playing a substantial role in the market.
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Global Emission Monitoring Systems Market Definition
To deploy emission monitoring systems, many government environmental regulatory authorities across the world must maintain track of pollutant emission rates by manufacturing industries. It gives data on combustion control, emission rates, and environmental contaminants, as well as the monetarization of various flue gases such as oxygen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and others. Emission monitoring systems are made up of numerous components that are used to determine the concentration of gas or particulate matter, as well as the rate at which specific pollutants are emitted. It has an integrated data acquisition system that can measure moisture, temperature, flue gas opacity, and airflow. Chemicals and fertilizers, oil and gas, and a variety of other sectors employ the application.
Two Major Types of Global Emission Monitoring Systems Market are PEMS and CEMS. To determine gas or particulate matter concentrations or emission rates of certain contaminants, a CEMS system consists of various components. The results of the applicable emission limitation or standard in units are produced by the analyzer measurements and software. PEMS, on the other hand, uses modeling software to estimate emission levels of the applicable emission limitation or standard in units based on control device operational characteristics. A sensor validation system may be included as an option in a PEMS to assure the accuracy of anticipated emissions data. PEMS can be utilized in place of, or as a backup to, conventional CEMS for certified emissions source.
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Global Emission Monitoring Systems Market Overview
Rising limitations imposed by governments to control emissions from industrial operations. The Department of Environment, Malaysia, introduced the Environmental Quality Act 1974 and Clean Air Regulation 2014, to Regulation 7 Air Pollution Control System and Regulation Performance Monitoring of Air Pollution Control System, to control and improve environmental pollution. These are the factors pushing the government to use emissions monitoring systems. Because COVID-19 is an infectious respiratory disease, and air quality influences respiratory health, the COVID-19 pandemic is critical for emissions monitoring systems to monitor air quality and give crucial information during this pandemic.
Coal is used to create electricity at the thermal power station. Mercury, lead, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, particulates, and other heavy metals are all released into the air when coal is burned at a high temperature. Contaminants cause a variety of health issues, including asthma, breathing difficulties, and a variety of other ailments. The emission monitoring system assists in determining harmful gas engagement to guarantee that the industry’s emissions do not exceed the permissible level. Renewable energy is the fastest-growing source of electricity generation.
Many countries are investing in renewable energy sources such as hydropower, offshore wind, and biofuels. Industries employ these resources to reduce CO2 emissions and local air pollution because they emit no carbon. For the Emission Monitoring Systems Market to flourish, the globe must rapidly shift toward low-carbon energy sources, such as nuclear and renewable technologies. One of the most important regions for coal-fired power generation in the Asia Pacific. Regulations on air pollution control are rapidly becoming stricter in China and India. The Emission Monitoring Systems Market can benefit from the building of new coal-fired plants to provide electrification to developing countries and assure their economies’ progress.
Global Emission Monitoring Systems Market: Segmentation Analysis
The Global Emission Monitoring Systems Market is segmented on the basis of Type, Offering, Industry, And Geography.
Emission Monitoring Systems Market, By Type
• Predictive Emission Monitoring System (PEMS)
• Continuous Emission Monitoring System (CEMS)
Based on Type, The market is segmented into Predictive Emission Monitoring System (PEMS) and Continuous Emission Monitoring System (CEMS). Continuous Emission Monitoring System (CEMS) is traditional equipment used for monitoring pollutant release rates by various global environmental regulatory authorities. Predictive Emission Monitoring System (PEMS) is a software-based system that uses mathematical or statistical models based on historical processes and emission data generated by plant control systems and existing emissions monitoring systems. It is highly accurate and incurs almost half the capital and lifecycle costs. It is a cost-effective alternative to a Continuous Emission Monitoring System (CEMS).
Emission Monitoring Systems Market, By Offering
Based on Offering, The market is segmented into Hardware, Software, and Services. The Hardware segment holds a large share in the market. The requirement of Hardware components in an emissions monitoring system is determined by its type. The Emission Monitoring Systems Market is more dependent on Hardware for operations than Software-based predictive emission monitoring systems. The Services segment is classified into installation and deployment, training and support, and maintenance of the emission monitoring systems.
Emission Monitoring Systems Market, By Industry
• Chemicals, Petrochemicals, Refineries and Fertilizers
• Oil & Gas
• Power Plant & Consumption
Based on Industry, The market is segmented into Chemicals, Petrochemicals, Refineries and Fertilizers, Oil & Gas, Power Plant & Consumption, and Others. The Oil & Gas segment holds a large number of shares in the market. Due to their limited rates set by the authorities to control pollution, it is maintained by the emission monitoring system. An increase in the growth of the crude oil and natural gas infrastructure across the globe and many power generation facilities increases the demand for the Oil & Gas segment in the market.
Emission Monitoring Systems Market, By Geography
• North America
• Asia Pacific
• Rest of the world
On the basis of Regional Analysis, The Global Emission Monitoring Systems Market is classified into North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Rest of the world. Asia Pacific region holds a large share in the market Due to the development in power generating and chemical-use industries in the Asia Pacific region, which employ emission monitoring systems, the region maintains a substantial part of the market. As the region’s need for coal-fired power plants grows, so does the region’s demand for Emission Monitoring Systems Market.
The “Global Emission Monitoring Systems Market” study report will provide valuable insight with an emphasis on the global market including some of The major players in the market are ABB, Emerson Electric Co., AMETEK Inc., Siemens AG, General Electric Company, Rockwell Automation, Inc., Parker Hannifin Corporation, Teledyne Technologies, Inc., Sick AG, Thermo Fisher Scientific Environnement S.A. India Pvt Ltd.
Our market analysis also entails a section solely dedicated to such major players wherein our analysts provide an insight into the financial statements of all the major players, along with its product benchmarking and SWOT analysis. The competitive landscape section also includes key development strategies, market share, and market ranking analysis of the above-mentioned players globally.
• In February 2020, Conectiv Mid-Merit, LLC’s new, state-of-the-art, environmentally friendly power-generating facility in Delta, Pa. has handed GE a contract to provide continuous emissions monitoring systems (CEMS) and data acquisition and handling systems (DAHS).
• In October 2019, AMETEK has launched two new particulate measurement continuous emission monitoring systems (PM-CEMS) to provide precise and dependable particulate matter readings in stacks and ducts from industrial combustion operations.
• In March 2019, The Rosemount CT4400 continuous gas analyzer was launched by Emerson. It’s made to assist plants to save money on maintenance and accurately report emissions in environmental monitoring applications that measure common components including nitric oxide (NO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulphur dioxide (SO2), carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2), and oxygen (O2).
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ABB, Emerson Electric Co., AMETEK Inc., Siemens AG, General Electric Company, Rockwell Automation, Inc., Parker Hannifin Corporation.
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1 INTRODUCTION OF GLOBAL EMISSION MONITORING SYSTEMS MARKET
1.1 Overview of the Market
1.2 Scope of Report
2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
3 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY OF VERIFIED MARKET RESEARCH
3.1 Data Mining
3.3 Primary Interviews
3.4 List of Data Sources
4 GLOBAL EMISSION MONITORING SYSTEMS MARKET DIAGNOSTIC MARKET OUTLOOK
4.2 Market Dynamics
4.3 Porters Five Force Model
4.4 Value Chain Analysis
5 GLOBAL EMISSION MONITORING SYSTEMS MARKET, BY TYPE
5.2 Predictive Emission Monitoring System (PEMS)
5.3 Continuous Emission Monitoring System (CEMS)
6 GLOBAL EMISSION MONITORING SYSTEMS MARKET, BY OFFERING
7 GLOBAL EMISSION MONITORING SYSTEMS MARKET, BY INDUSTRY
7.2 Chemicals, Petrochemicals, Refineries and Fertilizers
7.3 Oil & Gas
7.4 Power Plants & Consumption
8 GLOBAL EMISSION MONITORING SYSTEMS MARKET, BY GEOGRAPHY
8.2 North America
8.3.4 Rest of Europe
8.4 Asia Pacific
8.4.4 Rest of Asia Pacific
8.5 Rest of the World
8.5.1 Latin America
8.5.2 Middle East and Africa
9 GLOBAL EMISSION MONITORING SYSTEMS MARKET COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE
9.2 Company Market Ranking
9.3 Key Development Strategies
10 COMPANY PROFILES
10.1.2 Financial Performance
10.1.3 Product Outlook
10.1.4 Key Developments
10.2 Emerson Electric Co.
10.2.2 Financial Performance
10.2.3 Product Outlook
10.2.4 Key Developments
10.3 AMETEK Inc.
10.3.2 Financial Performance
10.3.3 Product Outlook
10.3.4 Key Developments
10.4 Siemens AG
10.4.2 Financial Performance
10.4.3 Product Outlook
10.4.4 Key Developments
10.5 General Electric Company
10.5.2 Financial Performance
10.5.3 Product Outlook
10.5.4 Key Developments
10.6 Rockwell Automation, Inc.
10.6.2 Financial Performance
10.6.3 Product Outlook
10.6.4 Key Developments
10.7 Parker Hannifin Corporation
10.7.2 Financial Performance
10.7.3 Product Outlook
10.7.4 Key Developments
10.8 Teledyne Technologies
10.8.2 Financial Performance
10.8.3 Product Outlook
10.8.4 Key Developments
10.9 Sick AG
10.9.2 Financial Performance
10.9.3 Product Outlook
10.9.4 Key Developments
10.10 Thermo Fisher Scientific Environnement S.A. India Pvt Ltd.
10.10.2 Financial Performance
10.10.3 Product Outlook
10.10.4 Key Developments
11 KEY DEVELOPMENTS
11.1 Product Launches/Developments
11.2 Mergers and Acquisitions
11.3 Business Expansions
11.4 Partnerships and Collaborations
12.1 Related Research
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Mumbai: Terming the Interim Budget by Finance Minister P. Chidambaram as 'reasonable', economists however said meeting fiscal targets will be difficult unless growth picks up.
Axis Bank chief economist Saugata Bhattacharya said the budget is a little aggressive in terms of fiscal consolidation target. The fiscal deficit target of 4.1 per cent is an aspirational target.
Economic growth for FY14 is estimated at 4.9 per cent. Last fiscal, growth fell to 4.5 per cent. Economists, however, believe FY15 fiscal deficit target for 4.1 per cent may be revised upwards when the new government comes to power.
The current account deficit (CAD) will be contained at $ 45 billion this financial year, well below the record high level of $ 88 billion in FY13, the minister said. The tax revenue for FY15 has been estimated at Rs 13.79 lakh crore as against the revised estimate of Rs 11.58 lakh crore in FY'14.
"The assumption on tax front is an aggressive one. The nominal GDP growth is seen around 13 per cent and if it is not achieved, we could see some disappointment on tax collection front," Shubhada Rao of Yes Bank said.
Foreign brokerage Credit Suisse said with the general elections round the corner this is not a `normal' budget, but largely a chance to tell listening voters what the government had achieved during 10 years in office.
The government today cut Rs 79,790 crore from the Plan expenditure of Rs 5,55,532 crore for the current financial year due to burgeoning fiscal deficit. The interim Budget projects revised estimates of the Plan expenditure at Rs 4,75,532 crore for 2013-14.
"There are concerns over quality of fiscal adjustment as plan expenditure has been cut," Crisil's Joshi said. The government also pegged net borrowing for 2014-15 at Rs 4.57 lakh crore, Rs 11,580 crore less than the revised estimates for FY'14.
During 2013-14, the government borrowed Rs 4,68,901.87 crore from the market. "Net market borrowing of Rs 4.57 lakh crore is expected to finance 87 per cent of the fiscal deficit, while gross market borrowings are likely at Rs 5.97 lakh crore in FY15, better than market expectations of Rs 6.1-6.4 lakh crore," Japanese brokerage firm Nomura said. | <urn:uuid:99581058-7300-46d5-8aa6-c15827613399> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.indolink.com/displayArticleS.php?id=021814092916 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721141.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00416-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931287 | 498 | 1.554688 | 2 |
The chief executive of a prominent science group said they currently have no intention of retracting a study at the center of a controversy involving accusations of scientific malpractice by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists.
Rush Holt, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), told lawmakers Tuesday he saw no reason to retract a 2015 NOAA study claiming to have eliminated the global warming “pause” from the temperature record.
Dr. John Bates, the former principal scientist at the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., went public with complaints that NOAA scientists put a ‘thumb on the scale’ to get results that showed more global warming since 1998.
Holt said he sees nothing wrong with the study, and that Bates’ accusations amounted to an “internal” NOAA dispute over archiving practices. NOAA’s 2015 study was published in the journal Science, which is published by AAAS.
“This is not the making of a big scandal,” said Holt, a former Democratic congressman. “This is the internal dispute between two factions of an agency.”
“There’s nothing to suggest there are problems with that work,” Holt said.
Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith disagreed.
“It may be a lot more serious than you think,” said Smith, who chairs the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.
Smith launched an investigation into Karl’s 2015 study, eventually hearing from other NOAA employees the study may have been rushed to influence policymakers meeting at a United Nations summit later that year.
Smith subpoenaed NOAA for emails related to the study, but the agency fought back. NOAA eventually handed over emails, but many were redacted. Smith has used Bates’ public complaints as a launch pad for further inquiry. | <urn:uuid:4e56ecbe-9410-4c75-880b-7d208131c289> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://test.climatedepot.com/2017/02/08/update-journal-has-no-plans-to-retract-noaa-study-despite-data-manipulation-concerns/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00679.warc.gz | en | 0.948486 | 430 | 1.804688 | 2 |
A porcupine gave a nasty surprise to three dogs in Canada, leaving them with spines all over their bodies.
The animals all survived, but their owner was hit with a large vet's bill.
One of the dogs, Mahalo, came out of the encounter with particularly serious injuries, having been punctured by spines in her heart and lungs.
She required extensive surgery, leaving her owner with a bill thought to be around £5,200.
Mike Gerrand set up a GoFundMe page on behalf of the pets' owner to help pay for the treatment.
The other dogs, Nestah and Soljah, also got hurt by the porcupine's quills, with Nestah requiring medical treatment for spikes to her face.
Mr Gerrand said: "These dogs are the love of my dear friend Dennis' life."
"The veterinarian said if [Mahalo] hadn't been a pit bull with all that muscle she wouldn't have survived," he added.
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A little over a month ago during an intense moment of food geekery, Claire, Stephane and I decided to make our own choucroute (sauerkraut) and saucisse(sausage) from scratch. The deal was that I'd make the sauerkraut and they'd tackle the sausages
The next day I went out and bought a large head of cabbage and got started on my epic sauerkraut fermentation experiment. The following is a chronicle of the high and low points of the past 34 days.
Day 3: I walked into the bedroom last night and thought to myself "what died in here". The bottles are bubbling and it's getting stinky. I'm hoping it's one of those things where it gets worse before it gets better, otherwise I may need to toss the whole batch out.
Day 5: Either the stench has dissipated or I've lost some smell receptors. The cabbage is taking on a bleached appearance.
Day 12: Opened it up and cautiously tasted it. Briny, tart, delicious! Needs more time though.
Day 34: While still quite firm and crunchy, it's almost white in color and has the perfect balance of tartness and brine.
During the winter months, the cold weather results in cabbage with leaves that are dense, thick and very sweet, making them perfect for sauerkraut. When you pick the cabbage (regardless of the season), look for a head that is relatively dense. You can judge this by picking the heads up and comparing the weight to other heads. You can also test it by pressing into it with your thumb. A really good head of cabbage should be very heavy for its size and should not give at all, under moderate pressure.
Fermentation is a bacterial process where microorganisms (typically yeast or in this case Lactobacillus) on the fruit or vegetable, break down the sugars and form new compounds. In the case of booze, the end product is alcohol, but for sauerkraut, the lacto-fermentation creates organic acids that gives it its tart flavour.
The key to fermenting anything is sanitation and temperature control. We want to create an ideal condition for the right types of bacteria to flourish, while making it difficult for the undesirable type to colonize our cabbage. That's why it's critical to make sure all cutting surfaces, bowls, plates, knives, containers, and most importantly your hands are as sterile as possible, so we don't introduce any organisms that will make the sauerkraut go funky. I always start by running any implements I plan to use through the dishwasher and thoroughly scrubbing my hands with anti-bacterial soap.
While filling them can be a bit of a pain, I like using clear plastic water bottles for a few reasons. First, the bottles are sterilized at the bottling plant, so as long as you haven't been drinking straight from the bottle, they should be sterile. Second, it's the perfect size to hold 2 liters of brine and half a head of cabbage. Third, with this particular type of bottle, there's a taper at the very top, so if it's filled almost all the way, there's less surface area in contact with air (usually where mold forms). Lastly, because it has a lid (which you'll need to poke holes in), you can shake the bottle every couple of days without using some kind of stirring implement that might introduce new bacteria. If you decide to use a mason jar, or other container, make sure you wash it with bleach and rinse it well before use.
- First, we need to prepare the bottles. Because fermentation releases gasses, it's critical that we put holes to vent the gases, otherwise your bottle will explode and you will have a nasty, stinky mess to clean up. For these plastic bottles, I just take a long pin, get it red hot over a burner and poke about 6 holes in the lid.
- Cut off any part of the bottom of the cabbage that looks like it's been cut before (around the stem). Remove the exterior layer of leaves on the cabbage and rinse the head of cabbage well. On a sterile cutting board, cut the head in half.
- Use a French mandoline (the Japanese ones typically shred the cabbage too thin for this purpose) to shred half a head of cabbage into a clean bowl.
- To prepare the brine. Add 2 liters of water to the bottle. Add 1/4 C of kosher salt to the bottle, secure the lid then shake to dissolve, making sure you cover the holes in the lid with the palm of your hand.
- The hardest part of this whole process is getting the cabbage into the bottle. I used a 4 layer strip of foil that I folded into a funnel to help move this process along. Just pinch some strands of cabbage between your thumb and fingers, then put them in the funnel and force them down into the bottle with your fingers. As long as you're putting them in lengthwise, you should be able to get quite a bit into the bottle in each batch. Repeat until the cabbage is gone.
- Now do this again with the other half of cabbage and the other bottle. The bottles should be more or less filled, but you may want to make some additional brine using the same water/salt ratio if they are not coming close to the top. You want to leave about 1" of air at the top, since the contents will bubble during fermentation, and you don't want it to overflow.
- Secure the lid then shake to make sure the cabbage is evenly distributed. Loosely tent some plastic wrap over the lid to prevent dust from getting into the holes.
- Put the bottles in a cool (under 70 degrees F) dark place for about 1 month. Shaking the bottles every day or two to redistribute. Start tasting the sauerkraut after 2 weeks and keep fermenting until you are happy with the flavour. A foul sulfur-like smell is normal, but should dissipate after a few days. _The sauerkraut should never get mushy, slimy or moldy and needs to be thrown out if any of this happens.
- When the sauerkraut is ready, use a knife to cut the top off the bottles, drain the sauerkraut and rinse lightly. To store for a longer period of time, drain the sauerkraut, reserving the liquid. Then boil the liquid. Pour it back over the sauerkraut and keep it in the fridge. | <urn:uuid:81667c1e-c801-4cd9-b765-32717ba7a349> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://norecipes.com/homemade-sauerkraut-choucroute | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279368.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00327-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943857 | 1,374 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Lifeboats don't seem to be anywhere near as effective at rescuing sailors after you've seen the SeAngel Helium Rescuing System. These helium-filled rescue pods were designed by Fedor Porshnev. Everything about the SeAngel Helium Rescuing System is futuristic, from its design to its function.
The SeAngel Helium Rescuing System can seat one person, and is able to float thanks to an on-board store of helium that is used to inflate a giant balloon. The balloon carries the rescue pod up into the air, with occupants allowed to control their altitude using a button that lets out helium. To ensure that the rescue pods don't float past rescue personnel, each one is installed with a GPS beacon.
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Europeans cherish the performance of their sport cars and custom motorcycles. And where Americans would favor theme bikes about the western era, American Natives, NASCAR and Mc Donald’s (!?!) they are fond of paying tribute on 2 wheels to their automobile brand names. Saw a lot (too many) Ferrari theme bikes, but more rarely Porsche tribute custom bikes.
As an introduction, 2 facts that most Americans don’t know. First, Porsche was founded in 1931 by Ferdinand Porsche, an Austrian engineer, not a German. Second, the company was during many years only a motor development and consulting firm, not building cars under its name. First assignment from the German government was to conceive a “car for the people” (In German, Volkswagen), resulting in the Volkswagen Bettle with the 1st Porsche model (Porsche 64) developed in 1939 using most components from the Beetle.
To tell the tale of this legendary car brand, which today (with Mercedes and BMW) still defines the “Made in Germany“, this tribute bike could only adopt a street-fighter look with a big-inch stroker engine form S&S Cycles, hand-made frame and aggressive body work, a beefy front end many paint job references to Le Mans, Steve McQueen, James Dean (killed behind the wheel of his Porsche 550 Spider) and other images of the Porsche family history, all airbrushed by top-noch artist Marcus Pfeil. Built by German Custrom Wolf, a shop specializing in custrom street-fighter style custrom motorcycles. (Photography copyright Frank Sander)
Bike Name: Tribute to Porsche
Builders: Wolfgang Bätz, Christian Märtl
Engine: S&S 113”
Frame Rake: 40°
Front End Make / Type:Thunderbike RS
Transmission Type:Softail 5-speed
Front Wheel: Thunderbike Vegas Cut 4,5 x 18
Rear Wheel: Thunderbike Vegas Cut/ 10 x 18
Front Brake: Thunderbike / ZX 10 R
Rear Brake: Buell / Braking “Wave”
Front Tire: Metzeler 130/60/18
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Online learning works for some, but not for others. Some parents prefer to have their child at home during pandemic, while others prefer that their child learn inside of a classroom.
“Being at school is better for me because I am there for the lesson instead of me assuming what the lesson is about,” said Seth Turner.
For some, at home learning feels incomplete like you are missing out on the lesson or falling behind in class.
“I don’t really want my daughter to go back to school, if she gets sick with Covid, so do I and then we both have to quarantine,” said Ms. Newman, the mother of an eighth grade student.
A lot of students prefer going to school but there are positives to staying at home. For example, you have more time to finish your work, you can wear what you want unless you have zoom conferences, and you chose your schedule and breaks.
“One of the things I liked about at-home learning was the hours, I could choose my hours,” Turner said.
Being at home all day gave you a lot of opportunities to take up new hobbies or relax more even though it has caused a lot of people to be on their phones all day.
“Helping with online homework and trying to work the websites were the hardest part for me as a parent,” said Newman.
The reality for a lot of parents is they work all day and aren’t home when their child is doing school work, so they are not there to help. And if they are home, they might not understand it themselves.
“At school you get more hands-on experience and the teachers are there to help you,” said Newman.
Most students agree that learning at school is easier to understand the topic at hand. And at home, some feel like they aren’t learning anything or understanding it.
“The hardest part of being at home was being alone and not having friends to interact with,” said Turner.
Families have been through a lot this year and with the kids staying home it has been a challenge for many families.
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This has got to be The Most Useful Periodic Table Ever. Not just a boring list of elements and stuff, but also includes things that actually use these basic building blocks of our universe. It’s a joint effort between the University of York in the UK and some other bods, and it’s sitting on a staging server at oil giant BP.com, so this link might not survive long.
Definitely worth downloading if only to learn that Hafnium 72 is used in nuclear submarines and Lanthanum 57 in lighter flints and camera lenses. Who coulda guessed? | <urn:uuid:3fb3560e-b479-4b0e-b6e7-191cf145ddb0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.redferret.net/the-most-useful-periodic-table-ever-with-real-world-applications/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.934333 | 121 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Someone who finds the internet scary is someone who doesn’t know what they are really doing, I believe. To findout what the average person thinks, japan.internet.com reported on a survey conducted by Cross Marketing Inc into internet scariness.
Over the 28th and 29th of November 2007 300 members of the Cross Marketing online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. The sample was split 50:50 male and female, and 20.0% in their teens, 20.0% in their twenties, 20.0% in their thirties, 20.0% in their forties, and 20.0% in their fifties.
With decent virus software and just a little common sense, viruses can be almost completely avoided, although running things like Explorer and Outlook (a sin around 70% are guilty of) does make life a little more interesting on line… A follow-up question would have been to find out how many people had actually suffered from the dangers in Q1SQ, for instance.
Q1: Do you think that these days the internet is a scary thing? (Sample size=300)
Very scary (to SQ) 8.0% Scary to some degree (to SQ) 69.3% Not very scary 18.0% Not scary at all 4.7%
Q1SQ: What sort of things make you feel the internet is a scary thing? (Sample size=208, multiple answer)
Votes Percentage Viruses, hacking, and other attacks 188 81.0% Leaking of personal data 188 81.0% Libel 119 51.3% Internet addiction 44 19.0% Other 9 4.3% No particular reason 7 3.4%
Q2: Compared to a year ago, how scary is the internet now? (Sample size=300)
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One of the skills you need when attempting OET Reading Part C questions is to get a gist of the entire passage. This includes identifying any opinions that may be present in the text. The opinions can be the writer’s opinion or the writer may be telling you what someone else’s opinion is. Oftentimes, you may not be able to find the exact same words used in the question as in the text. This is where a general understanding of the entire passage is so important.
Having said that, we are glad to tell you that there are some reading tips that can help you improve your OET Reading Part C and learn how to identify opinions.
1. Look for common opinion-signaling words (belief, think, say)
There are some common words that are used to signal that an opinion is being presented. Of course, the explicit term ‘opinion’ may be used, as in, ‘In my opinion…’. However, there are other words that you can look out for such as ‘think’, ‘belief’, and ‘say’. Here are some examples:
In the Newcastle Herald in July 2005, Emeritus Professor Bill McCarthy of the Sydney Melanoma Unit is quoted as saying “I want to make it clear that I believe some clinics are very careful and do good work”.
I don’t think that the way HIV is being portrayed in the media is at all helpful.
It’s no wonder you’re confused. One group of scientists says that reducing red and processed meat is a top priority for your health and the planets. Another says these foods pose no problems for health. Some of your friends may say it depends, and that grass-fed beef and “nitrite-free” processed meats are fine. At the same time, plant-based meat alternatives are surging in popularity, but with uncertain health effects.
Roisin, one of the nurses on a picket line, tweeted, “After almost 30 years in nursing, I have seen some of the most heartbreaking things you could imagine and cried many tears. I can honestly say that today is the saddest day of my career.”
Looking at individual words in isolation may not be able to tell you if a sentence is an opinion. You will need to read the sentence critically in order to really understand the message. However, looking at words for clues will prove to be a good starting point.
2. Opinions may be accompanied by ‘hedging’ words (likely, probably)
Hedging words are words that are used to limit a claim or statement. For instance, instead of saying ‘I will attend your party tonight’, you can insert a hedging word such as ‘probably’ to limit the certainty of your statement, so you can say, ‘I will probably attend your party tonight’.
Sometimes, when people give an opinion, they like to insert hedging words to show a bit of uncertainty. It also signals that it is their own opinion, in a way, and that they are unsure about it. These examples show how hedging words are used to express an opinion.
So, let’s think about physical activity in a different way. As a nurse who researches exercise, I can tell you that it is likely the closest thing to a fountain of youth or a magic pill that you will have in your lifetime.iv
In fact, increasing your physical activity is probably easier than you think. You don’t need to buy expensive equipment or join a gym. And you will begin to reap the rewards of physical activity almost as soon as you start. Adding small amounts of movement to your daily routine goes a long way.v
3. Look for words that signal emotion or subjective judgment
Since opinions are subjective, they are often accompanied by some judgment words (such as good, bad, remarkable, foolhardy, etc). Here are examples of these words being used in sentences.
This is a compelling idea, fuelled by examples of parasites seemingly controlling the behavior of their hosts, such as the Ophiocordyceps fungus that infects ants.vi (Note: compelling = interesting/captivating)
In this example, the word ‘compelling’ is what the writer thinks of the idea. So, in the writer’s opinion, the idea is compelling. In an exam situation, an option may be given in the multiple-choice question which includes the word ‘interesting’ or ‘captivating’, which means the same thing as ‘compelling’ in this context. So if the question is, “What does the writer think of….”, and you find an option that says the writer feels that it is interesting, then that is most likely your answer.
This reality has created a remarkable situation. Throughout the world, billions of public and private dollars have been invested in biobanks and millions of individuals have been asked to donate biological material and personal information. But, at the same time, there remains deep uncertainty about fundamental legal and ethical norms.vii (Note: Remarkable = worthy of attention)
This example is similar to Example 1 above. Here, the writer’s opinion is that the situation is ‘remarkable’. That means that the writer thinks that the situation is worthy of attention.
Unfortunately, current political initiatives in Congress aim to curtail the EPA.viii (Note: Remarkable = worthy of attention)
In this example, the word ‘unfortunately’ signals some degree of sadness regarding the rest of the sentence. It also indicates some degree of negativity towards the ‘current political initiatives in Congress’.
“Slashing budgets for these campaigns is a foolhardy decision which not only lets down smokers who are looking to quit but will also result in further pressure on the NHS due to smoking-related illnesses,” warned British Lung Foundation’s (BLF) senior policy officer Rachael Hodges.ix
This example is a little different because it is framed as a quote. That means that it is the opinion of the person saying it (i.e. Rachael Hodges). You need to be very careful when reading such portions of texts because it may not be the writer’s opinion. The writer could just be telling you what other people think about the issue. In other parts of the text, the writer may or may not agree with Rachael Hodges. You will need to read the whole passage to understand the complete message.
4. Look for the opinion in the main clause (independent clause)
Sometimes a sentence may have contrasting opinions. Yes, it is true. It may start out positively but then something negative is presented, or vice versa. For instance, look at this example:
Despite the countless challenges that patients and medical staff face in the remote and low-resource environment of Old Fangak, the hospital remains the best hope for many people in urgent need of healthcare.x
The first part of the sentence talks about ‘countless challenges’ (which is something negative) but then it talks about ‘the best hope’. When you encounter a sentence like this, the writer’s opinion is in the main clause (or what is known as the independent clause). The independent clause is the clause that can stand on its own. The dependent and independent clauses of the above sentence are thus as follows:
Despite the countless challenges that patients and medical staff face in the remote and low-resource environment of Old Fangak,
the hospital remains the best hope for many people in urgent need of healthcare.
In this case, the writer’s opinion is that ‘the hospital remains the best hope for many people in urgent need of healthcare’.
Understanding the writer’s opinion is an important feature of Part C of the OET Reading sub-test. It can be quite challenging but it is not that difficult if you practice many sample reading tests beforehand. If you need extra help please click here, OET Reading practice materials | <urn:uuid:e7ccf3f7-410f-42a9-ad22-d00ac95fa36f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://edubenchmark.com/blog/tips-for-identifying-opinions-in-oet-reading-exam-part-c/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.954323 | 1,713 | 3.125 | 3 |
Protect Appalachia from Destructive Mountaintop Removal
As part of End Mountaintop Removal Week this week in Washington, D.C., Appalachian residents brought toxic water from their homes to the headquarters of the EPA and members of Congress.
Urging federal action to protect water quality from coal mining in Appalachia, citizens -- with the support of the Center and other groups like Alliance for Appalachia -- are calling on the EPA to develop a rule that would create strong water-quality standards. We're also urging Congress to put a moratorium on mountaintop-removal coal-mining permits until the impacts of pollution from the radical form of mining have been addressed.
Numerous studies have linked mountaintop removal with human illnesses and with deformities in downstream wildlife.
Take action today by contacting your representatives -- demand federal action to protect people and endangered species in Appalachia from mountaintop removal.
Take action here: http://action.biologicaldiversity.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY...
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Pillows: the one item we can’t go without. But did you know your pillow could be causing you more harm than good?
The average American reports low back pain, neck pain, and headaches to be among the most common disturbances when trying to sleep. The cause could be as simple as the type of pillow you use.
Sleep is a guaranteed way for your body and mind to rest and restore. But when you aren’t getting a good night’s rest, it can significantly impact your health. That is where a chiropractic pillow comes in to assist.
Why Use Chiropractic Pillows?
While many contribute the aches and pains they experience with their sleep type, the pillow selection actually means so much more. Your spine and its alignment during sleep are the main focus, and everything else comes secondary. Chiropractic pillows are praised because they keep your spine in a natural, unrestricted position.
A chiropractic pillow puts support and safety above everything else. The goal is to provide support throughout the night so you’ll wake up fully rested and pain-free. We’ll discuss exactly what your pillow should do to ease your pain regardless of what type of sleeper you are.
Best Pillows for Your Neck
Neck pain can affect you physically, socially, and psychologically. Maintaining proper alignment of the vertebrae in your neck while you sleep is the key to helping decrease neck pain.
The best pillows for neck pain is one that allows your neck to sit softly on the pillow while your shoulders rest firmly on the mattress.
Best Pillows for Your Back
Back pain is unavoidable and once it happens you can count on your sleep quality going down. If sleepless nights have plagued you, consider a body pillow. These pillows wrap around the body allowing equal pressure that eases the pain.
What the pillow should do for optimal comfort: Relive pressure on your neck, shoulders, and upper back area.
The Pillows Necessary for Stomach Sleepers
Stomach sleepers often have a disadvantage. This sleeping position causes pain to the neck muscles and joints.
Alleviate that pain with a pillow that allows a staggered positioning in the neck. If that option isn’t comfortable for you, opt for a body pillow that assists when you switch from your stomach to your side.
Honorable Mention: Pregnancy Pillows
A pregnancy pillow is constructed to provide additional support on all areas of the body. The common U-shape of these pillows allows you to change positions without switching up where the pillow lays. This means you will maintain your alignment throughout the night with no worry.
Although there are various options, finding the perfect fit comes after you try them out for yourself. Don’t be afraid to test out pillows until you find the perfect fit. Your body will thank you later.
The Right Pillow Eases Your Pain
Ease your sleepless nights with a simple solution. If you have debilitating neck or back pain, a chiropractic pillow is for you.
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Loving someone is not the only requirement for marriage but an ability to actually have sex is required. Sex is how men and women join together to create children not just pleasure ourselves. Sex is meant to be a Free, Total, Faithful, Fruitful act of marriage. Free-it should be without cost and not taken by force. Total-nothing held back. Faithful-exclusive until death. Fruitful-it bears children (also no contraception). One of the main purposes of marriage is to make and raise children. Without the ability to create children a homosexual relationship could never be marriage. Someone better then me.
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See Figure 1
When the cycling refrigerant pressure drops due to leakage, a control switch stops further compressor rotation by turning off the compressor and condenser fan. The switch is located on top of the receiver/drier assembly.
REMOVAL & INSTALLATION
- Disconnect the negative battery cable.
- Disconnect the connector at the receiver/drier.
- With the ignition key and air conditioning switch ON , disconnect the dual pressure switch connector and install a jumper wire between the 2 terminals.
- If the compressor engages and the refrigerant pressures are normal, the switch is defective.
- Discharge the air conditioning system.
- Remove the switch from the receiver/drier.
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In the event the Queen turned into monarch just below 70 years ago, West Palm Beach FL sugar babies her partner Prince Philip was not given the label of King – but when Prince William requires brand new throne, their lover Kate Middleton is Queen.
Prince Philip is never King – although their wife try the fresh King – while the factor in for the reason that a vintage patriarchal system, where Leaders outrank Queens.
not, the principles vary whenever Prince William gets King one to day towards Duchess regarding Cambridge by the his front.
Such as for instance Philip, even if Kate Middleton was not produced to your royal family unit members she will never be King in her own best, but she will make ‘Consort’ role – that’s exactly what of several spouses have inked in the past.
Discussing the fresh part, royal pro Marlene Koenig told you: “Catherine’s character will unquestionably change just like the she will function as the consort of your own sovereign.
Tips get Platinum Jubilee passes
They are allocated because of the a ballot as a result of the higher attract, and you will apps must be made from the Military website inside .
The fresh vote to have United kingdom owners so you can support the 1000s of listeners entry on Platinum Party during the Palace could well be launched in March.
Before the chief Jubilee weekend, some members of the brand new Royal Household members usually sit in a new event within Windsor Horse Tell you, hence runs between .
The fresh Queen’s 70 age
This weekend New King often mark 70 age just like the she acceded into the throne and she will get to be the first United kingdom Monarch to enjoy a precious metal Jubilee.
A royal insider prior to now said: “The fresh new wedding during the day she changed out of Little princess E so you can Queen Elizabeth is definitely an extremely happy and important second to own the woman every year.
“This current year she’ll mark 70 age on throne and you can is very much indeed waiting for throwing a four-big date class on country for the Summer.
“However the anniversary during the day she turned Queen towards the March six in the 1952 is also tinged with depression as it was when she shed this lady father.
“There will be an occasion on the nation and you will Queen to help you securely mark this new milestone but it is necessary for this lady to help you getting on Sandringham into the Accession Go out and mark they independently.”
Queen’s Jubilee information you may have overlooked
- We common how thousands of Queen’s Precious metal Jubilee merchandise published having biggest error.
- In order to enjoy the woman Platinum Jubilee Sunlight website subscribers show the heartwarming stories off conference This new Queen.
- And in addition we shown to the Queen’s Precious metal Jubilee celebrations additionally the key times You need to know.
Kate Middleton’s jumped towards the current charm pattern
Kate Middleton has been saw putting on the new charm development – laminated eye brows. It actually was notable apparent in the event that regal glowed within the gold on the new No time at all to Perish prime inside London area just last year.
Tori Rosero, make-upwards artist and you can originator off Glowblade Academy informed : “Kate Middleton’s fluffy brows definitely look like these include laminated in order to make an organic, yet , fluffy and you may really well place brow.
“Whenever brows are laminated we use a lotion to create brows into the wished standing, therefore Kate’s specialist you will definitely however have done so it to create brand new fluffy and you can textured, yet , immaculately groomed look this lady has today.”
Superstar eyebrow artist, Sarah Fogg, who may have managed the brows off Love Island’s Olivia Attwood among other people, said: “Taking a look at the Duchess out-of Cambridge’s brows, it will look like she inated.
“The shape has changed some and you may looks flatter together with tresses of course appears becoming pushed into the an ascending guidelines.”
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[3 July 2010 – this project has been retired, but the posts left for reference]
Greeting again to followers of the bbboost journey. It has been a month since the last instalment, however the 20V DC plug pack took a long time to arrive from the land of China. Nevertheless, the project is moving forward. For my new readers, the bbboost is a power supply that can be assembled by a beginner, and can offer a smooth variable DC output voltage of between ~1.8 and ~20 volts – perfect for experimenting, breadboard, and generally saving money by not buying batteries. You can just make a PCB version, or mount it in an enclosure like a professional desktop unit. No mains voltage wiring is required, so it will fine for the younger enthusiasts. Follow the project from here.
This time I have breadboarded the power supply module, using the circuit described in chapter two. Let’s have a bit of a look:
These trimpots were ok, but it would be preferable to use the fully enclosed dustproof versions. Will order some and try ’em out.
One trimpot (the blue and white one) is 5k ohm, – to adjust between the full range, so this is the ‘coarse’ adjuster; the other trimpot is only 500 ohms and changes the voltage selected by the coarse pot by around +/- 1.2 volts. The purpose of having two controls is to make it very easy to select your required voltage down to one-hundredth of a volt. The following video clip is a rough example of this type of adjustment in action:
This power supply will also be designed for installation into a nice enclosure, so in that case one would use normal-sized potentiometers for the coarse and fine voltage adjustment.
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