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Nanomaterial Physics
Code: 63059
ECTS: 7.0
Lecturers in charge: izv. prof. dr. sc. Damir Pajić - Lectures
Lecturers: Damir Pajić - Exercises
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Lectures 30
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Physics of Nanomaterials deals with materials that are in whatever sense structured on the nanometre dimensions. The goal of the course is to teach students the knowledge important for understanding the connection between the structure of materials and interactions that appear in such a material, the connection between structure and properties, and the impact of processing of materials on the structure and properties, with the special emphasis on the new properties and phenomena emerging when the dimensions of characteristic structures reduce to the nanometre size. Starting from the basic physics using analogies and simple models, as well as advanced solid state concepts, the properties and behaviour of various nanomaterials will be introduced and explained. The need for a multidisciplinary approach in the design, research and application of nanomaterials is particularly emphasized. The aim of the course is to point to the attractiveness, opportunities, prospects and the need for research in the field of physics of nanomaterials and materials in general, and to encourage students to a broader study and active involvement in this area.
1.1 formulate, discuss and explain the basic laws of physics including mechanics, electromagnetism and thermodynamics
2.2 evaluate clearly the orders of magnitude in situations which are physically different, but show analogies, thus allowing the use of known solutions in new problems;
2.4 adapt available models to new experimental data
4.1 work in an interdisciplinary team
5.3 carry out research by undertaking a PhD
After successful completion of the course Physics of Nanomaterials, the student will be able to:
* Qualitatively explain the changes in the structure of the gradual transition from the bulk material through polycrystalline and microcrystalline and nanocrystalline materials to the nanometer sized clusters of atoms, and down to the amorphous state;
* Qualitatively and quantitatively describe the processes of diffusion, and highlight important differences between bulk materials and nanomaterials, and in relation to that understand the structure changes and its irregularities caused with external influences;
* Demonstrate different methods of obtaining metastable (nano) structures and other nanomaterials and understand the necessary prerequisites and outcomes in different conditions;
* Demonstrate an understanding of the differences between the properties of bulk materials and properties of nanomaterials: structural, mechanical, thermal, conductive, magnetic, optical, electronic, and to demonstrate this on the selected examples;
* Provide an overview of the characteristics of new types of advanced functional materials commonly associated with their nanostructure and qualitatively describe the functioning of the nano-devices based on them;
* Demonstrate the successful literature search and presentation of the most important phenomena in a given topic in the field of nanomaterials and successful talk about the topic to the audience;
* Readily discuss the latest research results in the field of nanomaterials with autonomous knowledge of the concepts and phenomena of it.
The course deals with the structure of materials, preparation of nanomaterials, methods of studying their properties, different physical properties of nanomaterials in comparison to the massive materials, their application, as well as excursions to other disciplines, such as chemistry and nanomedicine / nanopathology / nanotoxicology, and an overview of some of the most modern functional nano-devices, so that all of it is connected with relatively new scientific works in order to present the state-of-the-art in given field.
In order to organize the classes, these topics are divided into the following nine chapters:
1. Introduction (2h): a historical introduction to nanomaterials and technology development, definition of framework, motivation through unusual phenomena in nanomaterials.
2. Nanostructure (4h): fundamentals of crystal structure, the definition of nanomaterials, nanoparticles and clusters of atoms, different forms of nanomaterials on the example of carbon nanostructures.
3. Irregularities and diffusion: to nanomaterials (4h): Description of defects in the crystal, changing structural features from polycrystalline over microcrystalline to nanocrystalline materials, peculiarities in amorphous state, diffusion processes, differences in atomic diffusion from bulk materials to nanomaterials and amorphous materials.
4. Metastable materials, from solid solution to nanostructures (4h): phase diagrams, solid solutions and their structure, long-range and short-range order, superstructure, metastable structures and their preparation, relaxation of structures, occurrence of different nanostructures.
5. Physical properties of materials: mechanical and similar (4h): influence of defects on the mechanical properties, designing suitable mechanical properties (hardening and strengthening) of materials through their nanostructuring, special forms of applicable materials.
6. Structural properties of special new materials (4h): Development of structural characteristics from bulk materials to nanomaterials, some special new materials: fullerene, graphene, nanotubes and nanowires, nanoporous materials, short review of nanomedicine, nanotoxicology and nanopathology.
7. Transport phenomena in nanomaterials (2h): electrical conductivity in nanomaterials, the emergence of special effects like giant magnetoresistance, thermal conductivity of nanomaterials, thermoelectric effects, semiconductors.
8. Magnetism of nanomaterials (4h): occurrence and features of nanomagnets, magnetic behaviour of nanoparticles and their magnetic structures, single molecule nanomagnets, magnetism in metallic glasses, magnetic nanowires and thin films, nanocrystalline magnetic materials and the importance of nanostructuring for the magneto-electric multiferroicity.
9. Electronic structure and special properties of nanomaterials (2h): density of states and low-dimensional conductivity, atomic microscopes, quantum dots and optical properties, electrical conductivity through the quantum dot and special devices based on it.
Within the seminars students present the review of the investigated literature on a given topic in field of nanomaterials. This complements the knowledge acquired during the lectures about the behavior of selected examples of nanomaterials or phenomena related to the world of nanometre dimensions, including fundamental physics at these scales and the application of nano-devices.
Students are required to regularly attend lectures and seminars and actively follow lectures and participate in the discussion. After the oral examination, students are required to write an article and give a talk based on a literature review of the given topic.
Final grade is based on the oral examination and written essay presented at a seminar talk. Oral examination consists in answering and discussion around three themes, with the sub-questions from other parts to verify the knowledge of the whole subject. The paper should be written in a review form of scientific text on given topic and a half-hour presentation should give a review of the theme instructively for the audience. Both the oral exam and seminar with a talk must be positively evaluated, and the final grade is the mean of these two components.
1. R. W. Cahn and P. Haasen,eds, Physical Metallurgy Vol. I-III, North-Holland,
Amsterdam, 1996.
A. R. West: Basic State Chemistry, Wiley&Sons, New York, 2002.
R. Jenkins, R. L. Snyder: Introduction to X-ray Powder Diffractometry, Wiley&Sons,
New York, 1996.
2. R. W. Cahn, Concise Encyclopedia of Materials Characterization, Elsevier, 2005.
W. D. Callister, Materials Science and Engineering-An Introduction, Wiley&Sons, New
York, 2003.
J. I. Gersten, F. W. Smith, The Physics and Chemistry of Materials, Wiley&Sons, New
York, 2001.
C. Hammond, The Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction, Oxford University Press,
Oxford, 1998.
W.F. Smith, Principles of Materials Science and Engineering, McGraw-Hill, New York,
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Passed : Solid State Physics 1
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Veterinary Services, An Overview
Veterinary Services, An Overview
There is a range of Veterinary services available depending on what your needs are, and what your animal requires. Below is a brief list of some of the facilities that Vets provide for the benefit of our pets and livestock.
1) Emergency services for those of our furry, feathery and scaled friends that have found them selves in dire need of emergency services. Examples of this may be due to road accidents, fights with other animals or snake bites to name a very few.
2) Desexing, deworming and vaccinating of new pets such as dogs, cats along with a general health check and overview and more as required by the condition of each animal
veterinarian3) Regularly scheduled appointments. Just like myself having a six monthly check up meeting so do my two cats at our local vets. These appointments are to check the weight of them, to test their general health and most importantly to update their vaccinations so that they are kept in peak condition. (It should be noted that both my cats attend under a great deal of protest). Other animals would have these regularly scheduled appointments for other reasons such as nail clipping, teeth checks and other conditions that should be checked upon regularly.
4) Country properties with livestock would have their regions Vet clinic call out at prescheduled times to do a checkup across all of the herd. While the main bulk of the work is handled by the landowners such as sheep dips, reshoeing horses and more, the Vet is there as an overview and for more specialized cases.
5) In some areas, there is a mobile vet available to make house calls by appointment. While the work that they do is similar to points two and three and is work that can be done out of the actual surgery. The main benefit is that your animals were having to be packed up, hoisted into the car and driven to the vets saving them an incredible amount of stress and discomfort.
6) The saddest of all reasons to ever have to go to the vet is to have your pet put down due to illness. This is always a sad time, and your vet will do their best to make sure that it is as painless a process for each of you. Generally, these issues that impact your pets life so much would have been brought to their attention some time ago and you have reached a point where medication is no longer sufficing.
Veterinarians Really Are Unsung Heroes.
veterinarian clinics near meVets really are unsung heroes when you consider the high regard most have for their human treating counterparts. Pets and other animals do play a large part in our lives bringing much joy, and it is in this relationship that our vet’s services, experience, and considered opinions play a significant role in our lives.
If you are reading this and realize that it has been far too long since your animals were checked over, then please grab the phone and make an appointment or find a good Reno veterinarian clinic. Our pets age much quicker than we do and we need to keep that in mind when we consider their health regime.
How Important Is It To Vaccinate Your Pets
There is a lot of controversy going on with vaccinating family members. It is very important that the vaccines needed for babies and pets are regularly monitored and that they are done appropriately. With pets, it can prevent some gruesome diseases and help your pet live a long life. If you are apprehensive about getting your pet vaccinated then talk to an expert and discuss what other options there are. In general, getting a vaccine will allow the pet to live with less of a worry about fatal diseases. | <urn:uuid:61aae4e2-7ab3-4c5e-923d-5608406d3717> | http://www.vetvax.com/author/admin/ | en | 0.972547 | 0.02602 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
GEE WHIZ-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z (1956)
Article 4670 by Dave Sindelar
Date: 11-2-2014
Directed by Chuck Jones
Featuring the voice of Paul Julian
Country: USA
What it is: Road Runner cartoon
A coyote continues with his hapless attempts to catch a road runner.
I can’t exactly say the fantastic content in this cartoon involves talking animals; outside of the innocuous “beep beep” sound the road runner makes, the animals don’t talk. However, the characters (the coyote in particular) can be considered anthropomorphic, and he does communicate in English via hand-held signs. Furthermore, the cartoon qualifies as a fantasy in that the laws of physics don’t get a lot of respect here; the only law that seems to apply is that whatever disaster happens, it will happen in the funniest way possible. There’s a bit of super-hero shtick in this one with a Batman costume and even a touch of science fiction with a jet motor with handlebars attached; Wile E. Coyote was quite an inventor, though that never compensated for the fact that the character was one of the most cursed creations in cinema history. The Road Runner cartoons rarely had plots; they were mostly a series of black-out gags, and you tend to remember individual gags more than whole cartoons. This one featured a gag with a stick of dynamite attached to a long-range hand extender, a gag with an outrun bullet, a gag with a large painting of a bridge being out, and the final classic moment where the coyote, falling once more from a height, makes a request of the animators that is mercifully granted. No, they’re not the best work from Chuck Jones, but I love his Road Runner cartoons anyway.
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Wireless Charging
Wireless Charging
I can't help but think that WiTricity and Tesla would go together pretty well. This would eliminate the need to have a plugin (mostly). I am little surprised there is not more discussion regarding this application since WiTricity is actively seeking out OEMs. Since some power might be lost 5-10%, this would make charging more expensive, but I think it would be pretty useful.
Brian H | January 6, 2013
Is this a plug for wireless? {jk}
TV | January 6, 2013
Hey, Nicola Tesla did it 100 years ago.
All I can think of is that Tesla Motors cannot afford to signup with a company that is going to have issues. Whether or not WiTricity will have issues is certainly a question. Even more important (from my viewpoint) is that wireless transmission of power has been around for a LONG time, there just hasn't been any application until now.
If I had to bet, Elon is doing his own version. Think about it. Tesla did it, and now...supercharging stations. Stations? Like in "radio stations?". I envision a letter. Written by Mr. Musk offering a "retro-fitting of all customer's Tesla cars for $9000. Call us!"
The conversion of supercharging stations towards taking solar collected power and transmitting it over the electro-magnetic spectrum is DEFINITELY coming. Just a matter of time....
Timo | January 7, 2013
Wireless power is not very efficient, you gain good enough efficiency only at very short distances (like less than half a meter).
Tesla (the person) didn't do what WiTricity does (magnetic resonance coupling), that's quite new invention in that area of technology. It requires alignment of the coils so that they face each other properly so not only distance, but also which way they are "pointing" affects the efficiency, but with proper alignment you can transfer energy at greater distance efficiently than without resonance coupling. This makes possible to build charging "roads" (slow roads work better than fast ones, busy intersections and that sort of things, those are expensive to construct so extra cost of chargers doesn't show that much. Other good one are parking lots, no cables = no vandalism and no hassle).
TV | January 22, 2013
Timo is right. Resonant magnetic coupling has elements within it that protect the purchaser of electricity from being "hacked" by their neighbors. If they hadn't created this "inferior" version of what Nikolai Tesla built in 1899, well...they'd probably go the way of Tesla when JP Morgan figured out he couldn't make money with Tesla's model. Marin Soljačić, Ph.D. is the real brains behind Witricity's model, and in truth, to take Tesla's ideas, and then build an architecture around them that will still enable Utility Companies to charge individuals (rather than seeing the entire DC model fall apart) is interesting. Further, I've always felt that if someone did "rebuild" what Tesla built, with the integration of modern Solid State Electronics and computer management, well...truthfully, I've always thought that GENERAL ELECTRIC and their Minions would press the FCC to have them say "We, the unholy FCC, do not see this as safe, and therefore it will not be licensed". Is it true? No. That would be pure BS x 100. But, it does show us the path, doesn't it? Resonant Coupling is actually patented by Witricity, but there is a little thing called "eminent domain" that I am sure Mr. Musk has already looked at. Why do you think that he built Solar City and Space X? Google Wireless Energy Transmission. Google Wireless Space Energy. Nikolai Tesla may be dead, but you can't keep a good man down. Witricity is not "realistically"'a potential Strategic Partner of Tesla Motors. Let that goofy idea go to Audi, who was quick to do a deal with Witricity. The reality is that Witricity is an "education" on what kind of framework is workable for Tesla Motors. Not using Witricity's patents, but clearly, eminent domain over-rules patents. And there are plenty of other "flavors" of Nikolai Tesla's original innovations that can be tapped into that are "superior" to what Witricity is going. It is very revealing though, about "what is around the corner" that is... Mr. Musk, walk quietly as I know you will. But in the future folks, this is why Tesla is such a good investment. Stop thinking about hoses to gas pumps and ridiculous frameworks of AC transmission using "new cables that must be layed", I mean really. Why lay cables that have already been layed? Can anyone say "Global Crossing"? How about "Variable algorithmic data compression" models used for energy transmissions? Hey, the old IXNET of Global Crossing wanted to build a Fiberoptic Grid and sell it (and this make me laugh) in a similar way that the old "Enron" model was supposed to work. Beware of BS folks, but is coming...and the power companies are playing chess with patents and legislation to protect their enslavement of the majority of the global population to a "Pay us or no electricity" model that Nikolai was so passionate about not seeing happen. Elon: "Encoded AC wireless transmissions" using variable algorithmic data compression with key encryption, accessible only by licensed receivers retrofitted into your auto products. I think I deserve a free Model S SS AWD for that little tip....Mitchell?
ptpress | January 22, 2013
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Timo | January 22, 2013
@TV, Nikola, not Nikolai.
About your suggestions of using "Variable algorithmic data compression" for energy transfers; doable but really really stupid. I give you one guess why.
TV | January 23, 2013
Yea, you're right on his name. I've got that bad cold/flu that is all over the country. I just can't seem to kick it.
Ok, I'll bite. Why? Is it because you don't think I understand the fundamental differences between "data" and "energy", or is it because I didn't adequatedly describe the theoretical feasibility of using passworded rolling key encryption to initiate and measure IP Multicast (sparse dense mode-"back and forth") transmissions of packets to properly calibrate the amounts of energy requested and recieved? It would be kind of similar to the counters we have watched while we pump the gas into our tanks. Before: No pay, no gas. AC? No key, no juice. It is very possible, and I don't understand your condescension. I was teaching this stuff 20 years ago before anyone had even heard of "the cloud"...
TV | January 23, 2013
Further, broadcast is not secure, as well as being inefficient. Take a look at the technology behind "HyperFeed Technologies", which I led to an IPO 15 years ago. "The Fastest datastream in the world".
I used to show those "black boxes" beating Michael Bloomberg's T-1 speeds by 30 seconds on the open and close. A marketmaker's dream. But if you didn't integrate something like that to calibrate the usage, the big boys would shoot it down by the fact of who they are and what they can do. It seems like you do know what I am talking about. If you want to have a discussion, let me know. Thanks.
TV | January 23, 2013
Mr. Timo Sir?
That's wireless (RF) and has been for 20 years. Real-time Market Quotes in a handheld portable device. In "Real-time"? How? Compress it, and don't pull in a "broadcast" (ugh), use "request/send" and the cloud w/packets.
uh, Timo...? > Radio Frequency (RF) with Variable Algorithmic Data Compression to permission and quantify "with greater EFFICIENCY in REAL TIME???
Gee...what does all this mean? It means you can casually type in a Customer number into your handheld portable device, and that will sync an encrypted passcode to the Supercharging Station, thereby dispensing AC Power in a calibrated fashion through the marraige of packeted compressed data ("electronic boxcars") transmitted in IP Multicast to continually permission and quantify the dispersement of AC Power to the specified receiver (in your car). Broadcast vs. Multicast. Broadcast vs. PACKETS over the cloud. I was beta-testing a Motorola (wireless) Phone in 1999. I was on a Bart Train watching Ronin in > 30 FPS. People were in shock. You see, the USA has technological bottlenecks, and Oracle began the campaign towards fixing them years ago. The delivery/speed issues with our proprietary IP Multicast with VADC are what led to viable 4G networks. Yep.
Wireless Power only over short distances? I'm not going to break down all of the inherint "one dimensional" misunderstandings behind that commment. Anyone ever heard of Wimax. pretty old stuff, just a question to stimulate thought.
Oh...and before everyone runs out to file a process patent,its been done. So relax and enjoy the ride. Elon is a 3-dimensional thinker...I'm sure he is already on this.
So who's "stupid" now Timo?
Anytime you want to compare PHDs and Bios, let me know.
Timo | January 24, 2013
@TV Is it because you don't think I understand the fundamental differences between "data" and "energy"
Apparently that. Efficient wireless energy transfer can be done only on very short distances. It also requires "antennas" that are resonance coupled which means no variable frequencies. It isn't same as data transfer.
TV | January 24, 2013
zoom...right over your head.
Vawlkus | January 24, 2013
Right comment, wrong direction TV
TV | January 24, 2013
Timo, the mantra of Witricity's Dr. Marin Soljacic is good for what it is, but it also takes us further down a technological bottleneck. Unfortunately, current government regulations limit the amount of power that can be transmitted, so we are forced to stay in the dark ages on this subject. In the United States and Canada the maximum is 4 Watts EIRP. So until REAL technology is used for "the good of the masses", and legislation stops blocking real technology, debating the subject is really "time wasted".
And as for you Vawlkus, you're not even really on the same planet are you? How can you really expect to understand Physics and energy/data transmissions over the Electromagnetic Spectrum with an electronics technician handbook and a Star Trek communicator? You're not fooling anybody. So, when Nova Scotia finally warms up, go outside, and get some fresh air.
And before you throw a temper tantrum, I'm not listening. Infact, is anyone listening to you? Besides your cat I mean...
Timo | January 24, 2013
Those government regulations you refer don't apply to wireless charging.
I don't mean to sound blunt, but you really don't seem to know what you are talking about. If you really have PHD in that area I suggest you take a bit time to catch up where this tech is currently going. Otherwise you sound like a old teacher stuck in past and more than little bit crazy.
shs | January 25, 2013
Are we talking about smart asphalt?
Timo | January 25, 2013
Among other things.
Benz | January 26, 2013
I have heard about roads on which we can drive our Electric Vehicles, and which will charge our Electric Vehicles while we are driving on these roads. Sounds fantastic. I did not know that this ever could be for real. But who knows what will happen in 2040?
Pungoteague_Dave | January 26, 2013
This thread proves once agin that self-important degree-brandishing academics are (a) impractical idiots, (b) insufferable, and (c) will never have enough money to buy a luxury car anyway. Instead they waste everyone's time....
Teslation | January 26, 2013
I suggest we enthusiasts set some standard of respect when engaging other enthusiasts, at least on Elon's forum. His forum is not enriched with a bunch of people insulting each other like the Jerry Springer show. If you want to engage in insults, John Peterson will be happy to oblige you over at Alpha. He's very good at fallacies and emotional attacks unrelated to good discourse and discussion. This thread was very interesting until the insults started flying. Tesla's forum should be a place where people are not afraid to present thoughts or ideas and any critiques should be constructive, not destructive.
TV | January 26, 2013
You know, I'm really sorry. If you look back, this whole thing started when I was corrected for incorrectly calling Nikola Tesal "Nikolai", and then...I was called STUPID. Right out of the blue.
Yes, I went on the offense, because I don't like being called stupid. And now it seems I'm the guy to attack. Ok. Fine. I do apologize. I am excited about what Tesla is doing, and my background is in data transfer. I don't know everything about everything, and I probably said too much. So please forgive me, and I'll forgive the everyone else. And I am saying goodbye to this forum. Seems I don't fit in, and that's ok. Bye guys.
Timo | January 27, 2013
FWIW, I didn't call you stupid, I called your idea stupid. There is a difference. I thought reason for that would have been so obvious to you that after you think about it your response would have been "doh, how didn't I see that?". We all make mistakes, sometimes stupid mistakes.
Those things you said about Vawlkus were very bad and very much unwarranted, so for that I will not miss you. Be well and be gone.
Benz | January 27, 2013
OK people, let's talk about the future of charging an Electric Vehicle.
Brian H | January 27, 2013
No. Not enough sunlight falls on a car body to make any appreciable difference. Paint has a hard enough job being good paint, without turning it into an electrode.
Benz | January 29, 2013
OK, too bad.
Maybe in 2050.
Timo | January 29, 2013
Same error as one previous poster made. It isn't about tech being insufficiently advanced to be useful, it is Sun being weak source of power.
Benz | January 29, 2013
The sun is a weak source of power?
Well, I heard that if we could absorb the energy of the sun of only 1 day, then we would have enough energy for the consumption of all the people on this planet for a whole year. Knowing this, I wouldn't call the sun a weak source of power.
But maybe I have misunderstood what you really meant to say.
Timo | January 29, 2013
Earth is kinda large place. You don't want to cover entire planet to get that power, do you?
If we cover entire planet with nuclear power plants (assuming we have the fuel for them) we would have that same energy in fraction of a second.
Benz | January 29, 2013
Let's stick to the sun.
Let's not talk about nuclear power plants.
Can you explain why you think that the sun is a weak source of power? Because I did not realy understand what you meant by that (sorry for that).
Brian H | January 29, 2013
All the sun's power falling on a car could move it a few miles per day. The sun's power is "dilute" -- spread out. And inconstant (day, weather, season). Not the characteristics of a base dispatchable reliable power source. Very expensive to compensate for those things.
Benz, if you want to get enthusiastic about something workable, check out . It could "save the world" in 5-10 years. Really. For cheap. Really cheap.
Benz | January 29, 2013
@Brian H
I have seen the video on YouYube. Under the video is written: ".... exciting overview of current technologies and a promise of the cheap, free, safe and clean energy awaiting for us in a near future."
Now, I am not a science guy. I do not understand much of it. But I heard that it's possible to produce electricity with a "Garage Use 5 MW Generator (Clean, Inexpensive, Safe, Compact)". That sounds great for large size vehicles like ships.
Do you think that if this "Focus Fusion Energy Technology" becomes reality, it can be used to charge an EV (if one would have such a machine in the garage)?
And should Elon Musk get involved with this people to join forces? Maybe it can be useful for Tesla Motors and SpaceX as well?
Brian H | January 30, 2013
It would not be used on a personal or one-vehicle basis, just as a new way of generating "grid power", with many advantages. The generating sites could be dispersed, or "ganged" together in large groups up to several hundred together.
Benz | January 30, 2013
Good prospects for our planet. Possible in 2020?
Timo | January 30, 2013
@Benz; Can you explain why you think that the sun is a weak source of power?
Sun radiation is at best 1kW/m^2 midday from clear sky pointing directly at the Sun. This is not the case with a car, and also paint would not be able to collect nearly all the radiation (unless you want your car to be really really really black with no reflection whatsoever) and then there are conversion losses which are rather big. In reality from entire car surface you could get something like 4kWh / day. In a good day.
Benz | January 30, 2013
I take your point, and you are right about that. That paint is a bad idea at the moment. But, I think that we both are not talking about exact the same thing.
There are two things that should be seen separately, I think.
1) The fact that there is a sun which is a the source for solar energy.
2) And then there is the second thing, which is the technology to "catch/absorb/collect" this energy of the sun. What you mean is correct, because with the technology that we have spoken of (paint) we can only "catch/absorb/collect" a tiny bit of energy, which is too little to even talk about. You are right.
My point is that I am speaking generally about the sun, and not referring to the paint. The mighty sun itself is always "throwing" energy towards us. We are just not able to catch all that energy of the sun. The sun is not to be blamed if our technology is too poor. So, the problem lies not with the sun but with us. That's what I meant, you see.
By the way, I have heard Elon Musk discussing this point. He was at the Oxfort Martin School. And he was invited there to talk about the future of Energy and Transport. After his speach, there was time for Q&A. A lady asked a question, and then he spoke about the comparison between Nuclear Power Plants and Solar Energy. He is a great fan of the sun, I can tell you that (and so am I). Maybe you can google it. It really is interesting to hear him talk about several things.
Timo | January 30, 2013
That's just it, it isn't technology issue, Sun radiation just is weak. In order to collect it in sufficient amounts you need to use very large areas.
Good thing it has is that it is available pretty much everywhere, so with cheap paint-like solar cells we can utilize it from large areas using it in areas that are already in use. Bad thing is that areas with proper seasons you probably need it most when it is not available so transporting that energy becomes a problem.
Also long periods of bad weather is a concern, you need backup power source that is equally powerful as solar, and for that we would need excess production with storage, not another power plant somewhere (if we had power plant, then what's the point of having solar at all).
Price is more a concern here than efficiency, if you can paint entire house roof with that paint with 1/10 of a cost of separate panels, then even with only 1/3 of efficiency you probably end up getting more power out of cheaper solution.
lph | January 30, 2013
Having some sort of solar energy collection on the car may help with vampire loads and keep the batteries topped up, but it would seem a stretch to get it to propel the car in a practical manner.
The best available PV's are about 20% efficient.( Just a few days ago thin film broke the 20% mark). The last time I checked the paint is about an order of magnitude less efficient). Sun energy is up to about 1kw per hour when the sun overhead. If the car were in the sun all day (12 hours-fat chance in Seattle) and the collection area were 4m^2 (which is alot for a car- bye-bye panoroof). You could in theory put 4x 0.2x12=9.6kw into the car per day. However, I don't see any more than half that in practice because of the other factors already mentioned in earlier posts. This could well be much less.
So the best is about 4.5kw per day. That would get you about 14 miles. With the paint more like 0.45kw/day or about 1.4 miles.
EIther way it is not that much, but it may be useful for battery charge maintenance/protection against bricking etc. due to vampire loads. I am thinking of times when one cannot plug in and have to leave the car for weeks at a time.
You can quibble about the exact numbers used here, but you get the point.
Not sure how cheaply this could be implemented in the real world. All those curved surfaces could make even a thin film difficult to install.
Solar energy is not my profession so those out there who are pros in this field, does that sound about right?
Benz | January 31, 2013
@ Timo
I agree that the larger the area (space) is, the more energy we could collect from the sun. And a car just does not have got that much area (space) on it. So, my friend Timo, let's stop talking about this stupid paint as it seems to be worthless anyway.
Elon Musk has come up with the best possible idea one can think of. Which is the idea of a network of Superchargers that are powered by sunlight using solar panels. This idea just really is fabulous and fantastic. Driving long distances in beautiful cars that have great performance capacities. And NO AIR POLLUTION at all!!!
I just love the sun!!! Because the sun is actually the SOURCE of this great idea, which has been turned into reality by Elon Musk. So, the sun actually really is a great source of power after all. Don't you just love the sun also?
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How Do You Know If Your Body Has An RFID Chip?
GPS Implant In Humans
Microchips In Humans 2020
What to do if you have a microchip in your body
With protests over police violence, a lockdown due to COVID-19, and government surveillance at an all-time high, it is very easy to see why people are worried about the current state of the world. Some people even suggest many of the events were pre-planned and then orchestrated to help usher in a new world order where the government has complete control over the lives of the people. One of the first steps into this takeover from technology elites would be through the use of human microchips that would essentially make us all slaves in a digital world. If you are concerned they are implanting chips in humans and using both GPS implants and RFID technology to track people then this is the article for you! Now let’s discuss human GPS implants, how to know if your body has an RFID chip in it, and everything else you need to know about human tracking devices!
3 Steps How To Detect RFID Chips
If you are worried someone is tracking you one of the very first things you should do is find out if a human microchip is in your body. Radiofrequency identification (RFID) chips are the technology most utilized in tracking humans. RFID microchips are small fingernail-sized microchips for humans that can record, store, and transmit personal data. This data can then be reviewed with the help of RFID readers. RFID microchips are frequently used in everyday real-world applications such as finance (think about your credit cards), and even help pet owners locate missing animals. If you are worried about an RFID chip being implanted in your body the first step is to detect the microchip. This means you need an RFID microchip reader that has the ability to identify the signals transmitted by the RFID chip. Here are 3 easy steps on how to detect RFID microchips that might be implanted in your body:
1. Purchase an RFID chip reader at a security store or online source such as Amazon.
2. Activate the RFID chip reader and scan the area on your body you think an RFID chip might be implanted. RFID chips send and receive signals (emit a frequency) that the RFID chip reader can detect. If the RFID reader identifies a microchip implanted in your body it will notify you by making a beeping noise, confirming the presence of an RFID microchip inside your body.
3. The RFID chip reader should have the ability to detect the frequency being transmitted by the implant, allowing you to quickly know where the RFID chip is located inside your body.
If you believe that someone has implanted a device inside your body we highly recommend you invest in an RFID chip reader, scan your body to see if a GPS under skin can be detected, then contact law enforcement if a microchip is discovered.
GPS Implant In Humans
How To Disable RFID Chips
If you are concerned a GPS implant might be in your body on of the very first things you will want to do is locate the RFID chip then disable it. As we mentioned above, RFID chips can be used to remotely identify and track people through the use of radio waves. Although microchip technology is helpful in many aspects of our lives it can also be used for nefarious reasons such as tracking humans. This is why if you have a GPS implant in your body disabling it should be a top priority. Here are 3 simple steps on how to disable RFID chips:
• First of all, find where the RFID chip is located. On credit cards, the RFID chip can typically be found near the signature box area.
• Grab a screwdriver and place it over the RFID chip. Smash the screwdriver into the RFID chip using a hammer or other object and repeat until the microchip has been destroyed.
• Lastly, take the RFID chip and place it in any microwave. The microwaves will instantly destroy the RFID chip’s ability to provide any location-based information or data of any kind.
Are They Implanting Chips In Humans?
Due to the efforts by privacy rights advocates, the government is not implanting chips in humans to track them. In fact, it is rare any business would even require/ask employees to have an RFID chip implanted under their skin to track them. However, as microchip technology becomes ubiquitous in a digital society it is more likely than not that the use of RFID chips in humans will be prevalent. | <urn:uuid:1ff86dac-16f9-43cc-8ad2-1849dc9b8cae> | https://gpstrackershop.com/how-do-you-know-if-your-body-has-an-rfid-chip/ | en | 0.938038 | 0.773468 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
May 31, 2020
Securing your digital life, Part 1: Passwords and managers
Securing your digital life, Part 1: Passwords and managers
The Problem
We are all guilty of it. The website entices you, showing you why you need to sign up for their service right now! You look for alternatives, your heart pounding in your ears as you believe there's no other option; you feel you simply must sign up. You click the "Register" button and it quickly prompts you for your name and email, which you happily and readily give. Then it hits you like a bus; you weren't ready.
It's asking for you to set a password.
At least eight characters, one special character, one number, one gold bar and a sacrifice to the Dark Lord Cthulu! Equally daunting as it is demanding, your account creation cannot continue until you complete this task. You mull it over for a minute, wondering "Do I really want to set another password I'm going to have to remember?" "No", you decide, "Ill just use one I already know." The heavy weight that burdened you suddenly lifts off your chest as you put in the password you've used time and time again, relieved you didn't have to think of anything original. You had done it. "The hard part is over" you think, as you confirm that all too well known password that has never failed you.
Except it has and you simply don't know that very same password was compromised in a data breach by some big company (like the Equifax one in 2017, for a example). Now all twenty something accounts you use this same password with are simply unlocked doors waiting to be explored by whomever wishes.
The Solution
The general understanding for passwords is basically "more complexity = better security". Unfortunately, this couldn't be further from the truth. Yet service after service requires us to input these awful passwords that are long and difficult to remember, causing us to either reset our passwords constantly or reuse passwords we've already memorized.
How do we fix this issue?
Enter the password manager.
A password manager is an application that stores passwords in a database file and encrypts it using a single, strong password. Password managers store your login information and some allow you to store other things you'd like to keep under lock and key, such as emails, notes, etc. Instead of remembering a dozen different passwords, you only have to remember one and allow the password manager to do the work for you!
Which password manager should I use, then?
Personally, my password manager of choice is KeePassXC; its a free, open source application that gets downloaded onto your desktop, allowing you to input your login credentials through its browser extension.
You would create a database, go into settings, and allow the browser extension to access your password manager on your desktop as long as it is open. KeePassXC automatically locks itself up after five minutes of inactivity, which can be changed at the discretion of the user.
There's too many features this password manager has to cover in this article, but I will highlight two of my favorites; it has a built in random password generator you can access without having to login.
This allows you generate random passwords based on how strong you'd like them, what characters you like them to have, or for them to even be a complete random string of words. It tells you how strong each password is and how high the entropy count is. If you don't know what entropy is, it'll be covered in another article. For now, all you need to know is the higher the entropy, the better.
With a random password generator, you can forget coming up with passwords as long as you have access to your password manager. It will do it for you, and probably better than whatever you can come up with!
Another important feature KeePassXC that most competitiors charge for is Yubikey 2FA (Two Factor Authentication). Ill be covering the importance of this in another article, but just know that you can use it for free with KeePassXC.
KeePassXC can be downloaded on Windows, MacOS, and Linux, as well as used on iOS and Andorid devices through third party apps.
To use it on Android, KeePass recommends using KeePass2Android.
To use it on iOS, KeePass recommends using Strongbox.
To see the full list of features you KeePassXC offers, you view them on their website.
What about alternatives, like Bitwarden and Lastpass?
One thing you may notice when you're looking up alternatives for password managers are sites that never list KeePassXC. Why? Most likely because big magazines like PCMag are paid to market them. There's nothing wrong with that, but pushing only paid or freemium models of applications can leave the average user feeling as though they have no choice but to reach into their wallet for better security practices. As long as this site stands, we will always look for the most affordable path without compromising security; in this case, free seems pretty affordable.
However, there are some honorable mentions; Bitwarden and Lastpass.
Bitwarden is another free, open source password manager that does what it claims well. It offers the ability to sync across multiple devices regardless of platform using their secure cloud servers. If you're like me and don't trust their servers to be secure, you can host your own Bitwarden server to do the exact same thing. Of course, this will take extra time and money to get your own Bitwarden server spun up, whether you host it on a desktop (possible extra cost in electricity) or a virtual private server (DigitalOcean, for example, at $5 a month.)
Unless you host your own Bitwarden server, you wont get access to the full set of features Bitwarden has to offer, including Yubikey 2FA (Two Factor Authentication). Personally, this is an issue since 2FA is strongest when you have a separate device you own authenticating your identity. Ill do an article all about 2FA in the future, but for now its important to note that theyre not avaible without paying. To Bitwarden's credit, the price is only $10/year for the full set of features using their servers.
No article about password managers would be complete without at least mentioning the famous LastPass. Unlike the other two, LastPass is not open source; instead, they offer the password manager based on a freemium model allowing you to use the core features of LastPass without paying. Once you start getting into the premium features, however, it becomes more expensive than the previously mentioned password managers.
Like Bitwarden, your passwords are stored in their secure cloud servers, allowing you to have constant access to your passwords as long as their service is up and running. They, too, do not offer Yubikey support without paying the premium. They do allow you to conviently fill in login forms using a right click, something the previous two do not offer.
Final Verdict
No matter which you choose, a password manager is a must. The ability to store all of your login information securely in one place will allow you to avoid reusing passwords and risking multiple accounts from being compromised. Plus, who wants to remember a dozen different passwords or constantly have to reset their password? | <urn:uuid:15934bbf-dd73-40d7-8e3e-55dab8f7581d> | https://intothewire.org/securing-your-digital-life-part-1/ | en | 0.955413 | 0.547742 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Bible Study Notes on Mark 2 – 20180316
Bible Study Notes
Mark 2:1 “…after some days…”
Some time had passed, but not specific on the amount. Recalling what took place so the exact time isn’t important to the story.
1 “…He was in the house”
Probably Peter’s home. Would have been a good place to work from when they were in the area.
4 “…they uncovered the roof where He was…”
Matthew and Luke mention this. Matthew only says the sick man was brought to Jesus. Luke says they let him down through the tiles as though that were a normal thing. Only Mark says they uncovered the roof and broke through to lower the man down. Since Mark got his info from Peter and it was Peter’s home, it’s not surprising that Peter gave a few more details about how his house was broken apart.
9 “Which is easier…”
We know Jesus knows the hearts of all men, but sometimes we wonder how the writers knew what Jesus was thinking. I’m sure they discussed things later, but here we have Jesus saying what He was thinking. Why do you reason about these things. Asking which was easier threw me the first time I read it. I was viewing it from Jesus’s perspective and knew He could do anything He wanted so it didn’t really make sense. Finally realized He was saying it from their point of view. From a human perspective, it would be easy to tell someone their sins are forgiven since no one can see the sins or the forgiveness. How can anyone prove you wrong. Like forecasting something to take place 500 years in the future. Who’s going to be around to see if you were right. But when you tell a paralyzed man to stand up, the evidence is right there. He did the obvious to prove He could do what no one could see.
14 “…Levi the son of Alphaeus…”
Another name for Matthew. Interesting that Matthew uses Matthew while Mark and Luke use Levi. May have been the difference between familial and public usage. Like Thomas and Tommy. Or a first name and middle name. Legal usage is usually first name while some families use middle name or nickname.
15 “…many tax collectors and sinners also sat together with Jesus…”
I doubt that Matthew just suddenly jumped up to follow Jesus without having heard Him speak or knowing something about Him beforehand. Just speculation, but I suspect Matthew had been listening and had begun to change his ways before he was called. Now that he’s following Jesus, he has Him in his home and invites his fellow tax collectors to hear Him.
16 “…He eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners”
It was obvious the religious leaders of that day weren’t interested in anyone other than themselves, and certainly not interested in helping someone have a closer walk with God. They saw it as beneath them to have any contact with those whom they considered sinners and thought anyone Godly should feel the same way. We think pastors and other ministers’ primary reason for being is to bring others to Christ which is rather difficult if they never have any contact with those that need Him.
Play on words, but I doubt they caught the meaning. All men are sin sick and need the healing of Jesus. But only those who recognize they are sick will seek healing. The scribes and Pharisees thought they were OK with God and couldn’t see their need for a savior. The tax collectors recognized their condition and welcomed what Jesus offered. Jesus came to save everyone as none are righteous, but you must admit you need Him to get to the point of asking Him for salvation.
19-20 “…Can the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them…then they will fast in those days”
Little confusing with the question of fasting and then His comparisons of new and old items. Fasting was something to do to focus prayers and was a requirement at different times. Biggest item for prayer and fasting was the expectation of the Messiah. Since Jesus was the Messiah there was no reason for His disciples to be fasting as He was right there with them. He gives a hint of His ascension by saying there would come a day when the bridegroom will be taken away. Then the disciples would fast awaiting Christ’s return. His comparisons show this. Old reasons for fasting were for the revelation of the Messiah. New reasons for fasting are for His return. But it is new in that He didn’t leave us alone, but sent the Holy Spirit to be with us while we wait. We now know exactly who is coming and are in communication with Him while we anticipate His arrival.
23 “…His disciples began to pluck the heads of grain”
Wasn’t just plucking the grain, it was plucking and then rubbing the chaff off so they could eat it. Technically you could call that harvesting or working which they weren’t supposed to do on the Sabbath.
Two big things here. First, man wasn’t created to be a slave to law. The laws were created for man, to help and guide him in the decisions he makes. Sabbath is a good example. It wasn’t created to force man to do something or not do certain things, but was for his benefit, to provide rest and a time for reflection. We have a big problem with this today to the point we’re more concerned with the technical and semantic points of laws instead of the benefits they were created to produce. Second, all law comes from God. It is whatever He says it is. So if Jesus does something which doesn’t fit our interpretation, guess who’s wrong. Jesus said He didn’t come to abolish the law, but to fulfill it. If it doesn’t make sense to us, we’ve missed the spirit of it.
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Leather Notebook Cover
Are you hooked on those plastic-binder 8-ring notebooks into which you can easily slip pages? Our household is…we love our apps but somehow there is still a major role for paper and ink.
I had made a cover for one of these notebooks out of Carol Eaton’s amazing fabric…which inspired my product development team (that would be my husband) to suggest a black leather version.
If you would like to try this, first trace 2 rectangles on very stiff fusible (I use Peltex II) that are just a little larger than the plastic covers. The plastic notebook covers pop off easily for use as templates. I suggest trying an extra 3/8th inch on all sides.
Then, assemble these project-specific ingredients:
1. Needles for stitching through leather
2. A piece of soft pliable leather…roughly the size of a far quarter
3. Optional but fun– a rolling presser foot so that the leather doesn’t create drag as you stitch
4. A piece of backing fabric, with enough to also create pockets once you stitch the main body of the cover
Lay out your backing fabric on a pressing surface, then take those 2 rectangles of fusible and place them side by side, with enough space between for the spine of the book. This will require some testing as you hold the notebook and wrap the fusible and fabric around it to check for size. Once you are happy with the placement, fuse (don’t forget your pressing sheet under the fusible!). Turn over and lay out your piece of leather to match…then fuse it to the fusible (I place an extra layer of fabric between the iron and the leather).
Grab that notebook again and wrap the cover around it…decide how much to trim. Do one round of zig-zag stitching around every side before the backing fabric begins to fray.
Next, make the “pockets”…measure 2 pieces the length of the height of the cover, a width that is pleasing. Fold one long edge over and stitch to prevent fraying, then stitch to the edges of your cover…here is what it will look like when finished:
Now the fun part begins! I decided to simply quilt the fusible-stiffened covers with horizontal and vertical lines, then stitch more heavily on the spine with lots of very slightly-off lines:
Here is what the completed cover looks like on the inside:
I was happy I had purchased the rolling foot as it made all of the stitching a great deal easier:
A cover for a larger notebook is next on the to-do list :). Leather is really a pleasure to work with- give it a try!
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Do Latin Students Take the Stay-At-Home Order Seriously Enough?
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As the weather gets warmer, crowds form in public parks, defying the stay-at-home order
Nina Burik, Staff Writer
As the coronavirus pandemic remains a prevalent issue across the globe, it is evident that people must do their part to flatten the curve. For many states, such action has been taken through the implementation of stay-at-home orders. However, some Americans have failed to take this mandate seriously. People walk closely without masks on, congregate in public parks, and walk their dogs regularly. Do these behaviors honor the stay-at-home order, and is the Latin community taking the order seriously enough?
Dr. Katie Baer, a speech pathologist at AMITA Resurrection Medical Center Hospital, shared her opinions on the matter with The Forum. “I believe that there are some areas of the country that are making their best effort,” she says, “but as a whole, I feel like there remains skepticism about the seriousness of the virus and the effectiveness of stay-at-home practices.” Although research behind COVID-19 is limited and mostly speculative, it is an individual’s civic duty to follow the stay-at-home mandate. That said, Dr. Baer adds, “it is absolutely okay to get outside to soak up the sun and get some fresh air—this is so important for our physical and mental health.” While it is beneficial to remain inside, there is no shame in taking an occasional stroll. “Just remember those masks on crowded sidewalks,” Dr. Baer says.
With regards to Latin specifically, Nurse Yacu says, “I am confident that everyone in the Latin community has taken the orders seriously because we know the positive impact we can make when we do things together.” She emphasizes that now more than ever, it is essential to have confidence in each other. “As Romans, we endure and overcome adversity because we have each other for support, collaboration, enthusiasm, and trust,” she says. To Nurse Yacu’s point, whether you are in agreement with someone’s actions or not, at this time, respect should be extended to all members of the community. Like Dr. Baer, Nurse Yacu agrees that it is acceptable, even necessary, to go outside once in a while. She says, “staying physically active is one of the best ways to keep your mind and body healthy, not to mention, fresh air is safer!” However, Nurse Yacu does mention a few ways to stay safe when leaving your home. “Everyone should take the necessary precautions—staying 6ft away from others, avoiding crowded areas, staying home if sick, etc.,” she adds.
Senior Sophie Golub comments on those in the community who are acting against the order. “Although there have been times where slightly larger groups have hung out, it seemed like it was not for a very long time,” she says. Golub also mentions the safety precautions people have taken if they do choose to congregate. She says, “a lot of the time they [are] social distancing while being with a group.” Golub also agrees that all people should leave their house occasionally. “I think going outside for even a few minutes can give people a break from the stress of being stuck in their house,” she adds. It is possible that for some, following the state’s mandate could be detrimental to their mental health; rather than judging the decisions made by individuals, it is crucial to consider why they may have made such decisions. Above all, Golub extends her well wishes for all Romans. “I hope everyone is trying to stay as happy and positive as possible,” she says.
Ninth grader Carly Warms says, “by cancelling school, sports and social events, the Latin community is able to try and decrease the risk of the virus spreading.” Although this might be true in the Latin community, Warms feels that the nation must take the order more seriously. “I think that the country as a whole is not taking the stay-at-home order serious enough,” she adds, “a couple of states are removing the stay-at-home order, even though a vaccine for the virus has not been found yet.” Even so, it is unlikely that normalcy will be suspended until a vaccine is found—but it is fair to wonder how the country will safely return to life before then.
It is clear that the world, the nation, and the Latin community are in a time of crisis. In such a period of uncertainty and indecision, it is inevitable that people will cope with their new reality in varying ways. It is impossible to know the most effective way to eradicate the virus; but if all citizens do their best to follow the stay-at- home order and focus on their own health, the end will likely be in sight. Based on her experiences in the hospital, Dr. Baer confirms this claim. She says, “I encourage all to connect with friends and family in the safest manner possible—I believe we can get through this safely if we work together and support these efforts.” | <urn:uuid:1d6e5441-06ab-4208-89e0-d9d3265461f0> | https://readtheforum.org/16034/features/do-latin-students-take-the-stay-at-home-order-seriously-enough/ | en | 0.970185 | 0.021511 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Is it legal to invest in startups? What you need to know in 2019
Startups can be a lucrative investment, however you first need to determine if it is legal for you to invest.
The History of Startup Investing
Yes it is legal to invest in startups. Modern day startup investing is a relatively new opportunity. Before 2016, investing in risky assets like startups was only available to very wealthy individuals. The original reason for only allowing the wealthy to invest was to protect investors. These laws were made in the 1930’s after the great depression. In theory these laws were to prevent and reduce the sale of fraudulent securities. In modern times a government entity called the Securities and Exchange Commission or SEC oversees companies raising money.
In 2016 the JOBS act was passed to open up the restrictions set in place in the 1930’s. Now companies can raise money from the general population through equity crowdfunding. It’s not as easy as it used to be though, there are a multitude of regulations every single company fundraising has to follow. These regulations help to greatly reduce the amount of fraud, and make startup investing safer across the board.
How to know if an investment opportunity is legitimate
Before you go and search for a company you should understand how to find real ones that won’t defraud you. Startups looking for investment must be raising money through an SEC regulated platform. Before you make an investment double check that the SEC has authorized the platform to take money from investors. Keep in mind Startup investing is only legal if you go through properly registered platforms.
Location and Amount
Sometimes depending on your location it may be illegal for you to invest in a startup. Some startups may restrict non U.S. residents from investing, and may also require that you be in a certain State. This means before you make any investment read over the offering details, it is key to make sure you do not live in a state that is restricted.
The amount you are allowed to invest is also restricted. The maximum you are allowed to invest is determined by your income and the amount of assets you own. To see how much you are allowed to invest you can check on our calculator. Make sure to not invest more than you are legally allowed to.
Taxes and Reporting
Since startup investing has just been opened up to the general public, the tax implications and reporting information has not been standardized. You should speak to a professional accountant to determine what you owe and how to pay it.
Final Thoughts
This article is not meant to be legal advice, we are not lawyers and we can’t guarantee the legality or authenticity of any investment. It is up to you as an investor to make sure your investments are legitimate. Startup investing has been made widely available thanks to equity crowdfunding and the JOBS act. The SEC has defined regulation and legalized it. However whether or not it is legal for you to make a startup investment depends on the company. | <urn:uuid:af436c7b-f285-4da0-8991-13873701b854> | https://startupbenchmark.com/news/legality-of-startup-investing/ | en | 0.966588 | 0.097421 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Detail photography is a great way to highlight Pitt's many unique aspects. We can highlight our processes, tools, and achievements. The goal here is to capture some of the small things that contribute to a bigger picture. When photographing around campus, it's always a good idea to zoom in and snag a few shots of what makes the composition unique. People can be present, but the focus should be less on the individual and more about what they're doing or what they're interacting with, at a much closer level. In layouts, these detail images should be paired with other images to tell the full story of process and journey. These are also the type of photos that would be used for layering monotone treatment.
Close up of microchipClose-up of hardware
Petri dishesErvin Sedjic looking at a glowing tube
Occupational therapyIntricate woodwork of a pew
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Q: I have booked the 8-day trip from Sarajevo airport. How does the transfer work?
A: Our Ski Sarajevo Representative will meet you in Arrivals at Sarajevo airport and will be holding a SKI SARAJEVO sign.
Q: What is the deal with accommodation?
A: Accommodation is based on multi-share rooms (usually 3 – 4 bed rooms). You can pay a private room supplement of £5 per person per night to get a private twin or double room for 2 people – let us know in advance if you prefer this.
Q: What meals are included?
A: Breakfast and dinner is included. Bosnian breakfast usually consists of pastries, yoghurt, juice, cheese, bread plus tea/coffee. Dinner is a buffet with vegetarian options.
Q: What time do the ski lifts open and close?
A: The ski lifts open at 9am and the last lift goes up the mountain at 4pm.
Q: How much is it to hire skis/snowboards?
A: Ski/Snowboard Rental is 11 Euros per day.
Q: Can I hire ski clothing?
A: No, you will need to bring your own ski clothing.
Q: Are helmets and goggles included?
A: No. Helmets can be hired (about 3 Euros per day) and goggles can be bought locally.
Q: Can I bring my own skis and equipment?
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Vrikshasana known as वृक्षासन or Tree Pose is an asana which belongs to the Inverted Balancing group of poses. It is one of the most difficult, fascinating and effective yoga poses. It is called Tree pose because when performed correctly, it looks like a tree. In other words, you stand still like a tree in the final position of this posture. The leg that you are standing on looks like a trunk rooted to the ground with arms and the other leg and the head act as branches and leaves. Here you will get to know how to do tree pose and benefits of tree pose (vrikshasana).
Tree Pose or Vrikshasana is a basic balancing pose that we all need in our practice. Believe it or not but this pose is a form of standing meditation which is something we could all use to clear our minds of useless negative thoughts.
While in Tree pose, inhale and raise your both arms above your head and form Namaskar mudra. Take suitable stretching and do inhaling-exhaling continue while maintaining the pose. Brings your arms down with deep exhaling.
How to Do Vrikshasana (Tree pose, वृक्षासन)
1. Stand erect. Keep the feet together.
2. Fold the right leg and placed it at the top of left thighs with the toes of the right leg should be pointed downwards.
3. The right leg should perpendicular to the left leg.
4. Extend your arms above your head.
5. Inhale and try to make Namaskar mudra with your palms.
6. Balance the pose as long as you can because balancing is the utmost important in Tree pose.
7. Try to make your spine straight and feel the stretching from toes to fingers.
8. With deep exhale bring your arms and leg down.
9. Repeat the same with the left leg. It completes one round.
10. Do three-five rounds and the number of rounds may increase as per your convenience.
Tree pose benefits (Vrikshasana)
1. It increases your stamina, concentration, and immunity.
2. It stretches the entire body from toes to fingers, thus invigorates you.
3. It gives tranquillity to your mind thus good for those who are facing the problem of depression and anxiety.
4. It strengthens thighs and calves.
5. It gives suitable stretching to the groins.
6. It enhances the flexibility of legs, back and chest muscles.
7. It makes your ankle stronger.
8. It makes you more focused and concentrated.
9. It is also good for the pelvic region.
10. It calms and relaxes the central nervous system
Contraindications and Precautions of Tree Pose (Vrikshasana)
It should not be practiced in case of
• High blood pressure
• Low blood pressure
• Migraine
• Insomnia
• Hip injury
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Can you guarantee we'll see a Steam Locomotive?
We'd love to be able to give this guarantee, especially on Green days however steam locomotives can and do from time to time decide that chuffing up and down the countryside isn't for them. They can sometimes even have a fault develop during the day and have to be withdrawn from service, this is the last thing we want to do but passenger safety is of paramount importance so whilst we'd love to guarantee a steam locomotive will pull your train when advertised it isn't aways possible. A heritage diesel can take around 30 minutes to get started up and going whereas a steam locomotive if it is stone cold will take a good 4hrs to come to life.
We also rely on a 100% volunteer workforce, becoming a Fireman isn't a 5 minute task, it can take years of practice to learn the art of shovelling coal and boiler control, only then can a person be assessed to fire a steam locomotive. It then takes a little bit longer to promote these Fireman to Driver so there are times in the year where we do struggle to get a steam driver or fireman to run our trains. We're working hard on it to ensure this isn't the case though, don't worry! We still have space to take on more people that'd love to learn how to fire and drive this magnificant machines so do get in touch today, it won't take 5 minutes and does require commitment but the rewards are certainly worthwhile!
Can we bring our dog?
Can we bring bicycles, prams or buggies on the train?
Can I book a special train for my event or wedding?
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Can we look round the engine shed?
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Can I drive a Steam Engine?
Can I Drive a Diesel Locomotive or DEMU 1317?
Yes, on selected days in the year, in 2019 you can even drive some of our visiting locomotives which in the past have included a Deltic, Warship and Class 50. We have a variety of Diesel locomotives and DEMU 1317 available for Driver Experience throughout the year!
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Gaining weight is no big deal if you have planned to get back on track towards your weight goals later. It is known that behavior changes take time. Perseverance helps a lot. No worries! Here are the tips to help control yourself to get back on the right track after gaining weight.
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Everything starts with a small step. Once we stop exercising, our bodies stay in the “at rest” status and need extra energy to get it moving again. The key for us to get back on track is to do any exercises you want, regardless of its intensity and type. Once you get yourself moving again, you will feel different about yourself and body. So just get started to achieve your goals, you will be more optimistic to chase it.
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Motivation is the power to keep you moving in the long period. To motivate yourself, you should write down your plans to achieve your weight goals specifically. For example, going to the gym on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, meals for weekdays and weekends and weight targets. Write down everything specifically just like telling yourself to execute the changing process to get back on track.
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Reducing costs in healthcare is a hot topic, and some insurance companies have taken action in a manner that appears to violate the “Prudent Layperson” standard. But what exactly is it and why is it so important?
The legal basis for the prudent lay person standard was established in 1994. It was a revision to the 1984 EMTALA legislation and aimed to set a standard for how we define an emergency medical condition. In 1997 federal legislation adopted the standard for Medicaid and in 1998 it became the standard for Medicare. In 1999 it was also adopted by the VA system making it a universal definition for payment of services provided in emergency care.
The standard definition was necessary in order to provide a basis for payment when patients presented to an emergency department. The current CMS language can be found here : CMS Guide . In short, the definition centers around the patient’s understanding of their condition. As a prudent lay person, with an average understanding of medicine, any condition which leads one to believe they have a medical or behavioral emergency meets the standard.
So why the debate recently? In an attempt to reduce costs, insurers search for high cost items, which turned attention to hospital admissions. If you work in the inpatient realm, you are hampered by denials of service and observation coding rules in order to justify admissions and length of stay. Recently, attention has turned to emergency department visits. Although the number of ED visits over the past 10 years has declined slightly (CDC data), these visits are viewed as expensive compared with urgent care visits. Insurers seek to divert patients to less expensive alternatives.
Although the attempts are not new, recently large healthcare insurance companies have begun rejecting payment for services provided based on final diagnosis. The assertion here is that the given diagnosis is not an emergency AND that it could not have led a prudent lay person to believe they were having an emergency. Of course the problem is immediately obvious: Billing codes are based upon final diagnosis, taking into account an examination by a trained medical professional and all testing conducted. Billing codes do not represent the “possible” illness the patient may have had based on the symptom. For example: Arm Pain. It is a benign diagnosis which might lead you to ask “what is the emergency here?” However, a heart attack may present as simple arm pain or neck pain. The initial complaint is the same, but the final diagnosis is quite different. Both patients undergo the same examination and may undergo the same testing in the ED, but the reimbursement for each is drastically different based solely on final diagnosis code. Is it appropriate to reject such a claim based on the final code?
There are other repercussions to such a policy of payment rejection based on diagnosis. When payment is denied, hospitals and practices bill patients instead. The message to the patient is clear: “You had a symptom you thought was an emergency, but it was not. You are now responsible for this bill and your insurance is not going to pay.” The patient’s conclusion: “The next time I have an emergency, I am not going to the ER. I am going to wait and go see my doctor or call my insurance because I can’t’ afford to pay a bill this big.” Organizations like the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine understand the problem such a policy poses. Patients will delay seeking care in true emergencies. Patients will make decisions based on the fear of being charged for a visit despite the fact that they are adequately insured. We essentially force our patients to value their pocketbook over their own health. This is clearly the wrong approach. Patients will wait when they should seek care immediately. Medical conditions will be treated at more advanced stages when it is more difficult and expensive, when early treatment would have resulted in a cure. Patients will suffer poor outcomes from diseases which should have been caught earlier and treated without sequelae.
The analogy:
My car breaks down. I have a warranty but it stipulates I must take the vehicle to a specific local repair shop first, and if it is determined the there is an engine problem then the vehicle must be taken to the dealer for repair. If the vehicle is taken to the dealer first without determining the problem at a local repair shop, then I am responsible for all charges except those specifically related to engine problems. So, it is 2am, my check engine light is on, the car is spouting fumes, and I am stranded. I have it towed to my driveway until the local shop is open, then have it towed again where it is determined that there is an engine problem. Then it is towed yet again, to the dealership for repair. This is not efficient, but it is the screening process designed by my warranty company.
Health insurers are instituting a similar system: It is 2 am on Saturday and you are having severe left arm pain. You are sweating and nauseated. There is no chest pain or shortness of breath. You would call 911 and go to the ER, but if this isn’t coded as an approved emergency at the end of the visit, then you will be responsible for the bill, which you can’t afford. So, you wait. The pain worsens until finally at 8 am, the local urgent care center opens. When you are seen it is determined that you might be having a heart attack. You are transported by ambulance to the local ER where further tests reveal this is definitely a heart attack. You relax because the visit will be covered by your insurance, but the cardiologist tells you that you have lost 50% of your heart function due to the delay in care. If only you had come to the ER at 2am, they would have treated the blockage immediately and you would have recovered fully. Due to the damage, you will require a temporary life vest, followed by a permanent implantable pacemaker defibrillator. One year later, you have had 3 hospitalizations for congestive heart failure, one for pacer placement, and a series of clinic visits with your cardiologist. Is this really better?
The example may seem extreme, but it is a common scenario. Patients cannot determine their diagnosis based on their symptoms. Physicians order diagnostic tests to make decisions and we have the benefit of medical training. If after all that testing, a benign condition is found, that is not the fault of the patient. Denying payment based on the final diagnosis is misguided and WILL result in harm to patients.
So what is the solution? It is not denial of payment. Instead, it is a far more difficult solution that requires the cooperation of three parties: the insurer, the medical provider, and the government. A patient should be allowed to present to the ER when they meet the prudent lay person standard. Based on an initial examination in the ER, they should be allowed to be directed to an urgent care or other outpatient setting if that is more appropriate, and the legal system should support that decision-making. Anything else results in competing forces: insurers attempting to divert patients based on the threat of no coverage and emergency physicians hesitant to screen and refer elsewhere without treatment due to EMTALA obligations. This is not easy, but the alternatives given today are not the solution.
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5 Reasons Why Dream Work Therapy is Healing
Dream Therapy Work For Breast CancerBy Kathleen O’Keefe-Kanavos Life Guidance Coach, Speaker and Author.
Did you know that you have an Inner-Freud, a personal therapist, who knows your every concern, fear, and secret and has the perfect solution for you? You have a direct line to profound FREE therapy that can circumvent years of traditional expensive psychotherapy or be used in conjunction with traditional therapy. You dreams are important because they may hold the answers to your worst nightmares. Here are some facts to back-up that statement.
Do you know that by age 60, you will sleep an average of 175,200 hours, dream roughly 87,000 hours, and experience about 197,100 dreams? If dreams are so unimportant, why do we spend so much precious time doing nothing? If dreams have no merit in our waking life, why have they been an area of study for centuries by some of the most brilliant minds in medicine?
Dreams offer such powerful coding and decoding of the unconscious and subconscious that their messages can literally change your life for the better, forever. They can resolve nagging issues, mend broken relationships, and can be an important part of your healing journey.
Your dreams can be a profound path to recovery.
Dream Work Therapy can be healing medicine for the body and soul that can:
· connect you to the love of your life
· break the chains of negative habits and relationships that bind you
· guide you into peace of mind
· introduce you to your innate Inner Guidance
· resolve residual life-issues that have remained a problem
Dream Work Therapy uses the universal principles of dreaming and applies them to the action of Dream Work; working with your dreams.
The universal principles of learning about dreams hold that every dream is about the dreamer and since human beings are multifaceted beings of both body and spirit, you can expand your awareness of different aspects of yourself by studying your dream figures and the messages they bring to you. You are in charge of your emotional and physical healing and your dreams are a door through which you can meet your Inner-therapist and Physician-within.
The first step in beginning this therapy is dream journaling. Keep a pencil and paper beside your bed and write down your dreams as soon as you awaken in the morning. If you cannot remember the whole dream, write down the snipp-its you do remember, including colors, numbers and the mood you were in when you awoke. Were you, sad, crying, angry, happy or laughing?
Your emotional state upon awakening may be a direct reflection of your dream state and that can be very therapeutic. This can be your first step in therapy. Embrace the information, no matter how painful or confusing.
Dreams use Universal Symbolism for a language. This is the same symbolic language Dr. Freud used with his patients in psychotherapy. By writing down your dreams, you are learning to speak to yourself using your innate personal dream language that also uses Universal Symbolism.
What does a specific symbol in your dream mean to you? What emotion does it evoke?
The subjects, figures, animals, people and unusual beings in dreams are there to help you and teach you about aspects of yourself that have been ignored, unrealized or forgotten.
That is the basis for Dream Work Therapy. It’s all about you.
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The internet’s darker side: Fake accounts and fake news threaten to poison the online environment
Nowadays, it is nearly impossible to imagine life without the internet. The virtual world has grown to be a seemingly infinite series of platforms where governments, corporations and individuals all come together; where we can find any information we desire and quick answers to most, if not all, of our questions. And within the vast online realm, social media has become the place where interpersonal interactions happen.
The internet was designed as an open environment. However, the concept was ambitious at the time and society has shaped it as a platform to share and access knowledge and information. In this light, monitoring and regulating such online content may seem to contradict the original principle of the internet, but this is the very thing that ended up happening.
As society becomes progressively more digital, we are facing challenges that once would have been unthinkable — and the solutions remain yet to be discovered. The nature of the internet is vulnerable to the creation of misleading content intended to influence people, which has resulted in the phenomenon of fake news. The huge viral effect fake news and fake accounts, which spreads particularly on social media, is pervading all aspects of today society.
“Fake news is everywhere, misleading us and building misconceptions about people and events. Because it is difficult to identify them in the first place, it is evern harder to address them. Fake news has become a crucial problem in society, effecting individual reputations, warping political elections and public opinion, ultimately threating democracy.” said Stefania Barbaglio, Director at PR Agency Cassiopeia Services.
Research by the European Commission showed that, 85 percent of EU respondents believe fake news to be a problem in their country, with almost 83 percent perceiving false or misrepresentative information as a threat to democracy.
Fake news is as much as a problem as fake accounts:
Research from Indiana University Network Science Institute indicates that between 9 to 15% of active Twitter accounts are not real, meaning it is very likely that less than 90% of current social media users are humans.
During the six months that ended in March 2018, Facebook disabled a total of almost 1.3 billion accounts that they were deemed to be fake. Out of the remaining accounts Facebook estimates between 3 and 4 percent are likely to be fake. This amounts to between 66 million and 88 million accounts in the network.
Fake News: A political weapon
Social media has become the primary means of communication and interaction for businesses, politicians and decision makers to reach their audiences, limiting the effect of the impact of mainstream and broadcast media.
With widespread political mis-information from the political realm on the social media , voters are increasigngly vulnerable to being manipulated by information fabricated to fit into propaganda.
The problem is indeed both dangerous and subtle, and the solutions to which are still being in the making. In the UK, the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee warned that the UK is facing a “democratic crisis”, with voters being manipulated by “pernicious views”. The Committee highlights the “relentless targeting of hyper-partisan views, which play to the fears and prejudices of people, in order to influence their voting plans”.
Populism and fake news together represent the start of slippery slope towards greater problems of misinformation. In fact, Populist figures address societal concerns with high emotional appeal. The current wave of populists rejects traditional democratic values and globalisation. Fake news is one of their weapons to destroy ‘the establishment’ and turn people against democratic values.
A study from Stanford University analysed the 2016 US elections and found that there had been 115 fake pro-Trump stories on Facebook shared 30 million times, compared to 41 fake pro-Clinton stories shared 7.6 million times.
Harmful Social Media
Recent events have shown that social media’s biggest marke, developing countries — are the ones that have been experiencing the worst headache.
In June, India witnessed the murder of the eight people after rumours about alleged child kidnappers spread via WhatsApp. In 2017 alone, more than 30 deaths were linked to rumours spread via the app.
Given the circumstances, India, a country with 500 million people online, became the worldleader in internet shutdowns, as the government saw it as the only measure to prevent more violent attacks spurred. According to Wired, last year there were 70 shutdowns in the country — a big jump from 31 in 2016 and just 3 in 2012.
“Internet shutdown is the favourite go-to mechanism to handle fake news,” says Rajeev Chandrasekhar, an MP in India.
"Shutting down internet connection, can’t be a solution,’” said Stefania Barbaglio. "Bans, prohibitions, and censorship of social media are never effective in stopping certain behaviours and fighting misinformation. It is up to individuals to take appropriate action and make use of novel solutions to make effective change. We should acknowledge the inherent dangers that lie within the open environment of the internet, but also the new technologies which aim to empower people, will be pivotal in this regard. The Internet is evolving into a new platform for citizens, Internet X, to allow everyone to fully express themselves, share of information, data, and resources."
As much as it feels like the virtual sphere is contaminated, crises like this can in fact be used as a catalyst to build a better online space and build a stronger foundation for a fairer environments. They also reminds us of the importance of carrying the values that sustain our society into every public space — whichever shape or form it may take. | <urn:uuid:359f61b5-b28a-4197-a019-1466096fbcc2> | https://cassiopeia-ltd.com/category/democracy/ | en | 0.945235 | 0.047232 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Laravel Logging Tutorial
Kim Sia Developer Tips, Tricks & Resources
Regardless of what language and framework you use, proper logging is crucial to web development. Logging is key when it comes to debugging and performance monitoring. Knowing how to properly use logging frameworks is an essential part of creating high quality software that is easy to debug.
In this article, I will provide in-depth coverage on Laravel, which is the most popular PHP framework in 2018.
Fig 1: Google Trends comparing popular PHP frameworks
Specifically, I want to cover the following with respect to Laravel 5.7:
1. Introducing Monolog, Laravel’s logging library
2. Exploring the logging config file
3. Writing log messages and using logging levels
4. Formatting your log messages
5. Sending your logs to Retrace
The first four sections will cover the basics of logging in Laravel. Lastly, I will take all the knowledge you’ve learned in the previous sections and put it to use by showing you how to send your log statements to an external service — Stackify’s very own Retrace.
Let’s get started!
1. Introducing Monolog, Laravel’s logging library
Laravel has this philosophy about using popular open source libraries to fulfill various common features required in a typical web framework: Logging is a common feature. Hence, by default, Laravel employs Monolog, a highly popular PHP logging library, for all its logging needs. The wonderful thing about Monolog is that it provides a common interface for you to write logs to anything, from standard text files to third-party log management services.
For details about using Monolog on its own, you can check out this post.
(Keep in mind that everything written here regarding Monolog applies to version 1.0 and above but excludes version 2.0, which is coming out in early 2019.)
Monolog is highly flexible. It can send your logs to files, sockets, email, databases, and various web services. I will show you in a later section how Monolog provides handlers that easily help you to send logs to these various destinations. Laravel typically sets up Monolog via a logging configuration file. Now I’m going to show you how the logging configuration file works.
2. Exploring the logging config file
In Laravel, there are various configuration files found in the config folder. This folder holds config files meant for database connections, email connections, caching, etc. You should expect your logging configuration also to be found here, and it’s path will be in config/logging.php.
Fig 2: First five lines of config/logging.php
When you create a Laravel app, the first few lines are the imports it uses. By default, you should see the two handlers shown above being imported. As explained in the earlier section, these are two of the typical handlers that Monolog provides.
Laravel Monolog uses a concept called channels. The channels are the different places where you can send your logs. For the rest of the config/logging.php, the config file returns an associative array with two main keys — default and channels.
Fig 3: Default channel is usually stack
Default represents the default channel that any logging is sent to. It’s crucial that the channel you pick as default is represented in the array under the key channels. As you can see above, stack is the default channel.
Fig 4: List of channels
Channels represent the full list of channels available for sending your logs, and stack is the first channel listed. For the rest of this article, whenever I mention channel list, I’m referring specifically to this list.
Configuration within each channel
In each channel stated under the channel list, you can see different keys being used. Knowing how each key affects logging will give you the maximum flexibility to configure the logging output you want.
The first type I want to cover is drivers. Before Laravel 5.6, Laravel only had drivers supporting four file-based outputs:
1. Writing to a single file. By default, that’s usually storage/logs/laravel.log.
2. Daily files. By default, that will give you files like storage/logs/laravel-2018-12-03.logstorage/logs/laravel-2018-12-04.log, and so on.
3. Error log. The location of the error log depends on the web server software you are using, such as nginx or Apache, and the server OS. Typically this means that on Linux with Nginx, the file is at /var/log/nginx/error.log.
4. System log, also known as syslog, and once again, the location depends on the server OS.
With Laravel 5.6 and above, we have brand new drivers supporting a wider range of logging outputs. The old drivers are still available under the values “single,” “daily,” “errorlog,” and “syslog.” Now we have new values for new kinds of logging outputs. Some commonly used new drivers include:
This simply means you can stack multiple logging channels together. When you use the “stack” driver, you need to set an array of values for other channels under the key “channels.” See Fig 4 for the example of a stack driver in use.
This lets you send logs to the popular social channel, Slack. When you use this driver, you need to configure the URL as well. Optional Slack-related variables include username and emoji. This driver essentially allows you to output the log to a specific Slack channel. By default, when you use the Laravel command line to create a new project with 5.7, you will see an example of the Slack logging channel configuration (see Fig 5 below).
Fig 5: By default, Laravel 5.7 includes an example for a Slack channel
It’s a bit weird to see Monolog show up again, this time as its own driver. The point to remember is that when you want to use Monolog’s native handlers, then you want to use the Monolog driver. Thankfully, the default logging config file provides two examples of using two different Monolog handlers. Instead of going into too much detail on the various Monolog handler types, I will leave you with a link to the full list of Monolog handlers so you can review at your own speed.
Fig 6: Default logging config file uses Monolog StreamHandler and SyslogHandler
There’s only a small write-up about this in the official Laravel documentation. Between the popular legacy drivers and the various Monolog handlers, it’s pretty hard to imagine someone writing up their own custom channel driver. Nevertheless, if that’s something you want to do, you can. Usually, a custom channel is for you to write logs to third-party services, like Apache Kafka and Logstash.
First, your custom channel needs to choose a custom driver and then add a via option to point to a logger factory class.
'channels' => [
'custom' => [
'driver' => 'custom',
'via' => AppLoggingCustomLoggerFactory::class,
After you setup the custom channel, you’re ready to define the factory class. Bear in mind that you must return a Monolog Logger instance via the __invoke method.
namespace AppLogging;
use MonologLogger;
class CustomLoggerFactory
* This class will create a custom Monolog instance.
* @param array $config
* @return MonologLogger
public function __invoke(array $config)
return new Logger(...);
Try to use the custom driver as a last resort. If you search around a bit, usually you’ll find a standardized way to use existing drivers or handlers for your special logging needs. Even if you have to write your own custom logger driver, try to see if somebody has already written an open source version or an example of the Logger factory class you need. In other words: don’t reinvent the wheel if you can help it.
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Drivers as a summary list
Just to recap, here’s a useful summary table of the various common drivers available and what they mean.
stackFor creating “multi-channel” channels.
singleFor single-file or path-based logger channels. Uses Monolog’s StreamHandler.
dailyFor daily logs. Uses Monolog’s RotatingFileHandler.
slackFor sending to Slack channels. Uses Monolog’s SlackWebhookHandler.
syslogFor sending to the system log. Uses Monolog’s SyslogHandler.
errorlogFor sending to the web server’s error log. Uses Monolog’s ErrorLogHandler.
monologFor using any other of Monolog’s supported handlers.
customA driver calling a specified factory to create a channel for a third-party service.
The next important thing you need to learn after channels and drivers is the concept of handlers. There is a complete list of handlers for Monolog to send logs to. You can even employ special handlers so you can build more advanced logging strategies. To save space, I will leave it to you to read the full list of handlers on your own and simply group Monolog’s wide range of handlers into the following types:
• Logging to files and Syslog
• Sending alerts (such as Slack) and emails
• Logging to specific servers and networked logging
• Logging during development (including sending logs to ChromePHP extension)
• Sending logs to databases
• Special handlers
Also, note that there’s a special option called handler_with that allows you to assign values to the individual handler’s constructor method.
For example, when you look at the SysLogHandler class and its constructor, you will notice this:
public function __construct(string $ident, $facility = LOG_USER, $level = Logger::DEBUG, bool $bubble = true, int $logopts = LOG_PID)
At the individual channel configuration, you can assign the values for the parameters of the constructor this way.
'syslog_channel_name' => [
'driver' => 'monolog',
'handler' => MonologHandlerSyslogHandler::class,
'handler_with' => [
'ident' => 'some value you want to assign to the ident parameter',
3. Writing log messages and levels
If you’ve made it this far, congratulations! You have now gone deep into the details of the configuration file for Laravel logging. Most developers have only a cursory understanding of this and didn’t let that stop them from writing log messages. Therefore, you are now more equipped than most developers at configuring Laravel logging for your team.
One key configuration detail I didn’t cover in the previous section is levels. This is partly because the previous section was already long enough, but mainly because it makes more sense to cover levels here.
Levels of logging
At the specific file that you want to write log messages, ensure that you import the Log facade before writing out your log message, like this:
use IlluminateSupportFacadesLog;
//.. and then somewhere in your php file
Typically developers want to have different levels of severity when it comes to log messages. The different log levels stated here correspond to the RFC-5424 specification. So the levels and their names are not decided willy-nilly. These levels have an order of priority with the highest being emergency and the lowest being debug. At the channels list, you can specify the minimum level the individual channel will log any messages. In the case of Fig. 5, for example, this means the Slack channel will write any log messages with a level of critical and above when triggered.
Log facade sends to default channel
The level’s not the only factor that determines if Laravel will eventually write a specific message to the channel. The channel as a destination is another factor as well. Bear in mind when you use the Log facade to write log messages, Laravel will send these to the default channel stated in your config/logging.php.
If you leave the logging config file unchanged, and assuming you didn’t set the LOG_CHANNEL environment variable to a different value, your default channel will be the stack “multi-channel,” which in turn consists of just the “daily” channel as seen in Figs 3 and 4.
Sending log messages to alternative channels on the fly
This then begs the question: what if you want to send a specific message to a channel other than the default channel? You can deliberately choose an alternative channel on the fly this way:
Remember to make sure that the alternative channel you choose exists in the channel list within the logging config file. Otherwise, you’ll encounter errors. In the example above, this means you need to declare a channel explicitly in the channel list called suspicious.
And if you want to send the same logging message to multiple channels, you can also perform “stacking.”
Log::stack(['suspicious', 'slack'])->info("I have a bad feeling about this!");
Sending contextual information
Sometimes you want to send contextual information, such as the specific file name, the line in the file, or even the current logged-in user.
You can write your individual log messages this way to add contextual information:
Log::info('User login failed.', ['id' => $user->id, 'file' => __FILE__, 'line' => __LINE__]);
This command will pass in an array of contextual data to the log methods. Laravel will then format the contextual data and display it along with the log message.
4. Formatting log messages
This section on formatting could have been placed alongside the drivers and handlers section under “Explaining the logging config file.” But I prefer to have “Formatting log messages” be its own standalone section, coming after everything else, because it tends to be less crucial.
The main reason formatting is often less crucial is that you can get away with the default formatter that Monolog driver uses—the Monolog LineFormatter. That’s usually more than good enough. However, there may be times when you wish to customize the formatter passed to the handler. This is a full list of formatters that Monolog natively provides. I have noticed that Monolog arranges this list by highest frequency of usage. So it’s a good list to reference should you want to select alternatives.
When you want to customize the formatter, you need to set the formatter option under the specific channel configuration. You will also notice the formatter_with option. It works in the similar way as the handler_with option explained in the “Handlers” section. This is a way to send values to the formatter class constructor method. Here’s an example where I use the next most popular formatter, the HtmlFormatter:
'browser_console' => [
'driver' => 'monolog',
'handler' => MonologHandlerBrowserConsoleHandler::class,
'formatter' => MonologFormatterHtmlFormatter::class,
'formatter_with' => [
Sometimes a particular Monolog handler comes with its own formatter. In that case, you can simply instruct the formatter to use that handler’s default formatter.
'newrelic' => [
'driver' => 'monolog',
'handler' => MonologHandlerNewRelicHandler::class,
'formatter' => 'default',
5. Putting it all together: sending your logs to Retrace
Here comes the grand finale, where you can put everything you learned in the previous sections to use in a single exercise. In this section, I will attempt to send Laravel logging messages to Stackify’s own Retrace. Retrace allows you to glean insights from your logs by giving you a single place to perform code profiling, performance monitoring, and centralized logging.
And because Retrace is so comprehensive in its monitoring mandate, it looks at everything, from the server system and web server logs, to the application’s own database logs. So my first recommendation is that you keep your syslog and errorlog channels as they are in your channel list. Even so, you don’t have to add them into your default stack channel.
As for configuring your syslog and your web server error logs to work in tandem with Retrace, I recommend checking out the following documentation for details:
Setting up a channel for Retrace specifically
As you learned in the section “Explaining the logging config file,” the first step for sending your application log messages to Retrace is to have a specific log channel for Retrace and add it to the stack multi-channel.
Step 1. Use composer to install the Stackify Monolog handler package
Install the latest version with composer require stackify/monolog “~1.0”.
Or you can add a dependency to your composer.json file:
"stackify/monolog": "~1.0",
Step 2. Set the various Retrace variables in the environment variables file (.env)
The key variables are the API key, the application name, and the environment name. Make sure they are set in the .env file of your Laravel app. You should have different values for each different .env file depending which environment you wish to send logs from.
Step 3. Change your config/logging.php
I recommend altering the config file in 5 different places which I have broken up into comments using the notation Step 3.1, Step 3.2, etc.
// after the typical imports in the config file
// Step 3.1 import the following and make sure you add
use StackifyLogTransportExecTransport;
use StackifyLogMonologHandler as StackifyHandler;
// Step 3.2: assign your Retrace various variables as environment variable then call here
$retrace_api_key = env('RETRACE_API_KEY', 'api_key');
// Step 3.3: create the transport instance here. You need this in Step 3.5
$transport_for_retrace = new ExecTransport($retrace_api_key);
return [
// for brevity I removed the comments
'channels' => [
'stack' => [
'driver' => 'stack',
// Step 3.4 add retrace channel to stack
'channels' => ['daily', 'retrace'],
// Step 3.5 setting up the retrace channel
'retrace' => [
'driver' => 'monolog',
'level' => 'debug',
'handler' => StackifyHandler::class,
// for clarity on the exact configuration look at the constructor method at
'handler_with' => [
'appName' => env('RETRACE_APP_NAME', 'app_name'),
'environmentName' => env('RETRACE_ENV_NAME', 'env_name'),
'transport' => $transport_for_retrace, // set in Step 3.3
// the rest of the channel list such as daily, syslog, etc are below
Steps 3.1 to 3.4 are pretty self-explanatory from the code above. The most complex would be step 3.5, where I create a brand new retrace channel. I’ve said it before, but I’ll repeat for clarity: because Stackify has a Monolog-compatible handler, I strongly recommend using the Monolog driver and using theStackify’s Monolog handler class under the handler option. Also, the possible keys chosen for the handler_with option follow the same parameter names given to the handler’s constructor method.
Whew! That was a pretty comprehensive look at Laravel logging. To recap, I have gone over what Monolog is and why Laravel uses it for its logging needs. I also explored the intricacies of some of Monolog’s concepts, including channels, drivers, and handlers. Plus I extensively covered writing and formatting log messages. I gave you examples of how to write to the default channel or alternative channels on the fly, and finally, I brought all these concepts together to teach you how to write a channel for sending your logs to Retrace.
Thanks for sticking with me. I hope this has been a useful guide for all your Laravel logging needs!
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Australia’s new mandatory drug testing for the unemployed is just the more of the NLP shamelessly shitting on the poor
By E.F Nicholson
Australia’s ruling conservative party, the NLP, works off a similar playbook to the Republicans in the US and the Tories in the UK. When popularity is low and they are appearing to lose backing from parties even further to their right, they sit down and work out who next on their list they can bash down to drum up support from the party base.
They do this knowing they will get the full backing of Murdoch press to amplify and successfully stoke up whatever fear or resentment is required. Muslims and refugees have been a great source of ‘pretend problems’ to focus on, and the indigenous population deals with much the same. Of late, gay marriage was successfully turned from a non-issue to an issue. All this helps ensure their ‘conservative and tough’ credentials, whilst creating convenient distractions as they get on with the business of what they really do best: shafting the public while enriching their buddies. Once again, they must have sat down and brainstormed on who’s next to politically defecate on. In a closed door meeting it must have gone something along the lines of….
“OK, we need a voiceless minority that our voter base universally despises. Who can we choose?” asks PM Malcom Turnbull.
“What about poor people?” says social services minister Christian Porter.
“Umm…” ponders Malcom. “It’s a good start, but it’s too broad.”
“What about unemployed poor people?” asks an excited Australian wannabe, Barnaby Joyce.
“OK, now we are on to something, but they still need to be more wretched,” says Malcom.
“What about poor people who are unemployed but who also have a debilitating addiction problem?” exclaims tough guy MP Andre Laming.
“Bingo!” says Malcom elatedly. “I am worse than Trump after all.” He manically laughs.
“This will be great. We will force them to take a mandatory drug test if they want to be eligible for income support. It ticks all our NLP policy guidelines. It’s cruel, degrading, useless, and the voters will love it. Even better, I’ll outsource the testing to a mate of mine that runs a lab — they can over-charge the government whilst we hide the cost under ‘commercial confidentiality’. So while we lecture the unemployed about government waste, we can simultaneously be wasting money, so it’s also hypocritical. Totally genius. Moet and cigars, everyone?”
The reality is that mandatory drug tests in order to receive some form of government benefits is wrong on many different levels. Firstly, there is the issue of the underlying premise. That is, if the government is willing to provide you with an income subsidy while you are in the process of attempting to find gainful employment (money you could argue that you have earned, if you have been paying tax or in the future will be paying tax) you forfeit your right to privacy by providing the government with a urine sample to test if you have been taking illegal drugs. The assumption of innocent until proven guilty is relinquished and the reverse is adopted, as it’s assumed you are a drug user and the onus is then on you to prove you are not. The cost of that presumption of guilt is passed onto the tax payer for the cost of the drug test itself, which is then passed on to a private ‘for profit’ company the government contracts.
Yet if we follow this logic, anyone who is a recipient of any government money should also be forced into mandatory drug testing — including all public servants, be it nurses, doctors, government employees, police, firefighters, and in particular ‘politicians’. Seeing as they are all the recipients of ‘our tax dollars, the same logic should apply and they should have to take drug tests to prove their trust worthiness that ‘our tax dollars’ are being not used in dens of iniquities. In addition, the employees of any private enterprise which also receives government money, tax credits, or any form income or subsidy via the government should also be forced to take mandatory drug tests, from the simple office worker all the way to the CEO, and let’s start with Gina Rinehart. Yet we also know this isn’t going to happen, and the reason is obvious — none of this is about helping people with drug addiction, rather just a shameless bashing down on poor people in order to drum up support from their base.
Then, in addition to the selectiveness of only some people who receive government money being forced to take drug tests and not others, people’s right to privacy shouldn’t be flushed down the toilet solely because they require some level of income support whilst being unemployed. Police don’t have the right to burst through your front door and search your whole house for drugs unless they have a search warrant, which is contingent on some level of probable cause. Yet get the dole and the right to the privacy of the content your urine in your bladder is no longer yours. Why stop there? Why not track all their internet use? Why not GPS track every movement they are making with their government subsided time?
Once again, this is all about playing into the baseless fear along the lines of “Those lazy dole bulgers, spending my hard-earned tax dollars smoking ice and drinking expensive champagne with the company of high-end escorts, because, you know, that’s how the unemployed roll.” Then if you look at the reality of drug addiction it’s been shown that punitive and shaming policies do not work. There are now enough research, studies, and examples of how this doesn’t work that I don’t believe the Turnbull government aren’t aware of it, rather they just simply don’t care. Portugal’s decriminalisation of drug use and moving to treat drug addiction as health problem, rather than a criminal problem, has shown amazing results. If the government genuinely cared about dealing with drug addiction they could easily implement something along these lines. Yet if an overhaul of the criminal justice system and public policy on drug law would benefit Australian society but lose NLP voters’ support, well, we know how things get chosen. As an article from TIME points out:
We also see that in places like the US that have run similar programs, they predictably failed. In an article revealingly titled “Michigan’s drug-testing welfare program has yielded zero positive results so far” it states:
Rana Elmir of the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, which successfully challenged the 1999 program in court and called on the state to abandon the current iteration. “This program was voluntarily scrapped by the state because it proved to be unproductive and expensive. Resources should be invested to train government employees to appropriately screen and identify those with addictions and help them through expanded treatment plans. Not only has this worked in other states but addiction experts agree that this is the best tactic to help those dealing with addiction.”
Harris, of congresswoman Moore’s office, said drug and substance abuse “knows no economic or social distinctions. As we’ve seen time and time again, these misguided policies are devoid of any scientific credibility and have proven to be a colossal waste of our time and money.”
I guess the Turnbull government didn’t get that memo.
The experts and data available say that policies such as these won’t and don’t curb addiction. Terminating someone’s only source of income because they are suffering from an addiction will just push them further into self-destruction, humiliation, and possibly crime. And the cry of “Well, we just want to help them,” is totally dishonest when firstly, its known this won’t help them, and secondly, why is it only the unemployed that the government needs to involuntarily intervene with and coerce into drug treatment? Why aren’t other sections of the public who have addictions forced into getting help ‘for their own good’? Say like barristers or judges? Haha, LOL, ROFL, I guess you can also say.
Then when you read through the actual details of the program, it’s laughable. If you test positive for drug use the first time, you have your “income stabilised”, meaning you can’t get any more than a certain amount from the ATM at once. The theory is this meant to stop you using your whole income allowance all in one go on a giant stash of drugs, because hey, that’s what crazy drug addicts do, right? I mean, whose idea was this? Haven’t any of these people spoken to active drug users? As a former active drug user myself, managing your habit won’t be curtailed by not being able to withdraw certain amounts, it will just be adapted. What frontline people know is that active drug users will find ways around this. Those who don’t and are forced into treatment will just do what they have to do and get back on it, because you just can’t ‘make’ people be willing and able to quit. Maybe by chance the forced treatment may coincide with someone being ready, but that will be a credit to them, not the government. Then let’s not even look at the hypocrisy and absurdity that someone may test positive twice of cannabis use and be forced off their benefits, or into ‘drug treatment’: yet the person administering the test, also paid via the government, can be getting drunk and smoking cigarettes every night of the week and that’s ‘no problemo’.
Drug addiction is a problem that the government could genuinely tackle by decriminalising drugs and ending the useless war on drugs, as well as investing heavily in frontline services to help people get the support and resources they require. They could also be willing to tackle the deeper issues involved in mental health and drug addiction, which are intimately connected: why do people feel the need to use? Focus on demand, instead of supply. What underlying psychological and societal factors compel people into such vortexes of self-destruction? There is a growing body of research that points to addiction being a problem, not because drugs are addictive, but because certain people have unresolved trauma and an inability to connect, so they use addictive substances to substitute their lack of connection and numb their pain. In the article The Opposite of Addiction is Connection in Psychology Today, it states:
In an increasingly widely disseminated TED Talk titled “Everything You Think You Know About Addiction is Wrong,” British journalist Johann Hari discusses the available research into the underlying causes of addiction and concludes, rather brilliantly, that the opposite of addiction is not sobriety, it’s connection. His statement echoes a theme that I and many 21st Century addiction specialists have espoused for years — that addiction is not about the pleasurable effects of substances, it’s about the user’s inability to connect in healthy ways with other human beings. In other words, addiction is not a substance disorder, it’s a social disorder.
A policy that addresses these wider issues whilst tackling the actual face of the problem as it stands today would reflect that government did genuinely care. Yet as far as the NLP line of thinking goes, there is no ‘social disorder’. For them, the current order is pretty tip-top. So what we see here is just more of the same kind of policy that’s shameless, cynical, cruel, wasteful, and useless. I guess it’s not surprising, at least.
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Calling all chocoholics! This is the drink and treat for you!
What You'll Need
1 slice Marie Callender's® Chocolate Satin Pie filling (crust and chocolate curls removed)
3/4 cup milk
1 tablespoon vodka (optional)
2 tablespoons coffee-liqueur (optional)
1 tablespoon Irish cream (optional)
1. Whisk all ingredients together except for Reddi-wip. If the mixture is too thick, add more liquid until desired consistency. Strain if needed.
2. Place in glass with chocolate drizzle down side. Top with Reddi-wip and chocolate curl saved from top of pie.
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Now is the time for a CSA
Updated: Jan 7
Today I signed up for a summer CSA share (Community Supported Agriculture) at Blandford Nature Center, an urban nature center close to my home. This will give me a 21-week allotment of local farm-grown vegetables from June through October http://blandfordnaturecenter.org/farm/. I also plant my own small-space courtyard garden, which is perfect for early baby lettuce, tomatoes, vertically-grown cucumbers, and the herbs I can’t live without like basil, rosemary, and cilantro. But it’s just not enough space to come close to the diversity needed for vegetarian and vegan cooking.
So the CSA is the perfect complement to my small raised-bed garden. Blandford’s 2.5 acre farm grows about forty vegetables and over two hundred varieties and is a convenient stop on my daily path for the once-weekly produce pick-up.
I just saved shopping time, drive time, traffic and parking hassles. I’ll know who is growing my food, and I already feel really great supporting Blandford’s farm. I need to know where my food comes from, that it’s grown locally without chemicals and is not shipped across the country—and my goal is to give as much of my business to local farmers as possible.
2019 is the year to analyze food purchases and habits, how these choices impact the planet and climate change. Where does our food come from? Is it local? Is it sustainably grown? Is it organic or certified as naturally grown? In doing some quick research I discovered there are (at least) twenty-four CSA’s in the greater Grand Rapids area, many with drop-off’s near the city. The local food movement is expanding.
Being healthy and reducing CO2 has a direct connection to our food choices. Choosing locally-grown food, eliminating chemicals, and saving habitat and wildlife is all interconnected. Our local economies, small businesses, and communities benefit and thrive. When it’s this convenient and makes so much sense, I wonder why it took me this long to try a CSA.
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Therefore, this project targets to produce sustainable soil improving products that can be easily handled, transported, and applied. BioEcoSIM will valorise livestock manure as an important example of valuable bio-waste into 1) pathogen-free, P-rich organic soil amendment (P-rich biochar), 2) slow releasing mineral fertilisers and 3) reclaimed water. By doing this, we will i) reduce negative environmental impacts (eutrophication of water bodies, and NH3 and N2O emissions) in intensive livestock regions, ii) help to decrease NH3 produced by the energy-intensive Haber-Bosch process, (iii) mitigate EU’s dependency on the depleting mineral sources for P-fertilisers, (iv) increase water efficiency use in agriculture and (v) support European Strategies and Directives, while generating economic benefits in the agriculture and bio-economy sector.
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How to Raise Bee-Friendly Kids in a Bee-Friendly Environment
Plus, 3 fun printables to get you started
This scene is a common one for're outside enjoying a beautiful day playing in the sun with your kids when a you hear a blood-curdling scream. The culprit? A bee has flown too close to the action, scaring your little one. Sound familiar? Many kids have some level of apprehension around bees and other insects, but they play such an important role in our lives. Consider this: a whopping 33% of our food is made possible by bee pollination. No bees means saying goodbye to many of your favourite fruits, vegetables, nuts, and even your coffee. You have bees to thank for that morning pick-me-up after the kids have been up all night! Happy Bees = Happy Mama.
With the bee population unstable across North America, involving our families to improve the situation has never been more important. So how can you help your bee-shy munchkins to be more comfortable around their flying neighbours? Try these tips to ease them into the idea:
1. Educate them about bees
Knowledge is power, so arm your kids! Show them how to identify the different kinds of bees, and they'll be able to determine which ones - like bumblebees - are very docile, and which ones are more aggressive. Teach them that many bees can't sting at all (males and solitary bees do not sting), and those who can sting, will only do so if afraid or provoked.
2. Help them to understand why bees are so important
Play a game with your children by having them draw all their favourite fruits and vegetables, or go for a walk through your neighbourhood and take pictures of their favourite flowers. Then talk with them about which ones wouldn't grow without the help of the bees. How would their lives (and appetites) be affected if there weren't any bees? Take a look in your fridge and imagine how empty it would be if you took out all of the foods that bees play a part in.
3. Get them comfortable around other insects
Start small by helping them to not panic the next time an ant crawls on their foot or a fly lands on their shoulder. Some kids are freaked out by any type on insect so this is a good place to start. Don't forget that kids look to adults for behaviour cues, so show them that you're comfortable too!
4. Plant wildflowers
Wildflowers are an essential part of a bee's natural habitat, and spring is the best time to plant them. Honey Nut Cheerios recently distributed 115 million wildflower seeds to families across Canada through their Bring Back the Bees program to help in creating bee-friendly environments! You can also stop by your nearest garden centre to pick up seeds or plants. Get your kids to help you choose a sunny spot, turn over the ground (clearing any weeds) and sprinkle the seeds! Give the ground a little pat to compress, but don't bury the seeds. Easy-peasy!
5. Visit a local apiary
A quick Google search will show you where you can go to see bees in action. Hearing an expert talk about how bees work and their importance in our environment, plus seeing them work up close and personally may have a bigger impact on your child.
6. Have fun with bees
There are so many fun bee-themed games and activities you can do with your child. Have a picnic outside and only serve foods that bees pollinate or whip up some bee-topped cupcakes! Create bee puppets out of paper bags, socks or construction paper and Popsicle sticks and put on a play about bees. I've included some bee activity printables here to get you started!
#BringBackTheBees Bingo
#BringBackTheBees Scavenger Hunt
#BringBackTheBees Word Search
Some environmental challenges can seem overwhelming, but this one doesn't have to be. The simple act of planting wildflowers and helping your children to be more comfortable around bees is a big contribution to growing and maintaining healthy bee populations. So get everyone involved in working together and having fun while learning the value of environmental stewardship and the importance of bees to human health.
5 Ways I’d Parent Differently If No One Was Watching
Oh, the freedom
5 Ways I’d Parent Differently If No One Was Watching
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There’s been a lot of buzz these days about some of the choices parents make, and those who judge them. Whether we like it or not, the decisions we make for our children — from the seemingly mundane to the more serious — can face considerable scrutiny, and I know I think twice about many choices I make based on the potential audience. Here are 5 examples of ways I would parent differently if no one was watching:
My seven year-old has approximately two favourite outfits that she would wear in week-long rotations if I let her. In the grand scheme of things, I couldn’t care less what she wears as long as it’s weather appropriate, but in the interest of her not looking terribly neglected and/or destitute, it’s one outfit for one day only.
Parents have really upped their lunch game these days! Naturally, it is important to me to provide healthy food for my kids, and I have no problem doing that. But there have been a few occasions, when I had a newborn or was particularly under the weather that I would have sent my oldest to school with a less than standard lunch had I not been worried about suffering the “lunch shame.”
For my active kid, sitting most of the day at school is painful for her. The last thing I want to do is bring her home and make her sit for another 30+ minutes to do her reading and spelling every night, plus the random projects she has to occasionally do. If we didn’t have to log the homework every time we do it, I’d likely let it slip more often than not.
My kids liked to be naked right from Day One. No matter what the environment, whether just hanging out at home, playing in the backyard or at a friends house, if clothing is optional, it is off. I’m not so strict when no one is around, but societal norms dictate that unless you’re in a nudist colony, some level of clothing is appropriate in all situations, especially when guests are present!
I tend to lean more to the free range style of parenting, and have received more than my fair share of judgemental gazes right from the get-go. I’m perfectly happy to let my 3 year-old go and play in the (fenced in) wooded area of the playground with her big sister and their friends, out of my sight. If I wasn’t worried about the concern of other parents, I’d probably let my older daughter go to the park a block away with some of her older friends, without me being present.
Perhaps I care too much what other people think, but it seems to me that we’re hearing more and more stories of parents turning other parents in for the littlest things. It takes a village to raise a child, but let’s make it a village that comes together and supports one another, not judges each other and tears them down.
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Distance between Bela and Gaya
Bela is one of the Czech_Republic city. It is located at the longitude of 18.137655 and latitude of 49.957655. Gaya is a India city located at the longitude of 84.987655 and latitude of 24.797655 . The total distance between Bela and Gaya is 6292 KM (kilometers) and 788.81 meters. The mile based measurement distance is 3910.2 miles
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Tackling the social menace in Igala land
Igala men and women at an event in Ejule
By Sule Isa Akagwu Kpaleko
The recent happening in Igala nation calls for spiritual cleansing from all perspectives, be it traditional, religious and socio-cultural perspective.
Though going by my faith, I will have accepted whatever that happened as an act of God but the multiple occurrence of events in Igala land needs urgent attention as it may metamorphosis into a disastrous trend.
The genesis of our difficulty was the death of Prince Abubakar Audu which unfortunately changed the mantle of leadership in the state from Igala Nation to other axis. As if that was not enough, our Honorable Minister, a dogged Barrister, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Hon James Ocholi died almost a few months after Prince Audu through a ghastly motor accident, further distabilising the leadership traits of the people of Kogi east.
Indeed Igala Nation is at its trial time, we have lost relevance in the scheme of things both at the state and national level, this assertion might not be accepted by all, but we can make reference to the the following happenings to draw a conclusion: we have no Minister, no Permanent Secretary, no Federal Commissioner, no Ambassador, no top officers in the military and para-military.
Though it is widely accepted that marginalisation is not only bad but painful, and it is even more painful when the majority are been marginalized by the minority.
After the death of these aforementioned illustrious sons of Igala Nation, development, social cohesion and spirit of oneness began to elude us. Envy, hatred, kidnapping, armed robbery, killing, sectionalism and all forms of barbaric activities began their supreme reign in our land.
Politicians have become so desperate for any available political position for their selfish interest, morality has been killed and buried by our generation without remorse, thuggery and cultism activities have become more lucrative and rewarding amongst the youth to the detriment of their certificates.
Let me use some of this conflict resolution approach with social hypotheses devoid of political compromise to ameliorate Igala nation’s challenges to a bearing minimum. This include: Traditional, Religion and Socio-Cultural Approach
Traditional approach: As the name implies, this approach has to do with our traditional institutions, a supposed father of all sons and daughters of Igala origin both at home and in diaspora. In an ideal African society that exhibit our cultural norms and value, the traditional institutions are seen to be sacred, apolitical, fair and just in their dealings, but where the reverse becomes the practice, it brings hatred, division and unrest among the people. A call for unity of purpose by an unjust traditional institution might not see the light of the day, a case study of Igala nation. Nevertheless, the institution can embark on a cleansing exercise to enhance productivity, attitudinal change, peaceful coexistence and prosperity in the land.
Religious Approach: the various denominations in Igala land, the Christians, Muslims, Orthodox, Pentecostal and all the religious houses should take it as a duty to embark on regular sermon against faulty leadership and mal-administration of our leaders and the various social vices that have enveloped our society. There is equally an urgent need for special prayers and fasting session to invoke the Almighty God for the betterment and peaceful coexistence among the people. All the Imams and Pastors must embark on this special prayers for the cleansing of Igala land from the shackles of under-development that have engulfed our land.
Socio-Cultural Approach: The need to embark and revive our cultural heritage to showcase our rich cultural traits and folklore to the world is very crucial at this material time. The ITALO festival needs to be revived as urgent as possible without any political influence as an avenue to itemize our challenges and proffer possible possible solutions. The objective is also to unite all sons and daughters of Igala origin. The EGBE festival at Egume is another heritage that needs international coverage aside the sacrificial theme for the land. The OGANYI festivals at Ankpa and Idah, Ocho and Onoko Festivals and the IBEGU festival across all towns in Igalaland need to be showcased to the world and further enhance our peaceful coexistence.
This call for unity and peaceful coexistence is very crucial for all and sundry to help regain our lost glory in the comity of all ethnic nationalities. The enlightenment program must start from our various homes, family, association, pressure groups, schools, organising lectures and symposiums on the value of human life and the the need to unite for a better tomorrow.
Our people must grow from the retardation of ÒMÀWÈDÈ and take responsibility in the scheme of things, that is the only way our generation can have the replica of Dr Steven Achema (Politics without bitterness), Prince Abubakar Audu (Developmental politics), Alh Jibrin Echocho (Afribank empowerment) Hajia Salamatu Baiwa (FAAN empowerment) Prof. Francis Idachaba (Igala Education Foundation) Dr Ibrahim Wada (IVF inventor) Rear Admiral Jibrin Usman (Okura Naval School) Alh Siaka Alfa (Empowerment) ASTA (empowerment) and other silent sons and daughters of Igala extraction.
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Saturday, February 6, 2010
Men Who Sew: More Thoughts and Theories
Readers, I work in a female-dominated field. (I'm a children's book editor. I don't know if I've ever actually mentioned that here.) Well, let me amend that statement. I work in a field where all the lower and mid-level employees are predominantly female and the majority of the head honchos are men. Interesting, eh? It's similar to the sewing world in many ways - home sewists are women and highly-paid couturiers are men. What I've noticed is that there seems to be a certain amount of delight when men cross over into the lower trenches with the women. I love to fawn over these men, I admit it (as does everyone else). A male editorial assistant! A dude who sews for pleasure! Good god!
So it's been with a lot of delight that many of us are taking notice of the funny and fabulous Peter, who recently started a blog on his garment-sewing adventures called Male Pattern Boldness. (If you don't already read it, become a follower now, please!) Peter wrote an excellent post this week called "Why Johnny Can't Sew."
Peter outlines the ways in which sewing has historically been marketed and targeted toward women. This will come as no surprise to us. But the thought that popped into my head as I was reading it was: This is why all men should be feminists. I don't think it's common for men to recognize the damage that a misogynistic culture does to BOTH genders. In no uncertain terms: it alienates half the population from skills and trades that might be useful and pleasurable to all of us.
Peter also mentions the lack of men's patterns, that we discussed here back in November. When Jeff asked me to make him his Urban Outfitters-inspired jacket I had to radically adapt a men's shirt pattern to make it happen. Peter is pretty adventurous with patterns - 70s caftans, flower-print trousers - so it will be interesting to see how he deals with this lack of patterns as he progresses in his sewing.
But I thought Peter really hit the nail on the head when he asked: "Finally, when we wonder why men don't sew, aren't we really talking about why straight men don't sew?" Bingo! Just take, oh, EVERY season of Project Runway ever televised. There's always that one straight dude who just has to assert his heterosexuality into every conversation. There is a rampant gay panic in our culture that keeps men from sewing, no doubt.
In any case, thanks to Peter for continuing this topic from a dude's point of view. Now I can't resist adding two of my favorite photos of garments he's made.
A corduroy coat for his dog Willy. Could this BE any cuter?
And an LBD for his glamorous "identical cousin" Cathy. She's a woman of mystery!
Check out more of Peter, Willy, and Cathy's adventures at Male Pattern Boldness.
1. my brother ( a marine, and former cop) sews, he makes dresses for his wife and kids, and lingerie , I think we both started sewing out of necessity/ desire for things we couldn't afford. I wish he had time to blog but 2 jobs keeps him from his hobbies.
2. I just discovered Peter recently and, have to say, he's amazing!
1. It's later that same decade, and not only is Peter all that, and more - his adventure continues in deliciously unexpected ways. That said, it is through Peter's blog that I learned of many other creative forces of nature, of which you, K.Line, are one.
3. I also just recently discovered Peter through The Selfish Seamstress. And amazing he is.
4. I just discovered Peter through a comment he left here on your blog, and I love his "Movie Fashion Show" posts. He's a lot of fun to read. :)
5. i have tried on cathy's LBD and it is amazing. i wanted it.
6. I discovered Peter when he left a comment on a dress I posted to Pattern Review - he called my look 'mildly subversive' - I'd never been more pleased with a description of my look!! I think he's fantastic!
7. My husband has always been interested whenever I break out the sewing machine, so finally I showed him how to make a pair of shorts out of pants. (He used to take them to a tailor to have it done.) He was so proud of himself and tells everyone that he "made" those shorts every time he wears them. Sadly, that was his last foray into sewing. I think that if I can become a better sewer and find some awesome shirt patterns (or learn to copy his threadbare '40's shirts) then I could teach him to sew. But, most likely I will hear, as always, "Can you make/fix this for me?" As I always ask "Can you change my oil for me?" Is it wrong? I don't know-I just know that I don't want to change my own oil!
8. My husband sews... not that well, but he does and he enjoys fabrics and clothes.
Also a husband of a couple in a costume guild here makes all of his and his wives costumes, and he's pretty darn good! It's just not that popular I guess...
Maybe because a lot of guys simply aren't *that* interested in clothes.
Historically, and even now, tailoring is a predominately male occupation, but with suits not being the standard for guys these days it is becoming a lost art, unfortunately.
9. I had a similar conversation with my partner just the other day, when he brought up the subject of female electrical apprentices at his work. 'Why would they WANT to do it?' he said. The culture is unaccepting, he said, and he couldn't see why they would want to even try because of that alone. The implication was that rather than the culture changing to accomodate women, the women should just realise that it's not going to work and give up.
The sewing community is, particularly in the lack of decent patterns for men, pretty similar. In order to encourage men to participate, the culture needs to open up, and make more of an effort to appeal to men. And by 'the culture' I mostly mean the pattern and fabric companies, and stores.
10. I taught sewing to 12 year old boys. They have to take a 10 week course. Many of them are very good at it, enjoy it, and are proud of what they make. They just don't ever take a class by choice later on, probably because of the fear of being different, also possibly because most of the patterns out there aren't even stylish for adults, let alone teenagers.
My brother knits, and I taught a college roommate to knit socks for his girlfriend, but I don't think my husband would try sewing or knitting.
11. My husband likes to quilt a little. After I piece it, baste it, mark the lines, select thread, set up the walking foot, and do a few rows of stitching. Then he likes to quilt. He has also expressed interest in the serger.
I think men tend to dominate because... well.. they're men. The same thing happens with chefing. Top chefs are men, but mostly the people bringing meals to the dinner table every night are women. I think it is false to look at this as some sort of slight against women or glass ceiling or whatever, rather I think men can't help themselves. They're hard wired to push the envelope, to build bridges and erect towers and generally over-do everything. As far as I can tell, they do it to impress us. ;)
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13. Hi there.
I sew and knit since I was a little girl. Last winter when my flatmate showed me mitts he liked and asked me, if knitting was difficult and if I could teach him, I was surprised.
Since then there is always something on his needles. And he is just a bit embarrassed when his sister is telling everyone that her brother made her hoodie ;)
Also when I am knitting in public it's mainly men who are fascinated and ask if it was difficult... perhaps there is something changing there. At least there are more men cooking day-to-day by now, too. And after all sewing and knitting is diy.
14. I think the problem for men is not just a dearth of interesting garment patterns, but a dearth of interesting garment choices. Peter is very fortunate to have Cathy to sew for- I crave all her clothes- but don't you find that watching fashion shows of menswear is always either soporific or hilarious? Men's fashion really needs a revolution.
15. You know, I actually have yet to meet, in person, a guy who sews. Even at the sewing conventions I've been to, it's always overwhelmingly female when geared towards the home sewist. I think with the industry geared to appeal to female home sewers, it just doesn't occur to many men to even try. Peter is really the exception, I've found! (Kudos to him for giving sewing a go!) I think unless a specific need comes up that can't be fulfilled in the shops or is too expensive, guys by default just don't think of it. I personally would love to see more guys start sewing as I think everyone would benefit not only from the other perspective and ideas, but also from the resources that would appear to cater to that. Maybe it's just a pie-in-the-sky dream, but who knows? ;)
16. Peter said (somewhere on his blog) that he and Brian were the only men he knew on Pattern Review. It struck me how lonely that must be. Maybe that’s implied in our culture’s lack of acceptance of male sewists, female electrical engineers, and such…but it seems to be a more subtle aspect of trying to break down a barrier. Maybe you are prepared for, or at least aware that there are going to be, insults, incredulity, homophobia, and just plain meanness, but I think maybe the loneliness sneaks up on you.
A non-sewing male friend recently remarked that he thought fabric stores were clique-y, and that “the funny little women who work there don’t really want to help a clueless-looking man.” Of course not every fabric store or person is like that, but I have seen the almost exclusively female staff of my local Jo-Ann’s warily eye any male who is unescorted by a lady. Of course, part of me feels it is the Victorian tables turning—instead of being shunned if I were unescorted by a gentleman in certain establishments, it’s the other way around. But mostly I wondered why they alienated a customer instead of cultivating one, and if I had to face that attitude, I don’t know how long I’d persevere in pursuing sewing.
I do have one male friend who sews. We just took a field trip to Denver Fabrics and I did notice that the staff pretty much let me rifle the bargain cuts without supervision, but kept their eyes on him a bit more. I don’t think he looks like a shoplifter, and, anyway, if anyone could shoplift an entire bolt of silk charmeuse, I would be in awe of their skills. Once they realized he knew what he wanted, they seemed to be less…vigilant. Maybe they are wary of men because they think their (presumed) inexperience will take up more of their time with inane questions? Maybe that has to do, in part, with how high-end the shop is. Now that I think about it, we’ve been to Allyn’s Bridal Fabrics (Denver) a couple of times, and they’ve always treated him exactly the same as they’ve treated me. Perhaps it’s more of a customer service issue, at least in stores.
Also, as has been noted, menswear is really not that exciting. I just saw a book titled “One Hundred Years of Menswear” at the bookstore and asked, “How much difference could there be from the first year of that to the last?” Not much, as it turns out. How is that motivating?
Perhaps the answer is to start a revolution in menswear, although short of introducing skirts on men, I’m not sure what that would look like.
17. I love Peter too. The things that man can do with a bedsheet.
A gal at work confessed to me that her husband sews, but he has sworn her to secrecy because he is so embarrassed. Embarrassed!! Because apparently the ability to build something out of fabric instead of wood or metal is emasculating. Lovely. She's not allowed to tell any of their friends. Man, that bothered me. I don't know her very well so I didn't feel I could pry too far into how her husband came to develop a skill where whatever pride he may feel is apparently tempered with such self-loathing.
18. OK, OK, the guy can sew -- whatever.
Don't you think this Peter guy has gotten just a little too much mileage out of that orange-and-yellow-flowered, award winning (like he'll ever let us forget it) sheet shirt?
Frankly, I'd like to see him change clothes already. My eyes hurt.
19. Gertie,
Uh, yep! In my middle school years, the girls took sewing and cooking and the boys took shop. My younger siblings, no matter what gender, all took shop. So, social practices changed but cooking and sewing were off the agenda. Today, children are offered cooking lessons as a part of life. The gender assignment of this role and job has dropped (or dropping).
I totally agree about the fear of a gay planet aspect of our culture. And, gender roles and assignment are part of the package. In fact, it's interesting that now that cooking can reap great salaries and celebrity, most of the chefs are male. It's now an activity that can reap great financial benefits and it does have to do with the number of males in the profession. And, the gay panic around culinary industry has dropped. But, in the home, cooking remains a major province of women.
Now, I'm not advocating for more male sewists so that men can attain dominance in an industry. I am advocating for us to take a close and hard look at gender roles and assignments. It's not a totally pretty picture.
20. I really don't buy that we have "gender role assignments" in our society. For the love, a woman with a beard has been touted as the first man to give birth. (I know that's a can of worms in itself...) Those sort of barriers do not exist anymore. Sure, lots more women sew than men. Lots more men are electrical engineers than women. Maybe that's just a simple expression of interest, nothing more?
Maybe, just maybe, men and women are completely different on almost every level imaginable. Biologically, neurologically, psychologically. This does not mean that women are better than men or vice versa. Different and equal. Equality does not mean sameness. Also, I think men need space to be men and women need space to be women. This is often expressed through hobbies and interests.
By the same token, when a man comes into our shop he's usually well-taken care of and teased gently, like most other customers. I think a lot of perceived prejudices are actually the projection of an individual's insecurities onto another person.
21. Where I went to school, in the seventh grade all the boys and girls learned to sew, and all the boys and girls learned to saw wood. Most boys just didn't like sewing. And as much as I can remember, very few female eyes lit up at the sight of the saw collection.
22. Well, if gender roles were innate, they would be the same in every culture, and that clearly is not so, so I think that argument goes down the can. Hence even the different words "sex" and "gender", one to denote the physical aspect and one to denote the cultural aspect. It is clear that men and women are different, but the ways of marking that difference are quite variable.
I agree with Peter that Peter has got so much attention that I think we are fetishizing this "man who sews" and it's getting on my nerves a bit. I'm happy he can sew. So can lots of other people. Move on already. Just cause he's a guy doesn't mean I want him to be a celebrity.
Regarding other guys who sew, my brother once made himself a suit jacket as a teenager but doesn't sew any more as far as I know. His then girlfriend taught him. I think that for men the dangers of seeming "emasculated" are a lot more than the dangers for women of taking on male roles, like electrical work or woodshop (I do both, but no one has called me "unfeminine" as yet). For gay men those dangers have perhaps already been faced. You would think the presence of dangerous machinery and sharp objects would help with this problem, requiring strong and noble men with large chins, but apparently not so.
If you look through Western history, clothing the family has nearly ALWAYS been women's work and spinning and weaving have taken huge chunks of women's lives; sewing is a somewhat distant third in the fabric stakes. I believe firmly that most women also direct the buying of clothes for everyone in the household. Our methods have changed, but not our roles.
23. Goodness! Can't I get to wallow in my celebrity a bit before the blowback begins?
It's only been two days!
24. When I watch Project Runway I always laugh at the one straight male designer, who constantly mentions how not gay he is. I think fear of "the gay" keeps a lot of men from trying different things. I'm a private piano and voice teacher by profession, and there is always a huge difference in the number of female vs male students I have. It always makes me sad to see a talented boy give up piano at puberty because he's being made fun of. Of course, it's no different for women who have traditionally "manly" hobbies. I'm the handy one in our family, and have done most of the work fixing up our old house. I am not treated with respect at hardware stores. I come from a knitting background, and there are quite a few men who knit, but not so many straight ones, again I think because of gender roles and fear of "the gay."
25. Wallow, Peter, wallow! I love your blog, your creations, your dogs, your cousin, your machines, and especially your groovy vintage sheets. :-)
26. Ah, but one comment is hardly blowback, surely. Enjoy your wallow, Peter.
27. This is a great discussion! I guess I've never really thought much about it - when I was in design school there was a pretty 50/50 balance between men and women in my classes, and of course all the men could sew. Then again - it was fashion school - so yes, about 90% of the men in my classes were gay. But honestly, I've always known a few men who sew as "home sewers" for themselves or others. It's just another practical skill (very practical) that I think too many men are missing out on due to societal pressure to be "manly". So dumb! Then again - if you take a look at industrial stitchers, there are quite a few men who sew in factories to support their families... again, coming from an industry standpoint there isn't really a dearth of male stitchers. On the local homefront - check out my friend Jerry Lee - he makes custom western wear and is constantly exploring sewing equipment and processes. His girlfriend does not sew, from what I understand, and he makes her a lot of clothing. His blog is a bit bare, but check out his Etsy shop :)
28. Love Peter's blog. While I love all of my fellow female sewists, it is nice to have that male perspective out there.
29. My father-in-law (a retired RAF radar engineer and college lecturer) used to sew my MILs gowns for Mess Dinners and other black tie events. He had never sewn a stitch in his life before he whipped up her first satin boned confection.
She was the envy of all the other wives and always won the "best dressed" competition.
It's good to see Peter keeping up the good work with his glamorous outfits, both for himself and 'Cathy'!
30. I've just discovered your blog and love this post. I'm sharing it with my boyfriend who has been begging me to learn to sew with him for the longest time. I think I might finally give in to lessons.
31. Sewing machines are power tools, aren't they? ;-)
I read somewhere that Tom Silva, one of the contractors on "This Old House," used to sew clothing for his daughter before he got so busy being on PBS. He said that following a sewing pattern is really just like following building plans, anyway.
32. I have a six-year-old, and it's my intention that he be able to cook AND sew before he grows up and leaves home. He's got quite an interest in costuming and cosplay (which admittedly is the majority of my sewing too), so we've got a good start there. Everyone should be able to do such basic things, and then follow through or not depending on interest - not gender.
33. I'm a 6'7", 235 lb. broad shouldered, deep voiced, straight guy, and I have absolutely no problem admitting that I sew.
When you point out that a sewing machine really is just a power tool, and that using it to make something out of fabric really is no different than using power tools to make something out of metal or wood, quite often I see a dawning realization come over other guys. You end up with something very useful in the end. There is just a profound satisfaction in creating something yourself, whether it's a piece of furniture or a garment.
You will find a lot of men who sew in the backpacking world. Tents, tarps, sleeping bags, hammocks, backpacks, rain gear, etc.
I know former British Royal Marine Commandos, German anti-terrorist cops, US Army Special Forces, Airborne riggers, Marine Scout Snipers, etc. that sew pouches, belts, armoured plate carriers, chest webbing, holsters, backpacks, ghillie suits, etc. I don't think anyone would mistake them as "effeminate."
I'm currently trying to learn more about sewing clothes (a whole other ball of wax), and I really wish there were more patterns out there for mens clothing. There is a profound lack of them. I need to learn more about patterns for the pants that I want to make, and all the books I have found deal with womens clothing. I will learn as much as I can from them, but it would be easier if there was more out there for men.
Oh and I have a T-shirt from with the slogan "Chicks Dig Guys That Sew" on the back. Well, that's what I like to tell myuself anyway. :-)
34. I think sewing has a marketing problem. I am learning to sew, but I often refer to my new hobby as "textile hacking" when conversing with my technology-obsessed friends. I do it not because I am embarrassed or homophobic, but really just to generate interest. Guys are more likely to respond to that which involves technology, tools and innovation, and will typically yawn at all things "domestic" or "practical". I myself only became interested when rearranging some furniture opened up a 1950 15-91 Singer and discovered what an amazing machine it is.
35. As an historical re-enactor and "costumist", I not only sew but tailor, and, yes, I am thoroughly hetrosexual.
I, too, decry, a lack of good sewing patterns (I make most of my own) for gentlemen, especially in the areas of dress trousers and coats. Sadly, most of what comes up on the market are horrible 1970s funky clothes or beach togs...useless!
I'll follow these associated blogs to learn more about my "peers" in the home rag trades.
36. While I don't know any men who do sew, I have to say I have a couple of male muses. One is my husband who is an accomplished artist and writer. The other is another older gentleman who spent his life as a florist but who's family was active in the garment industry while he was growing up. He often has incredibly helpful suggestions. So thank you, Walt (husband) and thank you, Bert (friend).
37. Well I'm a guy and I sew. I got into it to make my son a SpongeBob costume because all of the ones out there looked cheap to me. I've hemmed pants for my wife. I am working on his costume right now for this year. I've never really tried to sew anything for myself. It may be fun, but as of now I'm 100% on costume making. I enjoy it and everyone at work can't believe I made something like that when I'm done. Yup the chicks dig I ended up having to buy (at least that's the excuse I'm using) an embroidery machine to assist with this years costume. I'm really enjoying using the software for it to do pretty much anything I can think up. Besides I can make money with doing embroidery on the side to offset the costs. It's amazing how much these costumes end up costing for a 3 y/o when you buy new toys for every costume. lol One of these days I might try making a shirt or something. Who knows, your only held back ny your imagination.
38. I have always sewn. when i was small my mother helped me sew sample patches on her Necchi BU. In junior high i altered my own trousers. the night before i was married i helped my with hemm her wedding dress. My mother inn law was blown away. raising a family i never had time but at sixty im planning my return. first a dress shirt and then?
I need my own sewing machine It bugs my wife when i start tearing hers apart because i dont like the way it is running. i really like the old cast iron machines but i'm not locked in. im considering a new one with a lexan frame. as far as changing oil my wife never does it but my daughters no how
39. I wouldn't consider it homophobic for a straight man who sews to make a regular point of indicating his sexual orientation. By being outspoken like this it serves as an encouragement to other straight males that they are not as much the minority as they might think.
Conservative and professional sewing patterns for men would be a very exciting find. I'm starting in on my first sewing project, and it seems unless it's for historical reenactment there are just no quality patterns out there for a man to wear in public. Again, this might be due to me being completely new to sewing, but this article suggests I'm not too far off the mark.
40. My uncle Phil is now a retired police oficer. about twenty five years ago he married a woman with an eight year old daughter who was a competitive figure skater. Phil began taking sewing classes and designing ice skating outfits for Jamie. His S.W.A.T. team buddies were not only supportive, they held fund raisers for her skating club. Jamie is an adult now with children of her own, and Phil teaches traffic school and sews curtains and and custom sofa covers when he isn't at the range shooting things.
41. Hi Everyone! I know this is an old post but I'm a television producer working on a new sewing competition series. We are looking for amateur sewers who would like to be on the show. We are specifically looking for men! If you know anyone who might be interested please feel free to get in touch at: Thanks so much!
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An academic paper with a false claim
In July of this year, a group of academics including Benjamin Sovacool published a paper that reviewed the electricity-supply mixes of various European nations and concluded that “…intensities of national commitment to nuclear power tend to be inversely related to degrees of success in achieving EU climate policy goals.” In other words, the paper claimed that nuclear power doesn’t help nations fight climate change.
As you can imagine, this paper was widely celebrated among anti-nuclear groups. Here’s a blog post based on the paper: New Study Shows How Clinging to Nuclear Power Means Climate Failure. And here’s a link to the original Sovacool paper: which has been retracted. The retraction is a victory for scientific truth, for nuclear advocacy, and for careful review work by several people. Especially notable among the reviewers was graduate student Nicholas Thompson.
The Thompson Analysis
Nicholas Thompson wasn’t sold on the Sovacool paper, noticing that it was 21 pages long, but rather light on data. Thompson wrote a short letter to Sovacool asking for some clarifications. For example, the starting years and time periods for the various comparisons seemed inconsistent with the paper’s stated conclusions. While waiting for a definitive response from Sovacool, Thompson read of other responses to the paper, and also read that the paper’s authors had looked back at their data and found that they had used some incorrect numbers. However, at that point, the authors apparently thought that some simple fixes would lead to a more accurate paper, and the conclusions would not change. Thompson decided to do a more complete analysis of the paper.
Instead of going blow-by-blow through the various correspondences between Thompson and Sovacool, I will instead refer to Thompson’s first blog post on this subject: A Response to Lawrence, Sovacool and Stirling. Suffice it to say that eventually the authors withdrew the article, as documented in Thompson’s second blog post on the subject: Response from Lawrence, Sovacool and Stirling and Statement of Article Withdrawal. After an initial attempt to fix the articles, Sovacool wrote “In summary, NT [Nicholas Thompson] is correct that our article contains flaws that invalidate the analysis.”
The retraction was noted in the blog Retraction Watch and in some pronuclear blogs, such as Nukes pretty please.
Credit to Sovacool and his co-authors
In recent weeks, pro-nuclear advocates have seen anti-nuclear academics respond to well-documented criticisms by–blocking the critic on Facebook and Twitter. Indeed, on one of my pro-nuclear email lists, “blocked by….” is a badge of honor. In contrast, Sovacool and his group had an honest and thoughtful response to Thompson’s critique. They deserve credit for this.
What we can learn from the Thompson analysis
Nicholas Thompson
Thompson’s analysis also shows the power of careful reasoning and thoughtful analysis.
I must note that Thompson didn’t just “do the numbers.” He “did the numbers” and then he shared the numbers on his blog posts, and with the authors of the paper. If the authors had not responded in a reasonable way (which they did), he would have been positioned to take his careful analysis and submit it to an academic journal.
In my opinion, Thompson’s work on this topic is an important part of advocacy. When an academic journal publishes an article that supposedly shows that nuclear doesn’t help with climate change, people opposed to nuclear power are handed ammunition for many of their claims. Thompson took that ammunition out of their hands.
Thompson didn’t just “do the numbers,” he did the follow-up. Numbers plus follow-up–that’s the combination that can make a difference.
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[HanCinema's Drama Review] "Triangle - Drama" Episode 11
There's a nice contrast here between the physical appearance of the prison and Yeong-dal's attitude. So far as we can see, it's a relatively pleasant place. Outside people are playing soccer, and inside they're playing Go. Then Yeong-dal shows up and starts a fight for no reason. The man is deadset on living out his gangster fantasy wherever possible, and quickly learns that while prisoners aren't as vicious as they are in the movies, they still have very little patience for rude aggressiveness.
What's really sad about the whole situation is that Yeong-dal's partners in crime are clearly not as well prepared for prison life as Yeong-dal. They spend most of the episode whimpering and begging for mercy, even when they're not in any real danger. The way the story completely grinds to a halt here is- well, pretty much everything about the drama to date, actually, although the long awaited moment of humility for Yeong-dal certainly deserves time enough to breathe.
By contrast, Yang-ha clearly hasn't learned anything from his experiences, having apparently decided that he's won and is now free to go after what he wants- Jeong-hee. The way he ostentatiously throws his power around is very unbecoming, and makes his comparison to Yeong-dal all the stronger. Had the situation gone the other way, it's very easy to see Yeong-dal would be behaving in a similarly arrogant fashion.
Too bad for Yang-ha that Jeong-hee digs humility. I think that's what's attracting her to Yeong-dal in spite of all the warning signs. Yeong-dal is, by nature, constantly at the bottom of his luck. Regardless of whether his goals or noble ones or whether he'd at all be a decent person if he succeeded in them, it's easy to root for Yeong-dal and feel sorry for him. The man's main struggle at this point is realizing that just because he's the underdog doesn't mean all his actions are inherently heroic.
Outside the prison the main action comes in the form of Dong-soo resorting to less than ethical tactics in order to expose the situation to people who might be able to help out. Even though this is the most action-oriented part of the episode we get, I don't know that I was really all that impressed by it. "Triangle - Drama" deals with this incredibly elaborate interconnected character web, but most of the time not all of them can be exciting simultaneously. Which is as just as well, since they can't all be boring at the same time either.
Review by William Schwartz
"Triangle - Drama" is directed by Choi Jeong-gyoo, Yoo Cheol-yong, written by Choi Wan-gyoo and features Lee Beom-soo, Kim Jae-joong, Im Si-wan, Oh Yun-soo, Baek Jin-hee, Kim So-hyun.
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Counting Employees in Classes
by Allen Wyatt
(last updated June 27, 2020)
Beth was looking for a way to determine how many employees had taken at least ten classes that were offered at her company. She set up Excel so that column A (beginning at A2) contained employee names, and column B (beginning at B2) contained class names. When an employee took a class, their name was entered in column A, and the name of the class they took was placed in column B. Thus, column A would contain multiple instances of each employee's name, and column B would contain multiple instances of class names.
The question of how to determine when an employee had taken ten classes can best be answered by using the COUNTIF function. For instance, the following formula could be entered in each cell of column C:
=IF(COUNTIF(A:A,A2)>9,"10 classes or more","")
In order to use the formula correctly, this particular instance would be placed in cell C2 and then copied down in the rest of column C's cells. This causes the A2 reference in the formula to change so that it always references the cell two columns to its immediate left. (The formula in C2 references A2, the formula in C3 references A3, etc.)
Using this formula, when a particular person has taken their tenth class—meaning that their name appears in column A for the tenth time—then column C fills up with the phrase "10 classes or more" next to each class that particular person took. This is great, except when a bunch of different employees start crossing the ten-class threshold. Then column C starts to look cluttered.
To overcome the clutter, a variation on the above approach is to use the following formula in the cells of column C:
=IF(COUNTIF($A$2:A2,A2)>9,"10 classes or more","")
In this instance, the COUNTIF function doesn't look at every cell in column A; instead it looks at the cells in column A that are in rows less than or equal to the row in which the formula occurs. Thus, if this formula was in row 8, then COUNTIF would only look at rows 2 through 8 in doing its count. The result is that the phrase "10 classes or more" only appears in column C when a particular employee has passed the ten-class mark. It will not appear for instances where the employee was taking their first, second, third, and up to their ninth classes.
Finally, the employee class table can be made just a bit fancier, and you can see exactly how many classes each employee has taken. If columns A and B still contain names and classes, you could place a single instance of each employee name in the first rows of column D, leaving column C blank. In column E you can place the following formula to the right of each employee name:
The result is that column E contains the number of instances of the name in column D that appears in column A. In other words, you have a count of how many classes each employee has taken. You could then use conditional formatting on the cells in column D so that they are shown in red if the count in column E is 10 or more.
ExcelTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Excel training. This tip (10345) applies to Microsoft Excel 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Excel in Office 365. You can find a version of this tip for the older menu interface of Excel here: Counting Employees in Classes.
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2020-06-28 22:13:45
Tom D Santi
Interesting tip. I'm curious why you wouldn't just run a pivot table counting the instances of each name in column A (row would be Name; values would be count of Name). Then sort the pivot table high to low based on the counts of the names.
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Prenatal Yoga: For a Blissful Pregnancy!
Prenatal Yoga: For a Blissful Pregnancy!
Here is how to reduce mental stress during pregnancy and prepare for labour
Pregnancy is a time when your body needs extra care and support. Everything you eat and do needs to be monitored. Having a healthy diet is just as important as physical exercise and mental well being.
What is prenatal yoga?
Yoga is an ancient science, with its origin dating back thousands of years in the Indian culture. It involves meditation, breathing exercises (‘pranayama’), and stretching exercises (‘asanas’).
Yoga helps in maintaining harmony between a sound mind and healthy body. Where physical exercise exhausts your body, yoga helps in creating self-awareness of one’s body and mind.
Among the different types of yoga practices, prenatal yoga involves exercises that are safe and beneficial during pregnancy. It helps in keeping the mother relaxed during pregnancy. It also prepares the body for labour by strengthening the required muscles.
Prenatal yoga benefits
The beneficial effects of prenatal yoga during pregnancy are being widely accepted worldwide. Various research studies have also shown the beneficial effects of prenatal yoga for pregnancy. Some of the most prominent healthful effects include the following:
1. Yoga is an effective line of treatment for commonly observed depression during pregnancy. Prenatal yoga is safe during pregnancy and easily doable by women. Yoga calms down a restless mind and helps in overcoming anxiety. Scientific studies have demonstrated that pregnant women suffering from depression show positive changes in their behaviour and are able to handle stress efficiently after joining prenatal yoga classes.
2. Prenatal yoga has shown to improve behaviour of babies born to mothers who have practiced prenatal yoga as against babies born to mothers who have undergone a stressful pregnancy and did not practice prenatal yoga.
3. Prenatal yoga exercises decrease anxiety, pain, and stress. They also improve sleep during pregnancy.
4. Prenatal yoga plays a major role in achieving normal delivery as it strengthens the muscles of the back, thighs and pelvis. It increases the flexibility of these muscles, which is essential for childbirth.
5. Prenatal yoga lowers the intensity of common symptoms of pregnancy such as morning sickness, back pain and difficulty in breathing.
6. Prenatal yoga does not cause any harm in expectant mothers suffering from high blood pressure, diabetes or thyroid disorders during pregnancy.
7. Prenatal yoga decreases post-delivery pain and helps the mother to adapt to the new role both physically and mentally.
It is safe to start prenatal yoga for beginners during pregnancy under the supervision of a qualified yoga trainer.
What is a prenatal yoga class?
A prenatal yoga class consists of three basic components of yoga: breathing techniques, body stretching exercises and meditation. The yoga instructor encourages you to practice all the three components during a yoga session, which generally lasts for 1 hour.
Breathing technique involves focusing your attention on slow and deep breathing (in and out) through the nose. Body stretching exercises consist of gentle stretching of muscles of the neck, back and arms.
Prenatal yoga poses include different postures attained while sitting, standing and lying on the ground. These help in increasing the strength and stamina of the body muscles. Cushions, blankets, etc. are used for providing comfort and support while performing yoga.
Finally, in the stage of relaxation, one has to rest the body to bring the heart rate and breathing to normal. The mind should be focused on processes of the body and should be devoid of other thoughts. This helps to calm the mind.
A prenatal yoga DVD, which is readily available in the market, can be used to practice prenatal yoga at home. A good prenatal yoga teacher can help you ease the pregnancy journey.
Prenatal yoga training precautions:
1. Certain yoga styles are not recommended during pregnancy.
• These include Bikram yoga or hot yoga, which involves practicing yoga poses in a heated room (38 to 43 °C). This is likely to cause a condition called hyperthermia.
• Power yoga involves strenuous stretching exercises that are not safe to be performed during pregnancy.
2. Avoid poses that involve lying on your back or belly. Avoid excessive twisting movements that might exert pressure on your abdomen. Avoid bending your back; instead bend from your hips to maintain a normal posture of your spine.
3. Avoid over-exercising. Practice prenatal yoga only to the limit that your body can tolerate comfortably.
4. Practice yoga in well-ventilated rooms or in the open and stay well hydrated by drinking plenty of fluids.
5. Consult your doctor in case of pain, abnormal vaginal discharge, changes in the movements of baby etc.
Also read: Top 5 Prenatal Yoga Classes in Mumbai!
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A new study has found that a compound in green tomatoes, tomatidine, not only boosts muscle growth and strength, it protects against muscle wasting caused by illness, injury or aging. A research team at the University of Iowa found that healthy mice given supplements containing tomatidine grew bigger muscles, became stronger and could exercise longer. Even better, the mice did not gain any weight due to a corresponding loss of fat, suggesting that the compound may also have potential for treating obesity. Nice bonus.
The research team used a systems biology tool called the Connectivity Map to identify tomatidine and discovered it stimulated growth of cultured human muscle cells. (The same screening method previously identified a compound in apple peel as a muscle-boosting agent – but green tomatoes were found to be even more potent.) In fact, the team discovered that tomatidine generates changes in gene expression that are essentially opposite to the changes that occur in muscle cells when people are affected by muscle atrophy.
“Green tomatoes are safe to eat in moderation. But we don’t know how many green tomatoes a person would need to eat to get a dose of tomatidine similar to what we gave the mice,” study chief Dr. Christopher Adams said in a statement “We also don’t know if such a dose of tomatidine will be safe for people, or if it will have the same effect in people as it does in mice. We are working hard to answer these questions, hoping to find relatively simple ways that people can maintain muscle mass and function, or if necessary, regain it.”
The end goal is “science-based supplements,” or even simply incorporating tomatidine “into everyday foods to make them healthier.”
Muscle atrophy, or muscle-wasting, is a significant health issue. It can be caused by aging, injury, cancer or heart failure and makes people weak and fatigued, prohibits physical activity and predisposes them to falls and fractures. It affects more than 50 million Americans annually, including 30 million elderly.
Exercise can help but it’s not enough and is not an option for those who are ill or injured, Adams said.
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Here, under the hundreds of bangled umbrellas, you will find lots of different cafes and hide from the scorching sun.
How to have a lunch on the Umbrella street in Antalya
Walking through the old Kaleiçi district turn to the famous umbrella street to take a break from the heat and have a lunch in one of these cozy cafes.
Cafes on Umbrella street
Photo: Cafes on Umbrella street, © the oficial Umbrella street's page on facebook
How to do?
1. First of all take awesome photo of the hundreds of bangled umbrellas.
2. Choose the cafe and order cold tea or, may be, a glass of beer.
3. Have lunch under the shade of colored umbrellas.
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#1Kaleiçi district in AntalyaKaleiçi district
This old district is like "mini Turkey" with it's old mosques, hammans, the bustling market and intricate Turkish architecture.
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#10Visit the ancient thermae in AntalyaVisit the ancient thermaeoddviser
When the Romans ruled Perge, emperors and the richest citizens had a rest in this superb place - thermae.
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#7Sit on the ruins of the Termessos city in AntalyaSit on the ruins of the Termessos cityoddviser
An impregnable ancient city among the mountains will give you a sea of emotions and a beautiful views.
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#2Fry marshmallows in Chimera fires in AntalyaFry marshmallows in Chimera firesoddviser
The chimera's lights are streams of flame escaping from the ground, which you can not only see, but also use to fry your favorite sweets on them :)
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How I became Lizzy Bennet
Being Elizabeth Bennet: Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventure
By Emma Campbell Webster
Atlantic Books, pp.352
Do you remember the choose-your-own-adventure books that squatted brazenly on the school library shelves?
Those laminated interlopers that enticed you with their E-number colour schemes and promises of author-sanctioned page-skipping privileges? How they mocked the “serious” titles and their obsession with education, improvement and the beauty of language. Literature is always outgunned by populism.
Emma Campbell Webster’s debut operates on much the same principle of literary debasement, albeit with higher aspirations; it is learned populism. Being Elizabeth Bennet: Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventure gets in on the Soppy Jane racket, the highly profitable mushing of England’s sharpest wit into sentimental romances for television and cinema.
You, dear reader, are Elizabeth Bennet, headstrong and observant heroine of Pride and Prejudice, daughter of an ambitious mother, harried by time and tradition to nab a fitting suitor, and locked in a sniping courtship with the abrasive Mr Darcy.
You must use your judgement to navigate the treacherous terrain of early 19th century polite society. Which paths will you take, which romantic overtures accept and decline, whom will you visit and whom avoid? After every few pages of largely loyal prose, Webster throws up a fork in Austen’s plot and allows you to embark on a course of your choosing, thus altering the destiny of Miss Bennet and her acquaintances.
To zing things up a little, characters from other Austen novels wander into the Pride and Prejudice story and get involved in the action — like the fond daydream of a dozing postmodernist literature professor.
“Your mission,” Webster elaborates, “is to marry both prudently and for love, eluding undesirable suitors and avoiding family scandals which would almost certainly ruin any hope of a financially advantageous marriage for you or any of your sisters.” Regrettably, the interactivity principle doesn’t allow you to refuse this modest mission in favour of, say, taking Elizabeth off to Westminster to preempt the suffragette movement, perhaps while attending university and going outdoors without a male companion.
No, you must remain unassuming and proper and covered at the ankles, that you may attract a gentleman of a good few thousand pounds annually — and then? Reader, you marry him. Webster’s running commentary curbs any more radical life plans. When, in a subplot imported from Mansfield Park, you decline to perform in an amateur production, Webster congratulates your modesty. “There is nothing more immoral than a woman on the stage,” she writes, rather giving genocide, rape and third-world famine an unfair hearing. “Collect ten intelligence points for your superior sense of decorum.” Yes, fair maiden, you are awarded points for your ladylike judgement and for correctly answering questions on embroidery and needlework.
There is little irony to be detected in Webster’s counsel. You get the feeling she has come down with literary Stockholm syndrome — so giddy to rearrange the pieces on Austen’s chessboard that her critical distance takes its leave.
Her last-minute inclusion of the option to decline marriage in favour of authoring sardonic novels on the vicissitudes of hubby-hunting seems promising — until it directs you back to page one, locking you eternally in this Goldberg trap of premodern gender roles. This is more than a denial of feminism: it is the repudiation of intelligence.
The book is nakedly pitched at the post-Bridget Jones market and could be successful, if only as a Christmas stocking filler. That is by no means a shameful ambition, but it does feel like a waste. Webster’s knowledge of Austen reaches beyond that of an opportunist writer out to shift books. The skill with which she introduces other Austen characters into Elizabeth’s story marks an adept writer with a hardy grasp of her subject’s canon. i sense — and I could be wrong — that Webster has another, better Austen title in her, one that demands her understanding and appreciation of the author.
What a pity, then, that she has chosen to reduce some of the greatest novels in English literature to a middle-market offering of erudite froth.
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Tracking your Zzzzs
Ahhh sweet sleep. Some mornings when I wake up and remember that I have a long, possibly tiring day ahead I find myself already thinking blissful thoughts of what it feel like to crawl back in to bed.
We’ve all heard how important sleep is to our overall health and wellbeing; but many of us (myself included) may not always make quality sleep (length and restfulness) a priority all of the time like we should. Since I have been in the more traditional working world for the last 2 years and in a quite regimented “8-to-5” position for the last year my schedule and when I wake and sleep each day tends to stay very consistent.
When I was in college (and DEFINITELY not on a normal sleep schedule) I started using an app called SleepCycle to track my sleep and its quality/length each night. I really enjoyed using the app at the time and it gave me good insights in to how well I was actually resting each night. I’m not sure why but somewhere along the way I stopped consistently using it and then stopped using it all together. A few weeks ago while I was reading an article online about sleep quality and it’s importance for your health I remembered this app and immediately downloaded it so I could begin using it again.
The scope and purpose of this app is quite simple. Each night when you are getting ready to go to sleep you go in to the app and select your desired wake time. For me, on work days, I like to wake up at 6:45 AM. When I select this in the app it automatically corrects to a range of time and says “Wake me up between 6:15 AM and 6:45 AM”. What the app does is monitors your sleep cycle and the alarm will begin to go off anywhere within that half hour period when you are in your lightest stage of sleep.
Some of you may be wondering “Why does that matter?” The creators of the app and many others have found that when we are woken up in our lightest stage of sleep we tend to have a better start to our day because we were woken more naturally and during a time when we were already in a light sleep state. When we set a traditional alarm to go off at a very specific time it will go off exactly then but it’s possible that we will be in the middle of a heavier state of sleep. When this happens and we wake up to the alarm we tend to feel more groggy and probably crankier, too!
Since starting to the use the app again these last few weeks I have noticed that I feel better rested when I wake up each morning and not as cranky because I am given the opportunity to wake up more slowly and the app is waking me up at a time that is naturally good for me! Some mornings it has been waking me between 6:15-6:20 and even though that is 25-30 minutes before my “usual” alarm I have felt better and more prepared for the day.
What may be my favorite part of this app is the “sleep graph” that you can look at from each night of sleep. The app uses your microphone from your phone to monitor and decipher what “stage” of sleep you are in throughout the night. The less sound you are producing the deeper sleep you are in (dream state, deep sleep, REM sleep). As you move around or make more sound you are coming out of a cycle and closer to the “waking” stage. The graphs show you the peaks and valleys of each night’s sleep and also give you a total time in bed and a quality (in percentage rating) of sleep. It also averages out your number of hours of sleep for the week.
Here is an example of my highest and lowest quality rated nights of sleep from this past week:
You can see on the left in my lowest quality night of sleep for the week how even thought I went very quickly into deep sleep at 2 and 4 in the morning I was awake for brier periods of time before falling into sleep and deep sleep again. On the right is my highest quality night from last week. Here I went in to deep sleep fairly quickly also and then continued to stay in either regular or deep sleep until about 4 AM.
As you can see there is a “snore” tracker as well and I am thankful to see that I spend zero minutes snoring each night!!! If you are someone who might snore or snores depending on your quality of sleep this would be a way to know that since the microphone would pick that up for you.
All in all I am hoping to use this app consistently in order to keep track of my quality of sleep and what might affect that. You can also add “sleep notes” after each night of sleep if you would like to. I have added things like type of exercise I completed that day, how many steps I had, whether I ate well or made not as good of choices. That way when I look back I will be able to see if there are correlations between my lower quality nights of sleep and the behaviors/choices I made the day prior.
If you are interested in learning more about the app you can follow this link or download it in your app store to give it a try tonight 🙂 The app is free and you can choose to upgrade to a premium version for additional features. Thanks so much for reading and I hope you all have a great week filled with great nights of sleep!!
xoxo Jen
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Our Unconventional Journey Begins
Nov 22, 2019
The history of Unconventional Distillery
Starting the Unconventional Distillery has been a labour in time, patience, love, learning and creating. We wanted to begin with something different and yet adaptable for future projects and ideas, so starting with the still I went on numerous courses where I fell down learning ‘rabbit holes’, studying what, where and why things are done in a certain way across the world. One of the overriding things we found in this industry is that no one talks to each other. People are changing that but it is slow. Our eyes were opened up by a guy named Jesse who runs a channel called ‘Still it’ on YouTube. He is a great guy and really shared his journey which allowed us to learn and make mistakes along the way ‘with him’, almost. The comments section has also become a great way to pick up tips and ideas. So, the time came to invest and build our base, we rented a premises for housing the still and embarked on a trip to Ireland and London, followed by numerous emails to China. We had no help in negotiating trades and procedures and it was very much a cross your fingers and hope it arrives!
The still
We decided on a reflux column still as it is used in rum but it is not the conventional way. A column still is traditionally used to get the purest ethanol (alcohol) out of your product which is the clearest neutral spirit you can make. Rum is traditionally created in pot kettle stills in a traditional copper alembic fashion. This produces a product that is rougher and sweeter than a traditional spirit. We went a different way and by doing this we wanted to create a purer and cleaner rum than ever before. It is very technical and one day I will write out the journey and science behind it but for now onwards…
So, we have our still, we have our sugars and yeasts, now we need to make it. We set about making it, however through our innocence we started using the still like a pot still rather than a column, which is a simple mistake but still a learning experience. Running the spirit straight through the column negates the idea of the column so after twisting a few knobs and levers we got it flowing to send the good stuff up and the bad stuff down. Now (months later) we can safely say that we have produced an incredibly smooth spirit through enhancements made by our still, and we have the knowledge to take it to new levels of taste and complexity. We have expanded into 6 boundary-defying varieties; Original (white) Pioneer (pink), Time Machine, Pathfinder (0%), OPUS (overproof) and XO Coffee.
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What is THCA
If you thought THC was the be all and end all with cannabis…well, you’re not exactly in the minority. For millions of stoners all over the world, all that matters is THC. And plenty of it. The greater the THC concentration, the more intense the high. Which for a lot of people really is where the buck stops.
To such an extent that they’re completely unaware of the fact that THC doesn’t actually start out as THC at all. Nor it is known for getting you high in its initial guise.
You know the growing craze for eating raw cannabis? Or at least, making all manner of edibles from fresh, uncured and uncooked pot? Well, it all comes down to a cannabinoid acid that goes by the name of THCA. Which is present in high doses in raw cannabis, fresh from the plant. In fact, it often comprises 20% of the entire bud.
Confused much?
You won’t be – let’s take a closer look at THCA and how it differs from THC.
What Is THCA?
When looking to get high, there’s one thing that stays the same with every approach to cannabis consumption. Which is, that the cannabis has to be heated to a certain temperature at some point before consumption. You could set fire to bud, cook up some concentrate or vape – all following the same basic principle of heating cannabis.
When you take a big nug of weed, heat it and put it in your body in some way, you get high. The THC does its business and away you go. But what if you went back in time and ate the same chunk of cannabis, right from the plant? How would the experience differ?
The answer – you probably wouldn’t get high at all.
Before being heated, those glistening cannabis trichomes are packed with compounds called cannabinoid acids. One of these acids is tetrahydrocannabinolic acid – aka THCA. THCA being the substance that’s responsible for the creation of THC when the cannabis is heated.
Cannabis taken straight from the plant has little to no THC in it whatsoever. Which means you could eat a full pound of the flower and feel nothing at all…other than sick. Instead, there’s plenty of THCA ready and waiting to do the business. In its natural form, THCA is non-psychoactive. Hence, it doesn’t get you high. But this all changes with the application of heat.
When you heat cannabis in any manner you choose, a process known as decarboxylation begins. Which in layman’s terms is a chemical reaction which sees THCA converted into THC. So despite being so different, they’re technically the same. At least, in terms of their origins. The THC will get you every bit as high as you want to be – something all the THCA in the world cannot do.
So the simple answer to the question – THC is merely a by-product of THCA.
But despite the fact that THCA has little appeal in the eyes of most consumers, it’s nonetheless becoming an increasingly trendy commodity. A growing number of people all over the world are harnessing the apparent power and potential of raw cannabis for a number of reasons.
How THCA Is Used?
Research suggests that when raw cannabis is consumed with no heating or processing, it delivers more than 1,000 times more beneficial cannabinoids than when consuming prepared or heated cannabis. On the flipside, some argue that it is more usable for the human body, which is why it gets to work so fast and has such a powerful effect. In any case, the world’s appetite for it is growing like never before.
If you’d like to give it a try for yourself, you’re not short of options by any means. If you really wanted to, you could simply chow down straight from the plant. Not that we’d recommend it, of course. Instead, you might want to try blending it down and making it into a smoothie, using it to make warm tea, throwing it into a juicer or simply tossing over anything you fancy as a garnish.
The Benefits of THCA
As you’re probably aware, research into both THC and CBD is still pretty woeful. And will remain as such until lawmakers make it easier for researchers to do what they do best. As such, it’s hardly surprising that research into the potential benefits of THCA is thin on the ground to say the least.
That said, pretty much every study that’s been carried out to date has drawn direct links between THCA and a wide variety of health benefits. In fact, one study reported that THCA has a better and wider-reaching effect on the human endocannabinoid system (ECS) than both CBD and THC. Which would seem to suggest that in medical cannabis stakes, THCA could be the next big thing.
It’s just, we won’t know for sure until the relevant studies are carried out.
In the meantime, just a few of the potential benefits of THCA highlighted in a variety of studies to date include the following:
1. Anti-cancer
It’s no secret that cannabis in a variety of forms has long been heralded as a potentially effective treatment for cancer. Not only its prevention, but in some cases the reversal of the disease. A few years ago, a study looking specifically at the properties and effects of THCA deemed it an effective treatment for prostate cancer. There’s also growing evidence to suggest that THCA can reduce a person’s cancer risk in the first place. But once again, far more intensive research is required.
2. Insecticide Use
The cannabinoids in cannabis plants do a great job deterring bugs and unwanted pests. It’s something of a natural defence and immune system for the plant in one. Believe it or not, researchers can see a future where THCA makes its way into all manner of insect repellents for widespread use. From mosquito spray to crop treatment products, we could soon be firing THCA all over the place.
3. Anti-Inflammatory
One of the most extensively documented benefits of THCA – not to mention cannabis in general – is its anti-inflammatory properties. Given that inflammation is known to be the primary cause of many of the world’s most widespread and dangerous diseases, anything that can effectively treat inflammation can only be a good thing.
4. Pain Relief
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Commuting from home to work, or even for shopping, can be very annoying and boring—especially when the trips are long. But, research outlined at the 2013 annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Los Angeles by social geographer Erika Sandow of Sweden’s Umeå University reported that long commutes can also be deadly, as a health risk (and presumably not because of increased probability of being in a train wreck, car crash, etc., as one’s commute becomes longer, if not also more frequent).
At least that’s one of the key conclusions of the study summarized in a number of news stories with sensationalized, overstated headlines, e.g., Long commutes are fatal: Journeys over 30 miles cause higher blood pressure, stress and heart disease” (April 12, 2003 Daily Mail), “Study: That Killer Commute is Eating You Up” and “Commuting to an Early Grave”.
Commonly cited in these reports is the study finding that Swedish women over 55, with limited education or low income, who commute more than 30 miles on each leg of their trips have higher mortality rates and lower life expectancy than others, including men.
This is how more than one website put it (with some apparent copying among them without acknowledgement):
“Sandow and her Umeå colleagues trolled through a wonderful longitudinal database from Statistics Sweden covering the period from 1985 to 2008 and looked at workers who were 55 in 1994, then compared those who made long commutes (2,744 of them, a majority of them men) with those who didn’t (56,955)….(T)here was a statistically meaningful link—but only for women, and only for women who either had a low income or low education. The correlation grew stronger as the commute lengthened.”
Right off the bat, there are a number of red flags that pop up here; so before begging to work at home if you have long commutes, consider these:
• We all know that correlation is not causation. The connection between commuting distance and health risk obviously evidences correlation, not causation.
It is entirely possible that other factors that also correlate with commuting may be responsible for the adverse health and longevity correlates, e.g., having little latitude (control) in one’s life, such as having no choice but to commute long distances, and having heavy loads (demand) both at work and at home.
These loads are made heavier by having less time available at home to deal with them (“household obligations” being cited by Sandow as a possible factor in the higher risk rates for such women—without identifying or distinguishing such duties as load or latitude stressors).
Since low latitude-high load represents a well-documented combination of risk factors for cardiovascular disease, a woman whose education limits her to low-paying, distant jobs may be at greater risk of health issues related to such load-latitude stress.
• Commuting-time variables vs. commuting distance: The study cites commuting distance as the key factor. What about commuting time, commuting environment, commuting time-filling activity (e.g., reading or iPhone use), physical effort or even posture, e.g., sedentary—which is another widely identified cardiovascular risk factor?
Suppose a woman, especially one already stressed by a heavy job and housework load, has to commute only 5 miles, but that she has to walk it.
Clearly the stress imposed in covering a given distance depends not only on the distance, but also on the time, the effort and various other factors, such as crowding, ambient temperature, precipitation, ventilation, available distractions (such as a pricey iPhone low-paid workers are unlikely to be able to afford) and whether one is a dangling straphanger or sitting on a contoured, plush seat.
Who knows?—Perhaps traveling more than 30 miles without an iPhone is so much of a stressor that it shortens some people’s lives (thereby providing a better reason why anyone would say, “I simply couldn’t live (as long) without my iPhone!”)
Intuitively, the less educated, poorly paid woman who cannot afford a first-class reserved-seat ticket on an express commuter train, or any train at all, and is forced to stand on a stuffy or sweltering crowded bus, with no digital toy as a pleasant distraction, is going to be subjected to stresses that her comfortably seated, better-off counterpart will not.
Hence, the total distance may not be as critical as the total time, how the time is spent and under what circumstances of comfort and effort.
Such considerations make it unsurprising that less educated, poorly paid women would have higher rates of high blood pressure, stress and cardiovascular disease—even without factoring in the effects of likely poor nutritional and fitness awareness.
They also invite a follow-up question about the combination of being a female high-school dropout plus having a long commuting distance to a dull job plus loving her treasured Harley that, in weaving in and out of traffic, covers the distance faster than average, if not faster than everybody else, as she smiles through the miles. What happens to the commuting distance-health risk correlation in this case?
• Misleading reporting: As mentioned, on the reporting side, virtually all stories about Sandow’s study carry very misleading headlines that overstate the size of the risk population by failing to be specific, thereby suggesting that everyone who commutes more than 30 miles one-way is at risk.
Hence, when it is reported that “commuters also take more sick leave and gain more weight over their working lives”, we may be forgiven for wondering whether this refers to the average commuter, or, once again, to a very specific sub-population, e.g., long-distance, long-time, low-paid workers; or, caregivers or shoppers—and then, only as a correlation, not as cause and effect.
Even among those commuters who take more sick leave, is it not possible that some, if not many, of them take more sick leave because they are sick of, not from, commuting, and simply want a break?
This explanation suggests not that these commuters are unhealthy, but, instead, that they are smart and proactive in preventing, minimizing and managing commuting stress.
Weighing Commuter Weight Gain
Similarly, it has been suggested that the weight gain may be fueled by the on-the-run consumption of junk such as fructose-laced drinks, greasy fries, otherwise empty-calorie snacks and other fast-foods.
This makes the circumstance of having a long commute a double whammy, since not only is the stuff eaten in the course of a commute more likely to be unhealthful junk, but also the longer the commute, the less likely it is there will be sufficient time in the morning to make a proper breakfast.
During my 2013 trip through the U.K. and Ireland, I was astonished by how difficult it was to find a nutritionally well-balanced, artery-friendly breakfast or brunch near train and bus stations or in business and tourist districts—the choice usually being among a nutritionally-limited baguette, a buttered bagel, high-fat bacon, high-fat sausages, haggis and eggs.
The implication of this for weight management (and, by association, general health) is that commuting per se may not be the problem; the real risk is likelier to be in the food choices, prolonged sitting and overeating through boredom on really long trips that become more likely because of the commute.
The challenge is not only to find an alternative to commuting; it is to structure it better, if there is no other option.
Subtle Benefits of Obvious Suggestions
For example, even when I am immobilized on a crowded bus, I will do isometric exercises while hanging from a strap or onto a bar or I’ll do dozens of heel lifts; on a train, I’ll get up and wander.
As for food, I generally try to make sure I’m clear of the station and its neighboring convenience stores before eating anything. If I don’t have a book, I’ll explore conversation; so, the stress of boredom is never an issue (even though I don’t have an iPhone).
These are, of course, obvious coping tactics. However, there is a much more subtle benefit in them: Being flexible, proactive and successful in finding better ways to commute not only strengthens personal latitude, but also awareness of it, if not also a sense of one’s load becoming emotionally lighter
(Note: This observation raises the questions of whether subjective load is independent of subjective latitude and whether either load or latitude can ever be “objectively” measured independently of each other).
Therefore, it stands to reason that, together, perceived increases in latitude and perceived reduced load may significantly contribute to reducing stress, and, as a consequence, perhaps also cardiovascular risk (the foregoing being an opinion I offer as a logical inference, not as medical advice).
Men Get a Medical Commuter Pass?
As for all of us men who got a pass in this study—because there was no correlation between commuting distance and shorter life spans for men, don’t pop the champagne or beer can pull-tab just yet. There may a less than reassuring reason why we get a break here.
We already have average life expectancies significantly shorter than women’s and correlations with things other than commuting that amply account for our shorter lives.
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Redcon 1 over South China Sea
South China Sea is now Redcon 1.
Virgo 49 said...
Alliance with North Korea, Russia and some allies close to PRC like Brazil
When I fired the first shot, simultaneously you attack the rest
Anonymous said...
Good to see another US War. After invading Iraq, then Afghanistan, then Libya but afraid to go into Syria .... Now want to attack China in a limited war in the South China Sea.
China should use her stealth submarines to sink some of the USS's and use her Satellite Killer to down some of US satellites.
Anonymous said...
No Action Talk Only!
A total waste of time.
Always talk talk and more talk lah!
Action Please! Action Please!
Why waste time.
Just Do It!
Anonymous said...
China cannot afford to shrink or the Americans will climb on her.
Ⓜatilah $ingapura⚠️ said...
And so it begins.
Both sides cannot back down now, or lose face---China for its national sovereignty, and the USA, and its military for maintaining its reputation as the "Global Lawman"
For China, I think the only strategy they can play is DEFIANCE. Anything else will make them look weak. But stay cool.
Anonymous said...
If China wants to claim South China Sea, let them claim lah. Give them 100% lah. They should have claim it earlier since the sea bear their name.
When India become stronger they will also want to Indian 90% of Indian ocean. Give them lah.
Anonymous said...
China is now building causeway to link up HK & Shanghai with S'pore. Reclaiming the tiny islands is the 1st step. Next is the land reclamation around the islands to start the causeway building. PAP should stop wasting time & money with the M'sian high-speed rail, and transfer the money to help China build the causeway across the south china sea instead.
Anonymous said...
india dont have claim over indian ocean.
because it is indian ocean, not india sea. not south india sea.
indian ocean refer to indian continent.
but it does not prevent india to exercise their " hegemony" in indian ocean.
when china submarine docked in sri lanka port at the invitation of their govt,
india govt responds furiously against such gesture
do you see that US media, US regime condemn india for bullying smaller nation?
Anonymous said...
china had legal justification to shoot down the US plane because it is SPY PLANE and military asset, not civilian plane.
US spy plane is conducting illegal "espionage."
US refusal to obey the repeated warning for 8 times.
this is US logic
US white police shot black people to death because
repeated warning has been ignored by black suspect.( 3 times at max)
( drop knife, drop gun, raise his hand up ) ( move away from car)
US media never fail to defend US police brutality as justified because they follow US protocol and suspect refusal to follow the warning.
b said...
If one is peaceful, one will not make money by selling weapons. Creating conflicts and crisis that will lead to war is one best way to make sure weapons sales will increase.
b said...
The americans know very well that if they cannot even defeat vietnam, they do not have to think about defeating china. making money from war mongering is the best win win situation in this dispute. only need to wayang here and there.
Unknown said...
Yeah... Let China bully the small neighbours... That sounds really good
Chua Chin Leng aka redbean said...
Hi Straycat,
In this case it is the small nations that are bullying China. Vietnam and the Philippines are harassing the Chinese. The Pinoys parked a wreck in the Chinese island and refused to go home. China could kick their asses but restraining from doing so and let these pests continue with their circus.
They continue to claim islands that the Chinese have claimed long before these countries become countries just like the Europeans claimed America, Canada, Australia and NZ before they were countries in the modern sense.
And Japan is in the game too. US is the gangster that is calling China gangster. It is using its might to bully China. When China is ready to take on the Americans, it would do so. It is bidding its time to build to a state when militarily there is some parity.
Don't be surprise China would then misfire a cruise missile into an American embassy to return the courtesy one day : )
Or China would be snooping around the American coasts in their surveillance plane.
Anonymous said...
Scaremongering again RB. Nothing so dramatic will happen. S E Asia is safe. Please don't anyhow frighten people OK? You are so naive to think that the American will start a fight in S E Asia. They have their hands full in the middle east.
Anonymous said...
please respect international law - every state are considered as equal
there are no such thing
as " small nation" "big nation"
vietnam, philippine and china are EQUAL
the fact is that vietnam and philippine are bullying china
2 bully ONE person.
this is classic case of bullying.
worst of all, 2 bullies are backed by another big bully(usa regime)
china is the real victim here.
blaming the victim,china as the aggressor
akin to
you blame rape victim for rape.
Ⓜatilah $ingapura⚠️ said...
@ living in dreamland 259:
>> please respect international law - every state are considered as equal <<
Please lah, that's like saying all humans are considered 'equal'. Even the laziest, unfocused observation will tell you that both these ideas of 'equality' are complete bullshit.
"International law" is also made up bullshit. No cuntry actually respects it---especially the US, and also China---because "international law" invariably INTERFERES WITH the concept of territorial sovereignty. i.e. International law PROSCRIBES certain behaviours of a cuntry to do what it determines its sovereign right is to do under given circumstances.
Do you think that big cuntrees like China and the US are going to respect "international law". No fucking way. They are both BIG. They can do what they like. They don't have to "make you happy". If it comes down to a "showdown", so be it.
The US are no backing down in spy surveillance. The Chinese are not backing down in their DEFIANCE.
How will this play out? No one can say. As the system becomes more "chaotic" and "unstable" all sorts of outcomes are possible.
This is a GAME. i.e. played with tactics, strategies, planning and resulting in outcomes, also with "unintended consequences" here and there. The system is NON LINEAR, but the human brain thinks in LINEAR narratives, which makes attempts at prediction just plain fucking WRONG.
Anonymous said...
even small nation dont pay much respect to international law if it violate their core interest
philippine and vietnam
there are no such thing as " international law"
it is western hegemony.
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@ 222
That's right.
>> it is western hegemony.
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Decoration & Ovals
Useful Tips for Mount Decoration
Examples of decorated mounts
1. Store gold / silver pens for line / bevels horizontally not vertically
2. Shake the pens well before use
3. Test the pens for consistency on a piece of scrap mountboard before use
4. Ensure that the straight edge does not actually touch the mountboard, along the edge where the pen is to be used
5. Use a pin or needle to make the start / end finish points for each line
6. Do not make these holes too deep
7. If straight edge moves, secure it with Blue-Tac
8. For water colour lines, test the line colour first on a piece of scrap mountboard, allow to dry and test for suitability. This also applies to water colour wash band.
9. Do not buy an expensive artist’s pallet, use a cake tin with nine cake holes to mix your watercolour in
10. For water colour wash band start the wash with water only at the start / finish point. In hot weather wash the whole mount with water before using the colour
11. Do not make the washes too dark
Exert from book Frames and Framing by Andy Parks
The width of the mount needs to be wide enough to accommodate your mount decoration. Therefore it is probably wise to cut a wider border than you think you will need at first. Then cut down the mount border width after decoration to avoid the mount decoration dominating the picture. It is fairly easy to go over the top with mount decoration so do keep this in mind. Also subtle mount decoration using watercolour will only be visible on lighter coloured mount boards so water colour decoration will look the best on off white coloured mount boards.
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Sunday, October 8, 2017
Sunday, October 8, 2017, Erik Agard and Alex Briñas
Power Ballads
Today's theme is kind of cute and pretty well executed. The constructors came up with some apt favorite musical acts for a legion of super heros - apt! :) My favorite theme answer is LILWAYNE (Batman's favorite rapper) because I didn't see it coming but it's perfect. My second favorite is BILLYOCEAN (Aquaman's favorite singer?), maybe because I forgot all about Billy Ocean (sorry!), or maybe because I was a fan of Patrick Duffy's Aquaman in my youth. The theme revealer SUPERGROUP and the puzzle's title, however, don't really pack a punch.
CASS, CROON, and ALOHAOE add some nice additional musical notes to the grid. What are the chances that ALOHAOE shows up in two consecutive puzzles? I don't know, but it happened, and I smoothly lei'd in the now-familiar answer.:)
I entered DiO at 104A in lieu of DEO (volente) and didn't notice how that made a mess of the MiTRO at 100D, causing my FWOE.
My favorite non-theme entry might be Smell ARAT (sense something fishy). See, it's funny that when you sense something fishy, you smell a rat. :) I liked TONY for uptown, and SACREDCOW (Divine bovine?) and COINTOSS (Several quarter turns) were some of the better entries today, but in general, the powerful theme answers are surrounded by some rather weak fill.
Right out of the gate, at 1A, we have TSA (Agcy. for Kennedy and Reagan). The clue gets some props for the presidential misdirection, but not enough to rescue it from Crosswordese's evil lair. It has a lot of company down there: GPS, GDPS, GRR, ETC, CEST, NEOS, YMA and UMA, ALLA, ERAS, TAD, TABS, FOURPM, ATEAM, ELON, COL, OOH, OWIE, ISLE, TWOMAN, REUSE, and EDS, to name just 23.
There were a couple of answers that set my teeth on edge: 29A. With child, informally (PREGGERS) - a word I've always disliked, and 32A. Feminine hygiene product (PAD). Call me a prude, but I think that answer could have been clued more pleasantly. You can also call me old-fashioned as I frequently use an ATLAS as a provider of directions.
To sum up, I would like to marvel at this puzzle, but I'm afraid I have to give it more of a D, or C.
1. 17:39 FWOE
I also had one error, which was ASAGUESS instead of ATAGUESS for 9d: Approximately. I am not familiar with the expression "at a guess".
Overall, I enjoyed the puzzle. Mr. Agard always has lots of fresh clues for the Millennials, and not the usual stuffy New York based fare. A smooth ride for a Sunday.
2. 21:49
Way, way too fast for a Sunday solve. Like Frannie, I enjoyed the theme, but found a good portion of the fill to be rather tired. Also, like Frannie, I often use an ATLAS for navigation, and never use GPS, although I've resolved that the next time we are in a foreign country driving about, I'll spend the extra on a GPS unit for our rental, thus avoiding the fiasco of our Italy visit. The sour mood that resulted was remedied only by the sheer wonder that is Tuscany.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges to our schools, our economy, and our nation’s families, exacerbating racial inequities and placing a disproportionate burden on communities of color throughout the country. While physically opening schools at the beginning of the 2020–2021 school year is the goal of most districts, the decision of when to reopen school buildings must be rooted in health and safety and not based on an arbitrary start date or any other priority. However, COVID-19 has also brought an opportunity to reimagine and reengineer the policies and processes that have benefited some students while not prioritizing other students, specifically under- resourced students, Black and Brown students, and students with disabilities.
This is an opportunity to intentionally plan for school success during COVID-19 and beyond with health, safety, and equity at the forefront. We encourage educators to seek out opportunities to engage in dialogue and unlearn biases and deficit ideologies about students, parents, and communities. We also advocate that educators move to practice the types of teaching that will benefit all learners.
I. Guiding Principles
COVID-19 has put a spotlight on a hard truth that our members across the country already knew: Not all students have equitable access to the educators, resources, and tools they need. Our collective work must promote a vision for public education that advances inclusion, equity, and racial, economic, and social justice in our schools, association, and society.
We don’t just want to “get back” to school. We want to make the schools our students return to better. We want a public school and higher education system fully committed to the learning of every single student and thoughtfully designed to achieve that end. We have a unique opportunity to create schools and campuses that are unequivocally resolute in their commitment to student learning, beacons of service and partnership to communities, and respected and sought-after institutions of employment. The aim is not adequacy; rather, it is productive excellence for all. The National Education Association (NEA) recognizes an immediate need for concrete guidance on returning to school buildings. This document, “All Hands On Deck: Initial Guidance Regarding Reopening School Buildings,” is a preliminary step toward reimagining our schools as environments where we are moving from equity to justice so that students and educators are safe and healthy, and they are able to teach and learn regardless of school, community, race, class, or ability.
Our guidance is rooted in four basic principles:
Health Expertise: Health and safety of all as advised by science is fundamental.
Educator Voice: Educators’ voices and expertise are front and center as part of decision-making and implementation.
Access to Protection: Educators and students need consistently funded access to personal protective equipment (PPE) and the ability to disinfect surfaces regularly.
Leading with Equity: Achieving racial and social justice is imperative and not an expendable aspiration.
Our nation’s public schools and institutions of higher education (IHEs) serve an incomparable role as pillars of our communities. As educators, we know the value of trusting relationships that educators have with students and the importance of face-to-face instruction. The NEA has compiled this guidance to ensure the safety of our members, students, and our most vulnerable communities while still providing a way forward so that our society can prosper and learning can resume in a face-to-face format when and how it is safe to do so.
Principle 1: Health Expertise
This global health crisis has highlighted the critical role public schools and IHEs play in the fabric of our society. Failure to prioritize safety and adequate staffing in public schools as school buildings reopen would create a public health risk that will only prolong the pandemic. The guidance produced by the federal government lacks the specificity and context required to support the unique needs of education communities across the country.
Principle 2: Educator Voice
The NEA is drilling down on critical issues that education
systems should consider as they prepare to physically welcome back educators and students. As states and districts begin to plan for the Fall 2020 semester, we want to make sure that educators are equipped with the tools needed to advocate on behalf of all students and themselves. More important, educators have extensive expertise in teaching and supporting students, and they must be front and center by fully participating in decision-making and implementation processes, preferably in a collaborative environment.
Principle 3: Access to Protection
Students and educators will continue to face health and safety inequities in schools if they are not provided with proper personal protective equipment (PPE) and disinfectants. Schools are collaborative spaces where materials are regularly shared and social distancing might not always be possible. To minimize exposure or infection from COVID-19, we must ensure that all students and educators have continuously funded access to PPE and other disinfecting supplies. Schools, many of which are already underfunded, should not be faced with the decision of how to pay for this equipment. Denying schools access and funding to PPE would exacerbate health and education inequities.
We must share in finding solutions that finally work for students of color, students with disabilities, English language learners, undocumented families, homeless families, rural schools, and under-resourced schools.
Principle 4: Leading with Equity
Every student deserves to live and learn in a community with an accessible network of public infrastructure and opportunities designed to meet their needs. However, the NEA’s 3 million members know that race, ZIP code, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, family status, employment status, and economic background impact a child’s access to opportunity and success. Additionally, the negative impacts we continue to see are exacerbated for Black, Brown, and Native American students. We understand how policymakers attempt to divide us by strengthening these networks in some of our communities and not in others. Members understand that the status of public education today is not an accident. As we begin to have discussions on how to move our schools beyond COVID-19, we must do so by creating policies that clearly articulate what each community needs to be able to achieve racial and social justice. We need to organize as a broad coalition to attack the interconnected systems that create the inequities in our schools.
Future Forward
In contemplating what must be done in schools to safely reopen buildings, one thing
is abundantly clear: There is a paramount need for the federal government to provide substantial support to education systems in order to safely and effectively deliver instruction. Our priorities as a nation must be reevaluated. Rather than bailing out massive corporations who have profited during the pandemic, we must support a system that works for all of our nation. School systems will not only need additional resources to reopen buildings safely, they also will need to make up for the economic fallout from the pandemic, which is expected to hollow out the state and local tax revenues that fund ordinary school operations. Under pandemic conditions, the need for additional federal measures to fund schools is nothing short of desperate.
Investing in public K-12 and higher education is critical to prepare our children for an increasingly uncertain economic future.
Failure to invest in public schools and IHEs would lead to various problems that will prolong the current economic crisis, including increased class sizes, educator job losses, reduced resources and opportunities for student learning, and potential impacts on school infrastructure. The federal government must make massive federal appropriations earmarked for public schools and IHEs, and the Federal Reserve must be prepared to purchase bonds that would support states and school districts facing major budget deficits. Investing in public K–12 and higher education is critical to prepare our children for an increasingly uncertain economic future and give them the knowledge and critical thinking skills they will need to help secure our democracy.
II. Preparing to Reopen School Buildings: Critical Topics for Educators to Raise in Planning a Return to Schools
Learn from Spring 2020
How should we assess the extent to which technological solutions implemented when school buildings closed were effective in meeting the needs of educators, students, and families and prepare to adapt those solutions in the event that emergency distance learning is needed again?
The severity of the digital divide came under harsh light throughout much of the country as the scarcity of student access to devices and broadband Internet caused districts to scramble to provide distance learning programs to students. To avoid the potentially devastating effects that similar disruptions could have on student learning opportunities in Fall 2020, we must evaluate what was learned from Spring 2020 closures and identify specific actions that states, districts, and schools can take to avoid repeating history.
States and districts must acknowledge that the pandemic was not experienced equally by all communities and populations, particularly in rural areas and communities of color. These systems must evaluate how different families handled the time out of school buildings.
1. Acknowledge the pandemic was not experienced equally by all communities and populations, particularly in rural areas and communities of color. Listen and learn how different families handled the time out of school buildings.
Items for Consideration:
• How can schools effectively evaluate and build learning that meets the needs of all students, including those whose learning may have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19?
• How can schools identify ongoing needs for social services, academic remediation, and the like?
• How can schools identify students without needed technology and student households that may need assistance?
• How can schools allocate funding and resources to help close opportunity gaps that have been exacerbated by the disparate impacts of school closures on households without Internet access, hardware, and other resources essential for student success?
• Statewide Committee to Safely Reopen Florida’s Public Schools: Priorities and Recommendations, by Florida Education Association. See References.
2. Evaluate the extent of disruptions to student learning due to resource shortages, including device shortages, lack of connectivity, lack of digital literacy, etc.
3. Recognize the extent of inadequate and inequitable distribution of student devices and examine the extent to which such inequities contribute to differing levels of student engagement with learning.
Items for Consideration:
• How can schools ensure that they are prepared and work with stakeholders to create distance learning transition plans that are consistent and equitable to avoid future episodes of crisis learning?
• What can schools do to secure and supply adaptive technologies to meet individual student needs, including assistive technology to support students who are English language learners or are differently abled?
4. To prepare students to go back to school, provide digital literacy instruction and ensure that informational resources on how to utilize online programs and school software systems are available in multiple languages and include adaptive technology.
Items for Consideration:
• To what extent were those solutions ineffective or inadequate?
• Which students were unable or unwilling to participate in online activities?
5. Prepare students and educators to switch or toggle back and forth from face-to-face instruction to online learning in the event of virus-related closures in the future.
Item for Consideration:
• How can districts ensure access to technology and broadband Internet in consideration of Black and Brown students and under-resourced students and educators who do not otherwise have access to this technology or broadband?
Ground Decisions in Science
What information should be used to prepare to transition from social distancing to in-person instruction?
Widespread increases in the capacities for COVID-19 testing and contact tracing are necessary preconditions for making informed decisions about reopening school buildings.
Base Decisions on a Full Picture Informed by Evidence
What public health measures must be in place to adequately conduct an assessment and make a determination regarding the reopening of schools?
The importance of public health expertise and guidance cannot be overstated. All decisions to reopen schools must be based in scientific evidence and advice.
Testing and Contact Tracing
Testing capacity in the United States remains inadequate and uneven. This is especially true in under-resourced communities and communities of color—populations that have had the least access to adequate COVID-19 testing. To evaluate whether outbreaks are sufficiently contained to allow schools to reopen safely, the United States must have the ability to perform adequate testing.
However, the need for widespread testing is not a sufficient precondition for reopening schools and businesses in the absence of robust contact-tracing and case-isolation capacity. Before any decisions are made as to when and under what conditions schools can reopen, widespread contact-tracing and case-isolation measures must be in place, with the understanding that communities of color have been hit hardest by COVID-19.(1)
Item for Consideration:
• How do we ensure that rural communities and communities of color gain access to public health services and virus testing?
Outline and Communicate Science-Based Standards for Determining School Operating Status
What information should schools rely on to determine whether and how to reopen schools?
Public health experts know best the risks of reopening and how to ameliorate them.
Conditions for Reopening
In the absence of federal guidance, it is incumbent on state and local governments to develop reopening criteria based on sound epidemiological science and public health principles. Once a state has sufficient testing as well as contact-tracing and case-isolation capabilities, responsible decisions can be made about the reopening of school buildings.
Items for Consideration:
• What data will be used, and how will they be analyzed to make any reopening decisions?
• Which epidemiologically relevant populations in the school district’s community must be considered separately—considering all student and educator communities and varied student abilities—in making these decisions?
Conditions for Re-Instituting School Closures
Establish and be transparent about the conditions under which schools would close again; not just the conditions under which they can open. Base school closure decisions on transparent data made known by clear standards; for example, transmission rate, number of cases in the school or community, and number of persons exposed on a particular school grounds.
Items for Consideration:
• What conditions will be set regarding physical building closures and how learning will continue?
• How will these conditions be communicated during closures so that people can be prepared?
• TSTA Standards for Safe Students, Schools, and Communities, by the Texas State Teachers Association. See References.
Plan According to Specific Needs of K–12 Schools and IHEs
Why do school plans need to be more detailed than general public health guidelines suggest?
The voices of educators who know their schools and students best are critical for creating effective plans for keeping students, educators, and communities safe and ensuring learning can occur.
Strategize Safe K–12 School Operations
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought national attention to problems that predate it, but they are not new to educators. Students whose families are in economic crisis, facing food insecurity, or homeless struggle to learn. Educators know that addressing these needs is—and must be treated as—an urgent priority as we plan for improving our schools and strengthening our communities.
Educators have seen complex plans developed by school administrators that break down the moment they come up against the humanity and complexity of our diverse student populations. Plans for safe and equitable learning environments must be developed by and with the educators who know their students and their needs best; educators who will be on the frontline administering the policies to ensure the safety of all on school grounds.
Tailor Safety Precautions for Higher Education
Should IHEs decide to reopen in Fall 2020 and offer in-person classes, student services, and on-campus housing, colleges and universities must plan for ongoing virus prevention. These plans must include how to safely situate students in residence halls: They must provide single rooms as much as possible or create plans for “pods” and “quads,” where students who have tested negatively and have been appropriately quarantined can be grouped together for their time on campus to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. IHEs also must consider unorthodox teaching practices for the safety of faculty as well as the safety of students. IHEs should consider teaching in large lecture spaces or other open areas where students are able to social distance easily and safely. When that is not possible, IHEs must consider having faculty come to the dorms or other low-foot-traffic areas to keep students as stationary as possible.
Institutions also must keep campus ESPs, including custodial staff, healthy by providing them appropriate and proper PPE equipment to maintain safety on campus where students, faculty, and other staff will meet. This also means that colleges and universities must consider safety plans should cases arise during the semester that include temperature checks and spaces for quarantined students who have been affected while on campus.
As IHEs consider these plans for reopening campus safely, decisions must be accompanied by clear and daily communication plans to faculty, staff, students, and their families so that all stakeholders have the most up-to-date information related to COVID-19 on campus.
• UFF/FEA Higher Education Reopening Committee Guidelines: Priorities and Recommendations, by United Faculty of Florida and Florida Education Association. See References.
School Campuses Are Hubs for the Community
Why are detailed and rigorous protocols needed that drill down farther than what the federal government has provided?
Given the conditions of human interaction on school campuses—which is different than shopping in a grocery store or boutique—it is necessary for school systems to establish and adhere to rigorous protocols for the safe operation of schools. Such protocols must be far more detailed and rigorous than what the federal government has thus set forth.
Districts must create protocols for safe reopening of schools in partnership with educators and other education stakeholders. Local association leaders should consider holding an issue identification campaign as a way to support district planning.
In what ways should we shift our usual choices and decision-making to address racial, social, and economic justice during conversations about rebuilding and recovery?
1. Create protocols for safe reopening of schools in partnership with educators and other education stakeholders.
Item for Consideration
• How can schools ensure that the voices of members are reflected in priorities outlined by local association leaders so that they are authentically representative of the concerns and needs of members?
2. Ensure that school reopening plans are inclusive and equitable for all educators and students by humanizing learning environments and designing spaces that are situated in the experiences of communities of color, not just through White, cis-hetero, and ableist lenses.
• Racial Justice in Education Framework, by NEA Center for Social Justice. See References.
3. Embed housing, food, health, dental, and job services in neighborhood schools because it is a common-sense and proven way to begin to address these issues and the racial inequities they create and exacerbate.
Item for Consideration:
Educators at the Forefront in Responding to Crisis
Why is educator voice more important now than ever?
Educator voice must saturate every level of decision-making and be authentically embedded into processes and policies that will guide decision-making throughout this emergency and in the future. Educators must be considered a permanent stakeholder in figuring out solutions that ensure our students continue to learn and thrive no matter what the challenge. Educator voice is critical because many educators place equity at the forefront and champion racial and social justice.
For schools to be successful, policymakers must invest not only in education but also in addressing issues surrounding education: mortgage and rent cancellation for families in economic crisis; school-based community food programs; increased local hiring to provide jobs for unemployed adults; home broadband Internet and computer device access for all individuals; and a more robust public health infrastructure that includes programs like basic health screenings and widespread access to community-based mental health services.
Ensure the Meaningful Engagement of ESPs
What important perspective and skills do education support professionals bring to school campuses, and how might they contribute to schools reopening?
ESPs must be consulted and given the opportunity to collaborate on establishing policies and procedures for keeping schools safe. The on-the-ground needs observed by those staff members should be understood and acted upon by school leaders.
ESPs often have the language skills to most effectively communicate with English language learners and their families. They also are more likely to live in the community served by the school in which they work. Without these language skills, home/school communication would be difficult or impossible and diverse cultural norms would not be accommodated in school planning. It is the position of the NEA that school district and school site-level plans must always be developed in a manner that ensures the involvement and partnership of educators, and especially ESPs.
Items for Consideration:
• How can schools act to provide safe conditions and protect workers from serious hazards, especially knowing that the workforce in education support positions consists of many educators of color?
• How can schools take action to ensure the safety of educators who lack work- site protections to prevent workers of color from being disproportionately affected and facing excessive risks to their health and safety?
Collaborate with School and District Leaders in Critical Decisions About Learning Expectations and How to Help Educators Succeed
How can educators contribute to creating feasible, effective, and safe programs for school reopening that will facilitate student learning and uplift educational opportunities for all students?
Educators must be given meaningful opportunities to collaborate with decision- makers and provided greater autonomy to innovate under challenging and changing conditions. Educators practice a complex craft and their understanding of how to deliver curriculum and build student social and critical thinking skills must be honored and respected.
Items for Consideration:
• How can districts solicit educator feedback on plans for reopening schools and collaborate with educators to plan pre-opening planning days, activities, and opportunities to practice new protocols?
• How can districts be genuine in engaging educators in making plans and decisions about reopening and/or closing schools?
• How can districts be timely and responsive to addressing all educator concerns about health, safety, wellness, and teaching?
• How will educators be consulted and considered partners in deciding on policies and expectations regarding curriculum, grades, attendance, and student progress?
• Since school leaders succeed when they foster collaborative environments, how will educators be given time and space within professional learning communities to learn from one another and implement best practices?
• How will schools provide educators with the time and staffing required to build and deepen relationships with students’ families? (Examples include manageable caseloads for special educators; educator-led programs; paid parent home visits; reimagined school conferences; and shared decision- making around school climate issues.)
Charge Educators to Lead in Ensuring That Schools Support All Students
How can educators disrupt inequity, racism, and stereotyping? What experiences are unique to educators that can guide the creation of systems and opportunities that will help ensure opportunities for all students through this chapter in history and beyond?
Educators must be given time to develop new lessons that incorporate the science and social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this way, educators will serve a critical public health role in the nation’s recovery. Schools must ensure that adequate time is provided for classroom community-building activities and should consider providing the paid time and additional staff to allow for the development of restorative practices in schools.
Educators—if provided with the staffing, space, and time—can help build diverse, representative environments in our schools that can serve as a model for our society’s future as we recover from this crisis. By valuing the voices of students and emphasizing the importance of relationships in the school community, these structures are inherently antiracist and democratic. They are essential at a time when political leaders and mass media increasingly dehumanize groups through lies and divisive rhetoric.
Items for Consideration:
• How can educators help ensure that other stakeholders, including families, are consulted when creating plans for reopening school buildings?
• How can educators fight misinformation and protect vulnerable students from coronavirus racism?
• How can educators modify practices of student assessment to make sure they are checking in with students emotionally and socially before addressing academic strengths and challenges?
• How can existing school climate surveys and feedback mechanisms be modified to include additional sections on COVID-19-related changes to schools and instructional systems so that students, families, and staff can evaluate and weigh in on the efficacy, fairness, and consequences of those changes?
• Guidance on Culturally Responsive-Sustaining School Reopenings: Centering Equity to Humanize the Process of Coming Back Together, by Dr. David E. Kirkland, Executive Director of the NYU Steinhardt Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools. See References.
Implement a Detailed Plan for Reopening School Buildings
How should schools and IHEs make the operational changes necessary for reopening safely?
A plan for reopening schools must take the following into account: 1. the preparations, including changes to physical structures, that must be completed prior to students reentering schools; 2. the preparations and training that educators must receive and implement prior to welcoming students back to school; 3. the ongoing strategies and policies that must be diligently adhered to in order to keep staff and students safe; and 4. preparations and accommodations for potential school closures and extended student and staff absences.
For these plans to be successful, they must be grounded in sound scientific guidance and incorporate input from educators who know students best and will be expected to carry out new procedures on school campuses. Educators should be authentically engaged in the school reopening process and serve as standing members of any planning committees or similar caucuses that will make critical decisions about school operations.
Prepare School Facilities
How should schools prepare school buildings for the reentry of students and staff on school grounds and their necessary movement throughout the day?
1. All school facilities and equipment must undergo a deep cleaning using CDC-approved disinfectants, such as bleach solutions or alcohol.
Item for Consideration:
• How can schools ensure the education support professionals who are responsible for cleaning the buildings will receive sufficient training and personal protective equipment to safely and effectively carry out disinfection procedures?
2. Prepare vehicles used for transporting students by cleaning the interior and exterior with CDC-approved disinfectants and ensure ample supplies for routine and continuous cleaning after trips and at the end of the school day. Prior to being placed into circulation, all student transportation vehicles must be deep cleaned and disinfected, with particular attention to high-touch surfaces, such as door handles and grab bars.
Items for Consideration:
• What logistics are involved with safe school transportation?
• How will the district decrease the number of students on school buses or limit students’ use of public transit in communities that rely most heavily on these modes of transportation?
• Are there enough bus drivers to meet the need if the school district holds multiple school sessions for different sets of students during the day, necessitating additional bus routes?
3. Provide secure, separate storage for students’ outerwear and other belongings.
4. Reduce and rearrange furniture in classrooms, dining areas, break rooms, and other areas to accommodate six feet of physical separation between and among students and staff. (See Establish Social Distancing Measures for additional information).
Items for Consideration:
• How might large, non-classroom areas previously used for other learning—such as gymnasiums, libraries, computer labs, music rooms, theaters, etc.—be reconstituted to allow for additional learning space for all students without losing the educational opportunities?
• How might schools incorporate the use of existing outdoor spaces for student learning and activities? What happens during inclement weather when those spaces are unavailable?
5. Install floor markings, signage, and other implements as necessary to designate single points of entry and exit as well as regulate and direct foot traffic to help people maintain physical distance entering and exiting school grounds and navigating school buildings. (See Establish Social Distancing Measures for additional information.)
6. Install physical barriers and signage and clearly publicize policies as needed to stop students from gathering in large groups before, during, and after the school day. (See Establish Social Distancing Measures for additional information.)
Items for Consideration:
• What are the times of day when students typically congregate, and what changes are necessary to prevent it?
• What changes to schools need to be made to minimize the number of students together in common spaces?
7. Install handwashing stations or hand sanitizing stations at school and campus entrances and exits and throughout school grounds as necessary to facilitate handwashing by students and staff throughout the day. (See Establish and Oversee Safe Hygiene Practices for additional details).
Items for Consideration:
• How can schools ensure hand sanitizing and handwashing stations are used throughout the
day? Consider installing hand sanitizer in every classroom and area that is in use by students and staff.
• Can the school provide sufficient soap, hand sanitizer with at least 60 percent alcohol content, and face masks to students, faculty, and staff?
• How can schools provide sufficient space and materials like trash bins and other receptacles for the hygienic disposal of biohazardous materials and single-use materials, such as masks, gloves, and paper towels?
8. Designate and prepare a compliant space for conducting in-person parent and guardian visits with students and staff members, such as individualized education plan (IEP) conferences.
9. Designate and prepare at least one isolation room for any student or staff member who shows symptoms associated with COVID-19. (See Establish and Oversee Safe Hygiene Practices for additional details.)
Prepare School Staff
How should staff prepare to make operational changes necessary and prepare to welcome students back to school buildings?
To maintain compliance with protocols and ensure student learning occurs with the least disruptions and fewest risks to students and staff, schools must ensure sufficient staffing to meet operational and instructional needs.
1. Practice and prepare to model proper hygiene practices such as handwashing, using hand sanitizer, and social distancing techniques, including alternatives to handshakes.
2. Practice and prepare to model the proper wearing and disposal of personal protective equipment, including masks.
Items for Consideration:
• How can schools disseminate instructions for proper mask etiquette prior to reentering schools and campuses so that everyone sees it?
• Should the school or district develop a mask policy? How can they ensure adherence to these mask policies?
• How can schools utilize digital learning platforms and traditional and social media to conduct trainings for families on proper use of PPE before the start of school?
• How can schools make information available to all families, regardless of Internet access or language, in the community about returning to school safely?
3. Train staff in trauma-informed practices to strengthen the trauma-informed culture for students. Prepare to communicate effectively and empathetically with students about the pandemic and about the necessary changes to school life. It has been well documented that COVID-19 risks and impacts are disproportionately concentrated in America’s communities of color, including medical risk factors, job losses, housing insecurity, food insecurity, and mortality rates.
Items for Consideration:
• How might schools work with educators, including SISP, to organize and focus on mental and emotional supports at school for students and educators to grieve, heal, reconnect, and strengthen the in-school community before the focus on instruction begins?
• What school-based mental and emotional health screening and supports are essential for stabilizing communities?
4. Ensure sufficient staffing of SISP—such as school social workers, school counselors, and campus support staff—to provide the support for critical family and student mental health and behavioral needs at school.
5. Ensure sufficient staffing of ESPs—including paraeducators and those who carry out custodial and maintenance services, food services, and transportation services—as well as SISP, such as health and student services staff (for example, licensed school nurses and nursing assistant staff) to make sure hygienic practices can be properly implemented and sustained.
6. Prepare staff to help students adapt to restrictions on their movements and activities. Prepare and implement ways to make students feel comfortable on campus and easily identify educators and other staff. For example, educators might wear a name badge that features a photograph of them without a mask.
Item for Consideration:
How can schools help students—especially students new to the school—feel comfortable and alleviate their fears?
7. Prepare staff for what to do if various exigencies occur (for example, a student experiences a medical emergency while on campus; a student is insubordinate regarding hygienic procedures; a case of on-campus violence; etc.)
8. Monitor designated areas at school entry and exit times and during breaks or class changes to help monitor and facilitate the flow and regulation of student traffic. (See Establish Social Distancing Measures for additional information.)
Establish Social Distancing Measures
What social distancing measures are necessary to operate schools safely during the pandemic, and what changes should we expect to our campuses, classrooms, and school grounds?
1. Maintain six feet of separation between and among students and staff members in classrooms, hallways, and exterior school grounds.
Item for Consideration
• What are the procedures for sanitizing handles/rails, equipment, and restroom facilities throughout the day to avoid learning disruptions?
2. Reduce class sizes as needed and maintain adequate staffing levels for teaching and learning to occur in a safe and equitable manner, with students seated six feet apart from one another and at least six feet from where teaching staff are stationed.
Item for Consideration
• How might in-class practices, such as assigned seating, help minimize danger to students?
3. Minimize mixing and intermingling of class groups to the extent possible and keep clusters together and in the same classroom as much as possible for the duration of the school day.
Items for Consideration:
• Should instructors and/or staff move rather than students to minimize circulation of students throughout school buildings?
• Should schools hire additional before- and after-school care staff to ensure that students are safely distanced throughout the school building and not grouped in a centralized location?
4. Restructure student meals to avoid communal stacks or bins of trays, cups, and serving ware. Provide individually plated meals that students can receive and eat in their assigned learning areas, rather than a dining hall. Ensure that the implementation of any plans consider the racial history of students to avoid practices that feel inequitable, unjust, and discriminatory to the student.
Item for Consideration:
• If use of a dining hall is unavoidable, are lunch shifts a viable option for allowing students to maintain distance in serving lines and seating areas?
5. Adjust school schedules as needed to accommodate social distancing protocols, such as staggering or alternative in-person instructional days and combining with distance learning.
Items for Consideration:
• If staggered or alternative schedules are used, will educators’ roles be tailored so that some are assigned to virtual environments while others are assigned to in-person classroom environments
• How will privacy and Internet security concerns be addressed in relation to distance learning?
6. Adjust or cancel assemblies, field trips, interscholastic events, communal play, extracurricular activities, and any other activities to be in compliance with the current guidance from health experts. Those activities that cannot be adjusted accordingly must be canceled. Prevent any sharing of school supplies, including books, electronic devices, toys, musical instruments, and the like.
Items for Consideration:
• How can students receive a well-rounded program of instruction—including fine arts, music, and extracurricular activities—despite new school protocols?
• Are there enough supplies to consider letting students “check out” or take materials, including art supplies, calculators, musical instruments, toys, etc. that will no longer be in use in school buildings to supplement learning at home, avoid learning disruptions in the event of school closures, and ensure the success of digital learning programs?
• Can performing arts, physical education, fine arts, and other activities be effectively modified?
• How can schools incorporate student movement at regular intervals throughout the school day to promote student health and wellness?
7. Restrict school entry to asymptomatic staff, students, and essential visitors, such as delivery, medical, and public safety personnel. Limit parent/guardian visits to scheduled or emergency situations.
Item for Consideration:
• How can schools ensure there are no disincentives for school staff and students with symptoms to stay home, such as awards or prizes for perfect attendance?
Establish and Oversee Safe Hygiene Practices
What hygienic practices should staff and students be prepared for and what kinds of personal protective equipment should be used to ensure the safe operation of schools?
1. Require faculty, staff, and students to wash their hands for at least 20 seconds with soap and water upon entering and leaving school grounds; when changing tasks, such as changing classrooms or after recess periods; before and after meals; and throughout the workday.
2. Require all staff and students to wear masks of sufficient quality throughout the school day, except during meals. Schools must supply masks made of at least two-ply cotton to staff who are not carrying out disinfection procedures—which require greater protection—and students, in accordance with CDC recommendations. (2)
3. Ensure that staff involved in preparing and serving meals and custodial staff are supplied with and wear appropriate protective gear, including N95 masks and gloves; this includes staff involved in student transport and cleaning vehicles used for student and/or staff transport.
Items for Consideration:
• Is there sufficient personal protective equipment to make sure educators stay safe, particularly ESPs?
• How will we meet the needs to clean and sanitize schools without overburdening school janitorial staff?
• How will school materials that must be shared be disinfected for use among students and staff?
• How will requiring educators to wear masks, if mandated, impact students’ ability to hear and understand instruction, particularly for early readers and some students with disabilities?
4. Provide continuous reinforcement of hygienic practices and procedures through staff modeling and other methods.
Work with Educators to Prepare Contingencies in the Event of Rolling School Building Closures
How can schools prepare educators and students to be able to continue learning in the event there are temporary or prolonged school closures in Fall 2020 or some people cannot return to school buildings?
In Spring 2020, many state and local educational agencies tried to implement online learning programs so that students could continue learning throughout school closures. Some of these programs included device distribution and facilitated broadband Internet access, but by and large, inequitable access to sufficient devices and connectivity proved to be a monumental challenge to effective online learning.
Education technology is a tool to enhance and enrich instruction for students and should not be used to replace or limit educational employees who work with students. Technology in schools must always be a tool wielded by trained education professionals to augment the student learning experience and create skills for digital literacy. They can never serve as a replacement for the human component that is the essence of real education.
1. Provide access to broadband Internet in all student homes and 1:1 devices for all students at no cost.
2. Ensure distance learning lessons do not require access to a printer. Conduct distance learning equitably so that it can be a feasible ongoing solution to learning through the pandemic.
Items for Consideration:
• What resources and supports are needed so that all students can learn successfully?
• How might educators’ strengths and staff schedules be adjusted so that all educators can be successful?
• Do adjustments need to be made to the school calendar?
• What is the feasibility of split scheduling?
• What additional on-grounds spaces (mobile classrooms, etc.) are needed?
Establish Systems for Effective Communication with the School Community
How should schools communicate with and prepare their communities/students and families to return to school?
Schools should engage educators and other education stakeholders in informing the school community of new policies ahead of time and implement protocols for clearly communicating school operating statuses and public health updates.
Involve Stakeholders in the Planning Process
1. Establish a committee of all school and community stakeholders to conduct a needs and assets assessment for each school community.
2. Include educator, parent, student, and community voices in the assessment process to understand the needs and assets related to academics, physical and mental health, and socioeconomic conditions.
Item for Consideration:
• As trusted members of the community, what is the potential role of educators in bringing together families and the community to make sure all voices are heard?
Practice Before Full Implementation
• Conduct pre-opening practice days for groups of students to acquaint themselves with new rules and procedures.
• Post signs and placards in various languages.
• Make sure sanitation products and practices are accessible to all students, including those with physical disabilities.
• Prepare to accommodate students with disabilities, including students who may be nonverbal, so they are safe from harm.
• Educate families and students in varied formats and languages on how to practice safety and social distancing in communities when walking or taking public transportation to school.
• Implement best practices learned from Spring 2020 school closures.
• Prevent inequitable access to continuous instruction by ensuring that all students have the requisite hardware, software, and connectivity to be successful.
III. Helping Reopened Schools Succeed During COVID-19: Guidance for Ensuring Learning Continues Amid Ongoing Efforts to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19
Create School Health Protocols
What should schools do to ensure the continuation of learning and keep schools open once they welcome students back?
If schools are to physically open in Fall 2020, decision-makers need to ensure that all schools have protocols to maintain the safety of students and educators. Schools must consider how to conduct ongoing disease prevention and mitigation, including testing, tracing, and isolating new cases in a way that does not promote racial and social injustice and inequity.
Implement Daily Monitoring Practices
What steps can schools take to monitor the wellness of school and campus populations?
Schools must establish and administer clear plans for how to monitor students and staff
for symptoms and handle suspected cases of COVID-19 during the school day. The school community must be informed of these practices so that family members and others can be prepared to follow protocols, such as picking up a symptomatic student from school and isolating students who have come in contact with or are suspected to have come in contact with a person who has COVID-19.
1. Institute procedures for screening and monitoring students and staff for symptoms, including daily temperature checks and symptom inquiries upon entry to school grounds.Item for Consideration:• Will it be possible for schools and IHEs—including community schools and early
childhood programs—that normally provide routine health screenings to continue such
practices or should they be temporarily suspended depending on a school’s structural and staff capacity?
2. Require staff to practice and model ongoing hygienic protocols for students. Monitor students and staff for compliance.
Items for Consideration:
• How can schools promote compliance with hygienic practices and social distancing protocols through a sense of community responsibility rather than through punitive measures?
• How can schools ensure health protocols are implemented in a way that promotes racial and social justice?
3. Implement social distancing measures, including procedures for moving students or staff who begin to show COVID-19 symptoms to a dedicated isolation area while at school. (See II. Preparing to Reopen School Buildings for additional information.)
Item for Consideration:
• How will the school system communicate with families about students who have had contact with confirmed cases?
4. Provide hygienic and personal protective equipment and maintain handwashing requirements for staff and students.
5. Disinfect and sanitize frequently. School buildings should be cleaned throughout the day and sanitized according to CDC guidelines using approved disinfectants, such as bleach solutions, after the end of the school day. Vehicles used for transporting students must be cleaned on the interior and exterior after every trip and must be thoroughly cleaned after the end of the school day.
Item for Consideration:
• How can schools complete cleaning procedures during the day without disrupting student learning or endangering student and staff safety?
Protect Staff and Students at a Higher Risk from COVID-19
What special accommodations should schools adopt for the protection of staff members and students who are medically fragile?
Staff members and students who have underlying conditions or risk factors identified by the CDC should be provided with opportunities to continue learning while still putting their health and safety first.
Items for Consideration:
• What special accommodations should be extended to students and staff that come into frequent contact with individuals who are at a higher risk from COVID-19?
• What distance learning opportunities and resources might be provided to students who are members of at-risk populations to ensure education equity?
• What accommodations—for example, remote work—might a school provide to an at-risk staff member?
Keep the Community Informed
What do staff, students, and families need to know about the status of school operations and what disclosures should be made to the school community?
Schools must work with public health and state and local government officials to establish and communicate clear criteria for determining the operating status of schools.
1. Establish science-based determinative criteria and include factors such as the transmission rate of the virus, number of cases in the school or community, number of persons exposed on school grounds, among others.
Items for Consideration:
• What impact will school building and closures in surrounding areas have on the school?
• How will school closure conditions be monitored and who will make the final decision?
2. Make public guidelines for conditions under which school operating statuses are determined, and ensure the community has easy access to updates and information about school reopening and closures.
Item for Consideration:
• How will resources be made available in languages spoken in the community and in formats that can be accessed by all students (for example, mass texts, website updates, radio announcements, television announcements)?
3. Collaborate with educators to continuously communicate with and solicit feedback from stakeholders including school staff, students, and families as well as other individuals as deemed appropriate regarding school operations processes.
Item for Consideration:
• How can schools avoid a culture of stigma or judgment and protect privacy while encouraging families to be honest and accountable regarding keeping sick or exposed students at home and reporting confirmed or suspected COVID-19 cases in their households?
Be Responsive to the Needs of Students and the School Community
How can schools conduct ongoing disease prevention and mitigation, including testing, tracing, and isolating new cases, in a way that does not promote racial and social injustice and inequity?
Implement clear policies on how to handle suspected cases of COVID-19 during the school day. If a student registers a high temperature or reports the primary symptoms of COVID-19, the school should isolate the student and contact a parent or guardian to take the student home. Staff members who register high temperatures or who report COVID-19 symptoms should be sent home. Those who are sent home due to symptoms should not return to school until they have been tested for COVID-19 and given a negative result. Additionally, siblings of students who test positive for COVID-19 should self-quarantine at home for two weeks and must test negative before returning to school. Students who have recovered from COVID-19 should also be monitored for the life-threatening post-COVID-19 inflammatory syndrome and asked about whether they have stomach pain or a rash.
Schools should create contingency plans to continue educational services for those students who are quarantining. It is likely that even with school buildings open, some students will need distance learning opportunities.
Items for Consideration:
• How will students who are quarantined receive education?
• Are the expectations and procedures for students reasonable?
• What are additional options that a school could use to equitably educate all students when a school building is operating at a reduced capacity?
• Will a school nurse be available for non-COVID-19 health issues during the school day?
Prioritize Mental Health and Social and Emotional Supports for Students and Staff
What kind of supports will students and staff need to be able to overcome the uncertainty and anxiety from COVID-19 and reengage in learning?
1. Provide mental and emotional supports at school, which are essential measures for stabilizing communities.
2. Consider suspending academic instructional activity for two weeks to start school
with a focus on social and emotional learning activities that includes trauma screening and supports to help students and adults deal with grief, loss, etc. Socio-emotional supports should then be continued throughout the school year and be integrated into students’ regular learning opportunities.
Items for Consideration:
• How might staff benefit from a mental wellness and self-care program that continues throughout the year to help avoid burnout and vicarious trauma?
• How will educators be trained to identify students struggling with trauma and ensure they receive support?
• How will mental health supports be made available to students who are struggling due to COVID-19 and its public health response?
• What will trauma-informed school culture look like in each school building?
• What additional supports might educators need to be able to work, given their own mental health stemming from COVID-19-related challenges?
• How can schools provide or connect their educators to wraparound supports that will in turn enable them to meet student and family needs?
• How do we promote and include self-care for educators as integrated into a school culture?
3. Ensure all students feel welcomed and have a place at schools and campuses.
4. Work to foster a sense of community in our schools with all students and families. Provide additional supports for students and others who may feel vulnerable returning to school, including, but not limited to, Asian American and Pacific Islander students who have faced COVID-19-related xenophobia, students experiencing homelessness, and under- resourced students who feel stigmatized for not having resources in digital-learning-focused schools.
5. Offer additional supports, such as group counseling, adult mentors, or referrals to community organizations that offer social services. Many LGBTQ+ students do not feel emotionally safe at home, and isolation can be particularly damaging. Thus, educators are uniquely positioned to provide support and resources to LGBTQ+ students during this time.
Items for Consideration:
• How will schools maintain and support individual relationships and a sense of connectedness with the racially and socially diverse families they serve?
• How can we create an environment so that all students, including Black and Brown students, feel safe at school while implementing pandemic response measures?
• What mechanisms can be put into place that respect safety and health but do not perpetuate racial injustice and the school-to-prison pipeline?
• How can schools ensure support for students who feel safer at school than at home?
6. Engage student voices in designing their own support systems. As educators, our work must promote and support the engagement of students from historically marginalized backgrounds in shaping policies that directly impact their educational experience, which includes safe and inclusive schools. Social emotional learning needs, including self-care and trauma-informed practices, need to be fully integrated into the curriculum.
• Platform for the Schools Our Students Deserve Post COVID, by the Colorado Education Association. See References.
Meet the Needs of Students and Families by Providing Wraparound Supports
What kinds of compassionate instructional and wraparound supports and flexibility are needed to continue supporting students and families throughout COVID-19?
1. Establish a committee of all school and community stakeholders to conduct a needs and assets assessment for each school community. This should include educator, parent, student, and community voices in the assessment process to understand the needs and assets related to academics, physical and mental health, and socioeconomic conditions.
2. Continue to provide meals to all families, even for those students who are not at school.
Items for Consideration:
• How will families’ food needs be met?
• How can the food services effectively switch between in-school and remote meals, or provide both simultaneously?
• How can community partnerships be leveraged to ensure food security for students and families?
Ensure Students Have What They Need to Be Successful
How can schools meet the academic needs of diverse populations of students?
1. Maintain high standards for all students. The education offered by school systems during the pandemic was never intended to replace the experiences children would have received in classrooms. It is a set of stopgap measures to help continue to offer educational enrichment to students and their families, but it is far from the level of quality that children deserve.
Items for Consideration:
• Will students be grouped by ability or need to make differentiation easier, or will that resegregate schools at the classroom level in ways that are more harmful than helpful to Black and Brown students?
• What are the best ways to manage content knowledge when some students are engaging in distance learning while others are learning at school?
• Which teaching methods lend themselves best to remote instruction, and which are best suited for the classroom?
• What are the best ways to lead project-based learning and other collaborative teaching methods while maintaining social distancing?
2. Differentiate for student learning needs. The pandemic was not experienced equally by different populations of students, and this will undoubtedly manifest itself in students’ academic progress. There were gross inequities in the distance learning experiences of children around the country. Students will arrive at schools next year having had varied learning and enrichment opportunities since the beginning of school closures.
Items for Consideration:
• How will students’ academic needs be diagnosed and remediated?
• How will teaching be differentiated without exacerbating racial and social inequities?
3. Clearly communicate responsibilities and expectations to students. Students should not be punished for work they weren’t able to complete or access due to the pandemic. Schools should clearly explain health protocols and expectations to students.
Items for Consideration:
• What modifications need to be made regarding technology platforms and norms when school buildings reopen?
• What will students be expected to do with their devices?
• Will students need to wear face masks? Who will provide them?
Provide Necessary Supports and Services to Students with Disabilities
How can schools maintain the involvement of parents and families and ensure
schools can meet the social, emotional, and academic development needs of students with disabilities?
The Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act (IDEA) ensures special education
and related services to 7 million eligible infants, toddlers, children, and students with disabilities, and it has remained intact with no waivers throughout COVID-19. Therefore, throughout COVID-19 disruptions, school districts must continue to guarantee a free and appropriate public education and the procedural safeguards that protect students with disabilities by providing services to those students as driven by their individualized education program (IEP).
As schools will be forced to rely more on distance learning methodologies, the civil rights protections of the IDEA must remain intact while still allowing educators the flexibilities they need. Schools should collaborate with parents, students, and educators in addressing the use of instructional packets, distance learning, tele-therapy, and alternative settings and options as mechanisms to assist in IEP implementation and evaluation. The health and safety of our students, educators, and SISPs must remain a top priority.
The involvement of parent and kinship caregivers is critical to ensuring student success and maintaining the IEP intent and integrity. They are crucial members of the multidisciplinary-school-based IEP team who know the student best, and this team is equipped to make all social, emotional, and academic development decisions. This team is also the group of decision-makers who should lead the conversations on the need for any possible compensatory services and/or extended school year services upon the reopening of schools. Schools must also remember to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, which “prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in programs or activities that receive federal funding” and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. They must ensure equal access for all in every school.
Items for Consideration:
• How can schools ensure students with disabilities are served throughout COVID-19, whether through distance learning or in the classroom?
• How can schools ensure sufficient staffing to maintain appropriate caseloads and meet compliance deadlines for students with disabilities?
• What can schools do to ensure student access to the SISP that they need for equitable instruction?
• How will schools ensure that student IEP teams are still able to meet in a virtual environment to decide how to best serve students with disabilities?
• What measures will schools implement to ensure compliance with IDEA, ADA, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act?
• Specialized Instructional Support Personnel, NEA website.
Support Educator Success
How can we ensure the professional growth and flexibility for innovation of a stable and diverse team of educators?
Promote Professional Learning and Innovation
How can we promote educator success from supporting professional growth and innovation to maintaining a full and diverse team of educators?
1. Uplift educators’ strengths, allow specialization, and embrace ongoing professional learning. Afford opportunities for educators to disseminate and learn best practices and innovative ideas with one another. At the beginning of the school year, certification rules should be relaxed to accommodate those educators just coming out of teacher preparation.
Items for Consideration:
• How will educators’ professional learning and collaboration time be structured?
• What opportunities will exist for educators to collaborate and engage in professional learning to prepare for potential returns to distance learning?
2. Provide professional development for differentiated needs. Professional learning for staff must be differentiated to ensure that educators are able to learn the skills they need to be successful. These opportunities should address currently relevant topics—for example, updates on policies and procedures; using web 2.0 tools in teaching; online classroom management; trauma-informed distance learning; and mandatory reporting requirements. Provide teacher-led, immediately relevant, and differentiated professional learning.
Some of the needs that should be addressed include:
• Assisting educators who are struggling to make the transition to using technology;
• Providing opportunities for beginning and experienced educators to receive mentoring from educators with skills such as those most needed for providing effective online instruction;
• Identifying alternative means to measure student learning—for example, training educators on how to write valid assessments; and
• Working with educators to identify multiple ways to implement professional learning goals and training as well as meet teacher evaluation requirements.
Items for Consideration:
• How can professional learning for staff be differentiated as they potentially navigate unique and unfamiliar ways of teaching?
• How can districts and schools ensure that educators have timely access to student performance data so that they can track student progress and effectively differentiate instruction for students?
• Will educators be expected to simultaneously teach face-to-face and virtually, or split their time between the two?
• Will some educators be assigned to virtual environments while others are assigned to classroom environments?
• How can districts and schools tailor assignments to uplift and encourage the professional skills and growth of each individual educator?
3. Support educator creativity and innovation. Allow educators flexibility to think creatively and apply learning effectively in supporting students’ needs. Think beyond what always “has been,” and think about how schooling may need to be different.
Plan for Educator Recruitment, Certification, and Retention
Recruit new public school staff in spite of the crisis. As the Colorado Education Association’s plan poignantly notes, “A stable, fairly compensated education workforce is key to providing students much-needed stability.” By involving the larger community in the business of school systems, schools and districts will be better equipped to identify individuals who may make good candidates from within the community. Build programs that allow educators to serve in a paraprofessional and/or residency role as they learn to become teachers; evidence suggests that teachers who come from the communities in which they live are often more diverse and more likely to remain in the profession. Build partnerships between districts and teacher preparation programs to target individuals for preparation. Support new educators who might be facing licensure challenges as a result of school closures that impacted student teaching requirements and those teaching on provisional licenses.
Consider the staffing needs to support all students while maintaining social distancing. Many schools may need an increased number of teachers and ESP positions, including custodial staff and bus drivers. There will also be a need for additional specialized instructional support personnel, such as school counselors and school social workers to meet students’ behavioral and social-emotional needs. Ensure the availability of a cadre of qualified substitute teachers ready to work should educators get sick or need to self-quarantine.
Items for Consideration:
• How can hiring be conducted in a virtual environment?
• How will districts conduct the onboarding process for new employees?
• How will recruitment policies and procedures support the hiring of a diverse workforce
Suspend High Stakes Educator Evaluations
How can educator evaluations provide helpful feedback on professional performance and guide them in identifying needed learning?
High stakes evaluations should be suspended until after the crisis has passed. Evaluations during the crisis should be formative and used to help improve their pedagogy or the services they provide.
Items for Consideration:
• For educators who will be teaching with the use of recording devices or live streaming instruction, how can schools ensure that the privacy rights of both students and educators are protected?
• How can educators receive constructive feedback on their effectiveness at this time?
• Will formal evaluations be put on hold?
IV. Future Forward: How Can We Take the Lessons of This Time and Use Them to Re-envision Schools, Not as They Once Were but Instead as They Can Be?
The choices we make now and in the months to come can systematically transform our nation’s schools into the shining cornerstones of democracy we have long envisioned. What we do know is that we must refuse to “return to normal.” This guidance document provides thoughts and considerations about how to prepare to reopen schools and how to help reopened schools succeed. As we move forward, we should take advantage of the opportunity to make changes to the education system. Just as above, this transformation should continue to consider the same four basic principles: prioritizing health and safety of all, respecting educator voice and expertise, having access to protection, and leading with equity.
Health Expertise
We need effective systems for making policies that protect those in our public K–12 schools and IHEs. From fear of gun violence to public health emergencies, we need to make sure that schools can quickly and effectively respond to any challenge. Crisis response should not be carried out at the expense of any school, any educator, or any child. Moving forward, we can employ policies that ensure a safe working environment for educators and a safe learning environment for students.
We owe it to our students to identify and understand how trauma—both related to the pandemic and not—has adversely affected their lives. We can expand and strengthen the mental and emotional health supports that children and families need to be able to learn. This starts by ensuring that every school has full-time counselors and social workers. It also entails changing cultural norms and education policies that emphasize test-driven outcomes at the expense of wellness.
Educator Voice
We can improve the professional respect given to educators and establish norms that set educators up for success. Put simply, educator voice must saturate every level of decision-making and be authentically embedded into processes and policies that will guide decision-making now and in the future.
We should support the continuous learning of educators through different configurations of schools, such as resident programs, professional development schools, community schools, and mentoring programs. We should also consider what teaching and learning innovations— such as looping, flipped classrooms, and project-based instruction—need to be reconsidered.
In doing so, schools might consider establishing, supporting, and maintaining labor management collaboration committees at the school and district levels as well as at institutions of higher education. In the current time period, the committees can work to answer the questions in this document and co-create the return-to-school policies. After the schools have reopened and we are growing from this event, these committees can pivot to long-term planning on other shared goals.
Education technology is an important tool to enhance and enrich instruction for students, but it should not be used to replace or limit education employees who work with students. We must ensure that schools do not move toward implementing technology that replaces or de-emphasizes the importance of educators. Instead, technology should be used by trained education professionals to make a better student learning experience and to teach skills about digital literacy. The essence of education is based on human interactions and relationships.
Access to Protection
In addition to creating policies and practices to promote a culture that supports health, safety, and wellness, schools and IHEs must be prepared with proper equipment to implement those policies and practices. Specifically, schools and campuses need equitable access to protective equipment. Personal protective equipment and disinfecting supplies should be consistently funded for all educational institutions, so no student or educator feels unsafe in the learning community.
Leading with Equity
We can create a system that better serves all students and ensures every child is afforded the benefits of a great public school. We can target our education dollars to the schools and IHEs that need them most and provide extensive resources to classrooms and educators serving vulnerable and disadvantaged children. We can be relentless in our quest to eliminate opportunity and access gaps and ensure that students graduate ready to lead fulfilling lives.
For schools to be successful, policymakers must not only invest in education but also in addressing issues surrounding education, such as mortgage and rent cancellation for families in economic crisis; school-based community food programs; increased local hiring to provide jobs for unemployed adults; broadband Internet and 1:1 device access for all homes; free access to higher education opportunities; and a more robust public health infrastructure, including programs like basic health screenings and widespread access to community-based mental health services. Embedding housing, food, health, dental, and job services in neighborhood schools is a common-sense and proven way to begin to address these issues and the racial inequities they create and exacerbate.
We must create policies and advance practices that promote racial and social justice.
To promote racial and social justice, schools must collaboratively design plans that address the academic, social-emotional, physical, and community-based needs of students of color. These plans should include feedback from all school community stakeholders. Additionally,
schools should consider implementing the community schools model. This model establishes teams of stakeholders—including teachers, ESPs, school and district administrators, parents, students, and community members—who work together to ensure the school is meeting the broad needs of the community and that the community is an integral part of the school. It incorporates the needs of the whole child, including strong and proven curriculum, high- quality teaching, inclusive leadership, positive behavior practices, family and community partnerships, and community support services.
Regardless of how schools and communities decide to promote a more perfect nation for all our students, we must create policies and advance practices that promote racial and social justice. By joining forces as a broad coalition, we all need to attack the systems that further education inequity and make our schools a welcome and productive environment for all, including students and educators of color.
Next Steps and Call to Action
The National Education Association will continue to address inequities in education, promote racial and social justice, and provide educators with up-to-date resources and information, including analysis of federal law and guidelines; opportunities for advocacy at the federal, state, and local levels; and tools to guide their professional practice and learning.
Investments in our schools and our communities must go far beyond what Congress has provided to date. The sooner and more comprehensively investments can be made in public schools and institutions of higher education, the faster our nation will recover from the health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 crisis. By investing in our educators, our public schools, and institutions of higher education, we will emerge with stronger, more resilient, and more racially and socially just communities. Public schools and public institutions are a driving force in our nation’s recovery because a school is at the heart of every community.
Join the NEA in demanding that Congress and policymakers at the state and local levels take action to ensure that students and communities rise together by:
• Stabilizing education funding for students in our communities, public schools, and campuses;
• Building bridges for educational opportunity for students and stronger communities; and
• Supporting the safety, health, and well-being of students and educators.
For additional information, visit the NEA website:
• Educating Through Crisis
• Schools and Coronavirus: What You Should Know
COVID-19: NEA’S 15-Point Checklist
The novel coronavirus and the disease linked to it, COVID-19, create serious, complicated, and immediate challenges for educators, students and their families, and communities. As always, the NEA and our members rise to the challenge of any crisis. Take a look at the checklist below, check off the items your school community has, and make note of what it needs to improve. You can find additional resources at
Accessibility to Well-Rounded Education
• Internet access and devices such as laptops are provided equitably for every educator and student household.
• Materials, such as packets or books, are provided as alternatives to digital resources to ensure all students have access to high-quality instructional content.
• All families receive appropriate lessons for students to complete at home based on grade level and ability (inclusive of physical education, music, arts, and other enrichment areas) as well as information on how to facilitate student learning, including online tutorials and access to educators or experts who can assist them.
Instructional Leadership and Communication
• Schools engage all educators in crafting and communicating distance and digital learning plans.
• Schools communicate with all educators and the families of students with special needs related to implementing plans for the continuation of services.
• Schools communicate procedures with all students—particularly those whose educational progress, such as third grade promotion or high school or college graduation—that has the potential to be particularly disrupted by extended school closures.
Student Safety and Family Services
• All students have safe and reliable access to their school counselors and social workers and can safely report abuse and bullying in the pandemic crisis.
• All students and families have safe, reliable, and affordable access to community healthcare and equitable access to supplemental assistance programs for food, transportation, and housing.
• All students have a timely, secure, and confidential way to ask educators or other trusted persons for help if their health, safety, or well-being is under threat, including those who may not have access to the Internet.
Healthy Schools
• All education support professionals, such as school custodians and maintenance workers, have resources and training needed to maintain clean schools and campus facilities.
• Schools and campuses are being cleaned and disinfected according to CDC guidelines.
• All educators, students, and volunteers have access to proper training and personalprotective gear.
Supporting Quality Educators
• Schools and campuses provide clear communication with all educators regarding closures and work expectations on a regular basis and provide training on effective techniques to prepare and deliver successful distance and digital learning.
• All educators have a secure way to submit feedback and grade reports to all students and families without compromising student data privacy or information security, including those who may not have access to the Internet.
• All educators are consulted on how to assign grades, keeping in mind factors such as student access to digital and/or alternative educational content or other extenuating personal circumstances.
• An Initial Guide to Leveraging the Power of Social and Emotional Learning as You Prepare to Reopen and Renew Your School Community, by CASEL Cares Initiative.
• CASEL Cares: SEL Resources During COVID-19, by CASEL Cares Initiative.
• Collaborating in a Crisis: Ensuring Educator Voice When It Matters Most, by the National Education Association.
• Collaborating in a Crisis: Working Together to Safely Reopen Our School Buildings, by National Labor-Management Partnership.
• COVID-19 & Race: Principles for a Common-Sense, Street-Smart Recovery, by PolicyLink.
• Ed Justice: COVID-19 & Our Communities, by the National Education Association.
• EI Guidance on Reopening Schools and Education Institutions, by Education International.
• In Response to COVID-19: A Checklist to Support LGBTQ Students During Distance Learning, by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and the National Education Association.
• Making Black Lives Matter at School, by Teacher2Teacher.
• Protecting Worker Safety & Health in the COVID Crisis: A State & Local Model Policy Response, by the National Employment Law Project.
• Racial Justice in Education Framework, by National Education Association.
• Resource: Expanding Paid Sick Days and Paid Family & Medical Leave in Response to COVID-19, by the National Women’s Law Center.
• Sample School Board Resolution on Supporting NEA’s We Rise Together Legislative Priorities, by the National Education Association.
• Statewide Committee to Safely Reopen Florida’s Public Schools: Priorities and Recommendations, by the Florida Education Association.
• Trump’s call to reopen school buildings is dangerous for students, staff, a News Release by the National Education Association.
• Voices of Leaders for Just Schools: Equity in Education Through and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic, by NEA Education Policy and Practice.
(1) Rashawn Ray. Why Are Blacks Dying at Higher Rates from COVID-19? (Brookings). April 9, 2020. Additional coverage of this issue: Rodney A. Brooks. African Americans Struggle with Disproportionate COVID Death Toll (National Geographic). April 24, 2020. Shelby Lin Erdman. Black Communities Account for Disproportionate Number of COVID-10 Deaths in the US, Study Finds (CNN). May 6, 2020.
(2) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Use of Cloth Face Coverings to Help Slow the Spread of COVID-19. April 13, 2020.
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Sangharama a (Sanskrit: सँघाराम Saṃgharāma) refers to a "temple" or "monastery." It is the place, including its garden or grove, where the Sangha, the Buddhist monastic community dwells. A famous sangharāma was that of Kukkutarama in Pataliputra. The Kukkutura sangharāma was later destroyed and its monks killed by Pushyamitra Shunga, according to the second century Ashokavadana. "Then King Pushyamitra equipped a fourfold army, and intending to destroy the Buddhist religion, he went to the Kukkutarama. (...) Pushyamitra therefore destroyed the sangharāma, killed the monks there, and departed."[1]
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You don't have to be Tony Stark to benefit from an iron-rich diet. Iron has many health benefits concerning the growth and maintenance of your body. Learning more about this important mineral lets, you take charge of your metabolism and other essential functions. Your body stores up to 25% of the iron you consume for future use, which is helpful in reducing the risk of anemia if your diet becomes deficient in iron intake. About 70% of iron is located in hemoglobin and myoglobin. Hemoglobin carries oxygen from the lungs to body tissues, while myoglobin is important for muscle cells.
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When you eat a balanced diet that is rich in iron, it stimulates hemoglobin production. It also helps transport oxygen to other body cells. Hemoglobin compensates for any loss of blood resulting from internal or external injuries. Women, who lose blood during menstruation, should make sure to eat plenty of iron-rich foods to avoid anemia during and after their monthly cycles. However, iron is an essential element for men as well.
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Thinly sliced: NPR’s Blue Apron segment tastes of infomercial, a tax bill breakdown, and more
1. Should Amazon put down HQ roots in a rural state? The Daily Yonder makes the case.
2. A Blue Apron bumble: NPR reporters visited the company’s test kitchen for Thanksgiving, and listeners thought the resulting All Things Considered segment sounded a heck of a lot like sponsored content. Ombudsman Elizabeth Jensen parsed the issue here, adding that, though the segment did disclose that Blue Apron was a sponsor, the choice to profile the company’s test kitchen was an independent editorial decision. Perhaps, she added, they shouldn’t’ve used the word “delicious” when describing the company’s dinners.
3. Mars has taken a minority stake in Kind, the New York Times reports. The deal could lead to an acquisition.
4. As the Monsanto-Bayer merger looms large, Texas farmers worry seed prices will rise. The Texas Tribune has more.
5. Toronto’s Royal Agricultural Winter Fair happened recently, and a photographer captured these elegant portraits of farmers and their livestock, CBC reports.
6. How do farmers fare under the proposed tax code? Shawn Williamson has a breakdown at Successful Farming.
7. A new McKinsey report finds automation could replace a third of the American workforce by 2030, so there’s that. Futurism has more.
8. Christmas trees are more expensive and harder to find this year, the New York Times reports. Blame it on the ‘08 recession.
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Late last week, in Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives v. McGahn, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled 2-1 that it lacked the power to enforce the House Judiciary Committee’s subpoena to former White House Counsel Don McGahn. Although the court invoked the Constitution’s Article III as an obstacle to adjudication, only a great fool could take seriously its claim to be staying out of an interbranch dispute. The ruling is a clear victory for Donald Trump and his vision of the President as King. And the clear loser is the constitutional system as a whole.
The Opinion’s Stunning Breadth
In the McGahn case, the appeals court concluded that the Constitution vests no power in federal courts to adjudicate interbranch disputes absent some direct impact on “the rights of individuals.” The court purported to derive this limit from Article III, which authorizes the federal courts to adjudicate “cases” and “controversies.” Because no private party has been harmed, the court asserted, the McGahn case was . . . not a case. The ruling is preposterous (which is not to say that five justices of the Trump-packed Supreme Court will not uphold it).
Consider disputes between the federal government and the states. They too involve what the appeals court termed mere “intramural” contests, as both state governments and the national government are part of one federal system. Yet federal courts routinely referee such cases. For example, in my last Verdict column I discussed an important doctrine of federalism announced in New York v. United States. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court currently has on its docket various cases pitting one or more states against the federal government, such as Pennsylvania v. Trump, which is a case against the President in his official capacity and thus one that does not implicate “the rights of individuals.”
Perhaps the D.C. Circuit forgot about the existence of the states, but was it nonetheless correct that federal courts do not resolve disputes between branches of the federal government? No, it was wrong about that too. The court acknowledged that it has in fact resolved such disputes, including one involving a Senate subpoena to President Nixon during Watergate, but then, quoting my colleague Josh Chafetz, decided to disregard those precedents on the ground that “courts have never offered a persuasive reason why a congressional subpoena to an executive branch official” gives rise to a proper case.
That is a truly stunning move. Just as a technical legal matter, federal appeals courts are bound by their prior applicable precedents absent an intervening precedent by the Supreme Court or an en banc decision of the circuit. Here there was neither. However persuasive a law professor might be, our books and articles do not set or supersede federal judicial precedents.
To be sure, the appeals court claimed that there was an intervening decision, the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1997 decision in Raines v. Byrd. Yet that case rejected standing for individual members of Congress to sue an executive official claiming an abstract interest in preventing the implementation of an unconstitutional law. It has virtually nothing to do with a case like McGahn, in which a committee of Congress sues to enforce a concrete subpoena. Thus, not surprisingly, cases that the appeals court itself cites post-date Raines and allow adjudication of interbranch disputes.
Negotiation and Self-Help
In any event, with due respect to Professor Chafetz, there is indeed a persuasive reason why courts should adjudicate the validity of a congressional subpoena: When push comes to shove, there is no practical alternative, except perhaps armed conflict.
To be sure, the appeals court was correct that in many past conflicts between the White House and Congress, resolution was achieved through negotiation. And courts have sometimes appropriately stayed their hand while the branches worked out a compromise. The question in a case like McGahn, however, is what happens when intransigence prevails—as it does here, given the President’s blanket prohibition on cooperation and claim to absolute immunity.
Professor Chafetz argues—and the appeals court agreed—that Congress has tools of its own to enforce its subpoenas. For example, the House, wielding the power of the purse, could refuse to fund various executive priorities. The problem with that approach, however, is that it invites a game of chicken that could have extreme collateral consequences, as we have seen repeatedly in recent years in standoffs between the parties over funding the government and raising the debt ceiling to pay existing obligations. The spending power is potent, but it is a blunderbuss that cannot be wielded effectively for the limited purpose of enforcing a subpoena.
Are there other tools? Congress could hold a recalcitrant executive official in contempt, but to what end when the Justice Department—these days acting essentially as the President’s personal agent—decides whether to enforce the contempt?
That leaves congressional enforcement itself. Professor Chafetz has pointed to long-ago practice, in which Congress enforced its sanctions by sending its Sergeant-at-Arms to arrest an executive official who refused to testify. Yet as Judge Rogers observed in dissent in McGahn, there is a “vanishingly slim” chance that Congress would do so here. And if it did, can anyone predict confidently that he would not be met by force exercised on Trump’s behalf? The very point of courts—indeed, of civil government—is to substitute peaceful resolution of disputes for armed confrontation.
How Democracies Die
In their insightful 2018 book How to Save a Constitutional Democracy, University of Chicago Law Professors Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Huq identify three key elements of liberal constitutional democracy as distinct from other kinds of regimes: (1) free and fair elections in which the losers concede to the winners; (2) freedom of speech, press, and association; and (3) “integrity of law and legal institutions.” Donald Trump and his enablers pose a threat to all three elements. To make matters worse, the McGahn ruling undermines the two institutions best suited to combat democratic erosion: Congress and the courts.
Pointing to a robust political science literature across many countries over many decades, Ginsburg and Huq observe that parliamentary democracies appear better able than presidential ones to resist backsliding into authoritarian or illiberal democratic regimes. The U.S., of course, has a presidential system, and that cannot be changed without a constitutional amendment. But given the risk our system poses that “a candidate hostile to democratic persistence” could “come to power” (ahem!), it would seem all the more important for courts—whose “democracy-protecting function . . . deserves celebration” for helping to “consolidate democracy in myriad environments” to reinforce those institutions “tasked with the questioning, investigation, and eventually punishment of unlawful or self-dealing uses of official responsibilities.” A court that took that responsibility seriously would see the enforcement of the McGahn subpoena as the very core of its function.
In one sense, the lesson I have drawn from Ginsburg and Huq echoes the view of the late Stanford Law School Dean John Hart Ely, whose influential 1980 book Democracy and Distrust justified the power of courts in our constitutional system by pointing to the “representation reinforcing” role of judicial review. I nonetheless cite Ginsburg and Huq in addition to Ely because their wider comparative lens enables us to see the danger more clearly. Liberal democracies can collapse or erode, and they call our attention to the urgent need to strengthen the institutions that act against collapse and erosion.
Judges with courage to stand up to populists and other would-be authoritarians have sometimes answered the bell. Ginsburg and Huq note how the Colombian Supreme Court almost single-handedly protected democracy in that country and how judges in the Weimar Republic failed to use powers they had.
The D.C. Circuit opinion in McGahn talks the talk of constitutional limits, but it allows the walk of constitutional descent. It calls to mind a recent poignant letter by Mirosław Wyrzykowski, a former judge of the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland, which, along with Hungary, has seen a vibrant liberal democracy transformed into an illiberal shadow of itself in the space of a few years.
As Wyrzykowski observes, the transformation need not occur via an overt coup or even come from self-professed enemies of the Constitution. On the contrary, he explains that “actions against constitutional democracy are carried out by the constitutional organs of th[e] country. . . . That [the courts] become a co-creator of actions violating the constitutional order of the state. That the brake pedals . . . become gas pedals. And the oath of fidelity to the constitution sounds like mockery.”
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Sounding the alarm
[On my YouTube channel, I have been using the microblogging feature. The following is a copy-and-paste of my most recent post there. If you subscribe to my channel and click the bell icon, YouTube will notify you when I post something new there.]
ArcGIS app-development knowledge? Android app developer? Both?! Epidemiologist? Actuary? Email m, please. Do you know someone who has any of those skills? Email them, please.
The US, Mexico, and other countries are at an inflection point: they will have tens of thousands of deaths or they will have millions of deaths. m distraught that I can’t sound the alarm. Working together, we can warn more people and save some lives.
The 1918 Pandemic killed 50,000,000 people in two years while World War I killed less than one-third that amount over four years. Pandemics are still more powerful and deadly than humans. During war, you can surrender and you can negotiate. Viruses don’t take prisoners or sign peace treaties.
When I warned y’all that a minimum of 4.7 million people worldwide will certainly die from COVID-19, you downvoted my video. That was the best-case scenario. If I were to tell you how many people worldwide will probably die based on the current actions of world leaders, I don’t know how you would react, but I know you wouldn’t believe me.
Maybe you will believe this statement: the only people currently alive who have experienced an episode that can be compared to this pandemic are the Cambodians who lived through the apocalypse of Pol Pot. Everything else—The Holocaust, Hiroshima, The Soviet famine, the Chinese famine, everything—would be preferable to what COVID-19 will do to us if we don’t dramatically change.
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Retro-Games FAQ's
An emulator is a program that copy's the operating system of another type of computer and allows you to run the software written for it. They typically require rom files which are the games code and data as stored on the game cartridge or even tape. There are loads available for just about every system ever made.
What is regional Protection?
Most consoles will only play games from the same country as the console themselves, companies do this in order to have better control of the separate markets. The usual method to do this is to have a region code built into the game and or console itself. For more detail see here
Can I use an imported machine in the UK?
It is possible to use consoles imported from abroad but you will need two things; Firstly, you need a TV which will support NTSC as well as a PAL signal. Depending on where the console is from, you may need a step-up power converter due to supply voltage - see grid below. It is possible to get an NTSC to PAL converter but these are typically quite expensive at around £50-£70.
What TV standard and power level do the following countries use?
TV Standard Type
220 V
230 V
What's PAL?
TV standard used in Europe and Australasia. PAL stands for 'Phase Alternating Lines'. It runs at 25 frames per second, with 625 lines on screen.
The name suggests how it works. The phase of the colour carrier is alternated from line to line. It takes four full pictures for the colour to horizontal phase relationship to return to the reference point. This alternation helps cancel out phase errors.
What's NTSC?
TV standard used in USA and Japan. Stands for 'National Television Standards Comittee'. It runs at 30 frames per second, with 525 lines on screen. Countries such as Canada and Mexico have also standardized on NTSC.
What's a Super Gun?
The super gun is a small device which can be used to play Jamma boards on a standard TV via a scart cable.
Why do import games have large black borders?
The line difference between NTSC and PAL systems. NTSC games are programmed to use just 525 lines out of 625 on PAL, so you get the 50 line border above and below the screen.
Why do PAL game run slower than NTSC counterparts?
When the game is reprogrammed to use PAL's 625 lines, the inevitable extra processing requirement needed for the extra 100 lines tends to slow things down.
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May 15, 2017
Core Beliefs
By Barry Rudesill
If you've been through The Trek, you know that we call ourselves a "Belief Modification" program. Why? Because what we believe to be true about ourselves - the most fundamental definitions of who we are - is what drives our behaviors.
If I believe I'm a failure, if it's hardwired into my core, then I will live a life that reinforces that belief. If I don't succeed, I will KNOW that it's because I'm a failure. If I do succeed, I will downplay the success. "It was so simple, anyone could do it." "It really wasn't that important." Or, how about, "It's no big deal."
Sometimes, I won't even try because I'm convinced there's no point to it.
I was recently talking with a talented young man who has uncovered at least a couple of his core beliefs. He looked at me and said, "I don't think these are true." Now this is nothing new. I've had people doubt their core beliefs before, even though they're the ones who discover them!
Thinking for a moment, I wrote a message on a piece of paper: "Because I am a [failure], I have done/said..." I told him that if the core belief was real, he should see a pattern in his life that shows how that belief drove him to behave. In a short time, he had some "great" examples of how his beliefs drove him to act, to speak to others and to interact in relationships. After that, he accepted that these were his core beliefs and told me that he wanted to change them.
With that, how do your beliefs drive you? What happens if you put your core beliefs - whether you belief them or not - into the sentence, "Because I am _____________________, I have done/said..."? Do you see the patterns played out in your life?
If you doubt what drives you, you may want to take another look. If you find something there you don't like, remember: You CAN change it!
Know that we are here for you and we hope you enjoy your journey!
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Ladies U12's Have Super Win at Home
posted 9 Sep 2015, 14:30 by Patricia Donnellan [ updated 9 Sep 2015, 16:02 ]
09/09/2015: The Kildysart Ladies U12's had a super win this evening beating neighbours Shannon Gaels 5-5 to 0-3 in a match which saw every girl get valuable game time. The girls kept the Gaels scoreless in the first half while notching up 5-4 themselves. Grace Sheerer led the brigade and was very influential setting up scores and had 1-1 to her credit within 5 minutes. Emma Byrne and Aoife McMahon were in control of mid field and kept the ball moving up to the forwards. Captain Aoife Cleary got an assist when she fed the ball to Alaina Casey who promptly put it over the bar. Emily Leahy was responsible for feeding the ball to Caitlin Casey who raised the green flag twice in succession to give the Blues the lead 3-1 to no score with about 10 minutes gone. The team then made some positional switches which saw Aoibhinn Clancy, Abbey Hehir and Eabha Garry take over in the forwards and they gave a great display. The half backline of Emma Garry, Aisling O'Connor and led by Sarah Casey were put under pressure at times but managed to keep most of the ball cleared. The dependable full back line of Rachel O'Sullivan and Clara O'Grady were outpacing their opponents, scooping up ball and sending it out the wings. Together the backs kept the Gaels scoreless in the first half. Goalie Niamh Moloney was called upon a few times but managed to keep a clean sheet for the entire match. The on-fire Grace Sheerer continued her attack and banged 2 more to the net to put Kildysart ahead 5-4 to no score at the halftime break.
The second half saw impact subs Grace Scanlon, Aoife Ginnane, Katie Casey and Jade McNamara take up positions up and down the pitch. They all played really well and kept up the strong attacking and defending. By this time the Gaels had settled a bit into the game and put 3 scores on the board. Clara O'Grady slotted over a great point which turned out to be the last point of the game.
This big win follows on from Saturday's fine display when the Ladies beat Doora Barefield by score of 4-5 to 1-6. They were very unlucky in their first match to lose to Wolfetones 1-6 to 1-3 in very wintery conditions. Their next match is away to Kilrush and their final match is home to Crusheen.
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COAS’ meeting with Imran Khan
There is a lot of discussion about the COAS’ meeting with Imran Khan on the media with, so called experts giving their two scents of opinion on;
1. What may have conspired at the meeting
2. Why only Imran Khan was invited and not other political leaders
3. Or for that matter, is this the beginning of series of meeting by COAS with the political parties heads?
4. There is a deal made between the COAS and Imran Khan
5. Imran Khan has been told that he is the next PM (as claimed by PTI), and so on
Although I am not privy to any information, here is my take on this meeting.
1. The meeting must have been called at the behest of the govt to deliver certain messages. The COAS is not likely to ask for this meeting unilaterally as this would be out of order and in appropriate
2. Imran Khan must have been warned not to support the TTP and likes as Pakistan govt and the army are fighting these terrorist.
3. FATA will not be merged with KPK as this is not feasible until the governance issues sorted out
4. There is no deal between the army and Imran Khan as this will be an illegal act and considered a subversive activity.
5. Imran Khan has not been given any understanding to the affect that he will be the next PM, as PTI asserts, because this would be pre-poll rigging and another illegal act.
So, my take is that Imran Khan’s meeting with the COAS is a warning to Imran kahn and is not a good sign for PTI. If, by any chance, the meeting was arranged without government’s consent or on its behest, the COAS would have been asked to pack his bag and go home.
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Cause its all
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On your knees
you look up,
Decide you've
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You get mad,
you get strong,
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August 2009
August 26th 2009 - 354 days. Forever. The day you were born, a star dropped from the sky and lit a flame inside my heart. As I watched you grow, that light inside my heart burned brighter and brighter. It was fueled by my pride in your accomplishments, the joy in watching you live life, the happy times we shared, the memories we made, and by the greatest love a mother can have for her child. This flame keeps me going. I try to remember that I helped to bless the world with the most precious of gifts that could be given, because I gave birth to you. You made your place in the world from the moment you took your first breath. You quickly discovered your own independence and became the much-loved person you are today. I want you to know, that no matter how much time passes, or how far apart we are, time and distance will never dim the light in my heart. The light that is you, will continue to burn forever, and you will always know that you are missed and loved, you will always know your home is my heart, and you will never feel alone. That I have been blessed with two such gifts, you and your big brother, is a miracle, one that I will never understand, but will never question. When it is time for me to be with you someday, I will know that the best part of my time here on earth, was being the mother of Jacquie and TJ. You must know, that nothing will ever change what we have always been and will always be, to each other. My Jacquie, I will love you forever and ever and always, and longer than that. Love, mom
August 21st 2009 - I don't know what to say or what to write. I am not sure if I even know how I feel anymore. I keep repeating Jacquie's mantra "We Believe". I say it all the time, over and over, becuase I really do want to believe, I want to believe that someday we will all be togeather again. But it seems that almost everything else I believed in, I no longer do. I find myself wondering how I can keep believing, when Jacquie was still taken from us. Now, I just don't know anymore. This past Christmas, we recieved a beautiful photograph of Jacquie, along with a poem, in a frame that we keep on our kitchen counter, so we see it all the time. I wanted to share that poem with you.
God looked around his garden, and he found an empty place
He then looked down upon this earth, and saw your tired face
He put his arms around you, and lifted you to rest
God's garden must be beautiful, he always takes the best
He knew that you would never, get well on earth again
He saw the road was getting rough, and the hills were hard to climb
So he closed your weary eyelids, and whispered "Please be thine"
My Jacquie, as time goes on, you must know that we miss you more and more. The days are hard, and I count the hours until night, when I can be with you, if only in my dreams. In the dark, I can pretend and I can make believe that nothing has changed. I love you, My Jacquie, more than life itself. We all miss you so much, and our days are spent trying to get through them, knowing you will not be here at the end of the day, with us, where you belong. Please help us,stay with us and never ever forget how very much we all love you. With all my love- forever and ever and always, and more than that, your mom
August 16th 2009 - It is getting harder and harder to write as we approach the 6th of September. At this time a year ago, Jacquie had been admitted to the ICU at Roswell. Her lungs were filled with fluid and she was unable to breathe on her own. She was in a "drug-induced coma", and the respirator was breathing for her. She was also having the beginning signs of liver failure- the graft vs host disease was destroying Jacquie's organs. And still, we believed that she would be able to fight back again. It hurt so bad to have her unable to communicate with us, to talk with her and not have her answer back. To not hear her voice and her laughter. Whenever I am out anywhere, and I hear a parent tell a child to be quiet and stop talking I want to scream at them. I want to tell them to let them talk, and to listen to everything their child has to say. I want to tell them how sweet the sound of their child's voice is, and I want them to know that the silence of never hearing that voice again would be too much pain to bear. I can still hear Jacquie's voice and I can still hear her laugh, the laugh that would make you laugh with her. I can hear her, but she can't talk to me. And I can feel her, but I can't touch her. And I am afraid. My Jacquie, "A daughter needs a mom who needs her daughter". What will I do, my Jacquie? I need you. There is no part of my life that the memories don't touch, no part of my life that the your not being here isn't filled with pain. I am so sorry that we couldn't save you, that we couldn't make you better. I am so sorry that you suffered. I am so sorry.
My Daughter Jacqueline Elisabeth, I love you more each day, as I miss you more each day. I know you are gone, but I can't let you go. Your home is in my heart, and you will live there forever. And I will love you forever and ever and always, and longer than that. With love, heart and soul- your mom
August 10th 2009 - Day 338. It seems like just yesterday, and yet it seems like forever. A year ago, Jacquie was 10 days post transplant #2 and was starting to have some graft vs host symptoms. We knew what complications were possible, but we believed that she woould be strong enough to deal with them. Her body was still depleted from the first transplant, but we believed. Still, Jacquie continued to fight back, eating when she could and walking and excercising when she was able. She was extraordinary, she was, and still is my hero. Each day, I was amazed at her strength and dtermination, in spite of all the problems she was beginning to have. Every night, as I watched her sleep, I woud pray that she woud be able to fight another day, and that Torey, T.J., and I would find the strenght to not fall apart. However difficult the days were, we still made plans for "next summer". Jax missed being outside, in the sunshine and fresh air. She wanted to swim, play tennis, and "hang out" with her friends. I told her that next summer, she would. I am so very sorry Jacquie, I believed with all my heart that you would be home this summer. You should be home with us now. On Saturday, Jacquie, your wonderful brother held the 2nd "Cruise Against Cancer". There were 63 motorcycles and cars at the gym, all to honor your memory and to help raise more money for research. We also had a bone marrow registration drive, and added 32 more potential donors to the national registry in your name. There were drawings for prizes, awards for different catagories of cars and cycles, Rick the DJ, a 50/50 raffel, and of course- food! And, we know that you gave us the beautiful weather. Although rain was forcasted, the sun was shone all through the show. When the car show part was over, at about 2pm, the cars lined up and began the trip down to Roswell the present the check for $2300.00. It was an awesome site to see, but your view from heaven must have been incredible. To see all those people, there for you and your dream, was breath-taking, and I cried to know that you were watching it all, but were not next to me. Why are you not next to me, where you belong? We finally met Kathleen, who is so much like you that it hurts. She is newly diagnosed and fighting ALL. I told her we are fighting with her, and because of your dream and your foundation, she will never be fighting alone. We MUST make this world cancer free, we cannot keep having to watch the pain and suffering. We have got to keep going and working harder so that places like Roswell are no longer necessary. I believe we can do this, Jacquie, we have no other choice. Please say a prayer for Dennis, a new cancer patient who needs our prayers and our good thoughts. My Jacquie, my Daughter. As the days continue to go by without you, the hole in my heart seems to grow. There is nothing to fill the emptiness. I miss my BFF, and I miss being your mom. I miss the times we shared, the laughter and the tears, the talks and the arguments, the shopping, the baking and cooking. I miss watching TV with you, and listening to you and T.J. tell me lines from your favorite movies before the actresses or actors said them. I miss seeing you and T.J. together, and seeing the love in your eyes that you had for each other. I miss watching you with your dad, and the way he would light up when he saw you. I miss watching you follow through with plans you made witb your friends and with us. I miss my daughter, the one who was supposed to be here long after I was gone. I miss you Jacquie, and the pain just goes on. Please stay with me, you live in my heart and I will never let you go. I will love you forever and ever and always, and longer than that, my Daughter. With my Love, your mom
August 4th 2009 - Yesterday I was in the basement putting away bins of "Tinker-Ball" things. We have so much for next years Ball that I think we will have about 8 full bins when everything is finally packed away. I didn't realize how much we actually had, it didn't seem like so much all spread out at Sean Patrick's. Anyway, as I was trying to find room for everything, I started to notice all the "Memory boxes" we have. There are ones from all of us, Torey and I have our filled with 52 years of memories. TJ and Jax have theirs filled with baby clothes, toys, books, photographs, awards, school papers and stuffed animals. And next to all of them, are Jacquie's boxes- 3 of them, two marked Roswell Park and one marked Memorial Sloan Kettering/Hope Lodge NYC. From the time they were born, I kept filling these memory boxes for them, so that someday they would have wonderful stories to tell their children and have things to show them about "when I was little", and "when I was growing up". Torey and I shared our memory boxes with TJ and Jax. We would tell them the stories behind the things we had saved, and why they were special to us. And we told them that someday, they would do the same thing with their children, and we would keep our memory boxes for them to share with their children, too. We always thought that someday our grandchildren would hear the stories that we had told our children. And we hoped that they would enjoy them as TJ and Jacquie did. Torey and I also knew that someday those memory boxes would belong to TJ and Jacquie. Now I wonder, what will I do with the special things I saved for Jacquie to give to her daughters? The memory boxes that Jacquie and I went through so many times, and she would tell me "someday, I'll give that to my daughter, and I'll tell her the story". The things she asked me to save, that I thought I should get rid of, like my girl scout hat and my sash with all the badges on it, diaries, and favorite books, what will I do with those things now? Jacquie's memory boxes, the ones I keep going through and remembering the story behind every item in there. The boxes from Roswell and Sloan, they have everything anyone gave her or sent to her since she was diagnosed. We kept everything. Every card and letter, every drawing and photograph, stuffed animals, medals, rosaries, statues, gifts, books, everything. Because Jacquie knew that someday, she would want her children to know the wonderful people wo helped her through the most difficult time in her life. She would want them to know the names and stories behind each and every gift. We kept the lists of all the gifts she recieved, and they have check marks next to them because she tried to acknowledge the gifts as she recieved them. Jacquie wantd her children to know how much it meant to her that people cared about her. And she wanted her children to know that it made a difference, knowing she was not fighting for her life alone, that she had so many people fighting along side her. Who will know that now? TJ will share his memory boxes with his children, and there are things that he will share with them that were Torey's and maybe some things of mine, but who will Jacquie share her memories with? Why didn't Jacquie have a chance to share with her children? Why didn't Torey and I have a chance to share with Jacquie's children? WHY????? Jacquie had so much to give and so much to share, why didn't she live??? I hate that I keep asking questions I can't find the answers to. I hate that I am angry because Jacquie's memories are in those boxes and she will never be the one to tell the stories that go with them. I hate that she is not here to fill up more memory boxes. I hate that we all BELIEVED with all our hearts and souls, and yet, she was still taken from us. My Jacquie, My Daughter, I am so sorry that I am angry. I am so sorry that I stayed so long in bed today. I just couldn't face another day without you. I miss you. So much going on here, and it would be so much easier to get through if you were here with us. We were strong as "four", and now we are struggling without you. We keep trying but it is hard, and I am tired of trying. Some days, I just wish I could stay in bed forever. I love you, my Jacquie, with all my heart and soul. I will love you forever and ever and always, and longer than that. Stay with me. Please don't leave me. Love, your mom | <urn:uuid:64830f5b-fd7a-4a7d-8c6f-e5e8c87af775> | http://testbed3.netsos.com/August2009.php | en | 0.972457 | 0.050276 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson are feeling "better" after testing positive for the coronavirus.
The beloved Hollywood couple, who were the first celebrities to go public with their diagnosis, gave fans a health update after they were treated for COVID-19 in Australia two weeks ago. In a new post on Instagram Sunday (March 22), the actor also offered all those who are currently practicing social distancing some hope.
"Hey, folks. Two weeks after our first symptoms and we feel better," he wrote. "Sheltering in place works like this: You don't give it to anyone -You don't get it from anyone. Common sense, no? Going to take a while, but if we take care of each other, help where we can, and give up some comforts... this, too, shall pass. We can figure this out. Hanx"
As of right now, COVID-19 has infected nearly 400,000 and killed over 16,000 people globally. As the numbers keep rising, more and more government officials are urging people to stay home and self-isolate to order to stop the spread of the virus.
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May 042019
Getting elected can be the easy job; knowing what you’re doing can be a totally different story. When the next Naperville city council meeting convenes this Tuesday May 7, two new, shiny council members, without dents (Theresa Sullivan and Patrick Kelly) will be sitting at the dais. They will have accomplished their goal of getting elected. Their next goal will be remembering where they sit at the dais, followed by learning Naperville’s version of Robert’s Rules Of Order. That can be tricky.
If Sullivan and Kelly think they have all the answers, they will be in for a rude awakening, as some former members of the city council have experienced. Some council members have admitted to not having all the answers, but their willingness to learn (Rebecca Boyd-Obarski) was refreshing. Others have learned by listening and observing (Kevin Coyne and Benny White), while others (last name rhymes with ‘Gustin’) could have benefited from the quote, “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt.” That quote is attributed to Abraham Lincoln, or maybe it was Vinnie Goombotz.
Looking at the numbers:
Naperville city council members are paid $12,500 per year. Council members can work as little as they want (former council woman Becky Anderson), or as much as they need to get the job done properly (Paul Hinterlong).
An average Tuesday night city council meeting can last about two hours, with two meetings per month, minus about four meetings per year cancelled for holidays is 20 meetings per year totaling 40 hours which equates to $300 per hour. However most council members pack in the hours taking pride in getting the job done right. 20 hours per week is about 1,000 hours per year, which equates to $12.50 per hour. Compare that to a Wal-mart greeter making $13 per hour.
If a council member is elected to a 3-term limit (Paul Hinterlong and Judy Brodhead) that’s 12 years at $12,500 per year for a total of $150,000. Compare that to Philadelphia Philly baseball player Bryce Harper who just signed a 13-year contract for $330 million; Harper makes more money sleeping 8 hours per night for one week than Hinterlong and Brodhead make over a 12-year period as Naperville city council members. Granted, Hinterlong and Brodhead can’t hit the long ball, well, maybe Hinterlong can, but Brodhead is more of a bunting-move-them-along slap hitter.
Naperville council members are not in it for the money. Both Kelly and Sullivan may be surprised with the number of hours necessary to get the job done right. Neither will have alienated any residents/voters until they make their first council vote, then the irate phone calls and emails will begin to trickle in until it becomes a flood.
Another frustration they likely will experience is social media, mis-information. A classic example is tax, the city council has actually maintained or reduced the tax rate, while the school districts and park district have jacked up the tax. If you take a close look at your tax bill, you will see where those tax dollars are going, but most folks get upset with city officials, and specifically the city council regarding taxes.
Glossy mailers with cool pictures, beautiful colors, and lofty stated goals can help a candidate get elected, but it’s those same stated goals not achieved that can unseat a council member in the next election.
3 Responses to “You’re Elected, Now What Do You Do”
1. Actually city council has manage to tow the line on taxes since 2008 (something neither the park or school districts can come even close to claiming). So yes all the talk on how the city needs to do more to control taxes is complete BS!
The city is one of the most transparent governments I have ever seen. They actually put the city check book ledger online so you can see how much and were every city penny spent is going. Go luck get that lever of transparency for either the park district or school district.
In fact good luck figuring out how the park district is actually spending any of the tax dollars they get. The park district is the least transparent government organization I have encountered. Half there board meetings are not even recorded and good luck finding out were and when they will be held. Now admittedly the Park district board member do not officially get any compensation, but who know what “fringe” benefits they might be getting and what they are worth. Again a transparency issues.
• You imply the park commissioners are getting perks with no proof. Yet we have proof of our Mayors business making money off of developments he voted on.
• So do the realtors (like Gustin), lawyers (like Coyne and Kelly) and even union members (Hinterlong) on city council. The reality is that members of city council have had financial affiliations with organizations that profit from the outcome of their votes for as far back as I can remember.
This was an issue for many years in Naperville, with several sources complaining about these financial conflicts, but because voters still elected these individuals to city council positions nothing has ever come from this.
The reality is, as has been pointed out many time over the years, that the very nature of these elected offices makes these conflicts inevitable. And frequently unpredictable.
For example the city maybe considering establishing an HR program to help former city employees, as a result of downsizing, find new jobs to reduce unemployment benefits cost for the city. Should Sullivan, who owns a business to provide this kind of service, be allowed to vote on whether or not the city creates this cost cutting program? Since no specific business is being considers and the only thing under consideration is the creation of a program that her business might place a bid on, should this program be adopted, there is currently no conflict of interest. So by council rules she should speak on and vote on this matter.
In short anytime you have an elected office that provides no benefits and a below poverty level annual salary in a high cost of living community such as ours, these elected officials will need a second income. An the source of that second income, because of the wide scope of community interests city government is involved in, has a very good chance of one day intersecting with city business. The only way to prevent this is to make these positions full time city government jobs with salaries and benefits good enough to support them living in our city, which means creating something more like what the city of Chicago has then what we currently have. Choose your poison.
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Just So You Know, Nobody Knows What They Are Doing
I don’t really know the age group that reads my posts. But, in case you are a young person like me—and you feel stressed out and worried and anxious about your future—I have something to tell you.
People have no idea what they are doing.
Your parents. Your teachers. People on the street. They only know what they bothered to learn. People are talented and knowledgeable, sure—but on only certain things.
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Suicide Essay, Research Paper
Suicide is a very serious problem, and it happens too often for us to ignore. I have always been interested in the different things involved in suicide and what would cause a person to kill themselves, but have never had the time to find out, until now.
I used to think it was something that was a spur of the moment decision, but it?s not always. I thought it only happened to kids whose parents abused them, but that?s not always true. I found that out when one of my friends that I had known since I was born had given serious thought about it. She is a wonderful poet with poems in hundreds of magazines, and she is also an extraordinary artist with paintings in museums that are selling for a thousand dollars. This girl is only 17. The one thing that seemed to be the slightest bit disturbing about her life was that her parents had a divorce when she was about seven, but other then that she seemed to have the perfect life. She had been giving this serious thought for about a year, and then one day she actually attempted to kill herself. I thought if someone wanted to kill themselves it would be hard to fail. That?s when I figured she didn?t really want to die. It was a cry for help, and she didn?t know of any other way to ask for it. I stayed a week with her through this trying period in her life, and found out it was partly because of her French exchange student boyfriend. They weren?t broken up, but he had to go back to France, and she couldn?t see him as much as she would have liked to. Her mother started taking her to a psychiatrist to help her through her depression. If we hadn?t have done this she might not be with us today. Now, she has a fairly normal life. She has a job at Amy?s Ice Cream which required her to design an art piece in order to get the job. Of course she was hired since she?s so talented, and she draws and paints to deal with her emotions. They call this art therapy, and it really seems to work for those who already express themselves in their art work. Other ways depression is dealt with is through writing, anger therapy, exercise, dancing, group counseling, treatment centers, and peer assistance networks.
When people don?t talk to each other about something, they may believe a lot of things about it that are myths. Here are some of the myths about teen suicide and the truth about each one. People who say they?re going to kill themselves never do. That is not true. It is also dangerous to believe it. Eight out of every ten suicide victims had told someone they were planning to die. It is true that most people who talk about killing themselves don?t do it. But some of them mean what they say. Always take it seriously when someone talks about suicide. If someone in your family killed himself, you are more likely to do the same thing. This belief is very harmful. It makes some young people feel that there is something wrong with them. They feel that they are certain to kill themselves. Thinking about suicide is not handed down from your parents. But having very strong feelings can run in the family. Some people feel on top of the world when they are happy. Then they are down in the dumps when they are sad. Strong feelings of sadness can make a person think of suicide, but they don?t have to, and they usually don?t. A person who tries suicide will try again. It is true that some people who died of suicide had tried before. But it doesn?t have to be true. Getting help quickly may save them. Most suicides happen at night and at times of the full moon. This is not true at all. Most suicides happen in the afternoon or early evening. The moon has nothing to do with it. This same myth says that most suicides happen at holiday times. The truth is that there are no more suicides on holidays than on other days. People who try suicide want very much to die. This is the most untrue myth of all. Most people who try suicide do not want to die. They just cannot find an answer to a bad problem. They are really calling out for help. Today people are specially trained to give that help and prevent suicide. If you talk about suicide to an unhappy person, you may give them the idea. This is not true either. People who are thinking about killing themselves are so afraid of the thought that can?t talk about it. Your friend may be glad if you bring it up so that you can know how he/she feels. ( Teen Suicide pg. 19-21 )
A person who is thinking about suicide gives signs of it, and looking for them could help before it?s to late. Here?s a few signs from ( Teen Suicide pg. 7 )
~Talk about suicide, death, and dying.
~Give away things he/she really likes.
~Do dangerous things.
~Act very different
~Not want to do anything
~Start to drink or use other drugs.
~Go suddenly from happy to sad and happy to sad.
If you notice more than one of these signs, then the person is in real danger. You can call 411, and ask for the Suicide Hotline number, or you can dial 911.
Suicides are most common among white males. I was appalled to find this out. In 1981 there were 3,775 white males, 856 white females, 316 black males, and 71 black females who committed suicide in the United States. That?s a total of 5,161 in the United States. ( Coping with Suicide pg.26 ) I read in Teen Suicide by Gail Stewart ( pg. 12 ) that there were 600,000 suicide attempts in 1987. In the book Get Help by Sara Gilbert, from Rossanne, Sara talks about different ways to get help. On page 123 it lists over one hundred different organizations that will provide you with the assistance you need. I recommend this book to anyone that is thinking about suicide or knows a person that is thinking about it. It tells you what you need to know about suicide, where to find help, what to ask, and what are the many different causes. Remember there is no problem too big, too complicated, or too unusual to be solved.
Reading about this subject was depressing, but I think everyone would benefit from reading about his whether they are suicidal or not. I now know how to recognize the symptoms, why people choose to die over a problem, and how to get a friend help. I am relieved to know that it looks like none of my friends have these signs, and am glad to know if they ever do have these signs I?ll know what to do and be right there for her to talk to.
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1. I can see there's great demand! I've just got internet back after moving house, and I now have my first set of exams in three weeks time. Can't really do anything until after that, but I will endeavour to spend some time coding and fixing bugs after that.
2. Hiyas, As you might have noticed, I'm having a bit of a break from modding for a while. Got a fellowship exam to pass (yes that is as full-on as it sounds). Will be back in a few months.,
3. Tweakscale and MFT won't really play nicely together. Maybe you could use ProceduralParts for your rescalable tanks?
4. You can tweak it easy enough. Have a look at this MM patch. As OtherBarry has stated, the out of the box config will remain - we're trying to replicate KSP, not real rockets.
5. No, but it works harder if you shout at it Edit: note also that you can use top level GameData folder names in NEEDS/BEFORE/AFTER ect now also.
6. Not really, just tweaked a few things and looks like there's some collateral damage. Putting spaces in that spot for nodes will cause issues (and we can't get around them) so for consistency probably best keep it as it is.
7. Would be nice yes, but due to technical reasons this wouldn't work too well. I could go into details but maybe just take it on faith If you really want to find out why, read the last 70 pages of thread
8. If I were to hazard a guess, it would be the space after the comma for the key index Try this and see if it works: @atmosphereCurve { @key,0 = 0 385 @key,1 = 1 300 key = 5 0.01 } If not, let me know and I'll see what I can sort out.
9. I'm going to be doing a bit of work with the save file fixer so that it doesn't run as frequently, and displays some progress as it does so in the near future. Just finding some time to do it is the issue Any delay imposed will be at the end of the loading sequence as you enter the main menu. If you're getting hangs halfway through loading, then this is generally caused by some mod throwing an exception during it's initialization phase. Best bet is to check the KSP.log.
10. If you're having a problem with not doing anything this is usually because an old version of tweakscale everything is installed. Update it and you'll find it works. Second step is to look at the KSP logs for exceptions. This is called KSP.log in your KSP install dir. If you're still having trouble, upload your KSP log to dropbox or something similar and post a link here and someone will help you.
11. The limits on the tanks are there so you can't go too far from what would be available from stock. There's a MM patch in the OP that will alter the size limits with tech levels. The easy way to see where the limits are is just to scale your part down or up to that size. Note that volume is limited as well, so you might find you can make a bigger diameter tank if you make it shorter. RSS scales everything down by 0.8 (including the stock parts), so all the limits are similarly scaled. Given that you might end up with some odd numbers, but it is what it is. If you want to see what the limits are in-game, probably the easiest way is to hit Alt-F12, and go through the part catalog for the part you're interested in.
12. I was trying to get everything registered in the Start phase for the KSPAddon for fear that if it didn't get done there, I'd loose the chance to get things registered for any ships loaded. I guess that's not an issue however, since the menus are created on the first right-click, and OnGui is called at the end of the update cycle anyhow, so can defer it until the prefabs are present. I will update the code in KAE. Unfortunately your patch will need to remain for a period of time until users of KAE update their versions, which is something outside of my control.
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9 Cardio Home Exercises That Don’t Involve Running
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You’re. Still. Home. So how do you keep on keeping on? Keep things fun and interesting by changing up your workout routine! Get your legs moving and your heart pumping with these nine cardio exercises that don’t require leaving the house.
There are so many health benefits of cardio exercise. According to Cleveland Clinic, the entire body is impacted by cardiovascular activities. The increase in blood flow and circulation helps to provide necessary oxygen to your brain, skin and muscles. It can also improve lung, muscle, pancreas and bone health, decreasing shortness of breath and the risk of developing osteoporosis and diabetes. It can also contribute to your mood and energy levels by releasing endorphins and feel-good hormones that decrease your risk of stress and anxiety.
You don’t have to run for miles or go to the gym to get your heart rate up. We put together this list of nine cardio exercises that you can do right in your house. By combining your cardio exercises with a delicious meal delivery service like South Beach Diet, you can get healthy and fit without stepping foot outside.
Obviously, the faster you go, the harder you’ll work. Most of these workouts can be incorporated into High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT). “Although there are many different ways to perform HIIT, all of the programs are characterized by periods of very heavy effort combined with periods of either complete rest or low intensity recovery,” says the Journal of Sports Science and Medicine. Click here to learn more about HIIT workouts. >
Ready to begin? Be sure to read the instructions and practice the movements before starting your workout. Go slowly until you’re comfortable and then pick up your pace. Proper form is more important (and more effective) than speed. Be sure to always speak with your doctor before starting an exercise routine.
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Here are nine cardio home exercises that don’t involve running:
1. Jumping Jacks
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1. Stand up straight with your feet together and abs engaged.
2. Jump your feet out to the sides and bring your arms up over your head simultaneously.
3. Jump again, lowering your hands and bringing your feet together. As you land, keep your weight in your toes, eventually landing on the heels. (This reduces the impact on your ankles, hips and knees.)
4. Keep your knees relaxed throughout, never locked.
2. Burpees
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Burpees are several exercises in one: a plank, push-up, knee tuck and jump-up. So let’s break this exercise down into four parts:
1. Plank: Start by putting your hands down and jumping back into a plank, keeping your arms straight and body stiff and flat like a board. Your butt shouldn’t be sticking up in the air. If you have a full-length mirror you can turn sideways, it can really help with your alignment.
2. Push-up: If you’re able to do a push-up, do so—keeping your body nice and straight. Look slightly ahead, not down at the floor to avoid straining your neck. If you have to rest your body on the floor, no shame in that. Just push yourself back up.
3. Knee Tuck: Jump your feet up to your hands and stand.
4. Jump-Up: Keep your weight in your toes, which will help with balance and prepare you for a small jump in the air, while stretching your arms up high to the sky.
3. Stair Jumps/Step Ups
cardio exercises
Have an aerobic step and all the risers? Awesome. Have a front porch step? That’ll do!
Step Ups:
• Option 1: Start by just stepping up and down off a step, leading with your right leg: Right up, left up, right down, left down. Repeat as many times as desired and then lead with the left. To increase the intensity, go faster.
• Option 2: Work one leg at a time. Stand with your right foot on the step and your knee bent slightly, loading all your weight into that leg. Tap your left foot on the floor behind you and then on the step. Your left foot should barely make a sound as it hits the ground. Repeat and then switch legs.
• Option 3: Jump up and step down off the step. Use your arms to help you balance and generate momentum. Add risers to increase the level of difficulty.
Stair Jumps:
Have access to a few stairs? Try these exercises:
• Option 1: Walk, jog, run or sprint up and down the stairs.
• Option 2: Walk or run leading with the same foot on each step. Repeat on the other foot.
• Option 3: Skip one step. Skip two steps.
• Option 4: Try jumping from one stair to the next. Use both feet or alternate one foot at a time. Try to land softly, knees slightly bent.
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4. High Knees
cardio home workouts
1. Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart, abs engaged.
2. Start marching, bringing your knees as high up in the air as you can.
3. Pick up the pace so you’re hopping on each foot, using your abs to pull your knees up.
4. Pumping the arms increases your heart rate and also helps you maintain your balance.
5. Jumping Lunge
home workout
1. Plant your feet shoulder-width apart.
2. Step forward with your right leg and squat down until your right thigh is parallel to the floor, bent 90 degrees. (Your right knee should not extend out over your right toe and your left knee should not touch the floor.)
3. Jump up, pushing off your front leg, switch feet in the air, and land with your left leg forward and right leg back.
4. Repeat, keeping the knees bent and soft, never locked when landing.
6. Jump Rope
cardio exercises
The faster you go, the harder you’ll work. Don’t have a jump rope? Fake it.
• Option 1: Skip over the rope.
• Option 2: Jump and then double jump. Alternate.
• Option 3: Jump on one foot or alternate feet.
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7. Mountain Climbers
home workout
1. Get into a plank position, hands evenly spaced apart, right under the shoulders.
2. Pump your right knee up towards your chest and back down. Follow with the left knee and alternate.
3. Try and keep your butt down throughout the exercise and drive your knees as far forward as possible.
4. Change it up: Get an oblique workout by driving your right knee to your left shoulder and left knee to right shoulder.
8. Skaters
cardio exercises
1. Crouch down on your left leg and cross your right leg behind you.
2. Jump to the right, landing on your right foot (keep the knee bent) and crossing your left leg behind you. Repeat on each side.
3. Your arms should follow your motions, right arm forward (when the right leg is back) and left arm forward when the left leg is back.
9. Squat Jump
1. Plant your feet shoulder-width apart. Position your weight in your heels.
2. Bend your knees and squat (pushing your hips back as though you were sitting on a chair) down and up twice.
3. On the third squat, use your butt and core muscles to explosively jump up in the air, returning to a stand.
4. As you land, quickly drop back down into the initial squat position. Repeat.
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Why is anime so afraid of embracing a multi-cultural cast
I have a lot of passion for Girls und Panzer and it was a delight to re-review it after watching it with a friend who visited me from distant Norway. However, one point in my review was a bit dishonest; I praised the show for being multi-cultural, even though it’s actually just as homogenous as the country from which the series hails. Allow me to explain…
Girls und Panzer is a show wherein an underdog team of girls must start up a “tankery” team and compete in a tournament in order to prevent the closure of their school. The girls learn how to drive tanks and train hard in order to compete against teams from other schools, all of which are themed after different nations. And the word “themed” is deliberately chosen here. Unless Das Finale introduces new characters, the only person in the entire plot that is not Japanese is Klara, who transferred to Pravda Girls High School in time for Girls und Pander Der Film.
Finding this out on the wikia while reading up trivia about the show is perhaps the most disappointed I have ever been with an anime, which is also why I deliberately avoid mentioning it. So, how does this work?
Well, in the world of Girls und Panzer, every school has its own battleship with an entire city on it. Japan has dozens of these ships and many of them have some historical reason for being themed after a certain culture, such as Anzio being founded by an Italian man who wanted to spread his culture to Japan. The tournament that the TV series is all about is a national one, so even though Ooarai is up against teams that use the tanks, army music, uniforms, language, and mannerisms of other countries, they are actually all Japanese girls just pretending to be foreign.
And… can I just ask why?
The tournament could have easily been an international one, in which the teams go around the world in their battleships to reach various battlegrounds. The fact that the entire cast (excluding Klara) is actually just Japanese is an absurdly convoluted excuse that harms the believability of the entire franchise, and which only solves one minor plot point: that Ooarai’s Ceasar and Anzio’s Carpaccio went to middle school together and are happy to be reunited in the OVA.
Girls und Panzer would have you believe that the moment somebody leaves middle school they instantly devote themselves to a foreign culture and change their name to befit this new identity, only to revert back to a generic Japanese person the moment they start working or go to university. What Japanese parent would even want to have their children educated to be more Belgian or Bulgarian? It doesn’t add anything of value and only serves to detract from the enjoyment of the series for people who like to see a multi-cultural cast in their shows. And, I ask again, why even have this?
Black Lagoon isn’t exactly a celebration of different cultures, but at least the characters are diverse and actually foreign.
While searching around for answers, I came upon articles comparing it to yellow-washing in live-action adaptations of shows like Attack on Titan and Fullmetal Alchemist, where European characters are played by Japanese actors. Defenders pointed out that Japan is socially isolated and 98% of their population is Japanese; it’d be difficult for a Japanese production to cast white actors and the target audience prefers to see fellow Japanese people in their movies anyway.
While narrow-minded, I can see how this would fit within the context of a live-action production. However, this is an animated show about little girls drifting around in historical tanks. I am pretty sure that the target demographic is more open-minded than they are given credit for. On top of that, they went out of their way to cast Sumire Uesaka and Hisako Kanemoto for the roles of Nonna and Klara, both of which are voice actresses fluent in the Russian language and who have a long-running history with the country, just to play the two characters in the series that actually speak the language associated with their school. There was clear effort and consideration put into making these characters believably foreign.
not patty
The Soul Eater universe is made more lively by pulling characters from around the world, such as making Giriko Czechian.
I can still enjoy Girls und Panzer and do still like how every school is themed, but knowing that I am supposed to acknowledge these characters as secretly Japanese always annoys me. I literally can’t comprehend why series author Ryūichi Saitaniya insisted on this plot point or why Studio Actas and Reiko Yoshida decided to keep it in the anime adaptation. If a satisfying answer exists, then I would love to hear it.
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1. Tiger says:
There’s probably no good reason for it, but I can think of a few reasons why this might be the case.
Firstly, committing to a foreign cast is always risky. There’s the danger of accidentally misappropriating a certain character and their culture, and result in certain misunderstandings that audiences would not hesitate to bash or deem racist. One small mistake and you might just end up offending a whole culture (or social justice warriors), which takes away from the joy of enjoying a series, especially if it was well written.
Secondly, its probably just too much work. I don’t know much about the author or his goals for the story, but to successfully pull of an all foreign cast could cause problems with translation. Either way, if he can’t write a convincing enough reason as to how these foreigners might be able to conveniently speak Japanese, you’d still have problems with it regardless. More effort, same outcome. So the author probably didn’t feel the need to go the extra mile anyway.
I’ve yet to watch the series, nor have I done any research about this topic sooo it’s all just my own theories. But it’s nice to see people caring about these things. Great post!
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1. Casper says:
I am not very concerned about the racism aspect, seeing as they still use the stereotypes and joke about them in a lighthearted way. It now just has the optional defense of “they aren’t really foreign”, which might actually be more insulting to the kind of person who’d get worked up over the depiction of national stereotypes.
I also wonder about how much work it’d really be to have the characters actually be foreign. I think anime fans can easily accept a convenient plot excuse for why everybody happens to speak Japanese or wouldn’t even really question it to begin with. You say it’d be more effort for the same outcome, but even if we have a relatively equal amount of plot conveniences, I think saying “these girls all just happen to speak Japanese” is a helluva lot easier than remapping the entire world to Japanese cities and coming up with a reason for why the education system would even work like this.
Thank you for your kind comment. If you ever get around to watching the show, I hope this article hasn’t soured your experience beforehand.
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2. ospreyshire says:
That was a good write up. I do wish there were more multi-cultural casts in anime when the representation is done well. For someone who would be considered an ethnic minority in America (and more so if I was in Japan), I definitely don’t see that many characters who are like me that are written well. As much as I crap on American animation for being racist even today, I do have to say that Japan has their own issues as well. I even did an article about a similar subject. https://ospreyshire.wordpress.com/2019/12/11/representation-matters-pt-iii-my-thoughts-on-anime-how-i-got-into-japanese-animation-what-i-think-about-it-and-how-it-could-be-better-in-regards-to-representation/
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1. Casper says:
Thank you for your comment! I read your article today and that gave me a lot to think about. I remember how my friends and I were shocked when we first watched Cyborg 009, but we figured it was that bad because of how old the show was. It’s rare for me to see such blatant stereotypes in anime today, but that is also down to just how rarely we see people of color in anime in general. Your example from The Promised Neverland was a surprise to me as well. I still planned to watch that show, but am inclined to drop it from my PTW list for now. I am going to check out some more of your posts when I get the time, but have you ever considered making a list/top 10/countdown of anime that handled this representation you seek well?
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1. ospreyshire says:
You’re certainly welcome. I found out about your article thanks to Terrance Crow. Yeah, the old-school Cyborg 009 had questionable stuff with 008. It’s true that you don’t see many characters outside of the Asian and white spectrum in anime. I’m glad you were able to learn something with The Promised Neverland and with some of the personal experiences I had. Sure thing and thank you. My main blog is about my music and poetry, but I talk about other issues as well. I also have a review blog that covers film reviews, world cinema, anime, and documentaries. That’s actually a good idea about a list of times when anime got positive representation right. I’ll keep that under serious consideration.
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Disable Automatic Computer Maintenance in Windows 10
When you are not using your PC, Windows 10 performs a number of maintenance tasks. These scheduled tasks are configured to run automatically out-of-the-box. One of them is Computer Maintenance. It is a complex task which performs a number of operations to keep your OS clean and configured properly. It performs various tasks like finding and fixing broken shortcuts, removing unused Desktop shortcuts, correcting the system time and more. If you are not happy with the result of this maintenance or have a reason to prevent the OS from changing your shortcuts and settings, here is how to disable it.
By default, the Automatic Computer Maintenance task is configured to perform the following actions:
1. Broken shortcuts removal. If you have more than 4 broken shortcuts in the Start menu and on the Desktop, Windows 10 will remove them. Such shortcuts usually point to executable files which do not exist any more, for example, after you delete the app's folder from Program Files manually.
2. Desktop icons which have been unused in 3 months will be removed.
3. System clock will be checked and synchronized with a time server.
4. Hard disks will be checked for file system errors.
5. The troubleshooting history and error reports which are older than 1 month will be removed.
Personally, I find this feature useful and never disable it. If your situation is different, here is how you can disable this feature. Before proceeding, ensure that your user account has administrative privileges. Now, follow the instructions below.
To disable automatic computer maintenance in Windows 10, do the following.
1. Open Registry Editor.
2. Go to the following Registry key:
If this key doesn't exist, then just create it.
3. In the right pane, you will see the EnabledExecution value. If this value doesn't exist, create a 32-bit DWORD value of this name. Even if you are running 64-bit Windows, you still need to create a 32-bit DWORD value. Set it to 0 to disable Automatic Computer Maintenance in Windows 10.Disable Computer Maintenance Windows 10 Tweak
4. Restart Windows 10.
You are done.
If you prefer the GUI method, there is a special option in the classic Control Panel app.
Disable Computer Maintenance in Windows 10 with Control Panel
1. Open the classic Control Panel app.Control Panel Default View
2. In the search box, type troubleshooting as shown below.Control Panel Search Troubleshooting
3. Click on the Troubleshooting item. The following page will open:Control Panel Troubleshooting Page
4. On the left, click the link "Change settings".
Control Panel Troubleshooting Change Settings LinkThe following page will open.Control Panel Change Troubleshooting Settings Page
5. Select the Off option under Computer Maintenance and click the OK button.Disable Computer Maintenance Windows 10
That's it.
8 thoughts on “Disable Automatic Computer Maintenance in Windows 10
1. Heather
Wow, I came to the right place. I learned a few things just reading two of your articles, and easy for me to understand. My laptop has been acting erratic and slow since the last Windows 10 update, I am hoping I can find some more answers on your site. (such as Registry errors, deleting system cache, duplication, etc..) Thank you so much for the help so far.
2. Ray Donovan
What’s the difference between the method posted in this article versus the one you’ve posted here…?
1. Sergey Tkachenko Post author
These are just different maintenance tasks. For instance, the second one you mentioned doesn’t work with shortcuts.
1. Ray Donovan
I had a feeling you were gonna say that. While waiting for your reply, I been doing some more research and it looks like the Maintenance that you’re referring to in this article is one that has been included since Windows 7. The one from the article looks like it was added in Windows 8.
Seems like every time MS releases a new version of Windows there’s just more and more stuff to DISABLE! SMH
Thanks for posting these articles, they’re very informative and helpful! =)
1. Sergey Tkachenko Post author
You are most welcome Ray. Thanks for your kind words.
3. Ray Donovan
I’ve been doing some testing and it looks like the “Remove Shortcuts” and “Remove Unused Desktop Icons” scripts were removed in Windows 8 and 10. I personally tested this in my Virtual Machines tonight and found that these were definitely removed starting in Windows 8. This can also be verified by checking in…
and you’ll see that…
no longer exist in Windows 8 or 10.
You can also test by creating a ‘New Folder’ on the desktop and then making multiple shortcuts of that folder on the desktop. Then delete the ‘New Folder’. Now go into Task Scheduler…
Task Scheduler Library > Microsoft > Windows > Diagnosis
and you can manually run the “Scheduled” task, (which is what gets ran by the “Automatic Maintenance” you’ve discussed in this article), and you’ll see that the broken shortcuts will still exist after the task has run.
Also, if the Automatic Maintenance that you posted about in this article…
is disabled, then the Scheduled Maintenance from this article will not run either.
4. jim cunningham
WIN10 maintenance has NEVER done anything useful on the workstations I use, rather it randomly destroys settings .
It messes with my 32bit software compatibility (either making some applications non functional or dysfunctional) , destroys my display settings, (without showing a resolution change, it moves the icons and taskbar off screen) messes with the Media player’s playlist settings
5. John G
So it would appear that network icons that Windows-10 considers “broken” are still getting deleted.
With so many of my users working from home, and not being on the VPN on startup, their icons that point to mapped drive paths ARE in fact getting deleted presumably by this Scheduled Diagnostics.
I’m going to try the old Win-7 registry solution to see if it still works.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
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Seven little lessons to rediscover our everyday life.
Seven days for the Creation… of a new perspective.
The well-known detail: The weekend has arrived. You have two days of free time at last, which you can use to: 1) do the cleaning; 2) set up the online payment of the latest bills; 3) organize that business dinner for next week; 4) clear the sink which is full of piled up dishes; 5) go to that concert even if you don’t feel like it, but you have already bought the tickets; 6) study the new offers from telephone providers; 7) visit your neighbours to maintain relations (which you’ve been delaying for weeks); 8) go shopping; 9) catch up with overdue laundry and ironing; 10) any other business. The two days are over in a jiffy. On Sunday evening, to chase away the shadow hanging over the back of your mind, you start watching that funny video on the Internet that everyone but you in the office has already seen. One video leads to another, and at three in the morning you’re still on your computer. It’s already Monday, and you’re more tired than before
The background: Even during free time you can feel anything but free. Caged as we are in our schedule, in a fragmented time marked only by planned and unavoidable duties, we tend to fill the hours with incentives and to keep our minds moving even when we have nothing to do; otherwise it seems to us we’re wasting our time. Rather than just sitting around doing nothing, we start playing a mini-game on the phone: to quit doing things is increasingly becoming a taboo today. The machine of the so-called late-stage capitalism demands from us that we constantly produce (or become products ourselves). Excitement does not stop for a second, there is no rest at all, there is no boredom. Perhaps it would be enough to learn the ancient Chinese art of “doing without effort”. For instance, the skilled butcher never sharpens his knife because he knows how to exploit the spaces inside the flesh, his blade passes through the cavities between the bones and never go blunt; yet if you ask him how he can cut so perfectly maybe he won’t be able to answer. Instinctively, and thanks to practice, this ninja-butcher has learned to recognize emptiness and fullness, he knows when to sink his knife and when to withdraw it, he is aware that the key is alternating effort and relaxation, doing and not doing. Even the God of Genesis, when on the seventh day he allows himself a little relaxation after the efforts of creation, is not just having a rest. He is completing his work through rest. Stasis is an essential moment of creating (and of creation), such a fundamental part that the seventh is the only day that God defines as sacred. Doing without doing, completing with rest: all this sounds very good on paper, but how does it apply to our everyday life? Help comes to us from an often misunderstood state of mind: boredom. A study conducted in 2013 by the University of Central Lancashire suggests that performing a repetitive and uninspiring task can sometimes influence creativity in a positive way. A group of 40 subjects was given a monotonous task consisting in copying phone numbers from a phonebook; on the other hand, a control group wasn’t asked to do anything. Subsequently, psychologists presented polystyrene cups to both groups, asking the participants to come up with as many uses as possible for these objects. Those who had been bored by copying telephone numbers found creative solutions which were definitely more original than the others. Boredom gives the mind an opportunity to rest, but also to fantasize. Scientists are convinced that mind wandering is essential for learning, developing creative thinking, solving problems, planning and simulating future events, and then making decisions.
The Seventh Lesson: Since we are no longer able to simply stop doing, here is a replacement exercise. Try to dedicate yourself to a long, repetitive and above all boring task. You can do whatever you prefer: dust your old collection of action figures, wash the dishes by hand, paint a wall – or even better, perform a completely useless activity. Do it without music, without notifications from your mobile phone, unconcerned about the result and enjoying this ancient sensation to the full. A little boredom is good for the organism, the mind and even philosophy (many thinkers, from Giacomo Leopardi to Bertrand Russell, have included it among the most sublime human feelings).
Therefore, claim boredom as a luxury or, better, an inalienable right! On Monday morning, when your colleagues ask you what you have done on the weekend, you can proudly answer: “I got bored, and I liked it.”
This post concludes the series ILLUSTRATI GENESIS:
Day 1 & 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Day 6
– Day 7 (this article)
(Steven Wright)
This year the seven issues of the #ILLUSTRATI magazine by Logos Edizioni are each inspired by a Genesis day.
Even my column in the magazine will have to stick to this line; I therefore decided to offer readers seven self-help lessons, parroting those “personal growth” books and courses which — despite being often laughable — people seem to like so much.
In each issue I will start from a well-known detail and try to re-enchant it, by revealing the surprising background that lies behind that banality.
The first two “days” have already been published; here you can find both of them, in a double post.
Seven little lessons to rediscover our everyday life.
Seven days for the Creation… of a new perspective.
The well-known detail: In our room, we turn on the light: a mechanical gesture we take for granted, and repeat every day. We don’t even look at that switch anymore, and we find nothing special in the bulb lighting up the room.
Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse.
The background: The flow of electric charge can be unidirectional (direct current, DC) or reverse direction many times a second (alternating current, AC). At the end of the 1880s, Thomas Edison had developed the direct current system, which was reliable but had a serious issue: it could cover a distance of only one mile off the power plant where the current was produced. George Westinghouse’s alternating current, instead, could be efficiently transmitted over long distances, but at that time it was a complex and experimental system which was not sufficiently understood even by engineers.
In order to corner this emerging market, the Edison and the Westinghouse companies embarked on a no-holds-barred propaganda campaign, which was called “the War of the Currents” by the press. Each of them claimed his own solution was better and safer than the other one; during this controversy, Harold Brown, an electrical engineer (no one had ever heard about him before), decided to take side and launched a crusade against AC. Determined to demonstrate how dangerous the alternating current was, he paid some local children to collect hundreds of stray dogs off the streets, then he killed the dogs one by one, connecting them to a generator of the kind used by Westinghouse. He claimed his tests undoubtedly proved how risky it was to use AC—but indeed, his study didn’t follow a scientific method. Brown decided to give a public demonstration of his ‘findings:’ on the 30th of July 1888, he subjected a dog to several shocks of direct current up to 1000 volts (to prove the animal would survive). When he applied a 330-volt shock of alternating current, the animal died with a last, ghastly bark. This show had a boomerang effect, because it only achieved the result of scandalizing the audience: not only was the experiment uselessly cruel but, since the dog received the lethal shock when he was already exhausted by the previous ones, this brutal charade did not prove at all that one kind of electricity was more dangerous than the other. For this reason, four days later, Brown repeated his demonstration and this time killed three dogs with one single 330-volt shock of AC. But even this attempt did not achieve the desired result of swaying public opinion, since shortly afterwards it turned out that Harold Brown wasn’t an independent researcher but Edison had hired him in order to discredit his competitor.
The War of the Currents reached its peak in 1890 when the State of New York decided to replace hanging with the electric chair. Under Edison’s pressure, they opted for AC as “lethal current.” It was a body blow to Westinghouse, who in the meantime had managed to get Nikola Tesla’s patent for a polyphase induction motor. Thanks to this and other technical improvements, Westinghouse won the war and, in 1895, brought to completion a huge power plant on the Niagara Falls.
Edison never resigned to the defeat. In 1903, he volunteered to electrocute with alternating current Topsy, a female elephant guilty, it is claimed, of killing two circus keepers. On the 4th of January, at 2.45 pm, the pachyderm was electrocuted with a 6600-volt shock, in front of Edison’s cameras filming the execution. But not even this last macabre feat succeeded in giving a bad name to alternating current, which had already become the standard both in the US and in Europe. And which still turns on our lightbulbs today.
The moment of Topsy’s electrocution.
The First Lesson: Current is “all well and good,” it is even fundamental, but it costed the life of a lot of animals, sacrificed in such an insane way only to win a patent war. This may suggest us an uncomfortable but essential thought—light is often matched with shadow, and every glow necessarily involves some darkness. As Bob Dylan sings: “Behind every beautiful thing, there’s been some kind of pain.
The well-known detail: Every morning we go to work, we take a quick look at the sky, just to see if there is any cloud. We know who we are and what we have to do. Every evening we come back home at nightfall, just when the first stars appear. We never think about the stars and how absurd they are. We have worked, so we know who we are.
Hubble Ultra-Deep Field, 2014.
The background: We easily forget that the universe is still a total mystery. Its shape, how it began, how it is going to end, what was there before, what is coming after: these are basically fields of speculation. Notwithstanding the huge amount of data collected and evaluated, and despite the numerous theories developed, astrophysicists and cosmologists are often puzzled by what they see. We could say that surprise is the rule in astrophysics.
The matter we are able to see, with our telescopes and other detection instruments, sometimes behaves in such an unexpected way that we need to postulate the existence of something else in order to explain its dynamics.
In other words, since what we observe doesn’t completely add up, there must be something more —and it’s not a small part of it, since we are talking about 95%: researchers conjectured that we can see only 5% of the entire universe.
One of the most complex phenomena to understand is the expansion of the universe.
Immediately after the initial explosion, the universe started expanding very fast; but the gravitational attraction between galaxies slowed down this process and, just like a balloon being almost completely inflated, the universe started to decelerate its expansion. This deceleration led the astronomers to think that in a very distant future everything would stop and cool down. This was the ultimate fate of the universe they envisioned, unless, at a certain point, the process would reverse into the so-called Big Crunch (the opposite of the Big Bang).
This vision remained nearly unchanged during the last century, until in 1998 two different teams of researchers independently made the same disconcerting discovery. It seems that the universe kept on decelerating its expansion during the first half of its existence. And then, some 6 or 7 billion years ago, surprisingly, it started accelerating. Today, galaxies move farther apart much faster than before. How is it possible that they suddenly started to move so fast? What is pushing them away?
Since there is no apparent reason, astronomers hypothesized the existence of an invisible force, called dark energy, which might be responsible for this acceleration. If existing, this energy must be of such a magnitude as to develop the pressure needed to move entire galaxies. To make the math work, dark energy should contribute a 68% of the total energy of the universe; if we add the dark matter (another hypothetical form of matter), we get to 95%—the percentage of the universe whose components cannot be revealed even with our best instruments.
The existence, out there, all around our small planet, of an immense invisible dark ‘force’ playing marbles with galaxies could be an upsetting idea to the most sensitive of us. But the alternative is not comforting either. Indeed, researchers rejecting the hypothesis of the dark energy support something even more paradoxical, at least to the eyes of the laymen: in reality, the universe is not accelerating at all—it is time which is slowing down. According to this theory, the acceleration is only an optical illusion perceived by an observer, like we are, placed inside a spacetime which is slowly coming to a halt.
Things are actually even more bizarre than this. We must consider that what has been said so far relies on the assumption that the laws of physics will always be the same, unchangeable; and until recently everything indicated that the universe had always ‘worked’ in the same manner. Then, in 2010, an Australian study questioned this assumption. Some measurements made by ESO’s Very Large Telescope Project seem to highlight a variation in time of the so-called fine-structure constant – a fundamental quality of electromagnetism that should remain unvaried, constant, as its name suggests. Should it be confirmed, this discovery would imply that the universal laws of physics (gravity, time, space, speed of light, and so on) might not be so universal, and they could vary over time or maybe depending on the ‘area’ of the universe.
The Second Lesson: We live inside a sort of great puzzle, a paradox where the only certainty is that nothing is certain. We cannot even understand what kind of strange place we live in, so how can we always know for sure what we have to do or not to do, what is right and what is wrong? Maybe, only stupid men are certain of everything, as Chuang-Tzu said, as they “believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, that one herdsman”. And, when they come back from work, they have no doubts about who they are or what is expected from them, and they never think about the absurdity of the stars.
Il Gigante di Cardiff
In quel tempo c’erano sulla terra i giganti,
e ci furono anche di poi,
quando i figliuoli di Dio si accostarono
alle figliuole degli uomini,
e queste fecero loro de’ figliuoli.
(Genesi, 6:4)
Era il 1868. Il tabaccaio George Hull era ateo, e non sopportava quei cristiani fondamentalisti che prendevano la Bibbia alla lettera. Così, dopo un’ennesima discussione esasperante con un suo concittadino convinto che nelle Sacre Scritture non vi potesse essere alcuna metafora, Hull decise che si sarebbe preso gioco di tutti i creduloni, e forse ci avrebbe anche fatto qualche soldo. Si preparò quindi a mettere in piedi quella che sarebbe stata ricordata in seguito come la “più grande burla della storia americana”.
George Hull acquistò un terreno ricco di gesso nello Iowa, e fece estrarre un grosso blocco di pietra squadrata. Con enormi difficoltà, riuscì a far spostare l’ingombrante fardello fino alla ferrovia, dichiarando che serviva per un monumento commissionatogli a Washington. Ma il blocco di gesso venne invece spedito a Chicago, a casa di Edwin Burkhardt, uno scultore di lapidi e busti funerari. Hull l’aveva infatti convinto a lavorare in segreto, con la promessa di un lauto pagamento, alla scultura che aveva in mente. Lo stesso George Hull fece da modello per quella strana statua di quattro metri e mezzo, e quando l’opera fu completa i due passarono sul gesso acidi, mordenti e agenti macchianti per “invecchiare” la scultura. Riuscirono addirittura a ricreare quelli che avrebbero dovuto essere scambiati per i pori della pelle.
Hull tornò quindi con il suo “gigante” a New York, dove lo seppellì dietro il fienile del suo amico e complice William “Stub” Newell. Lasciarono passare un anno e poi, con la scusa che serviva un nuovo pozzo, pagarono una ditta di scavi per cominciare i lavori. Gli operai, ovviamente ignari, scoprirono l’incredibile statua, e già il pomeriggio seguente Hull e Newell avevano eretto una tenda attorno alla “tomba del gigante pietrificato” e chiedevano ai visitatori 25 centesimi per poter ammirare quella meraviglia. Cominciò un immenso passaparola, e il prezzo di entrata raddoppiò in poco tempo a 50 centesimi – una cifra altissima per l’epoca.
Il gigante di Cardiff divenne l’argomento dell’anno: politici, accademici e religiosi ne discutevano con fervore, e le teorie più assurde vennero proposte per spiegare l’enigma. Secondo alcuni il gigante era un missionario gesuita del 1500, secondo altri un indiano irochese Onondaga, ma per la maggioranza, come aveva sperato Hull, il gigante era la dimostrazione inconfutabile che ciò che era scritto nella Bibbia non era soltanto una verità spirituale, ma anche storica. Nemmeno la lettera, proveniente da Chicago, di uno sconosciuto scultore tedesco che affermava di aver preso parte alla beffa, convinse nessuno: erano certamente i vaneggiamenti di un pazzo. Un geologo dichiarò: “il gigante ha il marchio del tempo stampato su ogni arto e fattezza, in un modo e con una precisione che nessun uomo può imitare”.
Il gigante di Cardiff, cominciato come un costoso ed elaborato scherzo, stava diventando un business enorme: venne spostato a Syracuse, dove il prezzo del biglietto salì fino a 1 dollaro – più o meno 60 euro di oggi.
E qui entra in scena il geniale P. T. Barnum. Come sempre, appena fiutava odore di affari, il più grande showman di tutta l’America non si faceva scrupoli. Barnum offrì a Hull 50.000$ per portare in tour il gigante per tre mesi, ma Hull rifiutò. Barnum però non era certo tipo da darsi per vinto: riuscì a corrompere una guardia, e di notte fece intrufolare nella tenda un suo artigiano, che eseguì un calco in cera del gigante. Tornato a New York, ricavò dal calco in cera una copia in gesso, del tutto identica alla statua di Hull, per esporla nel suo museo.
Adesso c’erano quindi in giro ben due giganti! Cominciò una battaglia tragicomica, senza esclusione di colpi. Barnum dichiarò che il suo gigante era l’originale, che aveva comprato da Hull, e che quello di Hull era un falso. Hull denunciò Barnum per diffamazione. In tribunale, Hull ammise che il gigante era una burla, e la corte decise che Barnum non poteva essere ritenuto colpevole di aver dichiarato che il gigante di Hull era un falso, dato che lo era. Durante la disputa, un collaboratore di Hull pronunciò la celebre frase There’s a sucker born every minute (“Ogni minuto nasce un nuovo babbeo”), che sarebbe poi stata erroneamente attribuita a Barnum, e che riassume perfettamente una certa filosofia dello show-business.
E infatti i “babbei” non si fecero attendere. Il processo, paradossalmente, riaccese la curiosità del pubblico per “la grande burla del gigante di Cardiff”, e la folla ricominciò a pagare per vedere non più uno, ma due giganti, che su strade separate continuarono la loro carriera per molti anni, fruttando una fortuna sia a Hull che a Barnum. Se vi interessa sono ancora visibili. L’originale è esposto al Farmer’s Museum a Cooperstown, New York, mentre è possibile ammirare la copia di Barnum al Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum di Detroit. Ed entrambi valgono il prezzo del biglietto… se siete dei babbei. | <urn:uuid:8715a758-f40d-4304-a9d3-6b412bc358d6> | https://www.bizzarrobazar.com/en/tag/genesi/ | en | 0.839905 | 0.149495 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Central Asia
Put your house in order
Before they can cope with the oil wealth, the Caspian’s bureaucracies need a giant spring- clean
Special report
AN EARLY-AFTERNOON visit to the Azerbaijan cabinet of ministers does little to instil confidence in the country's bureaucracy. Virtually every office along the building's endless corridors is empty: the civil servants have probably left for their “real” jobs, perhaps as taxi drivers or traders. A drive past the State Customs Service proves even more depressing: lined up outside one of the swankiest government buildings in Baku are several fancy western cars, well beyond the (official) means of any Azeri bureaucrat.
Weak and corrupt bureaucracies abound throughout the post-Soviet world, but the Caspian states seem to have more than their fair share. Graft is pervasive at every level of government, though at the top it is difficult to prove. In Kazakhstan, for instance, a $500m cash payment made by Mobil for some of its share in the Tengiz oil field allegedly never reached the budget. The word in Baku is that backhanders above $100,000 are apportioned by the Azeri cabinet. There can be little doubt that the political elites throughout the Caspian live rather better than they could on their official salaries (a minister in Azerbaijan earns about $600 a month).
Mid-ranking corruption is more formalised. In Azerbaijan virtually all public positions that involve the collection of money must be bought. The job of a tax inspector, for instance, might cost about $50,000 up front. In Uzbekistan the going rate for an import licence is 10% of the value of the goods.
Every part of the public sector is included in the game. According to Nurbulat Masanov, a professor of political science at Almaty university, many academics have begun to take bribes from their students. A good grade on a term paper will command $10-20. Passing a difficult exam could cost as much as $200. The World Bank has estimated that in Azerbaijan informal payments for health services (such as bribes for access to doctors, hospital beds and medicines) run to 5-6% of GDP, compared with only 2% spent on health by the government.
Rankings compiled by the EBRD suggest that Tajikistan is the most corrupt country in the region, and Georgia too suffers badly from graft. The other countries are not far behind (see 5). Other sources disagree on the order, claiming that oil-rich Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan are even more prone to corruption than the rest. But nobody disputes that all the Central Asian countries have a considerable problem.
A legacy of graft
In part, corruption in the Caspian is a legacy of the old Soviet regime. In its declining years the communist system lived on bureaucratic fiddling, particularly in Central Asia. Sharaf Rashidov, first secretary of the Uzbek Communist party during the Brezhnev era, became famous for milking the Soviet treasury of $2 billion by falsifying the cotton production statistics. Uzbeks now regard him as a hero.
More recently, as the planned economy has crumbled, the half-reformed hybrid that has taken its place cries out for backhanders. Factories with no clear owners employ many phantom workers; companies with no markets resort to complex barter deals, with every party taking a cut; state banks with no shareholders dole out credit to their friends, for a fee. When Hurricane Hydrocarbons, a Canadian oil company, took over Yuzhneftegaz, a Kazakh state oil firm, in 1996 and introduced electronic identity cards for its employees, 300 people on its payroll disappeared overnight.
The worst kind of petty corruption is generated by excessive government regulation administered by officials on miserable salaries. A civil servant in Azerbaijan earns an average of $30 a month. Many Central Asians spend more than that on cigarettes. They have little choice but to supplement their income by moonlighting or, more likely, with bribes.
The opportunities for extracting them are endless. Businessmen, whether local or foreign, must have innumerable permits, adhere to countless health, safety and environmental rules, and battle through (or evade) an often draconian tax system. According to the EBRD, throughout the former Soviet Union “taxation is one of the biggest problems facing foreign investors”. Unfair and unpredictable tax regimes encourage tax avoidance, which in turn breeds corruption. Official tax revenues are shockingly low: in Georgia, for instance, they amount to only 9% of GDP.
Much of the corruption could thus be viewed as an alternative tax system. Since official tax revenues and civil servants' salaries are nugatory, it might be argued, consumers of public services (such as foreign investors requiring permits, or the sick requiring medical treatment) pay for those services directly. However, this kind of informal taxation is not only unfair, it is also enormously inefficient. A slew of recent academic research has shown that the credibility of government institutions, and particularly the level of corruption, has a big impact on a country's growth rate. Broadly speaking, the more corrupt a country is, the more slowly it is likely to grow. In its World Development Report last year, the World Bank pointed out that corruption in the former Soviet Union was higher, and government institutions less credible, than in any other developing region.
Prepare to be rich . . .
For the Caspian petro-states, the implication is that they will have trouble managing huge wealth effectively, and are unlikely to attract much-needed foreign investment outside the extractive industries. Fortunately they have a few years in hand before the oil revenues build up. But they will have to hurry to create an effective government machine that can cope with them.
Most urgently, they need to simplify their tax and regulatory systems to provide less opportunity for corruption. Progress on this score is mixed. Kazakhstan, for instance, is commendably cutting its income-tax levels, but has set up a new investment agency with powers to give tax breaks to foreign investors, which seems to offer plenty of scope for graft. Uzbekistan, too, gives large investors a special deal that leaves plenty of room for interpretation.
Reform of the public sector itself should also have high priority. Fewer, better-paid bureaucrats would be less tempted to top up their salaries, and a more transparent government structure would leave less room for graft. Here, too, Kazakhstan has made the most progress, slimming its government from 47 to 14 ministries and pruning many thousands of bureaucrats. With the help of the IMF and the World Bank, it is now introducing expenditure control and public-resource management.
Azerbaijan has started discussing such reforms with the World Bank, but for the moment its public- sector books are far from transparent. For example, SOCAR, the state oil company, formally consists of 17 companies with 17 sets of accounts. They are not consolidated, leaving plenty of loopholes for money to “disappear”. In Turkmenistan, the official government budget is virtually meaningless because many of the more important ministries (including the oil and gas one) keep their own separate books.
then spend your money wisely
Such basic public-sector reforms are vital for effective government anywhere, but all the more so for natural-resource-rich countries. To ensure that oil and gas revenue is not wasted on immediate consumption or white-elephant projects, governments must plan carefully. First, where should the revenue go? In Azerbaijan, after much wrangling, the IMF ensured that the early oil bonus payments and revenues go into a special account at the central bank, and are then kept in dollars abroad until they are fed into the budget on a predetermined schedule. However, this method complicates the role of the central bank. A better long-term solution would be an offshore trust fund to keep oil revenues out of the country until they are spent.
Deciding how to spend them is even trickier. To avoid real exchange-rate appreciation and build up a safety net for when oil prices drop, it makes sense to invest oil revenue abroad (as the Kuwait Investment Office does). But the Caspian countries' own investment needs—particularly in infrastructure—are so vast that constructing such a safety net would be politically impossible, at least in the short term. A wise government would draw up careful public- investment plans to ensure the money was not spent all at once, and avoid wasting it on propping up ailing enterprises. It would allocate some oil money to import-intensive infrastructure projects in transport and communications, and also put some of it into education and health. Nigeria is an example of what not to do: it spent its oil wealth almost before it arrived, much of it unwisely, such as by expanding the public sector. By contrast, Indonesia, corruption notwithstanding, prudently used oil revenue to boost productivity in non-oil sectors.
Once oil revenue has started to arrive, the chances of serious reform will decline sharply as vested interests set to work. Today, change is still possible. But it depends on far-sighted political leadership, and that cannot be taken for granted.
This article appeared in the Special report section of the print edition under the headline "Put your house in order"
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'The Disaster Artist' Is 'The Room' Where It Happened
Nothing's Gonna Tear Them Apart, Lisa: Greg (Dave Franco) and Tommy (James Franco) wait for the lights to go down in 'The Disaster Artist.' (Justina Mintz/courtesy of A24)
Though Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space is commonly cited as the worst film ever made, he released a far more compelling failure three years before with Glen or Glenda, a semi-autobiographical melodrama about a cross-dresser, played by Wood under the pseudonym "Daniel Davis." Glen or Glenda has all the staggering ineptitude of Plan 9 — most memorably, Bela Lugosi's armchair commentator shouting "Pull the string!" — but it has the added benefit of being nakedly personal, a plea for tolerance from a man who has chosen to reveal a closely guarded secret on screen. Bad films are released every week, but the truly enduring ones tell us something about their creators that is utterly specific and unique.
Tommy Wiseau's 2003 opus, The Room,is a miracle of a movie, a modern-day Glen or Glenda in which the writer/director/star, so spectacularly inept in all three departments, bares his soul (and his body) for all to see. So much about Wiseau is famously murky — his country of origin, which by his accent sounds vaguely Eastern European; his age, which is surely much older than he suggests; and his seemingly bottomless source of financing — but The Room is a tale of heartbreak and betrayal that is defined by an almost childlike simplicity. Wiseau's understanding of human relationships may be hilariously alien, but his emotions are raw and unfiltered.
The cult of The Room started in Los Angeles over a decade ago, built on word-of-mouth and a curious promotional billboard, and it has since become a 21st century Rocky Horror Picture Show, with audiences yelling canned one-liners at the screen and lobbing footballs and plastic spoons. In 2013, Wiseau's co-star and partner-in-crime, Greg Sestero, teamed up with author Tom Bissell to publish The Disaster Artist, a wildly entertaining book that deserves shelf space alongside other classics of the movie-fiasco genre like Steven Bach's Final Cut (about Heaven's Gate) and Julie Salamon's The Devil's Candy (about The Bonfire of the Vanities). It turns out the behind-the-scenes story is every bit as stupefying as film itself.
With his winning adaptation of The Disaster Artist, director/star James Franco follows the model of Tim Burton's biopic Ed Wood, approaching Wiseau with a delicate balance of affectionate mockery and a heartfelt appreciation for his creative passion. It would be unforgivably mean-spirited for Franco merely to point and laugh, so instead he casts Wiseau as a Hollywood outsider who chose to defy the gatekeepers and pursue his cinematic dreams on his own dime. That may be the path of least resistance, given the darker corners of Wiseau's biography and the gross misogyny at the core of The Room, but it's also the most gratifying, because it so firmly embraces the cult that's rallied around Wiseau and his peculiar DIY triumph.
Before the cameras start to roll, however, The Disaster Artist begins with the friendship between Wiseau (James Franco) and Sestero (Dave Franco), two Hollywood nobodies who meet at an acting class and wind up making history together. In Sestero's telling, he is the passenger in a car that is careening down Sunset Boulevard, a passive accomplice to the runaway ambitions of a man who wants to be the next James Dean or Marlon Brando and has the money to make it happen. When Wiseau hacks out a script for The Room, Sestero recognizes it as a nonsensical, subliterate bafflement, but Wiseau's mysterious millions will the production into existence anyway and movie anti-magic commences.
In the book and in the film, there's something naggingly inauthentic about Sestero's friendship with Wiseau: He presents himself as an insider while also keeping his distance, in case anyone might associate him with historic failure. But The Disaster Artist is comedy gold once Wiseau starts making The Room in earnest and Franco re-creates every misstep with the scrupulousness of a medieval monk transcribing religious text. There are production follies, like Wiseau shooting on digital and film simultaneously or using green screens of a balcony rather than the real thing, and there are multiple takes of treasured moments, culminating in the immortal "You're tearing me apart, Lisa!"
The Disaster Artist eases into the uncomfortable nature of a so-bad-it's-good phenomenon like The Room, when audiences turn out to hoot at a film that its creator intended to move them. The real-life Wiseau has been steering into that curve for years — he even tried to promote it as a "black comedy" — but the film does well to register the sting of failure while celebrating the creative spirit that drove him to realize his ambitions. As someone who has attached his name to plenty of ill-conceived enterprises himself recently — he adapted unadaptable William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy novels in the same year! — Franco understands the perils of the profession. In that respect, Wiseau isn't a case study. He's a kindred spirit.
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Choosing VoIP: What Every SMB Must Know
Adoption of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) promises both savings
on telecommunications costs and increased functionality. Here's how
SMBs can turn promise into reality.
By Bryan Cohen, Senior Telephony Engineer, CDW
The reasons to make the switch are compelling:
* Costs for moving, adding or changing a telephone connection. With
digital PBX, many companies typically pay up to $250 an hour for
support services every time they want to change, add or move a
telephone line. With an IP-based phone system, that cost is eliminated.
Telephones can be moved to various locations because the VoIP telephone
system software automatically recognizes it.
* Long-distance calls between offices. Many companies incur large
long-distance bills while making calls between their office locations.
These long-distance charges can be substantially reduced or potentially
eliminated by using VoIP and IP Telephony because they avoid the tolls
charged by ordinary telephone service.
* Long distance calls to clients. Many new VoIP-based telephone systems
can support IP telephony from a typical telephony services provider.
That translates into decreased long-distance costs between a company
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Change Log in BETA 0.0.12
BETA version 0.0.12
Release date 08/01/2020
Fixed + Improved
+ Introducing NEW function: AUTO Part length; Now every part has AUTO part length option (selected by default) so part length is calculating automatically. Longest clip determine the part length. Ex. if 3 clip selected in 3 different channels like 1Bar, 2Bars and 4Bars length. Part length will set to 4Bars.
+ Part info and their Edit popups refined. BPM, length units added.
+ Clip info significantly improved. Now BPM and clip length both editable and result is realtime shown in the description. This will help to determine the BPM of the clip when we know the clip length.
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Reusing a Vinyl Stencil~ Tiger Striped Fleur de Lis
Most of the time vinyl stencil are used one time and then thrown away, but what if you spent a lot of time on a stencil and dont want to have to repeat the process to make 4 items?
Well there is an easy way.
I will walk you through the process of etching a vase with an intricately cut vinyl stencil and removing that stencil so I can use it again.
First- cut your stencil. ( see right)You can use an exacto, but I used the Pazzle cutter (like a cricut but I designed the image to be cut).
I will be etching a tiger striped fleur de lis on a vase... it's a Louisiana thing!
Now peel the backing from the vinyl and place it sticky side up on the table. This is an easier way to place a stencil on a glass object. It alleviate the chance of stretching out your stencil.
Place the glass vase on the stencil (instead of the other way around).
Gently roll the vase back and forth to stick the stencil down on the vase. You are only getting it positioned. You will rub the stencil down once you have it positioned properly.
Now that your stencil is positioned properly, look at it from the backside to make sure you don't see any obvious air bubbles. Sometimes it is easier to see from the backside than it is from the front. You can tell the air pockets from the areas that are stuck down because they will appear white and the stuck down vinyl will appear grey. Since we haven't rubbed down the stencil yet, alot will be grey. Now are just looking for obvious air pockets.
Now you can begin to rub down your stencil. Start with your fingers and then you can move on to using a craft stick. Burnish it down, being careful to not rip up your stencil in delicate areas.
Remember to look at it from the backside and hold it up to a light to see any obvious air pockets. You want to make sure that no air pockets lead to an open area of the stencil because the etch cream will seep under and ruin all your hard work!
At this point you will apply etch cream. Because it is a vinyl stencil I left the cream on 5 minutes. Follow the directions on your medium.
Now you will remove the etch cream and place it back into the container and wash the remaining off in the sink. With a paper towel wipe the vase off and make sure all etch cream is off the vase. Pat it dry with the stencil still on. Once it is dry you will cut a piece of clear vinyl and place on top of the stencil while it is still on the vase. Rub it on and make sure to rub down any inside areas, like the insides of letters. This design doesn't have any but all the delicate areas might otherwise rip when I pull the stencil off. The clear vinyl secures the integrity of the stencil, without warping or riping it, when we remove it.
I use the backing of the clear vinyl as the backing for the stencil once I removed it from the vase. Now I can store my stencil without it sticking to everything and my stencil will still be sticky. If your vinyle loses it sticky there is repositionable stencil glue on the market you can use.
Wa~la, here is my Tiger Striped Fleur de Lis Vase!
If anyone is interested I have these stencils for sale for $5.00! Approx. 4"
Contact me at for more info.
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Blenders and Food Processors
Dec 03 2016
When you are making that mixed drink or the smoothie, listen to your blender or food processor. Does it still sound like it is getting tired, or does it take a little longer for it to crush the ice, or blend the items you pass through it? The problem may not be with the machine getting old and worn out, it might, and usually is nothing more than blades that have been over worked. Like any other cutting edge, these blades also need an occasional touch up to keep them functioning. As the blade gets dull, the motor needs to work harder to complete the task. This will eventually cause the motor to overheat, and possibly burn out.
Because of the shape of the blade, it becomes a little more difficult to get the edge cleaned up and made sharp again. The concept is the same as sharpening a knife, but the honing needs to be done with care to ensure the curved edge is sharpened all along the length. It takes a little more time, but the end result is saving the cost of a new processor. The processor or blender will function much better, in less time and you get to keep the one you are used to using.
We have done several of them this year, and a couple of them were brought to us as an afterthought. The customers knew we sharpened knives and other things, so they thought they would at least ask. One came back the following week and said her blender even sounds better, and it take less time to pulverize the vegetables she was pureeing.
There are other things in and around the home that can be sharpened rather than replaced. When anything that cuts, grinds, or pulverizes isn’t working the way it did when it was new, ask your local sharpening service if it is something they can do, or if they know of someone who might be able to do it. To locate a sharpening service, check with the local hardware store. Many of them offer this service. If they don’t ask if they know of someone who does.
There are some things that would be cheaper to replace, or are made to make it difficult to get the blades out without destroying the item. When we come across these, we will tell the customers right out that we cannot do it, and why we feel that way.
So, when you are working around the house, listen to what your cutting tools are telling you. Keep them working the best that they can and they will last a long time. As always Stay Sharp and Stay Safe, and Happy Cutting.
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Showing posts with label honesty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label honesty. Show all posts
Wednesday, 28 August 2019
Exposing Hate Groups
Written by Mathew Naismith
It is not the quantity of numbers that will win the day in the end; it is the quality of numbers.
Firstly, hate groups are obvious in the way they work by dividing, divide and conquer.
My own projected honest truth is not well liked on the net, in actuality it is quite hated and/or despised by many, however, by a few, my own projected open honesty is revered. Some of my written material was used in a College in the US. I have also been unsuccessfully coaxed into placing my written material on an academia site backed by a well known university in England. On an atheist owned, run and backed social site, my written material was too obviously despised. You see, bias desired truths are always at war with honest truth, but honest truth is never at war with desired truth. Look at it this way; are virtuous people at war with unvirtuous people? No, virtuous people are simply being virtuous but unvirtuous people see this as an attack on their desired truths. When I look at the people who despise me on the net, all I see is how close to the truth I am, sadly enough.
Open honest unbiased truth is not just being ostracised or banished these days, it is being destroyed. Look at the people who are trying to banish hate groups and stop bullying on the net, this is while they are not stopping but fully supporting well known hate groups going into countries like Palestine and Yemen!! On top of this, you have hate groups who hate anything negative, so they simply ignore the obvious honest truth in favour of desired truths.
While on, I was accused of not liking my views put to the question. This is while I was harassed and bullied into asking to be removed from being a member of youme, as I seriously questioned the falsities and hypocrisies of atheistic ideologies. Because I could see what was going on youme, I purposely posted a post questioning atheistic ideologies. Often, deceptive manipulative people will use deflective tactics, in this case with me, accusing me of not liking my views questioned, when in all honesty these people didn't like their views questioned, obviously.
I am a huge threat to these people because I copied certain parts of my conversation with them. Never play all your cards at once with people like this. I am not at war with people like this, just simply openly expressing honest truths rather than a desired truth in accordance with my own ideologies, isms or beliefs. What hate groups hate the most is anyone who they hate isn't also a part of a hate group in opposition to their own hate group. What occurs in this case is they deceptively make themselves believe that they are also hated, when someone is simply being expressive of honest truth or virtuous attributes.
The average atheist is simply being expressive of atheism, as religious people are simply being expressive of their religion. Hate groups of these ideologies and other ideologies are not just simply being expressive but forceful of their expressions, especially when they perceive that another group is in direct opposition, at war, with their own group. Yes, make no mistake, desired truth is at war with honest truth, the trick is, don't be coaxed in just being another hate group, even of hate groups as a whole. Simply look at hate groups as being lost within their own creation, no more, no less.
Yes, my writing's are not of an academic quality, but what I write about often is it would seem.......
Thursday, 22 August 2019
Living by Honesty
Written by Mathew Naismith
"While the benefits of and motivations for choosing “honesty” in life are many — including that truthfulness and honesty are integral to one’s sense of moral integrity — living a life of honesty ultimately means having little to regret."
After observing my own and other people's ego in control, importantly in the absence of participation, you realise that the western mind in all of us, of the west or east, is more of a desired existence than an honest existence. Just in stating this kind of honesty, the ego in control has become offended. Make no mistake; the ego in control is this feeble and the only way the ego can gain control over our lives is through living by desires instead of honesty. Living by desires, especially predominantly, is based on biases, the very same biases that feed our desires and destroys what's left of honesty in ourselves and others.
Recently, once again, a person of love and light responded back to me in a kind and seemingly genuine way. As soon as they realised who they were kind to, they deleted their response to me. Is my ego offended or emotionally hurt? I have accumulated a lot of detractors on the net by the way. No, because I am completely aware of how the ego in control is so easily offended. Any honesty remotely threatening the existence of desired truths over and above honest truth, is obviously going to be dealt with in an offensive way. I have lost count how many times I have been called negative, toxic, wrong, bad, etc, by so-called people supposedly of unconditional love and light. This is while I don't respond in the same manner but to these people I am far more offensive than they are!! Why?
I have lost count how many people I disagreed with that have become estrange from me or become yet another detractor. You do not get the same response from a mind balanced out with the eastern mind, mainly because the eastern mind is aware of how their own controlling egos are only of desired truths, not honest truths.
In recent times, I ended up extracting myself away from a person, who is of eastern origin. We agreed on some topics as we disagreed on other topics. At no time in our interactions did we disrespectfully state that the other person was of negative or toxic vibrations in any sense of the word just because our truths were different to each other. The honesty within our own truths was different though, which lead to me extracting myself from our interaction, especially when the other person started yelling at me by using a lot of high caps in response to me. You are not doing them any favours if you allow yourself to be disrespected in this manner.
Yes, it is known that the western mind is easily offended. Any honest truth to the western mind that detracts from desired truth is of an offensive act, far worse than any act of offensiveness orchestrated by an ego conditioned to desired truths over and above honest truth!! Is this view by the ego in control of honest truth? If we are honest with ourselves, we will find in human history that the western mind is highly offensive, while at the same time takes the smallest of things offensively.
Awareness in one's honest truth can never be offended,
where one's desired truth is often easily offended.......
Monday, 19 August 2019
A True Warrior
Written by Mathew Naismith
A warrior is one of honest truth and reflection, against those who are of dishonest (desired) truth and reflection.
Living by honest truth isn't a fight, but a right, where living by dishonest truth is a fight with no rights.
A true warrior doesn't pick a fight, but simply defends a right.
My own words and reflections.
To me, it is obvious who is of the fight against those who are simply of a right, the right to be open and honest with one's own honest truths and reflections........
Wednesday, 17 July 2019
Creating a Healthy Environment
Written by Mathew Naismith
After watching a documentary called One Strange Rock, narrated by Will Smith, the realisation we are one with the Earth is slowly coming to fruition. Of course to go on from this is to realise we are one with the universe, not just the Earth, solar system or galaxy. What we are simply talking about here is in relation to our material self, the immaterial self is thought or known to go way beyond any universe or material being.
We now realise the material part of humans is simply a by-product of Earth. Of course this also means that humans and the Earth itself is a by-product of the universe. Humans are simply a by-product of the present environment, like any living entity is in accordance with their present environment. What we create materially, we become materially.
I found that the documentary wasn't altogether honest. Avoiding the degradation of man's influence upon the Earths natural environment was too evident. Also, stating how big our brains are, therefore depicting our intelligence in comparison to all other living entities, even in the universe as a whole, is also dishonest. No other living entity purposely destroys the very same environment that created it. How humans presently measure intelligence is quite amusing.
However, in our present environment, which we have created, any consciousness that is honest to a great degree will be scorned and/or ignored. This documentary wasn't altogether honest but it wasn't altogether dishonest either. Honesty was evident without being too honest within the present created environment of dishonesty. There are other astronauts, such as Edgar Mitchell, who realised and tried to comprehend and understand the existence of our material and immaterial world/environment without separating one from the other. A created dishonest consciousness will only accept honesty to a degree. Considering that a dishonest consciousness environment is of dishonesty, any honest consciousness will seem foreign to it and even seen as a threat to this created environment of dishonesty. How many spiritually aware people see other people's environment threatening to their own environment? It's the dame thing.
It is the same thing because all the environments humans can create come from the same source. Once you realise that any environment we create comes from the same source, the threat of other environments becomes neutralised and nullified. It just is what it is.
So does this mean we should just accept it is what it is?
If you are unable to influence an environment, accept by force or by deceit, yes, accept it is what it is, to do otherwise is to be of the environment you are trying to influence. However, this doesn't mean you can't live within your own created environment.
Is it deceitful, like the documentary mentioned here, to only be partially honest?
As I have proven to myself, to be anything but partially honest within a created environment of dishonesty, is only going to create one kind of reaction, a reaction totally forcefully against any other environment remotely threatening the existence of the present environment.
So why be more than partially honest within such an environment, seen as being partially honest is more influential upon such a dishonest created environment?
To me, being partially honest isn't changing a thing. In all honesty, humans have always been partially honest such as, there is a God or a source of creation of all things but it is depicted to be of man's image, a material representation instead of an immaterial representation. Of course many of us have now gotten to the stage of refuting the existence of our immaterial self's altogether, no matter what evidence their is to depict otherwise.
A true sense of honesty isn't a threat to a created dishonest environment, but it can seem that way to a crated dishonesty conscious environment. A true sense of honesty has always been present within human consciousness, no matter what environment human consciousness creates. This honesty is present within an awareness of all and the wisdom this kind of awareness creates. If this kind of environment was a threat to the present environment of dishonesty, this created environment of dishonesty, or of partial honesty, would have long ago been enveloped or totally eradicated an environment of dishonesty and partial honesty.
So why isn't this kind of honesty more influential upon an environment not of it's own?
A dishonest consciousness has the desire to be only of one environment or the other, be it of a material environment or an immaterial environment. Being of an environment of honesty, no matter what our desires may be, is of all environments, of material and immaterial environments. Why would such an environment desire to force change upon one environment on the other, while in favour of one environment over the other?
As depicted in the documentary, Earth is our home, not just the place we live on Earth. This is forgoing, in all honesty, that the universe is our home, materially, but so is our immaterial environment.
An honest environment isn't by force or trickery, but by choice.....
Saturday, 6 July 2019
To Seek or Not!!
Written by Mathew Naismith
It is said, "The process of seeking will not lead one to enlightenment/awareness, for to seek is of the ego, when enlightenment comes to one in the absence of the ego."
This is only partially true, for enlightenment is simply of a state of releasing one from ignorance which the ego creates. You can't become enlightened if you are still hanging onto any kind of ignorance, being that enlightenment is of becoming aware in the absence of bias and desire.
The seeking ego in an environment of deliberate ignorance will often become more aware, as the seeking ego goes beyond the boundaries of ignorance. Enlightenment comes when one no longer needs to seek, however, the process of seeking beyond set boundaries is needed to get to a stage of no longer needing to seek. In all honesty, you get to a stage when you no longer seek and become the observer. Of course for people like myself who desire not to be of any one state of being, one minute the seeker, the next the observer, my present ego is unlikely to experience enlightenment, or so it seems.
It is not of the process of seeking that stops us becoming enlightened, it is how we seek. If I was to seek to fulfil one's desires, as opposed to seeking in all honesty, going beyond the boundaries of ignorance is not going to occur. To seek only that which feels good thus feeds the ego desires, is still of ignorance, for to seek in this way one must become ignorant or of refusal of everything that doesn't make us feel good. However, to seek in all honesty often brings forth truth that doesn't feed the ego desires, this is why today honesty and the people expressing such honesty are so scorned and yes, deliberately ignored!! If you have to ignore anything to try to obtain an enlightened state, the odds of obtaining this state is exceptionally unlikely.
It is quite understandable that the ego at all cost avoids seeking in all honesty, for the ego to have any sense of control needs only that which gives it control, especially over it's present environment. Being that our present environment is of deliberate ignorance, the seeking ego will often seek that which defuses the present environment. In other words, the ego seeking to gain more control in such an environment, will unknowingly often become expressive of what the ego is trying to escape from. The ego seeking more control in such an environment will only produce more of what the environment represents, however, the ego seeking in the absence of desiring more control, will often find itself outside the boundaries of ignorance. This will often make the ego feel uncomfortable; this is why so many people revert back to trying to take control.
The last thing an ego seeking control desires, especially over its present environment, is honesty, for honesty doesn't feed the ego what it desires. Honesty simply produces what actually is, to what the ego desires what is!!
~For only the ego has a need or desire to seek~
Monday, 1 April 2019
Attracting Truer People
Written by Mathew Naismith
Are negative people untrue where positive people are true? This would be like saying that people who have experienced and suffered extreme trauma are untrue people, while the people who have not suffered trauma are true people. All traumas have some kind of negative affect to them, this doesn't mean that all the people who have suffered from traumas are untrue, in actuality quite the opposite. You are simply being what the trauma has created. Even if you are still suffering from the trauma instead of learning from the trauma, you are still a true person in relation to the trauma experienced. An untrue person would simply try to make out that they are positive when in actuality they are still suffering. How many suicide victims seem happy but are in fact suffering big time. When you are untrue to yourself, you are untrue to everyone else.
Now, how many people are suffering in relation to what is going on in the world at present? This is while we seem positive only because we avoid the negatives as much as possible. So avoiding the negatives in the world to be positive will instantly make the negatives simply vanish? In all honesty, all this has created in past history is more of the same. In truth, being untrue to ourselves in this way simply encourages the very same negatives we are trying to avoid to flourish even more so, thus in turn creating an untrue reality.
People like me don't try to attract positive people, if you are suffering, show that you are suffering even if this seems to you or other people to be negative therefore of an untrue person. Be what you are suffering from but learn from this suffering instead of continuing to suffer from suffering. In other words learn from our present reality and stop suffering from this reality by ignoring the negatives to be or seem positive.
In all honesty, being positive or negative takes a huge amount of energy to obtain and sustain, especially in a critically judged negative reality. How many people are suffering even more so when we ignore the negatives to be positive? That is a huge waste of energy through simple neglect and abuse of energy. The trick in dealing with negatives to be positive, is to stop suffering from the negatives by seeing them as a negative to avoid to be positive. Instead, learn to not judge what is and isn't negative and positive, therefore, what is and isn't true or of a true person.
So what makes a true person? A person who is primarily honest with themselves. If you are suffering from trauma either collectively or individually, let it be what it actually is instead of what you desire it to be. Try to do this in the absence of positive and negative judgment. When you do this, start to learn from your experiences instead of suffering from your experiences. Simply being aware of this will certainly start you on the way of being of self-honesty, therefore a truer person to yourself and others around you.
So how do you attract people who are truer to themselves and others? Being in the presence of self-honesty, while in the absence of negatives and positives, will instantly have an affect on the people who are not of self-honesty around you. Self-dishonesty or being untrue cannot exist within the same immediate space as self-honesty, expressions of self-honesty simply disperses dishonesty thus allowing self-honesty, truer people, the space to flourish in. It is not that you are attracting truer people exactly; it is that you have more space in your life for self-honest people to flourish and express themselves freely in. See it as closing one door thus allowing another door to open. One door, one reality, has to close for another reality, another door, to open.
"Who are the people that positive
people can help the most?
What people are often avoided the
most by positive people?
In all honesty,
how positive is this really?
Only in the absence of positives and
negatives can the neediest be attended to!!"
Thursday, 21 March 2019
The Scourge of Honesty
What is ugly to the sufferer,
is often beauty to the learner
Written by Mathew Naismith
As it has come about once again in human history, honesty is a scourge upon humanity, a humanity conditioned to dishonesty especially self-dishonesty. Within such a reality, a creation of fear looms, a fear of actually becoming aware of our own preconditioned dishonest disposition. We are indeed born into this......Mathew G
It is a real pleasure observing more and more people becoming aware, in other words instead of suffering from human history, many have learnt to learn from human history. It is very important at this stage in human history to know the difference, the difference between learning from history to suffering from history. Of course to do this, one must not ignore, for one's own pleasure or gratification, what history has to teach us. Yes, live within the present for what it is, not what we desire it to be. The present is simply saying how we are still suffering from human history, for we are still suffering from the past. If to stay positive is of the absence of negatives, we are still suffering from human history in that we are still reflective of dishonesty. Ignore the negatives to be and stay positive when the collective consciousness is still suffering from it's past. Simply, in all honesty, the past is still well and truly within the present, especially if we are still reflective of dishonesty to simply fulfil our present desires and pleasures.
Yes, many people are living within the present these days, a present in ignorance to human history, thus creating a reality even more based on dishonesty. When you think of the past or the future, this is still within the present, in all honesty, only the present exists. Living within the present is not in the absence of a future or past, it is not of the present separate from a past or future but a culmination of past and future being of the present, not separate to the present!!
To people like me, it is so obvious why we are still suffering from our history (past), we simply still have not learnt to honestly face human history for what it is and what it was. "It's in the past so ignore it", even though we are still so obviously suffering from the past!!
We desire to separate the present from the past and future so we can live within the present only, a present of self-gratification and desires. This is while we dishonestly ignore that we are still suffering from our past!! In doing so, we are unknowingly expressing a past human history over and over again. In all honesty, this is due to us not learning from our history as we ignore the past to be within the present separate to a past and future!!
In all honesty, is the past and future separate to the present, not of the present? This is while we are still too obviously suffering from the past human history, not learning from past human history!! Have we truly become this dishonest thus expressive of past human history? So indeed live within the present separate from a past and future while ignoring that we still haven't learnt from human history, but are still suffering from human history through simply being this dishonest with ourselves. This is while honesty, especially self-honesty, is a scourge upon a reality conditioned to dishonesty!!
I have a very good internet friend, Mike Hopkins, who I often interact with. We don't always agree with each others views so we often simply agree to disagree without forcing our own views in each other. However, our views on the present world in relation to human history is often the same, this includes past lives lived (reincarnation). I recently wrote the following to Mike.
This is funny because I was a priest of high stature torturing people to death, you could imagine how this would have floored me when I recalled this life. By recalling this life I know exactly what I am dealing with in this life, it is the same exact mentality with slightly different tactics used. I also recalled a time in the 4th dynasty Egypt, where I was a healer but a healer who didn't put the high ranking officials before the commoners. I also wanted to free the slaves but if this couldn't be accomplished, I wanted the slaves to be treated a lot better than they were being treated.
In relation to my time in Egypt and medieval Europe, the whole of human existence was built upon plain simple dishonesty especially self-dishonesty. Look at how most people today react towards honesty, it is as if you're a leper or worse. I couldn't stay a member of youme as they don't just ignore abuse, they openly endorsed it, especially on our humanity group. I then told them a few home truths knowing exactly how they would react. They reacted exactly how people of dishonesty would react which was simple plain conformation for me.
Is being put up against a wall and shot or being tortured to death a deterrent for me? It is nothing to what I have already experienced. I also know this life is but a grain of sand upon a beach considering my whole existence so go for it boys. I am one person who doesn't suffer from my experiences but have instead learnt from my experiences.
Mike is like me, you tell it how it is, not how other people desire to hear it to gain popularity. At no point is honesty popular as it is often scorned as being negative, but you never know what will occur once we learn from human history!! Mike often reflects his own honesty through his poems as below.
Tuesday, 12 March 2019
Honest Exposure
Written by Mathew Naismith
“Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.”
John Lennon
For those who love both the truth and friends, piety (righteousness) requires us to honour the truth first.
- Aristotle
Is being positive in the absence or ignorance of negativity or a state where one confronts negativity for what it truly is honestly? In all honesty, being positive isn't of the absence of negative, it is the honest realisation of what negativity truly portrays. If I was to witness a child being molested, to stay positive, would I ignore this negative or see the violation of a child as being vile. Of course words today like vile are also a negative these days, when they simply clearly state an honest evaluation or observation. How much of the world today is being violated just because we want to be positive therefore ignore these negative violations? It is obvious world peace isn't come by doing this.
I recently joined a social network group called Youme. This social network site seemed plausible and attractive to uninhibited socials interactions, where open minded free thinking honesty can be implemented and expressed. After endorsing Youme as of open minded free thinking honest social network site, I found out, quite accidentally through an altercation with another moderator and the owner of Youme, that this was far from the truth. I of course had to undo my endorsement of Youme to the same extent I endorsed Youme in the first place.
I posted a post on FaceBook in relation to this and one of the responses I received was as follow with my reply to this response. This site is wholly run and controlled by atheists, and a like, of extreme atheistic doctrines it would seem. The bias related to atheism was too evident especially from the owner of the site. Atheists simply don't have to be this uncivil but too many on the net are sadly enough. Even after I asked mysefl to be removed from this site and deleting the owner of the site as a friend on FaceBook, they harassed me a number of times after this. No professional social network site owner would harass people under these circumstances like this would they?
At least you know where to send your energy now Matthew. There are lots of us here who respect and value your thoughts.
My Reply
I very much appreciate this Heather, I adore the way you think too. I did deserve what I got from them, in a sense, as I ended up exposing them for what they are, not what they portray themselves to be. The reaction I received showed me how close to the bone (truth) I got in relation to their real intentions and character. I hope for other people's sake I have exposed this social network group for what it truly is. And I was silly enough to endorse this group.
The funny thing is, if I was as badly behaved as they are trying to now say I was, why wasn't I removed straight away? When you consider that I was not well liked by many of the moderators and admin, and that I posted a post about atheist beliefs, why wasn't I removed straight away? Because I didn't actually break any site rules, I simply exposed them for what they truly are. Actually, they really exposed themselves. If I didn't cut so close to the bone (truth) psychically, they simply wouldn't have reacted as they did, they would have laughed it off and told me to grow up or something.
If someone told me that I was the vilest person in the world, I would simply smile and say to myself, "You have no idea what you are talking about." Now, say this to a person who is vile, the reaction would be completely different as these people on youme clearly showed me. As you know being a policewoman, people's reactions tell a thousand words, they have no idea of this. I didn't state vile in my reply to them but I did state indecent.
All I did was to confront an obvious violation. I have no regrets in how I confronted and exposed this violation but I am apologetic in what this exposer of violation actually exposed. It seemed I exposed something far deeper than I expected on a personal level, this was not my intentions. It is difficult in how our own violations go, at times to the core of our subconscious, but we must be honest with ourselves if we want to influence the world away from being conditioned to violating other people and other nations.
Friday, 8 March 2019
Honesty and the Divine Spark in Everything
Written by Mathew Naismith
How would dishonesty react to honesty being honest? Dishonesty simply sees honesty as a huge threat to its existence and often reacts in accordance with what dishonesty creates, chaos, deception, hate, greed, control, separation through perceptions of negatives and positives, etc. Now, how does honesty react to dishonesty being dishonest? Think on this, is there any threat to honesty from dishonesty?
Before the invent of man or consciousness as we know it, was there any kind of a perception of dishonesty? Dishonesty is simply a creation of consciousness but a consciousness that perceives in negatives and positives, opposing separated forces battling it out for supremacy. Now, you might say honesty wasn't present either, even though honesty relates to it just is what it is, nothing more, nothing less. The universe was just is, with absolutely no perceptions of what was negative and what was positive.
Honesty is not a creation of creation, it is what creation is about. This might sound unreasonable but imagine if there were no perceptions of negatives and positives therefore biases to start with, where all energy is simply just energy. You can actually attain a mental state like this, where the ego has no control over consciousness. There are no perceptions in this state for there is no separation of energy, just a pure state of honesty and self-honesty which bring about feelings of love.
Recently, I had an altercation with dishonesty when being of open mindedness and honesty, pointing out the deception, manipulation and disrespect of dishonesty. Of course backing my honesty up with evidence doesn't help, for dishonesty will always react badly towards such actions. Any action remotely threatening the control dishonesty has over consciousness, will often be dealt with the full fury of dishonesty. Keep in mind, because dishonesty see honesty as a threat to its existence, dishonesty will often deceive itself and all else that honesty is on a crusade against dishonesty when in actuality it is the other way around.
Honesty is simply being honest, there is no crusade or campaign of honesty to rid us all of dishonesty, for in the presence of honesty, dishonesty is simply unable to be in control. Honesty simply takes away the control of dishonesty has over a consciousness, for in the presence of honesty, dishonesty is unable to control consciousness'. As soon as dishonesty tries to portray honesty as being on some crusade against dishonesty, dishonesty is simply telling me what dishonesty is quite unaware of. I often smile to myself at this stage.
Try to remembers, it is quite natural for dishonesty to be of chaos, deception, hate, greed, control, separation through perceptions of negatives and positives, etc, for this is its natural created environment. How could honesty see dishonesty a something negative when dishonesty is simply being within its natural environment?
Now, considering all the above, how will dishonesty, which is represented by hate and dark as opposed to love and light, going to react to light and love (honesty)? It will do exactly what it is doing at present within our reality, threatening reality with the full force of dishonesties fury. All we need to do is work at bringing forth the divine spark of honesty within everything. No matter how dishonest dishonesty becomes, this divine spark of honesty is always present, at no time will you influence the dishonesty in consciousness to become honest. As soon as you try to do this, dishonesty will protect its existence to the bitter end; at no time expect it not to. All we need and should to do is work on the divine spark of honesty within a consciousness, nothing more.
It is stated that Edgar Cayce, who was a clairvoyant in the early to mid part of the last century, that Russia will be the leading nation in the world in relation to spiritually. You may ask; how could such a notion become so spiritual? Easy, Russia will learn from its history, unlike the rest of the nations in the world who will still suffer from their history. Don't get me wrong, there will be pockets of people around the world who will be of the divine spark of honesty but the leading notion of this divine spark seem like it will be Russia. This will make Russia quite untouchable to the rest of the world's dishonesty and violence. Eventually and gradually, all the other nations in the world will desire to be of this divine spark.
The divine spark of honesty is the ability to use energy wisely instead of unwisely, this will give Russia a huge edge over its detractors/enemies, consciousness's of dishonesty.
Sunday, 3 March 2019
The Promotion of Wisdom
Written by Mathew Naismith
The promotion of wisdom to someone like me goes beyond the promotion of positiveness, love and light or any concept, ideology or ism, for under wisdom, all that is wise in the way we use energy is of abundance. To someone like me, it matters not what this wisdom is called, for anything that promotes the harmonious use of energy is all that matters. Yes, that is right, biases and prejudices have no place within wisdom for wisdom has no limitations, only limitless potentiality in the absence of bias and prejudices.
I don't often promote a singular persons wisdom but at this point in the present, we simply can't get enough wisdom in my mind. Look past the label of what the wisdom represents, in other words look past the biases often associated with labels and simply focus primarily on the wisdom involved. I wrote the following to this person in relation to this persons wisdom.
I try to influence people away from judging in negatives and positives, which of course judging in negatives and positives can create huge amounts of motion within our minds and actions. I love my states of it just is, where the perceptions of negatives and positives are absent.
This will seem strange to a lot of people who try to stay positive, especially by ignoring the negatives. I am better off not perceiving in positives as well, there is no state more harmonious, still and tranquil. Hard to imagine if you have never experienced this kind of state, for which anyone can experience by simply letting go of motions and the control motions have over us.
You seem to be very in tune with your present environment Carolynne.
I know this is slack of me, but I just recently took a peek at your site. It was funny how I was able to do the work I did with the chronic injury I incurred, of course my own chronic injury taught me so much, only because I worked with it, not against it. If you don't mind, I am thinking of mentioning you and your site in my next post as you seem genuine.
For further reference:
It has been asked of me why I am not more promotional of positiveness or love and light for example?
From the promotion of wisdom, positiveness, love and light come naturally for in the absence of using energy disharmoniously, there is no energy expended in obtaining and retaining positiveness, love or light. If I was to ignore the negatives so I can then be positive, in other words to be positive takes me to ignore the negatives, this is not being positive to me, in fact quite the opposite. You should be able to put yourself in any situation and still be able to obtain and retain your positiveness, love and/or light, otherwise it's not of a true sense of positiveness, love and/or light.
I will put this another way. Negative is as much of an energy as positive, to ignore people being hurt under negatives energies, especially to obtain and retain your own personal positive energies, is an abuse of energy. To avoid this, see negative and positive energy as simply energy in the absence of biases that perceptions of negative and positive thinking creates. Which is more negative, the male (yang) or the female (yin)? Trust me, one or the other sex often perceives one being more negative therefore the other being more positive. As soon as we are in the presence or expressive of bias, honesty, especially self-honesty, is also no longer present. Considering a true reflection or expression of wisdom is of the absence bias, it is also understandable that we naturally become more honest, especially with ourselves, in the promotion of wisdom.
As of many people have in life, I more than once found myself in a situation where I had to extricate myself away from certain people, not because they were negative or destructive but because all I was doing was supporting them in hurting themselves and others. Make no mistake, I often allowed my environment to dictate my reactions which meant judging in negatives and positives. Within this hurtful or abusive environment towards energy, it is way too easy to unknowingly succumb to a hurtful or abusive environment. In my case, I was fortunate to be wise enough to become aware of my own abusiveness towards energy in this way.
You see, by allowing myself to be abused, I was helping the abusers to be abusive thus unwittingly being abusive towards energy myself. Yes, by all means sacrifice your own well being to assist other people to become less hurtful and abusive, but don't sacrifice yourself to assist in the abuse of energy in any way. Yes, people of positiveness and love and light extricate themselves from abusive energy, but a lot of them still do it by expressing biases through the perceptions of negatives and positives.
So how do you know the difference between hurtful people you are unable to help to hurtful people you can help? Firstly; avoid the perceptions of negatives and positives thus allowing your own consciousness to be in the absence of bias therefore dishonesty. Secondly; well, wisdom naturally takes over from here in the absence of bias and dishonesty. Make no mistake, the promotion of wisdom is this easy, it is either we don't want to become less abusive towards energy, or, we are unwittingly drawn into being apart of the abuse of energy through simple perceptions like negatives and positives.
I know of a number of people who speak out against the abusiveness of, for example, multinationals and politicians, they no longer wish to support the abuse of energy by allowing themselves being abused, however, there is still a very strong perception of what is negative and what is positive. I also know of people who speak out against this kind of abuse but don't primarily focus on what is negative and what is positive. I think ignoring the abuse of energy so one can become and stay positive, is just as much of supporting the abuse of energy than anything else.
The promotion of wisdom is simple, the avoidance of knowingly or unknowingly supporting the abuse of energy as much as possible. Now, are deliberate abusers of energy negative in any sense of the word? No, they are simply lost within their own creation and need as much help as a sick person. Yes, at times to help these people you need to avoid them, when ever possible, but do it ever so wisely. No, you can't always avoid the situation of the abuse of energy but you can minimise its affects. Embracing and promoting any kind of wisdom will help us avoid abusing energy in various ways, of course to know this one must be wise to start with, this is where people of true wisdom come into there own. How do you know when someone is of wisdom? They don't primarily judge in positive and negative perceptions to start with, within this, there is an absence of bias therefore dishonesty.
Friday, 22 February 2019
The Embracement of Honesty
Written by Mathew Naismith
OK, the following is across the board of humanity it would seem.
I was recently subjected to a high degree of injustice, only because I expressed the truth and I wasn't going to tolerate disrespect and abuse. Blatant lies were told about me, these where not just accepted but embraced. It would seem it is OK for certain people to lie and deceive but it is not OK for certain other people to tell the truth or rebuke being abused and disrespected.
Also, I am not supposed to like my views being questioned; this is while I write quite long posts and replies, at times supplying numerous evidence to support my claims. As it has been said to me, I leave myself way too open for questioning in stating so much!!
On the other hand, it is accepted and embraced, for certain people only within certain groups, to say as little as possible so they can't be questioned about their own views. This includes supplying as little evidence to their claims as possible. It would seem that lies and deceit are embraced while honesty and truth is scorned in our present reality.
I would say unbeknownst to a lot of people, they have become conditioned to embracing lies and deceit, including self-deception, over and above honesty and truth. This is occurring in so many sectors in humanity it is not funny.
Is there any hope in a humanity that mostly unknowingly embraces lies and deceit over and above honesty and truth? Only time will tell but how is humanity conditioned to lies and deceit going to embrace honesty and truth to start with?
I think it is time for the people who are not conditioned to lies and deceit to speak out, even if that means being scorned and hated. As I have previously stated, for only in a reality of accepted lies and deceit can hate flourish so. This also means that only in a reality of accepted honesty and truth can love flourish so.
We indeed have a choice, even at this stage of the game......
Thursday, 21 February 2019
Making Room for Love to Flourish In
Written by Mathew Naismith
Sounds ridiculous doesn't it, making room for love to flourish in? Consider this, how much room has hate taken up? Is it reasonable to say that hate cannot flourish in a world where love flourishes, where there is no room for hate to expand in?
I wrote the following to another person in regards to a love that has no conditions.
For love to flourish, instead of hate, honesty must prevail. How much hate does dishonesty create? I think the answer to this is too obvious. How much love does honesty create? Is the answer to this obvious to a lot of us, honestly?
Honesty must prevail to being first hated to be then embraced, once we accomplish this, love will have all the room it wants to flourish in.
Well stated PL. I have a love of this 3D reality as I have love of a 4th and 5th, etc, dimensional realities where others only show contempt towards this reality. Contempt simply shows a love that is based on conditions. Our present reality seems to be purely based on conditional love, but I still have no contempt for this kind of love/reality for my love has no conditions.
Do I have contempt for a corporate world destroying all within it's path that does not serve them? No, I only express it's shortcomings. I am simply honest within my expressions and that is what matters the most to me.
In all honesty, how much room are we giving love to flourish in when we are still showing so much contempt for one thing or another? In all honesty, were not. Any sign of contempt simply gives more room for hate to flourish in, for contempt is closely associated to hate, not to love, especially unconditional love.
Friday, 15 February 2019
Surrendering Yourself to Honesty
Written by Mathew Naismith
When I look upon another person, all I see is a reflection of me either that be something I desire to be of or not. This is how people like me truly and honestly look upon ourselves. We don't just try to see the reflections of good, positive and right, we also see the reflections of bad, negative and wrong. In a reality of numerous expressions of variations, I would simply be lying to myself, that I am simply beautiful, peaceful and everything else I desire to lie to myself about. Yes, I wish/desire to be only of what is pure but where not and that is okay, I surrender myself to this honesty.
Spiritually, I can sit within the best of them, in peace, harmony and stillness; I could not think of any other state I would desire to stay in more, of course this is why I will never become enlightened within my present consciousness. Enlightenment isn't about peace, harmony and stillness, even though this is it's affects, enlightenment is about facing the truth in what you are therefore everything else is, not what you only desire to be of. I was going to say I just lost half my readers, when the avid readers of my posts and blog's today know exactly where I am coming from, for they too are honest within themselves. They would have to be to still be reading my posts and blog's.
I have found the hardest thing for people to do is be of self-honesty, even a slight mention or reflection of self-honesty repels and/or defiles a lot people it would seem. How dare people like me be honestly self-reflective, especially while expressing that everything and everybody is a reflection of me, all of us. If you can think of the worse person in the world you would not desire to be a reflection of, in all honesty, if you like it or not they are simply a reflection of you. So should I dishonestly sit within my own space and only observe in other people around me what I only desire to be of or observe?
In my time while growing up, our culture defiled homosexuality. Some of my so-called friends actually went out poofter bashing, they of course asked me to join them but even back then, while being conditioned to that culture of defilement, I simply refused.
Where is the (I) when negative is separated from positive because we desire not to be of the negative, only of the positive? Do we really think that this kind of defilement and separation is going to improve our present existence? Of course in my early days, my culture was about judging gay people as something negative and straight people as being positive. How many people today are judging their reality as being positive and all other realities they have disdain for as being negative?
I am presently amused at how a number of westerners are jumping up a down about foreigners in their own country. There country is being invaded by undesirables. I find it amusing because it was acceptable for western countries to invade and defile other countries of the world, even under false pretences as recently observed, but how dare foreigners take over western countries in a far more passive way!! No, I don't like how disrespectful certain foreigners are towards a people who kindly opened their door up to them, but I am still amused at the reaction by westerners. How dishonest is their reactions?
You see, this kind of self-honesty is not very acceptable in a culture that defiles other parts of itself. In all, if you are of self-honesty, expect to be defiled and try to surrender to this kind of defilement. Accept that the reflection of other selves will do this as they see self-honesty as a threat to their reality, a reality often created on the back of dishonesty. Can you understand their reactions like in relation to gay people and foreigners? People of self-honesty are indeed a huge threat to realities based on self-dishonesty.
As I often am, I reflect self-honesty, as in the above, quite often. As you could imagine this is often defiled. Do people of self-honesty put themselves up above other people not of self-honesty? Everyone and everything is a reflection of who you are, so if other people are of self-dishonesty, this is a reflection of you if you desire it to be or not. To be truly self-honest desires have no place. A true reflection of self-honesty is in the absence of desire, I certainly don't desire to be a reflection of self-dishonest people but in truth, I am. Try to remember this, just because everything around you is a reflection of you, doesn't mean you have to be expressive of that reflection. Did I go out poofter bashing? Am I amused at other westerns response to foreigners in their country? Just because you are aware of self-dishonesty, doesn't mean you have to be of self-dishonesty.
Thursday, 24 January 2019
Written by Mathew Naismith
Most often our past determines our future and most often our past, especially when related to trauma in some way, to something we desire to stay unaware of, isn't something we desire to be self-honest with. So what do we do? We only live within the present while saying the past and future are irrelevant or an illusion. This is while time is the predominant influence in our everyday life at present!! See how dishonest we can be to ourselves? Time of course represents a past, present and future, a state of union instead of separation, especially the separation of one energy source from another to escape facing our traumas personally and collectively.
It is common practice for a consciousness in trauma, either personally or collectively, to use every means possible to escape facing trauma. Of course to do this, we must turn away from being of self-honesty and become dishonest with ourselves, and of course everybody else.
Extract: Throughout history, deception has been an effective survival strategy. Yet, like all primitive survival strategies, when deception becomes habitual and is not directly about survival, it prevents us from continuing growth. For each of us, to the degree that we are not real with ourselves or that we withhold important truths from others, we just cannot keep evolving.
I wrote the following reply to a query in relation to my last post, "Assisting a Consciousness in Trauma".
Basically, what you are doing is guiding them instead of pushing them towards a goal.My father was trained to do this as a foreman. I tend to do this myself, my downfall is I also express self-honesty, it is funny how this psychologically freaks people out. Actually, when it does freak people out, their reactions tell me a lot about them. It is not that people react, it is how they react and what they react to.
Our consciousness collectively isn't conditioned to being self-honest. How many of us don't look at what our own country/culture has done and is doing to others in the world, but we will point the finger at other cultures. Bringing a person out of the affects of trauma takes one to become gradually self-honest, not an easy thing to face, especially when we are conditioned to be self-dishonest with ourselves.
I have someone at present under my wing that is not good physically and mentally, the fits, blackouts and the scaring to the brain certainly don't help. I am slowly coaxing (guiding) them to be self-honest without causing more anxiety attacks.
This has done it, I am going to right up something about self-honesty.
Spiritually, how dare I turn to science and psychology for the answers, this is while our minds are predominantly influenced psychology. On the other hand, how dare I turn to spirituality for the answers, even though science has proven a number of spiritual practices to be highly beneficial to us!! From atheism/materialism to spirituality/religion, dishonesty predominantly influences our lives, this is instead of self-honesty.
The article I have inserted is worth reading through, but only if you are a self-honest atheist/materialist or spiritual/religious, etc, person. If you are not into self-honesty, the article supplied will only represent a threat to your psyche and be promptly denounced in some way. Yes, by all means go into protective state of mind but do this honestly. All that dishonesty will create, either personally or collectively, is more of the same trauma, if not to you someone else.
Yes, I can get into a conscious state of timelessness, where there is no past or future, only the present moment, a state perceived by my ego to be of utter bliss. At no time is this separate to time where a past and future exist. Of course when a consciousness experiences time, a past and future, trauma is sure to exist as time is of cycles and endless changes. Spirituality is about how you cope with the associated trauma in relation to time, not how you try to escape from time and times association with trauma. I could not think of a higher level of fear and self-deceptiveness, which spiritually is suppose to be not about, or am I simply being naive here?
A number of people might relate better to the following article.
Extract: The topic of brutal self-honesty is consciously looked upon as worthy of pursuing but the majority of people don’t have the emotional maturity to follow through with such a concept.
Brutal self-honesty requires hard, emotional labor. It requires the individual to engage with the following:
Ego Dissolution
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11 Recommendations to optimize your product pages and drive your sales
11 Recommendations to optimize your product pages and drive your sales
Every day you check on your sales funnel, you are not yet fully satisfied with the number of your store visitors.
You want to find more visitors adding products to their carts, however, you understand that your product pages need more efforts to have impact on your visitors, convincing them to make action and purchase your products.
Here, we offer you our Shopify partner experts who have effective ways to solve your problems.
Firstly, what the factors of a great product page?
As an online store owner selling unique products, all you need is a website with a creative product pages which attract your right audience by giving them the right information which guide them buy your product at the end of the day.
There are four factors which need to be together to build a great product page; your product, brand, copywriting and page’s design.
• The product
Your product is the main factor among all these four ones, the more your product shines, the more it can speak for itself, answering customers’ questions.
• The brand
Brand is a very important matter, if you have a unique brand on your product pages, it will leave a high impression on your visitors, pushing them add your product to their carts.
• The copy writing
The fascinating content has a positive impact on readers, so supporting your product pages with a creative content marketing absolutely makes a difference.
• The page design
The design with stunning images and creative details on your product pages can grab your visitors’ attentions and drive your sales.
So, to optimize your product pages, our team Shopify partner experts give you 11 recommendations.
1.Have a clear call-to-action
When you build your product page, make sure that your “Add to Cart” button is clear enough for your customers.
“Add to Cart” button is the most important component of the product page, so it is supposed to be visible and uncluttered. Don’t disrupt your visitors by content which surrounds the button intensively. Let your customer hit it immediately and simply.
Here, we have an example of a product page belongs to SMAKK Studios, it is obvious that “Add to Cart” button takes a wonderful position with a small amount of content below explaining the properties of the product.
2.Get a great product photography
The most illustrative way in which you can offer your product creatively is great product photos. Stunning design plays an important role in building a great page and drawing visitors’ attentions.
That is why you should make sure that you have talented web designers who have a sense of innovation which enables them to shape the product perfectly on your product page.
3.Have the right product photography
You could find a lot of ways to make great photos which attract customers, however if you are looking for a unique work which fits your exceptional products, you should change the conventional ways and think outside the box.
For example, Dao Labs is a traditional Chinese medicine brand, but it is not that famous, so to market their products on the product page in an attractive way, they support their product design with a large story talking about its benefits, usages and more in order to make visitors familiar with their brand.
4.Link your images to your product variants
It is very effective to personalize your products by colors, scents, etc. to be differentiated among other products, however, you must not expect everyone should know “Frosted Dreamscape” what is look like?
For this reason, linking your images to your products can help recognize your product perfectly and optimize your traffic on your product pages.
5.Have the right amount of detail for your prices
When you sell a simple product with a low price, you do not have to give intensive and informative details as if you deal with a luxury product which usually associated with a high price.
People are not ready to pay a lot of money, if you do not describe your luxury product properly, convincing them that your product is worth that big amount of money.
Especially, if your product is not belong to a premium brand, here, in this case, you have to give enough information about your product on the product page, trying to answer your customers’ questions.
6.Have the right amount of detail for your customers
As the price tells a part of the product’s story, you as a seller should complete the rest of the story by providing all the details and information which matter to your customer, because not all your customers are expert in what you sell.
This can be done through creative product videos which can simply explain the complicated details about the product. In addition, creative content with high-illustrative photos are also useful tools to inform your customers about your product professionally.
7.Have a well-branded product page
If you have a clear brand which explains your products, target audience, vision etc., professionally, and highlighted by a fascinating design and a creative content, then you can ensure that you are on the right way and your product page is doing very well.
8.Support your product with inspirational content
Aspirational content is not just words on the paper, but it is how to make your customer who read your content feel confidence about your product.
Customer needs the product which solves his problem, achieve his desire and make him better. Therefore, your content is supposed to be informative and creative, so you can convince your customer in a professional way.
9.Create content which sounds human
When you are creating a content for a brand, be your brand voice, and make it comes to life.
It is necessary to capture the voice and tone that match your audience preference, leaving a positive impression on them.
Your reader does not want too long and boring paragraphs which distract or confuse him, but all he needs is a direct speech which describes the product creatively.
10.Your product page needs social proof
One of the important components, which you should take into consideration when you’re building a product page, is a “Social proof”.
The possibility of adding social proof to your product page is a very effective way to make your customers express their opinions and explain their experiences about your products.
By this way, you earn more credibility and build consumer trust, boosting conversion and driving your sales significantly.
11.Understand your customer
Understanding the mindset of your audience is the main key to explore how to grab their attentions to your products. Your customer behavior which represents the personality, desire, and motivation of your customer can guide you build a clear and strong product page.
In this context, if you have a really well-organized product page, you should expect customers add your product to their carts, but if it fails, then you have to rethink seriously about your product and try to find the product’s properties which fit your target audience properly.
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In The Big Bang Theory the elevator has been out of order since the start of the series.
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To this date -- after season Ten has finished -- the elevator has still not been fixed.
Is there any significance for this?
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See also quora.com/The-Big-Bang-Theory-TV-series/… – BCdotWEB Sep 1 '15 at 8:25
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I lived in a 3 story 70 year old apartment building in San Francisco for nearly 10 years. When I moved in, the elevator had been broken for a few months and they were "waiting for some parts" to fix it. When I moved out 10 years later, it still hadn't been fixed... that was over 10 years ago, I looked up a recent apartment listing in that building, and "elevator" is not listed as one of the building's amenities, so it is presumably still not fixed. – Johnny Sep 1 '15 at 21:34
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Elevators are ’spensive. – Paul D. Waite Sep 2 '15 at 11:20
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I always thought that it will be fixed in the final episode. I hope it gets fixed in the final episode when Shamy and Lenny happen to be moving out of the building. They see it's fixed but decide to take the stairs all together one last time. – user37339 Jul 24 '16 at 13:27
• @Johnny Were you living in the same apartment shown in Big bang theory? :P – Nog Shine May 19 '17 at 13:52
It's just a reoccurring joke that management is lazy and how extensive the damage was. The elevator was damaged due to a malfunctioning experiment of Leonard's (He wrongly calculated the mixture for the experimental rocket Fuel he was developing), which Sheldon recognized as going critical so he placed it in the elevator. It exploded inside and took out the entire elevator cab. (The Staircase Implementation, Season 3, Episode 22)
The cost of a new elevator cab (and maybe the motor/hydraulic system and everything else) and structural repairs to the elevator shaft for a ~8 story building like that would be in the low to mid 6 digits. And would be a labor intensive multi-month project. From a New York Times Article on modernizing an Existing, working elevator system:
In a six-story building, a standard elevator modernization (frequently involving replacement of the cab rather than remodeling it) costs about $100,000, including consultant fees, said Joseph Caracappa, an elevator consultant ... A project in a 6- to 12-story building generally costs around $125,000, while anything taller will require roughly $150,000 to $175,000. [He] on my building’s project, said that these figures assume that some components won’t need changing. Our 89-year-old drum-hoisted elevator, being well past its sell-by date, needed everything, which is why our job cost substantially more. Also, we spent about $20,000 on the interior finishes, on the higher side of a range from $7,500 to $30,000.
That's putting a regular fix at < $200,000. An explosion would likely add much more cost to it.
Between the High Cost, the amount of work required, and not having anyone to blame/sue/recover the cost from, it's understandable why the elevator has not been fixed.
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@aitchnyu because noone except the gang knows about how it happened. Specifically answered in the Staircase implementation, Sheldon never ratted Leonard out – cde Sep 1 '15 at 13:12
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If I were the police, I would start a terrorism investigation for a potentially deadly blast involving novel high-energy fuels and maybe get assistance from the university. Leonard would be caught nevertheless. Is that all hand-waved away? – Jesvin Jose Sep 1 '15 at 13:54
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@aitchnyu why would the police believe terrorism, why would they assume novel high-energy fuels, why would they ever get a university involved? – cde Sep 1 '15 at 14:20
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Surely the building owners would have insurance to cover something like this? – Steve Sanders Sep 1 '15 at 15:02
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Surprisingly, most insurance holders neglect to buy the add-on covering "potentially deadly blast involving novel high-energy fuels". – Zano Sep 1 '15 at 18:29
The creators of the program wanted a hallway between the two apartments but they felt that it was too thin. Adding an elevator forces the hallway to be wider.
Forcing the characters to use the stairs also enables a longer conversation as a lift would be too quick.
This was revealed by the creators in the 100 episode special for the UK TV channel e4.
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Wow. Time for a detailed comparison of the hallway encounters in Big Bang Theory versus the ones in Friends where they could almost step from one apartment to the other. – JiK Sep 1 '15 at 15:11
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@JiK How about in Seinfeld where you could practically reach out your arms and touch the opposite sides of the hallway? – gla3dr Sep 1 '15 at 15:18
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I think this out-of-universe reason is the true cause of the not-fixed-elevator. The series creators often use the stairway for extended conversations which would be harder to do with an elevator. – Raidri supports Monica Sep 2 '15 at 9:34
This has been discussed by the show's creators on a number of occasions:
The stairwell offers an opportunity to see the characters walking and talking
Q. Is the elevator ever going to get fixed?
A. “I think those stairs are the only exercise those guys get,” Molaro jokes. Prady explains the stairwells are the only place they can show the characters walking and talking, so don’t expect the elevator to start working anytime soon. Got to get in that cardio any way you can, right?
It removes the need for external sets
Q. Is the elevator ever going to be fixed, or does it work too well as a device?
A. We’re very proud of the elevator. What the elevator and the stairs allowed us to create is two things. One is the set design of most sitcom apartments gives you an L-shaped entrance where the characters — think Friends — enter this way and then walk toward the cameras. And it’s really short. If you want a longer conversation, if you want a walk and talk conversation, you have to come up with another set for it. You often do this by driving in the car or walking on the street. But this way we were able to do our walk and talk on our stage. So it’s terrific.
I think we were just writing opening the elevator shaft and having Sheldon climb down into it looking for something. We we’re writing this yesterday.
Repairing the studio floor would be quite a big deal
Q. As much as I love the awkward staircase conversations in “TBBT” I want to know if the elevator will EVER be fixed? It would be so funny to watch someone get trapped in there with Sheldon. (Nicola)
A. Our broken elevator does two wonderful things for us. First, it eliminates the traditional sitcom L-shaped apartment building hallway and second, it allows us to do “walk and talk” scenes without having to create a city street or similar set. We’re proud of the set, which required we jackhammer a hole in the floor of Stage 25 (to make room for the stairs going down). I can’t tell you whether it will ever get fixed, but if it does, I’m sure things won’t go well.
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Philippe Coutinho and Paulinho are the two Brazilian signings that the FC Barcelona has carried out during this season. However, there is something that differentiates them a lot of other footballers his compatriots that have gone through the Camp Nou
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The FC Barcelona has left some 200 million euros to tie to one of the fashionable Brazilian pairs: the formed by Philippe Coutinho and Paulinho Bezerra. The Catalan club disbursed some 40 million euros to do with Paulinho in summer and, if they fulfil all the variable, will finish paying other 160 by his mate of selection.
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Passage in the coming legislative session is vitally important to the future health and economic prosperity of our state.
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Starting from the imperfect nature of Myanmar's democracy, this paper aims to answer two questions. First, can Myanmar's transition be defined as a case of democratization, or is it, rather, a case of authoritarian resilience? To state this differently: is the progress enjoyed by Myanmar's polity the outcome of an ongoing process that is supposed to lead to a fully fledged democracy, or, rather, an attempt to enshrine elements of authoritarian governance under a democratic guise? Second, if the balance leans towards the latter instead of the former, how did authoritarian resilience work in Myanmar? The transition is analysed from a long-term perspective, moving from the 1988 pro-democracy uprising up to the most recent events. Data were collected from available published sources and from three fieldworks conducted by the authors in Myanmar. The paper concludes that Myanmar's transition is better understood as a case of authoritarian resilience than as democratization and highlights three core traits of Myanmar's authoritarian resilience: first, the very top-down nature of the political transformation; second, the incumbents’ ability to set the pace of political reform through the use of repression and political engineering; and third, the divide-and-rule strategy used as a means to keep contestations separated and local.
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Experimental measurement of the Berry curvature from anomalous transport
The geometric properties of energy bands underlie fascinating phenomena in many systems, including solid-state, ultracold gases and photonics. The local geometric characteristics such as the Berry curvature1 can be related to global topological invariants such as those classifying the quantum Hall states or topological insulators. Regardless of the band topology, however, any non-zero Berry curvature can have important consequences, such as in the semi-classical evolution of a coherent wavepacket. Here, we experimentally demonstrate that the wavepacket dynamics can be used to directly map out the Berry curvature. To this end, we use optical pulses in two coupled fibre loops to study the discrete time evolution of a wavepacket in a one-dimensional geometric ‘charge’ pump, where the Berry curvature leads to an anomalous displacement of the wavepacket. This is both the first direct observation of Berry curvature effects in an optical system, and a proof-of-principle demonstration that wavepacket dynamics can serve as a high-resolution tool for mapping out geometric properties.
The Berry curvature is a geometrical property of an energy band, which plays a key role in many physical phenomena as it encodes how eigenstates evolve as a local function of parameters1. In a two-dimensional (2D) quantum Hall system, for example, the integral of the Berry curvature over the 2D Brillouin zone determines the Chern number: a global topological invariant that underlies the quantization of Hall transport for a 2D filled energy band2. As first explained by Thouless3, there can be an analogous topological quantization of particle transport in a 1D band insulator, when the lattice potential is ‘pumped’, that is, is slowly and periodically modulated in time. Also in this case, the geometrical and topological properties are defined for an effective 2D parameter space, but now one spanned by the 1D Bloch momentum and the external periodic pumping parameter.
A local non-zero Berry curvature can have striking physical effects in both 2D systems and 1D pumps, regardless of whether the global topological Chern number is non-trivial. In the simplest case, a semi-classical wavepacket moves as a coherent object governed by classical equations of motion with an additional ‘anomalous’ Hall velocity due to the geometrical Berry curvature at its centre-of-mass, as an external force is applied or as the control parameter is pumped1,4. As highlighted further below, this anomalous transport can be understood physically as the Berry curvature acting like a magnetic field in parameter space5,6,7.
In recent years, there have been many landmark experiments to engineer and study geometrical and topological energy bands in ultracold gases and photonics8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28. In photonics, for example, topological edge states have been studied in a wide variety of (effectively) 1D set-ups, such as quantum walks14 and pumping in optical quasicrystals13,29,30, as well as in 2D quantum Hall-like systems of photonic crystals9,10,11, propagating waveguides12 and silicon ring resonators15,16. However, while the existence of such edge states is linked to the non-trivial global topological properties of bulk bands, a direct measurement of the Berry curvature itself has so far not been realized. In ultracold atoms, instead, there has been much progress in this direction, for example, with experiments exploiting the effects of Berry curvature on particle transport to extract, in 2D systems, the Chern number19 and topological phase diagrams20, and, in 1D systems, both the quantized ‘Thouless pumping’ of atoms in a filled band23,24 and the un-quantized ‘geometrical pumping’ of a Bose–Einstein condensate25.
In this Letter, we go beyond previous experiments to provide the first direct measurement of the Berry curvature in an optical system. We also demonstrate the first full tomography of the Berry curvature of a geometrical energy band from measurements of the anomalous displacement of a coherent classical wavepacket. This approach complements existing methods in ultracold gases to measure the Berry curvature via band projection26 or using Wilson lines27, with the significant advantage that it does not require a full reconstruction of the band eigenstates as an intermediate step. Consequently, our method can be easily applied to complex systems with many bands and degrees of freedom, where a full determination of the eigenstates would be experimentally challenging.
In our ‘photonic mesh lattice’ set-up31,32, pulses are injected into two coupled optical fibre loops, so that the temporal evolution of the outgoing pulse-train envelope simulates a wavepacket in a 1D lattice. More specifically, the position of the particle is encoded in the time at which a light pulse completes a round trip through one fibre loop. Tunnelling between time slots is achieved as the two coupled loops have slightly different lengths, allowing the pulse to ‘hop’ from one time slot to another. We then apply a periodic phase modulation in one loop to engineer Floquet quasi-energy bands, in which the eigenstates depend on both the 1D ‘Bloch momentum’, Q, and on a control parameter, φ, given by the amplitude of the phase modulation. With respect to these Floquet bands, the Berry curvature takes the form1
where |ψj〉 are the eigenstates making up the jth band in the effective 2D parameter space. By preparing a wavepacket with a narrow spectral width and a well-defined centre-of-mass momentum Q, we realize a geometrical charge pump by slowly ramping the phase amplitude, φ, in time. Due to this pumping, the wavepacket moves along the 1D ‘photonic mesh lattice’, with an anomalous velocity contribution1,23,24,25 due to the Berry curvature Ωjφ(t), Q. Our high-resolution observation of the wavepacket dynamics then allows us to map out the Berry curvature for an optical energy band for the first time. By bringing geometrical energy bands into the new setting of photonic mesh lattices, our work opens up new opportunities for engineering novel systems, combining topology, nonlinearity, gain or loss, which may then be studied via wavepacket dynamics.
In our experiment, we employ a time-multiplexing, linear optical scheme based on two coupled fibre loops of different lengths31,32 as shown in Fig. 1a. At the beginning of each measurement, an optical pulse with a wavelength λ = 1,555 nm is injected into the longer loop before being split by a 50/50 coupler into one pulse in each loop. After every round trip, each pulse is again split into two, although due to the different loop lengths, the short-loop pulse completes the round trip in a time, T2, which is shorter than that taken in the long loop, T1. Crucially, the average loop-length is much larger than the difference in loop lengths; in particular, the former is about 1 km, corresponding to a ns average round trip time, while the latter is only about 7 m, corresponding to a time difference of ΔT = T1T2 ≈ 35.4 ns between round trips in the long and short loops. Furthermore, to avoid any overlap between distinct pulses, the pulse width Tpulse is set to 25 ns, such that it is shorter than the minimum pulse separation ΔT. Thanks to the separation of all of these timescales, we observe clearly separated sequences of pulses over time (see Fig. 1), so that each pulse can be straightforwardly labelled by two integers (m, n), with m being the total number of round trips and n counting how many more round trips were made in the long compared with the short loop. Of course, this picture is restricted to sequences shorter than the round trip time in order for the assignment of integers to be unambiguous; this limits the maximum number of pulses in a given sequence to .
Figure 1: Generation of photonic mesh lattices by time multiplexing.
a, Optical pulses propagating along two coupled fibre loops of slightly different lengths are used to simulate light evolution on a 1 + 1D lattice spanned by a discrete time m and position n. b, The light evolution in the fibre loops is mapped onto a lattice, where a round trip in the short loop stands for the motion from northeast to southwest, while the propagation from northwest to southeast is equivalent to a round trip through the long loop. c, Measurement of the intensity distribution of short-loop pulses for a single lattice site excitation in the absence of any modulation. d,e, In the experiment, two photodiodes continuously measure the intensity distribution in both loops; here we show the output from the short loop. We observe a sequence of pulses after every round trip time T ̄ ≈ 5,200 ns. Each pulse has a width of Tpulse ≈ 25 ns, and is labelled by its ‘position’ n, as shown in e; adjacent pulses within the same sequence are separated by ΔT ≈ 35.4 ns, corresponding to the time difference between an extra round trip in the long versus the short loop. Here, the blue lines correspond to the signal of the photodiodes and the orange curve to the average height of the pulses. This average height is the quantity shown in c. For m = 3 the first interferences occur, leading to a destructive interference at n = 0 (see also c for m = 3).
To detect the average intensities of pulses in both loops, we use a combination of a photodiode and a digital sampling oscilloscope with a bandwidth of 200 MHz and a temporal distance of the samples of 0.4 ns. Thanks to the long pulse-width, Tpulse, dispersive effects in the optical fibres are typically unimportant, even over 400 round trips, corresponding to 400 km of propagation. However, for removing noise and for modulating the amplitude and phase of the pulses, band-pass filters and modulators are needed, as discussed in detail in the Supplementary Information. These additional components introduce losses on the order of approximately 8 dB per round trip, which are compensated by erbium-doped fibre amplifiers. In general, the use of these amplifiers destroys quantum correlations; however, all experiments here are performed with a classical, coherent bright light pulse and do not rely on quantum effects. Besides compensating any losses, the erbium-doped fibre amplifiers also allow for the use of pulses with a peak power of up to 200 mW. In the future, when combined with dispersion-compensating fibres, this system can be used, therefore, for the measurement of nonlinear effects, for example, the formation of solitons based on nonlinear self-phase modulation, which will be of great interest to study in the context of geometrical or topological energy bands. Additionally, this experimental platform also allows for the investigation of the topology of non-Hermitian systems, by including gain and loss in a controlled way. This can be achieved, by using fibre-coupled acousto-optical modulators, which are set to a transmission of 50%. Depending on an electrical radiofrequency signal, this value can be dynamically increased or decreased resulting in an effective gain or loss 32.
Based on the labelling of pulses according to (m, n), the evolution of light can be mapped to a 1 + 1-dimensional lattice as depicted in Fig. 1b, c, where m is the number of discrete time steps on the vertical axis, and n is the position along the horizontal axis, which can either increase or decrease by one at each time step. In our set-up, the evolution between each time step is:
where unm and vnm denote the pulse amplitudes incident on the beamsplitter from the short and long loops. As can be seen in these equations, pulse amplitudes at the m + 1 time step are an equal superposition of pulses at the previous time step m, with a relative π/2 phase shift for light that couples from one loop to the other, due to the 50/50 beamsplitter coupling the two loops. As mentioned above, we have neglected here dispersion effects and assumed that the pulse shape does not depend on the specific route taken. In the short loop, we have inserted an additional phase modulator that provides a time-dependent phase shift Φ(m). A suitable choice of this phase shift will generate the non-trivial geometrical Berry curvature as discussed in the following and in the Supplementary Information.
Without the phase shift Φ(m), the lattice depicted in Fig. 1b and described by the above equations (2) and (3) is periodic under a double step in the time step mm + 2 and the position nn + 2. Guided by the tight-binding analogy above, we apply the so-called Floquet–Bloch ansatz for the eigenstates32,33
where the parameter Q is the ‘Bloch momentum’ along the 1D lattice, introduced above, and θ is the propagation constant or ‘quasi-energy’. Here, the periodic part of the eigenstates in the jth band is denoted by ψj = (U, V)T and the quasi-energy band structure satisfies33
leading to two bands that are periodic in both Q and θ as expected in a Floquet system, with a band-touching at the edge of the 1D Brillouin zone where Q = ±π (see Supplementary Note 2). In general, the number of bands can be increased by using a ‘spatially’-structured phase modulation, that is, a modulation dependent on position n, which increases the size of the unit cell32, or by adding additional fibre loops of different length, which can also increase the effective ‘spatial’ dimensionality.
We can engineer the time-dependent phase shift Φ(m) to realize energy bands with non-trivial geometrical properties, by, for example, cyclically applying a positive phase +φ for even time steps and −φ for odd (see Fig. 2a), and hence breaking a symmetry of the 1D lattice (see Supplementary Methods for further discussion). Experimentally, this means switching the sign of the phase modulation every time that all pulses complete another round trip. Therefore, the necessary modulation frequency of the phase modulator is on the order of kHz. As the double-step periodicity is maintained, we again use the above ansatz equation (4) and find two bands satisfying
as plotted in Fig. 2b, c (see also Supplementary Information). The manifold of eigenstates is now defined over the Bloch momentum Q and the periodic phase amplitude φ, allowing us to define the Berry curvature in equation (1). As shown in Fig. 2d, this Berry curvature is singular at points where the two bands touch but otherwise can take large non-zero positive and negative values across the effective 2D parameter space.
Figure 2: Anomalous transport of a wavepacket.
a, For implementing the geometrical pumping protocol, we apply an additional phase modulation in the short loop with alternating sign at each time step to engineer non-trivial geometrical energy bands. b, Band structure of the system as a function of the phase modulation φ and Bloch momentum Q. Due to the temporal periodicity of the system after two round trips, the band structure is also periodic in θ. c, Cut through the band structure for φ = 0 (yellow), φ = π/2 (green) and φ = π (red). d, Calculated Berry curvature for the lower band (θ < 0); this is singular at the isolated points where the two bands touch at the centre and at the corners of the Brillouin zone. e, By applying equation (13), we extract the integrated Berry curvature over each full experimental trajectory from φ = 0 to φ = 2π (the results for the lower band are marked in orange and for the upper band in blue). For Bloch momenta in the vicinity of Q = 0, ±π, the trajectory approaches a band-touching point, and so adiabaticity breaks down and the protocol fails. The horizontal error bars are defined by the spectral width of the wavepacket ΔQ ≈ 0.05π. The centre-of-mass shift used in equation (13) is calculated from fitting Gaussian distributions to the intensity distribution after the last step of the evolutions for ±φ0. The uncertainties of these fitting results with respect to the positions of the distributions are estimated for a 95% confidence interval, squared and summed to define the squared value of the vertical error bars.
To probe the Berry curvature, we prepare an optical wavepacket by exciting a superposition of states in the jth band with a well-defined mean Bloch momentum Q and with a narrow momentum spread ΔQ ≈ 0.05π. This can be achieved in good approximation by initially generating a chain of pulses with a Gaussian envelope in the short and long loop, and by setting the correct phase modulation between the envelopes in both loops34. Then, by slowly increasing the magnitude of the phase modulation after every second time step, we ‘pump’ the wavepacket along the band in the effective 2D parameter space. We distinguish therefore between two timescales; firstly, there is the fast timescale m, which counts the round trips and over which the sign of the phase flips as
while the phase magnitude φ, that is, the pumping parameter, is determined by the slower timescale M(m). Here, we let the phase magnitude increase linearly with M as
and set M(m) = m/2. For simplicity, hereafter in our notation we drop the explicit dependence on m. Note that the fast phase variation in equation (7) is directly included in the bands thanks to the ansatz in equation (4), while the slow variation in equation (8) adiabatically ‘pumps’ the system, provided that the rate φ0 is sufficiently small compared with the bandgap.
The centre-of-mass of the Gaussian envelope then evolves along the 1D lattice with a total velocity
where the first term is the usual group velocity from the band dispersion
and the second is the anomalous velocity due to the Berry curvature. This is easiest to understand for a wavepacket in a 2D lattice, in which case , with the Berry curvature,
playing the role of a magnetic field in the 2D Brillouin zone, which is defined over the Bloch momenta Qx and Qy (refs 5,6,7). This anomalous velocity is then the momentum-space analogue of the Lorentz force , acting on a charged electron in a real-space magnetic field, , perpendicular to the 2D lattice. In a 1D pump, Qy is replaced by the periodic pump parameter, in a procedure often known as dimensional reduction35. As the pump parameter is externally controlled, the dynamics along one direction are frozen out, leaving only the anomalous term in equation (9).
Experimentally, what we measure is the shift in the centre-of-mass of the Gaussian envelope along the ‘position’ n as a function of the number of modulation periods M
We note that the limit of topological Thouless pumping can be recovered from this expression, if we consider the motion of a filled and gapped energy band after a complete adiabatic pump cycle. Then, the shift is quantized as an integer3
where BZ stands for Brillouin zone, Cj is the topological Chern number, and where we have used that the group velocity integrates to zero over the full 2D parameter space. In our experiment, however, we consider a system in which the energy bands are not gapped and so the assumption of adiabatic evolution across the entire 2D parameter space breaks down and equation (12) is not applicable. Rather, we focus here on the local Berry curvature, and, in particular, on ways to exploit the local sensitivity of a spectrally narrow wavepacket to experimentally extract its value.
To cleanly separate Berry curvature from group velocity effects, we apply a variant of the ‘time-reversal’ protocol36 and compare the propagation (see Fig. 3a) under a reversal of the sign of the phase magnitude (that is, +φ0 and −φ0) to find
where we have used that, for this modulation, vjG(φ, Q) = vjG(−φ, Q) and Ωjφ, Q = Ωjφ, Q (see Supplementary Information 4 and 5). By measuring the real-space propagation of the wavepackets for ±φ0, the dynamical evolution and hence the influence of the non-vanishing Berry curvature is directly recorded. After exciting an initial eigenstate, no further information about the eigenstates is required as we directly measure the Berry curvature from its physical consequences on wavepacket dynamics; this is in contrast to other approaches for measuring the Berry curvature26,27 that require a full reconstruction of the band eigenstates as an intermediate step. The integrated Berry curvature over a complete phase-pumping cycle is shown in Figs 2e and 3b. Note that this anomalous displacement can become very large as we approach the band-touching points where the Berry curvature diverges and adiabaticity breaks down; experimentally we measure an anomalous displacement of up to approximately 1 position over 200 time steps for a wavepacket centred around Q = 0.1π subject to a phase gradient of φ0 = π/50. The general applicability of this method is further confirmed in Supplementary Information 8, where the same experimental protocol is applied to a second example of modulation and pumping sequence.
Figure 3: Experimental reconstruction of the Berry curvature.
a, Measured propagation of wavepackets populating the upper band for Q = 0.2π for ±φ0. b, The relative shift in the centre-of-mass between the two wavepackets in a. Each centre-of-mass is extracted from applying Gaussian fits for each time step m. The error bars are defined according to , where n j ± φ 0 are the uncertainties given by the Gaussian fit for trajectories under ±φ0 within a 95% confidence interval. Before numerically differentiating the measured curve (blue points) to find the Berry curvature, a moving average filter with a span of 5 time steps is applied (orange line). c, A cut through the Berry curvature for Q = 0.2π as a function of the phase amplitude φ, as obtained by numerically differentiating the averaged signal in b. d, Calculated Berry curvature for the lower band (θ < 0). e, The experimental reconstruction of the Berry curvature for both bands. The cut shown in c is indicated in the upper band panel by the grey solid line. Compared to the theoretical value for the lower band in d, the experimental results in e are in a very good agreement and also illustrate the relation of the Berry curvature Ω1φ, Q = −Ω2φ, Q for both bands.
As the most important advance of our work, the wavepacket evolution can be measured after each discrete time step, allowing for unprecedented high time resolution of the dynamics. We exploit this to map out the local Berry curvature directly from anomalous transport for the first time, by performing a discrete differentiation of the lateral shift Δnj(M) as (see Fig. 3c)
The result of this procedure is shown in Fig. 3d, e; as can be seen, the main features of the Berry curvature are well captured, such as the overall symmetry and sign, the quantitative magnitude over much of the band and the predicted complementarity of the two bands1,26 (that is, Ω1φ, Q = −Ω2φ, Q). Due to the ‘on the fly’ tracking of the wavepacket, we can measure the Berry curvature even along trajectories that eventually hit band singularities. Close to the centre of the Brillouin zone (Q ≈ 0), for example, we can extract the Berry curvature until the singularity is hit at φ = π; afterwards, part of the population is transferred to the other band and the measurement is no longer meaningful. For a gapped band, this technique would straightforwardly give the topological Chern number (equation (12)) when we integrate the measured Berry curvature over the effective 2D parameter space.
In conclusion, we have demonstrated that anomalous wavepacket dynamics can provide an important experimental tool for mapping out the local geometrical properties of energy bands. This versatility of this scheme should allow it to be applied in a variety of configurations, including systems with gain and loss32 and/or non-trivial topological invariants. In the presence of nonlinearities, this technique could provide a new approach for the creation and manipulation of different wavepacket structures, such as solitons. Given its simplicity, our experimental set-up also holds the promise of transferring geometrical and topological concepts into the applied world of optoelectronics.
A detailed description of the experimental platform is included in Supplementary Note 1.
To reduce the noise limit of the data acquisition, the measured propagation was averaged over approximately 25 realizations. For each band, we sequentially prepared wavepackets with an initial mean Bloch momentum Q, which was scanned from −π to π in steps of 0.05π. For each value of Q, we performed measurements for −φ0 and +φ0 before then setting a new value of Q.
To start with a spatially broad and thus spectrally narrow distribution at a specific Bloch momentum Q, a single seed pulse is injected into the fibre loop system. By switching off one of the two loops in a cyclic fashion after every second time step m, the system is converted into a lossy mesh lattice as discussed in ref. 37. The resulting propagation is given by a diffusion equation leading to a coherent splitting of the initial pulse into a chain of pulses with a Gaussian envelope. Due to this diffusive motion, the width of the resulting wavepacket grows . Thus, for 200 time steps a wavepacket with a width of ≈8 positions with respect to the full-width at half-maximum of the intensity is generated, which provides a sufficiently small spectral width ΔQ ≈ 0.05π to map out the local Berry curvature.
To excite a specific Bloch momentum Q, we apply a phase of φ = Q during the diffusive motion and a phase of φ = (Q ± π)/2 for the last time step before the actual propagation. The choice of the sign allows for a selection of either the upper or the lower band. As discussed in refs 34,37, in this way, the appropriate eigenstate corresponding to a Bloch momentum Q is excited. After the preparation of the Gaussian beam over the first 200 time steps, there is no further switching-off of either loop and, instead, we measure the wavepacket dynamics during the next 200 time steps, using the phase modulator to adiabatically ‘pump’ the system as discussed in the main text.
The centre-of-masses of the wavepackets were extracted by fitting Gaussian distributions to the cross-sections for each time step. A detailed explanation of this fitting procedure, together with examples, is included in Supplementary Note 6.
The error bars depicted in Fig. 2e are estimated by the spectral width ΔQ ≈ 0.05π of the initial excitation in the horizontal direction and by the uncertainty of the fit procedure for a 95% confidence level in the vertical direction.
For the full reconstruction of the Berry curvature, it is necessary to differentiate the measured integrated Berry curvature with respect to the time step m as discussed in equation (14). Directly before evaluating the derivative, a moving average filter is applied to the data to decrease the noise level. A span of 5 values was chosen for the averaging. Raw data without averaging are provided in the Supplementary Methods.
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M.W. acknowledges financial support from the Erlangen Graduate School of Advanced Optical Technologies. Additionally, M.W. would like to thank M. Kremer and A. Bisianov for fruitful discussions. Furthermore, this project was supported by PE 523/14-1 and by the GRK2101 funded by the DFG. H.M.P. was supported by the EC through the H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action, Individual Fellowship Grant No. 656093 SynOptic. I.C. was funded by the EU-FET Proactive grant AQuS, Project No. 640800, and by Provincia Autonoma di Trento, partially through the project ‘On silicon chip quantum optics for quantum computing and secure communications (SiQuro)’.
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Wimmer, M., Price, H., Carusotto, I. et al. Experimental measurement of the Berry curvature from anomalous transport. Nature Phys 13, 545–550 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys4050
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