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Want to know why public pension funds are running out of money? Look no further than Dennis Gannon. Thanks to a perfectly legal loophole, the former Chicago sanitation department worker stands to receive a pension five times what the average Chicago city worker gets, according to an investigation by the Chicago Tribune.
Gannon's pension, said the Tribune, would be the largest of any retired union leader in Chicago -- $158,000 a year. In all, he stands to collect $5 million. His pension was...Full Story | <urn:uuid:821bc3c3-c2d8-4f8a-8a49-01d3f26434e5> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://abcnews.go.com/Business/chicago-pension-outrage-excess/comments?type=story&id=14591260 | 2014-04-25T06:12:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1398223210034.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20140423032010-00026-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948048 | 104 |
I used to be a teacher, but I decided to go another route these days since the educational system is hard to be part of for an outspoken Indigo conscious person, like me. I now am completely in charge of a recess and after school care program as the program manager. That means I am CPR certified and can take care of children when the nurse is off duty, and parents put their trust in my care. In Chicago a nurse is only at schools where a child needs medicine every day administrated, which is a gamble in my opinion with the lives of children. What happens to schools with kids without a nurse the day a medical emergency occurs? That’s where I come in to help take the nurses place and facilitate an engaging and fun program for the kids whose parents work till 6pm.
Today was a little bit scary and not the usual Friday at all. I took a child in from recess after she began to have labored breathing after running. I monitored her until she could be taken to the ER. Then in the process of her breathing problems, an older Middle School boy started experiencing breathing problems after playing basketball outside on the same playground in the city.
Could these two events be linked to the pollution that is growing in our air as a big city? I would venture yes. As the break down in morals happen and people start to cut corners on the environment’s health and welfare-we suffer.
If we don’t ALL go more “green” in this world, we are going to see much more deterioration of health happen in humans. I am not sure if I saved a life today, but I did question as I sat there trying to calm her breathing, that our children are precious and the newest generation to cherish and take care of. This world is theirs after we no longer exist. The adults are going to have to start to make less selfish decisions on ways to spend money and start to create ingenious ways to save our planet from destruction. We also are going to have to spend on education and health welfare services to take care of the children that will be our next leap into the future. As they inherit this earth, let’s make sure that it is given to them in a good condition that we would want to live in, ok?
We can not keep going like this. We can not see positive results of evolution in a broken system any longer. People with integrity in political structures of states are going to have to say no to building large projects that don’t have immediate play into the health and lives of others. I know we can be better with where our money is going towards. I wish I had the power to do something and bring change to this system, but I am only a voice. I am only a messenger for what has already been said in the Gita, Bible, Torah, and Quran and Buddhist teachings:
Take care of each other and do good towards one another and the earth.
Take care of the children and this earth that are gifts from God. Everything is all connected and our survival depends on the choices we make together as adults with children depending on us. Like the Montessori school I currently work in, let’s make better choices as adults. | <urn:uuid:1ee68d10-9c2e-4774-b96d-6326d8e3b9c5> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | https://indigovoice82blog.wordpress.com/2016/02/26/air-pollution-their-health-is-our-legacy/ | 2018-03-24T02:20:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257649627.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20180324015136-20180324035136-00021.warc.gz | en | 0.978717 | 661 |
Choose the adventure…together. Every time. You might think your life is boring, but there are dozens of ways to keep the adventurous perspective on things so you approach every opportunity with optimism and enthusiasm.
Adventure doesn’t always mean excitement. It can mean pain, stretching, loss, frustration, and sadness. But the adventure is always worth it when it’s assigned to a greater outcome. Some of our biggest stretches in life – living overseas a few years, adopting a child internationally, forming our own non-profit organization and raising the money to run it – were absolute breath-taking adventures at the same time.
Take these adventures, for example:
Needing to downsize? Your family could become closer!
Pregnant and tired? Your older children can embrace more responsibility at home.
Facing financial stress? You and your spouse can go to God together and submit to a plan for change.
Have an ailing parent? This is your chance to serve them back, selflessly!
Making a stressful commute every day? Now you can listen to podcasts or spend time getting to know the kids better. (I’m on this adventure right now.)
Our family’s latest adventure is my returning to work after 8 years of being home with the kids, volunteering, and running our non-profit organization out of the house. Chris remains in his job (which happens to be about 700 miles from here.) It’s an adventure! There have been a few falls, scrapes and bruises; some errors and mistakes; but no losses. We always win when we sit down, identify what’s working (or not) and offer ideas to improve our experience of the adventure.
Which adventure are you facing right now? Identify one shift in perspective you can make to keep you moving forward in the right direction for your whole family.
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Wisconsin Architect Magazine
Wisconsin Architect E-News Archive: April 2009
In this issue of the AIA Wisconsin e-newsletter, you'll find information on the 2009 AIA Wisconsin Convention & Expo, other upcoming AIA/CES programs and more.
Reserve the dates and plan to attend the 2009 AIA Wisconsin Convention & Expo, EQUILIBRIUM, on May 20 & 21 at Monona Terrace in Madison. Don Smith, AIA, Hales Corners, and his Convention Committee have assembled another outstanding program of speakers, seminars and special events. This year's two-day state conference will explore ideas, projects and products that will help us maintain a healthy balance in architectural design and practice. New opportunities to gain additional AIA/CES learning units have been added to the schedule; and, during these turbulent economic times, we are proud to balance this excellent opportunity with extremely attractive registration fees for design and construction professionals!
The Annual Meetings of the Wisconsin Architects Foundation and AIA Wisconsin are scheduled for 8:00 – 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, May 20. In addition to the always exciting reports and updates on upcoming programs and initiatives by WAF and AIA leaders, the agenda includes a special presentation by Helene Combs Dreiling, FAIA, managing director of component relations for the American Institute of Architects. In her talk on "Architects as Leaders of Communities," she will demonstrate how design does make a difference in the livability of our communities and why it is more important than ever for architects, as stewards of design, to be leaders of their communities.
This year's Awards Luncheon features the presentation of the 2009 AIA Wisconsin Golden Award to William P. Wenzler, FAIA. In addition, Derrick Van Mell, with Van Mell Associates, will outline the opportunity architects have to retake and rebalance the relationship with clients so the very best information and inspiration can flow back and forth.
Building Products Expo
This year's Expo will be packed with more new displays featuring the latest products and services available to Wisconsin's design and construction industry. It features an excellent mix of exhibitors with information you can put to good use on all of your projects. The Building Products Expo is free and will be open 3:00 – 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 20, and 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 21.
The 2009 AIA Wisconsin Convention features three outstanding keynote speakers. On May 20, award-winning architect Ron Radziner, FAIA, with Marmol Radziner and Associates in Los Angeles, will present The Boldt Company Keynote Address. This year's Design Awards celebration also includes a special keynote address by Jeanne Gang, FAIA, of Studio Gang Architects , Chicago. Plus, renowned New York architect James Polshek, FAIA, Polshek Partnership LLP, will present the Keynote Address.
This year's track of "design" seminars features presentations by an attractive mix of speakers that will illustrate the power of architecture. Randy Brown, FAIA, principal of award-winning Randy Brown Architects, has organized his most innovative office, residential and retail projects into this seminar presentation that focuses on alternative strategies for suburban development. Thanks to IIDA Wisconsin, Rusty McBride, the director of Lightolier iGEN sales strategy, will discuss how LED technology works and why it is important. Award-winning architect John Martine, AIA, principal at Strada, and Tom Price, AIA, a leader in the design and placemaking process at this Pittsburgh firm, will discuss their dependence on each other for developing a design process that embraces traditional and emerging design techniques to create unique and site specific architecture. Continuing the tradition of featuring a Wisconsin firm, Jan van den Kieboom, AIA, with Workshop Architects, will discuss the firm's design philosophy, its buildings and how they address the distinct needs and preferences of the people that utilize them.
Convention "practice" seminars feature presentations by experts on emerging nuts-and-bolts issues shaping the practice of architecture. Invited back to Wisconsin by popular demand, Michael Hricak, FAIA, will explore design team efforts providing direction, analysis, design strategy and management. Theodore Landsmark, Assoc. AIA, president of the Boston Architectural College since 1997, will examine how new approaches to developing our talent can better prepare firms for success in the years ahead. Victoria Beach, FAIA, principal of an award-winning architecture, landscape and furniture design practice, will share the secrets of ethical equilibrium among the opposing forces of art and morality.
The "sustainability" seminar presentations will offer the scientific foundation and practical solutions that you can put to good use. Plus, AIA members can earn sustainable design (SD) AIA/CES learning unit hours. James Wasley, AIA, a professor at UWM SARUP, will share information on the Carbon Neutral Design (CND) Project and his research into the characteristics of green, environmentally sustainable design. Architect Daniel Stephans, AIA, will help you design more sustainable buildings by outlining the DSF Sustainable Facilities Policy and Guidelines and Standards, which are based on the USGBC LEED standards, with Wisconsin-specific differences. Join Aldo Leopold Legacy Center team members architect Thomas Kubala, AIA, owner Buddy Huffaker, consultant Michael Utzinger, and architect Joel Krueger for a case study on this project that has been recognized with a COTE Top Ten and a Wisconsin Sustainability and Energy Efficiency (SE2) Leadership Award.
In addition, exhibitors will be sponsoring free "spotlight" seminars in conjunction with the Building Products Expo. The sessions include presentations on successful exterior wall testing by Architectural Testing, technology behind digital signage by AVI Midwest, sound control in multi-story construction by Maxxon Corporation, and an economic outlook by McGraw-Hill Construction. These 90-minute seminars are schedule immediately prior to the opening of the Expo on May 20 and right after the Expo closes on May 21.
Numerous special events have been designed with you in mind. On May 20, you'll want to participate in the Construction Industry Reception in the Expo, Wisconsin Architects Foundation Book Sale, and "Emerging Professionals Workshop" with a special presentation by Rachel Kros, AIA, with NCARB. Plus, plan to join the celebration of "Architecture Night!" at 6:00 p.m. in the Expo. This year's Design Awards celebration includes a special keynote address by Jeanne Gang, FAIA, at 7:00 p.m. in the Lecture Hall. On May 21, get your day off to a great start at the WCMA Excellence in Masonry Awards Breakfast, renew your energy with a "walking lunch" as you tour the displays in the Expo, and participate in the "Future Fellows of Wisconsin" workshop with Craig Rafferty, FAIA, and Ray Greco, FAIA, to demystify the Fellowship nomination process. The four local AIA Chapters in Wisconsin also will be scheduling membership meetings to consider proposed bylaws amendments.
Exhibitors & Sponsors
The 2009 AIA Wisconsin Convention & Expo is made possible by your participation and the support received by the companies and organizations that exhibit in the Building Products Expo and sponsor keynote speakers, seminar presentations and special events. Platinum Sponsors this year include: The Boldt Company and Wisconsin Concrete Masonry Association. Gold Sponsors include: Arnold & O'Sheridan, Inc., Holmes Murphy & Associates, IIDA Wisconsin Chapter, MasterGraphics, Inc., Ken Saiki Design Inc., and Wisconsin Architects Foundation.
Sustainability | Energy Efficiency Leadership Award
June 1 is the application deadline for the 2009 Wisconsin Sustainability | Energy Efficiency (SE²) Leadership Award program. Entry materials are due by 7/17/09. AIA Wisconsin is partnering with other organizations to support this award that recognizes leadership in energy efficient and sustainable design, construction and operation of Wisconsin commercial buildings and related systems.
Recycle Architectural Record
The Wisconsin Architects Foundation is collecting "ready to be recycled" issues of Architectural Record magazine for distribution to students involved in the High School Design Competition "Design Your School" and other Wisconsin schools. Please contact WAF Board member Pat Conway, AIA, PConway@imiweb.org , to coordinate drop-off points.
The AIA Board of Directors has approved awarding the following Citations for Distinguished Service to the profession of architecture: Mary Orella, Fitchburg, for 20 years of service to members; Allyson Nemec, AIA, Milwaukee, and Bill Doyle, AIA, Green Bay, for contributions as members of the WAF Board of Directors; Frank Dropsho, AIA, Madison, for service as chair of the Golden Award Committee; Lou Host-Jablonski, AIA, Madison, and Paul Wagner, AIA, Waunakee, for service as members of the City of Madison Urban Design Commission; and Ed Solner, AIA, Middleton, for representing AIA Wisconsin on the state Means of Egress and Accessibility Code Advisory Committee. These Citations will be presented during the AIA Wisconsin Annual Meeting on Wednesday, May 20, at Monona Terrace.
People & Places
Heather Cook Elliott, AIA, Milwaukee; Paul J. De Leeuw, AIA, DePere; Charles A.B. Haas, AIA, Milwaukee, and Darin C. Rickert, AIA, Racine, have upgraded to architect members. Long-time members H. James Gabriel, AIA, Sheboygan, and Roy H. Stark, AIA, Manitowoc, passed away recently. Erdman, a Cogdell Spencer Company has changed their name to Cogdell Spencer + Erdman. River Architects has moved to 740 7th Street North in LaCrosse. AIA Wisconsin members have taken on leadership roles with the Wisconsin Green Building Alliance: d'Andre Willis, AIA, Milwaukee, is the 2009 president of the WGBA; Tate Walker, AIA, Madison, is 2009 Vice President; Mark Ernst, AIA, Grafton, is a board member; and Tom Cox, AIA, Appleton, served as WGBA president the past two years.
lease welcome the following new members who have joined AIA Wisconsin in the past month: Chad Burow, Professional Affiliate, Milwaukee (SE); Kari Eggert, Assoc. AIA, Middleton (SW); Joseph J. Haider, AIA, Whitefish Bay (SE); Kathleen K. Laird, AIA, Greenville (SE); Justin R. Marshall, Assoc. AIA, Oconomowoc (SE); Jennifer L. Voigt, AIA, Milwaukee (SE) and Joseph M. Walaszek, AIA, Kewaunee (SE).
Mosaic Project Gallery
Mosaic is a new feature of AIA Wisconsin Architect e-News. Additional projects will be introduced each issue.
The Last Word
Happy National Architecture Week!
April 13–19, 2009
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Evolution of Romance Reads as Harlequin Books Turns 70
Harlequin book images courtesy the Toronto International Festival of Authors
What do women want? Just ask Harlequin.
For 70 years, the iconic Toronto-based company has been providing women with the stories, characters, romance and the happily ever after endings they crave. And in recognition of Harlequin’s eighth decade, the Toronto International Festival of Authors features a panel discussion moderated by the publishing house’s editorial director Malle Vallik and three Harlequin authors on Oct. 26 at Harbourfront Centre.
“Romance is the genre of heart,” explains Harlequin writer Stefanie London, one of the panelists. “It’s critical for women who are imperfect and don’t check all society’s boxes to read about women like themselves finding love and success.”
Harlequin has 12 series in its original romantic division, including everything from “sweet” — the industry term for no sex — to “steamy,” as well as LGBTQ, thrillers, mysteries, westerns, inspirational novels and more.
While there isn’t a specific series about older women, Dianne Moggy, Harlequin’s vice-president for editorial, notes that those stories are incorporated into existing series, adding, “We’re certainly seeing more of that from our authors.”
London, who sets her stories for the sexually explicit Dare series in her native Australia, says “the great thing about Dare is that the sex scenes should work as hard as any other scene. Even though readers might come (to the series) for steamy scenes, they’re also being given a healthy dose of plot at the same time.”
Romance novels in the age of #MeToo
The #MeToo movement has had an effect on how Harlequin authors bring relationships to the boil to create that steam, but only minimally, says London.
“Consent has always been part of it, but now it’s embedded more explicitly. Romance does reflect society changes.”
Moggy explains, “As women’s roles and perspective and experiences in society have changed, we’ve seen heroines become much more empowered in romance novels but consent has always been an incredibly important part of romance.”
Harlequin author Maggie K. Black, who will also take part in the panel, says, “One of the things Harlequin pushes is that people treat each other well, and if someone behaves badly, there will be consequences.
Black, a former journalist, often writes about cops, Mounties, a crime reporter and “a fictional therapist who’s based on my therapist.
“One of the amazing things about Harlequin,” she says, “is that, like chicken wings, no matter what you like, there’s something for everyone. No matter who you are and what you like there’s a Harlequin for you. When you pick up a book with a cowboy, or a cop or a billionaire on the cover, you know what you’re getting. You need that safety and comfort and hope. It’s not just love stories, it’s hope stories.”
Beyond the Bodice-Ripper
For all its storied history and tradition, Harlequin has long outgrown its reputation for publishing bodice-rippers or rigid formula fiction.
‘I think Harlequin gets a lot of questions about formula and I have to grit my teeth,” says author Molly Fader, who will also participate in the TIFA panel. “The only true and real part of the formula is a happy ending. And good authors take you on a journey to get there, even make you doubt that it will happen.”
After writing more than 40 romance novels, Fader has just published her first mainstream novel, The McAvoy Sisters Book of Secrets, with Harlequin’s trade division imprint, Graydon House. It’s one of six imprints under the Harlequin umbrella, which includes the prestigious Hanover Press, a Young Adult imprint and the digital-first Carina Press.
Fader dedicated her 357-page book set in a fishing village on the shore of Lake Erie, to “Mom and Dad…and yes, Dad, you can read this one.”
She explains, “I’ve written a lot of romance that would make him uncomfortable. A fishing village setting is more his speed.”
Fader and the other panellists are expecting questions at the event about how to get started writing romances for Harlequin.
“My biggest tip is just to write,” she says. “That’s the only way it happens. It’s going to be bad, and messy and hard but it doesn’t happen unless you sit down and do it.”
Harlequin By the Numbers
- Harlequin has more than 550 active series romance authors.
- Fifty per cent of romance readers read romantic suspense, followed by erotic and historical as the most popular genres.
- Older readers read more contemporary romance while younger readers read more young adult, erotic, and paranormal romance.
- All Harlequin series books, more than 20,000, are available in digital format.
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I would have to admit first that I do have a thing for the Fahrenheit boys (as well as JVKV) from the Taiwanese groups. JVKV has gotten me started on this whole asian drama thing, (with Vic Zhou playing Huaze Lei) and Wu Zun in his shirtless roles... hahaha. I also admit that the acting chops of the Fahrenheit boys are not yet very well honed, but I do think they will get there. They are still young and are more into idol drama roles anyway (wherein we watch more for eye candy than actual plotline and acting chops). I have just started to watch this and so far... it is very entertaining.
This is another idol drama and I would like to say that Rainie has done a great job in portraying her role here... So did Wu Zun, however, it makes me wonder if he is being typecasted. His role here is reminiscent of his role in Romantic Princess (ultra rich guy falling for the poor girl, had to cope with being penniless for a while)... Anyway, even if he is, he looks good in the suits, as well as in the baths he takes... hahaha... another one for those who enjoy eye candy... and you would definitely get a toothache from watching this. ^^ | <urn:uuid:df569ba4-8c2a-4d1b-80ee-06a3fada646f> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | http://sliver-of-hope.blogspot.com/ | 2017-08-21T11:50:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886108268.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170821114342-20170821134342-00499.warc.gz | en | 0.985337 | 269 |
In August of 2013, the world was stricken by Bao Bao Fever. So incredibly cute was the National Zoo's new giant panda cub that nine-to-fivers inexplicably cooed at their co-workers. Precious man hours were lost as Facebook feeds were jammed with photos and rallies in an online naming contest. A Panda Cam caused many a sleepless night.
But with those big eyes, that soft fur, that huggable body—how could we possibly resist?
As Bao Bao continues her transition from doe-eyed cub into tree-climbing toddler, drawing thousands of visitors a day, we're on high alert for what the next big zoo baby sensation will be. Could it be Humphrey Piujuq, the Toronto Zoo's fuzzy polar bear cub who inspired his own naming competition (and delightful video reveal)? Or does Linne the two-toed sloth have the (sleepy) upper hand in Texas? Charles the gray seal could very well splash the competition from Chicago—but Bao Bao better watch it with two yet-to-be-exhibited litters of African lion cubs on her home turf in D.C.
In this cute competition, every animal is a winner. "The best zoos use this rare opportunity to forge connections between humans and wild animals, building empathy and educating people about ways to help," says Andrew Bleiman of the baby animal blog ZooBorns.
So with conservation—and, okay, coffee breaks—on the mind, we present a hot list of cute baby animals in zoos all across America. Some have made their debut, some will make it later, but all are guaranteed to make you squee.
Jelani, Baako, Sanjo, and Nayo, Lions, Reid Park Zoo, Tucson, AZ
African lions Kaya and Shombay welcomed a huge litter back in December. Now, after several weeks in a private "cub den" nursing with mom, the four "simbas"—three boys (Jelani, Baako, Sanjo) and one girl (Nayo)—will reunite with Pop and finally meet their adoring public for the first time. Though they currently weigh around 20 pounds, the cubs are expected to grow to 200–500 pounds in the next three years. Until then, they'll stay under the watchful protection of Kaya, who'll feed them and teach them how to hunt. reidparkzoo.org | <urn:uuid:246e7baa-52b4-43f0-b6d3-193410852a72> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/cute-baby-animals-you-have-see-180950393/ | 2019-05-22T02:42:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256724.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20190522022933-20190522044933-00303.warc.gz | en | 0.966551 | 513 |
FairbornNOTICE TO BIDDERSBID NO. 13-10
FUNDERBURG WATER LINE RE...
FairbornNOTICE TO BIDDERSBID NO. 13-10FUNDERBURG WATER LINE REPLACEMENT PROJECTPROJECT NO. 3219Sealed bids will be received at the Finance Office, 44 West Hebble Avenue, Fairborn, Ohio 45324, until 10:00 AM local time, January 29, 2014, for the Funderburg Road Water Line Replacement Project, Project No. 3219. Bids will be opened and publicly read aloud at this time. Work includes but is not limited to:•Replacement of: Gate Valve and Box (4", 6", 8")•Replacement of: Fire Hydrant•Removal of and Salvage: Valve Box•Removal of and Salvage: Fire Hydrant•Installation of 1" copper service branches•Installation of 8", 6", and 4" DIP CL 53 Water Main•Maintenance of Traffic•Grouting of Water Main (6", 8")•Construction Layout and StakingCopies of the specifications, bid and contract forms may be obtained at the Engineering Division office at a cost of thirty dollars ($30.00), none of which will be refunded. Bidders are required to use City forms.Each proposal shall be accompanied by a Surety Bond in the amount of 5% of the amount of the bid as a guarantee that if the proposal is accepted, a contract will be entered into and its performance properly secured. Should a contract be entered into, a Performance Bond in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the contract price shall be required to insure performance.The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids, to waive any irregularities in the bidding, and to enter into a contract with the bidder who in the City’s opinion offers the lowest and best bid.Randy GrovesFinance DirectorMARK ENVELOPE: FUNDERBURG WATER LINE REPLACEMENT PROJECT PROJECT No. 3219 BID No. 13-10 BIDS OPENED ON January 29, 2014, AT 10:00 AMPUB: January 15/22, 201440545440 | <urn:uuid:745252f2-c3b4-4df4-b7f5-24ed853d4bba> | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | http://xeniagazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/dcce?Site=OC&Date=20140115&Module=30&Category=&Class=61&Type=105&ID=66794&Selected=2?nocache=1 | 2014-10-23T05:26:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-42/segments/1413507450252.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20141017005730-00369-ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900417 | 459 |
February 2, 2012
For more information, please contact Cary Nelson
AAUP President Cary Nelson issued the following statement today:
As Indiana Goes . . .
This week Indiana became the first Midwestern state to pass so-called right-to-work legislation and see it signed into law. Hesitant to take on basic labor principles quite so directly, Michigan’s legislature has instead opted to consider a series of less comprehensive bills. Particularly insulting to Michigan’s storied labor community is a proposal to require the state’s workers to reauthorize dues deductions from their paychecks every year, as if their stated wishes cannot be honored without being repeated year after year. Standard practice is to let such authorizations stand until and unless they are withdrawn. Imagine if you had to reauthorize all your automatic utilities and insurance payments every year. If you forgot and were on vacation, it might not be so convenient to have your electricity turned off. It’s no more convenient to have your union deprived of the funds it needs to do its work. Of course what this is really about is an effort to divert union time, energy, and resources into annual dues reauthorization drives.
Some have asserted that the Indiana result presages more such victories after the 2012 elections. But that remains to be seen. The comprehensive union busting bill in Wisconsin met with a recall election campaign and another campaign, focused on its governor, is under way. Comparable anti-union legislation was meanwhile resoundingly defeated by Ohio’s voters, after a unified campaign by AAUP and other groups.
Fifty years ago the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. issued a characteristic clarion call for such legislation to de defeated. “Right-to work,” he warned us, “provides no rights and no work. Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining,” a right that is now also recognized by the United Nations. There is no evidence showing that right-to-work states do better a job creation, despite demagogic claims to the contrary.
The AAUP stands behind the right of all employee groups to decide for themselves whether to bargain collectively. Thus we oppose all legislation designed to deny or curtail those rights. We are committed to the effort to defeat of anti-union legislation anywhere and everywhere. As Indiana goes, so we believe, the rest of the nation need not go at all.
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Given the complex and changing nature of the Coronavirus pandemic it has been decided to transition the 17th Credit Scoring and Credit Control Conference organised by the Credit Research Centre at the University of Edinburgh to be an online event.
The conference will take place via an online platform, called EventsAir.
This is Europe’s premier conference for credit scoring and related topics. For the past 30 years, it has welcomed hundreds of delegates biennially with 2019 being the most successful ever with over 400 attendees from over 40 countries. The conference bridges the academic-practitioner divide.
It is the agenda-setting forum for credit scoring, with talks covering everything from current industry issues to the latest statistical research findings; and we are designing a digital version to achieve the same learning and networking objectives.
I can confirm that we intend that the conference in 2023 will take place in person – and in Edinburgh on Wednesday 30 August – Friday 1 September 2023.
I gratefully acknowledge the generous support provided by our sponsors, 4most, Actico, Equifax, Paragon and ThreeCs Limited.
I very much hope you will join us for this year’s innovative online conference!
Director of Credit Research Centre
Professor of Business Economics
Conference Organising Committee
- Professor Jonathan N Crook BA, MSc (Econ), Hon DBA, FRSE (University of Edinburgh)
- Mr David B Edelman BSc, AM, FSS, ACIBS (Caledonia Credit Consultancy)
- Dr Galina Andreeva PhD (University of Edinburgh)
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"Moist and spicy bar cookies with frosting. An easy and quick after school snack. Also goes great at carry-ins and bake sales. You can also just sprinkle with confectioners sugar instead of frosting." Reserve 1/4 cup yogurt for topping. Divide remaining yogurt among 4 (8-oz) glasses or dessert dishes. Spoon 1/2 cup of the apple chunks over yogurt in each glass.
Apple and oat is a pretty common combo in my house… I make loads of oat snacks, including apple oat pancakes, apple oat no-bake bites and now these apple oat bars all the time. What do I use for the Apple Component to make these Soft Oat Bars? I use apple purée in this oat bar recipe. This Apple Crisp Yogurt Parfait is perfect for when the summer air turns a bit colder and the autumn rains start, and it couldn’t be easier to make, as it takes just 15 minutes in total! To make this recipe, you start by dicing a couple of apples and combining them with lemon juice, sugar, and cinnamon in a pot. Caramel Apple Cheesecake Bars will be your favorite apple bar recipe this season! These bars combine the deliciousness of my popular Apple Streusel Sheet Cake and cheesecake bars into one perfect fall dessert.. Move over apple pie! Between the rich flavors of salted caramel and cinnamon spiced apples to the tempting layer of cream cheese and cookie-like streusel, this will be your new favorite ...
Add yogurt to apple mixture; mix well. Spoon into crust. Cover. Freeze at least 3 hours, or until firm. Cut into 8 slices to serve. × Preparation images Apple Cinnamon Yogurt Pie. You may also like recipes. Creamy Mocha Hot Cocoa Creamy Mocha Hot Cocoa. ... Recipe Reviews. Write a review. Reviews -of Blue Buffalo Health Bars Apple & Yogurt Recipe Crunchy Dry Dog Treats, 16-oz bag. 4 dollars and 47 cents $ 4 47. unit price is 27 dollars and 9 cents per ounce 27.9cents/OZ Add to Cart in your cart. SKU-MISSING. Details. Ingredients.
These delicious cake bars are very moist, thanks to the vegetable oil and the plain Greek yogurt. The apple squares are super easy and quick to prepare on a busy weeknight! If you’re bored with making the same apple recipes, such as apple crisp, crumble, or cobbler, try these little apple squares, and you’d be very happy! Sour Cream Apple Bars Apple bars with a sweet, creamy apple filling layered between a crunchy oat crust and topping. How to make Apple Crumble Bars. To make these Apple Crumble Bars, simply whisk together the melted butter, sugar, and vanilla. Add the flour, baking powder, and salt, and mix together using a fork to create a crumbly mixture. Press half of the crumb mixture into the base of an 8×8-inch square baking pan lined with parchment paper or foil.
Storing Apple Pie Protein Bars. Apple Pie protein bars should not be stored at room temperature, as they will become soft and difficult to hold up as bars. These no bake apple pie bars should be stored in the refrigerator, in a sealed container. They will keep fresh for up to 2 weeks, and maintain their thick and chewy texture. Fall baking with apples is one of my favorite things come September – and there’s an apple muffin recipe on the blog already too (with a pretty amazing cinnamon nut filling!), but this version right here is a little healthier and perfect for breakfast and snacking!
Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal Bars are packed with heart-healthy old fashioned oats, coconut oil, tons of cinnamon, fresh apples, and sweetened with pure maple syrup. No processed-sugar needed. Plus, those of you who are banana-averse/allergic, these bars call for unsweetened applesauce as a binder/sweetener instead of mashed bananas. Who needs a special occasion to bake a pan of fudgy brownies or a double batch of chocolate chip cookies? Desserts are one of Betty Crocker’s claims to fame, and with kitchen-tested recipes for everything from layer cakes to apple pies—including both scratch desserts and shortcut options—it’s not hard to see why.
The results aren’t always worth talking about, but this recipe — oh, this one is. It’s a moist cake with a crumb that’s almost creamy, swirled with cinnamon, and juicy with small bites of apple. It will take you about 15 minutes to make, and regardless of whether my story gets old, this recipe never will. Candy Bar Caramel Apple Yogurt Dip. 0 Ratings. 0 Comments. Kitchen Tested. Prep 5 min; ... Ingredients. 1 container (5.3 oz) Yoplait® Greek 100 caramel apple yogurt 3 mini milk chocolate-covered peanut, caramel and nougat candy bars, unwrapped and chopped ... Recipe can easily be doubled or tripled.
The apples aren’t peeled for this recipe as many of the vitamins and minerals are in the skin. Blending the whole apples with the skin gives a great texture, adds to the appearance with little skin flakes and maximises the nutrition. 3-Ingredient Apple Almond Oat Breakfast Bars Video These bars are like killing three breakfast birds with one stone. You get a bowl of whole grain oatmeal, a pile of strawberries, and some protein-packed yogurt, all in a handheld bar that you can definitely eat while sitting in traffic on your way to work. Save spoons and bowls and other crazy ideas like that for the weekend. I made these Apple pie date bars last night so I could send my sister back home with a snack for her long train ride! So easy to make. I also let my fiancé taste test for me and he seriously raved about the bars and kept asking what was in them.
The Best Apple Bars With Cake Mix Recipes on Yummly | Apple Cake Bars With Cinnamon Yogurt Topping, Apple And Sour Cream Bars, Apple Cake Mix Cookie Bars. Sign Up / Log In My Feed Articles Plan & Shop New Browse Yummly Pro Guided Recipes. ... Apple Crumble Bars Mandy's Recipe Box. butter, apple, yellow cake mix, oats. Well, apple season is now in full swing so we have been enjoying this fruit a lot. We’ve been making juices, using them in baking (apart from these caramel apple crumb bars I also used them to make Homemade Apple Rings, Apple Pie and Apple Oatmeal Bake as well as enjoying them raw in salads or on their own. What about you guys? There is no big back story here – I love apple crisp, and I wanted to turn it into something a little more portable, like a bar. Apples have done very well around here this year, which has brought the prices way down, and it is really difficult for me to pass up a deal, so we’ve ended up with quite a supply of all my favorites – Northern Spies, Cortlands, Jonagold, Macintosh and Macouns.
You may never thought about adding yogurt to a cake before, but it’s a great ingredient to give cakes moisture and a fresh taste. This apple yogurt cake requires a little effort but only 20 mins ... Healthy Greek Frozen Yogurt Cups/bars is good for breakfast, snack or dessert with no bake granola, fresh and dry fruits and with the goodness of honey.This is something different version to serve yogurt in this way.A must try recipe!. "cook healthy with honey recipe contest"
The Best Yogurt Oatmeal Bars Recipes on Yummly | Yogurt And Blackberry Crumble Bars, Greek Yogurt Banana Oatmeal Bars, Cranberry Greek Yogurt Oatmeal Bars ... Are you looking for a dessert recipe? Yes No No Preference. Skip. Last updated Feb 01, 2020. ... fat free vanilla yogurt, apple, almonds, old fashioned oats, cinnamon and 1 more. Apple Candy Bar Salad is a healthy twist on the classic Snicker Salad recipe with yummy cheesecake flavor. You won’t miss out on any of the sweet and creamy deliciousness since it is made with Greek yogurt, honey, dark chocolate, and peanuts instead of whipped topping and Snickers candy bars. Monday: Yogurt Cereal Bars / Secret Recipe Club – These bars are amazing. They are made with corn flakes and the yogurt tastes like cheesecake. I am honored to be a part of this special Secret Recipe Club. Tuesday – Pumpkin Soup / Skinny Bitch Tuesday – This was my last post as part of my Skinny Bitch Tuesday’s. This recipe is for a ...
These easy apple donuts look just like the real thing and get a boost of nutrition from good-food-you ingredients like yogurt and additional fruit along with a hearty sprinkle of Curate Snack Bars with yummy kid-friendly flavors like Apple & Cinnamon, Chocolate & Banana, and Oatmeal & Chocolate Chunk. I love that they’re non-GMO and gluten ... This humble little Greek yogurt apple blueberry bread were gobbled up before the sugary lemon muffins. And I love that because it’s made with zero refined sugar, relies mostly on Greek yogurt for moisture, and is packed with fruit. I get so excited when delicious recipes are also healthy(ish) recipes. 🙂 Apple Pie Oatmeal Bars really are very easy to make. It takes just a few minutes to make the apple pie filling and the oatmeal mixture comes together VERY fast! The longest, toughest part is waiting for it to finish baking so you can steal a nibble.
In a medium bowl, combine yogurt, egg, apple juice concentrate, and oil. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and add the wet ingredients until blended. Coat a 9 X 13 inch pan with vegetable spray, spread batter in pan. Bake 45-50 minutes or until done. Cool 10 minutes before slicing. Slice into 8 servings. Apple Bars. Apple Snack Squares. Apple Slice Squares. Golden Apple Raisin Squares. Apple Desserts. 866 recipes. Apple Desserts By: Allrecipes Staff. Get the magazine. ... Here are few tips that I learn from doing that recipe. First, I tripled most of the recipe, except for the topping. I baked it into big rectangular corning ware dish (about 16 ... Grab Musselman's E-Recipe Book HERE. You can find two of our favorite recipes in the E-Recipe Book. The first one is our Easy Apple Pie Bars! These are so easy to make and have Apple Butter in them, making them better than your usual Apple Pie. Easy Apple Pie Bars: INGREDIENTS 7 cups of Granny Smith apples, cored, and diced 1…
2) Make the filling: First, mix apple cubes with 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 tablespoon flour and 1 teaspoon cinnamon and set aside. In another bowl, mix together Greek yogurt, sugar, egg and flour. Pour the mixture over the crust. Sprinkle apples on top (do not press!) and sprinkle crumb topping (don't press as well. It will stick together while ... I changed my recipe to apple/strawberry cutting to 5 cups apple and 1 cup strawberry. Reducing sugar by 1/4 cup. Omitted the cinnamon. I would love to try making just an oatmeal bar made out of the crust and more oatmeal. Great took to church potluck cut servings in half and I came home with an empty plate. Big success.
This Apple Crisp Shortbread Bars Recipe is one you'll want to keep!! All of my shortbread loving friends will understand when they taste the apple.. Caramel Apple Cheesecake Bars start with a shortbread crust, a thick cheesecake layer, and are topped with diced cinnamon apples and a sweet streusel topping. These are a tried and true cheesecake bar dessert recipe.
Spread half of the crumb mixture in the baking pan. Top with apple slices and raisins and sprinkle with sugar. Spread remaining crumb mixture evenly over apples. Bake at 350 degrees for 40-50 minutes. Cool and cut into 12 bars. This easy recipe for soft baked oatmeal apple breakfast bars is naturally sweetened & healthy for you! Vegan, gluten-free and dairy-free options too. This easy recipe for soft baked oatmeal apple breakfast bars is naturally sweetened & healthy for you! ... I think we will salvage these by eating them over yogurt and next time I will add more ...
Apple Pie Bars Apple pie bars are a pleasing treat size. These apple bars are an all-time favorite, perfect for after school snacks, coffee with friends or as an easy dessert. Read the Story Behind the Recipe Spread into greased 9 in. by 13 in. pan or two 8 in. by 8 in. pans. Bake in moderate oven, 375 degrees Fahrenheit about 25 minutes. Cool slightly, cut into bars or squares. Sprinkle with sifted icing sugar. Makes 36 bars. This may also be served warm as a pudding with sauce. Submitted by: CM
These Apple Cinnamon Breakfast Bars are easy, kid-friendly and full of protein and fiber. They make a healthy breakfast or snack and can be eaten on-the-go! Thanks to ADA Mideast for sponsoring this post *Note, this post was originally published in September 2013. The recipe and photos were updated in September 2016* Hi Friends! These bars are delicious and always a hit. They're a little extra work because of rolling out the dough but it is well worth the effort! The dough is slightly different from your traditional pie crust dough but so much better! They're like yummy apple pie in a bar you can just pick up and eat! Great recipe that I use every year for Thanksgiving!!! Apple Crisp Bars: This apple dessert is a layer of shortbread cookie crust topped with sweet apples and finished with a buttery crumble. There is nothing like visiting an apple orchard in the fall. I adore crisp, fresh apples for eating plain with a yogurt dip, or for making homemade applesauce.
I've made these apple crisp bars for parties and for family, and they're always a hit. —Barbara Pickard, Union Lake, Michigan. This has been a favorite apple bar recipe of mine for many years. I've made these apple crisp bars for parties and for family, and they're always a hit. —Barbara Pickard, Union Lake, Michigan ... Apple Crumb Bars. This recipe for Strawberry Yogurt Granola Bars is sponsored by Welch’s® Fruit Snacks. I am being compensated for this post. All comments and opinions are my own. This easy granola bar recipe is a fun way to get the kids involved in making their lunch. These apple muffins are soft and moist, perfectly spiced, and topped with an easy crumb topping.. These muffins are made with better-for-you ingredients — apples, Greek yogurt, coconut oil, and an egg. We leave out the butter and excessive amounts of sugar found in typical bakery-style muffins and you won’t miss either!
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. For the crust, place the butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment and beat on medium ... This Apple-Cinnamon Bread is delicious for breakfast or even dessert! The Greek yogurt in the batter keeps this apple quick bread incredibly moist, and you will love the pieces of cinnamon-sugar apples that you get with every bite! Quaker® Chewy Strawberry Yogurt Granola Bars are made with 14 grams of whole grains, real strawberries pieces, a delicious layer of yogurt flavored coating and other delicious ingredients. With a taste your whole family will love, this yummy snack won't last long in your cupboard!
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Santa’s Digital Christmas
Blog - Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Blockchain, Data Science, Robotic Process Automation
Finally, there is some time off coming in Christmas. After a long work-from-home or office cycle, we can all relax and enjoy the gifts that Santa brings us. Santa is bringing us a lot of gifts! Two in particular—AI and robotics process automation. Santa Claus has been very meticulous and careful so that two billion children their Christmas gifts, Despite the pandemic, two billion children are going to get their gifts on time.
So, how is Santa able to do this in this modern world? Like any other business, Santa too has adopted practices and technology that can streamline his North Pole operations. Most of his helpers are now freed from doing repetitive tasks and are focusing on making and delivering toys and doing their job more effectively. Santa is running a data-first enterprise after shifting his operations to a digital Christmas setup.
Using MSRcosmos AI, Robotics Process Automation, and Machine learning, Santa has promised to deliver toys and bring smiles to little one’s faces. Santa looked at big data and knew he had to innovate or stay behind. Santa knew that by learning from data, robotics process automations can solve pre-defined problems or tasks. So, what kind of data does Santa have?
Santa receives millions of letters from sweet little children every Christmas and sometimes, way before Christmas. Santa’s elves work through the letters by reading each one of them, then filing them away. Sometimes, filing away can be difficult since the letters need room to store, and Santa only has so much room in his North Pole abode. For the elves, finding the right information at the right time is also a challenge. Letters may even go missing, much to the sorrow of the little child who wrote it.
That’s why Santa decided to shift to a digital Christmas and used his big data to his advantage by implementing Optical Character Recognition (OCR). All the elves need to do is scan the letters and they will be stored digitally into a CRM system. Here, the name, address and wish of the children are recorded in new entries if this is their first letter or updated entries if they are repeat authors.
Using AI, robotics process automations, and machine learning, Santa’s elves can watch the computer do the work for them as the letter goes to the naughty pile or nice pile based on scoring and Santa’s oversight. Using a pre-defined list of good and bad activities, and a scoring system, Santa’s elves can watch the letter be defined as nice or naughty. AI bots and machine learning comes in very handy in this instance, eh?
While project digital Christmas is activated, the elves can catch some much-needed Zs as they do not have to do anymore repetitive or time-consuming tasks. The elves are happier as they no longer need to read, sort, store and recall all the letters that they receive. So, Santa is happy!
But what about the impact of Covid? It has reached the North Pole and many little elves have sadly been taken off the line because of it. They need to be in their own homes to recover so Santa has a much shorter staff than ever before.
However, there is no worry when project digital Christmas takes off. Using the big data, AI, robotics process automations, and machine learning, Santa can learn which of the elves had to miss work due to Covid and which had to leave the job with the CRM system. Santa has around 1 million elves working for him at any given time. He needs that many elves if he wants to send presents to children on time. So, what if he used a robotic workforce that can be scaled up or down to cope with resource fluctuations, workforce fluctuations and other problems?
Using CRM, Santa can shift elves across departments where if demand for one type of product is down, he can move elves to another type of product which is more in demand. No longer are the elves making gifts that nobody wants anymore. They can get job satisfaction by watching the children get exactly what they asked for.
Finally, Santa is ready to set off to trot the globe and give children around the world a wonderful smile. But Rudolph is tired and might delay Santa. No problem! In this new digital Christmas, Santa uses an automated mapping system which cross-references data with Google maps. With this technology, Santa can hit all the stops quickly and bright Rudolph home in time to celebrate Christmas with his friends. This digital Christmas is not just great for Santa and his workers but also for you with MSRcosmos. Come join us and make your Christmas a digital one!. | <urn:uuid:cdb92e8c-9dee-4295-8bb8-95914f3b4bec> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.msrcosmos.com/blog/santa-digital-christmas | 2022-01-24T16:57:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304572.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20220124155118-20220124185118-00061.warc.gz | en | 0.961962 | 971 |
The eMIMOx8 module and firmware for advanced Software Define Radio (SDR) applications provide the only solution in the market that is production-ready to support high-performance, ultra-wide bandwidth enhanced-MIMO in a highly integrated form factor with standards-compliant interface.
Optimizing, testing and comparing performance of massive MIMO base station algorithms and RF hardware settings require a RF channel emulator that is capable of emulating in real-time the massive MxK RF channels, where M≥64 is the number of RF paths in the base station and K≥8 is the number of spatially multiplexed UE data streams in the same resource block.
The RMB-101A (download datasheet) is a high-performance Software Define Radio (SDR) 8Tx/8Rx Multi-Channel Transceiver Module for a Remote Radio Unit for a Base Band Unit (BBU) located from a few meters to over 10 km away from the radio in a C-RAN type network or for distributed massive MIMO.
Our Massive C-RAN DSP Engine is the largest C-RAN DSP Engine in the market. It has 64 10Gbps CPRI, capable of supporting the DSP processing of the IQ streams of up to 512 Tx/Rx radios, either for Distributed Massive MIMO or resource pooling at the lower PHY level in a C-RAN network. It is compliant with LTE and CPRI standards.
The AVALO-RU64A is a high-performance Remote Radio Unit (RRU or RU) for a Massive MIMO BTS system. Multiple RRUs can be linked back to a Cloud-RAN (C-RAN) central processing node for distributed massive MIMO.
The RDB-B41TA is a high-performance multi-channel MIMO RF Frontend (FE) Module. It includes 8 independent TX Power Amplifier (PA) channels, and 8 independent RX Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) channels. The working band is TDD band 41 (2496 – 2690 MHz). In the TX chain, the gain is ~30 dB, and the output power for CW is +29 dBm, for LTE is about ~+18 dBm with ACLR > 47 dB. Both input and output return loss are ~12 dB. In the RX chain, the gain is ~24 dB, max CW input level lower than -3 dBm, for LTE input signal, the max input level is lower than -15 dBm. The RX Noise Figure (NF) is about 4 dB and the both input and output return loss about 15 dB.
Massive MIMO takes advantage of the reciprocity of the over-the-air (OTA) channel in TDD to reduce the overhead in channel estimation. It estimates the downlink channel based on the uplink channel obtained from SRS in uplink. For this to work, the Tx and Rx chains in the base station RU must be calibrated so that they are reciprocal. This module is similar in function to our 8×8 MIMO SDR except this module has built-in circuit to perform the reciprocal calibration of the 8Tx and 8Rx chains. More importantly, the built-in calibration circuits can be chained for reciprocal calibration of a larger RU, e.g., a RU with 64Tx and 64Rx chains. | <urn:uuid:58ef0569-a536-4a57-9435-798597a12ada> | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | http://rfdsp.com/products/ | 2020-11-30T18:09:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141216897.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20201130161537-20201130191537-00059.warc.gz | en | 0.885766 | 713 |
This section will give you a brief introduction to vertex and pixel shaders. You are very much encouraged to read the DirectX SDK documentation as well. It provides you with all the details on how vertex and pixel shaders work and their integration into DirectX. German readers are also welcome to read "Programmierbare Pixel- und Vertex Shader am Beispiel des GeForce3 von NVIDIA". When we're discussing effect details in the following section a fairly good amount of knowledge about vertex and pixel shaders is required.
What's necessary to render a 3D object to screen? <![if !supportLineBreakNewLine]>At first we need its surface representation. Most of the time this will be approximated by triangles as they allow easy and quick processing. Nowadays a lot of modeling tools support high order surfaces to describe 3D objects. But these will have to be triangulated as well either by the CPU or the GPU (graphic processing unit) before rendering takes place. In fact using high order surfaces have quite some positive impact on rendering performance because they can be tessellated to an arbitrary level of detail using the same compact surface description. If this tessellation is performed on the GPU a lot of system bandwidth can be saved, thus improving rendering speed.<![endif]>
How's each triangle being processed? Each triangle has to be transformed according to its relative position and orientation to the viewer. That is, each of the three vertices the triangle is made up of is transformed to its proper view space position. At this point it is possible to cull each triangle that is outside the viewer's frustum. The next step is to light the triangle by taking the transformed vertices and apply a lighting calculation for every light defined in the scene. At last the triangle needs to be projected to the screen in order to rasterize it. During rasterization the triangle will be shaded and textured.
Graphic processors are able to perform a certain amount of these tasks. The first generation was able to draw shaded and textured triangles in hardware. The CPU still had the burden to feed the graphic processor with transformed and lit vertices, triangle gradients for shading and texturing, etc. Integrating the triangle setup into the chip logic was the next step and finally even transformation and lighting (TnL) was possible in hardware reducing the CPU load considerably. The only drawback is that a developer so far had no direct (i.e. program driven) control over transformation, lighting and pixel rendering because all logic was hardwired on the chip.
Vertex and pixel shaders allow developers to code customized transformation and lighting calculations as well as pixel coloring functionality. Each shader is basically a micro program executed on the GPU to control either vertex or pixel processing. Besides the freedom offered to developers they also help to keep the 3D API simple. A fixed function pipeline has to define modes, flags, etc. for an increasing number of rendering features. Multiplied by the increasing number of data inputs (more colors, textures, vertex streams, etc.) due to continuously evolving hardware this token space becomes more and more complex in terms of both the API and the driver. A programmable pipeline on the other hand provides for scalability and the ability to evolve. Rendering features can be implemented in a more streamlined manner. New API features can easily be exposed incrementally by adding instructions, data inputs and program resource limits (e.g. number of available registers, program size, etc.).
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Vacation, Contesting and Friends -- Perfect Together!
For a number of years my wife Maryann and I have been vacationing on the beautiful island of St Croix in the US Virgin Islands (USVI). Having been a dedicated DXer and contest junkie for years (it must be the type-A personality) I've always wanted to be on the other side of a DX pileup. So, what's the best way to accomplish that goal than to go somewhere you're wanted, is easy to get to and appeals to the spouse. Where? A Caribbean island, of course!
The choice of locations came much by accident through a QST advertisement in the 1980s that led to our almost yearly, week-long stay on the island and the development of what has turned out to be a long friendship with the apartment's owners Sam and Shirley Pasco. That friendship has, likewise, spiraled out to include other VI (Virgin Island) hams, among which has been my ARRL Phone Sweepstakes contest host the past several years, John Ellis, NP2B, who is also the USVI Section Manager. John and his wife Jeanette (Ms "J") are the unique hosts who have more fun letting others use their station than operating it themselves.
Whenever it's been possible, I've planned our vacation to correspond with ARRL Phone Sweepstakes. During the sunspot peak my low power (QRP) and loop in the palm trees worked well but as the cycle inched down so did the contacts. It was at Sam's suggestion that I contact John Ellis to see if he had anything planned for Sweepstakes since John's station was one of the better ones on the island. John graciously invited me to work multioperator (multi-op) with him and W4OV. That first multi-op ended in a 'Clean Sweep" and another Sweepstakes mug for me to make my own "Clean Sweep" (mugs for phone, CW and multi-op)! But, it started a friendship between John and I that has resulted in three more ARRL Sweepstakes multi-op events. One thing for sure, John has the knack for finding those elusive multipliers!
After a hiatus of a year from vacationing on the island I contacted John to find out if he would like to do another multi-op. John was up for it but he said he didn't know how his voice would hold out. Since I've always enjoyed the fun of contesting with others I started to look around for a partner or two. I was particularly looking for someone who had experience operating from the Caribbean and was familiar with propagation from there to the mainland. My thoughts immediately went to some fellow NJDXA (North Jersey DX Association -- the W2 QSL Bureau) members who had moved to St Croix but were now living in California; Ann and Brian Keegan (KP2YL and KP2HC respectively).
My wife and I had become friends with Brian and Ann when they lived in New Jersey and visited them just after they moved to St Croix. (Once again ham radio and friendships.) Ann is the contester of the team and a devoted QRP operator having won that power level in several contests. Brian is the CW maven but will get on phone if shoved. So, doing a high power (QRO) contest would be something new for Ann. Anyway, not sure of what the answer would be I sent off an e-mail, which was almost immediately answered with a very emphatic yes! Their trip planning to St Croix was more involved than ours but they were determined to come down. Ann even sent her Heil Headset back to the factory to get refurbished. We had a team. And, a secret weapon, a female voice, which always attracts attention.
The Game Plan
Once on the island and settled in we all got together at NP2B's QTH for a pre-contest strategy session. Our main goal was to make a "Clean Sweep" (which Ann had never done before). The other was to take the time out, when needed, to explain the Sweepstakes exchange to people who were attracted to the NP2B call sign but did not understand what the contest was about or felt intimidated about the exchange. We felt this would cost us some contacts but maybe encourage people to overcome their initial fear of a contest exchange and then go on to make other contacts. I've done this before but not apparently in the patient manner Ann exhibited as she walked people through the exchange format. It was nice to hear people actually say "thanks, no one has ever explained this to me before." Did we lose contacts? Sure. But our other goal was being met: of making the contest less frightening and attracting potentially new contesters.
But, on to the contest itself and how we actually did. Following John's advice we planned to start the contest off at the highest band open and then follow the propagation. We avoided 40 meters at night due to the severe broadcast interference (QRM) and went right to 75 meters once 20 meters closed down for us. Sunday had us making some contacts on 40 meters in the early morning before moving up to 15 meters. Throughout the day we kept checking 10 meters for some short openings but heard nothing except some South American stations.
We gradually approached our goal of the clean sweep but we were still missing three sections by early Sunday afternoon. Even bouncing back and forth between 20 meters and 15 meters yielded nothing until a call from VY1JA on 15 meters gave us NWT (thanks, Jay!). That left two sections to go. It was back to 20 meters since John mentioned we should have propagation to the west coast at that time. Sure enough, we found KL7AA on 14.200 kHz working into the Midwest. After some calls Ann just felt we would not be able to break the pileup even with her pleading voice!
She gave the seat to me and I started shouting "Virgin Islands" several times. It seemed to work as KL7AA came back to us with an exchange. I had to ask for a repeat since everyone in the room was jumping and passing around "high fives." That left VE4 to go. About an hour later we snagged VE4AG but, again, needed a few repeats to get through the QRM. Brian and I just gave a sigh this time. We had our Clean Sweep with several hours of operating time left. Ann was now really into the contest mode and very emphatically said we still had time to make a thousand contacts. She took over to make sure that new goal happened. It did. We finished the contest out on 75 meters making #1000 just before the end.
Life After Radio
Our group may not have had the highest multi-op score but we achieved all of our goals and still had several days left on St Croix to enjoy the rest of our vacation time. We all spent the post contest days at various activities. Ann and Brian visited friends and just relaxed with John and Jeanette Ellis who graciously hosted their stay. Maryann and I did some Christmas shopping (great bargains!) and toured the northern part of the island which, by the way, is covered by a rain forest. Ann and Maryann even got together for a relaxing day split between the beach and the pool (they just followed the sun!) at our complex. Once again, John and Jeanette hosted a terrific Thanksgiving Day dinner attended by some neighbors and visiting hams. Our last night on the island was spent having dinner with the Ellises. It took a little convincing to get them to agree that we would be the hosts this time! All in all, we couldn't have asked for a better way to finish out a terrific week. All four of us had time to just relax and enjoy the St Croix atmosphere before heading back home. And, as the title says, we got it all in: vacation, contesting and friends -- Perfect Together!
Bill Hudzik, W2UDT, is an ARRL Life Member and Extra class licensee. First licensed in 1961 as WV2UDT he has been continuously licensed for 47 years. Bill is a Trustee of the Raritan Valley Radio Club and the North Jersey DX Association, a member of the New Providence Radio Club, served as Section Manager for Northern New Jersey from 2001 to 2007 and admits to being a "contest junkie." His most outstanding ham radio memory was the holiday season of 1966-67. He was posted to Kadena air base in Okinawa and he spent the time running phone patches for his fellow squadron members using the KR6SP call sign. Bill can be reached at 111 Preston Dr, Gillette, NJ 07933.
Photos courtesy of Bill Hudzik, W2UDT.
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CFD modeling of air flow in an openpit mine
, 2012, Vol. 64, No. 2, pp. 44-50
Collingwood, W.; Raj, K. V.; Choudhury, A.; Bandopadhyay, S.
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Melda Production release MfreeformEqualizer VST for Windows 17/12/09
Melda Production tell us that MfreeformEqualizer is a FFT based linear-phase equalizer, which can provide virtually any frequency response and may save you when other methods have failed. Here's what they have to say about it...
Using MFreeformEqualizer you can literally draw any frequency response you may want. You can correct problematic frequencies with surgical accuracy, play with the spectrum, or even create interesting effects. Features
Freeform equalizer with range up to -64dB..64dB editable using MeldaProduction Envelope System (MES).
Extremely advanced and easy-to-use user interface - our products are always workflow enhanced. You can easily change all values and gain maximal accuracy using textual editing. Smooth visualization of resulting response with almost unlimited zooming...
MIDI controllers with MIDI learn - you can map any parameter to any MIDI controller or MIDI keyboard and control it realtime or record and automate it.
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Listen to this great vintage recording of former Dodgers hurler Joe Black talking about pitching in the 1952 World Series against the Yankees.
Do you remember the Sports Talk Player? They came out in the late 80's and features cards with little transparent records on the reverse. Below is the Tommy Lasorda record. Listen to it below.
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Rosemary in my COOKIES! YESSS! If you’ve been watching our Instagram account you’ve seen that I’ve picked up some new light cookbook reads. Now…I can no longer hold it in, my current cookbook obsession is, Isa Does It: Amazingly Easy, Wildly Delicious Vegan Recipes for Every Day of the Week by Isa Chandra Moskowitz! Isa seriously has me hook line and sinker with these cookies. I turned into an instant cookie monster not even wanting to share with Mr. B. My family knows I am the first to snub most chocolate off, but the addition of rosemary to a cookie really caught my attention. Oh and guess what? IT’S VEGAN!
These cookies were perfect and in every way, just as Isa described they would be, buttery, golden, and wake your taste buds up with the exotic happy marriage of semi-sweet chocolate chips and fresh rosemary. Trust me folks, be forewarned, you are going to instantly become obsessed with these cookies too!
Don’t fret if you think it’s going to be all complicated because it’s vegan and possibly an unknown territory. It’s actually really easy and we had almost everything we needed on hand already in our kitchen. I only had to modify one partial element of the recipe and that was the coconut oil. Isa’s recipe calls for refined coconut oil, I only had unrefined but didn’t let that stop me and certainly didn’t change the taste as far as I am concerned.
Rosemary Chocolate Chip Cookies
Link directly to source: Post Punk Kitchen
1/2 cup refined coconut oil, softened (I used unrefined)
2 tablespoons lightly packed, chopped fresh rosemary (Chop it FINE)
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/3 cup light brown sugar
1/4 cup almond milk (or your favorite non-dairy milk)
1 tablespoon ground flax seeds (golden preferred)(I used Bob’s Red Mill whole ground flaxseed meal)
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup chocolate semisweet chips
Preheat oven to 350 F. Lightly grease two large baking sheets.
In a large mixing bowl, use a fork to beat together the coconut oil and rosemary, until relatively smooth. Add the sugar, and beat for about a minute.
Add the non-dairy milk and flax seeds, and beat once again, for 30 seconds or so. Mix in the vanilla.
Add about half the flour, as well as the salt and baking soda, and mix well. Add the remainder of the flour, along with the chocolate chips, and mix well until it looks like, well, cookie dough.
Scoop about 2 tablespoons of dough onto cookie sheets in rounded spoonfuls. Flatten gently with your hands. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, until bottoms are golden brown.
Let cool on sheets for 3 minutes or so, then transfer to cooling racks to cool the rest of the way.
Thanks for getting me through the tough times Isa!
Not only is rosemary for remembrance, as you may have read in my prior post, our friends departed Korea earlier this AM and mother Korea decided to surprise them one last time before they were on their way… SNOW! It was surprisingly a decent amount of snow that settled in below on our streets, sidewalks and trees. I love looking our windows onto the glittery white rooftops munching on a cookie.
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Budget 2018 – What it means for Founders, Start-Ups and Scale-Ups
Earlier this week, Chancellor Philip Hammond presented the Budget 2018.
There were many changes, and the Chancellor underlined how crucial business and investment is for UK’s post-Brexit strategy.
Let’s walk through the main points of the Budget which are relevant to entrepreneurs, founders, SMEs, start-ups and scale-ups.
Tightened rules for Entrepreneurs Relief
Hammond announced that, as entrepreneurship remains central to the country’s dynamic economy, he will retain the relief. However, the minimum qualifying period will be extended from one to two years.
Announcing the changes, Hammond said: “So, the expected tightening has happened. From 6 April 2019, you will need to have owned an asset for at least two years to qualify. But there’s an immediate restriction from today – he added – shareholders have to be entitled to at least 5 per cent of the net profits and distributable profits and net assets of a company to be able to claim a relief as well as five per cent of the ordinary share capital. This counters some tax planning.”
Capped R&D Tax Credits from 2020
In an attempt to prevent fraudulent claims, HMRC will cap R&D payable credit for loss-making business to three times the company’s total PAYE and NICs liability for that year.
This will be in effect from April 2020.
EIS funds for Knowledge Intensive Businesses coming in 2020
The Chancellor announced the launch of these funds in 2020. This aims to increase investment in innovation and knowledge-intensive businesses, by providing investors with the benefits of EIS tax reliefs.
One of the key requirements is that at least 80% of funds raised is invested in knowledge-intensive companies. The EIS funds must make their investments within two years (increased from one). Funds will have to invest half of each raise within the first 12 months and keep the capital not yet invested in cash.
A carry-back rule will apply to allow investors to obtain reliefs from investments made in the prior year.
It will be compulsory for approved funds to submit annual accounts to HMRC to demonstrate that they continue to meet the conditions.
£200m funding for the British Business Bank
The Chancellor announced £200m of BBB funding to replace the loss of the European Investment Funds. It is estimated that EIF have supported around 40% of VC funds across the country.
Moreover, £115m will go to increase the number of digital catapults around the UK. This aims at fuelling new innovation centres in the North East, South East and Northern Ireland, as well as a new Medicines Discovery Catapult in the North West.
Other important points
Annual Investment Allowance for businesses increases from £200k to £1m for the next two years.
Business rates for all small retailers with rateable value up to £51k will be cut by 30% for the next two years.
Apprenticeship levy for small companies is reduced from 10% to 5%.
Employment Allowance will continue for firms with an employer NI bill below £100k/year from April 2020.
Starting next tax year, the personal allowance will be increased to £12,000. The higher rate threshold will also rise to £50,000.
Despite being at risk of being lowered, the VAT threshold remains unchanged.
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How would your organization be affected if a Fire Marshall or Building Inspector reported that you’re not in compliance with Flammable safety codes? Sure, there’d be the necessity to prepare a plan for correcting the deficiency – a lot of time and paperwork – and maybe there’d even be a fine.
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Supporters, including dozens of religious leaders, immigrant advocates, Democratic lawmakers and students, crowded into the governor’s reception room to pose for photos and celebrate during the bill signing.
“We’ve got guts,” said Del. Ana Sol Gutierrez (D-Montgomery), a longtime advocate for the bill. “We were willing to go against the tide and stand up for something that is the right thing to do.”
Sponsors had worked for years to pass legislation that would allow illegal immigrant students in Maryland to continue their education by paying in-state tuition at the state’s four-year institutions. But the measure was a tough sell even among some Democrats because of concerns about competition for a limited number of slots for residents.
In a compromise this year, sponsors rewrote the bill to initially direct undocumented students to community colleges. Those who receive an associate’s degree would then qualify for in-state tuition at four-year institutions. Students must have graduated from a Maryland high school, provide proof that their parents are state taxpayers and express their intent to become a citizen.
“We should not allow our nation’s broken immigration system to serve as an excuse to escape our basic, moral obligation to expand opportunity for all Marylanders,” said O’Malley’s labor secretary, Alex Sanchez in a statement posted on his blog in English and Spanish.
Opponents of the bill have until June 30 to collect the more than 55,000 signatures required to hold a public vote on the law.
Del. Pat McDonough (R-Baltimore County), one of the lawmakers leading the opposition, said the petition effort is “ahead of schedule” and that he has been overwhelmed by the level of “passion and rage” against the measure.
The in-state tuition bill was one of dozens the governor signed into law Tuesday. Among the other bills was a measure intended to create reliability standards and penalties for the state’s electric companies in response to the extended power outages Pepco customers experienced last winter.
In a boon to wine aficionados in Maryland, O’Malley also signed off on legislation that will allow residents to have their favorite bottles of wine shipped directly to their doorsteps.
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Apple announces recent information of the number of people actively using the company’s smart assistant Siri. The number of Siri users has reached half a billion.
It is noted that such a result is a big increase as compared to the previous data point. Last June at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference Apple informed that Siri was used on over 375 million iOS devices.
As we know, Apple has contributed certain features to Siri update High Sierra versions. For instance, macOS has introduced a more expressive and natural male and female voices and improves Siri’s learning and synchronization abilities. iOS 11 introduced a couple of improvements, such as more realistic human voices that closely follow the natural speech. Besides, Siri is actively learning the user’s preferences and can sync the obtained information across all of the user’s devices. Also, with iOS 11, it can already translate from English to Chinese, German, French, Italian, and Spanish. And you may use Siri to control various HomeKit devices.
The number of Siri users is likely to continue increasing in the future with the release of the HomePod, which will rely on Siri in many aspects. Siri is intended to serve as a home musical specialist at the HomePod, and Apple is working to raise Siri’s expertise in music-related subjects.
Together with HomePod, Siri can provide music recommendations to match the user’s personal taste, as well as respond to a number of music-related commands and questions like “Play more songs like this,” “Who’s singing?”, or “Play something new”.
Also on HomePod, Siri can answer questions on lots of subjects, provide weather forecasts, send messages, download apps and check the news (this feature comes with the iOS 11.2.5). Besides, the smart assistant is able to make appointments, remind you the time of conferences and TV movies and much more providing you treat him (or her) properly, learning for yourself the assistant’s skills and abilities.
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This week, Amazon might send iTunes up the river, JJ Abrams might send two factions to war and Atari and THQ are sending their assets to other buyers.
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Over the past two years, Cisco has been dumping many of its brands, many of which are consumer-facing, but all of them have been out of Cisco's strengths. Almost two years ago, the company cut loose its Flip Video camera business. A year later they closed up shop on the Cius tablet brand as well, not long after the announcement that a larger version would be launched. That larger tablet never made it into the world.
It seems like this has been a bad month for old school gaming companies. We recently reported that THQ has sold off its assets to various companies and has closed its doors for good. Now, Atari has also struggled to find a hold in today's gaming market and the company has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company said in a written statement that it is looking to "secure independent capital for future growth, primarily in the areas of digital and mobile games." This is a little bit different though, as the filing is for the American division of Atari only, and it is a move to try and find buyers for the American branch to break away from its less-than profitable French parent company.
Five years can make a big difference in the videogame industry. Five years ago, THQ was valued at over $2 billion; today, right around $72 million, or so would suggest this week's bankruptcy auction. The company, which has had a lot of trouble finding its footing in the modern gaming market, sold off most of its assets to former rivals, including Sega and Ubisoft.
This one is sure to ruffle a few feathers in Apple HQ. Amazon has just made it easier for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users to buy music on their devices and they don't have to use iTunes to do it. Instead, Amazon has launched a special iEdition of their music store, with HTML5, that is specifically tailored to the mentioned products that will allow consumers to buy music from Amazon and then access the music from anywhere they'd like.
In potentially the weirdest news since Disney purchased the company, Lucasfilm seems to be bringing JJ Abrams in to direct the announced seventh installment of the Star Wars franchise. Abrams is pretty iconic in the sci-fi and alternate reality genre, creating the cult icons Lost for ABC and Revolution for NBC Universal. He is also responsible for films such as Super 8 and Cloverfield, both of which attracted large audiences. | <urn:uuid:17d5cbe0-3a76-48ab-a551-0cfb8136de86> | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | https://plughitzlive.com/radio/1-492-episode-292.html | 2020-01-24T10:51:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250619323.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20200124100832-20200124125832-00363.warc.gz | en | 0.979194 | 975 |
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Given the increasing role of new challenges that people must face today in our societies, there is an increasing need that future citizens will be not only technologically literate but also truly aware of their own environmental problems and challenges that they’ll face in their upcoming future.
I know that this statement may sound weird to lot of you, but the main argumentation here is to focus on the strategies that young must develop to frame how science proceed and need to be communicated in the better way by professional educators.
I think that this is one of the many reasons why teachers and evaluators need to develop the right content with the best possible design to let young participate and appreciate the distinctions, the trade-offs and the relationships between STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) knowledge and its life applications.
In other words, this means that most of the lessons and the extracurricular courses related to what goes under the umbrella of ‘Science’ should be able to give them the skills to develop problem solving, thinking abilities, and the pleasure to understand the complex interconnections of the origin and historic time that define the amazing physics enterprises communicated nowadays.
NOW, you may ask ‘Why’ is important to define a deeper framework around sciences in general and physics more in particular.
Well, students need to learn how to observe what they see in their books through models. They must infer the rules and patterns that define the scientific method. They must be inspired and develop confidence for Physics that is (essentially) a well-founded system of thinking about the world, able to seize lots of young engaged minds.
Explain which are the rules and the discoveries that make physics so beautiful and in a constant research to define the “portrait” of the Universe is only one example that can lead teaching and help young develop explanations about natural phenomena.
I am the idea that young deserve better than they experience now, especially in Italy where I studied and live now. I’m paying attention to the fact that usually in their inferences there is a lack of strong and deeply understanding of the principles beyond the content explained by math or physics teachers.
This (almost general) trend does not allow them to have the keys necessary to apply all the paradigms recognized in class in an appropriate and effective way in their personal actions, lives and communities.
As I write these reflections it will be nice that teachers will pay attention to the fact that the ability to reach young attention and curiosity come after experience and training, but start doing an integration into the common traditional curriculum presented by the national ministry of education is not an extra they can decide to do or completely avoid, it should be a must!
The mathematical structures students will learn during formal lessons may serve them later (as a framework) for building a strong and well-organized understanding of the subject in which practical knowledge and abilities are tightly woven along with the kinetics and physics mechanics showed them in class through theory and models.
Students need to practice “with” the formal content that educators and teachers provide them, recognized and assessed as truly relevant for their life, future vocation and career. It is not sufficient to present them what is behind the materials and the formulae application they practice several times through exercises and official exams. They need to understand what is beyond all this content. This is the teachers and educators’ challenge!
The educational priority is to allow young to understand the outcomes specified during the attained lessons. Fortunately, evidence suggests that with a right learning environment, students can define engineering problem, determine standards for successful solutions and identify constraints able to determine a valuable scientific learning experience.
Which is the best methodology to follow to increase all these aspects?
Well, if professionals want to figure out which are the embedded potential of an integrated learning environment and try to offer their students a better scientific training during classes (and extracurricular activities), they should consider and understand a wise number of distinct (but interlocked) topics:
- What are the processes involved in physics understanding?
This might seem obvious – or even trivial – but many components and aspects that define our understanding are normally invisible to us.
- Which are the passions and the mindset that define young?
Let’s start from the usually but not generally implicit rule that ‘understand students’ is a must that teachers or facilitators should have clear to provide them the right educational care. Educators should develop more attention to their curiosities, letting them become aware on which are the fundamental skills required to recognize and make a proper interpretation of the material and the physics laws presented in class.
Or maybe recognizing how all the content provided by the teacher, which in fact is a mentor, is dependent on the experiences they bring (or propose) to the class.
Everyone can understand that a force is necessary to maintain a certain velocity during a walking or driving action, or when you push something along the floor. So why not explain Newton’s second law in a consistent way up to the experiences that students make, in every moment and propose with enthusiasm to their peers?
- How do students respond to formal physics instruction?
Lot of teachers assume that students respond to the provided stimuli as they did along their generation, or rather, as they might have wished to do, behaving and knowing what they know now. But the truth is that to design effective instruction, increase awareness on – and learn – how students really respond is a lifelong experiential challenge! Not only for the “educators” but also for the growing number of physicists that becomes aware on the field of physics education research as a growing sub-discipline of physics.
When it becomes difficult to grasp young sense of wonder and interest of a situation, we need to become attentive students by ourselves, participating in the forum and discussion related to the latest educational researcher or combine observation and analysis to figure out some trends.
I think that to have a deeper influence, teachers and educators need to learn how properly interact with their students. It is not only a matter of how you are good to execute observation or active listening abilities to recognize student’s real difficulties…
A classic example of this situation is when in a junior level class, a student asks a question about a currents comparison of a relatively complicated circuit. His professor, like many physics instructors, behave as a dedicated facilitator. After a careful listening of the student concerns he recognize his state of confusion about the observed process. BUT, instead of asking questions to determine WHY this student is confused, he proceeds to give a detailed description of how the entire complicated circuit work…
The next passage is a sense of unclear confidence that the young may feel after this secondary explanation on the observed processes. But afterwards, when he’ll need to explain what he has learned to a friend a sense of uncleanness appears during the process description cause some passages are not metabolized.
So please, if you are in the “world” of education and your students will politely nod after you give him more clues and a deep explanation try to not move on quickly!
Ask to them questions on the latest explained or related processes.
One way to do this is to carefully interview (without putting notes) several students, letting them describe what they think about a situation or allowing them to work through a problem.
The teacher/educator/facilitator can use what in literature is called “inquiry learning” to encourage the students to “think loud” and explain their reasoning to the class. The goal of this practice is not to help the students come up with the “correct” answer but rather to understand which are the fundamentals and logical processes of their thinking.
Designing strategies and explore how (possibly speaking) diverge from the formal and common used to behave and approach the class is a true challenge, do not tell me about it, but its clue can be found directly from common student wrong answers…
I hope that these reflections sound familiar to some of you and they worth a try. Even now.
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Bat your eyes and giggle out loud, this Vintage Pastel Minnie Mouse Party from SoCal Event Planners is too cute not to talk about!
Featuring a girly pink and purple color palette accented with sweet florals and bubbly balloons, this celebration will have you over the moon!
So, don your big bow and come along to see these darling details that will have you singing a song:
- Adorable Minnie Mouse Backdrop
- Purple + Pink + White Minnie Mouse Cake
- Minnie Mouse-inspired Balloon Installs
- Pink + Floral Arrangements
- Purple + Pink Minnie Mouse Oreos
Vintage Pastel Minnie Mouse Party
This is what Ambica shared about the party:
“Has Disneyland being closed given you the blues? Bring the magic of Disney home to you! So Cal Event Planners brought the essence of Minnie Mouse to this intimate birthday soiree.
Zara, the birthday girl, is the perfect age to enjoy the magic of Disneyland; then, the pandemic hit! Her family knows how much she loves Disney, especially Minnie Mouse. So, since they couldn’t take Zara to Disneyland to celebrate her 2nd birthday, they decided to do something more COVID-friendly. Her creative mom, Shumaila, decided to do the next best thing and bring Minnie’s house to her! While it was sad they had to minimize the set up and bring it all indoors due to the rain, that’s 2020! We are all just rolling with the punches and making the most of it.
From the beautifully made backdrop and the handmade desserts to the Minnie Mouse themed balloons, an adorable two-year-old was able to enjoy her birthday in her own personal Minnie Mouse themed party.
The design was created by the birthday girl’s mom, Shumaila Panhwar, owner & founder of So Cal Event Planners. Shumaila was inspired by the vintage Micky & Minnie style with the color palette of pink, grey and white. In addition, Shumaila came up with the idea for the backdrop area and even added a photo-op with Minnie Mouse. It was just like a character meet and greet at Disneyland.
The vintage theme was carried throughout the decor, from the blush velvet chairs and vintage dresser to the rose gold candles laid out across the backdrop display. There was thought put into every aspect of the event including the custom colors of the balloons which were double-stuffed to create a unique marble grey.
No party is complete without a cake and this event was no different. Sweetest Gallery crafted a beautiful three-tier Minnie Mouse birthday cake perfectly in line with the event. They also created other amazing desserts, including custom Minnie Mouse cake pops, cakesicles, and chocolate covered Oreos.
In the end, it was a beautiful intimate celebration at home with just the family. What little girl wouldn’t love a birthday party like this?!”
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CUFF 2014 is Sunday, March 23rd, 6-10pm at Macaulay Honors College.
RSVP HERE: http://macaulay.cuny.edu/community/rsvp/event-registration/?ee=369
Or on FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/events/541293059318879/
————————————-SUBMISSIONS ARE CLOSED———————————
Acceptable Submissions Include:
- a film made exclusively by (or by a majority of) currently enrolled undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and alumni of any CUNY campus
- a film of any genre and any length
- a film completed within the past two years.
If no streaming link available, send Physical Copies of Submission to:
Macaulay Honors College
Attn: Olga Barskaya
35 West 67th St.
New York, NY 10023
Got questions? Contact us at Cityuniversityfilmfestival@gmail.com
Selection and Notification:
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While the Gin & Tonic is often considered more of a warm weather drink, this approach from Canyon Shayer of Philadelphia Distilling incorporates fall flavors with an apple chai syrup. With the inclusion of the caffeinated tea, it takes the G&T from its iconic late-night status to a brunch-friendly highball.
With apple cider vinegar and a slightly spicy chai tea, the apple chai syrup proves not too sweet, with nuances light enough that you don’t want a strong spirit to overpower them. Since Shayer works with Philadelphia Distilling he naturally goes for the company’s gin, Bluecoat American dry gin, for the cocktail’s base. With gentle botanicals it serves well in the drink, but it’s not widely available outside of Pennsylvania. Those who want something similar can find it with other American dry gins like Aviation American gin or Copper & King’s American dry gin. A London dry gin like Tanqueray or Plymouth will work fine as the drink’s base, but the aromatics and botanicals won’t be the same.
When it comes to selecting a tonic, the drier the better. Normally, Gin & Tonics aren’t made with simple syrup or other sweeteners, so the 3/4 ounce of apple chai syrup will noticeably raise the sweetness level. Q tonic is relatively austere, making it a good choice, and Fever Tree is always reliable. If your Apple Chai G&Ts are still coming out too sweet, you can always pull back on the syrup.
A benefit of the Apple Chai G&T is that if you’ve had your fill of the highball but still have leftover apple chai syrup, you can use it in other drinks. Perhaps the most obvious use for it would be switching the simple syrup in an Old Fashioned for the apple chai syrup; apple and chai spices pair well with dark spirits like brandy, bourbon and aged rum, and will give the drink an autumnal touch. Use it in drinks like the Ruby Chai Appletini for even deeper apple and chai flavors, or sweeten your favorite Hot Toddy recipe with it for extra fall flavors.
- 1 1/2 ounces Bluecoat American dry gin
- 3/4 ounce apple chai syrup*
- Tonic, to top
- Garnish: star anise pod
Fill a Collins glass with ice and add the gin and apple chai syrup.
Top with the tonic and stir gently to combine.
Garnish with a star anise pod.
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So far this year at least 160 Palestinians have died because of Palestinian attacks on Israelis. In all of 2022 there were 230 such deaths. Most of these deaths were the result of Israelis responding to Hamas attacks from Gaza and, increasingly from the West Bank and Lebanon. This has been going on for decades and is described by Hamas as an ongoing effort to destroy Israel and drive all Jews from the middle east. Some of the efforts are massive but always end in failure with far more Arabs than Israelis killed.
Hamas sees these wars more as media campaigns than military ones, and they see victory achieved by getting more Palestinians killed. A classic example was visible in the aftermath of the 2009 war where Hamas lied regularly to exaggerate the nature and extent of their losses. For example, Palestinians claimed that the 22 day long 2009 War indiscriminately killed civilians. Hamas claimed that 1,434 Palestinians were killed. Hamas further claimed that only 235 were Hamas fighters, while another 239 were police officers, and 960 of the dead were civilians. Hamas admitted that most of the "civilians'' were men, mostly of military age. They also claimed that 121 of the dead civilians were women and 288 were children, which was defined as anyone under 18, even if they were armed teenagers attacking Israelis. It went downhill from there. The Arab world unites behind these lies, and encourages all other Moslem nations to join them. Many Western nations, seeing a cheap way to ingratiate themselves with the Moslem world, join in. One thing Hamas and Fatah (in the West Bank) agree on is that over half a century of failed Palestinian (and Arab) efforts to destroy Israel are not their fault. They insist that Arabs are victims of a conspiracy by Jews and the West, to sustain Israel and keep the Arabs down. This is the core of Palestinian propaganda on all their media, and now accepted by many leftist supporters in the West. Just another conspiracy theory, but one with thousands of heavily armed believers, who will kill if they get an opportunity. And trying to defend yourself against this is called oppressing the Palestinians.
Hamas has long been a big believer in using civilians as human shields, often against their will. Israeli soldiers are not allowed to use civilians as human shields, even to protect Israeli soldiers from attacks by Palestinians. Hamas, on the other hand, encourages the use of human shields, and describes, in their training manuals, how best to do it. Lots of dead civilians are essential to Hamas success in getting enough Western countries threatening Israel and forcing ceasefires and concessions. Much of what Hamas knows about using human shields it learned from Hezbollah up in Lebanon. There, Hezbollah has been using human shields for decades. Back in 2006 Israel released video, and other evidence, showing how Hezbollah used civilians as human shields during rocket attacks on Israel. Hezbollah's attitude in response to this was largely one of, "so what?"
On a regular basis Israel has to deal with violence coming from Gaza and the West Bank, two neighbors that are obsessed with destroying Israel. These entities are not really countries in the traditional sense. Rather the two began as refuges for Arabs who, in 1948, did not want to live in the new state of Israel. The West Bank was originally part of Jordan, an Israeli neighbor that was a stable monarchy in 1948 and still is. Jordan also had problems with Palestinians and killed or expelled the most troublesome Palestinians, especially those who wanted to overthrow the monarchy and turn Jordan into a bae for carrying out attacks on Israel. Jordan also declared that the West Bank was no longer part of J0rdan but no one else wanted the West Bank either. Palestinians behaved similarly in most other Middle Eastern countries, so their Arab rulers responded like the Jordanians did and killed or expelled the most troublesome Palestinians while tolerating the Palestinians who were willing to behave. Despite that many Palestinians in Lebanon and Syria never became part of the local community. This is a common practice in the Arab world, where non-native Arabs are not welcome as migrants or refugees. That is not the case in most Western countries, even though some of their new Palestinian citizens remain devoted to attacking Israel or local Jews. Ancient feuds and prejudices tend to persist in the Middle East.
Israel’s problem is that it is not a Middle Eastern country. It is a prosperous democracy with an affluent and well-educated population that is mainly Jewish but contains a large Arab minority as well as smaller religious minorities. Many Israeli Arabs are Christians, while Jews which migrated from Arab countries are Middle Eastern, not Western in appearance and behavior. They spoke Arabic and Israel united all these minorities by adopting Hebrew, an ancient Semitic language that ceased to be used by anyone over a thousand years ago. That meant all the different groups forming the modern state of Israel had to learn Hebrew. It was often annoying but also unifying.
There are three million Palestinians in the West Bank and two million in Gaza. Their obsession with destroying Israel and the proliferation of armed terrorist and terrorist-related groups in the West Bank and Gaza sustains very corrupt and inefficient local governments. Many Palestinians want to emigrate to less chaotic countries, particularly in the West. That is difficult because so many Palestinians never adapt to their new homelands and resort to criminal or terrorist behavior.
Criminal or terrorist behavior continues to thrive in the West Bank, where the local Fatah group running the government promotes violence against Israelis to distract the Palestinians there from overthrowing the corrupt Fatah bureaucrats. During the first three months of 2023, Fatha claimed that there were nearly three thousand “acts of resistance” toward Israel and Israelis. A more tangible achievement was the murder of twelve Israelis by Palestinians. This is the sort of thing Fatah politicians and Fatah controlled media have been encouraging enthusiastically for decades. Fatah not only encourages all Palestinians, including children, to join in the violence, but also spends a lot of money on rewarding those who succeed but are killed or arrested and imprisoned. This is a common practice throughout the region but no one does it so energetically as Fatah.
May 30, 2023: In the West Bank an Israeli civilian was shot dead by gunmen belonging to the Fatah-backed Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.
May 29, 2023: In the West Bank, Israeli troops arrested two men. While doing this the soldiers were attacked by Palestinians. The Israelis opened fire and wounded at least eight of the Palestinian attackers.
May 27, 2023: Egypt’s western neighbor Libya remains divided and deadlocked. This is a problem Egypt, and to a lesser extent Israel, have been dealing with for a long time. Currently Libya has two main ruling factions, one in the east based in Tobruk and another in Tripoli, in the west. The UN backs the Tripoli faction, as do local Islamic militias and Turkish troops and their mercenaries. The eastern faction controls most of the oil and export ports. The Russian Wagner Group mercenaries are based in the east but now see themselves as peacekeepers and work with the Turks to maintain a ceasefire. This allows Russian oil firms to operate in Libya and do work for the Libyan national oil company. Both factions support national elections to unite the country but neither faction trusts the others enough to proceed with elections. Russia and the Turks refuse to withdraw their troops from Libya until they receive guarantees that their interests in Libya are respected. The UN and NATO oppose that because the Tripoli faction wants to legitimize an illegal treaty signed by the Tripoli faction in 2019 granting Turkey some of Greece’s offshore oil and natural gas rights in an area between Libya and Turkey that ignores existing, and internationally recognized, claims on that area. Turkey and Greece are both NATO members and NATO backs Greece in this matter. Turkey won’t withdraw its forces from Libya until a new national Libyan government assures the Turks that the illegal agreement is confirmed by a national Libyan government. Many people in both factions do not want to be stuck with a treaty that the UN and NATO consider illegal. Russia is no friend of NATO and is currently at war with NATO in Ukraine. Turkey is also a NATO member but most other NATO members would like to expel the Turks from NATO and there is no legal mechanism for that. Turks and Russians are troublemakers in Europe and Libya is a foreign branch of that mischief.
Egypt, which long supported the eastern faction, is now willing to work with both factions as well as the Turks and Russians to reach a settlement in Libya. For a long time, the primary Egyptian interest in Libya was the threat of Islamic terrorists getting across the Libyan border into Egypt. In Libya the eastern faction proved very effective at controlling Islamic terrorist activities and gradually eliminating most of them. Currently the only Islamic terrorist activity in Libya comes from Islamic terror groups that raise money by working with people smugglers. That is all about getting paid, not carrying out attacks in the name of defending Islam.
Another problem Egypt and Israel have to deal with is Iran. Currently Iran is encouraging Hamas to boast of its preparations for another war with Israel. Hamas believes that if they can inflict enough damage on Israel by killing or capturing soldiers and civilians they can prompt Moslem and Western countries to pressure Israel to allow more access to Gaza and send more aid. Hamas also hopes that Israel bombs and ground forces do enough damage inside Gaza to allow Hamas to get away with portraying itself as a victim and again persuading other nations to help. This will be difficult because the Arab donors no longer trust Hamas (or Fatah either) and are put off by the recent Iranian announcement that it was still subsidizing Hamas, which has run Gaza and its 1.5 million Palestinians since 2005. Iran supported Hamas early on. There were recently more rumors that Iran had stopped supporting Hamas. Iran had decreased its support, in large part because of Western sanctions for Iranian support of terrorism and lower oil prices, but never cut off Hamas completely. Although Sunni Hamas sometimes persecutes Shia, Iran supports energetic Hamas efforts to attack Israel. Hamas also supports Islamic terrorists active in Egypt, which turned Egypt completely against Hamas and helped put Egypt firmly into the anti-Iran Sunni coalition. The Iran link makes Hamas an enemy as far as most Sunni Moslem nations are concerned. Hamas has made a lot of bad decisions since 2005 and the Iran link is seen as one of the worst. In response to Arab states who have cut aid to Gaza and the West Bank, Palestinian leaders have quietly told the reluctant Arab donors that if they do not increase aid there will be violent Palestinian protests (in Gaza, West Bank and Jerusalem) against the Arab donors as well as Israel. These Arab donors (mainly Gulf oil states like Saudi Arabia, UAE and Kuwait) have lost patience with the Palestinians and not only cut donor aid, which was being stolen or misused by corrupt Palestinian leaders, but also openly allied themselves with Israel against Iran. The Arab world still technically backs the Palestinians and their effort to destroy Israel but has lost confidence in the Palestinians.
By providing sanctuary to Islamic terror groups that operate in Egypt, Hamas has made an enemy of Egypt. Thus, since 2012, Egypt has limited the ability of Gaza residents to enter or leave Gaza via Egypt. Worse, the Egyptians have gone after the smuggling tunnels. The most successful tactic has been filling the smuggling tunnels with water. This began in 2013 when the Egyptians dug small canals for seawater that could then be pumped into tunnels discovered. It was eventually found that flooding permanently destroyed the tunnel better than any other method because it caused the sandy soil in the area to collapse and remain unstable. It is believed that only about twenty tunnels are still operating and every week several of those are discovered and flooded. The army engineers have learned that you have to not only flood the tunnels but keep flooding them because the Palestinians can obtain pumps to remove the water and repair the damage. But if you keep the tunnel flooded long enough it collapses and has to be rebuilt as if there were never a tunnel there in the first place. Egypt has also created a buffer zone along the border by moving Egyptians out and destroying all buildings. This means tunnels from Gaza now have to be over a kilometer long and deeper as well to evade detection. To make matters worse Egyptian police watch buildings within a few kilometers of the Gaza border for signs of a tunnel entrance. The police are less likely to take bribes from smuggling tunnel operators because Gaza-based Islamic terrorists have killed a lot of Egyptian police and soldiers in the last few years.
May 26, 2023: In the West Bank a Palestinian man was shot and killed as he attempted to sneak into a Jewish settlement and kill Israelis living there. Security camera video shows the man crawling under a gate holding a knife and then walking off looking for a victim. Before he could do that he was shot dead by an armed settler.
May 22, 2023: Israel troops carried out a raid in the West Bank to arrest several members of the Palestinian Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade. The soldiers were fired on as they approached the building the Al Aqsa men were living in. A gun battle broke out that left three Palestinians dead and one arrested. A large quantity of weapons and explosives was also seized. The Al Aqsa men were manufacturing bombs. The explosives were detonated where they were after nearby civilians were moved away. Al Aqsa blames Israel for all this because Israeli settlers buy land from Palestinians and build settlements. Al Aqsa insists it is illegal for Palestinians to sell land to Israelis. Many land-owning Palestinians want to sell their land and move somewhere else where there is less Al Aqsa and violence in general. Israel has carried out several similar raids in the West Bank this month.
May 13, 2023: Israeli soldiers raided a West Bank location where some armed Palestinians were based and planning armed attacks on Israelis. Two Palestinians were there and opened fire on the Israelis. After a brief gun battle the two Palestinians were killed and a large quantity of weapons and ammunition were found with them. In the last few days there have been several of these raids that resulted in 25 armed Palestinians being arrested.
May 11, 2023: An unguided rocket fired from Gaza hit an apartment building in Israel, killing one civilian and wounding eight.
May 9, 2023: Today a major rocket attack from Gaza began. Over the next five days nearly 1,500 rockets and mortar shells were fired into southern Israel. Most of the rockets headed for populated areas were detected and intercepted by Iron Dome missile defense system. About 20 percent of the rockets fired from Gaza were defective and landed inside Gaza, killing three Gaza civilians and wounding three others. Israel used UAVs, some of them armed with missiles, to find the rocket launching sites and fire on them if there were still rockets waiting to be launched.
May 8, 2023: Israel began a major effort to kill leaders of Iran-backed PIJ (Palestinian Islamic Jihad), which is based in Gaza and responsible for the growing number of rocket attacks on southern Israel as well as more ambitious operations in the West Bank to kill or kidnap Israelis. Hamas had a major presence in Gaza when they formed JOR (Joint Operations Room). This was a coalition of twelve Palestinian factions seeking, and sometimes succeeding in attacking Israel or individual Israelis. Hamas supervises JOR and supplies rockets and other weapons from Iran. Israel has armed patrol boats operating along the Gaza coast and regularly intercepting Iranian arms shipments trying to land weapons from fishing boats. These shipments have an even more difficult time getting across the Gaza border with Egypt. The Egyptians are often the victims of Iranian weapons and guard their border with Gaza. Israel and Egypt exchange information on Iranian arms shipments and often cooperate in capturing the smugglers trying to get in via Sinai or Iranian smuggling tunnels. Israel had found and killed at least six leaders of the JOR and that encouraged Iran to increase its weapons smuggling efforts.
May 6, 2023: In southern Syria (Daraa province) on the Israeli border, there has been a lot of random violence so far in 2013, with over 200 separate incidents of violence that have caused over 500 casualties. The violence is mainly against Syrian army personnel. This level of violence remained fairly constant since 2018. This is part of the undeclared war between Iranian and Syrian forces going on there since 2018. Anonymous assassins use pistols and hidden bombs to kill those who work, or worked for government forces or Russia and Syria backed local militias. There are also attacks against former members of ISIL and other militant groups. These victims had accepted amnesty. Russian and Assad forces openly force Iran-backed groups and individuals out of the area. There is no open violence because Iran, Syria and Russia are still officially allies. Israel sometimes fires on Iranian forces operating in Daraa, especially near the Israeli border. Israel also shares intel with Russia and Syria about Syrian officers who are secretly working for Iran. The Iranians pay well, and in dollars. Israel will sometimes release evidence of this to the media, so that Iranians back home have another reason to oppose Iranian foreign wars. Negotiations have been underway between Iran and Russia/Syria since 2020 but have not made much progress. The covert Iranian violence is just another incentive for Syria to get the Iranian agents out of the area. In 2022 and 2023 much of the violence is from other groups, some of them criminal gangs retaliating against those who refuse to pay for protection from the violence. Daraa is the most violent province but similar violence continues in many parts of Syria.
May 4, 2023: Visiting Syria for two days, Ebrahim Raisi, the Iranian president, met with key members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. These two terror groups are based in Gaza and depend on Iran for financial support and weapons. Raisi discussed planned terror attacks in southern Israel, the West Bank, Jerusalem and now from Lebanon. Iran forced Hamas to establish a partnership with Hezbollah to recruit Palestinians living in Lebanon to carry out rocket attacks into Israel. The Lebanese are not happy with this because Hamas could get too aggressive and trigger a major Israeli response against Hamas and the larger Hezbollah in southern Lebanon as well as terrorist targets throughout Lebanon. Iran is using a complex and dangerous strategy with all these terrorist groups. For one thing, these groups are divided by religion. Hezbollah and Iran are Shia while Palestinians are Sunni or Christian. Then there is the ethnicity problem. All the Arabs are Semitic while the Iranians are Indo-European and have a history of treating Arabs poorly. Most Lebanese want Iranian and Palestinian radicalism gone from Lebanon, or at least kept quiet. Firing rockets into Israel is dangerous for all Lebanese. Iran is playing a dangerous and explosive game here, one that could backfire on Iran. Most Iranians oppose these expensive sponsorships of Arab terror groups that cost a lot, make a lot of noise and don’t seem to be hurting the Israelis. The popular anger against the government in Iran grows and Raisi has to keep that in mind while working with all these Arab terror groups and their demands for more money. Raisi also met with the Syrian president Bashar Assad to discuss continued cooperation between Syria and Iran as well as problems with Israeli, Islamic terrorist and Turkish operations in Syria, especially the ones aimed at Iranians in Syria. Then there is the Syrian effort to get back in the Arab League and accept large amounts of Arab aid and investment to rebuild Syria’s shattered economy. Iran does not get along with many members of the Arab League while Syria wants to get cozy with the League. In late 2011 Syria was suspended from the Arab League and many of the 21 other League members cut diplomatic relations or imposed sanctions. The Arab League was unable to do much more. By early 2013 the Arab League was still unable to muster enough unity to call for international (Western) intervention in Syria. The Arab League did that in 2011 for Libya and many Arabs considered it shameful that the Arab world could not handle the military intervention itself. Despite trillions of dollars in oil income and hundreds of millions of Arabs demanding something be done, the Arab League had to call on outsiders to save Libya from degenerating into an interminable bloodbath. That is what happened in Syria and many Arabs refused to accept responsibility and just blamed the West and Israel for the mess. Given that toxic atmosphere, Western nations, including NATO member Turkey, were reluctant to do what the Arabs wanted done but would not admit they cannot do it themselves. Iran and the Russians intervened in support of the Assads and the slaughter of pro-rebel civilians continued as did Assad efforts to force pro-rebel civilians out of Syria.
May 1, 2023: In northern Syria (Aleppo) Israeli airstrikes against targets at the international airport destroyed Iranian weapons recently flown in. Iran claimed the lost material was earthquake aid but the secondary explosions (by the Iranian weapons) indicated otherwise. One soldier was killed during this attack and the airport was closed temporarily. Three members of an Iran backed militia and one Syrian soldier were killed. This was the 16th Israeli airsrike against Iranian targets in Syria so far in 2023.
April 29, 2023: In central Syria (Homs province) an Israeli airstrike hit an airport Iran has been using to fly in weapons for Hezbollah and the new Lebanese branch of the Gaza-based Hamas.
April 24, 2023: Finland has ordered the Israeli David’s Sling (formerly Magic Wand) air defense system to improve its ability to defeat Russian aircraft and missiles (cruise or ballistic). The initial $345 million purchase is one battery plus support equipment. There is an option to buy a second battery for about $250 million.
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Early buy-ins, crowdfunding, and early access have taken game development (and more importantly, game funding) into crazy new directions in the last few years. An extensive set of interviews at Gamasutra asks some of the biggest names in early access funding, like Dean Hall ( DayZ ), Markus Persson ( Minecraft ) and Chris England ( Xenonauts ), about their experiences developing a game with thousands of early adopters looking on.
The verdict? It's a mixed blessing, for sure.
"I think the biggest benefit is that you can get real momentum going for your game at the gestation period of the design," says Hall, the creator of the popular DayZ mod for Arma 2 , which will soon launch as a standalone game. "Without doing this, the game can only become 'hot' when the design is already locked down and finished." Hall cites Kerbal Space Program as a good example: the game is a hit early in its development, and the income and attention has led developer Squad to add more features. "[KSP] became popular very early in its development, and allowed the scope and the direction of the game to adjust proportionally to this. If they had made the game completely first, I don't think its scope and direction would resemble at all where it is today."
Markus Persson, founder of Mojang and creator of Minecraft, agrees. “For [an open-world] game like Minecraft, it makes sense to release early and fund early," he continues, "but for other games (such as story-heavy games) it makes no sense to release an incomplete product.”
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Before slathering on that facial oil like it's the last bottle on Earth, you have to know your skin type, honey. Trust me, using the wrong oil on your face is like wearing Crocs to a black-tie event – it's a disaster waiting to happen.
So, take a moment to figure out your skin type using one of the techniques below:
Observe Makeup-Free Skin
Know your skin type to maximize face oil use. Wash your gorgeous face and skip the cosmetics. After a few hours, check your skin for these signs:
- Oily skin: If your skin looks shiny and greasy, like a slice of pizza, you likely have oily skin. Larger pores and pimples may also occur.
- Dry skin: If your skin feels like a desert, you likely have dry skin. You might also see flaky or rough patches on your skin.
- Combination skin: If your T-zone is slick like a water slide, but your cheeks are dry like the Sahara, you likely have combination skin. It's like your skin can't make up its mind.
- Sensitive skin: If your skin freaks out at the slightest touch, developing redness, itching, or swelling, you likely have sensitive skin. Sensitive skin can be dry, oily, or a mix of both, but it's always high maintenance.
Use a Blotting Paper or Oil-Absorbing Sheet
The second technique involves using blotting paper or oil-absorbing sheets to zap away excess oil and shine. Think of it as a superhero cape for your face - it targets those oily areas like a boss, especially on your forehead, nose, and chin. So channel your inner crime fighter, and give those pesky oil spots a run for their money. Here are some general characteristics to look for:
- Oily skin: If the sheet is dripping with oil like a juicy burger, you're probably in the oily skin club. You may also notice larger pores and a tendency to break out like a 90s teen movie villain.
- Dry skin: If the sheet looks as dry as a desert and your skin feels tighter than your favorite pair of jeans after Thanksgiving dinner, you likely have dry skin. You may also notice flaky or rough patches on your skin like you just got into a fight with some sandpaper.
- Combination skin: If the sheet has oil stains in certain areas but is otherwise clean as a whistle, you likely have combination skin. It's like having two roommates with different cleanliness levels - your T-zone is messy and oily, while your cheeks are clean and dry.
- Sensitive skin: If your skin reacts to the sheet like it just got hit by a bus, you likely have sensitive skin. Your skin may turn red, itchy, or inflamed like a politician's Twitter feed.
Now that you know your skin's hidden identity, you can choose a face oil that matches it, like peanut butter and jelly.
Best Face Oils for Each Skin Type
We all believe our skin deserves better. What better way to show it love than with the best face oils for its needs?
- Grapeseed oil: Grapeseed oil is your new BFF. This stuff is like a featherweight champion, packed with linoleic acid to keep oil production under control and soothe inflammation. It's time to say goodbye to slick skin and hello to a fresh-faced glow!
- Tea tree oil: If you're battling oily skin and those unwelcome pimples, tea tree oil is your knight in shining armor. This bad boy has severe anti-inflammatory and antibacterial skills that'll bust those clogged pores and send acne packing.
- Safflower oil: Safflower oil can help oily skin party on your face. Linoleic acid and vitamin E in this baby maintain the skin hydrated and balanced. No more oily face!
- Rosehip oil: This little miracle worker is packed with fatty acids and vitamin C, basically like a one-two punch for your complexion. Say hello to your new glow-getting BFF.
- Argan oil: Dry skin? We've got you covered too. Argan oil is a profoundly moisturizing option that's rich in antioxidants.
- Avocado oil: Avocado oil might be your knight in shining armor. It's packed with fatty acids and vitamins that'll quench that thirst and leave you with a complexion that's softer than a baby's bottom.
- Marula oil: Marula oil is like the Switzerland of skincare - neutral and non-threatening, yet incredibly effective. It's gentle, non-comedogenic, and excellent at hydrating and improving elasticity without causing any chaos on your face. Give it a shot and keep your skin drama-free with marula oil.
- Apricot Kernel oil: If you have combination skin (aka the Goldilocks of skin types), you'll want to try apricot kernel oil. It's lightweight, easily absorbed, and helps to balance and hydrate combination skin.
- Evening Primrose oil: Evening primrose oil is another excellent option, with its high gamma-linoleic acid content that helps to regulate oil production and soothe dry patches.
- Hemp Seed oil: Looking for oil as balanced as your yoga teacher? Hemp seed oil might just be it. It's packed with omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids to nourish and balance combination skin.
- Jojoba oil: Meet Jojoba oil - the long-lost sibling to our skin's natural oils. They're inseparable now; your skin is about to thank you big time.
But wait, there's more! Before slathering on any new facial oil, remember to patch-test it first - especially if you have sensitive skin.
Incorporating Facial Oil into Your Skincare Routine
Here's how to use face oils without appearing like Grease. Facial oil tips:
Choose the correct oil for your skin type
Don't settle for just any old oil, honey. You have to find the perfect match for your skin type. If your skin is dry, search for oils containing fatty acids and nutritional components like argan or rosehip oil. But if your skin gets oilier than a slice of pizza, then go for lightweight oils like jojoba or grapeseed oil. These babies won't clog your pores, and you'll glow like a star without any fears.
Use a small amount
You don't want to look like you've bathed in oil, so use facial oils sparingly. Start with a few drops and work up to a pea-sized amount if needed.
Apply after cleansing
Don't just slap it on, sister. You have to cleanse and tone your skin first. Applying the oil after cleansing helps it to penetrate deeply into your skin and lock in moisture.
Experiment with layering
Do you know what's better than one skincare product? Two! Or three! Or four! It's like conducting a pleasant experiment on your face. Try layering your facial oil over your moisturizer or serum to see what magic can happen. Just remember to patch test first unless you're feeling adventurous.
Use as a spot treatment
Facial oils can also be a spot treatment for dry patches, fine lines, or other areas that need extra hydration. It's like a little pick-me-up for your skin!
By following these tips, you'll be on your way to radiant and healthier skin. And without looking like fried chicken, thank goodness!
Frequently Asked Questions
We've compiled a list of some common queries about facial oils, so sit back, relax, and get ready to have your questions answered.
Is facial oil suitable for all skin types?
As long as you choose an oil tailored to your skin type, facial oil can work wonders and never fails.
Can facial oil replace my moisturizer?
Suppose you're feeling extra and want to take your skincare game to the next level, layering your facial oil over your moisturizer. But hey, if you're in a rush and need some hydration, facial oil can do the job solo too.
How should I apply facial oil?
After washing and toning your face, take a bit of oil and treat yourself to a luxurious massage. And don't forget to channel your inner astronaut by massaging upwards and outwards – you want your skin to feel like it can conquer the universe.
Can I use facial oil under makeup?
You can use facial oil under makeup and it actually makes a great natural primer but don't rush it; give it time to fully absorb into your skin before slapping on any makeup products.
Are all facial oils the same?
Oh, honey, there are more facial oils out there than there are episodes of "30 Rock." And just like Liz Lemon has her own unique set of quirks, each oil has unique properties and benefits. So, choosing an oil that's made for your specific skin type and concerns is essential. Quality matters!
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The oil for the lamps.
Leviticus 24:1 And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses, saying: Leviticus 24:2 Commaunde the children of Israel that they bryng vnto thee pure oyle oliue beaten for the lyght, to cause the lampes to burne continually, Leviticus 24:3 Without the vayle of witnesse in the tabernacle of the congregation shall Aaron dresse them both euenyng and mornyng before the Lorde alwayes: Let it be a lawe for euer in your generations. Leviticus 24:4 He shall dresse the lampes vpon ye pure candlesticke before ye Lord perpetually.
Leviticus 24:5 And thou shalt take fine floure, and bake twelue cakes therof, two tenth deales shalbe in one cake. Leviticus 24:6 And thou shalt set the in two rowes, sixe on a rowe, vpon the pure table before the Lorde. Leviticus 24:7 And put pure frankensence vpon the rowes, that they may be bread of remembraunce, and an offeryng made by fire vnto the Lorde. Leviticus 24:8 Euery Sabbath he shall put them in rowes before the Lorde euermore, of the chyldren of Israel shall they be offered for an euerlastyng couenaunt. Leviticus 24:9 And they shalbe Aarons and his sonnes, which shall eate them in the holy place: For they are most holy vnto hym of the offerynges of the Lorde made by fire, by a perpetuall statute.
Shelomith's son blasphemeth.
Leviticus 24:10 And the sonne of an Israelitishe wife, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: And this sonne of the Israelitishe wyfe and a man of Israel stroue together in the hoast. Leviticus 24:11 And the Israelitishe womans sonne blasphemed the name of the Lorde, and cursed, and they brought hym vnto Moyses: His mothers name was Selomith, which was the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. Leviticus 24:12 And they put hym in warde, that the minde of ye Lorde might be shewed the.
The law of blasphemy.
Leviticus 24:13 And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses, saying: Leviticus 24:14 Bryng the cursed speaker without the hoast, and let all that hearde hym, put their handes vpon his head, and let all the multitude stone hym. Leviticus 24:15 And thou shalt speake vnto ye children of Israel, saying: Whosoeuer curseth his God, shall beare his sinne. Leviticus 24:16 And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lorde, let him be slayne, and all the multitude shall stone hym to death: Whether he be borne in the lande, or a straunger, when he blasphemeth the name of the Lorde, let hym be slayne.
Leviticus 24:17 And he that kylleth any man, let hym dye the death.
Leviticus 24:18 And he that kylleth a beast, let hym make hym good, beast for beast. Leviticus 24:19 And yf a man cause a blemishe in his neighbour: as he hath done, so shall it be done to hym. Leviticus 24:20 Broke for broke, eye for eye, and tooth for tooth: euen as he hath blemisshed a man, so shall he be blemisshed agayne. Leviticus 24:21 And he that kylleth a beast, let hym restore it: and he that kylleth a man, let hym dye. Leviticus 24:22 Ye shall haue one maner of lawe, euen for the straunger as well as for one of your owne countrey: for I am the Lorde your God.
The blasphemer stoned.
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Is it too early to call this the Winter of Pusha T?
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We actually knew that, but it got lost in the rush!!
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There is one powerful skincare ingredient that must be found in your day and night skincare products, but it is a hard one to find!
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Building Stage Presents CHARLES DICKENS BEGRUDGINGLY PERFORMS 'A CHRISTMAS CAROL'. AGAIN., 11/29-12/24
The Building Stage has announced the return of Charles Dickens Begrudgingly Performs 'A Christmas Carol.' Again., created and performed by The Building Stage's Founder and Artistic Director Blake Montgomery, at The Building Stage, 412 N. Carpenter Street in Chicago's West Loop, November 29 – December 24. The performance runs 95 minutes without an intermission. Previews are Thursday, Nov. 29 at 8 p.m., Friday, Nov. 30 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 1 at 8 p.m. Opening/press night is Sunday, December 2 at 7 p.m.
The regular performance schedule is Thursday and Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 4 and 8 p.m. and Sundays at 4 p.m. There are two additional performances, Sunday, Dec. 23 at 8 p.m. and Christmas Eve, Monday, Dec. 24 at 2 p.m. Tickets for the previews are students/children: $5, adults: $15 and for the regular run, students/children: $15/$20 and adults: $25/$30. Tickets may be purchased at buildingstage.com or by calling The Building Stage box office at (312) 491-1369.
In 1853, ten years after having dashed off his surprisingly successful holiday story, A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of the work. The effort was so well received, as well as providing much needed cash, that Dickens continued to perform these celebrated readings for the rest of his career. Now, almost 160 years later, performances of A Christmas Carol have become one of our most enduring holiday traditions.
In Charles Dickens Begrudgingly Performs 'A Christmas Carol.' Again., the only problem is that Dickens, himself, has long grown tired of this annual reading. Reports of his death in 1870 were greatly exaggerated, and year after year he has sustained himself with these solo performances - albeit with dwindling enthusiasm as he has moved from the grand concert halls of London to finally, this year, The Building Stage in Chicago's industrial West Loop. Now, as the world celebrates the 200th anniversary of his birth, Dickens has finally reached the breaking point. He knows he must grant the holiday wishes of his audience but desperately hopes to entertain them with anything but another performance of A Christmas Carol.
Created and performed by The Building Stage artistic director Blake Montgomery, Charles Dickens Begrudgingly Performs 'A Christmas Carol.' Again. both celebrates and skewers our attachment to this classic tale. Performed in an invitingly warm Victorian atmosphere filled with holiday treats and traditions, the play captures the essence of the Dickens story and provides an affectionate view of the great author himself rediscovering his own passion.
During its inaugural run in 2011, the performance was a popular anecdote to Holiday weariness playing to packed houses. The performance was READER RECOMMENDED, with reviewer Kerry Reid saying "Montgomery's smart, heartfelt reinvention proves that you don't need fake snow and flying ghosts to make the tale resonate," and Time Out Chicago's Oliver Sava calling Montgomery "a skilled, charming performer." This year's production has been revised to build on this solid foundation, incorporating the lessons learned from the audience and reshaping the material in honor of the 2012 Dickens Bicentennial.
Blake Montgomery, founder and artistic director of The Building Stage, is an actor and director whose approach to theater reflects his training at L'École Internationale de théâtre Jacques Lecoq (as well as its scenographic wing, Le Laboratoire d'Etude du Mouvement), the Dell'Arte School of Physical Theater, the Margolis-Brown Movement Theater Lab and with master clown Ronlin Foreman. Montgomery has conceived and/or directed The Building Stage productions: Hamlet, Dustbowl Gothic, Moby-Dick (originally in 2006 and revised in 2011), Noir, Dracula,The Franklin Expedition, Hänsel und Gretel, and Life is a Dream; with Joanie Schultz, he co-directed The Ring Cycle. Montgomery played Halvard Solness in The Building Stage production of The Master Builder. He has appeared as Dr. Prentice in What the Butler Saw at the Court Theater and as Drosselmeyer in The House Theatre of Chicago's The Nutcracker. Previous to founding The Building Stage, he worked with Redmoon Theater with whom he performed in Seagull, Nina, and Salao: The Worst Kind of Unlucky.
This is the second time in his career that Mr. Montgomery has performed a solo show. In 1999, soon after having made Chicago his home, he performed as the Victorian author Wilkie Collins in a solo performance adaptation of Collins' novel The Woman in White. Charles Dickens played a key role in that production as the offstage villain whose looming presence - or more precisely, whose absence - was the driving force behind the action. In many ways, Charles Dickens Begrudgingly Performs... is the companion to Montgomery's The Woman in White.
The Building Stage opened its doors with a critically acclaimed new vision of Hamlet in the fall of 2005, described as "an exquisite bare-bones [production]" (Performink Year in Review), and "a triumph of extraordinary achievement" (Gay Chicago). Since then the company has been honored with After Dark Awards for Outstanding Production (Dustbowl Gothic, 2006) and Outstanding Technical Achievement (Noir, 2007). During the 2011/12 season the company's production of Moby-Dick was awarded three Non-Equity Jeff Awards (New Adaptation, Original Incidental Music, Artistic Specialization: Percussion) and was nominated for two others (Director - Play, Ensemble).
The Building Stage exists to create original theatrical events that celebrate, mourn, explore, and question our world and ourselves. Serving as both a neighborhood theater and a cultural destination, the company seeks to combine an entertaining, approachable experience with unique and challenging artistic products, in the hope of rediscovering the vital role that theater can play in American cultural life.
The Building Stage company members include: Daiva Bhandari, Chelsea Keenan, Pamela Maurer, Jon Stutzman, and Max Wirt.
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SAN MARCOS, Texas - A San Antonio man is accused of leading San Marcos police on high-speed chase and attempting to take an officer's stun gun during a foot chase.
Police were called about the burglary of a vehicle Saturday at the Premium Outlets. When police arrived, they saw a car leaving the outlets that matched a witness's description.
The officers tried to stop the vehicle, but the suspect, 32-year-old George Alvarado, ignored the officers and continued to speed on Interstate 35, police said.
Alvarado attempted to run a red light, causing him to strike another car. The impact caused Alvarado's car to spin out of control and flip on its side at the intersection of Bugg Lane and Highway 80, a press release said. No one was injured.
Alvarado got out of his car and led officers on a foot chase, police said. He tried to take a Taser weapon away from one officer, but instead was shocked with the weapon, which allowed officers to detain him.
Officers found approximately $1,000 in property taken during vehicle burglaries, police officials said.
Alvarado, faces five charges, including evading arrest with a vehicle, evading arrest detention, burglary of a vehicle, driving with license invalid with previous convictions and accident involving damage to vehicle.
He is being held in the Hays County Jail on bonds totalling $27,000.
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- Hello Jean-Christophe, so what brought you to Singapore?
I came here beginning of September 2018 to launch and co-direct, together with Prof. Madhavi Srinivasan, the NTU-CEA joint research Centre to develop innovative and energy-efficient solutions for the recycling and recovery of resources from electrical and electronic waste (e-waste).
- Can you explain your research topics in a few words?
This laboratory, named the NTU Singapore-CEA Alliance for Research in Circular Economy (SCARCE), is focusing on four research thrusts which are: discarded lithium-ion batteries, silicon photovoltaic panels, printed circuit boards and toxic e-plastics such as those containing brominated flame retardants. The process being implemented must be economically viable and respect the constraints set by Singapore, more specifically by the size of the country. Each type of process established to recycle those electronic wastes count as much as five to six different steps.
- What types of applications do your research activities lead to?
The goal is to help Singapore with creating a more circular economy and have the wasted electronic wasted material inserted back into the industrial loop. One example to do so is to take advantage of liquid carbon dioxide as a solvent. It is an environmentally friendly solvent, requires little amount of energy and does not create any extra waste. In another example, my colleagues are studying the use of organic wastes such as orange peels for the dissolution of lithium batteries or combining plastics with e-wastes for the making of new useful materials.
- What do you think of the research in Singapore?
Overall, Singapore provides a pool of highly qualified researchers and high tech equipment. In addition, the funding given by the Singapore government (via the PM office, NRF, NEA, MND & MSE) enables us to greatly accelerate our work to reach a level where we attract industrial partnerships and have a real societal impact. Also, both CEA and NTU provide in kind contributions, creating a unique synergy, which leverage NTU’s great infrastructure.
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Follow the History of the Black Panther Pt. 33
Storm goes solo and Shuri takes on the mantel as Morlun come calling!
For 50 years, the Black Panther has stood at the forefront on the Marvel Universe. As we count down to a vision of T’Challa on the big screen coming soon, take a look back at five decades’ worth of comic book adventures…
Storm returned to Wakanda to help a young mutant named Nezhno in X-MEN: WORLDS APART #1, but found herself attacked by her husband The Black Panther. After T’Challa then publicly disowned her, she discovered his possession at the hands of her foe The Shadow King. She fled into the jungle with Nezhno in X-MEN: WORLDS APART #2 with the Panther hot on her trail.
Turning to fight her subjugated husband in X-MEN: WORLDS APART #3, Storm contacted the Panther God after defeating T’Challa and made a pact with the deity. In X-MEN: WORLDS APART #4 she beat The Shadow King, freed T’Challa, and saw herself accepted as Wakanda’s queen throughout the nation.
In BLACK PANTHER #1, T’Challa’s jet crashed in Wakanda, sending him into a deep coma. Wakandans turned to his sister Shuri to perhaps become the new Black Panther in his stead in BLACK PANTHER #2, and T’Challa’s mother conferred with Storm on a plan to save her son. In BLACK PANTHER #3, Storm prepared for a special mystical rite to enter the netherworld, while Shuri sought the Panther God for the transference of power. Elsewhere, the villainous Morlun rose from the dead to rampage anew.
Near death, T’Challa saw and spoke with his departed father in BLACK PANTHER #4, but the Panther God rejected Shuri for the role of Wakanda’s official savior. With Morlun swiftly approaching the capital city in BLACK PANTHER #5, Shuri defied the deity and donned the mantel of the Panther as Storm readied herself to take her husband’s place in the afterlife and allow him to return to the land of the living.
Ultimately, a Wakandan mystic managed to trade Morlun’s soul for T’Challa’s and Storm’s souls after Shuri battled and failed to stop the menace in BLACK PANTHER #6. Because of T’Challa’s necessary convalescence after his ordeal, Shuri became the true Black Panther in BLACK PANTHER #7 and fought mercenaries while on a trip to the United States.
The new Panther tracked down a Wakandan agent in BLACK PANTHER #8, and back in her home country, T’Challa underwent a strength-renewing ritual which revealed to him their true foe: Doctor Doom.
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Washington, D.C., May 23, 2017 -- The budget proposed today by the Trump administration to fund the government for fiscal year 2018 includes massive cuts to federal health agencies with dangerous consequences for the nation's health, according to the American Public Health Association.
"This budget would reduce, weaken or eliminate programs vital to protecting America’s health and well-being," said Georges Benjamin, MD, executive director of APHA. "Its effects would be catastrophic, especially for our most vulnerable, including children, seniors and low-income Americans."
The proposal would cut funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the nation’s lead public health agency, by $1.2 billion; slash funding for the Environmental Protection Agency by 31 percent, or nearly $2.6 billion; and cut Medicaid, our nation’s health safety net for low-income Americans, by $610 billion over the next decade, on top of the more than $800 billion cut outlined in the House Republican health care plan. It would also cut more than $190 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamps, over 10 years — roughly a 25 percent reduction.
The budget plan would drastically reduce or disable many critical programs. A host of initiatives at CDC would be affected, including deep cuts to environmental health programs, elimination of its climate change program, and hefty cuts to efforts that protect against infectious disease, protect the public against public health emergencies, assure occupational health, prevent spread of HIV, promote global health and address our nation’s chronic disease epidemic. At the Health Resources and Services Administration, the proposal outlines massive cuts to programs that train and diversify our nation’s health workforce, which are critical for addressing future shortages of health professionals, and to rural health programs designed to support the more than 46 million people living in rural America who struggle with accessing health care.
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You can find owls worldwide. These nocturn birds hunt, kill, and eat other animals, particularly rodents, but some enjoy meals that include birds and fish.
Basically, their diet will vary depending on their size and habitat. Since there are almost 250 owl species, you can suppose that their daily menu types can be broad. So, let’s see what do owls eat.
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Owls Habits and Biology
The owl’s lifespan will depend on its species and lifestyle. Most owls in captivity live longer than those spending life in the wild. While free owls live approximately 9 to 10 years, those living protected next to their humans can reach more than 20 years.
Great Horned and Snowy owls have no predators in the wild, so they are among the longest-living species in the wild. The officially longest-lived Great Horned owl lived in nature for an impressive 28 years.
On the other hand, they can live twice as long in captivity. For instance, one female owl lived 50 years at the San Francisco ZOO, but it is not a typical case.
Interestingly, owls are an essential part of the food chain, both as prey and predators. These birds help to prevent rodents and pests’ overpopulation in the ecosystem by killing and consuming them.
On the other hand, many owls are an excellent source of nutrition for animals that feed on them. Even though owls are predators, they can be tasty food for some bigger animals, like:
Healthy adult owls are rarely victims, but predators often hunt injured and old birds and owlets (baby owls). Plus, some large owls consider small owl species yummy meals.
Most owls are nocturnal animals and hunt and eat during the night. Only a few species are diurnal, meaning they hunt throughout the day. An average owl will require approximately 3 to 4 ounces (85 – 113 g) of food a day, but that amount will significantly vary depending on its body size.
For instance, small owls eat more frequently because their metabolism is faster compared to larger species. However, that means they will need a lower amount of food. In nature, owls use a few different techniques while hunting, including:
Strategic flight – In such a case, an owl will make a quartering flight to identify the prey. Then, it fast flies towards the moving animal and catches it suddenly.
Hunting from perching – This strategy includes perching on a low branch while prey appears. Once the owl spots the target, it will fly down and catch the victim with outstretched claws.
Fishing – Owls that eat fish will fly over water until spotting prey. Then, they will grab them without hesitation.
Do Owls Eat Dirt?
As you have probably known, birds of prey are a crucial part of the ecosystem since they control the small mammals, rodents, reptiles, and bird populations. They typically catch an alive animal, kill it, and then eat it. It is not common for those birds to consume any dirt, sand, or scraps during a meal.
Unfortunately, they are prone to ingest microfibers and microplastic fragments, tiny bits of plastic debris. It is estimated that one owl can intake hundreds of pieces of polyester, nylon, and polypropylene a day.
One study shows that 86% of all the plastics that owls and other birds of prey ingest are microfibers from synthetic clothing and ropes. They usually come to nature from clothes-washing machines.
What Do Owls Like to Eat Most?
Owls are birds of prey and strict carnivorous and need meat to survive. Although it doesn’t look like that, their diet is varied, and they can adapt to any food available in the area. The actual menu will mostly depend on the owl’s size.
The smallest owls – These birds eat beetles, scorpions, centipedes, moths, and crickets, but some can hunt birds of their size.
Small owls – They usually consume insects like beetles, mice, shrews, voles, and crayfish.
Big owls – Their diet varies significantly and includes rodents, raccoons, cats, small dogs, rabbits, squirrels, small deer, bats, falcons, and other owls.
Even though birds are not a regular part of the owl’s typical diet, large owls can eat game birds and even other owls. However, they will typically enjoy in many other species, including:
- Small mammals, like rabbits, squirrels, and skunks
- Rodents, like mice and rats
- Some amphibians species
- Lizards and snakes
Still, no one can generalize a standard owl’s menu since they are not picky and consume almost everything they can catch in the environment where they spend time. However, there is a list of the favorite food for various owl types:
Snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus)
- Prairie dogs
- Songbirds and geese
- Squirrels and marmots
- Hares, muskrats, and voles
Great Horned owl (Bubo virginianus)
This owl prefers mammals, and its diet contains at least 90% of these animals:
- Coots, geese, and waterfowls
- Skunks, rabbits, and hares
- Voles and mice
The remaining 10% includes birds, reptiles, amphibians, and insects they find around.
Eurasian Eagle-owl (Bubo bubo)
- Voles, rats, and mice
- Foxes and hares
- Other birds of prey, including other owls
- Grouse, crows, seabirds, and ducks
- Snakes, lizards
Desert owl (Strix hadorami)
- Jirds, gerbils, shrews, and mice
- Passerine birds
- Grasshoppers and beetles
Barred owl (Strix varia)
- Rabbits, opossums, minks, and weasels
- Mice, rats, meadow voles, moles, and shrews
- Turtles, snakes, salamanders, and lizards
- Small owls, grouses, quails, doves, pigeons, woodpeckers, icterids, and jays
- Domestic poultry like chickens and ducks
- Insects, including beetles, crickets, and grasshoppers
Great Grey owl (Strix nebulosa)
Barn owl (Tyto alba)
- Small birds
- Rodents like mice and rats
- Field and bank voles
African Grass-owl (Tyto capensis)
- Large insects
Northern Saw-whet owl (Aegolius acadicus)
- Shrews, mice, and moles
Burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia)
- Voles and moles
- Beetles and grasshoppers
Long-eared owl (Asio otus)
- Small birds
Screech owl (Megascops asio)
- Medium-sized mammals
- Voles and gophers
- Small insects like moths and beetles
Food Avoid to Feed Owls
When you want to feed an owl, you should never offer it:
Wild rats – People often use rodenticides, and poisoned rats can harm your owl’s health. Additionally, these animals often carry Weil’s disease (leptospirosis).
Pigeons – These birds are a source of numerous avian diseases they can transmit to your owl.
Rabbits – You can offer this prey to the owl only after cutting it. Otherwise, long sharp bone fragments can harm smaller owls.
Shot animals – Be aware that only one lead pellet can cause owl poisoning and kill it.
Frozen food – Never offer the owl the food frozen for over three months or the one you re-freeze and defrosted a few times.
Plants – Owls are carnivores and won’t eat veggies, fruits, or other plants under any circumstances.
Dogs – In most cases, owls won’t eat dogs, but you should be aware that the Great Horned owl sometimes hunts and eats black-tailed prairie dogs. However, they are actually not dogs but rodents.
Carcasses – Owls are not scavengers and usually avoid eating decaying animal carcasses. However, large ones, like the Snowy owl, Great Horned owl, and Eurasian Eagle-owl, can eat dead hoofed mammals, reptiles, and birds, particularly in winter. Interestingly, they can nibble some carcasses they find around but won’t return later for more.
Tips to Feed Owls
The best thing is that owls effortlessly adjust their diet to the environment and eat the available food. They hit and catch the prey with their feet and kill it by breaking its neck. After a meal, they often store surplus food in holes or tree forks.
As you have probably known, owls don’t have teeth, so they can’t chew food. Instead, they swallow the whole small prey or use their sharp, hooked bills to tear the larger preys’ flesh into pieces and crush their bones.
Even though most owls hunt at night, not all of them are nocturnal feeders. You can sometimes see diurnal owls that are active during the day. Finally, there are also crepuscular owls that hunt in the dawn or twilight.
Owls can hunt and eat prey of their size and sometimes animals larger than their own body size.
After swallowing the whole prey, its stomach digests meat, while the undigested parts form pellets (small balls) go to the gizzard, a separate stomach part.
Owls rarely drink water like other birds do since the water from their prey’s bodies is enough for their needs. On average, they get 0.002 pounds (1 g) of water for each gram of intake fat. In most cases, they use water only for bathing.
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The chef who co-founded Lark Creek Restaurant Group in the Bay Area and made farm-to-table cooking his mantra long before it was fashionable, has returned to the Bay Area after being gone for eight years.
Bradley Ogden, who most recently opened Root 246 restaurant in Solvang, moved to San Jose’s Evergreen district in January to start a new phase in his culinary career. It includes a new multimedia company with partner Chris Kelly, Facebook’s first general consul.
In the works is a new cooking show, “Real Food with Chef Bradley Ogden,” which will be shopped around to various TV networks. I got a sneak peek on Super Bowl Sunday, when Ogden invited me and a host of friends to his home for a cooking extravaganza, which was filmed in part for his show.
The show, which will showcase artisan purveyors and farmers, also will have Ogden cooking with friends and family, including his son, Bryan, also a chef, who used to cook at Ogden’s eponymous restaurant at Caesars Palace.
To say the party was a feast would be an understatement. But when you have two top chefs in the kitchen, that’s to be expected. Every inch of table space was laden with mini grilled cheese sammies, deviled eggs, ribs, buttermilk fried chicken wings, steak tacos with homemade tortillas, sliders with homemade dill pickles, mac ‘n’ cheese, enough Dungeness crab to feed an army, the world’s tastiest hummus, ceviche and mini crème brulees.
The feast may have been in honor of the Super Bowl. But it also was a fitting welcome home for this chef, who left his mark in the Bay Area long ago and has returned to begin an exciting new chapter in his life.
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Maybe I’m in rare form.
Addiction tends to send me to a dark place where stars are too distant to shine.
While I send my condolences to all lives lost in addiction, Philip Seymour Hoffman is an expensive name to a cheap drug that’s claimed countless lives.
So I hear the NYPD has not only put out a statewide search but have captured four associated dealers. Interesting.
How much is an addicts life worth? When a man or woman is found dead with a needle in their arm, how many times does a police investigation or search ensue?
How many times is the name of the lost life ‘trending’ for support and awareness? Headlines for addicts? How often…? On the surface, I’d say when they’re millionaires. I’d say when society thought them to be valuable and rich and why would they use/abuse drugs when they’re rich?
Isn’t that the one thing we all can agree that would make us ‘happy’ and whole and at ease?
Why kill yourself with drugs Whitney, Michael and Philip? You have it all, right? Why play with drugs and the fake escape Brittany, Amy and Corey?
Your big names and Hollywood budgets and fresh from rehab resumes made it look beautifully tragic.
I have a question America: Can you provide accessible rehabilitation and drug prevention resources to all American citizens? I mean, may I be frank? Do I need to be an acclaimed actor to get and stay addicted to drugs before you notice me? Before you notice that money doesn’t matter; an addict is an addict is an addict.
There are fatherless children left with little or no answers let alone help for a parent dying of drugs.
Said child, is living in a drug infested environment where police are only present for (budget) busts!
Stop it, “drug free” America! Stop lying to the media as if you care and “drugs” are the problem. The airplanes, boats and trains they come on sure ain’t ushered by the pedal pushers you affectionately ‘arrest for intent to distribute’.
Just stop it. When my father was addicted, robbed, kidnapped and beaten beyond recognition no cops came to question us or the dealers the handicapped him!
Drug addiction is only bad when the millionaires die? It’s only an epidemic when the rich and beautiful perish at the sight of such an ugly disease? I get it.
Lastly, I’m just curious America, do all addicts perish equally? Enlighten me.
Stop by an N/A meeting and hear how many nameless addicts die in addiction and report where the busts should start.
Come on America, let’s get to the root of it and it’s not Hollywood.
I’m A Comeaux and I’m the child of an addict.
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In the world of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), equity funds are the dominant group, but advisors and investors are increasingly willing to fill out the fixed income portions of their portfolios with bond ETFs. Last year, nearly bond ETFs set an inflows record, capturing nearly a third of all U.S. ETF inflows.
Bond ETFs are on a torrid asset-gathering pace again in 2019. Year-to-date, five of the top 10 ETFs in terms of new assets added are bond ETFs and investors’ pensiveness on the rise, bond ETFs could continue packing on new assets over the coming months.
Adding to the case for bond ETFs, particularly those with long durations, is that the Federal Reserve appears likely to hold off on raising interest rates this year. Some bond market observers are even speculating that an interest rate cut could occur later this year. While it may be prudent to expect an interest rate cut, even if the Fed simply stands pat on rates, that could benefit a slew of bond ETFs.
For investors looking for safety plays or to boost their income streams, here are some bond ETFs to consider.
Bond ETFs: WisdomTree Yield Enhanced U.S. Short-Term Aggregate Bond Fund (SHAG)
Expense Ratio: 0.12% per year, or $12 on a $10,000 investment.
The WisdomTree Yield Enhanced U.S. Short-Term Aggregate Bond Fund (CBOE:SHAG) is a bond ETF for investors to consider if, for some reason, the Fed surprisingly reverses course and decides to raise rates again because SHAG has an effective duration of just 2.65 years. Lower duration bond ETFs are less sensitive to changes in interest rates, explaining why so many of these bond ETFs were popular in 2018 when the Fed boosted borrowing costs four times.
SHAG’s 30-day SEC yield of 2.73% is decent when considering investors are not incurring much risk with this bond ETF. That yield is boosted by a 55.37% weight to corporate bonds, while the rest of SHAG’s holdings are U.S. government and agency debt. That means credit risk is mostly low with this fund, as highlighted by more than 40% of SHAG’s holdings carrying AAA ratings. None of SHAG’s holdings carry junk ratings.
While it appears unlikely interest rates will rise, SHAG still merits consideration over the near-term due to its conservative posture and steady income stream.
SPDR ICE BofAML Broad High Yield Bond ETF (CJNK)
Expense Ratio: 0.15%
Cheap ETFs are available in all shapes and sizes and that includes junk bond funds. In fact, the SPDR ICE BofAML Broad High Yield Bond ETF (NYSEARCA:CJNK) was recently converted into one of the least expensive junk bond ETFs on the market after being a different kind of corporate bond fund. While many investors think of junk bonds as risky, this asset class is suitable for myriad portfolios and investment objectives.
“High yield is an asset class that should be at the center of any income-generating portfolio, just by virtue of it carrying a yield 63% higher than that of the combined yield of global aggregate bonds and global equities, on average, over the past 20 years,” according to State Street research.
CJNK has an option-adjusted duration of 3.61 years and holds over 1,000 junk bonds. This low-cost bond ETF has a 30-day SEC yield of 6%.
VanEck Vectors Green Bond ETF (GRNB)
Expense Ratio: 0.3%
For investors looking to implement socially responsible investing principles in the fixed income portions of their portfolios, the VanEck Vectors Green Bond ETF (NYSEARCA:GRNB) is a bond fund to consider. A simple definition of green bonds is that these bonds are issued to finance environmentally friendly projects.
GRNB’s underlying index “is comprised of labeled green bonds that are issued to finance environmentally friendly projects, and includes bonds issued by supranational, government, and corporate issuers globally in multiple currencies,” according to VanEck.
Many issuers of green bonds are large, developed market governments, meaning GRNB’s credit risk is low. About two-thirds of the fund’s 188 holdings are rated AAA, AA or A. GRNB has a duration of 6.45 years. The green bond market is expected to grow exponentially in the years ahead.
“The first quarter of 2019 saw a welcome boost in green bond supply, totaling over $40 billion, which is up approximately 46% versus the same period one year ago,” said VanEck in a recent note. “North American issuance was up approximately 30%, with green bonds from first time corporate issuers including Verizon and Citigroup as well as repeat issuance from companies such as Duke Energy and MidAmerican Energy.”
Schwab Short-Term U.S. Treasury ETF (SCHO)
Expense Ratio: 0.06%
The Schwab Short-Term U.S. Treasury ETF (NYSEARCA:SCHO) is a bond ETF for conservative, cost-conscious investors. As its name implies, SCHO holds Treasuries, so there is essentially no credit risk with this fund.
“Indexing Treasuries in this way is a sound approach for exposure to a specific portion of the yield curve,” said Morningstar in a recent note on SCHO. “It is difficult for active managers to recoup their fees while offering comparable exposure to Treasuries on this narrow segment of the yield curve, as Treasuries are one of the most competitively priced areas of the bond market and managers have little leeway to take additional duration risk.”
SCHO’s effective duration is just 1.93 years. In other words, SCHO’s selling points are low credit risk, low rate risk and a low fee. The first two of those points also mean a somewhat low yield (2.32%), but that is the trade-off for reducing credit and interest rate risk.
Vanguard Total International Bond ETF (BNDX)
Expense Ratio: 0.09%
The Vanguard Total International Bond ETF (NASDAQ:BNDX) has several factors that make it a compelling choice among bond ETFs. As is the case with so many Vanguard funds, BNDX qualifies as a cheap ETF. In fact, investors would be hard-pressed to find a cheaper international bond ETF.
Second, BNDX provides investors with some international diversification, a trait that often goes overlooked in bond portfolios. Third, BNDX uses a currency hedge to provide a buffer against weakness in currencies that the fund’s holdings are denominated. Home to more than 5,600 bonds, BNDX is also one of the largest bond ETFs in terms of roster size.
BNDX has slight emerging markets exposure and the bulk of its geographic exposure is allocated among developed Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Japan, France and Germany combine for 43.2% of this Vanguard fund’s weight. BNDX has an average duration of 7.9 years and is one of this year’s most popular bond ETFs as highlighted by inflows of $3.43 billion, good for the ninth-best tally among U.S.-listed ETFs.
Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond ETF (VCIT)
Expense Ratio: 0.07%
The Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond ETF (NASDAQ:VCIT) is one of the dominant names among intermediate-term corporate bond ETFs. One of the lowest fees in the category is a help, as is the fund’s investment-grade portfolio.
VCIT holds 1,770 bonds with an average duration of 5.8 years. Over 94% of the fund’s holdings are rated A or Baa. VCIT has a 30-day yield of 3.6%, which is above what investors find with Treasury funds of comparable durations. This Vanguard fund is outperforming the largest corporate bond ETF by about 40 basis points over the past 12 months.
Advisors and investors are certainly taking notice. As of May 9, VCIT’s year-to-date inflows were $4.39 billion, good for the top spot among bond ETFs and the fourth spot overall among U.S.-listed ETFs.
Invesco Corporate Income Value ETF (IHYV)
Expense Ratio: 0.23%
At just under a year old, the Invesco Corporate Income Value ETF (NYSEARCA:IHYV) is a hidden gem among corporate bond ETFs, presenting investors with a value play on corporate bonds with non-investment-grade ratings. This bond ETF tracks the Invesco High Yield Value Index.
That benchmark is “designed to provide exposure to higher value, U.S. high yield bonds and bonds with the lowest credit rating considered investment grade,” according to Invesco. “Higher value bonds are characterized as those with higher yields that may provide greater returns in certain markets. In addition, the Index seeks to incorporate securities with the highest quality scores within the eligible universe of U.S. bonds.”
IHYV features scant exposure to highly speculative CCC-rated debt (3% of the portfolio), but the fund is somewhat levered to oil prices because energy issues represent over 22% of IHYV’s weight. Investors are compensated for the risk that comes along with this bond ETF with a 30-day SEC yield of 6.50%. IHYV has an effective duration of 4.04 years.
As of this writing, Todd Shriber did not own any of the aforementioned securities.
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Supervising Scientist Annual Report 2007-2008
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- Title, verso and letter of transmittal (PDF - 414.35 KB)
- Contents (PDF - 277.34 KB)
- Foreword (PDF - 179.28 KB)
- Overview (PDF - 158.87 KB)
- Map 1 (PDF - 1013.99 KB)
- Map 2 (PDF - 402.41 KB)
- Map 3 (PDF - 515.77 KB)
- Abbreviations (PDF - 240.11 KB)
- Chapter 1 - Introduction (PDF - 267.3 KB)
- Chapter 2 - Environmental assessments of uranium mines (PDF - 1.76 MB)
- Chapter 3 - Environmental research and monitoring (part 1) (PDF - 990.23 KB)
- Chapter 3 - Environmental research and monitoring (part 2) (PDF - 606.8 KB)
- Chapter 3 - Environmental research and monitoring (part 3) (PDF - 1.79 MB)
- Chapter 4 - Statutory committees (PDF - 88.97 KB)
- Chapter 5 - Communication and liaison (PDF - 318.72 KB)
- Chapter 6 - Administrative arrangements (PDF - 173.6 KB)
- Appendix 1 - ARRTC key knowledge needs (PDF - 338.75 KB)
- Appendix 2 - Publications for 2007-2008 (PDF - 280.99 KB)
- Appendix 3 - Presentations to conferences and symposia, 2007-2008 (PDF - 20.89 KB)
- Index (PDF - 27.2 KB)
- Feedback on the Supervising Scientist 2007-2008 Annual Report (PDF - 17.58 KB)
Supervising Scientist, 2008
ISSN 0 158-4030
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- Map 2 (PDF - 403 KB)
- Map 3 (PDF - 516 KB)
- Abbreviations (PDF - 241 KB)
- Chapter 1 - Introduction (PDF - 268 KB)
- Chapter 2 - Environmental assessments of uranium mines (PDF - 1.8 MB)
- Chapter 3 - Environmental research and monitoring (part 1) (PDF - 991 KB)
- Chapter 3 - Environmental research and monitoring (part 2) (PDF - 607 KB)
- Chapter 3 - Environmental research and monitoring (part 3) (PDF - 1.8 MB)
- Chapter 4 - Statutory committees (PDF - 89 KB)
- Chapter 5 - Communication and liaison (PDF - 319 KB)
- Chapter 6 - Administrative arrangements (PDF - 174 KB)
- Appendix 1 - ARRTC key knowledge needs (PDF - 339 KB)
- Appendix 2 - Publications for 2007-2008 (PDF - 281 KB)
- Appendix 3 - Presentations to conferences and symposia, 2007-2008 (PDF - 21 KB)
- Index (PDF - 28 KB)
- Feedback on the Supervising Scientist 2007-2008 Annual Report (PDF - 18 KB)
Supervising Scientist's overview
The Supervising Scientist plays an important role in the protection of the environment of the Alligator Rivers Region of the Northern Territory through the supervision, monitoring and audit of uranium mines in the Region, as well as research into the possible impact of uranium mining on the environment of the Region.
Ranger is currently the only operational uranium mine in the Region, and is owned and operated by Energy Resources of Australia Ltd (ERA). Production commenced at Ranger in August 1981, and current plans will see mining of the Ranger 3 deposit cease in 2012 with milling of stockpiled ore expected to continue through until 2020.
As the time of mine closure and rehabilitation draws closer, the work of the Supervising Scientist includes a focus on these themes. Staff have been engaged with stakeholders in discussions and research activities associated with rehabilitation and closure.
Apart from rehabilitation and mine closure planning, staff of the Division remain active in ongoing supervision, inspection and audit, radiological, biological and chemical monitoring, and research activities in relation to both present and past uranium mining activities in the Region. Significant work has continued in developing improvements to the Supervising Scientist's surface water monitoring program. This program is relevant to both the operational and rehabilitation phases of mining.
During the year there were no reported incidents that resulted in any environmental impact off the immediate minesite. The extensive monitoring and research programs of the Supervising Scientist Division confirm that the environment has remained protected through the period.
At Ranger mine the 2007-08 wet season was near average with rainfall of 1658 mm. As a result there was less pressure on the pond water component of the mine's water management system than for the previous two years and irrigation with pond water was suspended in June. During the year, approval was given for the construction and operation of a second pond water treatment plant on site.
A further three metre lift of the walls of the Ranger tailings storage facility has commenced and is due for completion during the 2008 dry season. In addition to operational flexibility for ERA, this lift provides an enhanced level of environmental protection in process water management during the commissioning of a process water treatment plant and the decommissioning of Ranger Pit 1 as the active tailings storage facility, both of which are expected to occur during the latter half of 2008.
The Jabiluka project remains in long-term care and maintenance, and the next stage of the project is a matter for discussion between ERA and the area's traditional Aboriginal owners. The Nabarlek mine in western Arnhem Land was decommissioned in 1995 and the rehabilitation of this site remains under ongoing assessment. During the year Uranium Equities Limited (UEL) purchased Queensland Mines Pty Ltd, owner of the Nabarlek mineral lease. UEL has submitted a new Mining Management Plan for operations on the site. This plan sees a change in focus for the lease with an active exploration program being included in proposed future activities.
Details on research outcomes of the Environmental Research Institute of the Supervising Scientist (eriss) are published in journal and conference papers and in the Supervising Scientist and Internal Report series. Some important programs have been described in this annual report.
In particular, the water quality monitoring program has been enhanced with the installation of continuous monitoring equipment for pH, electrical conductivity and turbidity in Magela Creek upstream and downstream of Ranger mine. This program has now operated in parallel with the normal water quality monitoring program for the past four wet seasons to provide baseline information for a review of monitoring programs. From the continuous monitoring results indications are that water quality variations, both natural and mine-related, can occur on a shorter time base than weekly and the continuous monitoring program therefore has potential to be superior to the weekly grab sampling technique that is currently employed. Further research is required to determine what, if any, implications this may have in regard to trigger levels for responses to observed pulse events.
The principal biologically-based toxicity monitoring approach since 1991 has been creekside monitoring, in which a continuous flow of water from the adjacent Magela Creek is pumped through tanks containing test animals. During the past three wet seasons, eriss staff have been evaluating the viability of in situ testing - deploying floating containers in Magela Creek itself, using the more sensitive test organisms currently used for the creekside monitoring program. Assessment of the parallel creekside and in situ monitoring has determined that the in situ method is as effective as the creekside method and the creekside program will be discontinued in favour of the more efficient in situ method commencing from the 2008-09 wet season.
A major program of research on characterisation of northern tropical rivers and assessment of risk from actual and potential threats was carried out under the framework of the Tropical Rivers Inventory and Assessment Project (TRIAP). The work was a collaborative effort between eriss, James Cook University and the University of Western Australia, with additional involvement of Charles Darwin University and the University of Wageningen (The Netherlands). The project commenced in late 2004 and was completed during 2007-08. Datasets and some of the methodologies developed during TRIAP are being transferred and integrated into the research program of the recently established Tropical Rivers and Coastal Knowledge (TRaCK) hub established by the Commonwealth Environmental Research Facilities (CERF) program.
In May 2006, the Australian Government announced funding of $7.3 million over four years to undertake rehabilitation of former uranium mining sites in the South Alligator River Valley in the southern part of Kakadu National Park. The Supervising Scientist Division has provided advice and assistance to the Director of National Parks on management of these sites for a number of years, and continues to provide scientific and technical advice and assistance as the rehabilitation works progress.
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In its latest project Page 1: Great Expectations GraphicDesign& has brought together 70 leading designers and typographers to celebrate the bicentenary of Charles Dickens’ birth.
The first title to be published by GraphicDesign& (a publishing house that explores how graphic design connects with the wider world), Page 1 is also the first of its projects to connect literature and graphic design.
Described by GraphicDesign& founders Lucienne Roberts and Rebecca Wright as ‘a typographic experiment of sorts’, Page 1 is a paperback book that includes 70 different typographic interpretations of the first page of Dickens’ novel Great Expectations – a text chosen in part because it directly references lettering as Pip searches for clues about his family from the letterforms inscribed on their tombstone.
The contributors were briefed to lay out the text in any way they wished and were encouraged to explore, challenge or simply celebrate the conventions of book typography. Through reinterpretation of the same subject matter, Page 1 aims to encourage greater consideration of the relationship between typography, layout and how a book is read. Each layout is accompanied by a short rationale explaining the designer’s decision-making process.
Page 1 is not just a book for graphic designers, it reveals the power typography has to influence and affect the way we all interpret a text. Many readers will be surprised by the attention to detail and level of engagement with the narrative on display, and aficionados of Dickens will be charmed by the idiosyncratic approaches to this much-loved text.
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Friday Roundup: Online Marketing Predictions 2010
As I flâneured around the blogosphere this week (permit me to verb a French noun derived from a verb), I was overcome by a gadget-induced ennui. Nexus One. The iTablet/iSlate. Blah blah blah. I have nothing to say about these developments. "Will 2010 be the year of the smartphone?" Who cares? Sorry, gadgetheads—not me so much.
I am, however, interested in other directions the industry may take in 2010. (And while we're on the topic, you are on board with saying "twenty-ten," foregoing the cumbersome "two-thousand" prefix, are you not? Excellent. Glad we're on the same page.) And luckily, bloggers are still churning out resolutions and predictions for the year ahead.
I especially liked Debra Mastaler's Link Building Trends For 2010. After providing an overview of 2009, Debra, Julie Joyce, Garrett French, and Eric Ward each placed their bets on what trends will dominate link building efforts in 2010, including:
- Traffic will be king. Both Debra and Julie say that traffic will be more important—will outrank, so to speak—rankings this year.
- More social linking. Almost everyone thinks we'll continue to use (and find better ways to use) Twitter and other social media to share links.
- Rise of link management software. Garrett notes that people will forsake Excel for more sophisticated tools. Yahoo Site Explorer, he claims, "will die."
Eric Schmidt of SEO Boy posted his SEO expectations for 2010. He too says the impact of social media on SEO, already huge, will get huger. The social aspect of SEO, he writes, expands beyond link building to user-generated content and "anything else that can carry your brand name or URL without your direction influence," bringing "a wild card element to the game." (Also check out Colin Alsheimer's post on LevelTen Interactive on social media's "halo effect" on organic search. He shares a case study of a salon getting a big boost in organic search traffic after being mentioned in a tweet by Selena Gomez—even though she didn't include a link!)
John Battelle's predictions include that Google will reimagine itself as a software company a la Microsoft ("a massive cultural shift"), the quality of search results will deteriorate, Bing's market share will grow, and a "major privacy brouhaha" will go down.
Others aren't quite done with looking back yet. Tamar Weinberg (watch for an interview with Tamar later this month!) posted a massive list of the best internet marketing posts of 2009, sorted into categories like social media measurement and ROI, blogging, reputation management, link building, affiliate marketing and SEO strategy.
Jeremy Schoemaker (AKA Shoemoney) preferred to focus on the negative (hey I'm not judging; I've been known to be a glass-half-full kind of girl myself), writing about how 2009 sucked for most SEOs. Basically, there was a lot of SEO backlash—with people like Bruce Clay, Matt Cutts, and the much respected Robert Scoble denouncing SEO in one way or another—causing a lot of SEOs to jump ship for greener pastures (I'm taking metaphor tips from Dan Brown), those pastures being social media and brand management.
I'm not sure I agree that 2009 sucked more for SEOs than anyone else. Most industries took a big hit—that's what makes it a recession. Who were the biggest losers? I think I give my pity points to journalists. (I managed to find an SEO-related job after my content editing position was slashed.)
Other Highlights from the Week
However, last night Cashmore dispelled the rumors with a Tumblr post stating:
While commenting on speculation isn't something I've done in the past, I think it would be nice to keep our community in the loop as much as we can on recent Mashable-related rumors. [...] We're very open to partnerships and always talk with those that get in touch. We've certainly spoken to lots of potential partners, some of those conversations more significant than others. But I don't feel that any of those conversations reached a point at which Mashable is likely to cease being independent.
This may be for the best. The public reception of imeem's sale to MySpace demonstrated that getting bought by a dinosaur (by online standards) can leave a bad taste in the hip masses' mouths. (On a side note: I like how Cashmore's Tumblr profile characterizes him as the "Quiet type." He might as well have gone with "Strong, silent." Or "Tall. Darkish. Handsome.")
A lot of people recommended Aaron Wall's post, "Is SEO Science or Art?" And I'm going to recommend it again. A thoughtful post on the pitfalls of testing and sharing those results in the search community—a community that distrusts tests, takes advantage of what works until it doesn't work anymore, and includes people in a position to alter the circumstances that determined the results. Always be testing, we say, but how dependable are our tests?
Is SEO scientific? Yes, in the same way that sociology, psychology, and economics are scientific. But economics is referred to as the dismal science. ;)
Anything that involves understanding human behavior and trying to influence it is not just science. It is also an art.
And a couple of tactical posts:
Lisa Barone supplies a list of ways to find blog topics, including mining your own site logs/analytics for questions:
People are naturally typing questions into search bars (yours and the ones owned by the search engines) looking for answers. Don’t wait for the formal invite to give them what they’re looking for. Just tackle ‘em.
Will Reinhardt on Search Engine People names three mistakes to avoid when doing keyword research:
In the process of creating targeted keyword lists for any particular project it's easy to simply say "target the keywords with the highest search volume." This is almost never true, of course.
We agree! Relevance is far more important than search volume. Pay attention to what works with your audience, not Google's.
Have a good weekend, all.
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"FLAMING YOUTH" WITH CREATIVE TIMENov. 23, 2011
Creative Time went with the theme "Flaming Youth" for its fall fundraiser, held at W.I.P. New York, the recently opened basement-level nightclub on Vandam Street in west SoHo, on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011. The Creative Time party took its inspiration from the legendary masquerade fests at the Chelsea Arts Club in London, parties that ran until 1959 and were invariably dubbed “the most scandalous event on the social calendar.”
“Flaming Youth” did without the brawls and nudity that made its earlier London counterparts so notorious, but it had no shortage of costumed neo-Bohemian merriment. Guests layered on Venetian masks, angel wings and body paint to pose for Polaroid photographs, while DJ Mia Moretti kept the dance floor busy, and party-goers dined on pizza slices plucked from spits carried through the crowd by teams of servers.
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Introduction and Definition
Since the beginning of recorded history, philosophers, politicians, religious leaders, physicians and dramatists all have expressed interest in the different kinds of personalities we encounter in our social worlds. A few of those thinkers also have expressed interest in how we understand our inner mental lives. Modern psychologists took up the understanding of other people and of ourselves as well, conducting empirical research into the different kinds of people we perceive and into self-knowledge.
The theory of personal intelligence draws together contemporary research on self-knowledge and perceiving others, and synthesizes it in the idea that there exists an intelligence we all possess for reasoning about human personality–our own, and the personalities of others. (The theory was introduced in a 2008 academic journal article and has been further developed since).
Within the theory, personal intelligence is defined as:
“the capacity to reason about personality and to use personality and personal information to enhance one’s thoughts, plans, and life experience.” (Mayer, 2008, p. 209)
The book, “Personal Intelligence” describes the theory and the research behind it for educated readers who don’t necessarily have a background in psychology.
The Kinds of Problem-Solving Involved
According to the theory, people use their personal intelligence to solve problems in four broad areas. They focus on:
- recognizing personally relevant information from introspection and from observing themselves and others,
- forming that information into accurate models of personality,
- guiding their choices by using personality-relevant information
- systematizing their goals, plans, and life stories for good outcomes
(Mayer, 2008, p. 215).
The initial 2008 statement of the theory was followed by a 2009 theoretical review that drew from the then-existing psychological literature to describe the skills of people presumed to be high versus low in personal intelligence. By carefully specifying the abilities involved in reasoning about personality, the 2009 review laid the groundwork for empirical tests of whether personal intelligence might actually exist.
Predictions of the Theory
The core of personal intelligence theory can be characterized by the following predictions:
- Problem-solving about personality is a universal preoccupation for human beings.
- There are diverse forms of problem-solving regarding personality and personality-related information.
- People differ in their abilities to solve problems about personality.
- A person’s ability to solve problems correctly in one area of problem-solving about personality is related to the same individual’s ability to answer questions accurately in other areas of problem-solving about personality, even though the problems involved may seem quite different from one another.
The theory further emphasizes that although there are many ways to be successful without personal intelligence, people who are good at using their personal intelligence possess certain advantages over people who are less good at it, other things being equal. In particular, people higher in personal intelligence may make better decisions about themselves and other people.
Features of the Theory
Some associated features of the present theory of personal intelligence include:
- a definition of personal intelligence that places the personality system at its center. The definition also focuses on the existence of information about and related to personality, such as cues to personality, goals, and the values with which we reason.
- the proposal that there are substantial commonalities between our own and other people’s personalities, and that we often use a common set of rules to understand personality—no matter which personality we are focused on.
- a drawing together of contemporary research findings from the field of personality psychology that organizes the lines of research according to how they help us understand one another.
- specific, testable hypotheses that allow for its evaluation through empirical means. The theory has associated with it a set of successfully-developed assessments of reasoning that tap people’s ability in the area (see The Measurement).
Comparison to Other Approaches
The theory of personal intelligence represents a departure from other thinking in the area in several ways.
First, the theory is focused on individual differences in skill level. By comparison, a good deal (though not all) of contemporary research examines how accurately people understand one another on average. For example, certain researchers have examined how accurately people are able, on average, to identify whether a target person is narcissistic or friendly. Other researchers have investigated how accurately people are, on average, at estimating their own performance at solving logical puzzles. Studies of average ability levels are very important; the theory of personal intelligence provides a complement to those findings by examining the ability that may contribute to people’s accurate performance at such tasks.
Second, according to the theory of personal intelligence, problem solving about self-knowledge and problem-solving about other people are viewed as drawing on similar reasoning processes: For example, recognizing the trait of extraversion in one’s own self involves many of the same skills required to recognize extraversion in other people.
Third, the theory proposes that people draw on a diverse set of abilities so as to understand personality. Despite the apparent dissimilarity among these abilities, the theory contends that they can be thought of as a unitary intelligence that helps individuals to understand their own and others’ personalities.
Fourth, this theory, when compared with earlier thought, clearly defines a global ability—personal intelligence—and specifies the kinds of reasoning people use to solve problems about personality. The theory is sufficiently clear and detailed that it has permitted researchers to construct psychological tests to examine whether an intelligence about personality really exists.
Fifth, the development of measurement instruments serves as a means of defining the areas of reasoning that make up personal intelligence, and what areas of reasoning are less clearly a part of the mental ability. For example, research indicates that understanding traits and knowing about goals are both part of personal intelligence as defined here. On the other hand, understanding vocabulary words in general is less closely related to the skill.
Status of the Theory
The theory draws together and organizes a great amount of research from the areas of personality, developmental, clinical and evolutionary psychology, and from neuroscience. The predictions made by the theory are consistent with numerous research findings from those diverse areas of research.
The article, “Does Personal Intelligence Exist?” (Mayer, Panter & Caruso, 2012) reports evidence supporting the specific predictions about patterns of human problem solving that were made by the theory.
The book, Personal Intelligence presents the theory and the research from diverse fields which supports its predictions, illustrating many of the key concepts of personal intelligence with case studies.
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Saturday, May 11, 2013
The James Douglas Show - 9
Want to put some soul in your rock n' roll? Some spunk in your funk? A little pop in your hip-hop? A bit of downtown in your James Brown? Well, look no further than The James Douglas Show ("The JDS").
The JDS is an ostentatiously dressed, over the top, perennial show opener and stopper of an act that, according to its own hype, had a Vegas music manager comment upon seeing them, "the circus has come to town." The band has opened for a myriad of headliners. Led by vocalist James Douglas, the band consists of Zach "White Chocolate" Fowler on bass; Delmone "Chef" Taylor on sax and keys; Jesse "Shotzilla" Martinez on lead guitar; Mike "Mike Cee" Carpenter on keyboards; and Marco "Chollo" Nunez on drums. Fowler, Taylor and Carpenter also lend their voices to the mix.
The band's most recent effort is a nine track CD titled 9. The nine tracks (ergo, the album title 9) are over the top, funked up, mowed down Motown, black and blue boogaloo that will have you doing a line dance until you think you are the reincarnation of Don Cornelius. On its website (http://www.thejamesdouglasshow.com) The JDS band members provide oral commentary on virtually every track on this release so I won't bore you with reiteration of what they have to say. I suggest, after you get your groove on with tunes like "Wonderfully," "Shake It Loose" and "Can't Stop," and have pushed repeat half a dozen times, you'll want to check out where the musicians that created the music got their inspiration and what they think about it. Then, you can take off your dancing shoes and rhinestone black glove, reposition your fedora and web surf over to their site for a bit of insight before you again fist pump your way across the room doing the Funky Chicken.
Where does a band with such a talent for funk and soul rock n’ roll originate? Detroit? Chicago? New York? Los Angeles? Nope. They're from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Let that sink in. Albuquerque is not exactly the hub of modern funk and soul culture. You are more likely to hear Brad Paisley than Parliament Funkadelic in the Old Town Square. A pimped out ride in Albuquerque means dual shotgun racks, not a gold Cadillac on a donk set of 24 inchers. Yet, that is where The JDS formed in 2003 and first found its audience. Since then the band has been on one western U.S. tour after another, has released a couple of CD’s, and has played at all the music and entertainment industry shows and gatherings. They are the choice of music industry insiders for a party down good time.
So, are you ready for an old school dance party? If so, add a little glide to your Slide, get chunky with your Monkey, go go your Mashed Potato, start jumping with your krumping, romance with your slow dance and hop aboard rock n’ roll soul train number 9 with The James Douglas Show.
- Old School
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- Eurovision Song Contest returns
Covid-19 caused its cancellation for the 1st time in its 66-year history in 2020 and this year it comes live from the Ahoy in Rotterdam on Saturday 22 May 2021. We’ve previewed semi 1, semi 2 and the pre-qualified finalists. Our pick to win is Iceland’s Daði Freyr (pictured) with hits group Gagnamagnið and entry 10 Years, a song of the week for us in March.
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Digitalization affects pretty much every area of the world. Our positions turned out to be substantially more sensible, lives more agreeable, and the world more associated as new advances and developments were presented.
Digitalization has helped spread the web to each side of the world. Probably the most eminent areas that have been changed by fast digitalization are medical services, instruction, fabricating, farming, IT, accommodation, and diversion. Yet, as each coin has different sides, digitalization is doing wonders for individuals however, then again, has made a ton of safety difficulties and caused security issues.
Network protection is one such issue that has turned into a critical worry for individuals. Expanding utilization of the web, and a developing number of associated items, organizations, and frameworks have assisted economies with development and yet opened a passage to different advanced dangers and assaults.
Phishing, malware, ransomware, man-in-the-center assault, and zero-day exploit are the absolute most normal digital assaults that have arisen as a critical worry for specialists. Here, App Developer Dubai will examine online protection exhaustively, the kinds of advanced dangers that influence it, and the job of AI in making light of these dangers and fortifying network safety.
AI and Cybersecurity
It has been quite possibly the most powerful and promising innovation in hardly any year. It stays on the rundown of moving advances that are changing the world. Simulated intelligence has disturbed pretty much every area today, be it producing, diversion, retail, gaming, instruction, or car; it has effectively changed them for whatever might be most ideal.
One such area is network safety which has been enormously benefitted by man-made brainpower. Simulated intelligence predicts likely escape clauses in the framework that can turn into a genuine danger in the future so they can be killed, hence reinforcing its security.
Key jobs of AI in network safety
As referenced, AI is assuming a significant part in recognizing, and relieving security issues through the execution of a few safety efforts and conventions.
#1 Machine learning improves digital danger discovery
As referenced previously, machine learning (ML), the most energetic piece of AI, persistently advances by breaking down various measures of accessible information. With regards to network safety, this part of ML assumes a vital part as it examines every one of the information accessible connecting with past cyberattacks and security issues, hacking designs, and related information to foresee the potential dangers ahead of time no doubt and those that can occur in the most extraordinary cases.
#2 Phishing identification and avoidance
Phishing is one of the most well-known online protection dangers these days wherein messages are sent called phishing messages from a hidden element depicting to be from a legitimate source. These sends are the weapon that typically stunts individuals into signing in and sharing touchy information like passwords.
Business AI and AI have distinguished these messages and advise the clients ahead of time about the danger. Man-made intelligence analyzes the email’s example, content, and metadata with various recorded phishing sends from past occasions. Whenever similitude is distinguished, the AI-based security framework creates an alarm telling the client of the likely danger.
#3 More secure validation rehearses
AI intelligence-fueled confirmation rehearses are quite possibly the most reliable secret key insurance and verification strategy. Artificial intelligence-empowered confirmation frameworks have become extremely normal these days in cell phones and workplaces. Biometric verification is one of the most widely recognized AI-empowered security rehearses in each cell phone.
Face acknowledgment, iris acknowledgment, and unique mark acknowledgment are the most dependable verification rehearses. Similarly, as in different cases, AI innovation investigates the human info or look and elements to conclude whether it matches the enlisted one. These practices are viewed as one of the most secure and flawless safety efforts most normal these days in workplaces and cell phones.
Simulated intelligence a Boon for Cybersecurity
Simulated intelligence is assuming an indispensable and essential part in fortifying the network protection area, and associations are intensely putting resources into these innovations to improve their association’s computerized security.
In addition, three out of four leaders referenced that AI helps their associations recognize and answer security breaks quicker. A similar report additionally brought up that most associations accept that AI decreased the expense of recognizing and revealing infringement by 20%.
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Shipping and Returns
At Party for Stella your order is personally packed by us with care into suitable sized boxes & parcels. Sometimes we may use recycled packaging. Please ensure you give the full and correct shipping address, as there may be a re-delivery fee. All orders Australia wide are shipped from VICTORIA, 3085, Australia for a flat rate of $9.95 via the Australia Post service.
We offer FREE shipping Australia wide for orders over $120 (excluding large or bulky items).
This service offers proof of postage & parcel tracking. Orders placed prior to 1pm AEST / Monday to Friday will be shipped on the same day wherever possible. For extra peace of mind we offer a signature on delivery option for $12.95 flat rate.
To check the estimated time from shipping to delivery at your destination, refer to Australia Post – please click here. Please allow additional delivery time during busy periods such as Christmas and Easter public holidays. We do not guarantee Australia Post shipping times.
We understand that some things just get left to the last minute! We offer fast shipping via Australia Post’s Express Post service for orders within Australia for a flat rate of $15.95. Orders received prior to 1pm /AEST Monday to Friday are typically dispatched the same day. This service is shipped from Melbourne and takes approximately 1-3 business days depending on your location. Please allow extra time outside of major city CBD postcodes as Australia Post’s next day guarantee may not apply.
For further details on express postage to your area, please refer to Australia Post.
We currently only ship our wholesale Party for Stella range internationally. This includes our plates, cups, napkins and cake toppers. If you would like to become a Party or Stella stockist please contact us at: [email protected] and register your interest on our wholesale section.
Party for Stella handles returns and processes refunds in accordance with the Australian Consumer Protection legislation. We are committed to customer satisfaction and ensure all products are in excellent condition prior to being dispatched. In the unlikely event you receive an item that is faulty or damaged please notify us via the following email: [email protected] within 14 days of your purchase so we can assist you. Please state reason for return and attach a photo of the defective product.
To be eligible for a refund please note the following when placing your order:
- Your item must be unused and in the same condition that you received it in. It must also be in the original packaging.
- Sale items cannot be refunded
- We do not offer refunds for change of mind or general dislike.
- We are unable to offer a refund on items which have small variations in colour and pattern.
- You will be responsible for paying for your own shipping costs to return your item. Shipping costs are non-refundable. If you are shipping an item over $75, you should consider using a trackable shipping service or purchasing shipping insurance. Party for Stella takes no responsibility for returns lost in transit
The defective products will need to be sent back in its original packaging within 14 days of purchase along with a copy of the invoice or receipt. If we are unable to resolve your complaint or further assist you, we will process a refund upon timely receipt of the goods purchased. Unopened goods will be refunded in full. Refunds will be processed promptly and payment made by the same method that you made payment. All refunds are made at the discretion of Party for Stella.
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Brad Lamberti manages our Divisional Sales and is our Field Consultant. Brad has baseball in his blood, playing three years of varsity ball at Southeast Polk High School in Altoona, Iowa. He then played at Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC), Texas A&M Corpus Christi and the University of Central Oklahoma.
After finishing his playing career – Brad was a catcher – he coached at DMACC for two years. He joined the True Pitch team nearly four years ago.
Brad loves his work at True Pitch.
“The game has been a part of my life forever and to have this opportunity to still be in the industry is awesome,” he says. “It may not be lacing up the spikes and playing but being able to communicate with coaches around and talk baseball is very enjoyable to me.”
Brad is married and has a young son. In his free time he serves as a youth baseball coach for the Midwest Pride organization.
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We caught up with Trina Willard – principal and founder of the Knowledge Advisory Group (KAG) about an often confusing, but incredibly important topic – how to build a culture of evaluation in a nonprofit in order to thrive. Here’s what she’s seeing in the field and the advice she gave:
While assisting nonprofit organizations with data and measurement responsibilities, we are often asked about the struggles they experience trying to get their staff “on board” with program evaluation efforts. The conversation usually goes a bit like this:
Nonprofit: “Program evaluation? Ugh. Our staff doesn’t have time for all that data stuff. On top of everything else they already have to do? No, it’s just seems too hard. Besides that, who really uses that information anyway?”
KAG: “Hmmm…perhaps we should dig into those perceptions a bit. What steps are you taking to build an evaluation culture, side-by-side with your service culture?”
Nonprofit: “Evaluation culture? What’s that?”
And therein lies the challenge. As program evaluation has become more important within the landscape of nonprofit program and resource development, its integration into the culture of nonprofit organizations often lags behind.
So what exactly do I mean by evaluation culture? In a nutshell, it is the foundation for systematic and successful evaluation efforts and entails three primary elements:
- How your staff thinks and feels about evaluation
What is the climate like in your nonprofit when staff discusses evaluation? Do they express anxiety or feel apprehensive about the evaluation process? Or are they energized by the opportunity to demonstrate progress and continuous improvement? An effective evaluation culture places an emphasis on the latter.
- Your board & leadership’s philosophy about evaluation
What is your organization’s overarching philosophy on the role of evaluation in driving your program model? What is its role in resource development? How are these messages communicated by leadership? If leadership is engaged, this prepares the organization for active engagement, as an evaluation plan won’t implement itself. Organizational leaders can help identify and set priorities for an internal evaluation champion who will drive the process, provide oversight and monitor implementation.
- How your organization integrates evaluation into key functions and processes
Nonprofit best practices address program evaluation as an ongoing, systematic approach that is designed to continually develop programs, maximize effectiveness, and address community needs as they change. As such, evaluation infrastructure and principles should weave throughout the organization, thereby becoming an integral part of strategic planning processes, human resource structures, programmatic data collection procedures, and ongoing organizational reviews.
Cultivation of an improvement-oriented evaluation culture is a critical factor in developing sound nonprofit practices. If you’re interested in learning more, evaluation culture is one of the topics we’ll discuss in our upcoming class Evaluate Your Nonprofit’s Success: Defining & Measuring Outcomes on January 20, 2017 with The Community Foundation serving Richmond and Central Virginia.
Trina Willard is the Principal Consultant at Knowledge Advisory Group. Before founding the Knowledge Advisory Group in 2010, she served for seven years as the Vice President of Transformation Systems Inc. (TSI), a small, award-winning management consulting firm. Her prior experience includes almost a decade as Chief of the Evaluation Unit of the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services, Criminal Justice Research Center.
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Album Reviews of the 80s
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Judas Priest, "Defenders Of The Faith"
Review by: brett wallace
I think Defenders OF The Faith is one of Judas Priest. Some of my favorite tracks on that CD are Love Bites,Jawbreaker,The Sentinel,Heavy Duty/Defenders Of The Faith,Freewheel Burning,Eat Me Alive,Rock Hard Ride Free,Some Heads Are Gonna Roll,and Night Comes Down. The guitar riffs on that CD are just cranking. Rob Halford's vocals are ringing loud,and heavy. And the bass,and the drums on that CD is just awesome.
We also have pages on this topic devoted to the 70s and 90s
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Over the past few weeks, as my work has carried me everywhere from Peru to Paraguay to a weekend away with Margaret to celebrate 50 years of marriage, I’ve been reflecting on my personal journey of improvement.
It’s no secret that I believe growth is the only guarantee that tomorrow will be better. It’s no mystery that I think personal growth is the steppingstone to success for any leader. If you or I want to stay in front of the curve and lead others, then we must do the work that keeps us out front.
We must continually improve.
But as I seek to improve, there’s one thing I know not to chase, and that’s perfection. Perfection is a trap. I like what speaker and author Jon Acuff said in this interview with Dan Scwhabel of Forbes:
“Perfectionism is never finished. That’s the lie. There’s no such thing as perfect, you can always improve. So perfectionism draws an ever moving, ever expanding finish line that you never reach.”
I love that idea of the ever-expanding finish line for two reasons—one, when you or I chase perfection, we will always stumble across another area where we need improvement. Thus, the line will always move.
The second reason I love that statement is because I’ve come to realize that, when it comes to personal growth, the goal will always be just beyond my reach. There will always be more I can become.
Here’s the leader’s greatest truth: personal growth has no finish line.
You’ll have deadlines for projects and times that you’ve got to release your work into the world, because that is the nature of work. Actions and deeds have limits. Your growth and potential do not!
You will always have room for more, unless you set your standards low enough that you can easily meet them.
That’s what some leaders do—drop the bar for themselves and their team, in order to attain that mythical sense of perfection. Lowering the bar also lowers the lid on what you or team can accomplish. The pursuit of perfection actually caps your potential instead of releasing it.If I could give you one gift today, it would be to release you from the snare of perfection. You don’t have to perfect—but you do have to improve! In fact, you must be committed to the relentless pursuit of improvement. For a leader, getting better is anything but a hobby. You must invest the time required to improve in some way every day.
With that in mind, here are three keys to relentless pursuit of improvement:
- Humility—knowing that you have room to improve is the first step toward improving. Humility is having 20/20 vision when it comes to your strengths and weaknesses; knowing what you do well, but could do better, as well as knowing what you don’t do well, but others can complement.
- Curiosity—a closed mind is a stagnant mind, so if we want to keep our minds growing, we must keep them open. That means being curious about ourselves, our people, and the world we inhabit. So ask questions. Try new things. Introduce yourself to new people. Let curiosity open doors you’d never think to open.
- Grace—there are other words that could go here, but I think giving yourself grace is an overlooked component of personal growth. It’s also what perfectionism strips away—the ability to forgive yourself when you fail. Because failure is an essential part of growth, you and I must learn to embrace it, learn from it, and improve because of it! Grace gives us permission to do exactly that.
I’m 72 years old, and I wake up every day with the firm belief that there is someone or something I will encounter that can and will teach me something new—if I will allow it.
I face each day with the understand that I’m not perfect, and I’m never going to be. But it’s okay: I don’t have to be perfect. I just have to be a little bit better.
Author George Will said it this way: “The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.”
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I'm going to hijack my blog for some shameless begging.
McKenna is in a Model Search for the Three Little Princesses company. She is just a few votes away from first place in her age group at this time, and voting ends tomorrow (Monday June 28) at 7 pm.
I am going to ask for anyone who has a Facebook account to go to the Three Little Princesses Facebook page. The first thing you have to do is click the "LIKE" button at the top of their page, and then click on "LIKE" on McKenna's photo in the 0-18 Months Album.
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Species Detail - Common Eyebright (Euphrasia nemorosa) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "BSBI tetrad data for Ireland".
Terrestrial Map - 10kmDistribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
Marine Map - 50kmDistribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
Euphrasia curta, Euphrasia curta var. rupestris, Euphrasia officinalis var. nemorosa
1 January (recorded in 1988)
30 October (recorded in 1989)
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Fat is insoluble in water, so it cannot be carried around the body. Therefore it is transferred to the blood in tiny droplets called lipo proteins. Lipo consists of, triglyceride, cholesterol and phospholipids and protein. There are two types of lipo proteins, firstly high density lipo proteins which have a LOW triglyceride content. Low levels increase the likelihood of cornorary heart disease, so therefore high lelvels help PROTECT against CHD.
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With Cindy Dion Noyes, MD, University of Vermont Health Network Medical Group UVM Medical Center Infectious Disease
Influenza has arrived in our region and is considered to be widespread at this time. This means that at least half of the regions in the state of VT and NY are reporting laboratory confirmed influenza (usually with a nasal swab).
Current Regional Strains
The current strains we are seeing locally include two strains of influenza A (H3N2 and H1N1) as well as one strain of influenza B. Without laboratory testing, one can’t tell the difference between an infection with A or B. All of the strains can cause fever, cough, sinus congestion or more serious symptoms like difficulty breathing.
Catch the Flu Twice?
A recent infection with one flu strain doesn’t mean you’re protected from other strains. So it’s important to remember that certain measures can help prevent influenza:
- Wash your hands frequently, especially after sneezing/coughing/blowing your nose.
- Practice cough/sneezing etiquette or cough into your elbow or a tissue.
- If you are sick with fever, cough, sinus congestion, stay home and take care of yourself.
- Get your flu vaccine!
There’s Still Time to Protect Yourself
It’s not too late to get vaccinated as flu season lasts into April in this region. The vaccine includes protection for the strains we are seeing in the community though the true protective benefits or efficacy of the vaccine will not be known until later in the season. It takes about 2 weeks for the body to respond to the vaccine with development of protective proteins or antibodies, thus there is still plenty of time for the vaccine to offer protection for you if you haven’t yet been vaccinated. | <urn:uuid:547263e7-90be-46e8-9ae6-fe26077cba7d> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://cvmc.org/blog/family-health/flu-season-has-arrived | 2021-10-18T16:03:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585204.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20211018155442-20211018185442-00485.warc.gz | en | 0.941067 | 377 |
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Well, patients themselves rarely know when they need a lift. Most patients don't want a lift, but the surgeon on evaluation will be able to determine. It's basically the relationship of the nipple with their breast fold or the inframammary fold as it's also known as. It's basically where the breast hangs off of the chest. If the nipple is significantly below that level, then the patient will need a breast lift no matter what. A breast augmentation alone will frequently not correct that. If it's way less than that, if the nipple is just barely at that level of the inframammary fold, sometimes they can get away by just doing a breast augmentation, and that will perform a sort of internal lifting for them.
When Is a Breast Lift Necessary?
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Separation Day 5k River Run/Walk
June 13, 2014 – Friday
New Castle, DE
5:30pm- Registration opens
7:00pm- Race start (start time has changed from 6:30pm to 7:00pm due to 495 closure and traffic congestion)
Register online – click here (online registration closes the Wednesday before the race at noon)
Register by mail – universal entry form (Separation Day 5k c\o races2run PO Box 24, Montchanin, DE 19710). Make checks payable to Races2Run.
Register at Delaware Running Company – cash only by the Wednesday before the race at noon. Located in Greenville Crossing.
Entry fee- $20 pre-registration (until the Wednesday before the race at Noon) / $25 after and day of event
Market St & Delaware St (next to court house)
Historic New Castle
New Castle Historical Society
Course runs through historic New Castle.
-Tee shirts to the first 200 registered participants
-Post race refreshments and beer for those 21 years of age and older
-Silent auction & kids carnival games
-Music by a Colonial band
-Awards to overall male/female winners
-Awards to top 3 male/female in 10 year age groups 13 & under through 70 & over
-Awards to top 3 male/female walkers
NOVA Timing Systems will chip time using the MYLAPS BibTag Timing System
Click HERE for race results. They will be posted online during the race and complete results will be posted once the race is complete.
Click HERE for race photos. They will be posted online later after the race.
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Average temperatures in Poland nearly two degrees higher than 70 years ago
Average annual temperatures in Poland are higher than 70 years ago, says climate scientist Professor Joanna Wibig from the Faculty of Geographical Sciences of the University of Lodz.
She said: “Global warming in Poland is progressing faster than the world average. Annual average temperatures in Poland are nearly two degrees higher than 70 years ago. Winters, during which days with minus temperatures dominate, are rare, and during the day temperatures are usually above zero.”
Experts' observations show that the most intense warming occurs in spring and winter, and the progression is slowest in autumn. In the Łódź region, warming has shifted this area from a zone where negative temperature days prevailed in winter to a zone where the temperature is usually above zero during the day and only drops below zero at night.
The consequence of this is the lack of snow cover. While city dwellers may welcome it, it is a big problem for farmers - a thick layer of snow protects the ground against excessive cooling and loss of soil moisture; without this cover, soil is exposed to frost.
Professor Wibig said: “A period of several days of freezing temperatures can lead to a decrease in winter cereal yields. The lack of snow cover also means a lack of significant water inflow to the soil during spring thaws. In the past, it was a significant injection of moisture before the growing season.
“Now, the water deficit in the soil often begins in early spring. A warmer winter also creates more favourable conditions for pests to survive.”
According to experts, warming has significantly shortened winter (understood as a period with an average temperature below 0 degrees C) and extended summer, a period with an average temperature above 15 degrees. The length of the remaining seasons did not change significantly, but early spring and spring begin and end earlier, while autumn and winter - later.
Climate research also shows that since the mid-20th century, the growing season in the vicinity of Łódź has extended by almost a month. A longer growing season is conducive to the maturation of plants, for which the previous growing season was too short.
Professor Wibig said: “An example is corn, which 30 years ago was grown only for fodder, because the cobs had no chance to mature. Now it is a popular cereal in Poland. While farmers can remedy this problem by delaying sowing, perennial shrubs and fruit trees are at great risk in the years when the last frosts occur during the period of fruit formation.”
There are also more years with the so-called false spring - after several weeks of warming and the start of vegetation, winter returns. A wave of frost during the period of flowering or fruit formation causes huge losses to fruit-growing and natural ecosystems.
According to Professor Wibig, warming is also visible in summer. The average temperature of the summer months has increased by more than 1.5 degrees C. In central Poland, the number of hot days has almost tripled in the last 50 years.
In developed countries, heat is considered the most dangerous meteorological threat to human life. This is especially true in cities, where high temperatures during the day are accompanied by only slightly lower temperatures at night.
Wibig said: “Nights during which the temperature does not fall below 20 degrees C are called tropical nights. In the mid-20th century, such nights were very rare in Poland, they happened once every dozen years. Now they occur very often in cities during heat waves, preventing night regeneration of the body.
“Higher temperature in summer also means much greater evaporation and often accompanying drought, water deficit or low water quality.”
According to the researcher, we should focus on preventing such situations, for example by striving to reduce greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. She said: “The climate crisis is primarily a threat to people. Due to the progressing of global warming, our lives are more difficult, and they may be even harder in the future.”
PAP - Science in Poland, Agnieszka Grzelak-Michałowska
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Authorities across Southern California were on high alert Thursday morning as a massive manhunt was underway for an ex-Los Angeles police officer sought in connection with a double homicide in Irvine and the shootings of three police officers, one of whom was killed.
Local, state and federal authorities are involved in the search for Christoper Jordan Dorner, 33, who threatened "unconventional and asymmetrical warfare" against police in an manifesto posted on his Facebook page.
Dorner also threatened more than two dozen people -- including police officials -- in his manifesto. Officers from around Southern California have been deployed to protect those people. In some cases, police said, those at risk have relocated for their safety.
LAPD Charlie Beck is expected to hold a press conference at 10 a.m.
When asked if police felt they were under attack, Riverside Police Lt. Guy Toussaint said: "Based on the circumstances of the shooting, yes I do."
Hours after authorities announced they were looking for Dorner in connection with a double homicide in Orange County, the search intensified after three police officers were shot in Riverside County and Dorner was identified as a possible suspect.
Freeway signs urged motorists to call 911 if they saw the suspect's vehicle as officers patrolled the streets near one of the Riverside County crime scenes with rifles at the ready. Los Angeles was put on a citywide tactical alert and California Highway Patrol issued a "blue alert" for nine Southern California counties warning Dorner was considered "armed and extremely dangerous."
The first shooting occurred about 1:30 a.m. Thursday in Corona, where two Los Angeles Police Department officers providing protection for someone mentioned in Dorner's manifesto, officials said. One officer suffered a graze wound to the head during a shootout and Dorner fled the scene, police said.
A short time later, two Riverside officers were shot at the corner of Magnolia Avenue and Arlington Avenue in Riverside. Toussaint said the officers were sitting at a red light when they were ambushed. One was killed, the other was still in surgery Thursday morning.
There was no indication the officers were "actively seeking Dorner," Toussaint said.
"Our officers were stopped at an intersection at a red light when they were ambushed," he said. "Because of the close proximity to the timeline, we believe there is a strong likelihood that former LAPD Officer Christopher Dorner was involved in our incident."
In the online manifesto, Dorner specifically named the father of Monica Quan, the Cal State Fullerton assistant basketball coach who was found dead Sunday in Irvine along with her fiance, Keith Lawrence.
Randy Quan, a retired LAPD captain, was involved in the review process that ultimately led to Dorner's dismissal. A former U.S. Navy reservist, Dorner was fired in 2009 for allegedly making false statements about his training officer. In the manifesto, he complained that Randy Quan and others did not fairly represent him at the review hearing.
"The violence of action will be high .... I will bring unconventional and asymmetrical warfare to those in LAPD uniform whether on or off duty," Dorner wrote.
As authorities swarmed the area, two officer-involved shootings occurred in Torrance after police came across vehicles they thought might be Dorner's.
The first Torrance incident occurred about 5:20 a.m. in the 19500 block of Redbeam Avenue in Torrance, Lt. Devin Chase said. That incident involved Los Angeles police detectives from the Hollywood division, sources said.
Two people were struck by gunfire and transported to an area hospital with unknown injuries, Chase said. No officers were injured.
The second incident, which involved Torrance police officers, occurred at Flagler Lane and Beryl Street about 5:45 a.m. No injuries were reported in that incident.
Chase said both incidents involved vehicles matching the description of the one sought in connection with Dorner.
"Now it appears neither of them are directly related," Chase said. "In both of them, officers believed they were at the time."
Authorities said they believe Dorner attempted to steal a 47-foot boat from an 81-year-old man about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Southwestern Yacht Club in San Diego, hours before the shootings in Riverside County.
The boat owner reported being accosted by a burly man dressed in black who tied him up, threatened him with a gun and said he wanted the boat to flee to Mexico.
But while they were trying to get underway, a rope became fouled in the propeller and the boat was inoperable, authorities said.
The suspect fled the scene and the boat owner was unharmed.
About 2 a.m., a citizen reported finding property belonging to Dorner on a street near Lindbergh Field, not far from the scene of the attempted boat theft. The property included a briefcase and Dorner's LAPD badge.
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Hey parents! Happy August! Can you believe a new school year is already here? You’re probably busy trying to enjoy the last few moments of summer, so we’ll keep this brief so you can get back to the beach.
Here are a few things coming up in our ministry . . .
ADD THE DATE: Open House
If you’re new to our ministry (or you just want to hang out with us for a few minutes) we’d love to see you at our Open House so we can introduce you and your teenager to our youth ministry! Get the details on our website.
ADD THE DATE: Fall Retreat
We’re kicking off this school year with a weekend retreat designed to help your kid connect with God and with their small group. Get the details on our website!
A 4-WEEK SERIES ON FRIENDSHIP
You’ve probably had an experience or two that has taught you the power of a good friendship and the danger of a destructive one. This is never more true than during the teenage years, when teenagers are the most susceptible they’ll ever be to the influence of their peers. Teenagers, though, sometimes have difficulty seeing the way their friendships influence them. So, in this 4-week series, we’ll be discussing how to choose our friends wisely, exploring the qualities of a healthy friendship, encouraging students to build friendships with wise people, and helping them see Jesus as their best and truest friend.
Are you still not sure how Snapchat works? Has your teenager been saying words you can’t quite define? Do you want to know the scoop on that new movie your kid is begging you to see? Check out the Culture Translator Podcast from our friends at Axis Ideas. It’s designed with parents of teenagers in mind! You can even sign up for their weekly Culture Translator emails.
We might be a youth ministry, but teenagers aren’t our only priority. We’d love to hear how we can better serve you and your family, too. So we’d love it if you’d complete a quick survey so we can learn from you. [Attach or link to the Annual Parent Survey.] | <urn:uuid:e0bcefec-d0ad-41f2-a17b-a0a55f9c287a> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | https://growcurriculum.org/finding-friends-parent-email/ | 2019-08-22T13:08:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027317130.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20190822130553-20190822152553-00431.warc.gz | en | 0.94321 | 466 |
My friend AJ and I shared our learning on collaboration yesterday with a group of technology leaders. AJ is from Australia. I’m from Canada. We’ve been working together to build a customized customer relationship management (CRM) application for some specific needs in the non-profits we help run.
1. Open-source doesn’t mean free. There are still many costs associated with building and implementing an open-source project.
2. The real (or perceived) threat of a project branching or forking causes partners to collaborate in greater ways
3. Many costs (30-40%) of the collaboration are support, training and leadership. These need to be factored into the total cost – ahead of time.
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If you have children, you have probably given a great deal of thought to the fact that they will one day graduate from high school and head off to the world of higher education. Of course, along with that idea comes the realization of just how expensive it is going to be to send your children to college. Over the last several decades, the cost of tuition at a four-year private university has more than doubled. During that same period, the average tuition at a four-year public school has more than tripled!
Determining how—or even if—you are going to pay for your child’s college education or child support is hard enough for parents who are still married to one another. For those who are divorced, the decision is often even more complicated.
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Forbes is reporting that Facebook will soon start testing a new feature called ‘Buy With Friends’ that would allow users share purchases in their Facebook update stream with friends on the social network.
The feature is said to let one user ‘unlock’ a deal and then share that same deal or discount with friends who can take advantage of the fact that it’s already been unlocked.
Buy With Friends is currently being tested in the context of social games and virtual goods. Whether or not it will be expanded to rival the likes of numerous ‘daily deal’ websites remains to be seen.
It’s also been revealed that Facebook is rolling out a new ad platform that will reportedly allow advertisers to turn your status updates into promoted content.
By checking into a certain location or liking a brand, companies can turn that status into one of those “sponsored story” ads.
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ive had tinitus for a while, and sometimes one ear
Yes, it is tinnitus
Hello and welcome to 'Ask A Doctor' service,
Any abnormal noise that seems to be coming from the ear is considered tinnitus. Tinnitus isn't a disorder in itself, it is a symptom of something else.
And the "something else" that is causing it can be due to many different things. A recent cold or sinus allergies can sometimes cause it and goes away when the underlying problem resolves. This problem is usually due to eustachian tube dysfunction (pressure changes in the tube that connects the throat to the middle ear.
Other things that can cause it to include excessive or hard ear wax (which can be seen easily with an otoscope), abnormalities of one of the middle ear bones (otosclerosis), exposure to loud noises, and age-related hearing loss.
High blood pressure, atherosclerosis and blood vessel abnormalities can sometimes cause tinnitus, too.
Muscle spasms and temporomandibular joint dysfunction can cause TMJ, but usually, people have associated jaw joint symptoms. Less common are Meniere's disease and acoustic neuroma (a benign growth on a nerve).
A number of medications are associated with tinnitus too.
So- you can see that there are a lot of possible causes. Most are innocuous, but unless you are having a cold or allergy now, you should go in to get it checked out. Start with your family doctor who can have a look in the ear canal. If that looks fine, the next step is to see an otolaryngologist (ENT Doctor) who can evaluate further.
I hope this information helps.
Let me know if I can assist you further.
Thoughts on this
If your blood pressure is controlled, I would not expect it to cause tinnitus.
Tinnitus is listed as a possible side effect of Losartan, but it is not high on the list - Losartan is not the one that is strongly associated with tinnitus.
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