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Factory special order with lots of upgrades throughout. 33' length with extended swim platform, 11' 10" beam, centre helm, twin 300 HP/Volvo 5.7L Gi V8 motors with closed cooling. Less than 400 hours. Duo prop stern drives, pass through windshield with large sun pad, front berth, aft seating and berth area, dining table converts to bed. Sleeps 6, Generator, Cabin A/C, Clarion Stereo, Galley with sink, fridge, microwave, 2 burner cooktop, TV, Windlass, remote search light, Garmin GPS, full head with shower, upgraded swim platform, upgraded dark blue full gel coat sides, factory anti-fouling paint, full canvas enclosure, outdoor sink and space for an icemaker. Top speed 40 mph, cruise at 30 mph. Well maintained, extremely clean inside and out, great family boat, currently located in Bob Caygeon. | <urn:uuid:ac44e866-2263-4b4d-9ca2-83593530a859> | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | https://www.boatdealers.ca/boats-for-sale/472486/chris-craft-328-express-cruiser-bobcaygeon-ontario | 2021-04-12T01:12:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038065903.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20210411233715-20210412023715-00126.warc.gz | en | 0.928187 | 187 |
As autumn approaches, game publishers are gearing up for their busiest time of the year. We're already seeing the start of that now, with this week's healthy stream of game releases.
For console and PC gamers, there were two big-name titles to look forward to: Sleeping Dogs and Darksiders II. Sleeping Dogs is an open-world game set in Hong Kong. You play as undercover cop Wei Shin as he tries to break into the most dangerous gangs in Hong Kong. Wei must toe the line of being a hardened street criminal while still remaining a police officer.
Darksiders II has you playing one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Death, and takes place around the same time as the original game. This action-adventure title promises to be fun, with an aggregate score of 84/100 on Metacritic.
Other releases this week include DLC for the popular shooter Team Fortress 2, by Valve. The expansion, called Mann vs. Machine allows the red and blue teams to cooperate like never before to fight an army of robots. The co-op mode is a first for the game, which focused on player-versus-player combat.
Much of the video game news this week is coming out of Cologne, Germany, as the third annual Gamescom is underway. The convention attracts 275,000 people to celebrate video games and their culture. Several new titles have been announced at the convention. One of the most unique is Capcom's Remember Me, a title set in a far future where our memories can be captured, traded, sold and even stolen. The main character must figure out who stole her memories and how to get them back.
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Destroying confidential data for public and private sector organisations is helping Advanced Digital Dynamics thrive. Suzan Uzel met operations director Julie Pickersgill.
JULIE Pickersgill is a self-confessed workaholic.
While today, as operations director at IT distributor Advanced Digital Dynamics (ADD), she can often be found checking her emails at 11 o’clock at night and 5 o’clock in the morning, her driven nature first showed its face at the tender age of 16.
Pickersgill went to work at retailer Burton Menswear in Leeds, initially as a summer job during the school holidays.
She had intended to go on to college to study business, but the lure of a wage and the thrill of being in a working environment were too much to resist.
The Leeds-born youngster stayed on at the shop and in just two and a half years worked her way up from stockroom charge hand to one of the company’s youngster supervisors at the age of 18, managing a 25-strong team, all of whom were older than her.
After meeting her ex-husband and having three children, Pickersgill took a break from work, later returning to retail via an evening checkout job at Asda, the Leeds-headquartered supermarket chain. “It was just basically to get me out of the house and have adult conversation if you like as opposed to toddler speak,” she recalled.
But this led to a full-time job as beers, wines and spirits manager, and she moved up the ranks to the position of fresh food team leader, clocking up 15 years in total at Asda.
Her first foray into the world of IT came when, almost eight years ago, she met her now partner – in life and in business – Jonathan Belbin, the managing director and founder of ADD.
“He was turning over £200,000 a year,” said Pickersgill. “I used to pop in on my day off and say, ‘you could do so much with this. Have you thought about doing that? Why don’t you change this?’, because I’m a bit bossy like that, so he said, ‘why don’t you just come and work here?’ ”
So, Pickersgill did just that, taking up responsibility for the logistical side of the business while Jonathan concentrated on sales.
When Pickersgill joined ADD, the business was based in small premises in Goole. Today, a couple of moves later, ADD’s home is in Harrogate and it is soon to be moving from Pannal Business Park to larger premises at Hornbeam Park.
Originally founded in 1997, ADD recorded an annual turnover of £3.4m last year, with just under £5m forecast for this year, working on profit margins of about 30 to 35 per cent. It currently has 20 staff, which is expected to rise to 25 by this time next week.
The IT distributor, which also has a sales office in Cheshire, specialises in computer hardware and data destruction. The split is currently 50:50, but Pickersgill said that data destruction, which involves wiping anything from a USB key to a laptop, and from a CD to paper files, is where ADD’s future lies.
“Traditionally, we have done service and storage equipment, so it’s nothing to do with home PCs, it’s all business to business. We would do anything from sell a small part to a full storage rack of servers.
“ We do the maintenance on any of that kit as well.
“Over the last 18 months we’ve started moving into data destruction. We have quite a lot of contracts on the go at the moment for companies that want us to help destroy their data or back up their data on to a different device and then destroy it, that’s becoming more and more a bigger part of our business, ” she said.
Financial services and police forces are key growth sectors for ADD in this area, but the firm also works with NHS trusts, supermarkets. airlines and couriers.
“We are a business that changes and adapts constantly to the marketplace out there. And just selling and maintaining IT kit probably in ten years’ time isn’t going to be making us any money at all.
“We are always looking at different and diverse ways to move and data destruction is the big thing at the moment because people just don’t realise how easy it is for people to lose their data or hack into their data.
“It’s not because someone is not looking after the data but because no-one has been given direct responsibility for it.”
One customer, an unnamed police force, had put its hard drives in a bucket of water in an effort to destroy data, she said, adding: “It doesn’t! There’s a big lack of knowledge out there.”
Explaining the types of data customers might want destroying, she said: “A lot of it is confidential information so if you take an NHS trust they have all the patient data that might have been stored on a hard drive for whatever use.
“They might have to move building or change their IT kit and it all needs to be destroyed. So when they get rid of their old kit it is not just ending up for sale on eBay which is a horror story that happens all too often.”
ADD refurbishes and resells old kit where possible, sometimes striking split profit deals with customers, while it also has a licence to break down anything that is deemed not fit for resale to sell as scrap.
In an effort to grow the data destruction side of the business, ADD has struck a deal with Cheshire-based Athron 42 in a joint venture which will see a new company, Practical Asset Management, launched at the start of next month.
The company, which will act as a sales arm for the data destruction contracts, will be half owned by ADD and half owned by Athron 42.
“They will bring with them a client base they already have and we’ll put it all under one umbrella.
“ADD will still do all the physical work in terms of going out on to site and doing the wiping of the data.
“The other company has the expertise in going out and getting these contracts signed.”
Currently, work won by Athron 42 is carried out by a third party. Two of its staff will be based at ADD’s Harrogate office, with the remaining two based at its Manchester office.
ADD is also planning to open an additional sales office in the North East in the first quarter of next year.
The future is looking bright for ADD, but its journey so far has not been without its challenges.
“In terms of ADD we struggled in the early days when I first joined because being an IT company, as soon as you mention IT to any financial company, you are classed as a risk.
“So it was very difficult, we couldn’t get any help from the banks or anything.
“So we’ve got where we’ve got to by having no loans, we’ve basically done it ourselves, we’ve taken risks and we got where we are,”she explained.
This experience has inspired the launch of a Dragons’ Den-style competition by ADD, which gives budding enterprises the opportunity to pitch for investment and support.
QU2, Leeds Metropolitan University’s hub for high growth businesses, is supporting the venture in which 10 shortlisted companies will present their goals and vision to a judging panel on September 26.
Entries are welcome from businesses founded in the last three years.
Three successful entrants will each be awarded a £5,000 investment boost from ADD along with mentoring from its directors.
In return, ADD will get a minimum five per cent equity in the three businesses.
QU2 will also offer the winners a year’s free access to its business accelerator programme.
The closing date for applications is September 16. Visit www.qu2leeds.co.uk/add.htm
Name: Julie Pickersgill.
Title: Operations director at Harrogate-based Advanced Digital Dynamics.
Education: Cardinal Heenan School, Leeds.
First job: Picker packer at Burton Menswear, Leeds.
Last book read: I’m currently reading through the whole set of the Peter Robinson books.
Favourite band: Coldplay.
Favourite film: I’m not really a film person. I’m not somebody who has the patience to sit down and watch a film.
Car driven: Audi A6.
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Presentation Summary : Title: Snake Bite ,Bee sting and Scorpian Bite Author: simba Last modified by: Sathish Created Date: 7/29/2009 8:25:19 PM Document presentation format
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Presentation Summary : Anti venom Therapy Ideally administer with in 4 hr but effective if given with in 24 hrs In mild cases-5 vial (50 ml) In moderate cases-5 to 10 vial In severe ...
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Presentation Summary : SNAKE BITE STANDING ORDER. I. N. C. LUSI. O. N. Special Notes: 1.) There is no need to bring the snake to the hospital. This practice actually increases the risk of ...
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Presentation Summary : Venomous Snakebite R Johnson MBBS MRCS DTM&H Five Venomous Snake Families Viperidae: N.American pit vipers (rattlesnakes, copperheads, mocassins), Asian pit vipers ...
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Presentation Summary : Title: Management of snake bite Author: Punnya Last modified by: abjabj Created Date: 3/10/2011 3:26:28 PM Document presentation format: On-screen Show (4:3)
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Presentation Summary : Relevance of topic. The people most affected by rabid dog bites, snake bites and scorpion stings usually live in poor rural communities where medical resources are ...
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Presentation Summary : snake bite by dr. riaz ahmed objectives introduction / classification who – statistics. s.b- a- p.h. problem why? epidemiology etiology / causes of incidence of s.b ...
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Presentation Summary : Venomous Snake Bite Analysis Questions According to the map, where in the world are deaths from snake bites most frequent? Why do you think this is the case?
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Presentation Summary : Hey Doc! Is This Snake Poisonous? Identifying Coral Snakes “Red on Yellow Kills a Fellow” Sonoran Coral Snake
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Presentation Summary : Dr Pavan .M MD(A &EM), VMKVMC
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Presentation Summary : Who are the main culprits? Stiletto Snake. Most common dangerous bite in SA. Mozambique Spitting Cobra. Aggressive, bite without being provoked. Puff Adder
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Presentation Summary : Background. Snake bite is a neglected public health problem in the world and one of the major causes of mortality and morbidity in many areas, particularly in the ...
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Presentation Summary : Venomous reptile bites are rare, therefore, many physicians may not be experienced in handling cases of snake bite. The more YOU know the better! What do YOU know?
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Presentation Summary : Envenomation Mark B. Stephens, MD MS FAAFP Associate Program Director NHCL-FMR (Camp Lejeune) Objectives Review ‘common’ (?) envenomations Brief review of biology ...
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Presentation Summary : Snake Handling Is It For True ... he died in 1955 of a snake bite Numerous Pentecostal preachers and members have died of snake bites since the early 1900’s Snake ...
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Global Value Chain (GVC) analysis uses the concept of upgrading to highlight paths for developing country firms to "move up the value chain," usually through the lenses of four categories-product, process, functional, and inter-sectoral upgrading. The implicit normative expectation is that these firms move toward producing higher value-added products and/or take on more sophisticated functions along a value chain. In this article, upgrading is approached more broadly as "reaching a better deal," including a balance between rewards and risk. The case study of South African wine shows that better product quality, improved processes, and some functional upgrading have co-existed with processes of "downgrading," higher risks, and limited rewards, especially in traditional export markets. A reflection on further conceptual development and directions for empirical research is also provided.
- Global Value Chain (GVC) analysis
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Melbourne is a melting pot of creativity: From the incredible street art scene, to the vibrant international food culture, to the ever-competitive cocktail scene, we’re pretty #blessed to have so many amazing eateries, bars, galleries and laneways on our doorsteps. And what could be better than bringing all these virtues together in one CBD laneway for a day of eats, drinks, beats and visual culture?!
The team at MARCS Laneway Festival (that stands for Melbourne Art Restaurant Cocktail Sound, folks) have decided to do exactly that, introducing a new date to the Melbourne festival scene. On Sunday 28 February, AC/DC Lane will be transformed into a buzzing street festival, with appearances by Melbourne favourites spanning from local DJ heroes to Peruvian street food.
If you’re there for the food, you can expect to be snacking on hawker delights from around the world, thanks to Italian eatery Terra Rossa, British kitchen Papa Goose, Peruvian bar-restaurant Harley House and The Swiss Club, who will be serving up enough gooey raclette cheese to keep even the most hardcover lactose-lovers at bay. It’s also your first chance to preview cuisine from Papa Goose head honcho Neale White’s new Indian concept, Brick Lane, which will be popping up for the very first time.
Melbourne cocktail lords Eau De Vie will be in charge of rum concoctions, with the Harley House and Mary Fortune teams on hand with champagne, beer and pisco sours. Looking for live music? There will be graffiti art, bands and DJ sets all day!
It’s set to be the most Melbourne laneway festival to send off the summer... ever.
MARCS Laneway Festival takes place on Sunday 28 February from 12 noon until 7pm. Entry is free, and there will be activities such as face painting too… Perfect for little and big kids alike!
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Inishbearna 47m hill, Galway Islands Ireland at MountainViews.ie
Note: this list of places includes island features such as summits, but not islands as such.
InishbearnaIslandInis Bearna A name in Irish GalwayCounty in Connacht Province, in Irish Islands List
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Skip to 0 minutes and 6 secondsLUCY BLUE: Hello, I'm Dr. Lucy Blue and I'm here with my colleague Julian to talk about the ancient Mediterranean world. DR.
Skip to 0 minutes and 12 secondsJULIAN WHITEWRIGHT: And thinking about the ancient Mediterranean as an area, what is it that has drawn you in and got you looking and researching from the Bronze Age onwards particularly? DR.
Skip to 0 minutes and 22 secondsLUCY BLUE: Well, I guess the Bronze Age is a time when we really start to see connections across, particularly in the eastern Mediterranean, by sea. And then this is really where the connectivity of the world just expands hugely. So you start to see long distance trade for the first time, using ships of course. You start to see the infrastructure that supports that trade in terms of the interface, the harbours. And you start to see the wealth of that trade coming through in terms of the trade of goods and object that would've been carried on board those ships. I know you are really fascinated with ships, and particularly rigging and sailing, what brought you into that? Where's the interest there? DR.
Skip to 1 minute and 3 secondsJULIAN WHITEWRIGHT: For me, it's that, I think, in maritime archaeology, we spend a lot of time studying shipbuilding and how the boats and ships are put together but I feel it's really important that we understand how those boats and ships are used by people on a daily basis and to do that you have to understand the sailing rigs and in the ancient world, we have this wonderful fusion of iconographic evidence, literary evidence, written sources, but also archaeological evidence and by combining all of those things together, we can really get to grips with how people use these ships and boats on a daily basis and get an understanding of the performance of the vessels; how fast people could sail from one place to the next and the types of weather conditions that they would be able to tolerate at sea and we get a much, much more detailed view of that trade then, if we can understand how people lived their lives on the boats and the ships and how they used those boats and the ships every day.
Skip to 1 minute and 57 secondsLUCY BLUE: So how much do you think that feeds into our increased understanding of maritime trade in the period? DR.
Skip to 2 minutes and 3 secondsJULIAN WHITEWRIGHT: I think it's really important to get this idea of the detailed understanding of the ships. Otherwise, we just have a view of cargoes and trade goods, like we find the belongings on the Uluburun ship and the cargo on that and from later Roman ships and we're really good at joining up lines between all of these great ports, like Portus and Alexandria and Caesarea on the map, but we also have to be able to focus in on those lines and understand what happens to them on a daily basis.
Skip to 2 minutes and 33 secondsSo by doing that we can fill in some of the gaps of what might be happening at sea between some of these ports and understand, yeah, the speeds that you could travel between ports and the conditions and how difficult it is to unload vessels and load vessels and the number of crew that you might need to sail a ship and that then has implications for how we understand the economic set up of these vessels in the ancient world. So I think it's absolutely critical to be able to pin the ships and the boats and the daily use of them back onto the overarching trade networks that we have. DR.
Skip to 3 minutes and 5 secondsLUCY BLUE: No, you're absolutely right because essentially, the sea is the thing that's connecting these disparate objects and ports and different cultures around and it's the sea that unites them and brings them together. DR.
Skip to 3 minutes and 17 secondsJULIAN WHITEWRIGHT: In the Mediterranean, we have this amazing situation of the huge wealth of evidence that we have, over 1,200 shipwrecks and it seems that there is more connectivity through these ships and boats in the ancient world than at any time until maybe the 19th century or something like that, so it's a hugely important study. DR.
Skip to 3 minutes and 35 secondsLUCY BLUE: Absolutely, I mean in the Bronze Age period, we start to really see that kicking off. I think quite often we underestimate how much international trade was being conducted in that period, as illustrated as we've seen through the Uluburun shipwreck and also the wealth of trade. It's not just the objects of every day that are being moved around the system; it's the wealth, it's the luxuries, it's the status symbols. DR.
Skip to 3 minutes and 59 secondsJULIAN WHITEWRIGHT: But also, from the end of the Bronze Age onwards, there's this big increase in the port infrastructure and the harbouring stations, isn't it? It's not just about ships and cargoes. DR.
Skip to 4 minutes and 6 secondsLUCY BLUE: Absolutely. No, no, you're absolutely right. This is when we really start to see the landscape, or the coastal landscape, changing to adapt in a way that can facilitate this increased trading capacity and so therefore, you start to see the technological innovations that are connected with being able to safely anchor your vessels and the change in the infrastructure support, so warehousing et cetera, and it just takes off on a massive scale, particularly as you get into the Roman period. Obviously, when you've got Roman grain ships and cargoes of amphora... DR.
Skip to 4 minutes and 40 secondsJULIAN WHITEWRIGHT: And is that just those harbour infrastructures and those trading systems? Are they just confined to the Mediterranean or did they begin to start to spill outside the confines of the ancient buildings, the Indian Ocean and - DR.
Skip to 4 minutes and 51 secondsLUCY BLUE: Absolutely. No, you're absolutely right. I mean we are starting to see those connections expanding, so Rome doesn't stop at the edge of the Mediterranean, Rome extends its empire down the Red Sea into the Indian Ocean and we start to see connections way over, possibly as far as China and the supporting harbour infrastructures, the cargoes, the symbols of that trade. DR.
Skip to 5 minutes and 12 secondsJULIAN WHITEWRIGHT: So if you had to sum up the ancient Mediterranean as we look at it from a maritime perspective in four to five words, how would you do that? DR.
Skip to 5 minutes and 21 secondsLUCY BLUE: So I guess connectivity, complexity, scale and wealth of evidence. Is that good enough? DR.
Skip to 5 minutes and 29 secondsJULIAN WHITEWRIGHT: Yeah, I think we'll accept that and if you want to find out any more about all of these themes, then you can review all of the additional material and articles on the platform.
The classical world
In this video Julian and Lucy discuss how the Mediterranean Sea formed the focus of the development of maritime trade and connectivity from the Late Bronze Age over three thousand years ago through to the era of Greco-Roman expansion.
Images of El Amarna clay tablet and oxhide copper ingot used with kind permission of the British Museum.
If this area is of interest to you then you may be interested in signing up for the University of Southampton/FutureLearn course on Archaeology of Portus: Exploring the Lost Harbour of Ancient Rome
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For plain films, appointments can be offered as early as the day of referral. For other procedures, depending on the preparation and speciality, an appointment will be offered within the next 5 days.
GPs can now refer directly for xray and Ultrasound. Ultrasound and plain film appointments are normally offered within 3-7 days and reported back to the GP within 5 days.
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Quick update: This is the first desert board roughly completed for the 40K Warzone Tournament at Adepticon. Lots of wide open desert and not a lot of cover. Blood Soaked Sands indeed. It just needs some splotchy static grass and some weathering and its ready for the big day.
Test Sculpts - LOTR scale.
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This project, linked to the Research Center on Intermiditic Connections (Núcleo de Pesquisa em Conexões Intermidiáticas – NucCon) / Center for Convergence of New Media (Centro de Convergência de Novas Mídias – CCNM / UFMG), aims to expand theoretical and methodological aspects for the analysis of profiles of ordinary people, in the expression of Michel de Certeau (1998), in online social networks, such as Twitter and Facebook, aimed at spreading respect for disability and against prejudice. Our goal is to understand the specificities of communicational dynamics that, paradoxically, give visibility to people with disabilities and, simultaneously, reinforce pejorative imaginary. By means of an empirical clipping, we intend to respect the singularities of what we call the sensible corpus, that is, a set of research materials capable of arousing different feelings depending on the subjects that compose it, of the fragility or social vulnerability, of the difficulty to obtain data, ethical dilemmas and institutional reactions that may arise. The research procedures to be consolidated, through online ethnography, were developed in our doctoral thesis entitled “Aesthetics of difference: contributions to the study of disability and digital social networks as devices of mise en scène”. We intend to identify, describe and analyze the communicational dynamics and the discursive characteristics of profiles about people with disabilities. We hope that the research in question may help to some extent to highlight the importance of social networks in understanding the social interactions that extrapolate the private sphere, an increasingly frequent phenomenon in society. It is possible that it will offer a contribution to the expansion of theoretical knowledge about social networks and the discourse on disability, which is in an incipient stage in the Brazilian academic community. Thinking with Santos & Lorent, we believe that the university has an important political role and is a scenario that allows us to problematize and discuss the difference (SANTOS & LORENT, 2012), whether in its affirmative actions or through research projects. How do the communicative experiences of ordinary people in online social networks contribute to the discursive tensions of respect and, paradoxically, of prejudice, about people with disabilities? The individualized efforts of people with disabilities, living with social invisibility, would make themselves and others imaginary, making disability itself and online social networks the protagonists of narratives that move between profiles of diverse socio-political movements. From a theoretical point of view, we will deepen our knowledge about online social networks and disability, which is in an incipient stage in the Brazilian academy. To this end, we assume the social model of disability, proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO), which considers their singularities, not their pathologies. Online social networks are considered in our research as well as a mere source of data from which a corpus is collected. For this reason, we have registered that the ethnographic-inspired research brings us the possibility of deepening both the research methodology itself and the communicational issues related to disability, which have not yet been uncovered. We understand that theory and our empirical research are intertwined, without boundaries, which points us to theoretical and methodological assumptions that constitute themselves. We believe we respect, to a certain extent, the motto used in the struggle for the rights of people with disabilities, that is, “nothing without us for us”.
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Since the first TEDx event took place on March 23, 2009, the popularity of these independent TED events has exploded, and conference organizers around the world are now tasked with putting together groups of engaging speakers who exemplify the TED mission of “ideas worth spreading.” With this in mind, we’re proud to announce that one of our 12th grade students, Yada P., has been selected as a speaker at this Saturday’s TEDx conference in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where she will present her talk on “The Light Footsteps Dance Initiative.”
The Light Footsteps Dance Initiative
The following description comes courtesy of Yada’s website Light Footsteps Dance:
“Light Footsteps is dedicated to raising awareness of the situations of hospital children when it comes to quality of education, and empowering hospital children with chronic diseases through dance education. Many charities provide funds and performances for the hospital children, but Light Footsteps focuses on empowering hospital children so that they will have the self confidence to succeed later in life through the physical, mental, and emotional benefits of dance. The initiative is focused in the Chiang Mai area in Thailand, but is aiming to expand to the online sphere as well.”
How to watch Yada’s TEDx Talk
Yada’s talk, as well as all of the other talks from TEDxChiangMai, will be available for viewing on http://www.livebox.me/ and http://www.youtube.com/user/liveboxchiangmai after the conclusion of the event. You can also check our blog for updates.
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The Hugh Lane is pleased to present our first solo exhibition by Irish artist Niamh McCann. Entitled Furtive Tears it explores the dynamic relationship between object, audience and modes of display. In its interrogation of visual symbols and gestures, Furtive Tears uses a wide array of materials and objects that make reference to Modernist utopian principles. McCann’s interest is in the interweaving of fact and fiction, the overlapping layers of history and the stories we construct to position ourselves in society. Two well known Irish political figures - Sir Edward Carson, leader of Irish Unionist Party and Jim Larkin, founder of the Irish Transport and Workers Party, feature in this exhibition.
Also featured is the expressionistic work of German architect and scenographer Hans Poelzig, whose philosophies were a forerunner to the Bauhaus Movement in 1920s Berlin and he was also a direct influence on the architecture of Fritz Lang’s sci-fi classic Metropolis.
For Furtive Tears, The Hugh Lane’s history and collection also becomes part of the raw material that the artist employs as Sir Hugh Lane's instruction to adorn the galleries with fresh flowers daily is reactivated. “Though her work has powerful resonances politically, McCann is never didactic. “Poetry, association and chance can articulate questions and hold ideas to account using less direct routes” .........Niamh McCann - interview for Studio International Barbara Dawson, Director, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane says: “...Weaving history and fiction Furtive Tears questions how we look and how we are looked upon”.
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The payment discipline of corporate clients improved the most significantly last year in case of clients in services. Their overdue invoices were paid 17 days late on average, down by 10 days compared with the previous year.
This stems from the representative EOS study European Payment Practices for 2016, the SITA newswire reported.
In trade, overdue invoices were settled 19 days late on average, while a year earlier it was 21 days. In industry, it was 19 days late for the year 2016 compared to 22 days in the previous year.
Overall, invoices in the Business to Business (B2B) segment in Slovakia were paid on average within 18 days last year, down from 23 days in 2015.
“Such a shift in the payment discipline of clients paying for services rendered can stimulate mutual trade, improve cash flow and the financial situation of Slovak companies,” said Michal Šoltés, managing director of EOS KSI Slovensko, which deals with the management of receivables, as quoted by SITA.
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The Fashion Spot‘s biannual diversity report has just been released, revealing what really happened on the AW17 New York runways.
For the first time in the event’s history, every single show included at least one model of colour. Overall, 31.5% of model castings featured non-white models which is an increase (albeit a small one) compared to last season.
So what happened in London? The capital’s designers are known for promoting a wider range of races than their European and State-side counterparts. Perhaps it’s because a large majority of London Fashion Week’s designers do not come from Britain.
We took a look at over 60 shows and presentations to figure out the exact diversity percentage that occurred at LFW this season.
Surprisingly, London is not doing as well as New York with only 25.7% of models appearing in shows and presentations being non-white.
The designers that can be applauded are somewhat surprising. Ashish and Topshop Unique, who featured 60% and 46% models of colour respectively, are a given for Ashish constantly promotes global equality while Topshop is a worldwide brand that aims to appeal to all consumer markets.
However, a number of smaller (read: less well-known labels to the outside world) were incredibly diverse. 44% of Antonio Berardi’s models were non-white while exactly half of J.W. Anderson’s cast were of colour.
Fashion East’s percentage was also high at 59%. However, with the organisation’s younger designers using the globally-influenced streets as inspiration, this comes as less of a shock.
Big-name brands such as Burberry were less impressive. Out of the 78 models that walked the show, only 20 were non-white. Same goes for Christopher Kane who only felt it necessary to use three models of colour in a 44 person show.
While New York had a real plus-size moment with 26 bigger appearances occurring, London Fashion Week focused more on age diversity. Both Simone Rocha and Osman featured women of all generations on their catwalks in a bid to appeal to their actual customers. After all, the average age of a luxury consumer is around 53, not 18.
Each season, fashion weeks appear to be improving. Although every single designer doesn’t seem to be ignoring people of colour, the statistic remains that just over a quarter of all the models featured are non-white.
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Costa Coffee this weekend insured their chief taster, Gennaro Pelliccia’s tongue for £10 million through Lloyds of London! The coffee shop brand must see Gennaro’s taste buds as particularly important to their product development! This is an excellent PR campaign and will be sure to raise awareness and build equity for the brand around the quality of the coffee.
Furthermore, Costa have extremely ambitious expansion plans of opening 100 more shops in 2009.
Costa have also recently signed a deal with Hilton Hotels Corp. to have 60 cafe’s in the hotel chains properties in the UK.
I must however say I still stick by Caffe Nero – I am so loyal to them!
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|Hearing Scheduled for September 19, 2008|
Pursuant to Chapter 30A and the authority granted to the Commissioner of Insurance ("Commissioner") under Chapter 175E, § 10 of the Massachusetts General Laws, a hearing will be held at the Division of Insurance, One South Station, Boston, MA 02110-2208 on September 19, 2008 at 10:00 a.m.
The purpose of this hearing is to afford all interested persons an opportunity to provide oral and written comments on the proposed repeal of regulation 211 CMR 86.00, Reductions in Premium Charges for Private Passenger Motor Vehicles and Certain Commercial Motor Vehicles Equipped With An Anti-Theft Mechanism. The Division of Insurance ("Division") proposes to repeal 211 CMR 86.00 because it is outdated. Moreover, as the Commissioner has the authority to designate certain motor vehicles as "high-theft vehicles" in accordance with M.G.L. c. 175, § 113H, it is not necessary for the Commissioner to designate such vehicles by regulation
The proceedings concerning the proposed repeal of 211 CMR 86.00 shall be designated as Docket No. G2008-05. Any person who wishes to comment in person concerning the proposed repeal of this regulation must file a Notice of Intent to Comment with the Docket Clerk no later than September 18, 2008. Persons wishing to submit written comments may do so until the record of the hearing is closed. All submissions must be sent to the Docket Clerk, Hearings and Appeals, Division of Insurance, One South Station, Boston, MA 02110-2208 and must refer to Docket No. G2008-05. Persons who do not file such a Notice will be heard after those who do notify the Division in advance of the hearing. Copies of the regulation to be repealed are available from the Division, and also may be accessed on the Division's website at www.mass.gov/doi.
Dated: August 15, 2008
Nonnie S. Burnes
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Travel 7.5 miles north on Ambergris Caye and you almost feel like you are in a different part of San Pedro. Yesterday, my friends and I hopped aboard the Coastal Express Water Taxi…to spend the afternoon at X’tan Ha Resort…on the beautiful beach, near the Mexico Rocks snorkeling site. It’s about 30 minutes up there…we dropped off tourists and resort employees along the way.
At almost that exact spot, the water seems to look like a giant swimming pool.
Here are some of my pictures from yesterday. For many more (and photos of the pool and the buildings, you can check out my last year’s visit.) When you hear people say that there are no beaches in Belize…now you know that they are DEAD wrong.
The water is just ridiculously gorgeous up there…and this little picture postcard area?
Time to attempt SUP (Stand Up Paddleboarding). I’ve tried it once or twice and it was a relatively calm day and the resort has two boards.
I gave it a go for about 10 minutes and the wind! You are paddling like crazy to go basically no where…
But then Jamie and Debbie seemed to get a bit more of the hang of it…
I preferred to enjoy the view from the dock…
I know the two of them are VERY sore this morning.
I spent some time in the over-the-water bar area…and on the giant tube. A very comfy spot if you are looking to SCORCH yourself in the hot summer sun.
They watched a man (with his own board) effortlessly paddle all the way out to the reef and they set out to do the same.
They were paddling their hearts out but really not moving much.
Time to hit the dock and head back home. A gorgeous few hours…
I’ve been asked by many…can you just arrive at a resort and use the facilities? It depends. Some places, sure. Some, no way. Some if you eat and drink there….it all varies. My advice is to call (or email) ahead. If they are not all that buy, usually it is no problem. | <urn:uuid:8ff758e1-ae87-401a-acbf-9ef6cc8a54ae> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | https://www.sanpedroscoop.com/2014/07/afternoon-stand-paddle-boarding-xtan-ha-resort-friends.html | 2019-06-25T20:57:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627999946.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20190625192953-20190625214953-00257.warc.gz | en | 0.962045 | 458 |
It’s a bouncing baby boy for actress-turned-mathematican Danica McKellar. The Wonder Years beauty gave birth to son Draco Verta in Los Angeles on Tuesday night.
Weighing in at 7 lbs., 2oz., Draco is the first tot for the 35-year-old former child actress, who starred alongside Fred Savage in the popular ’80s comedy-drama Wonder Years and charmed the audience with her good looks and acting prowess, and her composer husband Mike Verta.
Commenting about the new addition to their family, the couple said: “We are humbled, overjoyed and so grateful for this miraculous gift. It’s like we’ve only now just learned the true meaning of love.”
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For some reason I’m having trouble uploading the report from my device, Note 3, to the “Cloud”. It keeps timing out. Can I plug my phone into the PC and get it directly? I found the floder on the phone. I found HTML document “full report w/ pictures”. I’ve been messing with this an hour already. I need to get this report done.
Frank, check out https://www.homegauge.com/inspector/support/androidmanualmove.html
It’s too late. I’ve already entered the information manually. Fortunately there wasn’t that much. Thanks Dominic. Good to know for the future.
Proof that Dominic is AWESOME!!!
Helping out an inspector using a competitors software at 8PM on a National Holiday, when the competitor is NOWHERE to be found!!!
(And some wonder why Dominic has such a huge following)!!!
That is impressive. Thanks again.
I will give him that, Dom is a pretty cool guy:cool:
Heck was answering forum questions at HIP last night as well.
He still has his forum hosted on his own site refusing to sell out because it is dumb to give up all the SEO.
So now it’s a HIPPIE convention?
HG should be along soon
Ever try and stop the tide ?
Sure, now that we’re getting back to HG’s ‘normal’ business hours. An HI’s “normal” business hours are 24/7. Lack of Customer Service has been the #1 complaint with HG for years. It’s the ‘prima-donna effect’!
Ha! Jeffery Jonas you are so wrong. HomeGauge has awesome support we hear it all the time.
Thanks Dom for helping!
So why couldn’t I upload from my device to cloud? I kept getting error message that "domain, Homegauge.com, could not be found. I tried both WiFi and my 4g connection.
Are you still having issues? if yes , please call in and we can troubleshoot.
Sure, now it’s working after I was up 'til midnight manually re-entering everything. I’ve always bought the best tools available, that I could depend on to achieve the best results. Now I’m wondering if I made the right decision.
Being fair to Russell despite my poking the cage you should actually call him and chat rather than here.
I don’t have time to chat this morning.
Based on little information to go on…check your date and time on your phone.
I spoke too soon. It uploaded to 50%,and then I got this message.
Date and time are correct on phone.
Its also a good idea to learn how to transfer a file with the cable in case you have issues again. Its pretty easy to do:
Pull outlet prong off of phone cable to expose the usb.
Insert usb into computer with the phone on.
using the computer screen go find the drive (camera) and go to the application folders, HomeGauge folders, report folders and copy.
Now still on the computer screen paste the report folder in Documents HomeGauge Report folder.
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So here I am out fighting for feminism and against the misogyny I see everywhere and I realized the next generation right here in front of me is quietly working at living feminism as we speak. So a shout out to my niece, Samantha who just had her first baby and who I realized is embarking on her why did you choose this career as an RN with a 4 year degree and plans on going on to a Masters. To my other niece, Katrina who is raising her beautiful little girl to be a sweet and independent individual..., and who has completed her Masters in accounting and is well on her way to getting her requirements in to get her CPA license. And to my step-daughter, Shannon, who is working a full-time job, living on her own and is finishing up her second year of college on her way to a degree and a career in her chosen field. Seriously, kudos to you all for quietly living the lives we all hoped you would have. | <urn:uuid:cd77122d-acfb-4694-9a98-5a9e23dbbec8> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://www.hvcca.com/why-did-you-choose-this-career.html | 2017-03-29T01:26:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218190134.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212950-00329-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984207 | 203 |
The Budget – Give and take
The Budget held few surprises on taxation, with many of the changes well flagged – not least by the Evening Standard. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne finally fulfilled the coalition promise of a £10,000 personal tax allowance – for individuals born after 5 April 1948 the allowance will increase from £8,105 to £9,440 in 2013/14 and £10,000 in 2014/15. It will then increase in line with the consumer prices index.
However, a fiscally neutral budget saw the Chancellor take as well as give and the basic rate limit was reduced from £34,370 in 2012/13 to £32,010 in 2013/14 and £31,865 in 2014/15. Individuals will therefore start to pay 40% income tax at a progressively lower threshold. The highest rate of income tax will, however, still fall from 50% to 45% from 6 April 2013.
Changes to Isa limits had already been announced. There is an overall investment limit of £11,520 for 2013/14, up from £11,280, with a cash maximum of £5,760. For Junior ISAs the overall limit has risen from £3,600 to £3,720. Pension limit changes also held no surprises – the annual allowance reduces to £40,000 and the lifetime allowance to £1.25m from 2014/15. The inheritance tax nil rate band remains frozen at £325,000 until April 2018, three years longer than previously stated, to help fund the cap on care costs for older people.
The Government also plans to proceed with tax breaks on ‘employee shareholder’ employment status, announced last year. Individuals adopting this status are eligible to receive between £2,000 and £50,000 worth of capital gains tax exempt shares. There were also plans to reduce the income tax and National Insurance liabilities arising when employee shareholders receive shares, with the first £2,000worth tax free.
The Chancellor extended reinvestment relief for seed enterprise investment schemes, which were introduced in 2012 as an incentive for individuals to buy new shares in smaller companies. The venture capital trust (VCT) limits remained unchanged but Osborne was critical of some current buyback schemes, where investors can receive further tax relief on VCT investments rolled over after the qualifying period. There were also a range of measures introduced to target UK residential properties valued above £2m, held by ‘non natural persons’, including higher stamp duty land tax and capital gains tax rates.
Retirement Choices – A better dealThe Association of British Insurers (ABI) has introduced a new ‘Code of conduct on retirement choices’ to help individuals secure the best possible deal for their retirement income. Under the code, insurers now have to write to people approaching retirement to spell out their options. Insurers will have to explain the different ways that retirement income can be taken, including provision for dependants and the possibilities of an enhanced annuity and protection against inflation. Moreover, insurers are no longer allowed to include annuity application forms in their literature – a move designed to increase the likelihood individuals will shop around.
Some 400,000 people buy an annuity every year yet, according to the ABI, one in four do not believe they fully understand their retirement options, while one in three do not feel informed enough to compare quotes from another annuity provider. “Increasing life expectancy means that many people will be receiving a pension for longer than they were paying a mortgage,” commented the ABI. “The need to make the right decisions at retirement has never been more important.”
Determining what to do with your pension pot is an important decision that can affect the rest of your life. People are living longer – according to the 2011 Census, 16% of UK residents – a total of 9.2 million – were aged 65 or over. Retirement is taking up an ever larger chunk of our lives so you should consider all your options carefully – including taking advice – in order to make the right choice.
Investing – Little and oftenIn the world of investment, timing is everything. However, despite claims to the contrary, no one can second guess the market. There is a way round this though. By saving regularly, investors can benefit from what is called ‘pound cost averaging’. It mitigates the risk of buying all your investment at a single price and instead, means lots of smaller sums are invested at a variety of different prices. In a rising market, regular savings would underperform a lump sum as the later investments would miss out on the early growth. However, in a volatile or falling market, later investments would buy in at lower or alternating prices and thereby offer more growth as the market returns to higher levels.
Long term care plansAn overlooked peril of our ageing population is the rising cost of long term care. For those of us who want to help ourselves, there are two ways to plan: a prefunded insurance policy or an immediate care plan. A prefunded policy will pay your fees for you if and when you need it. However, such insurance can seem expensive and therefore the vast majority do not choose to cover themselves. Most people meet short term requirements out of income and saving. However, if you need help long term, payments for care can increase substantially and many may wonder how long their savings will last. An immediate care plan might at least help to top up what you can afford to meet the full bill
Managing DebtFor many people, debt is a necessary part of everyday life – for example, few people are able to buy a home without a mortgage. If properly managed, debt can be a useful tool – but it is essential to remain in control.
You are unlikely to receive more interest on your savings than you will pay on your borrowings. It is generally prudent therefore to concentrate on paying down your debts before you focus on savings. Nevertheless, you should still aim to have a cash buffer you can access in an emergency – as a rule of thumb, enough to last you for three months.
Don’t ignore debt – it will not disappear. If you have debts on top of your mortgage, the most sensible strategy is to try to pay off any outstanding loans, using your savings if necessary. You should always clear your most expensive loans first, although you should check in case there are charges for early repayment.
Debt consolidation services allow you to combine all your loans into one. However, they are a relatively high risk strategy – their long term cost can be very high, and they are usually secured against your house, putting your home at risk if you do not manage to keep up with the loan repayments. If you are having problems, take expert advice from your financial adviser or a free debt advice agency, or talk to the Citizens Advice Bureau. Above all, make sure you are in control of your debt. Don’t allow your debt to control you.
Green shoots of recovery in the UK property market?Since the financial crisis, banks and building societies have cut back on lending activity, reserving their loans for low risk borrowers with the ability to stump up a substantial deposit. However, mortgage lending gathered pace during 2012, boosted by a strong increase in first time buyers.
The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) reported a 12% annual increase in first time buyers during 2012 – the fastest annual increase since 2007. According to the organisation, first time buyers found mortgage finance became more accessible during 2012, despite having relatively small deposits at their disposal. One in 40 first time buyers was able to take out a 95% mortgage, compared with fewer than one in 100 a year earlier, while one fifth of first time buyers borrowed 90% or more.
The issue of raising a deposit continues to pose a significant problem for many potential first time buyers, however. A report from the Home Builders Federation found an average UK first time buyer has to save for a total of 10 years in order to put together enough money for a deposit, compared with just two and a half years in 2002.
House prices climbed by 3.3% during 2012 as a whole, according to the Office for National Statistics, although much of the rise was caused by a strong increase in property prices in London and the southeast of England, where prices rose by 6.4% and 3.7% respectively. Excluding London and the southeast, UK house prices rose by a rather more modest 1.9% during 2012.
Reaching your investment goalsInvestors are generally either income seekers or growth seekers but, whatever your aims, it is important to set them out and understand your attitude to risk as these decisions will form the basis of the investments you make. There is a relationship between the amount of risk taken and the amount of potential return but, to ride out short term ups and downs, you need to take a long term view. So the decisions you make about a pension – which might have a 35 year lifespan – will be different to those of, say, an inheritance which you want to spend in less than five years. Put the latter in the wrong place and you risk losing a lot of what you have been given.
Planning for retirementPeople in the UK are living longer than ever, but many individuals are failing to make effective plans for their retirement. According to a survey by LV=, for example, 6.5 million British over 50s now expect to work for six years beyond the official retirement age because they cannot afford to retire While such an idea might appear viable now, however, it could seem very different at the age of 65, when ill health, personal circumstances or lack of opportunity might prevent you extending your life in the workplace.
Meanwhile, according to Scottish Widows’ ‘Women & Pensions Report’, 43% of women will rely on joint savings with their partners in order to fund their retirement. Yet one in three UK marriages now end in divorce within 15 years and so it is important women take charge of their own retirement plans.
Pressure on household budgets can make it a challenge to find additional cash that can be earmarked for retirement. Nevertheless, it is worth reviewing your current expenditure to see how your lifestyle would be affected by retirement. Most of us have a finite number of years in which to put aside money for our old age and it is never too soon to start.
Above all, you need to plan early to allow as much time as possible to build your nest egg. Take control of your future – your financial adviser can help you to develop a suitable long term savings strategy for you. The only thing you cannot afford to do is nothing.
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The term “influencer” gets thrown around a lot when it comes to social media marketing. Just about anyone with a reasonable size audience on platforms such as Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Youtube and Pinterest who do some form of paid promotions, product advertising or destination marketing calls themselves an “influencer”. But does having an audience really make someone truly influential? Or is this new form of marketing really just a low cost, high impact method of promotion for brands who have become savvy to the new channels people are consuming content through? Are many of these people really just acting as a paid marketing channel for those brands willing to pay cash for comments, or those willing to hand over money for a few pretty pictures of their product or destinations?
In the world of photography the “influencer” marketplace is highly competitive and cut-throat. Everyone wants to be paid to travel or be sent amazing new products. Who out there wouldn’t love to receive some form of compensation to visit their favourite travel destinations, take a few nice pictures and write a positive story about their experience?
This exact thing is happening the world over right now. People are being paid to travel, use their camera and keyboards and spread a positive message about these experiences. People are being sent products in return for a few posts on their social media accounts or articles on their blog. But again, the question needs to be asked – does that make them influencers or just people being compensated to market something?
Let’s take a look at what real influence actually is and compare that to what really happens in the social media world.
What does “influence” really mean?
The true meaning of “influence” is – the capacity to have an effect on character, development, or behaviour of someone or something, or the effect itself. In other words the act of producing effects on the actions, opinions and behaviour of others. Influential people wield the power to have a positive impact on the way people think, act and perform. Truly influential people are generally leaders in their chosen field and can help shape industries and effect positive change on a large scale. Influential people will also generally act for change outside of any direct financial compensation and use their skills, public image and ideas to inspire others to gain success in whatever they may be hoping to achieve.
Influence vs Advertising
This is where the social media world and the term “influencer” becomes very interesting and somewhat confusing. Advertising can in may ways be considered a form of manipulation. The purpose of advertising in a commercial sense is to introduce people to a brand or service that already exists and to “influence” or sway their way of spending towards that product or service. In the marketing world good advertising will be one of either two things – highly targeted at a specific audience – or cheap enough in terms of outlay and investment to get mass visibility in the hope that the right people will see it.
Social media marketing is highly effective with both of these. There are ways to identify people who produce content in a specific niche market that will hopefully allow a brand message to reach the right people. There are also very successful, low cost campaigns where brands reach out to anyone with a reasonable sized audience and hope that some of them agree to be part of a less targeted, but wider reaching campaign to market their products.
I am a photographer with a social media account. That makes me an influencer.
So you have a camera, you take nice pictures, you have a social media account or two and you have earned a good audience. That must make you an influencer right? Wrong. That makes you a photographer with an audience. What you do with that audience, your skills and the positive impact you have on people who follow you could potentially make you influential. Just having a large following does not instantly mean you are a social media “influencer”. Being paid to travel somewhere and post pretty pictures on your social media account does not instantly make you influential. What those brands who you are working for are doing is using you as a marketing channel and someone who is willing to accept money to deliver a brand message, or are paying you to produce some nice images they can use on their own channels. What you chose to do outside of that paid work, and the positive impact you have on your audience base, your chosen industry or niche market is the only true measure of influence.
A big mistake many people make is assuming that having an audience on one platform makes them a social media “influencer”. Truly influential people build a brand which is not specific to any single social media platform. They are active in their chosen niche outside of the posts they make to Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Snapchat, Youtube or wherever else they may be.
Let me pose this question to you – if as a photographer today you no longer had your Instagram account, what would you do? How would you reach out to your followers or deliver whatever message you chose to deliver? I am guessing that to many people not having their Instagram account anymore would be a massive loss to them. Instagram has become synonymous with the photography industry. Instagram is a great way to market yourself, your clients, and to share your amazing images. But take that away and what does that mean to your overall brand or image? Truly influential people are not reliant on that single marketing channel to deliver their message. They are recognisable outside of that single method of sharing content.
Stop looking at the stats to gauge “influence”
Many people measure their own and other people’s success on the simple numbers and social media statistics which can be measured through any number of online tools. There are many examples in the world of social media of people who have tens or hundreds of thousands of followers who have very low engagement rates. Does that make them less influential than those that get massive amounts of engagement and comments on their posts? What cannot be measured by any single tool is the reach beyond these mainstream social media platforms.
The true “influencers” have turned that audience base into reach far beyond any single social media platform – they most likely have accounts on all of the previously mentioned platforms. Have contacts throughout mainstream media. Have a recognisable brand within their chosen niche publications. Are instantly recognisable as an authority within their chosen field. Have earned the respect of their peers ( respect doesn’t necessarily mean they are liked – being liked and respected are completely different things). Are genuine leaders and trend setters within their markets rather than just copying others. Quite possibly host seminars and workshops helping others to achieve success themselves. And more often than not spend a lot of time outside any paid or sponsored work attempting to have a positive impact on those around them.
True social media influencers will generally be leaders whose methods, content style and business practises are replicated by others hoping to achieve the same level of success. They will be the ones leading the way and at the forefront of new strategies, content styles and be constantly innovating. They will not be looking at other people and worrying about what they think of them or complaining about what other individuals, who are more often as not those that are considered competitors are doing. They think of the bigger picture and help shape entire industries. They help people achieve success and inspire others.
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TMNT comics are hot right now! With issue 100 on the horizon, a new series coming up and this new spin-off the TMNT is set to make 2020 a big year for those green ninjas and IDW! Check out the official release below for the new Jennika comic coming in February!
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SAN DIEGO, CA (November 2019) – The ongoing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book from IDW Publishing (OTC: IDWM) has achieved resounding acclaim from fans and critics alike on the march to its 100th issue. Now, in the aftermath of the cataclysmic “City at War” storyline, the newest addition to the team will step into the spotlight in a three-issue miniseries, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Jennika!!
Written and illustrated by Brahm Revel (Guerillas), who previously shed light on the character’s mysterious origins in IDW’s TMNT Universe series, the miniseries finds Jennika still trying to acclimate to life as a mutant. Drawn into conflict with a never-before-seen villain, she embarks on a journey that forces her to face her troubled past and conflicted present!
“Jennika has always been a fascinating character, and her story is now moving in directions none of us could have ever anticipated,” says Revel. “I’m very excited about the opportunity to revisit Jenn’s past and explore how she’s been handling the recent changes in her life, all while being tested by a world that’s changing just as rapidly as she is.”
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Cathy Dyson writes about King George County.
Landfill director has idea for groups: pick up trash to earn cash
Thomas Cue, the director of the King George Landfill, gets about 20 to 30 requests a month for donations.
He presented a novel idea to the King George Board of Supervisors Tuesday. What if the groups pick up some trash in exchange for the cash?
Chairman Cedell Brooks Jr. wanted to make sure he heard right.
“So the only way you’re gonna get a donation now is you’re gonna have to work on the side of the road?” Brooks asked.
Cue said there will be always be groups, such as Wounded Warriors, that he and his bosses would never say no to, when they sought donations.
“But if the football team wants new helmets, yeah, let’s let them pick up trash,” Cue said.
Cue wanted to see what the supervisors thought of his idea, and members let him know this wasn’t a decision for them to make. They said they’re not responsible for the safety of anyone picking up litter along State Route 3, near the entrance to the landfill.
“But I think what you’re proposing is phenomenal,” said Supervisor Ruby Brabo, noting that Cue should make sure participants sign waivers and have adult supervision.
Supervisor John LoBuglio also liked the approach.
“I think it’s a great way of showing the young people it’s better to put in some work and not just be asking for a donation,” he said.
Cue said he gets requests from high-school groups and dance teams, those involved in music, academic and sports contests as well as from adult groups.
He’s vigilant about keeping the roads around the landfill clean from litter that blows off trucks, so there’s always a need for patrols. He said he’s not obligated to pick up trash on Route 3, but does anyway.
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Women have always been integral to the real estate industry, whether working in management and administrative roles or leading the sales and marketing teams as brokers and agents. Today, we want to introduce 5 Women Trailblazers of the Cayman Islands Real Estate Industry:
- Doris Dettling — First Woman Realtor in the Cayman Islands
- Jeanette Totten — First Woman President of CIREBA
- Carolyn Ritch — Pioneer of Property Management in the Cayman Islands
- Paula McCartney — CIREBA’s Top 5 Producers 2020
- Tracey Kline — Luxury Home Developer Realtor
Currently, women make up 67% of realtors in the United States and it would not be surprising to find women making up the majority of real estate professionals elsewhere in the world. In the Cayman Islands, out of a current roster of 259 agents and brokers, 136 are female – comprising 52% of the country’s realtors.
Interestingly, many of the trailblazing women who continue to shape Cayman’s real estate industry entered the profession as a second career. Some, as we will soon discover, have left behind previous jobs in diverse fields such as hotel catering, medical facilities, paralegal assistance, commercial airlines, and even 911 emergency services, in order to follow a new and exciting career in real estate.
Many of them were also mothers with young children, who wanted to achieve professional satisfaction while at the same time being able to tend to their growing brood.
As more and more women take on leadership positions in Cayman’s real estate industry, we asked some of our top female front-runners to share their personal stories and to provide sound advice for others who aspire to be like them.
One of the pioneers who paved the way for women in real estate in the Caribbean, Doris Dettling has been in the business since 1974 – first in the Bahamas, and then seven years later, in the Cayman Islands where she worked in a real estate company owned by the country’s first national hero, James Manoah Bodden, fondly referred to by Caymanians as “Mr. Jim.”
Originally in the hotel and catering business, Doris relates that she was persuaded to change jobs by real estate agents who used to frequent their restaurants and were in need of someone who spoke several languages to deal with their European clients.
Doris began her real estate career in Freeport, where she came across a German national who wanted to purchase property in the Cayman Islands. After that successful transaction, she decided to stay on and has lived here since 1981.
Having witnessed the transformation of the Caymanian landscape since then, her favorite property remains to be Plantation Village on Seven Mile Beach for its unmatched location.
While she is no longer as active in the industry, Doris remains to be a CIREBA member and continues to transact business through her company, Cayman Realty Specialists. For women who dream of a career in real estate, her advice is simple and straightforward: “Do your homework. Be honest and open. Get to know your clients and understand their needs to make sure you’ll find the property they really want.”
Check out Doris’ favorite Condo on Seven Mile Beach. Built in 1992 and has 70 residences, Plantation Village was the first Time Share in the Cayman Islands.
Jeanette is the first woman President of CIREBA and has been a real estate professional for 45 years. Together with her husband, Robert, Jeanette moved to Cayman in 1982 – just as the country was aggressively pursuing expansions in real estate, construction, and property development.
“I was working as a flight attendant at the time and commuting to Detroit to work every week,” she recalls. “A year after our son was born, I decided that travelling 1,600 miles to start work was too far with a young baby. At that point, I took a year off but then decided that real estate might be a perfect fit as Robert and I had built two homes and remodeled one, so real estate may well be in my blood.”
Not only did Jeanette become an active player in the Cayman real estate industry, she also became one of its most respected leaders. After serving as a CIREBA board member for ten years, Jeanette made history by being elected as CIREBA’s first female president in 2012. Jeanette served in this distinguished position for six terms altogether – having been re-elected in 2013, and then from 2016 to 2020, steering the organization throughout Cayman’s record-breaking real estate boom period.
Having paved the way for women to become leaders of the Cayman real estate industry, Jeanette maintains a guiding principle that is based on solid work ethics and plain, hard work. “You must be self-motivated,” she says. “Real estate deals generally do not come knocking on your door. You must be willing to go out and look for them.”
“Integrity and honesty are traits you must also possess,” she adds. “Always treat other agents, as well as your customers, the way you would like to be treated and you will be successful.”
Currently, her favorite property on the market is The Sovereign, particularly its ground floor unit. “The condo sits on four acres of pristine, landscaped gardens along Seven Mile Beach — something that wouldn’t be financially feasible in this day and age. The ground floor end unit has a fantastic ocean view and allows you to walk straight out to the beach!”
Check out Jeanette’s favorite property for sale on Seven Mile Beach (SMB). The Sovereign was built in 1998 and has the largest ratio of land per villa of any property on SMB.
With over 30 years of experience in Real Estate sales and rentals, Carolyn Ritch is one of the pioneers of Property Management in the Cayman Islands. She has successfully traversed the different aspects of the real estate business, which goes way beyond closing deals.
Like most women in Cayman real estate, entering the industry came about as a career change. While working as an x-ray technician and medical assistant, Carolyn was inspired by one of the patients who happened to be a realtor. “She convinced me that I should try this career option so I did,” she relates. “And I loved it! I still do.”
Carolyn entered the Cayman real estate industry in 1990 and never looked back. She continues to provide strong leadership to her business, Ritch Realty, Ltd., while personally attending to her clients’ every need. She also served as a member of the CIREBA Board of Directors from 2019-2020.
“Real estate is a great career choice for women,” she affirms. “You get to meet all kinds of wonderful people. And it makes you feel happy and inspired to be able to help people list and buy their properties.”
Asked about her favorite property on the market, Carolyn singles out the Twenty 40 in Governor’s Harbour along the Seven-Mile Beach corridor, a new canal-front townhouse which she describes as being in pristine condition (“never been lived in”) and is tastefully furnished with artwork in a modern open plan theme.
Check out Carolyn’s favorite property for sale in West Bay, Grand Cayman. Brand new canal-front townhouse, it is a must-see!
Although she began her fulltime career in real estate in 2005, Paula McCartney points out that she has been in or around the real estate industry all her life. “My parents were developers and real estate investors, so I had been immersed in the business for as long as I can remember.”
Upon moving from Canada to the Cayman Islands in 1980, Paula’s family became actively involved in local property development, including various beach front estates, luxury beachfront condominium projects, apartment complexes, and commercial properties. To enrich her knowledge, Paula worked as an executive legal assistant for 15 years, gaining valuable experience in corporate law, contract law, litigation and estate law, until she eventually set up her own real estate company, Diamond Properties.
Recognized as one of CIREBA’s Top Producers for 2020, Paula says that real estate is “one of the hardest, yet most rewarding careers a hardworking, highly motivated, and focused woman can enjoy.”
“Real estate is where the gender bias ends,” she adds. “It’s all about ability, experience and knowledge. I saw real estate as an opportunity to have some flexibility to share hours between the office and home and cater to our family all while essentially establishing my own income potential. It’s not an easy career – and many people have a mistaken view on all that’s involved – but it can be incredibly rewarding both personally and financially.”
Her favorite property at the moment is the Casa Mare Estate and Gardens on West Bay, which has been described as the “most unique waterfront estate on offer on the Seven Mile Beach corridor.”
Check out Paula’s favorite property for sale, a Luxury Waterfront Estate located in the Seven Mile Beach Corridor. The Estate was built in 2009 and underwent a multi-million redesign, renovation and expansion in 2015.
Tracey Kline ventured in the realm of real estate in 1998, after an initial decade-long career in 911 Emergency Services. As a result, she describes her years as a real estate professional as “a long and enjoyable career that has spanned the distance from the live oak-laden hills of North Central Florida to the aqua hued shores of the Cayman Islands over the course of the past 23 years.”
Growing up in a family that built custom homes, Tracey felt it was natural to make the transition into real estate. “It has been a true pleasure to be in a career where I genuinely am able to do what I love and make positive impacts on buyers’ and sellers’ lives each and every day.”
Her favorite Cayman property at the moment? Fraser Wellon’s spectacular Seven Mile Beach oceanfront residential tower, The Watermark. “The level of service, amenities and contemporary design that they have established is set to exceed our already extraordinary local five-star servicing expectations, and will set a new high bar standard for Cayman luxury condo life in a realm unlike any other in the market today.”
Tracey joined CIREBA in 2013 and is currently specializing in residential sales for Azure Realty Cayman. For someone who basically hit the ground running upon switching careers, her advice to newbie agents is to “chart a course that centers on finding a niche market that interests them and drives their passion, something they can focus their attention to becoming an expert in.”
She also recommends finding a respected and admired established agent to act as a mentor. “Much can be learned from shadowing, observing and interviewing a successful colleague for their words of wisdom and sage advice based upon personal experience. This can help you avoid the potential pitfalls of a newly minted career as a real estate agent.”
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Tobacco Free FAQ
When did Montana State become tobacco-free?
The policy went into effect on August 1, 2012.
Why is MSU tobacco-free?
- The university seeks to provide a clean and healthy environment for all students,
employees and visitors. A tobacco-free campus policy will:
- Protect people from unwanted and involuntary exposure to tobacco and passive smoke;
- Promote cessation and create a supporting environment for those who are trying to quit tobacco;
- Create a cleaner living, learning and working environment.
- According to the CDC, tobacco is the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S., killing an estimated 443,000 Americans annually. Closer to home, 1,400 Montanans are estimated to die each year from smoking; many others die from exposure to secondhand smoke and smokeless tobacco. The CDC estimates that between one third and one half of all smokers will die from their addiction to tobacco.
- Multiple studies affirm that there are no safe levels of exposure to secondhand smoke, including outdoor smoke.
- Campus is the number one location where MSU students are exposed to secondhand smoke:
- 73% of MSU students report being exposed to smoke on campus;
- 21% of MSU students report immediate health problems, such as asthma attacks, headaches, eye irritation, allergic reactions and other health effects;
- Pregnant women, children, people with bronchitis, respiratory problems, asthma, heart conditions and cancer are especially susceptible to passive smoke.
What process was involved in making this decision?
- The process began in 2008 with wide-scale discussions about tobacco prevention and cessation, including consideration of the approximately 270 campuses around the country with tobacco-free policies. Numerous public forums and presentations were made during this time.
- MSU, along with seven other campuses in Montana have been involved in tobacco prevention and policy efforts as part of a state-level coalition, which started in 2005.
- In the Fall of 2010, ASMSU put forth a referendum for a full student vote in March 2011: 61% of students voted in favor of a tobacco-free campus.
- This was followed by a poll of all MSU employees in April 2011: 72% voted in support of the students’ referendum.
- A policy was drafted and posted for public comment in July 2011.
- In October 2011, the University Council voted unanimously in favor of the tobacco-free policy, to go into effect August 2012.
Why does this include smokeless tobacco?
- Smokeless tobacco use at MSU is nearly four times the national average. A tobacco-free
policy sends a consistent health message by not implying that one form of tobacco
is safe. There are no safe forms or levels of tobacco use. The policy promotes and
protects the health of all campus members, users and non-users alike.
- Smokeless tobacco contains at least 28 cancer-causing agents, and the amount of nicotine absorbed from spit tobacco is 3 to 4 times the amount delivered by cigarettes.
- Smokeless tobacco can lead to oral cancers, gum disease and increased nicotine addiction (U.S. Surgeon General). Snuff and Snus have been found to increases the risk of cancer, stroke and fatal cardiovascular disease (The International Agency for Research on Cancer).
- While marketing of cigarettes is on the decline, marketing of smokeless products has risen 400% in the last 20 years (FTC). Marketing of smokeless tobacco products target youth by associating the product with sports and adventure activities, implying that use is part of a healthy lifestyle.
- Tobacco-free policies are now a national standard for college campuses, advocated by major health agencies. MSU will become the sixth campus in Montana to adopt this approach (Montana Tech has been tobacco-free since July 2010; UM’s tobacco-free policy went into effect August 2011).
Are e-cigarettes included?
Yes, the policy prohibits all forms of tobacco and any nicotine delivery device that has not been approved by the FDA for cessation (the FDA has the authority to regulate e-cigarettes as a “tobacco product” under the Tobacco Control Act). National health agencies remain skeptical of the safety of these devices due to a lack of scientific data. Until FDA approval is granted, these will not be allowed on campus, which is consistent with national standards and guidelines.
Isn’t it my right to use tobacco?
Tobacco use is a legal product for adults. However, the university owns campus property and can establish policies that protect the health of all campus members. A tobacco-free policy does not prohibit tobacco use, this merely establishes where use can occur. In addition, Montana law recognizes that an individual’s right to breathe smoke-free air takes priority over an individual’s desire to smoke (MCA 5-40-102).
Does the tobacco-free MSU policy extend to other campus-owned property?
Yes, the policy encompasses all university owned property. Tobacco use will be prohibited in all university owned vehicles as well.
Will there be designated smoking areas on campus?
No. The use of tobacco will be prohibited on all campus grounds. Smoking zones and perimeter policies have not been found to be effective (or enforceable) and smoking shelters are expensive to construct and maintain. Campuses with full tobacco-free policies have reported fewer problems with compliance than policies that include smoking areas.
Will there be a map that shows the exact areas included in the policy?
Yes. This will be developed during the educational phase of policy implementation, which will include the specific boundaries.
What about football games, concerts or other public events?
All events occurring on campus or on campus-property will be covered by the tobacco-free policy. Signage, electronic and printed notices will be provided to visitors at games and events to make sure everyone is clearly informed about the policy.
How will the policy be enforced?
Initially there will be an emphasis on education as the campus and community adapt to the policy. Violators will receive a friendly reminder, along with cessation information. Repeat or problem violations will be handled like any other conduct issue on campus: either through the Dean of Student’s office or the employee’s department.
A recent study of tobacco-free campuses found that most campus members respect the policy once they are informed. Serious enforcement problems are infrequent and are managed by campus officials.
What should I do if I see someone using tobacco on campus?
The policy will best be enforced by everyone taking an active role in informing people that a tobacco-free policy is in effect. A large majority of MSU students and employees support a tobacco-free environment, so it is appropriate for you to speak up.
If you notice an area where people are consistently violating the policy, you can report this to the MSU Tobacco-free Task Force by writing to firstname.lastname@example.org.
How should I respond if someone gets angry or aggressive?
Do not continue to speak to anyone who becomes angry or confrontational. Walk away and report the behavior to University Police.
What about ceremonial use of tobacco?
Specific American Indian ceremonial activities are protected by the American Indian Religious Freedom Act. Use must be approved in advance by campus administration or designee.
How can I quit (or help someone I know quit)?
Tobacco-free policies have been shown to encourage people to quit. These policies also support those who are trying to quit. Free quit-kits are available in the Health Promotion office (second floor of the Student Health Service).
The Montana Quitline 1-800-QUIT-NOW (1-800-784-8669) provides individual coaching and free or low-cost cessation support, including nicotine replacement therapies and prescription drugs.
For more information on campus and community cessation support, visit www.montana.edu/health/tobaccofree.
I am interested in helping with tobacco-free efforts on campus. Who should I contact?
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CUBABALL has partnered with C.A.P’S TOURS to offer a unique experience to baseball fanatics and lovers. An opportunity to experience Cuba through it’s national game – Baseball. You’ll see Cuban National Series games in different cities and you’ll have the unique opportunity to meet players and managers, some who made history, both in Cuba and in the USA, before and after 1959; and much more.
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So, it was cold this morning in Boston. I was greeted for my first run since last Sunday’s marathon with 30 degree temperatures. The last time I ran, I had on shorts and a tank top with some arm warmers. Today I had on tights, shorts, and a long-sleeve thermal running top. Oh, and a hat and gloves as well. It was actually a very refreshing run. It was also a reminder of what the winter will bring for those of us that train outside in New England or other parts of the country that are cold.
I took 5 days off after the marathon and did nothing. No running, no biking, no gym visits, nothing. Today’s run felt really good. I didn’t worry about pace during my 4 mile run. I was just focused on…running. It was great. I definitely did some more stretching than normal before and after the run. My massage therapist said I need to work on my hip flexors, so I am trying to make sure I give them some stretching time prior to running.
This week marked the shortest reovery time after a marathon that I have ever had, so I guess I had really good training going into Chicago. I was actually really anxious to run this morning and it felt good to get back out there.
Hockey starts in about a week or so, and I am looking forward to using ice time as my cross-training. I will also pick up again with coaching youth hockey next weekend. I am really looking forward to that as well.
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Topped with a classic flaky pie crust, one bite of these Mini Chai Spiced Pear Pies and it’s like fall appeared in your kitchen.
Confession, I love tiny desserts. Who can resist a cute, sweet, little treat that makes you feel like it’s better for you because it’s smaller than its regular-sized counterpart? I also share a strong fondness for all things cast iron. My family has been cooking on cast iron since the days they migrated to America as sheepherders in the 1880s, and these trusty kitchen companions have always held a special place in my heart. So, it makes perfect sense to combine those loves into these tasty Mini Chai Spiced Pear Pies.
We are also commercial pear growers, so this tasty treat is a perfect trifecta in my books! A mini dessert, cooked in cast iron and made with pear. If you love pears as much as I do, be sure to check out my other delicious pear recipes: Pear Pecan Muffins with Oat Pecan Crumble, Bourbon Pear Pie with Oat Pecan Crumble and Browned Butter Spiced Pear Bundt Cake with Apple Cider Glaze.
I started with ripe, but firm, pears and immersed them in chai-inspired spices, including a pinch of black pepper that gives these mini pies a little kick. Topped with a classic flaky pie crust, one bite of these Mini Chai Spiced Pear Pies and it’s like fall appeared in your kitchen.
If you're like me and love fall baking, be sure to check out my other fall desserts.
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Mini Chai Spiced Pear Pies
Topped with a classic flaky pie crust, one bite of these Mini Chai-Spiced Pear Pies and it’s like fall appeared in your kitchen.
- Prep Time: 20
- Cook Time: 35
- Total Time: 55 minutes
- Yield: 5 1x
- Category: Desserts
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
- 1 Pie Crust Recipe
- 8 cups pears peeled, cored, and diced (6-7 firm, but ripe pears)
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- ¼ cup all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground cardamom
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon ground ginger
- ⅛ teaspoon ground cloves
- ⅛ teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 large egg, lightly beaten for egg wash
- Coarse sugar for sprinkling
- Prepare pie crust recipe through step 4. Instead of cutting the dough in half, form dough into one big disc, wrap tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes or up to 3 days.
- Preheat oven to 375°F
- In a large bowl, stir the pears, lemon juice, flour, cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg, ginger, cloves, black pepper, sugar, and vanilla extract together until thoroughly combined. Set aside for 20 minutes to allow the mixture to macerate.
- Next, evenly divide the pear filling mixture among the 3.5" mini cast iron skillets.
- Roll out chilled pie dough disc on a lightly floured work surface until dough is about ⅛” thick. Using a mini cast iron skillet as a guide, lightly place the skillet upside down on the dough and cut around it with a paring knife so that each dough circle is about ½ inch larger than the mini skillet. Repeat until you have 5 dough discs.
- Carefully lay the dough over the filling, tuck the ½ inch of dough under itself, creating a clean edge flush with the top of the mini cast iron skillet and crimp edges. Cut slits in the top of the crust to form steam vents.
- Place the pies in the freezer for about 15 minutes before baking. This will help ensure that your crust holds its shape in the oven.
- Take the pies out of the freezer, brush with egg wash and sprinkle lightly with sugar. Place skillets onto a cookie sheet for baking and into the oven for 35-40 minutes, until the crust is golden brown and the filling bubbles.
- Allow the pies to cool for 3 hours at room temperature before serving. This time allows the filling to thicken up. Cover pie leftovers tightly and store in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
After the first 20 minutes of bake time, I loosely place foil around the edges of the pie to create a pie shield and to prevent the edges from browning too quickly.
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Thursdays horse racing tips – 1st.
Bet to win.
Southwell 1.30 Something Lucky – win bet.
Southwell 2.40 Ray Purchase – win bet.
Kempton 7.0 Pulsating – win bet.
Kempton 8.30 Western Way – win bet.
There were no selections Tuesday 31st January.
37 actual runners.
27% strike rate.
1 unseated runner, plus two non runners.
Good start to the month and took my own betting bank to a new high but after the 11th it all went downhill for some reason until the last few days which went back to normal.
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The SSE Scottish Senior Open will return to the stunning Fairmont St Andrews for the sixth consecutive year from August 15-17, when Santiago Luna will defend the title he claimed in dramatic circumstances.
The sublime Torrance Championship Course has played host to some breath-taking action and great champions since the SSE Scottish Senior Open first moved to the coastal venue outside the town of St Andrews, often referred to as the ‘Home of Golf’.
Sam Torrance himself came close to claiming the title for a second time last year, over the course he designed, but narrowly missed out to Spaniard Luna, who earned his maiden Senior Tour title 15 years after he defeated Tiger Woods at the Home of Golf during the Dunhill Cup.
The lead exchanged hands several times during the final day last August before the rookie from Madrid claimed a one-shot victory over former Ryder Cup Captain Torrance and Irishman Denis O’Sullivan.
It was a thrilling finish worthy of one of the Senior Tour’s longest-running and most prestigious events, one which Englishman Barry Lane won back to back in 2010 and 2011, before Anders Forsbrand created history by lifting the trophy in 2012, becoming the Tour’s first Swedish winner.
This year’s will be the 22nd edition of the SSE Scottish Senior Open, which was first won by England’s Tommy Horton in 1993. He claimed the title for a second time in 1997 while Neil Coles, Bill Longmuir and José Rivero have all added their names to the prestigious roll of honour.
Rookies on the Senior Tour this year include Ronan Rafferty, the 1989 European Tour Number One who was twice a member of the winning Irish team in the Alfred Dunhill Cup at the nearby St Andrews Old Course, as well as Miguel Angel Jiménez, also a two-time Alfred Dunhill Cup winner with Spain, and Switzerland’s André Bossert.
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Food City itself may be a regional chain of businesses located in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia, but the name is recognized worldwide. Originating in 1918 in Greeneville, TN, under its parent company, K-VA-T Food Stores, the firm has grown to include other big named stores such as Winn Dixie, BI-LO, and Piggly Wiggly.
Although it might have started with humble beginnings, the establishment was acquired by K-VA-T Food Stores in 1984 when K-VA-T purchased Quality Foods. At the time, Quality Foods was a 19-store chain operating under the same name. The family and stockholders of K-VA-T Food Stores adopted this as their new brand and used it for future stores as well.
The corporation has also expanded to include other national marketing trends, and have branched out to include pharmacies and fuel stations within their family of businesses. This expansion has allowed the firm to reach an astonishing operation of 105 retail food stores, 78 pharmacies which are located within the store(s), and 81 fuel stations.
With such a diverse background, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed when applying for any career or working in this industry. However, it’s incredibly simple to apply for the many job opportunities available within the company, and interested potential employees can utilize the search engine on the Food City careers web page in order to find out which locations are hiring, and further information on benefits and employment.
At any time you may fill out a Food City application via direct application to your local facility or by using the online application to apply for employment with the corporation.
Food City Careers
Due to the diversity that exists in such an expansive organization, please review each job description for the positions in which you are particularly interested before filling out a Food City job application online. The minimum age for employment is 16 years old, although certain positions may require certifications or licenses or for the employee to be of at least 18 years of age. Please visit Food City jobs online to gain more detailed knowledge about available opportunities and their requirements.
Average wages/salaries are usually dependent upon the position itself, as well as the experience, education, skill level, and location of associates. However, the firm offers a wide range of competitive benefit packages, to include a profit-sharing plan for its employees. Current numbers indicate associates own about 14% of the enterprise. Flexible hours and on-the-job training programs are very important to many people and are two benefits of being an employee. Eligible workers also have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, and paid vacation time.
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Not only does the firm cater to its customers by supporting the local economy through partnerships with local farmers, it is also very involved in community-oriented efforts, as well as sponsoring NASCAR with Family Race Night events, and two of the sport’s most popular races at Bristol Motor Speedway, the 500 and 300 races.
Other charitable activities include Apples for the Students program where students collect receipts in exchange for much needed materials for local schools. They also support local animal shelters by taking donations of supplies, and hold annual fundraising events to raise money and awareness for cancer research, juvenile diabetes, and the homeless and financially unstable members of the community.
Annual events include donations and contributions the entire month of April for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, and beginning in August of each year, stores raise money to provide meals for the less fortunate at Thanksgiving. This fundraiser is their Race Against Hunger.
The Appalachia Santa Train is another big event supported each year along with CSX Transportation and the Kingsport Area Chamber of Commerce. The mission of this program is to distribute candy, clothes, money, and toys to needy children living in the Appalachian Mountains. NASCAR isn’t the only sporting event supported by the company, as over the years they have raised proceeds for various charities through golf tournaments, football games, and fishing tournaments.
Food City Job Descriptions
Although the responsibilities and salary are generally based on education, experience, and location, there are careers available for every level. Jobs exist in many areas you may find surprising. Food City jobs aren’t just about its retail stores. Employment exists in all areas within the production cycle.
Don’t let the fact that this has been a family owned business since 1918. The firm has been vigilant keeping up with the times and with its customers. Positions exist for every stage of the food production and sales chain. Working with local farmers and manufacturers is only the beginning. People like you are what gets the food from the farmer, to the distribution center, then to the neighborhood store, to the customer’s table. Positions exist in every facet of this chain.
For instance, job descriptions for the General Warehouses include loading and unloading trucks, as a forklift operator, order selector, stocker, doing housekeeping, or as a vending assistant. The Distribution Center is located in Chandler, AZ. It is a state-of-the-art center encompassing over 16 acres (all under roof) and operating 24 hours a day.
Mechanics and maintenance are needed to maintain the trucks that carry the merchandise from distribution points to the retail locations or other storage facilities. Maintenance is also needed within the stores themselves. Office / Administrative jobs exist at every level, from Marketing, Store Operations, Finance, and Human Resources, to Information Technology Services, Loss Prevention, and Real Estate Research and Development.
Retail stores require cashiers, managers, customer service personnel, computer room operators, and fuel clerks. Work is available in produce, seafood, the meat department, bakery, the floral department, and more. Because individual stores are responsible for their own hiring, in person is the preferred method for applicants seeking employment. You may always apply online as well, but may benefit more by going directly to your local store. Retail associates are often expected to be available to work afternoons, evenings, and weekends.
Also an important part in the jobs chain are its pharmacies as they are in need of pharmacists, technicians, and managers. As there are over 78 pharmacies located inside various retail locations, applicants may apply online or in person at their local facility.
Although the firm is headquartered in Abingdon, VA, those seeking Corporate-level careers should look for information in Chandler, AZ where the Corporate Headquarters lists available positions. Positions not filled from within are posted in The Arizona Republic’s Sunday classified section. Applicants are also encouraged to send in a resume to be kept on file should a job opportunity present itself.
The firm prides itself on its friendly, customer service-oriented employees. If you feel you would work well in any of these environments, and with such diverse opportunities available, you may be questioning how to apply for online. To apply for Food City careers, you may fill out an online application, or for direct application at your local store or warehouse. When applying in person, please bring a copy of your most recent resume.
Food City Interview
K-VA-T prides itself on its community environment, and its interview process is no different. Applicants are encouraged to dress in business-casual, although those seeking management positions may want to interview in more formal attire.
The process usually begins with the interviewer wanting to get to know you before getting into more detailed information about the job in which you are interested and your work ethic. You will most likely be asked about your work history and availability, and you are encouraged to ask questions as well, such as pay and benefit discussions.
It is beneficial to the interviewee to speak with confidence and don’t be afraid to let your interviewer know how you could be an asset to the company. Most of all, relax. Enthusiasm and passion are greatly appreciated in the customer service industry, but so is comfort. Pride in yourself and in the company speaks volumes, especially with what is considered to be a family owned and operated store.
Advice For Application process
Again, the application process is very intuitive. From the website, those interested in becoming associates do well in applying online with the free application. You are encouraged to visit the link(s) below for finding out more information on any questions you may have.
The Career web page contains links for Corporate, In-store, or opportunities available at the Distribution Center and the Misty Mountain Spring Water facilities. You may also just click the button APPLY ONLINE in order to view all available part-time and full-time opportunities in locations near you, or to view all open jobs held by the firm and to fill out an application.
All applicants are requested to be prepared to provide any requested documentation. This often includes your social security number and/or driver’s license for identification purposes. Applicants should also expect to provide their work history, as well as any professional and personal references.
To apply for jobs at Food City, you may apply online or go in to your neighborhood store to apply locally. A printable application for Food City is currently not available online. If you are linked with an open position, you will be contacted for an interview as soon as possible.
Competitors of K-VA-T Food Stores include the regional grocery stores of Ingles, Food Lion, and ShopRite. One of the many ways K-VA-T has chosen to stand out from other grocers is in the fact that the business remains customer oriented, partnering with local farmers to bring regionally-grown produce and eggs to satisfy its customers, as well as supporting the local economy. Further endearing them to their patrons is that K-VA-T bring into their stores popular local brand names.
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Wednesday’s girls soccer: Elkhart Central falls to South Bend St. Joseph
A four-goal game by Sammy Kambol Wednesday, Sept. 11, led South Bend St. Joseph to a 9-0 girls soccer win against Elkhart Central.
SB St. Joseph 9, Central 1
SJ — Sammy Kambol (unassisted) 2nd minute.
SJ — Madison Turner (unassisted) 8th.
C — Brittany Vanderhoek (unassisted) 13th.
SJ — Kambol (Turner assist) 19th.
SJ — Kambol (unassisted) 23th.
SJ — Amanda Hastings (Cassidy Conn) 45th.
SJ — Turner (unassisted) 49th.
SJ — Kambol (unassisted) 54th.
SJ — Sierra Kennelly (unassisted) 57th.
SJ — Turner (unassisted) 62nd.
Shots: St. Joseph 24, Central 5. Saves: St. Joseph — Katherine Edmonds 4; Central — Rebekka Ponce 9. Corners: St. Joseph 2, Central 1.
Record: Central 2-5 (2-2 NIC).
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TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) LPGA and tournament officials say the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic will take a year off in 2011 before returning for at least three more years.
LPGA commissioner Michael Whan made the announcement at a dinner Tuesday night in Toledo, Ohio, before this year's Farr Classic.
Whan says the tournament will take the hiatus because its organizers will be running the U.S. Senior Open in Toledo in July 2011. They had concerns about whether it would be economically viable to stage two major golf events in the area around the same time.
The commissioner says the LPGA has signed a deal to continue the Farr Classic in 2012, 2013 and 2014.
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Mar 19, - Specialized cycling shoes usually use cleats on the bottom of the shoes, SPD cleats are the most common type you're likely to see in classes.
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For road shoes, purchase a glove-like fit. The shoes should be snug with just enough room up front to wiggle your toes.
The foot should be held tightly inside the shoe and clip on cycle shoes not be able to slide forward and back. And your heel should clip on cycle shoes snug and not have shoee tendency to lift. For mountain-biking shoes, the fit is similar except that you may walk in these shoes a lot. So, leave a little more room in the front of the shoe. Consider extra cleats. Shles are included with the pedals, not the shoes.
If you want to set up several pairs of shoes for use with one set of pedals, purchase cleats separately. Consider extra pedals, too! Getting Used To Riding Clipless The most important thing is practicing before hitting the road or trail.
This is especially important if you started with toe clips and straps, clip on cycle shoes require a different foot motion to get your feet out.
Even better, if you have an indoor trainer, mount your bike on it and practice in place. Click your right foot into the right pedal and remove it 30 or 40 times, and repeat with your left.
It should begin clip on cycle shoes feel natural and easy.
Keep clicking and releasing until you've really got it down. The trickiest thing the first couple of times is remembering to clipp your heels to get out instead of pulling back the toe-clip motion.
As long as you keep the correct motion in mind you'll get your feet out just fine. If you're worried about it, plan your clip on cycle shoes test loop to end by a telephone pole you can hang onto for insurance. If you're still having trouble getting in and out of the pedals, practice clip on cycle shoes more while standing next to the bike.
There might also be something making it harder to kids bike shoes out of the pedals, such as a too-tight adjustment or a misaligned cleat.
If that's the case, be sure to bring velcro tennis shoes bike and shoes in so we can have have a look, solve any problems and get you going. Glossary of Clipless Pedal and Shoe Terms cadence The speed you pedal measured in pedal revolutions per minute per leg. Experienced clip on cycle shoes strive to maintain about 70 to 90rpm.
Some pedal makers offer two cleats, one is fixed, the other offers float. Shop Road Clip-in Pedals at Wiggle. This system uses a smaller metal cleat, sohes attaches to the cycling shoe with two bolts.
The clip-in mechanism on the pedal is on both sides; making it easier to clip-in. As these cleats are smaller, they can be recessed into the tread of some shoes, sjoes it easier to walk around when off the bike.
Shop Two-bolt Pedals at Wiggle. Shimano does make a cleat adapter platethough we would recommend using the correct cleats for your cycling shoes' sole. Speedplay road pedals clip on cycle shoes a four bolt system for their cleats; but this is not mens italian road cycling shoes an issue, as their pedals and cleats come with adaptors for most three bolt clip on cycle shoes.
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Cycling shoes stretch very little xycle time, clip on cycle shoes be certain the shoe feels good when first trying it on. Stand in the shoes. You should have no more than one-half inch of space from your big toe to the tip of the shoe. Your toes should not press against the front of the shoe, but you shouldn't be able to freely wiggle your toes, either.
Walk a short distance in the shoes. Although the heel should feel fitted to your foot, the shoe will move slightly at the heel. What you don't want is a shoe that feels as if it is slipping clip on cycle shoes on your foot, which can lead to blisters.
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Binge Your Own
Tuesday, 4th September 2012
So there are Olympic Medals to celebrate and it’s summertime and, hey, you’ve got to let yourself go when you’re on holiday. It’s never too difficult to find an excuse to down the odd pint… or twenty.
But here’s a money-saving tip: if you’re going out for the evening with a young lady in any British provincial city, don’t bother to buy her dinner, you’ll only see it again, hitting your shoes with such force that you’ll be picking carrot out of the seams for weeks. I speak from experience. Because, between the ingesting and the expulsion, imbibing to excess is almost obligatory.
Blotto, stinking, caned, sloshed, smashed, sozzled, pissed; we’ve almost as many words for getting drunk as we do for rain. And we don’t like to merely get a little squiffy or merry or take the edge off; we have to down it, chuggalugga, set ‘em up. According to Andrew McNeill, of the Institute of Alcohol Studies, “among 18 to 24-year-olds, only one in four women and one in six men say they never binge drink… in fact among 20-something women, 60% of the alcohol consumed is in bouts of heavy drinking – more than six units a day.”
But why do we drink so much when all our Police Reality TV shows demonstrate endless scenes of northern lasses with their heads between their knees and urine soaked war memorials? Why do we handle our alcohol with all the subtlety of a ‘Glasgow kiss’?
Happily, answers abound. Just ask anybody on a bender. They’re not hard to find. They’ll not only tell you the answer, but buy them another pint and they’ll fight you for it. Every drinker has a binge theory, or excuse, if you prefer, and they’ll tell you endlessly, if you dare to ask.
Why binge? What have ya got? Dead end jobs, a mortgage-chasing culture, economic meltdown, double dip recession, work strictures, study strictures, dole strictures, relationship troubles, seasonal affective disorders (SAD), social pressures, coping strategies… but, sober and honest, who wouldn’t admit that it helps us deal with that most British disease: inhibition.
We’re just not American enough. American TV and movies surround us. It seems Americans open their mouths and great one-liners or emotionally honest truisms just stream out. Americans speak without fear of saying the wrong thing or being judged foolish. They apparently don’t stumble in terror at the thought of opening their hearts or talking about their emotions. We aspire to be like that and that’s what we think we become when we’re drunk: American. Not bad going for a nation founded by Puritan teetotalers who couldn’t handle their drink and sailed off to set up a new world not cursed by the carousing of godless drunken mayhem.
Maybe, afflicted with inhibition, we don’t drink to forget then, but to remember. To remember the thugs we naturally are, the warrior peoples who built an empire long before we tied it in red tape and polite behaviour to quell our natural urge to violence within and prove ourselves the moral superiors to the natives we vanquished. As anybody who’s been to a football match knows, when we lose our inhibitions, we fight.
The Royal Navy is perhaps the only military service in the world in which a daily tot of rum is still obligatory for ratings. Trafalgar was won as much on bloody-minded alcoholic bravado as the cunning tactics of a hardy, one-eyed Admiral. Drink for the British doesn’t anaesthetise, it vitalizes: it is our aqua vita!
Could the late Victorian and early Edwardian Teetotal movements have been the first nails in the coffin of empire? Drinking might make us less civilized but maybe it makes us more human. The binge is extreme drinking and extremes are what we inhibit when we’re sober. So one drink would seem, inevitably, to lead to the next and so on – more literally than figuratively – ad nauseum. As long as we’re drinking to lessen our inhibitions, we’ll be picking the diced carrot out of our seams.
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A lobectomy is the surgical removal of a lobe of an organ. It most often refers to the removal of a section of the lung. The right lung has three lobes — upper, middle and lower — and the left lung has two lobes — upper and lower.
A lobectomy is the most common way to treat lung cancer. It is often performed to remove cancerous tissue on any one of the lobes to prevent the spread of the cancer. Lobectomy is also done to treat fungal infections, benign tumours, emphysema, lung abscesses and tuberculosis.
- A lobectomy is performed under general anesthesia.
- In the case of a traditional lobectomy, the surgeon performs a thoracotomy by making a large incision in the chest. Then a space is created between the ribs to remove the lobe.
- An alternative to a traditional thoracotomy is video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS), which is less invasive and boasts of shorter recovery time.
- During this procedure, the surgeon will make four small incisions around the surgical area to insert a small camera and surgical tools.
- The problematic lobe is cut and removed through these small incisions.
- The incisions are closed.
After the surgery, you will be taught deep breathing and coughing exercises so that the lungs can learn to expand and contract again. This will improve your breathing and help to prevent pneumonia and other infections. Be sure to avoid smoking, chemical fumes, environmental pollution and exposure to people with respiratory infections.
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Originally Posted by drokmed
I'm not sure if I'm allowed to say this here (I apologize to the admins if I am in the wrong). I'd suggest you post this particular problem in the CentOS forums. This problem has probably already been addressed there.
welcome , thanks for your advice I will check them out
Originally Posted by Feeyo
You probably did not install your kernel correctly.
what is exactly the error you get on screen when booting the new kernel?
Usaly if there is some sort of kernel bug in your current running official dist kernel then they will supply a update for it as soon as possible.
First I install the kernel following these steps :
- downloading the latest kernel 184.108.40.206 from kernel.org in /usr/src/ directory
- extract the tarball and go to the created dir
- coping the old configuration to the current dir ( new kernel dir )
- exucting : make clean && make prepare
- exucting : make menuconfig
- loading the oldconfiguration
- setting a name for version ( -wahb )
- save and exit
- run make rpm
- run rpm -ivh /path/to/kernel.rpm
- edit menu config
- reboot server shutdown -r now
any problems ?
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Molfetta (ZIP 70056) is 34 kilometers far from the town of Bari, that is the Chief Town of the homonymous province to whom Molfetta belongs.
Molfetta has a population of 60.433 abitanti ( Molfettesi ) and a surface of 58,97 square kilometers thus showing a population density of 1.072,83 inhabitants per square kilometer. It rises 15 metres above the sea level.
The City Hall is located in Via Carnicella 6, phone 080 3359201, fax 080 3359201. The e-mail address is email@example.com.
Population: The town of Molfetta had a population of 62.546 accordingly to the results of the national census made in 2001.
After the national census made in 2001 the population was 60.433 inhabitants, thus showing during the years 2001 - 2011 a percentual variation of -3,38% inhabitants.
The inhabitants are distributed in 21.859 families with an average of 2,86 people per family.
The place: The territory of the municipality lies between 0 and 146 metres above sea level. The altimetric spawn is thus of 146 metres.
Work and workers: There are 191 industrial firms employing 891 people that are the 12,09% of the total of the workers. There are 1.073 service firms employing 1.790 people, that are the 24,29% of the total of the workers. There are 1.217 other service firms employing 2.752 people, that are the 37,35% of the total of the workers. There are also 153 administrative offices employing 1.936 people, that are the 26,27% of the total of the workers.
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TP Link AC2300 vs AC2600: When it comes to wireless routers, the TP-Link AC2300 and AC2600 are both excellent choices. But which is the superior model? Our goal in writing this TP-Link AC2300 vs AC2600 comparison review is to determine which device offers the best overall value.
TP Link AC2300 vs AC2600 – Quick Comparison Summary
On the TP Link AC2300, there are four fixed high-performance antennas (both external and internal) that work well. On the TP Link AC2600, there are four detachable antennas that work well.
The TP-Link AC2600 smart Wifi Router is a hugely popular smart Wifi router on Amazon.com. In comparison to the TP Link AC2300.
The TP Link AC2300 is a three-in-one solution that includes Wi-Fi, antivirus, and parental controls. On the other hand, the TP-Link AC2600 does not have any of these options.
The TP Link AC2600 is less expensive.
The TP Link AC2300 WiFi has a maximum speed of 1733 Mbps at 5 GHz and 600 Mbps at 2.4 GHz.
However, the TP Link C2600 WiFi speed is up to 1733 mbps at 5GHz and up to 800 mbps at 2.4GHz.
The TP Link AC2300 includes the option to update and control via your phone, while the AC2600 has the controller types of Vera, Voice (Alexa), and Control as its controller types.
The TP Link AC2600 features four Gigabit Ethernet ports and two USB 3.0 ports, whereas the TP Link AC2300 has four Gigabit Ethernet ports and one USB 3.0 port.
TP Link AC2300
TP Link AC2600
Cable Internet Plan Speed Compatibility
5 GHz: 1733 Mbps
5GHz Band: Up to 1733Mbps
4× Fixed High-Performance Antennas (External and Internal)
4 Detachable antennas
1× Gigabit WAN Port
1× Gigabit WAN Port
1× USB 3.0 Port
2 USB 3.0 Ports
Control from Your Phone
Vera, Voice Control
Item Dimensions LxWxH
6.46 x 8.51 x 1.46 inches
8.5 x 6.46 x 1.45 inches
What is the difference between the A2300 and the C2300?
Is this something that would work in a two-story, 2,200-square-foot home?
The strength of the wireless signal
Is it possible to use this router without the removable antennas?
Which is a better buy: the TP-Link ac1900 or the TP-Link ac2600, and why?(I'm not too knowledgeable about routers.)
Is it possible to rename linked devices?
Is it possible to link this router to another wireless router and use it as a sort of extender? And if so, how would I go about doing it?
What forms of wifi security are supported by this router?
Amazon.com Description: TP Link AC2300 vs AC2600
About this item – TP-Link AC2300 Wifi Router
Wi-Fi airtime allocation that is efficient. To increase Wi-Fi speed and reliability without restricting your network, Fairness spreads attention evenly between newer and older devices.
Link Aggregation combines two of the four Gigabit LAN ports so that connection speeds go up from one gap per second to two gaps per second.
Without paying for a VPN membership, Vonn Server set up a personal VPN server with an open client to surf the web and access files.
Make use of AP mode. Switch the router to AP mode to get faster Wi-Fi without having to replace your router or sip gateway.
The Wi-Fi range is extensive. Boost enhances the router’s capacity to identify and receive Wi-Fi signals from farther-away devices. Beamforming pinpoints Wi-Fi devices and directs the router’s wireless signal in their direction.
Wi-Fi that is more responsive You can watch 4K video and play online games at the same time with the extremely fast 802.11AC Wave 2 MU MIMO Wi Fi.System Prerequisites Internet Explorer 11, Firefox 12.0, Chrome 20.0, Safari 4.0, or any other Java-enabled browser, Cable or DSL Modem, Microsoft Windows 98SE, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, or Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, MAC OS, NetWare, UNIX, or Linux,Internet Explorer 11, Firefox 12.0, Chrome 20.0, Safari 4.0, or another Java-enabled browser; Microsoft Windows 98SE, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, or Windows 7, 8, 8.1; and an Internet Service Provider (ISP) subscription (for Internet access).
Powerful Leading-edge 1.8 GHz dual-core processor Smoother performance and strong multitasking thanks to a 1.8GHz twin-core 64-bit CPU with two co-processors and a stream processing architecture.
About this item – TP-Link AC2600 Smart WiFi Router (Archer A10) – MU-MIMO, Dual Band Wireless Router, Gigabit Ethernet Ports, Long Range Coverage, VPN Server
- Use an open and PPTP VPN server to connect to your home network over the Internet in a secure manner.
- The Extreme High-speed Wireless Internet Router has dual band Wi-Fi speeds of 1733 Mbps on 5 GHz and 800 Mbps on 2.4 GHz. TP Link AC2300 vs AC2600
- Maximum range: For amplified wireless networks, there are three exterior antennas and one interior antenna. Beamforming is a technique for directing signals to linked devices.
- JD Power Award for Wireless Routers 2017 and 2018: JD Power Award for Wireless Routers 2017 and 2018:
Setup is simple. Fast and intuitive phone UI for speedy network setup in minutes.
- For optimal throughput, use MU-MIMO with Smart Connect and Airtime Fairness.
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French startup Ornikar is raising a $40 million Series B round (€35 million) from Idinvest and Bpifrance. The company competes with traditional driving schools in Europe with an online marketplace of students and teachers.
And Ornikar has been a massive success in France. Overall, 35 percent of driving school registrations in 2019 are handled by Ornikar.
There are many advantages in choosing Ornikar. For driver students, Ornikar is much more flexible than a traditional driving school. Driving schools in France are usually pretty small with only a handful of employees. It’s sometimes hard to book lessons, especially if you have a full-time work.
When you sign up to Ornikar, you can connect to your Ornikar account and book an hour or two from there. Ornikar works with a pool of 650 instructors so that you get to study at your own pace.
Ornikar is also cheaper than a traditional driving school. By automating the administration work as much as possible, the startup says that it is 35 percent cheaper than a traditional driving school. It currently costs €750 for 20 hours of lessons.
“We’ve been profitable in 2018 and very profitable in 2019 for the French market,” Ornikar co-founder and CEO Benjamin Gaignault told me.
Here are some numbers. Every month, 30,000 people sign up to Ornikar in France. The startup manages 70,000 hours of lessons per month on its marketplace.
Ornikar works with qualified instructors who got a license to work in a driving school. They get paid €15 per hour, which is theoretically more than in a normal driving school.
With today’s funding round, the startup wants to expand to more countries. Ornikar is already live in Germany and Spain, but the company wants to grow the product there. Eventually, the company will also expand to Italy and the U.K.
In addition to new countries, Ornikar wants to sell other car-related products. The company is partnering with third-party companies for car insurance products, and there will be more products down the road.
Ornikar had previously raised an $11.3 million Series A (€10 million) and a $1.3 million seed round (€1 million). Existing investors include Brighteye, Partech, Elaia, Xavier Niel, Jacques-Antoine Granjon and Marc Simoncini. | <urn:uuid:f545a9e9-6735-41cc-8927-8414199028a5> | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/27/ornikar-raises-40-million-for-its-driving-school-marketplace/?utm_source=gunlukbulten.com&utm_medium=referral | 2021-05-10T09:22:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243989115.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20210510064318-20210510094318-00203.warc.gz | en | 0.961236 | 513 |
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Emerson adds stainless steel transmitter housing to its vortex flowmeter family
Emerson Process Management announces the expansion of its Rosemount® 8800D Series of Vortex flowmeters to include stainless steel transmitter housings, which are often required for applications in corrosive environments. This new stainless steel housing increases the reliability and longevity of the transmitter in these environments, greatly reducing the overall cost of ownership.
The non-clogging, no gasket design of the Rosemount flowmeters are valued by industries such as offshore oil and gas and other marine applications. The corrosive environments caused by saltwater and salt in the air make these industries good candidates for stainless steel transmitter housings. In addition, numerous chemical processes and clean-in-place solutions found in food, beverage and life science applications can result in corrosion and premature failure.
The stainless steel transmitter housing is available on the broad range of Rosemount Vortex flowmeters, including wafer and flanged meters, dual sensor and ReducerTM Vortex flowmeters.
Rosemount 8800D flowmeters are part of Emerson’s broad range of intelligent, digital field devices that power the PlantWeb® architecture. Further cost savings, increased plant availability, and enhanced safety and environmental compliance are achieved when the transmitters are integrated into the PlantWeb digital plant architecture.
Emerson Process Management www.emersonprocess.com
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Finally upgrading to Windows 7—should I go 32- or 64-bit?
Short answer: 64-bit.
Long answer: 64-bit, but you may not see much real difference. Before explaining why, there is an important contraindication to be aware of: if you use any 16-bit Windows applications or DOS applications, you'll have to either stick with 32-bit Windows, or run those applications in a virtual machine (or, for DOS programs, an environment such as DOSBox). 64-bit Windows supports 64-bit and 32-bit applications, but 16-bit ones are consigned to the trash can of history.
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Aboriginal warriors saved Canada from U.S. annexation during the War of 1812, Prime Minister Stephen Harper told a gathering of native communities at Rideau Hall on Thursday. The conflict was one of Canada’s few uncontroversial wars, as it pitted anglophone, francophone and aboriginal against a common enemy. But the war’s aboriginal component is a touchy subject in First Nations circles as it marked a civil war between U.S. and Canadian Iroquois, and signaled the beginning of the end for their traditional way of life. Here is how Mr. Harper framed the war Thursday, excerpted from transcripts released by the Prime Minister’s Office:
During the War of 1812, First Nations and Métis warriors stood shoulder-to-shoulder with English and French-speaking militias and British military forces to defend our country against American invaders …. Without their courage and honour, Canada would not have been able to successfully defend itself and we would not have the peaceful and prosperous country our citizens enjoy today.
They did so from the very beginning and they fought to the very end. In so doing, your ancestors made a great and critical contribution to Canada, one without which events might well have ended very differently.
At Detroit, just days after the outbreak of hostilities, the mere threat of deploying Aboriginal warriors … under the great Shawnee leader, Tecumseh, allowed General Isaac Brock to negotiate the surrender of the American fort.
And although Brock was killed in action at Queenston Heights, 200 years ago this month Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) warriors played a vital part in the defeat of the invaders at that battle as well.
Almost exactly a year later, [Aboriginal warriors] fought at the Battle of the Thames. There, the First Nations suffered a great loss, when Tecumseh himself fell fighting a larger American force to the bitter end.
And so it went on for three long years. Métis warriors served against the American invaders in the Corps of Canadian Voyageurs and in the Commissariat of Voyageurs throughout the conflict. First Nations peoples, under talented and courageous leaders among whom Oshawana, John Norton and John Brant won lasting glory were at every major battle throughout the war.
Thus, Canada’s aboriginal people were, in every sense, key to the victory that firmly established Canada as a distinct country in North America.
Our modest remembrances here today are then their natural due. All those years ago at the conclusion of the War of 1812, and in recognition of their valour Aboriginal communities were presented with military banners and King George the Third medals. So it will be today.
Successor First Nations and Métis communities will shortly be presented with the Canadian Forces War of 1812 Commemorative Banner and specially struck War of 1812 Commemorative Medals. Both Banner and Medal reflect the strong connection of Canada’s First Nations to the Crown.
The medal design has a likeness of Her Majesty The Queen on one side, and the image from the commemorative banner on the reverse. Usage of the Queen’s likeness and the design of the medal itself was approved by Buckingham Palace. They are bestowed today as symbols of an unbreakable bond forged in a common struggle.
The war we commemorate today and the part in it played by Aboriginal Canadians did more than preserve a boundary. It also established a national consciousness that defines us to this day.
Two hundred years later, we are still a nation of diverse people from many backgrounds striving together to define a unique and special country. That is how we began. It is how we shall move forward.
Today, we remember and honour the vital and priceless role that our Aboriginal peoples, two centuries ago, played along the border for the lasting benefit of all Canadians. As Prime Minister and, on behalf of all Canadians I would like to once again express to their descendants, our recognition, our appreciation, and our esteem. | <urn:uuid:b827b5a6-dcd1-46bb-9e45-2ccc01406dbf> | CC-MAIN-2014-49 | http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/10/25/key-to-the-victory-stephen-harper-honours-first-nations-contribution-to-war-of-1812/ | 2014-11-23T02:27:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-49/segments/1416400378956.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20141119123258-00254-ip-10-235-23-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961327 | 820 |
Kawaii Broccoli Mini Cross Stitch Kit In A Matchbox by Marvling Bros
A super cute cross stitch kit gift, with a broccoli pattern perfect for beginners or enthusiasts wanting a quick project. Everything you need to make this mini Kawaii style broccoli cross stitch pattern is packed neatly into a matchbox. With easy to follow instructions, this festive gift is sure to delight any enthusiast or entice a newbie into the wonderful world of cross stitch.
The kit includes:
- 65mm x 65mm square 14 count blank Aida - pre folded to mark centre start point
- Embroidery threads needed to make pattern
- Size 24 tapestry needle
- Easy to follow pattern marked in colour on counted graph
- Full instructions and project ideas for the finished piece
Dimensions: matchbox is 55mm x 36mm x 16mm, Aida is 65mm x 65mm, finished cross stitch pattern is 3cm, threads in strands of six and are 33cm long.
Due to the small scale of this project, it may not be suitable for children. It's perfect for teenagers and adults!
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Optimized protocols for attaining high-yield expression purification and reconstitution of membrane proteins must research their structure and function. 8-flip increase from the ATPase activity ( many bacterial ABC transporters have already been designated a putative MDR function predicated on bioinformatic classification . New MDR bacterial ABC transporters possess since been characterized on the molecular level ; notably the resolving of the initial high-resolution 3-D framework of the MDR ABC exporter recommending the XL880 fact that minimal functional device of the transporters (or related types such as for example MsbA) is certainly a homodimer. That is in keeping with other and biochemical structural studies . However recent proof shows that some MDR bacterial ABC transporters work as heterodimers . The current presence of two different subunits allows such transporters e Interestingly.g. LmrC/LmrD to function within an asymmetric setting regarding nucleotide hydrolysis and binding by their two NBDs . This important feature is distributed to many eukaryotic ABC transporters including people of the individual C family such as for example MRP1 and CFTR or the Touch1/Touch2 heterodimer . To time however aside from this preliminary record on detergent solubilized LmrC/LmrD there’s a lack of details concerning the working system of bacterial MDR ABC transporters that are heterodimers. We lately characterized a fresh heterodimeric ABC transporter from membrane vesicles. Moreover expression XL880 of both and genes was strongly increased upon exposition of to many antibiotics supporting a role for BmrC/BmrD as a new multidrug transporter . Here we have set up a purification XL880 protocol for this heterodimeric transporter allowing the recovery in high yield of an active stable and monodisperse heterodimeric transporter in a detergent solubilized state. An optimized reconstitution protocol into proteoliposomes allowed this transporter to display a high ATPase activity about 8-times higher than in detergent solution. Moreover 2 crystals of this transporter were obtained in membrane in an ADP/vanadate trapped conformation thus confirming the quality of the preparation. Negative staining of these 2D crystals allowed us to obtain a projection map at a resolution of 20 ?. This reveals a possible supramolecular organization of BmrC/BmrD heterodimers in a lipidic environment. Results Overexpression of BmrC/BmrD Previously we co-expressed BmrC and BmrD-His6 in BL21(DE3) thereby obtaining membrane vesicles highly enriched in these two proteins and we showed that they were both required to detect a transport activity of several drugs . Initial attempts to purify this Rabbit Polyclonal to NFIL3. heterodimer transporter from these vesicles led to some loss of the XL880 untagged subunit (i.e. BmrC) when Ni2+ affinity chromatography was performed in the presence of different detergents (see Figure S1). Thus although the two subunits interact in the membrane addition of a high concentration of detergent required to efficiently solubilize the transporter presumably weakens the conversation between them XL880 (or the association with stabilizing lipids). This led to a partial loss of the untagged subunit during the subsequent affinity chromatographic step. To overcome this hurdle we decided to add an values (see Fig. 2membranes the ATPase activity of BmrC/BmrD was sensitive to vanadate inhibition and consistent with our previous result 81 of the ATPase activity of DDM solubilized BmrC/BmrD XL880 was inhibited by 0.5 mM vanadate. As Hoechst 33342 was previously found to be a substrate efficiently transported by BmrC/BmrD its effect on the ATPase activity on purified BmrC/BmrD was studied. Addition of increasing concentrations of Hoechst stimulated ATP hydrolysis by BmrC/BmrD about two-fold when the Hoechst concentration reached ～10 μM (cf. Fig. 4Lipids dioleoylphosphatidylcholine (DOPC)/dioleoylphosphatidylglycerol (DOPG) and DOCP/cardiolipin (CL) and ATPase activities of the resulting proteoliposomes were measured. In every situations ATPase activity increased up to 8-fold set alongside the proteins in detergent drastically. The best ATPase activity ～2 μmol/min/mg proteins was obtained when reconstitution was performed with Computer and PA (9∶1 molar proportion; Fig. 5lipids (total polar remove) the ATPase activity of BmrC/BmrD was ～30% lower (n?=?5). Finally addition of cardiolipin towards the reconstitution blend was harmful to BmrC/BmrD ATPase activity. 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Each episode we'll be coming up with various Top 5 lists to help kick off our recordings. The first one was a no-brainer. Our Top 5 goals for our DISNEY DINK podcast:
Deana's Top 5
- Encourage DINKS to go to Disney Parks
- Show not how to save but how not to waste money
- Share planning advice and tools of value
- Take our love of Disney planning and touring to the next level together
- Connect with other DISNEY DINKS
Patrick's Top 5
- Pay it forward. I’m not always altruistic, but in this case, I’ve put in hundreds of hours of planning Disney trips and have tested those plans on the ground over the course of many years. So now I’m in the position to reveal what works and what doesn’t to help others maximize their time at Disney World.
Show how research and investigation can be fun. Most people associate planning with drudgery and toil. And there’s no doubt it takes time. But a) it’s also time researching Disney, which is inherently fun, and b) it can be super exciting when you have breakthroughs and sudden realizations and a great sense of satisfaction knowing that every hour of planning you do now will pay off 100-fold when you’re in the parks.
- Destigmatize Disney among the intellectual set. This is a personal pet peeve of mine, but having spent a number of years in higher ed and having far too many PhDs on my FB feed, I can assure you that self-identified ‘thinking people’ hold an almost universal disdain Disney. But if people could just relax enough so that the stick releases from their butts, they might be able to enjoy Disney for what it is and on its own terms. And the hardest part about that is it requires a vulnerability and a courage on our part to say, heck yeah I love Disney! Why wouldn’t I?!
- Fill a need among other DINKS in particular. I know we’re not the primary demographic of Disney travelers, but, much like so-called intellectuals, there are lots of us out there who maybe don’t feel like it’s ok to embrace a seemingly childish pursuit. But Disney, much like PIXAR movies, has just as much for adults as it does for kids.
- Keep my own Disney fire burning brightly. In our workaday existences, it’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed and stop seeing the joy in our daily lives. But Disney, in many ways, is pure joy, magic, and excitement. So let's make it part of a routine instead of a mere dalliance.
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Mark Sanger, recently crowned champion at the Ten Turners Turning event at Axminster Tools & Machinery Nuneaton in March earlier this year, is going on tour.
Mark will be demonstrating at all the Axminster stores over the course of the next few months, starting at Warrington on 18 June and culminating in a meeting with Richard Findley (Ten Turners Turning champion 2014) on 4 March 2017 at Nuneaton.
Mark’s work features wood, mixed media, texture, form and colour, all of which are influenced by Far Eastern philosophies and cultures as well as the natural forms and textures found in nature.
About his work, Mark says: “My work is free flowing of simple form. I believe that it should evolve from the here and now, from the initial idea to completion. I may have an idea about what I am going to create, but beyond this my mind is kept open and receptive to changes that evolve along the way. On occasions it may take a different path than intended.”
Mark will be demonstrating from 10.00am to 4.00pm at the Axminster stores on the following Saturdays:
18 June – Warrington
9 July – Basingstoke
27 August – Axminster
17 September – Sittingbourne
15 Oct – High Wycombe
12 November – Cardiff
10 December – North Shields
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Call it deja vu all over again. For the second year in a row, there are a lot of questions surrounding the Montreal Canadiens. And, for the second straight year it starts with their playoff performance and ends with the health of their blue line.
Is this team really as close to the Stanley Cup as they were last year?
Last year: Is this team really a final-four team
Similar questions. Two years ago, the Canadiens stunned everybody going into the Eastern conference semi-final. Last year, they took the Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins to seven games and three of their four losses (including game seven) went into overtime. The question is, are they that close? The answer is yes. Every team that makes the playoffs has a chance to win the Cup and this Montreal team should not struggle to make the playoffs. They are a growing group after an extreme makeover three summers ago and if they can stay healthy, and get good goaltending they should be alright. Which leads to the next two questions.
Is Carey Price for real?
Last year: How could they have traded Jaroslav Halak?
Again, similar questions but Carey Price is still going to answer his critics. They look at last year as a season that is impossible for him to repeat and see the Canadiens regressing as a result. The alternative is that Carey Price is actually that good and you should be able to expect similar numbers from Price for the rest of his career. Young players always have a certain type of variability when thrust into the spotlight. Goaltenders especially. How Price responds this year may affect how people look at him the rest of his career.
Can the Canadiens stay healthy?
Last year: Can the small forwards of the Canadiens stand up to an entire season?
The slight change of wording is that, well, the Canadiens a) got bigger (and those bigger guys are injury concerns themselves) and b) have question marks on the defensive side more so than the forward side as far as health is concerned.
The two biggest forwards, Erik Cole and Max Pacioretty, have significant injury concerns. Cole has been pretty healthy in his whole career but he is getting older, and his physical play lends itself to more bumps and bruises and the Canadiens made a huge investment in him. Cole’s biggest injury was due to a severe neck injury and he has proved he has bounced back from it. Pacioretty can probably get some advice from Cole and tonight will play his first real hockey game since the injury. If it affects Pacioretty’s game, that will be a big blow to the Canadiens as his arrival last year really started turning the team around.
On defence, Josh Gorges is back and healthier than ever. He does have to get back into game shape and the preseason will be interesting to watch him. Other players on the defence are injury concerns. Hal Gill and Jaroslav Spacek are both older which could mean more fragile. The Canadiens do not have the depth to deal with multiple injuries on the back-end but do have cap space to maneuver like they did last year. That leads to…
Can Andrei Markov come back from his injury?
Last year: Can Andrei Markov come back from his injury?
Markov is the Canadiens best defenceman. While the team isn’t lost without him the way it was before, there are concerns and the team will need him to be healthy and stay healthy this season. There are already concerns about the rehab and rumours have abounded about what exactly is wrong with the knee right now, and whether it is a setback or an aggravation. The sooner Markov comes back and the better he plays will go a long way in helping the Canadiens take the next step.
There are other questions, namely Scott Gomez and how David Desharnais and Lars Eller prepare for their second seasons. Not to mention Yannick Weber and Alexei Yemelin and their increased roles this season. The major thing is to not look at the preseason for these results. The results mean little and trends, while interesting, can turn around very quickly.
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I have been waiting for Sean to come back every week, it is like putting Christmas back.
- Ian Millward
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As I shared with my readers earlier in the month, big changes were happening in my life. So, now I am confident I can share these changes with you.
I have worked for a great company over the last 16 years and truly imagined that I would still be at that company when I reached official retirement age(which is still quite a way off). After struggling with several medical issues that cause my body great pain and difficult in walking and moving, I started praying earnestly asking the Lord to lead me and guide me in making the decision to stay or leave.
I know that I made the right decision to resign earlier than planned. I have HIS peace and for the first time realize that having a paycheck isn’t all there is to life. I realize we all have bills to pay and yes, we need money to survive; but when you make budget cuts and rearrange your budget, you can do it. Am I scared? I can confidently say I have no fear. Which if you knew me at all and how I have always operated, you would understand my reluctance – at first – in understanding what God was telling me to do. I have never in all my life left a place of employment, without having something lined up to go to next.
I have always been very practical in that way. Always have had a backup plan; not this. time.
This time, I am trusting God to lead me where He wants me to go. I believe He is calling me into using my gifts of words to minister to others. So, with that being said, I am currently working on a book to encourage others and offer hope. I will continue to write this blog, not just to share Jesus with others, but because I feel this is a small part of His plan for me.
The end of this week will signify the end of one long chapter in my life and the beginning of a new one. As always, I can’t wait to see where God leads me!
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To stay ahead of the curve, every business needs to innovate. That’s especially true in the banking industry, where new technologies and trends are always emerging. If your company isn’t keeping up with the latest innovations, you risk being left behind by your competitors.
The importance of innovation
The banking industry is one of the most essential industries in the world. It is responsible for handling the finances of individuals, businesses, and organizations. In a globalized economy, the banking industry has become even more critical. Banking companies must now be able to operate in multiple countries and across different time zones.
As the world changes, so too must the banking industry. To stay relevant and meet the needs of their customers, banks must innovate. They need to offer new products and services that are convenient, accessible, and secure. They also need to provide an excellent customer experience. Banks that don’t innovate will be left behind by those that do. Here are four reasons why innovation is essential for banking companies:
- To Stay Relevant-The banking industry is constantly changing. New technologies are emerging, and customer expectations are continuously evolving. To stay relevant, banks need to be at the forefront of these changes. They need to offer new products and services that meet the needs of their customers.
- To Meet Customer Expectations-Today’s customers expect more from their banks than ever before. They want convenient, accessible, and secure services. They also want an excellent customer experience. Banks that can provide this will be able to retain their customers and attract new ones.
- To Stay Competitive-Innovation is essential for keeping up with the competition. There are hundreds of banks all competing for market share. The only way to stand out from the crowd is to offer something unique that your competitors don’t have. This could be a new product, a better customer experience, or anything else that sets you apart from the rest.
- To Grow Your Business-Innovation can help you grow your business in two ways. First, it can help you attract new customers who are looking for something different from what your competitors are offering. Second, it can help you increase revenues by providing new sources of income through new products and services.
Innovative strategies for banks
So, how can you make sure that your banking company is always on the cutting edge? Here are five ways to innovate and stay ahead of the curve:
Offer New Services
Another way to innovate is to offer new services that your customers will love. If you can anticipate your customers’ needs and offer them services that meet those needs, you’ll be one step ahead of the competition. For example, if you know that your customers are always on the go, you could offer mobile banking or contactless payments. If this is the case, you will need to develop an app that they can use while they are on the go. You can partner with custom app developers to create an app that is convenient and easy to use. These experts can help you design and develop an app that meets your specific needs.
Streamline Your Processes
Innovation doesn’t always have to mean adding new things—sometimes, it can be about streamlining your existing processes. If there are any areas of your business that are inefficient or could be improved, now is the time to make some changes. By streamlining your processes, you’ll not only save time and money, but you’ll also be able to provide a better experience for your customers.
Invest in New Technologies
One of the best ways to ensure that your banking company is always ahead of the curve is to invest in new technologies. That could mean anything from investing in a new CRM system to implementing AI-powered chatbots on your website. These systems can help you streamline your operations, improve customer service, and make it easier for your employees to do their jobs. By staying up-to-date on the latest technologies, you’ll be able to provide your customers with a better experience and stay ahead of your competition.
Finally, one of the most important things you can do if you want your banking company to innovate is to embrace change. Innovations in the banking industry happen quickly, so it’s important to be open-minded and willing to adapt as new technologies and trends emerge. By doing so, you’ll position yourself as a leader in the industry.
The bottom line
These days, it’s more important than ever for companies to innovate. If you want your company to stay ahead of the competition, you need to find ways to stay on the cutting edge. By investing in new technologies, offering new services, and embracing change, you’ll be well on your way to success. | <urn:uuid:8ee97fd5-d116-4269-819b-12f4b0415414> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://themidcountypost.com/taking-banking-company-to-the-next-level/ | 2024-03-03T18:16:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476397.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303174631-20240303204631-00740.warc.gz | en | 0.950443 | 980 |
Vanessa Anne Hudgens is an American actress and singer. Hudgens rose to prominence playing Gabriella Montez in the “High School Musical” series. Hudgens has also appeared in various films and television series for the Disney Channel.
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Keiko Takahashi, Kanda University of International Studies, Japan
Jo Mynard, Kanda University of International Studies, Japan
Junko Noguchi, Kanda University of International Studies, Japan
Akiyuki Sakai, Kanda University of International Studies, Japan
Katherine Thornton, Otemon Gakuin University, Japan
Atsumi Yamaguchi, Kanda University of International Studies, Japan
Takahashi, K., Mynard, J., Noguchi, J., Sakai, A., Thornton, K., & Yamaguchi, A. (2013). Needs analysis: Investigating students’ self-directed learning needs using multiple data sources. Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal, 4(3), 208-218.
As explained in the first installment of this report (Thornton, 2013), the learning advisor (LA) team at Kanda University of International Studies (KUIS) has engaged in redesigning a curriculum for the Self-Access Learning Centre (SALC) by following a framework adapted from the Nation and Macalister (2010) model. This framework, which is based on an investigation of student needs, aims to establish criteria in the shape of clear principles and goals. Following the Environment Analysis stage, detailed in the previous installment of this column (Thornton, 2013), this paper describes the needs analysis stage which was undertaken in 2012.
Long (2005) emphasizes the importance of triangulating needs analysis data, and discusses a number of sources that may be consulted to establish a comprehensive picture of needs. In the KUIS context, the LA team identified four major stakeholders in the SALC curriculum as sources of information for needs analysis: LAs, students, teachers and the university senior management team. In order to conduct a thorough needs analysis to guide curriculum evaluation and design, the LA team decided to investigate each stakeholder group’s perceptions of students’ self-directed learning (SDL) needs. This second installment showcases each research project, and demonstrates how the data from the four projects were collated in order to discover freshman student SDL needs, resulting in a document of Learning Outcomes for the future curriculum.
Learning Advisors’ Perceptions of Student SDL Needs
As LAs are the stakeholders most familiar with both the field of learner autonomy and SDL, as well as KUIS students’ experiences of SDL, it seemed logical to approach the needs analysis by first examining LAs’ own perceptions of their students’ needs.
In order to establish a coherent understanding of student needs among the LA team, each LA brainstormed what they considered to be student needs, supporting their points with reference to the literature or specific personal experiences gained while working as a LA, to avoid unsubstantiated intuitions. The individual responses of each LA were then collated by two members of the LA team and categorised under three headings: socio-affective needs, cognitive needs, and metacognitive needs. On further discussion with the full LA team, an additional category, self-management needs, was added to reflect organisational and practical needs that did not relate directly to language learning (such as being able to meet deadlines, and being familiar with the different learning environments available) but were nevertheless considered important for successful SDL.
LAs were then asked to indicate where they felt the SALC curriculum’s priorities should lie by completing a survey in which they labelled each need as high, mid or low priority, or something that should not be covered in the freshman curriculum. The LA Survey responses were then shared with all LAs and a consensus was reached over the level of priority given to each need. This resulted in a detailed preliminary taxonomy of LA perceptions of student SDL needs (hereafter LA Taxonomy).
Students’ Perceptions of Their Own SDL Needs/Wants
This section highlights one of the needs analysis sub-projects to find out about freshman students’ subjective needs. By asking students to give their subjective views about their SDL needs, the working group assigned to this portion of the research realised that these subjective needs could be considered more accurately as “wants”, so this term is used throughout this section.
In the hope of learning about freshman students’ experiences, it was decided that sophomore students who had completed one year at the university would be targeted with a student survey. The following research question was used to guide the design and analysis process:
What support do current sophomore students perceive they needed (from the SALC) to succeed in their freshman year?
An open-ended written prompt in Japanese with follow-up interviews was used to generate data from which the item pool for the Student Survey could be constructed (Dörnyei, 2010). The data from the prompt and the interviews were collated and categorised into six groups, using a grounded research approach (Strauss & Corbin, 1998). Each group has several subcategories with a total of 23 items in all. The six categories which emerged are:
- Time management (e.g. scheduling, prioritizing)
- Managing learning resources – human & physical (e.g. knowing how to access support from advisors/teachers, making contact with speakers of English, knowing how to access SALC facilities effectively)
- Learning activities (knowing a variety of strategies, incorporating English into daily life)
- Learning environment (choosing the right environment for the right task)
- Attitude (e.g. motivation, endurance, effort)
- Goal Setting (e.g. prioritizing needs, breaking goals into achievable tasks)
Following the process of generating the item pool, the 23 items were used to create a closed-ended Student Survey. The text below was the instruction given in the survey (translated here from Japanese):
Think back on your freshman year. Think about whether you would have liked the opportunity to learn about the following things in your first year, and choose the most suitable response.
The following four response options were used in the survey (Figure 1). While these response options did yield some relevant data, one limitation of this format is that students whose opinions may not have exactly matched these options did not have an opportunity to express their views.
In addition to the aforementioned closed-ended questions, an open-ended question was also added at the end to elicit any “wants” not included in the 23 items.
In order to elicit responses from students covering as many variables as possible, such as students’ majors and English ability levels, the Student Survey was administered to 11 sophomore classes in all departments including both English and non-English language majors. In total 234 students responded, of which 207 gave their consent for data to be used. Seventy responses to the open-ended option were also collected, in both English and Japanese.
Analysis of the data indicates that all 23 items were “wanted” by more than half of the students. The data suggest that students have more wants in utilising human resources such as advisors, teachers and international students, and also in using the physical resources and services available. Categories such as goal-setting and time management (which the SALC curriculum currently focused on more strongly) appeared to be less desired. This may indicate that students need more awareness-raising of the importance of these aspects of SDL.
Teachers’ Perceptions of Students’ SDL Needs
This part of the needs analysis aimed to elicit the voices of teachers who have taught freshman English classes. Because teachers may have a role in developing students’ SDL skills, the working group assigned to this portion of the research needed to clarify what teachers wanted from the SALC, in addition to teachers’ perceptions of students’ needs. Researchers used an exploratory design research method (Ivankova & Creswell, 2009) to investigate the following two questions:
1) What do teachers believe freshman students need in order to be effective independent learners?
2) In what areas of independent learning should the SALC support the students?
First, an open-ended prompt and follow-up interviews were administered to ten participants. The qualitative data collected was then coded into 20 student traits and 18 student actions which teachers considered important for their students to possess. These traits and actions were then used to generate closed-response survey items. This Teacher Survey was sent to the 35 teachers who taught freshman English classes and 19 responded. Related to the first research question, the teachers strongly perceived the following traits and actions to be the qualities of effective independent learners. The number in brackets shows the average rating of each item, with 6.00 being the highest rating possible. Only items with a rating of 4.70 and above are listed:
- Proactive (4.93)
- Curious (4.88)
- Determined (4.81)
- Hard-working (4.81)
- Confident (4.75)
- Make the most of university facilities and learning materials (5.13)
- Not afraid of being perceived to be silly or making mistakes (4.80)
- Organize their time (4.76)
With regard to the second research question, the teachers selected the following traits and actions as the SALC’s responsibility to help students with. The numbers in brackets show the percentage of teachers who selected the item. Only items with a 60% and above response-rate are listed:
- Reflective (81.25%)
- Self-led to use English (81.25%)
- Independent in making choices (68.75%)
- Make the most of university facilities and learning materials (100%)
- Organize their time (71.43%)
The results suggest that while the teachers perceive that the traits and actions listed above are the main qualities that may lead to students being self-directed, they do not expect the SALC to be responsible for helping students with all those traits and actions. This may suggest there are SDL elements that can be covered in the classroom by teachers. It could also indicate that there are SDL elements that only students can be held responsible for. Future research could further investigate which stakeholder(s) could best address the SDL needs identified above.
Senior Management Perspectives on Students’ SDL Needs
This section of the needs analysis investigates the perspectives that senior management have of students’ SDL needs and views on how to address them. The research involved interviewing four participants, all of whom are senior academics at the university and hold leadership positions. This step in the research took an interpretative, qualitative approach drawing upon the principles of grounded theory (Strauss & Corbin, 1998). An identical initial prompt was sent to each participant prior to the meeting so that they could think about the questions in advance, and the researcher conducted a semi-structured individual interview with each participant. The initial prompt was:
What do you think our students’ SDL needs are in the freshman year? i.e. what do you think the ELI / SALC should be preparing students to be able to do in order to be effective learners? (we are not looking at language learning / proficiency for this study).
The interviews were transcribed, coded manually according to emergent themes, and the initial interpretations were shared with the interviewees separately for further comments and /or elucidation. The four coded documents were then combined, which involved some re-coding (in line with grounded theory techniques).
The results naturally contributed to one of two emergent focus areas. Focus Area 1 related to what participants thought were the key skills that freshman students should have an awareness of in order to be effective learners. These skills were coded within one (or sometimes more) of the following eight categories:
- Affective factors, e.g. knowing how to regulate motivation and language anxiety
- Behaviour-related, e.g. knowing the importance of being an active learner and taking responsibility
- Cognitive skills, e.g. developing practical strategies for language learning
- Focus on future, e.g. having a long-term goal
- Metacognitive skills, e.g. understanding the learning process
- Resources, e.g. knowing what materials and facilities are available in the SALC and how to use them
- Self-management, e.g. knowing how to manage study time effectively
- Social factors, e.g. understanding how communicating with other people is crucial for developing language proficiency
Focus Area 2 related to participants’ views on what action needed to be taken by either the SALC or by the university in order for freshman students to be effective learners. The responses were coded into the following categories:
- Incorporate elements into the classroom, e.g. build learner training into the freshman curriculum
- SALC / Classroom overlap, e.g. make links between in-class and outside-class learning
- What should the university do? i.e. these were areas beyond the scope of the ELI and SALC and need to be addressed at an institutional level
- Explicit competencies, e.g. establishing learning outcomes related to learner training that students can work towards
- Learning advisors, e.g. something that falls within the learning advisors’ areas of responsibility and/or expertise
- Peers, e.g. ways in which peers could be involved in the process
Collating Different Perspectives on Students’ SDL Needs
The previous steps in the needs analysis resulted in four different sets of findings from each of the stakeholders examined. The final step of the needs analysis was to collate the findings from each of the four groups, in order to produce a final document detailing students’ SDL needs.
As the LAs are the domain experts who can confidently be considered knowledgeable on the subject, with detailed knowledge of the field and their experience working directly with students, it was decided that comparing each set of findings to the LA Taxonomy would be the most effective way to make sense of the data.
Each research working group compared their findings with the LA Taxonomy, stating for each “need” whether it was also present in their data set (and if possible to what extent), and also to list “needs” identified by their stakeholder group that had not featured in the LA Taxonomy. These needs were then added to the original list of needs used in the taxonomy, resulting in a final document of 65 items, grouped into four categories: Socio-Affective Needs, Cognitive Needs, Metacognitive Needs and Self-Management Needs.
Using the data from all four sources, the final step of the process was to identify the most important SDL needs. These higher priority items were collated into a document and rephrased as a list of Learning Outcomes, which the LA team believes all freshman students need to achieve (see Appendix). The items which were not included in the Learning Outcomes are still acknowledged as being important but were considered not relevant to all students and therefore not included in the document. The process of finalising this document is still in progress.
This installment of the column has described the investigation of multiple data sources to explore different perspectives of freshman students’ SDL needs. The findings have enabled the team to understand different perspectives. The results indicate that the stakeholder groups, namely LAs, students, teachers, and senior management, have similar perceptions about what kinds of SDL skills students need in order to become successful self-directed learners. The Needs Statement created in the process described above was utilized in order to establish a working Learning Outcomes document (see Appendix).
Curriculum evaluation and development is a laborious process. Nevertheless, as Brown (1995) states, the formation of learning outcomes (or program goals) is essential to a curriculum particularly because learning outcomes provide curriculum developers with a way to assess both student performance and the course itself. The findings from the analysis of the stakeholder groups’ perceptions have given the LA team the confidence to move forward in creating the new self-directed learning course.The next installment in this series will discuss the subsequent steps in this curriculum development project following the modified Nation and Macalister (2010) model described in the previous installment:
- Establishing principles
- Evaluating the existing curriculum
Notes on the contributors
Keiko Takahashi holds an MA in TESOL from Monterey Institute of International Studies, California, USA. She is interested in individualized learning, learner development and language advising discourse.
Jo Mynard holds an M.Phil. in Applied Linguistics from Trinity College, Dublin (Ireland) and a Doctorate in TEFL from the University of Exeter (UK). Her research interests are in affect, advising, learner autonomy and CALL.
Junko Noguchi holds an MA in TESOL from Soka University of America Graduate School, California, USA. Her research interests are self-directed learning, critical thinking and assessment of reflection.
Akiyuki Sakai holds an MA in Applied Linguistics from the University of Queensland, Australia.
Katherine Thornton (column editor) has an MA in TESOL from the University of Leeds, UK. She is the current president of the Japan Association of Self-Access Learning (JASAL).
Atsumi Yamaguchi has an MA from the University of Hawaii. Her research interests include identity and learner autonomy.
At various stages, the following people have been key members of the project described in this case study: Junko Noguchi, Neil Curry, Yuki Hasegawa, Elizabeth Lammons, Tanya McCarthy, Brian R. Morrison, Jo Mynard, Diego Navarro, Akiyuki Sakai, Keiko Takahashi, Katherine Thornton, Satoko Watkins, and Atsumi Yamaguchi.
Brown, J. D. (1995). The elements of language curriculum: A systematic approach to program development. New York, NY: Heinle & Heinle.
Dörnyei, Z. (2010). Questionnaires in second language research: Construction, administration, and processing (2nd ed.). London, UK: Routledge.
Ivankova, N. V., & Creswell, J. W. (2009). Mixed methods. In J. Heigham & R. Croker (Eds.), Qualitative research in applied linguistics: A practical introduction (pp. 135-161). Hampshire, UK: Palgrave MacMillan.
Long, M. H. (2005). Methodological issues in learner needs analysis. In M. H. Long (Ed.), Second language needs analysis (pp. 19-76). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Nation, I. S. P., & Macalister, J. (2010). Language curriculum design. London, UK: Routledge.
Strauss, A. L., & Corbin, J. (1998). Basics of qualitative research: Techniques and procedures for developing grounded theory. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Thornton, K. (2013). A framework for curriculum reform: Re-designing a curriculum for self-directed language learning. Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal, 4(2), 142-153. Retrieved from: https://sisaljournal.org/archives/june13/thornton/
Learning Outcomes for All SALC Courses and Modules
1. How to use the SALC
- Freshman students should know what a self-access centre is and how it can help them
- Freshman students should know how to get a SALC card and how to participate in SALC events
- Students should know the purpose of the advising service
- Freshman students should know how to access services and facilities
- Students should know how to access online resources for self-directed learning
2. Setting and reviewing goals
- Freshman students should be able to identify their language strengths and weaknesses
- Freshman students should know how to set a relevant and realistic goal considering their wants, interests, and needs
- Students should draw upon previous knowledge and experiences in order to individualise their plan
3. Selecting, using and evaluating resources
- Students should be able to locate resources that will help them to address their goals
- Students should try at least two new resources and reflect on their suitability for their goals
4. Identifying, using and evaluating strategies
- Students should try at least two new strategies and reflect on their effectiveness and suitability for their goals
- Students should know how to get information about learning additional strategies when they need them
5. Making, implementing and evaluating a learning plan
- Students should demonstrate that they understand the difference between S, U and R (Study, Use and Review) activities
- Students should be able to make a basic learning plan which forms a practical guide for a period of self-directed study
6. Evaluation of linguistic gains
- Students should demonstrate that they understand the meaning of “evaluation” of learning progress (embedded into outcomes above)
- Students should demonstrate how they can evaluate linguistic gains
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In early October 2012, several construction workers were killed or injured when the Miami Dade College parking garage collapsed like a pancake, trapping a then-unknown number of workers inside (See http://tinyurl.com/9956xae). Some survived, but some did not.
Post-accident site investigation
Since this tragic loss of life, injury, and property damage, lawyers have no doubt already begun what will be expensive and lengthy litigation. The owner, architect, engineer, contractor, subcontractors, construction workers and their families will all play a part.
The evidence may be sifted and sorted for years before any judges or juries hear about what happened on that fateful day.
Ideally, each party would have ample opportunity to investigate the site, take measurements, and form opinions as to what happened. However, this was not an option in Miami.
Workers needed to be freed. The structure’s potential for further collapse endangered all those around it. The owner had a dangerous pile of rubble where a new parking garage was supposed to stand. Certainly, nobody wanted to preserve site conditions for any length of time.
So, how can evidence of existing site conditions be preserved forever? 3D laser scanners were dispatched to the site immediately.
From onsite scan to a 3D model on your computer
Similar to traditional surveying, 3D laser scanners are set-up on tripods and use light to precisely measure their surroundings. But whereas traditional land surveying instruments take only one measurement at a time and need a reflector to return the light, 3D laser scanners take millions of measurements of everything that they can “see” within 300 feet.
This data is collected in a matter of minutes and the instrument can be set up as many times as necessary to see the entire site. Technicians then convert this raw information into a 3D model.
Lawyers and their experts can use this model to return to the day of the accident at any time. They can pan and zoom around the model to find any desired vantage point. Any angle or distance can be measured and re-measured.
Collecting quality evidence
After any given construction accident, investigators take photographs, make measurements and sketches, and interview witnesses. However, even the most seasoned investigator can miss critical details due to time constraints, site access, or simple knowledge of the facts.
Once the site is cleaned up or altered in any way, the evidence is spoiled. However, 3D laser scanning allows investigators to return to the site at any time to retrieve missed or forgotten details.
Additionally, the evidentiary quality of 3D laser scanning data far outweighs traditionally collected evidence. Photographs provide only a single 2D perspective and each detail must be specifically targeted. Manual measurements are subject to observational and recording error. Witnesses certainly cannot permanently remember every visible detail, especially in the wake of a tragedy. 3D laser scanning overcomes all of these limitations.
Full access to the site is often limited, for example, from the danger of additional collapse and loose rubble around the parking garage in Miami. This problem is also overcome with 3D laser scanning, as it uses light to measure from a distance. Anything that can be seen can be scanned and recorded for later review.
Using the model at trial
3D laser scans are not new to the courtroom and readily pass muster under evidentiary challenges. Foundation for entering a 3D laser scan on the record can be laid by a professional land surveyor, but courts nationally have allowed scans based on the testimony of laymen who were simply certified to use the equipment.
At trial, 3D laser scans provide unparalleled demonstrative exhibits. Judges and juries will no longer need to travel to visit a site.
As noted by Lt. Warren Hamlin of the Knox County Tennessee Police Department, “It’s almost like taking the jury right to the crime scene. We can show pictures all day long, but when you’ve got a panoramic view that shows exactly how it looked and where everything was, that’s a much better depiction than a photograph. … So, if a guy says, ‘I was standing in that corner,’ you could create a viewpoint exactly where his head would be and look around the model and tell whether, yes, he could see that, or, no, he’s lying.”
David Headrick has over 14 years of experience in the surveying, engineering and legal industries, both as a project manager for LandAir Surveying and as a lawyer in private practice. He has represented numerous land surveyors, designers, architects, contractors and other industry professionals throughout his career. Today, David serves as an executive and project manager for LandAir, focused on developing and managing the company’s 3D laser scanning department. Contact him at email@example.com. | <urn:uuid:d398a2d5-b4ad-4fcc-9c89-e1154eb8ca6c> | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | http://www.landairsurveying.com/blog/tag/miami-dade-college-parking-garage/ | 2020-05-30T22:01:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347410352.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20200530200643-20200530230643-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.95906 | 1,001 |
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A teenage sex offender with links to Northern Ireland is being hunted after failing to turn up at his bail hostel.
Ryan Humpage, 19, who was given an 18-month jail term in August for sexual activity with a minor, failed to return to the hostel in Bury on Saturday, Greater Manchester Police say.
They have issued an appeal for help in finding him. Humpage was the subject of a cross-border manhunt before being jailed.
He had featured in a Crimewatch appeal by Lancashire Police in April last year over fears he may have fled to Ireland at the time he was wanted on suspicion of rape. He was later arrested in Co Antrim and returned to England.
On Sunday a Greater Manchester Police spokesman said Humpage had failed to return to Bradshaw House bail hostel in Bury “in accordance with his license conditions”.
The spokesman added: “He has links to the Bury area of Manchester, as well as Blackpool, Northampton, West Midlands, Ireland, Scotland, Preston and Northumberland.”
Humpage was detained in May 2015 by the PSNI at Shane's Castle after being spotted sleeping in a truck.
Police in the Republic had previously said there were reported sightings of him in counties Sligo and Kildare.
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Saturday, November 05, 2005
Australia Angst And Anger Part Deux
Well, all I can say is that there is something a bit off with Mr. Beckett Tucker. After sending him my email stating that I was no longer interested in coming to his bar in Sydney and expressing my disappointment in him I got the following two emails on Monday, October 31st. The second one, apparently, was because some of you actually took the time to contact him to let him know how you felt about things.
Give me this week please I am meeting with alcohol companies tomorrow (Hieneken, Absolut and StArnou) to finalise a sponsorship plan with them to help fund it. I have a hotel sorted out and everything is looking good. I have had problem accessing emails recently and have been going crazy trying to organize everything, we still want everything to go ahead. There are still two months to go and I have the tickets held by a friend of mine at a travel agency. I will call you tommorrow when I find out the story.
I have been recieving some pretty hateful emails like the one I have attached, if I do in fact manage to sort this out I hope you make it clear that I never actually meant not to reply to your emails or do you wrong. I found this email below embarrassing for the person who wrote it.
Look forward to seeing you soon.
Now forget the contents of the email that he felt was so hateful, note a few other things, aside from the obvious ones, that he never did call me and I have yet to receive any kind of follow-up email:
First, he says that my airline tickets are being held by a friend of his and he has the hotel sorted out. I don't understand how this could be because I have never been able to get in touch with him to finalize travel dates. This despite the fact that I would need advance notice as to when I would leave and I would want to schedule the dates for my return from Sydney so that I would have time to see a bit of the city. This is from an email that I sent to him addressing these issues:
"I will be leaving for Spain tomorrow and will be gone for a couple of weeks. Perhaps we can work towards finalizing some travel arrangement when I get back. I would like to stay in Sydney for awhile after the first of the year but I will, of course, pick up the expenses for that part of the visit. Deciding on the date to leave for Sydney and the date of my return is something that I would like to do fairly soon though so I can start to make arrangements at this end."
Now how do you hold tickets when you haven't finalized the dates of travel and don't even have my wife's name.
Then, second, if you read between the lines, despite having said seveal months ago that this was a "done deal," he now says:
"...if I do in fact manage to sort this out I hope you make it clear that I never actually meant not to reply to your emails or do you wrong."
If I do in fact manage to sort this out?
Also, he says "I have had problem accessing emails recently..." Recently? I have been sending him emails for a couple of months trying to get more information about what was going on.
I might be willing to give Beckett a nod on not being malicious, but it certainly seems as though he bit off a lot more than he could chew and just could not pull this off. And again, why would you tell someone you have the tickets already and have sorted out the hotel arrangements and will call the next day with the details and then not call or send an email. I totally do not understand this guy.
Two people with whom I have exchanged emails have actually visited the Vanilla Room to try to talk to Mr. Tucker in person and have not been able to find him.
Anyway, once again I will give you his email address if you want to let him know how you feel about this. For my part I want nothing more to do with him.
If you do drop Mr. Tucker a line, do keep it on the civil side please. I don't think there is anything to be gained by being rude and obnoxious just because someone else is inconsiderate.
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Presentation on theme: "Information about NUTR 4301 Career Exploration in Nutrition and Foods Information can be found at programs/nutr/nutr_4301.html."— Presentation transcript:
Information about NUTR 4301 Career Exploration in Nutrition and Foods Information can be found at http://www.fcs.txstate.edu/degrees- programs/nutr/nutr_4301.html
1. Determine Eligibility 2. Submit Application Form A. Choose a potential Internship Site Early in Spring Semester Due Monday, March 2, 2015 ( to assigned faculty (See Banner Course Schedule) 3. Submit Portfolio, Resume, CEE Agreement Knowledge Competencies Course Exhibits Other Materials Due Monday, May 4, 2015 to assigned faculty 4. Submit Reports to TRACS Assignment Section Due by 5:00 PM on Monday following weekly activities 5. Submit Final Reports (Facility Report, Mentor Evaluation, Self- Evaluation B. Submit Introduction Form to Mentor Due last Wednesday of Summer I and Summer II NUTR 4301 – Career Exploration in Nutrition and Foods Timeline
NUTR 4301 Eligibility Completion of the following hours: 75 semester credit hours 24 semester credit hours from TEXAS STATE 24 NUTR semester credit hours, including currently enrolled courses Completion of the following courses or their equivalents: ENG 1310, 1320 MATH 1315 COMM 1310 HIST 1310, 1320 POSI 2310, 2320 CHEM 1341/1141 & CHEM 1342/1142 GPA Criteria: Cumulative GPA ≥ 2.00 Cumulative Texas State GPA ≥ 2.00 Major GPA ≥ 2.25
Find a Potential Site Any Nutrition and Food Related Activity Minimum 150 Hours Hospitals Long-term care facilities Research with faculty Food service operations Schools Public Health Agencies – WIC – Head Start – Diabetes and other health clinics Wellness programs Fitness centers Food companies Restaurants Camps Medical clinics Catering companies Food, wellness product companies Non-profits - Food banks, home-delivered, congregate meal programs, etc. Community gardens Texas AgriLife (extension)
Mentor Introduction ( These materials will be available on FCS Website)
Application Due March 2, 2015 Don’t forget to attach your unofficial transcript
Approval Once approved by supervising faculty – You will be notified if you are approved/rejected – Course override needed to register
Portfolio – Due May 4, 2015 1.CEE Agreement Form with Mentor Signature Includes: – Job Description – submit one that already exists or develop one in in consultation with your mentor Must be signed by your mentor – Letter of Application Written as though you are applying for this “job” Address job description regarding required knowledge and skills, other job requirements – Specific goals, objectives, outcome measures 1 st goal required for all CEE Agreements (see assignment sheet)
Portfolio – Due May 4, 2015 2.Portfolio – make it look professional, e.g. no handwritten tabs Includes: – Resume Education first Chronological order – most recent first References with relationship identified; contact information – Courses required for degree (available on FCS website under “Courses” tab) – Knowledge Requirements Form All complete top portion Knowledge Competencies completed if Dietetics Track – Collection of course materials Cover sheet for each class with Knowledge Competences identified Only include courses for which you have papers, exams, quizzes, presentations, other assignments – Awards, certifications, etc.
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The concept of “dialectical materialism” is important for understanding the world as it currently stands.
While commonly used websites express some of the meaning,
a general idea can be more accurately garnered from the Marxists Internet Archive, defining the concept as a “way of understanding reality; whether thoughts, emotions, or the material world…[a] methodology [that] is the combination of Dialectics and Materialism…[serving as] the theoretical foundation of Marxism.” This article aims to explain this important concept, which Curry Malott of the PSL’s Liberation School calls a “theory that grasps how many of the competing social forces driving the movement of society are often hidden or mystified, and that gives us a way of uncovering them.”
Defining the concept of dialectical materialism
In order to define the concept, it is best to look at the text itself. The concept was implied in Frederich Engels’s 1883 book, Dialectics of Nature, in which he writes about the eternal cycle, through which matter moves, and dialectics, while also saying that “it is, therefore, from the history of nature and human society that the laws of dialectics are abstracted. For they are nothing but the most general laws of these two aspects of historical development, as well as of thought itself.” It was also expressed by Engels in his 1886 book Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy, in which he wrote that “with each epoch-making discovery even in the sphere of natural science, it has to change its form; and after history was also subjected to materialistic treatment, a new avenue of development has opened here, too.” He added in later chapter that the “dialectic of concepts itself became merely the conscious reflex of the dialectical motion of the real world…[a] materialist dialectic…[has been] for years has been our best working tool and our sharpest weapon.” Others say the concept came from Anti-Dühring or German Ideology. Regardless, the fact is that dialectical materialsm was not fully defined as a concept until later. In 1895 it was mentioned by G.V. Plekhanov whom defines the concept:
…Modern dialectical materialism does not ignore…the influence of geographical environment on the development of society. It only ascertains better in what way geographical factors influence “social man.” It shows that the geographical environment provides men with a greater or lesser possibility of developing their productive forces, and thereby pushes them, more or less energetically, along the path of historical progress…Dialectical materialism reveals that such an argument is unsatisfactory, and that the influence of geographical environment shows itself first of all, and in the strongest degree, in the character of social relations, which in their turn influence the views of men, their customs and even their physical development infinitely more strongly than, for example, climate. Modern geographical science… fully agrees in this respect with dialectical materialism. This materialism is, of course, a particular case of the materialist view of history. But it explains it more fully, more universally, than could those other “particular cases.” Dialectical materialism is the highest development of the materialist conception of history…Modern dialectical materialism is incomparably more fruitful in this respect. It is of course a particular case of the materialist view of history but precisely that particular case which alone corresponds to the modern condition of science…Modern dialectical materialism cannot discover the mechanical explanation of history [an editorial note says that “Plekhanov’s statement is radically at variance with the basic principles of Marxist-Leninist dialectics. Dialectical materialism has never aimed at reducing all natural and social phenomena to mechanics, at giving mechanical explanations of the origin and development of species and of the historic process. Mechanical motion is by no means the only form of motion”]…Dialectical materialism says that it is not the consciousness of men which determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness; that it is not in the philosophy but in the economics of a particular society that one must seek the key to understanding its particular condition.
Basically, he is saying that dialectical materialism ascertains how the geographical environment influences humans by providing them with a possibility of “developing their productive forces” and that it influences social relations which influence people’s views, customs, and physical development even more than the climate. He is also saying that this concept posits that the “social being” of humans determines their consciousness and that in economics of a society, rather than philosophy, one must “must seek the key to understanding its [society’s] particular condition.”
Two years earlier, G.V. Plekhanov used the term “dialectical materialism” but only said that this concept works to “overcome idealism” and that its task was “determined in advance.” More than Plekhanov, Vladimir Lenin defined the term, which is important since he was able to put it in action as a successful Russian revolutionary who led the Soviet Union for many years.
In 1908, Lenin became aware of dialectical materialism, apart from his writing about “the conceptions of many modern scientists and of their metaphysical (in the Marxist sense of the term, i.e., anti-dialectical) views” the same year, remarking on A. Deborin’s book, Dialectual Materialism. Reprinted below are the comments on dialectical materialism from Deborin himself:
As a world outlook, dialectical materialism provides an answer—not an absolute one, of course—to the question of the structure of matter, of the world; it serves as the basis of a most brilliant historical theory; on the basis of dialectical materialism, politics and morality become in a certain sense exact sciences. Being foreign to all dogmatism, dialectical materialism—correctly understood, of course—introduces everywhere a fresh stream of theoretico—cognitive criticism. In this article we intend to call the reader’s attention only to the theoretico-cognitive aspect of dialectical materialism, which in this case does not, as a method, as a guiding principle of investigation, provide absolute solutions to problems, but primarily assists in their proper framing. As a theory of knowledge, dialectical materialism falls into a formal, or logical, part and a real, or material, one…Categories, i.e., pure universal concepts, such as time, space, or causality, are, from the point of view of dialectical materialism, logical definitions, on the one hand, and real forms of things, on the other….Dialectical materialism attains the “absoluteness” and universality of cognition by declaring the forms to be universal, objectively real “perceptions.” On this rests the possibility of mathematical, or “geometrical” if you will, i.e., exact, cognition of reality. “Geometrical” space and “pure time” are universally real perceptions, and constitute the premise for the “mathematical” cognition of the sensuous world….But at the same time dialectical consciousness shows an ability to rise to the “conception” of nature as a “whole,” to the conception of the necessity, of the inherency, of the universal order of nature….Man cognises to the extent that he acts on, and he himself is subject to the action of, the external world. Dialectical materialism teaches that man is impelled to reflect chiefly by the sensations he experiences as he acts on the external world….Proceeding from the consideration that it is possible to dominate nature only by submitting to her, dialectical materialism calls upon us to coordinate our activity with the universal laws of nature, with the necessary order of things, with the universal laws of development of the world….Dialectical materialism puts material substance, the real substratum, at the basis of being. It has looked upon the world “as a process, as a substance, which is developing continuously” (Engels). The metaphysicists’ immutable and absolute being becomes mutable being. Substantial reality is recognised to be mutable, and changes and movements are recognised to be real forms of being. Dialectical materialism overcomes the dualism of “being” and “not-being,” the metaphysically absolute antithesis of the “immanent” to the“transcendental,” of the properties of things to the things themselves. On the basis of dialectical materialism, it becomes possible scientifically to connect the thing-in-itself with phenomena, and the immanent with the transcendental, and to surmount the incognisability of things-in-themselves, on the one hand, and the “subjectivism”of qualities, on the other, for “the nature of the thing,” as Plekhanov observes with very good reason, manifests itself precisely in its properties.”…From the point of view of dialectical materialism, the thing-in-itself is an object such as it exists in itself, and “for itself.”…Only on the basis of dialectical materialism, with its recognition of the external world, is the possibility presented of building a purely scientific theory of knowledge. He who rejects the external world also rejects the cause of our sensations and arrives at idealism. But the external world is also the ||principle|| of uniformity…Dialectical materialism by no means predetermines the question of the structure of matter in the sense of an obligatory recognition of the atomistic or corpuscular theory, or of any… And if the new theories of the structure of atoms are triumphant, dialectical materialism will not only not be confuted but, on the contrary, will be most brilliantly confirmed…hence, together with matter, also dialectical materialism, which considers matter as the sole reality and the only suitable ||tool|| for systematising experience….To sum up. From the formal aspect, dialectical materialism, as we have seen, makes universally obligatory and objective cognition possible thanks to the fact that, from its point of view, the forms of being are also forms of thinking, that to every change in the objective world there corresponds a change in the sphere of perceptions. As for the material aspect, dialectical materialism proceeds from the recognition of things-in-themselves or the external world or mailer. “Things-in-themselves” are cognisable. The unconditional and absolute is rejected by dialectical materialism. Everything in nature is in the process of change and motion, which are based on definite combinations of matter. According to dialectics, one “form” of being changes into another through leaps. Modern theories of physics, far from disproving, fully confirm the correctness of dialectical materialism.
In summary, Deborin says that dialectical materialism provides an answer to the structure of matter (what all material things are made of, occupying space and perceptible to the senses in some way) of the world and the basis of the “most brilliant historical theory,” being Marxism of course, assisting by properly framing problems. Categories like time (indefinite or unlimited duration in which things are considered to be happening in the past, present, or future; the entire period of existence of the known universe), space (three-dimensional, continuous expanse which extends in all directions and contains all matter), and causality (interrelation of cause and effect, connected with the principle that nothing happens or exists without a cause) are defined using “correct reasoning” with “valid induction or deduction,” while the “real forms” of these things (distinguishable entities) take on universal forms (shape, outline, or configuration of something). As such, this rests on possibility of an exact perception (mental grasp of objects, qualities, and other aspects, by the main senses; comprehension; awareness) of reality with space and time being real (existing or happening as in fact, being actual or true), which contributes to one’s perception, in the broadest sense, of the “sensuous world.” Dialectical materialism, as he puts it, also shows the ability to conceive nature as a whole which has a universal (present, occurring everywhere or in all things) order, with humans subject to the action of the external world, and can only “dominate nature only by submitting to her” meaning that humans must “coordinate our activity with the universal laws of nature, with the necessary order of things, with the universal laws of development of the world.” Furthermore, it puts “material substance…at the basis of being,” looking upon the world as a developing process, with changes and movements all the time. There is further a dualism (theory that the world is composed of two basic entities: mind and matter) of being or not being, meaning it becomes possible to scientifically “connect the thing-in-itself with phenomena,” with the “thing-in-itself” existing as “an object such as it exists in itself, and “for itself”” With this, it is possible to build “a purely scientific theory of knowledge,” recognize the “cause of our sensations,” and reject idealism, while not predetermining “the question of the structure of matter.” He writes that this concept considers matter as “the sole reality and the only suitable” way for “systematising experience” on Earth for humans and nature. As such it makes “universally obligatory and objective cognition possible” since it means that “forms of being are also forms of thinking” since “every change in the objective world…corresponds [to] a change in the sphere of perceptions.” In terms of the material aspect, it “proceeds from the recognition of things-in-themselves,” rejecting the “unconditional and absolute” since everything in “nature is in the process of change and motion, which are based on definite combinations of matter,” with one form of being changing into another “through leaps.”
…dialectical materialism insists on the approximate, relative character of every scientific theory of the structure of matter and its properties; it insists on the absence of absolute boundaries in nature, on the transformation of moving matter from one state into another, which is to us apparently irreconcilable with it, and so forth. However bizarre from the standpoint of “common sense” the transformation of imponderable ether into ponderable matter and vice versa may appear, however “strange” may seem the absence of any other kind of mass in the electron save electromagnetic mass, however extraordinary may be the fact that the mechanical laws of motion are confined only to a single sphere of natural phenomena and are subordinated to the more profound laws of electromagnetic phenomena, and so forth—all this is but another corroboration of dialectical materialism… The “essence” of things, or “substance,” is also relative; it expresses only the degree of profundity of man’s knowledge of objects; and while yesterday the profundity of this knowledge did not go beyond the atom, and today does not go beyond the electron and ether, dialectical materialism insists on the temporary, relative, approximate character of all these milestones in the knowledge of nature gained by the progressing science of man. The electron is as inexhaustible as the atom, nature is infinite, but it infinitely exists. And it is this sole categorical, this sole unconditional recognition of nature’s existence outside the mind and perception of man that distinguishes dialectical materialism from relativist agnosticism and idealism.
Bascially, Lenin is saying that dialectical materialism insists on no absolute boundaries in nature, with matter moving from one state to another, transforming, with the laws of motion and “electromagnetic phenomena” corroborating this concept. He is also saying that the essence of things, or its substance, is “relative” in that it expresses “only the degree of profundity of man’s knowledge of objects.” He also says that dialectical materialism insists on the “temporary, relative, approximate character of all these milestones in the knowledge of nature” which has been gained so far, with this concept distinguished from “relativist agnosticism and idealism.”
In 1914 he broached this subject once more. He wrote that the elements of dialectics are firstly, “determination of the concept out of itself,” secondly “the contradictory nature of the thing itself…[and] the contradictory forces and tendencies in each phenomenon,” later expanded by Mao Tse-Tung, and thirdly “union of analysis and synthesis.” More specifically, he defines the elements of dialectics to be:
- “objectivity of consideration”
- “entire totality of the manifold relations of this thing to others.”
- “development of this thing [or]…phenomenon…[with] its own movement, its own life”
- “internally contradictory tendencies (and sides) in this thing”
- “the thing (phenomenon, etc.) as the sum and unity of opposites“
- “the struggle, respectively unfolding, of these opposites, contradictory strivings, etc.”
- “the union of analysis and synthesis—the break-down of the separate parts and the totality, the summation of these parts.”
- “the relations of each thing (phenomenon, etc.) are not only manifold, but general, universal. Each thing (phenomenon, process, etc.) is connected with every other“
- “the unity of opposites [and]…the transitions of every determination, quality, feature, side, property into every other”
- “endless process of the discovery of new sides, relations, etc.”
- “endless process of the deepening of man’s knowledge of the thing, of phenomena, processes, etc., from appearance to essence and from less profound to more profound essence”
- “from co-existence to causality and from one form of connection and reciprocal
dependence to another, deeper, more general form.”
- “the repetition at a higher stage of certain features, properties, etc., of the lower and the apparent return to the old (negation of the negation)”
- “the struggle of content with form and conversely. The throwing off of the form, the transformation of the content”
- “transition of quantity into quality and vice versa“
Lenin mentioned the term “dialectical materialism” in another work the same year, but only talked about it in terms of dialectics and materialism, not the concept itself.
The following year, 1915, Lenin wrote about this topic again, saying that:
the splitting of a single whole and the cognition of its contradictory parts…is the essence (one of the “essentials,” one of the principal, if not the principal, characteristics or features) of dialectics…the correctness of this aspect of the content of dialectics must be tested by the history of science. This aspect of dialectics…usually receives inadequate attention: the identity of opposites is taken as the sum-total of examples…and not as a law of cognition (and as a law of the objective world)…The identity of opposites…is the recognition (discovery) of the contradictory, mutually exclusive, opposite tendencies in all phenomena and processes of nature (including mind and society). The condition for the knowledge of all processes of the world in their “self-movement,” in their spontaneous development, in their real life, is the knowledge of them as a unity of opposites… The unity (coincidence, identity, equal action) of opposites is conditional, temporary, transitory, relative. The struggle of mutually exclusive opposites is absolute, just as development and motion are absolute…Every universal only approximately embraces all the individual objects…Every individual is connected by thousands of transitions with other kinds of individuals (things, phenomena, processes) etc…Thus in any proposition we can (and must) disclose as in a “nucleus” (“cell”) the germs of all the elements of dialectics, and thereby show that dialectics is a property of all human knowledge in general. And natural science shows us (and here again it must be demonstrated in any simple instance) objective nature with the same qualities, the transformation of the individual into the universal, of the contingent into the necessary, transitions, modulations, and the reciprocal connection of opposites. Dialectics is the theory of knowledge of (Hegel and) Marxism…Dialectics as living, many-sided knowledge (with the number of sides eternally increasing), with an infinite number of shades of every approach and approximation to reality (with a philosophical system growing into a whole out of each shade)—here we have an immeasurably rich content as compared with “metaphysical” materialism…From
the standpoint of dialectical materialism, on the other hand, philosophical idealism is a one-sided, exaggerated…development (inflation, distension) of one of the features, aspects, facets of knowledge, into an absolute, divorced from matter, from nature…Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment, segment, section of this curve can be transformed…into an independent, complete, straight line, which then…leads into the quagmire, into clerical obscurantism (where it is anchored by the class interests of the ruling classes). Rectilinearity and one-sidedness, woodenness and petrification, subjectivism and subjective blindness—voilà the epistemological roots of idealism. And clerical obscrutantism (= philosophical idealism), of course, has epistemological roots, it is not groundless; it is a sterile flower undoubtedly, but a sterile flower that grows on the living tree of living, fertile, genuine, powerful, omnipotent, objective, absolute human knowledge.
Six years later, in 1921, Nikolai Bukharin, wrote on this topic. He sided with Josef Stalin and Soviet power from 1923 to 1928, while also serving as an editor of Pravda from 1918 to 1929, expelled from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1929 for his anti-Soviet thoughts, and tried in 1938 in one of the Moscow trials. Even so, he is considered a person who had a tireless dedication to “theoretical economics…and he was…one of the principal theoreticians of the Bolshevik Party.” He devoted chapter 3 of his 1921 book, Historical Materialism: A System of Sociology, to dialectical materialism, writing that:
In our consideration of the question of the human will, the question whether it is free, or determined by certain causes, like everything else in the world, we arrived at the conclusion that we must adopt the point of view of determinism. We found that the will of man is not divine in character, that it depends on external causes and on the conditions of the human organism. This brought us face to face with the most important question that has troubled the human mind for thousands of years – the question as to the relation between matter and mind…Let us try to consider it from as many standpoints as possible. First of all, we must bear in mind that man is a part of nature. We cannot know for certain whether other more highly organized creatures exist on other planets, although it is probable that such do exist, for the number of planets seems endless. But it is clearly apparent to us that the being called “man” is not a divine creature, standing outside of the world, projected from some other, unknown, mysterious universe, but, as we know from the natural sciences, he is a product and a portion of nature, subject to its general laws…we know that man has sprung from other animals, and that, after all, “living creatures” have been in existence on earth only for a time. When the earth was still a flaming sphere, resembling the sun today, long before it had cooled, there was no life on its surface, nor thinking creatures of any kind. Organic nature grew out of dead nature; living nature produced a form capable of thought. First, we had matter, incapable of thought; out of which developed thinking matter, man. If this is the case – and we know it is, from natural science – it is plain that matter is the mother of mind; mind is not the mother of matter…”mind” does not appear until we already have matter organized in a certain manner…Man’s brain, a part of man’s organism, thinks. And man’s organism is matter organized in a highly intricate form…it is quite clear from the above why matter may exist without mind, while “mind” may not exist without matter. Matter existed before the appearance of a thinking human; the earth existed long before the appearance of any kind of “mind” on its surface. In other words, matter exists objectively, independently of “mind”. But the psychic phenomena, the so called “mind”, never and nowhere existed without matter, were never independent of matter. Thought does not exist without a brain; desires are impossible unless there is a desiring organism…[as such] psychic phenomena, the phenomena of consciousness, are simply a property of matter organized in a certain manner, a “function” of such master…Now man is a very delicately organized creature…the state of “mind” of the consciousness, depends on the state of the organism…[there is] the dependence of consciousness on matter, or in other words, “of thought on life”…We have seen that psychical phenomena are a property of matter organized in a certain manner. We may therefore have various fluctuations, various forms of material organization, and also various forms of mental life. Man, with his brain, is organized in one manner…a true consciousness…On earth, this consciousness appears only when matter has been organized, as in the case of man, with his most complicated instrument, the brain in his head. Thus, mind cannot exist without matter, while matter may very well exist without mind; matter existed before mind; mind is a special property of matter organized in a special manner...It is not difficult to discern that idealism…is simply a diluted form of the religious conception according to which a divine mysterious power is placed above nature, the human consciousness being considered a little spark emanating from this divine power, and man himself a creature chosen by God. The idealistic point of view, if pursued to its conclusion, leads to a number of absurdities, which are often defined with a serious face by the philosophers of the ruling classes…Of course, the senile bourgeoisie, now drooling about God like a soft-brained old man, regards materialism with hatred. It is easy to understand that materialism necessarily will be the revolutionary theory of the young revolutionary class, the proletariat…But we have seen above that idealism involves an admission of the independence of ideas from the material, and of the dependence of these ideas on divine and mysterious springs. It is therefore obvious that the idealist point of view involves a downright mysticism, or other tomfoolery, in the social sciences, and consequently leads to a destruction of these sciences, to their substitution by faith in the acts of God or in some other such conception…Human society is a product of nature. Like the human race itself, it depends on nature and may exist only by obtaining its necessities from nature. This it does by the process of production. It may not always do so consciously; a conscious process is possible only in an organized society, in which everything proceeds according to a plan. In unorganized society, the process goes on unconsciously…the spiritual life of society must necessarily depend on the conditions of material production, on the stage that has been attained in the growth of the productive forces in human society. The mental life of society is a function of the forces of production… Materialism is therefore in a position to explain the phenomena of “mental life” in society, which idealism cannot, for idealism imagines “ideas” developing out of themselves, independently of the base earth…Even a hasty glance at nature will at once convince us that there is nothing immutable about it…The race and appearance of men are subject to change with everything else in the world…Evidently, that there is nothing immutable and rigid in the universe…Matter in motion: such is the stuff of this world…The world being in constant motion, we must consider phenomena in their mutual relations, and not as isolated cases. All portions of the universe are actually related to each other and exert an influence on each other. The slightest motion, the slightest alteration in one place, simultaneously changes everything else. The change may be great or small – that is another matter – at any rate, there is a change…All things in the universe are connected with an indissoluble bond nothing exists as an isolated object, independent of its surroundings…In the first place, therefore, the dialectic method of interpretation demands that all phenomena be considered in their indissoluble relations; in the second place, that they be considered in their state of motion…everything in the world is in a state of change, and indissolubly connected with everything else…while we may not always observe growth, there is always motion and alteration, though it may end in destruction or dissolution...It follows, in the first place, that we must consider and investigate each form of society in its own peculiar terms. We cannot throw into a single pot all epochs, periods, social forms…In the second place, each form must be studied in its internal process of change...In the third place, each form of society must be considered in its growth and in its necessary disappearance, i.e., in its relation with other forms...The basis of all things is therefore the law of change, the law of constant motion…The transformation of quantity into quality is one of the fundamental laws in the motion of matter; it may be traced literally at every step both in nature and society…Revolutions in society are of the same character as the violent changes in nature….They are prepared by the entire preceding course of development
In 1931, Bukharin, whom had fallen out of favor in the Soviet Union, again wrote on the topic of dialectical materialism, saying that “the crisis of present-day capitalist economy has produced a most profound crisis in the whole of capitalist culture; a crisis in individual branches of science, a crisis in epistemology, a crisis in world outlook, a crisis in world feeling.” To this, he added that
…both theory and practice are the activity of social man. If we examine theory not as petrified “systems,” and practice not as finished products–i.e., not as “dead” labour petrified in things, but in action, we shall have before us two forms of labour activity, the bifurcation of labour into intellectual and physical labour, “mental and material,” theoretical cognition and practical action…In actual fact we have in every class society divided labour and, consequently, a contradiction between intellectual and physical labour–i.e.. a contradiction between theory and practice. But, like every division of labour, here too it is a living unity of opposites. Action passes into cognition. Cognition passes into action. Practice drives forward cognition. Cognition fertilises practice…Practically–and, consequently, epistemologically–the external world is “given” as the object of active influence on the part of social, historically developing man. The external world has its history. The relations growing up between subject and object are historical…For, if the objective world is changed through practice and according to practice, which includes theory, this means, that practice verifies the truth of theory; and this means that we know to a certain extent (and come to know more and more) objective reality, its qualities, its attributes, its regularities…Cognition, considered historically, is the more and more adequate reflection of objective reality. The fundamental criterion of the correctness of cognition is therefore the criterion of its adequateness, its degree of correspondence to objective reality…Production is the real starting point of social development…just as development in natural history changes the forms of biological species, the historical development of society, with the movement of productive forces at its foundation, changes the socio-historic forms of labour, “social structures,” “modes of production,” together with which there changes the whole ideological superstructure, up to and including the “highest” forms of theoretical cognition and reflective illusions… In complete opposition to this comprehensible development, young Socialism is arising–its economic principle the maximum of technical economic power, planfulness, development of all human capacities and requirements its cultural-historical approach determined by the Marxist outlook: against religious metaphysics advancing dialectical materialism: against enfeebled intuitive contemplation, cognitive and practical activism: against flight into non-existent metempirical heavens, the sociological self-cognition of all ideologies: against the ideology of pessimism, despair, “fate,” fatum, the revolutionary optimism which overturns the whole world: against the complete disruption of theory and practice, their greatest synthesis: against the crystallisation of an “elite,” the uniting of the millions. It is not only a new economic system which has been born. A new culture has been born. A new science has been born. A new style of life has been born. This is the greatest antithesis in human history, which both theoretically and practically will be overcome by the forces of the proletariat–the last class aspirins to power, in order in the long run to put an end to all power whatsoever.
In 1937, Mao Tse-Tung (called this using the Wade–Giles romanticization system for Mandarin Chinese, often called “Mao Zedong” in the West) wrote on this topic in his well-known essay, “On Contradiction“:
The law of contradiction in things, that is, the law of the unity of opposites, is the basic law of materialist dialectics…Lenin often called this law the essence of dialectics; he also called it the kernel of dialectics… Throughout the history of human knowledge, there have been two conceptions concerning the law of development of the universe, the metaphysical conception and the dialectical conception, which form two opposing world outlooks…the world outlook of materialist dialectics holds that in order to understand the development of a thing we should study it internally and in its relations with other things; in other words, the development of things should be seen as their internal and necessary self-movement, while each thing in its movement is interrelated with and interacts on the things around it…As a matter of fact, even mechanical motion under external force occurs through the internal contradictoriness of things. Simple growth in plants and animals, their quantitative development, is likewise chiefly the result of their internal contradictions. Similarly, social development is due chiefly not to external but to internal causes. Countries with almost the same geographical and climatic conditions display great diversity and unevenness in their development. Moreover, great social changes may take place in one and the same country although its geography and climate remain unchanged…Changes in society are due chiefly to the development of the internal contradictions in society, that is, the contradiction between the productive forces and the relations of production, the contradiction between classes and the contradiction between the old and the new; it is the development of these contradictions that pushes society forward and gives the impetus for the supersession of the old society by the new…materialist dialectics…holds that external causes are the condition of change and internal causes are the basis of change, and that external causes become operative through internal causes… The universality or absoluteness of contradiction has a twofold meaning. One is that contradiction exists in the process of development of all things, and the other is that in the process of development of each thing a movement of opposites exists from beginning to end…The interdependence of the contradictory aspects present in all things and the struggle between these aspects determine the life of all things and push their development forward. There is nothing that does not contain contradiction; without contradiction nothing would exist. Contradiction is the basis of the simple forms of motion (for instance, mechanical motion) and still more so of the complex forms of motion…the universality of contradiction [manifests itself]…on mechanics [as] action and reaction…in physics [as] positive and negative electricity…in chemistry [as] the combination and dissociation of atoms…[and] in social science [as] the class struggle…In war, offence and defence, advance and retreat, victory and defeat are all mutually contradictory phenomena. One cannot exist without the other. The two aspects are at once in conflict and in interdependence, and this constitutes the totality of a war, pushes its development forward and solves its problems…Contradiction is present in the process of development of all things; it permeates the process of development of each thing from beginning to end. This is the universality and absoluteness of contradiction… the contradiction in each form of motion of matter has its particularity…Every form of society, every form of ideology, has its own particular contradiction and particular essence…Qualitatively different contradictions can only be resolved by qualitatively different methods…There are many contradictions in the course of development of any major thing…In studying a problem, we must shun subjectivity, one-sidedness and superficiality… In studying the particularities of the contradictions at each stage in the process of development of a thing, we must not only observe them in their interconnections or their totality, we must also examine the two aspects of each contradiction… It can thus be seen that in studying the particularity of any kind of contradiction–the contradiction in each form of motion of matter, the contradiction in each of its processes of development, the two aspects of the contradiction in each process, the contradiction at each stage of a process, and the two aspects of the contradiction at each stage–in studying the particularity of all these contradictions, we must not be subjective and arbitrary but must analyse it concretely. Without concrete analysis there can be no knowledge of the particularity of any contradiction…contradiction exists in and runs through all processes from beginning to end; motion, things, processes, thinking–all are contradictions. To deny contradiction is to deny everything. This is a universal truth for all times and all countries, which admits of no exception…in capitalist society the two forces in contradiction, the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, form the principal contradiction…But in another situation, the contradictions change position…Hence, if in any process there are a number of contradictions, one of them must be the principal contradiction playing the leading and decisive role, while the rest occupy a secondary and subordinate position. Therefore, in studying any complex process in which there are two or more contradictions, we must devote every effort to funding [finding?] its principal contradiction…while we recognize that in the general development of history the material determines the mental and social being determines social consciousness, we also–and indeed must–recognize the reaction of mental on material things, of social consciousness on social being and of the superstructure on the economic base…Nothing in this world develops absolutely evenly; we must oppose the theory of even development or the theory of equilibrium…no contradictory aspect can exist in isolation…There are two states of motion in all things, that of relative rest and that of conspicuous change. Both are caused by the struggle between the two contradictory elements contained in a thing…In identity there is struggle, in particularity there is universality, and in individuality there is generality…We may now say a few words to sum up. The law of contradiction in things, that is, the law of the unity of opposites, is the fundamental law of nature and of society and therefore also the fundamental law of thought. It stands opposed to the metaphysical world outlook. It represents a great revolution in the history of human knowledge… In studying the particularity and relativity of contradiction, we must give attention to the distinction between the principal contradiction and the non-principal contradictions and to the distinction between the principal aspect and the non-principal aspect of a contradiction; in studying the universality of contradiction and the struggle of opposites in contradiction, we must give attention to the distinction between the different forms of struggle.
With that, we can move onto what Mao wrote the following year in an essay titled “Dialectical Materialism.” Within it, he said that
All philosophical theories have been created by men belonging to a definite social class. The ideas of these men have moreover been historically determined by a definite social existence. All philosophical doctrines express the needs of a definite social class and reflect the level of development of the productive forces of society and the historical stage in men’s comprehension of nature…The distinguishing characteristic of Marxist philosophy — i.e., dialectical materialism — is its effort to explain clearly the class nature of all social consciousness (including philosophy). It publicly declares a resolute struggle between its own proletarian nature and the idealist philosophy of the propertied class. Moreover, it subordinates its own special and independent tasks to such general tasks as overthrowing capitalism, organizing and building a proletarian dictatorship, and edifying a socialist society… Idealism considers spirit (consciousness, concepts, the subject) as the source of all that exists on earth, and matter (nature and society, the object) as secondary and subordinate, Materialism recognizes the independent existence of matter as detached from spirit and considers spirit as secondary and subordinate…The recognition that matter exists independently and apart from consciousness in the external world is the foundation of materialism… Marx, Engels and Lenin all explained materialist dialectics as the theory of development… Materialist dialectics is the only scientific epistemology, and it is also the only scientific logic. Materialist dialectics studies the origin and development of our knowledge of the outside world. It studies the transition from not knowing to knowing and from incomplete knowledge to more complete knowledge; it studies how the laws of the development of nature and society are daily reflected more profoundly and more extensively in the mind of humanity. This is precisely the unity of materialist dialectics with epistemology… The very first condition for belonging to the materialist camp consists in recognizing the independent existence of the material world, separate from human consciousness — the fact that it existed before the appearance of humanity, and continues to exist since the appearance of humanity, independently and outside of human consciousness. To recognize this point is a fundamental premise of all scientific research… The first fundamental principle of dialectical materialism lies in its view of matter…principle of the unity of the world…Dialectical materialism…considers that rest or equilibrium are merely one element of movement, that they are merely one particular circumstance of movement…The causes of the transformation of matter is to be found not without, but within. It is not because of the impulsion of external mechanical forces, but because of the existence within the matter in question of two components different in their nature and mutually contradictory which struggle with one another, thus giving an impetus to the movement and development of the matter. Dialectical materialism investigate the development of the world as a progressive movement from the inorganic to the organic, and from thence to the highest form of the movement of matter (society). What we have just discussed is the theory of the movement of the world, or the principle of the development of the world in accordance with dialectical materialism. This doctrine is the essence of Marxist philosophy. If the proletariat and all revolutionaries take up this consistently scientific arm, they will then be able to understand this world, and transform the world.
Finally there is Josef Stalin, writing an essay in 1938 titled “Dialectical and Historical Materialism.” Since he covered similar ground to Mao, this makes him effectively his ideological contemporary, as you could call it. In this essay, Stalin writes that
Dialectical materialism is the world outlook of the Marxist-Leninist party. It is called dialectical materialism because its approach to the phenomena of nature, its method of studying and apprehending them, is dialectical, while its interpretation of the phenomena of nature, its conception of these phenomena, its theory, is materialistic. Historical materialism is the extension of the principles of dialectical materialism to the study of social life, an application of the principles of dialectical materialism to the phenomena of the life of society, to the study of society and of its history…Dialectics comes from the Greek dialego, to discourse, to debate….This dialectical method of thought, later extended to the phenomena of nature, developed into the dialectical method of apprehending nature, which regards the phenomena of nature as being in constant movement and undergoing constant change, and the development of nature as the result of the development of the contradictions in nature, as the result of the interaction of opposed forces in nature. In its essence, dialectics is the direct opposite of metaphysics…Contrary to metaphysics, dialectics does not regard nature as an accidental agglomeration of things, of phenomena, unconnected with, isolated from, and independent of, each other, but as a connected and integral whole, in which things, phenomena are organically connected with, dependent on, and determined by, each other…Contrary to metaphysics, dialectics holds that nature is not a state of rest and immobility, stagnation and immutability, but a state of continuous movement and change, of continuous renewal and development, where something is always arising and developing, and something always disintegrating and dying away…dialectics does not regard the process of development as a simple process of growth, where quantitative changes do not lead to qualitative changes, but as a development which passes from insignificant and imperceptible quantitative changes to open’ fundamental changes’ to qualitative changes; a development in which the qualitative changes occur not gradually, but rapidly and abruptly, taking the form of a leap from one state to another; they occur not accidentally but as the natural result of an accumulation of imperceptible and gradual quantitative changes. The dialectical method therefore holds that the process of development should be understood not as movement in a circle, not as a simple repetition of what has already occurred, but as an onward and upward movement, as a transition from an old qualitative state to a new qualitative state, as a development from the simple to the complex, from the lower to the higher…Contrary to metaphysics, dialectics holds that internal contradictions are inherent in all things and phenomena of nature, for they all have their negative and positive sides, a past and a future, something dying away and something developing; and that the struggle between these opposites, the struggle between the old and the new, between that which is dying away and that which is being born, between that which is disappearing and that which is developing, constitutes the internal content of the process of development, the internal content of the transformation of quantitative changes into qualitative changes. The dialectical method therefore holds that the process of development from the lower to the higher takes place not as a harmonious unfolding of phenomena, but as a disclosure of the contradictions inherent in things and phenomena, as a “struggle” of opposite tendencies which operate on the basis of these contradictions…If there are no isolated phenomena in the world, if all phenomena are interconnected and interdependent, then it is clear that every social system and every social movement in history must be evaluated not from the standpoint of “eternal justice” or some other preconceived idea, as is not infrequently done by historians, but from the standpoint of the conditions which gave rise to that system or that social movement and with which they are connected…Marx’s philosophical materialism holds that the world is by its very nature material, that the multifold phenomena of the world constitute different forms of matter in motion, that interconnection and interdependence of phenomena as established by the dialectical method, are a law of the development of moving matter, and that the world develops in accordance with the laws of movement of matter and stands in no need of a “universal spirit”…Marxist philosophical materialism holds that matter, nature, being, is an objective reality existing outside and independent of our consciousness; that matter is primary, since it is the source of sensations, ideas, consciousness, and that consciousness is secondary, derivative, since it is a reflection of matter, a reflection of being; that thought is a product of matter which in its development has reached a high degree of perfection, namely, of the brain, and the brain is the organ of thought; and that therefore one cannot separate thought from matter without committing a grave error…Marxist philosophical materialism holds that the world and its laws are fully knowable, that our knowledge of the laws of nature, tested by experiment and practice, is authentic knowledge having the validity of objective truth, and that there are no things in the world which are unknowable, but only things which are as yet not known, but which will be disclosed and made known by the efforts of science and practice…whatever the character of the relations of production may be, always and in every system they constitute just as essential an element of production as the productive forces of society…the productive forces are not only the most mobile and revolutionary element in production, but are also the determining element in the development of production…Five main types of relations of production are known to history: primitive communal, slave, feudal, capitalist and socialist.
A rough definition of dialectical materialism
Combining the ideas of Engels, Plekhanov, A. Deborin, Lenin, Bukharin, Mao, and Stalin, we can come to a rough definition of dialectical materialism, serving as a distinguishing characteristic of Marxist philosophy by attempting to explain the class nature of all social consciousness, which is a sharp weapon for the proletariat. Before giving a definition, it is worth saying that it overcomes idealism and stands opposed to the ideas of metaphysics. Mao adds that one should recognize the recognizing the reaction of mental on material things, social consciousness on one’s “social being” and the superstructure on the economic base in society, and that one must have a strong concrete analysis since, if the proletariat and all revolutionaries can take up this concept, they can understand and transform the world. The definition I have come up with, from combining the thoughts of each of these theorists, to give a general idea of the term itself, due to its importance in class struggle against the bourgeoisie, as as follows:
This concept frames problems by defining of time, space, and causality (interrelation of cause and effect), using valid deduction or induction and correct reasoning. The real forms (shape, outline, or configuration of something) these things, or distinguishable entities, take on, are universal in that they exist or happen in reality. This concept also posits that these things, and others have internal contradictions (things are contrary/opposition to each other), one of which has a major role, like tensions between the bourgeoisie and proletariat, and are dualistic, with a temporary/ transitory/conditional unity of opposites and inter-relation of things to each other. Furthermore, matter (what all material things are made of, which occupy space and are perceptible to the senses), which objectively exists apart from consciousness, has organized itself in a certain way with perfection and intricacy, as manifested in the “mind” of beings such as humans. As such, while the mind cannot exist without matter, matter can exist without a mind. While, this mind-matter distinction is present, the world is always changing and developing, with matter moving through an eternal cycle, with no absolutes, with forms changing from one into another since nothing is rigid or immutable. In such a universe, all matter and the Earth, for example, are in constant motion or movement, with all portions of the universe inter-related, exerting an influence on each other. As a result, no one object or thing is independent from its surroundings, with everything connected to everything else, with all phenomena are interconnected and interdependent. As for humans, they have the ability to conceive nature as a universal, in that it occurs everywhere or in all things, with humans as part and products of nature. For example, a geographical environment influences humans and social relations, a person’s will depends on external factors and internal conditions within a human, while appearance and race of humans can change over time. Additionally, human society, the highest form of matter’s movement, is a product of nature, with a conscious process occurring in societies which are organized, and nothing in the world developing absolutely evenly. As a result, every social system and every social movement in history must be evaluated from the standpoint of the conditions which gave rise to that system or that social movement and with which they are connected. At the same time, this concept means that the world and its laws are fully knowable, since we know objective reality to a certain extent, and that there are no things in the world which are unknowable, but only things which are as yet not known, disclosed by efforts of science and practice. This means that we need to understand development of a thing, by studying it internally and in its relations with other things, with each thing interrelated with and interacting with the things around it. In sum, human knowledge follows a curve or a spiral which can be transformed into an independent, complete, and straight line.
This is much more simple than what Sandino Morazan wrote in Anti-Conquesta, which defines itself as the “Communist Party of the Latin American and Caribbean Diaspora…[which is] dedicated to exposing and fighting the capitalist-imperialist system…[providing] analysis of the region’s current events and history from a communist, anti-imperialist, anti-racist, Third Worldist and pan-Latin American perspective.” Morazan wrote that the biggest error, of too many, is failing to “properly study Marx’s writings and those of his ideological successors,” instead relying on “solely on watered-down interpretations by bourgeois “scholars” who misread Marx and have never done anything tangible for the world.” He continue by summing up dialectical materialism as “an approach to understanding and changing objective reality, both in nature and society.” He then defined the concept itself.
Proof of dialectical materialism
After defining this concept, it is important to provide proof in the world (and universe) as a whole, when it comes to human and animal actions. It is because, as Stalin pointed out in 1938 (as quoted earlier in this article), the application of the principles of dialectical materialism to social life, to a study of society and its history, is historical materialism, basically a subset of dialectical materialism. That will be covered in a later article in detail. With this, we begin the proof!
In humans, the inner ends of the eyebrows are raised, a “thing” which is part of the human body, and corners of the mouth are depressed when a person is suffering from anxiety or grief. The same is the case for different muscles which come into action due to other emotions. This shows the inter-relation of things to each other. This is especially the case since muscles are connected in intimate ways, with “sympathy between ears and eyes,” which can be said to constitute the “unity of opposites,” as ears and eyes have different (but related) functions, which is part of dialectical materialism. At the same time, the closest relatives of humans, apes, have similar facial muscles, this means that it is “very improbable” that these muscles, for humans, serve exclusively for expression. Not only does this show interconnection of beings, apes and humans in this instance, but it means that nothing is rigid, immutable, or has an absolute. As Charles Darwin put it, “as long as man and all other animals are viewed as independent creations, an effectual stop is put on our natural desire to investigate as far as possible the causes of Expression.” As such, humans and other animals (and all animal life on Earth, along with in the universe as a whole) are not “independent creations” but are part of nature, inter-dependent and interconnected with each other. Furthermore, movement of body features of humans to express emotions are the same across races, while “conventional expressions or gestures” may be different. With this, it is clear that humans, and their social relations, are influenced of their geographical environments. Darwin further writes, in his 1872 book, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals that
Certain complex actions are of direct and indirect service under certain states of mind, in order to relieve or gratify certain sensations, desires, etc…certain states of the mind lead to certain habitual actions…when the sensorium [parts of the brain that receive, process and interpret sensory stimuli] is strongly excited, nerve-force is generated in excess and in transmitted in certain definite directions, depending on the connection of the nerve-cells, and partly on habit.
This shows the inter-related nature of the parts of the body, with nothing independent of its surroundings. As for other animals, they have similar strong behaviors. When a dog approaches another strange dog or human in a hostile frame of mind, he walks stiffly and upright, with a slightly raised head, a tail which is erect and rigid, with hairs along the neck and back bristling, and pricked airs directed forward, with a fixed stare toward his enemy, with the intention to attack. In preparation of such a move, a dog puts out a growl, with uncovered canine teeth. This shows the awareness of other beings by the dog, the connection of the realities of different beings. Similar to the dog, a cat, when it is threatened by a dog, arches its back, erects its hair, opens its mouth and spits, intending to attack its enemy. As Darwin adds elsewhere, the “power of intercommunication is…of high service to many animals,” between their own species, and evidently with other species.
There are other instances of inter-relation between parts of the human body. Secretions of the alimentary canal and certain glands, like the liver and kidneys, are “effects by strong emotions.” At the same time, the vaso-motor system, regulating the diameter of small arteries, is acted upon by the sensorium, including when a human blushes from shame.
That’s enough summarizing of Darwin’s work. We can move onto Riane Ensler’s The Chalice and the Blade in which she describes the uniqueness of humans and their power over the little blue planet (Earth):
Of all the life-forms on this planet, only we can plant and harvest fields, compose poetry and music, seek truth and justice, teach a child to read and write—or even laugh and cry. Because of our unique ability to imagine new realities and realize these through ever more advanced technologies, we are literally partners in our own evolution…yet [our]…species…seems bent on putting an end…to its own evolution…[and] that of most life on our globe, threatening our planet with ecological catastrophe or nuclear annihilation. Clearly, there is a conscious process occurring here, as in all organized societies, as posited as part of dialectical materialism.
In terms of human knowledge following a curve or a spiral, this relates to what Eisler talks about: a cultural shift from ancient societies when there were societies which were not “male dominant, violent, and hierachic” to those which were the opposition, worshiping the power to “take rather and give life,” establishing and enforcing domination. She also writes that the way “we structure the most fundamental human relations…has a profound effect on every one of our institutions…our values, and…the direction of our cultural evolution, particularly whether it will be peaceful or warlike.” As such, this connects to the concept of dialectical materialism.
On a related note, is the difference of language among humans, as noted by David Crystal. Indigenous peoples are not disabled by their language when they use it within their own community, even though some thought, in racist terms, that such peoples only spoke “simply” and Europeans spoke more complexly. At the same time, for all humans, language is used for emotional expression, social interaction, controlling reality, recording facts, instrument of thought, or expression of identity, showing that language is not static, which is important as its formal properties, such as “word order and sentence sequencing” constitute the medium through which our “connected thoughts can be presented and organized.” Such a reality fits with dialectical materialism completely.
What about the claim that human society is part and product of nature? Well, in the long perspective of world history, humans are newcomers to the historical scene, since life on Earth reaches back 3 billion years, with birds and mammals appearing about 130 million years ago, with modern humans (homo sapiens) not appearing until 250,000 years ago, at most. Furthermore, humans descended from ape-like species, with the home of early hominids being equatorial Africa and quickly spreading across the world, with the ability of humans to adopt themselves to environmental changes of the ice ages of the Pleistocene era serving as a “crucial factor” in their survival and in their ability to dominate other species in the years to come. It would not be until 8,000 BCE that humans would begin to “select, breed, domesticate and cultivate various species of plant and animal.”
This brings us to another claim about humans, as posited by dialectical materialism: that appearance and race of humans can change over time. The former is undeniably the case. This is because, as the Smithsonian Institution put it, on their page about human origins:
For millions of years all humans, early and modern alike, had to find their own food. They spent a large part of each day gathering plants and hunting or scavenging animals. Then, within just the past 12,000 years, our species, Homo sapiens, made the transition to producing food and changing our surroundings. We have been so successful that we have inadvertently created a turning point in the history of life on Earth.
Apart from that, scientists discovered that just in the last hundred years, humans have become taller, but also fatter and live longer than any time in human history, with these changes due to differences in “nutrition, food distribution, health care and hygiene practices.” With this, it is no surprise to say, with certainty, that human evolution is not over. Apart from these changes over the past 100 years, the human brain has changed over time, as noted by John Hawks, University of Wisconsin–Madison anthropology professor, in Scientific American:
…Across nearly seven million years, the human brain has tripled in size, with most of this growth occurring in the past two million years…For the first two thirds of our history, the size of our ancestors’ brains was within the range of those of other apes living today…The final third of our evolution saw nearly all the action in brain size…From here the species embarked on a slow upward march, reaching more than 1,000 ml by 500,000 years ago. Early Homo sapiens had brains within the range of people today, averaging 1,200 ml or more. As our cultural and linguistic complexity, dietary needs and technological prowess took a significant leap forward at this stage, our brains grew to accommodate the changes. The shape changes we see accentuate the regions related to depth of planning, communication, problem solving and other more advanced cognitive functions. With some evolutionary irony, the past 10,000 years of human existence actually shrank our brains. Limited nutrition in agricultural populations may have been an important driver of this trend. Industrial societies in the past 100 years, however, have seen brain size rebound, as childhood nutrition increased and disease declined. Although the past does not predict future evolution, a greater integration with technology and genetic engineering may catapult the human brain into the unknown.
What about the change in race of humans over time? It is already clear that a human’s melanin is responsible for a person’s skin color or pigment. At the same time, the skin color given to a person, through their melanin, is “primarily determined by genetic inheritance” but can also be altered by sunlight. As Dennis O’Neil of the Behavioral Sciences Department of Palomar College in San Marcos, California notes:
Human skin color is quite variable around the world. It ranges from a very dark brown among some Africans, Australian Aborigines, and Melanesians to a near yellowish pink among some Northern Europeans. There are no people who actually have true black, white, red, or yellow skin. These are commonly used color terms that do not reflect biological reality. Skin color is due primarily to the presence of a pigment called melanin, which is controlled by at least 6 genes. Both light and dark complexioned people have melanin. However, two forms are produced–pheomelanin, which is red to yellow in color, and eumelanin, which is dark brown to black. People with light complexioned skin mostly produce pheomelanin, while those with dark colored skin mostly produce eumelanin. In addition, individuals differ in the number and size of melanin particles….Hair color is also due to the presence of melanin. Melanin is normally located in the epidermis, or outer skin layer. It is produced at the base of the epidermis by specialized cells called melanocytes. These cells have photosensitive receptors, similar to those in the eye, that detect ultraviolet radiation from the sun and other sources. In response, they produce melanin within a few hours of exposure…Before the mass global migrations of people during the last 500 years, dark skin color was mostly concentrated in the southern hemisphere near the equator and light color progressively increased farther away, as illustrated in the map below. In fact, the majority of dark pigmented people lived within 20º of the equator. Most of the lighter pigmented people lived in the northern hemisphere north of 20º latitude, where ultraviolet radiation is much less intense on average.
As for race, the dominant position in scholarship is that the concept of race is a “modern phenomenon, at least in Europe and the Americas” while some scholars think that racism, “even absent a developed race concept, may have existed in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds.”
This brings us to a number of other claims about humans, which are posited by dialectical materialism. Within the Aristotelian traditions, for one to “act in accordance with nature means to take into account the real definition of each thing when dealing with it,” which connects with the idea of nature as universal conceived by humans. As for a person’s will depending on external factors and internal conditions within a human, I turn to German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. This is because he coined the term “will,” saying the closest we will ever come to having a direct experience of a manifestation of cosmic energy is our own act(s) of will, which we experience from within the “otherwise inexplicable go, drive, force, energy” which is “instantiated in physical movements.” It is something, as he puts it, with no personality, mind or intelligence, no aims or goals.
And what about the claim that the mind cannot exist without matter? For one, it is clear that everything humans experience are made of molecules, with humans made up of 7 octillion atoms which are “mostly empty space” but never touch each other. Secondly, every atom in in a human body is billions of years old, meaning that humans are basically stardust as some have been saying for years, and are carbon-based lifeforms. At the same time, much of the control of a person’s action comes from the unconscious part of the brain. With this being the case, since stardust, or even carbon, is a form of matter, it means that matter forms the mind.
A related claim is that matter can exist without a mind. This is undeniably the case since water is needed for the human body to function properly, constituting a form of matter, apart from the mind:
…Water is of major importance to all living things; in some organisms, up to 90% of their body weight comes from water. Up to 60% of the human adult body is water. …the brain and heart are composed of 73% water, and the lungs are about 83% water. The skin contains 64% water, muscles and kidneys are 79%, and even the bones are watery: 31%…Water’s “stickiness”…plays a part in our body’s ability to transport these materials all through ourselves. The carbohydrates and proteins that our bodies use as food are metabolized and transported by water in the bloodstream. No less important is the ability of water to transport waste material out of our bodies.
What about the claims that no one object or thing is independent from its surroundings, with everything interconnected and interdependent, interacting with the things around it? For humans, this is clear. Just look at the 1993 book, The World’s Best Anatomical Charts. The first page, on the muscular system, shows muscles working together. The same is clear on the next page, on the skeletal system. This is similarly the nervous system, the lymphatic system, and the digestive system, with other systems, like the respiratory system, concentrated in specific parts of the body, not the body as a whole. This relates to what Carl Sagan wrote in Dragons of Eden about organisms, mammals, and humans on Earth and gives a warning, talking about an ever-changing world:
Most organisms on Earth depend on their genetic information, which is “prewired” into their nervous systems, to a much greater extent than their extragenetic information…for humans, and indeed for all mammals, it is the other way around. While our [human] behavior is still significantly controlled by our genetic inheritance, we have, through our brains, a much richer opportunity to blaze new behavioral and cultural pathways on short time scales…human beings have, in the most recent tenth of a percent of our existence, invented not only extragenetic but extrasomatic knowledge: information stored outside our bodies, of which writing is the most notable example…we live in a time when our world is changing at an unprecedented rate. While the changes are largely of our own making, they cannot be ignored. We must adjust or adapt and control, or parish.
He also writes, later on, that the workings of the brain, which is sometimes called the mind, is the consequence of the action “of the components of the brain, severally or collectively,” with some processes being the function of the brain as a whole.
With these claims of dialectical materialism proven, it brings us to a number of other claims: that the world is always changing and developing, forms changing from one into another, with all matter, across the universe, and on Earth, in constant movement or motion. Sagan addresses this in his first chapter, writing about how the Earth is “very old” and humans “very young,” proceeded by an “awesome vista of time,” adding that
…we are able to date events in the remote past. Geological stratification and radioactive dating provide information on archaeological, paleontological and geological events; and astro-physical theory provides data on the ages of planetary surfaces, stars, and the Milky Way Galaxy, as well as an estimate of the time that has elapsed since that extraordinary event called the Big Bang—an explosion that involved all the matter and energy in the present universe. The Big Bang may be the beginning of the universe, it it may be a discontinuity in which information about the earlier history of the universe was destroyed. But it is certainly the earliest event about which we have any record. The most instructive way to express this cosmic chronology is to imagine the fifteen-billion-year lifetime of the universe…since the Big Bang…compressed into the span of a single year. Then every billion years of Earth history would correspond to about twenty-four years of our cosmic year, and one second of that year to 475 real revolutions of the Earth about the sun…[under this model] the Earth does not condense out of interstellar matter until early September; dinosaurs emerge on Christmas Eve; flowers arise on December 28th; and men and women originate at 10:30 P.M. on New Year’s Eve. All of recorded history occupies the last ten seconds of December 31; and the time from the waning of the Middle Ages to the present occupies a little more than one second…it is clear that what happens on and near Earth at the beginning of the second cosmic year will depend very much on the scientific wisdom and the distinctly human sensitivity of mankind.
This shows that the concepts inherent to dialectical materialism saying that all portions of the universe inter-related, exerting an influence on each other, and that time is universal since it exists or happens in reality are accurate. This also relates to what he writes later: that the contention that half or more of the brain is unused is false, with the reality, being, instead, that there is “localization of brain function,” with brain sites concerned with balance, thermal regulation, appetite, blood circulation, breathing, and precision movements, with certain parts of the brain more important than others. In terms of fish, sharks are the smartest of all, consistent with “their ecological niche,” Sagan writes. He also writes about possible civilizations on other planets, if they even exist. He says, on page 230, that the number of advanced civilizations in the Milky Way depends on many factors, but that their evolutionary path would be different from that which is taken on Earth. Hence, the universe does not have a static nature.
This brings us to a number of other claims, of dialectical materialism: that nothing in the world develops absolutely evenly, and that things have internal contradictions (and are dualistic). On the first claim, this should be profoundly evident. As The 21st Century Atlas notes, just by looking at its world maps, on page after page, there are different geographical environments across the world, including different bodies of water and mountain ranges, plateaus, and other natural features. There are also over 190 countries, numerous different time zones, varied overseas territories/dependencies of certain countries (Australia, New Zealand, UK, U$, France, Denmark, Portugal, Netherlands, and Norway), differing international organizations, broad language and religious distribution. Clearly, nothing in the world can develop evenly with these factors! In terms of things having internal contradictions and being dualistic, consider an atom. It has electrons, negatively charged, protons with a negative charge, and neutrons in the nucleus of the atom itself. As such, protons and electrons repel each other, serving as a contradiction, while neutrons are “electrically neutral” meaning they do not have a charge, with protons and neutrons much larger than electrons. In terms of one contradiction taking precedence over others, this would be the case in the atom’s nucleus, which consists of much of the atom’s mass, since it “carries a positive electrical charge” and electrons move around outside the nucleus.
That brings us to a number of other claims. The first of these is that forms of time, space, and causality become universal when they exist or happen in reality. Carl Sagan tackles this straight on another of his books, writing that
We live in an expanding Universe, vast and ancient beyond ordinary human understanding. The galaxies it contains are rushing away from one another, the remnants of an immense explosion, the Big Bang…our own Universe is about 15 billion years past its origin, or at least since its present incarnation, the Big Bang…Our Universe is composed of some hundred billion galaxies, one of which is the Milky Way. “Our Galaxy,” we like to call it, although we certainly do not have possession of it. It is composed of gas and dust and about 400 billion suns…the Universe is expanding; all the galaxies are running away from each other…if it [the Universe] contains a great deal of matter, the gravity exercised by all this matter will slow down and stop the expansion. An expanding Universe will be converted into a collapsing Universe…if there is not enough matter, the expansion will continue forever.
This connects us to another other claims of dialectical materialism: that the world and its laws are fully knowable, since we know objective reality to a certain extent. These scientific “laws,” which some don’t like to call laws, including, but not limited to: Isaac Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation (called Law of Gravity for short), Law of Conservation of Mass, Law of Constant Composition (also called the Law of Definite Proportions), Newton’s Laws of Motion, Hubble’s Law of Cosmic Expansion, Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion, Laws of Thermodynamics, and have a basis in the universe. Related to this is Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, Archimedes’ Buoyancy Principle, the Big Bang Theory, Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity, and Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, since none of these are scientific laws.
Stephen Hawking mentioned this in a Brief History of Time, saying that there are laws telling us how the universe changes with time and it is “equally reasonable to supposed there are also laws governing the initial state.” Even without a unified theory for the entire universe, laws still govern the universe as a whole, with the universe having a beginning and an end as implied by Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, with Einstein never believing the universe was “governed by chance.” With this, one can see that no things in the world (or universe) are unknowable, only that there are things which are as yet not known, disclosed by efforts of science and practice.
While none of those mentioned so far is Marxist, their ideas prove the reality of dialectical materialism in the world today! In sum, dialectical materialism can clearly be applied to human society. What comes next is a discussion of historical materialism, inter-related and connected to dialectical materialism, as noted earlier.
It is more than how dictionary.com and Wikipedia/New World Encyclopedia define it: as a Marxist theory or expression of Marxism, saying that Marxism is a “materialist worldview with a dialectical method” which maintains “the material basis of a reality constantly changing in a dialectical process and the priority of matter over mind.” Others, particularly the thefreedictionary.com, encyclopedia.com,
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ulturalstudiesnow declare it is the “Marxian interpretation of reality that views matter as the sole subject of change and all change as the product of a constant conflict between opposites” which arise from internal contradictions, that it is inter-related to historical materialism (Marxist theory holding that social institutions and ideas develop as the “superstructure of a material economic base” as dictionary.com says), that the term was coined by “G. V. Plekhanov, the Russian Marxist…in an article published in 1891,” that it is “meant to provide both a general world view and a specific method for the investigation of scientific problems” since it believes that “everything is material and that change takes place through
the struggle of opposites” or that it “
drives social change through the reciprocal relations between contradicting social factors, factors which have to do first and foremost with material considerations of economy and class, with ideology is a product of these considerations.”
Page 284 of Webster’s New World College Dictionary (fourth edition), defines cognition as “the process of knowing in the broadest possible sense, including perception, memory, and judgment” and the “result of a process; perception, conception.” I have combined both definitions above. The phrase “defined using “correct reasoning” with “valid induction or deduction,” used above derives from page 844, of the same book, for “logical,” but in the text Deborin used the term “logically.” The phrase “what all material things are made of, occupying space and perceptible to the senses in some way” derives from page 888 of the same book, which defines matter, also saying that “in modern physics, matter and energy are regarded as equivalents.” The phrase “interrelation of cause and effect, connected with the principle that nothing happens or exists without a cause” derives from page 233 of the same book in a definition for the word, causality. The phrase “three-dimensional, continuous expanse which extends in all directions and contains all matter” derives from page 1372 of the same book in a definition for the word, space. The phrase “indefinite or unlimited duration in which things are considered to be happening in the past, present, or future; the entire period of existence of the known universe” derives from page 1499 of the same book in a definition for the word, time. The phrase “existing or happening as in fact, being actual or true” derives from page 1193 of the same book in a definition for the word, real. The phrase “distinguishable entities” derives from page 1488 of the same book in a definition of the word, thing. The phrase “shape, outline, or configuration of something” derives from page 555 of the same book in a definition of the word, form. The phrase “present, occurring everywhere or in all things” derives from page 1563 of the same book in a definition of the word, universal. The phrase “mental grasp of objects, qualities, and other aspects, by the mans of senses; comprehension; awareness” derives from page 168 of the same book in a definition of the word, perception.
The phrase “theory that the world is composed of two basic entities: mind and matter” derives from page 439 of Webster’s New World College Dictionary (fourth edition), in the definition of the word, dualism.
This connects to Stalin’s contention, deriving from other Marxist theorists, that there are five main types of relations of production are known to history: primitive communal, slave, feudal, capitalist and socialist. The latter is hopefully on the way! Also Bukrarin, as quoted above, says that “we must consider and investigate each form of society in its own peculiar terms. We cannot throw into a single pot all epochs, periods, social forms…each form must be studied in its internal process of change…each form of society must be considered in its growth and in its necessary disappearance…in its relation with other forms…Revolutions in society are of the same character as the violent changes in nature….They are prepared by the entire preceding course of development.” Stalin, as quoted above, says that “historical materialism is the extension of the principles of dialectical materialism to the study of social life, an application of the principles of dialectical materialism to the phenomena of the life of society, to the study of society and of its history.”
For this approach, in his view, materialism means a “philosophical view where matter is the primary and determinant substance in the natural world” with all “things, including ideas and consciousness, are a result of interactions between matter,” maintaining that “interactions between material substances in reality determine ideas and consciousness,” guided by “science and objective reality.” As for dialectic, it is a “philosophical method of understanding the way things are and how they change” which was for Marx and Engels, adopted from “their ideological predecessor, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel” and updated with a “materialist understanding of reality.” The dialectic is basically grounded in “scientific principles applied in quantum mechanics and astronomy,” maintaining that “all things that exist in the universe are interconnected processes in constant motion,” meaning we live in a universe of processes, not “things.” Furthermore, he adds that a “dialectical approach to studying human development recognizes that humans are extensions of nature and are constantly evolving and changing based on their material conditions,” meaning it is “ideologically bankrupt to create universal value judgements about humans while different standards of living exist.” Connected to this are “three central laws of the dialectic” which are “unity of opposites…passage of quantitative changes into qualitative changes…[and] the negation of the negation.” The first of these means that “all processes that exist in the universe contain two contradictory elements that form a larger totality…[which] are diametrically opposed to one another, they are also co-dependent on each other” which in a “dialectical relationship between polar opposites, one element is dominant over another.” The second of these means that “when one component of a particular process increases in quantity and becomes the dominant component, a qualitative shift occurs in the totality of the process.” The last of these “explains the cycle of development that all processes undergo,” maintaining that when “all processes come into being, wither away and later come back in a new, higher and evolved form.” He then adds the importance of the combination of dialectics and materialism into a concept called dialectical materialism, which “Marx and his ideological successors” applied to society specifically, developing the idea of historical materialism. As such, he divided the “entirety of human history into six eras: primitive communism, slave society, feudalism, capitalism and socialism,” with a “change in material conditions gives rise to increased conflict between two opposing classes,” within each era, with the last era the one to come. He ends by writing that: “Materialism demonstrates that changes in material conditions lead to social revolutions, forcing society into new eras of struggle between two contending classes. This has been the case in all preceding eras of society…the dialectic explains the nature of these societal changes, especially as it relates to their composition and motion…The dialectical law of the unity of opposites also explains how within each era of society, two diametrically opposed classes are dependent on each other…the dialectical law of the negation of the negation explains how humans are and have been transitioning from communalism to class society (slavery, feudalism, capitalism) to socialism and communism…In summation, dialectical materialism is the science of Marxism that produced the theory of historical materialism, which serves as a guide to what’s possible for humanity. Ultimately, it is a guide for carrying out global revolution and liberating the workers and oppressed peoples of the world, especially in the Third World.”
Charles Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965, originally published in 1872), pp 3, 5, 7, 10, 12, 15, 17.
Ibid, pp 28-29.
Ibid, pp 51, 52, 54, 56, 58, 61, 63, 64. Pages 52 and 54 show a dog in this state, with 58 being the same for the cat.
Ibid, pp 68, 69.
Raine Eisler, The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (New York: HarperCollins, 1988, paperpack edition), pp xiii-xiv, xvi, xvii, xviii, xix.
David Crystal, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1987), pp 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.
The Times Concise Atlas of World History (ed. Geoffrey Barraclough, Maplewood, NJ: Hammond Incorporated, 1982), pp 2, 4, 6.
Bryan Magee, The Story of Thought: The Essential Guide to the History of Western Philosophy (New York: Quality Paperback Bookclub,1998), pp 140-141.
Brian Clegg, “20 amazing facts about the human body,” The Guardian, Jan 26, 2013; S.E. Gould, “Why Are Humans Made Of Carbon? Chemist Points To Electrons, Molecular Bonds,” HuffPost, Nov 13, 2012.
Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (New York: Random House, 1977), pp 3-4, 7.
Ibid, pp 13, 17. The whole chapter is pages 13-17, with a number of graphics, including one of the “cosmic calendar” on page 15.
Ibid, pp 30-31, 33, 38.
The 21st Century Atlas (Italy: Trident Press International, 2000), pp 22-47.
Carl Sagan, Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millenium (New York: Random House, 1997), pp 45-46, 51.
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The cause, the science, how it affect you and what can you do about it.
For 90% of the women, they started to experience premenstrual syndromes (PMS) like bloating, moodiness, headache one or two weeks before the period starts, and it become worse through age. For some people, these syndromes could be bearable, but for others, these could be severely interfering their daily routine. Women are most likely to experience PMS in our 30s, however, it is possible to relieve the syndrome through diet and lifestyle changes.
What is the cause of PMS?
To understand how it works, first we need to know about two female hormones: estrogen and progesterone. Estrogen is responsible for female physical features and reproduction. It brings out the physical changes that turn a girl into a woman - growth of breast and hip, pubic and underarm hair, and most importantly, starts of menstrual cycle. Estrogen also increase serotonin (a happy chemical) in the brain, which helps women adjust our mood, sleep and appetite. Progesterone, on the other hand, prepare women's body for conception, pregnancy and regulates the menstrual cycle, it also plays a role in sexual desire. Changes in progesterone levels can alter one's mood and sense of well-being because the metabolite of progesterone is a GABA-A (gamma-Aminobutyric acid) receptor agonist. GABA-A is the main neurotransmitter that plays a role in promoting calmness, good mood, and sleep, and the GABA function increases when progesterone level raises.
The exact cause of PMS is unknown, however, the current science shows that changes in hormone levels play a big role. Briefly saying - PMS could be the result of bad coordination of these hormone and brain chemicals. Our estrogen and progesterone peaks and troughs throughout the menstrual cycle, which influenced serotonin and GABA that affecting our behaviour, emotions, and thoughts.
How hormone level changes in different phases throughout the menstrual cycle?
On average, the menstrual cycle is about 28 days, but not everyone is the same, a healthy range is about 25 - 35 days. There are follicular phase, ovulation phase and luteal phase during the menstrual cycle. From day 1 to day 14 is the follicular phase which follicles in the ovary will mature and it ends with ovulation, you could see this phase as the first-half of the cycle. The ovulation phase can be different for women, but typically is from day 15 to day 18. This is the phase that a mature egg is released from the ovarian follicles into the oviduct. And after the ovulation to when we bleed, is the the luteal phase and this ends as we f, and could see this as the second-half of the cycle.
We can see our period as a body natural detox or a reset. During the follicular phase, our estrogen starting to raise, which increase the serotonin and modify the production of endorphin in the brain. Those are the chemicals that responsible for our happiness, make us feel important, soothe the anxiety, also diminish our perception of pain. After the ovulation, our body prepares for a possible pregnancy, therefore the progesterone is produced, peaks and then drops when the pregnancy failed, which initiate the period; as the progesterone decrease, it also affect the GABA function. GABA's job is to produce relaxation, analgesia and sleep. Poor GABA function may allow for increased excitatory neurotransmitter activity, which often results in poor sleep, anxiety, and other mood concerns. Other symptoms such as bloating, cramping, or stomach pain are also related to other hormonal changes. Recent research suggest that the bloating may related to progesterone inhibits aldosterone (a hormone in the kidney) that leading to water retention. Cramping are most likely caused by an excessive of prostaglandins (a hormone-like compounds that are released from the uterine lining as it prepares to be shed) - it helps the uterus contract and relax, so our endometrium can detach and flow out of our body. However, when they are excessive, they will cause pain when the uterus contracts strongly. The rest of symptoms and pains could be due to bad diet that leads to chronic inflammation, alcohol consumption, lack/too much of exercise, and stress. Additionally, brain and mood changes may increased the sensitivity to those symptoms.
How hormone level changes affect on the skin and appetite?
A number of studies have shown that estrogen have many important beneficial and protective roles in skin physiology. It is associated with increased collagen production, skin thickness, skin hydration, wound healing, and improved barrier function. Nevertheless, during the luteal phase, there is not enough estrogen to promote its “anti-sebum” effects. Sebum is an oily substance secrets by the skin and influenced by our sex hormone, such as androgen, therefore cause more pores to be clogged and breakouts to occur. Other theories suggest that hormonal acne might be caused by a deficiency or imbalance of progesterone to estrogen ratios. However, more research is needed.
Evidence also shows that estrogen inhibits food intake by exerts major effects on leptin production (a hormone that inhibit hunger), whereas progesterone and testosterone may stimulate appetite. Most of women experience raising appetite during the luteal phase, right before the period. Some women are more likely to reach comfort food that are high in sugar, salt, fat and calories to make them feel better due to hormone and brain changes, which causes weight gain, inflammation, and bloating.
What can we do about it?
Now we know the cause, science, and how our hormones affecting us, time to rethink our diet and lifestyle changes to relieve the syndromes.
Here are some little tips you can easily track and do:
Start tracking your menstrual cycle, make sure it is regular. If it is not, you might have hormone imbalance.
Give yourself the most nutritious food during the follicular phase when you body have the best absorption.
Don't over exercise during the luteal phase.
Be aware with your caffeine and alcohol during the luteal phase.
If you have weight loss goal, now you know your body and mind is tricking you during the luteal phase!
Get enough sleep on the right time. Try to go to sleep before 23:00 when your body cells are repairing themselves.
Avoid food that cause inflammation, such as process food, trans fat etc.
During the luteal phase, give yourself food that supply you Iron, Magnesium, Calcium, Omega-3. Vitamin B-6, B-12, Vitamin C and D.
Give yourself hot baths or lymphatic massage before your period starts to help you relax.
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In an effort to assemble the most wide-ranging fan attitude survey done in the region throughout 2010, a collaboration was formed among the Daily News, philly.com and the Sport Industry Research Center at Temple University.
The result is "The Philly Fan Project" in the Daily News and online at philly.com.
This is the third installment of our yearlong project. Previous responses were collected in March and August.
This survey reflects the responses of 2,241 subscribers to the philly.com daily sports newsletter in the eight-county region of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania and South Jersey suburbs.
Surveys were distributed online to those who lived within the target area and had signed up for the newsletter. Results are representative of the entire group of subscribers within 2 percent plus or minus.
Responses were collected from Dec. 1 through Dec. 10. To be fair, note that two potentially significant events happened in the days after - the Phillies' surprising signing of Cliff Lee and the Eagles' come-from-behind victory over the Giants.
After the data was compiled, the Daily News did interviews with fans and others to provide reaction and context.
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Friday, 12 March 2010
If I Were a Dress
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Kevin that was the deal. Did not want the fire burning with out being able to check on it during the weeks we were not there.
Thanks Lyle. The weekend of the 4th of July my Dad Brother Sister her husband and kids were up at the farm. And we all stayed in that little trailer. On saturday I here my sister calling and asking whats that
This black bear ran across the road three times 800' from the trailer. I said I don't know whats going on usually they just walk across and keep on going. Soon enough one baby bear come across the road then another one
Pleas don't feed the bears
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Halloween is days away, and chances are you’ve made plans to attend a festive party or two. Whether you choose to dress head-to-toe in a favourite costume, or take the easy way out with a silly hat or pair of glasses, freaky nails are an easy, inexpensive way to take part in the fun.
This year, we suggest a funky black, white and purple set of nails inspired by Tim Burton’s 1988 teen-angst-meets-the-underworld classic, Beetlejuice, which starred a gothy Winona Ryder. Bold black-and-white stripes (based on the title character’s dandy suit, but it has a Marc Jacobs Spring 2013 vibe!) pair with a few strategically-placed spider webs to give a haunted-mansion vibe. The design is simple enough to paint on your own nails, but if you have short nail beds, or lack a steady hand, we suggest painting a pair of press-ons instead.
1. Start by painting three nails black and two purple, two coats per nail.
2. With a fine-tipped applicator, nail brush or nail pen, paint white stripes on the black nails. We chose to do horizontal stripes on two nails and vertical stripes on one.
3. Next, spiderwebs on the purple nails with black polish. Draw straight lines outward from a central point at varied angles. Then connect them with curved lines–you know, like a spiderweb.
4. Paint white polish in the spaces of the webs so that the black lines will pop.
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One of the things we deal with in our small town (650+ in town, 4000+ in all of Custer County) is the fact that we know each other by name, or at least by the circles we travel in. There’s the cowboy circle, the Baptist Circle, the Lutheran Circle, the Liberal circle, the rich folks (or come-here people) and the poor folks. We don’t overlap much, and there are other circles besides, but we’re aware of one another, that’s for sure.
Like the rest of the country, our little town is split in two with a vague and shrinking gray area in the middle: God and Guns to the Right, Community and Inclusion to the Left. I lean strongly leftward as you’ve probably figured out.
Years ago, when I started what is now called a blog, and even before that when I started writing and performing my songs, I made a decision to keep politics out of my public life. I still feel strongly about that commitment. Kindness and all the things that go with looking at life from another’s point of view is more powerful than any political statement I could ever make. That doesn’t mean I have no point of view. I do. It just means I keep my thoughts to myself, talking only with friends and family when it feels right to do so.
Yet here I am. Here we all are. And for the first time I feel like I must speak. If I don’t, I’ll hold some of the responsibility if things go wrong.
My parents are 87. They were alive when Europe went from plain old Europe to a dangerous Europe because of one man’s misguided ego. I believe the United States could be headed in a similar direction. Most of you reading this are probably in agreement with me already. If you’re not, please think long and hard. Hatred leads to violence. Openness and compassion, although harder to attain, ultimately lead to the kind of world that allows us to get up in the morning, stretch our limbs, and be grateful for all we have. Please. Denounce the messages that Donald Trump is sending. They are harmful and hurtful to all of us. | <urn:uuid:c2bc5090-a97f-4683-bd94-306bde07d1f2> | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | https://barscott.com/blog/blog/a-post-i-never-thought-i-d-write | 2020-07-11T00:44:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655919952.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20200711001811-20200711031811-00480.warc.gz | en | 0.963479 | 470 |
The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation will celebrate the opening of a $50 million salmon hatchery Thursday on the Columbia River.
The Chief Joseph Hatchery will raise chinook salmon for subsistence tribal fishing and non-native sport fishing in the nearby towns of Bridgeport and Brewster. The hatchery is adjacent to Chief Joseph Dam, which is as far north as salmon can swim up the main stem Columbia.
Each year, the hatchery will release up to 2.9 million salmon smolts, which will swim 500 miles downstream to the ocean. A certain percentage will return as adult fish that can be harvested.
John Sirois, chairman of the Colville Tribes, hailed the hatchery as a testimony to the “meaningful work” that can occur when federal, tribal and state governments cooperate on river restoration. In 2008, federal agencies responsible for salmon in the Columbia Basin signed agreements with the tribes and the states, pledging greater cooperation as well as additional funding for salmon projects over 10 years. The completed hatchery is due in part to that accord.
The hatchery will help mitigate for the construction of Grand Coulee Dam, which was built without fish ladders. When the dam opened in 1941, it cut off salmon runs to the upper third of the Columbia Basin. Grand Coulee also flooded Kettle Falls, where one of the Northwest’s most prolific salmon fisheries had flourished for 10,000 years.
The day’s events are open to the public. The celebration begins with an 8 a.m. first salmon ceremony at the hatchery administration building and concludes at 3 p.m. after tours of the hatchery. The hatchery is located on State Park Golf Course Road east of State Route 17. | <urn:uuid:77c0d7fa-b91a-4090-839e-fe6e529d44d7> | CC-MAIN-2015-32 | http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2013/jun/19/tribes-celebrate-opening-50m-fish-hatchery/ | 2015-08-02T21:53:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-32/segments/1438042989234.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20150728002309-00196-ip-10-236-191-2.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950603 | 360 |
Did you know thatT’ai-Chi Ch’uan translates as The Ultimate and Supreme Form of Boxing? A bit of a surprise to some – and this makes it clear that T’ai-Chi is a martial art. Most might think it is solely a meditation technique and a healing system, which it is, as is Qigong. Pronounced ‘Chi Kung’ and meaning ‘energy work’ Qigong is prescribed in hospitals in China for many different conditions. Both T’ai-Chi and Qigong are gentle yet powerful forms of exercise encompassing martial art, healing and meditation with a long history of practice in China.
In both forms the movements are slow and soft. This makes them appear very easy to learn. Moving slowly does not necessarily mean ‘easy’. In fact T’ai-Chi is known to be difficult to grasp and requires commitment and perseverance to master. Qigong is much more accessible and I advise people new to these forms to taste Qigong first.
The ease and softness that is apparent when watching either discipline arises from a focused attention to the posture, breath and relaxation. Relaxation is crucial to understanding these forms. As most of us spend years learning (often unconsciously) to be tense, allowing ourselves to relax and slow down can take time to feel and understand.
The relaxation inherent in these movement philosophies restores our natural self-healing systems that can be suppressed through years of a common tendency to worry and fret. These habits can manifest in conditions that threaten our well-being: high blood pressure, insomnia, digestive problems and even more serious conditions to name few. The practice of Qigong and T’ai-Chi helps to boost the immune system and weaken the habits that cause harmful conditions. The standing posture of both gradually strengthens the legs and back, reduces blood pressure, helps with digestive conditions and generally improves physical and mental health.
The T’ai-Chi Ch’uan form I study and teach is The Yang Style Short Form and its lineage is from the Chinese T’ai-Chi master, Cheng Man Ching. Its flowing soft moves appear easy to learn, but beware! It challenges new students through its detailed scrutiny of how we move, the use of space and our posture. Many start, few continue, yet it is incredibly rewarding to those who do persevere.
As for being a martial art this can conjure images of Kung Fu kicks, punches and pushes to the mind. The soft flowing qualities of T’ai-Chi bear no resemblance to this type of fighting. It is a much subtler process. Part of understanding this is the acknowledgement that we are each our own worst enemy. The unfolding self-awareness that arises through practice allows us to develop confidence and stability as well as benefiting our health and spirits. All T’ai-Chi postures have practical applications in face-to-face attack situations, but happily most people do not meet this type of difficulty in their lives. It is the more cunning attacks (the look, the words used, the tone of voice or action, how we hear or perceive situations etc) that can wear us down. The ability to remain soft, rooted and open-hearted whilst being challenged by our own negative thinking as well as other’s behaviour or opinions is part of the self-defence gift of T’ai-Chi. Gradually through practice our innate compassion and wisdom unfold, for ourselves and also for others, and we are able to meet tricky situations with equanimity. We are able to remain mindful and to stay soft and relaxed with never having to resort to physical or vocal wrestling.
Qigong is a more accessible movement philosophy, its postures range from simply standing still to complicated sequences that bear a similarity to T’ai-Chi forms. One big difference between these two practices is that T’ai-Chi is practised upright whereas Qigong, as it is a specific healing system, uses the spine more in bends, stretches and spirals. The quality of the movements are very varied too. In T’ai-Chi there is a continuous flow whereas Qigong has a whole range of different rhythms and energies including rapid Qi-scattering movements, jumps, shakes, stretches, swings and massages. It can be practiced seated as well as standing – so wheelchair users can participate, and though sometimes referred to as Chinese Yoga, there is generally no floor work. Even a few minutes of practise each day can have an invigorating and rejuvenating effect strengthening the whole body and its internal systems (nervous, digestive, respiratory, skeleto-muscular, hormonal, gynaecological, etc). Its ability to help in healing a large variety of chronic and acute conditions is part of continuing research programmes in Chinese medical institutions.
A key point in both practices is relaxation and returning to the natural abdominal breath, both of which allow Qi to flow. This is the movement of Yin and Yang.When we are tense we block this flow and become overly Yang (hard or tense), when we are uncertain and unfocused or exhausted, we can become too Yin (soft or collapsed).
Yinis the soft and weak and refers to our qualities of flexibility, adaptability and heart-connected kindness. Yangis the hard and strong and refers to all that is strong and solid in our bodies and nature: our bones for example, and our innate confidence and power. This familiar Yin/Yang symbol illustrates perfectly a continuous fish-like swimming from one to the other with a seed of one existing in the other.
Our tendency is to be in a Yang, tense, state most of the time. And Yin will assert itself when we collapse exhausted or become ill and have to lie down. Raising our awareness of Yin, soft and at ease, through the practice of T’ai-Chi and Qigong has many benefits not least inrtial art or self defence aspect of the practice. This allows us to protect ourselves as the practitioner deepens their understanding of how we relate to one another on a daily basis. Part of understanding self defence is the acknowledgement that we are each our own worst enemy. The unfolding self-awareness that arises through practice allows us to develop confidence and stability as well as benefiting our health and spirits. All T’ai-Chi postures have practical applications in face-to-face attack situations, but happily most people do not meet this type of difficulty in their lives. It is the more subtle attacks (the look, the words used, the tone of voice or action, how we hear or perceive situations etc) that can wear us down. The ability to remain soft, rooted and open-hearted whilst being challenged by our own negative thinking as well as other’s behaviour or opinions is part of the self-defence gift of T’ai-Chi. Ultimately through the practice our compassion and wisdom unfold, for ourselves and also for others.
And have you ever wondered how it is that T’ai-Chi classes take place in church halls and health centres across the country? Its wide accessibility is due to a remarkable woman called Gerda Geddes who in 1964,was the first to teach it in the UK. If a man had brought T’ai-Chi to Europe then it would most probably now be a minor martial art practised by very few.
T’ai-Chi had traditionally been practised by men and was handed down from generation to generation in closed family systems. It was most definitely not accessible to a European woman living in China. But Geddes managed to do the unimaginable, she persuaded a T’ai-Chi master to take her on as his private student when living in Hong Kong in the 1950s. As a woman being taught by a man physical contact was taboo, it was not appropriate to wrestle with her male teacher to learn the martial applications of the form. What she brought to us was the gentle flowing form and its inner meanings. Geddes opened the door to the understanding of the depths of the psychology of the form embracing physical and mental health, self-defence and as a spiritual path. Geddes’ training as a contemporary dancer and a psychotherapist had already opened her mind to how the body and mind work as one and are not separate entities living in the same skin.
In her book, Looking For The Golden Needle, An Allegorical JourneyGerda Geddes talks about ‘playing the T’ai-chi’. My T’ai-Chi teacher said that the most important aspect of T’ai-Chi is the twinkle in the eye. ‘Twinkle’ and ‘play’ embody the essence of T’ai-Chi and Qigong: physical practices that are soft, gentle and flowing yet offering strength and power in deep ways that are never immediately obvious.
They are both called ‘long-life’ exercises. Dr Hu, my Wild Goose Chinese Medical Qigong teacher , was taught by who died in 2002 aged 106. She was still teaching at 102.
When are you going to start practising? As a means of support T’ai-Chi & Qigong beat any pension fund!
In T’ai-Chi the philosophy of the soft and weak overcoming the strong and hard is the martial art. For people who have spent a life time attempting to be hard and strong this can be shocking. But consider an old tree being uprooted in a storm whilst a sapling bends and stays alive with its roots intact. Or which lasts longer, your tongue or your teeth? Becoming soft and yin win when our habit might lead us to be yang and hard takes courage and practice.
Some Qigong movements are very gentle, others more vigorous. Some are very large and expansive, others are more subtle, almost imperceptible. All are different and have a very specific effect on the body and mind. The deeper the practise, the more Qigong the practitioner understands the purpose and depth of each movement, making its repetition ever more enjoyable.
The regular practise of Qigong and T’ai-Chi have a powerful effect on mind, body and spirit. Benefits include increased general health and well being, reduced levels of stress and a brighter and more balanced outlook on the possibilities in our life.
The deeper more natural way of breathing in Qigong and T’ai-Chi allows the mind to steady, a very simple meditation technique. It is this meditation that cultivates a calm mind and a relaxed everyday awareness. This enables the practitioner to be awake and attentive to living life in the present whilst releasing the mind of constant worry, planning and gnawing fears. Gradually the mind will become calmer and a self-confidence to grow. | <urn:uuid:11c66eac-a779-4aee-92aa-83dc83d0b7ef> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://www.sueweston.com/what-is-tai-chi/ | 2021-10-23T11:06:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585671.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20211023095849-20211023125849-00424.warc.gz | en | 0.960604 | 2,261 |
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Honestly, we've given up on crossing our fingers and rubbing those lucky rabbit feet in hopes of a Freaky Friday situation avec Victoria Beckham. Besides the world-class wardrobe, she's the apple of David Beckham's eye. Since we won't be waking up to those washboard abs anytime soon, we're grateful that the Spice-Girl-turned-style-icon is totally down with sharing them with the rest of us via his latest H&M underwear campaign.
Well, what if we told you that we're bringing Beckham to your bedroom — sort of. R29 is gifting one very lucky reader with a pair of underwear, signed by the soccer star himself. Just tell us the undergarments you can't live without this holiday season (we'll accept anything from Spanx to G-strings!), in the comments section below. Ta da — you're instantly entered to win!
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By Karen A. Soukiasian
The Rat Terrier is probably one of the best family pets you will find.
They normally adapt well to any situation. They make a terrific pet for families with young children or for senior citizens. They do well in apartments and condos, as long as they get their daily walks and runs. They thrive on love and attention, and return it tenfold.
The only downside of the Rat is that they are diggers, so don’t plan to toss him or her out in the backyard unsupervised for extended periods of time.
Research this wonderful breed. Talk to Rat Terrier owners before purchasing or adopting one. Avoid like the plague: flea markets, backyard breeders, classified ads, and pet stores. They only perpetuate the horrific puppy mills that flood the market with poor quality pets. Spend a few dollars more. Find a responsible, trustworthy breeder, who takes pride in the quality of their dogs.
Or check shelters and rescues. As Rat Terriers are a favorite of older people, many are surrendered to shelters and rescues, due to nothing more than unfortunate life circumstances. Who knows, perhaps your new best friend may be there, patiently waiting for you.
Originating in England, the Rat Terrier was used as rodent and small game hunters. They were also treasured as adoring, loyal pets. When their astonishing hunting and killing skills on farms and rat infested homes were recognized, they were turned into pit dogs.
Gamblers could not resist using these remarkable, tenacious, fearless, small dogs, in pits. They weren’t pitted against each other; they were pitted against rats. In Suffolk, England, a Rat Terrier named Billy was renowned for killing 2,501 rats in an infested barn, in only 7 hours. That’s a lot of rats.
The “original” mix for the Rat Terrier is believed to be English White Terrier, (now extinct), Smooth Fox Terrier, Whippet and Manchester Terrier.
Added to the blend, when in the 1890s, British immigrants brought their beloved pets with them to the U.S., was a little Beagle, a dash of Italian Greyhound, drop of Chihuahua, and a pinch of Miniature Pinscher. They truly are the proverbial “Heinz 57.”
Often confused with the Jack Russell Terrier, the Rat Terrier has a different profile, and a totally different temperament. They come with an “off” button, which most Jackies lack. They are normally calmer, bark less, are friendlier, and are extremely in tune to their person’s moods.
The Rat is known for its phenomenal speed. They do need lots of exercise, and mental stimulation. Plan on walking and exercising your Rat at least 30-60 minutes a day. They find water almost impossible to resist. Swimming is a terrific and fun way to exercise them. But, the best part is, when you’re ready to call it quits, they are ready to back inside and curl up with you.
What made them win so many hearts, and become such wonderful pets for over a century is, they can flip from a ferocious, tenacious, fearless small game hunter, to a snuggly, cuddly lap dog, in the blink of an eye.
Ask Rat Terrier people to describe their pet and you will hear: loyal, fun, energetic, loveable, friendly, happy, adaptable, fearless, great watchdog, feisty, confident, alert, sweet, great with kids, great with other pets, healthy, intelligent, wants to please, affectionate, and well mannered.
Adult Rat Terriers are also noted to adjust effortlessly to new homes and families. This makes them an excellent candidate, if you are inclined to look for an older dog available from a rescue or shelter.
Being exceedingly biddable dogs, they are easy and fun to train for obedience, agility, fly-ball, dock diving and/or to do parlor tricks. Positive reinforcement, punishment-free training goes a long way with these minute people pleasers.
Socialize your puppy as soon as possible. Those first 20 weeks are vitally important. Get them out and about. Make learning fun, and there is nothing you can’t teach them.
Like cars, there is a perfect size for you and your family. These muscular midgets come in three sizes. The Standard, can be expected to reach 14-23 inches and weigh between 12-35 pounds. The Mid-Size, is usually between 8-14 inches and weighs between 6-8 pounds. The Toy may reach 8 inches and weigh between 4-6 pounds.
Their single coat makes them easy to keep clean, but they do shed…a lot.
As many a veterinarian will attest, they would go broke if they depended on Rat Terriers as their principal patients. Known for being an exceptionally healthy breed, their most common health issues include hip dysplasia and allergies.
Their life span is 15-18 years.
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If you didn’t catch the news yet, two out of the four finalists, Joshua and Twitch, of So You Think You Can Dance were hospitalized Saturday after supposedly succumbing to dehydration. Sunday rehearsals were canceled as a result. Judge Mary Murphy was interviewed by People Magazine on Sunday, and she stated “The kids are completely dehydrated – two of them. I’m sure they’re doing a lot of blood work to see if there’s anything else.”
Mary was optimistic that a day off would be beneficial to all, and that the remaining two dancers should not have any advantage as a result.
In reality, though, a day of rehearsal is critical to these performers, and so is being in peak physical condition. Their performances place physical demands on the dancers that are on par with those placed on many Olympic athletes.
Murphy actually blamed Twitch and Joshua themselves, stating, “they want it so bad, so, they keep pushing themselves and pushing themselves and not letting anybody know that, ‘Hey, I’m running on empty,’ and then it catches up on them and then they collapse.”
We are not so sure the show is not responsible for placing demands on the performers that are unsafe and risky, and failing to properly monitor the dancers’ health. These aren’t the first dancers shuffled off in an ambulance.
It appears to us that the show could be pushing the contestants to the brink risking their health and careers. Earlier this season alone, Jessica was forced to back out of the competition with a pair of broken ribs, restoring Comfort to the top ten. And last year’s winner, Sabra, suffered an ugly blow to the head that could have led to a severe neck or head injury after being dropped in practice by a dancer much less trained than she.
Twitch and Joshua are powerful men that are at the top of their game in dance. They are strong, hard-hitting and have proven to be amazing athletic dancers with extensive backgrounds, and BOTH, not just one, were driven to collapse by the So You Think You Can Dance program.
The good news is that both Twitch and Joshua were treated and released from the hospital, but we think that Mary and company should take pause before they truly damage someone’s career. 12 hours of rehearsal a day is common according to Mary, and that is likely not sustainable over the duration of the season.
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I have built 4 baritone guitars. They are a great instrument. While they are very similar to the standard 6 string guitar, I find that they are almost like having another instrument. You just can not play them like a standard 6 string. They take a bit of time to respond, so you need to play songs that are a bit slower. If you can do that you will be rewarded by hearing the chords develop, and with the right wood choices, the development will turn to lush overtones that grow and build as you wait for them. It is a wonderful experience.
You need to think carefully about wood choices, perhaps even more so than standard scale lengths. For back and sides I find that wood like koa and myrtle are ,ore appropriate than rosewoods.
This baritone is Adirondack on Oregon Myrtle. It has a scale length of 27.5" and is 14 frets to the body.
The binding, fretboard, and headstock are ziricote.
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Winter came to Home for Life® in the fall of 2011 from a small town not far from Home for Life®. He was a young cat, maybe a year or two old at the time, and until he came to Home for Life®, had lived his entire life outside. He'd been fed all this time by a kind elderly woman, and Winter (who received his name after arriving at HFL), made regular stops at her porch for food and water. In the fall of 2011, we were contacted by the woman's family after she was found dead in her home. The family noticed Winter would still come to the porch to be fed and as they had sold the house after their grandmother's death, they worried that no one would be able to continue to look after him. Cold weather had arrived and they didn't think that he would make it through the winter. Shelters and rescues everywhere were full or said they would take Winter and put him down for them. The family couldn't bear to abandon the young cat, and thought about how much their grandmother had cared about him. They asked Home for Life® to accept him in her memory and honor. Winter was unneutered when we took him in at HFL but was thankfully, negative for leukemia and FIV. He is not feral yet is quite shy as is typical with cats who have lived outdoors their whole lives and have been able to trust just one or two people who have fed them.
In the photo on the right, Winter is on the cat tree alongside his BFF (best feline friend), a black and white feral cat named Shady, a young male cat, whom we accidentally caught in a live trap when trying to locate Jonathan Houdini. Jonathan got to be friends with Shady when he was on the lam, after he'd mysteriously escaped within a day of arriving at HFL and Shady probably showed Jonathan the ropes of survival in Western Wisconsin. Though Shady is still extremely feral he loves Home for Life® and has gained weight and made many new cat friends in addition to his first friend Jonathan (who Is tame even though he lived in a cat colony in Florida for years before coming to HFL). Winter and Shady have been close friends since meeting at Home for Life®, and can be often found eating from the same dry cat bowl, side by side. I have always wondered if they knew each other from the neighborhood as kittens as both were found not far from Home for Life®: Winter in the town of Star Prairie and Shady in the woods that run along the Apple River near Home for Life®. | <urn:uuid:354c907c-600b-46bb-b752-882246a5e888> | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | http://homeforlife.org/pet-profiles/winter | 2019-03-26T02:22:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912204768.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20190326014605-20190326040605-00280.warc.gz | en | 0.994752 | 528 |
The other day we were out on our balcony talking on the phone with a friend, and the friend said, “Wait, you have a balcony?”
“Yeah, we have a balcony,” we said. “It’s called a fire escape. In our tax bracket, that’s a balcony.”
Then there are New Yorkers like Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly, who just bought a 4,000-square-foot Tribeca loft with a private roof deck. The four-bedroom penthouse set them back almost $7 million and includes a library, a renovated kitchen, and something called a Tuscan-style triple-mint bath.
So does this mean that Brooklyn is losing one of its star celebri-couples? Yes, it does. According to Curbed, their nine-bedroom Park Slope townhouse is on the market for $8.5 million. The limestone mansion (which they bought for $3.5 million in 2003) is over 5,000 square feet and features a gated rear yard. The wood carving and plaster work are original, and there are fireplaces in the living room, dining room, kitchen, and three of the bedrooms. The servants' quarters (are we still allowed to say “servants’ quarters”?) are on the top floor and include four small bedrooms and a shared bath.
Go check out the interior shots at Curbed and tell us which one you like best. Meanwhile, we'll try to control our jealousy over the roof deck and remind ourselves that at the end of the day, it looks out on a highway and a dirty river full of dead bodies and the guns that were used to kill them. It's all about perspective, people. —Noelle Hancock | <urn:uuid:407b91e6-08ee-4eb8-b082-abff0891b954> | CC-MAIN-2014-41 | http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2008/05/paulifer_breaks_up_with_brookl.html | 2014-09-16T18:24:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-41/segments/1410657118950.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20140914011158-00037-ip-10-196-40-205.us-west-1.compute.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96742 | 369 |
Lots of good changes coming to myincision! By January 2013, this blog will be part of my website ReStory Your Life. This website will not only house my blog but will announce my speaking engagements, workshops, and publications and showcase my poetry, prose and artwork.
I am excited to announce my first presentation of 2013, which will take place Saturday, January 5th at the Fair Oaks Library, 11601 Fair Oaks Blvd, Fair Oaks, California 95628 from 1 – 3 pm. Griffin Toffler of the Women’s Motivational Meetup Group is hosting me. Everyone is welcome, and I would LOVE to see YOU at this event. Please email me to RSVP at email@example.com.
Here are the details from Griffin’s meetup post:
ReStory Your Life !
What personal story holds you back?
What belief falsely shapes who you are?
What is the real story, the one that tells of your inherent worth?
Rewrite your Life Story the way YOU want it to be!.
In this interactive lecture, Wendy will tell how she reshaped her own story of despair into one of empowerment and freedom. Then it’s your turn to ReStory Your Life as she guides you through a brief writing exercise. Materials provided.
It is my privilege to introduce you to Wendy Williams, a writer, speaker and blogger whose blog, http://myincision.wordpress.com/enlightens the world about finding freedom after trauma. She has an MFA in Creative Writing and has published numerous short stories and poems. For over 30 years she has been speaking and leading workshops about Writing as a Healing Art. This is an amazing opportunity to converse up close with a phenomenal and talented woman. It’s all free! (but donations are accepted to help pay meetup costs) | <urn:uuid:537dc88c-b819-472e-a485-ebbffecb7270> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | http://restoryyourlife.com/category/addiction/ | 2017-08-23T19:21:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886123359.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170823190745-20170823210745-00117.warc.gz | en | 0.943583 | 386 |
Almighty and most merciful God, the Creator and Preserver of all mankind, who has brought me safely to the beginning of this day, give me grace, I earnestly request You, that I may now offer, with one accord, my common supplications to You; and in compassion to my ignorance teach me how to pray.
I acknowledge my transgressions, gracious Lord, and my sin is ever before me; make the remembrance of it more grievous to me than it is: and have mercy upon me, most merciful Father, for Your Son my Lord Jesus Christ’s sake.
Make ours to be a household of love with deep reverence and the right fear of You.
Endue me with the grace of Your Holy Spirit; that I may make changes in my life according to Your Holy Word, and do everything that is pleasing in Your sight.
As my blessed Savior, who died for my sins, did, as on this day, rise again from the dead, so may I be raised by Your power to newness of life, and daily advance in all virtue and godliness.
You have been pleased, O Lord, for Your own glory, and for the benefit of Your creatures, to set apart one day out of seven, to be kept holy to Yourself. Give me grace, that I may sanctify Your appointment to the honor of Your holy name, and the good of my own souls.
Book: Manual of Family Prayers
Compiled by: C.J. Blomfield, D.D.
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How to access Low Level Programming 2011 Arctic Spa
Host: Welcome, Dave. You’re going to do low level programming.
Dave: Okay, I’m going to show you how to set up low level programming on the 2011 EcoPack’s. To get into low level programming, like before it’s the filtration key. You’re going to hold it for 10 seconds or if it’s an epic you’re going to hold the pump five key for 10 seconds to get in. So, we’ll push it. We’ll see settings come up. Just continue to hold it until you see LLP or low level programming – LLP then you can let go of the button.
So, the first one is the number of pumps. Okay, P-N. It’s adjustable from one pump for designer. Two pumps, three pumps or five pumps for an Epic. Okay. So, we’ll set this up for an Epic. The next one is blowers. Blowers is adjustable from zero to two and if you set it up for an Epic it won’t let you put any blowers because no epics have blowers. So, three pumps and you can have one or two blowers. So, for [inaudible 00:01:08] set it to one. For super jet you’d set it to two if it had two blowers. And on that note if you want to go back in low level programming you can push this button, the pump three or the pump four button on an Epic to go backwards in low level.
Okay. So, we’ll just set blowers back to zero. Go back to a five pump. We’ll set it up for an Epic. The next one after bowers is ozone. So, right now ozone is adjustable from zero, one or two. Okay? One is for peak one. Two is for peak two ozone. Okay? Zero is off. So, one is for peak one. Ozone is going to run during filtration. Two is for peak two. And then you’re going to have a timer and the user will set how many hours per day peak two will run. So, set it for peak two. The next one is Onzen. Again, it’s on or off. So, if the tub has Onzen set it to one. If it doesn’t turn it off and by setting it to one it’ll show up in the settings menu as, the user can set up how many hours per day it’ll sanitize.
And the last one is Ross exhaust, RE. Set it for on or off. That’s the fan in the corner that evacuates the cabinet temperature when it gets too high. Okay? So, normally this will be set to one. Quick review. Number of pumps, zero to five. Blowers, one, if it has [inaudible 00:02:43]. Two, if it has super jet. Ozone, one for peak one. Two for peak two or off. Onzen. Ross exhaust. And push it a third time. You’ll see your software revision come up and now you have the new settings. So, now we’re set up for an Epic. So, we have one, two, three, four, five pumps and the lights. And that’s it.
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Schools weigh risk, benefit of Facebook
Fears over bullying and improper teacher contact with students are prompting many schools to limit social media sites like Facebook, which critics argue may not be a wise educational move.
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Mr. Collins, who teaches at Missouri's Clayton High School, posts between 10 and 15 articles a week on a page he's set up for the class. Students need to read at least one of the articles and write a thoughtful, substantive response that weaves in class material in the comments section below the post.
"I can do things with [the Facebook page] that I absolutely could not do with more mainstream types of teaching," says Collins.
Not surprisingly, Collins was among the many teachers and students who opposed a recent attempt by the Missouri legislature to ban most interactions between teachers and students over social media forums like Facebook. The Missouri law (blocked by a state court in August) was the most sweeping attempt to try to govern the realm of social media in education, but it's hardly unique.
IN PICTURES: Life before Facebook
Increasingly, fears over bullying and improper contact with students are prompting districts and schools to try to regulate the vast world of social media – often, say some educators and technology experts, with too heavy a hand, however well intentioned.
"We need to have some sort of rules and guidelines for how you use social media ... but the goal should be to educate our students on what it means to participate in the world in which they live" rather than simply banning certain sites, says William Stites, technology director at Montclair Kimberley Academy in New Jersey and blogger in chief at edSocialMedia, which explores the role of social media in education. "It's meeting students where they are."
The bans on certain digital activity may be new, but the fears prompting them regularly arise with new technology, says Steve Jones, a communications professor at the University of Illinois in Chicago. When movies first appeared, he notes, there were efforts to prevent children from going into theaters because of fears that they'd be harmed by both the content and the lack of fresh air.
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Are you reading one of those placeholder texts again? For real? Instead you could be playing the amazing Bubble Shooter Arcade game and… well, shoot Bubbles. What’s so hard to understand about it? Bubble, shoot, fun. It’s really _that_ simple. Go and play! NOW!
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