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In a world that runs online and is fueled by online reviews, conversations and comments, it’s inevitable that some negativity is bound to find its way to your brand. You can’t control the opinions of the world and one hotel is learning this the hard way. The Story Recently, a hotel in New York decided […]
Here is a handy little infographic that my team has collaborated on that lays out three areas of digital marketing that benefit from digital PR integration: SEO, Content Generation and Social Media.
Companies of all sizes and in just about every industry are desperate to figure out social media and find ways that they can stand out from the ever-growing glut of social brands competing for the same news feeds and followers. Building a close relationship between your public relations and social media teams may be that advantage your company needs.
This comprehensive Hurricane Sandy Twitter list is composed of weather authorities, local/federal authorities, utilities and other key Twitter accounts throughout the many states impacted by this massive storm.
Our latest entrant into the “Think Before You Tweet” club is none other than the social media prince himself- Justin Bieber.
McDonald’s recently launched a new digital marketing campaign that included their promotion of the Twitter hashtag #McDStories. The thought behind the move was that customers would share positive stories about their McDonald’s experience.
The tactic has backfired for McDonald’s- big time.
According to a tweet by the Huffington Post a few minutes ago, the news site’s Twitter account was hacked earlier this afternoon. Everything seems to be back to normal now.
AdAge ran an interesting article this week about Walgreens social crisis management campaign aimed at getting a leg up in their heated battle with Express Scripts, their former pharmacy benefits provider. The campaign, which includes paying for positive blog posts and positive sponsored tweets, is relatively new ground in the crisis management world and has raised a few eyebrows.
One of these days, celebrities with hundreds of thousands (or millions) of followers will figure out that they are brands and need to treat their social media activity as brand management.
I wrote a piece a while back that suggested that anyone tweeting on behalf of a brand think before they tweet. Well, some celebs haven’t quite caught on yet.
The latest celebrity to Tweet without thinking is Arsenal goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny…
Social media is a very important marketing tool for companies in creating a positive public image for their brand. On the flip-side, social media is also very important in keeping brands honest when they do or say something stupid.
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Virtual Private Networking is a technique that allows you to connect to the Internet from one country but *look* like you are connected from another country.
I use this a lot when traveling – I get persistently annoyed by some provincial on line services (the BBC TV website is a prime example) that only let you view content if you are physically IN a specific country.
I’m English. I pay the English BBC TV License… I watch a lot of on line programmes when traveling in the UK using my laptop from various hotel rooms. I can stream content live or download it for later viewing. It’s simple and another great function of this thing called the interweb-super-net-highway – what do we call the Internet, world wide web, web, cloud thing anyway?
But wait, I digress, the problem comes when I am outside of the UK – particularly to the USA where I travel frequently and for long periods of time. So, if I come to the US for a few weeks I cant access my favorite online TV programs or even (shock) access my favorite online poker websites because their clever servers realize that I am connecting from an American IP and give me a nice message saying that I cant access them because I am clearly not British. *sigh*
But wait – help is at hand
I found the solution to all my problems. It’s called VPN.
What is VPN?
It standard for Virtual Private Network and basically allows you to connect to another computer on the Internet (this technique is called tunneling) and then use that computers Internet connection to re-connect to the web. Make sense? So from American I can connect to the VPN, effectively connecting to a UK computer and re-connecting through it, so that any subsequent servers I log on to think I’m the UK computer. neat eh.
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During the summer, we avoid dark shirts and choose to wear lightly colored ones instead, because we know that dark colors get hotter, faster. Should you avoid dark colored shingles to keep your Atlanta home cooler?
“Yes” seems like an obvious answer, but when it comes to your Atlanta roof, there are more pieces to the color vs. temperature puzzle.
It’s Black and White – Darker Shingles Are Hotter
Although we intuitively know that dark colors get hotter in the sun, the question that we would like to answer is: “How much hotter?”
When it comes to roof shingles, manufacturers have been as eager as the rest of us to answer this question, because they want to know if certain colors may last longer and make for a better product. So, they have conducted tests to find out just how much difference color can make on shingle temperature.
If you review the test data from various manufacturers, you will see a broad range of results. In general, the data suggests that black shingles reach temperatures that are 20 – 40 degrees F higher than those measured on white shingles under the same amount of sunlight.
Does this mean it’s time for everyone in Atlanta to stock up on white shingles? Not really.
While it’s true that a temperature difference of 40 degrees F is significant, we have to keep the number in perspective. When a manufacturer performs testing, it is often done with a small number of specimens under a very specific set of conditions. The test results are a useful point of reference, but they don’t necessarily reflect what will happen on your roof over the course of time.
Roof Ventilation Is More Important Than Shingle Color
When it comes to the effect of shingle color on roof temperatures, the things that we experience in the real world are a better measuring stick than the data collected from a lab test. And what the real world has shown is that roof ventilation is much more critical in controlling shingle temperatures than color.
Professional roofing contractors will agree that proper roof ventilation is significantly more important than shingle color if you are concerned about keeping your Atlanta roof and attic temperatures low in the summer. Roof ventilation can be achieved through the combined use of ridge vents, soffit vents and other features. A good Atlanta roofing company can size and install the ventilation needed to keep your roof nice and cool, regardless of the shingle color that you select.
What About The Temperature Inside My Home?
Proper roof ventilation combined with attic insulation is the recipe for a cool house in the summer. With these two things in place, you don’t need to worry about the heating effects of shingle colors. The roof ventilation provides cooling for the shingles while the insulation blocks the remaining attic heat from transferring into your home.
By working with your roofing contractor to make sure your roof is properly ventilated, you will have shingles that stay cool and reach their maximum life, whether they are black, white or any color in between. At the same time, you will have a cool attic and even cooler home for summers on end.
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UTAH, United States -- UTAH, United States, November 19, 2015 – Casey Houweling, owner of Houweling’s Tomatoes, recently built a patented Ultra-Clima greenhouse that may produce the U.S’s most sustainable tomato. Connected to PacifiCorp’s Rock Mountain Power Plant, this revolutionary greenhouse will transform normally wasted flue gas from the plant into low-grade residual heat and unlimited CO2 to produce tomatoes year-round.
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An English chemist has found the hidden gateway to the RNA world, the chemical milieu from which the first forms of life are thought to have emerged on earth some 3.8 billion years ago.
He has solved a problem that for 20 years has thwarted researchers trying to understand the origin of life — how the building blocks of RNA, called nucleotides, could have spontaneously assembled themselves in the conditions of the primitive earth. The discovery, if correct, should set researchers on the right track to solving many other mysteries about the origin of life. It will also mean that for the first time a plausible explanation exists for how an information-carrying biological molecule could have emerged through natural processes from chemicals on the primitive earth.
The author, John D. Sutherland, a chemist at the University of Manchester, likened his work to a crossword puzzle in which doing the first clues makes the others easier. “Whether we’ve done one across is an open question,” he said. “Our worry is that it may not be right.”
Other researchers say they believe he has made a major advance in prebiotic chemistry, the study of the natural chemical reactions that preceded the first living cells. “It is precisely because this work opens up so many new directions for research that it will stand for years as one of the great advances in prebiotic chemistry,” Jack Szostak of the Massachusetts General Hospital wrote in a commentary in Nature, where the work is being published on Thursday.Continue reading the main story
Scientists have long suspected that the first forms of life carried their biological information not in DNA but in RNA, its close chemical cousin. Though DNA is better known because of its storage of genetic information, RNA performs many of the trickiest operations in living cells. RNA seems to have delegated the chore of data storage to the chemically more stable DNA eons ago. If the first forms of life were based on RNA, then the issue is to explain how the first RNA molecules were formed.
For more than 20 years researchers have been working on this problem. The building blocks of RNA, known as nucleotides, each consist of a chemical base, a sugar molecule called ribose and a phosphate group. Chemists quickly found plausible natural ways for each of these constituents to form from natural chemicals. But there was no natural way for them all to join together.
The spontaneous appearance of such nucleotides on the primitive earth “would have been a near miracle,” two leading researchers, Gerald Joyce and Leslie Orgel, wrote in 1999. Others were so despairing that they believed some other molecule must have preceded RNA and started looking for a pre-RNA world.
The miracle seems now to have been explained. In the article in Nature, Dr. Sutherland and his colleagues Matthew W. Powner and Béatrice Gerland report that they have taken the same starting chemicals used by others but have caused them to react in a different order and in different combinations than in previous experiments. they discovered their recipe, which is far from intuitive, after 10 years of working through every possible combination of starting chemicals.
Instead of making the starting chemicals form a sugar and a base, they mixed them in a different order, in which the chemicals naturally formed a compound that is half-sugar and half-base. When another half-sugar and half-base are added, the RNA nucleotide called ribocytidine phosphate emerges.
A second nucleotide is created if ultraviolet light is shined on the mixture. Dr. Sutherland said he had not yet found natural ways to generate the other two types of nucleotides found in RNA molecules, but synthesis of the first two was thought to be harder to achieve.
If all four nucleotides formed naturally, they would zip together easily to form an RNA molecule with a backbone of alternating sugar and phosphate groups. The bases attached to the sugar constitute a four-letter alphabet in which biological information can be represented.
“My assumption is that we are here on this planet as a fundamental consequence of organic chemistry,” Dr. Sutherland said. “So it must be chemistry that wants to work.”
The reactions he has described look convincing to most other chemists. “The chemistry is very robust — all the yields are good and the chemistry is simple,” said Dr. Joyce, an expert on the chemical origin of life at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif.
In Dr. Sutherland’s reconstruction, phosphate plays a critical role not only as an ingredient but also as a catalyst and in regulating acidity. Dr. Joyce said he was so impressed by the role of phosphate that “this makes me think of myself not as a carbon-based life form but as a phosphate-based life form.”
Dr. Sutherland’s proposal has not convinced everyone. Dr. Robert Shapiro, a chemist at New York University, said the recipe “definitely does not meet my criteria for a plausible pathway to the RNA world.” He said that cyano-acetylene, one of Dr. Sutherland’s assumed starting materials, is quickly destroyed by other chemicals and its appearance in pure form on the early earth “could be considered a fantasy.”
Dr. Sutherland replied that the chemical is consumed fastest in the reaction he proposes, and that since it has been detected on Titan there is no reason it should not have been present on the early earth.
If Dr. Sutherland’s proposal is correct it will set conditions that should help solve the many other problems in reconstructing the origin of life. Darwin, in a famous letter of 1871 to the botanist Joseph Hooker, surmised that life began “in some warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts.” But the warm little pond has given way in recent years to the belief that life began in some exotic environment like the fissures of a volcano or in the deep sea vents that line the ocean floor.
Dr. Sutherland’s report supports Darwin. His proposed chemical reaction take place at moderate temperatures, though one goes best at 60 degrees Celsius. “It’s consistent with a warm pond evaporating as the sun comes out,” he said. His scenario would rule out deep sea vents as the place where life originated because it requires ultraviolet light.
A serious puzzle about the nature of life is that most of its molecules are right-handed or left-handed, whereas in nature mixtures of both forms exist. Dr. Joyce said he had hoped an explanation for the one-handedness of biological molecules would emerge from prebiotic chemistry, but Dr. Sutherland’s reactions do not supply any such explanation. One is certainly required because of what is known to chemists as “original syn,” referring to a chemical operation that can affect a molecule’s handedness.
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The author of the book: Jeanne Oliver
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Edition: LONELY PLANET PUBLICATIONS
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Description of the book "Croatia":The Lonely Planet Country Guides are the complete country guides for independent travellers. They feature inspirational colour highlights sections, easy-to-use grid-referenced maps and insightful history, culture, food and environment chapters by specialised contributors.
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Since declaring his candidacy for president six years ago, George W. Bush's intelligence has been called into question frequently by his political opponents and other critics. This, even though his academic credentials – a bachelor's degree from Yale and a master's from Harvard – compare favorably to those of his predecessors. So you might not expect that the latest salvo on the subject would come from ... a college, especially one that's small and relatively little-known. But it has. Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, decided its recruitment campaign for new students could use some extra oomph. So it set up a website, www.yaleshmale.com, that features a prominent photo of Bush and says: "Graduating from an Ivy League university doesn't necessarily mean you're smart." Visitors are invited to agree by clicking on a link that takes them to a page extolling the merits of a Lakehead education. The school's chief executive defends the campaign as a "tongue-in-cheek way of getting attention." But its undergrads apparently weren't consulted in the matter. Take student union leader Isabelle Poniatowski. She thinks Lakehead "has many positive attributes to sell" without the dig at Bush, which she calls "repugnant." | <urn:uuid:090aabcc-127f-491b-84da-eaa485f76069> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0831/p03s03-nbgn.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00514-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974758 | 260 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Many of the CBD products we use as humans are tested on animals. So why can’t we give it to our pets?
In the UK, the Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) considers CBD products intended for animal use to be veterinary medicines, making it illegal to administer cannabinoids to our pets without a prescription. To date, no such pet prescriptions exist.
In the consumer cannabinoids market, there are a number of testing requirements a cannabinoid preparation must fulfil to prove safety and efficacy, so that we humans know if a product works and how much of it we can safely take. One such requirement is animal trials – a crucial stage in the clinical exploration of a product – this happens before a cannabis oil can be lined up for human testing.
The National Institute for Health and care Excellence (NICE) refers to this as ‘real world evidence’ and it’s currently the only route-to-market for most medicinal products, emergency vaccines being the exception.
The Hodges Review
A recent review of public policy on cannabinoids in the UK by Oxford Professor Christopher Hodges raised the question – ‘Are we missing a trick where CBD for pets is concerned?’
In a poll commissioned for the landmark review, British consumers were asked how they had used CBD in the past. A higher than anticipated number, 6%, said they had given it to their pet.
If this were applied across the population, it would suggest there is already widespread use of CBD by hundreds of thousands of UK pet owners, on their cats, dogs, and perhaps horses.
A search of online CBD stores also shows companies offering CBD for use on pets and willing to ship this to UK-based customers, something which the VMD is making attempts to clamp down on.
Global Strategy Director for Avida Global, Heidi Whitman, thinks there is an opportunity here. She worked as a veterinary technician and a CBD pet product supplier in the US running a successful equine hemp business prior to moving to the UK. Heidi’s love of animals and her special interest in holistic wellbeing for humans and their pets led her to pursue this angle with Avida Global, a vertically integrated global cannabis business for the medical, well-being and cosmeceutical markets.
Heidi says it’s important to remember that the UK is just one country, with its own set of rules and regulations, pointing out that other jurisdictions have maintained a grey area when it comes to CBD for pets.
“It’s very important to remember that the UK is one country. There are other countries that have allowed this to remain in a grey zone, like the United States.
“And in Latin America, which is where Avida Global’s cultivation and production facility is located, we’re seeing Colombia open up their doors to the use of veterinary products containing cannabis as of September last year.”
Speaking from her background in veterinary healthcare, Heidi says there’s not a lot of differences between what happens when an animal consumes CBD compared to human consumption of cannabinoids.
“The use of cannabis in animals is similar to humans. Every human is different when it comes to cannabis intake, how they use it and how it works best for them, depending on the polymorphism of their receptors. There are people that feel the effects of a cannabis product very easily, and there are people who cannot.
“Some people notice a difference in how they are feeling from taking a low dose of CBD, or an isolate, while others need a full spectrum product. It’s the same with animals.”
There’s one crucial difference between animal and human behaviours which Heidi believes makes it easy for pet owners and vets to judge how a food or a medicine, is being received by a dog, cat or a horse.
“I ran a very successful equine hemp business in the US and one thing I know is that animals are very honest.”
She gives an example of treating horses, saying that unlike people, there are fewer variables to judge how they’re feeling. “They don’t feel better because they got a good night’s sleep or it’s a sunny day. They’re either lame or they’re not.”
Back to the US, where the National Animal Supplement Council found 573 million administrations were sold over 12 years intended for animals, with three adverse events, and no fatalities reported. Heidi says this data has been submitted to the FDA on an advisory level.
If other countries and government agencies are more open to treating pets with CBD, what’s holding the UK back?
One suggestion could be attitudes towards THC. According to the UK’s Animal Poison Line, a hotline set up for pet parents to seek advice if they feel their pet has eaten something it shouldn’t, ‘cannabis products appear to have similar effects in dogs as they do in humans, but given the size difference and a dog’s lack of discrimination with regards to dose, they can become poisoned from eating any quantity.’
Here’s Heidi’s take: “When you look at any kind of adverse event, from flea control to arthritis medication, typically, there’s a compounding reason as to why this happened. When you’re getting just owner’s reports it’s kind of difficult to gauge.”
The former vet tech and animal lover says another reason why some animal healthcare professionals in countries like the UK may be hesitant to explore cannabinoid treatments – education.
“When you look at THC or cannabis being taught in veterinary academia right now, it’s only taught in Toxicology classes. If you want to fast forward to look at today’s science, you’ll see that THC activates certain receptors that provide us a beautiful entourage effect and the formal activation of our ECS, and to achieve homeostasis the ECS needs to have all the cannabinoids present.”
As for giving our furry friends a few drops of our own CBD oil, the VMD says:
“As there are currently no CBD products authorised in the UK for veterinary use, a veterinary surgeon may prescribe a legally obtained human CBD product under the provisions of the prescribing cascade. Administration of an unauthorised product containing CBD without a veterinary prescription is an offence under Regulation 8 of the VMR. Companies supplying CBD products for human use in line with the requirements of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency must not indicate or recommend their products for use on animals.“ | <urn:uuid:a065efca-e20e-4c0d-9f00-5761ea255f67> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cannabinoidinsight.com/the-one-cbd-issue-that-sets-tongues-and-tails-wagging/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.951164 | 1,360 | 2.40625 | 2 |
On Tuesday, November 14, The New York Public Library inaugurated LEO (Library Entrance Online), the world's largest public library information system and network. LEO, named with reference to the famed marble lions which have long symbolized NYPL, is a new technologically advanced, fully integrated online system that links users in every branch to the Library's catalogs, to a vast collection of databases, and even to the World Wide Web on the Internet.
Dr. Paul LeClerc, President of The New York Public Library, said, "The completion of the LEO system marks an important goal for us as we move into the 21st century, and is one of the most important developments for the Library in the provision of access for its patrons since its founding 100 years ago. As information becomes increasingly synonymous with power, access to technology for the general population becomes more and more crucial. LEO offers users a high speed on-ramp to the realms of electronic knowledge, at no charge."
Planned as one of the high points of The New York Public Library's Centennial year, LEO will transform the way New Yorkers use their libraries. It represents the next significant step in the Library's strategy of harnessing new developments in technology to the advantage of library patrons, and to provide a leadership role for all libraries into the 21st century. From the smallest branches, such as Macomb's Bridge in Harlem or South Beach on Staten Island, a user can now look up a book, and learn not only whether any branch has the item, but whether it is on the shelf at a given time.
City capital funding for the $9 million project was provided in the amount of $7,047,000 by the City of New York: $1.7 million from Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, $2.35 million from Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer, $2.3 million from Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger, and $700,000 from Staten Island Borough President Guy Molinari. In addition the City Council provided $500,000 for the purchase of microcomputers in the branches. $1.9 million was received from the State of New York, and from other funds.
Developed over the past several years by Ameritech Library Services, LEO's systems integration and Dynix software applications represent a massive undertaking that has required large numbers of programming, engineering, and communications specialists to solve the complex problems inherent in the installation of a project of this size.
"What makes LEO unique among public libraries is the immense size of the project, its large databases, and its capacity for 2,000 simultaneous users," said Susan B. Harrison, Associate Director for Technical and Computer Services, whose department oversaw the implementation of the system, with the support of LIONS, the Library's data center. "A recent study showed that only 9% of America's public libraries offer users direct access to the Internet, and we are pleased to join that group."
What LEO Offers
In addition to offering electronic access to NYPL catalogs, and the catalogs of many other libraries around the nation-including the Queens Borough Public Library and the Library of Congress-LEO provides a remarkable range of databases for a patron to browse online. A user can find indexes to 2,600 periodicals, full text articles from more than 1,000, and can even take home a printed copy. Each branch will offer workstations equipped with easy-to-use browsing software for searching Internet databases. For example, in a few seconds one could pull up an article from this week's Time magazine or from a 1989 Bulletin of Economic Research. Someone worried about Alzheimer's disease may check out symptoms and the latest treatments on NOAH, the New York Online Access to Health database, developed with Federal funds by a consortium that includes NYPL, City University (CUNY), the New York Academy of Medicine, and the New York Metropolitan and Resources Agency.
Children, too, will find a whole new world in LEO. Kid's Catalog, available in every children's room, allows children with limited reading skills to find books for themselves by clicking colorful icons on a personal computer screen. For example, a child looking for books about butterflies clicks on icons for science, then on insects, then again on a butterfly, which supplies a list of related books. Again, the child can learn if her selection is currently available in her own branch or in another.
Monochrome terminals display catalog and database information, but each branch will have at least two personal computers with color monitors, networked for public use. Larger branches, such as the Mid-Manhattan Library and the three borough centers-the Donnell Library Center on West 53rd Street, Fordham Library Center in the Bronx, and St. George Library Center on Staten Island-have more PCs available.
The LEO system is extraordinarily simple to use. However, librarians and other staff will be on hand to guide first-time users who might be wary of this new technology. Both the monochrome terminals and the personal computers have simple on-screen directions to guide the user seamlessly though a range of choices. Recently, within twenty minutes of installation, a bank of new terminals at a test site was occupied by dozens of curious patrons successfully finding their way to needed materials in a fraction of the time previously required. The Internet may be accessed by clicking on a listed choice to begin a search. Dial-in-service to LEO from a home computer equipped with a modem is not available at present, but will be offered at a future date.
LEO will greatly enhance the speed and efficiency of many administrative tasks. Five hundred additional terminals will be placed at loan desks and in offices to be used by Library staff. These will be used to process all lending check-in and -out functions for more than eleven million circulating items every year. They will also provide statistical data and reports that will enable the Library to analyze borrowing patterns, trends, and to compute work flow. In addition, cataloging and acquisitions activities will be funneled through LEO, including the processing of 10,000 subscriptions to periodicals (involving 250,000 individual subscription copies each year). | <urn:uuid:b2681400-b63d-44e8-8ecd-e738094616ad> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://librarytechnology.org/repository/item.pl?id=13210 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00034-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932779 | 1,265 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Smith said humans are moving into areas where once animals were predominate.
"We really look to explore a lot of this overlap," Smith said at a Nat Geo press conference last month. "Most of it probably occurs as a result of what we do, but there are a few occasions when the animals do come in. But, really, it's to really understand how these animals are so adaptive, take advantage of a new habitat, essentially, and oftentimes live right under our noses without us even knowing about it."
Smith said while it makes the news when animals and humans clash, "Urban Jungle" also shows animals' peaceful adaptation.
"There are populations that really have learned how to exist there," he said. "They really don't want anything to do with us, but they have learned to take advantage of us. That's what we really want to do is ultimately educate people that, 'Hey, look. There is some really cool stuff happening.' We see it in the wild often, but sometimes it's different. And if we can educate people and make them understand, I think we will be doing a good job."
And sometimes wildlife helps in urban areas, according to Nat Geo Wild general manager Geoff Luck.
"We filmed coyotes in Chicago. There are more than 2,000 coyotes that live within the city limits full‑time, and when they are needing to be removed or taken out of a particular area, the authorities let them go again because they help control the rodent population," Luck said. "They are still eating their wild prey. They are not eating garbage." | <urn:uuid:20ce250b-53ce-4b99-9f5b-81a34a81347a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://communityvoices.post-gazette.com/arts-entertainment-living/tuned-in/item/38151-nat-geo-enters-the-urban-jungle | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00032-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983323 | 327 | 2.15625 | 2 |
One of the common objections to Christianity is that the Christian faith is just a bunch of rules to follow, a seemingly never-ending list of dos and don’ts you have to adhere to in order to “earn your keep.” To be fair, it’s understandable why some would think that way. Some of the books of the Bible feel like an ongoing list of rules to ensure that we appease God (here’s looking at you, Leviticus).
But when we zoom out and look at the big picture, what we see is actually something very different. When it comes to Christianity and, more specifically, our relationship with God, the relationship always precedes the rules. This is the point of Paul’s letter to the Galatians—that our right standing before God isn’t a result of our religious doing but the result of a relationship with God the Father made possible through faith in his Son. At no point in Paul’s letter is this more clear than in chapter 4:
“But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.”Galatians 4:4-5
Those two verses are packed with rich theology that I don’t have the time or ability to fully unpack in the allotted word count for these devotionals. At any rate, the essence of Paul’s argument is this: God sent his Son so that we could become his children.
This is the good news of the gospel. In Christ, you are no longer “under the law.” You are not enslaved to religious rule-keeping. In Christ, you have been adopted into the family of God as a beloved son or daughter. Are there rules? Sure, if you want to call them that. But just like most “family rules,” they exist for our benefit and protection. We strive to obey our Heavenly Father, not to earn our place at the table, but because He’s first our Father. The relationship always precedes the rules. | <urn:uuid:26f92576-5092-4770-8dff-da596a915af0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vcdevotionals.com/2021/04/15/galatians-4/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.972746 | 452 | 1.640625 | 2 |
How COVID-19 Changed India’s Loan Management System
Loan management covers a very wide range of business management, including credit card companies, personal loans, brokerages, investment firms, and more.
The importance of loan management is on many levels because, during crises like this, effective loan management can be the source of money flowing through the economy.
Therefore, it becomes inadvertently misunderstanding the difference between pre and post covid scenarios as two worlds, and its impact on the financial sector is profound, in the context of utility, recovery and macro scenario. Marlet.
To effectively understand the scenario, one can have multiple perspectives, which would provide deeper insight into the transition and help in understanding the multiple folds of it.
The customer’s point of view
There is a massive shift in consumer behavior in the pre-pandemic to post-pandemic scenario.
Before COVID-19, there was an approach of stability and openness which is seen in the increase in sustainable consumer lending, use of credit cards, etc., where the consumer was open to the ease of loan from banks and open to repayment of money which is completely changed now.
Research on borrowing habits shows that after COVID, 46% of borrowing was done primarily to run the household, 27% of borrowers borrowed to repay previous loans, and 17% borrowed because they lost their debt. use. Most people chose to borrow from relatives.
Although there were easings and easements provided by the government to combat this problem like open market operations, moratorium on loans, etc., it only gave the payer respite.
The economy is under constant threat and the threat of another blowout is slowly recovering through extensive litigation and other means of recovery, acting as icing on the cake for declining consumer behavior.
The service provider perspective
The unprecedented situation has largely affected the service provider, as the market has started to open up through credit loans, personal loans, consumer durables, etc. and in early February 2020, the service provider became more of a debt collector, and less of a banker, as delinquency and fraud cases increased.
Cautious spending and unemployment changed spending and market trends. The first 21-day lockdown alone saw a 42% increase in digital payment and online lending was seen. It’s an indicator of the need to be technologically and digitally efficient in the Post COVID world. But there is a drastic deterioration in the quality of existing portfolios and there will be bad debts.
However, on the positive side, a study by University College London has shown that post-COVID microcredit systems in developing countries will be booming as traditional lending systems will not be able to operate with the same efficiency.
Thus, giving way to the banking system, but on the other hand, the entire pre-existing risk dashboards need to be reworked, credit history alone cannot be the risk assessment, other factors like the industry in which they work and the finances of the borrowers must be taken into account to decrease the delinquency rates.
The service provider in the post-covid scenario is expected to make way for co-lending, which is an arrangement where NBFCs facilitate the loan origination and collection process while the partner bank hosts the majority of the loans. This is intended to address growth issues based on NBFC funds.
The Macro Market Perspective
The market is the stage where the actors, service provider and customer play their roles, which makes the perspective of the market multi-faceted. The country’s financial sector is in free fall, but the pandemic has helped the sector test its waters, in almost every area.
For the overall development of the country, digitalization has been a difficult step for the economy due to a lack of education and other socio-economic factors. Research has indicated that during the pandemic, online and digital media have exploded.
More and more fintech and credit companies will use government interventions for the digitalization of consumer credit by enabling instant and hassle-free loan disbursements by leveraging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Since then, market behavior has changed with a decrease in luxury-based consumption and an increase in need-based borrowing such as medical emergencies, education loans, rather than indulgence-based borrowing.
In summary, digital and technological progress is the way forward for loan disbursements and loan management in the post-covid world.
In addition to better “know your customer policies”, to reduce delinquencies and understand that simple and efficient loan disbursements are the most efficient and easiest way to move money through the economy, indirectly helping the economy recover from the loss.
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HOUSTON Basic science research that exposed vital details of cancer's defense against the immune system, revealing an entirely new way to combat these diseases, has earned Jim Allison, Ph.D., a Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
Allison, chair of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center's Immunology department and executive director of the Moon Shots Program immunotherapy platform, received the $3 million honor at a ceremony in San Francisco Thursday night.
Entrepreneurs Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki, Jack Ma and Cathy Zhang, Yuri and Julia Milner, and Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, sponsor the prize to recognize excellence in research aimed at curing intractable diseases and extending human life.
"Scientists should be celebrated as heroes, and we're honored to be part of today's celebration of the newest winners of the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences and the Fundamental Physics Prize," said Anne Wojcicki and Sergey Brin in a news release announcing the awards.
"I'm honored and exhilarated to receive this generous award established by the founders of the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation," Allison said. "My profound thanks go to them for recognizing my own work and for establishing this prize to promote research, celebrate scientists and to generate excitement about careers in science."
Among the uses for the prize funds that Allison is considering is a program for high school students and college undergraduates to foster their interest in biomedicine.
Growing up in Alice, Texas, Allison's own interest in science was cultivated and encouraged by summer programs at The University of Texas at Austin where he attended starting in middle school.
"Real hope for cancer patients around the world"
"Jim Allison richly deserves this wonderful prize for his pioneering research into how tumors evade destruction by immune system attack and how to overcome that defense by treating the immune system, rather than the cancer directly," said MD Anderson President Ronald DePinho, M.D. "I extend my deepest appreciation to the Breakthrough Prize selection committee and its visionary sponsors for their recognition of Jim's work that has offered real hope for cancer patients around the world."
Allison's research on the biology of T cells, immune system attack cells primed to identify and destroy infections and the body's abnormal cells, has led to several discoveries:
Allison then developed an antibody that led to development of ipilimumab to block CTLA-4. In clinical trials against stage 4 melanoma, the drug extinguished the disease in 24 percent of patients for up to 12 years and counting, unprecedented results against metastatic melanoma. The drug, now called Yervoy, was approved to treat melanoma by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2011.
Checkpoint blockade at work in many cancers
This work stimulated discovery of additional immune checkpoints and development of experimental drugs to block them. Clinical trials of ipilimumab and other agents are under way at MD Anderson and elsewhere are demonstrating effectiveness against a variety of other cancers.
"Checkpoint blockade is not tumor-specific but rather treats the immune system, so it's effectiveness against cancer will go beyond melanoma," Allison said.
Since arriving at MD Anderson in November 2012, Allison founded and directs the immunotherapy platform to cultivate, support and test new development of immunology-based drugs and combinations. MD Anderson's Moon Shots Program, designed to accelerate the conversion of scientific discoveries into clinical advances that reduce cancer deaths, taps the expertise of the immunotherapy platform.
Allison earned his bachelor's degree in microbiology and then a doctorate in biological sciences from UT-Austin. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship in molecular immunology at Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation in La Jolla, Calif., Allison originally joined the MD Anderson faculty in 1977, his research focusing on T cells. He later moved to the University of California, Berkeley and then to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York before returning to MD Anderson last year.
Allison is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute alumnus and has won numerous honors for biomedical research. Earlier this year he received the first AACR-CRI Lloyd J. Old Award in Cancer Immunology at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in April 2013 and on Dec. 3 received The Economist's 2013 Innovations Award for Bioscience.
The award is provided through the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation, a not-for-profit corporation established by its founders dedicated to advancing research. The first awards went to 11 scientists in February and another seven were given Thursday night.
The ceremony will be televised by the Science Channel, one of the Discovery networks at 9 p.m. EST on January 27, 2014.
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- Gather your materials. You will need a piece of white paper, a piece of construction paper, animal stickers, a crayon( or marker), scissors and glue. * Our stickers were a little small but the only ones we had on hand, if I did this again I would use much larger ones.
- Start by drawing a large uppercase Z.
- Hand it to your child and have them practice making straight lines, my son did a few before the urge to draw in circles overtook him. That’s fine the straight lines are good writing practice but at 2 I am not worried with specifics . The lines straight or curves will be the cage bars.
- Add your animals to the cage. I encouraged my son to put the animals inside the Z, most got in. This adds a quick in vs out lesson in opposites.
- Cut out.
- Add the glue to the construction paper.
- Add your Z and let dry.
“Peek-a-Zoo!” by Marie Torres Cimarusti is a vibrant lift the flap book that goes through sounds different animals make while playing peek a boo with the reader. What I like about this book is that the flaps offer a chance for your baby or toddler to anticipate what animal it hiding as well as the sound , so it grows with them. Also the flaps are large enough that little hands can grab them and won’t get frustrated.
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Exotic Smokes Cigarette Company Outline Proposal
Exotic Smokes Cigarette Company has acquired services from TRIAAD Research Group to conduct an in-depth study of consumer behavior to analyze the market for their new flavored cigarettes. The outline includes consumer behavior, needs, and desire for fruit and candy flavored cigarettes. The company wants to target 18-to 25- years-old customers and implementing$25 million dollar advertising campaign. I. Introduction
i. Marlboro, Winston, Mild Seven, LM, and Kent.
b. Target Market
ii. 18- to 25- year- olds
1. Early adaptors, smokers, and people who enjoy cigarettes c. Current Consumer Perceptions
iii. Smokers and non-smokers
iv. Public Education and Community
II. Project Definition
d. Marketing Strategies
v. Distribution strategy, pricing strategy, package design, events, promotions, and specific product characteristics III. Program Objective
e. Connection between research and marketing strategies vi. Applying results of research to marketing strategies 2. Where, how, when, what, and other associations to market. f. Knowledge structures influence consumer behavior and their decision making process vii. Using research to find out smokers and potential smoker’s thoughts, feelings, experiences with flavor cigarettes and the company’s brand to determine their decision making process. IV. Scope
viii. Geographical Parameters
3. Where there are more smokers, socially accepted locations for smokers, area of interests, and age requirements for smokers. ix. Customer Groups and Market Segments
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All aboard the IMMS Express
With the recent expansions at the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies, employees and visitors needed a fun and fast way to get around and a brand new train was the obvious choice.
The train, which came to the Gulf Coast all the way from China, is now making laps between the original IMMS campus and the new Ocean Adventures Facility, giving all guests in need a lift. It serves two purposes, as a short but fun-filled, educational tour that also makes it possible to handle larger crowds more efficiently.
Denise Reinke with IMMS tells News 25 that so far the train is a huge hit since it started rolling. “It’s made it a little easier. We went from a very scheduled, structured program to a little bit more free roaming so that we could accommodate a lot more guests. We’ve been able to do that and open it more to the public. I think they’ve enjoyed that aspect as well and within that process we take them, just give them a little behind the scenes tour, talk about our conservation, our rehabilitation, and things like that we’re doing as well.”
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Reports by the Associated Press who obtained a memo on the subject said this week the Pentagon delayed and may even kill the Air Force's planned Cyberspace Command. Why exactly is up for speculation, but according to one insider who absolutely did not want to be identified - "It's a dollar Grab".
The insider went on to say that "with an estimated $30 billion being spent on cyber capabilities, who can blame them?"
As I tally it, the Army, Air Force, CIA, NSA, DIA, DHS, StratCom and two unidentified black-ops units have already begun developing cyber warfare capabilities. Anyone with an ounce of sense would not want to get in the middle of that group! The Pentagon has to be thinking it would be better to have one unified cyber command rather than all these dispirit efforts.
Cyber warfare is a highly desirable command area -- it is new, it's exciting, it's a real threat and arguably the hottest topic in military circles. Multiple security experts, including myself, have warned that significant and very special resources and expertise are required to execute the core elements of the Bush administration's cyber security plan.
Unified command? Or one isolated silo that only meets the needs of one service? And would one unified command promote the idea of information sharing so central to security?
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CINCINNATI -- The National Weather Service has issued a Flood Advisory for the following counties until midnight.
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A Flood Advisory alerts the public to flooding which is generally only an inconvenience (not life-threatening) to those living in the affected area. Issued when heavy rain will cause flooding of streets and low-lying places in urban areas. Also used if small rural or urban streams are expected to reach or exceed bank full. Some damage to homes or roads could occur.
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Consciousness and Paranormal Phenomena (Български / Bulgarian) by Lyubomir Nikolov
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 40,150. Language: Bulgarian. Published: December 11, 2011. Categories: Nonfiction » Psychology » Research, Nonfiction » New Age » The Paranormal
A scientific study explaining paranormal phenomena from the point of view of consciousness defined as a field. Inside the book you will find empirical observation coupled with scientific methodology. Каква е връзката между функционирането на съзнанието и паранормалните явления? Доколко реални са явления като телекинеза, екстрасензорна перцепция, телеестезия, прекогниция и други?
Influence for Impact by Hodges Golson
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 33,800. Language: English. Published: July 5, 2011. Categories: Nonfiction » Psychology » Research, Nonfiction » Business & Economics » Careers
Everything you do in an organization is about getting results. And the real measure of success in an organization is how well you achieve results. To do so, you must be able to influence others. This book provides insights and suggestions from almost a century of psychological research and from a long career as a consultant and trusted advisor to business executives.
Scientific Introspection: A Method For Investigating the Mind by William A. Adams
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 65,720. Language: English. Published: June 3, 2011. Categories: Nonfiction » Psychology » Research
Scientific Introspection calls for psychologists to use introspection to investigate the mind. What researchers do now is study the brain and behavior then try to guess what the mind must be like. But why guess? We have the ability to look directly into our minds. Scientific Introspection is an adjunct to traditional cognitive psychology, an investigative tool to discover how the mind works.
Psychology for the Curious, second edition by Michael S. Swett, Ph.D.
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This edition delivers the essentials of a yearlong college course, Introduction to Psychology in about 280 pages, providing the reader with links to psychology-related Websites and additional readings in the fields of scientific methodology, sensation and perception, motivation and emotion, the brain and its relation to behavior, learning and memory, consciousness, personality and more.
Reciprocal Sovereignty by Tony Roffers
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 81,150. Language: English. Published: February 18, 2011. Categories: Nonfiction » Psychology » Research
Reciprocal Sovereignty: Resolving Conflicts Respectfully, by Tony Roffers, PhD., presents a communication skills model that marriage counselors, attorney mediators, relationship coaches, and corporate managers can use to structure a successful conflict resolution process.
Nouveaux propos sur le bonheur by Georges Botet Pradeilles
Price: $8.15 USD. Words: 49,770. Language: French. Published: January 22, 2011 by Editions Dedicaces. Categories: Nonfiction » Psychology » Research
Le titre fait référence à la réflexion d’Emile Chartier qui écrivait en 1928 « Sur le bonheur » avec cette conception de l’homme dans une spiritualité toujours présente au-delà de ces réductions comportementalistes ou psychologisantes qui semblent nous satisfaire aujourd’hui...
Change of Heart: What Psychology Can Teach Us About Spreading Social Change by Nick Cooney
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An easy-to-use psychology primer for anyone wanting to spread progressive social change. Developed so that non-profits, community organizers and others can make science-driven decisions in their advocacy work.
Editorial Introductions to ijCSCL by Gerry Stahl
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The editorial introductions to the International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (ijCSCL) situate and highlight the unique perspectives and contributions of the individual papers. They also present reflections on topics of CSCL theory and methodology, providing a lively, stimulating introduction to the CSCL research field. ijCSCL was rated the #2 educational research journal.
The Hidden Whisper by JJ Lumsden
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 99,210. Language: English. Published: June 21, 2010 by Bennion Kearny. Categories: Nonfiction » Psychology » Research, Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
Written by real life Experimental Parapsychologist: Dr. JJ Lumsden - The Hidden Whisper is the critically acclaimed mystery novel and popular science book rolled into one. Follow the exploits of fictional parapsychologist Luke Jackson as he investigates the cause of a poltergeist outbreak, and learn all about: ESP, Psychokinesis, Ghosts & Poltergeists, and more.
I, Inventor. The 3D Mind Technology by Alex Romano
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The 3D MIND Technology is a scientific way to activate visual imagination and start creating unlimited virtual objects. The Technology helps building and testing working prototypes of any technical idea effortlessly at no cost without making a sample physically. The Technology turns a person into an advanced and productive inventor, actually a genius able to construct anything from nothing. | <urn:uuid:bfad5a0a-99de-4bfe-aec9-424095b703a2> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.smashwords.com/books/category/307/newest/0/any/medium/10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988717783.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183837-00075-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.809624 | 1,651 | 1.726563 | 2 |
General Electric is raising its bet on biotechnology with the launch of prefabricated manufacturing units for producing virus-based gene and cell therapies, novel anti-cancer treatments and vaccines.
Interest in such medicines, which use engineered viruses to carry healthy genetic material into the cells of sick people, has exploded recently as the first wave of gene-fixing drugs reach the market.
That has left some drug companies scrambling for sufficient capacity at a time when the industry is also grappling with shortages of DNA-carrying viral vectors.
GE, better known for making jet engines and turbines, sees an opportunity in the fast-growing field. It aims to build on its existing expertise in biotech manufacturing by delivering a “factory-in-a-box” service specifically for viral vector-based medicine.
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There is a diet going around called the "Zone Diet." This diet seems to make a lot of sense. I would greatly appreciate your opinion on it.
Zone Me In
Dear Zone Me In,
Obesity has become an increasingly, um, large issue in the U.S., and theories abound to explain why. Barry Sears, Ph.D. creator of the Zone Diet, believes that the culprit of such wide-spread overweight is insulin resistance, which people develop as a result of eating too many refined carbohydrates and sugary foods. His solution? In addition to exercise, he recommends cutting out much of the sugar and carbs, and eating a lower carb, higher protein, and moderate fat diet in the ratio of 40 percent carbs, 30 percent protein, 30 percent fat.
Sears, a biochemist, has found that a diet high in carbohydrates causes an over-production of insulin, a hormone which helps the body use and store glucose. Too much insulin can lead to weight gain, which is the main focus here, but it can also create an imbalance in eicosanoids, a hormone-like substance that regulates inflammation. An imbalance in eicosanoids has been linked heart disease, cancer, and arthritis. Sears believes that eating a lower carb, higher protein, and moderate fat diet will balance these hormones within the preferred "zone," for most efficient insulin production, weight loss, and hormonal balance. The plan encourages people to eat often throughout the day — at least every five hours — which may help some to keep their metabolism stable, thereby burning calories more efficiently than less-frequent eating which allows blood sugar levels to fall.
The Zone pays special attention to the glycemic index of foods, which is a way to measure how quickly a food becomes sugar in the blood. The more quickly a food breaks down, the quicker it turns to sugar and requires an insulin surge. Low glycemic foods, such as cherries, grapefruit, nuts, and lentils, don't cause blood glucose levels to increase quickly, and therefore require lower levels of insulin than higher glycemic foods, which include white potatoes, corn flakes, and dates.
The diet focuses on strictly limiting high-glycemic foods, such as sweets, chips, and starches, and replaces them with more nutrient-rich and lower-glycemic choices like vegetables, some fruits, grains, lean meats and fish, and monounsaturated and omega-3 fats. Low-glycemic foods tend to be low in calories, so a significant reason people lose weight while on the Zone is because it is essentially a low-calorie diet.
Another reason some people tend to quickly lose weight on the Zone Diet is because of water loss. Because The Zone encourages people to eat significantly more protein than they were eating before, the body uses its own water (and we are 70 percent water) to digest this protein. Followers notice that they seem to be shrinking, and they are, but often because of dehydration. It is important to drink plenty of water on this diet to prevent dehydration, and to make sure the weight coming off is not just water.
Of course no two people have the same eating patterns, hormonal profiles, and genetics, so the same diet can't work in the same way for everyone. Weight control is much more complex than simply following a prescribed eating plan or a meticulous balance of nutrients. The satisfaction a person derives from his or her food is key in forming a healthful eating plan. For some, slightly higher carbohydrate intake is more satisfying; for others, slightly higher protein works better — the important part is eating a variety of whole unprocessed foods, keeping active with regular exercise, and making these changes permanent and sustainable, and not to mention, enjoyable.
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Basically anything can be made use of as a ringtone – your preferred song, a computer game sound result and even a personal voice recording that you make on your own. There is no limitation to the creativity that you can use when developing Free ringtones for cell phones so do not hesitate to use a mix of the techniques described above. Ringtones can be discovered in several areas. Your cell phone carrier is the top place you should look, especially if you are trying to find totally free ringtones. In some cases they provide a variety of complimentary ringtones with their solution. If your cell phone service provider does not provide the ringtones you are looking for, you can do an on the internet search to find companies that provide free music ringtones or cost-free audio effect ringtones. There are several businesses that also enable you to create your own ringtone totally free as well.
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The Allegro Guard Rail Winch is a necessity for workers who need to lower gear into a manhole. With its 300 pound capacity, you can lower most gear down. This winch is not man-rated and not suitable for lowering workers. The system is very lightweight, portable, and can be mounted very easily. The sides are made out of a high density aluminum with a yellow coating to protect it from the elements. The drum the line spins around is 3 inches thick and is made out of thick steel, making the reel in time much less. The center pipe in this system is 1 inch in diameter and 36 inches in length. The Dura-Plex braided rope 1/2 inch x 35 feet. The system is known for its strength and durability. At one end you will find a simple snap hook that can attach to the equipment or wrap back around to attach to itself.
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Special Education Program
A comprehensive referral and assessment process is used to identify students who may be in need of Special Education services. Special instruction is provided for students with learning disabilities, emotional disturbance, intellectual disabilities, vision and/ or hearing impairments, orthopedic impairments, other health impairments, traumatic brain injury, and speech impairments. Certified Special Education teachers employ a wide variety of instructional strategies and materials to address each student’s individual learning style. Special computer equipment is used to meet the unique needs of students who are blind or have significant visual impairments. Related services are provided when needed. These services include interpretive services for deaf students, assistive technology, and needed support services. Students in the Special Education program who are not able to demonstrate progress in the regular academic curriculum may be considered for placement in an Adaptive Skills class. Adaptive Skills is a Special Education class that focuses primarily on functional literacy and life skills.
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iPhone 4S Exposes You to Three Times More Radiation Than Samsung Galaxy S III
The heated debate of picking an Android device or picking an iOS device is always constant. Many people look to compare hardware specs, software features, and many more things but one thing that people probably tend to overlook is the radiation measurement of each device. The company behind the radiation measurement app, Tawkon, recently released an infographic detailing the SAR (a measurement of the rate at which energy is absorbed by the body when exposed to a radio frequency electromagnetic field) score of various popular smartphones.
Turns out, Apple’s iPhone 4S was the second highest offender with a SAR level of 1.11 w/kg, coming very close to hitting the maximum SAR level allowed by the FCC (which is 1.6 w/kg). In fact, the iPhone 4S tripled the SAR level of the Galaxy S III, which ended up coming in at the bottom of the totem pole with a SAR score of 0.34 w/kg. The level of radiation as well as the SAR (Specific Absorption Rate) has been a long controversial topic in regards to smartphones and the effects they have on our bodies. There are several conflicting reports out there and it seems the only thing everyone seems to agree upon is that no one knows exactly what kind of effects the non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation emitted by cellphones have on human tissue.
It is suggested that consumers just be cautious of any level of radiation exposure. While the SAR levels and the maximum level set by the FCC are well below the level at which laboratory testing indicates adverse health effects could occur, its always better to be safe than sorry and limit your daily smartphone use (no matter which device you end up using).
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The development of the Kimihia Violence Prevention programme: An offence focused programme for women with high and complex needs
Principal Facilitator, East Coast Programmes Team, Department of Corrections
Author biography:Emma is a registered psychologist. She trained in the forensic field in the UK, where she worked within a dedicated programmes unit for the National Probation Service. She took up a position with the New Zealand Department of Corrections in 2005 as a psychologist/senior psychologist in the Hawkes Bay. In 2018 she took on the role of principal facilitator for East Coast Programmes. Emma has experience in risk assessment, as an individual and group therapist, and in the supervision of group programmes, with a particular interest in programmes for women.
The Kimihia Violence Prevention Programme (Kimihia) is a rehabilitation programme aimed at assisting women with high and complex needs to address their offending behaviour. It was developed in response to the increased numbers of women being convicted of serious offending and given custodial sentences. The programme has a violence prevention focus and is suitable for those women whose risk, complex personality features and behaviours would prevent them from attending other established women’s programmes such as Kowhiritanga. The programme is facilitated by two psychologists.
Kimihia was developed as an extension to existing departmental programmes and based on research about what works with women with high and complex needs. The programme was piloted at Auckland Regional Women’s Correctional Facility (ARWCF) from 6 March to 28 June 2018. The implementation of the pilot programme was a dynamic process with a focus on responsivity within the theoretical framework. In practice this meant that the content was modified to best meet the needs of the women as the pilot progressed.
The development of the programme was a consultative process and involved input from a number of stakeholders, perhaps most importantly, incarcerated women who had completed a women’s programme. During this consultation process the name Kimihia was gifted to the project.1
Kimihia name and significance
The name Kimihia is derived from Kimihia He Huarahi Oranga - Creating Pathways for Wellbeing. This concept focuses on women examining their perception of their future and how their hopes and dreams can inform an understanding of present circumstances and self esteem.
Kimihia He Huarahi Oranga focuses on three areas which embody the programme’s aim of creating healing pathways for women; oranga wairua (spiritual wellbeing), oranga hinengaro (mental wellbeing) and oranga tinana (physical wellbeing).
1 Thanks to all stakeholders, in particular to Whaea Pare Rauwhero, Kaitiakai, ARWCF for naming the programme.
On 28 August 2017 the Department of Corrections launched Wahine – E rere ana ki te Pae Hou, Women’s Strategy 2017-2021. The strategy outlines three main priority areas for women:
- Providing women with interventions and services that meet their unique risks and needs
- Managing women in ways that are trauma-informed and empowering
- Managing women in a way that reflects the importance of relationships to women.
This strategy complements Corrections’ overall strategy by applying a women-specific focus to its overall goal of reducing re-offending.
While women represent a small proportion of the population managed by the Department of Corrections, over the last decade there have been considerable changes to the women’s prison population in New Zealand. The Women’s Strategy highlights an increase in the number of women being imprisoned, which has risen by more than 150% since 2002, and an increase of 120% of women serving community sentences. An increase in recidivism for women has also been recorded, as well as an increase in risk categorisation with 63% of women being classed as medium or high risk in 2014/15 compared to 47% at the start of the decade. There has also been an increase in Māori women’s overrepresentation in prison between 2005/06 (57%) and 2014/14 (64%) (McGlue, 2017).
While overall women commit less serious crime, and pose a lower risk to the community, there continues to be a small but challenging group of recidivist high risk/need women who carry out a small but significant portion of violent crime. These women have been conceptualised as “aggressive antisocial women” with high risk/high need profiles, and an extreme risk of recidivism. Such women are the target group for the Kimihia programme.
Prior to the development of Kimihia, the Department had two rehabilitation programmes aimed at addressing the offending needs of women: the Kowhiritanga Programme and the Short Rehabilitation Programme for Women (SRP-W). Kowhiritanga and the SRP-W are aimed at addressing the rehabilitative needs of women both in prison and in the community and are based on cognitive behavioural and relapse prevention principles. The SRP-W is available to women of low to moderate risk and is delivered by a sole programme facilitator, while Kowhiritanga can be delivered to women of any risk band by a psychologist and a facilitator, and to low to moderate risk women by two facilitators. Allocation to these programmes is based on a number of factors which include risk level and length of sentence. An adapted version of the SRP-W – the SRP-Special – is also available once or twice a year for women who have offended against children.
Kimihia was developed for those women whose psychological risk profile and complexity would make them unsuitable for any of the existing Departmental programmes.
Development and consultation process
The development of the programme was a collaborative process and involved a number of hui where input from cultural advisers, custodial and case management staff, psychologists and programmes staff was collected. During this process it became clear that there was a need for Kimihia to sit within a larger holistic wrap-around service. It was agreed that the wider service needed to attend to both the evidence-based rehabilitative needs of women and factors beyond. Such additional needs include mental health issues, trauma and victimisation, lack of support networks, parenting stress, financial disadvantage, employment difficulties and gambling issues. (King, 2011; Bevan & Wehipeihana, 2015).
As such, the Kimihia Programme is viewed as a significant therapeutic component of a four phase process, with each phase having its own specific focus:
Phase One: Responsivity Component. Preparing for intervention. Commencement of whānau engagement and building support networks. Behavioural management.
Phase Two: Group Component. Kimihia Violence Prevention Programme. This phase is four months long and consists of group and individual treatment. It includes the identification of reintegration needs early on which are linked into the offender plans of the women.
Phase Three: Maintenance Component. Continuation of intervention based on ongoing treatment needs. This also includes a continuation of whānau engagement.
Phase Four: Release Component. Wrap-around services, consultation provided to Community Probation Service andcommunity reintegration.
One of the most important aspects of the consultation process was interviewing a number of women who had previously completed the Kowhiritanga programme. These women would have been potential candidates for Kimihia had it been available at the time they engaged in treatment. The women indicated that they found engaging in Kowhiritanga beneficial. In particular, they enjoyed the use of pūrākau (ancient legends/stories) throughout the programme and found the work on thinking and relationships beneficial. This feedback was used to inform the content for Kimihia.
Theoretical underpinning of the programme
The pilot manual for Kimihia built on the content of the Kowhiritanga and SRP-W programmes with the aim of being more responsive to women with high and complex needs. This takes into account possible personality factors and high levels of anti-social behaviour and cognitions.
The need for appropriate interventions to be developed and provided for high risk individuals is well documented in the context of the Risk, Needs and Responsivity principles (Andrews & Bonta, 2017). These principles posit that for effective recidivism reduction, it is crucial that interventions are matched to levels of risk, specific evidence based rehabilitation needs, and are responsive to the target group.
Whilst there has been much debate around the rehabilitation needs of women versus those of men, it is asserted that men and women have the same dynamic risk factors and that the differences between the two lie in their responsivity needs. Therefore, the gender-specific focus of Kimihia is appropriate in this context. The content of the pilot Kimihia manual has a focus on the “Big Five” rehabilitation needs identified as relevant for women. These are: criminal history, anti-social peers, antisocial cognitions, anti-social personality patterns and substance abuse (Wilton, 2012). As the pilot was rolled out it became evident there was a need to consider the “Central Eight” risk factors which added family/marital factors, work/school factors and leisure and recreation as relevant treatment targets (Andrew & Bonta, 2017).
The programme is based on an evidence-based and integrative approach, incorporating the Risk Needs Responsivity (RNR) model, John Livesley’s Integrated Model for managing personality disorder, and trauma-informed practice principles as primary theoretical foundations for the programme design. Specifically, the programme has been developed to ensure that it addresses the “Central Eight” treatment needs using methods which take into account the personality features of the target group in the context of their traumatic past experiences. These models and methods are currently used in the Special Treatment Unit Rehabilitation Programme - Revised (STURP-R) and the men’s High Risk Personality Programme (HRPP) and are considered an effective approach to provide group-based treatment in a high risk population with complex personality presentations.
Approaches and models incorporated into the programme include; Livesley’s integrated model of personality disorder (2012), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Cognitive Self Change, Dialectical Behavioural Theory (DBT), Narrative Therapy and Relapse Prevention as well as a number of cultural concepts which will be discussed further in the cultural components section.
Kimihia has a focus on addressing violent behaviour and also incorporates trauma-informed practices; practices which are influenced by an understanding of the impact of traumatic events on an individual’s life and development. It is important to note that trauma-informed practice represents high quality, empowering practice and is not specific to the treatment of trauma.
The Women’s Strategy indicates that across their lifetime, 52% of women in prison have post traumatic stress disorder and therefore we have an obligation to deliver programmes in a manner which is appropriate to the special needs of trauma survivors (Harris & Fallot, 2001a in Wilson, Fauci & Goodman, 2015). Practical applications of trauma informed practice in Kimihia include empowering women as the experts in their own lives, and facilitators showing understanding of the women’s behaviour and the challenges they face.
Additionally, being responsive to Māori in the context of offence-focused intervention is a key focus of the programme and cultural content is woven throughout with a strong focus on Te Whare Tapa Wha and the use of pūrākau. Further Māori concepts may also be included in the final version of the manual.
The Kimihia Violence Prevention Programme consists of four modules which are based on Livesley’s integrated framework:
Module One: Engagement and Safety. Welcome, norm setting, identity, goal setting, motivation, navigating conflict, and mindfulness.
Module Two: Emotional Control/Regulation. Emotions and aggression, distress tolerance, impulse control, cognitive behavioural model, strategy of choices, thinking styles and problem thinking, beliefs and core values.
Module Three: Exploration and Change. Problem solving, communication, relationships, support networks, preventing violence, and substance abuse.
Module Four: Integration and Synthesis. Safety planning, goal setting and graduation.
As well as the group programme content, the programme incorporates:
- Individual therapy sessions
- Progress meetings (across phases 1, 2 and 3)
- End of module reviews, with case management attendance encouraged
- Whānau hui (across phases 1, 2 and 3 and at module reviews)
- Case consultation and staff support (e.g. Right Track).
It is anticipated that a maintenance aspect of the programme will also be offered to graduates. This will focus on addressing any remaining treatment needs and may involve linking with other relevant programmes such as drug treatment programmes and domestic violence treatment programmes.
A key aspect of the consultation process involved agreement around cultural processes. Guidelines for cultural processes were drawn up and include the following crucial aspects of setting up, running and closing the programme:
Pre programme stage:
- Consult kanohi ki te kanohi (face-to-face) with local kaitiaki, Māori and Pasifika governance groups
- Consult with local iwi regarding the use of relevant local pūrākau in session content
- Consult with prison and probation staff
- Engage with cultural supervisor and cultural adviser (if not the same person) and begin the cultural supervision process
- Engage with whānau at the earliest stage possible.
Commencement of the programme:
- Liaise with kaitiaki, local governance groups and site staff to plan the mihi whakatau in the context of local tikanga
- Ensure the relevant people from the consultation process and significant site staff are invited to the mihi whakatau
- Ensure that the mihi whakatau and the programme as a whole embody Te Tokorima a Maui (the five kaupapa values of the Department).
During the programme:
- Ensure that regular cultural supervision takes place and the delivery of key cultural concepts are discussed and explored within this context
- Maintain links with kaitiaki, governance groups and site staff
- Encourage and maintain links with participants’ whānau/supports.
Conclusion of the programme:
- Consult with the local kaitiaki, governance groups and site staff to develop a plan for the mihi whakamutunga in the context of local tikanga
- Ensure that the relevant people from the consultation process are invited to celebrate the success of the wāhine
- Ensure that whānau are included in this process to celebrate the success of their whānau member at the programme’s conclusion.
Additionally, being responsive to Māori in the context of offence-focused intervention is a key focus of the programme and cultural content is woven throughout with a strong focus on Te Whare Tapa Wha and the use of pūrākau. Other concepts which are incorporated throughout the programme include; moemoeā – hopes for the programme, the wayfinding waka journey, development of a kawa, cultural identity, respecting whānau and whakapapa links, te aratika – the right path, takarangi – wellbeing/self and whakapapa, and cultural differences in expression of emotion.
Further Māori concepts may also be included in the final version of the manual.
Eligibility and assessment for Kimihia pilot (group phase)
Potential participants for the pilot programme were identified using the following criteria:
- Index violent offence and/or significant history of violent offending
- RoC*RoI above 0.5 or
- RoC*RoI under 0.5, but with personality factors or behaviours which would preclude them from participating in Kowhiritanga
- On the psychological services waitlist.
- Current or previous sexual offending
- Offending against children
- Women with non-association orders or in relationships with other participants
- Women who were unable to be in the group treatment space due to prison operations. For example, women classified as maximum security are unable to mix with other women and therefore cannot be in a group setting with them
- Insufficient time to complete
- Cognitive deficits.
Due to the complex personality factors and needs of the target group, it is recommended that the maximum number of participants attending the programme does not exceed six.
Women were selected for assessment based on their risk level, offence type and presentation. Key assessment areas were criminogenic risk factors (e.g. antisocial thinking, associates), and non-criminogenic needs (where relevant to rehabilitation). There was also a focus on levels of motivation, desire to make pro-social changes, and willingness to engage in all aspects of the programme and adhere to the protocols established within the group.
Those women assessed as eligible and motivated were then asked to complete psychometric tests which could provide a baseline measure in terms of attitudes and personality features. The tests measured: personality traits and psychopathology, violence risk, anti-social cognitions, symptoms of trauma, and rehabilitative and reintegrative needs. A portion of the test was also administered at the end of the programme as a means of measuring change.
The Kimihia pilot commenced at ARWCF on 6 March 2018 and the mihi whakamutunga/graduation was held on 28 June 2018. Five women began the programme and four women graduated. Whilst these numbers may appear low, it is recommended that the maximum number of participants on the programme should not exceed six. This is due to the complex needs and personalities of the target group as well as their levels of unpredictability and potential risk of violent behaviour. All participants had convictions for violent offending and were a mix of high and low security prisoners.
Facilitators observed that the participants generally presented with entrenched anti-social thinking, and their treatment needs were related more to cognitions than the management of emotions. They also had a high level of need associated with their re-integration – as identified by the Level of Service/Case Management Inventory assessment tool (LS/CMI). The LS/CMI is an integrated assessment and case management tool which measures risk and need factors and can be used to aid the planning of interventions. As the programme was rolled out, the content was adapted to be responsive to the participants, and treatment was widened to include four phases - one of which was the group component. Therefore the final manual incorporates a number changes to the pilot version.
The proposed content and flow of each module in the final manual is fairly consistent with the draft version. However, the manual has been edited to include more information and guidance with regard to the session objectives. Furthermore, there were a number of noteworthy changes, based on the pilot and/or high risk-high need population. These include: Less emphasis on dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT), offence mapping and timelines being completed during individual sessions, more role plays and skills practice added and the concept of the wayfaring waka journey being woven throughout each module. One of the biggest changes to the content was the inclusion of cognitive self-change components, an approach that targets cognitions which underpin violent behaviour. This was included in response to the levels of anti-social thinking displayed by the participants and was woven throughout the programme. In addition, responses from the women identified that they found more abstract concepts difficult to grasp and therefore many original exercises needed to be simplified.
During the pilot a number of group factors also influenced the delivery of content. These included: Gang involvement, estrangement from whānau, institutionalisation and persistent life patterns. As a result, content was tailored to be responsive to these factors.
Cultural concepts such as Te Whare Tapa Wha, the whānau engagement model, the wayfinding waka journey and pūrākau, which are woven throughout the programme, were reportedly well received by participants. Each person’s perception of the outcome of treatment and the quality of the therapeutic relationship was captured in real time during the treatment phase with the Group Session Rating Scale (GSRS). Participants completed the GSRS at the end of each session and the results were very promising. The GSRS enables participants to rate each group treatment session in terms of how it met their needs in four areas:
- Relationship: The level to which the participant felt they were understood and respected by the group therapists
- Goals and Topics: The level to which they felt that the session content fit with their perceived needs
- Approach or method: Whether the approach of the therapists was a good fit for the participant
- Overall: The level to which the participant felt part of the group during each session.
Although this measure is not directly linked to violent recidivism, it is linked to successful psychotherapeutic outcomes and the participants consistently rated that their needs were being met on each aspect. One programme area which received reduced scores was the Good Lives Model content, so this was removed from the manual.
Learning from the pilot programme has been consolidated and the manual has been reviewed and revised. Any amendments made will be based on the experiences of both group members and facilitators whilst continuing to be evidence based. Information relating to the comparison of psychometric measures administered pre and post programme will be examined as part of a full evaluation of the programme to be completed in the near future. These results will also likely inform any amendments to programme content.
It is anticipated that the women who completed Kimihia will also now be moved to Phase Three of the service as a whole, which will involve identifying outstanding treatment needs and facilitating access to ongoing intervention. This phase will also continue to look at reintegration needs, outstanding criminogenic and non-criminogenic treatment, strengthening support networks and whānau engagement. The completed version of the Kimihia manual is currently being reviewed and once finalised the programme can be implemented in all women’s prison sites.
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Bevan, M. & Wehipeihana, N., (2015). Women’s experiences of re-offending and rehabilitation, New Zealand Department of Corrections.
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Livesley, W.J. (2012). Integrated treatment: A conceptual framework for an evidence-based approach to the treatment of personality disorder. Journal of Personality Disorders, 26 (1), 17-42.
McGlue, H. Women’s Strategy and Action Plan, (2017). New Zealand Department of Corrections,
New Zealand Department of Corrections, (2017). Wahine - E rere ana Kite te Pae Hou, Women’s Strategy 2017 – 2021.
Wilson, J.M, Fauci, J.E. & Goodman, L.A. (2015). Bringing trauma informed practice to domestic violence programs: A qualitative analysis of current approaches. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Vol 85, No6, 586-599.
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Global Expansion of High-speed Railroads Gains Steam
Interest in high-speed rail(HSR) is growing around the world and the number of countries running these trains is expected to nearly double over the next few years, according to new research by the Worldwatch Institute for Vital Signs Online. By 2014, high-speed trains will be operating in nearly 24 countries, including China, France, Italy, Japan, Spain, and the United States, up from only 14 countries today. The increase in HSR is due largely to its reliability and ability to cover vast geographic distances in a short time, to investments aimed at connecting once-isolated regions, and to the diminishing appeal of air travel, which is becoming more cumbersome because of security concerns.
The rise in HSR has been very rapid—in just three years, between January 2008 and January 2011, the operational fleet grew from 1,737 high-speed trainsets worldwide to 2,517. Two-thirds of this fleet is found in just five countries: France, China, Japan, Germany, and Spain. By 2014, the global fleet is expected to total more than 3,700 units.
Not only is HSR reliable, but it also can be more friendly than cars or airplanes. A 2006 comparison of greenhouse gas emissions by travel mode, released by the Center for Neighborhood Technologies, found that HSR lines in Europe and Japan released 30–70 grams of carbon dioxide per passenger-kilometer, versus 150 grams for automobiles and 170 grams for airplanes.
Although there is no universal speed definition for HSR, the threshold is typically set at 250 kilometers per hour on new tracks and 200 kilometers per hour on existing, upgraded tracks. The length of HSR tracks worldwide is undergoing explosive growth in order to meet increasing demand. Between 2009 and 2011, the total length of operational track has grown from some 10,700 kilometers to nearly 17,000 kilometers. Another 8,000 kilometers is currently under construction, and some 17,700 kilometers more is planned, for a combined total of close to 43,000 kilometers. That is equivalent to about 4 percent of all rail lines—passenger and freight—in the world today.
By track length, the current high-speed leaders are China, Japan, Spain, France, and Germany. Other countries are joining the high-speed league as well. Turkey has ambitious plans to reach 2,424 kilometers and surpass the length of Germany’s network. Italy, Portugal, and the United States all hope to reach track lengths of more than 1,000 kilometers. Another 15 countries have plans for shorter networks.
But in Europe, France continues to account for about half of all European high-speed rail travel. HSR reached an astounding 62 percent of the country’s passenger rail travel volume in 2008, up from just 23 percent in 1990, thanks to affordable ticket prices, an impressive network, and reliability. And in Japan, the Shinkansen trains are known for their exceedingly high degree of reliability. JR Central, the largest of the Japanese rail operating companies, reports that the average delay per high-speed train throughout a year is just half a minute. On all routes in Japan where both air and high-speed rail connections are available, rail has captured a 75 percent market share.
Further highlights from the research:
- A draft plan for French transportation infrastructure investments for the next two decades allocates 52 percent of a total of $236 billion to HSR.
- In 2005, the Spanish government announced an ambitious plan for some 10,000 kilometers of high-speed track by 2020, which would allow 90 percent of Spaniards to live within 50 kilometers of an HSR station.
- Currently, China is investing about $100 billion annually in railway construction. The share of the country’s railway infrastructure investment allocated to HSR has risen from less than 10 percent in 2005 to a stunning 60 percent in 2010.
- Intercity rail in Japan accounts for 18 percent of total domestic passenger-kilometers by all travel modes—compared with just 5 to 8 percent in major European countries and less than 1 percent in the United States.
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BACKGROUND: The National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS) strives to ensure that people affected by multiple sclerosis (MS) can live their best lives. This mission is reflected in the Society’s strategic plan, which establishes the roadmap for the Society’s continued commitment to a world free of MS. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this article is to add to the understanding of both the scope and complexity of the impact of MS and MS-related supports on quality of life (QOL). METHODS: A national sample of people with MS (n = 748) participated in the study by completing validated surveys assessing their QOL, physical and mental health, MS self-efficacy, resilience, participation in NMSS, perceived stress, emotional support, and social roles and activities. A path model was used to examine how the frequently identified MS QOL predictors, including demographic, MS, psychosocial, and physical functional status variables relate to each other and to QOL. RESULTS: The model exhibited reasonable model fit with hypothesized paths being statistically significant and in the hypothesized direction. CONCLUSION: Findings revealed that the relationships among mental health, demographic factors, overall MS experiences, QOL, NMSS participation, and resonance with the mission of the NMSS are complex, highly nuanced, and yet strongly correlated. More importantly, the study highlights the strong influence of variables that are more readily amenable to change through programmatic and clinical intervention, and active self-management and participation. | <urn:uuid:6ccad4b5-2ef6-45e9-802c-cdcda0746603> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vivo.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n615585SE | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.935079 | 310 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Using the Ports Collection
|Using the Ports Collection|
This section provides basic instructions on using the Ports Collection to install or remove software. The detailed description of available make targets and environment variables is available in ports.
|Warning! As of mid 2012, the FreeBSD Ports Project has migrated revision control systems from CVS to Subversion. The preferred method for obtaining and maintaining the ports tree is Portsnap. Users requiring local customization of ports (that is, maintaining additional local patches) will probably prefer to use Subversion directly. The CVSup service is being phased out as of February 28, 2013, and further use is discouraged.|
Obtaining the Ports Collection
The Ports Collection is a set of Makefiles, patches, and description files stored in /usr/ports. This set of files is used to compile and install applications on FreeBSD. The instructions below show several methods of obtaining the Ports Collection if it was not installed during initial FreeBSD setup.
Portsnap is a fast and user-friendly tool for retrieving the Ports Collection, the preferred choice for most users. See Using Portsnap for a detailed description of Portsnap.
- Download a compressed snapshot of the Ports Collection into /var/db/portsnap:
- When running Portsnap for the first time, extract the snapshot into /usr/ports:
- After the first use of Portsnap has been completed as shown above, /usr/ports can be updated with:
A port skeleton is a set of files that tell FreeBSD system how to compile and install a program. Each port skeleton includes:
- Makefile: The Makefile contains statements that specify how the application should be compiled and where its components should be installed.
- distinfo: This file contains information about the files that must be downloaded to build the port, and their checksums (using sha256(1)), to verify that files have not been corrupted during the download.
- files/: This directory contains any patches needed for the program to compile and install on FreeBSD. This directory may also contain other files used to build the port.
- pkg-descr: This file provides a more detailed description of the program.
- pkg-plist: This is a list of all the files that will be installed by the port. It also tells the ports system what files to remove upon deinstallation.
Some ports include other files, such as pkg-message. The ports system uses these files to handle special situations. If you want more details on these files, and on ports in general, refer to the FreeBSD Porter's Handbook.
The port does not include the actual source code, also known as a “distfile”. Source code is distributed in whatever manner the software author desires. The two methods for installing a FreeBSD port are described below.
|Note! You must be logged in as root to install ports.|
|Warning! Before compiling any port, be sure to have an up-to-date Ports Collection and check http://vuxml.freebsd.org/ for security issues related to your port. If ports-mgmt/portaudit) is installed, run portaudit -F before installing a new port, to fetch the current vulnerabilities database. A security audit and an update of the database will be performed during the daily security system check. For more information read the portaudit(1) and periodic(8) manual pages.|
Using the Ports Collection assumes a working Internet connection. Otherwise, manually obtain and place a copy of the distfile into /usr/ports/distfiles.
To begin, change to the directory of the port to be installed:
To compile, or “build”, the port, type make at the prompt. You should see messages similar to the ones in this example:
>> lsof_4.57D.freebsd.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://lsof.itap.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/. ===> Extracting for lsof-4.57 ... [extraction output snipped] ... >> Checksum OK for lsof_4.57D.freebsd.tar.gz. ===> Patching for lsof-4.57 ===> Applying FreeBSD patches for lsof-4.57 ===> Configuring for lsof-4.57 ... [configure output snipped] ... ===> Building for lsof-4.57 ... [compilation output snipped] ...
Once the compile is complete, you are returned to the prompt. The next step is to install the port using make install:
===> Installing for lsof-4.57 ... [installation output snipped] ... ===> Generating temporary packing list ===> Compressing manual pages for lsof-4.57 ===> Registering installation for lsof-4.57 ===> SECURITY NOTE: This port has installed the following binaries which execute with increased privileges.
Once you are returned to the prompt, you should be able to run the installed application. Since lsof is a program that runs with increased privileges, a security warning is shown. During the building and installation of ports, take heed of any other warnings that may appear.
It is a good idea to delete the working subdirectory, which contains all the temporary files used during compilation. Doing so saves disk space and minimizes the chance of problems later when upgrading to the newer version of the port.
===> Cleaning for lsof-4.57
|Note! You can save two extra steps by just running make install clean instead of make, make install and make clean as three separate steps.|
|Note! Using only make install means there will potentially be many waiting periods between user interaction as the default behaviour is to prompt the user for options. To avoid this when there are many dependencies, first run make config-recursive to do the configuration in one batch. Then run make install [clean] afterwards.|
|Tip! When using config-recursive, the list of ports to configure are gathered by the all-depends-list make(1) target. It is often recommended to run make config-recursive until all dependent ports options have been defined, and ports options dialog(1) screens no longer appear, to be certain all ports options have been configured as intended.|
|Note! Some shells keep a cache of the commands that are available in the directories listed in the PATH environment variable, to speed up lookup operations for the executable file of these commands. If you are using tcsh, you might have to type rehash so that a newly installed command can be used without specifying its full path. Use hash -r instead for the sh shell. Refer to the documentation for the shell for more information.|
The ports system uses fetch to download the files, which honors various environment variables, including FTP_PASSIVE_MODE, FTP_PROXY, and FTP_PASSWORD. You may need to set one or more of these if you are behind a firewall, or need to use an FTP/HTTP proxy.
For users which cannot be connected all the time, the make fetch option is provided. Run this command within /usr/ports and the required files will be downloaded. This command also works in the lower level categories, such as /usr/ports/net. Note that if a port depends on libraries or other ports, this will not fetch the distfiles of ports from another category. Use makefetch-recursive fetch to fetch all the dependencies of a port.
|Note! You can build all the ports in a category or as a whole by running make in the top level directory. This is dangerous, however, as some ports cannot co-exist. In other cases, some ports can install two different files with the same filename.|
In some rare cases, users may need to acquire the tarballs from a site other than the default MASTER_SITES. You can override the MASTER_SITES option with the following command:
make MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE= \
In this example, MASTER_SITES is changed to ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/.
|Note! Some ports provide build options which can be used to enable/disable parts of the application which are unneeded, provide security options, or allow for other customizations. Examples include www/firefox, security/gpgme, and mail/sylpheed-claws. A menu will be displayed at the beginning of a port compile when compile options are available.|
Overriding the Default Ports Directories
The WRKDIRPREFIX and PREFIX variables can override the default working and target directories. For example:
make WRKDIRPREFIX=/usr/home/example/ports install
will compile the port in /usr/home/example/ports and install everything under /usr/local.
make PREFIX=/usr/home/example/local install
will compile the port in /usr/ports and install it in /usr/home/example/local.
make WRKDIRPREFIX=../ports PREFIX=../local install
will combine the two.
Alternatively, these can be set as environmental variables. Refer to the manual page for your shell for instructions on how to set an environmental variable.
Certain ports provide an ncurses-based menu containing build options. There are several ways to revisit this menu in order to add, remove, or change these options after a port has been built. One method is to cd into the directory containing the port and type make config. Another option is to use make showconfig. Another option is to execute make rmconfig which will remove all selected options and allow you to start over. All of these options, and others, are explained in great detail in the manual page for ports.
Removing Installed Ports
Installed ports and packages are uninstalled using the pkg_delete command:
First, list outdated ports that have a newer version available in the Ports Collection with the pkg_version command:
Once you have updated your Ports Collection, before attempting a port upgrade, you should check /usr/ports/UPDATING. This file describes various issues and additional steps users may encounter and need to perform when updating a port, including such things as file format changes, changes in locations of configuration files, or other such incompatibilities with previous versions.
If UPDATING contradicts something you read here, UPDATING takes precedence.
Upgrading Ports Using Portupgrade
The portupgrade utility is designed to easily upgrade installed ports. It is available from the ports-mgmt/portupgrade port. Install it like any other port, using make install clean:
make install clean
Scan the list of installed ports using pkgdb -F and fix all the inconsistencies it reports. It is a good idea to do this regularly, before every upgrade.
Use portupgrade -a to upgrade all the outdated ports installed on the system. Include -i to be asked for confirmation of every individual upgrade.
To upgrade only a specified application instead of all available ports, use portupgrade pkgname. Include -R to first upgrade all the ports required by the given application.
portupgrade -R firefox
To use packages instead of ports, include the -P flag. With this option, portupgrade searches the local directories listed in PKG_PATH, then fetches packages from a remote site if not found locally. If packages can not be found locally or fetched remotely, portupgrade will use ports. To avoid using ports, specify -PP.
portupgrade -PP gnome2
To just fetch distfiles (or packages, if -P is specified) without building or installing anything, use -F. For further information see portupgrade.
Upgrading Ports Using portmaster
ports-mgmt/portmaster is another utility for upgrading installed ports. portmaster was designed to use the tools found in the “base” system without depending upon other ports. It uses the information in /var/db/pkg/ to determine which ports to upgrade. To install the port:
make install clean
Portmaster groups ports into four categories:
- Root ports: no dependencies and is not depended on by other ports
- Trunk ports: no dependencies, but other ports depend upon it
- Branch ports: have dependencies and are depended upon by other ports
- Leaf ports: have dependencies but are not depended upon by other ports
To list all installed software and search for updates, use -L:
===>>> Root ports (No dependencies, not depended on) ===>>> ispell-3.2.06_18 ===>>> screen-4.0.3 ===>>> New version available: screen-4.0.3_1 ===>>> tcpflow-0.21_1 ===>>> 7 root ports ... ===>>> Branch ports (Have dependencies, are depended on) ===>>> apache-2.2.3 ===>>> New version available: apache-2.2.8 ... ===>>> Leaf ports (Have dependencies, not depended on) ===>>> automake-1.9.6_2 ===>>> bash-3.1.17 ===>>> New version available: bash-3.2.33 ... ===>>> 32 leaf ports ===>>> 137 total installed ports ===>>> 83 have new versions available
All the installed ports can be upgraded using this command:
|Note! By default, portmaster will make a backup package before deleting the existing port. If the installation of the new version is successful, portmaster will delete the backup. Using -b will instruct portmaster not to automatically delete the backup. Adding -i will start portmaster in interactive mode, prompting for confirmation before upgrading each port.|
If you encounter errors during the upgrade process, use -f to upgrade/rebuild all ports:
You can also use portmaster to install new ports on the system, upgrading all dependencies before building and installing the new port:
Refer to portmaster for more information.
Ports and Disk Space
Using the Ports Collection will use up disk space over time. After building and installing a port, make clean will clean up the temporary work directory. To sweep the whole Ports Collection:
A lot of out-dated source distribution files will collect in distfiles over time. The following command will delete all the distfiles that are no longer referenced by any ports:
To remove all distfiles not referenced by any port currently installed on the system:
|Note! The portsclean utility is part of the portupgrade suite.|
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What is EIA?
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
provides the information needed to allow full consideration of environmental interests likely to have significant environmental impact. The EIA report shows how proposals will affect the environment and whether other alternatives would achieve the goals in a more sustainable way.
Strategic Environmental Assessment
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) focuses on consideration of environmental consequences in plans and programmes, with specific emphasis on environment in the strategic phase.
The Netherlands Commission for Environmental Assessment
The Netherlands Commission for Environmental Assessment (NCEA) prepares mandatory and voluntary advisory reports for government (national, provincial and local) on the scope and quality of environmental assesments (EA). | <urn:uuid:65d2cf7b-7450-4153-9606-3a4e2a3e754c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.commissiemer.nl/english/legislation/whatiseia | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00472-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.892285 | 138 | 3.046875 | 3 |
What parents need to know about social media craze TikTok
What is it? Is it safe? How does it work?
By Hamish Goodall
November 06 2019
If you're over thirty, you've probably never used or even heard of TikTok.
However with more than 500 million users worldwide, the social media craze is quickly gaining popularity amongst young Aussies.
But what exactly is the mystery app that youngsters are glued too? Let's take a look.
What is TikTok?
TikTok is free app available to download by both Apple and Android users.
Users film videos of themselves lip-syncing or acting out comedy sketches, up to 15 seconds long, and can choose from a database of songs, effects, or sound bites.
It might be a bit of a head scratcher for the older generations, but TikTok is no news to the teens of the world with 41 per cent of users aged between 16 and 24.
"If you're over the age of 24, you are too old for this one," social media expert Meg Coffey told Sunrise.
"It's just fun. The kids love it, there's nothing malicious like Facebook and Twitter. It's a fun place to be yourself, to show videos, to dance and to sing."
Users spend an average of 52 minutes per day on the app, which is currently available in over 150 markets around the world, in 75 different languages.
How safe is TikTok?
Coffey says it's important for parents to be aware of what social media platforms their kids are using and to make sure accounts are always 'private'.
"As with any social media platform you're going to let your children have access to, parents need to be aware of what it is."
When you sign up, your TikTok account is public by default, meaning anyone can see your videos, send you direct messages, and use your location information.
Parents should make sure they turn on all privacy settings for accounts kids are using, so only people they know can interact with their videos or message them on the app.
"Have rules around TikTok, make sure their accounts are private and not open to the public."
That means either opting for a private account or changing the settings for comments, duets, reactions, and messages to "Friends" instead of "Everyone."
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Throughout the month of April, Tokoriki diving and snorkeling guests helped us count turtles, rays and sharks!
Between us we completed 70 surveys and recorded two species of turtles (Hawksbill and Green), four species of sharks (White Tip, Black Tip, Grey Reef and Tawny Nurse) and three species of rays (Blue spotted sting rays, Ribbon tailed rays and Eagle Rays), that live on the reefs around Tokoriki and beyond.
Results from Tokoriki Island Resort will go towards a nationwide survey to try to determine which species live where, and to get an idea of real numbers.
The Fiji Ministry of Fisheries, along with stakeholders such as Tokoriki’s Dive Centre, are lobbying to ban all commercial Shark fishing in Fiji.
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by Tom Nguyen
This year’s Viet Film Fest impacted me greatly, not just as a Vietnamese immigrant refugee but also because the festivals highlighted social justice issues important to me: LGBTQ rights, in particular the rights of the transgender community through the film “Finding Phong” and the history and current unsafe working conditions of the nail salon industry, dominated by Vietnamese immigrants and other people of color, through the documentaries “#NailedIt: Vietnamese & The Nail Industry” and “Painted Nails”.
It’s no secret there is still a lot of homophobic and transphobic attitudes in the very traditionally conservative Vietnamese community and culture, both in the global diaspora communities and in Vietnam. In 2013, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people were barred from participating in the yearly Tet Lunar New Year Parade in Orange County, home to the largest Vietnamese community abroad. It was only due to a lot of civic and public pressure that members of the LGBTQ community were allowed to participate the following year.
Expecting attitudes in my native Vietnam to be even more unforgiving, I was surprised to hear about a documentary highlighting the transgender experience there. The film “Finding Phong” is a video diary of one transgender woman, Le Anh Phong, and her quest to get gender-reassignment surgery. It’s a deeply personal look at her thoughts, aspirations and insecurities. | <urn:uuid:3e175b63-b7e0-42eb-a8f6-36473ab8a29e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.enclave.la/tag/painted-nails/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.956702 | 294 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Because of intracellular growth requirements, large-scale cultures of chlamydiae and purification of its proteins are difficult and laborious. antigens in serological assays and in a lymphoproliferation test. The Omp2 and Hsp60 antigens were readily recognized by the antibodies appearing after pulmonary contamination following intranasal inoculation of in mice. Also, splenocytes collected from mice immunized with MOMP or Hsp60 proteins proliferated in response to in vitro stimulation with the corresponding proteins. can be an important individual pathogen that triggers acute respiratory attacks like pneumonia, bronchitis, and pharyngitis. Furthermore, the association between and many chronic circumstances, including asthma, chronic SNS-032 bronchitis, and atherosclerosis continues to be looked into by many analysis groupings (9, 10, 19, 32). Antimicrobial therapy, effective in treatment of severe infections, may possibly not be able to take care of the persistent infections from the persistent conditions. Therefore, a recent type of analysis is aimed at a technique for controlling or preventing chlamydia infections. Immune intervention may be the opportinity for such a technique but would need an understanding from the systems of immunity in the many stages of infections. Sera from contaminated individuals recognize many protein of (3, 8, 14, 15). Among the best-characterized antigens among different types is the main external membrane proteins (MOMP). This 40-kDa proteins apparently functions being a porin route in the external membrane of types (2, 44). Regardless of the exceptional sequence similarity between your MOMPs of chlamydial types, MOMP will not appear to be as immunodominant as MOMP. Another external membrane proteins, Omp2 (62 kDa), continues to be defined as a focus on of immune reputation in both and attacks (7, 21, 37). Antibodies against Hsp60 (GroEL) (60 kDa) of have already been regarded as very important to autoimmune systems in circumstances like pelvic inflammatory disease and CAB39L tubal infertility (6). For better evaluation the average person antigens ought to be obtained clear of other proteins. Nevertheless, the purification of antigens from is quite difficult, the primary obstacle getting its parasitic and pathogenic character, and no web host is designed for cultivation of in realistic quantities. To get over this, heterologous proteins appearance systems could be utilized. are favorable, using the feasibility of large-scale civilizations. It’s been proven that utilizing a appearance vector formulated with the promoter, a ribosome binding site, and a truncated sign series of -amylase gene, you’ll be able to collect high degrees of intracytoplasmic proteins in inclusion physiques (11, 29, 22). In the present study, we have used a expression system for the production of proteins MOMP, Omp2, and Hsp60, and evaluated their immunogenicity in the experimental model for contamination. Experimental animal models to study have been established previously (16, 24, 45). Intranasal inoculation of the bacteria in mice resembles in many respects contamination in humans: this includes infection kinetics, relatively mild symptoms, the capacity for repeated infections, and the development of partial protection. Studies using these models have shown that cell mediated immunity is necessary for protection against contamination in mice. Specifically, CD8+ T cells are necessary for protection from both main and reinfection (25, 31). Here, we show that chlamydial proteins were readily expressed in the system as soluble proteins or insoluble inclusion body. The inclusion body were solubilized SNS-032 with SNS-032 detergents for purification SNS-032 of chlamydial proteins. The purified proteins were functional in immunological assays as enzyme immunoassay (EIA) antigens and specific stimulators in lymphoproliferation assays. These proteins were also used to produce antigen-specific antisera in rabbits. MATERIALS AND METHODS Strains and plasmids. Kajaani 6 (K6) was originally provided by Pekka Saikku (National Public Health Institute, Oulu, Finland). K6 was utilized for extraction of the genomic DNA for cloning. strains utilized for expressing chlamydial antigens, and the plasmids used as expression vectors are outlined in Table ?Table1.1. The C-terminal end of the produced chlamydial proteins was extended with a histidine hexamer with a linker of a glycine dimer. The recombinant plasmids were transferred for expression into WB600, which is usually devoid of six extracellular proteases, or into IH6140, with. | <urn:uuid:53555d7f-05c3-43d4-9266-6d6f1bd821be> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://bcl-2-protein.com/because-of-intracellular-growth-requirements-large-scale-cultures-of-chlamydiae-and-purification/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.933453 | 996 | 2.5 | 2 |
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit has struck down Maryland’s law regulating assault weapons, creating a split with the 2nd Circuit, which upheld similar laws in New York and Connecticut. That split could, and probably should, lead the U.S. Supreme Court to take up and decide the issue. It’s time therefore to ask: How should the justices treat the question? In particular, what does the right to bear arms, created to preserve a “well-regulated militia,” say about assault weapons today?
The key issue in the 4th Circuit’s opinion last week was: Does the Second Amendment even apply to assault weapons? When the 2nd Circuit addressed the issue in October, it assumed without deciding that the amendment applied. To its credit, the 4th Circuit addressed the issue head on, and said the answer was yes, it did apply.
On the surface, this seems like it might be the right answer. In the 2008 Heller opinion, the Supreme Court said that “the Second Amendment does not protect those weapons not typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes.” Currently, there are some 7 million assault weapons in the U.S., including more than 4 million AR-15 rifles, according to the 2nd Circuit. Most people don’t use them to commit crimes. Taken statistically, these weapons must be “typically possessed . for lawful purposes.”Don't miss outSign up for The PointCartoonDavies' latest cartoon: Trump inaugural ballCommentSubmit your letter
But deeper analysis of the Heller case suggests this interpretation may be too quick. Heller was itself interpreting a 1939 decision, U.S. v. Miller. The court then analyzed the Second Amendment’s explanation that the purpose of the amendment was related to the need for a “well-regulated militia.” In an opinion by Justice James McReynolds, a libertarian generally agreed to be the nastiest justice ever, the court said that “ordinarily when called for service,” militiamen “were expected to appear bearing arms supplied by themselves and of the kind in common use at the time.”
The Heller opinion, written by Justice Antonin Scalia, suggested that the way to understand the reach of the Second Amendment was to begin by considering what kinds of weapons were used in the militias that the text of the amendment mentions.
Scalia went on to say that “in the colonial and revolutionary war era, small-arms weapons used by militiamen and weapons used in defense of person and home were one and the same.” This, said Scalia, yielded “the original understanding of the Second Amendment”: It protects weapons possessed by law- abiding people for lawful purposes.
So what should this self-professed originalism have to say about assault weapons?
A true originalist could say that literally only 18th- century weapons are protected. Because that would presumably limit the amendment’s reach to flintlock muskets, it would be like saying the amendment is obsolete. That kind of originalism isn’t very convincing, and the court won’t adopt it here.
Another angle would be to say that the amendment covers all weapons that a militia would use today. That would surely include assault weapons.
The problem is, this originalism would prove much too much. Modern militias would also have rocket-propelled grenades, vehicle-mounted machine guns and no doubt some armed drones. The court won’t want to include these in the right to bear arms. So that originalism is out, too.
That leaves the view that there’s something special about weapons that can be used both for self-defense and for militias. According to Scalia, those are the weapons that the people who ratified the Second Amendment had in mind.
Today, that includes handguns. But it doesn’t include assault rifles. They’re great for military purposes, and no doubt fun to shoot on the range. But they aren’t useful for self-defense, almost by definition.
It emerges that a careful, responsible originalist wouldn’t apply Second Amendment protection to weapons that aren’t simultaneously for self-protection and for hypothetical militias.
In his dissent in the 4th Circuit case, Judge Robert King came close. “Let’s be real,” he wrote. “The assault weapons banned byMaryland are exceptionally lethal weapons of war.” He said he was “far from convinced” that the Second Amendment applied.
But King then followed the 2nd Circuit in saying that the case should’ve been decided by applying what’s called intermediate scrutiny, so that the regulations would survive provided they were supported by an important interest that was substantially related to them.
This view may be right — but it’s unlikely to win in the Supreme Court, where the justices like to treat fundamental rights as, well, fundamental. Better not to enter the thicket of balancing tests at all. If the Second Amendment is to be read through the lens of originalism, it should be originalism that makes sense.
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Key or strategic accounts are your most important clients. Not only are they your most important clients they are also the ones at most risk of attack from your competition. If they are important to you then they will certainly be attractive to your competitors. Therefore learning how to manage and develop key accounts is an essential skill, if we want to stay ahead of the competition.
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Israeli settlers chopped down 36 olive trees in the South Hebron Hills, on Friday, said Italian peace group Operation Dove, in a press release.The group said that, on the morning of February 20, Palestinians in the South Hebron Hills awoke to find that 36 olive trees had been cut or seriously damaged during the night, probably by Israeli settlers.
It was added that the 25-year-old trees, owned by Hushiya family from Yatta, were located near the village of Qawawis, in the South Hebron Hills, between the Israeli illegal outpost of Mitzpe Yair and the settlement of Suseya, beside Bypass Road 317.
The group described the incident as the third-of-its-kind âprice tag vandalismâ committed by settlers, against the Palestinian inhabitants of the South Hebron Hills, in the last two months.
It added that, on January 9, in the same area between the Bypass Road 317 and the Suseya settlement, Palestinians discovered that nearly 200 olive trees had been cut on their property and that, on December 31, two settlers threw a molotov cocktail into a Palestinian house in Ad Deirat village.
Palestinian residents of the South Hebron hills have suffered from the presence of Israeli settlers since the 70s. By occupying Palestinian agricultural lands and destroying Palestinian olive trees, crops and property, the settlers seek to deprive the Palestinians of their main livelihood. Ongoing settler violence deprives Palestinian families of security in daily life, and restricts their freedom of movement.
Despite attempts by settlers to force them from the area through violence and intimidation, the Palestinian communities of the South Hebron Hills remain strong in their commitment to nonviolent popular resistance against the Israeli occupation.
WAFA further reports that, on Saturday, Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian children playing in snow in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood, in central Hebron city, injuring a 10-year-old, according to one of the children’s parents.
They said that settlers from the illegal Israeli settlement of Ramat Yishai in Tel Rumeida, protected by Israeli soldiers, attacked a group of children playing with snow in a brutal manner, injuring 10-year-old Salih Abu Shamsyeh.
The child sustained injuries and bruises throughout his body and was transferred to hospital for medical treatment. His condition was described as stable.
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Like many people, I love to garden. I enjoy the feeling of soil beneath my fingers, the satisfaction of caring for plants and watching them grow and bloom. I also tend to believe that all life is sacred. From the biggest whale in the ocean, down to the tiniest ant in the ground, all living things are usually just trying to survive, the best and only ways they know how. It can be frustrating when garden pests appear to wreck all of my hard work! But in the many years I have been doing it, I have come to understand and appreciate that there must be a balance and that there are ways to be a more compassionate gardener.
Aphids. These sap-sucking insects can quickly overtake and kill an otherwise healthy plant. Most healthy plants can survive a small infestation of aphids, but if their numbers grow too large, it’s time to take action.
What you can do:
* Introduce some helpful insects – get some Ladybugs (also called Ladybirds in some parts of the country)! Ladybugs love aphids and can be relatively inexpensive to purchase. Lacewings are another alternative if you can’t find any Ladybugs.
* Use the water pressure spray from your garden hose to knock the aphids off the stems and leaves of plants. Many times, this alone will be enough to dislodge those unwelcome guests.
* Use a spray bottle filled with soapy water (1 quart of water, 1 teaspoon of liquid dish soap and a pinch of cayenne pepper) and make sure to mist the underside of the leaves, where aphids like to congregate.
* Plant some plants which attract Lacewings and Ladybugs and deter aphids, due to their strong scents. Some good examples to try are: Onions, Garlic, Chives, Cilantro, Rosemary, Sage, Oregano and Fennel. Most strong scented herbs and plants in the Allium family are great for this.
* Encourage nesting of birds which eat aphids, like wrens, titmice and chickadees. Natural predators are much safer and more compassionate than chemicals. (After all, the birds have to eat, too!)
Slugs/Snails. Slimy and slow, these invertebrates can leave a trail of destruction that will decimate any garden.
What you can do:
* Plant “barrier plants” around the plants you’re trying to protect. As with aphids, slugs don’t care for strong scented herbs like those listed above. Nasturtiums are also a natural plant that slugs don’t like. Try it. You might be surprised.
* Sprinkle finely-crushed eggshells or use a ring of sandpaper around the plants you want to protect. The slugs and snails will not attempt to crawl over these things because they will hurt themselves doing it. By the way, coffee grounds are great for soil amendment but they don’t do squat to keep the slugs and snails away. 😉
* Put a board or an upside-down flower pot propped up so the slugs can get under it by the plants you don’t want eaten and check the board or pot every morning. The slugs and snails will go party on the underside since it’s cool and possibly damp, and you can pick them off by hand to get rid of them.
* If you can find it, try mulching around your plants with seaweed about 3-4 inches deep. The salt content in seaweed is enough to keep those pesky gastropods away. Don’t ever put salt ON your plants, though. It will kill them.
Snakes/Spiders/Lizards. Any experienced gardener will tell you: these are NOT the enemies! Quite simply, leave them be. They will help your garden more than you realize, and even though they may give you the heebie-jeebies, don’t kill them. Most of the time, they are not dangerous to people and will help you in your quest to keep your garden pest free.
Gardening can help a person “get back to earth” and reconnect with the planet. We can be compassionate in our efforts to protect the fruits of our labors and we don’t have to saturate the world with chemicals or kill those things which we label “pests”. There is always a balance which we should strive to keep.
“Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.”
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ITALY has escaped legal action over its failure to respect EU rules ordering a rebalancing of telephone subscription tariffs to make them reflect the true costs of the service. The European Commission’s announcement follows a decision by the Italian authorities allowing Telecom Italia to increase subscription charges in 2001 by an amount equal to the inflation rate plus 6%. The Commission had initiated legal proceedings in 1998. Tariff rebalancing, a key part of the EU’s 1998 telecoms package, was intended to boost competition by forcing former monopoly operators to reduce heavy subsidisation of local calls and subscriptions using the inflated prices charged for long distance service.
THE Commission has cleared plans by RAG and Sidmar to acquire joint control of Belgian Bunkering Considar Trading (BBCT), a coal importing firm. Sidmar is part of steelmaker Arbed. BBCT is mainly active in coal imports for use by the various steelmaking subsidiaries of the Arbed group. The Commission said the deal would not harm competition in the single market.
A GROUP of EU bankers has lodged a formal complaint with the Commission against Italy over the way it is interpreting a law which prevents its members from marketing fixed-rate loans to Italian borrowers. According to the Banking Federation of the European Union, the law creates a “clear competitive discrimination” against EU banks which can “no longer market in Italy, or to Italian customers, a product which is standard throughout the EU and world-wide”.
BELGIUM says it has started talks with the Commission about liberalising the country’s electricity market. This follows last month’s announcement by the EU executive that it was beginning legal action against Belgium over its failure to open the sector in line with a Union directive. The Commission said it was most concerned about Belgium’s decision not to designate an independent operator for the country’s national power transmission grid or to set rules and tariffs for its future operation.
THE Commission has approved a packaging paper joint venture between Finland’s Stora Enso and Sweden’s AssiDoman. It said the deal would not affect competition in the Union.
GOVERNMENTS failed to reach a deal just before Christmas to weaken the monopolies enjoyed by national post offices on letter deliveries. A gulf between mostly northern European states, which wanted to completely open the postal market, and those wary of the effect on jobs and service standards, meant EU ministers emerged from ten hours of discussions on 22 December with no deal.
ALEXANDRE Lamfalussy, the Union’s financial market regulation guru, said last week that the road to harmonised regulation was strewn with obstacles, but he was not giving up the fight.
Lamfalussy, named last July as the head of a group of ‘wise men’ tasked with bringing European securities market regulation into the Internet age, is due to submit a final report in six weeks on how a single securities market can be promoted. He said he continued to see the need to adapt securities regulation law to the needs of the single market but changes would not happen “overnight”.
THE EU has imposed anti-dumping duties on polyester staple fibre imports from India and South Korea. The duties, which normally last five years, were imposed after the Union’s investigation concluded that dumped imports from two countries had caused material injury to EU producers. The rate of the duties ranged from 35.4% to 14.7% for Indian firms and 20.2% to 4.8% for most South Korean firms.
BUDGET Commissioner Michaele Schreyer accused Switzerland last week of failing to crack down on cigarette smugglers who defraud the EU of billions of euro a year. Schreyer told news weekly SonntagsBlick that the Swiss had to tackle the problem if they ever hoped to join Europe’s main trading bloc. She said smugglers were taking advantage of relaxed Swiss laws, adding that there were “systematic shortcomings and as a result we want to negotiate a new accord on tackling fraud and other crimes”.
THE COMMISSION has requested formal consultations at the World Trade Organisation over US legislation which allows companies to collect the proceeds of anti-dumping duties. The law, known as the Byrd Amendment, provides an incentive for companies to bring anti-dumping cases, said the Commission said. The request was made jointly with Australia, Brazil, Chile, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea and Thailand.
GERMANY has been given the go-ahead by the Commission for 4.71 billion euro in subsidies to its coal industry after Berlin changed the way it plans to spend the money. The Commission had asked Germany to switch part of its subsidies for 2000 and 2001 from operating aid, which props up unprofitable production, into winding-down activities. The agreement aims to bring the aid into line with a 1999 European Court of Justice opinion which expressed reservations about too much aid going to unprofitable pits.
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Extra alternatives for engineers and builders to implement declarative system administration options are prone to emerge at WWDC 2022, at the very least, based on MacAdmins.Talking throughout the pre-event podcast, audio system argue that Apple will finally require that each one cell system administration (MDM) suppliers introduce help for declarative administration. May this embrace bringing declarative system administration to the Mac?What’s declarative system administration?Apple first launched declarative system administration final 12 months, largely for 2 causes: to make units extra proactive, and to scale back the affect on MDM servers that deal with massive fleets of units. This could enhance efficiency and scalability.
“By sending declarations to the system and using the standing channel, that system turns into extra autonomous and proactive. And your MDM answer will handle many sides of the system expertise utilizing the MDM protocol,” Apple’s developer notes clarify.
The distinction between normal MDM and declarative may be seen as follows:Normal MDM:When the MDM sends a command to the system, a number of interactions between the server and the system are wanted to implement the change. Alternatively, the MDM system has to ask the system to replace it on any adjustments made on the system finish. The system doesn’t monitor itself for vital adjustments, and won’t proactively contact the MDM system to let it know such adjustments have taken place.Declarative:Gadgets monitor themselves and may notify an MDM system when a change is utilized. They will additionally deploy adjustments extra swiftly with much less interplay between the server and the system. Partially, this autonomy additionally offers the system higher safety when it’s offline, or when the MDM server is unavailable. In impact, insurance policies may be utilized extra swiftly and admins profit from extra correct data regarding units within the fleet. How has Apple constructed its Declarative Gadget Administration system?At WWDC 2021, Apple launched the primary model of its Declarative Gadget Administration protocol. This depends on Declarations, Standing Channel, and Extensibility.What’s a Declaration?A Declaration is mainly a coverage resolution given to the system. That may be for account settings or entry to enterprise companies, however can be utilized at a consumer or system stage. You may ship related privileges to all of your customers, however assign particular people administrator rights from their system(s), for instance. [Also read: WWDC: Is Apple preparing to give iPad a mammoth upgrade?]Declarations can embrace system configuration, belongings (similar to usernames and certificates) and activations — insurance policies which can be utilized to the system. As soon as a tool has pulled all of the declarations obtainable to it from the MDM server, it can start to use any coverage adjustments required to work inside them.What’s Standing Channel?At its easiest, MDM engines use this to ballot units for vital adjustments, similar to requesting a notification if a tool upgrades its iOS model. This will then set off task of further insurance policies to the system related to that newly put in working system.What’s Extensibility?One good instance of what extensibility means within the context of declarative system administration might relate to a tool’s working system being upgraded. The system can let the MDM server know an replace has taken place and the MDM can then assign a brand new coverage that allows a brand new characteristic which may not have been supported earlier than. An MDM may also be capable of establish which units have been upgraded to deploy any options newly obtainable.Builders can watch a WWDC 2021 session on declarative system administration right here. How will Apple improve declarative system administration?We all know Apple has already referred to as declarative system administration the “way forward for system administration,” which means the corporate will proceed to spend money on bettering its current system.It additionally sends a really message to builders that they need to prioritize their help for Apple’s system within the options they supply, or, within the case of purchasers, the MDM programs they select to make use of.Apple’s first iteration supported iOS units, which itself implies the corporate intends on extending this to its different platforms, together with the Mac. Mac integration makes full sense, given Apple Enterprise Necessities and the continued ascendance of Macs within the enterprise — nevertheless it does appear attainable the characteristic will solely be made obtainable to Macs working an M-series Apple Silicon chip.We’ll be watching WWDC22 later at present to search out out whether or not this seems to be the case. Test again right here later for all of the keynote highlights for enterprise IT. Please comply with me on Twitter, or be a part of me within the AppleHolic’s bar & grill and Apple Discussions teams on MeWe.
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My partner plays are short- in fact I timed my two daughters reading a partner play and discovered that they read the play in 2 minutes & 15 seconds. (In a classroom, I would require my students to read each script at least two times to work to improve fluency.) That knowledge motivated me to create this anchor chart that would allow students to have meaningful discussions after they have read the play twice.
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Toby mugs and jugs are popular character collectibles made by several different pottery firms. The first Toby jugs featured a seated man in period dress, including a tricorne hat that formed the spout of the jug. Doulton began manufacturing Toby jugs in 1815. Originally their jugs had a traditional brown salt glaze; colour was not added until the 1920s. The first character jug, John Barleycorn, was introduced in 1934. This new series of character mugs drawn from English history was an immediate success, and production continued until the Doulton pottery closed in 2004.
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Measure the height of your Toby jug. Doulton Toby jugs vary in height but rarely exceed 7.5 inches. Miniature Tobies were introduced in 1939 and measure about 2.5 inches in height.
Turn over the jug and find the trademark on the underside. There may also be an artist's signature, which will help date the piece. Doulton marked its wares from the beginning so it is unusual to find a genuine piece that is unmarked in any way.
Make a rubbing of an impressed trademark if you have trouble reading it. Hold a piece of tracing paper firmly against the mark, then rub lightly with the side of a sharpened pencil or crayon. Alternatively, take a photo of the mark with a digital camera and use the camera's software on your computer to increase contrast until you can read the mark.
Inspect the handle on your jug. Early Doulton Toby jugs had plain handles, but after the 1950s the handles were often decorated as part of the design. The Long John Silver jug, for instance, has a parrot for a handle.
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- There are two theories about how these mugs and jugs came to be called Toby jugs. One theory holds that the name came from the character of Sir Toby Belch in Shakespeare's play "Twelfth Night." The name might also have come from the 18th century song "Brown Jug," about a character named Toby Fillpot.
- The Doulton Company always referred to its product as Toby jugs, not mugs.
- Doulton was not granted a Royal Warrant until 1901, at which time the trademark was changed to read "Royal Doulton" on most pieces. A lion was also added to most trademarks used by the company after that time. A piece represented as 19th Century but bearing a "Royal Doulton" mark is either misdated or not genuine. Note that some earlier trademarks did include a coronet, but never the word "Royal."
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There has been very little detailed exploration of the relationship between wage income and household inequality in South Africa despite the relevance of this issue for many contemporary growth and development policy debates. This article is directed at such an analysis. It uses a decomposition of household income inequality by income components to highlight the dominance of wage income in driving overall income inequality. This is followed by a detailed discussion of the distribution of the unemployed across different wage-earning household categories. Many of the unemployed are seen to depend on wage earners within their households, but a significant percentage of the unemployed, especially in rural areas, have no direct link to labor market earners. In such cases, the creation of employment is essential. The conclusion explores policy implications by linking our empirical findings to South African debates over the quality versus the quantity of employment. | <urn:uuid:70e7515f-6d64-4cc9-96f7-91f7e71b9c80> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.datafirsttest.uct.ac.za/dataportal/index.php/citations/782 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.962354 | 168 | 1.867188 | 2 |
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By the Caribbean Journal staff
One of Spain’s great art masters is visiting Grand Cayman.
The National Gallery of the Cayman Islands has been loaned a series of 200-year-old etchings by painter Francisco de Goya.
The exhibition, which launched on Thursday, will last through Aug. 28, with a lecture on Saturday by the curator.
Goya’s work will be displayed alongside a number of local Caymanian artists who have been asked to interpret Goya’s work.
The exhibition called “Metamorphoses,” is curated by Eme Paschalides. The works come from Goya’s Los Caprichos series, and include 16 of the original suite of 80 etchings, including some first editions from 1799.
It includes a rare example of Salvador Dali’s “Caprices de Goya,” which similarly interpreted Goya’s work.
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UBC professor explains why the humpback whale lost its ‘threatened species’ status
Andrew Trites, a professor and director of the Marine Mammal Research Unit in the UBC Fisheries Centre, is a member of COSEWIC’s (Committee on the Status of Wildlife in Canada) Marine Mammal Specialist Subcommittee. COSEWIC recently recommended the humpback whale be downgraded from a threatened species to a species with special concern.
Why was the humpback whale taken off the threatened species list?
The status of wildlife in Canada is assessed by COSEWIC. This group of experts is independent of government and assesses the status of a species using internationally accepted criteria that consider numbers, population trends, distributions, and probabilities of extinction. Data collected since humpback whales were last assessed in 2003 indicate there are over 2,100 humpbacks in British Columbia and their numbers have been increasing at about four per cent per year. Based on this new information, COSEWIC concluded that the humpback whales that feed in B.C. no longer meet the criteria for being listed as a threatened species. However, COSEWIC also recognized that their future is not yet secure and recommended that the listing be changed to special concern rather than not at risk. Special concern is the recommendation that the Canadian government accepted.
How did we get the population of humpbacks to bounce back?
We estimate there were about 4,000 humpback whales in B.C. in 1905—almost twice the size of the current population. The population was severely depleted by commercial whaling, which ended in British Columbia in 1968. The recovery of humpback whales is due to the cessation of whaling, protection of winter breeding areas in Mexico and Hawaii, and protection under the Canadian Fisheries Act. Changing the status of humpback whales in Canada from threatened to special concern will not lessen any of the protections they have been receiving.
What do you think the future holds for this species? What are the potential risks?
The future looks very promising for humpback whales. They numbered only about 1,200 at the end of whaling, but have increased throughout the eastern North Pacific Ocean since then and now number about 21,000 individuals. COSEWIC recognizes that humpback whales may be sensitive to noise disturbance and habitat degradation–especially on the breeding grounds–and can die from ship strikes and entanglement in fishing gear. Humpback whales will continue to be monitored closely by biologists, and a new recommendation for listing status can be made at any time by COSEWIC should their numbers decline or their habitat be reduced.
Was this decision motivated by proposed pipeline projects?
COSEWIC recommends listings of species based on scientific and traditional knowledge. Politics and economics never influence its decisions. It recommended reclassifying humpback whales as special concern because they have recovered and no longer meet the criteria of what constitutes a threatened species in Canada. Whether or not the government’s decision to accept COSEWIC’s recommendation was motivated by the proposed pipeline projects is a question best left for a politician. | <urn:uuid:ed1b7413-ed8a-4dd9-b74f-03c9cbd6f007> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.ubc.ca/2014/04/23/humpback-recovery/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.952315 | 634 | 3.53125 | 4 |
In April 2019, a fire broke out inside the iconic Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, ravaging the historic building and severely damaging its structure. Fifteen hours later, the blaze was quelled, and before long donations began pouring in from around the world to help rebuild what was left of the cathedral.
An extensive project, which looked to stabilise the structure, salvage its contents, and restore the parts that had been completely destroyed, took place over the next two years, with the preliminary stage of the restoration reaching completion in the summer of 2021. The cathedral is set to reopen in 2024 following further work.
In order to convey the size and complexity of this undertaking, the Éstablissement Public – the public entity tasked with repairing the Notre-Dame – and the Cité de la Bande Dessinée (Centre for Comics and Images) commissioned five artists to tell the story of its restoration.
Exhibited on a hoarding outside of the Notre-Dame construction site, these artworks each focus on a different aspect of the project – from the preparation and planning, to the execution of various intricate jobs around the cathedral, such as installing support beams and dismantling fire-ravaged scaffolding.
The five artists – Zeina Abirached, Adjim Danngar, Sandrine Martin, Mathieu Sapin and François Schuiten – use their respective comic strip styles and methods of storytelling to communicate the important and skilled work that was carried out.
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There are promising indications that the Gardasil vaccine may offer protection against cervical cancer beyond what is currently claimed, according to drug maker Merck & Co.
Gardasil was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in June to prevent infection by four strains of the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV). Two of the HPV strains targeted by Gardasil cause about 70 percent of all cases of cervical cancer, while the other two targeted strains primarily cause genital warts.
Merck says that the vaccine may also offer "cross-protection" against other cancer-causing strains of HPV that aren't specifically targeted by Gardasil, Dow Jones/AP reported.
The drug maker said it's currently studying whether the vaccine is able to prevent precancerous lesions caused by these other HPV strains. Early results from the study have been encouraging, according to a Merck executive. – (HealthDayNews)
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The Unique Science and Technology Infraestructure – Doñana Biological Reserve (ICTS-RBD), managed by the Doñana Biological Station, have presented the results of the Biodiversity and Natural Processes Monitoring Program 2019, 2020 and 2021 conducted in the Doñana Natural Site. This monitoring program periodically collects scientific data on the conservation status of Doñana and allows changes in ecosystems to be detected, such as the appearance of invasive species, the conservation status of threatened species or wetlands.
The Monitoring Program works on several areas, including a physical environment and water state monitoring in Doñana, an estimation of the conservation status of the main habitat units and the monitoring of species and populations.
Doñana has a Mediterranean climate, with temperate and rainy autumns and winters, and hot and dry summers. However, during the last years, the precipitation has reached levels below-average. The current hydrological year heads for being one of the driest of the entire data serie, which includes almost 50 years of records. The last years have also registered average temperatures above the reference average.
Regarding the species and population monitoring, the program has an important part focused on waterfowls, emblematic in Doñana, and also on flora, reptiles, amphibians, mammals and several species of invertebrates.
The lowest number of waterfowls in the last 40 years
Among the data obtained in the last years, we can highlight the numbers provided by the aerial censuses of waterfowls, one of the oldest monitoring activities of the program, initiated in the 70s and carried out monthly since then. With these censuses, we can compare data on the population size of waterfowls in the Doñana Natural Site across the years, as well as data on its distribution and evolution across time in order to detect threats and help propose improvements for the conservation management. Within this serie, the numbers obtained this year 2022 are one the lowest of the whole historical serie, which includes more than 50 years of data registers, especially due to the serious lack of rainfall that Doñana suffered last winter. The total numbers barely reached 87.500 individuals censed, far from the 470.000 last year.
The ICTS-RBD also rings migrant birds constantly in the Manecorro area, in the Doñana National Park. This is one of the longest activities of this types in Europe, since it contains data for 28 uninterrupted years. Until 2021, a total of almost 89.000 captures of 123 different species have been made. Among them, some of the most abundant in the station are the European robin, the Eurasian blackcap and the common chiffchaff, the three pre-Saharan migrant species. In the case of the first two, a moderate derease has been detected in recent years, while the latter shows a stable trend. As for the most abundant trans-Saharian migrants, such as the garden warbler, the European pied flycatcher, and the willow warbler, they also show a moderate downward trend.
The bad situation of rabbits
The program also has specific monitoring for mammals. Since 2005, wild boar and deer have been censed, as well as rabbits and hares. Rabbits present very low abundances in the last 10 years due to the combined effect of two diseases and the impact of climate change on their reproductive capacity. As regards carnivore populations, data has been periodically collected since 1993. In this case, it should be noted that the seven species that most frequently inhabit Doñana (fox, mongoose, badger, lynx, wild and domestic cat, genet and nutria) show wide fluctuations from one year to another and have a good conservation status in general. The fox is the most abundant, followed by the badger and the mongoose, which have similar abundances, much less than the first one. The populations of wild ungulates have also a good conservation status.
Regarding reptiles, the program monitors the distribution and population status of the two species of pond turtles native to Doñana, the Iberian pond turtle and the European pond turtle, which show a decrease in their relative abundance since 2008 and an increase in the proportion of localities where they are absent. In addition, they face competition from the red-eared slider, an exotic species that has been the subject of control actions for its eradication since the early 2000s.
In addition, Doñana has one of the only two populations of the Greek tortoise in the Iberian Peninsula, which is considered critically endangered. The data obtained in recent years have detected a large number of new individuals, which points to a good reproductive status.
The monitoring of terrestrial reptiles is also important. Among them, there are two species with a special interest for conservation, the Iberian endemism known as the Carbonell's wall lizard and the ocellated lizard, which was common in Doñana for much of the 20th century. The latter has experienced a strong decline coinciding with that of the rabbit, which its population has not yet recovered from. On the other hand, other species to highlight are the long-tailed lizard and the red-tailed lizard, which are showing a moderate decline in recent years.
The amphibians found in Doñana depend entirely on water for their reproduction and larval development, which, depending on the species, takes place in permanent or temporary ponds. The rainfall is positively correlated with the number of species detected in the samples. Thus, the years 2005, 2012 and 2014 were especially dry years, with a lower number of observations. The number of species found in the marsh is less than that found in the lagoons. Amphibians are therefore negatively affected by the water scarcity conditions of recent years.
As for invertebrates, one of the actions carried out is the monitoring of daytime butterflies. Since 2007, the series has been adjusted to the European monitoring methodology and is included in the international Butterfly Monitoring Scheme. One of the most significant species is Cyaniris semiargus. Although more typical of more northern latitudes, it is able to survive in Doñana due to the humidity provided by the Doñana aquifer, depending on the plant Armeria velutina, on which its larvae feed.
Actions to curb invasive species
The monitoring program also has specific actions to locate and observe the evolution of invasive species present in Doñana, such as the Argentine ant, the catfish or the sourgrass (Oxalis pes-caprae). As an action to control the invasion of the Argentine ant within the program, the team conducts a monitoring of ants in cork oaks. The observed trend of this exotic species continues to rise and an advance of the species towards the north has been detected. The catfish, detected for the first time in 2009, maintains an upward trend and is distributed mainly in permanent water systems. The sourgrass was detected for the first time in 2014 in the Doñana aviary and presented an increase in the invaded surface during the following years. Now it presents a downward trend in recent years, which confirms the effectiveness of the measures eradication carried out annually by the Doñana Natural Site.
Programa de Seguimiento de Procesos y Recursos Naturales en el Espacio Natural de Doñana. Memoria 2021. Equipo de Seguimiento de Procesos Naturales. ICTS-Reserva Biológica de Doñana. Estación Biológica de Doñana — CSIC. 2021
* Versión 1.0: Primera versión. Junio 2022.
Further info about the Monitoring Program: http://icts.ebd.csic.es/programa-de-seguimiento
Outreach. Estación Biológica de Doñana – CSIC
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As we get older we realize the importance of connecting our present with our past, or our roots. The journey through life takes us to places we never thought possible, but what keeps us grounded is our connection to the past and our loved ones. Most often these connections are more emotional or spiritual, they usually aren’t tangible. We can pass down stories, traditions, and love which is incredible, but you can’t hold them.
You can’t touch a story told to you from the past.
You can’t hold in your hands a feeling of love from your favorite person.
Passing Gifts From Generation to Generation
What you can hold are generational gifts. A generational gift is most often referred to as a family heirloom. This could be a wedding ring handed down through the lineage, or a cedar chest that your family has used to store cherished memories. Maybe even a rocking chair that every baby in the family has been rocked in. These family heirlooms are generational gifts that have been passed down from generation to generation.
The item itself isn’t necessarily important. What makes a generational gift special is the meaning behind it. We all know the saying “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure”. While someone might look at an item and think it’s not worth much, the owner knows the hands that have touched their prized possession and the memories it exudes.
Gifts Designed to Last a Lifetime- or Longer
Generational gifts need to be made from sturdy materials, or be very well protected. We’ve all seen a recipe book passed down from years before that is so delicate to the touch for fear of damage. Having a generational gift that is made of fine craftsmanship will ensure the item can survive for all future generations.
A hand carved wooden bowl or platter is a perfect example of a generational gift. There’s something special about the emotional connection that wood can store in its grain. Choosing a piece that comes from a small artist will not only ensure quality, but also connection. You won’t get the same feeling from a mass produced piece.
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Although much of the country saw positive tourism numbers in 2010, the one notable exception was the Gulf Coast region, where summer beach-going business was heavily affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
However, convention and visitors bureaus in the area are preparing for a strong comeback in 2011.
The damaged oil well spilled crude into the Gulf of Mexico from April until mid-July, when a temporary cap was put in place, followed by a permanent cap in September. During that time, tar balls and oil slicks appeared in some areas, such as Gulf Shores and Orange Beach, Ala.
The oil and near-constant media coverage kept significant numbers of vacationers away from the destination during the usually busy summer travel season.
“Our June lodging numbers were down 38 percent, and we were down 53.2 percent in July,” said Kim Chapman, public relations manager for the Alabama Gulf Coast Convention and Visitors Bureau. “A very large part of that was due to perception. Throughout the entire summer, our beach and our waters were never closed. We had a swimming advisory issued as a precaution, but the beach was never closed.”
A marketing blitz
Almost immediately after the well was damaged, the CVB began aggressive marketing efforts to inform the public of what was happening at its destination. It activated an emergency page on its website normally used for hurricane information and eventually spun the page off as www.thebeachfacts.com. The page includes official environmental information as well as a series of daily videos posted on YouTube to show the true state of the coastline.
“We made a commitment to be honest with the videos, and we were honest, regardless,” Chapman said. “When it got ugly, we showed that impact.”
The CVB also generated a lot of buzz with Concerts for the Coast, a series of open-air musical events on the beach and at nearby attractions. Artists such as Jimmy Buffett, Hank Williams Jr., Bon Jovi and Alan Jackson performed sold-out shows, some of which were broadcast on national television.
As a result of the concerts, several major festivals and the continued marketing efforts, Chapman believes that Alabama’s Gulf Coast is well on the way to a strong recovery next year.
“We’re working very hard to get people to come back,” she said. “It’s not a one-season battle — it’s something we’re going to have to face for quite a while. But we’re a resilient island, and we’ve faced other disasters before.”
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On Florida’s panhandle, Destin, Fort Walton and the other destinations that make up the Emerald Coast saw no oil at all on their shores. But the perception of oil still caused many vacationers to turn elsewhere.
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Alternate name: Leaf-stem Tickseed
Family: Asteraceae, Aster view all from this family
Description Native annual herb.
Habit: low mount of very fine, gray-green foliage; with one or more stout, erect stems.
Height: 4-20 in (10-50 cm).
Leaf: fine, slightly fleshy; what appear to be leaves on the lower stem are actually lobes; each leaf or lobe to 1.25 in (30 mm) long and 1/8 in (3 mm) wide.
Flower: daisy-like, terminal, to 3 in (75 mm) wide; with usually 8 large, upcurved, overlapping rays, yellow to golden, triangular to oblong, with a satin sheen; around a yellow to orange central disk.
Fruit: dry seed, oval, 1/4 in (6 mm) long.
Flower February to June.
Flower March - May.
Habitat Dry, open gravelly sites; alkaline playas, flood plains, deep sands; also cultivated as an ornamental.
Range California: inner Coast Ranges from Alameda to Santa Barbara County, California, east to w. Mojave Desert; 300-3200 ft (100-1000 m).
Discussion Also known as: leafstem tickseed. Leafy-stem Coreopsis is a member of the aster family (family Asteraceae). In this large, worldwide family there are about 920 genera and 19,000 species. Cosmos, Sunflower, Zinnia, Dahlia, and many others are grown as ornamentals; while Lettuce, Sunflowers, and Artichokes provide food.
Comments Does not always persist in the garden.
Exposure Preference Sun.
Native Distribution Inner Coast Ranges from Alameda to Santa Barbara County, California, e. to w. Mojave Desert.
Site Preference Dry, open gravelly sites from 500-3200 ft.
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2 Nephi 3:9-10
Throughout 1 Nephi, and perhaps most clearly in the account of Lehi’s farewell speech to his family (see 2 Nephi 1–4), Lehi is depicted as being like the prophet Moses. The fact that Nephi portrays his father as a Moses figure demonstrates that Nephi was in touch with ancient Israelite traditions that were popular in Jerusalem at the time.
BYU Professor Noel B. Reynolds outlined several parallels between the portrayal of Lehi in the Book of Mormon and that of Moses in the Old Testament. He explained that the actual events that Lehi and his family had to go through “made it easy for Lehi to portray himself as a Moses figure.” Reynolds went on to note that
As with Moses, Lehi received commandments in visions from God, led his people out of a wicked land, through a wilderness, across a sea, and to a promised land. Then, after delivering a farewell address, he died, leaving it to younger leadership to establish a newly covenanted people in the promised land.1
Additionally, much like that of Moses, Lehi’s prophetic call involved seeing God (1 Nephi 1:8), and also a pillar of fire, from which he apparently heard a heavenly voice (1 Nephi 1:6).2 The pillar of fire and also Lehi’s vision of the tree of life are comparable to Moses seeing the burning bush (Exodus 3:1–6).3
Professor Reynolds noted how the “book of the law,” or what was apparently the biblical book of Deuteronomy, had been rediscovered in the temple of Jerusalem by the priests of King Josiah, about two decades before Lehi left Jerusalem. King Josiah laid strong emphasis on the message of Deuteronomy for the people of Jerusalem and surrounding areas—a message that would certainly have influenced Lehi and his family. Deuteronomy presents the last words of Moses to his people, and Reynolds asserted that Lehi knew those words well and alluded to them “at every turn” of his own farewell discourse to his family (2 Nephi 1–4).4
Reynolds further argued that “without letting the references distort or detract in any way from his own message … [Lehi] makes Deuteronomy a powerful—though unmentioned—foundation for his own message to all his readers, especially for those who might know that version of Moses’ last words.”5 Some of the many parallel ideas between Lehi’s farewell speech and that of Moses in Deuteronomy include (see table for more details):
- Calls to remember the statutes and judgments of God (2 Nephi 1:16; Deuteronomy 4:1; 5:1)
- Directive to keep the commandments so that the people would prosper in the land (2 Nephi 1:20; 4:4; Deuteronomy 28:15; 29:9)
- The prophet’s acquittal before God (2 Nephi 1:15–17 21–22; Deuteronomy 4:14–15)
- An address to future generations (2 Nephi 1:7, 18; Deuteronomy 4:9–10; 7:9)
Professor Noel Reynolds explained:
It may be difficult for modern readers to understand why a prophet like Lehi would find it appropriate to compare himself to Israel’s great prophet-deliverer. But because Lehi and his people understood their own experience in terms of types and shadows of previous times (see Mosiah 3:15), the comparison was probably quite natural. By way of comparison, Lehi really had no better choice than Moses.6
Lehi and Nephi understood that history, including God’s ways of dealing with his covenant people, repeats itself. Because they saw events of the past as foreshadowing or “typifying” events of the future (2 Nephi 11:4; Mosiah 3:15), it was natural for them to “liken” the scriptures to themselves and their situation (2 Nephi 11:2, 8).
Nephi, for example, saw his family as symbolically repeating the deliverance of Moses on several occasions.7 Moreover, the fact that God was leading Lehi’s family out of a wicked place to a new promised land would have led his family members to naturally see him as a counterpart to Moses.8
The major temple pilgrimage festivals, especially the Passover, that were celebrated regularly in Jerusalem, commemorated (and reenacted) the events of the Exodus (see Exodus 12; Deuteronomy 16:1–8). As inhabitants of Jerusalem, Lehi and his family would have been consistently reminded of those events and of the great leadership of the prophet Moses. Thus, it would have been natural and familiar for them to make the comparison between what they were going through and what happened to Moses and his people.
Ancient Israelites were accustomed to, and probably expected, subsequent prophets after Moses to be favorably compared to the great lawgiver of Israel. The biblical record immediately begins such comparisons with Moses’ prophetic successor, Joshua, who led the children of Israel out of the wilderness, across the Jordan River on dry ground, and on into the promised land (see Joshua 4:14). The biblical texts go on to draw similar parallels, often implicitly, between Moses and Gideon, Samuel, David, Elijah, Josiah, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Ezra, and Jesus Christ Himself.9
These typologies are especially prominent in the accounts of transitional figures such as Samuel. Samuel oversaw the transition from the rule of prophets and judges over Israel to the rule of the monarchy under kings Saul and David.10 Even Jesus Christ was presented as a “new Moses” in the New Testament, one who came to fulfill the Law of Moses and bring about a new covenant and a higher law.11 It would have been unnatural for Lehi to have been called to be a prophet, to be such a great transitional figure for his people, and not to have followed this same pattern of typifying Moses.
Lehi also may have been trying to appeal to his wayward sons by likening himself to an authority figure even they had great respect for (1 Nephi 17:22). As Neal Rappleye argued, “Lehi draws on the figure of Moses because he knows it will appeal to Laman and Lemuel, but at the same time he is using the Moses type to suggest that he himself was a true and legitimate prophet.”12
The appearance of Lehi as a “type” of Moses, leading his people in a divinely-directed exodus experience, strengthens the recognition of the Book of Mormon as an authentic ancient text. It was written by ancient Israelites who were steeped in the religious traditions of their people and who lived their lives as would be expected of the faithful inhabitants of Jerusalem from that period.
The idea that Lehi could be seen as a prophet comparable to Moses by his contemporaries may inspire modern readers to make such comparisons and, thus, gain an appreciation for the significance of his role and that of other Book of Mormon prophets. Similar comparisons can be made with the modern-day prophets that have led the saints in this dispensation as well.
|Shared Theme||Lehi (2 Nephi 1–4)||Moses (Deuteronomy)|
|Remember the statutes and judgments||2 Nephi 1:16||Deuteronomy 4:1, 5, 8, 14, 40, 45; 5:1|
|Keep the commandments and prosper in the land||2 Nephi 1:20; 4:4||Deuteronomy 28:15; 29:9|
|A rebellious people||2 Nephi 1:2, 24–26||Deuteronomy 9:6–8, 13|
|A choice land||2 Nephi 1:5–9||Deuteronomy 5:16; 8:1, 7–10|
|The covenant people and their land||2 Nephi 1:5||Deuteronomy 4:13, 31; 5:3; 7:9; 29:24–28|
|A choice and favored people||2 Nephi 1:19||Deuteronomy 4:20, 37; 7:6, 14; 26:18–19; 28:1, 9|
|The goodness and mercy of the Lord||2 Nephi 1:3, 10||Deuteronomy 7:9, 12|
|Choosing between good and evil, life and death||2 Nephi 2:18, 26, 27, 30||Deuteronomy 30:15, 19|
|Acquittal before God||2 Nephi 1:15–17, 21–22||Deuteronomy 4:14–15|
|Address to future generations||2 Nephi 1:7, 18||Deuteronomy 4:9–10; 7:9|
Neal Rappleye, “The Deuteronomist Reforms and Lehi’s Family Dynamics: A Social Context for the Rebellions of Laman and Lemuel,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 16 (2015): 87–99.
Noel B. Reynolds, “The Israelite Background of Moses Typology in the Book of Mormon,” BYU Studies 44, no. 2 (2005): 5–23.
Noel B. Reynolds, “Lehi as Moses,” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9, no. 2 (2000): 26–35.
S. Kent Brown, “The Exodus Pattern in the Book of Mormon,” in From Jerusalem to Zarahemla: Literary and Historical Studies of the Book of Mormon (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1998), 75–98.
S. Kent Brown, “Moses and Jesus: The Old Adorns the New,” in The Book of Mormon: 3 Nephi 9–30, This is My Gospel, ed. Monte S. Nyman and Charles D. Tate, Jr. (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1993), 89–100.
- 1. Noel B. Reynolds, “The Israelite Background of Moses Typology in the Book of Mormon,” BYU Studies 44, no. 2 (2005): 10.
- 2. This pillar of fire can be compared to the pillar of fire that enveloped the Lord as He led Moses and the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt (see Exodus 13:21).
- 3. Scholars have noted the equivalence of the temple menorah (which was to burn continually, Leviticus 24:2) with both the tree of life and the burning bush that Moses saw. See, for example,
Matthew B. Brown, The Gate of Heaven (American Fork, UT: Covenant Communications, 1999), 71–72; Nicolas Wyatt, Space and Time in the Religious Life of the Near East (Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001), 169; Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, “The Tree of Knowledge as the Veil of the Sanctuary,” in Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament, ed. Jeffrey R. Chadwick, Matthew J. Grey, and David Rolph Seely (Salt Lake City and Provo, UT: Deseret Book and Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2013), 51–52; see also C. Wilfred Griggs, “The Tree of Life in Ancient Cultures,” Ensign, June 1988, online at lds.org.
- 4. Reynolds, “Israelite Background,” 11; Noel B. Reynolds, “Lehi as Moses,” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9, no. 2 (2000): 26–35. For more on the significance that the discovery of Deuteronomy, and the resulting religious reforms by King Josiah, had on Lehi and his family, see Neal Rappleye, “The Deuteronomist Reforms and Lehi’s Family Dynamics: A Social Context for the Rebellions of Laman and Lemuel,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 16 (2015): 87–99.
- 5. Reynolds, “Israelite Background,” 11.
- 6. Reynolds, “Israelite Background,” 11.
- 7. See 1 Nephi 4:1–3; 17:20, 26, 44. See also the very clear connections made by later Nephites in Mosiah 7:19–20; Alma 36:28–29.
- 8. See Reynolds, “Israelite Background,” 11.
- 9. See Reynolds, “Israelite Background,” 14–15; see also David Rolph Seely and Jo Ann H. Seely, “Lehi and Jeremiah: Prophets, Priests, and Patriarchs,” in Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem, ed. John W. Welch, David Rolph Seely, and Jo Ann H. Seely (Provo, UT: FARMS, 2004), 368–371.
- 10. See Reynolds, “Israelite Background,” 17.
- 11. For a treatment of the parallels between Moses and Jesus, see S. Kent Brown, “Moses and Jesus: The Old Adorns the New,” in The Book of Mormon: 3 Nephi 9–30, This is My Gospel, ed. Monte S. Nyman and Charles D. Tate, Jr. (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1993), 89–100.
- 12. Rappleye, “Deutermonomist Reforms,” 98.
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- Read widely on paraphrasing as best practices in academic publishing.
- Compare the facts between the original authors and your own to determine whether you are on the right track.
- Do not distort any idea or concept of the original author.
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Implication on research output: it may destroy your reputation as a scholar.
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- Put anything in quotes that are taken directly from a previously published paper, even if you are reusing something in your own words.
- Make sure to reference the source accordingly
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Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). How to handle authorship disputes: a guide for new researchers. 2003. Available at: publicationethics.org/files/2003pdf12.pdf. Accessed on June 19, 2019.
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By Samhita Social Ventures
January 13, 2022
Given the steep hit that the garment industry took due to COVID-19 and the impact it had on the livelihood of garment workers, Arvind Foundation has partnered with Samhita-CGF and impact partner Learnet to provide financial support, re-skilling and placements to ex-Arvind workers who were laid off during the pandemic. Arvind Foundation is the CSR arm of Arvind Ltd, a global player in the textile and apparel manufacturing industry and they became an integral member of the REVIVE alliance – aiming to create a better normal.
Learnet is a training and placement agency and they have limited connections with the local communities. There is a need for the intervention of a grassroots NGO or organization that can aid mobilization and ensure that the program serves the beneficiaries in need (people who lost jobs on account of the pandemic in this case).
Learnet, CGF and SuperMoney struggled to reach out to these communities and conduct monitoring/impact assessment after their placements and receipt of RG. The involvement of an intermediary organisation can improve accountability when it comes to repayment and will further streamline the RG related processes.
Candidates are associated with Learnet for a short span of 4.5 hours and are mapped to a job almost immediately and have very limited connection with them. The curriculum is very basic and does not equip them with the required skill sets. Since the cohort was heterogeneous in terms of their socio-economic background, qualifications and technical skills, Learnet struggled to map the available openings to their skill sets and could not fully satisfy their requirements. There is a need to design a longer upskilling/reskilling program with a focused approach that aims to train candidates to take up job roles that are in demand (Refer reskilling note proposed to Arvind).
It is also imperative to incorporate financial and digital literacy modules into the curriculum to ensure uptake of digital tools amongst communities.
Training partners are new to hybrid programs including financial instruments like Returnable Grants. There is a need for capacity building of these training partners to improve communication and ensure a seamless flow of clean data.
These salaried blue-collar workers earn an average salary of INR 10,000 – 12,000 and have the capacity to repay. Based on informed consent and prior assessment of their financial health, e-mandates can be executed for the candidates willing to accept the terms & conditions. Alternatively, suitable channels can be created for candidates who wish to make offline payments (via cash/cheque) and the repayment options should be designed in such a way that it leaves no one behind. Additional support to open bank accounts, correction of KYC particulars and encouraging the community to adopt healthier financial practices and be undertaken by implementing agencies. | <urn:uuid:29e38d5d-9f0f-4d16-a6f7-836a6151959c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://samhita.org/blue-collared-workers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.953132 | 597 | 1.679688 | 2 |
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The College Student Vs. Emotional Baggage
So, you want to go to college? You’re either starting classes fresh out of high school, or you are an older student who is bound by the day to day responsibilities of domestic life as well as the myriad of other issues that go along with being an adult. Think you are prepared for the journey and demands that lie ahead of you in college, well grab yourself a life jacket and an inner tube and be prepared for the ride of your life.
There are many issues that spring up in life, from families to friends, car trouble and buying your first house. There is the daunting drama that one faces when interacting and communicating with people as well as the discontent at one’s own emotional base-the thoughts that creep into our mind like the grim reaper of insecurities-can we handle what lies ahead of us? What sort of obstacles shall we face along our journey in our education? The answer is simple. Stay optimistic and as Walt Disney has said, “Keep moving forward.”
Within the past nine months of my life, I have faced an abundance of challenges that have left me downtrodden and weary. From a divorce, dating the man of my dreams only to find that he was being duplicitous, getting back together with said boyfriend after copious amounts of thought as well as persuasion, to my ex-husband moving out of the house, my friend moving in, and then promptly moving out. I’m trying desperately to find and maintain a job; there is also the care of my children, cleaning my house, which is in total and complete disarray from the jostling of belongings. There is my work online, the visit from my boyfriend, as he is home from Afghanistan on R&R who is, as I have been informed of as of late, planning on popping the question. There is the meeting of his family, the friction between his younger sister and I, which has furthered the anxiety of the impending engagement. Of course, I have to take into consideration the shaky relationship I still try to maintain with my ex-husband, which is exhausting in of itself trying to maintain civility. There is also the attempt to obtain cash assistance through the state, until I find stable employment, so that I can keep my head above water, as well as filling out paperwork for home modification through my mortgage company in an attempt to lower my monthly payments, so they are more manageable. There is trying to maintain some semblance of a social life, and because I am the go-to for my friends’ problems and issues that arise within their lives, I have spent time helping them categorize their priorities and help them along as much as I can and be the proverbial shoulder-to-cry-on. Quite a handful, don’t you think? The cherry on top? Taking classes and trying to maintain a high grade-point average.
There are times when all I want to do is cry because upon looking over this list, it’s seemingly overwhelming. In reality, it IS overwhelming. There are times when I forego sleep simply to catch up on things, most of the time it’s because when I lay down to go to sleep, my mind is racing with things that need to be done and that basically life would be a lot easier if I could just sustain myself on coffee and energy drinks to get it all done. I am the type of person who wants things done now, otherwise I cannot relax. I have taken to multitasking a lot for when I have my children during the week I take periodic breaks to play with them while I am doing my work on the computer, or I enlist the help of my five-year-old daughter to help pick up around the house and try to make it as fun as possible so it seems more like a game than it does work. I take blocks of time, mostly on the weekends when the kids are with their dad to play catch-up and when I take my cigarette breaks, I bring my phone with me, so I can get my social interaction out of the way at the same time.
Then of course there is the impending engagement as well as the friction with my soon-to-be fiance and his sister. Honestly, I've been taking this day by day and not focusing all my time and energy in it. As much as I believe in him, trust him, and love him, I’m also a stubborn fool, who thinks she’s superwoman, who can do it all. I am the type of person who has a hard time asking for help, who is determined to do things on her own. I have discovered ways of bypassing the need to ask for help unless it’s something that cannot be ignored, such as help through the state monetary wise. From my own experience, I haven’t’ had the luxury of having dependable help regarding things that I need other than a reliable babysitter and proverbial shoulder-to-cry-on myself. I have found through my experiences that the only person who I can depend on is myself and my dad for he has not failed me yet. Sometimes I realize that pride can be a hindrance at times, but sometimes it’s better to sit back and think critically upon the situation at hand and write a list of things that need to be accomplished and then write a separate list of steps that need to be taken to accomplish that task instead of relying on people to do it for you.
Learning self-sufficiency in college is just as mandatory as the school work, especially for students who are just getting out on their own and becoming independent and out from under the umbrella help from the parental units. Although sometimes the demands and surprise dramas that spring up in life have the ability to throw you off course, how you handle the situation on an emotional standpoint will help you to guide you through and better prepare you for the bigger obstacles that lie in the years ahead.
I realize that it sounds corny, but life does not give you more than you can handle at one time and what life throws at you is determined by how strong you are and how much fortitude you have to jump over those hurdles and continue upon your way. Usually, my first instinct is to cry, and then after I get the pity party out of the way, I think about and write down the tasks that are required of me within a given period of time. When things like this happen, and you are stretched so thin, at a loss for sleep, and feel like the entire world is crashing down upon you, having someone to talk to also is important. This confidant of sorts can also give you a perspective on what steps you need to take in order to get through the rut and sometimes because of the emotional connection that we have with our responsibilities and we as individuals know what is on the line if those tasks aren’t’ completed are often clouded by doubt, apprehension, and the second guessing of our capabilities. Having someone to talk to can help sway those feelings into something more concrete, which will then turn into a sort of determination to succeed.
Overall, the most important thing never doubts yourself, and instead of looking at the big picture, take down one task at a time and check it off the list as you complete it or get through it. For if you jump from task to task while taking breaks in between, there is a good chance you will lose track of where you are and fall further behind in your responsibilities. List your top priorities first, and then move along to the less important tasks. Keep the faith in yourself, and don’t ever give up for whatever rapids you come across within this river of life, there is a chance you’ll come out the other side completely drenched, tired, and spent, but when you look back you’ll think “Hey, I got out of there, and I made it through.” Then look to the front of you to the pristine waters that lay ahead. If there are no pristine waters ahead, instead another onslaught of rapids, you’ll be prepared for the next round because you got through the first. | <urn:uuid:ecb8d1ad-6e14-4319-9d55-14306be3d9f4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.mycollegepal.com/blog/college-student-vs-emotional-baggage | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00054-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975578 | 1,744 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Is haggis a Scrabble word?
Yes, haggis is a Scrabble word!
...and is worth 11 points in Scrabble, and 12 points in Words with Friends
Haggis is a valid Scrabble word.
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1 definition of the word haggis.
- Made of sheep's or calf's viscera minced with oatmeal and suet and onions and boiled in the animal's stomach
What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in haggis?
Words that can be created with an extra letter added to haggis:
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You will not be able to succeed or achieve anything significant in your life without having motivation, the fuel that pushes you to get things done.
You will either remain where you are at now, or you will progress through life at a slow pace.
You need motivation to get out of bed, to go to work, to exercise, to go to a movie. You also need motivation to help you quit any habits that you do not want, such as quitting smoking or alcohol.
You need a certain level of motivation to do everything in life. Motivation is central for personal and professional success, and in all areas of your life.
For you to be successful in any chosen area, you will need to be motivated to take consistent action. It is your motivation that will drive you to take action to succeed in all that you do.
So how do you acquire motivation? Your primary step is to set yourself a few goals. Decide on what areas you want to improve on and what it is that you want to improve or have.
It is important to note that you must make these goals realistic and achievable, yet not easy to attain; they must require some effort on your part.
For example, in your financial area, for you to set a goal to have an income of £1M in one year where your present income is £25,000 makes the goal unrealistic. It is best to increment your goals realistically until you achieve your goal of £1M.
By setting yourself very high goals you may set yourself up for failure and disappointment. Make sure your goals are achievable, yet they allow you to stretch yourself to get the job done.
Once you have decided on your goals, write them down by hand and read them on a daily basis; or even better, write each goals 10 times every morning upon awakening and last thing before bed. This way you are constantly reminding yourself, consciously and unconsciously, what you are striving for.
For added motivational power, set yourself a deadline for when you want to achieve each goal. Again in your financial area, your goal could be, “I am earning £5,000 or more every month by 31st December, 2013.”
This goal is realistic and it excites you, it motivates you, it pushes you to do what it takes to achieve it. An exciting goal is a great and very powerful motivator.
Your next step is for you to be committed to keep after these goals until they are achieved. Keep your goals in sight, feel what it would be like to have achieved your goals.
Keep pushing yourself. Never give in. Never look back on any failures, or as I call them ‘success gone astray.’ Should you have a setback, learn all that you can from it and move on. This setback has given you the opportunity to know what did not work, and that is a step in the right direction. Now you can try out another strategy or action.
Learn from your mistakes, but do not dwell on them. Regain your motivation by reminding yourself of your goals and how much they mean to you; why you must have the goals.
A powerful way to keep you motivated is to reward yourself every time you take a step up the ladder of success on the way to the top, where your goal awaits you. By rewarding yourself you keep the momentum of your motivation going strong and gaining in strength with every step you take.
Remember, you can be motivated to be successful in all that you do when you set realistic goals, and your purpose to reaching your goals is powerful enough to keep you committed to the end.
By becoming and remaining motivated you will achieve what it is that you are after.
So if you are stuck where you are and you wonder why you have not progressed to achieve a better quality of life, it could be due to your lack motivation.
Initiate and boost your motivation by knowing what it is that you want, set a few goals with deadlines and go for it. Keep in mind, motivation is driven by passion and purpose. Find your passion and purpose and commit to it.
Hani Al-Qasem has devoted over 14 years to the study of human potential and personal development. He is a Certified EFT Practitioner who received his training from world renowned Master EFT Trainer Karl Dawson. As the creator of various audio meditation programmes, he is continually striving to pursue his vision to inspire, motivate and support. Visit his Facebook Fan Page. | <urn:uuid:19704c94-504b-406b-96d0-0c6ef4dead59> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.lifeadvancer.com/keep-motivated-what-you-need-to-succeed | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00256-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973183 | 919 | 2.125 | 2 |
On 4 June 2015 at 21:08, Konrád Lőrinczi <klorin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to select a set of files to work on them, then merge them back
> to the dev branch.
I don't understand what you mean. It sounds like you would like to
clone part of a repo ("a set of files"), work on that partial clone
locally, and then commit the changes.
Why don't you want to clone the entire repo?
> My problem is, that I have two repos, a production one on the live server and
> a local one on the local development server.
> When I make a diff between them, I see there are too many changes between
> them. These repos are new, so they have no chance history.
> Usually I use Git Extensions and use command line only when feature is
> missing from Git Extensions.
Do they not have any common history at all?
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With an appetite for vulnerable insects crossing aquatic surfaces, the water strider, also known as “Gerridae,” inhabits calm-watered terrains where it prowls for submerging prey in ponds, lakes and marshes.
Because of the water strider’s lean-lengthened structure and the micro-hairs on its body, this buoyant insect has a unique capability for striding water. This bodily shape specifically designates its long legs for suspending the abdomen from touching the water, while its micro-hairs repel the water from weighing itself down. In fact, water striders have an estimated one thousand micro-hairs per millimeter on their bodies, where as various other species can have from one to 36 micro-hairs per millimeter.
Just as spiders use their webs as signifiers, the water strider does the same thing by feeling the ripples of water sent forth from drowning prey. When the signal is given, water striders scramble so they can get there first and eat all the prey, and they prefer their prey to be alive.
Striders pursue, stab and then suck out the insect’s inside juices with their proboscises. A water strider’s appetite preference includes bees, spiders, mosquito larvae and other strider larvae.
Some water striders are capable of emitting a scent that repels fish. Water striders are air-breathing insects, so if they are forced or stranded underwater, they will drown. These insects are also called “water skaters,” “water skeeters,” “water skimmers,” “water scooters,” “water spiders,” “magic bugs” and “water bugs.”
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Query: keyword: "Neotropics"
|Authors||L. Junikka, P.J.M. Maas, H. Maas-van de Kamer, L.Y.Th. Westra|
|Title||Revision of Oxandra (Annonaceae)|
|Journal||Blumea - Biodiversity, Evolution and Biogeography of Plants|
|Keywords||Annonaceae; Neotropics; Oxandra; taxonomy; vernacular names|
|Abstract||A taxonomic revision is given of the Neotropical genus Oxandra (Annonaceae). Within the genus 27 species are recognized, 4 of which are new to science. Most of the species are occurring in tropical South America, whereas a few (6) are found in Mexico and Central America and two in the West Indies (Greater and Lesser Antilles). A key to all species is provided. The treatment includes chapters about the history of the genus and morphology. All species are fully described, including full synonymy, notes on distribution and ecology, field observations (when available), vernacular names (when given), and mostly short notes about relationships of the species concerned. For each species a distribution map is made. At the end of the revision a complete list of vernacular names is included.|
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In September 2005, Egypt witnessed its first presidential election (with the presidential poll open to more than one candidate) after 25 years of authoritarian rule. Despite the criticism that surrounded the voting process and which secured the 77-year-old President Mubarak a fifth term, it is vital to acknowledge the role assigned to the state media both prior and during the election. The Egyptian cabinet had announced that the state media should play a new role in that historical election by allocating equal time to all the ten presidential candidates, including the President. The state television channels welcomed the initiative in the name of professional integrity and media independence and thus allocated 30 minutes for each candidate per coverage, a step that had been praised by various NGOs inside and outside Egypt. Also in Lebanon, following the rising tension with Syria in the wake of the assassination of the former Prime Minister, Rafik El Hariri, (Syria was accused of plotting the assassination), the Lebanese parliament amended their television regulations in order to allow MTV, a private anti-Syrian channel, to go on air again. Syria, in turn allowed Syrian private investors, for the first time, to open private satellite channels to compete with existing state outlets.
These examples prove that the media had been acknowledged as a useful political tool, and furthermore, that changes within the media field itself can have an impact on re-formulating the relationship between the media and the state. This development should be seen in light of the recent changes on the Arab media scene and which made it inevitable for statesmen to accommodate their political communication to the needs of the new media. This article briefly points out some of these changes as a point of departure for discussing the impact of these changes on the democratisation of the region, i.e. promoting freedom of speech, engagement in civil society, confronting social problems, etc.
The New Trend
Chief among these changes is the emergence of TV journalism in Arabic television, which several scholars claim was an unknown professional concept amongst Arab journalists until MBC, Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya entered the scene. Before then, news reporting depended upon reading material collected from international agencies and broadcasting the pre-recorded reading. The new satellite channels, however, adopted many of the professional practices known to European and American journalists, including live reporting, in-depth discussions with guests in the studio, etc. The number of satellite channels has been consistently growing since the mid-1990s, now reaching well over 100 channels, and a recent estimate by the Arab Advisors Group indicates that this figure may well double within the next decade.
In addition to Syria starting permitting the establishment of private media outlets, 2005 witnessed further changes on the Arab media scene, including proposals to establish specialized channels, such as; an Arabic Islamic channel in Morocco; an English-language Islamic channel and another tourism channel in Saudi Arabia; Yemen announced its plan to open a youth channel; Al Jazeera announced the inauguration of a channel dedicated to the needs of children, not to mention its plan to launch an English speaking news channel this year; the BBC announced its plan to open an Arabic speaking television channel in 2007, which will be followed by another in Persian.
Interestingly, the entertainment sector, which is much larger than the news sector, has also witnessed several important developments. The genre of talk show has been introduced as a new format with daring discussion topics such as youth sexuality, informal marriages, etc.; reality TV consolidates its position as a popular youth genre and as a popular discussion topic for journalists and scholars alike. Seen against this backdrop, the communication between the state and the people has had to adapt to the new reality, despite some commentators’ claim, such as Charles Levinson (Levinson, 2006), that the core message of the state television is still the same old story and that nothing fundamental has changed. The question then is whether the new development marks a real balance between changes of format as well as of content.
Style Before Substance?
This change – and whether it has been genuine or just cosmetic – was the main issue in my book The Making of Arab News, released in 2005 in the USA. In this book (Mellor, 2005a), I pointed to the homogenisation impact of globalisation on the Arab journalistic practices, e.g. live reporting, presenting two sides of the story, etc., while pointing to the lack of addressing immediate social issues, e.g. schooling, child labour, corruption, etc. As I argue, the intertwining of western (Anglo-American) and Arab traditional format has sometimes been seen as a progressive step in the development of the regional image vis-à-vis the West. In other words, by being able to produce western genre, Arab professionals mark their professional identity on a global basis. For instance, Al Jazeera prides itself of being a beacon of objectivity, which is a long-held American journalistic norm, in order to mark its presence not only regionally but also internationally; Barbie dolls, seen as an emblem of western infatuation with promiscuous lifestyle, have been challenged by an Arab version (called Fullah); films and music videos have become a competition arena for Arab media professionals to show their incorporation of the latest techniques and looks; the Internet has become an integral part of the national identity for several gulf countries such as Kuwait not to mention that several Gulf cities, such as Jeddah, have come to resemble American states rather than the traditional nomadic land.
But the change, I warned, may end up being a merely cosmetic change with little genuine impact upon the development and everyday life of the Arab peoples. Why, for example, should we hail American style TV journalism if the news content does not address social issues and merely maintains the traditional political outlook? Or why should we hail the building of skyscrapers if issues such as the discrepancy between social classes are not subject to public debates? Or why should we hail the reality show Big Brother for teaching Arab audiences to vote for a winner, if the voting experience is not genuinely conducted and practised in real life?
The problem, in my view, is the lack of deep understanding of the Arab social identities, both of audiences and professionals, as presented in the media. Indeed, the increasing number of publications and reports published recently about Arab media has mostly been descriptive in nature, pointing at the change in format in Arab media and speculating about the new mixture of modern images alongside traditional lives. Thus the result is a largely speculative bundle of concerns about the role of the media in changing the political and social scene in the Middle East. But what we need now – perhaps more than ever – is to encourage and embrace an in-depth understanding about the mechanisms of this change and its contingency. We need to unravel the impact of these changes not only on the surface, i.e. journalistic forms and genre, but also upon journalism as a profession. Media, both news and entertainment, reflects the mediated representation of national as well as pan-Arab identities. We need to understand the rivalry and yet similarities, amongst the diverse social identities (re)presented in the new media. We need to conduct qualitative audience analyses to replace the traditional scheme of counting voices that favour Al Jazeera versus those who favour CNN. We need to understand the politics of the popular versus the political, and the mechanism of change as imposed by an elite class versus the consensus emerging from the classes below. In summary, we need qualitative data that goes deeper than the descriptive and speculative.
The changes on the Arab media scene were raised in one of the main sessions during the Euro-Med and the Media Seminar, held in November 2005 (see my article in Afkar/idées No. 8). The session resulted in a heated debate between some speakers (including myself), and other Arab journalists and attendants who preferred to hold the discussion to the ‘Us versus Them’ level characterized by focussing on the different coverage of Arab affairs in western versus Arab media, or the censorship imposed by statesmen, etc. In my view, the ‘Us versus Them’-debate represents a sort of denial to see the picture from within, i.e. how media professionals themselves – actively or passively – help consolidate certain images and avoid tackling the social issues that should be the part and parcel of their task. At the end of the session, a west European participant asked me, ‘all what was said today was good, but what has this to do with Europe or the Euro-Med?’ This summarises the problem. We tend to look at the outer layers of the Arab problems in a search for a remedy rather than seeking a deeper understanding of these problems. For instance, western news about the Arab affairs revolves typically around security and politics, etc., rather than immediate social problems. Thus, the European audiences are likely to be familiar with the names of threatening fundamentalists, somewhat less familiar with the names of Arab leaders and rather ignorant about schooling, poverty, medical service, urbanization, etc. Thus the vast majority of journalistic accounts and even the majority of academic accounts, inflict a typified identity upon all Arabs, leading observers to eventually wonder why things have not changed much in the Arab societies, despite the media, political and economic attention that Europe is pouring into the region. It is time to update the focus of our analysis, targeting the issues that really matter, rather than asking ourselves, ‘what has this to do with Europe?’
Mellor, Noha (2005a). The Making of Arab News. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield
Mellor, Noha (2005b). Découvrir les ennemis de l’intérieur. Afkar/Idées, No. 8. Barcelone: IEMed
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Istočno Sarajevo (East Sarajevo) is the Serbian part of Sarajevo, located in Republika Srpska. The town was originally named Srpsko Sarajevo (Serb Sarajevo); onn 26 March 2004, the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina ordered the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska to suppress the prefix Srpski/Srpsko/Srpska from the name of 13 entities. Marco Tadić, President of the Court, said to the media:
Since the Constitution of the State of Bosnia and Herzegovina acknowledges the equal rights of all ethnical groups, the Court has estimated that those names were discriminatory againts the non-Serbian people.
The initiative for the modification of the names of the 13 entities was launched by Sejfudin Tokić, former President of the Parliament of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Tokić found that the return rate of non-Serbian people to those entities was extremely low.
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The flag of Istočno Sarajevo, designed by the Serbian Heraldry Society, was adopted in December 1998.
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I think everyone living in Canada and a good portion of you living elsewhere will have heard by now that record-setting rainfalls brought unprecedented flooding to southern Alberta last week. Alberta is our neighbouring province, and while those prairie cowboys and girls are incredibly resilient, having your entire home filled with water, mud and debris is a shocking loss and overwhelming situation to handle. At least three people lost their lives and countless others their homes and belongings. Smaller communities like High River, parts of Canmore and Exshaw are still no-go disaster zones. For an overview, this collection of 20 photos will give you a clearer picture than anything I could write.
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|Name||Canaan Mountain Formation|
|Geologic age||Lower Ordovician and Proterozoic Z|
Metamorphic > SchistRusty-weathering, coarse garnet schist and feldspathic schist.
|Comments||Part of Taconic-Berkshire Zone (Ordovician and Older Rocks); east of Berkshire Highlands. Shown as Canaan Mountain Formation of Proterozoic Z and Early Ordovician age. [GNU records indicate that this was a mistake and should have been shown as Proterozoic Z and Early Cambrian age.] per USGS Lexicon website (MA012).|
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The timezone in Graylings Clearing is Pacific/Tarawa
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Latitude. -39.2182°, Longitude. 174.0302°
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Geographic features & Photographs around Graylings Clearing, in Taranaki, New Zealand
- a body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land.
- Mangorei Stream (4.6km)
- Mangorei Stream (5.9km)
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- an area, often of forested land, maintained as a place of beauty, or for recreation.
- Pukeiti Rhododendron Trust (30.2km)
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Status Report - 2 January 2000
During the week of 15 November 1999 a new pointing encoder system was installed on the 0.9 meter reflector. The design accuracy of the system (gearing plus encoder) is 0.225 arcseconds. Mechanical installation was accomplished without significant problems. The telescope control system was also updated at that time in order to use the new hardware.
In system testing a significant problem was detected: after moving the telescope and bringing it to a halt the encoders register motion when the telescope is stationary. When tracking the readout RA of the telescope also drifts substantially (though the telescope itself is not drifting). In mid-December the problem was traced to differential compression in the belts (polyurethane coated stainless steel) which couple the axes to the encoders. Note that the encoders can detect a motion of 1.5*10-3 mm on the gear wheels. The linkage currently uses an asymmetric idler arm to maintain tension - it is hoped that a symmetric idler arm system will correct the problem. If not it is possible to directly connect an encoder to the RA axis, but the DEC axis is more problematic. The telescope is usable with the new encoders but one must rezero the pointing system more often than is feasible for robotic operation. Operations continue as weather permits (it is winter - our poorest season) in a manual mode. Expected time to fix these problems: 2-3 months minimum.
In late November a temperature dependent failure mode in the dome slit was encountered. Basically when it is below freezing the dome will not open. The problem is a differential expansion in the members which causes the slit halves to become canted with respect to each other when opening (or trying to open). Refurbishment of the entire dome slit mechanism is scheduled to commence as soon as possible. This will be the first major work on the dome since its construction in 1957.
Our computers rolled over the Y2K without incident. Over the next few weeks we will be replacing the three main control computers.
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Vitamin A, also called retinol, is a fat-soluble vitamin. Our bodies store fat-soluble vitamins in the liver and fatty tissues. The active form of vitamin A is found in animal tissue. Red, orange, and dark green vegetables and fruits contain precursor forms of vitamin A called carotenoids. Our bodies can convert some of these carotenoids into vitamin A.
Here are some of vitamin A's functions:
Plays an essential role in visionPlays an important role in cell differentiation and cell divisionHelps in the formation and maintenance of healthy skin and hairHelps with proper bone growth and tooth developmentHelps the body regulate the immune systemPlays an essential role in the reproduction process for both men and women
The recommended daily dietary allowance for vitamin A is measured in micrograms (mcg) of Retinol Activity Equivalents (RAE).
|Age Group (in years)||Recommended Dietary Allowance|
|1 – 3||300 mcg of RAE||300 mcg of RAE|
|4 – 8||400 mcg of RAE||400 mcg of RAE|
|9 – 13||600 mcg of RAE||600 mcg of RAE|
|14 – 18||700 mcg of RAE||900 mcg of RAE|
|14 – 18 Pregnancy||750 mcg of RAE||n/a|
|14 – 18 Lactation||1,200 mcg of RAE||n/a|
|19+||700 mcg of RAE||900 mcg of RAE|
|19+ Pregnancy||770 mcg of RAE||n/a|
|19+ Lactation||1,300 mcg of RAE||n/a|
Vitamin A deficiency is rare in the US, but it is common in developing countries. Here are some of the symptoms: Night blindnessDecreased resistance to infectionsDecreased growth rateDiarrhea
As a fat-soluble vitamin, vitamin A is stored in the body and not excreted in the urine like most water-soluble vitamins. Therefore, it is possible for vitamin A to accumulate in the body and reach toxic levels. For adults, the tolerable upper intake level (UL) for vitamin A from dietary sources and supplements combined is 3,000 RAE daily. It is less in children. Symptoms of toxicity include the following:
NauseaVomitingHeadacheBlurred visionLightheadednessPoor coordination
Too much vitamin A can cause severe birth defects. Pregnant women, and those who may become pregnant, should not take too much vitamin A from dietary sources and supplements.
Vitamin A content
(mcg of RAE)
|Beef liver, cooked||3 ounces||6,582|
|Milk, fat-free||8 ounces||149|
|Whole egg, boiled||1 large||75|
|Sockeye salmon, cooked||3 ounces||59|
The following foods contain carotenoids, which the body converts into vitamin A.
Vitamin A content
(mcg of RAE)
|Sweet potato, baked in skin ||1 whole||1,403|
|Carrots, raw||½ cup||459|
|Mango, raw||1 whole||112|
|Red bell pepper, raw||½ cup||117|
|Cantaloupe, raw||½ cup||135|
|Apricots, dried, sulfured||10 halves||63|
|Spinach, cooked||½ cup||573|
|Tomato juice, canned||12 ounces||42|
Populations at risk for vitamin A deficiency
The following populations may be at risk for vitamin A deficiency and may require a supplement:
People with a reduced ability to absorb dietary fat. Because vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin, fat is required for its absorption. Some conditions that can cause fat malabsorption include
celiac disease, pancreatic enzyme deficiency, and liver disease.
Children living in developing countries.
Here are some tips to help increase your intake of vitamin A:
Pack cut carrots in your lunch for an afternoon snack.Slice a peach, mango, or apricot on to your breakfast cereal or oatmeal.Substitute a sweet potato for your baked potato.Eat fruits and vegetables raw whenever possible. Vitamin A can be lost during preparation and cooking.Steam vegetables, and braise, bake, or broil meat instead of frying. This will help retain some of the vitamin content.
Dietary Supplement Fact Sheet: Vitamin A. Office of Dietary Supplements website. Available at:
http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminA-HealthProfessional/. Updated June 5, 2013. Accessed February 11, 2015.
Fairfield KM, Fletcher RH. Vitamins for chronic disease prevention in adults: Scientific review.
Vitamin A deficiency. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at: http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed. Updated November 20, 2014. Accessed February 11, 2015.
Vitamin A overdose. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at: http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed. Updated June 22, 2010. Accessed February 11, 2015.
Last reviewed February 2015 by Michael Woods, MD
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Today’s post is written by David Langbart, a senior processing archivist in College Park.
Sometimes records long thought to be lost find their way home. One such occurrence took place recently. The U.S. embassy in Germany received from the German government some files from the U.S. consulate in Dresden. The records had been found among the files of the Stasi.
The U.S. consulate in Dresden closed in July 1941. Exactly what happened to its records at that time is unclear and the files of the Department of State shine no light on the subject. On May 20, 2011, however, Roland Jahn, the Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic, turned over to U.S. Ambassador to Germany Philip D. Murphy some records of the consulate in Dresden. This transfer was in accord with German Stasi-Record-Law that requires the return of such material to its owner. The records are now with the records of other diplomatic and consular posts in RG 84: Records of Foreign Service Posts of the Department of State.
Per standard Foreign Service practice of the time, the records are bound into a volume. They all date from 1940 and cover the following broad topics relating to internal affairs of Germany: public order, safety, health, charities; military affairs; social matters: economic matters; industrial matters; communications and transportation; navigation; and public press. Since the records come from a consulate, most of the records deal with economic, industrial, and communication and transportation issues.
While not earth-shattering, the files help document U.S. relations with Germany in the period between the beginning of World War II in September 1939, and American entry into the war in December 1941. They also help portray Dresden before its destruction in a major British/American air raid in February 1945.
Most of the documentation is of a routine consular nature. There are, however, a few reports that are of more substance. Some examples: A June 1940 report on crop conditions in Saxony concludes that Germany, “with characteristic . . . thoroughness,” will maximize the use of land in the Reich and occupied territories to offset the effects of the British blockade; a January 1940 report on “The German Textile Industry and the War” describes the loss of raw textile imports due to the Allied blockade of Germany, notes the labor shortage due to wartime mobilization, describes the elimination of the export market (in 1937 Great Britain had been Germany’s leading textile market), and posits that industry leaders regard the USSR as a potential market due to the “special relationship” between Germany and the Soviet Union; and a September 1940 report on “Southeastern Europe a New Outlet for Saxon Hosiery Exports” explains that the local manufacturers believe that with the “new order in Europe,” the Balkan countries will be a source of increased demand.
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Thomas Gold is a well known original thinker, remember the deep lunar dust
theory? Steady State Cosmology? Gold has been associated with all those
With respect to oil and gas, pity that Glenn is still in communicado. While
there is evidence for abiological methane in volcanic gases, the link between
oil and buried biological matter is too strong for Gold's theory to have any
validity. Try any introductory book on petroleum geology. There will be
discussion of things like biomarkers, and how different oils can be linked to
particular source rocks by biochemical traces. Further more, different oils
have different organic sources, source rocks derived from terrestrial plants
have a different composition to those from marine plankton, and they differ
from those derived from lake algae.
Terry M. Gray wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I'm just finishing up Thomas Gold's book *The Deep Hot Biosphere*. Gold is
> an astronomer/cosmologist (I think) who has maintained for a number of
> years that natural gas, oil, and black coal are not "fossil fuels" but
> rather have an abiogenic origin with hydrocarbons being a primordial
> component of the deep earth (deep being >=100 km).
> Apparently, his hypothesis has been around for some time and this book is
> his latest effort to promote it. Included in this book is an argument for
> life deep in the rocks and he speculates on an origin of life in the rocks
> rather than on the surface.
> I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this book or knows something of
> Gold's views, especially anyone with a geology background. Of course,
> since Gold's views are counter-establishment, folks with a geology
> background may be biased against them. But, that's okay. I'm interested
> in hearing opinions of folks with a bit more expertise in this area than
> what I have.
> Terry M. Gray, Ph.D., Computer Support Scientist
> Chemistry Department, Colorado State University
> Fort Collins, Colorado 80523
> firstname.lastname@example.org http://www.chm.colostate.edu/~grayt/
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For the last year and a half, 2011 census data has been trickling out from the United Kingdom and Commonwealth nations, each giving a picture of the growth of modern Pagan religions and related belief systems. First out of the gate was Australia, where Pagan faiths grew, though modestly. Still, that growth was enough to underline the expanding religious diversity of the island nation.
“Religion is the only optional question on the census form; there is no requirement to give any answer. But in the last census 16,849 were happy to declare themselves as pagans, 8413 Wiccan witches, 2454 Satanists, 1046 said they were druids, 1395 pantheists, 2542 Zoroastrians, 2921 follow Jainism, 2161 Scientologists, 1485 are into theosophy and 1391 are Rastafarian. The cloak of secrecy has dropped. ‘We live in an era in which there is a religious supermarket and punters pick and choose the religion that corresponds best to their line of thinking,’ said expert in religion, Associate Professor Pradip Thomas from the University of Queensland.”
After Australia, came England and Wales, where the number of modern Pagans nearly doubled since the last census.
“Now, initial 2011 religion figures for England and Wales have been released, and while the numbers haven’t exploded into the hundreds of thousands, adherents to some form of modern Paganism has nearly doubled in the last ten years. Depending on how forgiving you want to be as to which groups are “Pagan” in some form, they now number over 80,000. In addition, the base number of people identifying as “Pagan” shot up to nearly 60,000.”
Putting it all together, it means we have over 5000 adherents of Pagan-related faiths in Scotland. Meanwhile, the number of people claiming “no religion” continues to rise in all of these countries. As James R. Lewis might put it, Pagan faiths have continued to mature and grow at normal (and sustainable) rates after the 1990s “Teen Witch” boom. Plus, looking at new data from the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture (ISSSC), which looks at the religious beliefs of American college students, it seems clear that steady growth will continue for the foreseeable future, and may even expand in the next couple decades.
“Overall, the Spirituals are closer to the Religious when it comes to the supernatural but closer to the Seculars when it comes to the social and political. Most claim an institutional religious identity. They are closest to the tradition that the American religious historian Catherine Albanese calls Metaphysical in her magisterial volume, A Republic of Mind and Spirit. While Kosmin and Keysar’s survey is not a random sample of college students in a statistically strict sense, the range and size of their sample is more than sufficient to make a strong provisional claim. A dozen years ago, they transformed the world of American religious demography when they discovered that the proportion of Nones had doubled in the 1990s. The rise of the Spirituals may be next.”
As you can see “spiritual but not religious” students are far more inclined toward “other religions” than their secular or religious peers, and there’s growing evidence that this category is on the rise. In short, modern Paganism is growing, will continue to grow, and shows no signs of slowing down in the years to come. | <urn:uuid:1e38a724-3e33-406a-9e95-6c9de13565f9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://wildhunt.org/tag/spiritual-but-not-religious | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00015-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949392 | 736 | 2.234375 | 2 |
For all the energy you put into your mails, you’re neglecting the one element that’s most crucial in determining whether you’ll receive a reply: the ending.
Tell me if this sounds familiar:
You’ve spent hours deliberating over your email subject line and its content. Will this word get them to open my message? Am I rambling? How can I get my request across in the most concise and considerate way?
You’ve worried about the first sentence, the second, and you’ve re-written both of them a dozen times. And then? Then you hit ‘Send’ without spending one thought on which words your recipient will read right before they decide if they’ll respond or not.
It’s easy to understand why your email’s subject line is all-important: If it doesn’t get the receiver to open your message, all hope is lost. Similarly, it’s clear that if you waste the first few seconds of someone’s attention, they won’t give you any more of it. What’s less obvious but also true is that if your email leaves a bad taste in someone’s mouth at the end, that person won’t reply.
Nobel Prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman found evidence across several studies for something he dubbed “the peak-end rule.” The peak-end rule suggests we judge and remember experiences mostly based on how they feel at their most intense moments and right before they end.
If you’ve ever gone to a great party only to have the night ruined by someone spilling their drink over you just before you left, you know this is true. Chances are, you still remember it as “a bad night,” even if everything leading up to the last-minute mishap was perfect. The peak-end rule affects all of us, all the time, and so a good rule for closing your emails is this: Don’t spill your drink on people’s shoes before you leave.
This isn’t to say you’re actively killing people’s vibe in your sign-offs. You likely don’t end your emails with, “So long, sucker!” (if you do, please stop.) But are you doing your best to not just not ruin people’s day but make it better and increase your chances of getting a response in the process? Probably not. You might even have a generic signature that attaches “Best,” or “Regards” without you even choosing a particular sign-off phrase for any given email — and it torpedoes your response probability for every email you send.
In 2017, the company behind the Boomerang plugin for Gmail analyzed 350,000 email closings. They found the following three phrases most increased the likelihood of a response, somewhere from 22% to 38% when compared to the baseline:
- “Thanks in advance” (65.7% absolute response rate)
- “Thanks” (63% absolute response rate)
- “Thank you” (57.9% absolute response rate)
Gratitude. Who would’ve thought? Adam Grant, author of Give and Take and psychology professor at Wharton, concluded in a 2010 study: “Gratitude expressions increase prosocial behavior by enabling individuals to feel socially valued,” which is a fancy way of saying what the title of the study suggests: a little thanks goes a long way.
In the experiment, college students received an email asking them for help with a cover letter, some of which ended on “Thank you so much!” while others didn’t. More than twice as many people offered support when gratitude was expressed in advance. This may seem like common sense, but, apparently, we’re often lacking it when closing our emails.
In Boomerang’s study, phrases that didn’t perform so well in eliciting a response were “Cheers,” “Kind regards,” “Regards,” “Best regards,” and — ironically worst of all — “Best.” While you may not want to lean on “Thanks in advance” too much — it’s a bit presumptuous and can feel passive-aggressive, a simple “Thanks” will get most people to respond to your emails.
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Peterson's "Private Secondary Schools 2014-15" is a valuable resource to help parents and students evaluate and choose from more than 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and throughout the world. Featured institutions include independent day schools, special-needs schools, and boarding schools-including junior boarding schools for middle school students. Profiles offer detailed information on areas of specialization, location/setting, affiliation, accreditation, tuition and aid availability, student body, faculty, academic programs, athletics, computers and campus technology, and admission information. Dozens of in-depth descriptions and displays offer photos of students and school campuses, as well as essential information to help parents find the right private secondary school for their child. Extra Summer Programs section offers additional details on fascinating summer opportunities at private secondary schools.
Detailed, informative profiles for more than 1,100 private secondary schools, listed alphabetically, with additional sections for special-needs and junior boarding schools. In-depth private school descriptions, with details on academic programs, daily life, academic facilities, athletics, college admission counseling, costs and financial aid, and admissions information. Helpful articles on the merits of private education at independent day schools, contemporary boarding schools, and semester schools; the benefits of special needs schools; understanding the admission application form; ways to pay for a private school education; tips for taking the required standardized tests; and advice on finding the perfect match. Quick-Reference chart for easy comparison of types of programs, faculty members, student-faculty ratio, AP preparation, and number of sports offered. Specialized search directories for finding schools that meet each family's individual criteria | <urn:uuid:4c2b4254-5f20-423f-b4b4-8933631a53a9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.dymocks.com.au/book/private-secondary-schools-2014-15-9780768937763/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00430-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939676 | 328 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Drawing Spider Web Using API
Author: Mimi Widjaja
Help the spider out of its web...
IntroductionCould you help the spider out? :-)
Ok. The main purpose of this tutorial is not to show you how to make the spider out of its web, but to explain how to use API (Application Programming Interface) drawing to draw the web figure. This feature is only available for flash MX. Actually there are 3 drawing methods can be created by this i.e.: drawing lines, drawing curves, and fill color. This tutorial covers only the drawing curves command.
I draw an object similar to spider web. The spider figure and its actionscript attached is only additional to make the spider web figure more interesting.
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16 December 2009
After viewing the movie Invictus, I believe that this film study should appear in Unit 5, Building a Team.
The film Invictus, follows the true story of how Nelson Mandela, Morgan Freeman and Francois Pienaar, Matt Damon, the captain of the South African rugby team, help strengthen their country again. President Mandela knows that his country continues to be racially and economically separate after racial segregation. President Nelson Mandela believes he can bring his “family” together through the popular sport, rugby. Mandela fires up the South African rugby team as they go for their remarkable run in the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.
1.Will President Mandela’s risky action work?
2.What are the similarities and differences between President Mandela and Francois Pienaar?
3.What changes occur in the Presidential guards
throughout the movie?
President Nelson Mandela: Morgan Freeman
Francois Pienaar: Matt Damon
Jason Tshabalala: Tony Kgoroge
Springbok Coach: Louis Minnaar
Dear Monika Byrd,
I am writing you today for the request that a film study for Invictus be included in the next edition of the textbook.
I firmly believe this film study should be included in the next textbook because I think it is a terrific leadership role movie; which is what the name of the book is, Leadership Development Studies. There are many cases in the movie where leadership was taken by two very important people and actually help built the nation back up. There were many times throughout the movie where I actually choked up because of how great he movie was and how it touched my heart to see examples of how great leadership can truly help “on and off the field”.
I think this film study would appropriately fit in Unit 5, Building a Team. This is the topic unit I think best fits this movie because the way that I saw it was that both Nelson Mandela and... | <urn:uuid:72f0e2ea-0ffe-48d0-b75c-ca0e182ef94c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.antiessays.com/free-essays/Invictus-90762.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00209-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950796 | 405 | 2.625 | 3 |
Our y-DNA results are displayed on the Family Tree DNA website in both "Classic" and "Colorized" versions. The results are analyzed and sorted into "Lineages" based on predicted relationships determined by each member's individual genetic profile. The Colorized version (pictured below) highlights changes ("mutations") for each marker compared to the mode, whereas the Classic version omits the highlighting. The mutations can identify not only lineages, but also various branches within lineages. Members of the Russell Project are the only ones able to view all results. Members are listed by their kit number, not by their name. If you're a member of the Russell Project, you will need to be logged into your FTDNA kit first, as some results are shared only with other Russell Project members.
A haplogroup is a genetic population of a large group of people who share a common ancestor, analogous to a huge clan (like Celts or Vikings). It can be viewed as a tree ("haplotree") with many limbs and branches. Our results to date demonstrate that our participants are spread across six overarching haplogroups. About 75% of us are from Haplogroup R, about 13% are from Haplogroup I, and the remaining 12% are from Haplogroups E, G, J, and Q. Of those in Haplogroup R, almost all are in R1b. Family Tree DNA's migration map for Haplogroup R is shown below.
Russell Lineages and Origins
Although a number of different Russell lineages exist, roughly 60 percent of all our members who report a known origin, report the British Isles. The next largest location reported is "United States" (about 7 percent). The rest are scattered over a number of locations.
Over 70 percent of Russell Project participants are in Haplogroup R1b. Of those in R1b who report a known origin, over 90 percent report the British Isles.
The single biggest lineage within R1b is Lineage 1. Over 20 percent of all Russell Project members are in R1b - Lineage 1. Over 90 percent of those in R1b - Lineage 1 who report a known origin, report their Russell ancestry came from Scotland, with most others in R1b - Lineage 1 reporting either England, Northern Ireland, or Ireland.
New Russell lineages will continue to be added all the time. In some cases, it's because men have tested from a rarer lineage that hasn't previously been represented in the Project. In other cases, it may be due to a "Non-Paternal Event" (NPE) such as adoption. Whether you're a Russell man by name, by y-DNA, or both, we welcome your participation!
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We’ve lengthy recognized Elon Musk is an enormous fan of civilization. In any case, shortly after founding SpaceX in 2002 he instructed table4 one of many causes he was entering into the area sport was to do his half to make humanity a multi-planet species.
However as we discovered from his Ask Me Something question-and-answer session Jan. 5 on the web site Reddit.com, Musk can also be an enormous fan of the online game Civilization, the Sid Meier turn-based technique sequence that after 20 years and 5 main updates lastly slipped gravity’s surly bonds late final yr with Civilization: Past Earth.
“Exhausting to select a favourite,” he stated through the Q&A. “I have a tendency to love [first-person shooters] with a narrative, like Bioshock, Fallout or Mass Impact, however was additionally an enormous fan of Civ and Warcraft.”
Fallout 3 takes place 200 years after competitors over dwindling petroleum reserves culminates in a nuclear struggle between the U.S. and China.
Because the Washington Put up’s The Change weblog identified in its self-described over-analysis of Musk’s online game queue, two of his favorites — Fallout and Bioshock — happen in darkish, post-apocalyptic worlds that say “lots about his enterprise ambitions”:
Concern of fossil fuel-driven local weather change could lead on one to wish to spend money on electrical vehicles. Concern for all the way forward for the Earth may assist make colonizing Mars look like an pressing precedence.
Within the spirit of overanalyzing, it’s price noting Musk used the previous tense when mentioning his love of Civilization and Warcraft.
This implies two issues:
1. Except he received round to it over the vacations, Past Earth should wait till after SpaceX convinces the Air Power to certify Falcon 9 to hold army payloads (then once more, he may nonetheless have some time to attend).
2. Extra importantly, this additionally means that when he says he was an enormous fan of Warcraft, he was speaking in regards to the real-time technique sport that got here out in 1994 and never World of Warcraft, the massively multiplayer on-line position taking part in sport that got here out in 2004. Musk, presumably, was too busy by then constructing a rocket in actual life to go traipsing throughout Azeroth in any respect hours of the evening.
And whereas we have been shocked to study that between operating SpaceX and Tesla, Musk finds time for any sport extra concerned than Sweet Crush or Flappy Chook, we apparently weren’t paying shut sufficient consideration.
When Forbes despatched a reporter to Musk’s Bel Air, California, mansions to interview him for a 2012 profile, he spent 90 minutes with the reporter in his basement man cave displaying her play Bioshock — “an Ayn Rand–esque first-person shooter epic.”
“It talks about Hegelian dialectics being the issues that decide the course of historical past,” Musk explains, his eyes fastened on the display screen. “They’re form of competing philosophies or competing meme units, and you’ll have a look at trendy historical past the place it’s not a lot genetics going into battle as a battle of meme buildings.”
Sure, he talks like that. Whereas he’s taking part in video video games.
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Stock Market Smarts: Risky Business — or Not?
Risk is a four-letter word, especially if the topic of conversation is retirement savings. Here, we look at new ETF products created to help reduce market risk.
Risk is a four-letter word, not to be spoken in polite company – especially if the topic of conversation is retirement savings.
Thousands of older Canadians learned this when they saw their savings decimated in the crash of 2008, forcing some to delay their retirement plans and others to implement painful lifestyle changes to make ends meet.
If anything, the danger is even greater now. With interest rates near record lows, people are reaching for yield in an effort to obtain better returns. Instead of putting their money into safe, secure guaranteed investment certificates and government bonds, they’re buying dividend stocks and high-distribution funds. That spells risk.
Not even the bluest of blue-chip stocks is immune to a market meltdown – banks, telecoms, utilities, REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts), even preferred shares collapsed against the wave of sell orders. Most people who held on eventually recovered their losses, but those who panicked and sold were hit hard.
Next, take a look at new ETF products that have been created with the express goal of reducing market risk. Industry leader iShares offers the most diversity with a suite of five minimum volatility funds.
“These funds offer a low-risk portfolio of securities as measured by standard deviation,” explains Pat Chiefalo, head of Canadian products at BlackRock Canada, purveyors of the iShares funds. (Standard deviation is a complex calculation that attempts to quantify how much a stock’s price bounces around compared to the norm. The higher the number, the greater the risk.)
“When equities go up,” says Chiefalo, “they tend to capture much of the upside, but when they go down, these funds don’t decline as much.”
You can see the difference by looking at the sector composition of two funds: the iShares MSCI World Index ETF, which trades under the symbol XWD, and the iShares MSCI All Country World Minimum Volatility Index ETF (XMW). The latter has much lower weightings in such historically volatile sectors as information technology and energy. Conversely, investors get more exposure to traditionally stable areas like health care, telecommunications, and utilities. | <urn:uuid:0fe8629f-0100-471a-b4bd-0348510a35c1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.everythingzoomer.com/money/2015/11/10/stock-market-risk/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00675.warc.gz | en | 0.95052 | 499 | 1.53125 | 2 |
International inland waters: Concepts for a more active World Bank role
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Many developing countries are facing serious problems in meeting the rapidly growing water demands for domestic, industrial, irrigation, power, and other uses. The marginal cost of additional supplies is increasing, water quality is deteriorating, ecology and biodiversity problems are aggravating, and inter-sectoral conflicts are becoming more frequent. These issues are more difficult and often intractable in international river basins where riparian countries are unable to establish cooperative arrangements to plan and use the available water resources effectively. This paper reviews the World Bank's role in international water affairs. It was initiated to address the concerns expressed by the delegates to an international workshop on comprehensive water resources management organized by the Bank in June 1991. The delegates complained that the current Bank policy on international water affairs was not sufficiently helpful and recommended that the Bank should play a more proactive role in promoting cooperative arrangements between riparian countries for systematic planning and development of their common resources and fostering settlement of riparian disputes. The review of the Bank's experience shows that, with the notable exception of the Indus Waters Treaty, the Bank has made only limited direct interventions in international water affairs. Its present policy (Operational Directive 7.50) has a strictly limited project orientation. It is curative rather than preventive and does not foster creative options in situations where riparian countries of widely different technical abilities and economic power are involved. The paper points out that international water issues are assuming increasing importance in the Bank's development assistance strategies, and the demand for Bank assistance is increasing and that the Bank has unique opportunities and comparative advantage in assisting riparian countries where inefficient use of scarce water resources, increasing pollution, and the lack of riparian cooperation are seriously threatening sustainable development. The paper recommends that the Bank should play a more proactive role in international water affairs. Development should be the primary objective for its interventions. Its policy should be flexible and its main thrust should be to assist riparian countries in their own efforts to establish cooperative arrangements to plan and use their common water resources efficiently. There are many modalities for Bank interventions. It should promote dialogue, improve the data base and analysis, and induce constructive cooperation. The report cautions that international water issues are technically complex and potentially sensitive. The Bank should concentrate its efforts on cases where its interventions are likely to produce favorable results. It should be responsive when there is a need for its assistance and the riparian countries welcome it. Bank involvement in international water affairs requires developing consensus and mobilizing support on complex and sensitive legal, political, and technical concerns of all riparian countries, big and small, and rich and poor. It requires patience, perseverance, and development diplomacy. The paper recommends that the Bank should enhance its capacity to play a proactive role and address riparian requests for assistance objectively, competently, and effectively.
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UNESCOThis report, with respective case studies, can be found on-line in six parts. Part I introduces background on the water crisis providing an historical overview on water policies. This first part ends with some recommendations ...
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“To educate whole and harmonious personalities attached to God, creation, family and community; exercising creative leadership which motivates personal development”
A clear guide
From the challenge of forming a Christian message in education and culture, the Project of the Mary of Nazareth Institute emerges from Schoenstatt pedagogy and spirituality. This institution works toward educating a new leadership…a Marian leadership, committed and unified as a contribution for Argentina’s Bicentennial.
The pedagogical proposal has its foundation in the pedagogy of Father Joseph Kentenich, Catholic priest and founder of the International Schoenstatt Movement in 1914. Attempting to respond to the existential problems of today’s man, he enlightened his pedagogy with Christian revelation and proposed the formation of the new man with his own mission and committed to the community.
A pedagogy with solid humanistic and Christian focuses, integrating the academic with the development of the spirit in a space of self-restraint and close attachment to the family.
We are motivated by the dream of forming in the classrooms a cohesive generation of social, cultural, and entrepreneurial leaders who will commit themselves freely and responsibly to the building of a new Argentina founded on the values and ethics of Christian spirituality.
This project has as an objective the formation of the person as a unique being, free and communitarian for the development of a Marian leadership, committed and with common interests.
To academically form the students so those – with a critical and leadership spirit – can become instruments of change and help transform society. To generate situations and experiences that awaken attachments and Christian values on the background of solidarity and respect in the educand. To educate whole persons, committed, who know how to administer their freedom responsibly. To promote a family climate in the entire educational community, cultivating affections and solidarity within and without the school.
Catholic school open to the community
As a Church school, it is defined as confessing and promoting the Catholic religion, which wants to embrace all men in their human dignity as being children of God, created in his image and likeness. In that Faith, he opens himself to the community to be of service to the families and to be co-educators of their children.
In 2004, the Institute of the Schoenstatt Fathers assumed the project, thus becoming the first school of the Fathers in Argentina to give a solid foundation, an orientation founded on values and an integral and personalized education.
Works for the harmonious development in the following areas: physical, motor, psychic, social, affective, cognitive, artistic, spiritual and religious. Includes: life preparation, manual work, music, art, painting, carpentry, cooking, design, journalism, nursing, tailoring, sewing and knitting. Intellectual preparation in the area of thought development and language. Teaching to think adequately and expressing reason in oral or written form. Community preparation for sharing, dialoguing, team work, and being in solidarity and of service. Personal preparation in the development of talents, personal virtues, and self-knowledge in order to give the best of oneself to serve others. Philosophical preparation, spiritual and religious that allows giving a transcendent meaning to life through principles, values and a feeling of eternal existence with the awareness of being co-creators with God and builders of his Kingdom. A better world based on love.
Av. Los Alamos 1111, La Rufina, Calera, Córdoba
Tel: 54 3543-441011
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Controls a 7 segment LED display. Double click the patch and read the comment to view the pin layout.
Controls a 7 segment display. Accepts the pins and the values for segments A to G and for the DOT and writes the values when UPD is emited.
Converts a digit with or without decimal after (e.g. "2", "4.") to the outputs needed for a 7 segment display. Double click the patch and read the comment for pin layout.
Pulses on output when all inputs receive a pulse
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I am sorry to know you have been facing this challenge in your life and now dealing with frustration from not finding a program to support you.
Could you review this one. It includes support for different forms of abuse and seems very cohesive and well built.
It is located around 12 miles from your town.
"Sessions include education and skills training in anger management, effective communication, problem-solving and assertive versus aggressive behavior. This 18-week, 36-hour psycho-educational counseling program is designed to stop abusive behaviors and introduce productive relational behavors".
It is very frustrating not to find good programs so necessary locally. i hope his could work for you.
Thank you I will look into the safe haven. It is difficult to find this type of council but i will persist and accomplish. any other advice is appreaciated.
Hello. I am glad it could be a useful resource for you to explore.and consider for support.
People develop anger and self-control problems due to overwhelming feelings we do not know how to cope with, then those feelings of pain get distorted and acted out as anger and aggression, violence against self and other people. This is the way our psyche-body find to get some relief. the problem is that since it is a distorted means, it creates further dysfunction and extra pain.
This is why o always recommend people facing challenges like this to also consider individual psychotherapy to work on personal issues leading to violence. it is so common to find depression and anxiety problems behind anger and violence problems, and without taking better care of ourselves at hose levels, we would not be able to eradicate the dysfunctional way of releasing frustration, sadness and fear.
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It is far too often that today’s young undergraduate or curious Internet researcher sifts through Wikipedia pages to find the information they are seeking, but Wikipedia officials pointed out that when it comes to important facts about Black history, the website still has some major holes to fill.
Most people may forget that Wikipedia largely relies on independent editors, writers and academics to provide the content that so many people often rely on as fact.
Because of the structure of Wikipedia, there is no way for the website to control the fact that there is a stunning lack of information about Black history outside of the more well-known facts and figures.
“The stereotype of a Wikipedia editor is a 30-year-old white man, and so most of the articles written are about stuff that interests 30-year-old white men,” James Hare, the president of Wikimedia D.C., which is the local branch of the foundation that runs Wikipedia, told The New York Times. “So a lot of black history is left out.”
Teams of students and faculty members at Howard University are coming together in hopes to help fill these gaps and ensure that more information about great Black leaders, innovators, events and more are readily available online for the masses to discover.
On Thursday, the group worked tirelessly into the night at a Howard research center to kick off the daunting task.
With the help of coffee, pizza and one of the world’s largest repositories of Africana and African diaspora information, they managed to make great progress in adding more information about marginalized communities to one of the Internet’s most popular sources of information.
“You’d think that, ‘Oh, Wikipedia has articles on everything,’ but for anything having to do with a marginalized community, there’s a lot of gaps,” Hare added.
The Wikimedia Foundation is hoping to continue launching efforts that would cause a dramatic spike in the amount of information about Black history published on the digital encyclopedia all throughout February.
It’s a way that the foundation can not only celebrate Black History Month but also contribute to the preservation of Black history altogether.
In addition to the Howard team, groups from National Public Radio and the New York-based Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture are also planning on pitching in to add more content about Black history to Wikipedia’s databases.
The project has led to the creation of entries for Beth A. Brown, a former astrophysicist at NASA, and Farish Street, a hub for Black businesses in Mississippi that thrived until the 1970s, The New York Times reported.
Other entries were already present on the site but didn’t boast nearly as much information as other more mainstream topics.
The research groups amended entries for Myra Adele Logan, the first woman to perform open-heart surgery, and Mildred Blount, an iconic Black fashion designer who designed the hats for Gone With the Wind.
Even as these educated groups help improve the content available on Wikipedia, however, they hope to remind students that this particular database is not the best source of information.
Instead, they warned, it should be used as a tool to guide further research.
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The Fiberglass Boat Repair Manual
Are there hairline cracks in your boat's deck or topsides gelcoat? Have her color and luster faded over the years? Does she have deck leaks? Has she been holed? Is her hull oilcanning in a sea? If your answer to any of these questions is yes, this book is for you. This is the definitive guide for fiberglass boat repair and beautification, covering not just cosmetic dings and scratches, but also major repairs of structural damage to hull and decks. It will show you how to:
- replace deteriorated gelcoat, or repair the flaws in an existing gelcoat and recoat it with polyurethane or marine alkyd enamel paint;
- strengthen a weak and overly flexible hull or deck;
- tab in loose hull liners and joinerwork;
- make templates from the good side of a hull to reshape large shattered or missing areas on the other side;
- repair or replace water-saturated deck cores;
- repair keels, rudders, and centerboards;
- rebed and refasten underwater and on-deck hardware;
- rebed, refasten, and strengthen hull-to-deck joints;
- fix broken hatches, and make new ones when necessary;
- treat the symptoms and causes of overstressed hulls.
That beautiful craft swinging at anchor or nestled dockside, her topsides reflecting water and sky like a polished mirror, could be yours. Here's how.
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The Add-In Framework, introduced in .NET 3.5, is designed to facilitate applications that need to support partially trusted add-ins. Unfortunately the framework is rather complex, taking a minimum of 7 assemblies in order to build even the simplest application. The code generation tool Pipeline Builder seeks to address this.
Parsing Expression Grammars (PEG) are a type of recursive descent parsers that have become quite popular recently. Now Ruby gets its own PEG parser generator with Treetop.
Even the most successful project becomes a failure when a new technology comes out and everything has to be rewritten from the ground. This is why business logic has to be separated from technology. And, according to Kathleen Dollard, code generation is a promising approach to achieve it.
Charles Simonyi, the President of Intentional Software and a recent space traveller presents his views on the future of software development. He talks about how to include domain experts in the development cycle by letting them express their intentions in domain specific languages, about Intentional's view on DSLs and Domain Driven Design and about what it was like to be a space tourist.
Bill McCarthy has updated his Snippet Editor to add support for Visual Studio 2008. Snippets are code templates that can be quickly accessed from the keyboard. Snippets include instructions for tasks ranging from creating a property or new exception type through esoteric tasks like dialing a phone number using a modem connected to a serial port.
One of the more controversial additions to C# is the addition of partial methods. Created exclusively for code generators, some believe it pollutes the C# language.
Solutions Design has recently released LLBLGen Pro v2.5, an O/R mapper and code generator that boasts many new features including auditing, authorization, dependency injection mechanism, super fast and compact serialization (XML and binary), SQLServer CE Desktop support, Sybase support and much more.
In a new InfoQ article, Dennis Sosnoski questions the conventional wisdom that a contract-first approach to web services development, i.e. starting from WSDL, is superior to starting from code. He shows how the JiBX framework can be used to practice start-from-code development without incurring the disadvantages, specifically without coupling implementation and interface too tightly.
This past year Microsoft introduced Phoenix a project aimed at transforming the traditional blackbox compiler into a transparent one.
CodeSmith is a template-based code generator that automatically generates high level code (C#, VB.NET, ...). The current release features LINQ to SQL templates and supports Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2.
Thomas Steiner, author of the REST Describe & Compile tool, which creates a WADL description from existing REST messages and can generate code from WADL, answers InfoQ's questions.
Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) are an architectural hotspot. Microsoft supports DSLs within the Software Factory Initiative and provides a means to incorporate them into the software development process via the Visual Studio 2005 SDK. Although there is quite some information available on the topic, for the most part, DSLs remain an abstract architectural concept.
Edward Bakker and Jezz Santos have been writing about Software Factories, providing a complete set of concise guidelines. The Microsoft Software Factories and DSL initiatives have caused many discussions. Today, Microsoft provides tools such as the Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX), the Guidance Automation Toolkit (GAT), and the Domain-Specific Language Tools (DSL Tools).
CodeSmith 4.0 released this week at Dev Connections in Las Vegas on November 8th. CodeSmith is highly regarded within the .NET developer community for its code generation capabilities and familiar ASP.NET style syntax. With this new release, CodeSmith now integrates directly into Visual Studio providing the developer a consistent work environment.
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title: BBC - CBeebies - Play Games: Play games featuring all your favourite CBeebies characters
description: CBeebies - fun and learning through games for children aged 0 - 6
title: Toy Theater - Home
description: Toy Theater - Welcome to the exciting world of Toy Theater! Here you can step up to the stage and have fun with music, art, math, reading, games, puzzles, and an adventure play set. We want you to get your creative brain cells working overtime as you explore and discover the wonderful adventure called Toy Theater.
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title: ABCya! Kids Educational Computer Games & Activities
description: Free kids educational computer games
title: BBC - KS1 Bitesize - Games
description: Fun and interactive games to help children at KS1 with literacy and numeracy
title: PBS KIDS: Educational Games, Videos and Activities For Kids!
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All you wanted to know about Sindhi !!!
is Sindhi ?
is a Language like English, French or Hindi. It is one of the 15 nationalized
languages of India. It represents a community of people. People well known
for Business and Brain.
are Sindhis ?
Sindhis are natives of Sindh (Now in Pakistan).
do they Live now ?
They are scattered across the globe now and have prominent contribution
in world trade.
they come from ?
Sindhis were orginaly Aryans. If you've heard of 'Mohan jo daro' and 'Harrapa',
you'll know this is the oldest human civilization lived in past with very
nice architecture and System.
kind of people they are ?
Sindhis are well known for their brain and business. They are peace lovers.
They never try to involve in any fight and they are always keen on progress
& better life style.
is Sindhi language written ?
Sindhi is written in arabic script, which mean sindhis write from right
are the well known Sindhis ?
Shaheed Hemu Kalani (Freedom Fighter in British Rule), Lal Krishan Advani
(Deputy Prime Minister of India), Hinduja Brothers (Founders of Indus
Ind), Asrani, Satish Shah, Babita, Ajit Vachani (Bollywood Stars).
do you ask the well being from Sindhi ?
'Kahro haal ahe saaein?' means 'How are you Sir?'
do you answer I am well?
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"We are as Gods and have to get good at it."It's time to get brave and admit we're running the earth. Then we can put to rest the quaint notion of "don't mess with Mother Nature." It's helpful to hear this from Stewart Brand, a person seen as an icon of living in harmony with the earth.-Stewart Brand, author Whole Earth Catalog
No matter that we're running the earth by default choices, such as our unwitting choice to increase CO2 in the atmosphere and ocean. We are already playing God with the planet, so we have to get good at playing God.
This is actually a liberating change, although somewhat scary. Admitting we run the earth allows us to start making choices of HOW to run the earth. This is better than getting stuck on the false debate of whether or not we should do geo-engineering. We are doing it already and we need to do it smarter.
Why does Stewart Brand matter? Because he has credibility on the issue of making smart choices and now he thinks the green movement is making some dumb choices
Brand's Whole Earth Catalog, started in the 1960's was a bible of the hippie/enviro/liberal/earth-lover world when I was young. It carried the information needed to make smarter choices to live in harmony with the earth.
From an opening page of the 1968 edition of the Whole Earth Catalob:
The WHOLE EARTH CATALOG functions as an evaluation and access device. With it, the user should know better what is worth getting and where and how to do the getting. An item is listed in the CATALOG if it is deemed:
CATALOG listings are continually revised according to the experience and suggestions of CATALOG users and staff.
- Useful as a tool,
- Relevant to independent education,
- High quality or low cost,
- Not already common knowledge,
- Easily available by mail.
We are as gods and might as well get good at it. So far, remotely done power and glory—as via government, big business, formal education, church—has succeeded to the point where gross defects obscure actual gains. In response to this dilemma and to these gains a realm of intimate, personal power is developing—power of the individual to conduct his own education, find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and share his adventure with whoever is interested. Tools that aid this process are sought and promoted by the WHOLE EARTH CATALOG.
The 1968 catalog divided itself into seven broad sections:
- Whole Systems
- Shelter and Land Use
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ADVISORY NO. 4: TROPICAL STORM NATE MAINTAINING ITS TRACK
Friday, October 6th, 2017
NEMO and the Met Service hereby informs the public that as at 6:00 a.m., local time Tropical Storm Nate with winds of 45 miles per hour was located near 17.8 North Latitude and 84.8 West Longitude or approximately 240 miles East of Belize. The pressure was at 996 milibars. Nate is moving to the north-northwest at 14 miles per hour. The main threat to Belize is expected to be mostly thunderstorms and heavy rain which are causing localized flooding. Rainfall amounts expected to increase along the coast and north today TS Nate moves east of Belize as it moves into the Gulf of Mexico later today.
People in low-lying areas are advised to move to higher grounds. If you need to go to a shelter, know which shelter you will go to and workout how you will reach the shelter.
It is not advised to venture out to sea. Fishers and people on the Cayes should continue monitor Tropical Storm Nate. Crossings; in the Cayo district the Succotz Ferry is closed, and in the Stann Creek district, the Coastal road is closed due to flooding. The public is advised to stay out of flood waters. Drivers are reminded to reduce their speed, put on their low beam, and hazard lights when driving in wet conditions. Do not drive through flood waters.
NEMO’s Emergency Coordinators can be reached as follows: Corozal, Mr. Williard Levy at 623 0237; Orange Walk, Ms. Suliema Celiz at 605 5046, or Mr. Aragon at 636 6094; Belize District, Mr. Lionel Tillett at 6154834 and Mr. Kevin Pollard at 621 2275; San Pedro, Ms. Vanessa Parham at 632 3698; Belize City, Ms. Timrose Augustine at 600 8672 and Councillor Willoughby at 615 9793; Belmopan, Ms. Clare Moody at 630 9791; Cayo, Mr. Al Westby at 630 3224 or Mr. Johnny Ramclam at 625 2526; Stann Creek, Mr. Keith Emmanuel at 615 9711; and Toledo, Mr. Kenton Parham at 630 9787. The NEMO Emergency Hotline is 936. NEMO is on full alert and continues to monitor Tropical Storm Nate.
Please take heed to the advice issued by NEMO and the National Meteorological Service.
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I was recently chatting with a friend at LSI, who asked my opinion on the Indian semiconductor industry. Interestingly, in one of my groups on LinkedIn, a member has started a discussion on ‘whether it is ripe for India to get a silicon IC fab’!
Complete contrast — an industry friend recently narrated an incident where this friend was asked by someone else — whether the Indian chip industry was dead! Wow!! Someone’s got to be kidding!
First, I can’t really determine what’s the expectation level among people regarding India’s semiconductor industry. It seems that the interest is starting to build up, at a very slow pace.
However, folks need to understand that the semiconductor industry is extremely complex. You can’t get away by making some sort of statement about this industry! There is much more to semiconductors than someone merely writing a headline — “recovery is in sight” or “recession hits semicon” or 32nm is a great process node”!
Why aren’t more headlines like “overcoming ASIC design productivity roadblocks,” or “What lithography tools are doing for the photoresist market” doing the rounds? Or even: “Are designers as conscious of yield as they should be?” If you can spot the difference, you can make some comment on the semicon industry!
Two, the Indian chip industry CANNOT BE DEAD! It never was, never has been and never will be! Most people would find it tough to answer when Texas Instruments first started operations in India! Why did it choose to start so early? Simply because it backed India as a center! Naturally, the Indian semiconductor goes back that early!
Some folks perhaps relate more to the semiconductor industry with the advent of the India Semiconductor Association. The Association is an industry body, fulfilling its need. However, a lot of work has been going on in semiconductors before ISA came into being. I wonder whether folks have really cared to track this industry in India. I do remember when I first starting covering semiconductors in India, in the early 2000s, there were lot of curious glances from others!🙂
Coming back to the Indian semiconductor industry, from ‘Made for India’, it has moved on to ‘Made In India’. Isn’t that a significant shift?
As for silicon IC wafer fabs in India, or for that matter, any fab in India — yes, it is still a good time to have one! Perhaps, the last time around, patience seemed to run out! And that’s a hard lesson to learn for those looking to invest in fabs — there is NO quick turnaround time in semiconductors!
Moshe Gavrielov, Xilinx’s President and CEO, recently said in EE Times that venture capital would not return to the semiconductor industry, even after this recession. If this does happen, it would be very unfair! Where would all the start-ups go?
Again, this statement brings clarity to the subject of semiconductors — this is a very complex industry, and definitely unlike IT/ITeS. We in India are so much into services that we fail to see the wood from the trees!
People love to compare China with India. Friends, do visit China or even Taiwan! Try to find out how they went about building their semiconductor industry, and manufacturing and R&D ecosystems. There are several lessons to learn, numerous role models to follow.
I strongly believe India can very well go the same route! We need some good startups in India as well. If and when those happen, please do not expect fast turnaround times. Please believe in India, and believe in its semiconductor industry. It needs your support.
EL SEGUNDO, USA: Once the world’s fastest-growing chip-manufacturing region, China hit an all-time low in the first quarter of 2009, with nearly 60 percent of the nation’s semiconductor manufacturing capacity unused, according to iSuppli Corp.
Semiconductor manufacturing capacity utilization in China fell to 43 percent in the first quarter, the lowest level since iSuppli began tracking the market in 2000, and a massive drop from a recent high of 92 percent in the second quarter of 2004. This rock-bottom utilization rate comes as a direct result of low demand spurred by the global economic downturn. However, the utilization plunge indicates that China’s long-nurtured goal of establishing a vibrant domestic semiconductor production industry is in serious jeopardy.
“During the last 10 years, the Chinese government has worked to develop a domestic economy that would provide the nation with economic independence,” said Len Jelinek, director and chief analyst for semiconductor manufacturing at iSuppli. “The establishment of a technologically strong Chinese semiconductor industry was considered an essential element of China’s long-term domestic economic and technological independence. Unfortunately for China, the plan collapsed as global sales dried up before demand generated from internal sources was able to grow to match demand generated from the rest of the world. Once viewed by China’s government as a pillar of growth, semiconductor manufacturing has turned out to be a financial burden.”
China’s investments in capacity and technology in the semiconductor sector have not provided the financial returns that were forecast for investors, Jelinek added. Adding to China’s dilemma is the overestimation of capacity, which was expected to be shuttered in other regions in favor of lower-cost, more efficient Chinese manufacturing.
“With the addition of the current global economic recession, China’s focus has shifted from establishing semiconductor manufacturing independence to restructuring its entire chip industry before it simply collapses.”
China’s utilization is expected to rise moderately through the rest of the year, but will remain very low at 54 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009. Over the longer term, utilization will rebound to 84 and 85 percent in 2012 and 2013. However, when utilization recovers to these levels, China’s semiconductor industry will look very different from how it has in the past, with the number of competitors in the industry likely to be dramatically reduced due to consolidation.
The figure presents iSuppli’s quarterly and annual estimate and forecast of semiconductor utilization in China.
What will China’s semiconductor industry look like when utilization recovers?
“Since Chinese semiconductor manufacturers do not possess a technological differentiation from their competitors, they are at a disadvantage, since there is simply far too much of the same kind of capacity in the world chasing after the same opportunities,” Jelinek said.
“This will lead to mergers and consolidations. However, even if suppliers with similar technologies merge, will they create anything but larger companies with bigger cash-flow problems?”
At first glance, such a scenario is most likely what will happen. Nonetheless, there will be one ancillary effect that will significantly impact the landscape of companies in China: The bigger company will be viewed as the most likely survivor.
This perception will transform into reality as customers assure themselves of a strong supply source by aligning with the largest, most cost-effective semiconductor maker. In the end, the smaller company simply will be forced out because it is uncompetitive in technology and price.
No recovery until 2012
With iSuppli not forecasting a recovery for Chinese manufacturers until 2012, it is unlikely that weak companies can survive two years in the face of a negative cash flow.
iSuppli anticipates the first merger in China’s semiconductor industry will be finalized in the second quarter of 2009. This will signal that time is of the essence if a company or a group of companies is going to be able to weather the storm. iSuppli anticipates that by the second half of 2010, a smaller—yet stronger—semiconductor industry will emerge in China.
iSuppli Corp.’s LCD PriceTrak Service recently reported that prices for LCD monitor panels are rising, despite the weak economic situation and cuts in consumer spending. Isn’t this quite unusual, and on surface, really spectacular, given the recessionary conditions.
Thanks to my good friend, Jon Cassell, I was able to get into a conversation with Ms. Sweta Dash, director of LCD research at iSuppli. I started by trying to find out the reasons for LCD monitor panel prices to be doing reasonably well in these times.
China’s program driving demand
Sweta Dash said panel demand has been strong due to ‘China’s rural consumer stimulus program’, which increased sales of small-size TVs that uses monitor panels. Also, the panel demand was strong from branded manufacturers due to inventory adjustments.
She added: “Monitor brand manufacturers and retail channel orders mostly stem from the demand for inventory replenishment because they have kept their stockpiles at lower-than-normal levels since the end of 2008. Now, factory demand is strong as they need to buy panels for inventory adjustments.”
In that case, is China’s rural customer stimulus program the only major factor behind this rise in prices of LCD monitor panels?
According to Dash, the other factor is the inventory adjustment by brand manufacturers. TV sales in the US were also better than expected due to the very aggressive prices by brand manufacturers.
“Some retailers reported that they could not meet their demand due to low inventories level. Now, they are trying to adjust the inventory level. Besides better than expected demand for TV and monitor panel, severe cut in factory utilization rates (severe cut in panel production) also contributed to the tight supply for the monitor panel and small-size TV panel, which resulted in panel price increase,” she noted.
Is there any specific reason behind the retailers placing higher orders during recession? Or is it only due to the very low prices?
Dash clarified that it is mostly inventory adjustments. “In March, the inventory levels for monitors at the brand and channel levels were below three weeks level; and some were at two weeks level, which is considered low for this time of the year. Also, once the panel price starts increasing, buyers try to buy more in order to take advantage of the very low price.”
Situation regarding component shortages
There was also a note in iSuppli’ report regarding component shortages. I was keen to find out the exact situation with component shortages, and which specific ones!
Dash said that there is tight supply for PCBs and driver ICs. The lead time for PCBs is extending from two to three weeks to four to six weeks; and the lead time for certain driver ICs is extending to about six to eight weeks.
No recovery soon!
Interestingly, iSuppli cannot declare that monitor end-market demand is headed for a sustainable recovery at this point.
Dash added: “In the absence of a strong rebound in end-market demand, rush orders are not likely to be sustained in May with component shortages being resolved by then. And, the forecast for panel demand is most likely to remain conservative at that time. Also, panel prices are still below cost level. Therefore, in spite of the increasing panel demand, suppliers are still losing money. Further, panel suppliers are rushing to increase their utilization rates and production.”
Koreans doing better than Taiwanese
Evidently, the Korean suppliers seem to be doing better than the Taiwanese, as of now. What would be the key reasons for this?
According to Dash, the Korean suppliers were able to provide more competitive prices due to weaker Won rates.
She added: “Also, the Korean suppliers have higher generation fabs, and they have more in-house or regional component production, which gives them the cost structure compared to Taiwan suppliers. They also have more internal customers (for example, Samsung LCD’s internal customer is Samsung TV and monitor brand).
Year ahead for LCD monitor panels
Finally, how does the year ahead look like for LCD monitor panels?
Monitor panel demand may face some softness after the inventory adjustment in Q209. That is the reason why panel suppliers have to expand their production cautiously.
“Otherwise, it has the danger of pushing the market back to over supply. We still expect real end-user demand to recover in the second half of 2009 especially by Q4-09. If panel manufacturers act cautiously and expand rationally in the first half of 2009, they can see real demand recovery in the second half of 2009,” noted Dash.
If you have ever been a resident of Hong Kong, you’d know what an e-passport looks like! You would have even used it! For example, if you were crossing over into Shenzhen, China, from Lo Wu, which is on the borders of Luohu district within Hong Kong and the city of Shenzhen in Guangdong province, China, [having reached there via the KCR (Kowloon-Canton Railway)] — you can easily use your Hong Kong e-passport to get past the immigration point and enter China!
It is really easy! Simply drop your e-passport into the e-passport reader slot and place your finger on the fingerprint reader for it to scan and read. Once your e-passport comes out, move over to the other side to another e-passport reader, repeat the same exercise, and you’re done! All it takes is less than a minute!
All Indians could soon have e-passports!
Well, such an e-passport can become a reality in India soon! If you haven’t heard it, Infineon Technologies recently supplied contactless security microcontrollers (MCUs) for India’s electronic passport (e-passport) program! The Indian e-passport rollout started with Indian diplomats and officials being issued e-passports — around 30,000 to be issued in phase one. It is likely that by September 2009, the e-passports will be extended to the general public.
The rollout has started with the issuance of electronic passports to Indian diplomats and officials. It is expected that in this first phase, up to 30,000 electronic passports shall be issued. By September 2009, the program is likely to be expanded to include passports used by the general public. Today, around 6 million passports are being annually issued in India. I believe, the government of India has invited a new tender for interested stakeholders to bid for 20 million e-passports.
So, being a Hong Kong e-passport holder, I was interested in knowing whether the Indian version is as smart as that particular one? By the way, Hong Kong’s e-passport also doubles up as your Hong Kong ID (HKID) card. If you don’t have one, you simply cannot do business in Hong Kong! Your HKID number is unique and remains unchanged!
Dr. Rajiv Jain, Vice President and Managing Director, Infineon Technologies India Pvt Ltd, said that both Hong Kong and India are using the same product family from Infineon. “The security levels of both e-passports are based on the Common Criteria EAL 5+, the highest possible security certification for MCUs. In addition, both comply to ICAO requirements, the international standard for e-passports.”
Infineon’s SLE 66CLX800PE security MCU provides advanced performance and high execution speeds, and was specifically designed for use in electronic passports, identity cards, e-government cards and payment cards. Sounds very interesting!
Highlights of Infineon’s security MCU
The security MCU features a crypto-coprocessor and can operate at very high transaction speeds of up to 848kbits/s even if the elevated encryption and decryption operations have to be calculated.
The SLE 66CLX800PE offers all contactless proximity interfaces on a single chip: the ISO/IEC 14443 type B interface and type A interface, and both used for communication between electronics passports and the respective readers; and the ISO/IEC 18092 passive mode interface, which is used in transport and banking applications. The SLE 66CLX800PE features 80 kilobytes (kb) of EEPROM, 240kb of ROM, and 6kb of RAM.
The SLE 66PE contactless controller family, which includes the SLE 66CLX800PE, is certified according to Common Criteria EAL 5+ high (BSI-PP-0002 protection profile) security certification. Infineon’s security in MCUs used in e-passports builds on the underlying hardware-based integral security, with data encryption, memory firewall system and other security mechanisms to safeguard the privacy of data.
The SLE 66PE product family comprises a whole product portfolio designed for use in basic-security to high-security smart card systems, with the EEPROM sizes ranging from 4kb to144kb, and covering different applications including government ID, transportation and payment.
Infineon’s perception of Indian semiconductor industry
So much about the e-passport! I can’t wait to get my hands on one! Since I was in a discussion with Infineon, it naturally turned toward the Indian semiconductor industry and what needs to be done!
Dr. Jain said: “The Indian semiconductor industry has seen its share of successes and misses. The in-depth technical talent required for design and development is omni-present (TI, Intel, Infineon, Wipro, etc., to name a few). For example, we are doing critical R&D in the areas of automotive electronics, broadband, mobile communications and secured ID solutions at Infineon India, and the fact that it is one of the largest centres in Infineon’s global R&D network, is a testimony to India’s importance as the destination for cutting edge research. This has also led to creation of home-grown design houses offering services to the larger companies.
“We are also seeing in some small, but growing numbers, products and ideas for local markets. As the local markets evolve, so will the ability of these companies to deliver innovation for these local markets, which can then be taken globally.”
He added that an area of debate has been the need for semiconductor manufacturing in India. For example, having fabs, test and packaging plants, and EMS. “There have been government initiatives with a few successes. However, financial, tax-related and custom-related investment in these areas needs to come together and be centrally driven from a long-term perspective, as these institutions, which can provide a stable manufacturing base, need larger efforts to be successful.”
Hopefully, we will finally get to see some action on all of these areas post the Indian general elections due shortly.
PS: Just to let all of my friends know, I am no longer associated with either CIOL or its semiconductors web site.
I am intrigued to see lots of great things happening in the Indian semiconductor industry, and equally frustrated to find certain things that I feel should happen, not really going the way they should!
Yes, India is very strong in the semiconductor related chip design services. However, do keep in mind folks that design services have been impacted a bit by the recession as well! There have been calls from several quarters for India to now start thinking beyond its chip design services. Therefore, are there any areas that India can look into within the semiconductor space?
Leverage strength in software
Certainly, value add in products are heavily influenced by the embedded software in addition to features of the chips, says S. Janakiraman, former chairman, India Semiconductor Association (ISA) and President and CEO-R&D Services, MindTree. “The Google Android is a great example of that. India should leverage its strength in software to enhance its value add to semiconductor companies,” he adds.
Innovation is now shifting from the development of new technologies to the creation of unique applications.
“Mobile browsers and management of remote appliances to save power at home/office are examples. We need to innovate new applications that can drive the need for more electronic gadgets, and in turn, the need for more semiconductors,” notes Jani Sir.
Rethink on Indian fab strategy?
One of my earlier posts focused on whether an Indian investor could buy Qimonda’s memory fab, and somehow kick-start the India fab story! I did find support from many quarters on this idea, but till date, I don’t think anyone from India has made a move for Qimonda. At least, I haven’t heard of any such move.
Nevertheless, some folks within the Indian semiconductor industry and elsewhere have called for India to rethink on its fab strategy.
What should it be now? Or, shall we just discard this and go on, as India has been doing fine without fabs so far? Perhaps, the last option is easier!
According to Janakiraman: “Perhaps, we should consider where semiconductor technology will be after five years from now, and prepare grounds for that through encouragement of fundamental research, as well as shuttle fabs to enable prototyping. We should skip the current node of technology and make an entry into the one that will be prevalent after few years.” Now, that’s sound advice! Will it be easy to achieve?
“That may not be as easy to achieve for the private enterprises considering the cost involved,” adds Janakiraman. “It has to be a mission of the nation to create that infrastructure and later privatize.”
According to him, it is not unique to India. “Every country, be it Taiwan or China, have done it. The only other way is to heavily subsidize and support fabs like those in Israel or Vietnam, but it will be tough to choose a partner in a democratic country like ours, wherein every investment and subsidy is seen with a colored vision,” he says.
To sum up, a fab for our country will be fundamental to gain leadership and self reliance. It cannot be ignored totally, although we can take our own time to reach there. Janakiraman adds, “We don’t have a choice other than paying a price to reach there, now or later!”
“Let’s start from the very beginning! A very good place to start!!”
Hope you all remember this lovely song sung by Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music!! So, what’s the connection?
Right! Last week, I blogged about how the global semiconductor industry is likely to drop by 28 percent in 2009, while the Indian industry should grow by 13.4 percent during the same period, and that, we should not get carried away by these statistics!
A moment to ponder: isn’t this drop of 28 percent too high for the global semicon industry? Or, is the situation really that bad? So, let’s start from the very beginning, and go straight to the source — Malcolm Penn!
Revival likely by 2010?
Here’s what Malcolm Penn, CEO and founder of Future Horizons, had to say: “Fraid not! It could even be lower, but remember that this is a year on year number. It is based on the following assumptions: Q4-08 down 22.5 percent vs. Q3-08; Q1-09 down 20 percent vs Q4-08; Q2 down 2 percent vs Q1; and Q3 up 12 percent vs Q2, and Q4 up 3 percent vs Q3! And, if this pattern runs true, 2010 will be up 28 percent vs 2009!”
Voila! The global semiconductor industry could well be in for a major revival next year itself! Why, even Bill McClean, president of IC Insights, took a more optimistic look at the state of the industry in light of the current global economic situation at the recently concluded SEMI ISS 2009 conference!!
Continues Penn, “The actual Q4 results (released this Sunday) were down 24.2 percent, slightly worse than our estimate.”
How to get the buzz back in semicon?
It has been said that the current situation the global semiconductor industry finds itself in was fueled by greed and short-term business goals. So, who were the culprits? Weren’t they warned earlier?
Adds Penn: “It was more complex that that! The woeful state-of-the-world economy was a consequence of debt, greed and irresponsibility; political self interests and short-term business goals, aided and abetted by compliant governments; ineffective regulators; imprudent institutions; incompetent management; irrational self delusion and vested self-interests! No one is blameless for this crisis! Concerns were raised, but the human nature is often irrational, and the ‘easy option’ always the one of choice.”
So true! Perhaps, the ‘easy option’ factor seems to be affecting the Indian semiconductor industry as well, but more of that later!
The key issue today is: what needs to be done to get the buzz back in the global semiconductor industry? The answer probably lies in the following: in the short-term, it involves rebuilding the industry confidence, and in longer term, it involves a radical return to ‘old fashioned’ business and political values.
On another note, I was curious to know how the EDA segment is doing? Penn said, “No better, no worse than normal, technology marches on, new designs accelerate in a downturn.”
Memory is another segment that’s been hit hard. In fact, the other day, someone asked me why Qimonda’s story was so important!
Another could not understand what Spansion really did, and why it had announced this January 15 that the company was exploring strategic alternatives for a sale or a merger! Doesn’t matter! Memory is a very tricky business, and semiconductors is the mother of all such tricky businesses! Perhaps, isn’t that why they once said in jest: “Real men have fabs!” Anyhow!
Coming back to memory, when can the industry expect some recovery in NAND? More importantly, will the various government interventions help? Qimonda also recently petitioned for the opening of the insolvency proceedings.
Penn is clear: “NAND will recover when the excess capacity abates, and that will take several more quarters. The government intervention won’t help, rather the opposite, and it will exacerbate the excess capacity issue.”
Fab spends to move up only by Q1-2010
Earlier, Penn predicted a recovery in 2010 with the resumption of growth in Q3 2009. What will make this happen? He says, “A recovering world GDP growth, plus a return in business confidence.”
However, those keen on fabs, do not expect the fab spends to look up any time soon! In fact, Penn estimates fab spends to start moving north not until Q1-2010 at the earliest.
The Chinese impact!
Interestingly, China is set to see negative growth of 5.8 percent during 2009. It will be worth noting how much of this this impact the global semiconductor industry.
Point one, compared to a global semicon fall of 28 percent in 2009, Penn considers a fall in China’s semicon fortunes of 5.8 percent to be ‘darned sight better!’ So, China should still be a high growth market (relatively speaking).
Like I mentioned earlier, the Indian semiconductor industry is perhaps getting affected by the ‘easy option.’ Design services continue to do well, hopefully, but when it comes to real semiconductor product companies, those are far and few.
And, I haven’t seen any real activity in the recent past that could tell me more such initiatives are in the pipeline. Nor do I think there are many attempts to even incubate such companies. On the contrary, there’s a mad rush toward solar!
No harm there! Solar is great for India and the need of the hour. However, India should not forget its semiconductor priorities as well! Indian simply cannot bank on chip design services and solar gains, and then proclaim that it has a very successful semiconductor industry! Real action is still quite far away.
I think, India needs to rethink its semiconductor strategy! It cannot survive on chip design alone.
“When you know the notes to sing, you can sing most anything,” concludes the song from The Sound of Music!
So, is the Indian semiconductor industry hitting the right notes? That’s going to be my next blog post, friends.
Friends and dear readers, this is my last blog post for 2008! Indeed, what a year this has been!!
Let me bid this year goodbye with a general outlook on the global solar photovoltaics industry for 2009.
iSuppli had recently put out a report on solar eclipse coming in 2009! I had blogged about the possible solar sunburn ahead, as well, earlier last week!
Another point that has interested me is: what happens to the top 20 global solar photovoltaic companies, based on iSuppli’s analysis! This blog post has perhaps been the most popular in recent times.
I was very lucky to re-associate with Dr. Henning Wicht, Senior Director, Principal Analyst, iSuppli Deutschland GmbH, in Munich, Germany, for this discussion, thanks to the efforts of Jon Cassell and Debra Jaramilla!
How bad is solar?
The first and the most obvious question: how bad is the global solar market right now and why?
According to iSuppli, bringing an end to eight consecutive years of growth, global revenue for photovoltaic (PV), panels is likely to plunge by nearly 20 percent in 2009, as a massive oversupply causes prices to drop!
Worldwide revenue from shipments of panels will decline to $12.9 billion in 2009, down 19.1 percent from $15.9 billion in 2008. A drop of this magnitude has not occurred in the last 10 years and likely has not happened in the entire history of the solar industry.
Dr. Henning Wicht says that the upstream part of the solar business (cell, module, etc.) will suffer from price decline due to strong oversupply. The downstream side will benefit (installation, end-user, investor, etc.) by lower system prices.
Therefore, what can the solar players do to get over this coming bad phase in 2009? Well, three things: improve the cost structure, improve the sales side, and diversify downstream… These points hold strong for all fully integrated and non-integrated solar panel suppliers as well. By the way, fully integrated solar panel suppliers are likely to suffer less severe losses than non-integrated competitors.
There must be some way around to to bring about some balance within the current imbalance in the demand and supply situation. While Dr. Wicht agrees this is a difficult one to answer this early, he adds that supply and demand are diverging heavily. “With the current trajectories even in 2012, 100 percent more modules are produced than installed,” he says. I promise to discuss this question again with the good Dr. in another six months time.
Word of wisdom
There are various support programs in place, and it is important to know whether they will continue to remain beneficial, both to support markets to become independent sustainable and to develop the regional industry.
Dr. Wicht believes the support programs are still required and beneficial. “If China, India, Mexico and other sunny regions would start to support solar installations, that could change the picture drastically,” he notes.
A note of warning for new entrants in the solar photovoltaic space! Be aware that this warning has been earlier highlighted in the global semiconductor outlook for 2009! In tune with what the various analysts have maintained earlier, iSuppli also forsees newcomers in the solar photovoltaic line having problems in getting the required credit for their projects.
What next for Europe, emerging regions?
According to iSuppli, the short-term boost in demand from Spain and Germany has kept the installation companies busy, and solar orders and module prices high. But this boom is over. So, what’s next for European players?
According to Dr. Wicht, Germany and Spain should continue their leading role as solar installation regions, even after the boom. France, Italy and Czech Republic are attractive, but still much smaller markets, he maintains.
iSuppli has also mentioned that the race to larger manufacturing scale comes to an end when the production is not sold anymore! In that case, what’s the case for the emerging nations, like China and India? Aren’t there buyers in such places?
Dr. Wicht says: “Demand in the traditional solar markets is not elastic enough to absorb all of the solar production. Potential new markets, for example, China and India, do not yet have installation capacities and administration to significantly change the global solar demand short term.”
iSuppli also feels that the newer Chinese and Taiwanese suppliers will be hit particularly hard during 2009. The reason being, many suppliers have expanded their production capacities heavily without securing equally the sales/downstream part.
Global top 20 rankings to change?
Now to the most interesting part! Most of you have read about the top 20 global solar photovoltaic suppliers. Following the iSuppli warning of a ‘solar eclipse’ in 2009, there is every likelihood that there will be changes in that table!
Dr. Wicht adds, “However, the top 10 companies are typically better placed than the competition regarding their cost structures, downstream integration and vertical integration.”
Obama’s solar plans!
Now on to yet other interesting point! The US President-elect, Barack Obama’s, New Energy for America plan could well have a significant impact on the US solar industry.
The plan’s provisions include:
• A federal renewable portfolio standard (RPS) that requires 10 percent of electricity consumed in the US to come from renewable sources by 2012.
• A $150 billion investment over 10 years in research, technology demonstration and commercial deployment of clean energy technology.
• Extension of production tax credits for five years to encourage renewable energy production.
• A cap-and-trade system of carbon credits to provide an incentive for businesses to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Dr. Wicht says: “We all know that Obama is in favor of renewable energy. However, he will not change a 160 percent oversupply of solar panels in 2009.”
Bumpy ride to grid parity?
On another note, and a pretty favorite one: Is it going to be a “bumpy road” to grid parity? How will the subsidies be kept going?
Dr. Wicht notes: “Subsidies will continue. It will always be a bumby road because the ramping cycles differ heavily among silicon, cells, modules and the installation capacity. Please remember that the installation business will now benefit from low module prices. It will recover some of the margins it has lost in the last years due to high module prices.”
Also, up to when will polysilicon constraints last? iSuppli had earlier indicated PV strategy changes. According to Dr. Wicht, the polysilicon prices are coming down already. “Our indication from October 2008 seems to be fairly good,” he says.
Lastly, will iSuppli be still sticking by solar, semicon investments being equal by 2010?
Dr. Wicht says: “Please let me cite again our interview in October: The investments for solar production raising up to several hundreds of Mio USD, up to 1 Bio $ per production site. That is coming close to a semiconductor fab. The total capex of semiconductor is still 10 times larger than PV. However, PV is rising much faster.”
That will be all for this year, folks!
Look forward to sharing much more captivating moments in semiconductors, electronics, solar photovoltaics, telecom, etc., in 2009!
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Located in the historic town of Taneytown, Maryland and situated at the foot of the Catoctin Mountains, sits an enchanting estate that spreads across 24 splendid acres. On it there is a lovely mansion and multiple outbuildings that possess a grace and luxury of days gone by, allowing guests of the Antrim 1844 Country House Hotel to take a step back in time.
The charming mansion, fittingly, dates back to 1844, when it was built as a residence for then owners Margaret Ann McKaleb and her husband Major Andrew G. Ege. Many of the outbuildings on the property were built at this time as well, deeming it as one of the most splendid properties of the time. In 1961 the mansion and its surrounding land were added to the National Historic Trust Register of historic places.
Over the years the Antrim property passed through many hands before it began to host guests in 1988. The current owners, Dorothy and Richard Mollet, began with first opening the mansion as a bed and breakfast but later renovated multiple buildings on the property to use as guest houses as well. Today guests can stay in luxurious accommodations spread out across 11 different buildings on the property, each with their own unique layout and décor that stands true to the time they were built. The Antrim 1844 Country House Hotel truly offers a one-of-a-kind experience.
What to Do During Your Stay
While you could spend days exploring the Antrim property alone, there is plenty to do and see both on and off the property. Not only is it located in close enough proximity to three metropolitan areas; Baltimore, Washington D.C., and Philadelphia – that you can take a day trip to any of them, but it is also close to numerous historic sites. In fact, the Gettysburg Civil War Battlefields are only 15 minutes away, as are the historic towns of Hanover, Frederick and Westminster.
If you choose to stay on the property you will not be disappointed either, as you could keep yourself occupied without leaving all day. You will find world-class dining at the Smokehouse Restaurant, where the French American cuisine is so expertly prepared that it has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Wine Spectator’s Award of Excellence for more than a decade. The restaurant has also received multiple awards for its spectacular wine list that features over 2,400 individual selections comprising 17,000 bottles. For a more laid-back experience there is the Pickwick Scottish Pub, where you can enjoy fine spirits from around the world.
Feeling like enjoying the great outdoors and the beautiful summer weather that Maryland has to offer? Relax by the spectacular crystal-clear pool or participate in a game of horseshoes, volleyball, badminton or croquet. You can even just spend the day walking the beautiful grounds and enjoying the scenery. However you decide to spend your time, you will be glad that you chose the Antrim Country House Hotel because there are endless possibilities.
Resting in Luxury
Despite the fact that the entire property is a luxurious view into history – with its period furnishings, rich wood accents and exposed brick – the real star of the show is the charming accommodations. The property features 10 other buildings in addition to the mansion, each with some type of sleeping quarters inside. They include:
- The Ice House – A private cottage with a king size bed, a fireplace and jacuzzi tub.
- The Barn – Featuring two pet friendly rooms with queen size beds, fireplaces and private decks.
- The Cottage – A private cottage with queen size bed, fireplace and jacuzzi.
- The Smith House – Three suites with fireplaces, one with a private entrance and one with a balcony.
- The Carriage House – A larger building, with three suites and two guest rooms and a common area.
- The Birnie House – Houses five guestrooms, a living space, a dining area and a patio.
- The Annan House – Featuring only two guest suites, one on each level.
- The Witherow House – With three suites, each with a king size bed and gas fireplace.
- The Zepp House – A lovely building with four guest rooms with king or queen beds.
- The Slonaker House – With four king bed guest suites, each with gas fireplace and jacuzzi.
Each of the guest suites at Antrim have unique décor that resembles what it would have looked like back in 1844 when the property was first brought to life, but modern amenities for ultimate comfort during your stay. Some offer more privacy than others but each will provide you with the luxury you look for when getting away for a much-needed vacation.
An Experience That is Hard to Find
Properties that date back as far as Antrim 1844 are hard to find these days and the experience you will have here is something you will find once in a lifetime. From the opulence of the houses on the property to the meticulously cared for landscape and the hospitality of another time, your experience at the Antrim 1844 Country House Hotel will leave you with lasting memories that you never thought you would have the opportunity to enjoy.
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