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A Bad Mad Sad Day for Mama Bear, by Mayra Calvani and illustrated by K.C. Snider, is a delight to read. The repetition, alliteration, and onomatopoeia, will make reading the book aloud an enjoyable experience for both reader and listener. We all have problems, but how we handle our problems will determine if we can overcome them. I can relate well to the story because, in life we often focus too much on the obstacle instead of trying to find a solution. Baby Bear tries hard to offer support and comfort, but Mama Bear is too busy looking at the negatives, and can’t see a way out. I love the underlying lesson the book is trying to teach. Young children can be very wise in how they perceive the world and situations around them. Finally, Mama Bear is able to cope and deal with one bad thing after another, after she accepts Baby Bear’s support. The story is well written, but much kudos goes to award winning artist, K.C. Snider, for capturing the true emotional essence of the book in pictures that are colourful and lively. It is recommended for readers aged three to seven. Editor’s note: Mayra Calvani is also a Blogcritics writer.
- What is a traditional Irish greeting? - What is an Irish goodbye? - What is top of the morning mean? - What does Ireland mean in Irish? - What does Erin mean in Irish? - Is Orange offensive to Irish? - How do Irish say cheers? - What should you not say to an Irish person? - Do the Irish really say top of the morning to you? - What does the term Black Irish mean? - What are some good Irish sayings? - What is the meaning of Cead Mile Failte? - What does Erin Go Bragh mean? - What does the O in front of Irish names mean? - What are typical Irish facial features? What is a traditional Irish greeting? Irish Greetings: Hello, Goodbye What’s your name. – Cad es ainm duit. What’s the news. – Cén scéal. Pleased to meet you – Tá áthas orm bualadh leat. Welcome – Fáilte. Goodbye (short and general form) – Slán.. What is an Irish goodbye? A slang phrase rumored to have originated in the Northeast, an “Irish goodbye” refers to a person ducking out of a party, social gathering or very bad date without bidding farewell. … It attributes the phrase to “the Potato Famine of 1845-1852, when many Irish fled their homeland for America. What is top of the morning mean? Essentially it means “The best part of the morning to you”; a typical response would be “And the rest of the day to you.” … In his much-loved book English As We Speak It In Ireland (1910), P. W. What does Ireland mean in Irish? ÉireÉire (Irish: [ˈeːɾʲə] ( listen)) is Irish for “Ireland”, the name of an island and a sovereign state. What does Erin mean in Irish? ÉirinnErin is a Hiberno-English derivative of the Irish word “Éirinn”. … The etymology of the word as it drifted throughout the Gaelic region gave rise to its use by the early Scots to both mean Ireland and “west” — as Ireland lies to the west of Scotland. Is Orange offensive to Irish? “It is NOT a good idea to wear orange on St. Patrick’s day. Here is a picture of Ireland’s flag. The green represents the Catholics, orange represents the Protestants, white represents the “peace” between the groups.” How do Irish say cheers? Sláinte is the basic form in Irish. Variations of this toast include sláinte mhaith “good health” in Irish (mhaith being the lenited form of maith “good”). What should you not say to an Irish person? 10 Things Tourists Should Never Say in Ireland“I’m Irish”Quizzing about potatoes.Anything about an Irish car bomb.“Top of the morning to you”“Everything is better in… (insert large city)”“St Patty’s Day”“Do you know so-and-so from…”“I love U2”More items…• Do the Irish really say top of the morning to you? It’s an Irish expression and means “the best of the morning to you” and an appropriate reply is “And the rest of the day to you”. NB wikipedia incorrectly calls it Irish-American. No, just plain Irish. What does the term Black Irish mean? Black Irish is an ambiguous term sometimes used (mainly outside Ireland) as a reference to a dark-haired phenotype appearing in people of Irish origin. However, dark hair in people of Irish descent is common, although darker skin complexions appear less frequently. What are some good Irish sayings? Top 50 Irish proverbs and sayings you should know for St. Patrick’s Day Back to videoIf you’re enough lucky to be Irish… … Here’s health to your enemies’ enemies!May you live as long as you want, and never want as long as you live.May the wind always be at your back.More items…• What is the meaning of Cead Mile Failte? a hundred thousand welcomesLiterally ‘a hundred thousand welcomes’. Compare Scottish Gaelic ceud mìle fàilte. What does Erin Go Bragh mean? Erin go Bragh is an English corruption of the phrase Éirinn go Brách in the Irish language. … The term brách is equivalent to ‘eternity’ or ‘end of time’, meaning the phrase may be translated literally as ‘Ireland until eternity’ or ‘Ireland to the end (of time)’. What does the O in front of Irish names mean? Names beginning with “O’,” stemming from “Ó” meaning “the grandson of” or “descendant of,” are still among the most common in Ireland. What are typical Irish facial features? There is a typical Irish chin which is prominent and round,Other facial features are very small narrow eyes oval shaped head slightly upturned nose high cheekbones,skin tone can vary from very pale to olive skin Dark Brown hair and Hazel eyes are also common.
I recently was told about Pandora. I have since registered at the site, and quickly became addicted to it. Why wasn’t I told about this earlier? How could I not know? For those of you that don’t know, Pandora is a website where all you have to do is type your favorite artist in the box and hit enter. Music from your artist of choice, and artists that are very similar, will begin streaming in. It’s a great way to discover new songs. There may even be a way to play over your unlocked cell phones. Tim Westergren explains: On January 6, 2000 a group of musicians and music-loving technologists came together with the idea of creating the most comprehensive analysis of music ever. Together we set out to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level. We ended up assembling literally hundreds of musical attributes or “genes” into a very large Music Genome. Taken together these genes capture the unique and magical musical identity of a song – everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony. It’s not about what a band looks like, or what genre they supposedly belong to, or about who buys their records – it’s about what each individual song sounds like. Since we started back in 2000, we’ve carefully listened to the songs of tens of thousands of different artists – ranging from popular to obscure – and analyzed the musical qualities of each song one attribute at a time. This work continues each and every day as we endeavor to include all the great new stuff coming out of studios, clubs and garages around the world. It has been quite an adventure, you could say a little crazy – but now that we’ve created this extraordinary collection of music analysis, we think we can help be your guide as you explore your favorite parts of the music universe. We hope you enjoy the journey. The Music Genome Project If a certain artist or song plays that you don’t like, just hit the thumbs down button and that artist or song won’t be played on your station any more. It’s great, free, and I highly suggest that you try it out. You won’t be disappointed.
Loki lies in my arms, wrapped in a towel, purring in halting starts and stops. The growing masses in his brain that affect his ability to walk and see also impair his vocal chords. The purr is no longer steady but sporadic. Still, our neurologically-impaired kitten seems at peace as he lies in my arms. The towel calms him down and also protects my lap from his occasional loss of bladder control. He looks at me through eyes that may or may not see clearly. We donâ€™t know. Cats canâ€™t talk. With our pets, we depend on signals that are familiar â€“ the swish of a tail, a particular expression or a change in tone of a meow or growl. But Loki is mostly silent and impaired motor control functions rob him of the ability to communicate through physical movement. When he tries to walk he falls â€“ a lot. He stumbles over his own feet. He tries to raise his head and falls over backwards, lying on the floor, twitching but not making a sound. I wonder: Is he in pain? Do the falls hurt him? Sometimes his head strikes the leg of the coffee table or the wall. Does not inflict more damage on his already-fragile brain? We donâ€™t know. Neither do vets from Floyd to Virginia Tech. After many tests, all they can tell us is that they donâ€™t think he is in pain. They say there is nothing they can do to help him and his future rests with us. So we love him and watch after him. He has trouble swallowing so Amy feeds him diluted wet foot that he laps off a tongue depressor. If he tries to eat himself he falls headfirst into the food and then shows what we think are signs of anger with having a face covered with what he should be eating. He stirs slightly and stretches out a front leg, pressing his paw against my chin. His eyes are open but I donâ€™t know if he can see or even comprehend who or what I am. Is he happy? Does he know that we will love and care for him for whatever time he has left on this earth? I donâ€™t know and not knowing breaks my heart.
From Conceptualism to Feminism: Lucy Lippard’s Numbers Shows 1969–74 Between 1969 and 1974, Lucy Lippard curated four exhibitions of contemporary art, which have become renowned as her “numbers shows.” Each took the population of the city in which it was shown as its title: 557,087 in Seattle, 955,000 in Vancouver, 2,972,453 in Buenos Aires and c. 7,500, which opened in Valencia, California, before touring the U.S. and then traveling to London. From Conceptualism to Feminism follows Lippard’s curatorial trajectory, analyzing her transition from a writer about art to a maker of exhibitions, and tracing her growing political engagement and involvement with feminism. Extensive photographic material is complemented by a major new essay by Cornelia Butler and interviews with Lucy Lippard, Seth Siegelaub and with artists in c. 7,500. The volume also includes an analysis of artists’ initiatives in Argentina, which give a context for Lippard’s emerging political consciousness. From Conceptualism to Feminism is the third publication in Afterall’s Exhibition Histories series, which investigates exhibitions that have shaped the way contemporary art is experienced, made and discussed.
Oh, you want dogs and books? We'll give you dogs and books. Check out these very good bookish doggos for your daily good vibes. The universe of children’s books is full of these adorable pets. Here is a list featuring some of the best children’s books about dogs. From Emily Dickinson to Pablo Neruda, this selection of poets demonstrate the range of ways we relate to dogs in these short dog poems. Want to read some fantastic dog books? Of course you do. Here's where to get started with both nonfiction and fiction dog books. They're very good dogs named after literary characters, Brent. Smart, funny and lovable dogs to read about in memory of dogs you've lost. Are you more Lassie or more Toto? Take this quiz to find out which literary dog has the most in common with you! Literary names for your new dog (or cat, rabbit, bird, fish, whatever). 10 books for dog lovers that will warm your heart and wet your eyes. Books about adopting a dog from a shelter or rescue, senior dogs, the misunderstood pit bull, and how to whisper your way to dog bliss. One reader's experience of reading lots and lots of dog books (that aren't all about dogs, surprisingly) Instagram accounts that combine the best of the worlds of dogs and books. Lily and the Octopus, The Art of Racing in the Rain, How Dogs Love Us, Dog Songs, and more heartwarming books for dog lovers! A call for a website that warns you if the dog dies in the book. Authors Susan Mallery and Jill Shalvis stop by to tell us about their favorite canine companions in romance novels.
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Thank you so much for your creative guidance and generous hospitality. What a pleasure this Sumer Writing Circle has been. – a literature teacher Thank you so much for allowing me to be part of your Writing Circle. It has been wonderful! You are an inspiration and good friend to me. – children’s author THANK YOU for such a wonderful day for our Kindergarten through 3rd grade students and teachers! I am attaching some photos from this unique experience you provided for our Little Mustangs. (Methinks) Betty Mae Tiger Jumper would be proud. -award-winning public school art teacher GOOD NEWS FOR SHE SANG PROMISE: The Story of Betty Mae Jumper, Seminole Tribal Leader SHE SANG PROMISE is a “Great Read for Kids & Teachers”, landing on a list of 52 books collected by the U.S. Library of Congress. SHE SANG PROMISE is out in a SCHOLASTIC EDITION – for book clubs & book fairs. FLORIDA BOOK AWARDS named SHE SANG PROMISE: The Story of Betty Mae Jumpers, Seminole Tribal Leader the GOLD winner in Children’s Literature. This recognition will increase the chances that young readers will know more about Florida heritage & about the amazing Betty Mae Tiger Jumper. THE NATIONAL COUNCIL for the SOCIAL STUDIES with THE CHILDREN’s BOOK COUNCIL, placed SHE SANG PROMISE: The Story of Betty Mae Jumper, Seminole Tribal Leader, on this 2010 recommended list: Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION news THE ALA/Amelia Bloomer Project List named SHE SANG PROMISE: The Story of Betty Mae Jumper, Seminole Tribal Leader, to its annual annotated bibliography of books for young readers that offer excellent role models of girl & women characters or real girls & women in non-fiction. Online discussions include testimonials for Lisa’s art, Betty Mae Tiger Jumper’s life in She Sang Promise: The Story of Betty Mae Jumper, Seminole Tribal Leader by Jan Godown Annino, illustrated by Lisa Desimini, with an afterword letter to children from Moses Jumper, Jr. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Betty Mae Jumper is a woman ahead of her time and will inspire young people who face the world. Your story is informative and engaging. The illustrations are lovely. … I read it with delight as I was reminded of my early experience with the Seminole tribe in Miami… retired library director Helen Moeller, Florida It is truly beautiful & beautifully written. You are a terrific writer. Adrian Fogelin, YA/middle grade author Your combined arts have made this a picture book to keep. Joan Broerman, past Regional Advisor, Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators READING ROCKETS, a portion of the teevee world PBS family, recommends She Sang Promise in announcing a BIG SUMMER READ! Many other books listed, to hunt up at your library, too. I want to look at all of them but am especially intrigued with a new take on Sojourner Truth. (Appreciations to The Storyhat Lady for sharing this news.) National review sources (more details are over at the BOOKS page) include: Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal & Booklist, which have also listed the Betty Mae Tiger Jumper story, She Sang Promise, as being a book to carry in your school library. Additionally, the May 25, 2010 issue online of School Library Journal, features a Bowllan’s Blog edition of Amy Bowllan’s series, “Writers Against Racism,” and that day there’s a Q/A about Betty Mae Tiger Jumper. The url link is hard to follow, so I don’t have it posted here. Sorry for the inconvenience. also from SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL: “The illustrations are richly detailed and bring attention to design elements found in traditional Seminole objects and cloth. This book will serve as a wonderful addition to studies of the contributions Seminoles have made—and continue to make—and will also add to the growing number of biographies of women whose strong leadership has made a difference in the lives of many people.” Elizabeth Bird, New York Public Library youth librarian/School Library Journal: “…her writing is superb. There is a poetry to her words…” Adrian Fogelin, a writer of middle grade & Young Adult novels ( THE SORTA SISTERS, THE REAL QUESTION) that are more than quite fine, who is also a talented illustrator of nature & a quite-cool troubadour in the group Hot Tamale with songster Craig Reeder, has posted thusly: * KISS THE BOOK says She Sang Promise is an essential school & library book *Renaissance Learning has created a practice test about SHE SANG PROMISE, available to subscribers but the first online page is here with an RL-determined interest level (K-3) & book level (4.6) posted with o.5 Acelerated Reader points given for Griffendor. Not. But that was fun to write. It’s 0.5 points given to She Sang Promise. TALLAHASSEE MAGAZINE May-June 2017 Kids’Lit Holds Lessons for All p. 103 TALLAHASSEE MAGAZINE feature
All of us have felt it. That gnawing, cold sense of emptiness inside. Often, it’s accompanied by events we think would make us happy; winning the contest we’ve been working so hard for, accomplishing those goals we’d been chasing, wearing that new suit that will give us the prestige we’d like from others who notice, or finally landing that ‘perfect job’. Odd isn’t it? Culture defines a full life as having those things that set us apart yet, once we attain them, we’re still empty. One doesn’t have to look far to see how fame, fortune, and accomplishments fail to fulfill people. Many of those who seem to have everything, also seem to be some of the unhappiest. Earlier in my life while planning a youth event, I was able to have lunch with the step-brother of Elvis. Ironically, the one table the waitress took us to in the restaurant was the one with a large poster of Elvis hanging above it. His response was, ‘That’s what I have to live with; Elvis constantly overshadowing me’. I felt sad for him because he’s had to struggle with his identity his whole life. During the course of our meal he told me several things that struck me. One was how Elvis and his entourage were walking past a statue of Jesus and Elvis looked at Him saying, ‘Jesus was God, but who am I…?’ The other was how he was there the day Elvis died. He told me the story of how he’d discovered him on the bathroom floor bloated and purple having died from a drug overdose. In fact, he said Elvis had asked him for more drugs than usual that day (he was the one who helped him keep track of the drugs) because he was especially depressed. Sadly, Elvis had everything the world said we should have to be fulfilled; wealth, fame, beauty, talent, friends, family, and power. Even with all that, he was empty inside and turned to drugs (among other things) to fill the void in his heart. Don’t take me wrong, I love Elvis’s music, I grew up watching his concerts on television and his music on the radio. His life impacted millions and still does today. But, inside of his heart, he needed more. The truth is, Elvis was no different that Joe Dirt. His life was no more important than any one of us. He struggled with the same emotions we all deal with in life (rejection, insecurity, fear, anger, love, passion, jealousy, etc.). Sadly, our society puts people on pedestals and then loves to pull them back off of them once they do something they don’t like. Perhaps I’m just getting old, but I’ve lived long enough now to see the dangers of fame, wealth, and the trappings of life. There’s nothing wrong with those things if we don’t allow them to define who we are. Like Elvis the day he walked by the statue of Jesus, that’s the question we all need to ask; ‘How do I define myself?’ Defeating emptiness comes down to how we manage the expectations we have of life. If it’s all about me, then there’s nothing that will ever fill the void. But, if it’s all about less of me, more of God, and sacrificing for others, then we will live life with a full heart and never lack for anything. Books could be written, but keeping a check on our expectations of life, being content with what we have, giving ourselves to God, and putting others first whenever possible, will keep us grounded and full. And that is where I want to be because, being a ‘Hunka Burning Love’ ain’t gonna do it… (not that I have to worry about that mind you…)
By Brother John Shepard It amazes me how much influence, good or bad, affects every aspect of our lives. In Case You Don’t Believe Me Remember you just ate dinner not even 30 minutes ago, youʼre unwinding from the work of the day in your favorite chair, the news is on the TV, and all is comfortable in your world. Seemingly out of nowhere, that—insert your favorite brand of potato chip here 🙂 —commercial comes on. Next thing you know, you remember that bag you saw in the pantry earlier, the juices begin to flow, and now youʼre not quite as comfortable as you just were. I’ll Eat Just One All you can think about is that stupid bag in the pantry until finally, the thought consumes you and you become a consumer yourself. The influence of that chip commercial, also referred to as marketing, definitely exists and is very effective. It exists so much, in fact, that itʼs difficult to separate the things we do daily as being of necessity or by influence. Uh, You Guys Are Breaking Commandments To Uphold Traditions Now with these thoughts fresh in your mind, consider the difficult task that Jesus had when he began his ministry here on the earth. Not only did He have to begin by facing and overcoming his own influences, but He had an entire nation to persuade. This nation had customs, traditions, and rituals that had been influencing them for centuries. It may seem that what they had been doing for so long was right, simply because they had been doing it for so long. If so, it begs a question. Why was He sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel? But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. –Matthew 15:24 Sermon On The Mount If you study or read the Word of God, it is evident that Jesusʼ first message was to influence and change the minds of His disciples. Remember the Beatitudes in Matthew 5? Something mustʼve been wrong with their mindset and way of thinking if that was the first thing Jesus sought to change. How did he begin to change it? You guessed it, with good influence. Influence, good or bad, is subtle. One small seed can turn into a full grown tree quickly. It Looks Negative. Let’s Fix That. Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines. –Song of Solomon 2:15 Because that verse uses the word spoil, it automatically indicates a negative light. Try not to think about it that way for a moment. If how youʼre thinking is wrong, and the results that follow are not what you desire, would you want something to spoil that mindset and get you to thinking correctly so that you could produce desirable results? The answer is definitely not complicated. What’s Weighing Down Your Thinking? Identify your influences. Is what’s influencing you positive, producing desirable results? Is what’s influencing you negative, producing undesirable results? Safer Than You Can Ever Think Or Imagine God used his Son to influence many people (those that would accept him) to change their way of thinking and produce remarkable results. He can, and will, do the same for you if youʼll say YES to his influence. Constantly accepting His influence will act as a hedge around us. Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. –Job 1:10 Accepting bad influences will tear down the hedge, exposing us to a dangerous outcome. He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him. –Ecclesiastes 10:8 Something Has To Give. Make Your Choice. Keep in mind that two different influences canʼt occupy the same space. No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. –Matthew 6:24 One will eventually overcome the other and win, which is why you must constantly be accepting good influences and rejecting bad influences. In Romans 7, the Apostle Paul referred to this situation as a battlefield or a war. We’ve Got What We Need. Let’s Win This War! It definitely takes WORK! However, with the strength of Jesus Christ, we can be more than conquerors! Letʼs keep the Faith as our influence and Win this race!! If you want to learn more about the Faith and you want to get know others who love God and are running this race together, visit us at The Church at Onslow. We look forward to meeting more of Godʼs people.
Fujian Medical University is a university located in Fuzhou, Fujian, China. Fujian Medical University was founded in 1937, named Fujian Provincial Medical Vocational School at that time. The name of the school was changed to Fujian Provincial Medical College in 1939 and was called Fujian Medical College in 1949. In 1969, after merging with Fujian Chinese Traditional Medical College and the medical department of Huaqiao University, Fujian Medical University was founded and moved to Quanzhou, Fujian. It was moved back to Fuzhou in 1978. The name of the school was changed back to Fujian Medical College in 1982 and then changed back to the present name in April 1996.
On Tuesday, May 5, I presented as part of the Environmental Law Institute’s Master Class on PFAS: From Common Use to Concern. My panel, “PFAS in Packaging,” closed out the three-part panel series, with the first two panels presenting on “PFAS 101 & Updates” and “PFAS in Water.” The Master Class was sponsored by AECOM and featured a number of technical and legal professionals, as well as regulators. The discussion focused on legal observations and lessons learned from working on issues with PFAS in packaging, and how we can apply those lessons more broadly to other PFAS issues, as well as to future emerging contaminants. It’s important to recognize that the legal and technical issues, as well as the questions being asked by regulated entities, all are developing at the same time – so developments in one area inform the developments in each of the others. For legal issues, we need to understand the drivers for new legal activities, the types of legal activities to anticipate, and the regulatory backdrop. The technical issues to follow include identifying the pathways of concern, the state of the science, questions to ask about data integrity, and whether there are technically-supported solutions. Legal counsel can guide regulated entities through a risk analysis that involves understanding the legal and technical issues, as well as other business concerns, such as market and customer demands and the feasibility of alternatives. Other issues that come into play include risk communication, keeping up with multi-agency and multi-department regulatory developments at state and federal levels, and finding the right technical and legal resources with whom to partner. This framework is helpful in understanding the interplay between the legal, the technical and the special business concerns of the regulated entities, whether for PFAS in packaging, other PFAS issues, or the next emerging contaminant.
It works, but it’s also broken in some interesting ways. Old Tech81 opted to use a computer from the Windows 98 era for that authentic retro experience. Some larger sites like Facebook simply use up all the computer’s RAM and never finish loading. The information gathered is incredibly helpful to us as we make decisions about what kinds of technology investments to make and products to offer. A browser war is competition for dominance in the usage share of web browsers. Even though Windows 98 works fine locally, it doesn’t know how to operate on the modern web. The most recent browser that works on Windows 98 is Internet Explorer 6, which was released nearly 16 years ago.
Does Rite Aid’s new Chemical Policy bring us closer to a safer marketplace? Our take Earlier this month, the national drugstore chain Rite Aid released a new Chemical Policy and Restricted Substances List (RSL). Rite Aid joined a growing list of retailers taking action to ensure safer products for their customers. This public, written corporate chemicals policy communicates to Rite Aid’s suppliers, consumers, and other stakeholders that increasing Rite Aid’s assortment of safer products is important to the company’s mission. How does Rite-Aid’s policy measure up? Since Walmart released its ambitious Sustainable Chemistry Policy with a focus on safer products and transparency in 2013, we’ve seen a domino effect of other retailers such as CVS, Target, Home Depot, and now Rite Aid follow suit. Through EDF’s close collaboration with Walmart, we created the Five Pillars of Leadership framework to help other organizations eliminate toxic chemicals and create a safer marketplace. Many elements of EDF’s framework are reflected in subsequent retailers’ policies, including Rite Aid. Together, these retailers are amplifying the demand signal to the retail supply chain for safer chemicals in consumer products, particularly around 8 high priority chemicals (HPCs). How does Rite Aid’s policy measure against EDF’s Five Pillars of Leadership? - Institutional Commitment: Rite Aid’s written and public chemicals policy is a strong start to create an organization-wide commitment. The policy identifies goals around eliminating a set of 8 High Priority Chemicals (HPCs) from their private label formulated products as well as a timeline for this elimination. Rite Aid also states that they’ve been working with private label suppliers to eliminate these chemicals since well before they published the policy which further indicates institutional support for a policy. They also published a modest Restricted Substances List that contains other chemicals in the same chemical classes as their HPCs (e.g. formaldehyde donors and additional parabens). They committed to expand focus to national brand formulated products at their store. Finally, they set a timeline for expanding to other product categories, including food. Rite Aid’s initial policy is strong. They can further enhance it by setting specific goals and timelines to help them “promote more comprehensive ingredient disclosure to consumers.” - Supply Chain Transparency: Visibility into what’s in the products you sell helps you identify business risks and opportunities, and measure progress. Rite Aid is transitioning to the use of a 3rd party software tool called WERCSmart, that other retailers have also been using, to better screen product ingredients and track progress in eliminating their priority chemicals from their products. Rite Aid is asking all private brand suppliers to “report all ingredients in their formulated products” to WERCSmart. Importantly, Rite Aid will be looking at number of products containing these HPCs and number of suppliers using them. As we’ve discussed before, both metrics are critical for tracking the ubiquity of chemicals of concern in a retailer’s product portfolio and understanding on which product types to focus greater attention. Software tools are incredibly helpful in capturing ingredient information but a robust methodology for analyzing this information is essential to make improvements. We recommend a few things to help Rite-Aid maximize the utility of its new tool. First Rite Aid should explicitly define their expectations for ingredient reporting (e.g., are generic ingredients allowed?). Rite Aid should also track weight volume reductions, which will be helpful in conveying the magnitude of their chemical footprint reductions as they head closer to full elimination of these chemicals from products. Finally, we encourage Rite Aid to track ubiquity and magnitude as measures of progress across suppliers and product categories as they expand focus to national brand products. - Informed Consumers: Rite Aid states that it will promote increased transparency to consumers through “comprehensive ingredient disclosure” online or on product labels, including the components of fragrance ingredients and generic ingredients. They are also promoting third-party certifications like Safer Choice; the Safer Choice logo communicates clearly to a consumer that the product meets rigorous ingredient safety standards. Rite Aid plans to communicate when products are free from certain chemicals of concern, though they don’t specify which chemicals they mean or how they will verify such information. As mentioned above, they also don’t set goals or timelines around increasing transparency. Doing so would create accountability for suppliers to act. - Safer Product Design: Safer product design involves eliminating chemicals of concern from products and using demonstrably safer chemistry. Rite Aid identifies a number of ways they plan to achieve this. Interestingly, they target 8 HPCs to eliminate first formaldehyde, triclosan, toluene, butylparaben, propylparaben, dibutyl phthalate, diethyl phthalate, nonylphenol ethoxylates the same chemicals that Walmart and Target prioritized in their initial policies. Rite Aid also created a RSL, containing 69 other chemicals in similar chemical classes. Rite Aid plans to ask all suppliers to participate in the BPC Scorecard, including avoiding chemicals of concern on the BPC Stewardship List, which is pulled from six authoritative lists. Walmart, Target, CVS, and EDF were among the co-designers of this scorecard, an effort to establish common criteria for safer, more sustainable personal care products. As more retailers, like Rite Aid, implement the scorecard, the entire value chain will be pushed to achieve higher standards. The policy also encourages the use of safer alternatives through resources like the U.S. EPA’s Safer Chemicals Ingredient List. Rite Aid’s actions show a commitment to remove known carcinogens, endocrine disruptors, and reproductive toxicants from formulated products, which is especially important for these products that are used frequently on or around the body. We encourage Rite Aid to establish additional specific goals regarding the use of safer alternatives, perhaps collaborating on chemicals innovation efforts. - Public Commitment: By publishing its policy, initial HPCs, and RSL Rite Aid has made a good demonstration of public commitment. They’ve also shared initial data around the reduction in use of these 8 HPCs by their private brand suppliers. And they’ve publicly committed to expanding their chemicals policy in 2019. These actions reinforce internal alignment on their goals, spur the innovation of safer chemicals needed to create safer products, and build consumer trust. Creating additional, public goals for other aspects of Rite-Aid’s policy will create a stronger demand signal for the entire value chain to act. Overall, Rite Aid’s policy is a positive step towards bringing safer products to their shelves. We look forward to seeing their progress over time. As more retailers create chemical policies focused on transparency, safer ingredients, and public story-telling, we will get increasingly closer to a safer marketplace for all. Follow Alissa on Twitter, @Alissa_Sasso
Business+Impact stands in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and the Ross School of Business BBSA. With Business+Impact we aim to build a better world through powerful ideas and solutions to address the global challenges of our time. We are committed to the work of dismantling the structures of systemic racism, advancing racial justice in America, and building an equitable and sustainable future. We recognize that we must examine how we live our values each day, and seek to continually educate ourselves and others in the fight for justice and equity. Below we’ve compiled a set of resources for action, education, and transformation. Learn and Take Action: United Way of Washtenaw County Equity Challenge: A Self-guided learning journey that examines the history and impacts of racism and how it shapes people’s lived experience in Washtenaw County The Detroit Justice Center is a nonprofit law firm working alongside communities to create economic opportunities, transform the justice system, and promote equitable and just cities How to Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi Funds for Black Owned Businesses, Compiled by Black Lives Matter 5 Ineffective Ways Organizations Respond to Racial Trauma, by Justin Woods, +Impact Studio Design Fellow Come through with Rebecca Carroll
The identity of Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto is still a mystery. But soon it may unfold. Be the first to learn when and how. Let the mystery unfold. When he dies, his relatives will find his computer or his hardware wallet where bitcoins are stored. Considering that he is a man of respectable age, this is likely to happen in the next two decades. But you don’t have to wait for two decades to discover his real identity. Below I give you the facts and then present candidates. And in the end, I present you the man who is most likely to be the great Satoshi. Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto: The Facts That We Know Satoshi Nakamoto is the person or a group of people who authored white paper that laid the foundation of Bitcoin. This entity has also created bitcoin.org website and released the first bitcoin software. These are few of the facts that we know for sure. Even the information provided by Satoshi himself on his online profile has been called into question. All of the researchers believe that Satoshi is not Japanese even though he said that he is Japanese. Researchers made such conclusion for three reasons. First, he did not release Japanese version of that white paper. Second, he had perfect command of written English. Third, he always posted on forums during North American daytime or evening. So if he has conventional sleeping habits he is from North America. That is why three out of four candidates for this position are from North America. The other one is from Australia. So Satoshi’s identity is still largely unknown. 3 Men Who Can Be Bitcoin Founder Satoshi Nakamoto These are men who are likely to be Satoshi Nakamoto. There is different amount of evidence for each. 1 Craig Steven Wright This businessman and computer scientist claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto. He is from Australia. Though he has significant background in information technology, few believe that he is the real Satoshi. Though Bitcoin Foundation founding director wrote in a blog post that he saw Craig Steven Wright provide a cryptographic proof, many in Bitcoin community were highly skeptical. Independent researchers did not believe his evidence either. They said that his evidence is worthless. After the researchers’ conclusion, Craig Steven Wright released a statement, saying among other things the following: “I believed that I could do this. I believed that I could put the years of anonymity and hiding behind me. But, as the events of this week unfolded and I prepared to publish the proof of access to the earliest keys, I broke. I do not have the courage. I cannot.” 2 Hal Finney Even though he denied being Satoshi Nakamoto, some facts point to other possibility. Hal Finney is the man who received the very first bitcoin transaction. That transaction came to his Bitcoin address from Satoshi’s address. So some people speculate that Hal has simply sent the transaction to himself. Hal is also the man who has worked on proof-of-work system. This concept is used in Bitcoin. Furthermore, he is the man who disliked the government and sought ways to limit its power. His work on Bitcoin is only one testimony to that. Another testimony to that – one which hints at him being the real Satoshi – is his online forum posts. In one of them, he wrote the following: “Here we are faced with the problems of loss of privacy, creeping computerization, massive databases, more centralization – and [David] Chaum offers a completely different direction to go in, one which puts power into the hands of individuals rather than governments and corporations. The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them.” His dislike of government is not the strongest evidence of him being the real Satoshi though. He lived in the same town as Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto. So some people speculate that Hal Finney has used his neighbor’s name as a pseudonym. However, this seems unlikely that an expert cryptographer would use his neighbor’s name as a pseudonym to remain private. A connection between the two can be easily drawn. So a smart cryptographer like him would not do such an obvious privacy misstep. 3 Dorian Nakamoto Newsweek published an article which identified Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto as Bitcoin founder. Leah McGrath Goodman, the author of that article, provided some circumstantial evidence to prove her claim. One of the obvious facts she cites as evidence is Dorian’s birth name. It is in fact Satoshi Nakamoto. However, it conflicts with her other circumstantial evidence. Namely, it conflicts with the fact that Dorian Nakamoto is a privacy-obsessed engineering mastermind. His family members have described him like this. So it is unlikely that he would be using his real name on a project like Bitcoin. His software engineering work for Citibank and other financial companies, as well as his work on classified defense projects, is a more compelling piece of evidence. However, there are many people who have worked on both of these without being Satoshi Nakamoto. The man’s disdain for government can likewise be attributed to many people. By that standard all three hundred twenty five million US citizens are Satoshis. Another piece of evidence from that article is the following statement by Dorian Nakamoto: “I am no longer involved in that and I cannot discuss it. It’s been turned over to other people. They are in charge of it now. I no longer have any connection.” However, the man has later denied any connection to Bitcoin, stating that he misinterpreted the question. He said that he thought the question referred to his work for Citibank for which he signed a non-disclosure agreement. Most people in Bitcoin community believed his words when he denied his connection to Bitcoin. They think that Nick Szabo is the most likely man to be the genius creator. Nick Szabo: The Great Elusive Genius Who Is Most Likely To Be Satoshi Nakamoto Nick Szabo is most likely Satoshi Nakamoto. There are five compelling reasons for this. Reason #1: Both Men Value Privacy Satoshi Nakamoto left Bitcoin project in late 2010 after it started to gain significant adoption all over the world. The most likely reason for his decision seems to be a desire to remain private. Nick Szabo left a company after it became successful just because he wanted to avoid public exposure. The people who worked with him confirmed that he left because he became nervous about public exposure. The parallel is obvious. Both Nick and Satoshi have quit successful projects at the time when almost every other person would have stayed. Why would you quit a thriving company or booming technology that is gaining attention all over the world? In both cases, the reason is a desire to remain private. Reason #2: Both Men Are Modest Satoshi has not spent a single bitcoin even though he has 980,000 of them. Therefore, his net worth is estimated in the billions of dollars and may end up being estimated in the trillions of dollars. There is something even more interesting than the enormous size of his wealth. All of the earliest bitcoins likely mined by the same computer belonging to him are still in the original bitcoin address to which they were mined years ago. No transactions, except for test ones, were performed on them. In January 2018, that will be nine years during which Satoshi has not sold a single bitcoin, as Bitcoin was invented in January 2009. Only a truly non-materialistic man would refrain from enjoying such great wealth for such a long time. Nick Szabo wears beat-up sneakers and drives an old car. However, his income as one of the top computer scientists in the world is big enough to allow him to live a life of great luxury. He chooses not to. The parallel is obvious once again. Both Nick and Satoshi have led lives of humble modesty even though they have the means to live in great luxury. Reason #3: Nick Szabo Is Known For Interest In Pseudonyms During 1990s, he has shown an interest in pseudonyms. In one of forum posts from that time, he wrote about the necessity to use pseudonyms to protect one’s privacy. Here is an excerpt from that post: In my limited experience creating Internet pseudonyms, I’ve been quite distracted by the continual need to avoid leaving pointers to my True Name lying around — excess mail to/from my True Name, shared files, common peculiarities (eg misspellings in written text), traceable logins, etc…. All kinds of security controls — crypto, access, information, inference — have to be continually on my mind when using pseudonymous accounts. The hazards are everywhere. With our current tools it’s practically impossible to maintain an active pseudonym for a long period of time against a sufficiently determined opponent… Reason #4: The Writings Of Two Men Match The writings of two men share common writing mannerisms and similar phrasings. For these reasons, researchers at one of major British universities have concluded that Szabo’s writings match the writings of Satoshi Nakamoto more than the writings of any other person suspected to be Bitcoin creator. Reason #5: Nick Szabo Created Bit Gold Nick Szabo confirmed that he created most essential elements of Bitcoin. In other words, he simply denied being Satoshi Nakamoto, the man who came up with the main idea. But this is highly unlikely because Nick Szabo created bitcoin’s predecessor bit gold. Never released bit gold is strikingly similar to Bitcoin. It also uses proof-of-work system and is modeled to mimic the characteristics of gold. These two are integral concepts of Bitcoin. My Opinion About Bitcoin Founder He’s the genius. He’s the living legend. And I’m pretty sure he’s the man who poops like the rest of us unless he revolutionized that too. Even if he doesn’t revolutionize the act of pooping, he may still become the world’s first trillionaire. When he becomes the world’s first trillionaire, I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t sell any of his bitcoins. There are few men like him in the world who choose not to enjoy wealth for the sake of humankind. If he sold any of his bitcoins, that might undermine people’s belief in bitcoin’s value. But he chooses not to because he understands that the well-being of humankind is much more important that his own self-interest. That’s also praiseworthy that he chooses not to show off his amazing achievements. He must understand that the best leader is content when his actions had a positive impact on people. So you can say that the wisdom of Satoshi Nakamoto can be summarized by the following Lao Tzu quote: Put A Secure Lock On Your Bitcoin. Get the best hardware wallet right now and feel safe.
2 edition of Masters of the Japanese print.. found in the catalog. Masters of the Japanese print.. \|The Physical Object\| \|Number of Pages\|\|319\| Kitagawa Utamaro (UK: / ˌ uː t ə ˈ m ɑːr oʊ /, US: / ˌ ʊ t-/; Japanese: 喜多川歌麿; c. – 31 October ) was a Japanese artist. He is one of the most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings, and is best known for his bijin ōkubi-e "large-headed pictures of beautiful women" of the s. He also produced nature studies, particularly Resting place: Senkōji [ja], 35°40′″N . This book is an excellent overview of the Japanese print, and provides a firm introduction to this lovely art form. To further illuminate the many colorful and exquisite prints included, Harris In Ukiyo-e, author and artist Frederick Harris offers a stunning survey of the art of the Japanese woodblock print/5. Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese: 歌川国貞; – 12 January ), also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III (三代歌川豊国 Sandai Utagawa Toyokuni), was the most popular, prolific and commercially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century his own time, his reputation far exceeded that of his contemporaries, Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi. Inspired by the art of Hokusai and other masters of Japanese woodblock prints?Or just looking to get your hands dirty and express yourself creatively? The ancient art of woodblock printing is a perfect craft to get started with printmaking. Utamaro, in full Kitagawa Utamaro, original name Kitagawa Nebsuyoshi, (born , Japan—died Oct. 31, , Edo, Japan—d.), Japanese printmaker and painter who was one of the greatest artists of the ukiyo-e (“pictures of the floating world”) movement; he is known especially for his masterfully composed portraits of sensuous female beauties. Used books. Giving used books new life is what we do best. 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Books were handmade and calligraphed until the advent of block printing, originating in China, with the earliest known East Asian examples produced in Japan. The first couple of chapters talks about efficient ways to learn Japanese (make time for it throughout your workday, etc) and methods such as shadowing. He's a big believer of learning Japanese "naturally" (by consuming Japanese media) and that means that he recommends a lot of stuff in the book (Japanese music, books, games, anime/manga, etc). Masters of the Japanese print. [Richard Lane] Home. WorldCat Home About WorldCat Help. Search. Search for Library Items Search for Lists Search for Contacts Search for a Library. Create Print book: EnglishView all editions and formats: Rating: (not yet rated) 0 with reviews - Be the first. Subjects: Color prints, Japanese. Painting, Japanese. Japanese Prints. This volume reproduces Japanese woodblock colour prints by 43 famous masters of ukiyo-e, the popular art of the 17th to the 19th century. The originals are in the Riccar Art Museum in Tokyo, the world's largest and most celebrated collection of such prints/5. Featuring hundreds of illustrations, Japanese Prints: From Early Masters to the Modern is a comprehensive history and survey of Japan’s most famous visual art form. The author, Mr. Michener has illustrated the book with lesser-known masterpieces rather than with those few prints that have been reproduced almost ad nauseam. Background. This survey of ukiyo-e and modern prints is one of the most widely read books on the subject in English. As the book jacket states, "In James A. Michener the Japanese print has found its ideal commentator. Combining the finished literary style of an outstanding novelist with a mature knowledge of his subject, he is able to bring this great art form to life. [Japan n.d. 's]. An accordion folding album, blue & gold floral pattern, silk brocade cloth covers,edges worn, 1 pastel-colored print, plus a complete suite of 12 color prints, album size x cm., gilt top & bottom edges.A STUNNING EROTIC ALBUM BY THE album is in its original and worn silk and gold brocade cloth and contains thirteen Oban [ca 38 x cm] sized. The art of Japanese woodblock printing, known as ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating world"), reflects the rich history and way of life in Japan hundreds of years -e: The Art of the Japanese Print takes a thematic approach to this iconic Japanese art form, considering prints by subject matter: geisha and courtesans, kabuki actors, sumo wrestlers, erotica, nature, historical /5(28). Exhibitions selected from Bristol Museum & Art Gallery’s collection of Japanese woodblock prints - one of the top five regional collections in the UK. Hokusai and Hiroshige landscapes Katsushika Hokusai () and Utagawa Hiroshige () are two of Japan’s best-known woodblock print artists. Woodblock printing in Japan is a technique best known for its use in the ukiyo-e artistic genre of single sheets, but it was also used for printing books in the same period. Widely adopted in Japan during the Edo period and similar to woodcut in Western printmaking in some regards, the mokuhanga technique differs in that it uses water-based inks—as opposed to western woodcut, which typically uses oil. A prodigious collector of the Japanese woodblock, James Michener, popular author of Sayonara and other books on the Far East, offers the reader a panoramic view of the acomplishments of the ukiyo-e (pictures of the fleeting world) masters over a period of two centuries. Illustrated with plates, many of which are in color, this book reveals the meticulous artistry, the fluency of line, the. Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese: 鈴木春信; c. – 15 July ) was a Japanese designer of woodblock print artist in the Ukiyo-e style. He was an innovator, the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) inrendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Hayao Miyazaki’s Beloved Characters Reimagined in the Style of 19th-Century Woodblock Prints. A Wonderfully Illustrated Japanese Edition of Aesop’s Fables by Legendary Children’s Book Illustrator Takeo Takei. Download Hundreds of Van Gogh .This book is a lavishly presented celebration of the classic Japanese art of woodblock prints. Through the 18th and 19th centuries this form dominated visual art in Japan and remains today as a major influence on the graphic a short introduction to the history and technique of this art form, the book features a stunning collection of beautifully reproduced/5.Collection History. The Spencer Collection at The New York Public Library, which concentrates on illustrated books of all periods and regions, is home to some manuscripts and 1, printed books from Japan; the manuscripts range from the 12th to the 20th century, and the printed works from the year to the present.
The White DonkeyGraphic Novel - 2016 A powerful, compulsively page-turning, vivid, and moving tribute to the experience of war and PTSD, The White Donkey tells the story of Abe, a young Marine recruit who experiences the ugly, pedestrian, and often meaningless side of military service in rural Iraq. He enlists in hopes of finding that missing something in his life but comes to find out that it's not quite what he expected. Abe gets more than he bargained for when his journey takes him to the middle east in war-torn Iraq. This is a story about a Marine, written and illustrated by a Marine, and is the first graphic novel about the war in Iraq from a veteran. The White Donkey explores the experience of being a Marine, as well as the challenges that veterans face upon their return home, and its raw power will leave you in awe. From the critics Age SuitabilityAdd Age Suitability SummaryAdd a Summary Terminal Lance: The White Donkey is a stunning graphic novel exploring both a soldier's motivations for joining a volunteer war (Iraq) and the sacrifices that decision entails. Both humorous and horrifying, Maximilian Uriarte's novel is "American Sniper" about an average joe melded with great visuals and creative use of panels and pages. Expect to be moved. QuotesAdd a Quote There are no quotes for this title yet.
Residents aim to make immigrants feel welcome in their community As the first snow hit Calgary, forcing many to pull out their thick winter coats, mittens and hats, many families were gathering inside Tom Baines School representing their cultures. Warm reds, oranges and yellows, mixing with vibrant blues and greens, filled the halls as many wandered through a sea of handcrafted paper Canadian flags. On Thursday, Nov. 17, families in Edgemont and surrounding communities gathered at the school to celebrate the many diverse cultures in the Edgemont community, for an event known now as the Edgemont Culture Night. The event, sponsored by The Calgary Foundation and the City of Calgary’s community and neighbourhood services, aimed to bring families from all cultures together, embracing one another. Jennifer DiMarzo, a community social worker for the City of Calgary, said Culture Night has provided an opportunity for community members who may not have been actively involved in their community to step forward and share a piece of their cultural traditions with their community. It was DiMarzo who first saw the great diversity of the community while looking at a profile of Edgemont on the City of Calgary’s website, which initiated the idea for the Edgemont Culture Night. According to the profile, in 2006 Calgary’s immigrant population totalled 242,750, or 24.8 per cent of the total population. Of that population, 6,500 immigrants had settled in Edgemont by 2006, accounting for 37.8 per cent of the community’s total residents. These statistics suggest Edgemont’s diversity is large in comparison with the city of Calgary as a whole. “This diversity is a real strength of the community,” said DiMarzo. Miriam Quapp, a math learning leader at Tom Baines School, jumped at the opportunity to be the school’s representative for the festivities. With no noted examples of bullying or discrimination between students based on ethnicity or culture, Quapp said, “It was really a chance to celebrate. And as a school with a diverse population, it was also a way to celebrate [the] students.” While the night did appear celebratory, it was not just about fun, but also about teaching the kids about respecting diversity. “Yes we’re proudly Canadian, and part of why we are proudly Canadian is because we are diverse and we can accept other people’s identities,” Quapp said. “Young kids always face issues when they come from another country, and our kids, when they understand what the issues are, they are very empathetic, they are very accepting. But if we don’t make them aware [of] how difficult it is, or even the traditions that belong to another family, the kids don’t really understand it.” There were children of all ages in attendance, with schools including Mother Mary Greene School, Edgemont School (both elementary, grades 1-6) as well as Tom Baines School (grades 7-9) in participation. All schools urged students to participate by showcasing their art and talents. Zhong Gu, an immigrant to Canada from China, said she and her family were required to attend because her son, a student at Edgemont School, had artwork on display. After attending she said the night was great for different cultures. As people first walked through the front doors of the junior high school, the sounds of children laughing, along with small pounds of a drum were floating through the air. Immediately to the right, only a couple of feet from the entrance doors, there was a gymnasium. In it was a group of children and adults embracing the art of African drumming. Straight past the gym and to the left down a hallway was the Chinese cultural area, where young children could be found playing their cultural Chinese zither, while others enjoyed the art of calligraphy. On the other side of the school, another room housed Chinese lion dancing. Up the spiral stairs to the second level was more entertainment, including a talent show and even a performance from the Mother Mary Greene School choir. As time passed and the clock neared 8 p.m., people continued to line up for the Tastes of The World section, including foods from Pakistan, China and India. Music began to fill the room. In the corner of the main hall, children of all cultures gathered around a grand piano, playing pieces ranging from the classics of Chopin to more modern songs including Adele’s “Someone Like You.” Nadia Reid not only attended the event, but also played a large role in making the event come to life. “Immigrants do not feel comfortable coming into the school because it is such a different culture from what they are used to,” she said. “So opening up the school like this and showing them we are embracing what they are about, and what we have to offer, was our goal.” Reid’s son Jared, 13, explained the students might seem uncomfortable because many can’t speak English, making it difficult for them to integrate. As an active volunteer for the event, he said, “I think it is important that everyone in the community is an equal.”
Vegan diet - is it healthy or not? What you can eat on vegan diet and what is forbidden The vegan diet eliminates all food products of animal origin. Therefore, you can not eat meat, fish, seafood, milk and dairy products, eggs or animal fats. You can eat vegetables and fruits, all cereal products, nuts and seeds, pods, vegetable oils. You can also eat vegetable milk, vegetable yoghurts and vegetable cheeses or ready-made vegan products. The last ones are constantly arriving on store shelves. Vegan diet is not monotonous or difficult to compose, it is also very tasty and often surprising. Common Nutrient Deficiencies In The Vegan Diet Supporters of the traditional diet accuse the vegan diet of the risk of deficiency of iron, protein or calcium. However, in the opinion of experts, a properly composed vegan diet is healthy at every stage of life, including pregnant women, babies and young children. So what is the concept of proper balancing a vegan diet? The basis is diversity. If we eat different types of nuts and pods, we provide the body with all the amino acids. If we include large quantities of green leafy vegetables in the diet and consume them with the sources of vitamin C - we will take care of the adequate supply of iron. When you add poppy seeds to oats, cocktails or baked goods - we provide the body with large amounts of perfectly absorbable calcium. Read also:Vegan diet - is it healthy or not? Vegan diet benefits Vegan diet is based on consuming large amounts of fruits and vegetables, therefore it provides a lot of fiber and a lot of antioxidants, vitamins and minerals. Antioxidants are the strongest weapon in the fight against aging of the body, diabetes, atherosclerosis or cancer. The only necessary supplementation is this vitamin B12. By eliminating the consumption of zoonotic products, the vegan diet does not provide cholesterol and unhealthy fatty acids, which will be appreciated by people suffering from hypercholesterolemia or atherosclerosis, and therefore at risk of heart attack. Veganism is an excellent prevention of colon cancer and other cancers, it helps cleanse the body of toxins, it helps maintain a healthy body weight. Veganism is therefore very healthy - if you take care of a varied diet.
Do a little good! Join Can’d Aid at KOTO Brewing Co. in an effort to build bicycles for the entire 1st and 2nd grade at Bickel Elementary! For many students, this will be their very first bicycle – providing a valuable opportunity to get outside. Can’d Aid will supply all necessary tools. Just come ready to jump in and help turn some wrenches! No previous bike building experience necessary. In an effort to prioritize safety, volunteers will be set up at individual work stations and asked to practice six feet of social distancing throughout the event. Bike building will take place in shifts over the course of the weekend to limit group sizes, and face masks will be provided to each volunteer. Sign up for a time slot below to get in on the do-goodery! Registration required.
Managers and team leaders in public health have the unenviable position of leading the horse to water and getting it to drink. That’s because gaining buy-in about the importance of change management can add complexity to a daunting goal. Change management guru Prosci recently surveyed project and change management leaders to assemble insight from more than 4,000 experts in 56 countries. Here are the top three change management best practice statistics from their research: Our Top 3 Change Management Statistics Quality, Not Quantity The research showed that the quality of change management strongly affects the outcome of a project. In fact, with high-quality change management techniques in place, your project is six times more likely to meet benchmarks than with leaders that fail to effectively manage both people and processes. Without People, Process Fails 71% of the study participants that implemented change management techniques completed their projects on schedule. Sometimes project leaders are so focused on implementation deadlines that they fail to manage the people affected by the project. When this happens, the rollout becomes more like a rollover, and the project falters. The change management statistics provided by the Prosci study shows that effective change management means better schedule adherence. Change Management Improves Project Bottom Line 81% of the projects with effective change management came in on or under budget, according to the study. When change management wasn’t as effective, there was a clear negative fiscal impact. The Harvard Business Review suggests 60-70% of all the change initiatives undertaken in organizations fail. Could this be because leaders fail to fully embrace the concept of change management that is so crucial to the successful implementation of any project?
If you want to become a pediatrician, it’s important to get an overview of what the pediatric specialty is like. Read about pediatric goals and the pediatric subspecialties that you can choose from below. One of the main goals of the pediatric field is to provide preventative care to prevent serious diseases from spreading around the population in children. This helps to reduce the infant and child mortality rate. Generally speaking, preventative care is strongly related to making sure children get required immunizations and testing. Fostering Healthy Lifestyles Pediatricians seek to foster healthy lifestyles by talking with children and families about health as children grow up. They also track patients’ health practices as they grow up to encourage areas of improvement. Tracking Childhood Developments It’s important to make sure children are healthy as they develop, so doctors keep track of important information like height, weight, and puberty developments to make sure there aren’t any abnormalities and treat them if there are. Treating and Diagnosing Illnesses Children often get sick with viruses and other common illnesses when they’re young. Pediatricians seek to diagnose and treat these illnesses to ensure that these illnesses don’t get worse for children. Allergy and Immunology These pediatricians research and treat allergic reactions and child allergies relating to the respiratory and immune systems. They also treat and study allergic reactions due to foods and drugs. These pediatricians provide care for patients with congenital or acquired cardiovascular or cardiac abnormalities and disorders. Critical pediatricians focus on the treatment and care of infants and adolescents with severe illnesses or injuries that need constant levels of monitoring and/or serious surgeries. Pediatric dermatologists treat children with skin disorders like dermatitis, skin infections, or abnormal moles and birthmarks. Developmental and Behavioral These pediatricians focus on caring for patients with developmental and behavioral disorders like autism or other disorders. They seek to ease the lifestyle and social stressors for the family and child. Pediatric neurologists focus on issues and disorders relating to the brain, spinal chord, and peripheral nerve in infants, children, and adolescents. They may treat children with migraines or cerebral palsy as well as children with complex and severe neurological disorders. Pediatric oncology is the field concerned with providing care and treatment for patients with various types of cancer. Pediatric oncologists focus on treating children with cancer and helping guide their families through the difficult process of treating cancer. A generalist subspecialty, general surgery pediatricians can perform a number of surgeries for children and adolescents and may work with other specialists depending on the issue with the patients.
Growth Trends for Related Jobs If you're looking for an entry-level position that will introduce you to the field of telecommunications, consider a job as a master control operator. Master control operators work in the control centers of television and radio stations, loading and playing recorded television and radio programs and commercials. They adjust knobs in the master control center, such as color and video levels, to the correct settings and troubleshoot any equipment problems. They are responsible for switching between programs and playing prerecorded announcements, such as the station technical difficulty message or emergency broadcast recordings. Most master control operators have technical school training and are mechanically inclined. The average salary of master control operators is $48,067, according to Salary Expert, an Internet source of national salary information. Salary depends on geographical area, with average salaries in 10 top cities as follows: New York, $61,737; Berkeley, Calif., $60,632; Washington, D.C., $59,957; Baltimore, $52,275; Philadelphia, $50,682; Houston, $48,135; Miami, $48,006; Augusta, Maine, $40,769; Fargo, N.D., $39,465 and Pierre, S.D., $34,756. Across the nation, salaries also differ for those new to the field. When looking at ten randomly selected cities, earnings were as follows: Pierre, S.D., $26,650; Fargo, N.D., $30,261; Augusta, Maine, $31,326; Miami, $36,810; Houston, $36,909; Philadelphia, $38,862; Baltimore, $40,084; Washington, D.C., $45,974; Berkeley, Calf., $46,492 and New York, $47,339. Master control operators in the 90th percentile of all earners are generally seasoned professionals who have several years in the field. In New York, the average salary for these top earners is $77,639, followed by Berkeley, Calf., $76,250; Washington, D.C., $75,400; Baltimore, $65,740; Philadelphia, $63,737; Houston, $60,534; Miami, $60,372; Augusta, Maine, $51,270; Fargo, S.D., $49,630 and Pierre, S.D., $43,709. The Bureau of Labor Statistics includes master control operators in the category of broadcast and sound engineers. As of May 2012, projected job outlook for this occupational category through 2020 was 13 percent for audio and video technicians, 10 percent for broadcast and sound engineering technicians, 9 percent for broadcast technicians and 1 percent for sound technicians. These projections compare to 14 percent for all other occupations. Competition will be strong; master control operators up to date on the latest technology have the best chance of securing employment. 2016 Salary Information for Broadcast and Sound Engineering Technicians Broadcast and sound engineering technicians earned a median annual salary of $42,740 in 2016, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. On the low end, broadcast and sound engineering technicians earned a 25th percentile salary of $30,200, meaning 75 percent earned more than this amount. The 75th percentile salary is $62,340, meaning 25 percent earn more. In 2016, 134,300 people were employed in the U.S. as broadcast and sound engineering technicians. - Indeed: Master Control Operator - Salary Expert: Master Control Operator - Bureau of Labor Statistics: Broadcast and Sound Engineering Technicians - U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Occupational Outlook Handbook: Broadcast and Sound Engineering Technicians - Career Trend: Broadcast and Sound Engineering Technicians - Hemera Technologies/AbleStock.com/Getty Images
Past Event! Note: this event has already taken place. Learning Effectively with Multimedia October 20, 2020 at 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM Facilitator: Maristela Petrovic-Dzerdz (EDC) “People learn more deeply from words and graphics than from words alone. This assertion can be called the multimedia principle, and it forms the basis for using multimedia instruction—that is, instruction containing words (such as spoken text or printed text) and graphics (such as illustrations, charts, photos, animation, or video) that is intended to foster learning” (Mayer, 2009). In this workshop, we will introduce the basics of the cognitive theory of multimedia learning (CTML), which incorporates concepts from both the science of learning and the science of instruction, and discuss research-informed principles derived from it. You will engage in several short and fun “brain exercises” as we discuss the difference between rote and meaningful learning, the importance of long-term memory, and what happens when visual and verbal information is not “in sync.” We will critically analyze examples of learning material that combine words and pictures and suggest improvements based on the examined principles. You will leave this session with practical skills that will inspire you to rethink how to effectively use multimedia in your teaching for the benefit of your learners. At the end of this session, you will be able to: - Explain the basic premises of the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning and the impact of theory on multimedia instruction - Critically analyze examples of instructional scenarios that utilize multimedia, and suggest improvements based on evidence-informed principles. This workshop is part of Course Design Fundamentals, offered by TLS. Participants who complete five workshops and a guided reflection of the experience will receive a letter of completion to include in their teaching dossier. Space is limited. Please register in advance by filling out the form below.
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — There is no growth without some form of crisis and no victory without a battle, Pope Francis told a group of Jesuits. In fact, “the worst evil that can happen to us,” he said, is growing complacent, self-satisfied and worldly in one’s spiritual life, too, he said. The pope spoke Dec. 3 with staff and students of Rome’s International College of Gesu, founded by the late Jesuit Father Pedro Arrupe in 1968. The pope told the community that they are called to strengthen their roots in God and grow in love. “The plant grows from the roots, which you don’t see, but they hold everything. And it ceases to give fruit not when it has few branches but when the roots dry out. To have roots is to have a heart that is well-grafted” to God, enabling that heart to expand and be alive, he said. “There is no growth without crisis. Don’t be afraid of crises,” he told them, because it is necessary the same way there is no “fruit without pruning, no victory without a battle.” “To grow and to put down your roots means to fight without rest against every spiritual worldliness, which is the worst evil that can happen,” he said. If such worldliness “attacks the roots, then goodbye fruit and goodbye plant. For me, this is the greatest danger right now — spiritual worldliness that leads you to clericalism and so on,” he added. Two positive signs of growth, he said, are obedience and freedom, freedom from oneself and the slavery that selfishness would bring. Jesuits are called to offer themselves and be “one-on-one” with people in their situation and “to take care of the world that God loves.” Jesuits are called to be on the outskirts, in delicate situations and “in the deserts of humanity.” They may find themselves “like a lamb among wolves, but they must not battle the wolves, they must only be a lamb,” never becoming like the wolves, so that Jesus, the Good Shepherd, will know “where his lamb is.” In a time of crisis CatholicPhilly.com keeps the information flowing During the current coronavirus crisis, you can help CatholicPhilly.com deliver the kind of news people need to know about the Catholic Church, especially in the Philadelphia region, and the world in which we live ― every day. Budgets are tight at this time, and CatholicPhilly's is no different than those of most families. We make sure your donation in any amount will go a long way toward continuing our mission to inform, form in the Catholic faith and inspire the thousands of readers who visit every month. Here is how you can help: - A $100 gift allows us to present award-winning photos of Catholic life in our neighborhoods. - A $50 gift enables us to cover a news event in a local parish, school or Catholic institution. - A $20 gift lets us obtain solid faith formation resources that can deepen your spirituality and knowledge of the faith. - A small, automated monthly donation means you can support us continually and easily. Won't you consider making a gift today? Please join in the church's vital mission of communications by offering a gift in whatever amount that you can ― a single gift of $40, $50, $100, or more, or a monthly donation. Your gift will strengthen the fabric of our entire Catholic community. Make your donation by credit card here: Or make your donation by check: 222 N. 17th Street Philadelphia, PA 19103
Focus in the direction of Get Things Done It contains in the direction of be one particular of mankind’s most important troubles; remaining centered inside the immediate paced, know-how powered international we are dwelling in just. Content overload, a well-known phenomenon, do the job overload one more. Still getting concentrated is maybe the least difficult course for us to attain components performed and move ahead with our lives and our positions. Therefore how do we continue to keep our eye on the ball every time it’s accustomed in direction of bouncing above in opposition to courtroom towards court docket? Focus on 1 thing Wise words and phrases in opposition to a clever gentleman, yet highest of us will relate to chasing maybe a dozen rabbits at the very same season and a couple of elephants. Still if we are toward abide by the sensible text of Confucius we will attain much more completed and carry out our targets out of the blue. Working on much more than one matter at a period will waste beneficial time. The moment we exchange in opposition to 1 activity in direction of an additional, it usually takes our mind season in direction of readjust and concentrate on the second task and worthwhile period is dropped inside of the changeover. The truth currently being that multitasking is a productiveness nightmare. Eliminate regarded distractions Last week I suggested an material detox toward support us recognise the amount of money of information that we consume is needless. A detox as well assists us in direction of chill out and chill out, an very important aspect of awareness and focus. If by yourself need towards consider operate done, disconnect against technologies. Change off all notifications and reminders of e-mail and tweets and many others. Consider control of all interaction and social media and basically shift in the direction of them each time on your own are ready in direction of fork out season there. It’s not favourable to consider notifications – human beings are not strong more than enough in direction of forget Individuals teasers. Calm the mind One of our largest distractions is not as by yourself could possibly consist of thing to consider – Facebook – it is our private queries racing in the course of our minds each time we are trying in the direction of acquire nearly anything accomplished. This kind of cheeky questions from time to time tempt us absent towards the activity that demands undertaking, or they annoyingly and continuously inform whilst we are working upon activity A that process B, C and D remain unfinished. Don’t listen, consider take care of of your concerns and redirect them in the direction of the activity at hand. A superb course to still the intellect is meditation. It can guidance towards silence the continual chat we all knowledge towards season to time. It can be a Wonderful tips in direction of attention. De-cluttering is yet another path towards remove interruptions, if your table, workplace and mind are clear, you are minimising the options for distractions. I constantly begin my week by means of cleaning my workplace, everything that was remaining lying above against the outside of week prerequisites in the direction of be dealt with, your self want toward know that there is practically nothing your self incorporate missed over or still left undone. If oneself buy into the practice of undertaking a weekly de-clutter or in GTD terms a weekly evaluation, oneself can commence the week relaxed, concentrated and geared up for step. We all recognize physical fitness generates energy; it is also a impressive way in the direction of get rid of tension, as endorphins are introduced via the pituitary gland towards block out inner thoughts of agony or stress. Serotonin, one more chemical introduced despite the fact that exercising, raises our mood and our feel of pleasure. Health and fitness is also reliable for the output of fresh new neurons within the head which let us in the direction of method and store information even further efficiently. Clarification of Goals Being apparent concerning our aims and targets will assist us focus and continue to be on track. It motivates us in direction of carry on and persist as soon as we are lacking the motivation. If your goals is in direction of de-clutter your property and be much more organised, your intent probably in the direction of eradicate aggravation and induce quiet. For one more individual the intent may be since they are putting their Place up for sale and want the Place searching good and interesting. It’s essential in the direction of demonstrate your goals inside invest in in the direction of hold the commitment and make sure that what yourself are functioning on is taking on your own nearer to that intent. The extra we simplify our life and our jobs, the even more operate we get hold of completed. Still we don’t basically require to consider hard work accomplished, we need towards just take the critical tasks completed, the assignments that deliver a variance in direction of the large visualize. A great number of of us busy ourselves undertaking assignments that are unnecessary, throwing away time on factors that aren’t introducing worthy of in direction of our life or our work. If you can simplify and clear away the unnecessary against your lifestyle your self will incorporate much more season in the direction of consideration upon what is considerable, and it will furthermore develop into a lot much easier towards maintain this awareness. What other approaches do yourself employ the service of towards dwell centered?
Over the last few years, Apple has quietly been moving to curtail the advertising industry's broad reach. It began blocking trackers by default, added ad-blocking to the iPhone, and began restricting cookies in the web browser. Now, in iOS 13, it's going one step further and focusing on a bigger goal: kneecapping the digital marketing industry entirely, and there’s no way to avoid it. 'Sign in with Apple' is a flagship feature in iOS 13, due to be released in the fall, makes it easier to sign into apps. Just like signing in with Facebook or Google, the idea is that it'll make it easier to create an account in an app without typing out your details—with a key difference: Apple anonymizes the user's email address and identity almost entirely, so the developer never receives their real details. As a consumer, the idea of Apple sign-in is genuinely an exciting one: I don't have to give out my email address to random companies anymore, helping keep my actual email account much more secure. As a person in digital marketing, as well as a coder and startup founder, the feature terrifies me: Apple wants to remove the last piece of control I actually had over my product's marketing. But, it's something else that worries me: I don't have a choice. Apple plans to force developers using third-party signin features to add its signin along any competing ones, rather than allowing them to make the choice. Essentially, Apple will force its success—and remove any sort of control from me over whether or not I want to use it. Rather than competing on merit or features, Apple is backing developers and small businesses into a corner, forcing them to use the technology, and using the App Store—again—as a tool to further its own reach. Privacy vs marketing If you've ever worked in marketing or run your own business, you'll know the line between marketing and privacy priorities is incredibly thin. It always has been, and always will be: advertising is a necessary evil that funds ideas and business models that users wouldn't otherwise pay for. But, it's also a crucial part of reaching new customers at every scale. Generally, to reach new customers, you want to advertise to people like your existing ones–usually by creating something called a ‘lookalike’ audience. Tools like Mailchimp, Google AdWords and Facebook Ad Network allow users to upload email addresses of customers, which are used to understand the type of customer buying your product, and to narrow down advertising to similar people. The practice usually shocks people outside of the industry, who didn’t realize their email address is used in this way–but it’s a critical part of reaching the right people, rather than blindly paying to target the wrong people, which makes advertising dramatically more expensive. This is only one example of a practice that uses email addresses to better create advertising for both you and other people, without actually affecting or targeting you. There’s a plethora of other similar methods, often much more complex, but these tools help small businesses broaden their reach–many of them simply couldn’t otherwise reach those customers on their own. Apple is likely to win consumers over, who think these things sound evil and strange, but without these practices many of our favorite businesses and services simply couldn’t exist or practically reach customers. Email remarketing, custom audiences and similar tools that rely on a simple email address are particularly important for small online retailers using tools like Shopify or Etsy to sell their items to the right people–they’d otherwise be running ads on Instagram with poor targeting, spending thousands in the hope of reaching the right person at random. Apple knows this, and that’s why it’s forcing millions of developers to adopt it, rather than convince them to use it. In iOS 13, Apple is requiring its sign-in service to be used if Facebook or Google sign-in are anywhere in their apps. That way, Apple drives that ad business, and all of the other revenue that comes with it, back to its own platform. To consumers, that might seem great–but it’s a dangerous precedent. Fighting for privacy—when it pays Over the last few years, particularly as Facebook's various data scandals played out, privacy has become Apple's largest focus, and where it's put all of its marketing efforts. Those tools have pushed user privacy forward in many ways, but are designed to further the company's own goals, addressing only competing industries rather than issues on its own platform. In my first DEBUGGER column for Medium earlier this year, I pointed out this problem: on the web, Apple blocks ads by default and aggressively controls or reveals trackers. On its own platform, however, apps are free to use as many trackers and ads as they like—because there's no way to see them. Apple uses the guise of privacy, which is a legitimate concern for all of us, to disadvantage a platform that competes. With Apple sign-in, the company is set to do the same thing: by selling the tool as a privacy-focused feature, the company is building a new identity system that it owns entirely. Because it is a powerful privacy feature, it makes it hard to debate this move in any constructive way–personally, I think we need more tools like this, just not from the very platforms further entrenching their own kingdoms. Apple sign-in is the ultimate lock-in, along with everything else new we’ve seen this year, from an iPhone-only credit-card, to a plethora of exclusive subscription services, only available on Apple’s own hardware. Apple sign-in seals that deal, binding users to Apple's hardware for the long haul, making it tedious to log in to services on any other device (there is support for web logins, but it's poorly documented and notably omits the "seamless login" line shown on every other page). All of the largest tech companies have switched gears to this model, including Google, and now sell a narrative that nobody can be trusted with your data–but it’s fine to give it all to them, instead. There’s bitter irony in Apple denouncing other companies’ collection of data with a sign-in service, then launching its own, asking that you give that data to them, instead. I definitely trust Apple to act with my interests at heart today, but what about tomorrow, when the bottom falls out of iPhone sales, and the math changes? I’m not arguing that any of these advertising practices are right or wrong, but rather that such a hamfisted approach isn’t all that it seems. The ad industry gets a bad rap–and does need to improve–but allowing a company that has a vested interest in crippling it to dictate the rules by forcing developers to implement their technology is wrong. Yes, we need better tools to understand how we’re being tracked. But, forcing apps around the world to have less control over their own destiny, and access to their customers will harm businesses in profound ways–and make it more expensive than ever for them to reach new customers. It could, quite literally, be the beginning of the digital marketing apocalypse. This feature, and the way it’s being forced on developers, is a fantastic example of why companies like Apple and Google should be broken up: it’s clearly using the App Store, and its reach, to force the industry’s hand in its favor–rather than compete on merit. During WWDC, it leaked that the Department of Justice plans a probe into Apple, Alphabet and other technology giants–and these types of land-grabs are prime examples of manipulating users. If the App Store operated independently, outside of Apple, it would be forced to actually convince developers and businesses to use this service, which is the definition of fair competition. The ad industry needs fixing, yes, and these types of tools are powerful ideas–in the right hands. I’m terrified of running into the open arms of the world’s richest company, leveraging its platform to lock you into its grasp even further.
The Kentucky Department for Public Health (DPH) is responsible for developing and operating state public health programs and activities for the citizens of Kentucky. The mission of DPH is to improve the health and safety of people in Kentucky through prevention, promotion and protection. The department oversees programs designed to improve the lives of citizens and visitors through prevention of negative health outcomes, promotion of healthy lifestyles and protection from diseases, injury and environmental health impacts. DPH has almost 150 different programs to help Kentuckians become healthier in cooperation with its partners such as local health departments, universities, private providers, etc. To support many of these programs, the department relies on high-quality data to guide decision making at the state and local levels such as the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, Immunization Registry and Office of Vital Statistics. The department is organized into seven divisions with the Commissioner's Office providing oversight and support for the divisions and programs. The Office of Health Equity and the Public Health Nursing Office are located in the Commissioner's Office. More information about each division can be found on the links at the left of this page.
The Francis Report reinforced the need for effective quality improvement strategies within NHS Trusts. The QUASER project, funded by the European Commission’s Framework Seven Programme, was a collaboration between five European countries (England, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands, Portugal). The QUASER project successfully produced a research-based guide, or dialogical tool, for senior hospital leaders to develop and implement QI strategies across their organisations, through systematically identifying the strengths and weaknesses of a hospital’s approach to quality improvement. This project is testing the impact of implementing the QUASER guide with Trust boards within the NIHR CLAHRC North Thames region. The Guide is being implemented by Foresight Centre for Governance at GE Healthcare Finnamore, an organisational development consultancy through workshops and action learning sets. The evaluation of the implementation of the Guide uses quantitative and qualitative methods and includes a study of the total costs and benefits of the different interventions and resulting QI activities (a cost consequence analysis). The results of this project will benefit patients by facilitating boards of NHS providers to develop their organisational-wide strategies to improve quality of care. Principal investigator: Professor Naomi Fulop, University College London Other project team members: Dr Lorelei Jones, University College London Start date and duration: April 2014, three years Partners and collaborators involved: UCL; Foresight Partnership; King’s College London; Imperial College London; UCLP; participating trusts from the region. Intervention – the implementation of the QUASER Guide has completed with Trust boards. This included the use of the QUASER guide to assess their current QI strategies, a facilitated workshop and three action learning sets. This was conducted over a 9 month period (Sept 2014 to May 2015) Evaluation- the evaluation has completed its’ ‘before’ and ‘during’ phases of data collection including observational work, interviews and documentary review. The research team are now collecting data as part of the ‘after’ phase of the intervention including that of comparator and benchmarking trusts. This is planned to be completed in Summer 2016.
To find jurisdictions offering this course for CLE credit, use the "All MCLE Jurisdictions" drop-down menu (above). Total Credits: 1 including 1 Ethics Learn how to conduct free Internet legal and investigative research. This webinar unlocks the mysteries of Google Scholar, the least documented legal research database you’ll ever see…until now. \|Unlocking the Mysteries of Google Scholar for Free Case Law and Article Research - Materials (10.1 MB)\|\|40 Pages\|\|Available after Purchase\| Mark Rosch is Vice-President of Internet for Lawyers and President of its CLEseminars.com division. He’s an internationally recognized speaker and author on the subjects of using the Internet for investigative and background research, Google search, and Google Cloud Apps. He has co-authored numerous books and hundreds of articles on these and other related topics, receiving top industry recognition for his work. Mark is a Fellow in the College of Law Practice Management, an honorary society that honors and recognizes distinguished law practice management professionals, and in 2013 he was named to the "Fastcase Fifty," recognizing “50 of the smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders in the law.” Mark is a long-time member of ACLEA and the ABA and is active member in both organizations. He has served in numerous leadership positions – recently completing a 3-year term on the ABA TECHSHOW Planning Board. See the Latest Blog Posts from Mark Rosch Carole Levitt, founder/principal of Internet For Lawyers (IFL), is an internationally recognized CLE seminar speaker and best-selling American Bar Association author. She writes and speaks on Internet investigative and legal research, social media research, social media ethics, and technology for lawyers. Since 1999, IFL has provided law firms, corporations, and local and state Bar Associations around the country with professional and entertaining turn-key CLE programs. The company focuses on delivering information about free investigative and background research resources available on the Internet. Together with co-author Mark Rosch, Levitt has written several ABA Law Practice Division books, including "Google Gmail and Calendar For Lawyers in One Hour" (2013), two editions of "The Lawyer’s Guide to Fact Finding on the Internet," "Google For Lawyers," and "Find Info Like a Pro," Volumes 1 and 2. They have also just completed the thirteenth edition of their book "The Cybersleuth's Guide to the Internet" (2015, IFL Press). Levitt also co-authored “Internet Legal Research on a Budget (ABA, 2013) with Judy K. Davis. Previously, Levitt was a California attorney, a law librarian in Chicago and Los Angeles, and a Legal Research and Writing Professor at Pepperdine University School of Law. She graduated with distinction from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago and was a member of the school’s law review. Carole has a Masters in Library Science and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Illinois. She is active in numerous professional associations, including the American Bar Association (ABA) and the Association of Continuing Legal Education (ACLEA). Fri, Oct 30, 2020 - 10:00am to 11:05am PDT Please wait ...
Sally J. writes: Please give me some info on this coin – it is a coin from Goldfield Nevada. On the back side is printed Rebate Chick 2 1/2 cents (cents not spelled out) and The Den W.A. Schabe Prop. On the front it looks like a pic. of Geo. Washington. The coin appears to be made of brass. You have what collectors call a “Store Card”. These were tokens that were good for merchandise or had monetary value at the place that issued the token. The “rebate” token was a motivation for the customer to return and use his token against future purchases. Store Cards were used at various times in American History, sometimes to take the place of coins when they were in short supply during depression (1830 -1840’s), Civil War (1861-65) or for simply for advertising purposes. Token salesman from foundries or private mints sold tokens to the store owner with his name on one side and a standard reverse on the other. Standard reverses might have been chosen from a book of designs. Washington was a popular choice. I think this might be 20th century token. Rough estimate of value: $10-$35.
Recently, Jackson Palmer, creator of Dogecoin called the crypto community "toxic" and said he was leaving the space. Palmer, and others like him, could be called a “jaded Satoshi.” What causes some people to tire and give up on crypto? Bitcoin has been through a hellish run since 2009. The following stresses may cause people to become “jaded.” The first problems in Bitcoin involved finding value. Almost from the beginning, a malay of researchers and economists chimed in through various media outlets to give their two cents on the subject. The problem with value wasn't necessarily a bad thing. It produced numerous amounts of new research and new discussion about money: What is money? How is it derived? How it's regressed, and so forth. Although these debates sometimes seemed negative, their consequence was to add value to Bitcoin, and to begin a meaningful study of new ways to define money. Hackers and Thieves Then came the hackers. The media reports on these events like no others. Services can get hacked and compromised, but Bitcoin's code cannot. I say 'services' because as of yet, no one can break the Bitcoin Protocol. Hacks happen and persist because service companies and users themselves don't take the necessary precautions in protecting assets. For instance, people leave serious amounts of money on exchanges because it’s convenient for trading. Yet they should be prepared to lose at any time what you are holding there. They take this risk in exchange for the time it takes to transfer funds. They take this risk when they leave their wealth with a third party. We’ve had scammers and shady actors associated with theft and fraudulent activity. The Mark Karpeles, Ryan Kennedys and others perhaps influenced by the mafia. A lot of people will tell you that these so called grifters were exposed well before they did anything shady. This is why scrutinizing is not a bad thing and sometimes can be a very good thing. This community is very much based on reputation and delivering an actual product. The wild swings in the price of Bitcoin cause some to give up. We all heard the dreaded "worst investment of 2014" articles come out. Most enthusiasts grinning and bearing the outlash. While community members continue to protect the good name of bitcoin and all its Satoshis. They stay mean and protective like the honey badger. "We don't care what you think. The honey badger doesn't care." "It's just a great time to buy" are the rally cries. Calling people who are overprotective 'jaded' might be the wrong term. It's possible to become so but there are very few people who've left due to this feeling. There are rare occurrences where one could get so burnt out from the uphill Bitcoin battle that they leave. Perhaps people who feel this way should just leave? Maybe the real “jaded Satoshis” should stand up and walk away. Many are trying to progress and find "real" solutions. There are many things that can help alleviate the symptoms of this edgy honey badger type feeling. Reputation systems like Bitrated which establishes identity and reputation networks will help protect the consumer and the crypto ecosystem. Exchanges, brokers, and online wallet services can insure the funds they hold, keep better security like offering multisig and two factor authentication adding more trust to the environment. Overall education in the crypto space could be amped up to teach people to be more precautious. There are some legitimately burnt out people out here. Most though are just very protective of the space in which they help to create. The community is stronger than ever and the fact is there are very few real “jaded Satoshis” out there. Interview with Kristov Atlas I spoke with Bitcoin security researcher Kristov Atlas to get his opinion on the matter. Kristov is aware of the battles faced within crypto scene. He has his own blog and he has written a book about Bitcoin privacy and security called Anonymous Bitcoin. Cointelegraph: Sometimes the Bitcoin community can make a person burnt out. Would you agree with that? Kristov Atlas: Absolutely. Tons of people in the Bitcoin community are feeling burned out right now. We’ve had a lot of sprints in Bitcoin in terms of price changes and adoption, and the last year or so has been more of a grind. Some people became involved in Bitcoin several years before I did, and may feel that much more burned out. We’re slowly realizing that Bitcoin is not going to be a series of sprints, but a marathon. It’s always been a challenging culture to live and work in, composed of geniuses, altruists, idealists, crooks, and the just plain strange people that you find in any early adopter community. During these “grind” periods, that just gets more exaggerated, as some of the rocket fuel enthusiasm that binds us together is temporarily expended. CT: Would you consider yourself overprotective at times or jaded enough to walk away? For instance like the recent departure of the Doge creator. KA: When things feel stagnant, it’s healthy to question faiths and beliefs. “Man, the price has really been down in the dumps. Can this crazy Internet money really work out, after all?” It’s also healthy to take a break if you’ve been heavily emotionally invested and are feeling burned out. I hope all of the participants in the Bitcoin community feel welcome to take breaks as they are needed. That said, for those of us who believe in the technology for the right reasons, they will just be breaks. We’ll step away from the projects for a while or dial down the intensity, but then we’ll come back. Those of us who are involved for made-up reasons will inevitably lose interest and fade away. “I would encourage you to listen to that jadedness and act accordingly.” CT: What would you say to people in the community who feel truly jaded? KA: Re-examine the source of your initial passion for cryptocurrencies. Do you want to revolutionize the world by democratizing commerce? That’s still the plan. Rest a bit, and come back when you’re feeling excited again. Do you want to usher in a new era of dispassion for wealth, personal authenticity, gender inclusion, and dog memes? This is probably not the right space for you, and I would encourage you to listen to that jadedness and act accordingly. CT: What keeps you going strong facing some of the negative aspects of the brave new world we call Bitcoin? KA: As you eloquently pointed out, much of what goes wrong in the Bitcoin ecosystem is utterly predictable. To avoid total burnout, I try to pace myself, and maintain visibility of the big picture. For people like you and me, our big picture is very big, indeed. The end of war. Collapse of corrupt, globe-spanning institutions. The incredible kinds of improvements in human life that are enabled by voluntary exchange. I find it helpful to keep those big goals in sight as I tackle the smaller steps along the way. CT: What solutions would you suggest that could cure the feeling of getting too edgy like a honey badger? Or should some of it stay? KA: I’ve noticed a lot of people in Bitcoin, including myself at times, fall prey to ego identification with Bitcoin. We’re so excited by it, so moved by its potential, and work so hard on growing it that we mistake it for ourselves. Then, when others loft criticisms at it — usually piggishly thoughtless, ignorant ones — we take personal offense. When I notice I feel hurt by a criticism of this kind, I find it helpful to take a step back and remind myself that it’s not personal for the critic. It’s usually driven by the fact that Bitcoin makes some people uncomfortable. We’re upsetting the status quo, and people will lash out along the way. That’s something we can mentally prepare ourselves for, so it does not come as quite a shock. If we were all a little more like the honey badger, we’d probably be better off. Remember: honey badger doesn’t get angry, he just doesn’t care. When the venomous snakes of the world bite you: take a nap, and then wake up and eat them.
With long-term relationships, frustrations and disputes are an inevitability. Failure to react appropriately in such occasions proves detrimental in the long run. Utilizing an open communication system serves to negotiate opposing views. The genuine efforts to resolve disputes has shown a significant impact when seeking a peaceful concession. The results often do not always appear as a win-win and therefore necessary for each side to consider an alternative approach. This matter of fact serves as the focal point for unresolved disputes, as negotiating parties remain hesitant as to the manner portrayed through conceding. Serving as an ongoing issue, relationship issues remain popular for academic discussion. U.C. Berkley’s political scientist Michaela Mattes developed an approach for resolving disputes between political parties. This further illustrates the far reach personal conflicts lead to.
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is an information security standard for organisations that handle branded credit/debit cards from the major card schemes. The PCI Standard is mandated by the card brands but administered by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council. The standard was created to increase controls around cardholder data to reduce credit card fraud. Validation of compliance is performed at regular intervals either by an external Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) or by a firm specific Internal Security Assessor (ISA) that creates a report on compliance for organisations handling large volumes of transactions, or by Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) for companies handling smaller volumes. Finding a QSA with experience of both service providers and merchants can be hard but this experience is essential to ensure they can not only give advice on your compliance but guidance on the options available to you and how they work in real life scenarios. Ongoing ad-hoc support can be expensive but with our remote support service you pay for support in advance and spend as much time you need asking questions to your QSA when needed. The service is designed to support your ongoing projects when you need specialist advice. We provide support from ad-hoc remote support and to end-to-end management of your PCI project, through to ROC (Report on Compliance). Get in touch to discuss your requirements.
I know that others have blogged about the amazing button sets feature in Articulate Storyline, but they are such a handy feature that I just had to bring them up again! I think it’s worth it in case someone out there hasn’t heard about them, or isn’t using them to their full potential. What Does a Button Set Do? A button set makes it so learners can select only one of multiple objects. Say you have two shapes and each has a “Selected” state, but you only want the learners to be able to select one shape at a time. Add a button set to your two shapes and—voila!—only one can be selected at a time. Button sets are a huge time-saver as compared to triggers. Button Sets Can Be Applied to Any Object Button sets don’t apply to buttons only. You can apply a button set to almost any object on your slide: text boxes, shapes, images, characters, captions, and such. When you include an object in a button set, you’ll see that a Selected state is created automatically for that object. The Selected state shows learners visually which option is selected out of the button set. You can leave the default Selected state, or modify its look any way you want. How Do I Create a Button Set? Creating a button set is a simple process. Start by selecting all of the items that you want to include in the set. You can do this by holding the CTRL key and clicking on the objects. When you’ve selected all the desired objects, right-click on an object and from that menu select “Button Set.” From the drop-down menu that appears, click “New set.” From here, you’ll name your button set and click OK. Done! To remove a button set, simply re-select all of the items included in the set, right-click, select “Button Set” and click “(none).” This will remove the button set. There you have it, folks! The Storyline button set is easy to use and will save you lots of time you would have spent creating all those triggers. Do you have any fun or original uses for the button set? If you do, please leave a comment below! You can always sign up for a fully functional, free trial of Articulate software. And don’t forget to post your questions and comments in the forums! We’re here to help. For more e-learning tips, examples, and downloads, follow us on Twitter.
Fund Spotlight: Anna Rose and Simon Sheikh Anna Rose shares her and her husband Simon’s journey towards getting started with structured giving. “The climate crisis is no longer abstract science but a lived reality, particularly here in Australia,” says Arielle Gamble, co-founder and manager of collective giving circle, Groundswell. “Australia is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world when it comes to climate change and this past summer, we all saw how quickly our infrastructure breaks down and how at risk we are as a society.” Along with co-founders Anna Rose and Clare Ainsworth Herschell, Gamble anticipated gradual growth of the collective’s membership base as word got out through existing networks over time. Australia’s unprecedented bushfire season overturned those modest plans. “On January 2 we posted a photo on Instagram of a boy from Mallacoota under a red sky, rowing his family to safety with a face mask on,” Arielle says. “We had 2,000 new followers in two days with people signing up all over the country: community workers in Arnhem Land, grandmothers from Tasmania, farmers from everywhere. “It was incredible cross-generation interest from right across the general public,” Gamble continues. “People understood the urgency. They understood that this is not business as usual anymore.” Groundswell now has more than 200 members, each having committed to contributing at least $1,000 each year to the giving circle’s pooled funds. Two grant rounds have already been actioned with a third underway. Historically, philanthropy’s support of the climate crisis has been tepid, if not underwhelming, with research from the Australian Environmental Grantmakers Network finding that environmental causes receive only 2.5 per cent of all charitable donations. Climate receives even less. “Philanthropy needs to start thinking about climate change as a humanitarian issue not just an environmental issue,” Groundswell co-founder Clare Ainsworth Herschell says. “No matter which cause area you’re funding, every one of them will be impacted by the climate crisis.” The existential enormity of the climate crisis is often cited as an inhibitor of action, but the Groundswell co-founders believe the power of the collective is a counteracting force. “The problem can seem so big it’s overwhelming and our opponents are so powerful and well financed but actually there are so few of them that if we can scale money in the climate movement and resource with people, we are a powerful force to be reckoned with,” says Arielle. “The real power of being part of a giving circle, particularly for a topic like the climate crisis, is that we’re stronger together,” adds Clare. “When you walk that journey in a community it takes away a bit of that overwhelm.” “The real power of being part of a giving circle, particularly for a topic like the climate crisis, is that we’re stronger together” “During the bushfires I received a number of texts from people saying, ‘What can we do?’ And I think Groundswell answered that question because it was a place where people could participate in meaningful action. And we all know that action is the antidote to despair.” True to that ethos, the Groundswell website is rich with information about different ways to give, the top 10 climate actions to take and a directory of organisations working on climate action in Australia. “Accommodating all the giving currencies of time, talent and treasure is important,” Clare says. “Giving to the climate crisis doesn’t have to come in the form of a monetary donation.” “At Groundswell we’ve seen such an incredible cross-section of people coming together. One of our members is a 91-year old grandmother, another member gave up her Netflix and Stan subscriptions to free up $20 per week, then we have people like [actor] Yael Stone and [chef] Kylie Kwong who are members too. It speaks to the nature of the climate crisis – it’s such a leveller and we’re all in it together.” Each Groundswell funding round comprises two grants: a $40,000 major grant and a smaller grant of $10,000 that alternates between project-based and core funding needs. Four core criteria include building the movement, shifting the money to, changing the story and changing the politics to enable greater leadership within state and federal government. Supported by an ongoing advisory committee including First Nations representatives, energy policy and climate advocacy experts, a rotating group of five Groundswell members shortlists applications and then a democratic process decides the successful grantees. The group’s inaugural grant was awarded to Emergency Leaders for Climate Action, a collective of former senior fire and emergency services leaders who are calling for greater government action and preparedness. “We want to make sure we’re addressing the power imbalance between the grant maker and grant seeker throughout the selection process,” Arielle explains. “We’ve intentionally kept the submission process simple with just a two-page proposal and a single page budget and if the organisation has already applied for funding elsewhere, we encourage them to use the same application – we don’t want to add to their labour.” The role of Groundswell within the wider climate movement is one of support, the co-founders say. “We exist to support the movement,” Arielle explains. Clare adds that Groundswell’s work is helping to create “a pipeline of new donors for climate advocacy groups that often wouldn’t have the resources to fund a philanthropy manager.” “Our $1000 entry point for the giving circle is our point of difference from larger organisations in the movement that receive their core funding from an environmentally committed people giving small monthly donations,” Clare says. “By working in symbiosis, Groundswell aims to support the whole climate movement’s ecosystem.” “By working in symbiosis, Groundswell aims to support the whole climate movement’s ecosystem” With the global climate movement growing in size and influence every day, Groundswell is providing a new pathway for Australians from all walks of life to take strategic action to mitigate the climate crisis. “The thing with the climate crisis is that it affects all of us indiscriminately,” Arielle says. “It has personal relevance to every single person. “Even as we face the immense challenges posed by Covid-19, there will also be unprecedented opportunities for a social and economic rebuild that centres the health and prosperity of both people and the planet. It’s time to start funding climate advocacy to accelerate change during this critical window. “At Groundswell, all people are welcome and all people are needed.” Groundswell is a sub-fund of Australian Communities Foundation
Welcome to the HDF4 home page! The latest Official Release of HDF is 4.2.13 HDF4 (also known as HDF) is a library and multi-object file format for storing and managing data between machines. There are two versions of HDF technologies that are completely different: HDF4 and HDF5. HDF4 is the first HDF format. What is HDF? (or, The HDF Levels of Interaction)
A successful project, healthy ecosystem and vibrant community are all important to Constantine and our employees. Constantine is committed to sharing information and we encourage community participation as the Project continues to advance. We strive to be accessible and provide open and honest communication of our plans. Equally important to Constantine is hearing from the local community. Understanding local values, ideas and information is critical for planning a successful project. Your input and insight is important to us so please use this form to submit your comments, questions or concerns: Constantine Mining Scholarship Program The Constantine Mining Scholarship Program is designed to help graduating high school seniors in the Chilkat Valley (Haines, Klukwan and Homeschool) reach their education goals. Funds can be used for vocational training programs as well as undergraduate degrees. Scholarship recipients will also have an opportunity for professional mentoring, project site visits, and internships with Constantine. Palmer Project Employment Opportunities All positions are currently filled. Understand and safeguard the environment Not only is protecting the environment, fishery, fauna, and water quality extremely important to Constantine, it is the law. Constantine understands that subsistence, recreational and commercial fishing are very important to the local community and that clean water and the safeguard of healthy fish populations is essential. Fish and fish habitat studies were initiated in 2013 and will continue to be an important part of future work at Palmer. State regulations are very protective of aquatic ecosystems and there are many examples of important watersheds with past or present mining co-existing with thriving salmon stocks (click here for ADF&G annual biomonitoring reports on productive salmon spawning creeks that traverse the Greens Creek Mine complex). In fact, there are several mines in Alaska that have enhanced fisheries through habitat enhancement resulting in healthier fish populations than before mining commenced. Constantine, using a qualified third party, began collecting water quality data in 2008 in order to help establish baseline environmental conditions. This program continues with each active field season and will help, in part, to characterize the natural environment at the Palmer Property. Constantine has also initiated rock characterization studies to focus on the potential environmental effects of rock geochemistry on water quality. The environmental program at Palmer will progress and expand in accordance with successful exploration drilling results. If and when a deposit with sufficient size, grade and quality has been defined at Palmer, the modern mine permitting process in Alaska ensures that all projects are developed and mined in a responsible manner. Before permits for a fully operational mine can be granted, lengthy and detailed studies on everything from hydrology, air and water quality, and wetlands, to fish and aquatic habitats, and wildlife are required. In addition to environmental studies, community consultation and socioeconomic studies will also be conducted prior to mine permitting and construction. Permitting of mines in Alaska is coordinated by the Department of Natural Resources, Division of Mining, Land & Water. To learn more about the permitting process please click here to view a detailed slide show prepared by the Alaska Large Mine Permitting Team.
Promoting excellence in immunology research in Portugal The mission of the EU-funded ImmunoHUB project is to create a platform of excellence in research and innovation at Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC-i3S) in Portugal. Cancer, infectious diseases, autoimmunity, and neurodegenerative disorders are studied at IBMC-i3S with the focus on the immune response deregulation. The ImmunoHUB will advance immunology at IBMC-i3S towards the forefront of basic and translational biomedical research, providing knowledge, promoting the best academic practices to train the next generation of immunologists and raising public awareness in immunology. The project is aligned with the existing scientific policy in Portugal and with the ERA priorities identified under the H2020 program. Call for proposal See other projects for this call
Studying CMI follows two tracks, personal training for the layperson and professional training for movement professionals. Since the foundation for each track is the six Core Movement Pathways, the tracks communicate and intersect at many points. To learn CMI, the layperson becomes a client of a certified CMI practitioner by taking a class or seeking individual treatment sessions. In either case the client receives both instruction in the CMI Pathways and related exercise-lessons, and hands-on guidance from the CMI practitioner. During individual sessions the practitioner may also include treatments from their primary modality, such as massage, joint mobilization, myofascial release, and taping to name a few. To study CMI in greater depth, experienced clients may participate in portions of the CMI practitioner training seminars. To find a CMI Practitioner <link>. Movement professionals who study CMI come from many disciplines including massage, physical and occupational therapy; various martial arts forms and; movement and body work systems such as Body Mapping, Feldenkrais Method and Alexander Technique. Certification for CMI practitioners occurs at two levels. To attain certification practitioners must meet a set of competencies. During study for Level 1 certification, practitioners learn the CMI Core Movement Pathways in their own body and how to teach them to clients. Level 2 certification requires applying the CMI Pathways and hands-on techniques to ameliorate specific conditions and injuries. For specific details <link>. Learning CMI takes place in a series of six training seminars of 10 hours each. Seminars includes didactic instruction, movement practice and practice of hands-on techniques. The set of six seminars repeats each academic year. Students are highly encouraged to take each seminar at least twice. Additional classes deal with specific topics such as client evaluation and teaching techniques. There are one or two opportunities each year to study with founder Josef DellaGrotte. Advanced study focuses on using CMI to address specific musculoskeletal issues and diagnoses, and applying CMI to the movement needs of specific populations such as dancers, musicians and athletes. Experienced students also have opportunities to study in Italy with our Italian CMI colleagues. For more information about the certification program, please go to <link>.
The Mathematics Department and the School of Management have launched a degree programme in Actuarial Science. The BSc Actuarial Science programme will provide students with a thorough grounding in the areas of Mathematics, Accounting, Finance and Economics relevant to careers in the actuarial profession. This will include a selection of new actuarial modules designed to cover the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries Core Principles syllabuses so that graduates with good degrees can obtain a number of exemptions from professional examinations. Swansea University has a strong research base in areas related to Actuarial Science with Mathematics hosting an internationally recognised 'Stochastic Analysis Group' and Management hosting the 'Hawkes Centre for Empirical Finance'. Graduates will be highly qualified to enter the Actuarial profession, or follow careers in; auditing, financial analysis, insurance, investment banking and management.
This article originally appeared on Citybizlist as part of a series featuring Burns & Levinson attorneys helping businesses and individuals navigate the many challenges that COVID-19 presents. Q. The event-planning industry is under extreme financial pressure given the widespread cancellations of events across the globe. Can contractual obligations be terminated without liability? Does coronavirus trigger a force majeure clause?” Amidon: The main types of agreements that would be most directly affected by the COVID?19 pandemic for event organizers are venue/hotel licenses (which provide the space for the event), housing agreements (which provide for guest sleeping rooms), attendee/delegate registrations, and vendor contracts. Most venues and hotels have very robust agreements that provide for limited rights of cancellation by event organizers – typically coupled with a cancellation fee. And, there are often deadlines in the contract that can cause these cancellation fees to escalate, the longer the organizer waits to pull the trigger. Commitments to attendees and delegates are typically found in the attendance registration terms, which vary widely in the market. Properly crafted terms would allow the organizer to reschedule and/or relocate the event, without liability to the attendee, and would allow the organizer to cancel the event and refund any attendee deposits paid, as the limit of the organizer’s liability. A “force majeure” clause (FMC) provides that a party’s nonperformance, or delay in performance under a contract is excused, if the reason for the delay or nonperformance is beyond the impacted party’s control. Again, the relief offered all depends on the contract language: Some FMC’s are written broadly, so that it’s triggered by any circumstance beyond the impacted party’s control; others list out limited reasons to excuse performance, such as acts of God. It’s important now for these contracts to be reviewed by experienced counsel, so that the organizer’s rights and obligations are clearly understood. In addition, there are multiple common law (i.e., not contract specific) legal doctrines that can potentially excuse a party from performance under a contract because of some unforeseen event, like the doctrines of frustration of purpose and legal impossibility. However, these are narrowly interpreted, so a thorough analysis is highly recommended before relying on any of these doctrines. Q. Many parts of the country are currently under government-mandated shutdown, how does this impact contractual obligations and liabilities? Amidon: These shutdowns now range from government-imposed bans on public gatherings of greater than a stated number of individuals, to full-blown stay-at-home, shelter-in-place directives. For example, here in Massachusetts, the Governor’s office initially banned public gatherings of more than 25 people, with limited exceptions that generally won’t help the typical event organizer – and now has declared a state of emergency and ordered non-essential businesses to close. The biggest implication for organizers is, of course, where government action has the practical effect of canceling the event. This affects rights under the venue license, housing and room-block agreements, decorating and other event-related services agreements, and attendee/delegate registrations – Hopefully, those agreements provide for excused nonperformance, either by right or under an FMC that protects the event organizer. Q. How should event organizers handle near-future events that fall outside of current mandated closures, given the likelihood that a mandate could well be extended or the venue could not be fully operational? Amidon: The event organizer needs to review its upcoming portfolio – what events are scheduled within the currently mandated closure period and any likely extensions? Monitor what the public health professionals are saying about the expected duration of the pandemic and likely extensions of precautions – like closure mandates. Talk to your event stakeholders,e.g., advisory boards and key exhibitors/sponsors about options to reschedule or relocate. Be proactive with contract counter-parties. Q. Will an organizer’s insurance coverages – show-stoppers or business interruption – cover coronavirus-related disruptions? What steps should companies take to preserve potential claims? Amidon: Most event organizers carry a typical comprehensive general liability (CGL) coverage package, which often includes “show stoppers” coverage. Show stoppers is insurance to protect the organizer’s projected event revenue when the event is canceled or otherwise can’t be held due to insured circumstance. Many of the show stoppers policies I’ve reviewed in advising event organizer clients contain a specific exclusion for communicable diseases in humans, negating coverage for COVID-19 based event cancellations. Other coverages typically include business interruption insurance. This covers lost revenue and other damages due to the necessary suspension of business operations. The suspension must be caused by direct physical loss of, or damage to property at a business premises (typically described in a schedule to the policy) caused by or resulting from any covered cause of loss. As with show stoppers coverage, I’ve found many business interruption polices have an express exclusion for communicable diseases in humans, again negating coverage for COVID-19 based event cancellations. Nonetheless, event organizers should consider making and documenting claims under all potentially applicable policies. The first step is to contact your broker and insurance professionals and report the claim to its insurer. And begin now to properly document the claims; this will assist the insurer in quickly evaluating whether coverage is available and complete its coverage investigation and, if covered, pay the claim sooner rather than later. Q. Event organizers are likely facing a lengthy period of slow business activity. If layoffs become necessary, how should they be handled? Should the worker-specific elements of a government stimulus package play a role in layoff decisions? Amidon: The reflex to cut costs during a crisis like this is understandable. Sometimes it’s the prudent and, indeed, unavoidable thing to do to keep the company afloat. However, avoiding staff cuts, if possible, can enable the company to exit the crisis stronger than ever. There are several factors that should be part of the leadership’s calculus in making these decisions. Communication with staff about goals and objectives should be open, honest and in real-time – and consider collaborative opportunities. Leadership should lead by example, sharing in sacrifices being asked of their staff. Consider less conventional options, such as a shortened work week for roles where you have excess capacity, or offering employees the opportunity for an unpaid “sabbatical.” Salary-increase and bonus freezes, eliminating overtime, reducing PTO, and pausing retirement fund contributions are other measures to help reduce costs that stop short of layoffs. Patience is important. As with past crises, there is a push for government assistance. Unlike past crises, this time there seems to be much less resistance toward economic stimulus, at least those targeting individuals and small- and mid-sized businesses, simply because this crisis isn’t anyone’s fault, and the “right” aid may actually prevent layoffs. Most commentators agree that this crisis will pass. Actions taken today should be evaluated in light of how they will affect your business’ ability to rebound when it does. If you do need to make layoffs, it’s important to follow the correct practices regarding prior notice requirements (if any), how employees to be let go are selected, etc. There is nothing different here than in any reduction in force. Q. What steps should event organizers take now to survive what may be extended challenging times? Amidon: The most important factor in successfully navigating any crisis is understanding how it will affect your business plan, and adjust. Don’t panic, evaluate. Make decisions that are necessary in the short term but don’t jeopardize your longer-term objectives and goals. Specifically: Look at your upcoming portfolio of events and for each develop a go/no-go timeline. Communicate with your internal and external stakeholders, and develop consensus around a shared plan of action that can maximize the chance of the event’s survival, even growth. And look for opportunities to better serve your markets and expand into others – one example here would be migrating an in-person event to a virtual format. Together, we can get through this. About the Author: David Amidon David Amidon has almost 30 years of experience helping a wide array of clients, serving as both general counsel and transactional counsel to a broad and diverse group of entrepreneurs, start-up and emerging ventures, middle-market companies, private equity and venture capital funds, investment banking firms, private investors, and public companies. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org or 617.345.3578.
There’s so much hidden unemployment in the labor force that even Friday’s improved jobs numbers failed to decrease the official unemployment rate of 8.3 percent… In February, the private sector added 233,000 new jobs, but 476,000 non-working people began looking for a job. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) rules, only by seeking work did those individuals officially become unemployed. That’s because BLS does not count workers as unemployed unless they have actively searched for work in the last four weeks. As a result, millions of non-working people are not counted as unemployed by BLS officials. The statistical quirk is the flip side of the administration’s effort to minimize the high level of unemployment for the last three years, and it may hinder progressives’ efforts to claim victory on the jobs front in November. If more non-working people begin searching for jobs, “the economy is going to have to create an average of 246,000 jobs between now and November, just to keep the unemployment rate at eight percent, and so we are not even at that pace yet,” said Doug Holtz-Eakin, an economist and the president of the American Action Forum. If the BLS rules weren’t in place, the current unemployment rate would be somewhere around 11 percent, analysts say. The unemployment number would be as high as 15 percent if part-time workers seeking full-time employment were recognized in the unemployment rolls. This quirk today helped Republicans discredit claims by liberals in the White House and the media that President Barack Obama’s policies are reviving the economy. “I don’t think anyone should be happy with 8.3 percent, and I don’t think anyone should play this as a victory,” said Holtz-Eakin. White House spokesman Josh Earnest emphasized the numerical accumulation of new hires and downplayed the unemployment rate. “Today’s jobs numbers are a continuation of a trend that is encouraging. … Over the last six months, we’ve seen 1.3 million private-sector jobs created,” he said. ”We’re digging out of a very deep hole. … There’s a lot more work that remains to be done,” he said, without mentioning the unemployment rate. Earnest also tried to downplay the entire subject of jobs and unemployment. “As you know, we don’t get too excited about one month’s jobs numbers beating expectations, and we don’t get too disappointed if there’s one month of jobs numbers that fails to meet expectations,” he said. “The president and his team are trying to set low expectations so they can clear the hurdle” in November, Holtz-Eakin said. “I don’t think the people [share those] lower expectations.” Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann pushed the same theme. “Today’s jobs numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics may elicit elation from President Obama, but for the millions of Americans who remain unemployed and the millions more who have given up looking for work or are underemployed, today’s unemployment rate of 8.3 percent is another reminder that this President still doesn’t understand that government doesn’t create jobs,” she said in a statement Friday. But the White House’s spin is already shaping the coverage by the media. For example, the New York Times’ top-of-the-page headline declared, “U.S. extends its run of solid job growth another month.” For some people, “it appears that we are looking at a world where expectations are so low that 8.3 percent unemployment is okay,” Holtz-Eakin told The Daily Caller. “It shouldn’t be [because] there are millions of Americans out there who would like to get jobs and have those jobs cover their monthly bills, and that’s the agenda that should be the focus of his attention,” he said. “There is more to economic performance than just counting jobs. … [Swing voters] are looking at their budgets and not liking what they see,” he said. “They are hurt by high gasoline prices, they are hurt by high food prices, they continue to see their health insurance premiums go up when the president promised they would be lower, and those aspects of economic performance are ones that the president simply has not delivered on and indeed continues to go the wrong direction,” he added. This fight over expectations is a key battle as the November elections approach. Obama and his allies have tried to manage expectations, arguing that the nation’s unemployment rate and debt would be even greater without Obama’s direction of the economy. By contrast, free-market advocates say the president’s progressive policies are preventing a faster recovery from the impact of the government-inflated property bubble. In dueling rhetoric and image-making, GOP officials want voters to judge Obama by his failure to achieve the goals he promised in 2008, while Democrats want the voters to compare Obama to the not-yet-nominated successor to former President George W. Bush. Some left-of-center economists acknowledge the reality of off-books unemployment. “Finding a job remains very difficult,” said Chad Stone, chief economist at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. The “most comprehensive alternative unemployment rate measure — which includes people who want to work but are discouraged from looking and people working part-time because they can’t find full-time jobs — was 14.9 percent in February, down from its all-time high of 17.4 percent in October 2009,” he wrote the center’s blog. “By that measure, almost 24 million people are unemployed or underemployed,” he said. In February, the private sector added 233,000 new jobs, but 476,000 optimistic or desperate non-working people began looking for a job and were added to the unemployment rolls.
The people on North Pentecost had many reasons to smile on the 17th of July 2020. It was the day that marked the official launching of their solar photovoltaic-powered community building, which houses their fisheries project on their island of Pentecost. This commemorates another milestone for PENAMA province and especially the community of Abwatuntora and Angoro on North Pentecost by having a reliable source of power for their health services and livelihoods in the productive sector. With support from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Department of Energy (DoE) through the Barrier Removal for Achieving the National Energy Roadmap Targets of Vanuatu (BRANTV) project is currently demonstrating renewable energy (RE) off-grid systems in the 40 selected communities. So far, since November 2019 until February 2020, DoE was able to install five community-based solar PV systems with capacities ranging from 1.32 kilo Watts (kW) to 3.3kW. More demonstration activities are planned for the second half of 2020 including the installation of a pico-hydropower solar PV hybrid in Loltong, North Pentecost. The demonstration site of Abwatuntora was identified by the Department of Fisheries, as member of the BRANTV Technical Working Group (TWG), to support existing fishery activities in the community. A community-based 3.3kW solar PV system was installed to scale-up the exiting power supply for the Voragara Fish Market, which operates a 500L cold storage deep freezer for Abwantuntora and surrounding villages, including those affected by Tropical Cyclone Harold. Electricity is also supplied to Mauna Health Dispensary, which has an operating theatre thereby benefitting 17,000 people of Pentecost (2016 census) and potentially to two other islands of Penama Province. The launching event was officiated by the Director-General of the Ministry of Climate Change, in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. The event was attended by community and youth leaders, management of the Voragara Fish Market and Mauna Health Dispensary, and representatives from the Department of Fisheries, Department of Energy, the BRANTV project management unit, and UNDP. In her opening address, the Director-General of Ministry of Climate Change and Energy, Mrs. Esline Garaebiti, labelled the event as a “milestone achievement confirming the Ministry’s commitment in helping local communities by providing a reliable and clean source of electricity and thereby meeting the national energy targets of achieving 100% rural electrification through renewable energy resources by 2030”. Helenson Gao, the Nurse in Charge of Abwatuntora Health Centre expressed her appreciation for the support to the health centre and stated that “our service delivery will improve significantly, with adequate lighting to attend to emergency cases at night and being able to communicate by mobile phones, we are able to treat asthmatic patients more efficiently”. In Angoro, the chiefs, church and women leaders displayed their appreciation to the Vanuatu Government and UNDP in a welcoming ceremony. Angoro is a center and serves 6000 population of North Pentecost for financial banking services offered by the National Bank of Vanuatu and Western Union. The services provided by the Bulgaitvua Women Savings Group of Angoro will benefit from the access and reliable electricity supply. The women’s sewing group who were donated with sewing machines were able to earn more than VT27, 000 on the day of launching from their sales of clothes. In her closing remarks, Mrs Garaebiti inspired the two communities with a message “Keep the light shining and let it shine brighter, light the homes and light the entire village. Economic prosperity and healthy homes are a result of clean and sustainable source of electricity”. She acknowledged the support from the GEF and UNDP in contributing to the national vision and demonstrating a successful community-based solar energy PV system serving the people of Abwatuntora and Angoro and the people of Pentecost. The BRANTV project is aligned with the United Nations Pacific Strategy, the UNDP Sub-Regional Programme and the Vanuatu National Sustainable Development Plan for supporting vulnerable countries, strengthening the economic security of rural men/women/youth in the informal sector through targeted initiatives and income generating activities especially for those who are living in remote and isolated areas that are threatened by climate change and marginalized by inadequate economic opportunities and poor public service delivery.
Hello again ! Today’s quick tip concerns a software package called Dia, which is an open source tool (available for both Windows and Linux, as it goes) used to make diagrams, flowcharts, network maps, and so forth. It has its own file format (.dia), which is (obviously?) useful for saving the projects you’re working on, but less useful if you need to give the diagram to anybody else, either in print or electronic form. Dia can export to a variety of formats including SVG, PNG, and EPS, but one export format that it lacks native support for is the venerable PDF, which has become a de facto standard for transmitting documents between diverse environments. There are many advantages and interesting aspects of the PDF format, not the least of which being that what you see on your screen is what you get when it’s printed. It is unfortunate, then, that Dia won’t spit out a PDF (even if you ask very nicely). Of course, being that it’s so easy to print directly to PDF (via CUPS, for example) these days, having native support for PDF may not, at first, seem all that useful. Well, as it turns out, printing directly to PDF might not give you quite what you were looking for. In practice, you do get a PDF, but what appeared to be a modestly-sized diagram in Dia will turn out to be a multi-page monster in (virtually) printed form. As a general rule, this is not what you want. In order to get a usable PDF we need to use an intermediate step between Dia and the final file. The idea, quite simply, is to export the diagram as one of the supported formats, then convert that file into a PDF. There are a number of options here, but for our purposes we’ll save the diagram as an EPS file, then use a quick little command-line tool called « epstopdf » to perform the conversion. There’s a good chance that you don’t have epstopdf on your machine. If you’re using Ubuntu, you used to be able to install it easily via the APT packager, but these days the little conversion tool comes as part of a larger suite of tools called « texlive-extra-utils ». This suite is dependant on a number of other packages, so go ahead and install them all : $ sudo apt-get install texlive-extra-tools EDIT : In Ubuntu 10.04, the package is named « texlive-font-utils ». Among many, many little items of interest, our target application will be installed. To use it, simply feed it the name of the EPS file as an argument : $ epstopdf somediagram.eps It will automatically output a PDF file of the same name. There you go – a nice, shiny PDF of your Dia diagram.
First-year programming on most campuses originated from the topic of retention of students to the second year of college and persistence to graduation. Specific reasons are related to resources and the direct relationship between retention to enrollment and institutional income. With that in mind, most first-year program mission statements are framed around increasing academic performance and retention. Ball State, University of South Carolina, and Appalachian State are among those recognized as Institutions of Excellence in the First College Year. Their first-year program mission statements reflect this retention theme. Ball State University’s Freshman Connections mission is to accelerate the process for new students to learn and succeed at Ball State. The program “seeks to deepen the contact new students have with faculty, staff, and fellow students in order to improve learning and persistence to graduation”. Fostering academic success, helping students to discover and connect with the university, and preparing student for responsible lives are the tenets of the University of South Carolina’s first-year learning outcomes. They fall under the overarching goal of helping new students make a successful transition, both academically and personally. Appalachian State’s Watauga Community is “structured to develop students’ expertise in the skills to evaluate and integrate relevant and quality information from different knowledge sources through individual and collaborative processes”. With focuses on connections and building community membership, each of these first-year mission goals strives to enhance retention and promote student success.
CloudFlare is an Web safety firm that takes care of your delicate info throughout numerous web sites. Firms like Uber and OKCupid use it to guard their customers from malicious individuals. However this time CloudFlare goofed up – what is claimed to be a bug has precipitated delicate knowledge like messages, cookies, usernames, and passwords to be randomly written within the code of different web sites. And the terrifying reality is that this leaked data could be simply discovered by means of a easy Google search if you understand what to seek for. Over 5.5 million web sites use CloudFlare and likelihood is youre utilizing no less than of few of these every day. In accordance with the corporate, the bug reared its ugly head in the midst of September 2016 and has been rampant proper till final week. This implies a few of your passwords might be on the market for grabs by somebody who’s serious about your bank card info that you simplyve already stuffed on Uber or somebody who could need to blackmail you with inappropriate messages out of your OKCupid account. CloudFlare additionally states in an official press launch that it patched the bug in an hour after a Twitter consumer Travis Ormandy alarmed the safety firm. The repair took simply 7 hours to implement globally. We’re speaking a quite severe leak right here as the data is already cached by Googles serps. This implies you higher change your passwords on all of the web sites you will have delicate info, and that doesn’t embody solely those utilizing CloudFlare. The main concern that emerges after such debacle is can corporations defending our delicate data step up their sport or is the following password leak catastrophe behind the nook?
By Gunnar Ulson Source: Land Destroyer The US is claimed to be hardest hit by Covid-19 with, at the time of writing, over 80,000 deaths attributed to the virus. The nation is also suffering from socioeconomic disaster as lockdowns have driven millions of Americans into not only unemployment, but predictable poverty and hunger as a result. The crisis has been pounced upon by special interests to help propel various sociopolitical and economic agendas rather than confront and overcome the crisis, leading many to suspect the crisis itself has been deliberately overblown. At face value the US would seem to be hit by an unprecedented health crisis. Hysteria spread by the mass media focusing on the numbers of infected and dead are provided to a panicked public without context. Indeed, over 80,000 people have so far died with infections at nearly 1.5 million (confirmed). Yet a quick look at basic statistics provided by the US government’s own Center for Disease Control (CDC) shows that Covid-19’s impact on human health including total deaths has not even surpassed recent flu season burdens. For example, according to the CDC’s website, the 2017-2018 flu season (running from December 2017 to March 2018) left anywhere between 46,000 to 95,000 dead. Deaths attributed to Covid-19 have been recorded for 2 full months longer with questionable methods used to attribute Covid-19 as the cause for death. The death rate has been reported at anywhere between 1% to as high as 5% to 6%. Missing from these seemingly concerning numbers is the fact that widespread testing has not been undertaken. The few instances where it has been done has shown that the number of infected is many times higher than official reports. This means that the death rate is much lower and more comparable to the annual flu than any sort of novel and particularly dangerous pathogen. Testing in California and New York have revealed that in these states alone millions are likely to have been infected by Covid-19 and simply showed little to no symptoms. A CBS article titled, “Study shows 13.9% of people tested in New York state have coronavirus antibodies, Cuomo says,” admits: New York’s first survey of coronavirus antibodies shows that 13.9% of those tested in the state had coronavirus antibodies in their system, meaning they have contracted and recovered from the virus, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Thursday. That suggests that 2.7 million people have been infected statewide. In other words, there are likely more people infected in New York state alone than infected nationwide according to “official” reports. If information regarding how widespread Covid-19 actually is and how dangerous it is or isn’t, is not accurate, how can the United States formulate appropriate measures to respond to the outbreak? Despite what appears to be nothing more than a bad cold or flu, the US has ground its society to a halt with lockdowns and social distancing measures. “Non-essential” occupations have been encouraged to work from home or to not work at all. The food and beverage industry for example, the second largest employer in the United States, has been ground to a halt with employees furloughed for what has now been weeks or even months. Many of these employees do not expect to return to work until at least June. In Los Angeles, county officials have extended “stay at home” measures for another 3 months meaning that people will have been shut in for nearly half a year if and when in late August people are allowed to return to their normal lives! Social distancing is being enthusiastically enforced by police around the nation. In New York City, in order to “protect” people, those not practicing social distancing have been beaten, tased and even arrested. The physical and legal damage done “saving” the public from Covid-19 appears to be more extreme than the actual threat of Covid-19 itself. Since most New Yorkers (and most people around the entirety of the United States) likely have been infected by the virus anyway, social distancing and lockdowns are more of a psychological exercise than one of isolating the pathogen and stopping its spread, an exercise aimed at addressing public panic, but public panic deliberately fuelled by the media and the government. For the United States, a nation’s whose economy was already in steep decline and losing ground to emerging economies around the globe, most notably China, these lockdowns amount to a self-inflicted mortal wound no conceivable plan of action can reverse. Had Covid-19 been the deadly pathogen many may believe it is owed to mass media misinformation, the United States stood ill-prepared for it. This was not merely the doing of the current US administration, but a problem known for well over a decade with US presidents from George Bush Jr. to Barack Obama to current US President Donald Trump taking turns ignoring it. The New York Times reported that things like ventilator shortages were known for at least 13 years and instead of rectifying the problem, large biomedical corporations were allowed by the US government to buy out small contractors tasked with fixing the shortage and ending programs to develop cheap ventilators in order to maintain artificial scarcity and the high prices (and profits) associated with it. While Covid-19 appears to be far less dangerous than claimed by the mass media, the impact of measures taken by the US government and local state governments has created what is a disaster now being compared to the Great Depression. Rather than rectifying it by simply rolling back lockdowns and social distancing measures, or even finding ways to aid the millions left unemployed, special interests are taking turns exploiting the crisis by blaming political opponents or even international competitors (like China). They are also looking for ways to cash in, with America’s deeply corrupt pharmaceutical industry being the most prominent example already teeing up massive profiteering by offering “vaccines” to solve Covid-19 fears. The US, rather than uniting and overcoming whatever Covid-19 actually is, be it a pathogen or an unprecedented wave of widespread panic, has instead allowed itself to become divided and distracted, as well as exposed to the very worst sort of socioeconomic predators lurking amid America’s economic and political landscape. It is difficult to predict what will happen in the weeks, months and even years to come regarding the state of America socioeconomically considering just how widespread and deep the damage being done now is. A nation as large as the United States plunging so quickly has never historically boded well for that nation nor the world it finds itself free falling in. The US already faced many challenges regarding its decline both at home economically and abroad geopolitically. Covid-19 has simply exposed and accelerated the process, compounding an already uncertain future with a new degree of damage, danger and desperation.
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas has rejected an invitation by senior White House adviser Jared Kushner to participate in a peace summit let by moderate Arab states, the London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat reported this weekend. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates have reportedly agreed to participate in the summit that, according to the report, has been deemed by the P.A. as an American ploy to drag them into what U.S. President Donald Trump has dubbed “the deal of the century.” Arab and Western diplomats have reportedly relayed the Palestinians’ concerns over the “ambiguous” U.S. plan, which, according to reports, outlines the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank without defining clear borders, without recognizing eastern Jerusalem as the Palestinian capital, without providing a solution for Palestinian refugees and failing to resolve the issue of Israeli settlements. According to the report, the Palestinians are concerned about support that moderate Arab countries appear to be displaying for this plan. During his recent visit to the Middle East, Kushner told the Palestinian daily Al-Quds newspaper that the United States will not chase the P.A. leadership or grovel before Abbas, appealing directly to the Palestinian people in the face of Abbas’s rejectionism. Kushner made it clear, however, that Washington is more than willing to work with Ramallah on the peace plan. The Palestinian people “deserve to have a bright future,” said Kushner, and they should not let their leadership “reject a plan they haven’t even seen.”
Update, 7:02 p.m. EDT: The Supreme Court has denied a stay of execution for Marvin Wilson. Update 2: Wilson was declared dead at 7:27 EDT on Tuesday. Marvin Wilson sucked his thumb into his adulthood, reads at a second-grade level, has an IQ of 61, doesn’t know the difference between left and right, and as a child couldn’t wear a belt without cutting off his circulation. On Tuesday, barring a last-minute intervention from the US Supreme Court, he’ll be executed in Texas. In 1992, Wilson murdered a police informant who had caught him dealing cocaine. Wilson had help—his lawyers still maintain that he didn’t pull the trigger—but the larger question isn’t about his guilt; it’s about his mental competence. The Supreme Court ruled in the 2002 case Atkins v. Virginia that states can’t execute the mentally disabled because it would violate the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. The evidence for Wilson’s incompetence is manifest. In addition to the facts listed above, his lawyers noted in a brief filed for the court that the only expert to professionally examine Wilson, a neuropsychologist, “concluded that Mr. Wilson had mild MR, the cognitive condition that precipitated the Atkins exemption.” Texas’s interpretation of Atkins isn’t that mentally disabled people can’t be executed; it’s that there’s a threshold of disability at which execution is no longer acceptable. In other words, you can be mildly disabled and still fall beneath the “level and degree of [MR] at which a consensus of Texas citizens” would have a problem with your state-commissioned death. That is where things get really weird—because why should a “consensus of Texas citizens” have any input on what constitutes mental incompetence? Isn’t that what neuropsychologists are for? It gets weirder. Texas’ standards for determining a convicted murderer’s mental competence came from the least scientific document imaginable—a John Steinbeck novel. As the Guardian‘s Ed Pilkington explained: The determinants were posited around the character Lennie Small in Steinbeck’s 1937 novel Of Mice and Men. “Most Texas citizens,” the argument ran, “might agree that Steinbeck’s Lennie should, by virtue of his lack of reasoning ability and adaptive skills, be exempt” from execution. By implication anyone less impaired than Steinbeck’s fictional migrant ranch worker should have no constitutional protection. Wilson is scheduled to be executed sometime after 7 p.m. EST.
The good folks at this year’s HOPE conference, organized by 2600 magazine, will track the movements of attendees by using RFID, while at the same time encouraging them to find vulnerabilities in the technology. The attempt to draw attention to the widely implemented yet poorly understood (by the average person) technology should be applauded. During the conference, says the press release, “Large displays will show in real-time where people go, with whom they associate, for how long and how often.” RFID tags can be found embedded in any number of items nowadays, including passports. The fear there is, with the proper equipment, someone could steal the personal data right off the passport without the victim so much as suspecting anything. That’s why attendees will be encouraged to figure out ways to get around the tracking system: alter how much information is embedded in the tag, create ways to capture other people’s data, and so on. Basically, giving the technology a thorough testing. The HOPE conference, officially called the Last HOPE, takes place in New York July 18-20. Pretty sure one of us will be there to report the sites and sounds of the show, the last one of its kind.
Make has a great piece on how to solder, a skill in which I’m sorely lacking. My buddy Paul actually built me a Nixie clock from scratch, soldering each freaking component on by hand. Impressive, to say the least. The trick is to use the right solder – don’t use acid core, incidentally – and to practice. Sometimes it is a good idea to practice on junk. You can try soldering a wire onto a coin, US pennies work pretty good for that, they are mostly zinc with a bit of copper. Lots of other countries have other alloys, often with lots of aluminum in them, so I don’t know about that. Aluminum wicks the heat too fast, so it probably wouldn’t work. You can also break apart an old radio or other device, cut some wires, get some parts and just solder some stuff together. After a bit you get the hang of it. They even have a complete primer for your edification.
This entry was written in collaboration with the PO.EX. Digital Archive of Portuguese Experimental Literature. Actor, theater and stage director, Américo Rodrigues is also the voice of Escatologia (2003), a collection of sound poetry created with the collaboration of Luís Andrade (recording and editing); Maria Lino (original drawing), João Louro (graphic design) and E. M. de Melo e Castro (text). In this work, the poet’s vocal tract is used as a laboratory of sound and a shuffler of meaning. Os Lusíadas (1572), one of the most emblematic works of Portuguese literature, written by Luís Vaz de Camões, is recited while eating a handful of chips. The muffled sound coming out of Américo Rodrigues’s mouth corresponds to disconnected consonants and vowels, or words which are being dismantled and triturated by Rodrigues’ experiment with sound. Reduced to their minimal units, words are lacking sense and coherence, until they finally cease to exist. Faced with the imminent loss of meaning, the listener attends a performance where sounds return to a primal state, freed from the impositions of writing or verbal speech. Rodrigues demonstrates that vocal sounds can go beyond words or letters, and treats them as physical manifestations of emotions (Portela, 2003) or as the remains of feelings, sensations, and sentences. Once these are vocalized, they immediately disappear. “Escatology” is the study of the end of the world or humankind. The ephemerality of oral speech is thus equated with the inevitability of death. PORTELA, Manuel (2003). “o som do corpo com o som do corpo. Recensão de 'escatologia', de Américo Rodrigues”, in Inimigo Rumor, Nr.15. Lisbon/ Rio de Janeiro, pp. 246-251. Also available at: http://po-ex.net/taxonomia/transtextualidades/metatextualidades-alografa....
The secondary market for buying and selling loans was formed in the late 1800s as the mortgage market in the United States grew following the passing of the National Bank Act in 1864. This market traditionally has been operated using highly bespoke transaction agreements and a relationship-based system of market participants. Transactions in the secondary market occur for various reasons. Depository institutions may decide to sell loans for the purpose of balance sheet optimization, resolving issues with regulatory ratios, rate shifts in the market, or simply a need for liquidity. Non-bank lenders, and their traditional lack of cheap funding, have the need to sell their origination as a fundamental part of their business models. Other larger institutions like funds or real estate investment trusts (REITs) may take on the role of aggregating assets to sell in larger volumes down the line. Financial institutions (FIs) look to buy loan assets for similar reasons. A depository may look to purchase assets to diversify its portfolio in sectors or geographies where it doesn’t have organic origination. FIs may also look to pad loan growth goals when deposit growth or availability of cheap capital outpaces origination. Non-bank buyside investors look to acquire loans to diversify into credit products that aren’t easily available in securitized forms. In addition, buying loans directly allows them to avoid hundreds of basis points of middleman fees taken out in the securitization process. While the market is large, mature, and highly complex, it’s not efficient. A main issue is that although some slices of the market have evolved through securitization, including the conforming residential mortgage market and other niche loan products, the vast majority of loan sales are still transacted completely manually through “boots on the ground” marketing of portfolios that can take up to 9 months to complete. In the US, the secondary market for loans has remained relatively untouched by digitization. Until now. A New Day for Loan Markets Digital innovations in core platforms, loan origination systems, and internet data technologies have paved the way for this market to finally move into the 21st century. And everyone can participate. One example of this innovation includes free online marketplaces. Online marketplaces for loan trading and participation offer significant advantages. Data transfer turns from a days-long task to minutes and loan documentation becomes simpler to put together and review. That makes due diligence - the longest and most time-consuming part of a trade - easier. Communication between buyers and sellers also becomes more streamlined and centralized. In addition, these types of innovations are taking a transparency-first approach. The legacy loan trading market often hides the bid/ask spread from institution participants. This was unsustainable and it’s been removed through digitization in this size market. The biggest potential of online marketplaces is in the increased liquidity and access it could bring to the market. A huge problem in the secondary market today is finding a trade counterparty. Since marketing a trade is still a manual and relationship-based process, identifying qualified counterparties can take months. A digital marketplace with enough participants has the potential to completely transform this process. It builds confidence in this future that a trusted advisor and core technology leader like Jack Henry is entering the space. Bringing in Core Data Core data also offers some incredible opportunities for easily finding buyers and sellers that would be a fit for transactions. In a world where data is more valuable than oil, in some ways, it is astounding that a core platform hasn’t already become the largest player in loan trading. The online approach also has the potential to level the playing field between smaller and larger institutions. Legacy brokers have often been disincentivized to deal with smaller participants as loan trading is complex, no matter the trade size. So, their focus on larger deals with bigger commissions isn’t surprising. Having buyers and sellers meet and close deals online will bridge this gap over time, particularly smaller institutions, that would have just as much national access as the larger trading institutions. And unlike the legacy process, no one would decide which opportunities get presented in an online marketplace. With a technology leader like Jack Henry entering the market there should be growing optimism for institutions to increase liquidity and access to loan growth in the years ahead. As with any other technology and marketplace, it will take the larger community of banks and credit unions to engage in the marketplace to make all of these advantages a reality. Hopefully the allure of free entry and core integration will accelerate adoption.
Fonds consists of eleven series documenting in varying degrees the personal, professional and academic activities of Dr. Andrew James Rhodes, professor of microbiology and former Director, University of Toronto School of Hygiene. While there is some documentation relating to his life prior to and during his appointment as Director, University of Toronto School of Hygiene, the bulk of the records in this accession document his activities and employment after 1970. Series 6 and 9 document his employment with the Ontario provincial government, first as Medical Director, Laboratory Services Branch, Ministry of Health ( 1970-1977) and then as Chairman of the Rabies Advisory Committee, Ministry of Natural Resources (1979-1988). While he was employed outside the University of Toronto for nearly twenty years, he continued his teaching responsibilities and occasionally undertook special projects such as the University Teaching Hospitals survey (Series 8) and the U. of T. Biosafety Committee (Series 7). While Dr. Rhodes was well known for his scholarly publications on bacteriology and virology, manuscripts of these publications are not contained in this accession . However, Series 11 does contain records for Within Reach of Everyone. A history of the University of Toronto School of Hygiene and the Connaught Laboratories which he co-authored with Dr. Paul Bator. Two volumes of this history were published in 1990 and 1995 respectively. Correspondence, research materials, and page proofs for Volume 1 predominate, within only a few files regarding plans for Volume 2. In 1940 Dr. Rhodes, with Dr. C.E. van Rooyen published Virus Diseases of Man. In 1949, they again collaborated on Textbook of virology for students and practicioners of medicine and other health sciences. This book which was produced in 5 editions over the next few years established the University of Toronto School of Hygiene as the centre for medical virology in the world.
From Your Editors at The Group Psychologist The role of language, particularly how we use language to teach children about emotions, was recently featured in the New York Times Family section (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/15/well/family/talking-to-boys-the-way-we-talk-to-girls.html?smid=fb-nytimes). This struck a chord with me when thinking about several adult male clients (ranging from 20s to 50s) that I see for individual therapy, both who I am preparing for going into an interpersonal process group. These clients struggle to express their emotions. We’ve explored what norms and expectations were set by their parents regarding feelings and what’s “appropriate”. Now, as adults, they struggle tremendously with vulnerability; intellectually they know it’s a path towards connection, yet emotionally the fear and aversion to it is immense. Becoming a member of a psychotherapy group is one way I’m hoping they can have new experiences of what it’s like to witness and share their own vulnerabilities. We know group therapy is a way to have corrective emotional experiences, and what are more powerful corrective experiences than those dealing with emotional vulnerability? Integrating interpersonal process techniques creates a powerful and effective group process enabling participants to address problematic situations with support of group members. Students and clinical populations respond well to the combination and find them helpful in becoming aware of their habitual dysfunctional thought patterns and belief systems that play an important role in mood regulation. As group members recognize the usefulness of interpersonal process techniques, intimacy and spontaneity tend to increase, creating and supporting a safe space for sharing. As Brené Brown said, “Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.” So, as we move into the summer months, we challenge you to explore your own darkness. Who can you confide in? What story can you share that hasn’t seen the light of day recently? Who supports you in your path towards opening up to more belonging and joy? Finding friends who can listen empathetically, respond with their own vulnerability, and hold space for emotions that we might have once been taught are “bad”, are precious. Do those friends know what role they play in your life? I know several of those friends have come from my membership in Division 49. And as we look forward to gathering again at the APA Annual Convention, I’m going to be sure to tell them how important they are to me. We hope you’ll be able to join us in Washington DC in August. Throughout this newsletter you’ll find updates about what to expect and how to best participate. We look forward to seeing you there!
- Diversity Strategic Plan - Community Diversity Relations - Diversity Education - Bias Incident Response Dr. Charlene Alexander, vice president and chief diversity officer, hosts a conversation on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the time of COVID-19 with a distinguished group of leaders on this important topic. Speakers include Dr. Yvette Gullatt, Vice Provost for Diversity and Engagement and Interim Vice President for Student Affairs in the University of California Office of the President. Dr. Gullatt along with Chief Diversity Officers from the University of California developed guiding Principles on Equity and Inclusion During COVID-19. Panelists will consider the application of DEI principles in their work, lived experiences and identify ways to move from thought to action. Team members from the Office of Institutional Diversity and Division of Student Affairs consider possibilities for dialogue facilitation during this time of remote operation. Panelists introduce a guiding framework, discuss potential applications, and open the floor to questions to imagine ways to transition our work to a remote format. Instructional faculty, student affairs professionals, educators, and anyone interested in dialogue facilitation may find this webinar helpful. Jeff Kenney, Director of Institutional Education for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (OID) Brandi Douglas, Assistant Director of Outreach (OID) Teresita Alvarez-Cortez, Director of Diversity Initiatives and Programming (UHDS) Wiliama Sanchez, Assistant Director of Diversity Initiatives and Programming (UHDS)
Reducing Accent or Losing Your Identity? Hope to see people tomorrow at our November Diversity Roundtable at BC HRMA (Nov 1st @ 5:30pm). We have a panel of three experts who will share with us their experiences in managing language barriers for culturally-diverse employees. In preparing to the Roundtable I found this great article that not only explains how smoothing one’s accent makes him/her better understand but alos questions the whole notion of accent reduction trend in Canada. I was wondering what people think and whether there are more pros than cons for immigrants to smoothen their accents. “Phani Radhakrishnan, who teaches human resources and courses such as diversity in the workplace at the University of Toronto Scarborough campus, has mixed feelings about accent-reduction services. “When I first came here, I tried to make my Indian accent more Canadian, because I wanted to feel accepted,” she said. “Everyone talks about multiculturalism here, but what happens in the backyard is different. But it’s a personal thing, and I felt I was losing a part of my identity. So now I go with my original accent and it gives me more self-confidence”. More http://www.cireport.ca/2011/07/roland-sintos-coloma-suggests-that-reducing-accents-is-lingusitic-racism.htmlTags: accent, Identify
Analytics: Data Stewardship Dashboard The Cloudera Navigator Data Stewardship dashboard captures a variety of information about data, metadata, and user jobs that process the data. The Data Stewardship dashboard provides information and metrics to help you understand the state of the data and data usage, and lets you visualize trends and averages for a variety of data sources and actions. For example, system administrators use the Dashboard (Analytics > Data Stewardship Dashboard) to look at the Activity Summary page, which provides a comprehensive overall view—databases created, tables created, tables dropped, SQL queries started, and so on. Administrators can look for trends, the administrator navigates to the Data Explorer tab, makes two selections to filter for the past several weeks on SQL Queries Started as source type and gleans some clues about a rogue SQL query. Access the dashboard by clicking Analytics and then choosing Data Stewardship on the navigation bar. Specify the source clusters by clicking Source and clicking a cluster name or All Clusters. - Dashboard. Provides "at-a-glance" information about databases, tables, operations, and files and directories - Data Explorer. Lets you select cluster actions to view and compare for specific time periods, in conjunction with charts that show averages and trend lines. - The name of the activity - The number of occurrences for that activity for a time period that you select (daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, all time) - A line graph showing activity trends based on the time period that you select A graphical representation of the time-lapse summary for each activity tile is located at the bottom of the tile. Hovering over a point displays the value for that entity on a particular date. For example, if you select Daily Trend, the number in the graph shows number of occurrences for the day so far (since midnight), and hovering over a graph point shows the number of occurrences for that full day as well as the average for the 20-day period represented by the graph. The Activity Summary area includes the following information: \|Databases Created\|\|Number of new databases that were added to the cluster.\| \|Tables Created\|\|Number of new tables that were added to the cluster. Click the value to link to the Search page that shows the search results of the query defined. You can apply filters to narrow the search results and perform any other search actions.\| \|Tables Altered\|\|Number of tables that were changed.\| \|Tables Populated\|\|Number of tables that were populated with data. Note that these counts reflect the number of times that a table has been loaded with data, such as through INSERT and UPDATE statements—not the number of unique tables loaded. For example, a single table to which data is added (through 6 INSERT statements) and that has also had 4 UPDATE statements submitted in the same period would report Tables Populated as 10.\| \|Tables Dropped\|\|Number of tables that were deleted.\| \|Partitions Created\|\|Number of partitions added. You can apply filters to narrow the search results and perform any other search actions.\| \|HDFS Files Created\|\|Files that were created. Click the new files value to link the Search page that shows the results of the query defined. You can apply filters to narrow the search results and perform any other search actions.\| \|SQL Queries Started\|\|Number of SQL queries that were run.\| \|Accesses Denied\|\|Number of access attempts by users that were denied.\| The Databases area of the Dashboard shows the total number of databases in the source clusters. The top 10 databases, by table count, are displayed in the bar graph. Click a heading or the bar to open the Details page for that database. The Tables area of the dashboard shows the total number of Hive tables in the cluster. The top 10 tables, by partition count, are displayed in the bar graph. Click the value next to the Hive Tables heading (in this case, 8.2K) to view matching tables in Search. In the chart, click the bar for a particular table to open the Details page for that table. Files and Directories The Files and Directories area of the Dashboard shows the total number of files and directories in the cluster. Clicking the value next to the Files or Directory heading (in this case, 802 or 168, respectively) to show matching files or directories in Search. The bar graph displays the top 10 files, based on size. Click the file name or the corresponding bar to open the Details page for that file. Operations and Operation Executions The Operations and Operation Executions area of the Dashboard shows the total number of operations and operation executions that occurred in the cluster for the specified period of time. Click the value next to the Operations or Operations Executions for a service to view matching operations or operation executions in Search.
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Shifting dysfunctional team dynamics High Performing Teams – it’s more than strengths that shift team dynamics It can feel comfortable and rewarding to focus on our strengths. And there’s a lot of evidence to suggest that building strengths will take us further in the long run than addressing weaknesses. But the reality is that in some cases, we need to address what’s holding us back and making us fragile – weaknesses or problems – in order to fully leverage our strengths. And this is as true for teams as it is for us individually. Team dynamics – how are yours holding up? Whether we like it or not, all teams are potentially dysfunctional. Why? Because they are made up of fallible, perfectly-imperfect human beings – like you and me! And whilst each of us knows that working together and pulling in the same direction would help us achieve more, achieve it faster and with less effort and drama, making it happen can feel impossible. Work by Patrick Lencioni identifies 5 five behavioural challenges, or dysfunctions, that teams must continuously work to avoid in order to function together well. They form a pyramid that needs to be developed from the bottom up in order to build trust, commitment and accountability. The problem with dysfunction in a team Once these 5 challenges are addressed, team strengths can be leveraged to levels not reached before. But there is a challenge to doing this: our brains are wired to avoid things that feel uncomfortable, and from my experience with leadership teams across a variety of organisations, this work can certainly feel that way for them! Addressing dysfunction feels scary At a fundamental level, our most powerful motivator is fear. To ensure our survival, subconscious systems have evolved to balance our choices in certain ways. When we are motivated by fear of a perceived danger or threat, we want to move away from it. (Note: the perceived danger or threat may once have been a sabre-toothed tiger, but in the boardroom this might be feeling that we are being ‘talked over’ or ignored, or being sidelined for an important project. Our brains process the real and the perceived threats in the same way and our reactions follow accordingly). Psychologists call this desire to move away ‘avoidance motivation’. Avoidance reactions trigger the fight-or-flight response in our brain, which reduces our ability to think and process information, as well as our capacity for self-awareness and emotional regulation. As we become more defensive, the brain’s heightened need for safety can lead us to misjudge situations and people as threats. As you can imagine, in a team where the 5 dysfunctions play out regularly, this fight-or-flight response is triggered often, and our avoidance motivation creates an unhelpful cycle of ignoring the issues which creates an ‘artificial harmony’. Cracks in the artificial harmony Typically, artificial harmony involves everyone ‘playing the game’ whilst in meetings – team members are reluctant to be vulnerable with one another, are unwilling to admit their mistakes, acknowledge their weaknesses or ask for help. I call this ‘plastic fantastic’ as it doesn’t reflect the mess and magic of real life and real people. And there is another, more dangerous side to artificial harmony – a lack of disagreement or debate, which has two critical consequences: - Debate takes place outside of the room in the form of destructive commentary and sniping. - Decisions made are not as robust, because they have not benefitted from the diverse ideas and perspectives of the team. What can we learn from this? How can we address weaknesses to leverage team strengths? Focussing on strengths feels good, takes less effort and moves us towards high performance more quickly. But it doesn’t mean you ignore weaknesses. If there are dysfunctional dynamics in your team, there will be a ceiling to how far focussing on individual strengths can take you. And it’s important to be realistic. Addressing problems, dysfunctions and weakness is uncomfortable work and involves building ‘brain infrastructure’ in the form of new neural pathways, which takes time, effort, and commitment. Research suggests that in most workplaces, we spend around 80% of our time talking about problems and just 20% discussing what’s working well. But I wonder if we are having those ‘weakness conversations’ in the right rooms with the right people? If your team needs help to have the right conversation to create more functional dynamics, I can help. Let’s talk. Dr Paige Williams International Speaker, Author, Mentor Determined to help leaders move beyond just the need for resilience, Paige provides practical, evidence-based strategies for leaders to become antifragile, lead themselves and their teams to thrive and succeed in the Decade of Disruption.
Let’s face it – most people these days thrive on caffeine to get through a brain-fudgy day. In such a busy world, it is so easy to want to sacrifice sleep to have more time to do other activities or errands. In fact, 42% of all healthy, middle-aged women report some kind of sleep trouble, including difficulty falling asleep, awaking during the night, or not feeling refreshed in the morning. But sleep is essential! The journal, SLEEP, did a study that found too little sleep (less than 5 hours per night) may increase your risk of abdominal fat, versus those who got at least 6 hours of zzz’s per night. Not only that, but it is during our visit to lullaby-land that some of our most important immune system functions occur, along with some important antioxidant activity. How much sleep do you need? Sadly, there’s no “magic number” that’s cookie-cutter perfect for everyone. But the Sleep Foundation says the average adult can use 7-8 hours nightly as a rule of thumb, then adjust from there based on the individual. Note when you feel really well-rested versus feeling tired or foggy. The Sleep Foundation goes on to say that researchers are learning about two factors to a person’s needs: basal sleep needs, and sleep debt. Basal needs are how much your body needs on a regular, average basis. The sleep debt is what it sounds like – any extra rest you may need after skimping on sleep in the past, sickness, disrupted sleeping, etc. The good news is they say over time, you CAN pay off sleep debt and get back to a healthy cycle! Healthy sleep is a complex issue and takes both mind and body into consideration. So yes, you may have more trouble sleeping if you’re stressed or anxious. You may have trouble waking if you’re depressed or ill. Poor blood sugar control or cortisol burn-out can cause waking in the middle of the night. Some things you may have little control over (noisy neighbors, for example) but other things you can control: Environment, exercise, nutrition. You may think a heavy meal will be an enjoyable way to give yourself a ticket to food-coma land, but like the alcohol, it is not actually restorative sleep. You may feel tired after a large meal, but your body actually goes in to over-time – your circulatory system is pumping more blood to the digestive tract, your stomach is secreting extra gastric acids while the smooth muscles start roiling and churning for digestion, and your pancreas is spitting out its enzymes. Your body is working hard! Make sure you eat regularly through the day: don’t eat a huge meal because you neglected to eat, and are trying to “make up” for the missed needs! Instead of trying to “treat” nutritional neglect done during the day, “prevent” it from happening in the first place. Nutrition isn’t really retroactive. It takes time to break down in your body and be utilized – and if you ingest more than your body can handle, it gets excreted or stored as fat. I know – all easier said than done. So many things that could affect your sleep and your health! So, pick one or two to aim for – if you’re going to have a huge dinner, at least keep it healthy and light; if you’re going to insist on ice cream for dessert, at least try to limit the portion and have it early; if you can’t take that tv out of your room, at least unplug it. Pick your own goal, but make sure you’re taking care of yourself.
Molecular simulation has become a cornerstone both in materials and biomolecular research, and it is one example where SeRC has enabled a new type of three-way collaborations between application areas, infrastructure, and method development. The GROMACS code developed at Stockholm University and KTH has grown into one of the world’s most widely used molecular-dynamics implementations, with thousands of active users both in academia and industry. Together with several partners such as NVIDIA, Intel, AMD, Stream-Computing, and IBM, SeRC and the GROMACS team have developed new generations of heterogeneous acceleration and parallelisation algorithms that achieve world-leading simulation performance on all sorts of hardware from embedded graphics processors to supercomputers. This computational work has been instrumental for several high-impact application works where SeRC researchers have shown phenomena such as how ion channels open, and how membrane proteins bind speci c lipids, structures of new transporters, collaborations with the electronic structure community on multiscale QM/MM simulations, and not least explanations of how the outermost layer of our skin forms on the molecular level. SeRC has also been a very strong driving force to form close and long-term collaborations with the infrastructure efforts at PDC and the Computational Fluid Dynamics team, which has led to new joint programmes on exascale simulation software as well as the BioExcel EU Centre of Excellence for Computational Biomolecular Research in Stockholm.
Brave is a multi-stakeholder platform co-operative with a single mission: to prevent deaths by overdose. Based at the heart of the opioid crisis in North America, the Downtown East Side of Vancouver, Brave's technology is built for and with people who use drugs and respond to overdoses. In this short episode we learn more about [...] This is an episode of our From the Archives series, where shows that got lost in our private archives now get their chance to shine. Because of the changing nature of time, some information may be outdated. On tonight's show we travel to Nelson, in British Columbia’s Kootenay region. Nelson got its start thanks to [...] Squamish award-winning businesswoman and mom Kelly Ann Woods had a bee in her bonnet (so to speak). What could be done to increase the variety of fruits and vegetables in her town while keeping the costs down? She reached out to other Squamish Moms on Facebook and together they pooled their energy and expertise to [...] This is an episode of our From the Archives series, where shows that got lost in our private archives now get their chance to shine. Because of the changing nature of time, some information may be outdated. Joshua Peterman explores a fascinating model for developing social enterprises in Cleveland, Ohio. On this [...] On Saturday 21st of December 1844, the Rochdale Pioneers first opened their shop to the community, selling pure foods at affordable prices just before Christmas. In that same building is where the Rochdale Pioneers Museum is currently housed. It is located in Rochdale, England, and is often regarded as the birthplace of the modern co-operative [...] This is an episode of our From the Archives series, where shows that got lost in our private archives now get their chance to shine. Because of the changing nature of time, some information may be outdated. Situated in a tiny town near Nelson, BC, the Harrop-Procter Community Co-operative provides ecosystem-friendly forest management and lumber [...] Josh speaks with Jack Lamon of Come As You Are. Come As You Are is Canada’s only worker co-operative sex-toy shop. Based in Toronto their online sales serve all of Canada. Topics include the development of sexual attitudes over the past 20 years, philosophies behind sexual health, the economic transition happening on Queen Street, and the decision to switch from brick and mortar to digital storefront. It’s the last show of the year! Join the team members Robin Puga, Dale McGladdery, Joshua Peterman, and Sandy Goldman as they talk about the 2016 Each For All highlights. This episode features the newest research around the Conversion to Cooperatives project, which explores business succession planning and the potential for transition into co-operatives. It is a 3-year project supported by a SSHRC Partnership Development grant; Co-operatives and Mutuals Canada (CMC) is a key partner in the project, ensuring the findings inform policy advocacy, practice, [...] It’s Canadian Co-op Week - Oct 13th to 19th! Co-op Week has been celebrated by francophones throughout Canada since 1958. In 1981 celebrations were held among anglophone co-ops in the Maritimes and Saskatchewan. The event went national in 1982 with the encouragement of the Co-operative Union of Canada, a predecessor of Co-operatives and Mutuals Canada. [...]
Henry Crooks 5th great grandpa on RootsMagic tree Henry Crooks was born in 1743, probably in Maryland to William and Mary Weir Crooks. In 1768 or so Henry married Jane Howlett. Henry and Jane had 7 kids. By 1786 Henry, his brothers, his wife’s family and other families from Harford County, MD were in Washington County Pennsylvania, a 200 mile journey. They all farmed on land they owned and paid taxes on properties and possessions. The 1798 taxes for Henry show his home, 1 dwelling valued at $20, and 200 acres of land valued at $1620. Henry was a widow in 1816, he was 73 and lived 25 more years, he died in 1831 at age 88. Henry’s will is at Ancestry . com, a typed up record. He named his children in the will with his son Henry and friend James McAdams as executors. “In the name of God Amen, I Henry Crooks Senior of Robinson Township in the county of Washington, being in an afflicted state of body, but having a sound mind and understanding (thanks be to the Almighty God for the same) being mindful of my mortality, do make and constitute this my last will and Testament. First and principally, I recommend my immortal Spirit to God who gave it, in hopes of a joyful resurrection, and my body to the earth (when it shall please God to separate my soul and body) to be buried decently at the discretion of my executors. And as to my worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me with I give and depose thereof as follows, after my lawful debts and funeral expenses being paid. I do leave and bequeath to my son William Crooks two dollars, to my son Andrew Crooks two dollars, to my son Henry Crooks two dollars to my son John Crooks two dollars to my daughter Jane now wife of John Burns two dollars also to my daughter Mary McKillip two dollars, likewise and all the residue to my daughter Margeret Crooks to be paid to her at the discretion of my executors as to time and manner. I do nominate and appoint my friends James McAdams and Henry Crooks my son to be my executors of this my last will and testament. I publish and declare this and none other to be my last will and testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this thirteenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five. Henry Crooks Sr (Seal) Signed and sealed in the presnece of John R McEwen, John Crooks, Washington County ss: Be it remembered, that on the 21st day of March A D 1831 Before William Hoge Deputy Register” - Maryland records, colonial, revolutionary, county and church at HathiTrust - Pennsylvania, Septennial Census, 1779-1863 at Ancestry - Pennsylvania, U.S. Direct Tax Lists, 1798 at Ancestry - Pennsylvania, Wills and Probate Records, 1683-1993 at Ancestry
PUTGRENTSection: Linux Programmer's Manual (3) Index \| Return to Main Contents NAMEputgrent - write a group database entry to a file SYNOPSIS#define _GNU_SOURCE /* See feature_test_macros(7) */ DESCRIPTIONThe putgrent() function is the counterpart for fgetgrent(3). The function writes the content of the provided struct group into the stream. The list of group members must be NULL-terminated or NULL-initialized. The struct group is defined as follows: RETURN VALUEThe function returns zero on success, and a nonzero value on error. ATTRIBUTESFor an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7). CONFORMING TOThis function is a GNU extension. SEE ALSOfgetgrent(3), getgrent(3), group(5) COLOPHONThis page is part of release 4.15 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and the latest version of this page, can be found at https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. Return to Main Contents
Introduction to Bacon & the Art of Living The quest to understand how great bacon is made takes me around the world and through epic adventures. I tell the story by changing the setting from the 2000s to the late 1800s when much of the technology behind bacon curing was unraveled. I weave into the mix beautiful stories of Cape Town and use mostly my family as the other characters besides me and Oscar and Uncle Jeppe from Denmark, a good friend and someone to whom I owe much gratitude! A man who knows bacon! Most other characters have a real basis in history and I describe actual events and personal experiences set in a different historical context. The cast I use to mould the story into is letters I wrote home during my travels. The Salt of the Sea Dear Tristan and Lauren, I started writing to you last week about salt. The voyage is still long and there is more time to work through my notes on salt. I was reminded by Minette this morning that David de Villiers Graaff also left Cape Town in the mid-1880s for a long trip to Great Britain and America to learn more about the meat trade. It was the talk of the town! His meat company, Combrinck & Co was even in those years the biggest butchery in town with an abattoir at the top of Hanover Street, in District Six and retail butcheries throughout the city. (Simons, PB, 2000: 22, 24) I imagine that his motivation for his trip to England and the US was the same as it is for Oscar, myself and the Woodys team. Seek out new developments that will give us the edge over our future business competitors back home. There is for us the added element that we must still learn the butchers trade. Something that David knew from age 11. I don’t see this as a drawback because it affords us the opportunity to learn from many mentors where David had only Uncle Jakobus Combrinck to teach him. Even though Jakobus was a most formidable man, also a mentor to myself, especially during my childhood years, I have come to greatly value the insights of a plurality of mentors. All shape our lives in slightly different ways. One of the opportunities I have is to delve into the chemistry of curing what better place to pause than on the subject of salt. We have it every day, yet, I never understood it! This ordinary substance morphed, right in front of my eyes into the supreme ingredient. It is the food of life! The substance that contains the fullness of the earth. The element of which we live and breathe and have our being! There is so much to teach you about salt and its rich history. I decided to give you the broad brush strokes and spare you the detail. The first important thing that I learned is some salts are mined from the earth, but most are recovered from the sea and from salt marshes and salt springs. The salt works in the medieval French town of Guérande employed around 900 salt workers just a few years ago in the mid-1800s (Bitterman, M, 2010: 24) and it has been in operation for hundreds of years. Salt was produced along the coastlines of India, and Africa, in Mexico along the Yucatan Peninsula’s salt lagoons, and along the coast of Central America for centuries. (Bitterman, M, 2010: 18 – 23) China and North America, everywhere salt was produced from water and rock salt deposits, remnants of dried salt lakes, springs and the receding sea. Why is the Sea Salty? How does salt end up in the sea and other bodies of water? Why is the sea, salty? These questions plagued humanity for centuries and many authors examined the question. The famous pre-Socratic philosopher and poet, Empedocles (490-430BC) said that seawater is “the Sweat of the Earth.” Aristotle (384-322BC) observed that saltwater was heavier and denser than freshwater and that it contained more than just salt and commented on both its salt and bitter taste. The Roman natural philosopher and naval commander Pliny the Elder (25 – 76AC) wrote extensively about it; the philosopher, Lucius Seneca (3BCE – 65AD) noticed that water level and the salinity of the sea remained constant even though the water was constantly being added by rivers and rain. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) discussed the matter at length in his famous “The Notebooks” (Note 946). Robert Boyle, published in 1674, “Observations and Experiments in the Saltness of the Sea.” In the late 18th century, Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794) used evaporation with a solvent extraction to obtain data for his analysis of seawater. He wrote papers on seawater and the Dead Sea. Torbern Bergman (1774) examined all natural water and developed a list of the substances that he had identified in seawater. Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778–1850), the famous French chemist and physicist devoted considerable energy to the study of seawater and its saltiness. The Danish chemist Johann Georg Forchhammer (1794-1865) focused on an accurate estimation of the principal salt components, such as chlorine, sulfuric acid, magnesia, lime, potash, and soda. Georg Forchhammer found that the ratio of major salts in samples of seawater from various locations was constant, known as Forchhammer’s Principle, or the Principle of Constant Proportions. There is the legendary work of W Dittmar (1884) on 77 samples collected by the chemist J Y Buchanan during the Challenger Expedition(1872-1876). (progression from salinometry.com) Hundreds of years of scientific inquiry eventually culminated in the realisation that the saltiness of the sea was the result of the erosion of the earth’s crust and its transport to the sea by the rivers. Condensation of freshwater from the sea would probably increase the saltiness. Every mineral and element found in the earth is therefore found in seawater, salt marches, and salt springs. The most abundant two elements in the sea are the elements of sodium and chloride (47 millimoles of sodium and 546 millimoles of chloride per L of seawater). This fact reflects the abundance of these elements in the earth’s crust and throughout the universe. (Laszlo, P, 1998: 92) The salt of the earth becomes the salt of the sea and marshes and springs where the elements from the soil are transported to and combine in a crystal, rich in the fullness of the earth itself. Elements like magnesium, sulfur, calcium, potassium, bromine, carbon and many others. These elements add taste to salt, yet industrialisation demands that we strip them out to produce what is called a pure salt comprising of only sodium and chloride. Pure Sodium Chloride for Industry The hungry monster created by the industrialized revolution had to be fed and one of the foods it loved most is salt – pure salt! So followed a scramble to produce just that. The Belgian chemist, Ernest Sovay invented a process to create soda ash (sodium carbonate) in 1861 from salt brine. He took limestone which contains calcium carbonate and applied heat to it which releases the carbon dioxide. Together with ammonia and sodium chloride, it is one of the main chemical feedstocks of the industrial revolution and is used to make glass. Much of the chlorine production in the world currently in the 1890s goes towards the production of bleaching agents, produced by an electrolysis method. (Stringer, R and Johnston, P, 2001: 1) The Chloralkali process is emerging as an even larger industry using salt. When electricity is passed through salt brine (often with the aid of mercury), two major chemical products are produced: caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) and chlorine. (1) (Bitterman, M, 2010: 25) There is currently recognition around the world that much money is to be made from electrochemistry and the transmission of table salt to chlorine and caustic soda in a single step. (Stringer, R and Johnston, P, 2001: 1) Synthesised salt industries are emerging, for example, the Wyandotte Chemical Company and Dow Chemical Company in the USA. Dow Chemicals is pioneering its own processes to produce caustic soda and hydrochloric acid that will be used in producing sodium chloride (table salt). (Laszlo, P, 1998: 109) I can understand the focus on sodium chloride, from an industrial perspective. If the other components found in seawater are not required to drive the industrial processes; if other elements can complicate it for the industrial machine, why not purify it to the point where almost all other elements have been removed? In experiments done at many of the universities, we already see glimpses of what chlorine can give us. It is truly magnificent. I can see a future time when there will only be pure sodium chloride available as salt and the world will be poorer for it. Industrialization takes salt to what nature never intended it to be namely pure sodium chloride. Naturally and normally, when this happens, the main thing that suffers is our own taste and the culinary arts that rely on the rich and fullness of the taste of natural salt, brought about by the presence of many elements. There is a move in Europe, as probably across the world, away from the different artisan salt companies, who produce salts, as distinct as different wines from Italy and Spain. It becomes difficult for them to compete with salt that is produced synthetically for industry. Industry also demands salt companies who recover salt from the ocean, springs, and mine it from the earth to remove every other element except sodium and chloride. Despite the obvious advantages of science and industrialisation, this seems to be a wholly unfortunate move. We are losing our soul! Sacrificing that which is unique and tasty and requires skills, passed down through hundreds of years, for something common and ordinary and universally the same, intended for industrial use. Livingston once told my dad about huge salt reserves in the interior of the continent. The vast salt pans of Africa. One which is called Ntwetwe in Betsuhana Land (3), which he, Livingston, has described as 25km’s long and 160 across. Then there are the salt pans of Unyanyembe and many more. (Livingstone, D, 2002: 72,630) Even just to the north of Cape Town are salt works that have existed from the time before Jan van Riebeek arrived in 1652. I intend suggesting to Oscar that we keep using this natural salt with its unique quality and that we get hold of the salts of Ntwetwe to see if the taste differs from that which we find in Europe. I see no reason why we cannot produce bacon in Africa as unique as the bacon from England, Germany, America, and Holland and a differentiating feature can be that we use unrefined African salt. Our mission is to first understand how the Europeans make bacon and then to change it slightly, thus creating a signature product that contains the spirit of the African land. The Taste of Salt I thought that we would start our consideration of salt by looking at its preserving function. To my surprise, we started with salt and its taste. Taste is as important as the preserving function of salt and nitrate and nitrite in saltpeter and sugar that are normally added with saltpeter to mask the saltiness of the meat. If we can alter the taste, enhance it, by the simple act of being very careful where we buy our salt, then this seems like a most excellent suggestion. John Harris reminded me that if our trade is the production of food, we are in the first place obliged to produce something of superb taste. Our own bodies are about 99 oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium and phosphorous. The remaining 1% is potassium, sulfur, sodium, magnesium, iron and many other elements. The similarities between our bodies and what we find in seawater are striking. (Bitterman, M, 2010: 33) I wonder if one of the functions of taste is not to differentiate between what is harmful to us and what our body needs. If salt that contains the fullness of seawater or marsh salt or salt springs taste better than pure sodium chloride (pure salt as some people call it), does it not stand to reason that there must be something intrinsically healthy in the natural, unrefined salt? It may be a stretch, but the taste is one of the most important determining factors in what we use in our food. It is known that taste elicits a sensation, on parr with sexual experiences which explains why food prominently feature in combination with the sexual. Michail at C & T Harris pointed out that not all the elements in natural salt may react with meat in the same way and that it is important that scientists apply their minds to these matters. These matters are complicated as salt is a “complex crystal.” There is potassium in saltpeter and this does not seem to have a detrimental effect on meat curing. Chilean saltpeter, being sodium nitrate seems to be a most excellent curing agent. Then again, scientists from ages past had great difficulty in distinguishing between potassium and sodium based on taste. What is then the difference between sodium or potassium nitrite? I must learn more about salt. Our products must be both safe and taste excellent! Time is flying past in England and I have almost got everything that I went there for. At first, we were looking at factory space behind the cold rooms of Combrinck & Co.. Oscar showed me the land he is looking at now just for the Woodys factory just outside of Paarl. There is an old butchery that we may be able to take over (4). I am very excited. It means that the plan of producing the best bacon in the world is coming together. At the beginning of the project, I saw David and his Combrinck & Co. as our opposition, but I realise that he may end up being our customer. I am very much interested in talking to him about his plans to set up a large refrigeration plant in Cape Town. He may end up being our client and distributor. However it works out, we have many options and have the luxury to sit back and see which one of the plans come to fruition. I am enjoying the trip back to England so much more with Minette being with me than traveling there on my own. I seriously wish that you guys could join us. For now, focus on your schoolwork. Study hard. Spend much time on Table Mountain. Look after each other. Please send your mom and Johann our love and greetings as well as your grandparents. Minette also send you loads of love! Life is short! (c) eben van tonder Like our Facebook page and see the next post. Like, share, comment, contribute! (1) “Today, chloralkali processing is the largest single consumer of salt. Rayon, explosives, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals, shampoos, soaps, skin lotions, drying bleach, surgical cautery, petroleum refining – about fourteen thousand other products and processes all require these chemicals or the chemicals made from them. Between the Sovay and choloralkali processes, salt is the second biggest chemical feedstock after petroleum” K+S, a German based salt producer, had a production capacity of 30 million tons of salt in 2009. China National Salt had a 19 million ton capacity. Compass Minerals and Cargill each have a capacity of about 14 million tons. Dampier has a capacity of 9 million tons, Artyomos, 7.5 million tons, Exportadora de Sel, 7 million tons, Sudsalz, 5.3 million tons, the Salins Group, 4.1 million tons, Mitsui & Co, 3.8 million tons, Kzo Nobel, 3.6 million tons. Their production is split between salt for industry/ pharmaceuticals, chemicals, roads, and the food sector. Production is understandably geared towards the production of a pure sodium chloride salt from an industrialised perspective. Everything else is unfortunately and unjustifiably viewed as contaminants. NaCl (sodium chloride) is a celebration of the industrialism. (Bitterman, M, 2010: 25 – 27) Most of the small salt companies with their unique methods of salt production have been driven out of business by the march of industrialisation. Today there is a strong movement back to these artisan techniques of salt production. Salt remains the most under-valued food ingredient and at the same time, the ingredient with the biggest potential. (2) Northern Rhodesia is present-day Zambia and Southern Rhodesia is present-day Zimbabwe. (Gray, W, 2007: 20) (3) Betsuhana Land is present-day Botswana. (4) Negotiation started with Roelcor in 2013 to take over half of an existing meat factory to be used as the production facility for Woodys Consumer Brands (Pty) Ltd. Bittreman, M. 2010. Salted. Ten Speed Press. Bud, R and Warner, DJ. 1998. Instruments of science. The science museum, London and the National Museum of American History. Gray, W. 2007. Zambia and Victoria Falls. New Holland. Laszlo, P. 1998. Salt, Grain of Life. Columbia University Press. Livingstone, D. 2002. The life and African explorations of Dr. David Livingstone. Cooper Square Press Stringer, R and Johnston, P. 2001. Chlorine and the environment, An Overview of the Chlorine Industry. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Figure 1: http://www.silkroadgourmet.com/tag/salt/ Figure 2: http://www.sfondissimi.it/ Figure 3: http://www.nivenandjoshua.com/magazine/sea-salt-body-scrub/ Figure 4: http://www.ecotravel.ws/
A medium-sized gray-brown starling with dark wings and tail and a whitish rump. The pale bill and lemon-yellow facial skin in females and non-breeding males is subdued, but breeding males often acquire long, fleshy, dangling black wattles and canary-yellow naked skin on the head. This nomad always tends to be in groups, and breeds opportunistically in colonies. It occurs irregularly and is irruptive in short grasslands and open savannas; at any given location it may number in the thousands in some years, and be absent in others. It may associate with large mammals, capturing insects that they flush. Both sexes give a variety of squeaks and hissing notes.
WHO director general, Margaret Chan called Zika an “extraordinary event” that needed a coordinated response. “I am now declaring that the recent cluster of microcephaly and other neurological abnormalities reported in Latin America following a similar cluster in French Polynesia in 2014 constitutes a public health emergency of international concern.” Note: We have several opposing views concerning the cause of microcephaly in Brazil. 1) Zika virus or some other viral fragment carried by Aedes Egypti mosquitoes 2) Pollutants like glyphosate and other pesticides 3) Mandated vaccines during pregnancy, in Brazil TDAP. WHO Director-general, Margaret Chan has decided on the zika virus as the causal agent in the cases of microcephaly in Brazil. Their solution? Expedite GMO vaccine and diagnostics research.
Rodipet Organic Syrian Hamster Food Senior (500g) - age-appropriate diet - with vegetables and herbs - high-quality natural ingredients - from the food range of the natural habitat - organically sourced ingredients - organic certified by Eco-Monitoring Unit DE-021 Age-appropriate food mix for older Syrian hamsters – composed just as it would be in the wild. As our little friends grow older their habits change, and so do their dietary needs. Growing animals need a lot of protein for their bodies to grow and develop; young adult hamsters need a lot of energy as they first leave their mothers’ burrows, find their own territories and thence start looking for eligible mates; and aging pets need more fibre and vital substances to remain fit and mobile for as long as possible. Our SENIOR Mix is tailored to the needs of fully grown and older Syrian hamsters. It contains all the nutrients your Syrian hamster over 12 months of age needs; and less protein and high-energy components, making it better suited to his slowing metabolism than junior food. Carefully selected delicious herbs, quality seeds, tasty roots and tender vegetables from organic sources remind us of the steppes of Syria, which are the original habitat of hamsters of the species Mesocricetus auratus. Indeed, we have made a number of excursions to Syria to explore the natural habitat and the food sources available to the wild hamsters there in various seasons. The results of research into the Syrian hamsters’ natural habitat in the highlands of Aleppo form the basis of this food. These findings were used along with the guidelines of the Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover (being the veterinary college of Hannover) as well as experience from many years of hamster keeping to create an ideal food for your little friend. Each of the 22 components included in our Organic Syrian Hamster Food recipe has been chosen based on what would be available to wild Syrian hamsters living in the highlands of Aleppo. All ingredients are carefully checked and only make it into our food mixes if they meet our strict quality requirements – thus, each and every bite your little gourmet takes is a feast for his senses. And to make sure that no trace of fertiliser or, even worse, pesticide residue ruins your pet’s enjoyment we have been using organic ingredients whenever possible since establishing our company in 2003. By 2018 our network of suppliers is so large and reliable that we can now make all organic foods. By the way: vitamins and micronutrients are gradually degraded during storage, especially when in contact with oxygen. For this reason, we keep our stores low, mix fresh foods every day and package them in airtight containers. Thus, your pet gets all of nature’s great wealth of nutrients. A proverb says “tastes vary”. This is true not only for humans, but also for our pets. For this reason, we do not add “standard” insects as sources of protein. Instead, we ask you to choose your pet’s favourite insects separately and feed them either as treats (this is very effective when taming a new pet!) or add them to this compound feed. And if you occasionally want to feed your pet a little bit of a hardboiled egg or a little cottage cheese, you can simply leave out the insects that day to avoid feeding too much protein. Wild Syrian hamsters live in steppes and agricultural areas, where they find a varied diet that changes with the seasons. On their exciting late evening rambles through nature, hamsters use their sensitive noses to find all the best bits of food, which they either carry home in their pouches or eat then and there. If you like, you can also entertain your pet with a foraging adventure: Instead of providing all the food in a feeding bowl, you can scatter the compound food around your hamster’s enclosure or bury it under a thin layer of substrate in the digging box. You can then watch your pet act out his natural behaviour, digging up even the smallest seed or grain. Feed 1.5 heaped measuring spoons (this equals 1.5 heaped tablespoons) and one to two insects of your choice per day. Please check weekly how much food your pet has stashed away in his larder: if the stores are, figuratively, overflowing, please reduce the amount of food slightly; if there is hardly anything stored your pet probably needs a little more food. This tub contains approximately 90 measuring spoons worth of food, which lasts on average 1-2 months, depending on the animal. Ingredients: Yellow millet, corn flakes, barley, oat flakes, pumpkin seeds, carrots, hempseed, rye, parsnip, parboiled peas, beetroot, amaranth, buckwheat, parsley leaves, birch leaves, golden linseed, brown linseed, spinach leaves, sesame seeds, hazel leaves, fennel seeds, dandelion root, toasted soy beans (all ingredients are organically sourced) Analytical constituents: crude fibre: 8.2 %, crude protein: 14.2 %, crude oils and fats: 8.6 %, crude ash: 3.6 % Naturally contained minerals per 100 g: calcium: 200 mg, phosphorus: 370 mg, magnesium: 240 mg, potassium: 540 mg, sodium: 46 mg Naturally contained trace elements: iron: 13.96 mg, manganese: 5.00 mg, zinc: 4.21 mg, copper: 0.89 mg Rodipet recommends this product for: Syrian hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus)
Metaphor for the Human Condition Portraits can tell a story without a long narrative structure because the artist tries to capture a point or in this case points in time within the space of one image. The image is still but it alluded to action and thought. I tried to capture some aspects of the mother and daughter relationship at a time when the mother’s influence waned and prominence of the peer group and the daughter’s sense of identity took the stage. The abstracted shapes like the keyhole and window referred to elements of vision about elucidation, obscurity and transition. The red column shape echoed those in ancient Minoan rituals that depicted aspects of female initiation. The title of the series to which these prints belong is Natalie with the Gaze and the Glance, 2009 – 2010. Terms “gaze and “glance” referred to modes of seeing by artists, the first produced a structured work arranged in layers where underneath paint layers were gradually obscured until attainment of the desired effect for example in European oil painting. On the other hand the glance mode was more immediate and brush work encapsulated the image in one layer as in Oriental brush painting. I integrated both ways of seeing into my compositions. In earlier blog titled Line drawing with faces and figures I discussed styles of line work and printmaking.
Red Bramman was an Argonian pirate who operated in the Imperial province of Black Marsh during the First Era. His raids along the coast of Topal Bay eventually attracted the attention of Empress Hestra, who ordered the Imperial Navy to hunt him down. Unable to capture him through battle in Topal Bay, the Imperial Navy followed Bramman down a river whose entrance had been disguised by thickets of mangroves near Soulrest. The navy followed him deep into the heart of Black Marsh, cornering him and his bandits near what would become Blackrose. Upon his capture, the Imperial Navy executed Bramman and brought his head to Empress Hestra. By game[edit \| edit source] Trivia[edit \| edit source] - Despite being established as an Argonian, Bramman's original description in the Pocket Guide implied that he was human, as it was described that "the contact they [Argonians] had with men from the outside was from the like of Bramman and other brigands".
It is hard to deny that AirPods is one of Apple's very successful products, after a short time appearing on the market has become the most popular pair of wireless headsets. But the weakness of this product is the expensive price (starting from 160 USD) and the durability is not high (some new users 1 year and a half have reported battery failure). So why don't you create yourself an AirPods to use? Recently, a user named Sam Cashbook (15 years old) posted his DIY product on Reddit site, a very unique pair of 'AirPods'. "I started this project two months ago, after my friend was given a pair of AirPods for his birthday. I thought to myself: this product is expensive, I can do it at home. with much cheaper prices ". He bought a pair of wireless transmitters through cheap bones, then removed them to get the electronic components inside. After cutting the cord connected to the old pair of earphones, he sold them to the wires of a pair of EarPods and turned them into … AirPods! "I replaced the battery with a larger size battery and used it to glue them together. This version looks uglier than the AirPods bought from the company, but all the features work perfectly. , from playing music, stopping music, adjusting the volume, the battery can be charged as well. " "This project is really fun, and it costs me only 4 USD. It also helps me improve the ability to weld small items. I encourage people to explore and create DIY products. like this!" Videos show off the pair of DIY version AirPods
Curve Finance is a swap service for exchanging stablecoins in an advantageous way. In late 2019, founder Michael Egorov saw an opportunity in DeFi. Stablecoins, a fundamental part of the DeFi ecosystem, struggle to maintain their peg with the dollar. Using an AMM (Automated Market Maker) algorithm, it is possible to arbitrage between the various stablecoins by stabilizing their peg with the dollar, with the advantage of less slippage and attractive interest rates for liquidity providers. How does Curve Finance work Unlike exchanges where supply and demand meet, Curve uses liquidity pools. And like in Uniswap, liquidity (tokens) is rewarded to suppliers. So, with an exchange like Uniswap, what was the need to create another one? Uniswap has most of its liquidity pools with ETH (or rather WETH). So in order to switch from USDC to DAI, it is necessary to switch to ETH. Since Uniswap charges a 0.3% commission for each exchange, in this case, it will be paid twice. The algorithm behind Curve maximizes liquidity and allows for less slippage during conversions, typically 100 times lower than Uniswap. In the example shown, the swap in Uniswap of 10,000 USDC results in 9821 DAI, while the same swap in Curve returns 10,091 DAI, which is 270 more. While Uniswap is optimized to ensure liquidity, the Curve algorithm is optimized to ensure less slippage. This mechanism in the Curve whitepaper is called “The Stableswap Invariant” and has a much more advantageous curve when compared to the constant product formula used by Uniswap. It is always within a certain range, otherwise, the curve would be worse than that of Uniswap. The liquidity pools of Curve When a user deposits a stablecoin in yPool, the pool of Curve, it is divided between each token according to its composition. The percentages constantly change depending on the exchanges that take place on the platform. Depositing 1000 USDC will result in 4.91 yDAI, 25.51 yUSDC, 37.76 yUSDT and so on. These tokens with y as prefix are the LP (Liquidity Provider) tokens of Curve. The interface also allows depositing several stablecoins at the same time, in each case, the tokens will be divided into the pool as described above. In the case of depositing tokens with a low percentage in the pool, Curve offers a bonus to incentivize the deposit to better balance the pool. When withdrawing liquidity, the reverse process takes place, and it is possible to choose which stablecoin to withdraw. It is also possible to provide liquidity with Compound’s cTokens (cDAI, cUSDC, etc.). Curve’s LP tokens can be staked in the DAO, thus obtaining (farming) the CRV tokens used for governance. To further encourage staking, from September 19th, 50% of all trading commissions will be distributed to veCRV holders, the token that is obtained by locking CRV in the Curve’s DAO. According to a vote in the DAO, the protocol commissions will be used to buy CRV on the open market and distribute them to veCRV holders. Alternatively, it is also possible to decide to stake yLP on yEarn, a yield aggregator that automatically switches lending protocols, and earn YFI tokens. This is due to the numerous integrations that Curve Finance has developed since its inception. Created in early 2020, the platform has been very successful thanks to constant development. The platform allows users (and smart contracts such as 1inch, Paraswap and Dex.ag) to trade between DAI and USDC with a tailored low slippage and low commission algorithm designed specifically for stablecoins. The liquidity pool is also provided to Compound and yearn.finance protocols where it generates additional revenue for liquidity providers. It is also complemented by DeFi’s asset management services such as Zapper, Zerion and InstaDapp, which make the use of Curve even easier and further benefit from its composability. This constant development has driven a steady growth of the platform, which now has a total value locked of USD 1.25 billion. An intense summer Curve Finance had all the support of the community when suddenly, during the DeFi euphoria in the summer, they issued the CRV governance token. Distributed on the Ethereum mainnet without an official launch, it seems that some users were able to take advantage of a pre-mining of 80,000 CRV. As if that wasn’t enough, its founder used his share to take control of 79% of the network’s voting power. This was enough to create a protocol fork: Swerve Finance. Like all the other DeFi forks, Swerve presented itself as a 100% community-owned version of Curve, with no pre-mining and no founder controlling the majority. Swerve’s liquidity has grown for a couple of weeks but without really damaging the Curve Finance pool, which is now in 2nd place in the DeFi Pulse ranking. Perhaps the original protocols are keeping their communities tighter than it seems (see also Uniswap and SushiSwap). In any case, it is always advisable to exercise caution in DeFi. Even if Curve has passed several security audits and his code has 9 months of field tests, this is DeFi and the danger of a breach in a smart contract of the platform or risks related to services that take advantage of the composability of DeFi is something that is real.
The Queen of Gibraltar and the Rock’s evacuation generation were honoured on National Day Thursday by thousands of Gibraltarians who crammed into Casemates Square dressed in red and white. Chief Minister Fabian Picardo focused much of his speech on the 75th anniversary of the evacuation of civilians from the Rock and on Queen Elizabeth II, 'our queen by invitation', who this week became the longest serving monarch of the UK and its Overseas Territories. CM was flanked on stage by government ministers, Opposition MPs and 11 visiting UK parliamentarians as he dedicated Gibraltar National Day 2015 to the ‘evacuation generation’ and The Queen. “Because you are the ones who clawed your way back home to the Rock, you are the ones who no one could keep away and you are the ones who laid the foundations for the Gibraltar that we have today,” Mr. Picardo said. The Chief Minister also singled out government minister Joe Bossano, “one of the evacuation generation” who was then to go on to start National Day. CM Picardo drew parallels between Gibraltar’s evacuees and the plight of the Syrian refugees as they arrive on the shores of Europe. “Let us remember that our people were refugees once too during the Second World War and let us see ourselves and our own peoples’ journeys in the 1940’s in the journeys that so many are having to embark on today,” he said. “We remember that our evacuees had to leave families and loved ones behind to survive and that is why we feel such solidarity with today’s refugees as well and why as a charitable people we will do what we can in our own small way to help.” Turning to Queen Elizabeth’s feat in surpassing Queen Victoria as the UK’s longest serving monarch, Picardo said: “We, her people of Gibraltar, are perhaps the only ones in her reign who have chosen to remain British on two occasions”. CM Picardo said because she was Queen when Gibraltar voted by overwhelming majority to remain British in the referenda of 1967 and 2002 she has not been “imposed” on the people of Gibraltar. “We’ve chosen her twice.” “So we can proudly say that she is our Queen by invitation and not imposition,” he told the crowd. Producing a letter from Buckingham Palace responding to Gibraltar’s letter of congratulations, Mr. Picardo proudly told the crowd: “If she ever was allowed to come to Gibraltar she would be more welcome here than she has been anywhere else in the world.”
"El corazón de las Galápagos" \|Parishes\|\|List of urban parishes\| \|Time zone\|\|UTC-6 (GALT)\| Puerto Ayora is a town in central Galápagos, Ecuador. Located on the southern shore of Santa Cruz Island, it is the seat of Santa Cruz Canton. The town is named in honor of Isidro Ayora, an Ecuadorian president. The town is sometimes mistakenly referred to as Santa Cruz. Puerto Ayora is the most populous town in the Galápagos Islands, with more than 12,000 inhabitants. Puerto Ayora has a protected location, along the shores of Academy Bay, where a refreshing breeze often provides pleasant weather. Temperatures vary between 18 and 29 °C (64 and 82 °F). The hot season usually runs from December to May. Puerto Ayora has the best developed infrastructure in the archipelago. The larger of the two Galápagos banks, Banco del Pacifico, is located in Puerto Ayora. The walkable downtown area of Puerto Ayora is a small strip of hotels, restaurants, tour companies, gift shops, hotels, restaurants, clothing stores, marine stores, tourist shops and night clubs. The main Avenue is named Avenida Charles Darwin and begins on the main dock of Puerto Ayora and finishes at the Charles Darwin Research Station. The Town Hall (Alcaldía) is on Avenida Charles Darwin as well. Puerto Ayora is the best place in Galápagos for communicating with the outside world via numerous cybercafes with Internet access or telephone offices. Puerto Ayora emergency medical facilities include a new hospital opened in 2006 and the island's only hyperbaric chamber. There is a Health Center (Centro de Salud) in the northern part of Puerto Ayora as well. Most of the locals live in the northern part of the town where various schools, a market hall and a sports center were built. Most of the shops, hardware stores and grocery stores there can be found in Calle Baltra and Calle Durán. The stadium is in the northwest of the center close to the bus station. Fresh water is at a premium on the island and in this town. Locals practice water conservation and typically collect rainwater during the rainy season. There is a desalination plant on the island. Many facilities have separate water systems with varying degrees of use/quality. For example, water used for cleaning/showering may not be drinkable. Home to both the Charles Darwin Foundation and the Galápagos National Park, Puerto Ayora is the center of the Galápagos conservation efforts. Island visitors may visit the Charles Darwin Research Station to learn the history of the islands and future conservation plans. Iglesia de San Francisco is a modern church which was built in 1968. Iglesia de Edén and Iglesia de la Calle E are modern churches in the northern part of Puerto Ayora with colourful wall paintings which are worth a visit as well. Tortuga Bay is a short walk from center of Puerto Ayora where you can view marine iguanas, birds, galapagos crabs and a natural mangrove where you can spot white tip reef sharks and the gigantic galápagos tortoise. The Itabaca Channel is located between two islands in the Galápagos, Baltra Island, also known as South Seymour Island, and Santa Cruz Island. The Itabaca Channel is used by water taxis who take people from Baltra to Santa Cruz. Academy Bay is a busy harbor, normally full of boats cruising the islands, passing private yachts and local fishing boats. This bay is a good location to spot brown pelicans, golden rays, marine iguanas, herons, lava gulls, frigate birds, Galápagos sea lions, and large numbers of blue-footed boobies, which fish by spectacular plunge diving. North Seymour Island is an hour away by boat and has a wide array of animals with no people living on the island. Flights from continental Ecuador fly into either San Cristobal or to Baltra Island just off the north end of Santa Cruz. Those airlines are AeroGal and LAN Ecuador. The typical means to reach Puerto Ayora from the Baltra airport is a bus ride to the Itabaca Channel where a ferry ride is taken to Santa Cruz Island. Then another bus, courtesy vehicle or taxi is taken to Puerto Ayora. From the Puerto Ayora docks water taxis wait to take passengers to their boats or to west Puerto Ayora. The municipal bus station (Terminal) is in the northwest of the town. - http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/news/visit-the-galapagos-islands-but-tread-lightly-on-natures-construction-site/story-fnglekhp-1227463418157 Visit Santa Cruz Island, Puerto Ayora Galapagos Islands, but tread lightly on ‘nature’s construction site’ - http://traveller24.news24.com/Explore/Islands/Top-10-islands-number-one-might-surprise-you-20150714 Tortuga Bay Puerto Ayora Galapagos Islands, - http://www.ksl.com/?sid=35827641&nid=1287&title=the-worlds-12-best-spots-for-wild-swimming Las Grietas in Puerto Ayora Galápagos, Ecuador. \|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Puerto Ayora.\|
H. A. L. Fisher Jump to navigation Jump to search \|This article about a historian is a stub. You can help Wikiquote by expanding it.\| - All political decisions are taken under great pressure, and if a treaty serves its turn for ten or twenty years, the wisdom of its framers is sufficiently confirmed. - Political Prophecies (1918). - It is easier for eight or nine elderly men to feel their way towards unanimity if they are not compelled to conduct their converging maneuvers under the microscopes and telescopes of the press, but are permitted to shuffle about a little in slippers. - An International Experiment (1921). A History of Europe (1934) H. A. L. Fisher, A History of Europe, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934, 1939 - I can see … only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen. - Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels. - Ch. 1, p. 14. - Politics is the art of human happiness. - Ch. 31.
New Delhi: As the controversy rages over “intolerance” in the country, here is a group of Muslim men who have quietly done for 15 Hindu men what even their own kin could not. The Muslim men collected money to pay a fine of Rs 50,000 to secure the release of the Hindu prisoners languishing for want of money in the district jail. They had been lodged in jail on charges of petty crime like ticket less travel. Unable to cough up the fine to make reparation for their misdeeds, the men were serving an additional sentence. Once the money was paid, the 15 men walked out free birds. Outside the jail, the Muslims who paid for their release welcomed them into freedom with a warm embrace. As the 15 men stepped out of jail on Wednesday evening, there were smiles and tears all around. One of the inmates, Nand Kishore, had served out the period of his sentence for ticket less travel, but was not released as he failed to pay a Rs1,000-fine. But as he left the jail premises and strode towards home, Haji Yasin Qureshi and his friends, all Muslims, hugged him and walked along. Qureshi shrugged off the effusive gratitude that the men showed him and his friends, and said it is just the Almighty who needs to be thanked. He told the 15 men that they should swear never to repeat their mistakes. The Muslim men had also made arrangements for Nand Kishore’s travel back to his native village. He was given a small sum as “pocket money” too. His eyes moist, Kishore bid the Muslim youth adieu as jail staffers watched, awe-struck. Among the others to taste freedom were Ajay Kumar, Kishan Sagar, Pappu and Tilak. All of them were warmly embraced as they emerged from the jail, all deeply moved by the gesture of their benefactors who had come to their aid in a time of crisis. Qureshi, who led the group that collected funds for the release of the men, told on Thursday, “When we learnt of their plight from jail authorities, we decided that we should do what we could. We are never guided by the feeling that our efforts should be directed only towards members of our own community. We believe that if we help in releasing a man from captivity, Allah will bless us. Moreover, what better occasion than a time when there is all this talk about who should live in this country and who should leave.” Haji Mohd Anees, a businessman, who too had contributed to the release of the men, said, “Sahib yeh to hamara watan hai aur Hindu hamare bhai hain. Hum yahin paida huwey hai aur yahin khaak mein milengey” (This is our land too, Hindus are our brothers. We were born here, we will be buried here and mix with the soil here.) BR Maurya, superintendent of the Bareilly district jail, said, “The 15 inmates were charged with petty crimes. Some were arrested on apprehension of breach of peace. They were serving out sentences ranging from 6 months to 10 years. The majority of them had served out the full sentence, but could not pay the fine imposed on them by the court.”
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture posted a quarantine at a Butler County dressage barn after a horse with signs of neurological impairment tested positive for EHV-1 (wild-type) by RRT-PCR testing of nasal swab and whole blood samples. All equine animals on that property are under quarantine and are being monitored closely for signs of equine herpesvirus myeloencephalopathy (EHM). One other small private home barn is also under quarantine as it recently received a horse from the affected barn. An epidemiological investigation of equine movements is underway. As of today, there have been no deaths, no additional neurologically impaired animals, and the index case is recovering. The Equine Disease Communication Center (EDCC) works to protect horses and the horse industry from the threat of infectious diseases in North America. The communication system is designed to seek and report real time information about disease outbreaks similar to how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) alerts the human population about diseases in people.
During the 1700s British society and its criminal justice system did not distinguish between violent and nonviolent crimes. A thief or a murderer would both receive the death penalty, usually hanging. 60 years later grounds for capital punishment shifted.Today the death penalty is no longer carried out in Britain. Scientists using computer analysis explore why this change occurred and how society’s attitudes toward violence has evolved over the 20th century. ESL Voices Lesson Plan for this post with Answer Key Excerpt: Computing Crime and Punishment By S. Blakeslee The New York Times “In 1765, John Ward was hanged for stealing a watch and a hat. Two years later Elizabeth Brownrigg was sent to the gallows for torturing a young orphan for weeks, including tying her to a hook, stripping her naked and horsewhipping her until “the blood gushed in torrents from her wounds” and she died. In those days, British society and its criminal justice system, did not distinguish between violent and nonviolent crimes. Pickpockets and murderers equally deserved the death penalty. Not so just 60 years later. A murderer might be executed or exiled to Australia, but a pickpocket would probably only pay a fine. Grounds for capital punishment shifted. Violent and nonviolent crimes fell into separate realms. How did this change happen? Leave it to generations of British bureaucrats to help provide answers. From 1674 through 1913, court reporters wrote detailed accounts of virtually every trial held at the Central Criminal Court, known as the Old Bailey, where all major criminal cases for Greater London were heard. Scientists have now carried out a computational analysis of those words showing how the British justice system created new practices for controlling violence. This study demonstrates “an important new way to do historical research,” said Brett Bobley, director of digital humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities. Historians may study collections of individual items — books, old letters or newspapers— but they can’t read an entire library; computers, he said, can do just that. Steven Pinker, the Harvard linguist and author of “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined,” said the new study offered a valuable quantitative analysis of a major development: Europe’s civilizing process, in which violence was increasingly deemed unworthy of respectable citizens. Formerly, cultures of honor had valued violence as an appropriate response to insults and offenses.” Level: Intermediate – Advanced Language Skills: Reading, writing, speaking and listening. Vocabulary and grammar activities are included. Time: Approximately 2 hours. Materials: Student handouts (from this lesson) access to news article, and video clip. Objective: Students will read and discuss the article with a focus on improving reading comprehension and learning new vocabulary. At the end of the lesson students will express their personal views on the topic through group work and writing. I. Pre-Reading Activities Analyzing headings and photos Directions: Have students examine the titles of the post and of the actual article. After they examine the photos, ask students to create a list of words and ideas that they think might be related to this article. II. While Reading Tasks Directions: Students are to infer the meanings of the words in bold taken from the article. They may use a dictionary, thesaurus, and Word Chart for assistance. - British society did not distinguish between violent and nonviolent crimes. - A murderer might be executed or exiled to Australia. - Leave it to generations of British bureaucrats to help provide answers. - The corpus includes 121 million words describing 197,000 trials. - Two years later Elizabeth Brownrigg was sent to the gallows for murder. - This study demonstrates an important new way to do historical research. - Steven Pinker is a Harvard and author. - The volume of data coming out the system incomprehensible. - For every word we have a number that equates with a meaning. - One key finding is the gradual criminalization of violence. Directions: Review the following statements from the reading. If a statement is true they mark it T. If the statement is not applicable, they mark it NA. If the statement is false they mark it F and provide the correct answer. - Elizabeth Browning was sent to the gallows for torturing a young orphan. - John Ward was hanged for stealing a watch and a hat. - British society and its criminal justice system, did not distinguish between violent and nonviolent crimes in those days. - 2 years later grounds for capital punishment shifted. - From 1674 through 1913, court reporters wrote detailed accounts of virtually every trial held at the Central Criminal Court. - The series Sherlock was based on these findings. - The Central Criminal Court was known as the Old Bailey. - The study is a collaboration between two computer scientists, and a historian. - Steven Pinker is a Harvard linguist and author. - Pinker was also involved in this study. Using Adjectives to describe pictures Directions: Have students choose a picture from this lesson and write a descriptive paragraph using adjectives. III. Post Reading Tasks Directions: Place students in groups and have them answer the following questions. Afterwards, have the groups share their thoughts as a class. To reinforce the ideas, students can write an essay on one of the following discussion topics. 1. Put the following 3 statements from the article in your own words. - “In those days, British society and its criminal justice system, did not distinguish between violent and nonviolent crimes. Pickpockets and murderers equally deserved the death penalty. Not so just 60 years later. A murderer might be executed or exiled to Australia, but a pickpocket would probably only pay a fine. Grounds for capital punishment shifted. Violent and nonviolent crimes fell into separate realms.” - “Steven Pinker, the Harvard linguist and author… said the new study offered avaluable quantitative analysis of a major development: Europe’s civilizing process, in which violence was increasingly deemed unworthy of respectable citizens. Formerly, cultures of honor had valued violence as an appropriate response to insults and offenses.” - “To find patterns, the scientists looked at when and how often certain words occurred. Say you walk into a trial in 1750 and pick out one word,…How much can you learn about what the trial is about? If you hear the word ‘kick,’ you might associate it with violence, but you could not be certain. But by 1850, if you hear the word ‘kick,’ you would know a lot about what the bureaucracy was going to do…With the passage of time, each word carries more information based on accumulating trial data. And this is what we can quantify.” 2. In your opinion, should the death penalty exist in any country? Provide reasons for your answer. 3. Why do you think some countries still have a death penalty? 4. Describe the justice system in your country. For example are there different punishments for each crime committed? IV. Listening Activity Video Clip: [British] Capital Punishment Over the Years. Discovery/History/Crime (documentary) Published on Feb 18, 2014 Listening for New Vocabulary or New Terms Directions: Here is a list of words from the video. Have students find the meanings before they listen to the video. As students listen, they are to check off the words as they hear them. deterrent, retribution, moral, premeditated. While Listening Activities Directions: Students listen for the correct word or phrase to complete the sentences taken from the video. They are to choose from the options presented. - Today there are over 50 countries around the whirl/world which continue to use the death penalty. - Individuals who brake the law can face a firing squad/square in China, lethal injection in the USA, and the hangman’s noose in Singapore. - It is only a decadence/decade since capital punishment was finally removed from British law. - For centuries Britain carried out state execute/executions and capital punishment was defended as a detergent/ deterrent against crime, retribution against those who broke society’s rules. - For over 200 years a moral battle raged/rage about whether the State has the right to execute. - A powerful liberal elitist/elite emerged determined to abolish the death penalty. - The death penalty is inhuman/human and degrading when you see how it is carried out and the procedures that are necessary . - But the vast majority of public onion/opinion has continued to demand the ultimate punishment. - There are certain sorts/sores of murder that are premeditated, violent, and shocking. - This debate has shaped/shaved our ideas about how a civilized society should punish its citizens in the 21st century. Questions for Discussion Directions:Place students in groups and have them discuss the following questions. 1. After listening to this video has your personal idea of the death penalty changed in any way? If yes, describe in what way. If no, describe your original opinion. 2. Did you agree with the comments made by the speakers? Discuss which comments you agreed with and which ones you tended not to agree with. Provide reasons for your answers. 3. With your group members, make up questions that you would like to ask the speakers.
Integration of optical components on-chip for scattering and fluorescence detection in an optofluidic device - Additional Document Info - View All An optofluidic device is demonstrated with photonic components integrated onto the chip for use in fluorescence and scatter detection and counting applications. The device is fabricated by integrating the optical and fluidic components in a single functional layer. Optical excitation on-chip is accomplished via a waveguide integrated with a system of lenses that reforms the geometry of the beam in the microfluidic channel into a specific shape that is more suitable for reliable detection. Separate counting tests by detecting fluorescence and scattered signals from 2.5 and 6.0 μm beads were performed and found to show detection reliability comparable to that of conventional means of excitation and an improvement over other microchip-based designs. has subject area
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Title: Heuristics for pre-selecting scientific works (tentative) Mentor: Francesco Lelli This thesis is about trying to answering the following questions: “what is a good research paper?” or “is this publication worth reading?” before reading the paper. Nowadays the amount of scientific journals is overwhelming and constantly increasing. Students, as well as senior scientists, are facing an impossible amount of information to elaborate. Consequently, they are force to apply a set of heuristics for selecting the information to process and consume. This approach force the scholar in forming an opinion prior a proper read of the scientific article. This is “by definition” a bias that may be misleading. You will investigate how scholars implement in an explicit or implicit manner these heuristics. You will also devise best practices and computer driven tools that could help improve the efficiency of the selection process of scientific articles. If you are curious and you what to know more about the topic, I recommend you the following: - Read this article about my personal heuristics for understanding if a paper is worth reading. - A generic article in Wikipedia about Heuristics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristics_in_judgment_and_decision-making - A few keywords that you may want to use in google scholar: Heuristics and Bias, Heuristics in decision making, Heuristics in information management, Heuristics in software engineering. This project does not involve an internship. Instead, it will try to have a high academic relevance and theoretical contribution and, based on the quality of your work the candidate may be able to publish the results in the proceedings and scientific journals. You may propose a qualitative or quantitative approach for validating the claims that you will be making in your thesis. The ideal candidate is a self started go-getter student that like to see things thru and do not limit himself to take facts for granted. If this topic trigger your intellectual curiosity, just get in touch with me
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Matt Levine’s “Money Stuff” column (Bloomberg) offers some interesting commentary on what is happening with bank dividends in the US. Under the sub heading “People are worried about dividends” he writes: So, again, I am generally pretty impressed by the performance of bank regulation in the current crisis, but this is unfortunate: US banks’ annual capital plans, due to be submitted to the Federal Reserve on Monday, are expected to include proposals to continue paying dividends, reinforcing comments from prominent bank chief executives in recent days, according to people familiar with the situation. The bankers, including Goldman Sachs boss David Solomon, Morgan Stanley boss James Gorman and Citigroup chief Mike Corbat, argued that they had the means to continue paying dividends and that cutting them would be “destabilising to investors”. “We’re in a very different position than what we see in Europe,” said Marty Mosby, a veteran banks analyst at Vining Sparks. “How we set it up [post-crisis capital requirements] was to be able to not have those dividends collapse [in a crisis]. That’s what creates a financial crisis: when dividends start to be ratcheted lower that shakes confidence.” What is unfortunate is not so much that U.S. banks want to continue paying dividends; for all I know some of them are so well capitalized and so well equipped to weather this crisis that they will actually make a lot of money and have plentiful profits to pay out to shareholders. What is unfortunate is that their explicit view is that cutting dividends would be destabilizing. Common shareholders are supposed to be the lowest-ranking claimants on a bank’s money. The point of equity capital is that you don’t have to pay it out, that it doesn’t create any cash drain in difficult times. But if your view is “we need to maintain our dividend every quarter or else there will be a run on the bank,” then that means that the dividend is destabilizing; it means that your common stock is really debt; it means that your equity capital is not as good—not as equity-like—as it’s supposed to be. If you take seriously the claim that banks can’t cut dividends in a generational crisis, for fear of undermining investor confidence, then, fine, I guess, but then the obvious conclusion is that when times are good you can never let banks raise their dividends. Every time a bank raises its dividend, on this theory, it incurs more unavoidable quarterly debt and creates a new drain on its funding, one that can’t be turned off in the bad times for fear of being “destabilising to investors”Bloomberg Opinion “Money Stuff” 7 April 2020 I get the argument that if banks have the means to pay a dividend then they should be free to make a commercial decision. People may however feel entitled to be skeptical given the ways in which some banks were slow to adjust to the new realities of the GFC. There is also a line where the position some US banks appear to be projecting risks becoming an expectation that the dividend should be stable even under a highly stressed and uncertain outlook. It is not clear if that is exactly what the US banks quoted in his column are saying but that is how Matt Levine frames it and it would clearly be a concern if that is their view. That does seem to a fair description of the view some investors and analysts are expressing. Jamie Dimon seems to be offering a more nuanced perspective on this question. He has advised JP Morgan shareholders that the Board expects the bank to remain profitable under its base base projections but would consider suspending the dividend under an extremely adverse scenario. Our 2019 pretax earnings were $48 billion – a huge and powerful earnings stream that enables us to absorb the loss of revenues and the higher credit costs that inevitably follow a crisis. For comparison, the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) results for 2020 that we submitted to the Federal Reserve in 2019 (which assumed outcomes like U.S. unemployment peaking at 10% and the stock market falling 50%) showed a decline in revenue of almost 20% and credit costs of approximately $20 billion more than what we experienced in 2019. We believe we would perform better than this if the Fed’s scenario were to actually occur. But even in the Fed’s scenario, we would be profitable in every quarter. These stress test results also show that following such a meaningful reduction in our revenue (and assuming we continue to pay dividends), our common equity Tier 1 (CET1) ratio would likely hold at a very strong 10%, and we would have in excess of $500 billion of liquid assets. Additionally, we have run an extremely adverse scenario that assumes an even deeper contraction of gross domestic product, down as much as 35% in the second quarter and lasting through the end of the year, and with U.S. unemployment continuing to increase, peaking at 14% in the fourth quarter. Even under this scenario, the company would still end the year with strong liquidity and a CET1 ratio of approximately 9.5% (common equity Tier 1 capital would still total $170 billion). This scenario is quite severe and, we hope, unlikely. If it were to play out, the Board would likely consider suspending the dividend even though it is a rather small claim on our equity capital base. If the Board suspended the dividend, it would be out of extreme prudence and based upon continued uncertainty over what the next few years will bring. It is also important to be aware that in both our central case scenario for 2020 results and in our extremely adverse scenario, we are lending – currently or plan to do so – an additional $150 billion for our clients’ needs. Despite this, our capital resources and liquidity are very strong in both models. We have over $500 billion in total liquid assets and an incremental $300+ billion borrowing capacity at the Federal Reserve and Federal Home Loan Banks, if needed, to support these loans, as well as meet our liquidity requirements (these numbers do not include the potential use of some of the Fed’s newly created facilities). We could, of course, make our capital and liquidity buffer better by restricting our activities, but we do not intend to do that – our clients need us.JP Morgan Chairman and CEO Letter to Shareholders 2019 Annual Report Banks are cyclical investments – who knew? Stress testing models must of course be treated with caution but what I think this mostly illustrates is that banks are highly cyclical investments. That may seem like a statement of the obvious but there was a narrative post GFC that banks were public utilities and that bank shareholders should expect to earn public utility style returns on their investments. There is an element of truth in this analogy in so far as banks clearly provide an essential public service. I am also sympathetic to the argument that banking is a form of private/public partnership. This pandemic is however a timely reminder of the limits of the argument that banks are just another low risk utility style of business. Bank shareholders are much more exposed to the cyclical impacts than true utility investments. In the interests of full disclosure, I have a substantial exposure to bank shares and I for one need a lot more than a single digit return to compensate for the pain that part of my portfolio is currently experiencing. The only upside is that I never bought into the thesis that banks are a low risk utility style investment requiring a commensurately low return. The higher capital and liquidity requirements built up in response to the lessons of the GFC increase the odds that banks will survive the crisis and be a big part of the solution but banks are, and remain, quintessentially cyclical investments and the return bank investors require should reflect this. I think the lesson here is not to worry about the extent to which dividend cuts would be destabilising to investors but to focus on what kind of return is commensurate with the risk. I will let APRA have the final say on what to expect … APRA expects ADIs and insurers to limit discretionary capital distributions in the months ahead, to ensure that they instead use buffers and maintain capacity to continue to lend and underwrite insurance. This includes prudent reductions in dividends, taking into account the uncertain outlook for the operating environment and the need to preserve capacity to prioritise these critical activities. Decisions on capital management need to be forward-looking, and in the current environment of significant uncertainty in the outlook, this can be very challenging. APRA is therefore providing Boards with the following additional guidance.2 During at least the next couple of months, APRA expects that all ADIs and insurers will: – take a forward-looking view on the need to conserve capital and use capacity to support the economy; – use stress testing to inform these views, and give due consideration to plausible downside scenarios (periodically refreshed and updated as conditions evolve); and – initiate prudent capital management actions in response, on a pre-emptive basis, to ensure they maintain the confidence and capacity to continue to lend and support their customers. During this period, APRA expects that ADIs and insurers will seriously consider deferring decisions on the appropriate level of dividends until the outlook is clearer. However, where a Board is confident that they are able to approve a dividend before this, on the basis of robust stress testing results that have been discussed with APRA, this should nevertheless be at a materially reduced level. Dividend payments should be offset to the extent possible through the use of dividend reinvestment plans and other capital management initiatives. APRA also expects that Boards will appropriately limit executive cash bonuses, mindful of the current challenging environment. “APRA issues guidance to authorised deposit-taking institutions and insurers on capital management”, 7 April 2020 Tony (From the Outside)
We’re running at around 32°C by day and 20°C by night. Can’t believe we’ve been here a week. Our host’s garden is a modest affair, as are most gardens in the very many new housing developments hereabouts. All the houses are single storey, so have a big footprint, not leaving a lot of room for the garden. This is pretty much the whole of the back garden. It’s wildly exotic, palms, Strelitzia, Frangipani, bromeliads and so on. I hate to say it, but it quickly becomes a new normal. I haven’t managed to get a picture of a rainbow lorikeet yet, though they are visitors most mornings. It’s harder to see them as normal. Our hosts used to feed them, but 30 lorikeets at 5 in the morning are not an alarm you sleep through, so they stopped. There are four Frangipanis in the garden here. This one seems to be Plumeria alba, but is probably a selected form. It has a very nice scent that doesn’t immediately remind me of anything else. A bit of shade. Down the side of the house is an area that is shady until mid morning and from mid afternoon on. Herbs and annuals find conditions a bit more tolerable here, though frequent watering is vital. At 7 in the morning, I find conditions ideal for eating breakfast outside. It’s fresh, the light is bright but not harsh, the temperature about 20°C. It’s a war against beasties of all sorts. Adenium obtusum, the Dessert Rose, is something I’ll put in next time, but this caterpillar was making a meal of one of its flowers. I have no idea what this is the larva of, probably some stunning enormous tropical butterfly. Not all palms are big. This one is about six feet tall, perfect for a scaled down exotic look. The downside is that it is a mass of three inch needle sharp spines. The dead flower heads tend to stay where they are until he drop naturally. Bromeliads, which I’ve always thought of as epiphytes, grow very well in the ground here, provided that they have some shade. There are several sorts here, some with a single large rosette, some spreading with many small rosettes. The down side is that the water that collects in the rosettes provides a habitat for mosquitoes, and they are plenty bad enough without any help. Dining outside in the evening is very pleasant but you need some industrial strength insect repellent. I don’t think there’s any way I can squeeze Aussie wildlife into six garden connected items, but we saw this baby possum and its mum up a tree on Bribie Island when we were out there this morning. They were being screamed at by lorikeets, which was what got our attention. It’s nearly Sunday here now, I need to get this posted. The perspective of an imposter in the southern hemisphere. I’m not missing winter so much, but I am looking forward to following all the links from The Propagator’s six on Saturday posting.
Yes I do. I would like to drive a car that is non-polluting (if I actually did drive), I would like to live in a house that uses half the energy it currently does and still be as functional. My green readers would reply “but well, my dear sir, it is possible!”, with a list of electricity-powered cars, green technologies for the house, solar panels, and the list goes on… Sadly said discoveries are not that green after all, to my great dismay. Recently I read about the European Union taking the decision to ban any incandescent bulb above 60W. And I thought “Haha! At last! The time is over for these yellow-piss over-heating bastards!”. I do have a deep hate for these lamps, as being an amateur photographer, I hate everything that produces a non-daylight color, and being an aquarist as well, I know too well how it feels to be exposed to such lamps for twelve hours a day right next to you in terms of generated heat… So forcing people into buying compact-fluorescent (CFL for short) seemed like a good idea, especially since for those of us who miss the yellowish glow, they come in a variety of color temperatures suitable for all tastes. And if you stay close to them during a warm day, you do not feel any warmer than if they were not there. Plus they last longer, great is it not? Well sadly there is a drawback. Look what is written on them. “Hg”. Does that ring a bell? Well it should, that’s mercury. You know that funny silver-looking metal that presents itself in the form of liquid bubbles that seem to like to aggregate to one another? Well yes that same one, the one that is also told to be very dangerous in paints, while dumped into a river by gold miners, and was replaced into medical thermometers due to its toxicity. Not even talking about the fact that extracting it is also a very poisonous procedure. Ask yourself why (apart from the cost) all mines in North America and Europe have been closed down. So what happens is the following: we replace tungsten by mercury in our lamps, which all of a sudden does not seem to be that of a great idea. Of course naysayers will tell you that hey, there are LED solutions out there! And indeed, there are… using more silicon, which means very water-consuming processes involved. Another idea that might not be so great after all. To stay with electricity, another subject is how to produce and store it. Germany had decided a couple of years ago to stop their nuclear power plants, as they are deemed to be very polluting (well if you let them go like Chernobyl, sure enough, you are in deep troubles), although the main concerns with them are adequate security (aka being willing to pay people who have nothing to do except that 5% of them time when shit hits the fan: think about Homer Simpson), and disposal of the irradiated tools (aka not the parts used into fission, we can happily reuse these into weapons, but all the screwdrivers and wrenches that have been exposed to radiation). Well guess what Germany is doing now? Backing up on that… because there is nothing better for now. Let us talk about solar power a bit. And batteries as well, since these two are related by one element: lithium. Lithium is a very rare material, and only a handful of countries are able to produce it. Practically, all of these are in Africa or South America. Which means government that may not be that stable, politicians who might not understand that corruption is not a way of life, and a general lack of human rights. Hey good surprise, recently it was discovered (albeit through research made by Soviet scientists when they were visiting the country themselves) that Afghanistan’s soil contains the rare element too. How about getting controlled for a few years by puppets at the hand of big companies folks? Nevertheless, I will go on using these nice CFL lights who provide me with a nice “cool white” color that I enjoy so much for reading, processing pictures and not feeling like I live in a crypt in general, but I will not forget that no matter what… there is no real green technology to light my home except for natural sunlight.
Herein lies the chief danger to grace: the state, which runs by the rules of ungrace, gradually drowns out the church’s sublime message of grace. Insatiable for power, the state may well decide that the church could prove even more useful if the state controlled it. This happened most dramatically in Nazi Germany when, ominously, evangelical Christians were attracted to Hitler’s promise to restore morality to government and society. Many Protestant leaders initially thanked God for the rise of the Nazis, who seemed the only alternative to communism. According to Karl Barth, the church “almost unanimously welcomed the Hitler regime, with real confidence, indeed with the highest hopes.” Too late did they learn that once again the church had been seduced by the power of the state. The church works best as a force of resistance, a counterbalance to the consuming power of the state. The cozier it gets with government, the more watered-down its message becomes. The gospel itself changes as it devolves into civil religion. – Philip Yancey, What’s So Amazing about Grace? In recent history, the main leaders of the civil rights movement (Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young) were clergy, and their stirring speeches showed it. Churches black and white provided the buildings, the networks, the ideology, the volunteers, and the theology to sustain the movement. Martin Luther King Jr. later broadened his crusade to encompass the issues of poverty and opposition to the war in Vietnam. Only recently, as political activism has shifted to conservative causes, has Christian involvement in politics caused alarm. … Stephen Carter offers good counsel about political activism: To be effective, “gracious” Christians must be wise in the issues they choose to support or oppose. … What about today? Are we choosing our battles wisely? Obviously, abortion, sexual issues, and the definitions of life and death are issues worthy of our attention. Yet when I read the literature produced by evangelicals in politics I also read about gun rights, abolishing the Department of Education … and term limits for Congress. … Too often the agenda of conservative religious groups matches line for line the agenda of conservative politics and does not base its priorities on a transcendent source. – Philip Yancey, What’s So Amazing about Grace? Jesus did not let any institution interfere with his love for individuals. Jewish racial and religious policies forbade him to speak with a Samaritan woman, let alone one with a checkered moral background; Jesus selected one as a missionary. His disciples included a tax collector, viewed as a traitor by Israel, and also a Zealot, a member of the super-patriot party. He praised the counter-cultural John the Baptist. He met with Nicodemus, an observant Pharisee, and also with a Roman centurion. He dined in the home of another Pharisee named Simon and also in the home of an “unclean” man, Simon the Leper. For Jesus, the person was more important than any category or label. I know how easy it is to get swept away by the politics of polarization, to shout across picket lines at the “enemy” on the other side. But Jesus commanded, “Love your enemies.” … Who is my enemy? The abortionist? The Hollywood producer polluting our culture? The politician threatening my moral principles? The drug lord ruling my inner city? If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus’ gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace. – Philip Yancey, What’s So Amazing about Grace?
Diwali, a festival of lights Diwali, sparkles the night Diwali, brings joy and delight Diwali, makes the smile go wide The thought of Diwali is enough to bring excitement to the heart. Memories of celebrations and jubilations, new clothes and rangolis, sweets and savouries. And the best part is that there are lights all around, making one forget that it is actually a new moon (Amavasya) night. Diwali or Deepavali means an arrangement of lights in a series. And there are lights everywhere ; whether it is diyas decorated near doorways, on rangolis, on walls or any other place; or whether it is colourful decorative lights, hanging from walls, windows or doors. The night sky is lit up with fireworks emerging from every corner of the skyline. And as if these are not enough there are sparklers and other firecrackers to add to the dazzle. These are the happy memories as a young child when he/she thinks of the festival. But as one grows up, more things come to light vis-à-vis the celebrations, the stories associated and the not-so-good effects of such celebrations. The more popular story is that of Shri Ram returning to Ayodhya along with Sita and Lakshmana, after a long exile of 14 years and succeeding in slaying the Lanka king, Ravana. Since it was a new moon night, the delighted residents of Ayodhya decided to light up the town by arranging diyas all along the paths and around houses so as to show the way for their homecoming king. Flying aboard the Pushpaka Vimana, it must have been quite a sight for the returning heroes. There are many other stories connected to Diwali. At some places, it is a five day festival – where it starts with Dhanteras and ends with Bhaidooj, some places it is three days, at some places it is two days and at some places it is only a one-day festival. Also there are some places like Kerala, where traditionally Diwali is not celebrated. For Gujaratis, the first day after Diwali marks the first day of their new year. Across many regions, Diwali is also associated with Goddess Lakshmi, where Lakshmi Pooja is an essential part. It is said that on the day of Dhanteras, Goddess Lakshmi emerged as a result of the churning of the Ksheerasagara (Milk ocean) and on the day of Diwali, she married Lord Vishnu. At home, for us Telugu people, Diwali is a two day festival. It starts on Chaturdasi, i.e. one day before Amavasya. This day is called Naraka Chaturdasi to celebrate the slaying of Narakasura. The story goes that Narakasura, who was the son of Bhoodevi (Goddess Earth) had been blessed with boons that he could be killed only by his mother and only when she wished for it. Granted with these boons, he became very powerful, kidnapped 16,000 women and posed as a threat to Lord Indra. Shri Krishna along with his wife Satyabhama, waged a war against Narakasura, in order to halt his reign. Satyabhama, who is the incarnation of Bhoodevi, enraged at the asura’s misbehavior with women, willingly accompanied her husband to the battle. It is understood that Satyabhama was unaware of her real identity and along with Shri Krishna, slayed her evil son. The tale of Shri Krishna marrying 16,000 women to save them from dishonor comes from this story. The asura was slayed on Chaturdasi before dawn. Therefore, people celebrating Naraka Chaturdasi, wake up very early in the morning, burn crackers and take oil bath, followed by consumption of sweets. So, major part of the festival is celebrated early in the morning. Also, it is essential that the tithi (the day as per the Hindu calendar), during the early morning has to be chaturdasi. So sometimes, it does happen that Naraka Chaturdasi and Amavasya (when Diwali is celebrated at night), falls on the same day, as the tithi changes during the course of the day. At home, before taking the oil bath, daughters of the house give aarti to their father and brothers and the men in turn give cash or gifts. A nice source of income for girls. Thankfully, the tax authorities have not listed this source of income to be taxable. The rest of the day of Chaturdasi and the next day of Diwali is spent in exchanging sweets and savouries between friends and relatives and making preparations for the Diwali night, which also includes making a beautiful and colourful rangoli. The Diwali night is the moment most looked forward to. As the evening sets in, pooja is done when the first few diyas are officially lit. Then begins, the decoration of the house surroundings with diyas. By this time, the night has set in and the lights brighten up the whole place. This is the moment I cherish the most. So many diyas sparkling all around. Now this is a visual that would make one feel that two eyes aren’t enough to take in the whole spectacle. Of course, there is always the slight breeze, that would want to play pranks with the diyas. And one is compelled to try to keep the diyas lit for as long as it is possible. This little game with the wind would go on for a while. And soon it would be the time to burn the crackers. This part of Diwali too, I had once cherished. After changing into simple cotton clothes and aided with few candles and match boxes, the packet of crackers would then be dealt with. Once that’s done, we would return home. After a good hand wash, sweets would be had to celebrate another joyous Diwali night. The ritual of lighting diyas would not be limited to just the Diwali night. From the next day of Diwali begins the holy month of Kartika (or Kartika maasam as we call it) which is dedicated to Lord Shiva. This month is filled with many auspicious days, which involve fasting, poojas in the evenings and lighting more diyas. Also, every evening during the month of Kartika, diyas are lit and placed at the main door entrance, apart from the home temple and the sacred Tulsi pot. In Tamil Nadu, Diwali is essentially celebrated on Naraka Chaturdasi. That is the main festival. So most of the crackers too are burnt on the morning of Chaturdasi. Also, the decoration of diyas is done on the full moon day in the Tamil month of Kartigai, which is usually after a gap of 15 days. The day after Naraka Chaturdasi , ie Amavasya is usually a working day. So for eg. if you are in Chennai making plans for the Diwali (New moon) day, just plan ahead. You might have to take leave from work. Else you might miss the early evening festivities. The ill-effects of burning crackers are hard to ignore. Because of which, over the last few years, the eagerness to burn crackers has drastically come down. But the visual delight one gets is something one can’t deny. The little child within, sometimes wants to plead to the scientist experts. So many things are being discovered and invented. Why not invent aritificial crackers that wouldn’t injure anyone or harm the environment, but still would provide the same visual delight? But in reality, Diwali has always been about the beautiful array of lights. It became a noisy, cracker filled festival much later. Perhaps, it is time for us to bring back the quieter but beautiful and a brightly lit Diwali. After all, Diwali is called the festival of lights. In Mythology and More, Writersbrew gives you a glimpse of Diwali as our writers celebrate it. The festival has different significance in different parts of India, among the various Hindu communities. Take a look at some of these customs, enjoy the stories. Here’s to light, everywhere. Originally posted on 5/27/2016
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Australia's employment services need an overhaul to better serve drug addicts, homeless people and those with mental health issues. The heads of four boards that advise the government on health, homelessness, drugs and social inclusion say the current system isn't working for long-term unemployed people with complex problems. Instead, they want a more inclusive system that unites employment, health and homeless services. Social Inclusion Board chair Lin Hatfield Dodds says politicians need to think about this while the employment services framework is being reviewed. "We have an opportunity now, I think, over the next 18 months to have a serious dialogue about how we wrap around the supports and services highly disadvantaged people need to get and keep a decent job," she told reporters in Canberra on Thursday. "Work confers dignity and thus meaning to people as well as providing people with a means to put a roof over their head and food on the table." The chairs of the National Mental Health Commission, the Prime Minister's Council on Homelessness, the Australian National Council on Drugs and the Social Inclusion Board also met on Thursday with Employment Participation Minister with Kate Ellis to discuss these issues. © AAP 2018
English celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's mobile food program that battles the bulge is visiting an Aboriginal community for the first time. Jamie's Ministry of Food is opening a mobile cooking centre on Monday in Cherbourg, one of Queensland's most disadvantaged communities. The five-week community-based course at the community near Kingaroy will teach participants better eating habits and how to cook meals from scratch. They will learn the famous chef's hints, tips and shortcuts, and get to take a freshly-cooked meal home at the end of each class. Jamie's Ministry of Food Queensland Mobile Kitchen program is delivered by The Good Foundation and aims to address rising rates of diet-related disease in Australia. Two-thirds of Aboriginal adults in Queensland are overweight or obese, according to statistics. "I'm really excited about our mobile kitchen reaching more remote communities such as Cherbourg where we can teach even more Aussies how to cook from scratch and have some fun while having a positive effect on their long-term health," Oliver said. The program has been specifically designed for the Cherbourg community to ensure it delivers results, Jamie's Ministry of Food Australia CEO Elise Bennetts said. © AAP 2018
Abbott semi-precision balls are used in a wide variety of applications where the higher tolerances and cost of precision balls is not necessary. Balls are defined by grade: The lower the number of the grade, the more precision to which the ball is manufactured. The typical distinction between a precision ball and a semi-precision ball is between grades 50 and 100, wherein grades 50 and below are considered precision balls and grades 100 and above are semi-precision. Abbott conforms to ABMA standards, which dictate the specific parameters associated with the grade of a ball. Surface Integrity is defined as the surface smoothness and freedom from defects such as flats, pits, soft spots and cuts. Semi-precision balls must be free of such defects when inspected without magnification. Size is the mean diameter, measured between two parallel planes on the ball surface. Tolerances for semi-precision balls are ±0.0005 (grade 100) up to ±0.005 (grade 1000). Sphericity is defined as the deviation (out-of-round condition) from a true spherical form. The normal range of sphericity for semi-precision balls is between ±0.0001 (grade 100) and ±0.001 (grade 1000).
What does VK mean in Suppliers? This page is about the meanings of the acronym/abbreviation/shorthand VK in the Governmental field in general and in the Suppliers terminology in particular. Find a translation for VK in other languages: Select another language: What does VK mean? - any of the Scandinavian people who raided the coasts of Europe from the 8th to the 11th centuries

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