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Perhaps the most dangerous thing to boaters in the outer harbor are the Roaring Bulls, two rock outcrops between Green Island and the Graves. These rocks are so deadly because they lie just under the waterline at high tide. The Roaring Bulls and Graves light are listed as one of our top dangers of the Boston Harbor in a previous post. The chart images contained herein were obtained by the NOAA and are being used in accordance with their terms of permitted use. Altered and redistributed charts such as those shown below should not be relied on for navigational purposes. Please download the full version from “www.charts.noaa.gov” and please see terms of service at http://www.charts.noaa.gov/RNCs/Agreement.shtml?13270. I have an interesting video which I took of waves crashing over the bulls at mid tide. It highlights how dangerous the Roaring Bulls can be to boaters. I have a good GPS shot below of my location as I took the video. See my position relative to the bulls. Video of the roaring bulls, on a rough day near mid tide. My position, as seen via a GPS screenshot: Boaters will often miss these rocks as they are located in a very open area where they water looks deceptively deep. I not experienced or witnessed any disastrous boat accidents at the roaring bulls, but have heard some terrible stories. Be safe out there when you are in the harbor and avoid the roaring bulls!
Just like with Bush/Gore, Bush/Kerry and McCain/Obama, the presidential race between President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney seems like a very stark contrast between two very different visions of government. That’s not completely true, though. And a quick look at the voting records of their two running mates, Joe Biden and Paul Ryan, illustrates that the two parties aren’t always very different. Biden, formerly a senator from Delaware, sat in Congress for 8 years with Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc. During that time, the two voted together on 52 “substantive” bills, according to the GovTrack blog. Among the big ones: the USA PATRIOT Act, two economic stimulus and recovery bills and the No Child Left Behind Act. See the story and full list at GovTrack.
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The Wall Street Journal editorial page recently highlighted a largely unknown piece of legislation passed by the House of Representatives in May: the Full Faith and Credit Act, sponsored by Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA). The bill would prevent the federal government from defaulting by mandating that the Treasury pay the nation’s debts even after the debt ceiling is reached. There is enough federal revenue to cover those costs. That means that some of the government’s discretionary spending would not happen, effectively defunding and shutting down some government functions (perhaps in addition to those that are shut down already). But the U.S. government would not default. The Treasury actually has the discretion to structure payments in this way already, but without legislation mandating that it do so, there is no guarantee that it will. During the 2011 debt ceiling fight, a few Republicans–some from the Tea Party, and even some moderates–suggested that the Treasury’s public deadlines for a deal were illusory, because it could continue to service the nation’s debt regardless. That is the basis for the spurious charge that the Tea Party, or the GOP itself, wanted default–a baseless claim hurled regularly by President Barack Obama and his Cabinet and party. This time, the Republican leadership wants to ensure that default is not an option, or even a possibility. That is precisely why Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has prevented the Senate version of the bill, sponsored by Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA), from moving forward–and it is also why President Barack Obama has threatened to veto it if it passes. They–not the GOP–want to use threats of default as a bargaining tool. House Speaker John Boehner, who has managed to hold his caucus together through the shutdown fight, has promised the public that he will not allow the U.S. to default. But that does not mean he will heed the Oct. 17 deadline proclaimed by Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew. It is becoming clear that the GOP intends to use McClintock-Toomey as its trump card, assigning blame to the Democrats in the event default happens. That boldness might come as a surprise after Boehner led efforts to reach a compromise last December in the “fiscal cliff” fight. But he was re-elected as Speaker on a promise to take a tougher approach. More than that, President Obama’s refusal to negotiate has strengthened the House leaders’ resolve. They are fighting for more than a delay in Obamacare. They are fighting for the constitutional prerogatives of Congress. Some of this may play into President Obama’s own strategy–if his strategy is indeed as adventurous as some conservatives claim. According to one theory, what some on Capitol Hill are calling the “Alinsky” idea, the president will try to claim the power to ignore the debt ceiling and merely spend more money, even illegally. Radio host Mark Levin has suggested that the president is laying the groundwork for doing just that. If he does so, however, House Republicans might not be dismayed. He would be daring them to impeach him, and many will be ready to take him up on the offer. The Senate, controlled by Democrats, would be unlikely to convict him. But the Republicans would be able to make a clear case for control of the Senate in 2014. They seem confident about their chances. Either way, this fight may be about to get much bigger.
Roger Waters’ stance against the state of Israel is no secret. He’s a proud member of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Now, the Pink Floyd co-founder and fellow member Nick Mason want other rock acts to join their Israel boycott. And Waters is enlisting arguably the biggest rock band around to do so. The band mates are calling on fellow veteran rockers the Rolling Stones to cancel its plans to play Tel Aviv June 4. That concert would be the Stones’ first live performance in that country. Pink Floyd released a statement it hopes will convince Mick Jagger and co. to change their plans. So, to the bands that intend to play Israel in 2014, we urge you to reconsider. Playing Israel now is the moral equivalent of playing Sun City at the height of South African apartheid; regardless of your intentions, crossing the picket line provides propaganda that the Israeli government will use in its attempts to whitewash the policies of its unjust and racist regime. The Stones have yet to respond to their fellow rocker’s request. Waters has routinely critiqued Israel, both in concert and in the press. He has unleashed a floating pig during a past tour slapped with the Star of David and concert goers eventually trashed the symbol at show’s end.
The Academic Achievement Center (AAC) provides advising and support to undergraduate students. We have information on our website relating to freshmen advising, mandatory placement tests, orientation, non-matriculated advising, undeclared advising and transfer advising. Advisers at Bridgewater State are personal, professional, and prepared to give you the advice you need throughout your college experience. Beyond the AAC, once a student has chosen a program, academic advising is coordinated by faculty within the student’s major department. Our advisers are happy to meet with you to develop a plan of study. Take advantage of our services to declare your academic major, discover learning opportunities, and determine strategies for accomplishing your goals. In our freshman advising program, the Academic Achievement Center introduces new students to advising through a number of group and individual advising sessions. Our freshman advising is a five-step process. The skills learned are essential to properly understanding requirements and developing confidence in the process. The ultimate goal is to help students plan a program of study and create a successful, happy transition to University life. Many learners enroll in Bridgewater State University classes as non-degree candidates through the Office of Distance and Continuing Education. Among such learners, some seek personal enrichment and knowledge, while others hope to eventually apply for admission and complete a degree. All non-matriculated students, however, may benefit from academic advising to help them make the most of their academic experience at the University. Call 508.531.1214 to make an appointment for advising — both evening and day advising sessions are available. All currently enrolled matriculated undergraduate students who have not declared a major are assigned an academic adviser in the Academic Achievement Center. Advisers are skillful at helping students select courses and use campus resources such as Career Services, to identify areas of high interest and talent that can become possible majors. All beginning transfer students attend a Transfer Orientation program prior to their first semester. The Transfer Orientation provides new students with valuable information about University policies, procedures, and resources. Beginning transfer students who do not have a declared major are assigned an academic adviser in the Academic Achievement Center. Transfer students with a declared major are assigned a faculty adviser in their major department. The Summit Program is an individualized advising and academic support program designed to help readmitted students on their path to academic success upon return to Bridgewater State University. All readmitted students or students with a GPA below 2.0 saved by the Academic Standards Committee appeal process are required to participate in the Summit Program. The program includes a Summit Orientation session, advising meetings and semester planning. Summit Orientation is designed to reacquaint students with graduation requirements and university policies, while also providing advising support for course registration. Please click here to sign-up for an upcoming Summit Orientation. Freshman Grade Point Recovery Program Any freshman (student with 0-23 earned credits) who is on academic probation (cumulative GPA below 2.00) will continue to be advised in the Academic Achievement Center. Freshmen on academic probation will be required to participate in the Freshman Grade Point Recovery Program. The FGPR Program includes a mandatory group advising session and individual appointments with an assigned academic advisor and academic coach. The goal of the FGPR Program is to provide an academic support system for students that will enable them to achieve good academic standing (a cumulative GPA of 2.00 or higher).
The PockeTerm is a 4″ X 2.5″ single board terminal that uses a VGA monitor and a PS/2 keyboard for its input and output. Dual serial ports gives the user the option of transferring data to/from a PC while still connected to the host device. This terminal was designed to work with vintage computers but is compatible with most systems including Unix and Linux systems. A low cost color choice terminal that has VT-100 compatible commands for controlling cursor and screen functions. Want to program the propeller microcontroller or install an update to the firmware? No problem, just connect the PockeTerm to your PC, run the Propeller Tools software and you can program it from your PC, no expensive Prop Plug required. New PockeTerm Case For only $24.95 you can assemble this nice looking case to complete your PockeTerm kit. Hurry, limited supply onhand. The kits come with all mounting hardware to mount your PockeTerm to the case. (PockeTerm is sold seperately). The PockeTerm has a full featured screen with Function key status at the bottom of the screen. Click on the image for a full size photograph of the screenshot. The PockeTerm is a work in progress and we are trying to add as many features as possible. Updates can be emailed to the user or posted on the website. CTRL-F1 Selects Baud Rate CTRL-F2 Changes text color of the main display section CTRL-F3 Turns on/off the 2nd serial port that connects to a PC. CTRL-F4 Force incoming data to 7 bit ASCII. Strips the 8th bit, required for some systems CTRL=F5 Change cursor type. Choose from underscore, solid block, or none. Also, choose from blinking or not. CTRL-F6 Add line-feed to carriage returns PockeTerm File Downloads - PockeTerm manual http://www.brielcomputers.com/files/PTmanual.pdf 580K - PockeTerm schematics http://www.brielcomputers.com/files/PTschematic.pdf 58K - PockeTerm Bill of Materials http://www.brielcomputers.com/files/PTBOM.pdf 15K This software is given on the hopes that it will be improved by the public. All revisioins show acknowldgement to the author of the changes. Please help make this a better product for all to enjoy. PockeTerm firmware revision 0.905 http://www.brielcomputers.com/files/PTfirmware.zip NEW updated 4/6*** How to program firmware updates Download and install the propeller tools from here (requires Windows 2000 or higher):
Next week is Pancake Day or Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras) and one of my previous incarnations as an RE teacher it was always an easy lesson to prepare. In case you were absent that day (and in case you're remotely interested) here are some of the most commonly asked questions about Pancake Day, with answers in varying degrees of seriousness... 1. Why 'pancakes'? The usual answer is that it was an attempt to use up all the rich foods that would otherwise have gone to waste during the fast of Lent (which begins the day after, Ash Wednesday). Hence the name 'fat Tuesday' (Mardi Gras) in some parts of the world. 2. Ok then, why is it always on a Tuesday? Ah, slightly more complicated, that. But basically, because Lent (which begins when? Come on, I've told you once!) is the forty day (ok, it's more than forty straight days but Sundays don't count, right?) period leading up to Easter. And Easter is the traditional 'moveable feast' as it has to be based (for historical reasons) on the phases of the moon. And as we know, lunar and solar months are different. 3. And why 'Shrove'? Bit technical, that one. It comes from the word 'shriven' which basically means 'to be forgiven' and refers to the need to 'fess up before fasting. So, 'Shrove' Tuesday means 'confess-your-sins-and-be-forgiven-ready-for-fasting' Tuesday. Shrove Tuesday is shorter, obviously. 4. Tossing. Tell me about tossing. Well the story goes that housewives busy with their pancakes forgot the time and had to make a dash for the church to receive absolution (forgiveness - see above) in time - taking their pancakes and their frying pans with them. Personally I think that's possibly one of the most far-fetched pseudo-explanations in history so here's my theory: everyone knows how hard it is to toss a pancake and what a mess it can make of the kitchen if it goes wrong. So do it outside and if the worst happens, the birds will clear the mess. It's a short step from that to running - back inside, having tossed (successfully) - to feed the family before the pancake goes cold. 5. Sounds a bit far-fetched to me. Are you sure? Of course not. But if you think that's far-fetched how about the traditional Irish custom of pancake crocking - basically going from door to door demanding pancakes and threatening to throw broken crockery at the house if unsuccessful. Don't try this at home. Instead, why not try winning one of these fabulous Abra-ca-Debora Pancake Day Hampers? I've got one to give away to the lucky reader who leaves the most entertaining pancake-related comment or anecdote below (criteria: Charlie's amusement as measured by breadth of smile or length of laughter - judges decision final!) before pancake day itself, next Tuesday March 4th. And in the meantime why not pop over to the Abra-ca-Debora website and get some inspiration for the big day from their fabulous pancake recipes.
The Catholic Sensibility of Allen Tate Essays of Four Decades By Allen Tate Publisher: ISI [Intercollegiate Studies Institute] Books Review Author: Anne Barbeau Gardiner Louise Cowan, in the introduction, calls Allen Tate (1899-1979) “the most brilliant if the most neglected literary critic of our century.” In fact, he was not only a critic but also a poet, novelist, and intellectual of the first rank, and the neglect of his work today is due in large part to his conversion, in mid-career, to Catholicism. This would not surprise Tate. He noted ruefully, back in 1931, long before his conversion, that modern intellectuals see religion as a form of “defeatism.” He observed (in an essay in this volume titled “T.S. Eliot’s Ash Wednesday”) that the academic disapproval that greeted T.S. Eliot’s poem upon its publication in 1930 was in part an expression of anti-Christian prejudice. Eliot, lionized for his earlier poems, had joined the Church of England in 1927, thereby scandalizing the intellectual class, which believed — and still believes — that, as Tate put it, “economics, politics, even poetry, and certainly industry, are legitimate modes of salvation, but the historic religious mode is illegitimate.” Tate’s conviction that religion was legitimate grew slowly and steadily. Living in England and France in 1928 and 1929, Tate wrote to a friend that he was “more and more heading toward Catholicism” because the modern world had reached a point at which compromise was impossible: A thinker must either capitulate to “naturalism” or seek somehow to recover the “religious spirit.” (Ernest Hemingway, one of the many American expatriate artists Tate knew in Europe, wrote from Paris in 1929 that he and Tate had gone to Mass together.) In an essay written in 1930, Tate declared that the medieval Church had provided the only “spiritual unity” possible for the Western mind. Not until 1950 did Tate receive Baptism, at Christmastide in Morristown, New Jersey, but these essays spanning the years 1928 to 1968 reveal that his thinking over that time was essentially of a piece and that he had long possessed what he called a “Catholic sensibility.” As he told his wife at his baptism, he didn’t know why he had been “such a fool as to wait this long to join the Church.” This collection shows that Tate had developed a profoundly sacramental view of life and that he understood the necessary interdependence of faith and reason. Indeed, he longed for a union of reason and faith such as had been achieved in the Middle Ages. Both before and after his conversion, his model of the true Western poet was Dante (1265-1321). Tate was not alone in committing himself to “the historic religious mode.” The converts Jacques and Raissa Maritain were his godparents, and Tate’s wife, the novelist Caroline Gordon, had preceded him into the Church by three years. Tate saw a number of friends and associates join the Catholic Church, notably the activist Dorothy Day, the poet Robert Lowell, and the French novelist Julien Green. Conversion for Tate did not mean “defeatism,” of course; nor did it entail conformism. He turned his searching gaze also upon his co-religionists, for Tate was concerned with culture as well as with creed, and he expressed doubt that the modern Catholic sensibility was all that it should be. In an essay from 1951 titled “The Symbolic Imagination,” he wrote that, whereas the Faith had not changed since Dante’s time, the Catholic sensibility had, and for the worse. He discerned this change, for example, in the works of professedly Catholic poets such as Francis Thompson in the 1890s and Robert Lowell in the 1940s. He observed that their poetry suffered from the same defect as the poetry of modern Protestants and even atheists — a detachment from bodily experience. Even Catholic writers, he complained, had lost their grasp on the “common thing.” They lacked the courage to “face the spiritual truth in its physical body.” Comparing these modern poems to a passage from the 14th-century writings of St. Catherine of Siena, Tate exclaimed that “the Blood of Christ must be perpetually recreated as a brute fact … where we may smell it, touch it, and taste it again.” He declared that we need writing that begins not at the top, at the angelic part of us, but at the bottom, with our bodies, and that however high our poetry may climb it must carry the body along with it. For Tate, Dante’s Divine Comedy is the supreme model of Catholic sensibility. In the last lines of the Paradiso, Dante reports that what he sees at the very center of the celestial Rose, at the very height of Heaven, is the image of Man, the embodied Word. Once he became a professed Catholic, Tate had a firm base on which to stand, which allowed him to probe still more deeply into the modern malaise. In an essay from 1952 titled “The Man of Letters in the Modern World,” he writes about communion and contrasts it to communication, saying that we have substituted communication for communion. We have taken the means for the end, substituted the part for the whole, and have wound up worshiping our operational techniques. No wonder we are dehumanized and can treat one another as objects. We transmit information exceedingly well, but we do not share our life experiences “in a new and illuminating intensity of awareness.” Communication without communion is incomplete because it does not engage the full substance of our humanity. No political system can ever bring about communion, only the love of God can do it: We must first come “to believe in order to know, and to know in order to do.” For Tate, then, the remedy for the fragmented Western mind is the renewal of faith in God. He warns that “a society which has once been religious cannot, without risk of spiritual death, preceded by the usual agonies, secularize itself.” The man of letters has a part to play in this renewal: He will reveal “the usurpations of democracy that are perpetrated in the name of democracy” and preserve “the integrity, the purity, and the reality of language wherever and for whatever purpose it may be used.” Through the medium of culture, the man of letters will reveal “the truth of what Jacques Maritain calls the ‘supra-temporal destiny’ of man.” For “the end of social man is communion in time through love, which is beyond time.” Aware as he was of the sacramentality of the body, Tate saw the early stirrings of what we have come to call the sexual revolution, and he grasped that sexuality, too, was afflicted by the West’s substitution of technique for substance, of means for end. In an essay titled “Narcissus as Narcissus” (1938) he notes the loss of “the general belief that sex must be part of a whole,” and warns that this will entail the loss of personal unity. As early as 1928, in an essay titled “Emily Dickinson,” he points out that the inflation of sex from part to whole has led some critics to the foolish conclusion that “no virgin can know enough to write poetry” and that the spinster poet Dickinson was “starved.” In fact, he says, her life was “one of the richest and deepest ever lived on this continent.” Homosexuality, in Tate’s view, is another case of substituting the means for the end, with a resulting loss of integrity. In a 1952 essay on his friend the poet Hart Crane, a homosexual who had killed himself in 1932, Tate observes how homosexuality affects what he calls its “victims”: “They are convinced that they cannot be loved, and they become incapable of loving.” This is not to say that they cannot have a “strong affection,” but they cannot sustain such an affection in a sexual relationship. Tate laments that Crane never achieved the “full human condition,” even though he composed fine poetry out of the desperate conditions of his life, out of some “almost unimaginable horrors of depravity and perversity of will.” In a much earlier piece evaluating Crane’s work, Tate says that his poetry lacks “any rational order of value” and deals in “sensation without point of view.” In short, Crane’s writing mirrors the fragmentation of modern consciousness. Hand in hand with fragmentation went decline. Tate was an astute critic of the devolution of American intellectual character, noting that the old New England tradition had been “rich in gigantic intellectuals that broke down … in a kind of moral decadence and depravity.” Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), the Transcendentalist “Sage of Concord,” Tate calls the “Lucifer of Concord,” the “light-bearer who could see nothing but light, and was fearfully blind.” Preaching “self-reliance” and individualism, Emerson became unwittingly “the prophet of a piratical industrialism, a consequence of his own transcendental individualism that he could not foresee.” And by the end of the 19th century, the inheritors of the New England intellectual tradition, lacking a religious center, had dwindled into social conformists. Henry James, writing his novels in a post-Emersonian world, turned sin into a failure to do the decent thing, and salvation into respectability. Here we glimpse the incredible shrinking soul of Western man. Tate sums up the extent of our cultural decline with this shocking statement: “Hitler and Stalin are the Common Man.” What democracy needs is to “allow as many men as possible to make themselves uncommon.” The utopian liberal, says Tate, urges us to give up alienation and conform at all costs; but if we choose to remain human, we must resolve to remain alienated from the prevailing idolatry. The West, says Tate, having turned its back on supernatural religion, now vacillates between two “self-destroying” religions — naturalism and mysticism. Dissecting naturalism, Tate writes that it is “irrational to believe in omnipotent human rationality,” for it does not prepare us for the experience of evil which is the common lot of our species. Tate finds in the English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) a writer whose work was marred by his belief in naturalism. Tate thinks that Hardy wrote best about the characters in his fictional county of Wessex when he was drawing from his immediate experience of people. But since he put his “faith” in a hodgepodge of Darwinism and 19th-century materialism, he could not take the religious life of his people seriously. So he fell to philosophizing about them in “irresponsible abstractions,” the chief of these being Necessity — not the ancient Greek idea, but the banal “Victorian Mechanism.” Tate treats the other “self-destroying” religion, mysticism, in two essays on the imagination, written after his conversion. At the end of the 16th century — after the Protestant Reformation — a mentality arose in Europe that “denied man’s commitment to the physical world, and set itself up in quasi-divine independence.” Imagination now tried to bypass imagery and go directly to the essence of things. As a result, the intellect of Western man fell into self-worship. Lost was “the external world which by analogy could become the interior world of the mind.” Tate sees our retreat into the mind as an attempt “to justify our hatred of ourselves — a hatred that may express itself evasively in impossible attempts at human perfectibility, at the expense of human reality, or in disgust with the human condition.” Twentieth-century poets such as Crane and Ezra Pound come at the tail end of this retreat, and their works reveal the wound of separation from the external world. No longer are their images literal. Rather, they point to a separate, paraphrasable meaning. Their language is at times incantatory, as in magic ritual; they seem to be trying to recover a lost reality. What we need is to return to Dante’s symbolic imagination and develop a “disciplined language” that will welcome the fullness of reality as reported by our senses. Instead of imposing our will on experience and trying to possess the world, we should grow in understanding, aware that “understanding, for Dante, was a way of love.” Dante’s work exemplifies the symbolic imagination, which “conducts an action through analogy, of the human to the divine, of the natural to the supernatural, of the low to the high, of time to eternity.” Here we have a truly sacramental and Catholic sensibility. In John Donne (1572-1631), whom Tate calls “one of the last Catholic allegorists,” the imagination aims high, but that aim is “sighted from a point below.” The impulse to reality, Tate explains, will drive us “through the engrossing image to the rational knowledge of our experience.” One cannot help but reflect on the recent encyclical Veritatis Splendor when one sees how often Tate speaks of the “truth” as the legitimate aim of the artist and intellectual. It is doubtful, he says, whether “the accelerating decline of modern culture will be checked” without studies that lead to “truth.” And he asks if literary criticism is even “possible without a criterion of absolute truth.” Like St. Augustine (in Of the Profit of Believing), Tate urges us to believe first and foremost, to presuppose “that the full language of the human situation can be the vehicle of truth,” and to assume that a “higher unity of truth” exists, even if it is beyond the full grasp of our understanding. One sign of Tate’s Catholic sensibility is that he is not afraid to use the word dogma in a positive sense. He asserts (as early as 1936) that “dogma in criticism is a permanent necessity: the value of the dogma will be determined by the quality of the mind engaged in constructing it. For dogma is coherent thought in pursuit of principles.” He is careful to distinguish dogma from preconception or “prejudice,” and he illustrates the distinction with this witty remark, which is still true 64 years later: “If prejudice were dogma, The New York Times Book Review would be a first-rate critical organ.” Another proof of his Catholic sensibility is that Tate values the virtue of humility. He urges the literary critic to cultivate humility, “in order to fulfill his main task — unfolding the knowledge of life contained in the work of art.” A critic needs “the self-abnegation of the saint” to do his work well. Allen Tate did his work well as a man of letters, but lately, as I said above, neglect has been his portion: For example, in the Norton Anthology of Poetry (shorter fourth edition), a standard college text, Tate is represented by only one poem, his “Ode to the Confederate Dead.” But Essays of Four Decades demonstrates that we may rightly regard him as one of the great American intellectuals of this century. Tate understood well the complexities of literary achievement and literary reputation. Criticized in 1948 for voting to award the prestigious Bollingen Prize for poetry to Ezra Pound (who had been indicted for treason, found mentally unfit, and incarcerated in a hospital for the criminally insane), Tate explained with exquisite Catholic sensibility, that “in literature as in life nothing reaches us pure. The task of the civilized intelligence is one of perpetual salvage.” The reissuing of Essays of Four Decades may help to salvage the Catholic sensibility of Allen Tate for a generation largely ignorant of his work and badly in need of his wisdom. Enjoyed reading this? READ MORE! REGISTER TODAYSUBSCRIBE You May Also Enjoy What happened during the thousand years from Constantine to Jogaila that made Europe Christian? And how did it work? It’s hard to believe, but Chesterton was raised a Unitarian and, in 1896, at age 22, still didn’t believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit was urging me to take up my cross and follow Jesus into this blessed wilderness where alone I would find my salvation.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is providing geospatial support for areas affected by Hurricane Dorian at the request of the State Department and the Department of Defense to aid in support of acute humanitarian response and recovery efforts. Upon receiving the official requests, NGA opened a web portal to make imagery, products and mapping data publicly accessible for areas affected by Hurricane Dorian. NGA supports humanitarian and disaster relief efforts by working directly with the lead federal agencies responding to fires, floods, earthquakes, landslides, hurricanes or other natural or manmade disasters. By making this information publicly available, NGA not only supports U.S. government efforts, but the combined efforts of the international community and non-governmental organizations to provide urgent relief to the people of the Bahamas. NGA products are available through the Hurricane Dorian portal.
What is a Trust Fund? A trust comes into effect when a ‘settlor’ places money, land or other assets in the hands of trustees. The trustees are the legal owners of the property but are obliged to hold and manage the property for the benefit of a person or a group of people, who are called beneficiaries. Types of Trust In this type of trust, sometimes called a ‘simple trust’, the beneficiary has an immediate and absolute right to the property in the trust. The trustees have no discretion as to how the fund is managed. They must manage the trust assets for the maximum benefit of the beneficiary. The income of these funds is taxed as if it is the income of the beneficiary unless the donor is a parent, in which case the trust income is normally taxed as ... It is a source of concern to lawyers and families alike that the majority of people never make a will. Often, the intention to do so is there, but somehow the person never seems to ‘get around to it’ and dies or becomes incapable before a will can be made. It is possible, however, for a will to be written for someone who lacks the mental capacity to do so. The Court of Protection can, when there are objectively reasonable grounds for doing so, order that a statutory will is created. Such a will can be a variation on an earlier will, for example where a change in a person’s circumstances means that their will is no longer appropriate, or, where there is no earlier will, a will can be written from scratch to prevent the estate being distributed ...
Recreational to elite athletes are forever refining their approach to race preparation. Should you run/swim/row/ride your race distance very week and improve your speed over time? Or is it preferable to break your training down into shorter intervals/repetitions? How about over-distance training? There is a great depth of literature supporting the use of interval training for everyone from adolescents to elites1, and even those with particular underlying health conditions2,3. Intervals are a great way to accumulate high speed activity in an appropriate manner. For example, 10 lots of two minute running repetitions will be of a much higher quality than a steady 20 minute run, and can therefore lead to greater adaptations. How do you apply this to your training? If you’re preparing for a 5km parkrun, don’t just go out and run 5km every time you train; mix it up with intervals. Try 10 x 500m at your goal race pace, with a minute break between repetitions. If you’re looking for a further change in your routine, performing these short interval efforts up a hill or on the beach in soft sand adds greater resistance and intensity for the same overall distance. The research says it’s ‘a little pain for a lot of gain’4, and once you get over that initial shock, it has even been found to be more enjoyable to train this way!5 1Laursen (2001) The Scientific Basis for High-Intensity Interval Training, Sports Med 2Weston 2014, High-intensity interval training in patients with lifestyle-induced cardiometabolic disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis, Br J Sports Med 3Wewege 2017, The effects of high-intensity interval training vs. moderate-intensity continuous training on body composition in overweight and obese adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis, Obesity Reviews 4Gibala 2008 Metabolic adaptations to short-term high-intensity interval training: a little pain for a lot of gain? Exerc Sport Sci Rev 5Bartlett et al (2011) High-intensity interval running is perceived to be more enjoyable than moderate-intensity continuous exercise: implications for exercise prescription; J Sports Sci
What Happens One Node Doesn’t Provide Consensus On A Legit Ethereum Transaction – What in the world is Ethereum I indicate I keep finding out about all of it the time I’ve seen it’s the 2nd biggest cryptocurrency around, however I just can’t appear to wrap my head around it. Is it as innovative as Bitcoin? Can it in fact change the world as we understand it If you want to have a much better understanding of Ethereum, however are tired of descriptions that sound like total technical mumbo jumbo, stick around … Here on Bitcoin, Whiteboard Tuesday, or should I say, Ethereum, Whiteboard Tuesday, we’ll answer these questions And more. Before we enter Ethereum, we require to do a fast wrap-up about Bitcoin given that it’s the basis from which Ethereum was born. By now you most likely know that Bitcoin is a form of decentralized money, and if you still have some concerns about what that implies or how it works, then you may consider reviewing our original video “what is Bitcoin”. Before Bitcoin was created. The only way to utilize cash digitally was through an intermediary like a bank or Paypal. Even then, the cash utilized was still a federal government provided and controlled currency. Bitcoin changed all that by producing a decentralized form of currency that individuals might trade directly without the need for an intermediary. Each Bitcoin transaction is verified and validated by the entire Bitcoin network. There’s, no single point of failure, so the system is practically impossible to shut down, control or manage. Pretty cool huh Well now that we know that money can be decentralized. What other functions of society that are centralized today would be much better served on a decentralized system. What about voting Voting needs a main authority to count and verify votes. Realty transfer records presently use central property registration. Social media network like Facebook are based upon central servers that manage all of the data we upload to them. What if we might use the technology behind Bitcoin, more frequently known as Blockchain to decentralize other things. The fascinating thing about Blockchain innovation is that it’s, actually, the by-product of the Bitcoin development. Blockchain technology was produced by merging currently existing technologies like cryptography evidence of work and decentralized network architecture together in order to develop a system that can reach decisions without a main authority. There was no such thing as “blockchain technology” prior to Bitcoin was created. As soon as Bitcoin became a reality, individuals started seeing how and why it works, and called this “thing” blockchain innovation. Blockchain is to Bitcoin what the Internet is to email, a system on top of which you Can develop applications and programs. A currency like Bitcoin is simply one of the options. So this got people extremely fired up and they began to explore. What else can we decentralize. Nevertheless, in order for a system to be truly decentralized? It requires a big network of computer systems to run it. Then, the only network that existed was Bitcoin and it was quite limited. Bitcoin is composed in what is referred to as a “turing insufficient” language, that makes it understand just a little set of orders like who sent just how much money to whom. If you wish to create a more intricate system, you’ll need a different programming language, which implies a different network of computers. Picture for a 2nd. You wanted to construct your own decentralized program, just like Bitcoin in your home. You ‘D require to comprehend how Bitcoin’s decentralization works. Compose code that mimics the same behaviour, get a big network of computer systems to run this code and so on … And that is a lot of work. Ethereum was very first proposed in late 2013 and after that brought to life in 2014 by Vitalik Buterin, who at the time was the co-founder of Bitcoin Magazine. Ethereum is the Do It Yourself platform for decentralized programs, also referred to as Dapps decentralized apps. If you want to develop a decentralized program that no bachelor controls, not even you, even though you composed all of it you need to do, is discover the Ethereum shows language called Solidity and start coding. The Ethereum platform has thousands of independent computer systems running it, meaning it’s fully decentralized. As soon as a program is released to the Ethereum network, these computer systems, likewise referred to as nodes, will make sure it performs as written. Ethereum is the infrastructure for running Dapps worldwide. It’s, not a currency, it’s, a platform. , The currency used to incentivize the network is called Ether, however more On that, later on. Ethereum’s objective is to genuinely decentralize the Internet. The web is centralized. I thought the Internet already was decentralized which anybody can start their own site. , While in theory that may be true in practice: Amazon, Google, Facebook, Netflix and other giants control. The majority of the internet, as we understand, it. There’s, nearly no activity on the web, that happens without some sort of 3rd or intermediary celebration. , But as soon as the concept of digital decentralization was shown by Bitcoin an entire new array of chances appeared. We can lastly begin to picture and design an Internet that links users straight without the need for a centralized 3rd party. People can “rent” hard disk drive area straight to other people and make Dropbox obsolete. Drivers can use their services straight to passengers and remove “Uber” as the Middleman. People can purchase cryptocurrencies directly from one another without the need for an exchange that can get hacked or take. Your cash. What Happens One Node Doesn’t Provide Consensus On A Legit Ethereum Transaction Ethereum enables people to link directly with each other without a main authority to look after things. It’s, a network of computers that together integrate into one powerful, decentralized, supercomputer. Ok, So now you understand what Ethereum does, however we haven’t discussed HOW it does it. Ethereum’s coding, language Solidity is utilized to write “Smart Contracts”. That are the logic that runs Dapps. Let me discuss:. In reality, all an agreement is is a sets of “Ifs” and “Thens”. Indicating a set of conditions and actions. If I pay my property manager $ 1500 on the 1st of the month, then he lets me utilize my apartment or condo. That’s exactly how smart agreements work on Ethereum. Ethereum designers write the conditions for their program or Dapp, and after that the ethereum network performs it. They are called clever contracts since they handle all of the aspects of the agreement enforcement efficiency, management and payment. For example, if I have a clever agreement that is used for paying rent, the proprietor doesn’t require to actively collect the cash. The agreement itself, “knows”. If the money has been sent out. If I indeed sent out the cash, then I will be able to open my home door. If I missed my payment, I will be locked out. Clever contracts likewise have their drawbacks. Returning to my previous example. Rather of having to kick out an occupant that isn’t paying a “smart” agreement would lock the non-paying tenant out of their apartment or condo. A genuinely intelligent contract, on the other hand, would take into consideration other factors also, such as extenuating circumstances, the spirit with which the agreement was written, and it would also be able to make exceptions if warranted. To put it simply, it would imitate a truly excellent judge. Rather, a “smart contract” in the context of Ethereum is not intelligent at all. It’s, in fact uncompromisingly letter stringent. It follows the rules down to a T and can’t take any secondary considerations or the “spirit” of the law into account like what typically occurs with real life contracts. As soon as a wise contract is released on the Ethereum network, it can not be edited or remedied even by its original. The only way to alter this agreement would be to persuade the whole Ethereum network that a change must be made and that’s virtually impossible. This produces an extremely major issue given that, unlike Bitcoin Ethereum was built with the capability to create truly complex agreements and complicated agreements are very challenging to protect. With any contract the more complex it is, the more difficult it is to impose as more room is left for analyses Or more stipulations need to be composed to handle contingencies. With wise contracts. Security means handling with ideal precision every possible way in which an agreement might be performed in order to make certain that the contract does just what the author intended. Ethereum introduced with the idea that “code is law”. That is an agreement on Ethereum, is the supreme authority And nobody could overrule the agreement. Well that all pertained to a crashing stop when the DAO event, happened. “Dow” or DAO, stands for “Decentralized Autonomous Organization”, which enabled users to deposit money and get returns based upon the financial investments that the DAO made. The choices themselves would be. Crowd-Sourced and decentralized. The DAO raised $ 150M in Ethereum currency ether, when ether was trading around $ 20. While this all sounded great, the code wasn’t secured effectively and resulted in someone finding out a method to drain pipes the DAO out of cash. Now you might state that the individual who drained the DAO was a “hacker”. Some would argue that this was just someone who was taking benefit of the loopholes he found in the DAO’s clever agreement. This isn’t very various than an innovative legal representative, determining a loophole in the current law to effect a favorable result for his client. What took place next is that the Ethereum neighborhood decided that code no longer is law and altered the Ethereum rules in order to go back all the money that went into the DAO. To put it simply, the contract, investors and writers did something silly and the Ethereum developers decided to bail them out. The little minority that didn’t agree with this move stuck to the original Ethereum Blockchain prior to its protocol was altered which’s how Ethereum Classic was born, which is Actually, the original Ethereum. We’ve covered a lot up until now, and the last thing I wish to discuss is Ethereum as a currency. We’ve currently developed, that Ethereum is generally a big lot of computers collaborating like one super computer, to perform code that powers Dapps. However, this expenses cash Money to get the makers to power them up, save them and cool them. That’s why Ether was invented. When individuals speak about the cost of Ethereum, they actually are describing Ether the currency that incentivizes individuals to run the Ethereum protocol. On their computer. This is really similar to the way Bitcoin miners make money for preserving the Bitcoin blockchain. In order to deploy a smart agreement to the Ethereum platform, its author needs to pay to do so. That payment is made in the kind of ether. This is done so that people will write optimized and efficient code and won’t waste. The Ethereum network calculating power on unnecessary jobs. Ether was very first distributed in Ethereum’s initial Initial Coin, Offering back in 2014. Back then it cost around 40 cents to purchase one Ether. Today, one Ether is valued in numerous dollars, because making use of the Ethereum network has grown tremendously due to the ICO hype that started in 2017. Still Confused Don’t stress, we’ll get more into Ether and mining in a later on. Ethereum’s network and Ether are a whole new bunny hole that we’ll cover, but I believe this will do for now as an introduction to Ethereum. This concludes this week’s episode of Ethereum Whiteboard Tuesday. Ideally, by now you have a better understanding of what Ethereum is A network of computer systems collaborating to change the centralized model of programs and business which run the Internet today. What Happens One Node Doesn’t Provide Consensus On A Legit Ethereum Transaction
The Budget for Financial Reporting Purposes The Government of Alberta prepares its financial statements in accordance with Canadian public sector accounting standards. We audit those financial statements. The government does not have to follow accounting standards in preparing its budget. However, the accounting standards require that financial statements contain a comparison of the results for the year with those originally planned. With Budget 2013, government changed how its budget information is presented. The new Fiscal Management Act sets out the form and content of the fiscal plan and requires the presentation of an operational plan, a savings plan and a capital plan. Because of the changes within Budget 2013 and our audit of the province’s financial statements, we undertook a review to identify the differences between results reported in financial statements and planned results reported in both Budget 2013 and Budget 2012. We focused our work on the items that impact the determination of the annual surplus/deficit. The province’s financial statements report the full extent of the province’s financial results, determined in accordance with Canadian public sector accounting standards. For accountability purposes, the comparison of actual and budgeted financial results is important to hold a government accountable for its financial management.
We are a group of undergraduate students studying Physics of the Earth System. We love science. We love that at Geomar we can study super exciting aspects of the Earth System in very small groups. And we love formulas and mathematics, well to a certain extend at least 🙂 This is where the buckets come into play… Written by Ludwig Bitzan, Sebastian Bubmann & Alex Schmitz This winter term, we continue with the “Atmosphere and Ocean Dynamics” lecture at Geomar. In the course, we study ways to describe atmosphere and ocean phenomena utilizing mathematics. It is good to see that all the hard work invested into the courses in mathematics and theoretical physics eventually pays off. At the same time, however, we sometimes find ourselves scratching our heads when the Blackboard is covered in formulas. It can be very rewarding to power through a derivation of a formula and prove it to match with observations in the field. But what can be more rewarding than to witness the phenomena first hand? Now, in this winter term, Mirjam and Torge thought of a great way that allowed us to apply the lessons learned from theory in practice: tank experiments! They spared no effort and prepared an encompassing set of experiments, from convection in stillstanding to rotating tanks simulating Ekman spirals and planetary waves. Lego motors were converted to power a uniform rotation of the round and squared tanks. And to be frank, who does not want to find an excuse to tinker around with Lego? The basic recipe for Day 1 was simple: Take a bucket. Put it on a spinning disk powered by a Lego motor. Wait until the frictional forces of the bucket’s walls have accelerated the water column to rotate at the same speed. Use a few drops of food colorants and be stunned by the results: On Day 2 it was all about convective processes in the water column. In both, a non-rotating and a rotating tank, cooling was simulating by using a cold pack or a round glass with frozen water respectively. Areas, where cooling was applied, were marked with blue, the remaining areas with red food color. The results without rotation showed very interesting parallels to water mass formation processes in the open ocean. A layer stratification and overturning circulation patterns were clearly visible. Heavy and cold bottom water was overlaid by intermediate water of medium density, which was formed by turbulent mixing in the cooled area. At the top a warm water sphere layer formed. After initial experiments in the green buckets, Torge further optimized the lab’s setup. He procured special glass tanks with vertical walls. These allow to observe the phenomena much better including side views, as can also be seen here. Last day of experiments, the grand finale. We had three different tanks to simulate three different ocean conditions and phenomena. In a square tank, rotating with constant velocity, we observed so called topographic waves by embedding an inclined plexiglas plane. Such topographic waves occur when the ocean exhibits a sloping bottom or at inclined frontal zones between different water masses. Whenever a water parcel tries to move either into a deeper or a more swallow region, the conservation of angular momentum pushes it back by causing a small rotation. In sum, this leads to a drift perpendicular to the slope. To make such movements visible, we simply put a blue dyed ice cube into the water and watched the molten dye’s path. As you can see in the picture the wave, more specifically the perturbation, spreads westward. Also, the slalom course where the water is forced back is clearly visible. For the second experiment we changed our square tank to a cylindrical one and, again, set it in rotation for quite some time. We then inserted little crystals, which continuously emit purple color, into the water to make currents visible. As long as the whole tank rotates evenly, the water column inside is following it at the same speed. We call that “solid body rotation”, since water and tank act as one unit. Removing our nifty Lego drive and even abruptly stopping our spinning setup, changes the state dramatically: While the tank stops immediately, the water doesn’t quite get this information yet and keeps rotating. Everyone knows this phenomenon of inertia when one sits in a car that suddenly slows down. The vehicle itself slows down, whereas our bodies still travel further forward, just to be, luckily, held back by the seat belt. The latter in our case is the frictional force between the water and tank. Especially the friction at the border between its bottom and the water column shows a fundamental phenomenon of ocean physics: the Ekman spiral. The bottom water layer is exposed to the largest frictional forces of the tank’s glas surface, opposing its rotational momentum. At the same time, the bottom layer itself affects the layer above and also slows it down, just a bit less. This layer then, again, slightly slows down the next level, and so on. The rotational velocity is therefore decreasing from top to bottom. Under these circumstances, the water forms purple spirals in the middle of the tank. The additional ascending motion is caused by convection from the sudden lack of centrifugal force In the real ocean, the setup is however inverted. Here the friction occurs at the water surface (wind stress), so that the velocity decay will be from top to bottom. The last experiment’s objective was to show convection of warm and cold water masses. Therefore, an experiment from Day 2 was repeated, but now with a much smaller rotational speed to cause less coriolis force induced turbulence. The effects were quite remarkable and very interesting to look at. The blue colored (cooled) water and the red colored (warmer) water form meandering fronts and show instabilities, just like the polar front, where similarly warm and cold air masses meet. It is fair to say that we learned a lot by supplementing the theory with these experiments. Not only is it a lot of fun, the exercises do further give us a good thought-provoking impulse. They let us discuss what we have learned from the books more lively. We want to thank Mirjam and Torge for the cool experience. Also, Baloo the dog wants to thank everyone. Whilst being asleep most of the time, he now claims to be amongst the most well-educated of his kind. 🙂
Energy bills explained video Your energy use is a big factor in the price you pay for gas and electricity and making changes to your energy use can help reduce your bills. Different factors also affect how big your gas and electricity bills are. Energy bill breakdown We've put together an example of a typical dual fuel, gas and electricity bill so you can see how the different costs involved in supplying you with energy break down. For information on historical price data, visit the Ofgem data portal. Why do gas and electricity bills change? Click on a term in our energy bills glossary for an explanation of the costs and factors. Ofgem and the government don’t set energy prices. Instead suppliers compete against each other for customers and this competition puts pressure on them to reduce their prices, or risk losing customers. These make up the biggest part of your bill. Changes in these costs might, in a competitive market, cause suppliers to raise or cut prices. Wholesale costs are how much your supplier has to pay to get the gas and electricity to supply you with energy. It may buy energy via an exchange, or have a contract with an electricity generator or gas producer. Some suppliers are also part of companies that generate their own electricity. Because imports are an important part of Britain’s energy mix, we compete with other countries for them. This means that global availability and demand for energy affects price. When availability is high and demand is low, prices are generally lower too. In the opposite scenario – demand higher and availability lower – the wholesale prices rise. The price of Liquefied Natural Gas – LNG – and gas from some European countries is linked to oil prices. So when oil prices change, it affects LNG and some European gas prices. Because prices change frequently, suppliers often buy their energy in advance, which reduces volatility. Different suppliers have different approaches to managing these risks. For example, some suppliers may buy energy for standard tariffs as much as two to three years in advance. For customers on fixed term deals, suppliers typically buy energy nearer the time the tariff is launched. These differences mean changes in wholesale prices will not affect all suppliers and tariffs in the same way at the same time. Network and balancing costs These relate to the wires and pipes that carry energy through the network and across the country into your home. Suppliers are charged for the costs of maintaining and using these networks, and these charges are then passed on from suppliers to customers through bills. We set price controls for the companies that own these wires and pipes because they are monopolies. These limit the total amount they can earn. Network charges may vary from year to year, for instance as a result of changes in consumption levels, and in how charges are allocated among different users of the network. There are also the costs of balancing supply and demand. This is done second-by-second for electricity, and on a daily basis for gas. These balancing charges also vary over time depending on what it actually costs to balance the system. Costs of government obligations Suppliers also include costs related to government programmes to save energy, reduce emissions and encourage take-up of renewable energy. These programmes also affect customers’ bills more indirectly, via their impact on energy use for households that have benefitted from energy efficiency schemes, and wholesale electricity prices, for example. Supplier costs and profits Suppliers incur costs from running their own business (such as costs relating to sales, metering and billing). When they set their prices, they will also try to cover these costs, as well as to make a profit. The pre-tax margin is a supplier’s overall earnings before interest, tax and other costs are deducted, like funding debt payments and government social scheme obligations. Other direct costs Other direct costs refer to costs relating to market participation. This includes Elexon/Xoserve administration costs, brokers’ costs, intermediaries’ sales commissions and any wider smart metering programme costs (e.g. costs related to the Data Communications Company, the government appointed company to manage data communications between smart meters and suppliers). Value added tax is paid on households’ energy bills. How to lower your gas and electricity bills Shopping for a better energy deal and switching tariff or energy supplier can make a big difference to your bills. The following pages explain how you can save money and get the best deal for you: - How to save money on gas and electricity bills - How to switch energy supplier and shop for a better deal - How to switch energy supplier if you’re in debt - How to switch energy supplier if you’re a tenant - Compare gas and electricity tariffs: Ofgem-accredited price comparison sites - Compare supplier performance on customer service - Get extra help from energy services More guides on energy bills - Visit the Citizens Advice energy shopping guide for tips on Understanding your energy bill (opens external website) - Contact the Citizens Advice consumer helpline (opens external website) if you need help, advice or further assistance with your bill. - See our Key terms explained section for definitions you may come across when talking about you energy bill, from 'Tariff Comparison Rate (TCR)' to 'Economy 7'. - See our facts and figures infographic for a simple overview of Bills, prices and profits. - See our guide on Energy bill credit and claiming credit back - See the Citizens Advice guide: If you’ve been switched without your agreement (erroneous transfer) (opens external website)
A Fourth of July cookout of Americans’ favorite foods including hot dogs, cheeseburgers, pork spare ribs, potato salad, baked beans, lemonade and chocolate milk will cost slightly less this year and still comes in at less than $6 per person, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation. Farm Bureau’s informal survey reveals the average cost for a summer cookout for 10 is $55.84, or $5.58 per person, about a 3 percent decrease compared to a year ago. “Based on our survey, food prices overall appear to be fairly stable,” said John Anderson, deputy chief economist at AFBF. “Prices for beef have continued to increase this year, but prices for other meats are generally declining. Dairy product prices are also quite a bit lower. “Meat production is starting to increase substantially. Beef prices have started to stabilize but have not declined yet. On the other hand, retail pork prices have been declining all year,” Anderson said. “Fuel and other energy prices have also generally been lower so far this year compared to last year,” Anderson said. “This helps keep prices down on the more processed items in the basket. Energy is an important component of the final price for these products. “As a nation, we continue to enjoy a consistent, high-quality supply of meats and poultry at prices that are remarkably affordable for most consumers,” he said. AFBF’s summer cookout menu for 10 consists of hot dogs and buns, cheeseburgers and buns, pork spare ribs, deli potato salad, baked beans, corn chips, lemonade, chocolate milk, watermelon for dessert, and ketchup and mustard. A total of 88 Farm Bureau members (volunteer shoppers) in 30 states checked retail prices for summer cookout foods at their local grocery stores for this informal survey. The summer cookout survey is part of the Farm Bureau marketbasket series which also includes the popular annual Thanksgiving Dinner Cost Survey and two “everyday” marketbasket surveys on common food staples Americans use to prepare meals at home. A squad of Farm Bureau members across the nation checks retail prices at local grocery stores for the marketbasket surveys. AFBF published its first marketbasket survey in 1986. To view the price breakdown, visit AFBF’s website.
The W.S. Carr house was built in 1916 on the bluffs overlooking Lake Michigan. You can see the lake in the distance in the first photo. You can also see the view from the beach up to the house in the second photo. Unfortunately if you go to that spot now, you won’t find this same view. No, Lake Michigan didn’t move. The house did. The Carr residence was demolished in 2005. If these photos look familiar to you, you may have seen them in Preservation magazine (the National Trust’s monthly publication). It is sad to see any of these homes be torn down, but especially one as old and well placed as the Carr residence. The side that you’re looking at in the first photo has 4 bedrooms that were originally reached by a screened in hallway. Storrer says that the hall was extended a little and enclosed. The other side of the house consists of a large living room with lots of glass and kitchen. The living room originally had only screen doors out onto its terrace. This was truly designed as a summer home only. They’ve been closed in too. Overlapping between the bedroom wing and the living room wing is a small servants quarters and the bathroom. The interesting part of this home’s history (besides being torn down) was that it had to be moved at one point because much of the hill over the beach collapsed and was threatening the house. Storrer describes that the home was not only moved back, but also rotated 180 degrees from its original orientation and placed over a basement foundation.
See this posting for an explanation of the following clause (updated as of 2010-04-15) (1) IF: In a covered dispute, a party does not timely accept a covered settlement offer, each as defined below, but then finally fails to obtain a more favorable result in the dispute than the offer; THEN: That party must pay or reimburse the offeror’s costs and expenses, including for example reasonable attorneys’ fees, incurred in the dispute by the offeror after making the offer. (2) A covered dispute is any action or proceeding before any tribunal, where the action or proceeding arises out of or relates to (i) this Agreement or (ii) any transaction or relationship arising from this Agreement. (3) A covered settlement offer is a written offer that (i) expressly states that it is subject to this section, and (ii) offers to settle a covered dispute. (4) Matters of timing and other procedural issues concerning the offer, to the extent the parties do not agree otherwise, will be governed in the general manner provided for an offer of judgment under Rule 68 of the [U.S.] Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, any necessary change being made. (5) Absent consent of the other party, each party shall preserve in strict confidence the existence and details of any offer made by the other party pursuant to this section and any subsequent communications between the parties regarding the offer.
Time: 25-28 mins Once you have structured your argument, it is the right time to compose it see all straight down! Introduction Paragraph & Thesis Write your introduction. Whenever you can consider an appealing first phrase that brings your thesis into a more substantial discussion, focus on that. (If composing the introduction stumps you, simply keep 10-15 lines blank at the beginning of the paper and return to it.) Through the easiest system of pulleys and ropes in ancient Greece towards the many complex supercomputer these days, devices have experienced (and continue steadily to have) a profound impact on the introduction of mankind. Make certain you plainly state your thesis. This should include your perspective on the issue and how it relates to at least one of the other perspectives presented in the prompt for a 3+ (out of 6) essay. Though some argue that devices have actually a negative effect us to change long held beliefs about our limitations and to continue forward to new and even more advanced possibilities on us, the increasing prevalence of intelligent machines in the world challenges. Once you begin your very very very first human body paragraph, attempt to think about a very first sentence that relates back into the paragraph that is first. Preferably, you will begin every paragraph by referring back into your thesis to produce an argument that is unified. One argument that is common the increased existence of devices inside our day-to-day everyday lives (noticed in Perspective One) is the fact that devices leach away at our fundamental mankind. Next, address the argument opposing yours (in this full situation, Perspective One). Give an explanation for proof that supports this viewpoint in 3 to 5 sentences. I came across this to be real in my life due to witnessing numerous a phone discussion between my mom as well as a automatic phone menu. For reasons uknown, she consistently has difficulties with the menus that you will need to confirm her date of delivery. The automatic system never ever knows exactly what she claims (perhaps due to her accent), and asks her to enter the figures via her keypad; of course, my mother’s smartphone can be so smart that the display screen turns down while she actually is for a call, which makes it impossible on her to adhere to the automatic phone system’s guidelines. By the time the device offers up and channels her to talk to a “human representative,” my mother is frequently therefore frustrated that she actually is not even close to courteous and respectful to this individual. Then, remember to explain your counterargument for this viewpoint, tying it returning to your thesis. Despite my mom’s understandable frustration with automatic phone systems, nevertheless, general the advantages outweigh the expenses. Supplying people with all the choice to submit prescriptions or enquire about store hours through a automatic menu frees up customer care representatives to respond to concerns devices are not capable of handling. In addition, the recordings of annoyed telephone calls (where clients aren’t courteous, respectful, or tolerant of other people) are accustomed to enhance the phone menus to ensure they are more user-friendly. Therefore, the disrespect that is momentary other people brought on by devices is a lot more than paid for by the good aftereffects of those exact same devices. Body Paragraph 2 Then this paragraph should contain further analysis of the relationship between the two perspectives if you’re only comparing your perspective against one of the others. Then this is where you introduce your thoughts on the second perspective if you’re comparing your perspective against both of the other perspectives (as I did in this essay. Another approach, exemplified by attitude Two, contends that the primary energy of devices is the power to perform repeated tasks more properly and much more effortlessly than people, that leads to an even more successful and world that is progressive everybody. Address the argument of the 2nd viewpoint (in this instance, Perspective Two). Give an explanation for proof that supports this perspective in 3 to 5 sentences. In car flowers across the global globe, robots build vehicles on construction lines. Rather than paying out a individual worker a annual income, spend amount of time in training that worker, and be worried about obligation need that employee be injured, manufacturing flowers is now able to produce a one-time purchase of a sensible device which will perform that exact same task at greater quantities of accuracy. This results in an even more prosperous world for the manufacturers, since they are in a position to spend less overall to obtain a better product. Then, remember to explain exactly just exactly how this viewpoint relates back to your viewpoint. This viewpoint is fine so far as it goes, it is restricted with its consideration of this implications. Robots will not only work with host to people, but can additionally work cooperatively with people to a larger results than either might have wished for alone. This could be observed in highly complicated and surgeries that are delicate the place where a doctor controls robotic microtools to do operations that even a decade ago could have been unimaginable and impossible. Body Paragraph 3 Introduce your primary viewpoint, linking it back once again to the counterarguments you have made against a minumum of one for the other views. We trust attitude Three that the genuine effect of smart machines inside our everyday lives is us to re-think our preconceived notions of what people can do or become in the future that they challenge. Present one example that is final help of the viewpoint. A last exemplory instance of that is brain-computer interfaces, or BCIs. Humans are able to manipulate computers along with their minds via electrodes which are either implanted within their brains or attached (temporarily) for their minds. With your machines that are intelligent previously paralyzed individuals who had no hope of chatting with other people have the ability to transcend their real limits by focusing to create terms away from keyboards using the pc displays. In addition, BCIs have captured the attention of individuals from various different backgrounds and are usually being put on non-scientific areas like music to generate new, previously unimagined instruments that react to individuals thoughts, including a brand new measurement to an ancient talent. Truly, smart devices are supplying the impetus not merely for greater effectiveness, however for greater achievements. Check always your own time. You will need to have 5-6 minutes kept at this time. Show up by having a sentence that is quick restates your thesis to wrap up the essay. To conclude, in the place of removing from our mankind, smart devices really assist us to go forward as a species to reach brand new, formerly unimagined opportunities. 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This Leadership training workshop focuses on the continuum of tactical to strategic leadership. Being an effective leader is much more than giving direction, following-up, and conducting performance reviews. This course will give leaders the knowledge to understand when to be strategic vs tactical, who at your organization should be using tactical techniques and who should be using strategic techniques. Each participant will be given a variety of tools and techniques that can be used to help drive them to success in your role. - What is leadership - Significance of Culture - Types of Leadership Styles - The Leadership manifesto - Situational Leadership: Balancing Control with your teams need for freedom - Team Maturity Model - Servant Leadership - Emotional Intelligence - Strategic Thinking vs Tactical Action - Strategic Visioning - Creating valuable vision and mission statements - Strategic tools and techniques • Value Stream Maps - How to execute on the vision - Initiative Ownership - Influencing Change - Becoming an effective Mentor - Designing Leadership Communication - Leadership Communication - 6 Cell model-Building effective Motivators & Rewards
Management Skills: A New Manager Managers have to carry a vast amount of responsibilities, but worry not! Our course is here to lead you through a training process where you will learn all the skills of a successful manager. Within no time, you will comprehend the secrets to impress everyone as a new manager. In this course, you will learn the six fundamental leadership principles essential to become an excellent manager. Here you will know your area of responsibility. You will understand the needs of customers and know how to fulfil them. The course will help you focus more on your work and avoid silly mistakes. This course will give you the ability to provide clear direction and maintain team spirit. In this course will be introduced to all the essential skills you need to become a successful manager. It will boost your confidence to make plans and execute them successfully. This is the best course for those who are new in this career, it will train them and assist them in becoming proficient managers. The course is delivered through our online learning platform, accessible through any internet-connected device. There are no formal deadlines or teaching schedules, meaning you are free to study the course at your own pace. You are taught through a combination of - Video lessons - Online study materials Will I receive a certificate of completion? Upon successful completion, you will qualify for the UK and internationally-recognised CPD accredited certification. You can choose to make your achievement formal by obtaining your PDF Certificate at the cost of £9 and Hard Copy Certificate for £15. Why study this course It doesn’t matter if you are an aspiring professional or absolute beginner; this course will enhance your expertise and boost your CV with critical skills and an accredited certification attesting to your knowledge. The Management Skills: A New Manager is fully available to anyone, and no previous qualifications are needed to enrol. All One Education needs to know is that you are eager to learn and are over 16. |Section 01: Introduction| |A Summary of the 21 Strategies||00:07:00| |Section 02: The 21 Strategies for Success as a New Manager| |Strategy 1. Get the Lie of the Land||00:10:00| |Strategy 2. Create a Vision||00:06:00| |Strategy 3. Know Your Area of Responsibility||00:07:00| |Strategy 4. Determine if Delivery Is Happening||00:11:00| |Strategy 5. Create Allies & Keep Them||00:08:00| |Strategy 6. Get a Mentor||00:07:00| |Strategy 7. Know What Your Customers Want & Give It to Them||00:06:00| |Strategy 8. Secure Early Wins & Pick Low-Hanging Fruit||00:07:00| |Strategy 9. Define the A-List Priorities||00:06:00| |Strategy 10. Live For the Team||00:11:00| |Strategy 11. Don’t Make Silly Mistakes||00:06:00| |Strategy 12. Get Onside With the Boss||00:09:00| |Strategy 13. Be an Agent for Change||00:09:00| |Strategy 14. Focus, Focus, Focus!||00:06:00| |Strategy 15. Understand the Culture||00:06:00| |Strategy 16. Don’t Let Method Undermine Objective||00:05:00| |Strategy 17. Put Goals in Place||00:07:00| |Strategy 18. Know the Plan, Hit the Plan||00:13:00| |Strategy 19. Instil Behavioural Change||00:10:00| |Strategy 20. Deliver. Plain and Simple||00:11:00| |Strategy 21. Celebrate the Wins||00:12:00| |Bonus Module: Strategy 22. Maintain Team Cohesion While Apart||00:15:00| |Section 03: The 6 Key Leadership Principle| |Introduction to the 6 Principles of Great Managers||00:02:00| |Principle 1. They Bridge Knowledge Gaps||00:03:00| |Principle 2. They Give Clear Direction||00:02:00| |Principle 3. They Prioritise Effectively||00:02:00| |Principle 4. They Set the Team Up For Success||00:04:00| |Principle 5. They Establish Themselves Strategically||00:06:00| |Principle 6. They Build Great Networks||00:05:00| |Downloadable Resource: Real-World Application Exercise Book||01:15:00|
July 14, 2020 ← Back to article listing A FIX Rules of Engagement (RoE) specification is a reference manual describing how FIX Protocol Standards are extended, with additional FIX fields/tags, messages, and enumerations within specific usage contexts. About the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol Before we explore FIX Variant Specifications, it is important to understand the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol itself. The Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol is an open electronic communications standard, that is designed to standardise and streamline electronic communications in the financial services industry. FIX supports multiple formats and types of communications between financial entities; such as order advertisements, order submissions, order amendments, order status and trade execution reporting, and trade allocation. The core FIX protocol and family of messaging specification standards have evolved into a range of related technical standards; with differing use cases. Below, we will outline key considerations for FIX Protocol Standards; to enable a better understanding of FIX Variant “Rules of Engagement” specifications, that enable FIX connectivity between parties. Technical Specifications, Not Concrete Implementations It is important to note that the FIX Protocol Standards are technical specifications rather than concrete implementations. The core technical implementations are known as "FIX Engines" that support the FIX Protocol session, application and encoding specifications. A key benefit of the FIX protocol standards used for trading is that they mandate the behaviour of connected counterparties - meaning that FIX Engine implementations from different providers are interoperable. Considering use case here, FIX Standards are used for many order surveillance and post-trade feeds – and they work very well in this context. FIX APIs are also supported by various aggregators for indirect market access (for example, Trading Technologies (TT®). But FIX connectivity is not universal. The FIX Application level messaging specifies the fields and messages used at an application level. It is the FIX application level messages that most developers will work with to create and consume message-based communications with counterparties via the APIs of the FIX Engine implementation that is in use. It is also worth noting that the FIX messaging standards are designed to be extensible - meaning that it is common practice to add FIX tags that extend the base message standards based on bilateral or multilateral usage conventions. Such usage is usually defined in a "FIX Rules of Engagement" (FIX RoE) specification that is published by the relevant exchange, investment firm or utility for implementation by counterparties. Such extensions are typically known as "FIX Dictionary" FIX dialect variants that extend or specialise the base FIX messaging standards. Understanding FIX Rules of Engagement Specifications A FIX Rules of Engagement (RoE) specification is a reference manual that describes how the FIX Protocol Standards are extended with additional FIX fields/tags, messages, and enumerations within specific usage contexts. The FIX RoE specifications are interpreted and codified in XML instance documents, that define the additional FIX fields/tags, messages, and enumerations. This interpretation of the FIX RoE specifications is usually a manual process, although in some cases an XML instance document is also provided with the FIX RoE specification that can be directly implemented. FIX RoE Specification Naming Conventions The FIX RoE Specifications are usually named in variations of the document naming convention of <venue> FIX API for <service> where: - <venue> = the liquidity pool or exchange venue, investment bank, broker, utility or application vendor. - <service> = the specific API to which the connection is being made. By way of named specific document examples: - “ICE FIX TC Reference Manual – Version 4.8” - “Cboe Futures Exchange FIX Specification” - “LSE MIT205 – Drop Copy Gateway (FIX 5.0) Specification” The extension of FIX messaging with additional FIX fields/tags, messages, and enumerations is widely used in the industry for FIX application level messaging based on the business requirements of liquidity pools/exchanges, counterparties, industry utilities and application vendors/ISVs. The XML instance documents that are used to define the additional FIX fields/tags, messages, and enumerations are known as FIX dictionary dialects or FIX variant dialects. The OnixS FIX Engine implementations support FIX dialect descriptions as a part of the configuration settings. Example in OnixS .NET Framework C#: EngineSettings settings = new EngineSettings(); settings.Dialect = "IceTradeCaptureFixDialect.xml"; The Dialect configuration parameter specifies one or more dialect definition files in XML format and the FIX dictionary dialect definition file must conform to the dialect XML schema FIX Dialect customisation includes the ability to expand the set of FIX messages with new messages, to extend messages and repeating groups with new fields and subgroups. It is also possible to replace regular FIX tag fields with repeating groups and vice versa. However, there is no way to exclude any FIX message, tag and/or group that are part of the base formal FIX standards. Using FIX Dialects with OnixS FIX Engine Implementations OnixS Engine implementations support FIX dialects for a single specific FIX session (session level dialect), as well as the capability to replace the standard FIX dictionaries with dialect implementations that are used everywhere in the FIX Engine. (engine level dialect). A basic example FIX dictionary dialect variant description file looks like the following example: <!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?--> Root of dialects descriptions. May contain engine-wise as well as per-session dialects descriptions. FIX field defines single dialect description. Attribute 'version' defines version of FIX messaging specification which is being customized. <!-- Changes into single message structure go here (as well as new messages definitions). --> <!-- Tags and groups which enlarge or modify message. --> <Field tag="526" name="SecondaryClOrdID"/> OnixS provides two primary options with regard to usage of FIX dictional dialects: - Do it yourself based on the OnixS FIX Engine implementation documentation in the OnixS Programming Guide API Documentation / FIX Dictionary and FIX Dialect sections. This may be suitable for development teams and ISV’s – for example those primary focus may be creating FIX RoE specifications and implementations for exposing FIX access services to their own platforms. - And the more packaged option to use prepackaged venue and service specific solution SDK bundles that are implemented and supported to provide API access to the relevant FIX API(s). This is suitable for trading firms, application ISV’s who want to quickly integrate with services such as the previously quoted ICE FIX Trade Capture (TC) API, the Cboe Futures Exchange FIX services, or the LSE Drop Copy FIX service. The OnixS directConnect: ICE FIX Trade Capture Handler SDK is an example of such a package. The OnixS directConnect: ICE FIX Trade Capture Handler SDK consists of a bundle of the OnixS FIX Engine, the ICE FIX TC specific FIX dictionary dialect, reference implementation fast-start source code samples and is fully supported to be kept up to date with updates to the ICE FIX TC Reference Manual (RoE) specification.
In my book Cate Blanchett can do no wrong, but her performance in the Lord of the Rings movies was particularly spellbinding, especially when she spoke the Elvish language of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy universe. Of course, the spell was cast long before when Tolkien used his background as a linguist, historian, and literary scholar to create the elaborate tongue that he called Quenya. In the short clip above, Tolkien himself recites the Elvish poem Namarie, or Galadriel’s lament, from The Fellowship of the Ring novel (it doesn’t appear in the film). Namarie translates as “Farewell,” and the poem in English reads thus: Ah! like gold fall the leaves in the wind, long years numberless as the wings of trees! The long years have passed like swift draughts of the sweet mead in lofty halls beyond the West, beneath the blue vaults of Varda wherein the stars tremble in the song of her voice, holy and queenly. Who now shall refill the cup for me? For now the Kindler, Varda, the Queen of Stars, from Mount Everwhite has uplifted her hands like clouds, and all paths are drowned deep in shadow; and out of a grey country darkness lies on the foaming waves between us, and mist covers the jewels of Calacirya for ever. Now lost, lost for those from the East is Valimar! Farewell! Maybe thou shalt find Valimar. Maybe even thou shalt find it. Farewell! The Tolkien recording predates by two years the 1954 publication of the novel—the first of the Ring trilogy. As sci-fi blog i09 notes, Namarie has been set to music, sometimes against Tolkien’s wishes, by several composers. Tolkien did authorize one composition from Donald Swann, included on the album Poems and Songs of Middle Earth (1967), a song cycle from The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien gave Swann the melody, and singer William Elvin’s tenor accentuated the medieval, Celtic quality of the poem. A fan put together the video below. The other thirteen compositions on Poems and Songs are in English (Tolkien’s poetic skill in his own tongue is perhaps underappreciated). In the short clip below, hear him read “The Song of Durin,” from Fellowship of the Ring, a song sung by Gimli the dwarf as the fellowship journeys deep into the mines of Moria. As Peter Jackson brings Middle Earth back to life in the theater this December, it’s a good time to brush up on your Tolkien lore. Don’t have time to reread The Hobbit? Listen to Youtube user “Ephemeral Rift” read the entire novel in a whisper. He’s up to Chapter 2 and promises to finish in time for the first film’s release. Josh Jones is a doctoral candidate in English at Fordham University and a co-founder and former managing editor of Guernica / A Magazine of Arts and Politics.
Narendra Modi speaking to business leaders in Calcutta. Demotix/Bhaskar Mallick. All rights reserved. A spectre appears to be haunting India if media coverage following the recent conclave of the main opposition grouping, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is to be believed. It is the spectre of a genocidal Hindu fanatic leader assuming power, Hitler-like, as Prime Minister when general elections are called next year or earlier. The BJP named Narendra Modi, chief minister of the western state of Gujarat, as chairman of the party’s election campaign committee. That gives Modi, 62, free rein to name himself the candidate to go head to head against whomsoever the major component in the ruling coalition, the Congress, names as its prime ministerial figure. In 2002, Modi was either negligent during or, by many accounts, actually stoked up an anti-Muslim pogrom in Gujarat, in which more than 2,000 Muslims perished; countless women were raped. Details of that pogrom – the slogans heard in those days were openly genocidal – have been documented by several independent groups. A number of Modi’s associates have been tried, convicted and sentenced to terms ranging from life downwards. But he himself has escaped justice and has gotten re-elected twice in the state (current population 60 million). Why has the BJP promoted Modi? There is the myth that his state is vibrant and that 2002 notwithstanding, his “dynamic” leadership will do the whole of India good. But Gujarat has always been one of India’s more affluent or less indigent states. Modi inherited a reasonably good state of affairs. He has courted corporate giants and film stars – in a country besotted with films and the game of cricket. Indian media houses, which are increasingly dependent on deals with corporate moneybags, do as they are bid and boost Modi’s profile. In terms of social indicators such as infant mortality or status of women and the minorities, his state lags behind. But a virtual army of supporters has been working the internet from within India and abroad: there is a sizeable Gujarati and upper caste Indian presence in North America and Europe and a good number backs Modi. This seems to have emboldened Modi to bid for national leadership. If he succeeds, he will have at his command not only a servile and supine bureaucracy. He can count on influential groups or parties allied to the BJP collectively known as the “Sangh parivar” that share the Hindu fanatic ideals of the cadre that lies behind the BJP, namely the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (National Volunteers Society). The “Parivar”, or family, includes the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council) and numerous regional – and lethal – groups. But appearances can be deceptive. India in the second decade of the twenty-first century bears little similarity to the Germany of the first half of the twentieth century. Germans largely bought into an “Ein Volk” idea. It was therefore easy to proceed to “Ein Reich” and “Ein Fuehrer” as well as the Holocaust in which Jews, the Roma and others were butchered. India is generally thought of as a “majority Hindu” country but “Hinduism” is a loose coinage of recent vintage for a disparate set of beliefs. Indians are split along caste, language, dialect, regional, religion, not to speak of class. India is vastly different from Germany. Caste influences Indian elections greatly. Especially in rural areas, people consider whether there is any advantage for their group in voting for a particular party or candidate. Members of one or more castes need to be appealed to in each parliamentary constituency. Sub-castes and regional variations of caste identities matter. Muslims make up sizeable numbers in dozens of constituencies. Their aspirations and fears cannot be ignored. Crucially, regional political parties have been growing in strength. Although they enter into loose pre-election agreements with major “national” parties, in general everything is up for negotiation after results come in. Parties demand influential or lucrative ministries – those like mining or telecommunications – that offer scope for enormous rent-seeking. Bribes run into billions of dollars. Thus, unlike in presidential systems or even in parliamentary ones such as in Britain or Germany where the heads of two main opposing parties are presumed to be contenders for leadership, no leader of any Indian party can be ruled in or ruled out as possible prime minister. In fact, India has already had, since the late 1970s, a number of compromise candidates who have become prime ministers, albeit for short periods (until their shaky coalitions were toppled). The winding path All this is a long-winded way of saying that Modi cannot assume that the path to New Delhi is smooth and direct. He has to traverse two dozen other states, in some of which he is bound to draw a blank. Among Dalits (formerly called untouchables) and the indigenous peoples (or tribals as they are known in India), he is an unknown quantity. His party, the BJP, can hope for a maximum of 25 percent vote share nationally. Although that might yield a slightly higher percentage of seats if constituencies are judiciously chosen, no party on its own is likely to win an overall majority in parliament. Modi will have to make deals with several smaller parties, each claiming bigger pounds of flesh than their strength in terms of seats warrants. It is difficult, therefore, for him to emerge as a Fuehrer like figure. Moreover, India has already been vaccinated, so to speak, against authoritarian governance. In 1975, the then prime minister Indira Gandhi imposed a state of Emergency after a court verdict went against her while parts of the country were in the grip of an anti-corruption agitation. During the Emergency, it was claimed that trains ran on time. But that episode was deeply marred by what were euphemistically referred to as “excesses”. Forcible sterilisations in the pursuit of a vigorous birth control campaign, demolitions of entire areas in the older part of the Indian capital and censorship in a country whose people are among the more argumentative in the world put paid to that unfortunate experiment. Indira Gandhi called an election she perhaps wrongly thought she could win. India returned seamlessly to its chaotic self. It is almost unthinkable today that a majority of Indians will rally round one leader who is inevitably identified with a region, language, religion, caste or class, whatever the noisome urban middle class might say. That Modi is a deeply divisive politician was adequately proved the very next day after his nomination as election campaign chief. L.K. Advani, who has been a party leader for well over half a century, first resigned from all major posts and after high drama, withdrew his resignation on 11 June. Advani has long nursed prime ministerial ambitions. Ironically he had groomed Modi and defended him in 2002 when there were some misgivings within the BJP about the Gujarat supremo’s actions. Modi recently campaigned in (provincial) assembly elections in southern India’s Karnataka state (population 61 million) and his party suffered defeat in the three places where he spoke. To be sure, the Congress party’s record in power has been lacklustre to say the least. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh comes across as a weakling and a ditherer, unable to keep corruption under check or to deliver equitable development. The Congress party’s leaders were implicated in an anti-Sikh pogrom following Indira Gandhi’s assassination in 1984 when more than 3,000 people were killed. But the founding ideology of the Congress party is not genocidal, whereas the BJP and its allies take inspiration from V.D. Savarkar and M.S. Golwalkar, who admired Hitler’s Final Solution. There are certain dangers: the Hindutva forces are trying to recruit adherents from among the Dalits and even indigenous peoples, selling them the idea that Muslims and Christians are their enemies. The Modi camp seems to have studied the Chinese success of the past nearly quarter of a century in keeping another Tiananmen-like revolt at bay through repression and – over the past decade or more – saturation control over the media. But whoever wins this time round, India’s parliament and the central government will keep lurching from crisis to crisis as coalition partners of the bigger parties run rings around them. And if Modi fails to wrest the prime ministership, he will have an intra-party struggle on his hands while awaiting the next general elections. India will, for the foreseeable future, totter on while avoiding a major holocaust. Get our weekly email
Chapter 10. BRAD SOLOMON*: Even Accountants Can Get Rich: How to Hit $4 Million in Six Years In 1998, at the age of 27, Brad Solomon risked the comfort of a salaried job and the regularity of a monthly $4,100 paycheck for the chance to run his own business. A year later, he was eking out a meager living and wondering if he hadn't made a terrible mistake. Five years after that, however, he was able to surprise his wife with an unexpected birthday present: the house by the beach she had admired when they were first married. Brad paid for most of that house in cash. It cost him $1.6 million. This is Brad's tale—the story of how an average, working Joe developed a $4 million-plus net worth in less than seven years. "My life changed when I met my wife," Brad said. "She was not only sexy, beautiful, and sweet, but also a great inspiration. "I was on track to becoming a career accountant when we started dating. She knew I wasn't too thrilled with my job and convinced me I could do better. By telling me she believed in me, she boosted my confidence. She even introduced me to the man who became my mentor and helped me get started. "He was a local businessman who was involved in several advertising and public-relations businesses. I went to work for a business he had that brokered copywriting," Brad said. "At first, I didn't even know what copywriting was. "That business never took off for a variety of reasons, but he stuck with me while we tried several changes and eventually began a whole new ...
10. Where Are We Now? As discussed in earlier chapters, the most recent major market bottom began forming in the fourth quarter of 2008 and was finalized with the establishment of the March 2009 low. The subsequent bull market, which evolved from that low, remains in force as of this writing in February 2011 and, at present, there is a lack of evidence indicating a major top is close at hand. Before discussing why a continued primary uptrend in the stock market appears likely in the months ahead, we first examine the life of the bull market thus far. The Bull Market As the major market indexes embarked on a sustained primary uptrend following the establishment of the final low in the 2008–2009 major market bottom, Lowry’s measures of the intermediate-term ...
110 z/TPF and WebSphere Application Server in a Service Oriented Architecture name, while the advanced enterprise Web development and modeling products are available under the IBM WebSphere brand name. For the remainder of this book we refer to the Rational Application Developer V6.0 IDE simply as IDE. IBM Rational product details can be found at the following address: The IBM WebSphere product details can be found at: Even though we use the IBM Rational Application Developer for the examples in this book, the workflow and screen captures are almost identical for any other IBM development IDE. Even the open source Eclipse IDE with the Web Tools plug-in (WTP) can be used to follow the examples. The open source Eclipse platform can be found at: 7.1.2 Create a new project After we start the IDE, we are presented with the welcome window as shown in Figure 7-1. We dismiss the window by clicking the X of the corresponding tab. Figure 7-1 IDE welcome window Chapter 7. Web Service consumer 111 The IDE supports different development scenarios such as standalone applications, J2EE™ enterprise applications, and so on. For our purpose here, we create a new because that is what a Java Server Page really is. In Figure 7-2 you can see how we select the Dynamic Web Project from the File menu. Figure 7-2 Creating a new dynamic Web project We are now requested to enter a name for the new project and because we do not want to specify any additional settings at this time we simply click Finish, as you can see in Figure 7-3 Naming the new project All Eclipse based IDEs work with what is referred to as perspectives. A perspective defines which task windows are visible, where those windows are located, and their size. It is an easy way to configure the layout of the IDE for specific tasks and to show the task windows that are relevant for the current task at hand. Because we created a dynamic Web project, the IDE is asking us whether we would like to switch the active perspective to match the tasks we are most likely going to perform as part of a dynamic Web project. As you can see in Figure 7-4, we agree with the recommendation by clicking Yes but we also checked the option to remember this decision so that the IDE does not keep asking us when a perspective change is recommended. 112 z/TPF and WebSphere Application Server in a Service Oriented Architecture Figure 7-4 Switching the IDE perspective Your IDE should look similar to the one in Figure 7-5. The left window shows the different projects the IDE can contain and our TPFTime project was successfully added as Dynamic Figure 7-5 IDE after successful addition of the TPFTime project
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Virtual Reality (VR) technology is becoming increasingly commonplace and affordable for consumers around the globe. One industry that has been quick to adopt VR technology is healthcare. Some medical practitioners are using it to induce pain relief for their patients. More specifically, research has found that calming, almost zen-like landscapes are successful distractions that help with pain management. Another plus point: immersive VR worlds are a preferred alternative to opioids. In other cases, some medical schools are using VR to simulate complex surgical procedures for surgeons-in-training. While these applications of virtual reality technology are fascinating, there is a whole another section of society that can stand to benefit: persons with disabilities. UNCHARTED (VIRTUAL REALITY) TERRITORY An exciting aspect of VR technology is the ability to safely plunge persons with disabilities in virtual environments. For some learners, virtual reality technology can immerse them in virtual environments without the limitations of their disability. Take, for example, a wheelchair user experiencing a cross-country bike ride, a mountainside climb or simply surfing standing up. It is fascinating how technology can temporarily eliminate limitations (physical and otherwise) and allow individuals a richer living experience. A WIDER LIVING EXPERIENCE One can also improve their skills and expand their knowledge by navigating simulated learning scenarios. For those using a wheelchair for the very first time, they can ‘step’ into a busy street scene or learn how to get around a shop without fear of a collision. Here, technology allows people to rehearse potentially challenging tasks and sharpen the relevant life skills from the safety of their classroom or living room. VR technology enables those with limited arm or hand mobility to use computers to the fullest extent. This same combination of technology and headgear can be utilised to provide job-training to new employees or for businesses to build more inclusive offices or retail spaces. IT TAKES A VILLAGE According to researchers, autistic children feel more comfortable engaging with others via virtual, online gaming environments. Keeping that in mind, this technology is now being used to introduce road safety, as well as improve one-on-one communication skills to children with autism. More specifically, they can learn to pick up on nonverbal cues, read facial expressions, and better their overall social interactions. FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS Similarly, a VR-simulation can be used in empathy-building exercises for school-going children and teens. Students can get an idea of what life with a disability is like, and hopefully, lead their lives with more compassion as well as understanding. ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT Despite the potential applications of VR technology for persons with disabilities, the hardware and software have yet to be completely accessible. With a strong dependency on visual markers, VR tech is out of the reach of those with limited vision. Not only that, most headsets are expensive pieces of equipment to buy. Lastly, VR tech’s reliance on inch-perfect tracking and recreating exact movements may exclude those with physical disabilities. All hope is not lost, at least when it comes to software like Walkin VR Driver. The software developers aim to make virtual reality as accessible as possible. This includes facilitating wheelchair gamers by allowing them to pivot, stand, and kneel a full 360 degrees – virtually! Those using only one arm can utilise a virtual controller, while others can manually change the VR controller’s sensitivity to movement to align with their range of motion. VR can make the “impossible” possible for people with disabilities, but only if the hardware, software, and simulated environments are all designed with this goal in mind.
The manufacturers of corrugated cardboard boxes are working to keep transport packaging flowing to makers of essential products including packaging for food and other consumer products, medical and pharmaceutical products, tissue and hygiene products and more amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Disruption in the availability of these goods would cause significant hardships to consumers across the country who depend on steady and stable supplies. Corrugated cardboard manufacturers are dedicated to continuing to operate box plants under the guidelines of Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to ensure products continue to flow to market. “As COVID-19 changes our daily lives, we want to assure consumers that the box industry is continuing to operate and to deliver needed packaging to our customers who supply grocery stores, pharmacies, doctor’s offices and hospitals with food and medical supplies to keep us all healthy and safe,” said Corrugated cardboard packaging is the backbone of the American supply chain,” said Fibre Box Association President and CEO Dennis Colley.. Fibre Box Association joins American Forest & Paper Association in encouraging Federal, State and local governments to recognize the corrugated packaging industry as “essential” when drafting “Shelter in Place” orders. We ask for clear exclusion of our manufacturing operations to limit disruptions to the supply chain.
Two articles on PainSci cite Murase 2010: 1. A Deep Dive into Delayed-Onset Muscle Soreness 2. Massage Does Not Reduce Inflammation original abstract †Abstracts here may not perfectly match originals, for a variety of technical and practical reasons. Some abstacts are truncated for my purposes here, if they are particularly long-winded and unhelpful. I occasionally add clarifying notes. And I make some minor corrections. Unaccustomed strenuous exercise that includes lengthening contraction (LC) often causes delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS), a kind of muscular mechanical hyperalgesia. The substances that induce this phenomenon are largely unknown. Peculiarly, DOMS is not perceived during and shortly after exercise, but rather is first perceived after approximately 1 d. Using B(2) bradykinin receptor antagonist HOE 140, we show here that bradykinin released during exercise plays a pivotal role in triggering the process that leads to muscular mechanical hyperalgesia. HOE 140 completely suppressed the development of muscular mechanical hyperalgesia when injected before LC, but when injected 2 d after LC failed to reverse mechanical hyperalgesia that had already developed. B(1) antagonist was ineffective, regardless of the timing of its injection. Upregulation of nerve growth factor (NGF) mRNA and protein occurred in exercised muscle over a comparable time course (12 h to 2 d after LC) for muscle mechanical hyperalgesia. Antibodies to NGF injected intramuscularly 2 d after exercise reversed muscle mechanical hyperalgesia. HOE 140 inhibited the upregulation of NGF. In contrast, shortening contraction or stretching induced neither mechanical hyperalgesia nor NGF upregulation. Bradykinin together with shortening contraction, but not bradykinin alone, reproduced lasting mechanical hyperalgesia. We also showed that rat NGF sensitized thin-fiber afferents to mechanical stimulation in the periphery after 10-20 min. Thus, NGF upregulation through activation of B(2) bradykinin receptors is essential (though not satisfactory) to mechanical hyperalgesia after exercise. The present observations explain why DOMS occurs with a delay, and why lengthening contraction but not shortening contraction induces DOMS. - “Decreased nerve growth factor upregulation is a mechanism for reduced mechanical hyperalgesia after the second bout of exercise in rats,” H Urai, S Murase, and K Mizumura, Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, 2013. - “Upregulated glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor through cyclooxygenase-2 activation in the muscle is required for mechanical hyperalgesia after exercise in rats,” Shiori Murase, Etsuji Terazawa, Kenji Hirate, Hiroki Yamanaka, Hirosato Kanda, Koichi Noguchi, Hiroki Ota, Fernando Queme, Toru Taguchi, and Kazue Mizumura, Journal of Physiology, 2013. - “Delayed onset muscle soreness: Involvement of neurotrophic factors,” Kazue Mizumura and Toru Taguchi, J Physiol Sci, 2016. This page is part of the PainScience BIBLIOGRAPHY, which contains plain language summaries of thousands of scientific papers & others sources. It’s like a highly specialized blog. A few highlights: - Relationships Between Sleep Quality and Pain-Related Factors for People with Chronic Low Back Pain: Tests of Reciprocal and Time of Day Effects. Gerhart 2017 Ann Behav Med. - Modulation in the elastic properties of gastrocnemius muscle heads in individuals with plantar fasciitis and its relationship with pain. Zhou 2020 Sci Rep. - Association Between Plantar Fasciitis and Isolated Gastrocnemius Tightness. Nakale 2018 Foot Ankle Int. - A Bayesian model-averaged meta-analysis of the power pose effect with informed and default priors: the case of felt power. Gronau 2017 Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology. - The neck and headaches. Bogduk 2014 Neurol Clin.
Mick Jagger on tour with the Rolling Stones, 2018. Photo by Flickr user Raph_PH. Mick Jagger famously flaunts his “Sympathy for the Devil.” For President Donald Trump, not so much. Jagger and his Rolling Stones bandmates threatened to sue Trump’s campaign if he does not stop using their music at rallies like the one he held last month in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Or like all the rallies he held for his 2016 campaign. Or any other rallies he might hold in the future. Jagger and the Stones are among many musicians who do not care for the president and do not want themselves, or especially their music, associated with him in any way. Many, like Jagger, have threatened legal action if Trump does not cease and desist. But the president has shown little inclination to cease and, with rare exceptions, no desire to desist. (Forbes reported that Trump did agree not to play Aerosmith’s music after frontman Steven Tyler “asked [him] not to.”) Many of these musicians, again like Jagger, have sent sternly worded letters demanding to be left out of Trump’s campaign. I suspect at least a few have also tweeted at the president, which is usually a more effective way of reaching him. For the most part, none of it has worked. And for the most part, the musicians have been well advised to make their objections public and otherwise leave well enough alone. This is because – as I am certain Jagger and the Stones are well aware – they would probably lose if they actually took the president to court. You may wonder why that is. I have music industry clients who sometimes wonder the same thing, so let’s explore. Every publicly released musical recording involves two sets of rights. First, there are the rights to the song itself: the music and lyrics. These rights are the property of the songwriters and, in most cases, their publishers. Second, there are the rights to a particular performance and its recording – the “master,” as it is known in the music business. Masters belong to the musicians or, if they are signed, to their record labels. (Some musicians are able to negotiate ownership of their masters even when working with a label, but this takes serious clout.) When a recording is played in a public venue like Tulsa’s BOK Center, where Trump’s rally took place, it is considered a “public performance.” Composers and their publishers are entitled to be paid for public performance of their work. It is not practical for them to monitor every arena, concert hall, airport lounge, dentist office and coffee shop in the world, of course. So the composers affiliate with PROs – performance rights organizations – to handle such monitoring for them. In the United States, the main PROs are Broadcast Music, Inc. and The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. A smaller share of compositions are assigned to SESAC. Even the PROs cannot be everywhere at once. There is no way for them to monitor every song played in every public space. Instead, ASCAP, BMI and SESAC issue blanket licenses that entitle a particular venue – anything from a coffee shop to a football stadium – to play every song in their catalog for a fixed price and for a fixed period of time. Many songs are the work of multiple writers, who may be affiliated with different PROs. So as a practical matter, every big venue that hosts music events – like the BOK Center – takes out a blanket license from all of the PROs. From the venue’s perspective, they have thus taken care of their obligation to songs’ writers and publishers. This is why you don’t have to worry about getting a license from the wedding venue when your band or DJ plays a sentimental favorite song for the father-daughter dance. The venue has already obtained a license, or it risks legal problems with the PROs. How do the PROs know exactly what songs were played at individual venues so they can compensate the writers and publishers? When it comes to recorded music, they don’t. Instead, they do surveys to get a general idea of what is being played. Then they guess and apply that guesswork to the staggering number of tracks that they supervise – 15 million, in BMI’s case. So when the Rolling Stones prod BMI to send the Trump campaign a letter demanding it stop the unauthorized use of their recorded compositions, the campaign’s obvious response is that the use is authorized under the venue’s existing licenses with the PROs. BMI has asserted that it separately licenses political campaigns and specifically prohibits them from relying on blanket venue licenses. Whether BMI and ASCAP – which are subject to a long-standing and contentious antitrust consent decree with the Justice Department – want to test such a position in court remains to be seen. So much for the composition. But what about the recording itself? Why can’t a band or its label demand that a certain party refrain from playing their work in public? The short answer is that the law does not give them that power. There have been proposals to change that, but those proposals have not made it into the law so far. Maybe you think a band or artist should stand on principle and sue a politician for unauthorized use of their music anyway. Few have tried. One who did was Frankie Sullivan, a former member of Survivor, who sued Newt Gingrich for using “Eye of the Tiger” at campaign events. That suit was settled out of court after Gingrich abandoned his 2012 presidential campaign. Someone could try their luck against Trump, but that might mean giving the president a chance to prevail in court, crow about his victory and set a precedent that many artists will not relish. I suspect performers find it more useful to make a lot of noise in public to communicate their political sympathies, or absence thereof, to their fans. Are artists powerless to prevent unauthorized use of their name and their work? Not entirely. It is one thing to publicly play a recording before or after a speech. It is a very different matter to use an artist’s music in a commercial, a vlog, or any other setting that marries music to pictures. Such “sync” usage is not automatically authorized by law or PRO licenses. It is subject to negotiation with the composition’s writer and publisher, and the recording’s artist or record label. Permission for such use is easily and frequently denied. Artists also retain the rights to control the use of their own name, image and trademarks. Any misuse of those assets could subject a political candidate to real liability. Any verbal or written communication that falsely implies an artist’s endorsement could be considered a deceptive advertising practice, as well. This is the place where every hack writer throws in a line about Jagger getting no satisfaction. Not me. I will merely observe that while Jagger probably won’t get what he wants, because wild horses won’t stop Trump from being Trump, he’ll get what he needs. He might say it’s a bitch, but the Rolling Stones have been big for a lot longer than Trump. Time is on his side.
This memorial garden is situated in the middle of the supermarket car park and is easily missed unless actively looked for. It is not an imposing site but remains very poignant. There was previously a churchyard on the site, where a number of servicemen were buried. Features include seats, shrubs and a plaque. In 1836 the Brunswick Free United Methodist chapel was erected on North St, Bury. Burials at the site continued up to 1959 and Baptisms up to 1962. The Chapel closed in 1967 and was demolished in 1969.The site was later developed as a retail park. A condition was that the burial ground of World War 1 servicemen should be preserved and Tesco maintain the site.
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Quoting from pantheon.org A tomte (tomten) usually lives at farms in Sweden. If he is treated with respect he can be very helpful. Tomten is very proud and sensitive. If you make fun of him or in any other way treat him disrespectfully, he will most certainly punish you. An "accident" can happen to you, the cows will give sour milk or the harvest will fail. In fairly modern times people are suposed to give him a white porridge made of rice on a plate outdoors. Closely related to tomten is vätter and huldra, but they usually do not live that close to humans. It is also the Swedish word for Santa-Claus. A friend of mine, learning swedish and visiting sweden quite often, started calling me tomte way back ... hmmm I can't remeber, maybe 1989/90...the name somehow got stuck in my brain and I use it as monicker whereever the 'net wants a name from me...Where the name is taken, I change the spelling one way or another (tomten, tomteX, [tomte],...). As a matter of fact, I can be very helpful if treated respectfuly, but I'm not that particular interested in eating rice outdoors :-) An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. -- Albert Camus Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data! Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright. Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place. Please read these before you post! — Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags: You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.) - a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking? See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info. | & || & | | < || < | | > || > | | [ || [ | | ] || ] ||
‘God-fearing’ Tory Equalities Minister Helen Grant defends same-sex marriage bill Equalities Minister Helen Grant has responded to critics of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill and pledged her support for it, saying she feels it is “absolutely consistent” with her Christian beliefs and Conservative politics. Mrs Grant will be part of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) team pushing the bill through the House of Commons. She told The House Magazine that the bill was a “wonderful opportunity” when she was interviewed on Thursday. Mrs Grant said: “I think it’s pretty consistent, personally, with who we [Conservatives] are and what we’re trying to achieve, which is a fairer, richer, more equal society in many ways.” She dismissed objections from her fellow Conservatives that the bill should not have been pushed so quickly. “I would say [to them] ‘why not now?’ This has been in existence, the law has been the way it has been for a very long time now: civil partnerships went quite a way, but not completely all the way,” she said. “[The] Government has huge capacity,” she said. “We’re working very, very hard on the economy and getting that right – why not now?” She went on to address critics who have claimed that the bill was being pushed without a mandate: “It was in the Contract for Equalities that was published at the same time as the Conservative General Election manifesto. It was quite clear what our intentions may well be.” As for her own individual beliefs, she said: “I am a God-fearing woman. My faith is very fundamental to everything I do and think. I am member of the Church of England, a Christian, and my faith is very, very important to me.” “I think it’s absolutely consistent with my beliefs,” she said of equal marriage. “For me, as a Christian, I see it as about justice, equality, fairness, ending discrimination and opening up marriage to more people on the basis that marriage is a very special institution. It’s an amazing institution. We shouldn’t be stopping people from getting married unless there’s a very good reason, and being gay, lesbian, bisexual is not one of them.” More: Church of England, DCMS, equal marriage, equalities minister, gay marriage, gay wedding, Helen Grant, helen grant mp, marriage, Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, marriage equality, same sex marriage, Same-sex wedding
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Environmental justice in Pennsylvania and your vote Discussion focuses whether our legislators in Harrisburg are protecting people’s health from pollution and what impact their policies have in our communities. Tune in 4-5:00 pm this Friday 6/15/18 to hear: Dr. Walter Tsou will address the effects of fossil fuel facilities on the health of the surrounding population including new research about the incidence of low birth weight babies in relation to pollution from coal, oil, and gas activities. Walter Tsou, MD, MPH is the Executive Director of Physicians for Social Responsibility in Philadelphia, Adjunct Professor of Family and Community Health at the University of Pennsylvania, former Health Commissioner of Philadelphia and past president of the American Public Health Association. Saleem Chapman will tell us what is happening in PA environmental justice with a pivotal gubernatorial election taking place this fall and why citizen action to help environmental issues be a top priority in Pennsylvania. He is the Campaign Manager for Green in ’18, a Pennsylvania-wide environmental campaign launched by PennFuture with support from 25 other environmental groups across the state. In 2014, Saleem held a leading role in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency decision to impose new regulations on petroleum refineries, an effort that significantly improved the conditions of many environmental justice communities across the country. Dean Kendall will talk about The Poor People’s Campaign drive to dismantle the “interconnected evils” of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, the war economy and militarism. This campaign draws on the unfinished work of the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign initiated by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., reigniting the effort to foster a moral revolution of values. Kendall is on the coordinating committee of the PA Poor People's Campaign. He’s a 69 year old subsistence farmer from near Reading and member of Payday, a network of men who campaign with the Global Women’s Strike for a world that invests in caring rather than killing. There are several ways to listen to Planet Philadelphia. Tune in on your radio dial at 92.9 FM WGGT-LP in NW Philadelphia, or listen on simultaneous live streaming live on G-Town Radio at http://www.gtownradio.com, and/or on your mobile devices with your radio app. Planet Philadelphia is a radio show about our shared environment aired 4:00-5:00 PM EST the first and third Friday a month on WGGT-LP 92.9 FM in Philadelphia and/or at gtownradio.com. Also on Villanova University’s radio station, WXVU, Thursday mornings at 9:00 a.m. at 89.1FM. Not in Philly? You can still listen to all the great G-town Radio programing on the iPhone G-town Radio app, Tunein, Simple Radio. Podcasts are available at planetphiladelphia.com show archives page for the full broadcast or listen to individual interviews on Spotify| Anchor| Google| PocketCasts| Breaker| RadioPublic. Planet Philadelphia is now a partner in Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story.
Want Your Podcast to Be Cast Away? Then Know the Rules for Using Music In Podcasts. Podcasts were growing in popularity before the pandemic, with some of the more popular ones, like “Smartless”, “The Joe Rogan Experience”, and Logan Paul’s “Implausive” having millions of listeners, and being accessible on a variety of platforms. But their numbers have exploded since, with more and more people creating their own, trying to cash in on their popularity. Many podcasts, like other programing, use recorded music as an important component of the experience. But, your podcast can get taken down, and you can get sued, if you don’t have the proper licenses to put music in them. I’ve heard podcasters say, and have had them tell me: “Podcasts are just like radio, right? I just need performance licenses from the performing rights societies (BMI, ASCAP, SESAC, and GMR), to put music in my podcast”. Uh, no. It’s true that one should get performance licenses from all the performing rights societies, since smart speakers like Alexa and other devices stream podcasts. But other licenses must be obtained to legally use music in a podcast. Here’s why. A podcast isn’t like traditional radio, or the non-premium levels of streamers like Pandora, Spotify, or Apple Music, where you listen to music programmed on a channel, and can’t determine what song will be heard next. They’re noninteractive. Podcasts are considered interactive because the listener can listen to them on demand. This is similar to on-demand streaming, where a listener can choose a particular song, or create a custom playlist. This interactivity makes obtaining additional licenses necessary (which the licensors don’t have to grant, or can charge whatever they want for a license). Music in podcasts involves two sets of copyrights and owners. One is for the underlying musical composition/song, which is owned by the writer or the song’s publisher. (If that song has more than one writer, there may be multiple publishers, as well as writers). The other is for the recording of that song, which is usually owned by the record company for which it was recorded. The owners of copyrights have several exclusive rights in them, that they can use or license to others. One is the right to make copies of their copywritten work and distribute them. Another is the right to make “derivative works”, which is when the copywritten work is modified in some way. For songs, this can involve changing its lyrics, or joining it with other content. For recordings, using a sample of a recording in another recording, or joining it with other content, are examples. To legally use a song and recording in a podcast, a license must be obtained from both the song and recording owner(s) to make copies and distribute them, and to create derivative works of them. This is because both the song and recording are each a component of the podcast, creating an on-demand use of the music. Podcasters have been sued, and their podcasts shut down, for not obtaining these licenses. Finding these copyright owners, especially for major label or popular releases, can be a difficult and frustrating process. There may be multiple songwriters of a composition (and multiple publishing companies which likely own the copyrights). The rights to the songs and recordings may have been transferred over time from their original owners. To further complicate this, there’s currently no universal databases that provides up-to-date and complete records of who owns those copyrights. So, what’s a podcaster to do? Some podcasters commission original works from local or indie artists. They’re also more likely to own both the song and recording copyrights for their music, since they usually write and record it. There are now some online services and music libraries that clear all the rights to music (mostly indie music, not major label releases), and license that music to podcasters for set fees. This takeaway should be pretty evident – get all the licenses you need to use the music you want in your podcasts. If you don’t use could be left singing that old sad (and expensive) song, “The Copyright Infringement My Podcast Is Toast Blues”. Just Sayin’ …TM Paul I. Menes The Influencer Lawyer ®
One of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternative Mb.’s most rewarding projects is putting together alternative municipal and provincial budgets. This year, community and academic volunteers came together to participate in a democratic process resulting in in a comprehensive collection of policy papers embedded in a fiscal framework that mirrors the government’s budget. Volunteers analysed their area of expertise, explained the current state of affairs, examined government budgets and considered input gathered in community consultations held around Manitoba. Our Manitoba Alternative Provincial Budget 2020, Change Starts Here (APB), challenges politicians, educates the public and inspires all of us to make different choices about where revenues come from and how they are spent. We believe that if we dare to think differently, we can actually afford quality public health care, education, childcare and transportation. At the same time we can do something about the big problems of our age: inequality and climate change. As the APB explains, “we cannot confront climate change if we continue separating programs for economic growth and job creation on one hand, and environmental protection on the other. We need to integrate priorities that maintain a habitable planet while providing stable, decent livings for working people. This integration has most recently been captured in the notion of a Green New Deal.” Our budget capitalizes on advantages such as publically-owned Manitoba Hydro and Efficiency Manitoba, our strong social economy sector, local businesses acumen, and dynamic economic development strategies emerging in First Nations like Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation to show how a Green New Deal could roll out in Manitoba. We have all the elements we need; all that’s required is government leadership to put them together. There’s no better way to lead than with a bold budget that energizes all these sectors while putting thousands of Manitobans to work in decent jobs. But rather than leading the province towards solutions, the provincial government is implementing an austerity agenda that adversely affects all but the wealthiest Manitobans. Whether it be through corporatization of our post-secondary institutions, dramatic cuts in health care and K-12 education, restricting access to crown lands, attacking workers, or making it harder for vulnerable people to access decent housing, Manitoba is becoming a more difficult place to live. All this is happening on the heels of the Premier’s promise to make Manitoba the “most improved province.” In fact, Manitoba’s economic indicators have gone from being the strongest in Canada, to being average at best. An obsession with debt reduction and tax cuts over a willingness to grow our economy through the sorts of investments the APB makes means that our natural, capital and human resources are not being used to their full potential. Inequality and social marginalization The APB takes bold action to help Manitoba’s most vulnerable. We increase the supply of social and affordable housing and reverse the changes that disqualify many low-income renters from the Rent Assist program. The APB converts Employment and Income Assistance to a Liveable Basic Needs Benefit. This move is paid for by small net increases in middle and upper income taxes and has a dramatic effect on low income Manitobans’ lives. The lowest income household will realize more than an $8,000/year increase. Child Welfare program spending is increased and implemented in such a way as to continue the process of devolution and recognizes Indigenous self-determination. The APB increases spending on a variety of strategic program supports while quitting the use of social impact bonds (SIBS) to fund programs. The APB restores four years of frozen child care operating grants and increases unit funding by 7 percentage points. Such investments promote school readiness, build healthy communities, help reduce poverty, create decent jobs, help parents work and contribute to the life-long health of children. Restoring spending in: health care – including mental health and addictions programs and hiring nurses; K-12 and post-secondary education; the civil service; agriculture; municipal and rural infrastructure; and increasing spending in: food security; arts and culture; safe housing for those escaping gender-based violence; and supports for newcomers and the disability community will all have long-term economic and social benefits. The APB divests in the justice system and re-invests funds to help those trapped in the criminal-justice system leave, while freeing up funds to deal with homelessness, poverty and addictions. The strength of our budget is the way the recommendations in one area complement those in others. Training and investment for the North are rooted in community economic development and environmental principles that support our Green New Deal strategy and agriculture section. Our food security recommendations support the universal meal program in our K-12 education section. For those Manitobans who are frustrated with the lack of action on income inequality, reconciliation, climate change and the serious issues noted above, read our APB. The change you want starts there.
Looking for simple and affordable life insurance? Apply with PolicyMe now and get a decision in under ten minutes. Have you just been approved for a life insurance policy? Feel free to break out into a much-deserved happy dance! But before you can say that you've officially completed the insurance application process, there's one more thing you need to do: set up your monthly premium payments. Most insurance companies will ask you to pay your monthly premiums by setting up a pre-authorized payment agreement with them. To do this, they'll need the routing number and account number for your bank account. Not sure what the routing number is for your Tangerine bank account? Here's how to find it. What is a routing number? Before we dive into how to find your Tangerine routing number, let's talk about what in the world a routing number is. Canadian routing numbers are 8-digit codes that are used by banks. Each routing number represents the financial institution and the specific branch that's associated with a bank account. That's why a routing number is actually made up of 2 numbers: an institution number and a branch number. The institution number is the number for the bank that your account is based at. In Canada, institution numbers are always 3 digits long. Tangerine's institution number is 614. In comparison, the branch number (which is also known as the transit number) is 5 digits long. For traditional banks with brick-and-mortar branches, it represents the bank branch that your account is based at (but not necessarily the one that you typically bank at). The large banks in Canada, such as TD, BMO, RBC, Scotiabank, and CIBC, have multiple branches across the country. So when you're setting up pre-authorized payments for an account at one of these banks, it's important to know which bank branch you're based at and what the corresponding branch number is. However, Tangerine is an online bank that operates without brick-and-mortar branches. So there's only one branch number for all Tangerine clients. Tangerine's branch number is 00152. To get the routing number for your Tangerine bank account, just combine the branch number and the institution number. When you do this, you get the routing number 00152-614. How to find your Tangerine routing number using a cheque As we mentioned, because Tangerine doesn't have traditional branches, all Tangerine clients have the same routing number: 00152-614. But what if you forget to bookmark this post (do it now!) and you don't want to scour Google for the answer? You can always find the routing number on a cheque for your Tangerine bank account. It'll be part of the funny-looking numbers you see at the bottom. Take a look at this example of a cheque: Not all cheques look the same. So don't be alarmed if the numbers at the bottom of your Tangerine cheque don't look exactly the same as the numbers in this image do. For example, you might see different routing symbols between the different sets of numbers at the bottom of the cheque. Or you might have a cheque where the branch number and institution number are one long string of digits with no routing symbols between them. Fortunately, you can decipher the seemingly cryptic code at the bottom of your cheque by remembering that Tangerine's institution number is 614. This number is part of the routing number, so search for it at the bottom of the cheque to help you locate the full routing number. How to find your Tangerine routing number without a cheque If you chose Tangerine to make your banking fully electronic, you might not have a paper cheque lying around. Does this mean that you're out of luck? Not at all. Because you can find your institution number and branch number in your Tangerine online account. Here's how to do this: - Log in to your Tangerine account. - Click on your chequing account. - View your account details. You can also click on the "void cheque" button to download a PDF of a void cheque that contains your routing number. Now that's what we call easy peasy! What do I need my routing number for? When you send your routing number and account number to your insurance company, they'll use it to set up pre-authorized payments for your monthly premium payments. They'll do this by linking their bank account to your Tangerine bank account electronically. This will let them automatically withdraw your premium payment from your bank account each month. And because you won't have to lift a finger to make this happen, you won't run the risk of missing a payment (unless your account has insufficient funds). You'll also need to know your Tangerine routing number if you want to set up pre-authorized payments for other recurring payments, such as those utility bill payments or your monthly car payment. And your employer might ask for it too so they can pay you electronically via direct deposit.
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Our pre-school classes are commissioned by The Highland Council to provide free pre-school education for children aged 3 and 4. We have a maximum capacity of 29 children per session. Our pre-school classes follow the Curriculum for Excellence framework which is implemented within all aspects of the pre-school including individual planning for children, key worker system and working in partnership with parents. Two classes run daily from 8.50am to 12:00pm and 12.50 to 4.00pm during term time. Each session is full of well-planned activities to ensure every child can reach his/her full potential. The children are encouraged to be independent and learn to have respect for each other and their surroundings. They participate in activities which promote early literacy and language development. Lots of the sessions focus on early maths and science. Music and dance play a large role in the curriculum and everyone enjoys letting their hair down. Physical education is a very important part of the daily routine and we make use of our wonderful garden areas. We are inspected by HMIe and the Care Commission and we have an annual self-evaluation to monitor all areas of the provision, maintaining our very high standards. We are using the Curriculum for Excellence to support children in developing the four capacities of Successful Learners, Confident Individuals, Responsible Citizens and Effective Contributors. Learning is done through fun, creative play as we explore – - Expressive arts, - Health and Wellbeing, - Literacy and English, - Religious and moral education, - Social studies and
What's more important: college rank or choice of major? There is little doubt that the release U.S. News and World Report's annual college rankings is one of the most closely watched events in the education industry. Families monitor the rankings to see what schools their children should be applying to. College consultants use them to advise what colleges students should apply to and what the students' chances of admission are. Even the colleges themselves will come up with "creative" ways to increase their rankings, as a higher rank is often associated with more applicants and higher tuition costs. But, how much attention should should be paid to college rankings? One one hand, as far as selectivity goes, the rankings are fairly reliable. The schools on top of the list are significantly more difficult to get into than the ones below. They are able to attract more prestigious companies to career fairs. In many instances, they have a stronger alumni network. Lastly, employers will oftentimes use the brand name of a school as a proxy of how qualified an applicant is (if an applicant got into Harvard, they are more likely to be driven and have a strong set of skills just virtue of having done well on the ACT/SAT). However, what is often overlooked when selecting colleges is the importance of choosing the right major. In fact, in many cases, the choice of major is more important than the college. There is a lack of programmers and engineers today, and many tech companies are willing to go above and beyond to attract students studying in the the tech fields. On the other hand, if you are an English major from Harvard, the employment opportunities are rather limited: become a teacher/professor or write a book. When I see a student tell me they are interested in the STEM fields, I almost never worry about them, regardless of what colleges they are looking to apply to. On the other hand, when I hear a student say they are looking into studying entrepreneurship, I wonder what their job prospects will be after graduating. That's not to say that all students should pursue STEM in college. As someone who went to business and law school, I can sympathize with those of us who are more humanities oriented. Not to mention, strong communication skills and the ability to relate to others is important in every industry. With that being said, those of us who don't have a natural inclination towards the STEM fields need to be careful about what majors we choose. Yes, if a student is passionate about English and they've been entranced by classical literature from the Greco-Roman period since middle school, then godspeed! But, if a student is choosing business because they don't know what else to choose, that's risky: business degrees, aside from perhaps finance and accounting, are great when coupled with a technical skill, but on their own are not as sought after by companies as many students believe. Fortune 500 companies are usually not hiring students who just graduated from undergraduate business programs for mid-level management positions. Similarly, students who have mediocre grades and test-scores who are interested in STEM fields should take solace in the fact that they have bright future ahead even if they don't get into the top engineering schools. In fact, it would be a risky decision to try to get into a better ranked school by applying as "undecided" or a less competitive major because there is no guarantee they'll be able to transfer into the program of their choice later. Suffice it to say that while rankings have their use, there are a multitude of factors that go into deciding what colleges and, perhaps more importantly, what programs to apply to.
First of all you must read the tender documents, and all of them. Most of the time we as planners do not have enough time on our hands - but a review of the tender documents will allow you to plan and #programme the project - with ease and confidence. The tender preliminary health and safety plan will also give you the duration of the project - that is if it isn't in the ITT (Instructions to Tenderers) document. Also read the type of #contract. A lot of planners do not read the contract clauses regarding #programme and project timeline. Resources, some contracts require a resourced #programme, that is one to watch. Also, what type of contract is it - #NEC4 or #FIDIC or #JCT ? When you open the pack of tender drawings for a building project, focus on the site location and logistics. As planners we must focus on how we build the project and the logistics required - is it a constricted inner city site ? does it require a #gantry ? ...where will the tower cranes be located - can they meet the loading's of plant to be installed in the project ? Take a good look at the structural and civil drawings also, what is under the soil ? what does the structural engineer say in the report ? Is rock or perched water evident ? In this case we will look at #piling.. #Piling - is piling required - what type of piling - contiguous or secant for example ? How does the rig access the site ? What happens to the arising - are they contaminated ? The structural drawings are potentially the most important set of drawings that the #tender planner must review as part of the programme compilation. The substructure is always the highest risk area in any tender programme. What is the piling sequence ? What are the adjacent and neighbouring properties ? Have I visited site ? Where are underground and overhead utilities ? Time and time again as programme experts, we are required to write programme reports for clients and contractors in terms of the assessment of #risk on construction programmes at tender and prior to construction commencement. The above is a quick snapshot of where it can all go wrong - or go right for substructure !
Somehow it seems that formatting is one of the hardest things for students. Either because there are so many things to take care of, or because the requirements do vary from course to course and college to college. Is formatting your own dissertation always so painful and tame-taking process that will make you stressed out and anxious? Not at all, there are simple secrets that will make the process easier for you and you’ll feel ready to do it all yourself. There are some special criteria in a college or from your professor, and you should get a printed or electronic manual describing all of that. The document might be big and wordy, but don’t let it scare you. Highlight all the important details in the document, you can even jot them down on sticky notes and pin somewhere near your working place. This will show you exactly what you need to include. Look at the calendar and make some checkpoints in your work to follow your progress and have a daily goal. Don’t try to do everything at once, but spare a couple of hours a day to work on formatting in a quiet and comfortable place. Turn some slow music, be attentive, you could use Pomodoro technique to improve concentration. But make sure no-one bothers you. Reread the instruction to see if you’re missing something. Do it a couple of times if needed, to lower your anxiety. Finish your layout and look for some common mistakes, check the spacing, margins, fonts everywhere and the presence of all the pages needed. Before you send you dissertation, be sure to check everything not to get your stuff rejected. Try to stay focused on your work and don’t let others bother you. Find a place you could be alone and work there. Avoid excessive use of caffeine and try to keep your mind clear to be precise and objective. Don’t play around with fonts and remember that the text editor might contain some defaults in it, so don’t rely on its formatting. As you see, it’s not that hard in the end if you know what to do and where to start from. It’s important to remember things to watch out too, since they are easy to forget about, but can lower your grade. Follow the list and focus on the process to ace it without worries.
Though no fault of our own, we have been plagued with the threatening, horrific coronavirus that has taken multitudes of lives and decimated our economy. Many Americans have found themselves unemployed and are striving to keep their heads above the waters. Many hard working households need assistance to feed their families and maintain shelter. However, we must be cognizant of the abuse and misuse of funds by those not using government sanctioned monies wisely—funds that were meant to keep their households afloat. This misuse of monies provided through stimulus checks, money added to unemployment checks and moratoriums on federally financed properties results when some people collect more per month than they had ever imagined. They often use the extra money to entertain once unattainable luxuries and indulgences. With the eviction and mortgage moratorium, some recipients do not apply the monies to their housing (be they renters or mortgage payers). Instead they choose other options, e.g., buying used cars, jewelry, luxuries, or even dream trips, etc. The stimulus checks are supposed to help stimulate the failing economy, and you would think those struggling would prioritize sustaining their housing and feeding their families. Some people don’t seem to realize that when the moratorium on evictions and federal mortgages end, they will still be financially responsible for paying the back rent or mortgage payments. These payments were only temporarily suspended. There may be an army of renters and mortgage payers facing evictions and homelessness when the housing moratoriums end. Our government is providing much needed relief with these stimulus checks, additional monies to unemployment checks and eviction moratoriums. They are life supports to help struggling families and to kickstart our ailing economy. While most people are very appreciative and needy of the checks and added monies to their unemployment, there is a skepticism that there are many unemployed workers misusing the government funding provided—thinking that another large bail-out by the government will be needed when things settle. While it is hoped that most people in dire need are using their stimulus checks to help stay afloat by providing food for their families, paying crucial bills, paying their rents and mortgages—we must be aware that some are not applying these funds toward prioritized bills. Unfortunately, not using these monies appropriately may come to bite some people, especially when the moratorium on evictions and federally backed mortgages ends. You may see many families facing evictions. Home owners may face foreclosures despite the many state and federal government programs that are available for rent and mortgage payment assistance. Do not be surprised to see many greedy, unscrupulous predators capitalizing on the influx of foreclosures that are probably going to come about after the moratorium ends on evictions and federally financed mortgages. Look to see an influx of tenants behind on their rent evicted and unable to find affordable housing. Even with the financial assistance programs that will be available, you may eventually see people crying for the government to bail them out in the housing department to keep them from becoming homeless. As it stands now there is protection for tenants and mortgage loan borrowers under the CARES Act (Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security). But it is only temporary and will eventually end. Those utilizing the safety nets provided by the government should be cautious and wise, looking to avoid dire consequences in the end. Using funds supplied by the COVID Stimulus Package unwisely is hurtful and insulting to the many struggling and needy businesses that were overlooked. They could be forced to fold. Abuse and misuse of funds hurts truly deserving people, especially in determining future aid or assistance. Kudos to those using the monies correctly to honestly survive or keep their heads afloat. I pray that maybe I am wrong in what I see as an inevitable scenario of a cry for a bigger bailout once the economy improves and the virus is arrested.
PITTSBURGH, July 1, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Two inventors from Oakland, Calif., were disturbed by the frequency of deaths reported as a result of people and animals confined for long periods of time in overheated cars. It prompted them to devise an automotive safety feature to avert this danger. They developed SOLAR LIFE SAVER to maintain a safe and comfortable temperature inside a parked motor vehicle. As such, it keeps the interior heat level below dangerous heights to prevent suffocation of children and pets left in cars in high temperatures. Thus, it affords peace of mind for busy parents, grandparents and pet owners when they travel by car. At the same time, it does not detract from the appearance of the vehicle and is cost efficient and easy to install and operate. In addition, this convenient and effective system comes at an affordable price. The inventors' personal observation inspired the idea. "After hearing of the many instances where children and pets have died or suffered severe injury from being left unattended in a parked motor vehicle," one of them said, "we realized a system like this was needed in order to prevent that type of tragedy." The original design was submitted to the San Francisco sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 18-SFO-624, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
- Lifespans vary widely and longevity dramatically increases health-care costs - When planning for retirement expenses, many savers rely on basic assumptions - Plan providers have an opportunity to include more realistic longevity and health expenses in retirement calculations People are living longer, and health care is getting more expensive. These are two current realities that most future retirees are at least aware of. But understanding how the two are related and the important retirement challenge they present requires focused investor education and a proactive approach to saving. Traditional planning is becoming less relevant Experts suggest targeting a retirement income equivalent to 70%-80% of working income to sustain a lifestyle similar to that of an individual’s working years. This estimate assumes that large expenses such as a mortgage or college funding are no longer a factor. What may be missing is the dramatic and increasing portion of income that will be needed for health-care costs for each year spent in retirement, which are currently projected to increase at over 5% annually. Understanding longevity forecasts is the first step Longevity and health-care costs complicate retirement calculations because they present such a wide range of potential outcomes. For individuals who are still in good health at age 65, life expectancy is significantly higher than it was at birth; 87 for men and 89 for women in the United States.* Health-care costs also vary widely and must be figured as averages from a range of possible outcomes — some individuals experience very high expenses, and others much lower. Healthy individuals ultimately have higher costs in retirement than individuals who are in poor health because their longevity is a greater driver of costs than shorter-term illness. Retirement means no more employer insurance contributions Workers who have access to employer subsidized health insurance, or who qualify for subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, may be unaware how much their insurance costs will increase in retirement when they become responsible for all premiums and out-of-pocket costs. Annual Medicare Parts B and D, supplemental insurance, dental insurance, and out-of-pocket medical costs in retirement for a couple aged 65 currently average $11,369 and are projected to be $39,208 for that same couple at age 85. For an average couple, those 20 years in retirement can mean $404,253 in health-care costs in today’s dollars, without including long-term nursing care.* Plan providers can provide education on health-care costs Providing health-care cost estimates in tandem with retirement savings calculators allows savers to better see how much they need to save and to plan accordingly. Saving more before retirement, due to compounding of returns, is less expensive than paying costs as they occur in retirement. Retirement plan providers can partner with plan sponsors to educate plan participants about projected long-term health care costs. This would help to give future retirees a realistic model for estimating expenses in retirement. Participants should be encouraged to save enough, early enough, when compounding can help make it easier to cover future costs. *Healthview Services, 2017 Retirement Health Care Costs Data Report. More in: Retirement,
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You aren’t the only ones outraged Michigan high school teacher Jay McDowell was suspended for a day without pay after trying to make his classroom a place for acceptance rather than intolerance. So too is 14-year-old Ann Arbor student Graeme Taylor, who told Howell High School’s board we need more McDowells, not fewer. This boy is amazing. After McDowell was disciplined for telling a student to remove a confederate flag belt buckle (because it represented racism) while defending the purple clothing of Spirit Day, Howell administrators insisted McDowell was at fault for infringing on students’ First Amendment rights. Not cool, Taylor declared in front of the school board at a packed meeting on Monday. Quoting Dr. Martin Luther King, Taylor told board members about how their district isn’t just home to the KKK (Grand Wizard Robert Miles lived nearby before he died), but to intolerant students who drove him, at the age of nine, to attempt suicide. What McDowell tried to do, says Taylor, was move the needle ever so slightly in the other direction and defend LGBT kids who have found hallway torment to be status quo. “The best thing you can do right now is just give him his pay for that day, and just reverse the disciplinary actions,” Taylor told the school board. “He did an amazing thing. He did something that’s inspired a lot of people. And whenever—ever—I have a teacher stand up for me like that, they change in my eyes. I support Jay McDowell, and I hope you do too.” Kids these days. They are amazing.
We’re all victims of what life deals out. It’s how we handle it that’s important. I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places. No one can earn a million dollars honestly.- William Jennings Bryan People first, then money, then things.- Suze Orman The money is great, no way am I complaining.- David Wells Money never prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy.- Eddie Barclay We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.- Dave Ramsey Comments on: "Nora Roberts Quotes: I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places." |Birth:||10th October, 1950| |Profession:||Author, Novelist, Writer| Quote of the day Our mission is to motivate, boost self confiedence and inspire people to Love life, live life and surf life with words.
An Appetite For Learning, Hunger For knowledge and Thirst For Information. If you are a Nepalese and reading this, you are the 1% who is capable of reading and understanding English. I guarantee you that whatever you are going to read from here onward in this post is the best thing you could read today. Lately, I have been watching lots of biographical documentaries freely available on YouTube along with science and history related videos. Also, I keep reading about many theories especially related to psychology and sociology, many concepts, ideas, and perspectives. I spend all my day doing these kinda stuffs. Such a nerd I must be, ain’t I? Not really and this is not only my story. Many of us, I would say 99% of us are self-made, self-educated youths. Parents of that 99 % don’t understand English that much. A couple of hours in school during the English-medium subjects and here we are reading and conversing in English. Most of our parents have no idea about science & theories, concepts & ideologies of the modern world and neither the school taught us nor our college. We learned and are learning about them on our own. Thanks to the Internet. We have spent hours and hours digging around what is right and what is wrong, spent hours and hours observing values and conscience of people from different societies through movies and videos. We have spent many nights reading Wikipedia and comment threads in forums. Neither our parents ask us to do that nor our college did. But we did because somewhere inside we realized there is something missing from our lives. There is a huge difference in the level of consciousness between us and those youths from developed nations. To be particular, we are in the quest of knowing, learning, understanding everything through the Internet, through books and movies, that our parents know nothing about. We spend hours in front of computer and tabs and mobiles surfing Wikipedia, Quora, youtube videos, documentaries, and films that many have no idea. In fact, we are self-educating. Now, not every one of us is knowledge hunger. Some of them use their Internet for porn and useless stuff (I think so). Some of them use the Internet to find dates and partners to hook. Long post turns them off, deep talks bore them. They just want to read headings and presume to understand the news. They want to read a few lines and pass judgment on authors. Their attitude towards life and their privilege is quite mediocre. Are you one of them? But, I highly doubt you are the latter one because he/she must have already left the post in the midway. You know, the long post bore them to hell. Every day I am more convinced that I need to learn many many things. Most of us suffer from an illusion of “I know” just because “have heard about.” We think we know about Hitler because we have heard about him; here and there. We think we know about Fidel Castro because we have heard about him; here and there. We think we know about World War and we think we know about the atomic bomb detonated in Hiroshima and Nagasaki because we have heard about it. “Heard about” isn’t KNOWING. Knowing comes after hours of reading about the subject after hours of listening from experts, watching many films and documentaries on the subject. I don’t anymore claim to know things that I haven’t spend hours and days of my life researching to know. I am pretty convinced that like how far we came in the last 10 years. We will be much better in the next 10 years. Suddenly a question struck — WAIT! What if the internet is gone? You never know what happens in politics especially in the country like Nepal. Imagine, one morning you wake up and your YourTube is gone, your Facebook is gone, your Wikipedia is gone. You are fed like North Koreans or Cubans, the state permitted books and contents. The government tells you what you can watch and what you cannot. What you can read and what you cannot. You are hypnotized with populist promises and propaganda. Will we evolve at the same speed at the last 10 years? Or will we be stuck in one timeline of human civilization like Cubans are stuck in the 70s? Sometimes, we realize the value of a thing only when we lose it. Same goes for democracy. Same goes for freedom Same goes with privilege. Wiseness is realizing their values before losing them so that we fight to preserve them. Do everything to make the best use of them. Let me repeat this again. Having access to the Internet, capable of understanding English, and also having the patience to read such long post in a boring topic like intellectuality and knowledge & stuff already make you THE PROMISING ONE. You are from the 1% bracket. You, the one percent is the one to influence and inspire and guide the rest of the 99%. This country needs you. But before that, 10 long years we are yet to spend, reading, watching, learning, observing, understanding, human, world, country, society. The privilege that you currently enjoy is the blessing. You must count that. Make the best use of the Internet and best use of your lack of financial constraints in search of history, in search of answers, in search of facts and figures. Try knowing everything needed that shall make you immune to propaganda, immune to fallacies, immune to manipulations. I am telling you this because I recently realized how much you and I are privileged. Yet, how vulnerable we are and what needs to be done before anything goes wrong. Let’s grow some ears, grow some patience, increase our appetite for learning, hunger for knowledge, thirst for information. If not to make a better country or better world at least to make a better family. Luckiness is being born through parents that are well informed and well knowledgeable. Be with the luck.
An Iowa-based non-profit organization dedicated to planting and protecting trees plans to launch a massive campaign in the spring to restore thousands of trees that were destroyed by the August 10th derecho. John Bright, spokesman for Marion-based Trees Forever, says the effort is being called Project Hope and it’ll focus on purchasing and planting trees in areas that were devastated by the powerful storm. “There are some very hard hit areas in Cedar Rapids and Marion and the surrounding area,” Bright says. “It was really a massive disaster that covered 750-plus miles from Iowa to Illinois and that covers pretty much the exact Trees Forever service area.” Towns including Hiawatha, Marshalltown and rural areas of Iowa will also be the focus of the project. The tree canopy in Cedar Rapids was ravaged by the storm and some estimate more than six in every ten trees were destroyed by wind gusts there that reached 140-miles an hour. “If you haven’t seen it in person, it’s hard to comprehend,” Bright says. “Sixty-five percent is the number that people are using but that’s just the initial look. It’s hard to tell when you’re going through the city. The arborists can’t figure out for sure which trees will make it though and which trees won’t.” A tree-planting effort this fall saw more than 1,200 saplings given away just in Cedar Rapids, and Bright says they’re planning for many thousands more trees to be planted next spring. A training program called Treekeepers is available online now for those who want to get involved. “It’s a webinar series where we train people to become Treekeepers,” Bright says. “You learn everything from tree identification to tree care, planting, everything you need to become an effective and helpful volunteer for Trees Forever. Those Treekeepers really are the main force behind our volunteer efforts.” The derecho recovery process will take decades and Bright says the organization is asking citizens to give the gift of trees to the next generation of Iowans.
Podcasts are immensely popular—but that’s not biggest reason you should consider creating an internal broadcast for your organization. The big benefit of digital audio is the impact it has on listeners—and how it makes messages resonate. In research from Mindshare NeuroLab, scientists discovered that information consumed in a podcast achieves a higher emotional resonance and better memory encoding than visual only mediums. “If you have something important to say and you want it to be remembered by your employees, audio is one of the most effective ways to do it,” says Noor Hammad, CMO for Whooshkaa, an audio-content management platform. And that’s before factoring in COVID-19 and the remote workplace. During the pandemic, organizations have struggled to find ways to connect with remote workers. Tactics that were effective months ago like a weekly Zoom call have led to “Zoom fatigue.” But private podcasts are an engaging way to deliver information to employees in an accessible format, says Hammad. The internal podcast is a solution for a looming employee-engagement crisis as workers face burnout and overwork, Hammad says. Podcasts also offer some distinct advantages over other internal comms channels. - “Employees often listen to podcasts alone using headphones,” Hammad says. “You’re speaking directly into the ears of your employees!” - “Employees can—and do—consume content while engaged in other tasks such as driving to work, cooking, caring for their children, and exercising,” Hammad says. That can be a good thing for organizations trying to reach busy employees without intruding on their other obligations. - The human voice can offer information in a more memorable and meaningful way than other mediums, Hammad says, again referring to Mindshare NeuroLab’s research. Topics on tap Podcasts are a heavy commitment. A regular editorial schedule with precise content planning is essential to build up an episode library. Even for a show that just provides company updates, a regular posting schedule is necessary to keep listeners coming back for more. What topics should your internal pod cover? There’s a wide variety, from internal communications to employee onboarding, sales enablement and training, according to Hammad. For internal communications, podcasts can be used to deliver executive updates, share workplace success stories, and provide updates during a crisis. A podcast allows executives to “communicate with the nuance and tone that only comes from delivering a message in your own voice,” says Hammad. For employee onboarding, podcasts can deliver mission statements and orientation information, help outline new employee roles and expectations, and profile colleagues. “Show new hires some of the great work their colleagues are doing,” Hammad advises. “Motivate new employees to follow suit and demonstrate how your business recognizes and amplifies good work.” Podcasts can also be used for sales training and prep, offering quick sales debriefs and case studies, keeping teams up-to-date and offering resources. A podcast can also cover compliance and legal requirements that employees need to understand. Ease of use One of the benefits of a podcasting solution like Whooshkaa, Hammad says, is its ease of access for users. The product allows secure distribution of private podcasts via popular apps like Apple Podcasts and Pocket Casts. Instead of employees having to go on the intranet and download new episodes, they can find new episodes where they already listen to podcasts—but it can still be a private, internal offering. “A key contributor to the success of any new internal communications channel is ease of consumption for employees,” Hammad says. “The only difference for employees accessing a private podcast vs a public podcast is the entry point.” Instead of searching public podcast directories, users are emailed a link to a private feed that can be opened and subscribed to via popular podcast apps. Once signed up, podcast listeners receive all the benefits of a typical podcast, like real-time updates, push notifications and more. For companies that are determined to post podcast episodes on an internal website, Whooshkaa offers a secure web player that can be embedded. Production made simple What equipment and personnel do you need to start an internal podcast? Hammad says it can be simple: “A good idea, a quiet space, a microphone and a web browser are all you need to create a podcast with Whooshkaa.” You don’t have to invest in all the bells and whistles of a fancy recording studio either, he says. “We have customers who record podcasts directly onto their iPhones and others who have expensive microphones, mixers and other studio equipment,” he says, adding that some of the most successful internal podcasts have the “least production value.” “The ultimate success of a private podcast is in the information you’re communicating to your audience,” Hammad continues. On the question of how much time has to be invested to get a quality internal podcast, Hammad says that depends. “A short executive update may take 30 minutes to record and edit,” he says. “Interviewing multiple employees on location, including complex sound design, would require a much larger investment of time.” To create quality content in a shorter period, Hammad recommends limiting the complexity of the project, and developing a template that can be easily replicated. The metrics that apply to most internal communications programing can be used to evaluate an internal podcast, Hammad says. With Whooshkaa, clients have the ability to see which employees are consuming podcast content on an individual level. Communicators should also track macro trends. Whooshkaa integrates qualitative data tools into the listening process—such as a survey—that can deliver important feedback to the podcast team. Some companies are already seeing concrete benefits to their internal podcast campaigns. “Some unexpected but very valuable benefits are emerging,” Hammad says, citing how one customer recently found that podcasting was improving diversity and inclusion by offering a platform for employees who aren’t traditionally able to speak to the whole company. For companies that have build up a library of podcasts, the accumulated organizational knowledge has been an important asset. Instead of starting from scratch, teams can go back and find usable content in addressing initiatives like employee onboarding, training and staff-development programs. This article is in partnership with Whooshkaa.
Most people know what a filmmaker does – they make movies, right? You would think that filmmakers should know about screenwriting – right? sadly this is not true. Let me explain. The filmmaking team is composed of people with different job titles. The person driving the film is the producer. This filmmakers, the film producer has the most thankless job of all: he or she builds the movies from the ground up. The film producer’s job goes like this: - – get a screenplay - – get a director and cast - – get the money - – make the movie - – market and sell the movie - – move on to the next project - – repay the investors from the first film If the process is clear, and the workflow so obvious, why is it that 90% of filmmakers and film producers go so terribly wrong at the very first step: getting a screenplay? I could introduce you to dozens of film producers who would each proclaim what a wonderful eye for material they have. When cornered and asked what they base this on, usually they get lame and respond with something like: “I just ‘know’ when it’s good”‘ or “kids in America are eating this stuff up right now.” They really don’t know about screenwriting. The whole secret to a great screenplay is to have a successful story. Sadly, most filmmakers and film producers have practically no training in what makes a good story. And fewer yet understand the importance and fragile quality of the relationship between writer and producer. Even more basic is the plain and simple fact that most filmmakers and producers have not a single clue as to how to work with a screenwriter to develop the story or screenplay they have just purchased. I could fill this with story after story of my own experiences in ‘development hell’. I’ve spent hours listening to the critiques and story advice from under-qualified story analysts and development executives who pass off superficial advice as if it were gospel, and then demand a co-writing credit. I once looked across the desk of a senior British script development executive and saw a 42-page critique on a project I was producing that started off with the words: “Reading this screenplay was most instructive.” Imagine the pearls that followed that line! Here’s a dirty little secret: writers love feedback – if it is useful. Writers need constructive feedback. If you tell a writer that their “second act story curtain is a little weak” they will have no idea what you mean, or have a clue how to fix or alter their story. Try and be specific with your criticisms. Another common and lame response from a producer will be along the lines of this flaky cop-out: “I don’t want to tell you what to write since you are the writer, but…” Successful producers know and understand story and the principles of genre. Most other producers don’t. Successful filmmakers make the study and understanding of story and screenplay their primary focus. Most wannabe filmmakers won’t at their peril. 10 Things Filmmakers Should Know About Screenwriting 1. Verbal Pitches The art of pitching is essentially a producer skill that should be honed and sharpened. Verbal pitches are a great way to browse ideas. Learn to identify potential story problems at pitch stage and see whether or not they can be solved. Often story problems can be resolved simply by re-pitching the story using the ‘what if?’ approach. 2. Predictable and generic story ideas According to western thought, there are only 7 basic storylines: [wo]man vs. nature [wo]man vs. [wo]man [wo]man vs. the environment [wo]man vs. machines/technology [wo]man vs. the supernatural [wo]man vs. self [wo]man vs. god/religion All stories have elements of predictable and generic ideas. Your job as a producer is to identify these elements, and then be able to demonstrate or inspire your screenwriter to surmount these ideas and take these generic ideas to a place that hasn’t been seen before. 3. High concept vs. low concept Low concept films deal primarily with relationships. High concept films do as well, except most film producers get so swept off their feet by the logline of the high concept that they forget that the high concept can deliver just a handful of scenes. It is the producer’s job to work with the writer and extend the story beyond the promise delivered by the high concept, and turn it from a set-piece into a story. A good tool to use for this is to focus on the main opponent and the moral tale within the story. But now we are really getting into a deep discussion. 4. Understanding the rewriting process It is completely understandable that the second draft of a script is worse than the first for the simple reason that the writer’s awareness of the story are ahead of the actual words he or she is able to put onto paper. A skilful producer will learn to nurture a writer through this painful step and also be able to offer sound advice. 5. Being seduced by dialogue No one can fix a script by rewriting dialogue. Dialogue is the glitter on the surface of a story. Delve deep into the story and assess the storyline weaknesses and focus on reforming these essential elements before moving on to a dialogue rewrite. 6. Understanding character The common flaw of unsuccessful scripts is that the main character does not have a clearly defined goal – a goal that can be measured. There must be a point in time when we, the audience, can see if the main character has achieved or failed to achieve their goal. Well drawn characters also need to have morals – and these need not be the morals accepted by western civilisation. 7. Understanding genre Most, if not all, films sold in America and Britain are combinations of two or more of the basic genres. Romantic/comedy and action/adventure are two of the most popular genre blends. Edgar Wright, my first intern, made Shaun of the Dead work by combining Horror and Comedy with a sprinkling of Love. Writers have it easy – they need to specialise in two or three genres. But producers need to specialise in all eleven of the basic genre forms because their next project could come in any of the genre combinations. 8. Understanding universal appeal A comedy with local humour might never travel. But a comedy based on institutions or cultural systems can become huge international hits. 9. Surmounting genre and genre blends Learning the different genres and genre blends doesn’t make you a good film producer (or a good screenwriter). All it simply means that you have joined a cast of hundreds of thousands of sophisticated storytellers with clichéd patterns. Accordingly, the writer’s and producer’s job is to take these generic story forms and twist and bend them into a shape that no one has seen before. 10. Understanding story structure Story structure is the most unhelpful phrase created in the lingo of screenwriters and film producers. It implies some sort of measure or slide rule that will make your story work. I prefer to talk about the patterns of your story. Producers and filmmakers should study the story patterns readily seen in commercially successful films and learn how these patterns can be replicated. A producer and writer working together on this can be an awesome and inspiring team to see. Remember that a producer doesn’t write. Writing is the writer’s job. But seeing the bigger picture, and understanding how genre ‘rules’ can be broken is the producer’s job. There is no denying that mastering these ten steps is a demanding process that requires intense concentration and hard work. There are no short cuts either: you either master these points or you don’t. There’s lots I don’t know about screenwriting too. The upside is that, if you do master these ten points you will be an unstoppable force in the film industry at a time when everyone is crying how difficult it is.
COMS E6998: SW Engineering for AI Systems, Spring 2021 AI models are increasingly being used in safety-critical systems like autonomous vehicles. This comes with concerns about the quality and reliability of these systems, as several erroneous and sometimes even fatal behaviors have already been reported. However, due to the fundamental architectural differences between AI and traditional software, existing software engineering techniques do not apply to them in an obvious way. In fact, companies like Google, Tesla, etc. are increasingly facing all the traditional software engineering challenges. In this class, we will discuss different Software Engineering practices and challenges model developers are facing for AI-based systems. In particular, we will focus on the quality assurance of the DNN models. Instructor: Baishakhi Ray Class Schedule: Monday and Wednesday 1:10 PM - 2:25 PM Location: Online (Zoom Link will be posted) Office Hours: Wednesday 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm /appointment Class Participation: 40% Late submissions: No late assignments will be accepted. Academic rules of conduct: Students are expected to adhere to the Academic Honesty policy of the Computer Science Department, this policy can be found in full here. Violations: Violation of any portion of these policies will result in a penalty to be assessed at the instructor's discretion. This may include receiving a zero grade for the assignment in question and a failing grade for the whole course, even for the first infraction. In order to receive disability-related academic accommodations for this course, students must first be registered with their school Disability Services (DS) office. Detailed information is available online for both the Columbia and Barnard registration processes. Refer to the appropriate website for information regarding deadlines, disability documentation requirements, and drop-in hours (Columbia)/intake session (Barnard). Students registered with the Columbia DS office can refer to the Master TARF section of the DS Testing Accommodations page for more information regarding disability-related academic accommodations for this course.
The first Christians knew and quoted the Septuagint (LXX), the Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures. It is clearly shown that the first Christians, authors of the New Testament, quoted the LXX over 90% of the time. (See the chart halfway down this page). This is a strong indicator that Jews in the time of Christ knew the LXX just as well (perhaps better) than the original Hebrew Bible. This is a curiosity. The very first Christians were Jews. Their mother tongue was Hebrew, a close cousin to Aramaic. It was the Hebrew Bible that was recited at the temple. They would have memorized the Hebrew Bible in synagogue school. The Jews had also learned another language, the language of the entire civilized world--Greek. Bowed over their writing desks, seventy scribes are paused. They listen intently for the next phrase to be spoken. At the front of the room, the head scribe holds an open scroll covered in Hebrew and Aramaic. He reads aloud the next phrase in Hebrew, then mentally translates it and speaks it again--in Greek. The 70 scribes quickly write what they have heard.This is the story of the Septuagint, as I heard it. It doesn't mesh exactly with the facts, but it makes for a good legend. 300 years before Christ, Alexander the Great--a Greek--had conquered nations from Egypt to India. He brought with him Greek culture and the Greek language. His conquest shrank the world. Greek language allowed any people from different nations and languages to communicate. Naturally, the Hebrew Bible (known to Christians as the Old Testament or OT today) was also translated into Greek. The story goes that 70 (or 72) scribes worked on the translation, thus the name "Septuagint" which means 70, and the abbreviation LXX, which is the Roman numeral for 70. "The New Testament writers weren’t nitwits or dishonest. They were using the Septuagint." http://blog.logos.com/2007/12/why_use_the_septuagint/
Earlier this week, on September 21, the United Nations honored the International Day of Peace, a UN-sanctioned day on which all violent conflicts are expected to cease so that humanitarian aid might more effectively reach victims of the conflict. The day also gives warring parties and all humans an opportunity to reflect on creating a more peaceful world. On this day and the days around it, groups and individuals around the world participate in various kinds of events—from peace marches to comedy shows—as a way to contribute to the growing movement to find new and safer ways to foster peace and well-being in the world. It's a remarkable day—but what I want to express today is the way that any day can be an opportunity for the kind of creative social activism that the International Day of Peace signifies. The Peace Project With my organization, Heartwalker Peace Project (www.heartwalker.org), I have organized events for the last five years in honor of the International Day of Peace. From 2005 through 2009, I hosted and lead a Heartwalk in San Francisco. “What is a Heartwalk,” you may ask? A Heartwalk is a peace march that is not “anti” anything; it is a celebration of peace. All kinds of people gather and walk a route in the streets that is shaped like a heart. The goal is to get people who might never connect, to talk to one another and share ideas and visions of peace, as well as have fun advocating for peace, instead of going to yet another angry protest where nobody really gets heard. I try to organize events in the same spirit throughout the year, integrating the International Day of Peace with the rest of the calendar. This year, on September 10 -11, I hosted a 24-Hour Peace Vigil at my studio space in Oakland, bringing various people from the Oakland area to connect and pray together, meditate together, make music together, and inspire one another. Not only could you come and meditate, but there was a Heart Labyrinth, classes for adults and kids, speakers and performers. It was a fun and creative experience, where people who would never have connected, had the opportunity to send prayers of peace to Oakland and the world. I am not bringing this up to simply brag about what I have done. I want to bring this up as an example of something that I find essential for each of us in our own personal growth and also in our pursuit of personal fulfillment and happiness. I have found from my own experience and from my various spiritual and developmental studies that the one thing that truly leads to happiness is authentic service to others and the larger community. The Dalai Lama has said many times, “Look for your own happiness and you find suffering; seek the hardship of helping others and you experience true happiness.” I have discovered in my many years of spiritual practice that this is really true. When we are caught up in personal gain and focusing completely on our own goals, we ultimately experience crisis. There are many stories of people who devote their lives to making profit and getting ahead, only to discover that their possessions and status are not bringing them the happiness they were hoping for. This is one extreme. It Begins with One The more we focus on the well-being of others, we experience the deeper levels of happiness that go beyond the satisfaction of obtaining personal success and gain. For some people, this belief shapes their lives to the point that they give up all possessions and worldly goals and become monks or nuns, or choose a life based on total service to others. This is unique in our current society and requires enormous amounts of self-discipline and courage. Some good examples are Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Theresa. And this is the other extreme. I believe that there is a way for us to be in our modern world where we can both pursue our own fulfillment and achieve the goals we set out to accomplish, as well as devote some of our time to being of service to others less fortunate, or align with a cause that will improve the quality of life of all beings. In fact, I say often to my clients and students that the most effective way to find personal happiness and fulfillment is to both take care of your own needs, as well as find creative ways to help others. Many people say to me, “I would love to do something to help, but I don’t know what to do.” I can imagine that it can be daunting to look at all the problems in the world and get discouraged: “How can one person make a difference?” Well, I say that the contribution of one person can make a difference. Just look at history. Look at some of our greatest heroes of recent times, like Gandhi and Mother Theresa. They didn’t eliminate all of the problems, but they did have a huge positive influence on society. It has to start with one person! I don’t really think that walking in the street in the shape of a heart is going to end war. But I see how my projects create the opportunity for people to get active. It starts with taking the first step. And as you may know, that first step is oftentimes the hardest. Right? So, my goal is to create the space for others to get out and connect and maybe share an idea with a stranger that will spark new solutions for our problems. These projects of mine are expressions of my values and talents. And I call this kind of service to the larger community “Creative Social Activism.” When we think of social activism, we think of organized marches, or lobbyists and policy makers. This is serious business and deserving of great respect. This is one kind of activism, and not for everybody. A good example of this is the Peace Alliance, an organization that is committed to getting the US government to sign a bill to create a cabinet-level department of peace. They are fully committed to this cause and worth knowing about. Check them out: http://www.thepeacealliance.org/. Create Your Activism However, there are millions of other ways that you can contribute to the well-being of others that doesn’t have to involve a full commitment. Creative Social Activism starts with a personal desire to want to be of service, either for the larger society, or for your neighborhood, or maybe even your family or friends. Then you need to figure out what unique interests, values, talents and skills you have to contribute. Here’s a way to do that. Start by getting some paper or a journal, and a pen. Get centered and take some time to breathe. Then, follow this process: - Take a look at the following list of values and read through each item. Accomplishment/success, Accountability, Accuracy, Beauty, Calm, Challenge, Collaboration, Community, Competition, Creativity, Delight of being/joy, Discipline, Efficiency, Equality, Faith, Family, Freedom, Friendship, Fun, Hard work, Innovation, Justice, Knowledge, Leadership, Love/romance, Loyalty, Money, Peace/non-violence, Power, Prosperity/wealth, Service, Simplicity, Skill, Status, Tradition, Truth, Wisdom. - Notice how each value makes you feel. Do you have any connection with the value? Did you feel some energy when you read it? Do you find that value important to you? Make notes. - Choose 10 values from the list. Now that you’ve taken the time to read through this list, go back and decide which of these values resonate with you the most. Which ones get you excited and energized? Which ones are you willing to stand up for if you feel they are being threatened or violated. Which ones inspire your creativity? Write these 10 values in your journal. Take your time before you decide. - Choose five values from your list of 10. Now we are getting deeper into the core of who you are. Of these 10 values, which would you say are your top five? Write these five values in your journal. Take your time before you decide. - Choose three values from your list of five. Of these five values, which would you say are your top three? Write these three values in your journal. Take your time before you decide. - Breathe and meditate, and focus on these three values. Notice what happens when you contemplate your highest values, the core of who you are. Notice the feelings that arise. Notice the energy that flows. Allow yourself to feel your power when you connect with your highest value. - Add your three values to statement below. Write your three top values into the empty spaces in the statement below: “I realize that I have only one life and that I have the fortunate circumstances in my life to ensure that I can bring purpose and meaning to my time here on this planet. I will find creative ways to bring about more harmony with myself and to empower others, tapping into my unique abilities and core values stemming from _________________, ___________________ and ____________________” - Make notes on what you have discovered. Write down anything you have discovered. See what this new information opens up in terms of ways you can share your uniqueness. Get clear on your own personal philosophy and beliefs. - Come up with creative ideas to express your values and uniqueness. Think about interesting ways to use your time and energy to be of service to others. As you can see from my projects, three of my top core values have to do with fun, collaboration and heart. What will your projects be? Once you have filled in the blanks, read the statement to yourself a few times, either silently or out loud. Notice what you are feeling when you read it. If the wording I offer isn’t working for you, write your own statement with your core values included. One of my clients was an expert knitter, and she decided to go to senior citizen centers to knit with people there and listen to their stories. She brightened up their lives. Another client was skilled at working out and committed to taking mentally challenged young men to the gym to teach them how to do a basic workout. These two clients may not change the world with their projects, but they are certainly bringing more happiness and healing to others. And they are happier for doing it. So, this is one way to bring about more personal fulfillment and vitality in your life. It doesn’t require a lot of money, nor investment of time. All you need to do is have confidence in your own abilities and the courage to take that step to make something happen. When you take on projects that benefit others and are in alignment with your own values, you find that doors open up in other areas of your life, you meet people that you resonate with, and you attract opportunities that excite you. Find the balance in your life between taking care of the self and service to others, and discover your own personal key to your happiness. About Joe Weston: Joe Weston is an international workshop facilitator and personal life coach. Born and educated in New York, Joe lived in Amsterdam for 17 years and now lives in California. He is committed to helping others embody spirituality and supporting them on their journey towards personal fulfillment and empowerment. Joe brings a wealth of insight to his work based on many teachings, including Tai Chi Chuan and a variety of spiritual traditions—plus his experience in theater and various organizational trainings. He is currently writing a book entitled “Respectful Confrontation: the Path to Compassionate Engagement, True Power and Personal Freedom.” He also volunteers for the Liberation Prison Project, teaching Buddhism to inmates. To find out more about his workshops and his personal coaching, visit www.joeweston.com. Joe leads lectures and workshops in Respectful Confrontation around the world. This autumn he will be in Oakland, Boston, Amsterdam, New Orleans, and Washington DC. For more info, click here
Definition of Programmatic TV The word Programmatic TV combines both the fact to target a specific audience (even a TV-viewer) with a specific message – that’s what we call “addressable ads” -, and also the automation of TV purchases (without the same RTB as in digital). Targeting a specific person by addressing him/her a specific message isn’t authorized yet in France, but some other European countries have already made the jump! It has indeed been authorized and working for some years in Germany and England. The former targets users with anonymised data, accessible via a connected TV, when the latter allows advertisers to select an audience thanks to hundreds of criteria, making sure to reach the most qualified audience possible. Programmatic TV, and more specifically addressable ads, seem to be the best way to improve the user experience, by offering them quality and appropriate ads. Plus, if programmatic TV was authorized in France, with the possibility to geo-track TV-viewers, television operators feel it could increase the ad market by 200 billions by 2020 (SNPTV Study). More than the addressable TV, programmatic TV also designates the automation of TV purchases, giving advertisers and agencies more fluidity and the chance to optimise their media plan. Realytics has for example announced the launch of the very first TV media plan automation, that automatizes the media plan construction, like Adkymia. Adkymia is the very 1st programmatic TV buying platform, that automates and simplifies the buying process of linear TV campaigns. Its revolutionary technology is based on the digital performance of TV spots. You want to know more about it? ? Visit Adkymia’s website. Share the definition
The First Battle of the Marne - wydanie angielskie - Turning Point Simulations It DID appear to be a miracle. When the war started, the French had gone all-out in their Plan XVII offensives aimed at recapturing Alsace and Lorraine, losing a quarter-of-a-million troops in the process. And nearly losing Paris as well. But the canny Joseph Gallieni, charged with defending Paris had done so by marshaling his forces and looking for the right opportunity to strike back. The Germans gave it to him. The Marne has many novel wrinkles. It was the first battle in which observation planes are credited with providing critical information - they spotted a gap between German armies and the opportune place for a counterattack. Paris was on the edge of defeat. Two German armies were almost surrounded and destroyed. And then, there were the 600 taxicabs, legendary for rushing reserves to a critical area. Gallieni’s quote was, “Well, here at least is something out of the ordinary!" And so much about the battle was exactly that - Out of the ordinary. When it was over, the casualties were staggering. Two million men had participated. Half-a-million were lost. It was the largest “open field” operation of the war, with both sides fighting in desperation and the highest daily combined casualty counts of any battle in the war. - Waga (kg): Pytania i odpowiedzi Masz wątpliwości lub pytanie co do gry? Zapytaj naszej społeczności.Zadaj pytanie
TORONTO — Canadian musician Steven Page grew up Jewish with Christian relatives on his father’s side, so when the holidays rolled around, they’d celebrate both Hanukkah and Christmas — a.k.a. Chrismukkah. “We never had a tree. That was like a dividing line in our family,” the former Barenaked Ladies frontman said in a recent phone interview from his home in Upstate New York. “There was never a tree, but there were still stockings. We didn’t do the Chinese restaurant thing that a lot of other Jewish families do, because we always had somewhere to go for Christmas dinner.” Page also recalls singing Christmas carols in choirs in elementary school. “When you can go, ‘Oh, that song was written by a Jewish guy,’ it was always kind of a point of pride for us,” said the singer, who is set to resume a tour in the new year and is working on a new album. “Then you realize that so many of these great American standards, holiday or otherwise, were written by Jewish composers.” The new film “Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas,” debuting Dec. 3 on Documentary Channel, looks at how Jewish songwriters came to pen such Christmas standards as ”Have a Holly Jolly Christmas,” “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and ”White Christmas.” The film, which also airs Dec. 7 on CBC, is centred around a Jewish family gathering in a Chinese restaurant on Christmas Day — a tradition for many Jewish families. Page is among the Canadian performers who drop in to the restaurant to give their own renditions of holiday standards. Experts including a musicologist, a priest and a rabbi explain the history of Jewish involvement in Christmas. The Chinese restaurant in the film is Sea-Hi, said Oscar-nominated Toronto filmmaker Larry Weinstein, who directed the documentary. It’s where his Jewish family went on Christmas Day when he was growing up in Toronto. Like Page, Weinstein’s family also had Christmas stockings and he admits he believed in Santa Claus until he was about 11. In many ways, the Jewish songwriters of the 1920s through the 1950s were perfect for penning yuletide tunes because they understood the holiday family sentiment and the Christmas story of being an outsider, said Weinstein. “And an outsider who maybe idealizes what Christmas is all about,” he said. ”They don’t know about families being together and arguing or having a fight to the death over a wishbone. “They see it as this very beautiful family time, and family meant so much to these people, especially the ones who had emigrated or their parents had been emigres…. Then of course very few of the songs do refer to the religious aspect.” As the film explains, many Jewish composers wrote Christmas classics during or after the Second World War in New York, at a time when there were few opportunities for immigrants but songwriting was open to all. They wrote the tunes in a secular way that included everyone in the holiday. Weinstein said he wasn’t able to get the rights to all the songs he wanted for the film. “Sometimes there was a bit of a sinister reason why we couldn’t,” he said. ”Not the composers, because they had passed away, not their families. “But the lawyers that held on to these estates simply were not interested in a film that brought up the fact that these Christian songs were written by Jewish composers. They thought that that couldn’t be good for the image of the song, that that might hurt the song. At least that’s the impression that we got.” Page said Christmas songs help musicians find a common ground with their audience, yet writing a contemporary holiday tune is a challenge for many. “I think because there’s so little irony that can be put into Christmas songs, so for something to be purely sentimental or joyful is harder for people to feel comfortable with,” said Page, who put out the 2004 Christmas album “Barenaked for the Holidays” with his former band. These days the holidays also don’t seem to have the same “wide-eyed, naive innocence” of yore, said Weinstein. “Certainly anything post-9/11, we’re just not the same. We’re not innocent and sweet, which is very sad to think about.” “Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas” also repeats on Documentary Channel on Dec. 4, Dec. 24 and Dec. 25.
Oregon school report cards lack key data points due to COVID-19 When the Oregon Department of Education released its 2019-2020 at-a-glance report cards for school districts Thursday, the most striking change was what's not there. This year's reports do not include any data on student progress toward reading or math proficiency, attendance rates, or educational growth in these subjects specific to student groups. While methodology behind the data has changed over time, the state and districts have used these key metrics to evaluate and track student learning for decades. But after COVID-19 led many K-12 schools across the country to close in spring, U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos waived federal standardized testing requirements for last school year. So, now the only data available in this year's report cards are demographic data and graduation rates for the 2018-2019 school year. Graduation rates for the previous school year already were released in January. Overall, on-time graduation rates for all three local metro districts — Bethel, Eugene and Springfield — either went up or stayed about the same as the year before, but were all below the state average. - Bethel School District graduated 76% of its students on time this year, up from 66% the previous year. - Eugene had an on-time graduation rate of 78%, an increase of 4% from the year before. - Springfield saw a small decline of 1% this year, to an on-time rate of 72%. The state was able to gather some other key indicators such as the number of licensed teachers with more than three years of experience. Springfield saw an increase in teacher experience, with 81% of its licensed teachers with more than three years of experience, up from 77% the previous year. Bethel and 4J both saw a slight decline. Bethel went from 82% in 2018-2019 to 80% last year. Eugene dropped from 85% to 81%. Springfield School District: https://www.oregon.gov/ode/schools-and-districts/reportcards/reportcards/Documents/Adapted1920/1920-AAAG-2083.pdf Contact reporter Jordyn Brown at firstname.lastname@example.org or 541-338-2203, and follow her on Twitter @thejordynbrown and Instagram @registerguard.
Dr Thomas Morstyn Oxford Martin Associate, Oxford Martin Programme on Integrating Renewable Energy Thomas received a B.E. (Hon.) degree from the University of Melbourne, Australia, in 2011, and a PhD degree from the University of New South Wales, Australia, in 2016, both in electrical engineering. He worked as an electrical engineer in the Rio Tinto Technology and Innovation group between 2012 and 2014. After working as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, he joined the University of Edinburgh, as a Lecturer in Power Electronics and Smart Grids. His research interests include multi-agent control and optimisation for the integration of distributed renewable generation and energy storage systems into power networks. - Accelerating the Energy Revolution with Open-Source Software: now there’s no need to reinvent the wheel - Gravity-based storage using weights in mine shafts - March 2020: Onshore wind; electricity from air and fruit waste; decarbonisation of heat; energy storage; and innovating to net zero! - Integrating P2P Energy Trading With Probabilistic Distribution Locational Marginal Pricin - Conic Optimization for Electric Vehicle Station Smart Charging With Battery Voltage Constraints - The case for Bi-directional charging of electric vehicles in low voltage distribution networks - Designing decentralized markets for distribution system flexibility - Bilateral contract networks for peer-to-peer energy trading - Matching markets with contracts for electric vehicle smart charging
The economic benefits of using the State and Federal Historic Tax Credits speak for themselves - but what are the other positives to the program that we don’t talk about? The arguments in favor of building rehabilitation and reuse are often framed in terms of economic impact. That is partly because in Minnesota, and 34 other states, income tax credits are available to incentivize the rehabilitation of buildings listed in the National Register of Historic Places. When making the case for tax policy that is favorable to rehab development, it helps to present it in literal dollars and cents. After all, rehabilitation tax credits are a state expenditure and have a public cost. When credits are allowed in one area, revenues must be increased in other areas for the state to have a balanced budget. The economic impact of Minnesota’s historic tax credit has been overwhelmingly positive. Thanks to research conducted annually by the University of Minnesota Extension Center for Community Vitality, we know that the Minnesota Historic Structure Rehabilitation Tax Credit typically results in approximately $9 in economic activity for every $1 allowed in tax credits. Since 2011, the cumulative impact has been over $3 billion in economic activity, with $993.5 million in labor income that has supported more than 16,500 jobs. At least 120 buildings have been saved using the state historic tax credit. But, there are many other reasons to preserve and reuse older buildings in communities across Minnesota. Some of these reasons do have an economic impact, but one which is felt beyond the straight dollars-in, dollars-out of the state treasury and are a little more difficult to quantify. Other benefits are realized in strengthened social, economic, and physical networks that lead to more resilient, dynamic, and vital communities. Here are some of the reasons we believe so strongly in the power of building reuse, beyond mere dollars and cents: Far Left: Guardian Building photograph from the 1930’s. Bottom: Guardian Building prior to restoration. Left: Completely restored Guardian Building, present day. All photographs were submitted by Building Restoration Corporation as part of their nomination for the 2019 Minnesota Preservation Awards. Rehab projects are collaborative and literally build community Many different people are involved in building reuse. From local advocates who champion a renewed vision for a valued place, to the city planners, architects, developers, and builders who make that vision a reality, to the neighbors who live, shop, attend classes in, or merely walk by the finished product, rehabilitation projects take collaboration and shared problem-solving to come to fruition. Social networks are strengthened when all of these people have reason to come together and work towards a tangible goal. Reusing existing buildings is a recycling program of historic proportions Demolition debris is a growing problem for the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. After all, our landfills have limited capacity, and space is at a premium. While lately attention has been focused on household recycling and what we as individuals can do to help, the demolition of just one building will offset the collective recycling efforts of an entire community for a substantial period of time. “DEMOLISHING A SINGLE 2,000 SQUARE FOOT HOUSE WOULD RESULT IN APPROXIMATELY...72,000 POUNDS OF DEBRIS. IT WOULD TAKE RECYCLING 2.3 MILLION PLASTIC WATER BOTTLES TO BALANCE THAT SCALE.” As an example, demolishing a single 2,000 square foot house would result in approximately 270 cubic yards of debris – at least six large roll-off dumpsters full of wood, lathe, and concrete. With a per-dumpster weight of 6 tons, we’re talking about 72,000 pounds of debris. It would take recycling 2.3 million plastic water bottles to balance that scale. (Still think that tear-down is “green”?) In addition, backhoes, dump trucks, and other heavy machinery waste additional energy while transporting demolition debris and result in additional wear and tear on roads and bridges. Demolition dust and machinery exhaust also contribute to worsening local air quality. Building rehabilitation and reuse helps direct investment to underserved communities In Minnesota, historic tax credit projects must also qualify for the Federal rehabilitation tax credits administered by the National Park Service. According to the NPS, half of the qualifying building rehab projects completed in the US from October 2016-September 2017 were located in low and moderate income census tracks, and over 79% were located in economically distressed areas. While specific data has not yet been collected to demonstrate this impact locally, anecdotal information points to a proportionate level of rehabilitation investment in distressed communities in Minnesota. Successfully rehabilitated buildings spur additional development on nearby vacant lots, using existing infrastructure to increase residential and commercial density. Rehabilitated buildings provide new and retained affordable housing Recent research conducted by a graduate student intern from the University of Minnesota indicates that the Minnesota historic tax credit has provided approximately 4,800 residential units housing about 10,000 people. About one third of these were thoroughly renovated without displacing the existing low-income residents. The remaining housing units are a mix of affordable and market-rate, created in formerly vacant or underutilized buildings.
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary and Poland will set up a joint institute to assess the state of rule of law across European Union member states so that they are “not taken for fools” over allegations of rule of law breaches, Hungary’s foreign minister said on Monday. After meeting Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau in Budapest, Peter Szijjarto said an EU report on the rule of law, which will soon be discussed in Brussels, was expected to be a political statement, rather than any well-founded assessment. “The aim of this institute of comparative law would be that we should not be taken for fools,” Szijjarto said, adding that he had “had enough of some western European politicians using us as a punchbag”. The institute would examine how the rule of law was upheld across the EU, to avoid “double standards” being applied to Hungary and Poland, he said. The Law and Justice party (PiS) government in Poland - as well as its nationalist ally, the Hungarian government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban - have long been at loggerheads with the EU over accusations that they undercut democratic standards. While both post-communist states benefit from generous EU handouts, their rulers have come under pressure for putting courts and judges, media and academics, non-government organisations and rights groups under direct government control. In an interview with Reuters on Friday, Orban denied undermining democracy. An EU summit in July agreed that the bloc’s next joint budget for 2021-27, worth a trillion euros, and access to a linked economic recovery fund worth a further 750 billion euros to help repair damage done by the coronavirus pandemic, should both include conditions that member states adhere to the rule of law. However, the exact details have not yet been set down, with the European Parliament pushing for tougher conditions than those agreed at the summit, and Warsaw and Budapest threatening to veto anything that would threaten their benefits. Rau said the new institute would promote debate and transparency within the EU. “A legal debate cannot be replaced by a political debate,” he said. Reporting by Krisztina Than; Editing by Kevin Liffey Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Assessments of the first anniversary of eastward expansion this week are generally positive for the joining countries. "When one looks at the past year, the new members of the European Union have clearly benefited from the enlargement," said Peter Zervakis, a senior analyst on EU affairs at the Germany-based Bertellsmann Foundation. Fears that their small economies would be overrun by the EU juggernaut have not materialized, and their exports to Western Europe are booming. By contrast, the older EU members have had a more mixed result. They have had to watch as investment flowed away from them to the eastern newcomers. And some, notably France and Germany, have been rattled by the European Commission's plans to extend the single market into the services sector, which would give the new members a decisive advantage due to their low labor costs. Zervakis points out other difficulties. "For one thing, the West Europeans, particularly the central westerners -- Germany, Austria -- have had to fight against high unemployment, which is a result of globalization and also of the EU enlargement," he said. This atmosphere is further complicated by the difficult process of ratifying the EU's first constitution. Thus, prospects for further enlargement beyond Romania and Bulgaria, which are set to join in 2007, look dim. Turkey is already waiting, but the likelihood it will join in less than 10 or 15 years is small. EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner told Reuters in Brussels on 3 May that near-neighbors like Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia would be well advised not to apply for European Union membership now, because they would be rebuffed. Ukraine, in particular, has made EU membership a top priority. She said Ukraine's peaceful Orange Revolution has shown that Ukrainians share European values, but the debate must be brought "down to Earth." She described Ukraine as a huge country needing major changes before it could be considered for membership. She said the same goes for Moldova and Georgia. Without specifying details, she spoke of instead giving these neighbors a stake in EU policies, and some of the advantages enjoyed by members. However, the near-neighbors have found a strong supporter in Poland, the largest of the new EU member states. Warsaw was a key mediator in the peaceful transfer of power in Ukraine, and Zervakis said Poland -- along with other Easterners -- is working to bring more new members into the EU. "Behind the scenes, Warsaw is the most active promoter of speedy expansion prospects for Ukraine, and also for Moldova, and even -- as far away as the Caucasus -- for Georgia as well," Zervakis said. This relates to Poland's geopolitical view that all of Eastern Europe should be kept out of the Russian sphere of influence, and instead "Europeanized" by the West as quickly as possible. Zervakis said Warsaw's thinking on this point differs from that of officials from western EU states, who favor engagement and involvement with Russia as a means of achieving regional stability. Zervakis sees the different views on Russia's place in Europe as affecting debate on the expansion process. The issue is: Should the EU avoid continued expansion and just keep the "good-neighbor policy," as favored by most western EU members? Or should it actively push forward with expansion, even as far as Belarus, once that unreformed country has undergone a regime change?
Apparently a U.S. politician has said something to the effect that a conception that results from a rape is, the offense of the rape not withstanding, an act of God, which therefore makes the conception’s resulting in the birth of a child the will of God. I have no desire to pursue the matter politically in terms of this one politician, what he actually said, or how his statement affects his approval ratings and with whom. It’s the theology of the matter I wish to challenge. Christians see and acknowledge God as the Creator and so thank and praise God for all that is good in the world. Christians see and acknowledge also that there is evil in the world that does harm contrary to the will of God. Jesus rejected the then-popular notion that everything which happens in this world and in people’s live happens in accordance with the will of God, and thereby he called us away from the idea that God is the author of the world’s evils. He clearly saw in our world a clash of wills, and so he taught his followers to pray that God’s will would prevail in life (“Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”) That petition of the Lord’s Prayer or Our Father would seem rather silly if everything were already done, automatically, in accordance with God’s will, would it not? Why pray for something that is already a foregone conclusion, an unalterable reality, a done deal whether we like it or not? Why then speak of injustices at all? Or of evils? If it is God’s will, how can it be evil? Here’s another highly significant factor: the Creator has turned the world over to its own systems and rules, its own nature, including its evils and randomness. The apostle Paul says God has subjected the creation to its own corruption, but in the hope that it will eventually be redeemed and share in the life and freedom of the children of God (see the Letter to the Romans, chapter 8). I take that to mean that the terrible, sinful act of rape can, by the natural process, result in conception (despite what some unscientific wishful thinkers may dream up about the female body’s magical ability to prevent conception if the rape was “legitimate”). That is, the evil deed of violating the woman can perpetuate itself. Why should a girl or woman who has been violated by the evil of rape ever have to know it has resulted in the further violation of conception? Biblical truth is relational, not detached, objective, and coldly biological. Children should be conceived in love. Why should a woman who has been raped not have the right to rid her body of the invasion? Is God really in cahoots with the rapist? There has been within the church and continues to be the unbiblical notion that the sole purpose of human sexuality is progeneration. The second chapter of the Bible’s book of Genesis disagrees. There human sexuality is placed within the context of relationship, the context of love. It is presented as God’s response to the observation that, “It is not good for the human to be alone,” and it is offered as a matter of delight in the other person whose loving presence offers the continually renewed solution to the problem of aloneness. The church’s unbiblical view of sex for reproduction only (plus, sometimes, for the regulation and restriction of the male sexual urge) effectively turns women into birth machines with no say in the matter. Women are thereby reduced to receptacles and incubators. Liberating Christian principle: Not everything which happens in this world happens in accordance with the will of God. There are evils which are not to be accepted as good: cancer, bigotry, repression, murder, and rape among seemingly countless examples of the evils done to people and communities by other people or by the apparent randomness of a natural world turned over to itself. Among the deliberate evils is conception by rape. That evil is actually used as a weapon against life by hate-filled people seeking to terrorize a group they despise, as in Darfur where the Janjaweed raped women because they knew (1) the women would not seek to prevent or terminate pregnancy and (2) the woman’s own tribe would ostracize her and her child because they recognized the child as belonging the tribe of the “father” (that is, the rapist). So, the child was born Janjaweed, in the belief system of the people. In this way, the terrorists were able to rape a whole community as well as an individual woman. This situation is not unique. Rape has long been a weapon of warfare and oppression, of humiliation and intimidation. Does a woman who has conceived as the result of having been raped not have the right to choose to carry the fetus to term and give birth? Yes, she has that right, but it is her right to choose only if she has that choice. She may choose to do her best to redeem a terrible act of evil, but it is such a redemption only if it is her choice. She is not a birth machine governed by men, and there is no redemption in the birth if it is forced upon her. I believe Christians need to accept Jesus’ liberating principle and oppose the evils done to people and to stop calling their harmful consequences “the will of God.” We should not be sanctifying rape or conception by rape, and we should not be trying to legislate women into second-class human beings, slaves to the will and whims of men falsely equated with the will of God.
22 Sep Y1/2 Trip to Saltwell Park Mrs Sellers’ class visited Saltwell Park yesterday. The children had great fun collecting leaves as evidence of signs of Autumn and investigating pushes and pulls in the sandpit and play area. We also used maps to navigate our way around the park and managed to successfully escape from the maze. We had our lunch underneath the bandstand and saw lots of animals throughout the day, including peacocks, parrots, ducks and even caught a glimpse of a squirrel! Thankfully the rain managed to stay away and a great day was had by all.
Greater Wellington Regional Council has today voted to change its new bus service, just weeks after implementation. Today's Sustainable Transport Committee meeting was filled with residents and city councillors expressing their frustration with the service and demanding change. It follows the release of a new report, which measured how successful the new service has been and recommended adjustments be made. One of the routes which received the most complaints today was the number 18 Miramar bus. City councillor Simon Woolf told the committee small businesses have been suffering with the changes. "One cafe in town was 130 coffees down on Thursday of last week and that cafe believes that it's the public transport. Mr Woolf said in Miramar, buses are so full people are taking the airport flyer to have a more comfortable experience." Bill Guest of the Karori Association said during public consultation passengers gave feedback on the route, but part of the service was still removed. "Many felt aggrieved they have been ignored and we can't say whether restoring the number 18 is the best solution, but at least that takes us back to the status quo," he said. City councillor Diane Calvert said there had been an overall lack of public consultation. "The last formal consultation that they did was back in 2014, 2015 and there were a number of concerns expressed. "Since then I understand they made changes to their intended routes, but they never came back out and talked to the people who would be using it," she said. An extension of the number 18 route to a seven-day service from Miramar North to Karori South was among the recommendations passed today. Improving capacity of the buses was also a priority, as smaller buses were being used instead of the larger buses contracted. Wellington city councillor Chris Calvi-Freeman was pleased the regional council had fronted on the problems. "The regional councillors have acknowledged there are urgent issues they need to fix and we in the city will support them on that, but this is a watershed that there is an admission things aren't working well and need to be fixed," he said. Regional councillor Sue Kedgley said the regional council needed to apologise to commuters and make changes swiftly. "I won't be happy until there are not 60 people in Hataitai standing waiting for buses, that are flying past them. "We just have to fix the problem immediately or people are really losing confidence in the entire network," she said. But chair of the Regional Council, Chris Laidlaw, said it would be no easy fix. "We're taking it all on board and we're going to be instituting some changes, but it's not easy to do that because we don't own the buses and have to re-write the contracts with the bus companies, which can't be done tomorrow," he said. Mr Laidlaw said among the obstacles would be a lack of bus drivers and a shortage of the right buses to improve capacity.
Ah, how we associate with our heroic story heroes… Okay, see if you can stick with me here. First, we have the famous Three Musketeers, with the youthful heroes d’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Then we have Twenty Years After, which looks at them in late middle age, where these allies of youth find themselves split two against two on matters of royalty (as well as pitted against an evil from their pasts). It is a bittersweet story about growing older, cooler, and more thoughtful. Then, we have the series of three books, The Vicomte of Bragelonne, Ten Years Later, and Louise de la Vallière, which form a trilogy of their own, but sometimes come collected (sorta) as Ten Years Later. And after this, The Man in the Iron Mask. So its very confusing, this publishing schedule that has come down through time. Anyway, with Vicomte (this is a reference to Athos’ son, who is hardly in the first novel), we have a very bitter d’Artagnan who realizes that the days of his youth, of supporting Louis XIII (and Anne of Austria), and pulling the Cardinal’s pointy beard, it’s all over. Cardinal Mazarin (whom d’Artagnan supported and was neglected by) has died. XIII has been replaced by XIV, and the new model, like all upgrades, is nothing like the older version. He’s weak and timid and pretty pointless. In disgust, our aging hero resigns. So what is he to do? Well, there is Charles II who has come begging his brother XIV for funds or blades to support his bid to reclaim his English throne. d’Artagnan considers this. Not only is it the right thing to do, but perhaps he can make some gold at it, too. What he doesn’t know is that another of his old friends has been drawn to this same act of charity. And that’s only two of the four allies. What of the other two? All I can say is that when they do show up, there is a mixture of high comedy and low treachery. The splits we see from Twenty Years Later are still there, and in places, widening. I really liked this book. It was exciting and fun, with good dashes of action and intrigue and excitement. When d’Artagnan finds that he’s been outfoxed, the news delivered by a lackey, how fitting it it that our old hotheaded friend bashes the scoundrel in the nose (something we’ve all wished to do at some point). In the end, there is a neat move by the bad guy and hints of more to come. I’m burrowing into Ten Years Later now and will post a dispatch upon conclusion. One thing about getting old: with books like this and The Fencing Master, at least I’m not doing it alone.
Welcome to this episode of The Niagara Real Estate Show with Rob Golfi, Phil Golfi and Tim Denis NEWSTALK 610 CKTB with Rob Golfi and Tim Denis. Rob Golfi remembers as a kid that his parents didn’t get air conditioning until he was probably 10 years old. Those were the old days. I remember growing up on a Britannia Crescent in Niagara Falls and I had this friend across the street from my parents’ home. My friend got air conditioning. They were always the first to have everything and it was so cool to be able to go over their to enjoy their air conditioning. In those days, it was probably easy to sell a house without air conditioning because most homes didn’t have it. Today’s special guest is David Furry is from AmericaSpec Home Inspections. And Rob, give us a little bit of background on what David does. We are so thankful to be able to have access to David Furry and he has been in the business for a long time. We are thrilled to have him as part of our home buying team and he is one of our preferred vendors that we refer to during the home buying process for our clients. He’s here today on the Niagara Real Estate show to share with our listeners his wealth of knowledge in terms of Home Inspections. I always recommend David Furry to our home buyers. What goes into becoming a home inspector? It’s not just a matter of saying – I know about air conditioning and HVAC – so I’m going to become a home inspector. It’s not quite that simple as that. Home Inspectors have to know a lot about a lot of different things, but they don’t necessarily need to be a specialist in each trade. There is ongoing training. There’s always something that you have to learn. Essentially there are some good college courses that you can take through Niagara college, Mohawk College or even Humber college and the courses will take a few years to complete. There are also some good online Home Inspection courses. Through The Home Inspection Associations – Canadian Association of Home and Property Inspectors there are always courses online for continuing education. Houses are made up of many systems, so you really have to have a broad range and understanding of how things fit together. As you get into these many home systems, you are starting to look at different decades when the homes were built, because each decade has its own little a thing that was unique. There was a time when that homes did not have air conditioners. It was a real luxury if you’ve got air conditioning. The biggest change in the home inspection industry is that insurance companies are driving a lot of changes in home construction. So for instance, more homes now have waterproofing membranes or they’ll insist that there’s a sump pump put in. people are very concerned with managing the moisture around the home. Insurance companies do not want to pay out for these types of issues. There are also some changes on the electrical side with some new type of safety devices. These new electrical safety devices are all great, but they are going to add to the cost of the home. A third item to consider is the amount of insulation and energy performance items that go into a home. But yeah, primarily moisture management seems to be the biggest change I’ve seen in the last few years and, and how we manage the moisture around the home. Who pays for a home inspection? For people who are just getting into the real estate industry right now or maybe buying a home for the first time or selling it for the first time…. who pays for the home inspection? It’s always the buyer who pays for the inspection of the home however there are some sellers that have done what’s called a pre-list inspection. Listen above for more information on Home Inspections on this episode of The Niagara Real Estate Show. July 18, 2020
Generally considered the most charming of the Greek Ionian islands, Corfu lies at the northwest tip of the country, separated from mainland Europe by a narrow channel of sea. Its milder climate, verdant vegetation, rocky bays, towering mountains and sandy beaches have made the island a popular destination in both summer and winter. The island’s turbulent history is reflected in much of its architecture. Ancient monasteries, built by the Christians who first settled Corfu from the eastern Byzantine church, sit atop high bluffs, while neoclassical Venetian buildings in the old town constitute the legacy of 400 years of Venetian settlement. During this time the island suffered repeated attacks from the Ottomans, but never fell to them thanks to the massive fortifications built at the sea entrance, which today serve as a reminder of Corfu’s legendary status as a bulwark against the Ottoman empire. Signs of 19th century British rule, which ceded to Greek unification in 1863, persist in the island’s several cricket pitches, where the genteel game is still assiduously played. Topographically, the island offers a huge variety. Imposing mountains, from which you can see the European mainland, descend into undulating land with quiet lakes and abundant olive trees (a local speciality), which in turn lead to serene bays and long, sandy beaches. Because Corfu was one of the first Greek islands to develop mass tourism it has a reputation for overpopulated resorts, but with the help of our Rocksure Host you will be able to avoid the crowds and enjoy the true beauty of this legendary isle. Please contact your Destination Specialist for more information on +44 (0) 1993 824198 |Precipitation (Avg Days)||12||12||11||12||8||4||2||3||8||11||15||17||115| To speak to our travel planner please contact us at:
Now streaming on: This will not do. It is like taking up the story of Salome after she has put the veils back on. Another problem is that there is not much action in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, except inside the minds and souls of the characters. A third is that the Rev. Dimmesdale, who impregnates poor Hester, is the leader of the local hypocrites who persecute her. Channel surfing the other morning, I came across Demi Moore just as she was describing The Scarlet Letter as "a very dense, un-cinematic book." And so it is; many of the best books are. That's what rewrites are for. The film version imagines all of the events leading up to the adultery, photographed in the style of those "Playboy's Fantasies" videos. It adds action: Indians, deadly fights, burning buildings, even the old trick where the condemned on the scaffold are saved by a violent interruption. And it converts the Rev. Dimmesdale from a scoundrel into a romantic and a weakling, perhaps because the times are not right for a movie about a fundamentalist hypocrite. It also gives us a red bird, which seems to represent the devil, and a shapely slave girl, who seems to represent the filmmakers' desire to introduce voyeurism into the big sex scenes. The story, you may recall, involves a Puritan woman named Hester Prynne (Demi Moore) who is found to be pregnant even though her husband has not arrived in the Massachusetts Bay colony and is feared dead. After refusing to name the father of her child, Hester is condemned to wear a scarlet letter on her bodice. Her daughter Pearl is born, and grows up as a willful little vixen. It is revealed that the father of the child is Arthur Dimmesdale (Gary Oldman), leader of the local bluenoses denouncing Hester. And then her long-lost husband, Roger Prynne (Robert Duvall), turns up, assumes another identity and tries to determine who was the thief of his wife's affections. The novel ends with poor Dimmesdale confessing his sin, crying out "His will be done! Farewell!" and dying. It is obviously not acceptable for Dimmesdale to believe he has sinned, and so the movie cleverly transforms his big speech into a stirring cry for sexual freedom and religious tolerance. Instead of dying of a guilty seizure, he snatches the noose from Hester's neck and pulls it around his own, only to be saved when the Indians attack, driving a burning cart through the village. The roles of the puritanical local ministers are farmed out to supporting actors, and Dimmesdale is left to hang around sheepishly, keeping his guilty secret but regarding Hester with big, wet eyes that beg for forgiveness and understanding. Director Roland Joffe says "the book is set in a time when the seeds were sown for the bigotry, sexism and lack of tolerance we still battle today . . . yet it is often looked at merely as a tale of 19th century moralizing, a treatise against adultery." Actually, it is more often looked upon as a tale of 17th century moralizing and a treatise against hypocrisy. But never mind. Joffe adds, "Of course, it is also a marvelous romance." Not so marvelous, really. After insisting on a life alone in a cottage outside town, which sets local tongues a-wagging, Hester is walking in the forest one day when she comes upon a man skinny-dipping in a pond. It is the Reverend, although she doesn't know that. She, and we, see him in the altogether, and then she hears him preaching in church, where he sounds a good deal more like Susan Powter than like a Puritan. Hester entertains lustful thoughts about his body, and they entertain her. (Gary Oldman, marvelous actor that he is, may not be everybody's ideal of the perfect male physique - remember him as Sid Vicious? - but on the whole I think we can be relieved Brad Pitt was not cast.) Hester's comely slave girl, Mituba (Lisa Jolliff-Andoh), prepares her bath, and then Hester slowly luxuriates in it by candlelight, while dreaming of Arthur. It is hard to see for sure, but I think she may be indulging in the practice that the nuns called "interfering with herself." Meanwhile, through a convenient peephole, Mituba watches lustfully, for no other purpose than to provide the additional thrill of one attractive woman observing another one naked. Will the sin that dare not speak its name make an appearance in Massachusetts Bay? Alas, no; the prospect of interracial lesbian love, appealing as it is to today's filmmakers, would not quite fit into this story, even as revised and updated. Soon Dimmesdale visits Hester, they become powerfully attracted to each other, and they commit adultery on a bed of dried beans in the shed. Mituba again watches them, disrobing and crawling into her mistress' bath. Mituba holds a candle with its flame just above the waterline, and at the moment of their climax, she draws it under the water, extinguishing it with a hiss. This is much better than curtains blowing in the wind; it's the equal of the moment in "Ryan's Daughter" when, as the two lovers coupled, his stallion neighed and her mare whinnied. The rest of the film is more or less as I have described it, although longer, much longer. Lurid melodrama develops after Hester's husband arrives, played by Robert Duvall as if he'd never had sex in his life and didn't want anybody else to partake, either. The movie's morality boils down to: Why should this sourpuss stand between these two nice young people? The movie has removed the character's sense of guilt, and therefore the story's drama. ("Do you believe . . . what we did was wrong?" asks Hester.) Hollywood has taken that troublesome old novel and made it cinematic, although I'm afraid it's still pretty dense.
Crystal Palace Park is a great place to take the kids Winter or Summer. Although of course, parks are always nicer to visit in the summer when the trees, shrubs and flowers are in full bloom and looking pretty. You can take a picnic, kick a ball around with the kids in the large green open spaces or wander around the park’s numerous paths that either take you through wooded areas or across the rolling grassland. The highlight of the park has to be the dinosaur trail where the dinosaurs are set around the lake and cleverly placed amongst the trees. The life-sized sculptures of giant dinosaurs were created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins around 1854. The sculptures were recently (during 2018) restored. They certainly are fun and interesting or the children At the northern end and top of the hill lie the historical foundations of the once Magnificent Crystal Palace. All that remains of this marvellous building are the stone steps, on either side of which are two sphinxes. Crystal Palace stadium is where the first cup finals were played and where the great exhibition was held in 1851. The palace was destroyed by fire in 1938. The park is large with plenty to see and do - Children’s playground with a giant sandpit area. - A small zoo filled with small, friendly animals. - A small free museum - A lake where you can hire small paddle boats - Skateboard Park - An Olympic sized swimming pool - Tennis Courts The park hosts the National Sports Stadium which some people think looks a bit of an eyesore. A TV mast in the park marks the highest point in South London. Getting to Crystal Palace Park The park is a short walk from Crystal Palace Station or Penge West Station. Routes serving the park and its surrounding area include 3, 122, 157, 202, 227, 249, 322, 358, 363, 410, 417, 432, 450. Free parking is available at the Thicket Road and Anerley Hill and Crystal Palace Park Road entrances to the park. You can download a leaflet guide to the park here. Address SE20 8DT Crystal Palace Festival A good time to visit the park is for the Festival Week which in 2019 is being held from 15th – 23rd June. The event is a seven-day celebration of music, dance, poetry and performance. The Crystal Palace Park event will be held in the Jubilee Gardens (next to the bus station) on the 15th and 16th June. It has had to scale down the music and dance performances in the park, which last year saw thousands of people enjoying an open-air concert headlined by Stereo MC’s. During the festival week, the high street comes to life with strolling players and lively buskers.
Share on : In some places the winter months become very harsh, the ambient temperature sometimes becomes very low, causing the grass to be lost due to frost. On some occasions horse owners are concerned about keeping the horses warm and in this way help them not to suffer so much inclement weather. By making small adjustments to the horse diet, it can help to avoid losses of body condition When proposing to increase the energy or caloric density of horses’ diet, most people immediately think of adding corn. However, there are better options to improve energy in a ration, specifically for what we are going to discuss in this article, the ideal is to increase the amount of forage in the diet. The term “critical temperature” is used to determine the temperature at which it is necessary to make adjustments in the nutritional requirements of the horses so that they can maintain their body temperature. For many researchers and veterinarians 4 – 5° C is the critical temperature. In regions where these are the usual temperatures during winter, nutritional programs should be implemented to help horses maintain their body temperature and thus avoid loss of body condition. It is an important nutrient to consider during the winter season, since it helps to avoid colic problems due to the impact of the forage and food ingested by the horse. It must ensure that the buckets are kept free of ice and prevent them from freezing. Naturally the horse tends to decrease its consumption when temperatures are low. The horse must consume 40 – 45 liters of water per day. The researchers have not agreed on the temperature that the water must have to stimulate consumption in the horse. Temperatures ranging from 7 – 18° C are mentioned ideally and keep the water ice-free and prevent it from freezing. Some owners add water to the feed to ensure minimal consumption by the horse. Sometimes there are horses that are not accustomed to this practice and reject the feed. Some others add bran to the diet to offer a portion in “mash”. There are also those who recommend adding a fist of grain salt mixed with food to stimulate water consumption. Some people heat the water (electric heaters) or warm the buckets to avoid cold water. You can implement the practice that best suits you. The important thing is that the horse consumes water. Forage is a fundamental part of the horse’s diet at all times, but during the winter time it takes on greater relevance. This because the fermentation of the fiber in the large intestine is the main source of heat to keep the horse comfortable. During the colder months, it is essential to offer forage bales constantly, even when they can be in pastures and graze.The forage offered as bales will be the main source of consumption. The type and amount of forage to offer depend on the size of the horse, its metabolism, workload, environmental conditions, etc. The minimum forage you should offer can range from 6 – 9 kg for a 450 kg horse, that is, approximately 1.5 – 2% of your live weight, and can be increased as required if temperatures continue to decrease. If the horses consume all the fodder offered, it is advisable to increase the amount offered a little, avoiding waste. It is very important to monitor the body condition and evaluate the weight of the horse with a tape to calculate it and touch the horse to avoid that the thick hair typical of this time hides the loss of the superficial fat layer. When the horses reject or leave some portion of the forage, it should always be reviewed since we may be facing some situations such as the fact that too much forage is being offered or, it is forage contaminated with toxic plants, foreign materials or with the presence of fungi. In the case of horses that are in pasture or grazing, it is important to ensure that all are consuming the adequate amount of forage. Broodmares, stallions, growing foals, horses in recovery for disease or surgery, adult horses (geriatric) are favored with a mix of forages that includes legumes. Supplements should not be forgotten in winter diets for two important reasons: nutrients and energy. Forages are generally deficient in many nutrients (protein, energy, minerals, etc.). For this reason, balanced foods and supplements should always be included to correct these deficiencies. There are many options on the market, consult a Veterinary Doctor or the Technical Service of your feed supplier to receive the best recommendation for your horses. The forages offered during winter are generally forages that were harvested and packaged in milder times, that is, in the summer or early autumn. In such a way that in the best of cases they have few months of being stored, but the nutrient losses in these forages can be very fast. It is recommended that a dose of vitamins A, D, E be applied, which can be obtained commercially and by injection to avoid deficiencies, since green forages are the main source of these vitamins for horses.
Pharmacoinformatics in Modern Drug Discovery Pharmaceutical science having many branches which helps us to develop many novel drug discoveries and development. Pharmacoinformatics is one of the relevant and novel topics which elucidating the drug discovery process by using various tools. Pharmacoinformatics in India can be available in National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research. As we know that it is an emerging filed which combines the bioinformatics and pharm field together to develop novel compounds in current research.
Website Design – Popular Myths You Must Avoid A neat and clean web page layout is the key to making a business website pop. At least, I have learnt this from knowledge and experience. When I began my career in website designing, I was baffled by the myths rampant in the industry. However, with time and reading up books, blogs and tutorials, it helped me differentiate between good and poor design. In this post, aspiring designers will be enlightened about the fallacies that must be evaded to produce quality design. Images are Damaging for Your Site Wrong! Whoever says so. On the contrary, high resolution visuals spice up the pages even better provided a balance is maintained in terms of the text-to-image ratio. Else, the site will take several minutes to load making visitors click away. The ground rule is keeping the size of the pages limited to 30 KB, which includes photos and HTML. Even, if the visuals are large, you can always edit the size using photo editing tools. Use of Multiple Colors The web pages should not end up looking like a multi-colored rainbow! Forget about pleasing visitors, it will hurt their eyes with the splash of colors irking them to click on other websites. For effective results, implement a suitable color scheme of not more than 2-3 shades. Content is Insignificant! This is the greatest misconception, and you must pay no heed to it if really serious about website design. ‘Content is King’, and you should adhere to this adage religiously. What to look for when browsing the internet? Definitely, it’s quality and relevant information that’s useful for end users. And, information should be updated on a regular basis because stale content is like no content at all. Flash is Mandatory to Make Sites Click Though Flash makes pages look appealing with animated visuals, flying texts, moving images, and impressive graphics, it’s not ideal for search engine spiders. You can make your site more appealing with HTML5 than Flash-based portals. Google spiders find HTML5 easy to crawl and index. Avoid these misconceptions when designing a website next time.
Introduction: The incidence of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD) is rising and overall epidemiology is changing. Goals of IBD therapy are also fast changing to reflect the concept of mucosal healing. IBD management is increasingly revolving around questions of ideal positioning of biologic therapies.Areas covered: This paper covers important concepts regarding two classes of biologic medications approved for treatment of IBD in the United States-Anti-TNF- agents and lymphocyte-homing antagonists. Topics covered include drug mechanism of action, pharmacokinetic considerations for the clinician including therapeutic drug monitoring, summary of current evidence of drug efficacy in IBD focusing on randomized, controlled trial data. Additionally, nuanced discussion of medication side-effects and adverse reactions is presented.Expert opinion: Paradigms of treatment goals in IBD are changing with increasing focus on mucosal healing. Concomitantly, our understanding of important factors that impact drug pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamics relationships with biologic agents has increased which will help eventually develop personalized algorithms to optimize the efficacy of these agents. Though direct head-to-head comparisons between these agents are lacking, biologic agents can be considered the safest and most effective therapies introduced for IBD. - Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) - anti-TNF-? therapy - lymphocytehoming antagonists ASJC Scopus subject areas - Pharmacology (medical)
The Midtown Atlanta area has become a wonderful residential and business center and a favorite destination for arts and a vibrant nightlife. Unfortunately, along with that comes the possibility that those having fun will perhaps drink and drive, an often dangerous and potentially deadly combination. This past weekend, a woman sustained critical injuries after being struck by a hit and run driver while walking on a sidewalk in Midtown Atlanta. The woman was hit early in the evening on Friday and the driver of the vehicle that allegedly struck her has now been arrested. We do not know where he had been prior to the incident, but it is alleged that he had been drinking prior to the pedestrian hit and run accident. As is often the case in a hit and run accident, witnesses were able to identify the vehicle that struck the woman and investigators were able to locate both the vehicle and the driver to make the arrest. The many charges that the driver faces are those we have often seen together when a hit and run accident and injury occurs. These include such serious charges as the crime of hit and run with failure to seek medical support itself which is found under the Official Code of Georgia Annotated section 40-6-270 and the crime of driving under the influence which is found under Official Code of Georgia Annotated section 40-6-391. If it seems to you like hit and runs are becoming more prevalent, you are right. And often alcohol is a cause. USA Today recently noted that the serious increase in hit and run crashes and deaths are causing some consideration around the country of greater penalties for this crime. Legislative action might well be taken in many states due to the growth in number and severity of hit and runs. In cities such as Los Angeles up to about half of all crashes have included hit and runs in recent years. The recent statistics on hit and run fatalities is troubling. As motor vehicle crash fatalities have decreased in some years, those related to hit and runs have increased sharply. Perhaps at some point research experts in driving behaviors will determine why this phenomenon is occurring across our country. But it certainly does not reflect a positive trend and automobile organizations, such as AAA, are voicing concerns about this serious national problem. One trend that we have seen around the Atlanta metro area and within Georgia is something that is also seen across the country — pedestrians are very often the victims of hit and run accidents. And driving under the influence is a greater factor in these accidents than ever before. The Midtown Atlanta pedestrian hit and run is an example of this very widespread problem. If you have any questions about a hit and run accident in which you have been injured or a family member has been fatally harmed, please contact me at my The Law Offices of P. Charles Scholle, P.C. I will personally answer your questions and give you an evaluation of your legal rights and remedies.
Quick Guide for Getting DIY Security Cams up and Running Security cameras come with all form of specifications. They differ in types; your unit may be made of dome shaped cameras or bullet shaped, made for indoor or outdoor, they could be wired or wireless camera systems. others may be a single unit or multiple channels with up to 16 cameras. Others may be designed to be easily installed by every Thomas, others call for professionals to get it in place. Installing a security camera does differ depending on the form and specification of your unit. Usually most producers add a detailed instruction manual that tries to lead users on the easiest way to have their security unit running, others might not be so detailed. There are a few things all security cameras have with respect to installation and this article focuses on them with regards to installing security cameras. Camera installation comes in two forms as mentioned above - DIY (DO IT YOURSELF) installation - Professional installation Security companies like Nest pride themselves in making DIY install-able security cameras. These types of cameras are usually wireless Wi-Fi enabled camera units. They do not require lots of wiring and wall drilling and all the extremely intense engineering work as you could simply plug and play. You do not need much tools for the DIY mode but you will require a screw driver to screw the cameras in place in your desired location. If you don’t know where to install your camera. Check out our post on where to install your security camera. In your choice for DIY Units, be sure to install your security camera away from a light source glare so it doesn’t affect the field of vision. If you still can’t set it up, you could call in the professionals to do it for you. Here is a in depth video for more help: This option is reserved for wired security cameras. Large security camera system like those produced by Uniden and Hikvision requires professional installation. You would require a NVR or a DVR with dedicated storage to save your video feeds, this usually comes with your camera units. Depending on the location you have opted to install your cameras, you would require lots of cable to link them to the central monitoring unit. Other requirement for this method of installations include: - A power source to power up your camera - Screws (different sizes to hold the cameras in place) - A power adapter (which should come with your camera units) - A screw driver (your installer would have this tool) - A measuring tape (to measure the cameras distance from the central monitoring station and also the wires.) - Concealers for your wiring (a handyman or a carpenter can get this done) - A power supply box especially if you have multiple cameras and a few wall socket. - Siamese cables Despite the name professional installation, if you like trying your hands out, you can also successful get these systems installed within a few hours and save some money. An instructional manual usually come with the box or you could inquire for an installer at your point of purchase. Chances are they are installation videos available on the website of the manufacturers or YouTube. There are tool kits available for purchase if you intend to try it out yourself, you can always call the customer service if you run into any difficulty. While it’s good to try installing complex systems yourself, know your limit and call a professional installer if you cannot get it done. We do advice buying all cameras as a unit than purchasing separately as it save cause and prevent compatibility issues. Get started.
The personal data of nearly one billion people are exposed online because of the terrible practices of a marketing company that apparently has disappeared without a trace since the incident, reported the authors of the book ‘Learn ethical hacking’ and experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS). According to reports, about 980 million email addresses are exposed, so the authors of ‘ Learn ethical hacking’ consider one of the largest and most extensive data breaches to be registered. Compromised information includes full names, date of birth, genders and social media account information, etc. A cybersecurity investigation discovered the massive database exposed online without any kind of protection. According to the authors of ‘Learn ethical hacking’, the database was created by a company called Verifications.io, which offered business email validation services. After the incident was known, Verifications.io website was shutdown and no representative of the company issued a single statement. There is not much information about this company; in addition, it is believed that its operators work in anonymity due to the dubious tactics they employ. Bob Diachenko, specialist in finding exposed databases, was the one who reported to the administrators of the site of Verificatios.io on the massive exposure of data; hours later, the company’s website was offline. It is still unknown if any malicious user managed to access the exposed database, although this possibility should not be ruled out, considers the expert. Diachenko added that the passwords and payment card details were not exposed, although it is possible to find some financial details of the exposed users, such as annual revenues, workplaces, types of cards, etc. Diachenko concluded by saying, “maybe this is the biggest database I’ve ever reported”. Usually, marketing companies work with verification services like the one offered by Verifications.io to send massive emails to huge email lists that require validation, that is to say, whether they are active or even real. These types of security incidents are especially dangerous for victims, as they expose them to an increased risk of spam campaigns, unwanted calls, or even identity fraud. He is a well-known expert in mobile security and malware analysis. He studied Computer Science at NYU and started working as a cyber security analyst in 2003. He is actively working as an anti-malware expert. He also worked for security companies like Kaspersky Lab. His everyday job includes researching about new malware and cyber security incidents. Also he has deep level of knowledge in mobile security and mobile vulnerabilities.
When we require working with a functional operating system for security analysis and ethical hacking, cybersecurity experts consider that Parrot Linux is, together with BlackArch, one of the best options available, even though there are also Windows-based options. The developers of Parrot Linux have just launched version 4.6 of this operating system, which has some substantial improvements such as KDE Desktop, support for OpenNIC, among others. According to cybersecurity specialists, this new version is launched just three months after development and is considered a relevant achievement for the team in charge of the project. Parrot Linux has different versions, each with different scopes and objectives. The Home/Workstation version provides security experts with a light environment for everyday use, while the Secure version offers a comprehensive system for penetration testing, forensics and reverse engineering. Also, for users unfamiliar with computer security research, Parrot Home Version is the ideal choice. According to cybersecurity specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS), Parrot 4.6 has a new ISO image based on KDE Plasma, available with Home and Secure versions. In terms of design, the new home and desktop background animation are also updated. Although the themes and the system icon remain the same, the appearance has been updated a bit. To proportionally release users and allow domain resolution of some special domains, Anonsurf has an option to change default DNS servers to OpenNIC DNS resolvers. According to the cybersecurity specialists of the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS) Nvidia drivers are also updated to the new version 410 to provide better performance. Finally, the team behind Parrot works steadily to remodel the sandbox environment to make it more stable and reliable than in previous versions. He is a well-known expert in mobile security and malware analysis. He studied Computer Science at NYU and started working as a cyber security analyst in 2003. He is actively working as an anti-malware expert. He also worked for security companies like Kaspersky Lab. His everyday job includes researching about new malware and cyber security incidents. Also he has deep level of knowledge in mobile security and mobile vulnerabilities.
Charging up a new or old cell phone is about to become easier than ever for women with the introduction of the Everpurse, a new device that makes it possible to charge up a cell phone in a handbag while on the go. No one enjoys the feeling of having their cell phone die on them before they have even made it from home to the office, but a new product could be about to make sure that there will be no need to plug in ever again. The Everpurse is a handbag/cell phone charger hybrid, which is able to combine fashionable clutches with cell charging technology, and is rapidly becoming the wireless charging scene’s new ‘it’ product, according to the Daily News. The Everpurse is the brainchild of Chicago entrepreneur Liz Ormesher Salcedo, with the Everpurse now available to buy for $129 or $150 for the fabric clutch and leather clutch respectively at product launch website Kickstarter. Everpurse is also offering a custom service that allows the outfitting of one of your own bags for the technology for $600. Salcedo decided to go through Kickstarter in order to raise $100,000, a figure that she managed to exceed in just six days. Salcedo says that she is hoping to be able to sell the technology to the manufacturers of handbags in the future. Currently the Everpurse is compatible only with the Galaxy S3 as well as the iPhone versions 4, 4s and 5.
Curbit Leaf Crumple Virus » Cucurbit leaf crumple virus can cause yield losses in cucurbit crops including squashes, watermelon, and melon. » The virus is transmitted from plant to plant by whiteflies. » Cultural practices and insecticide applications can help manage the spread of Cucurbit leaf crumple virus. Symptoms of infection by the Cucurbit leaf crumple virus (CuLCrV) vary with the type of host and the age of the plant at the time of infection. Squashes and pumpkins are the most susceptible to CuLCrV. Infected plants are stunted and have thickened, distorted leaves that show a light green to yellow mottling pattern. Leaves of infected yellow squash plants are curled and crumpled (Figure 1). These leaves often have rounded edges.1,2 Fruit on infected yellow squash plants are bumpy and have green streaks (Figure 2). Leaves on infected zucchini plants are also curled and crumpled, but the leaf edges are not rounded, and there are no symptoms on zucchini fruit.2 Watermelons are susceptible to infection by Cucurbit leaf crumple virus (CuLCrV), and plants are initially stunted and develop crumpled, yellowed leaves. However, after 28 days the plants start to recover, and newly formed leaves are not symptomatic. CuLCrV infected muskmelons have crumpled and downward curling leaves, and like watermelons, muskmelon plants start to recover after 21 to 28 days. Because watermelon and muskmelon plants start growing normally in three to four weeks, the effect of CuLCrV infection on the fruit yields of these crops is limited. Some cucurbit species can be infected by CuLCrV, but they do not develop any symptoms even though the virus is present in their tissues. Cucumber, casaba melon, honeydew melon, and butternut squash appear to be immune to the disease in that they do not develop any symptoms and no virus can be detected in their tissues after inoculation.1 In 2007, green beans growing next to watermelon fields in Florida started showing virus-like symptoms of leaf mosaic (Figure 3), and the bean plants were found to be infected by CuLCrV.4 In 2016 and 2017, hundreds of acres of beans in Georgia and northern Florida were plowed under because of CuLCrV infection. In 2017, CuLCrv infection of snap bean caused yield losses of up to 80% in some locations. DISEASE CYCLE AND SPREAD CuLCrV has a narrow host range, mostly infecting cultivated and weedy species of cucurbits. Weed and volunteer hosts can serve as reservoirs of CuLCrV for plantings of cucurbits. Balsam-apple and creeping cucumber are examples of weed species that are hosts for CuLCrV in Florida.3 CuLCrV is transmitted (or vectored) from plant to plant by whiteflies (Bemisia tabaci). A specific biotype (biotype B) of whitefly, common in the southern US and northern Mexico, is the only confirmed vector of CuLCrV. Whiteflies transmit this virus in what is called a persistent, circulative manner, meaning that once a whitefly acquires the virus from an infected host, it can then transmit the virus to other host plants several days (up to the lifespan of the insect).1 An adult whitefly needs to feed on an infected plant for at least 30 minutes to acquire CuLCrV. The virus then circulates through the body of the insect, and after a period of 6 to 8 hours, the whitefly can transmit the virus to other host plants. It takes another feeding period of 15 to 30 minutes to transmit the virus. Unlike some viruses, CuLCrV cannot be transmitted mechanically in infected plant sap, and this virus does not appear to be seedborne. CuLCrV cannot survive outside of a living plant host or the whitefly vector. Therefore, the pathogen does not survive in soil or infested crop debris. Infection only occurs when the virus is vectored from a living host. In Florida, the virus survives on overlapping cucurbit crops and ubiquitous cucurbit weed hosts. In California, cucurbits are usually not grown during the winter months, and there are no cucurbit weeds present. The virus probably moves into California from reservoir hosts, such as buffalo gourd, in northern Mexico, as whiteflies migrate northward. This cucurbit free period probably explains the low incidence of CuLCrV infection in the spring in California. 1 In most areas, disease incidence levels are highest on late-season plantings. The higher disease levels are the result of increased levels of inoculum in earlier planted crops and from larger populations of whiteflies. Efforts to manage cucurbit leaf crumple may be needed for highly susceptible cucurbit crops, including most squashes and pumpkins, and possibly for watermelon and muskmelon/cantaloupe, which are less susceptible. Plant healthy, whitefly-free transplants. If possible, avoid planting near or downwind from established cucurbit plantings, especially if whiteflies or virus symptoms are present. 1 Rogue out and destroy any plants that develop symptoms of CuLCrV infection early in the season and manage volunteers and weeds that may serve as virus reservoirs and sources of whiteflies. The use of row covers and reflective mulches can help reduce the number of whiteflies in the crop and lower rates of transmission of the virus early in the season. Silver and UV reflecting mulches have been shown to be effective for reducing whitefly populations on watermelon plantings early in the season until the canopy covers the mulch.3,5 Row covers physically prevent whiteflies from reaching the crop if the cover edges are buried properly. However, row covers need to be removed before flowering to allow pollination by insects, which is needed for fruit formation.1 The application of insecticides to control whiteflies may be needed in some situations. Systemic insecticides, such as imidacloprid (Admire® Pro Systemic Protectant), can be applied to the soil at planting or to seedlings in planthouses before transplanting.1,2,3 Foliar applications of insecticides recommended for whitefly control on cucurbits should start before flowering. Avoid applications of insecticides when bees are present in the field. Whitefly biotypes with resistance to some commonly used insecticides have developed, so insecticides should be used judiciously to manage insecticide resistance.3 To reduce the spread of CuLCrV and eliminate sources of whiteflies, destroy cucurbit crops promptly after the final harvest.1 Some growers apply a “burn down” herbicide after the final harvest to reduce the spread of viruses and whiteflies. In some cases, insecticides or crop oils are added to the herbicide treatment to prevent the movement of whiteflies from a declining crop. However, it is not clear that the effectiveness of this practice justifies the added cost. 1 Gilbertson, R. 2017. Cucurbit leaf crumple. In Compendium of Cucurbit Diseases and Pests, Second Edition, (Keinath, A, Wintermantel, W, and Zitter, T. eds). American Phytopathological Society, St. Paul. 2 Webb, S., Liburd, O., Nyoike, T., Akad, F., and Polston, J. 2017. Whitefly-transmitted Cucurbit leaf crumple virus in Florida. University of Florida EDIS, Publication ENY-477. 3 Adkins, S., Webster, C. G., Kousik, C. S., Webb, S. E., Roberts, P. D., Stansly, P. A., and Turechek, W. W. 2011. Ecology and management of whitefly-transmitted viruses of vegetable crops in Florida. Virus Research 159: 110-114. 4 Adkins, S., J. E. Polston, and W. W. Turechek. 2009. Cucurbit leaf crumple virus identified in common bean in Florida. Plant Dis. 93: 320. 5 Kousik, C. Adkins, S., Webster, C., Turechek, W., Stansly, P. and Roberts, P. 2015. Influence of insecticides and reflective mulch on watermelon vine decline caused by Squash vein yellowing virus (SqVYV). Plant Health Progress doi:10.1094/PHP-RS-14-0040. For additional agronomic information, please contact your local seed representative. Performance may vary from location to location and from year to year, as local growing, soil and weather conditions may vary. Growers should evaluate data from multiple locations and years whenever possible and should consider the impacts of these conditions on the grower’s fields. The recommendations in this article are based upon information obtained from the cited sources and should be used as a quick reference for information about cucurbit diseases. The content of this article should not be substituted for the professional opinion of a producer, grower, agronomist, pathologist and similar professional dealing with this specific crop. 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An unauthorised encampment is when a person or group moves on to land they do not own without the landowner's permission. This is trespass, a civil offence, giving landowners the right to repossess their property using the law. When an unauthorised encampment is reported to us, we will try to find out who owns the land. We also check if those on the land have any welfare issues we have a legal duty to consider. If the site is not owned by us, the landowner must deal with the encampment, but we may be able to offer advice. Encampments on District Council land We must follow a set legal process to deal with unauthorised encampments on our land. If there are no specific welfare issues to consider, we will serve a 'Direction to leave'. In most cases, people camping on the land will move before the Direction to leave expires. If they remain on the land past the date and time given in the Direction to leave, we will apply to the courts for a possession order. A summons is served on those camped on the land to attend court. If the courts grant an order to remove the encampment, the person or people camped on the land are served with the order. If they remain on site after the order is served, we may take direct action or contact bailiffs to carry out an eviction. Evictions may involve our staff, Kent Police and bailiffs. They will be carefully coordinated so the eviction is safe for everybody, including those on the site and those living nearby. It may takes between eight to 14 working days to complete an eviction process, depending on the circumstances of each case and the time taken to get a court hearing.
The only point of entry as a rule is Reception or Prep-I. However, the students applying for admission in Prep II upto class VI are to appear for test in English, Urdu and Mathematics. Applicants for admission in class VII onward are to appear for written test in all the subjects. Admission in College will be given on the basis of Merit. ¼ Concession in the fee will given to those who achieve 85% to 89% marks in Matric Exams. Half Fee concession will be granted to those students who obtained 90% and above marks in the BISE Lahore Exams. Attendance and leave Attendance is recorded twice daily and the children who are found absent without a valid reason are liable to a fine of rupees fifty (Rs. 50/-) per day, Which is debited to their account at the end of the each month, Absence on account of the illness must be supported by medical certificate from a registered medical practitioner. Name of the students being absent without leave for six consecutive days will be struck off the school roll. The re-admission fee amounting to rupees three thousand (Rs. 3000/-) will be charged in case they are allowed to rejoin, depending upon the discretion of the school authorities. Leave for marriage ceremonies will be granted only for real brothers and sisters. It is granted for such a period as it allows the student to spend a maximum period of two days at the place of marriage. Parents/Guardians and relatives (authorized by the parents) are normally permitted to see the Principal /Administrator or the teacher during break or after pack-up on working days except Friday. They can see their children/wards during recess period with the prior permission of the school authorities. The members of the teaching staff are highly qualified and well experienced. They are zealously committed to the noble performance of the teaching. They have the experience of teaching in English medium and public schools. Parents- Teachers Meeting Parents / Guardians may visit the institution to discuss the progress or complaints concerning their children with the Principal / teachers in the monthly PTM (Parents- Teachers Meeting) held at the last Saturday of every month from 08:30hrs to 12:00hrs. The parents of weak students are especially invited and frank liberal exchange of views is conducted to discuss the ways and means for the necessary improvement of such students.
Blockchain genomics pioneer and AI data analysis firm will provide pharmaceutical organizations and life science users with comprehensive reporting through a library of pipelines London, United Kingdom – 11 December 2018 – Shivom, the blockchain genomics platform that is powering personalized healthcare, has partnered with Lifebit, the AI-powered DNA-analysis firm, to give users unprecedented reporting capabilities for DNA data analysis. The partnership will mean that immediate Genome Wide Association Study (GWAS) analysis is possible, with no specialist knowledge or in-house data scientist required. It also means that users can access a library of pipelines (ready built software that are used for analysis) and an AI-powered toolkit for analysing the data in a way that is far more scalable than other solutions. Another aspect that makes the Shivom platform superior to other genomics platforms is that it will give pharmaceutical organizations and life sciencee users the ability to access real-time analysis whenever they need it with no waiting time, no application process for accessing the data and deadlines or cut off dates that restrict their access. “Through this partnership with Lifebit, we are providing enterprise users with the tools they need to find the right patients for their clinical trials more easily and more accurately than is possible through other solutions. Not only that, it brings AI into GWAS analysis in a way that hasn’t been seen before,” said Dr Axel Schumacher, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific of Shivom. The use of genomics platforms to improve rare disease treatment has increased in recent months, with 23andMe partnering with GlaxoSmithKline to develop drugs for Parkinson’s. However, the Shivom Lifebit partnership demonstrates a major leap forward in this area because it adds AI and Machine Learning capabilities to the identification of potential patients. To do this, users will be able to access a library of pipelines within the Shivom platform. These include preset Shivom pipelines, those created through open source software and any that an enterprise chooses to develop using Github and DOCKER services. “Our partnership with Shivom will allow us to combine unique datasets with a level of analysis automation and insight generation that has never been seen before on a genomics platform,” said Dr. Maria Chatzou, co-founder and CEO of Lifebit. “In this way, scientists and doctors will be able to get all the benefits of this rich database without the need to rely on a data scientist for help. On the other hand, still ensuring that the individuals that have provided data to Shivom are given a level of security and control only a state-of-art blockchain technology can offer.” The partnership with Lifebit comes with the Shivom platform having already been released in alpha. The full launch of the platform is expected in Q1 2019. UK: +44 020 3908 5686 Shivom is powering the next era of genomics through blockchain technology – protecting identity, personalizing healthcare and transforming lives. For the first time ever, a precision medicine ecosystem will offer an open web-marketplace for other providers to add not only genomics information, but also analytics and associated apps and services to drive personalized medicine. Shivom intends to extend its services to form a global network of associated laboratories and research centres, as well as genetic counsellors and other relevant services. For further information, please visit: http://188.8.131.52/ Lifebit is building a cloud-based cognitive system that can reason about DNA data like humans do. This offers researchers/R&D professionals, and their corresponding organizations (ie. pharmas), a highly scalable, modular and reproducible system that automates the analysis processes, learns from the data and provides actionable insights. For further information, please visit: https://lifebit.ai
Update 16 November – There are a couple of points I think I should clarify. First – and I guess this may be clear already – I’m still not convinced this will work, or how well it will work, and it will probably work in some situations better than others, and never be 100% effective since the hard glass surface is still exposed. If you try it please let me know how it works, good or bad. I should have mentioned the Bird Screen, which apparently does offer nearly 100% protection, and might be the best solution for a lot of situations. I suggest the potential of the highlighter as an easy, cheap, and possibly effective solution, but if you’re really interested you should check out the Bird Screen as a proven, reliable method of preventing window strikes. Update 17 November – It’s definitely not 100% effective; I’ve had two bird strikes in the last few hours, but that’s still only two in a total of about 16 hours, which at the previous rate would have resulted in about 20 strikes. Update 19 November – A potentially serious flaw in the “highlighter method” of preventing window strikes has come up – the UV color fades quickly. Here (left) is a window just 20 minutes after applying the highlighter and (right) another window after the highlighter has been on for six days. (Both photographed at night with 1 sec exposure, same distance and position of black light). The six-day-old highlighter is not as bright and obvious as the fresh ink, especially to the right in the less intense UV light, so effectiveness for preventing bird strikes presumably decreases. In order to maintain the effectiveness one would have to reapply the highlighter frequently, maybe weekly. I’m investigating some sunlight-stable UV pigment, but it’s said to be less bright, and it’s much more expensive and can’t be delivered by pen. More on that, hopefully, later. In the meantime, if you need immediate bird collision prevention try the Wisconsin Humane Society online store. Estimates of the number of birds killed in window collisions each year in North America run as high as nearly a billion birds. It’s the biggest source of direct human-caused mortality in wild birds. But a simple means to prevent birds from hitting windows on your house or office could be in your desk drawer, or at least as close as your local office supply store, costing only a couple of dollars and a few minutes of your time. This needs further testing, but it appears that an ordinary yellow highlighter can be used to draw lines on the window, and those lines may be visible to birds, warning them away from the window, but are almost invisible to people. Windows like the one below can be deadly for birds. This is my window with a bird feeder I recently set up. Placing the feeder within one meter of the window prevents the birds from picking up much speed before they hit it, so any bird collisions are supposedly non-lethal, but this reflection was so deceptive that an average of nearly two birds every hour were hitting it in early November – incredible and distressing! I left the feeder empty after a couple of days but kept thinking it would make a good opportunity to study bird-window ‘interactions’. photo taken automatically by a Wingscapes Birdcam I live in a house with lots of windows, and I like to keep lots of bird feeders. This is good for me as a birder, but often bad for the birds. Over the years I have tried various methods of making the windows either more visible or less harmful, but sometimes it just doesn’t help. Birds fly very fast and at times (for example, when startled by a predator) will try to fly through things they would normally avoid. Occasionally, Cooper’s and Red-tailed hawks seem to learn that they can pop around the corner of the house, cause a panic at the bird feeder, and then have easy pickings from under the window. I found lots of helpful info on the web. Groups like FLAP have good suggestions about how to minimize the danger of window strikes here, and New York City Audubon has a detailed guide to Bird-safe building. Some of that worked for me, but some of it was either impractical or unsatisfactory for my situation. For several years I had pretty good success with simple lengths of white string hanging in front of the worst windows. This cut down on collisions, but did not eliminate them, and the string was unsightly and distracting, tricky to install, and required some tedious maintenance. I wanted a better solution. Hypothesis: Since birds can see ultraviolet wavelengths of light and we can’t, it must be possible to add a UV-reflective coating to windows that would make them more or less opaque to birds but still transparent to humans. Methods: In the darkened kitchen with a black light and piece of plexiglass, my kids and I tested various household products to see what, if anything, might meet the twin requirements of being visible to birds and invisible to humans. Results: Various juices and cleaning supplies all proved to be non-UV-reflective: Pledge, Simple-Green, Windex, Rain-X, Dawn, Orange Juice, Apples, Shampoo, Conditioner,… all no. Olive oil, yes! Drops of it look like red curry sauce under the black light, but once it’s spread thin the color is so faint it would presumably not be obvious to birds (plus it’s messy and hard to see through). Thinking beyond “fluids” we wondered about dry-erase markers, but no, they don’t glow under the black light either. Then I noticed the brilliant orange light from a supermarket price tag reflecting the UV. I thought of fluorescent colors (duh) and wondered about a thin wash of diluted day-glo paint, then I thought of highlighters. My son found one in the desk drawer, and… Bingo! Under the black light we could draw a pattern of brilliant yellow lines on the plexiglass, but under normal light the lines were almost invisible. Now we needed to test it on an actual window with real birds…. Here (above) is the window and new bird feeder that had been combining for an average of nearly 2 bird strikes per hour until I left it empty. I’ve already drawn on the window with a highlighter, but the lines are invisible in this photo. Below is the same window illuminated with the black light to show the grid of highlighter lines (window shades inside are glowing blue). Presumably the birds see something like this. I filled the bird feeder and went inside to observe. As I write this on 15 November, I have spent 11 hours monitoring steady bird activity at the feeder. After nine hours with NO window-collisions, a light rain started. The highlighter markings were getting washed away and a goldfinch hit the window. So I wiped off the outside of the glass and drew new lines on the inside. That’s working so far, with no strikes in about two more hours of bird activity. Not enough data to really say anything conclusive, but testing continues…. Markings inside vs outside the glass: The first test was done with highlighter drawn on the outside of the window. That seems to work very well to deter birds but the ink I used washes right off with water. I tested the highlighter on the inside of another window and the markings appear to be equally visible from the outside. So I assume that marking the inside – where the glass is generally easier to reach and the marks will be protected from weather – would be just as effective at stopping bird collisions. Testing that now, and so far so good. Grid size and pattern: In this first trial I’ve drawn a rough grid with squares about 2.5 to 3″ across. I’ll try to test some other designs to see if less marking or different designs give the same benefit. You could be really creative and draw architectural patterns or write ‘secret’ messages on the glass, as long as you don’t leave big parts of the window unmarked. From other research it seems that the “openings” should be no larger than 4 inches high by 2 inches wide, so maybe my grid is about right. Other inks: It would also be interesting to test other colors of highlighters or other kinds of fluorescent ink or paint. I notice that there are commercially available “invisible” fluorescent inks, the kind that are used for admission stamps at concerts, etc. Those could be even better than the highlighter, being clear in normal light, and there’s probably a formulation that would be water-resistant for outdoor use. I’ll try to check that out too. But there’s almost no disadvantage to the highlighter, and it’s so simple and readily available. Disclaimers: These are preliminary results, and it’s possible that further trials won’t be quite as successful, but these early results are so promising (and it’s so easy and low-risk) I wanted to get this information out there so that other people could try it and hopefully save some birds. The highlighter that I used seems to wash off easily with water, and does not stain the window frames here, but I make no warranty against staining or other damage to windows or adjacent materials that might be caused by following the above instructions. Let me know how it works for you.
Two Transistors Lead Acid Battery Monitor The circuit of battery monitor below uses 3 separate LEDs. Voltage level between 6v to below 11v will turn the red LED on and will turn off above 11v. Between 11v and 13v will turn the orange LED on and will turn off above 13v. The green LED illuminates above 13v.
Take It Slow Updated: May 13, 2020 We’re just ordinary people We don’t know which way to go Cuz we’re ordinary people Maybe we should take it slow Take it slow - John Legend, "Ordinary People" I had written a post for this week about a completely different topic, and then I had a bodywork experience over the weekend that nudged all other thoughts from my mind. I did a shoulder workout that involved a few simple movements, done really slowly with great awareness. I felt like a bodybuilder doing reps with hundreds of pounds of weight (full disclosure: I have no idea what that actually feels like). I am sore. I am strong. I can almost do one push-up, maybe. So then my thoughts drifted to John Legend, which (more full disclosure) is an almost-daily occurrence. I thought about his treatise on bodywork, the song “Ordinary People." He speaks to people doing workouts, addressing chronic pain, building up endurance or strength for their favorite activities, and tells us that “maybe we should take it slow.” Yes, John! There are numerous benefits to doing things slowly, but the main one I have noticed is that it allows me to build awareness. SBC guru Jay told me going slowly is, in fact, the absolute key to building awareness. It’s the only way you can feel all the little pieces and how they link together, as well as notice all the pieces that are doing too much or not doing what they should be. Growing up as a competitive runner (further disclosure: not a *very* competitive one), my training philosophy was basically to dart out the front door for a run and then maybe do a bit of stretching afterward... you know, if I felt like it. I liked to just GO, not think about any of it too much. As a result of my lack of awareness, I’ve dealt with various injuries that have kept me from running for months at a time, plus other physical issues that have affected my singing and breathing. But... but it feels good to be active! And, added bonus, jumping from one activity to another is a useful distraction from the difficult parts of life. It can be uncomfortable to sit with sensations and thoughts, to move slowly through the sticky stuff. However, I find that fully embracing the sticky stuff allows me to gradually unstick it. With my shoulder workout the other day, just lifting my arms overhead was sort of glitchy and halting the first time I did it, but by the end of my workout I could do that motion smoothly and evenly. And I could feel strength building alongside the free motion. The idea of doing things slowly also brings to mind an episode of Malcolm Gladwell's podcast, Revisionist History. The episode in question is called Puzzle Rush and it discusses a theory that there are two types of people: hares, who process things quickly and excel under time pressure; and tortoises, who take more time to deeply understand something. Both ways of processing are valid and useful, but we have societal systems that reward one or the other, sometimes seemingly arbitrarily. In one of Gladwell's examples, he takes the LSAT exam for entrance to law school. The exam features short time limits for each individual section, forcing people to read and process extremely quickly and rule out the worst answer options before making final guesses. The exam is set up for hares. But very successful people in the world of law, specifically judges and law clerks, are tortoises - able to read slowly and deeply, comprehending dense material and making connections. Those people may or may not also have the separate ability to function as hares in order to score well on the LSAT, so we have an exam set up to reward only one way of thinking productively, and perhaps not even the most relevant one. I think many aspects of modern western culture are set up for or by hares. We value speed and efficiency - think social media posts + headline shares rather than in-depth articles, or looking for the best 7-minute workout rather than balancing physical awareness + activity throughout the day with time spent sitting at a desk. I have always prided myself on being a hare, able to understand things quickly and dart out the door and run whenever I felt like it. But it turns out, many of the insights that have changed my life most dramatically have come after deep contemplation and time spent in the darkness of intense thought. And I can only run easily and healthily if I spend time doing slow warm-ups and cool-downs. Opera singers may feel as though all of our activity has been pulled out from under us and we are being forced to slow down, which is not a happy starting place. But this is an opportunity to approach things as tortoises do - to take a step back and look deeply and analytically at our pursuits. Perhaps we’ll find hidden benefits. This New York Times article from last year makes the case for doing nothing. The ultimate in slowness. So how will you slow down and sit in the sticky stuff today? Will you build awareness of a part of your body or emotional landscape? Will you investigate and support a local organization that is doing work for victims of domestic violence or feeding some of the millions of folks who are out of work? There are sticky parts inside of us and also all around our world, waiting to be addressed with care and attention, the tortoise way. My slow-down tactic for today is to spend some time with my neck, stretching and resetting, and then to take that awareness into a singing practice session. I also plan to take a walk with no phone or agenda, following the advice from the above NYTimes article. I believe we are all a combination of the tortoise and the hare, and this is a moment for all of us "ordinary people" to really consider slowing down. Are you more naturally a tortoise or a hare? What have you noticed that makes slowing down doable or particularly difficult? I’d love to hear your ideas on taking it slow in the comments!
Recently amongst web developers there been a passionate conversation about the use of “hamburger” iconography for progressive disclosure usually showing navigation (for the record, I hate that name for the icon). Some have done extensive A/B testing to prove it alone doesn’t work well, and others write passionately how they have abandoned the pattern. This along with other examples like using a select menu for smaller viewport navigation highlights a problem with our community: we can all-to-quickly grab onto a fad without asking fundamental questions about whether it works or not. The Ellipsis’ Traditional Use in Interfaces I want to bring up another pattern that has recently become a big problem also: the humble ellipsis. I started seeing ellipsis iconography show up more and more over the last couple of years in web applications. Now the pattern has existed for a long time in desktop applications, but it has served a different purposes. For example, in the OS X Human Interface Guidelines, we read the following instructions for using ellipsis: When it appears in the name of a button or a menu item, an ellipsis character (…) indicates to the user that additional information is required before the associated operation can be performed. Specifically, it prepares the user to expect the appearance of a window or dialog in which to make selections or enter information before the command executes. This is also the similar usage found in Windows applications. The ellipsis is designating that if you want to accomplish “x” (i.e. “Save As”), you must give additional information through an input. Here is an example from Notepad even in Windows 8.1. This pattern makes sense for two reasons (beyond its convention status of course): (1) the usage of the ellipsis is consistent with what you would expect from an ellipsis—namely that more is expected through input, and (2) it is accompanied with a textual description of the interaction’s results. Microsoft IxD guidelines are very specific that you shouldn’t add the ellipsis after menu items where additional input is not immediately required. The Ellipsis in Web Applications Now we can turn to web applications and their use of the ellipsis. The use of this is completely different from what we have already described. Before I go further I must clarify that I’m not opposed to do something in a new way, but it must (1) be consistent with mental models and (2) you must test the fool out of it. I have a feeling what I’m about to walk you through matches neither of those criteria. Here are some examples where the ellipsis is showing up in web applications: As you can clearly see, these are not small applications. These up to multi-billion dollar applications that are relying on this method of progressive disclosure. The YouTube example use an ellipsis set vertically, which I understand to be an Android convention, but it’s still used in a similar way. Here are my problems with that usage pattern: - From what you can see above it’s used in very different ways. While generally it points towards “settings” or “filtering,” it still is far from consistent. At least the “hamburger icon” was used to primarily designate navigation. - It lacks context. Not all of these are guilty of this: Facebook, YouTube, and SharePoint avoid this, but you can see from Yammer and Feedly that the ellipsis is next to nothing meaningful to give it context on why it is being use or what it is there for. - Lack of textual guides. This is another serious problem that the “hamburger icon” had. In every single one of these examples, there is no text to designate what it does. Would it kill you to add “filter” or “settings?” Are we so pressed for space we continually chose complexity (single, unconventional icon) over the obvious (a single word). - Progressive disclosure should be, in my mind, use smartly and sparingly and it’s best to not hide critical content underneath it. Yammer, SharePoint, and Feedly hide very important utilities behind a single ellipsis. The YouTube one doesn’t even show until you hover over the content (SharePoint does this in places as well). - As web developers we have been given text-overflow: ellipsis in CSS, and now we have to wonder how ellipsis showing up in different portions of the site obfuscate what an ellipsis should mean? It should mean only text truncation. At the end of the day as UX practitioners opinion only goes so far. Now I haven’t used an ellipsis for progressive disclosure because I obviously do not care for the pattern. However, my hypothesis is that, if tested and users were asked to find content behind the ellipsis, less than 50% would be able to do so successfully. I’m being generous in that number because the content usually hidden behind should be easily found closer to 80-90% of the time. If anyone has tested this usage in their app, please let me know your results. The final things we should glean from the ellipsis and hamburger icons are that we should never assume too much, and we must always test our assumptions. Also, do not introduce something complex when simplicity ensures success for your users and the applications they rely on.
After first invoking the Defense Production Act (DPA) on March 18, 2020, President Donald Trump has taken several actions to formally deploy the authorities we discussed in our March 20, 2020, client alert, “President Trump Invokes the Defense Production Act in Response to COVID-19.” Most prominently, the president ordered General Motors Co. to prioritize certain contracts for the production of ventilators. To briefly recap, the DPA grants the federal government an array of relatively broad powers in responding to national emergencies like the current public health crisis created by COVID-19, including: - Title I authorities: ordering companies to prioritize certain contracts, allocating materials and prohibiting hoarding of scarce materials; - Title III authorities: providing financial support, such as loans and loan guarantees, to private companies in order to increase the production of necessary materials; and - Other DPA authorities: halting certain foreign investments in companies headquartered in the United States and approving “associations of private interests” to “coordinate actions” in support of the national defense and exempting them from antitrust liability. I. The Federal Government’s Use of DPA Authorities To Combat COVID-19 President Trump has contemplated using most of the foregoing authorities in response to the public health crisis created by COVID-19. Taking Title I authorities first, President Trump’s Executive Order on Prioritizing and Allocating Health and Medical Resources to Respond to the Spread of COVID-19 issued on March 18, 2020, includes a finding that personal protective equipment and ventilators meet criteria to be considered “scarce and critical material essential to the national defense” under the DPA. The executive order delegates the authority to prioritize certain contract performance to the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Although the administration previously signaled that it may not need to use Title I’s authorities to direct companies to prioritize contracts in response to COVID-19, the president deployed that authority on March 27, 2020. Specifically, the president issued an order delegating authorities to the HHS secretary to “use any and all authority available under the [DPA] to require General Motors Co. to accept, perform and prioritize contracts or orders for the number of ventilators” deemed appropriate by HHS. The president’s order came shortly after General Motors announced a joint venture with Ventec Life Systems to build ventilators at one of the automaker’s manufacturing facilities. Perhaps signaling that the federal government may further utilize Title I, the president appointed White House trade adviser Peter Navarro as the national DPA policy coordinator. The president also has invoked Title I’s authorities that guard against hoarding of scarce medical supplies. To do so, the president directed the HHS secretary to designate certain essential supplies as scarce, which makes it a crime to hoard them in excessive quantities in order to sell them above prevailing market prices. In conjunction with announcing this executive order, Attorney General William Barr stated that the Justice Department has launched investigations into those who are hoarding supplies “on an industrial scale for the purpose of manipulating the market.” HHS later responded to the president’s executive order by issuing a notice, effective March 25, designating 15 materials as “scarce materials or threatened materials,” including medical supplies such as N-95 medical masks, ventilators, disinfecting devices and a variety of health-related personal protective equipment. Under the notice, the term “materials” includes raw materials (including critical components) and any technical information or services ancillary to the use of any such materials. The secretary’s designations self-terminate in 120 days unless superseded by a subsequent notice. On March 27, 2020, President Trump also issued an executive order invoking Title III authorities and the DPA’s antitrust exemptions. The executive order, titled Executive Order on Delegating Additional Authority Under the DPA with Respect to Health and Medical Resources to Respond to the Spread of COVID-19, delegates the president’s Title III authorities to the HHS secretary “to guarantee loans by private institutions, make loans, make provision for purchases and commitments to purchase, and take additional actions to create, maintain, protect, expand, and restore domestic industrial base capabilities to produce” health and medical resources. As for the DPA’s antitrust exemption, the president’s executive order provides that “[t]o enable greater cooperation among private businesses in expanding production of and distributing such resources,” the secretary of Homeland Security and the secretary of HHS are authorized to submit any proposed voluntary agreements among private companies for presidential approval. II. DPA Procedures In light of the administration’s apparent intent to use Title I’s prioritization authorities, there are several important procedural considerations a company should be aware of when receiving contracts or orders relating to materials that may relate to the federal government’s response to COVID-19. The Defense Priorities and Allocations System (DPAS) provides for procedures guiding the federal government’s use of the DPA’s Title I authorities. The DPAS provides for two different ratings for contracts issued pursuant to Title I: DX and DO. DX-rated orders have the highest priority — taking priority over DO-rated orders and unrated orders — and DO-rated orders take priority over unrated orders. 15 C.F.R. § 700. Orders issued pursuant to Title I generally contain certain hallmarks alerting recipients that they have been issued pursuant to the DPA. Those hallmarks include the rating, requested delivery date and following certification: “This is a rated order certified for national defense use, and you are required to follow all the provisions of the Defense Priorities and Allocations System regulation (15 C.F.R. part 700).” 15 C.F.R. § 700.12. Notably, the DPAS prohibits placing a rated order unless authorized by the DPAS. 15 C.F.R. § 700.18. Once a company identifies the order as being issued pursuant to the DPA, three avenues present themselves. First, a company must accept a rated order if it is capable of fulfilling the order and may not discriminate against rated orders by charging higher prices or by imposing different terms than it imposes on comparable unrated orders. 15 C.F.R. § 700.13(a). The other two options are to reject the order, which are divided between mandatory and permissive rejections. A contractor must reject a rated order if it is unable to meet the date specified in the contract, but the contractor must indicate the nearest possible alternative date it can produce the goods. 15 C.F.R. § 700.13(b). Subject to the DPAS’ requirement that the company does not discriminate among customers, it provides for several permissive bases for rejecting a rated order: - if the customer placing the order is unwilling or unable to meet regularly established terms of sale or payment; - if the order is for an item not supplied or a service not performed; - if the order is for an item produced, acquired or provided only for the company’s own use for which no orders have been filled for two years prior to the date of the receipt of the rated order. If, however, the company has sold some of these items, it must accept rated orders up to the quantity or portion of production, whichever is greater, sold within the past two years, and; - if the customer placing the order, other than the federal government, makes the item or performs the service being ordered. 15 C.F.R. § 700.13(c). Timing is often key because if a company invokes either a mandatory or permissive basis for rejecting the contract, it must ordinarily do so within 15 business days of receiving a DO-rated contract and within 10 business days after receiving a DX-rated contract. Furthermore, if the contract is a rated order sent pursuant to a declaration of emergency, the sender may accelerate the recipient’s timeframe for rejection in certain circumstances. The minimum time for rejecting a rated contract issued in connection with responding to an emergency is six hours after receiving the contract if the order is issued in response to a hazard that has occurred, or 12 hours after receipt if the contract is issued to prepare for an imminent hazard. 15 C.F.R. § 700.13(d)(2). Companies will be deemed to have accepted rated orders if they do not reject them within the requisite time period. Given the narrow timeframes to reject rated orders, companies may face tensions between “social distancing” policies enacted at the state and local level mandating closures of production facilities (and personnel shortages) and their abilities to fulfill a contract issued pursuant to the DPA. Companies should determine if the applicable state or local government’s order contains an exception that would allow the company to remain open. Lastly, companies should be aware that the DPAS obligates them to keep accurate and complete records for three years for any rated-order transaction. Records must be maintained in sufficient detail to permit the determination, upon examination by the Department of Commerce, of whether each transaction complies with the DPAS. The DPAS does not specify any particular method for recordkeeping. 15 C.F.R. §700.91. Companies should bear in mind that the extent to which the federal government will use the DPA in response to COVID-19 continues to evolve, as do legal questions posed by those actions. In all events, companies must be diligent in reviewing orders received relating to medical supplies or services and respond to them promptly, given the relatively narrow timeframe to lodge any permitted objections. Associate Sam Auld assisted in the preparation of this client alert. 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Yesterday was a historic day for the UK. The formal triggering of Article 50 started off the process of ending four decades of European Union membership. Prime Minister Theresa May had her letter hand-delivered to EU President Donald Tusk. Speaking on the subject yesterday, May said it was a ‘unique opportunity’ to ‘shape a brighter future’ for the UK. The tone of the letter was open and conciliatory. Now the journey down the ‘Yellow Brit Road’ begins. In terms of the immediate future, the next steps in the timeline are: it’s expected that Tusk will publish negotiation guidelines. This will be followed by an EU summit on 29th April, where the remaining 27 EU members will discuss and adopt the guidelines for negotiation with the UK. Formal talks between the two parties may begin in late May or early June. Sterling will remain vulnerable and it is likely that it will react to rumours and speculation in the absence of hard facts. Join our webinar ‘Long and winding Yellow Brit Road: how to mitigate currency risk’ on 6th April! GBP: sterling remains volatile The pound was lower against the US dollar throughout the day. Whilst some of this movement was on the back of Brexit, it was more a continuation of yesterday’s trend. US consumer confidence hit a 16-year high despite the upward path of interest rates. In addition, Vice Federal Reserve (Fed) Chair Fischer reiterated the Fed’s view that two more rate hikes this year are highly likely. Yesterday’s economic data was secondary in light of the historic events. Figures released by the Bank of England showed that mortgage approvals fell for the first time in six months, whilst consumer credit rose. This combination could indicate that the public’s concerns over the economic outlook have been weighing on people’s willingness to go ahead with house purchases. There’s not much happening on the data front today but we’ll see plenty of commentary and analysis surrounding Brexit. EUR: euro remains weaker The Eurozone was also impacted by the triggering of Article 50. However, this wasn’t the reason for the weak performance of the single currency. The sharp drop in EUR/USD was based around two factors. Firstly, US consumer confidence hitting a 16-year high and Vice Fed Chair Fischer confirming that two more rate hikes are likely to happen this year. Secondly, there were reports that the markets have over-interpreted the European Central Bank’s messages earlier in March. It was thought that the change in tone suggested that we were about to see a change in monetary policy due to increased inflation. However, an unnamed source told Reuters that policy-makers are not too worried about inflation. This could reduce the impact of today’s inflation figures. Both German and Spanish inflation are due. The Eurozone headline figure will be released tomorrow. USD: dollar strengthens again While the UK is beginning its long and uncertain process of leaving the EU, the US carries on picking up momentum. US consumer confidence surged to a 16-year high in March amidst growing labour market optimism. The goods trade deficit narrowed sharply in February, indicating that the economy was regaining momentum after faltering at the start of the year. Robust consumer confidence and rising household wealth from the house price gains suggest that the Fed’s interest rate policy is being supported. Fed Chair Janet Yellen tried to spoil the American party by stating that the US labour market still faces significant challenges but the US dollar remained broadly stronger after Donald Trump seemed determined to put tax reforms at the top of his agenda. For more on currencies and currency risk management strategies, please get in touch with your Smart Currency Business trader on 020 7898 0500 or your Private Client trader on 020 7898 0541.
- ClientWaste & Recycling - IndustryWaste & Recycling Video Captures Good Driving and Events Beyond Your Vehicle Video is often used to capture risky driving so a driver can be coached to drive safer. But, in many instances, it can also show when a driver is driving safely, as evidenced by this driver exhibiting a safe following distance. As a result, he was able to avoid a collision, while the video captured the event beyond his vehicle.
My daughter has dyslexia. She exhibits many typical characteristics that come with language learning disabilities, including difficulty understanding written text and problems with spelling. But like many with dyslexia, she possesses a number of outstanding qualities as well, including an amazing ability to learn and remember what she hears, a vibrant imagination, and a sharp intelligence. After years of hard work with Orton-Gillingham programs, my daughter learned to read English and today tests above grade level in reading. But she still learns best by listening rather than reading. So when it was time to tackle foreign language, we were worried. Her ability to read depends on her exceptional understanding of the English language, which enables her to infer or guess words from their context. Because of weaknesses in decoding and processing skills, she continues to receive weekly one-to-one tutoring as well as accommodations that include the use of recorded books, scribing software, and extra time on exams. Foreign Language Dilemma Research suggests because my daughter is dyslexic in English, she is also more likely to be dyslexic in other languages. For many reasons, I wanted her to have the opportunity to study one or several foreign languages. At a minimum, our school district and state require one full year of language for a high-school diploma. And for my college-bound child, the guidance counselor said that many colleges expect at least two years of the same language. In our college research, we’ve found that several expect all applicants to have studied the same language for three or four years. In trying to find the approach that will work for my daughter we identified the following options: - Regular class. Place her in a regular language classroom and hope she can muddle through, perhaps supported by extra tutoring. - Basic level class. Place her in a remedial class or the lowest level of a regular language class, in which material is taught slowly and repetitively, and hope she can muddle through. - Exemption from language requirement. NY State law provides that a “student with a disability that adversely affects the ability to learn a language may be exempted from these requirements.” Sally Shaywitz, a leading dyslexia researcher, says that “considering the profound impact dyslexia has on both spoken and written language acquisition, and from both an educational and a scientific perspective, it makes little to no sense to impose a foreign language requirement on students who are dyslexic and, indeed, is counterproductive to the aims of a liberal education in the 21st century.” - Teach in a manner that reflects the student’s learning style. Given my daughter’s aural learning skills and her experience of learning to read, I have no doubt that she can learn another language, if it is appropriately taught for her learning style. She still remembers the beginning French she was taught in kindergarten, and I have never doubted her ability to learn to speak a foreign language if taught entirely orally. The limited research I found supports the notion that an Orton-Gillingham approach or other evidence-based program that relies on phonological support to teach reading in English can be used to teach other phonics-based languages. The first two options—placing her in regular and remedial classes without support tailored for dyslexics—fly in the face of evidence that dyslexia is not language-specific. The third option, ironically, addresses the school requirement by not teaching. The fourth option, using methods shown to work with dyslexia, is hard to come by. After two failed attempts to study language in regular classes, the Committee on Special Education at my daughter’s school amended her IEP to exempt her from the world language requirement. She takes an extra social studies class instead. If anyone has another suggestion, I’d love to hear it!
Offset Print vs Digital Print Offset Print vs Digital Print in the Modern Era The greatest debate in the print industry today! However it only takes one to sit down and look at the pros and cons of both to decide this isn't a debate at all. Offset printing has been around since the dawn of time (print industry time that is), and for almost a century it has been the 'go-to' for everything commercial. We're talking newspapers, magazines, brochures, advertisements, posts cards, you name it chances are, prior to the 1990s, it was printed with an offset printer. The new kid on the block, the digital printer, turned up at our offices in the early 90's. The main difference between the two was that now, with the digital printer every impression could be different, as opposed to having several hundred impressions to form the same image. What was more remarkable was that the quality of the prints were incredibly similar, thus begging the question what is right for my print job, offset print or digital print? When should I use offset printing? Have you got a big print job in the pipeline? Are you a larger entity who requires larger runs? Looking for something a bit fancy? Offset printing is mostly used for the bigger jobs. As a rule of thumb, we find a minimum of 500 is the magic number for offset printing. You see, the more you print, the cheaper the price per piece. This is perfect for direct mail send outs, large quantities of brochures at events, large orders of business cards etc. Ever seen a shiny, metallic-looking business card, or a raised graphic on a poster? Yep, that was done with an offset printer. When should I use digital printing? Digital printers are now there for our day-to-day needs. Early digital printers weren't up to the same standard that offset printers had set, but now it is near impossible for an untrained eye to tell the difference. Digital printing is for short runs. Anything that falls under our benchmark of 500 copies is a job for our digital printers. This will keep the costs down and is also great for black and white printing. When you're deciding what's best for your print job, always speak to your local Snap Centre to help you make this decision. There is a crossover point where one method of printing will be cheaper than the other, and your Snap consultant will be able to tell you when it's a good idea to make that change. All the best from the Snap team.