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ASA 106 Advanced Coastal Cruising
You have some water time logged and now its time to looking at chartering a boat.
Prerequisites: ASA 101/103, ASA 104, ASA 105
Able to safely act as skipper and crew of a sailing vessel about 30 to 50 feet in length in coastal and inland waters, in any conditions.
Curriculum topics include:
- General Sailing Knowledge
- Boat and Crew Handling Under Sail
- And More...
Course Format: TBD
- The Annapolis Book of Seamanship: Fourth Edition
- The International Marine Book of Sailing
Course Certification Awarded:
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Feature Stay: Breezes Beach Club, Zanzibar
Breezes was recently picked as one of the Top 4 hotels in all of Tanzania, and it's easy to see why...
Basically Madagascar is what every traveller is searching for: the next big thing. A destination with a lot to offer that nevertheless hasn’t been ‘discovered’ by tourists and big bus convoys.
There’s only one brief moment when I feel afraid. I am in Volcanoes National Park in the North West corner of Rwanda, and I’m crouching one metre away from an angry female gorilla. | <urn:uuid:050cd4a1-d779-4183-983d-7e05f4217590> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.peregrineadventures.com/blog/tag/africa/?page=3 | 2023-09-22T12:37:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.930052 | 129 |
Facility a property management
Put your property in good hands. We will make sure that it is fully occupied and in top condition in every way.
What we’ll provide for you
- Top condition of the property and its surroundings, including all technology,
- certainty that the property is legislatively sound,
- administrative management of the property including real estate services,
- streamlining processes and strategies leading to savings,
- regular reporting on the condition of the property, including a monthly summary of activities,
- NON-STOP availability of emergency services.
What we are strong in
- We look after hundreds of thousands of square metres of indoor and
outdoor spaces, yet we know every meter,
- we have the capacity to guarantee 100 % substitutability,
- we constantly assess the condition of the building and suggest ways
to increase its value through savings or innovation,
- we meet with architects, designers and developers from the PFM-
Group and enrich our approach with their unique know-how.
“There is nothing worse than a bad collaboration. Business is all about people and it really is everyone who matters – from the janitor to the director. That’s why we made sure to choose the right facility manager. We chose a partner who has a professional yet human approach. Because this is often the most important aspect on which everything stands or falls. We are constantly reassured of this in practice – especially when a technician approaches us on his own and suggests how to do things better and avoid potential problems. How much time and stress has this saved us already? I can’t even put a price on that.” | <urn:uuid:6dd79276-22f2-4813-8ff6-f2fe896e37b7> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.pfm-service.cz/en/facility-a-property-management/ | 2023-09-22T11:57:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.960211 | 343 |
Disintegrants – Pharmaceutical Excipients
Disintegrants and superdisintegrant excipients are essential components used in the pharmaceutical industry to enhance the dissolution and bioavailability of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). These excipients facilitate the disintegration and rapid breakup of tablets or capsules, which ultimately increases their rate of absorption in the body.
Definition of Disintegrants and Superdisintegrants
According to the United States Pharmacopeia (USP/NF), disintegrants are defined as “agents added to tablet or capsule formulations to facilitate the breakup or disintegration of the tablet or capsule into smaller particles that dissolve more rapidly in the gastrointestinal fluids” (USP 41-NF 36 General Chapter <701> Disintegration). On the other hand, superdisintegrants are defined as “highly effective disintegrants that, when used at low levels, provide rapid disintegration and dissolution of the tablet or capsule dosage form” (USP 41-NF 36 General Chapter <2040> Superdisintegrants).
The European Pharmacopoeia (Pharm Eur) defines disintegrants and superdisintegrants in a similar manner, but also includes that these agents should be non-toxic, non-irritant, and compatible with other components of the dosage form.
Definition of disintegrants by Peter C. Schmidt in “Pharmazeutische Hilfsstoffe” (1) Disintegrants are substances that are intended to promote the rapid disintegration of a tablet. The mechanism of disintegration can be described as follows: during disintegration, the tablet absorbs water capillary in the disintegration medium. The penetrating water reaches the particles of the disintegrating agent embedded between the granules – or the fillers and binders in the case of direct tableting – in the tablet matrix, which spontaneously absorb water under swelling without dissolving. This results in the so-called swelling pressure, which is the driving force of tablet disintegration (List and Muazzam1979a and 1979b). The amount of swelling pressure depends on the material of the disintegrant and also on its particle size. The particles must be large enough to completely fill the space between the granules or the fillers and binders in order to generate a high swelling pressure. Micronized disintegration aids generally do not promote disintegration.
Schmidt (1) makes the following differentiation of disintegrants by origin. Many have other functions such as binder and fillers.
- Alginic acid
- Microcrystalline Cellulose
- Powdered Cellulose
- Carboxymethylcellulose Calcium
- Carmellose Sodium
- Croscarmellose Sodium
- Sodium Starch Glycolate Type A, B
- Low-Substituted Carboxymethylcellulose Sodium
- Low-Substituted Hydroxypropyl Cellulose
Excipients Used as Disintegrants and Superdisintegrants
There are several excipients used as disintegrants and superdisintegrants in the pharmaceutical industry, including:
- Starches: This is the most commonly used disintegrant in the industry. It includes corn starch, potato starch, and modified starches such as pregelatinized starch, sodium starch glycolate, and starch 1500.
- Cellulose-based excipients: These include microcrystalline cellulose, croscarmellose sodium, sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, and hydroxypropyl methylcellulose.
- Natural gums: These include guar gum, xanthan gum, and locust bean gum.
- Ion exchange resins: These include polacrilin potassium and Amberlite IRP69.
- Calcium silicates: These include dicalcium phosphate and tricalcium phosphate.
- Others: These include sodium alginate, cross-linked polyvinylpyrrolidone, and chitosan.
Chemical Background of Disintegrants and Superdisintegrants
The chemical structure of disintegrants and superdisintegrants varies widely depending on the excipient used. Starches, for example, are polysaccharides made up of glucose molecules linked together by alpha 1-4 glycosidic bonds. Modified starches have been chemically modified to improve their functionality. Sodium starch glycolate, for instance, is a cross-linked sodium carboxymethyl ether of starch, while starch 1500 is a pre-gelatinized maize starch that has been modified with sodium sulfate.
Cellulose-based excipients are also polysaccharides, but they are made up of glucose molecules linked together by beta 1-4 glycosidic bonds. Microcrystalline cellulose, for example, is a partially depolymerized cellulose that has been mechanically processed to produce small, crystalline particles. Croscarmellose sodium, on the other hand, is a cross-linked sodium carboxymethyl cellulose.
Natural gums, such as guar gum, xanthan gum, and locust bean gum, are polysaccharides that are obtained from plant sources. They are long chains of sugar molecules linked together by glycosidic bonds. These gums have the ability to absorb water and swell, which helps to facilitate the breakup of the tablet or capsule.
Ion exchange resins, such as polacrilin potassium and Amberlite IRP69, are synthetic polymers that contain functional groups that can exchange ions. They work by absorbing water and swelling, which disrupts the tablet or capsule structure and promotes rapid disintegration.
Calcium silicates, such as dicalcium phosphate and tricalcium phosphate, are inorganic compounds that are commonly used as excipients in the pharmaceutical industry. They have the ability to absorb water and swell, which helps to facilitate disintegration.
Sodium alginate is a natural polysaccharide obtained from brown algae that has been modified with sodium ions. Cross-linked polyvinylpyrrolidone is a synthetic polymer that has been cross-linked to increase its functionality, while chitosan is a natural polymer derived from chitin.
In conclusion, disintegrants and superdisintegrant excipients are essential components used in the pharmaceutical industry to enhance the dissolution and bioavailability of APIs. There are several excipients used as disintegrants and superdisintegrants, including starches, cellulose-based excipients, natural gums, ion exchange resins, calcium silicates, and others. These excipients have different chemical structures and mechanisms of action, but they all work to facilitate the rapid disintegration of tablets or capsules. The use of disintegrants and superdisintegrants in pharmaceutical formulations is an important factor in improving the effectiveness of drugs and ensuring patient safety.
Disintegrant Excipients on pharmaexcipients.com – in alphabetical order
|AC-DI-SOL® SD-711||Croscarmellose Sodium||DuPont|
|CORN STARCH 400L-NF||Native Starches||Roquette|
|DiCom® PL009 P60||Maize starch, Microcrystalline Cellulose||Gangwal Healthcare|
|EMCOSOY®||Soy Polysaccharides||JRS Pharma|
|EXPLOTAB®||Sodium Starch Glycolate||JRS Pharma|
|GLYCOLYS®||Sodium starch glycolate||Roquette|
|GLYCOLYS® LOW PH||Sodium starch glycolate||Roquette|
|GLYCOLYS® Low Solvent||Sodium starch glycolate||Roquette|
|GLYCOLYS® LV||Sodium starch glycolate||Roquette|
|GLYCOLYS® MAIZE||Sodium starch glycolate||Roquette|
|Ludiflash®||Crospovidone, Mannitol, Polyvinyl acetate||BASF|
|Ludipress® LCE||Kollidon® 30, Lactose Monohydrate, Povidone||BASF|
|LYCATAB® C||Pregelatinised Starch||Roquette|
|LYCATAB® C LM||Pregelatinised Starch||Roquette|
|LYCATAB® CT||Pregelatinised Starch||Roquette|
|MAIZE STARCH 5%||Maize starch||Roquette|
|MAIZE STARCH AMYLO N-400||Maize starch||Roquette|
|MAIZE STARCH B||Maize starch||Roquette|
|MAIZE STARCH EXTRA WHITE||Maize starch||Roquette|
|MAIZE WAXY STARCH N-200||Maize starch||Roquette|
|MICROCEL™ 101 SD||Microcrystalline Cellulose||Roquette|
|MICROCEL™ 102 SD||Microcrystalline Cellulose||Roquette|
|MICROCEL™ 112 SD||Microcrystalline Cellulose||Roquette|
|MICROCEL™ 200 SD||Microcrystalline Cellulose||Roquette|
|MICROCEL™ 301 SD||Microcrystalline Cellulose||Roquette|
|MICROCEL™ 302 SD||Microcrystalline Cellulose||Roquette|
|MICROCEL™ MC-101||Microcrystalline Cellulose||Roquette|
|MICROCEL™ MC-102||Microcrystalline Cellulose||Roquette|
|MICROCEL™ MC-112||Microcrystalline Cellulose||Roquette|
|MICROCEL™ MC-12||Microcrystalline Cellulose||Roquette|
|MICROCEL™ MC-200||Microcrystalline Cellulose||Roquette|
|MICROCEL™ MC-302||Microcrystalline Cellulose||Roquette|
|Omyanutra® 300 Flash||Calcium Carbonate, Tribasic Calcium Phosphate||Omya|
|Parteck® CCS Croscarmellose Sodium||Croscarmellose Sodium||Merck KGaA|
|PEA STARCH N-735||Native Starches||Roquette|
|PEARLITOL® FLASH||Mannitol & Maize Starch||Roquette|
|Polyplasdone INF-10 (Type B)||Crospovidone||Ashland|
|Polyplasdone Ultra (Type A)||Crospovidone||Ashland|
|Polyplasdone Ultra-10 (Type B)||Crospovidone||Ashland|
|Polyplasdone XL-10 (Type B)||Crospovidone||Ashland|
|POTATO STARCH 6%||Potato Starch||Roquette|
|POTATO STARCH 8%||Potato Starch||Roquette|
|POTATO STARCH SUPRA NP||Potato Starch||Roquette|
|Powdered GP-USP||Native Starches||Roquette|
|POWDERED NF CORN STARCH||Corn Starch||Roquette|
|Primojel®||Sodium starch glycolate||DFE PHARMA|
|PVP-P SANAQ®||Crospovidone||Pharmatrans SANAQ|
|SOLUTAB® A||Croscarmellose Sodium||Roquette|
|SOLUTAB® A-IP||Croscarmellose Sodium||Roquette|
|SOLUTAB® EDP||Croscarmellose Sodium||Roquette|
|Solvostar||Sodium starch glycolate||Gangwal Healthcare Private Limited|
|SSG SANAQ®||Sodium starch glycolate||Pharmatrans SANAQ|
|StarLac®||Co-processed lactose starch||Roquette|
|STARLOSE®||Lactose Monohydrate, Maize starch||Gangwal Healthcare|
|VIVAPHARM® PVPP XL||Crospovidone||JRS Pharma|
|VIVAPHARM® PVPP XL-10||Crospovidone||JRS Pharma|
|VIVASOL ®||Croscarmellose Sodium||JRS Pharma|
|VIVASOL® GF||Croscarmellose Sodium||JRS Pharma|
|VIVASOL® GF LM||Croscarmellose Sodium||JRS Pharma|
|VIVASTAR® P||Sodium Starch Glycolate||JRS Pharma|
|VIVASTAR® P 1000 SF||Sodium Starch Glycolate||JRS Pharma|
|VIVASTAR® P 3500||Sodium Starch Glycolate||JRS Pharma|
|VIVASTAR® P 5000||Sodium Starch Glycolate||JRS Pharma|
|WHEAT STARCH TB||Wheat Starch||Roquette|
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ServiceTitan, a provider of business management software for home service businesses, announced it has completed an $80 million Series B funding round led by ICONIQ Capital. This funding will go towards expanding and strengthening its capabilities across its platform, including the recently launched ServiceTitan Marketplace.
“Home service providers are critically underserved when it comes to advanced technology that can dramatically improve their operations and meet the specific needs and demands of their businesses,” said Ara Mahdessian, co-founder and CEO of ServiceTitan.
Will Griffith, Partner at ICONIQ, commented: "Ara and Vahe's unique combination of rich technological expertise, deep connections to the home services industry and unrelenting focus on customer success have empowered them to build a suite of compelling solutions that deliver significant and measurable value to customers.”
Backing from ICONIQ and other leading technology investors will also accelerate the introduction of new features currently under development, including online booking with top review sites, more robust inventory management, integration with enterprise-grade accounting systems, enhanced reporting and other developments on ServiceTitan's product roadmap.
“Partnering with these businesses to improve efficiencies is core to the ServiceTitan mission, and we know we have the strongest product to deliver results. It takes significant investment to stay at the forefront of technology, and we are committed to hiring the best developers and team members to continue improving and expanding the tools available to our clients,” said Vahe Kuzoyan, co-founder and President of ServiceTitan. | <urn:uuid:867b6193-e357-43b0-8c1f-946b84ba6b2f> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.phcppros.com/articles/4893-servicetitan-closes-80-million-series-b-funding-led-by-iconiq-capital | 2023-09-22T10:50:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.948989 | 359 |
At Phillips Family Medical, we recognize that hair loss is a common problem that affects people of all ages and genders. If you're experiencing hair loss, it can be frustrating and even embarrassing. Talking to your doctor about your hair loss is essential, as they can help identify the cause and recommend appropriate treatment options. However, discussing hair loss with your doctor can be intimidating or uncomfortable for some people. In this blog post, we'll provide tips on talking to your doctor about hair loss.
Prepare for your appointment.
Before your appointment, it's a good idea to prepare yourself by writing down your symptoms and any questions you have for your consultation with Your doctor. This preparation can help you stay organized and ensure you don't forget anything important during your appointment. Some questions you may want to consider asking Your doctor include:
Be honest and open.
Being honest and open with Your doctor about your hair loss is important. Don't be afraid to share any concerns or emotions about the issue. Your doctor is here to help you, and she needs to understand your symptoms and concerns to provide effective treatment.
Provide details about your hair loss.
Be prepared to provide Your doctor with details about your hair loss, such as when it started, how much hair you're losing, and whether any other symptoms are associated with the hair loss (such as itching or burning of the scalp). This information can help her determine the underlying cause of your hair loss and recommend appropriate treatment options.
Discuss your medical history.
Your doctor may ask you about your medical history to help identify the cause of your hair loss. It's important, to be honest and provide as much information as possible, including any medications you're taking, any recent illnesses or surgeries, and any family history of hair loss.
Consider additional testing.
Your doctor may recommend additional testing to help identify the cause of your hair loss. This may include blood tests, scalp biopsies, or other diagnostic tests. If your doctor recommends testing, be sure to ask any questions you have about the testing process and what the results may indicate.
Ask about treatment options.
Once your doctor has identified the underlying cause of your hair loss, they may recommend treatment options. These may include medications, lifestyle changes, or hair restoration procedures. It's important to ask your doctor about each treatment option's potential benefits and risks, as well as how long it may take to see results.
Follow up with your doctor.
If your doctor prescribes medications or recommends lifestyle changes, following their instructions closely is important. It may take some time to see results from treatment, so be patient and follow up with your doctor regularly to monitor your progress.
In conclusion, talking to your doctor about hair loss can be difficult, but being honest and open about your symptoms and concerns is important. By preparing for your appointment, providing details about your hair loss, discussing your medical history, and asking about treatment options, you can work with your doctor to identify the underlying cause of your hair loss and develop an effective treatment plan. Remember, your doctor is there to help you, so don't be afraid to ask questions or share any concerns you may have.
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Online Booking: Visit our website at https://www.phillipsfamilymedical.com/ to access our convenient online appointment scheduling system. Take charge of your time by selecting the date and time that works best for you, all from the comfort of your home. | <urn:uuid:7a6a967f-3187-4b29-859d-d3efc2edaf96> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.phillipsfamilymedical.com/post/how-to-talk-to-your-doctor-about-hair-loss | 2023-09-22T12:46:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.951701 | 773 |
A Royal Palace official yesterday said the letter sent by opposition leader Sam Rainsy to King Norodom Sihamoni last week that elicited a furious response from the government for “insulting” the King, did not, in fact, disrespect the monarch’s “honour and name”.
A statement signed by Oum Daravuth, advisor to the secretariat of Queen Mother Norodom Monineath, while disagreeing with Rainsy’s characterisation of the National Assembly as a one-party legislature, brushes aside the idea that Rainsy’s letter had insulted the King.
“Your statement, ‘The present parliament which was established on September 23, 2013, is a single party parliament’, is not true, because 123 parliamentarians had been announced, including the parliamentarians of the CNRP. However, only 68 CPP parliamentarians took the oath in the Royal Palace,” the statement says.
“As to the wording used in your letter, I believe that it does not cause any serious impact on the honour and name of the King.”
Daravuth declined to comment further when reached yesterday.
The statement came after Prime Minister Hun Sen announced yesterday morning that the government could push forward before Khmer New Year with plans to sue Rainsy for disrespecting a 2003 Constitutional Council decision, which it said stipulated that 120 lawmakers did not need to swear-in for a new parliament to be formed.
“The law experts are looking [into this]. [We] could sue before Khmer New Year regarding the letter. [He should] be careful, because he won’t be happy during Khmer New Year [if he is] in Prey Sar [prison],” the premier said during a graduation ceremony for accounting students on Koh Pich.
“[But] don’t say that [we] are just threatening this. No, for this, [we] are serious, not joking.”
While the premier admitted there was no legal basis to convict Rainsy for insulting the King, the opposition leader could certainly be found guilty for opposing a decision of the Constitutional Council, he said.
The Law on the Organisation and Functioning of the Constitutional Council states that “any person who fails to respect the decision of the Constitutional Council” could face up to a year in prison.
A number of government spokespeople could not be reached yesterday to comment on whether the government would still go ahead with a lawsuit given the Royal Palace’s response.
Yesterday, Hun Sen also mocked Rainsy for fleeing the country and taking refuge at foreign embassies when faced with arrest in the past.
“Why do you rely on foreign embassies [to hide]? [You] cannot rely on those embassies.… I told an ambassador a few years ago that in his excellency’s embassy, I won’t arrest anyone. If the excellency brings [him] to the airport in excellency’s car, I also won’t arrest. When [he gets] into the plane, even if the plane starts to move … I will invite it back and then arrest [him] without a problem.”
The Royal letter firestorm erupted after Rainsy wrote to the King on April 2, appearing to take issue with a congratulatory letter the King had sent for the opening of the second session of the National Assembly last week which said the parliament was “representative of all Khmer people”.
In Rainsy’s letter, he contested that interpretation, saying that as his party was boycotting its 55 seats in parliament, leaving only 68 CPP lawmakers present, the assembly was not representative of all Cambodians.
On Saturday, the government released a scathing statement in response, which was followed by a plethora of statements from at least 10 ministries, the governors of numerous provinces and even army units deployed on the Cambodia-Thai border backing up the government’s position.
The Phnom Penh Municipality’s statement supporting the government said that “all the people in Phnom Penh strongly support” the government’s condemnation of Rainsy, which accused him of insulting the monarchy and attempting to mount a “constitutional coup”.
Rainsy declined to comment specifically on yesterday evening's statement but had earlier told supporters at his party’s first anniversary celebration that he was unafraid of legal threats and was willing to go to jail.
He also accused Hun Sen of insulting the King in the past.
“You yourself used to insult the King, so why do you accuse [me] of being opposed to the King?” he said.
Cambodian Center for Human Rights chairman Ou Virak said yesterday that while the furore over the King could have raised “broader questions” about the monarchy, “there [is] no substance to any of this debate”.
“The sad reality is that this is basically politics of convenience. The opposition will use the King whenever this is convenient for them and the the CPP will do the same. There is no principle [in] any of this.”
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About 160 families from three communes in Battambang province yesterday submitted a petition to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s cabinet and the Ministry of Justice asking the government to intervene in a long-running land dispute.
The villagers claim they are the rightful owners of 800 hectares of land the government granted to 1,299 families in the province through a social land concessions in 2009, said Kim Dareth, chief of Bavel district.
In 2012 and 2013, the government issued land titles to the 1,299 families, Dareth said. But the protesting families claim they never received formal documents despite having farmed there since 1998.
Dareth said the ownership claim of the 160 families was untrue as they occupied forest land. Regardless, the authorities’ solution was to offer each family 1 hectare of land in Kors Kralor district, but the villagers rejected the offer.
Yim Mengly, Adhoc coordinator for Battambang province, said the protesting families were related to Khmer Rouge cadres, and the government accused them of owning the land illegally. | <urn:uuid:215ac602-d0c3-4d7e-8a81-10d3d56f248c> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-ask-pm-intervene-battambang-land-dispute | 2023-09-22T10:46:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.950958 | 218 |
James MacDonald Fired
The tipping point (after years of allegations of financial and spiritual abuse) was a tape purportedly of MacDonald saying profane things about the editor and publisher of Christianity Today and World reporter Julie Roys.
The voice on the tape suggested planting child pornography on the editors computer…
Please note that the elders did not fire him for suing Roys and two bloggers and their wives…weaponizing the legal system and the tithes and offerings of God’s people against those who exposed him.
That, evidently, was a godly idea to them.
That suit was only dropped because a court ruled that the defense was entitled to discovery…which would have exposed this scoundrel and his lackeys even more.
Ryan Mahoney and Scott Bryant are the bloggers, the site was called “The Elephants Debt” and they are the real heroes in this story…though they won’t be received as such by many.
In a world that represented anything remotely “Christian” they would be recompensed for their legal fees, the stress the suit created, and all their work that led to this action.
MacDonald will land on his feet somewhere as all these grifters do…after all, “he’s such a good teacher”.
Good teachers who are horrible human beings always have a place in American free market religion…which may be one reason the market keeps shrinking… | <urn:uuid:0b6371bc-a8c7-4752-b45a-49ca0de154c2> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.phoenixpreacher.com/james-macdonald-fired/ | 2023-09-22T11:43:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.978504 | 295 |
Functional ultrasound imaging reveals the dynamics of brain states in preterm babies
Our laboratory Physics for Medicine Paris (Inserm/ESPCI Paris-PSL/CNRS), in collaboration with Robert Debré Hospital (AP-HP/Inserm) is developing functional ultrasound imaging to monitor the brain activity of neonates in a way that existing neuroimaging modalities do not achieve. Our latest study, published this month in Nature Communications, marks another leap forward by demonstrating that functional ultrasound allows to monitor and analyze functional connectivity patterns between different brain regions and their evolution in time in neonates. This new tool could be used for an early prediction of brain disorders and neurological outcomes of premature birth.
Prematurity can affect the development of the neonate’s brain and result in neurological impairments of various degrees of severity, some having life-long consequences. Examples of pathologies include autism spectrum disorders, intellectual deficiency, epilepsy, attention deficit and hyperactivity disorders, etc. A major challenge in neonatal medicine is to detect and identify the neurodevelopmental trajectory of neonates at the earliest stage after birth. Monitoring their cerebral functions is however difficult with existing neuroimaging tools.
Functional MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) is the gold-standard for neuroimaging, but it is hardly applicable for a longitudinal monitoring of vulnerable subjects such as preterm neonates, given its cost, its cumbersomeness and sensitivity to motion artifacts. EEG (electro-encephalography) and NIRS (near-infrared spectroscopy) can be used at the neonate’s bedside, but have a limited spatial resolution and imaging depth. This is where functional ultrasound (fUS) comes in: through its unrivalled sensitivity and great portability, functional ultrasound imaging will potentially become a powerful tool to monitor the babies’ brain functions. The examination is indeed performed at the baby’s bedside by placing an echographic probe on the neonate’s head.
In 2017, we made the first demonstration of acquiring functional ultrasound data in human neonates. More recently, we have been working on analysis methods to extract from these data functional connectivity information. Functional connectivity is the existence of functional relationships – in particular synchronization of the activity – between different regions of the brain. Alterations in the functional connectivity can be a marker of cerebral dysfunctions. In the present study, we recorded the brain activity of neonates at rest, and not only did we extract functional connectivity patterns, but we also studied their evolution in time and the occurrence rate of each pattern (see figure below). We derived three methods to assess the functional connectivity, each exploiting different characteristics of the data and providing complementary information. Dynamic functional connectivity is a topic of interest in neuroimaging and has been studied in adult subjects using MRI, but little data has been obtained on neonates so far. The first results obtained using functional ultrasound in a small cohort suggest a significant difference between term and preterm babies.
This study takes functional ultrasound one step further towards clinical applications, by defining advanced analysis methods to provide a fine and robust assessment of both static and dynamic functional connectivity. We believe that the robustness and ease of use of functional ultrasound imaging will greatly facilitate clinical investigations, and ultimately provide a new and powerful tool in neonatal care.
Baranger J, Demené C, Frerot A, Faure F, Delanoë C, Serroune H, Houdouin H, Mairesse J, Biran V, Baud O, Tanter M. Bedside functional monitoring of the dynamic brain connectivity un human neonates. Nature Communications 2021 | <urn:uuid:eaac58a7-182c-4db5-97fc-21631847663b> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.physicsformedicine.espci.fr/functional-ultrasound-imaging-reveals-the-dynamics-of-brain-states-in-preterm-babies/ | 2023-09-22T11:19:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.897485 | 748 |
Mole is one of Mexico’s most iconic dishes. It is a savoury concoction of dried chilies, seeds, nuts, tortillas, stock, fruits, herbs, spices, chocolate and tons of other ingredients, amounting to up to 60 ingredients sometimes! It is a complicated dish worth every bit of the effort. This smooth, thick and fragrant sauce is moreish, sexy, delicious and positively addictive.
This Mole sauce is very versatile. It keeps in the fridge inside an airtight container for about a week. When reheating, add some water to prevent the sauce from getting too thick. Use it to eat as you would a curry, or to make Enmoladas (a mole flavoured enchilada); it is perfect to make a Pastel Azteca (a sort of mole flavoured lasagne using corn tortillas instead of pasta) or to pour over fried eggs for Huevos con Mole. It also works as a great filling for tamales too!
For the stock:
4 chicken legs (thigh included)
5g garlic cloves, Peeled
1 large bay leaf
1 teaspoon table salt
2½ litres Water
For the Mole Paste:
25g Pasilla chilies (see notes below)
50g Ancho chilies (see note below)
3 tablespoons pork lard (or Sunflower Oil)
40g bread roll, torn into 4 or 5 pieces
2 mini yellow corn tortillas, cut in quarters
100g onion, sliced
100g ripe plantain, sliced (see notes below)
1 tablespoon of reserved chili seeds (see notes below)
25g sesame seeds
25g shelled pumpkin seeds
2 allspice berries, whole
4 black pepper corns, whole
5g Mexican cinnamon (see notes below)
75g Mexican chocolate (see notes below)
1 teaspoon Maldon salt
3-4 cups of reserved stock liquid from above
1 extra tablespoon of pork lard (or sunflower oil) for frying the sauce
Sesame seeds for sprinkling
Mexican Red Rice (recipe here)
First, make a chicken stock:
- Place all ingredients for the stock in a suitable pot and turn the heat to high. Bring to the boil and lower heat to medium low. Simmer partly cover for an hour. When the stock is done, leave the chicken in it until you need to use it and make sure you keep all the stock as you’ll need it for the mole paste!
- Put the reserved, oily pan on the hob again at medium heat. Add a tablespoon of lard or oil to it and heat it through. Pour the contents of the blender into it and using a wooden spoon, stir constantly. Mole sauce thickens as you heat it, so you might need to add an extra cup or two of chicken stock liquid to the sauce. Initially, the colour of the sauce is a red-ish brown. If you taste it, it would be raw and even a little bitter, this is because most ingredients are not fully cooked yet and the flavours need to develop longer. Keep the heat at medium low and add extra liquid if you feel the sauce is thickening too much. If you run out of chicken stock liquid, boiled water would be fine at this point too. As you cook the sauce, you will notice the colour getting a deeper shade of red with a nice shine to it. Stop cooking after 25 minutes and taste to adjust seasoning.
- When you’re happy with it, put the poached chicken legs on plates and covered them with the piping hot mole sauce. Sprinkle some sesame seeds on top and serve it with a portion of Mexican Red Rice.
While the stock is cooking, make the Mole Sauce:
- Begin by cleaning your chilies. Take out the stems and discard them. With scissors, open the chilies in half and empty all the seeds and veins into a bowl. Reserve 1 tablespoon of the seeds for later and discard the rest.
- Put the cleaned chilies in a pot with 1 litre of fresh water. Turn the heat to high and bring it to the boil. Lower the heat to medium and simmer the chilies for 10 minutes. Leave them in the water to cool down while you work with the rest of the steps.
- Heat the pork lard / oil in a large, deep, non-stick pan, on medium heat. When the oil is hot, add the pieces of bread, corn tortillas, garlic cloves, onion slices and plantain slices and gently fry these ingredients for about five minutes, stirring occasionally so all sides are fried. Tortillas need to be crispy, the garlic cloves blistered, and the bread toasted. Onions would be soft and slightly caramelised and the plantain slices should turn a brighter shade of yellow. Transfer the fried ingredients to your blender or food processor and set aside.
- Return the oily pan to the heat and add the reserved seeds from the chilies, the sesame seeds, the pumpkin seeds, the allspice berries, the peppercorns and the cinnamon. Keep the heat at medium while you gently fry these ingredients for about three to four minutes, stirring gently every now and then. You’ll be able to smell the spices by then and the seeds will be shiny and toasted. Once they’re done, transfer them to the blender or food processor where the other batch of ingredients are and set aside. Do not wash the pan, set it aside as you will be cooking the mole in it.
- Drain the rehydrated chilies of all water and transfer the chilies to the blender/food processor too. Follow by adding the chocolate roughly chopped and the salt.
- Take the chicken legs out of the stock and put them on a plate for later.
- It is now time to blend the sauce. Add at least three cups of the chicken stock to the blender/food processor and blend well. This sauce is not an easy blend, we want it as smooth as possible, so if you need more stock to aid the blending process by all means use it; there is not such a thing as too much stock! Once you’re happy that all ingredients have been blended and you have a uniformly thick-ish sauce with a little bit of nutty texture to it, the paste is done.
Mole Poblano Notes
- Make sure you weigh the dried chilies with stems and seeds on for this recipe. Once they’re weighed, then you can clean them and take the seeds out, but make sure to reserve those seeds as you’ll need some for the recipe!
- Plantains can be easily bought in any Middle Eastern shop. If you can’t get it, substitute with 40 grams of organic jumbo sultanas. Flavour would change slightly, but it will still work.
- Mexican Canela or cinnamon is absolutely delicious and different to the one you get in regular shops. It’s softer, more fragrant and it makes a difference!
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The regular season has been over with for a month now and baseball teams are planning their rosters for the 2016 regular season. Our friends over at Royals Review host an off-season GM simulation, in which writers and fans get to be the general manager of their teams. You can see the full results here. This year, I decided to enter as the Yankees' GM. You can just call me Greg Cashman from now on. My team and I looked at many different options available to us. After witnessing our moves this offseason, we'll see if you demand I be fired or not. Please keep in mind that this is a mock simulation, so contracts are slightly inflated. By slightly, I mean maniacally.
Of course, Ryan picked up the player option because real Cashman was foolish enough to give him that option. So no surprises here. Honestly, he can be designated for assignment if we have no space for him.
Andrew Bailey and Sergio Santos
I'd say this is pretty self explanatory.
Acquired Starlin Castro from the Chicago Cubs for Ian Clarkin, Jacob Lindgren, and Jose De Leon
This was the Yankees' first trade of the simulation. The Cubs were looking to get rid of Castro and replenish their farm system. After the Yankees' dismal Stephen Drew experiment at second base last year, we needed someone more substantial at the position. Mind you, if the asking price for Castro was too high, we were fully prepared to keep the Dustin Ackley/Rob Refsnyder platoon in play. Negotiations went back and forth for twenty e-mails. Names like James Kaprielian and Luis Torrens were tossed around. In the end, an equitable agreement was made.
I'm pretty sure I don't have to say that Castro provides an upgrade over Drew. Castro is 25 years old, a pretty decent hitter, and we didn't have to give up top prospects to get him. He was an All-Star as recently as 2014 and took to second base very well in the second half of 2015. Between him, Didi Gregorius, Dustin Ackley, and Brendan Ryan, the middle infielders will be able to get rest if need be. Overall, we're happy with this move and the non-Drewicity of second base.
Acquired Jorge Alfaro and Cornelius Randolph from Philadelphia for Rob Refsnyder and Nathan Eovaldi
With the acquisition of Starlin Castro, in addition to our free agents signings, the Yankees had a surplus of both pitcher and middle infielders. Throughout the majority of the simulation, the Phillies were very interested in Rob Refsnyder. For over a couple of days, there was little agreement on a fair deal for Refsnyder. Finally, after putting out flyers that we were looking to dump some starting pitchers, things got interesting.
After that flyer went out, the Phillies contacted us regarding Nathan Eovaldi. Jorge Alfaro and Cornelius Randolph were on our radar, but the Phillies would not give them both up for just Eovaldi. Since they were initially interested in Refsndyer, simply including him in the deal was all it required. Jorge Alfaro is one of the best catching prospects in the league right now. Gary Sanchez might very well work out, but it never hurts to have other options in case he doesn't. Cornelius Randolph is a young outfielder who shows pretty decent power. His name is pretty awesome as well. Prospects are good to have and this was an attempt at replenishing the system a bit.
Acquired Aroldis Chapman from the Cincinnati Reds for Michael Pineda, Slade Heathcott, and John Ryan Murphy
This was one of two last minute trades of the simulation. In what was an attempt to unload our surplus of pitching and shed some money, the Yankees acquired Aroldis Chapman of the 103 mph eternal flame. According to the Reds' GM, the market on Chapman "wasn't robust." Since the simulation did not include already-made trades in real life, John Ryan Murphy was still available. With Gary Sanchez killing it in the AFL, in addition to the acquisition of Jorge Alfaro from the Phillies, Murphy was an easy choice to deal.
The Reds GM initially wanted Aaron Judge, but with our bullpen already a strength, Judge was off limits. They were willing to take Slade Heathcott though. While Heathcott shows a lot of promise, he has yet to show us a full season without getting injured somehow. That same reasoning, as well as our free agent acquisitions, went into why we felt Pineda was also expendable. This trade makes the Yankees bullpen one of the most dangerous in the league. Chapman, Miller, and Betances essentially give the Yankees three premiere relievers, each of whom could be our closer.
Acquired Ben Revere and Wendell Rijo from Boston for Brett Gardner
At this point, I'm pretty sure most people reading this think I'm insane. Not only did we trade away my favorite current Yankee, but we traded him to our mortal enemies. Bottom line is that this was a salary dump, as well as an attempt to replenish the farm a bit more. Rijo is a second baseman in the Red Sox farm and the Yankees could always use more position players in their farm system. Plus, Ben Revere would be a decent fifth outfielder/bench player. We were unable to find a trade where Jacoby Ellsbury's no-trade clause could get waived, so someone had to go to keep the final payroll under $300 million.
Free agent signings:
Signed Zack Greinke for 7 years $210 million
Now as you're reading this, I want you to remember what I said up above about this being a mock simulation and the contracts being a bit insane. Having said that, we really wanted Zack Grienke. He is one of the absolute best pitchers in the league. He gives the Yankees a genuine ace. The majority of GMs were offering him six years and we were willing to give him a seventh. Yankee fans will always question giving a pitcher of his age a seventh year, due to what we're dealing with regarding CC Sabathia. Our logic behind giving him a seventh year is that he could be our next Mike Mussina. For that, and his already incredible talent, we were 100% willing to give him that extra year.
Signed Justin Upton to a 8 year $230 million deal
This signing is going to take a bit of explanation. Justin Upton was not our first choice. In fact, he was our third choice. I'll get to our first choice later on. Jason Heyward was our second choice and we were willing to give him an insane GM simulation contract in order to get him. Our offer for Heyward was 10 years and $290 million with an opt out clause after five years. Yes, it's insane. Hilariously enough, the Cardinals made an "insaneier" deal, giving him 11 years and $310 million with the same opt-out clause. After that fell through, Justin Upton was the next best option out there. It was between him and Yoenis Cespedes after Heyward was signed, so we signed Upton. Adding his power to the lineup will be a huge asset in the long run.
Signed outfielder Chris Young to a 1 year $8 million deal
This was essentially a "just in case" move if we didn't get Heyward or Upton. Young was alright off the bench and should be again. If he's not, he can be designated for assignment without any real concern.
Signed Tyler Clippard to a 3 year $26 million deal
A move we made to bolster our bullpen before we got Chapman.
Signed Doug Fister to a 2 year $25 million deal
Since it was unknown whether or not we were going to get Grienke, Fister was a quick "spur of the moment" move made in order to strengthen the rotation. While not having the best two years in Washington, it was thought that Rothschild could get him back into better form.
Signed Edwin Jackson to a minor league deal
Another move that needs little explanation.
While we were willing to listen on everyone, the only two people that were seriously off the table for this GM simulation were Luis Severino and Greg Bird. Everybody else was free game. Now let's review what could have been.
Aaron Judge, Gary Sanchez, Jorge Mateo, and Wilkerman Garcia to the Marlins for Giancarlo Stanton
Justin Upton was not our first choice. In fact, he was our third choice. I'll get to our third choice later on.
Welcome to "later on." In this GM simulation, the Marlins were in pure fire sale mode this year. They wanted prospects and boy did they get prospects. The Marlins GM came to us with the offer to trade Stanton and we were more than willing to free him from the neon clutches of Loria's dinger machine. What makes this deal a bit frustrating is that it was agreed upon by both parties. The only thing required was for Stanton to waive his no-trade clause, which was a decision the head of this GM simulation had to make. Ultimately, Max thought Stanton wouldn't waive his NTC after a year. When you consider what's coming out about the Marlins clubhouse, as well as the history of that organization in general, I do question this decision quite a bit. Still though, nothing I could do. That would have been sweet though.
Aaron Judge, Gary Sanchez, Rob Refsnyder, and Michael Pineda to the Indians for Corey Kluber
Once the trade for Stanton was denied, we ventured out to see what we could get for some of our top prospects. While getting Grienke was still a top priority, I really wanted Kluber to complement that signing. Can you imagine the drool-worthiness of a Grienke & Kluber top of the rotation? The Indians GM really did consider the offer, but he was understandably reluctant to move Kluber.
Aaron Judge, Jorge Mateo, Eric Jagielo, and Chase Headley, plus $25 million to the Rockies for Nolan Arenado
This was another trade we tried for in conjunction with the Kluber trade. Nolan Arenado is a superstar third baseman. With Headley's defensive miscues this season, acquiring Arenado would have been a dream come true in terms of both offense and especially defense. The Rockies GM liked our offer, but it just didn't fit with the other moves they made in the simulation. Plus, just like Kluber, it's completely understandable why they would not want to move Arenado.
Ivan Nova for magic beans
I put this here for humorous reasons. We honestly could not give him away.
C - Brian McCann
1B - Mark Teixeira
2B - Starlin Castro
3B - Chase Headley
SS - Didi Gregorius
LF - Justin Upton
CF - Jacoby Ellsbury
RF - Carlos Beltran
DH - Alex Rodriguez
OF - Ben Revere
OF - Chris Young
IF - Gary Sanchez
IF - Dustin Ackley
P - Zack Grienke
P - Masahiro Tanaka
P - Luis Severino
P - Adam Warren
P - CC Sabathia
P - Doug Fister
P - Ivan Nova
P - Tyler Clippard
P - Justin Wilson
P - Dellin Betances
P - Andrew Miller
P - Aroldis Chapman
Here is your 25-man roster for 2016. Spring Training will be a battleground of infielders hoping to make the roster. Headley is going to need a defensive backup, which is why Ryan will be at Spring Training. Injuries happen all the time, so we want to keep all our options available. However, we will attempt to see if Ackley or Castro can play some 3rd base this year. If they can, and everyone is healthy, expect Ryan to be cut.
Recommended Budget: $241 million
Final Payroll: $276.5 million
It was an expensive fake offseason for the Yankees, but we felt it was overall worth it. The Yankees primary needs were second base and starting pitching. Our current pitching staff is now Grienke, Tanaka, Severino, Warren, and Fister, with Sabathia and Nova in limbo. Since this is a simulation and we're in charge, we're putting Sabathia and Nova in the pen to help with long relief and spot starting needs. Grienke and Tanaka make a solid 1-2 combo. Warren and Severino absolute impressed us last year and we have no issues with putting them in the starting rotation. We also feel that Larry Rothschild can turn Fister around. Signing him had nothing to do with his last name and pun purposes. We promise. Combine that with our now monstrous bullpen of Miller, Betances, Chapman, Wilson, Clippard and other assorted flavors, and we feel pretty good about the pitching.
On the offensive side of things, it pretty much is what it is. Would I have liked to trade away Teixiera and Beltran to make room for Greg Bird and Aaron Judge? Sure. That was not happening though. For starters, they both have NTCs that were not getting waived. Second, no one was going to give up anything of value for just one year of their services. Third, both of them had bounce back years, so trading them would not have been a top priority anyway. The additional power of Justin Upton and the offensive improvement of Castro over Drew should help cement what was already a pretty decent lineup.
One satisfying thing is that we did not have to trade away any of our top prospects to improve. Greg Bird, Aaron Judge, Luis Severino, Jorge Mateo, and Gary Sanchez are all still here and will be ready to replace certain players when their contracts expire. It is for that reason why we decided that this year was the year to spend and go over budget. Money will start coming off the books after the 2016 season and the free agent pool is not as deep next year. Without sacrificing important aspects of the future, we improved in certain key areas of the offense, got an ace, and put together a deliciously dangerous pen.
Bottom line, Greg Cashman and the team didn't give any bunts about Hal and Hank's money!
It was an interesting experience to be Greg Cashman. Being a GM requires a lot of it is planning, waiting, anticipation, and a ton of back and forth proposals. You essentially have to have plans within plans within plans in motion. It reminds me a lot of poker. You're not just playing your hand, but your opponents hand as well. There's a lot of luck and bluffing involved. Overall, it was a fun and time consuming experience.
So what are your thoughts? How would you set the lineup? How fired is Greg Cashman? Should we let Hal & Hank out of the closet we obviously locked them in while throwing their money into the wind? | <urn:uuid:d573a890-dc3e-47fe-94f3-f6742de28c90> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.pinstripealley.com/2015/11/20/9764880/sb-nation-yankees-offseason-gm-simulation-cashman-grienke | 2023-09-22T11:35:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.97736 | 3,135 |
With an eye on the sport's increasing move towards sustainability, Porsche and its parent company, the Volkswagen Group are evaluating entering F1.
For as long as anyone can remember there has been talk of Porsche returning to Formula One. The legendary German manufacturer first entered the sport in 1961 with its F2 car, returning a year later with the purpose built 804, which, in the hands of Dan Gurney, gave the company its sole F1 win as a constructor.
In the early 80s, Porsche returned to the sport, this time as engine partner to McLaren, the TAG-badged units taking the Woking team to successive constructor titles in 1984 and 1985, and driver titles for Niki Lauda (1984) and Alain Prost (1985 and 1986).
However, similar to the nightmare that beset Honda's initial return to F1 with McLaren in 2015, Porsche’s return to F1 in 1991 was a disaster, the Footwork Arrows regularly failing to qualify for races and late that same season the team switched to Cosworth and Porsche left F1 never to return.
Over the years since there has been much talk of a return but in early 2015 Porsche’s head of development, Wolfgang Hatz ruled out a return, claiming that Le Mans was more attractive.
"Formula One has never been an issue for us and won't be," he said. "Le Mans is a more attractive environment for us - there are more and more competitors and we learn more about the production of road cars."
Just over two years later and there appeared to be a change of heart, when it was revealed that Porsche, along with Cosworth and Aston Martin, had attended a meeting of the Power Unit Working Group, and was just weeks away from making a decision on whether to return to F1.
Two months later, and having announced the termination of its LMP1 programme while at the same time confirming its foray into Formula E, deputy chairman, Lutz Meschke met with F1 bosses at Monza as the German manufacturer continued to mull a possible return.
"F1 could be one of the right places," Meschke told Autosport. "As you know, Formula E is very important for us now, and F1 is always a good topic to think about. And I think we are in quite good discussions regarding the new engine."
Asked if the plans for a more basic twin-turbo V6, which would see the controversial and expensive MGU-H dropped, might make F1 more attractive to Porsche, Meschke said: "Absolutely. We have to cut costs in F1, and it's a good way to reach this target."
However, he insisted that his company, which is part of the VW Group, had no intention of returning to F1 as a constructor, merely as an engine supplier.
His comments came at a time VW Group director, Bernhard Gobmeier, appeared to rule out F1, claiming that the sport was on a "dangerous path",
"It is expensive," he said, according to Motorsport.com. "Most of the teams, apart from the big four, have financial problems. And tracks cannot pay what they are asking for. Due to its expensive nature, they are walking a very dangerous path in my personal opinion. We see it everywhere.
"Mercedes has over 1,500 people working on the F1 project," he added. "That is not even considering the suppliers, though it is not so much. It is probably 2,000 people on two cars. You should consider how expensive wages are in England and how expensive material is.
"In America, they have cost control on their minds. They manage it well. In Europe, there are a lot of different categories. In some of them, cost control is really good. But, F1 is completely out of range and so is the WEC.
"The number of sponsors is going down," he continued. "The big sponsors, like the cigarette companies, are not there anymore. The small sponsors are also reducing. The number of sponsors is going down and so are the spectator numbers. At the same time, the cost is increasing. Something is not fitting there. They have to make the races more spectacular.
"MotoGP is above F1 from the show point of view. It is one hundred times better. There is no comparison. MotoGP, its supporting races and World Superbikes are way better than F1."
It was subsequently revealed however that prior to its exit from LMP1, Porsche had begun work on a potential F1 power unit.
"In 2017 there were signals from Formula 1 that the regulations were to be changed and that energy recovery from the exhaust gases was no longer required," Porsche's head of motorsport Fritz Enzinger told Motorsport.com referring to the original plan to drop the MGU-H. "As of 2017, Porsche was a member of the FIA Manufacturers Commission and was involved in the discussions about the future drive strategy in Formula 1 from 2021 and represented at the meetings.
"On the one hand we took part in these working groups. On the other hand the guys developed a six-cylinder for the WEC in parallel. Of course, we thought about what would have to change if the engine were to be used in Formula 1. Such things can be done in two ways.
"At the end of 2017, we received a concrete order from our parent company to further develop a highly efficient six-cylinder engine, despite its LMP1 withdrawal," he reveals. "Not only on paper, but actually as hardware and with the idea that this engine will be put to the test in 2019. That was the order from the board to us."
Admitting that the unit was "complete and running on the test bench" overseen by a team of "20 to 25 technicians", "for analyses and further orders with regard to series relevance", Enzinger added. "The possible use for this six-cylinder engine was completely open. If it had been decided to send Porsche 2021 to Formula 1, we would have made it the way we did in 2018."
Now, according to the BBC, the sport's increased drive towards sustainability is making it attractive to Porsche once again.
"It would be of great interest if aspects of sustainability - for instance, the implementation of e-fuels - play a role in this," he told the broadcaster. "Should these aspects be confirmed, we will evaluate them in detail within the VW Group and discuss further steps.
"Porsche and Volkswagen AG are observing the constantly changing regulations in all relevant racing series around the world," he added. "This is also the case with regard to the emerging new engine and drivetrain regulation for Formula 1 from 2025."
"Formula 1 has long served as platform for introducing next generation advancements in the automotive world," said Ross Brawn in December after it was revealed that F1's engine manufacturers have received their first barrels of sustainable fuel. "We are delighted by the momentum on sustainable fuels which perfectly aligns with our plan to be net zero carbon as a sport by 2030.
"Our top sustainability priority now is building a roadmap for the hybrid engine that reduces emissions and has a real world benefit for road cars. We believe we have the opportunity to do that with a next generation engine that combines hybrid technology with sustainable fuels."
In January, F1 CEO, Stefano Domenicali, former head of Lamborghini, which is owned by Volkswagen, said the sport was in talks with a number of manufacturers not currently involved in F1.
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In this episode, Nathan and Stephen discuss:
- Investing time into your passion
- Stepping out of your comfort zone
- Being unafraid of failure
- Listening to fear
- Consider activities that you are passionate about or put you in a flow state. Spending more of your time doing these things will propel you to a more satisfying or meaningful life.
- The best way to grow in any area is to step out of your comfort zone and move forward despite hardships or hindrances.
- Don’t be paralyzed by the fear of failure. Give yourself the space to fail and to learn and grow from it. Keep trying until you get it right.
- Fear could be your friend. Listening to your fear’s advice has the potential to benefit you but you have to be able to tell if your fear is helping you or holding you back from living your best life.
“Following my heart, following my bliss. What am I moved to do? Saying yes to opportunities. Saying yes to the instinct. There were times that it got me in trouble but I survived it and I was able to learn and grow from it. Not being paralyzed by failure, not letting failure or the fear of not succeeding stop me. That really allowed me to do unprecedented things and step into the role of being a pioneer.” — Stephen Koch
About Stephen Koch: Stephen Koch’s career as a pioneering snowboard mountaineer, professional athlete and mountain guide led to over 50 first ascents and descents on the world’s highest and most challenging mountains where he made calculated decisions with a high level of uncertainty in the face of extreme danger. He generally chose well, but occasionally not. It is in the “not” where the gold lies.
As a thought leader and keynote speaker, Koch analyzes the world of high-stakes decision-making and failure, sharing the gold that has resulted from tragedy as he connects with audiences. He inspires organizations and teams through customized presentations with stories and lessons learned from two decades of climbing and snowboarding unprecedented new routes from around the world.
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Being a refugee or an asylum seeker in Turkey, particularly for Afghan refugees, is a vicious process full of enigmas in which the future is unpredictable. Afghan asylum seekers, whose numbers have reached half a million, declare that the procedures applied for other asylum seekers and refugees are not implemented for them. These people, who have taken refuge in Turkey, due to the ongoing civil war in their homeland, human rights violations, and probably because they run out of their reasons to live there, are waiting for their turn, with the hope of building a new future in another country.
These people have been waiting here to settle in a third country for over 10 years. Some of them lost their families, some of them died within this period, and some who came to Turkey at their mother’s knee and became adults here have been tested with poverty, discrimination, and death, every day. Their status deprives them of educational, social, economic spheres. The hope of going to any European country or another country where they can live a decent life on the one hand, suppresses their suffering and makes it bearable but on the other, turn the fragilities of their living conditions into habits. The state of living by waiting for the day when the doors will open to them seems to carry the Afghan refugees to Araf (Limbo), the land of people waiting to enter the house of ‘god’ and ‘be approved’ as described in the scriptures. As rootless, placeless, without past and presence, and with their faces turned to the future, they have been waiting for their acceptance documents for going to a third country. | <urn:uuid:a5540cc5-f3db-4b06-bb1d-16e1cd5d6e0e> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.platform.gapo.org/araf | 2023-09-22T11:46:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.975417 | 344 |
Easy gluten free Chocolate Hazelnut Waffles are a decadent treat with peanut butter, dark cocoa, oat flour, banana, honey hazelnuts and hazelnut creamer. Full of fiber, protein and complex carbs.
Within this post you’ll make chocolate hazelnut waffles you can feel good about. Plus you’ll learn how to get perfect waffle batter consistency and how to keep waffles crispy while baking a large batch.
If I were to tell you that you could enjoy Chocolate Hazelnut Waffles as a filling, balanced, nutrient rich breakfast you’d probably think I was mistaking it for a dessert recipe. Far from it actually; this wholesome waffle recipe is made up of pure, simple ingredients that aren’t processed or full of added sugars. Plus it’s rich in flavor, full of fiber, protein and complex carbs.
Waffles are a favorite breakfast of mine, especially when you make them yourself with ingredients you’re proud to include. To make these gluten free, oat flour is used as the main base. A bit of baking powder and eggs helps them rise into fluffy, moist waffles. To sweeten them I used ripe banana and honey. Olive oil adds moisture and a great alternative to canola oil or butter.
These wouldn’t be Chocolate Hazelnut Waffles without chocolate or hazelnut! Instead of adding sugar and calorie dense chocolate chips, a bit of dark baking cocoa goes a long way. Just a quarter cup turns these into a rich, decadent brown color and adds chocolate undertone.
Chopped hazelnuts, plus hazelnut coffee creamer, are the other stars of this gluten free waffle recipe. It adds rich, sweet, creaminess to these Gluten Free Chocolate Hazelnut Waffles, as well as your everyday coffee.
What is correct consistency for waffle batter?
It should be thick but still slightly runny. If batter is too thick add more milk, if batter is too thin add more flour.
Waffle and pancake batter is pretty forgiving in it’s ratio of ingredients. You can add extras such as peanut butter, banana, creamer and cocoa powder as in this recipe. This allows for almost unlimited variations and flavor combinations.
How to keep waffles crisp while cooking a large batch
To keep waffles crispy while cooking a large batch, store cooked waffles on wire rack in oven at 200° F. This prevents them from getting soggy. Instead they stay warm and crisp, without drying out.
Difficulty: Super easy
Flavor profiles: Rich chocolate with nutty hazelnut and peanut butter, and just a hint of sweetness
Texture: Moist and fluffy thick waffles with crisp outside
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Gluten Free Chocolate Hazelnut Waffles
- 2 ¼ cups oat flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- ¼ cup dark cocoa powder
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup chopped hazelnuts
- 3 large eggs
- ¾ cup hazelnut flavored coffee creamer
- 1 cup almond milk
- ½ cup olive oil
- ½ cup smooth peanut butter, room temperature
- 1 medium ripe banana, mashed
- 3 tablespoons honey
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- In a large bowl, combine oat flour, baking powder, cocoa powder and salt. Whisk together to combine then stir in hazelnut pieces.
- In separate medium bowl, whisk the eggs. Add remaining ingredients and whisk until completely combined. Pour into dry mixture. Stir together until just combined, small lumps in the batter are fine. Let the batter sit and thicken for 10 minutes while you heat up waffle iron.
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Some Kind of Wonderful (1987)
Don't go mistaking paradise for a pair of long legs, and don't go thinking there was ever a better Gen X love triangle than Some Kind of Wonderful.
Friend of the pod and resident cool guy Kenny Stach joins us as we talk all about the risks and rewards of being in love with a friend, stalker Keith, naked girls in locker rooms, THAT KISS, kissable Watts, awkward dates, guyliner, sad paintings, and how a lack of shallowness doesn't make you deep.
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Parole hearings to be heard in public for the first time
Victims, members of the public and the media will be able to ask for a parole hearing to be heard in public for the first time, following law changes made yesterday (June 30).
The Deputy Prime Minister will also get extra powers to oppose and challenge Parole Board decisions to release “dangerous offenders” – including where new, violent behaviour by offenders comes to light.
These are the first legislative changes as part of the Government’s reforms, announced in March, to put public protection at the heart of decision-making and ensure prisoners who still pose a risk are kept behind bars.
A statutory instrument will allow the measures to take effect from July 21.
Anyone will be able to apply for a public hearing, with the Parole Board making the final decision on whether to do so. These decisions will consider the welfare and interest of victims and reach a conclusion based on the “interests of justice”. This move follows calls for greater transparency after the decision to release black cab rapist John Worboys in 2018.
Recommendations for release or moves to open prison for the most serious offenders – including murderers, rapists, terrorists and those who have caused or allowed the death of a child – will also now be made by the Deputy Prime Minister before going to the Parole Board for its final decision.
“After carefully considering expert and professional advice, the Deputy Prime Minister will give his view on whether the prisoner would be safe to be released,” said the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). “Making the ministerial view clear from the outset will provide another safeguard to help keep our streets safe from dangerous prisoners – removing any ambiguity from the process.”
Deputy Prime Minister, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Dominic Raab MP, said: “This is the first step in our reforms to the parole process. We are making proceedings more transparent, so victims and the public can see justice being done. I am also making sure there is one, crystal clear, recommendation from the Justice Secretary when it comes to the risk of release of the most serious offenders.
“We are overhauling the system, to make sure public protection is the overriding the priority.
As part of the changes, the Deputy Prime Minister will be given stronger powers to challenge Parole Board decisions.
Under current rules he can only ask for a decision to be reconsidered if it is irrational or procedures were not followed. He will now be able to ask for a case to be looked at again if there is a change in the prisoner’s circumstances, such as violent behaviour, or if there is new information which was not available to the board at the time.
This is set to be bolstered by further reforms, including a tougher Parole Board release test and powers to scrutinise and block the release of the most dangerous offenders.
Victims in the South West will also be able to attend parole hearings as an observer from autumn, as part of a pilot ahead of national roll-out next year.
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Barbie Ferreira Adds a Rose to Her Collection of Hidden Tattoos
One "Euphoria" character who's earned rave reviews for her makeup prowess (and lessons in empowerment) is fanfic-churning Kat Hernandez, leading to an even bigger interest in Barbie Ferreira, the actor who plays her. While we know Ferreira had a modeling career that led her into the acting world and that her online social media presence showcases body positivity in all its glory, one thing we rarely see on her Instagram grid is her newish collection of hidden tattoos.
In a recent interview with Allure, Ferreira opened up about her anxiety in light of the global pandemic. In addition to the work she did on herself "that I would not have done if I wasn't paused," she also did the unexpected and got some DIY ink. Living at her newly purchased LA home with her three cats — Mortimer, Magdalena, and Thomas — and partner, musician Elle Puckett, Ferreira told the publication: "I was like, 'F*ck it. I can't die and not have tattoos.'"
While many of her designs aren't very readily visible because of their placements — she has a butt tattoo in the stick-and-poke technique and two others located in the side-boob area — each one has a fun backstory that's well worth the read. Keep scrolling to see what we mean.
Barbie Ferreira's Sternum Rose Tattoo
In an Instagram post shared in June 2023, Ferreira debuted a rose tattoo on her sternum, which was visible under her loosely tied robe. She got the design sometime between 2022 and 2023.
Barbie Ferreira's Butterfly Lower-Back Tattoo
On April 25, 2022, the "Euphoria" star appeared on tattoo artist David Enth's Instagram Stories, where she showed off her first back tattoo: an abstract butterfly etched on her skin in black ink. Ferreira's massive new tattoo, which stretches from her midback past her waistline, features delicate yet sharp lines that create the silhouette of a butterfly with outstretched wings.
Barbie Ferreira's Symbol Arm Tattoo
On the inside of her arm, located near her elbow, Ferreira has a small symbol tattoo. It's unclear exactly what the design is.
Barbie Ferreira's Fairy Arm Tattoo
On the back of her arm, Ferreira has a small tattoo of a fairy with zero shading or detailing. The fine-line design appears to show a tiny creature in flight.
Barbie Ferreira's Cat Thigh Tattoo
Ferreira has a black-ink tattoo on her upper thigh, near her hip, for her pet cat, Mortimer. The design is of a sphynx and is supposed to look just like him.
Barbie Ferreira's Heart Rib Tattoo With Elle Puckett
On March 8, 2022, the "Euphoria" star shared a photo on her Instagram Stories of herself and her longtime partner, musician Elle Puckett, with matching heart tattoos by artist tattoos4realz. The ink features three angular hearts dripping with blood after being strung together on a jagged tree branch along her ribs.
Barbie Ferreira's Side-Boob Tattoo
Ferreira followed up her DIY ink with a professional design, this time inked near her left breast. She had a specific reason she decided on inking this particular part of her body. "The artist, Pix, does these really cool lines," she told Allure. "So I [had her do] something around my boobies. I always do things around my boobies. I think it's because I grew up not liking my boobs. So now it kind of makes me feel cute."
When asked if her tattoos hold any visceral meaning behind them, Ferreira said matter-of-factly, "Absolutely not. Well . . . I really felt like I couldn't do anything [to my body] for so long. I couldn't even cut my hair one inch, or I'd lose clients when I was a model. So I guess it does represent something — me taking over my own self."
Barbie Ferreira's Butt Tattoo
In an interview with Cosmopolitan in September 2020, Ferreira revealed that she had Puckett do an inaugural stick-and-poke tattoo on her butt with a kit that she gifted them for their birthday. The design? "It's a spiral on my butt," she told the publication. "A spiral for my quarantine spiral."
While the actor hasn't shared the artwork widely with her Instagram followers, she assured Allure that — despite it being a new hobby for Puckett — "now they're really good." | <urn:uuid:ebec28e6-888e-4136-bee7-76d5b8fba410> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.popsugar.com/beauty/barbie-ferreira-tattoo-meanings-48690785 | 2023-09-22T12:27:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.971675 | 1,004 |
Ultrarunner Latoya Shauntay Snell Raised $20K For Black-Supporting Organizations For Her Birthday
Sponsored athlete and writer Latoya Shauntay Snell started running in 2013. Her aim? Weight loss. What was supposed to be a single race turned into a lifestyle that she upheld, not to shed pounds, but to remain active and foster the sense of community she found. The longest Snell has ever completed is a 100K, or 62.1 miles, and the Bed–Stuy chapter of Black Girls Run motivated her to stick to running, she told POPSUGAR.
For her 35th birthday, Snell raised money for organizations set on supporting the Black community, and the ultrarunner tied each nonprofit's fundraising to a fitness challenge. To start, on May 31, she did a 100K bike ride indoors for the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which aids marginalized people facing bail and is currently directing donations elsewhere. Snell recognizes that protesters aren't just marching in their communities for George Floyd — "we were sick and tired of being sick and tired," she said — but donating to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, to her, was important as the nonprofit has vowed to help protesters arrested for trying to seek justice for Floyd and other Black Americans.
Then Tuesday, June 2, was a 13.1-mile run for the Audre Lorde Project, an NYC-based organization that supports people of color in the LGBTQ+ community. Snell specifically chose this organization because she said she's openly queer and wanted to give back for Pride Month. When it came to June 4's fitness challenge, she focused her fundraising on an organization empowering Black women in honor of Breonna Taylor; she completed a 100-mile indoor bike ride for Black Women's Blueprint.
"I love who I am. I love my skin, but I don't wish this oppression on anyone."
Snell raised over $16,500 across her three fundraisers, and she said that people have also been donating individually to those organizations if they had trouble doing so through Facebook, which totaled the donations to nearly $20,000. (Note: Snell also wanted to point out that artist Anna Brones offered to help raise awareness as well, giving a free Audre Lorde print to the first 100 donors who sent over their receipt.) Snell didn't expect the response that she got, despite the fact that she has 45,000-plus followers on Instagram alone. "Even with the following, the moment that you ask people to open up their pockets it is like pulling teeth," she explained, adding later on in the interview that she set her expectations low for the fundraisers because "as Black people, we're so used to people not supporting us."
At times, when Snell used her platform for something other than sports, she said that she's been gaslit and told to stick to sports. "I'll be damned if you box in my almost 35 years of living and [tell me] to stick to sports," Snell stated, "because before I stuck to sports I stuck to being Black, and the Black experience is hard. It's something that some days I don't wish on people. I love who I am. I love my skin, but I don't wish this oppression on anyone."
Snell said later on, "To be very honest, as a person who's been pulled over by cops three times for running in my own neighborhood since gentrification kicked in, it adds on to that anxiety for me as a Black woman." She wanted her birthday week to be a catalyst for starting crucial conversations around racism in America.
"Realize that you are essentially an influencer in your own home."
Having these conversations about racism with those close to you is key, Snell explained, and, for that reason, her birthday week signified so much more than donating money. "It establishes a base where we can truly grow and actually change the language that we've been carrying on for centuries to a different generation," she noted. "Ask the questions to yourselves of 'What can we do better in our own communities?' Realize that you are essentially an influencer in your own home."
It was the death of Ahmaud Arbery that inspired Snell to start a dialogue on her social platforms regarding how to give back to the Black community and support the antiracism cause, especially for her white followers, she said. "I was like, 'I don't have all the answers. I will probably never have all the answers, but let me give them a resource of what I would do if I was in their shoes.'"
Before our talk came to a close, Snell spoke about the lack of inclusivity in ultrarunning. "This is a sport where people say it's inclusive, but I can tell you as a person who ventures into trail running, you don't see too many Black people out there," she said, adding that she gets confused for ultrarunner and author Mirna Valerio all the time.
Snell purposely documented parts of her fitness challenges on her birthday week to show her audience that it wasn't easy. "I think that the 100K and the 100 miles and the 13.1 [miles] from me was metaphorical because, as an endurance athlete, it is a struggle. There's no way to shortcut," she said. "You have to get through the miles, and it doesn't matter how long it takes. The miles are still the miles." She needed to highlight the fact that the discomfort she felt was only temporary. "Those people who lost their lives probably wish that they can go through that temporary pain because at least they would still be here," she stated.
"This was the birthday party that I never thought I would ask for, but this was the birthday party I needed."
The choices Snell made for her donations, as well as the dialogue-starters with her social media followers, were deliberate. "I take every action that I make in this community and all the communities I represent — because as an athlete I don't get to just be an athlete, I have to be a Black athlete and a queer athlete — very seriously, to the point where I know my life will never be the same," she told POPSUGAR. You can still donate to Snell's fundraising efforts on her Facebook page. "This was the birthday party that I never thought I would ask for," she said, "but this was the birthday party I needed." | <urn:uuid:a2987be5-4802-43d6-b407-c358e43d5849> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.popsugar.com/fitness/runner-latoya-snell-fundraisers-for-black-organizations-47533893 | 2023-09-22T13:02:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.98457 | 1,341 |
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Divorcée Cal Weaver finds his second wind in life after meeting a handsome young ladies’ man who teaches him how to become a master of the modern dating scene.
A devoted family man who married his high school sweetheart, Cal had a great house and a stable job when his wife, Emily, left him to be with another man.
When Emily announces that she’s filing for divorce, Cal finds himself awkwardly thrust into the dating scene and begins drinking his nights away at the local pub. Just when it’s starting to look as if there’s no hope for Cal, confirmed bachelor Jacob Palmer decides to add some much-needed excitement to the sulking, newly single father’s life.
Before long, Cal’s rough edges have all been smoothed out; he’s mastered the fine art of flirting and develops a distinct sense of style that sets him apart from the pack. But just as Cal starts to turn heads, his adolescent son, Robbie, develops a big crush on his teenage babysitter, Jessica.
Unfortunately for Robbie, Jessica only has eyes for Cal. Meanwhile, Cal can’t help but feel like something substantial is missing from his life, and decides that the only way to set things straight is by listening to his heart.
Directed by: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
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Healer Douglas Ballard will be at the Clinica Pacifico in Albufeira on November 30 and Art of Beauty in Almancil on December 1.
Douglas works with his “Energy Connection” to provide insights, practical advice and healing. This technique is used to help with stress, injuries and ailments of all kinds.
Testimonials of past clients can be found on his website, including videos of previous presentations – www.douglasballard.com.
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“I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.”
– Elon Musk
“Mistakes should be examined, learned from, and discarded; not dwelled upon and stored.”
– Tim Fargo
“We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.”
– Bill Gates
“If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack.”
– Winston Churchill
“True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes."
– Daniel Kahneman
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
“Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.”
– Kim Collins
“There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you’ve been in the business.”
– Oscar De La Hoya
“The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.”
– George Will
“It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.”
- Immanuel Kant
Start-ups are rapidly changing systems. If you use an annual review cycle, you aren't getting feedback at the same pace that you need to adapt and change the business."
– Fred Wilson
“When we make progress and get better at something, it is inherently motivating. In order for people to make progress, they have to get feedback and information on how they're doing.”
- Daniel Pink
What is your favorite feedback quote?
Enjoy the reading!
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Here’s Why You Should Sell Your Used Car Right Now
We looked and asked around, and no, this has never happened before – at least to this extent. Used cars are a hot commodity, and they are selling for dollar amounts that no one could have predicted when purchasing them. You’ve heard the naysayers tell you to never buy a new car. “They lose half their value the second you drive them off the lot!” Who’s wrong now!?
Ok, to be fair, this is a once-in-a-lifetime situation that we may never see again, or it could stick around for a while, that’s yet to be determined. What we can tell you with confidence is that if you own a used car, and you don’t need it, of course, it’s time to sell it in and get your money back, and then some.
As we discussed in a recent article, used truck prices have soared because of the pandemic, which has been caused by a massive chip shortage and affected the entire auto industry. However, the trend isn’t isolated to just trucks as cars are soaring in value as well, but we wanted to take a look at some examples we dug up.
One price comparison we found after scouring the web was between a 2021 Toyota Tundra Limited and a 2019 Toyota Tundra Limited. The brand new Tundra with no miles is selling for $52,142, while a 2019, same trim level, with 66,819 miles, is selling for $53,990. What this means is you can drive the hell out of the truck, sell it, recoup your initial investment, and still net a $1,848 profit. Hey, that’s a lot cheaper than a rental car right now.
Here’s another example. A 2021 Ford F-150 XL with no miles is selling for $39,710, while a 2019 Ford F-150 XL with 16,868 miles is going for $39,999. Some people put value on that new car smell, but it isn’t worth that much. With that said, it’s astonishing to see, and we found some graphs to visualize the data we’ve dissected.
A graph from CarGurus shows the trajectory of all used car prices trending upward over the past several months. The average price of an SUV is $33,135, up 6.59 percent over the last 30 days, and the average price of a convertible is $36,593, up 3.65 percent. As of now, used pickup trucks have increased in value the most. The average price is $34,564, up 7.62 percent in the last month, according to the most current values.
Specific car manufacturers are also enjoying better than average appreciation prices. For example, used Chevrolet’s are up 8.36 percent, Dodge is up 8.32 percent, Ford is up 8.98 percent, GMC is up 8.30 percent, Pontiac is up 8.86 percent, and Toyota is up 7.26 percent in the past 30 days.
The average used car is 30 percent more expensive than it was a year ago. While some of this is attributed to the chip shortage, it also has a lot to do with people returning back to their offices and avoiding public transportation because they’re still fearful after what we’ve endured in the past year plus.
According to Edmunds, the average value for used vehicles traded in the month of March hit an all-time high of $17,080, up significantly from $14,160 just a year ago. While some may be feeling the pinch, others are cashing in on this rare opportunity.
Right now, we’re witnessing a sellers market, and if you have a car that you’ve been waiting to sell, now is the time. Don’t wait any longer because who knows how long this will last, or if this phenomenon will happen again.
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A Guide to Tapping and Threading
Tapping is one of the machining types most prone to issues because it requires careful balance, planning and research. Especially when you’re using a CNC machine, a lack of sensory connection to the tapping operation can mean that you might miss issues until they’re too late to correct. Because tapping is also one of the last operations performed on a part, screwing it up can result in a whole lot of scrapped parts and wasted time.
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Wed, Feb 15|
Interior Health Authority Credentialing & Privileging Session
Family Practice Residents and New to the Interior Physicians are invited to join this informative Interior Health Authority (IHA) Credentialing & Privileging session.
Time & Location
Feb 15, 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. PST
About the event
Family Practice Residents and New to the Interior Physicians are invited to join a conversation with the Senior Medical Director, Credentialing and Privileging for IH, Dr. Zoe Ayling as she discusses the importance of Credentialing & Privileging and what the process is for obtaining privileges within Interior Health. Dr. Ayling is an Emergency Medicine physician practicing at Penticton Regional Hospital and has been the Senior Medical Director for Credentialing & Privileging for five years.
- Who is involved in Credentialing & Privileging?
- How does the C&P process work?
- Privileging Dictionaries
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Colon Health is Whole Body Health
Maintaining your body’s overall health through healthy eating is something you often hear about, but sometimes it’s hard to convert this knowledge into a positive lifestyle. This post is going to explore why this is essential and the many different ways your diet and food choices have a tremendous impact on how you feel and can help prevent the third deadliest cancer in the U.S., colon cancer and rectal cancer – known collectively as colorectal cancer.
The good news about good nutrition, it’s not just for your colon
Good healthy food is partly about offering pleasure to your senses, partly about having a social occasion when you eat it, and most of all it is about nourishing all parts of your body – your heart your brain, your bones, and of course, your colon!
Only a very small number (less than 10 percent) of colon cancers are hereditary, which means that lifestyle choices are a significant factor in developing or avoiding this disease. According to the American Cancer society, adopting a diet high in vegetables, fruits and whole grains and low in red and processed meats reduces your risk of colon cancer. Here are some of their guidelines for maintaining good health and reducing disease.
The link between body weight and cancer risk
Being overweight or obese is clearly linked with an increased risk of several types of cancer:
- Breast (among women who have gone through menopause)
- Colon and rectum
- Endometrium (lining of the uterus)
How to lose weight and lower your risk of colorectal cancer
We know it isn’t easy, in fact we know it’s very hard and we’re not going to fool you. However, the trick to success is trying to make it pleasant, even fun. The good news is the more you lose, the better you feel, physically and mentally. The other good news is that the positive combination of increased exercise and eating a healthy diet has an especially important effect on your colon, because that’s where your food goes prior to leaving your body.
Plant foods help prevent all kinds of cancer
The American Cancer society advises eating at least 2 ½ cups of vegetables and fruits each day. You can achieve this by:
- Including vegetables and fruits at every meal and for snacks.
- Eating a variety of vegetables and fruits each day.
- Emphasizing whole fruits and vegetables; choose 100% juice if you drink vegetable or fruit juices.
- Limiting your use of creamy sauces, dressings, and dips with fruits and vegetables.
Whole grains are a whole lot better for you
Not only do whole grain breads, pasta, cereals such as barley and oats, brown rice and whole wheat pastas taste better, they also provide increased nutrients and higher fiber for better digestion.
Limiting red meat and processed meat
The World Health Organization released a report in 2015 that brought together twenty-two experts from 10 countries who reviewed more than 800 studies to reach the following conclusions regarding processed meat as a carcinogen (or cancer causing agent). The results were startling:
- Eating just under two ounces (50 grams) of processed meat every day increased the risk of colorectal cancer by 18%. That’s the equivalent of about 4 strips of bacon or 1 hot dog
- For red meat, there was evidence of increased risk of colorectal, pancreatic, and prostate cancer.
What can you eat instead? The American Cancer Society Guidelines on nutrition recommend choosing fish, poultry and beans. However, so as not to remove all fun from our diet, they say that the “occasional hot dog or hamburger is okay.” Just don’t make a habit of it.
You’re better off with less alcohol
When it comes to drinking alcohol, it’s not the type of alcohol that matters, it’s the amount you consume. Negative effects of overconsumption are well known in terms of social problems, but when it comes to risking cancer, fewer people are aware of the impact of alcohol. Alcohol is known to cause cancers of the:
- Throat (pharynx)
- Voice box (larynx)
- Colon and rectum
Can I drink alcohol at all?
You can drink but the recommendation is that people who drink alcohol should limit their intake to no more than 2 drinks per day for men and 1 drink per day for women. The recommended limit is lower for women because of their smaller body size and slower breakdown of alcohol.
Taking supplements isn’t a substitute for eating well
Because higher vegetable and fruit intake reduces cancer risk, scientists have been attempting to learn which specific nutrients from these foods are responsible. Unfortunately, as yet, studies have not found that supplements containing certain nutrients (like vitamins) reduce cancer risk, and some have even suggested they may cause harm. This is complicated because researchers must try to choose how best to give the supplement, including the exact dose, what group of people to give it to, and how long to give it for, which isn’t always known.
Although not all studies of nutritional supplements reducing cancer risk have been disappointing, there is no overwhelming evidence supporting their use in lowering cancer risk.
Five top tips to eating for colon health
The Rush University Medical Center has assembled these useful tips for a diet that supports a healthy colon
- Limit consumption of red meat and processed meats
- Two four ounce servings of red meat per week
- Instead have chicken, fish, beans, tofu and other protein sources
- Reduce sugar intake
- Studies have found that people with ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease often have diets high in sugar and low in fiber
- Increase the fiber in your diet
- The best way to add fiber into your diet is through fiber-rich fruits and vegetables, such as raspberries, pears, apples, bananas, oranges, cooked artichoke, peas, broccoli and corn
- Whole grains and legumes are also good sources of fiber
- Fiber aids colon health, keep you regular and prevents constipation. This may then lower your risk of developing hemorrhoids and small pouches in your colon that can lead to diverticular disease
- Increase your calcium
- Studies show that calcium and vitamin D can decrease the risk of colorectal cancer in men. But the American Cancer Society doesn’t recommend that men increase their calcium intake beyond 2,000 milligrams per day. More than that can increase the risk of prostate cancer
- Men and women should get their recommended daily dose of calcium by drinking three to four eight-ounce glasses of low-fat or fat-free milk. Dark leafy greens are good sources of calcium including kale and collard greens
- Choose whole grains
- Whole grains keep their naturally occurring nutrients: fiber, minerals, vitamins, essential fatty acids and antioxidants
- Eat more of these whole grains include barley, quinoa, whole wheat flour, wild and brown rice and oatmeal
Best way to prevent colon cancer? Get screened!
In our last blog article we explained how colon cancer screening saves lives.
If you haven’t read it, please read it. If you haven’t seen a gastroenterologist, make an appointment and keep up with screening. You, and your colon, will be glad you did.
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Carroll moves on to PCL semis
Girls basketball Archbishop Carroll 57, Neumann Goretti 41:
Archbishop Carroll rode the coattails of a career-high 33points from Army-bound senior Taylor Wilson right into the PCL semifinals on Thursday with a 57-41win over Neumann Goretti. The game was certainly not as one-sided as the final score indicates. In the fact, the teams were tied at halftime, and Carroll had a narrow 2-point lead at the end of three quarters. Carroll though had a 21-point outburst in the fourth quarter, while holding Goretti to 7. Taylor Wilson had 12 of her game total in the final frame and sister Brooke made six crucial foul shots down the stretch. Carroll will face No. 1seed LC on Tuesday at St. Joseph’s.
Boys basketball Dock 61, MaST 30:
The Pioneers won their 10th straight game, this one in the BAL semifinals on Thursday night. Dock moves into the BAL final against Church Farm. Nathan Lapp led the Pioneers with 23 points, while Hoyt Bultje added 12.
SOL American: Chase Leckner of North Penn and Maribeth of Pennridge both captured SOL individual championships on Wednesday at Earlbowl in Earlington. There were a total of 51boys and 45girls competing. Two spots were available to earn the chance for qualifying to Regionals for both boys and girls. Leckner rolled a five-game total of 922with scores of 177-168-187-200-190, while Baker rolled a five-game total of 856with scores of 169-159181-158-189. Also competing for North Penn were Ben Tucker (12th), Tyler Caiazzo (17th), Ryan Baker (27th), Kevin Tagert (31st) and Michael Jefferis (45th). For the girls, contributing were Anna Weatherwax (20th), Angela Pham (30th), Megan Loughery (36th), Ariana Della Polla (40th) and Vanessa Blissman (43rd). Ryan Little from Upper Moreland, Sarah Olszewski and Amanda Deleone from Upper Moreland were the other spots earned to go to regionals, which will be held March 3rd at Leisure Lanes and Dutch Lanes. | <urn:uuid:af87f4a1-df59-485a-8946-757893340bca> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-reporter-lansdale-pa/20230218/281754158500955 | 2023-09-22T11:24:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.96062 | 494 |
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C Magazine is a renowned Canadian contemporary art and criticism periodical that functions as a forum for significant ideas in art and its contexts. Each issue explores a theme that engages with emerging and mainstream perspectives through artistic writing, reviews and artist projects. Founded in 1984, the magazine was ready for a shift to digital to showcase its rich content and make it accessible to a wider audience.
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May 28, 2020 By PrintAction Staff
GWS Printing Systems (GWS), the manroland Goss subsidiary for press relocations and used equipment, just finished successfully relocating a commercial Lithoman press in the Netherlands in record time.
Thom Ringsma, owner of magazine printer Habo da Costa in Vianen, Netherlands, decided to restart a closed location in Doetinchem to strengthen his printing business. At the same time, the assets of a printing plant in Weert were taken over by Ringsma, which is where GWS Printing Systems was contracted to sell the equipment on behalf of the holding company. The project saw a used Lithoman 72-pages moved from Weert to Doetinchem to start production there on a tight timeline.
The relocation was made and in just over four months, the press was up and running again at Senefelder Misset Doetinchem B.V. The start-up and training at the new location was performed by specialists from manroland Goss Augsburg under the project management of GWS colleagues based in Waalwijk.
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February 17, 2023 By PrintAction Staff
With more than three decades of experience successfully serving customers, Multi Design Graphics (MDG) is looking forward to expanding its service offerings to an even wider range of print options, with the help of their new Canon Arizona 2360 XTF flatbed printer.
The addition of this Arizona upgrade provides twice the production capability of their previous Arizona flatbed system as well as allowing oversized rigid board printing up to 8 x 10 ft in size. This recent investment adds to the MDG production arsenal of four wide format roll printers including the Canon Colorado 1650 UVgel printer, and large format finishing with the Canon ProCut cutter.
A family-owned business, founded in 1984, MDG Group has grown from a small start-up with beginnings in general sign and fleet graphics to a full-service digital production house with a focus on quality and service. Established as a corporation in 1992, MDG is committed to investing in new technology and is proud of its proven track record of staying on top of industry changes to date. Whether your projects are exterior or interior, short or long runs, full colour or single colour, MDG can offer a solution that is both timely and budget-friendly.
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Kevin Kwan, mcdougal away from In love Rich Asians (Doubleday, Get 2014), has returned that have an extra book, China Rich Spouse (Doubleday, Summer 2015), other juicy comedy out-of manners set in a world of letters whoever lifetime is actually spent darting ranging from individual jets, ballrooms on Ritz Carlton, and you will buzzy auction household sales. This new York Minutes gave one another books radiant critiques, and discussed his first book because the having turned up merely over the years so you can “save an used-aside and you will ineffective category.”
Having his sophomore efforts, the fresh Singapore-produced Ny-established Kwan has, again, effectively illustrated a world thus ostentatious, ridiculous, and you will extraordinary, its characters need a unique adjective in order to explain its level of extravagance: in lieu of getting just “crazy steeped,” he could be “China steeped.”‘
Because zero portrayal of one’s lifetime of one’s filthy steeped, it looks, might possibly be done in the place of involvement with brand new artwork community, and Kwan provides from the devoting some of the book’s first profiles so you’re able to a premier-crisis scene in the Christie’s public auction domestic into the Hong-kong where multiple emails vie to have an uncommon old cotton browse.
In Kwan’s types of a “China steeped” public auction, need one to absurd factor. In the us, it could be invoked of the webpages out-of an expectant mother passing out. However in Hong-kong, it comes down in the way of Cat Pong, an excellent gaudy, social-climbing soap opera superstar and you may girlfriend from billionaire Bernard Tai, clothed “particularly good Chinese Dita Von Teese,” having “jet-black locks, powdered white-skin, and dark red mouth area,” whom takes the tell you whenever she walks with the business place from the last second with several snow-white Russian Borzois towards the diamond leashes and you can falls a cool $195 mil to win the fresh new ancient search color. Yes, possibly the market numbers regarding publication go beyond the newest immoderate of these of the real-world current market—this new record getting a painting ended up selling on public auction, put earlier this Could possibly get during the Christie’s, is actually $179 million to own good Picasso.
To help you enjoy the summer release of their novel, and all sorts of the enjoyable-loving characters Kwan authored a keen “exhibition”
out-of situations their elegant letters will love, along with an excellent $1.step 3 million Patek Philippe view (Kwan need to know one to a variety owned by Sheikh Saud bin Mohammed Al-Thani offered for $twenty-four mil after their death), an excellent $34,one hundred thousand Marchesa night gown, otherwise a fantasy pictures take by the Alexis Rodriguez-Duarte (that has been called towards the by Rachel Feinstein having a job).
But what more create an effective “China steeped” lady possibly you prefer as well as an ancient Chinese scroll really worth 20 personal Bahamian isles? I expected Kwan the tough issues.
Could you tell me regarding motivation towards “In love Rich Collection” online shop? Just how do you choose which things to feature? The building blocks really originated in the fresh new characters within my novels. We started because of the inquiring, “What can each of these emails focus?” For example, what would Astrid Leong—who was simply born a double heiress to One or two higher fortunes and you may manage anything her cardio wishes—be thinking about gathering? In my opinion, she would be more taken of the a single-of-a-form artist portion by a recommended jewellery singer including Scott Diffrient in lieu of fancy baubles. And you will a character for example Kitty Pong, that is the newest consummate public climber, wish to commission a dream portrait by the Alexis Rodriguez-Duarte, who has got snap so many of the globe’s best ways community rates such as for instance Peter Brant, William Lauder, Rachel Feinstein, and you will Maurizio Cattelan.
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Do you believe people will in reality pick these items on line otherwise are this more of an enhance to the book to assist train the letters?
It’s all in the newest heart out-of fun, definitely, but I actually do hope that every of them superb things or event select a good home. Of Marchesa’s brilliant ballgown to Erica Tanov’s sublime summer dress, most of the exhibitors involved keeps set up so much some time work towards the performing otherwise sourcing their benefits for it collection.
Will which end up being a continuous endeavor or perhaps is it connected to your book release? It’s timed with the book release, you can’t say for sure how this project you’ll consistently evolve. It’s already been like a delicacy and you may honor for me in order to curate this collection, I’d want to remain undertaking more methods like these!
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I regard Norman Podhoretz as an extremist and a buffoon, as exemplified by his eager advocacy of a US attack on Iran. The fact that he is a foreign policy adviser to the Republican presidential frontrunner, Rudy Giuliani, is a reason in itself to be alarmed at Giuliani’s candidacy.
Still, Podhoretz’s concern about the looming danger of a nuclear-armed theocratic regime in Iran is reasonable. Unfortunately, I see no viable military option for either the US or Israel (especially not for Israel, which even Podhoretz knows, lacks the military capability) to destroy the hardened Iranian nuclear facilities — let alone to bear the costs of Iran’s inevitable acts of retaliation, directly and by proxy terrorists (e.g., Hezbollah and Hamas) and economic means (i.e., oil).
But President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (although not the ‘supreme leader’ under Iran’s theocratic system) is, unlike Podhoretz, a head of state; and supreme leader Ayatollah Khameini has made at least one creepy recent speech proclaiming that every square meter of Israel is reachable by Iran’s missiles. Ahmadinejad did not simply make some idle, abstract statement that Israel should “pass into history,” as my frequent e-mail debater, David McReynolds (the retired head of the War Resisters League and a leader of what’s left of the Socialist Party), has indicated by way of excuse.
The source of legitimate concern about Iran’s intentions comes from the frightening confluence of a number of things. It is not enough to dismiss these separately as idle ravings; taken together, they are evidence of a grave potential threat:
1) Ahmadinejad’s official backing for Holocaust denial
2) His official sponsorship for “a world without Zionism,” as an international gathering in Tehran put it
3) His repeated statements that Israel should “disappear”
4) His insistence upon the development of nuclear energy without allowing adequate access to international inspectors to guarantee only peaceful applications
5) Iran’s possession and development of missiles with the capability of hitting Israel with nuclear weapons
6) Iran’s sponsorship of Hezbollah and Hamas and its supply of missiles to Hezbollah
7) His statements (and/or those of some others associated with the regime) that Iran could survive a nuclear exchange but that Israel could not, because of how small it is
8) Evidence that Ahmadinejad’s religious convictions include a doomsday scenario, a Muslim version of the extreme Christian theology of Armeggedon, with the “Mahdi” returning to rule the earth rather than Christ.
Again, I do not believe that either the US or Israel has a viable military option. Some artful combination of diplomatic overtures and economic threats seems to be the wisest course. Israel’s best bet is to rigorously pursue peace with Syria and the Palestinians.
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- The increased use of “it is what it is” may indicate that people are resisting the temptation to force things into categories.
- Examples of people being more comfortable with the unknown are the increased use of abstract prints and music that doesn't stay in one key.
- The saying “it is what it is” may also indicate resignation.
It seems that increasingly often you hear the phrase, “It is what it is.” I was taking the phrase to mean, “It’s not this and it’s not that; it’s something more subtle that I don’t have a name for, and I’m ok with that.” In other words, I took it to be an indication that the speaker is letting the thing exist in all its rich uniqueness without having to categorize it or analyse it.
The increased use of “it is what it is” seemed to be a sign that people are increasingly comfortable with “states of potentiality,” which are states that could “collapse” to different actual states depending on the context. As a simple example, in one situation you might interpret a bat as a toy and in another situation, you might interpret a bat as a weapon. There may be no objective answer to the question of whether a bat is a toy or a weapon; it’s in a state of potentiality that depends on the context.
This may seem like a simple phenomenon but it has profound implications for how people think and how they conceive of the world they live in. It enables them to continually re-conceptualize things in new and creative ways. For example, if someone puts a pylon on their head you might see the pylon as an instance of the concept of “hat.” A society that goes around saying “it is what it is” might seem to be a society that accepts and even relishes a world in which pylons can be hats, a world ripe with possibilities. (For more on this see previous posts on creativity and quantum structure.)
Potentiality is not the same thing as ambiguity, but they are related. If something has the potential to unfold into different actual states then its current state may appear ambiguous. One of the characteristics of creative people is that they tend to be comfortable with ambiguity. By letting things hang in an uncategorized state in their mind they may slowly come to a richer, more nuanced understanding of them, which may lead to a new insight or invention.
So I was thinking of the increased use of “it is what it is” as an indication that people are increasingly resisting the temptation to force things into categories, to be comfortable with the unknown. Other examples of this are the increased use of abstract prints (nonrepresentational art) on fabrics and music that doesn’t stay in one key. Yet another indication is the increased discussion and acceptance of ambiguity with respect to gender. I’ve been thinking about this issue more lately not just because of the high-profile cases of transgender individuals in the news, but because Face Fries (a mobile app that takes 2D photos and turns them into talking, animated 3D avatars) lets you see what you might look like a male if you’re female and vice versa.
People are invariably fascinated by creating and interacting with gender-altered versions of themselves. There is a sense in which you see this avatar as someone who could have existed, or who almost existed. You feel a certain kinship with this almost-existing version of yourself, and by exploring who you could have been you can come away with a richer sense of who you actually are. Playing around with this feature of the app, exploring gender-altered versions of friends, family members, and celebrities seem to leave people with a sense of living in a reality that is not quite so stuck in “the way things are” as they thought.
So, I had this upbeat interpretation of “it is what it is” that was connected to the acceptance of ambiguity and suggestive of a world full of possibilities. But after talking with some friends, I realized that there are other interpretations of it. One friend told me that the phrase actually leaves her with a sick feeling in her gut. To her, the phrase indicates resignation, a sense of acceptance that something isn’t up to par, which struck me as sad.
But then I realized that the phrase “it is what it is” is itself in a state of potentiality. In some contexts, it can indicate acceptance of complexity and ambiguity. In other contexts, it can indicate acceptance of limitations. It's a phrase that may well have yet other shades of meaning, or be evolving new shades of meaning as I write this. It’s not one static thing. It is what it is.
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My parents were on the brink of retirement at the same time as I was researching pension strategies in Israel. So, I couldn’t help thinking about them whenever retirees were discussed. It made things difficult for me, because every insurance agent and pension-fund manager I’d interviewed circled back to the same point: people were living longer than ever before. Far from being cause for celebration, this was a problem: from their perspective, lengthy post-work lives were a drain on already overburdened pension funds.
I understood the economics of the so-called “longevity risk” that pension professionals were talking about. Still, I found it upsetting that the lives of people I loved, or even just knew about, would be subject to cost-benefit calculations as cold as all that. I hoped my own parents would enjoy long and comfortable retirements. I couldn’t imagine anyone feeling otherwise about theirs. How, then, did we come to see it as a problem that people live longer?
The answer lies in a popular concept, human capital, that my research into pensions soon caused me to question. Economists and actuaries who lament that people live too long treat human life as capital: a vehicle of investment and accumulation. “Human capital” sounds good in development programs or economic textbooks—denoting investment in individuals’ education, skills, and earning power—but its implications are disturbing. In a society that appraises its members according to economic criteria, the value of the elderly has been depleted—no matter how substantial their humanity, no matter how cherished they are by their loved ones
The term “human capital” suggests that we create ourselves as social beings, and that society recognizes the outcomes of our self-making by assigning them a value. This value, like any other, can be exchanged for commodities and services of equal value. We see this whenever we apply for jobs—and in numerous social occasions, as well—as we’re assessed according to the value of our accomplishments. We spend our lives investing in skills and connections in a bid to make this value high. These skills and connections are the first things we think about when we assert our humanity. So, we are blindsided when we’re assigned negative value—when we become a risk, a drain, a problem of a life gone on too long.
What to do about human capital? One way to combat this disillusion is by reflecting on the political and economic goals that the notion of human capital was designed to fulfill. The books reviewed here show that we cannot fully understand ourselves as possessing and wielding human capital without pondering the system that inscribes us with value and controls its use.
In The Economization of Life, Michelle Murphy analyzes debates about the population among economists, and those influenced by them, over the past century. She shows how the seemingly innocuous practice of assigning value to human life means allotting differential worth—including negative value—to the lives of different people.
Human capital, Murphy demonstrates, only makes sense as something to be invested in—by countries, companies, or individuals—when humans are valued in terms of their contribution to a national economy. But states were not conceived of as economic systems before the 20th century. Only since the 1930s was national macroeconomic output even calculated. Yet, within half a century, even if a country did not calculate its gross domestic product (GDP), the International Money Fund (IMF) would estimate it—ensuring that all countries were assessed according to the relative strength of their economies. In this way, to paraphrase Murphy, the idea of the economy became a tyrant, one that demanded the rearrangement of lives, property, and relations to make it grow.
Life subsequently came to be valued according to its ability to foster the national economy. Economists turned their attention to aggregate rates of fertility and death. They calculated how to optimize human lives according to their current and potential contribution to the GDP. Life that didn’t contribute to economic growth was deemed a surplus to be managed. And managed it was: family planning, development, and global health initiatives strove to turn the lives of poor populations into economic assets rather than liabilities. In the shadow of a “population bomb” that economists warned against, only some lives were regarded as worthy of reproducing. Others—mostly nonwhite and poor lives—had to be prevented from holding back the rest.
Murphy’s most powerful example—showing the interests behind the equation of humans with their economic value—is of girls in Bangladesh who were given the opportunity to get an education. At issue, for Murphy, is not whether popular empowerment programs like the Girl Effect campaign have helped these girls. Instead, she warns about what happens to a society whose members are evaluated according to the returns its economy might offer global investors.
So-called “backward” countries, explains Murphy, once had a better chance of increasing their GDP by averting births rather than by harnessing the average labor of their living adults. Such labor simply wasn’t that profitable. But by the 21st century, economists discovered education to be as cost-effective in averting births as birth control. The added bonus was that education made these adults’ work more profitable and, consequently, their lives more valuable. A girl not invested in by age 12 might give birth or contract HIV by 15. Conversely, educated girls would have fewer babies, become a healthier and more highly skilled workforce for hire, and earn more, thereby raising their country’s GDP per capita.
From the perspective of global investors in Bangladesh, the lower the initial value of Bangladeshi girls (being female, being poor, being nonwhite, being uneducated) for their economy, the higher the potential returns on investment in their education. Local enterprise would be able to feed on their more highly skilled work, while the Bangladeshi economy would not be weighed down as much by the need to support those who could not earn a living.
The value of a Bangladeshi girl either accrues or diminishes, then, according to how global investors game the riskiness of her milieu. Initiatives to promote her human capital mitigate the risk of investing in Bangladeshi enterprise. These initiatives also rally material and moral support for what is conceived to be the empowerment of underprivileged girls.
It takes a study as rigorous as Murphy’s to expose the double-edged nature of human capital: galvanizing self-improvement of, and popular support for, underprivileged populations, even as it does so according to metrics that have investor interests—rather than general well-being—as their goal.
The examples on which Murphy focuses are conveniently removed from Western elites’ frequently rewarded efforts to increase and leverage their own human capital. Books that focus on the United States force the implications of this concept closer to home. I will examine two such books, which issue from very different perspectives.
The first book examines human capital at the level of its first exemplars. Michael Zakim, in Accounting for Capitalism: The World the Clerk Made, aims to examine capitalism from the bottom up, by looking through the lens of the experience of antebellum merchants’ clerks.
Human capital sounds good in development programs or economic textbooks, but its implications are disturbing.
As market exchanges increased in volume and complexity around the middle of the 19th century, these young American clerks migrated from farms to offices, taking up the drab, sedentary work of accounting, filing, and overseeing trade. Zakim considers these clerks the pioneers of human capital. Indeed, they were capital personified: men who made the market by making themselves. Zakim shows how human capital became the bedrock of modern capitalism, by examining delightful correspondences between man and market.
If I were to pick my favorite of Zakim’s anecdotes, it would have to be the one centered on constipation. Clerks were obsessed with what went into and, even more so, came out of their bodies. Tracking the movement of their feces—just as they tracked the ins and outs of capital, the ups and downs of markets—was, for them, a way of negotiating chaos and control, fragment and whole.
Clerks countered their frayed nerves with a regime of personal hygiene, exercise, and self-diagnosis. Their nausea and headaches were acknowledgements that the world was being turned upside down, but that they had what it took to put it right. Self-observation and self-making churned out far more neurotics than farm or factory work ever had. Nervous bodies resonated with the times, embodying in the human the nervous fluctuations of capital.
The book abounds with such nifty echoes between persons and profits, which Zakim draws out of magazines, pamphlets, and other 19th-century texts. He tells how penmanship and bookkeeping helped synthesize market equilibrium and movement, individuality and universality. These were also the poles that clerks navigated in their own lives, uprooted from the soil and untethered from family and tradition. Leveraging newly acquired skills, they personified the market’s opportunism and availed themselves of its contractual freedoms. As society was increasingly embedded in grids of costs and benefits, clerks made profit-seeking appear natural, or, at least, more current than old-fashioned values like honor or fidelity.
Consider life insurance. By transforming wages into generation-spanning assets (which also functioned as contingency funds in the event of death), life insurance—as adopted by the clerks and as sold by them to others—purported to turn the unstable market into a source of stability. A properly insured society would no longer depend on the good will of family and friends, since everyone would be in a position to help themselves. What’s more, a salable insurance policy, with its growing credit, would transform its owner into an asset of significant value. This, for Zakim, was the epitome of the human refashioned as capital.
Although Zakim’s account of life insurance ends there, it is important to remember that this refashioning cuts both ways. Since the “risk” of long-living retirees is such a headache for life insurance, as discussed above, it is clear that assigning life a market value in no way guarantees that this value will be high.
Zakim doesn’t dwell on the oppressive aspects of human capital. Determined to demonstrate that all capital is in some sense human, he focuses, instead, on the ways in which the bearers of human capital harmonize with capitalism and animate markets through their personal ambition. However inspiring this assessment, it probably will not resonate with readers forced to compete for jobs in a system that bears down upon them. Zakim’s book is best read alongside the others reviewed here, whose emphasis is, rather, on how the market—human creation though it is—dominates its creators through the value it assigns them.
The next book examines the building blocks of human capital—namely, personal data—to reveal just how invasive is capital’s power. If Zakim’s clerks are distant in time and Murphy’s Bangladeshi girls removed in space, data is inescapably part of all of our lives. It’s what we grasp for when asked to identify ourselves.
First, we state our name, age, and gender. Then, our profession and nationality, race and religion. Prodded further, we delve into our intelligence and education, tastes and hobbies, skills and sensibilities. For authenticity’s sake, we might let slip a neurosis or two. We curate this data with an eye to the goals it might help us accomplish, and we relate to others on the basis of theirs. We find it creepy, though, when offered products or enjoined toward causes because of this data. We feel seen through or reduced by new media in ways that seem unprecedented.
Yet, according to Colin Koopman, data collection, interpretation, and mobilization are far from new. In How We Became Our Data, Koopman dates these practices back to the first decades of the 20th century, when information-gathering technologies were developed in the United States. These technologies have fastened individuals to prefabricated categories (like age, gender, and religion, as well as other categories listed above), solidifying us as persons of a certain kind. Koopman examines data collection, as well as the human adoption of such data to represent individual identity, in order to make such practices visible before data becomes our second nature.
Understanding human capital alerts us to the uphill battle we face, as we age, to maintain our value—especially as we are deemed a risk to others.
Koopman begins his story with birth-registration campaigns—early 20th-entury efforts to encourage the voluntary registration of newborns and the standardization of their demographic classifications—by examining such registration’s attendant forms, protocols, and audits. He continues with the tax, wage, and benefit tracking of Social Security numbers, the creation of which likewise involved massive information harvesting. Having stabilized identities on the basis of pure convention (that is, random numbers), Social Security numbers were adopted by one organization after another for diverse purposes.
How We Became Our Data also probes personality psychology: a different mode of data collection, which added depth by classifying individuals according to gradated traits that could potentially apply to anyone.
Koopman’s analysis reaches a crescendo when the story turns to personal data’s implications. He invites us to think about the thousands of boxes we’ve ticked over our lifetimes, beside which are written the conventional words of racial taxonomy. The data collected from these boxes is used to build correlations, supporting all manner of political and economic programs.
Koopman revisits the early days of real-estate appraisal: a profession that required predicting residential real estate’s value as well as its “obsolescence.” Replacing an earlier terminology of “undesirables” and “nuisances” with newly collected technical data, real-estate appraisers substituted moral reproach of such undesirables with bland accounts of a seemingly natural process. Real-estate appraisal data thus coded racism as neutral and scientific, preparing the ground for government redlining.
Unlike Murphy and Zakim, Koopman makes no explicit reference to human capital. The term implies self-creation, while his concern is with the political and economic institutions that initiated the collection and consolidation of human capital’s components—namely data—for their own purposes. But his descriptions of the care with which we manage our data invoke human capital: Why would we willingly curate and display our data, if not to increase our relative value?
Even as we feel estranged from such classification (we consider ourselves to be so much more than our data or human capital), we cultivate, display, and leverage our socially recognized arsenal of valued traits—no matter how worrying the manner in which they were consolidated—whenever circumstances call for it.
Human capital, then, is something other than the sum total of our ambition. Like other kinds of capital, its value is set by market dynamics that support a larger process of accumulation. As successful as we may be in increasing our human capital relative to that of others, we are unable to determine how much we are worth to our society. And yet our competitive realities obfuscate society’s final judgment by making us obsess about our relative standing.
The idea of human lives as surplus—superfluous to society rather than being its building blocks—offends our robust sense of self. This holds true despite our social identities being no more than the assemblage of prefabricated categories. In designating a selfhood unique yet classifiable, a personal project of self-creation yet a collective subject of political policy, we end up with human capital.
At best, we take human capital as impetus to apply ourselves and as an indication that society values our skills and talents. At worst, we feel oppressed by constantly having to demonstrate our worth in a matrix of investments and returns. It’s hard enough seeing our parents enter the class of people constituting a “longevity risk,” let alone contemplating such a future for us all. Understanding human capital alerts us to the uphill battle we face, as we age, to maintain our value—especially as, slowly but surely, we are deemed a risk to others.
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In November the team at Publish What You Fund began a methodology review process following the launch of the 2020 Aid Transparency Index. Our aim was to update the Index assessment approach in order to ensure we adapt to new developments and continue to raise the bar for aid transparency.
We initially went through an intensive internal research and reflection process to produce a set of proposed changes. We then held a series of consultation meetings with key stakeholders in the Index (including the donors we assess), and carried out an online survey of aid data use and needs. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the consultations so far for their valuable feedback. Following these consultations, we developed a proposal for the changes to the approach, which we shared publicly for comment and input.
In this consultation paper we took into consideration the feedback received so far to further develop our thinking and to set out in more technical detail how the proposed test changes will be carried out. The consultation paper was made available for public comment from 8th March for four weeks (concluding on 6th April, after the Easter weekend).
The online version of this document (Google doc) is now closed for viewing only.
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Colorado Springs: L 6-4 (51-42, 1st place)
Matt Miller went 4-for-5, but the inability of the players hitting in front him to get on base resulted in Miller not getting any RBI's. Dan Ortmeier and Christian Colonel had two hits each as well, but it was not enough to lead the Sky Sox to victory. Adam Eaton had another quality start for the Springs, allowing three runs on seven hits in six innings - a very respectable outing considering the park in which he was pitching. However, Ben Julianel was unable to hold serve, as he allowed two runs on three hits in the seventh inning. Ryan Speier pitched a scoreless inning of relief. The Sky Sox have lost eight of their last ten, and they're seeing their lead over Salt Lake shrink more and more by the day.
Samuel Deduno continues to mow over the competition. He outdueled Angels' prospect Trevor Reckling, as both starters tossed seven-inning complete games. Deduno allowed only five baserunners (three hits, two walks) and struck out five. He also posted a 12-4 GO/FO ratio. Ryan Harvey hit a two-run homer off of Reckling in the second inning to finish off the scoring for the day; Daniel Mayora drove in the other run for the Drillers.
The bullpen was the highlight of the second game, as Matt Baumgardner, Edgmer Escalona, and Matthew Reynolds combined to pitch four scoreless innings to preserve the win. Mike Paulk had two hits, and every other Driller had one hit with the exception of Brad Corley, who was 0-for-3.
Modesto: L 1-0 (9-14, 9.0 GB)
Cory Riordan was brilliant for the Nuts, but he did not get any help whatsoever from the offense, who only had four hits. Riordan pitched all eight innings and gave up just a run on five hits and a walk, and struck out nine batters. However, he was outdueled by San Jose's Scott Barnes. Mike Repec hit a double, while Wilin Rosario, Maikol Gonzalez, and Michael Mitchell each had hits for Modesto.
Asheville: W 9-5 (16-6, 1st place)
Kiel Roling had a two-home run game - one of the three-run variety and the other scoring two - to lead the Tourists' offense in an explosion of sorts...well, for them, at least. Delta Cleary and Ryan Peisel each had a multi-hit game as well. Back to Roling - he is now hitting .348 with 9 home runs and 38 RBI and is having a heck of a second half so far. He is certainly climbing his way up the ladder in terms of Rockies' prospects. Parker Frazier pitched pretty well in six innings - at least, as well as you need to when given nine runs in the first two innings. All of Frazier's runs were allowed in the first two innings as well, and he really settled in after that and ended up striking out five against no walks.
Tri-City: L 4-3 (18-10, 1st place)
Kent Matthes and Orlando Sandoval each had two hits for the Dust Devils, but they weren't able to do a whole lot else offensively as they took the loss. Starting pitcher Bradley McAtee allowed all four of his runs in a disastrous third inning in which he allowed a leadoff walk, two singles, and two doubles before he could even record an out. A double play helped him get out of the inning, but by then the damage had already been done.
Casper: L 9-4 (7-15, 7.0 GB)
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Offense still has work to do with batting average - The Denver Post
Is the best yet to come for the Rockies offense? Jim Tracy thinks so.
Hawpe, Marquis humbled by All-Star nods | ColoradoRockies.com: News
I bet Hawpe really wants to start the game with all the injuries to the "starters" in the NL outfield.
Paige: Feather in cap within Dan's grip - The Denver Post
1: Determine Clint Hurdle's fate during the first-half of the season - check
2: Determine Dan O'Dowd's fate during the second half of the season - yet to be done
Corollary to 2: O'Dowd needs to do this, that, and the other thing.
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For some, Johannesburg is nothing more than a gateway city for Cape Town and the wonders of Kruger National Park. But to simply land and leave does a disservice to the neighbourhoods rebranding as centres of cool, like Braamfontein and Melville. It is possible to experience all the things Jo’burg has to offer – good food, live music, incredible nature and fascinating history – while staying safe. Once you arrive in Johannesburg, your only regret will be that you’re not staying longer.
Don’t stop in Johannesburg for just a few hours.
Instead, allow enough time. In the inner-city alone there are several attractions that require at least a couple of hours each, including the Apartheid Museum, Constitution Hill (the former prison where Nelson Mandela was once held), and the Carlton Centre, the city’s tallest building with views from the 50th floor.
Then, there are the half- and full-day activities. Take a guided tour of Soweto, a township south of the city centre which is both one of the city’s most impoverished areas and one of the most historically and culturally important. Most tours include a visit to Mandela House, a museum in Nelson Mandela’s former home dedicated to the life of the revolutionary and peace activist, and Hector Pieterson Museum, dedicated to the anti-Apartheid Soweto Uprising.
Other must-dos about an hour’s drive from the city include the Cradle of Humankind, a World Heritage Site that holds around 40 per cent of the world’s hominid fossils, and the Rhino & Lion Nature Reserve in Krugersdorp where you can see the big five.
Don’t forget to explore the city’s beautiful green spaces.
Instead, spend a day exploring the manicured grounds of the Johannesburg Botanical Garden, free to enter, are ideal for a picnic or afternoon soaking up the sun. Walter Sisulu National Botanical Garden, a 30-minute drive north of the city, is a peaceful place to spend a few hours hiking the trails past waterfalls.
Don’t don't make yourself an easy target for thieves. Crimes affecting tourists are generally opportunistic.
Instead, plan the route to your destination before you leave your hotel so you can stride confidently in the right direction. Don’t stare at your phone while ignoring what’s happening around you, don’t walk alone at night, leave expensive jewellery at home and keep gadgets like cameras tucked out of site when not in use.
Don’t explore iffy neighbourhoods alone.
Instead, spend time in trendy neighbourhoods such as Melville, Braamfontein, Craighall, Linden and Parkhurst. Braamfontein is where you’ll find the Wits Art Museum showcasing historic and contemporary African art and Neighbourgoods Market, an open-air food and design market. In Melville, the block where 3rd and 4th avenues intersect with 7th Street is the place to be: don’t miss Six Cocktail Bar, Ant Café, Bread & Roses, or the shopping at Bounty Hunters and Rock, Paper, No Scissors.
Don’t miss Johannesburg’s live music scene. On Friday and Saturday nights, the city comes alive with tunes from every genre you can imagine.
Instead, after dinner in the hip up-and-coming Maboneng district – try Little Addis Cafe for Ethiopian cuisine or The Blackanese for African-Asian fusion – head to nearby Living Room for live DJ sets with a view. Or head to Braamfontein, home of The Orbit, widely recognised as Johannesburg’s best jazz bar. Kick on around the corner at Kitchener’s Carvery Bar, a lively, unpretentious drinking den in a former colonial hotel.
Don’t bother hiring a car – Johannesburg traffic is notoriously bad – and don’t take the confusing public mini-bus system.
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The global Cardiac Safety Services Market was valued at USD 384.9 million in 2018 and is expected to reach USD 895.7 million by the year 2026, at a CAGR of 11.0%. Cardiac safety is one of the major causes of the Clinical trial delay and drug abandonment. Cardiac Safety services are essential in monitoring the abnormalities of the heart.
However, the rise in the R&D expenditure in the pharmaceutical & biopharmaceutical industry and increased R&D activities, and the increasing number of clinical trials are fuelling the growth of the market. Also, the advent of new technologies in the cardiac services market is offering growth opportunities for players in the market. However, the high cost of cardiac safety evaluation is hindering the growth of the market.
WHO has reported that Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the primary cause of death globally and have estimated about 17.9 million lives each year. The Asia Pacific region has obtained remarkable growth due to the government initiatives for clinical trials and also due to research and development in drug development etc.
Key Coverage of the Report
- Region and country-wise assessment from the period 2019-2026. For the study, 2019-2019 has been utilized as historical data, 2018 as the base year, and 2019-2026, has been derived as forecasts
- Regional Competitors clinical pipeline analysis
- Demand and Supply GAP Analysis
- Market share analysis of the key industry players
- Strategic recommendations for the new entrants
- Market forecasts for a minimum of 6 years of all the mentioned segments, and the regional markets
- Market Trends (Drivers, Constraints, Opportunities, Threats, Challenges, and recommendations)
- Strategic recommendations in key business segments based on the market estimations
- Competitive landscaping mapping the key common trends
- Company profiling with detailed strategies, financials, and recent developments
Salient Trends of the Cardiac Safety Services Market
- In the year 2019, OMRON Healthcare, Inc. had launched a new device for blood pressure monitoring; it was the first wearable blood pressure monitor and was a breakthrough in digital health service. It helps in monitoring the blood pressure regularly and sharing the data with their doctors to advance their treatment for better outcomes and also to manage hypertension.
- In the year 2019, Kang Lee from the (University of Toronto, Canada), had to discovered a method for estimating blood pressure using a smartphone camera. Here a person does a 30-second scan using the front-facing camera. It uses reflected light to detect blood flow under the skin. Combining this information with real-time B.P. measurements, researchers developed a method known as transdermal optical imaging for measuring B.P. based on a facial scan. The device was capable to predict the systolic, diastolic, and pulse pressures with an accuracy of 94.81% to 95.75%.
- FDA, in the year 2019, had cleared a Patient-monitoring device form Biobeat it is a patch and watch for measurement of blood pressure, oxygenation, and heart rate in hospitals, clinics, and at home. It is based on reflective photoplethysmography (PPG). The devices use several LED sources, wavelengths, and proprietary algorithms to receive the PPG signal free of background noise. Healthcare providers can obtain patient information through an app. The watch can be worn for three days, and the patch is designed for single use of up to 10 days. The patch and the watch shows similar results.
- The InBody USA in the year 2019, had announced the launch of the BPBIO 320S for the U.S. Market. The BPBIO 320S is a professional, fully automated, self-testing blood pressure device. InBody use technology to raise the standard in ease of use, accuracy, and reproducibility for bioelectrical impedance analysis testing and also to improve health
Companies considered and profiled in this market study
Biotrial (France), Banook Group (France & Canada), Bioclinica (a subsidiary of Cinven, US), Certara L.P. (U.S.), Celerion, Inc. (U.S.), ERT, Inc. (U.S.), Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (U.S.), Medpace Holdings, Inc. (U.S.), Ncardia AG (Belgium), Richmond Pharmacology (U.K.), PhysioStim (France), Shanghai Medicilon Inc. (China), Pharmaceutical Product Development LLC (U.S.), SGS S.A. (Switzerland), BioTelemetry, Inc. (U.S.), IQVIA (U.S.), OMRON Healthcare, Inc (Japan), Biobeat (U.S.) InBody USA (U.S.),and Microsoft (U.S.) are the key players in the Cardiac Safety Services market.
- By the Product and service segment, ECG or Holter devices have obtained the largest market share in the year 2018 of about 31.5% due to the increase in the cardiac abnormalities among the individuals because of lifestyle habits like smoking, consumption of alcohol, and also because of the rise of geriatric population.
- By End-use segment, pharmaceutical companies have obtained a remarkable growth largest market value of about USD 171.8 million in the year 2018 and are expected to rise with a CAGR of 11.2% in the forecast due to a rise in the incidences of cardiovascular diseases.
- As per the application segment integrated Standalone devices have obtained the highest growth as it provides high-quality centralized safety clinical trials for cardiac safety services
- The Asia Pacific held a market share of 19.3% in the year 2018 due to a rise in patient pool in the region and also due to lifestyle habits like smoking. Asia Pacific is expected to rise by 2026, with a CAGR of 12.1%.
Segments covered in the report
This report forecasts revenue growth at a global, regional & country level, and provides an analysis of the market trends in each of the sub-segments from 2019-2026 For the purpose of this study, Reports and Data have segmented the Cardiac Safety Services Market on the basis of products and service, applications end use, and region
Products and services Outlook (Revenue in Million USD; 2019–2030)
- ECG/Holter Measurement
- Blood Pressure Measurement
- Cardiovascular Imaging
- Thorough Q.T. Studies
- Other Services
Applications Outlook (Revenue in Million USD; 2019–2030)
- Integrated Services
- Standalone Services
End Use Outlook (Revenue in Million USD; 2019–2030)
- Pharmaceutical Companies
- Biopharmaceutical Companies
- Contract Research Organizations
Regional Outlook (Revenue in Million USD; 2019–2030)
- North America
- Rest of the Europe
- Asia Pacific
- Rest of Asia-Pacific
- Middle East & Africa
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Chairman of Parliament’s Finance Committee says government may struggle to pay salaries should the House refuse to pass the $1 billion loan agreement.
According to Kwaku Kwarteng, the loan before Parliament will also assist the country meet its debt obligations.
The Minority in Parliament has stalled the passage of the loan for weeks now.
According to them, the government has not said what the funds would be used for.
They, therefore, want government to provide the Committee with full documentation on what exactly the money would be used for to enable them to make a meaningful decision.
But the Obuasi West legislator insists that the loan is critical for the country’s short-term survival.
“We will need to pay our salaries we will need to service our debt. There are things to do right now that require a facility like this to be procured.
“That is why some of us support government here and hope that we will really deal with our debt matters that are not recent and they have been piling up over the years that we would come together and formulate reformed actions that are needed to deal with this once and for all,” he told JoyNews on Tuesday.
The Finance Ministry is seeking Parliament’s approval for a $750 million loan facility agreement between AfreximBank and a $250 million loan agreement from a syndication of banks to finance Capital and Growth-related expenditures in the 2022 budget.
The loan, according to government, is critical to fixing the economy in the short term before a bailout can be agreed upon with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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A member of pressure group, OccupyGhana, Sydney Casely-Hayford has described Auditor-General, Johnson Akuamoah Asiedu, as being lame for his continuous failure to issue disallowances and surcharges to individuals and institutions cited in alleged financial infractions.
According to Mr Casely-Hayford, the office of the Auditor-General was making significant progress under its former head, Daniel Yaw Domelevo, however, the current one, has so far failed to perform to expectation.
He reiterated threats by the group to sue the Audit Service for its continuous failure to issue disallowances and surcharges.
This comes days after the organisation served a final demand notice to the Attorney-General‘s (A-G) office for information on the disallowance and surcharges on previous audit reports by the Auditor-General.
“There is something fundamentally wrong with an institution that doesn’t do what it is supposed to do, it can’t be right. We can’t sit and somebody comes to tell us you have cost the nation 12.21 billion and doesn’t do anything about it”, Mr Casely-Hayford told Korku Lumor on Class FM’s 5o5 News, Wednesday, 6 July 2022.
He added that the the group is still awaiting a response from the Auditor-General’s office in order to decide whether or not to proceed to court.
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If there has been a material and substantial change in the circumstances of the child, three years since the last child support order and a difference in the month child support amount by either 20% or $100 from what is currently ordered, then you are entitled to ask the Court to increase the amount of monthly child support ordered.
This cannot be done by a simple agreement by the parties; a new order must be signed and approved by the Court for the increased amount to go into effect. You can achieve this by either working with the Office of the Attorney General or hiring a family law attorney to file a modification suit for you.
The party who receives the monthly child support (called the Obligee) can contact their local Office of the Attorney General Child Support office to request that a review be done and increased child support be ordered. The upside to using the Office of the Attorney General is that the services offered are free and can be done without hiring an attorney. The downside is that the Office of the Attorney General is inundated with thousands of cases per year and it can take some time before your case is set for trial on the court’s docket for a child support modification.
The potentially faster method would be retaining private counsel. An experienced family law attorney will be able to tell you how much of an increase in child support you can expect to receive. Private counsel will also likely be able to set the matter for a hearing faster than the Office of the Attorney General would be able to do so.
If you think you are entitled to an increase in child support, contact the Ramos Law Group, PLLC and schedule a consultation to discuss the facts of your case.
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The Tokyo 2020 Olympics served as the big stage for the world’s biggest stars to promote the importance of mental health in sports.
One of the faces of the Tokyo Games, Simone Biles, showed how Olympians are not infallible and had to prioritize their mental health by withdrawing from four events amid the pressure of becoming the most decorated gymnast in the sport’s history.
Though sports psychology has been practiced for decades, Philippine sports has only started to keep up with elite types of training in the last five years, which includes prioritizing the athletes’ mental health.
Rappler talks to Hidilyn Diaz’s sports psychologist Karen Trinidad and Philippine boxing team’s mental performance coach Marcus Manalo on how a sound mind has helped Filipino athletes rake in Olympic medals during the country’s historic romp in Tokyo.
Bringing it to awareness
Mental health historically has not been an easy topic to discuss publicly due to the stigma of “something is wrong” that is attached to psychology.
According to Trinidad, who has been working in the Philippine Sports Commission’s (PSC) psychology unit since 2008, her department was not given much attention because of the hesitation of athletes and coaches to visit their offices.
Psychologists were also the first to be slashed in the Philippine delegations to major tournaments when there are accreditation limitations, but the breakthrough came in the 2017 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia when sports official saw its importance.
“Because of the ongoing perception, they thought that they didn’t need psychologists and needed more physical therapists and masseuses, but when sports psychologists joined the delegation in 2017, officials saw how much sports psychology helped because the anxiety was very high,” said Trinidad in a mix of English and Filipino.
In the country’s hosting of the 2019 SEA Games where the Philippines emerged overall champion, the PSC also assigned members of its psychology unit to the different national teams.
For Manalo, he tries to change the perspective of athletes on mental toughness by using the term “psychological flexibility” instead.
“Like you’re expected to be tough all the time. Parang ganoon yung society: ‘Oh dapat hindi ka kinakabahan, dapat walang pressure, hindi ka dapat nape-pressure.’ So, parang ganoon yung common notion natin and it actually doesn’t help dahil it makes you rigid,” explained Manalo.
(You’re expected to be tough all the time. Society would say: ‘You’re not supposed to feel nervous, you’re not supposed to feel pressured.’ That’s the common notion and it actually doesn’t help because it makes you rigid.)
‘“But the problem there is that’s part of the human experience, like these unpleasant emotions are part of the human experience. What we resist, persists”
Instead of denying emotions borne out of challenging experiences, Manalo encourages athletes to identify and respond to them.
“Even if there are unpleasant emotions or unpleasant experiences, you can still choose how you’re going to respond, you can still choose to perform well, and you don’t have to feel good in order to perform well,” added Manalo.
Motivation, commitment, and life skills
After winning the Olympic silver medal in the 2016 Rio Games, Diaz needed to thrive with the high pressure of returning to the quadrennial meet with no less than a gold medal.
“Motivation is important. You have to establish why you are doing this. Hidy’s why is very clear because she wanted the gold, specifically,” shared Trinidad, who also encouraged her to believe that she can achieve it.
Trinidad shared that Diaz first had to establish the right mindset by defining what is failure and success in her athletic career.
From there, it helped the country’s weightlifting queen become steadfast in her “why” and she managed to build a system that showed her commitment and she learned other life skills while on her road to Tokyo.
“It was God, country, and the next generation for Hidy, since she didn’t want to retire without a successor, that’s why she built a gym,” said Trinidad of Diaz’s commitments.
Diaz then learned how to cook and took care of a French bulldog named Hiro, who eventually died during the pandemic.
But more importantly, the Philippine’s lone Olympic gold medalist learned proper self-talk and anxiety management that bore fruit in her Tokyo Olympic stint.
There’s always something to be thankful for
Both Trinidad and Manalo agreed gratitude has greatly helped the athletes become more resilient and positive amid the challenges of the Olympic dream.
Manalo would have weekly sessions with the Philippine boxers over Zoom and would ask them to journal in order to help them develop a mental health routine.
He would also ask them prompts: “What are the things you improved on? What are the things that you’re thankful for? What are your wins for the day? What are your wins this week?”
“It helps the mind to be better at positive scanning, because by default, our mind is so good at negative scanning like it’s so easy for us to see the negative things happening, right?” said Manalo
“But with gratitude, it trains you to ask: ‘What are the things that I am grateful for today?’ Kahit ‘yung simpleng nag-deliver lang for you or nag-prepare ng food mo, pinapasalamatan mo na. So ngayon mas nagiging sensitive ka to positive scanning.”
(But with gratitude, it trains you to ask: ‘What are the things that I am grateful for today?’ You’ll be thankful for the person who delivered something for you or prepared your food, so you’ll be more sensitive to positive scanning.)
With mental health preparation a vital part of an athlete’s training, it bears fruit during performance itself as proven by the Philippine boxing team winning three of the country’s four Olympic medals.
Manalo added that they practice mindfulness, meditation and breath awareness, which are helpful techniques during competition.
“The untrained mind will just be very reactive. So if your mind is untrained, when you get nervous and pressured, your performance is going to be a reaction to those feelings,” explained Manalo.
“But if you’re able to train your mind to recognize and accept the pressure, the anxiety, even the fear, that these are part of the competition process, then they have the capacity to manage it.”
For Trinidad, she has asked athletes to write down five things they are grateful for everyday for 21 days, but the challenge is to not repeat anything listed.
She shared that she experienced athletes coming back to her saying that they have nothing else to write, but the sports psychologist trains them to be grateful for the simplest things.
“That’s the idea – even the simple things you have to appreciate. In crunch time, the basic and simple things are the ones neglected, but you really have to look at it from a different perspective,” said Trinidad.
“So from a habit, it becomes a lifestyle then it becomes a mindset.”
More than being an athlete
A part of taking care of an athlete’s mental health, especially after major tournaments like the Olympics, is establishing that being an athlete is just a part of their identity.
“Common iyan sa mga high-level athletes dahil talagang sobrang dedicated and determined nila to train for their sport, to get to the highest level minsan mayroong mga ibang aspects ng buhay na siguro hindi rin nila nabibigyan pansin.”
(It’s common to high-level athletes because they are very dedicated and determined to train for their sport to get to the highest level, so sometimes, there are other parts of their lives that are not given enough attention.)
Trinidad reminds Diaz that she plays several different roles in her life like being a daughter, a friend, and a girlfriend and that being an athlete is just one of it.
“We explain it to athletes, especially Olympians that there is life after this,” said Trinidad, who also suggested that athletes take a break from training before mapping out their next plans of action with the elite coaching team.
The Olympic medalists – Diaz, Nesthy Petecio, Carlo Paalam, and Eumir Marcial – have been models of pursuing other roles outside of sports by joining the military.
The Association of Boxing Alliances in the Philippines (ABAP) is also in partnership with University of Baguio, which provides the boxers scholarships and the national federation also gets academic tutors for the athletes.
It takes a village
It takes a village to look out for an athlete’s mental health.
Manalo, who is also the team head of the country’s Olympic boxing squad, and PSC psychology unit head Trinidad believe that everyone has to get involved in taking care of the athlete’s mental wellness.
“I think it’s systemic and we have to do better to give importance to other aspects of their lives and it’s just not fully dedicated to a sport. To be dedicated solely to a sport, it increases the likelihood that your identity is just tied to a single thing then it ends or you get injured, it’s extremely hard to adjust,” said Manalo.
Both mental health experts have brought awareness to their respective teams on the importance of mental well-being.
During Diaz’s Olympic gold-medal performance, Trinidad shared that only three coaches were allowed to be with the Filipina weightlifter and she was assigned to the front of the stage.
Trinidad informed the coaches on what to tell Diaz before she goes up on stage and was in constant communication with sports nutritionist Jeaneth Aro.
“So she has instructions on what to say and when to say it. So for example before Hidy goes up, she will say: ‘You can and you are prepared,’” shared Trinidad.
According to Manalo, elite athletes who use their platforms to share their testimonies on mental health and advocate for it have helped make the public see the value of overall wellness.
“Even these high-level athletes meron din pala silang na-experience na difficulties. Sometimes ‘yung perception natin parang superhumans sila eh. Pero they struggle rin pala,” said Manalo.
“So nagkakaroon ng understanding ngayon na they have psychological needs as well na kailangan ma-satisfy. Kailangan din nila ‘yung rest, kailangan din nila ‘yung family time, kailangan din nila ‘yung time off from their sport, meron din silang need to feel loved and cared for and to be listened to, and if they need help, they can seek support and seek for help.”
(Even these high-level athletes experience difficulties. Sometimes we perceive them to be superhumans. But now, there’s an understanding that they have psychological needs that must be satisfied. They also need rest, family time, time off from their sport, they have a need to feel loved and cared for and to be listened to, and if they need help, they can seek support and seek for help.) – Rappler.com | <urn:uuid:eaaead57-b111-43fb-96e3-4f1bd4266306> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.rappler.com/sports/how-mental-health-keys-athletes-victory-even-in-life/ | 2023-09-22T12:50:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506399.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922102329-20230922132329-00798.warc.gz | en | 0.960393 | 2,522 |
Manhattan high-rise living 5th Avenue – semestrální projekt
Manhattan is a laboratory of architecture.
It is a very artificial place made by humans.
Nowadays it is possible to grow a new human being in a laboratory. This being so, we can develop a new type of architecture a very natural one in a completely unnatural environment – Manhattan.
The designed building combines two concepts – stacking and layering of different typologies and the redefinition of the Theorem from creating independent platforms to the vertically connected ones.
The aim is to conserve the conveinience of air and privacy as well as to enable the possibilities for creating public space at the intersecting points.
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Sedation, analgesia and anaesthesia in the radiology department, second edition
Sedation techniques, together with good analgesia and sympathetic, supportive patient management can improve the patients’ experience by minimising the negative effects of the intervention and optimising patient outcome.
Safe and effective analgesia and sedation should be delivered by an appropriately trained and credentialed team with good access to anaesthetics, pre-procedure assessment, sedation plan and checklist, with appropriate monitoring and availability of resuscitation equipment and reversal agents. This document provides a detailed overview of the issues and will assist departments in reviewing their policies and those responsible for commissioning healthcare to ensure that safe practices are in place.
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A spring of extremes — first cold, dry and windy, then hot, dry and windy — has resulted in weeds getting a head start in many soybean fields in the soybean-growing areas of Western Canada.
While wind and cold temperatures delayed burnoff applications at the start of the season, questions about when to spray in extreme, hot conditions have become common with the arrival of a major heat wave over the last week.
“The heat of the day is challenging, as if you’re up over 28 degrees you can get additional crop injury and plants start to shut down,” explains Harold Brown, technical service specialist with BASF in eastern Manitoba, in this weed control-themed Soybean School episode.
From a temperature perspective, early morning and late evening are usually more ideal than the heat of the day. But when we’re talking about managing hard-to-control weeds in soybeans, such as glyphosate-resistant kochia, the conversation often involves dicamba, and dicamba is at risk of drift due to inversions.
“We’re saying don’t spray in the heat of the day, so maybe in the cooler parts of the evening or early morning, although you can have some challenges with inversions, so there’s not a simple answer,” notes Brown. “Maybe the best thing is to delay spraying if the weeds are really small until after this hot weather has gone by.”
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The University of Lagos (UNILAG) has announced that is now open for application into a Master’s program in Hydrographic Surveying for the 2023/2024 Academic Session.
About M.Sc. in Hydrographic Surveying
This Master’s program is designed to train students in the necessary skill set needed for an excellent career in Maritime Mapping, Data Interpretation, and its Acquisition.
The program also aims to help boost Nigeria’s maritime capabilities to be at par with international standards while simultaneously solving the problem of talent and professional deficiencies in the Maritime sector.
The M.Sc. in Hydrographic Surveying will be hosted by UNILAG’s Institute of Maritime Studies (IMS).
The curriculum is modeled in accordance with the guidelines put forth by the International Hydrographic Organisation (IHO).
Faculty and Industry Collaborations
This Master’s program has a robust faculty, which comprises renowned academicians with years of field experience.
Additionally, seasoned professionals working within the Maritime sector are to contribute to providing wholistic knowledge to students within the program.
These professionals work within organizations such as:
- Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA)
- Nigerian Navy Hydrographic Office
- Nigerian Merchant Marine
- Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA)
- Several oil and gas companies.
Eligibility Criteria for UNILAG M.Sc. in Hydrographic Surveying
Interested individuals should possess the following in order to be considered eligible for the program:
- Possess at least a Second-Class (Lower Division) Bachelor’s Degree from UNILAG or any other accredited university. The Degree would be from any of the following:
- Marine Sciences
- Physical Sciences
- Earth Sciences
- Have met all UNILAG’s postgraduate admission prerequisites.
Timeframe for Programme Completion | Full-Time & Part-Time
Minimum Duration: 3 semesters
Maximum Duration: 6 semesters
Minimum Duration: 4 semesters
Maximum Duration: 8 semesters
How to Apply
Interested individuals are to send their applications to the UNILAG postgraduate studies portal.
The UNILAG M.Sc. in Hydrographic Surveying program offers aspiring students a chance to chase a career in the Maritime sector.
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Dear friends and allies,
Today, we share some bittersweet news: After an extraordinary 13+ years, Reboot will be closing its doors.
Since 2010, we have sought to tackle structural injustice across sectors and issues including global development, participatory democracy, humanitarian aid, economic justice, press freedom, immigrant rights, criminal justice, electoral integrity, public health, education, and more. In this time, our ongoing political education and grappling with our own positionality led us to experiment with various approaches: We designed campaigns, organized communities, launched new initiatives, built coalitions, facilitated co-creation, and ran programs in over 30 countries. And we learned a lot about the politics and processes of transformation.
While our theories of change and tactics evolved, our purpose was unwavering: To amplify the voices and realize the dreams of those who have been systematically silenced and excluded from positions of power. We have proudly incubated a Presidential global human rights initiative, a media innovation lab, a hub for participatory democracy, and supported over 150 efforts for dignity and justice. Along the way, our work picked up some awards, as well as coverage from outlets like Al Jazeera, The Atlantic, CNN, Fast Company, The New York Times, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and more.
We could only have done this work with the passion and support of visionary, heart-led partners like you. We are so deeply grateful for our collaboration, and for the opportunity to imagine, learn, and build together.
While we are sharing this news now, this milestone has been several years in the making. We’ve always seen Reboot as a vehicle to drive change on issues we care about, and to study and practice different ways of doing so. But our ambitions and curiosities eventually outgrew this container. Over the last few years, we contemplated various paths for transition, ultimately deciding on an intentional wind-down. This week marks the end of that journey.
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LEES CREEK — With Christmas just a little over two weeks away, we’re reminded, ‘tis the season for giving.
Wednesday night, the Washington Lady Blue Lions gave new head coach Samantha Leach an early present in the form of a 55-51 victory over the East Clinton Lady Astros.
‘Twas Leach’s first career victory as a head coach.
Despite being double and triple and even quadruple-teamed at times, sophomore Hannah Haithcock was the game’s leading scorer for Washington with 20 points. Haithcock had one three-point field goal.
Sophomore Tabby Woods reached double figures with 12 points and another sophomore, Bre Taylor, scored eight points, including connecting on two three-point field goals.
Freshman Rayana Burns had seven points and 10 assists.
Paige Lilly led East Clinton with 15 points.
Kaitlyn Durbin scored nine for the Astros, while Lacy Peterman and McKenzie Campbell each scored seven points.
“My girls came out and were definitely ready to play,” Leach said. “We were fired up and ready to go.
“Basketball is a game of runs and East Clinton responded,” Leach said. “It was a close game pretty much the entire time. It wasn’t always pretty, but, a win is a win.
“I’m very proud of the girls,” Leach said. “They played hard until the end.”
“I thought we played well,” East Clinton head coach Steve Gerber said. “We were coming off a tough loss at Hillsboro on Saturday. I thought the kids had two good days of practice and they had us in a position to win. That’s something we haven’t been in the last couple of years.
“I thought they did a good job of battling and staying in it,” Gerber said. “Once we learn to win, we’re going to be tough.
“We really struggled with our execution early,” Gerber said. “Then, the kids settled down and did what we needed to do. Give Court House credit, they battled and fought and never slowed down on us. They were after us the whole time.”
Washington took a 10-2 lead to start the game.
East Clinton outscored Washington, 12-9 over the final four-plus minutes of the first quarter as the Lady Lions held a 19-14 lead after one.
The Lady Lions cooled off from the field in the second quarter (3 of 13 for 23 percent) and East Clinton hit eight of their 16 field goal attempts.
The Lady Astros took a 31-25 lead into the locker room.
Campbell hit a three for East Clinton right out of the chute to start the second half, giving the Astros their biggest lead of nine points, 34-25.
With treys from Haithcock and Taylor, Washington began to pull closer to East Clinton.
By the end of the third quarter, East Clinton held a 44-41 advantage.
In the fourth quarter, both teams struggled, offensively.
East Clinton made one field goal (1 of 8, unofficially) to two field goals by Washington (2 of 16, unofficially).
Both teams shot well from the foul line.
However, Washington made 10 of 14 free throws in the fourth quarter, to 5 of 8 for East Clinton.
Haithcock was 7 of 9 from the foul line, including 5 of 6 in the fourth quarter.
The teams traded the lead early in the fourth quarter.
Washington took a 49-47 lead with 2:11 to play in the game.
Haithcock’s bucket made it 51-47, before Bre Davis answered for East Clinton.
Leading 52-49 with 6.5 seconds to play, Lilly hit a pair of free throws to pull her team back to within one. Haithcock made 3 of 4 foul shots in the waning seconds to make the final score 55-51.
Washington (1-2 overall, 1-1 SCOL) will host the McClain Lady Tigers Saturday with the j-v game starting at 5:30 p.m.
East Clinton (1-3 overall, 0-2 SCOL) is at Wilmington Saturday at 1 p.m.
In other SCOL action Wednesday, Chillicothe defeated McClain, 44-38, Clinton-Massie beat Hillsboro, 47-32 and Miami Trace topped Wilmington, 52-37.
SCORE BY QUARTERS
W 19 6 16 14 — 55
EC 14 17 13 7 — 51
WASHINGTON — Rayana Burns 3-1-7; Maddy Garrison 0-0-0; Bre Taylor 0 (2)-2-8; Kassidy Hines 0-0-0; Savannah Wallace 1-2-4; Tabby Woods 4-4-12; Shawna Conger 0-0-0; Maddy Jenkins 2-0-4; Hannah Haithcock 5 (1)-7-20. TOTALS — 15 (3)-16-55. Free throw shooting: 16 of 21 for 76 percent. Three-point field goals: Taylor, 2; Haithcock. Field goal shooting: 18 of 56 for 32 percent. Turnovers: 17.
EAST CLINTON — Lacy Peterman 3-1-7; McKenzie Campbell 1 (1)-2-7; Paige Lilly 4-7-15; Kaitlyn Durbin 3-3-9; Bre Davis 3-0-6; Sierra Christian 2-1-5; Rhylee Latrell 0-0-0; Kayla Hall 1-0-2. TOTALS — 17 (1)-14-51. Free throw shooting: 14 of 19 for 74 percent. Field goal shooting: 18 of 43 for 42 percent. Turnovers: 23.
Lady Lions win j-v game over Astros
In Wednesday’s j-v, Washington defeated East Clinton, 48-17.
Washington is now 3-0 overall, 2-0 in the SCOL.
Tahja Pettiford and Taylor Smith shared game high-scoring honors for Washington, each with nine points.
Raven Haithcock and Maddy Garrison each had eight points, Halli Wall had seven points (including the team’s only three-point field goal), Abby Tackage scored three points and Savanna Davis and Sam Sever both added two points.
Rhylee Luttrell led East Clinton with seven points.
Alexis Garen and Miranda Beener both scored four points and Kaitlyn Tobott scored two points for the Astros.
SCORE BY QUARTERS
W 12 15 8 13 — 48
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Survey: HR Hiring Officials Overlooking Qualified Job Seekers
Despite working through a period where qualified candidates seem hard to come by, a recent Beyond.com survey supports the idea that poor communication is contributing to hiring managers and HR officials overlooking potentially qualified candidates. Rich Milgram, CEO of Beyond.com, thinks job descriptions are frequently either vague or overly specific and that HR staff may overlook otherwise qualified applicants due to uncertainty over what hiring managers want. Part of the failure in communications are between HR and corporate recruiters who may miss the more nuanced aspects of a job search or ignore applicants who would fit well but lack a complete list of potentially unnecessary requirements.
According to Beyond.com, a second problem is the use of overly-specific keyword searches by employers who are screening out quality candidates. And one of its recent online surveys showed that 25 percent of a sample pool of 1,700 job seekers said job descriptions were too limited and that recruiters were too uninformed of job requirements.
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The Fluke 2012 Workforce Trends Study, released by electronic test tools provider Fluke Corporation, has found that while nearly 25 percent of the American workforce is set to retire within the next five years, 85 percent of employers are having a difficult time finding candidates with the right skill sets to perform the soon-to-be-vacant jobs.
“We are going to be looking at a lot of people exiting the workforce,” said Randall Ambuehl, training director for Northwest Washington Electrical Industry Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee (JATC) “At the same time we’re going to have to pull in large numbers of people to take their place. What we thought was going to be a training spike five years ago is going to be deeper . . . to meet those needs.”
The study involved educators, trainees, and hiring managers, among other employees to better understand workforce trends. Participants were queried on their perceptions on current job opportunities, the necessary training and experience required to succeed in those jobs, and the methods by which new employees received job training.
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Recticel's long history goes back to 1778 when Jan-Frans Cooppal started a gunpowder mill in Wetteren, on the edge of the Scheldt. The base ingredients were potassium nitrate, sulphur and charcoal mixed with water.
In 1785, a major expansion occurred due to orders from the Austrian government. Between 1787 and 1791, earnings increased fivefold, mainly due to the Brabant revolution and the preparations for the imminent war with France.
In 1792, France declared war on Austria. After a two-years fight, the dispute was settled in favour of the French. Repeated raids by the French armies destroyed part of the factory until it was closed on July 31, 1796.
In 1815, Pieter-Frans Cooppal (son of Jan-Frans Cooppal) and his associate, Philippus-Jozephus Vermoeien, reopened the factory after the Battle of Waterloo.
In 1838, Pieter-Frans Cooppal, aged 76, bought Vermoeien’s share and left the factory to his daughter, Mimi Cooppal, and her husband, Theodoor Teichman. The company began to gain international fame.
In 1847, Cooppal received a royal warrant of appointment (Poudrerie Royal Cooppal).
In 1880, 35 tons of gunpowder exploded, resulting in 10 casualties and the destruction of 13 workplaces. Part of production was transferred to a new plant in Kaulille, Belgium. A new workhouse was established to produce sporting ammunition, which would eventually replace gunpowder.
In 1898, Cooppal opened a new department to produce ether, a solvent used in the new generation of explosives.
In 1914, World War I broke out. Cooppal was a forerunner of social services; when employees were called up, the company continued to pay 50% of their salary to their family.
1919-1939: Between the wars, a new department started producing synthetic and natural resins used as raw materials for the paint and varnish industries.
In 1952, The Royal gunpowder factories of Wetteren bought the licence from Bayer for the production and marketing of polyurethane foam (PU). The Group's first steps in this field consisted of the production and transformation of flexible foams.
Around 1957, other raw material suppliers entered the market, which allowed production leaders and chemists to improve control over productions. This led to the development of polyether foam, used with increasing success in the furniture industry.
As from the early sixties, PU foam rolls became increasingly popular because of their use in the textile industry.
In 1964, the production of rigid polyurethane foam for thermal insulation started, first in blocks and, around 1965, on a laminator.
In 1966, the PU department of Cooppal was renamed to Eurofoam, after a 50/50 joint venture with PRB (Poudrerie Réunies de Belgique).
In 1967, Cooppal merged into PRB. PRB started to acquire other interests in the chemical industry. Recticel, a small Dutch company in the PU business and part of the PRB group, gave its name to all the PU activities of PRB in the seventies.
In 1970, the construction of a whole new plant and the Group's International Development Center started in Wetteren.
In 1985, Société Générale de Belgique, the majority shareholder of PRB, grouped all its chemical activities including Recticel in the company PRB and renamed it Gechem.
In 1992, after several divestments and increased focus on the more profitable PU business, Recticel remained the only activity of the Gechem group. The name Gechem disappeared and was replaced by the name Recticel.
In 1998, Recticel became independent from Société Générale de Belgique. The latter was replaced by Compagnie du Bois Sauvage, as main shareholder, together with management and other investors.
In the nineties, having gradually diversified its activities in the bedding sector, and having played an active role in the consolidation of the European polyurethane industry, the Group expanded its activities in the automotive sector by introducing a new PU based technology for interim trim parts. The Group was then structured around four Business Lines: Flexible Foams, Bedding, Insulation and Automotive.
In 2010, Olivier Chapelle became the new CEO of Recticel. Since then, the Group has undergone significant simplification of its structure, organisation and processes in order to increase its operational efficiency and reduce fixed costs.
In 2015, Recticel successfully increased its share capital by € 75.9 million through a rights issue. The Group divested Kingspan Tarec Industrial Insulation.
In 2016, Recticel acquired 50% of Turvac, producer of vacuum insulated panels.
In 2019, the Recticel Group divested from all Proseat activities.
2020 is a year of major changes. Recticel decides to divest its 50% participation in Eurofoam and the Automotive Interiors activities, so that the Group can focus on its core activities.
On 9 November 2020, Recticel entered into a final agreement with the Swiss-listed Conzzeta AG to acquire 100% of FoamPartner. Closing of the transaction is subject to customer closing conditions, including the regulatory approvals, and is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2021.
In 2021, the transformation of Recticel continues. In the beginning of March, the acquisition of the thermal insulation board business of Gór-Stal was announced.
On 31 March, the transaction of the FoamPartner acquisition was closed, after which FoamPartner was merged with Recticel Flexible Foams to form the new Recticel Engineered Foams business line. After a strategic review, the board also announced that it seeked to divest its Bedding business line.
Later in 2021, Recticel countered a hostile take-over by announcing the divestment of the Engineered Foams business line to Carpenter Co. Thanks to this strategic shift, Recticel could now fully focus on its development as a pure play insulation company.
In Q1 of 2022, the Bedding business line was divested to Aquinos Group and the acquisition of Trimo, one of Europe’s leading providers of sustainable premium insulated panels for the building industry, was announced. This pivotal move will reinforce Recticel's insulation business and ESG strategy, and accelerate its journey towards becoming a pure play insulation company.
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How can a remarriage survive undermining exes and hostile stepchildren?
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It’s best if your partner attends or calls in with you, but if only one of you can make it, that’s just fine.
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Tell your story. Your feelings, needs, and thoughts will be heard by the group members and received nonjudgmentally.
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Isolation makes you lonely, listless, agitated, and more prone to feeling victimized. Connecting with others will make you feel supported, like you’re part of a community, and empowered. This helps you heal from the pain of your step-children’s rejection and the damage inflicted by your spouse’s ex.
Find the strength to take responsibility and explore the inner solutions that you didn’t realize you had. And, well, if you didn’t find any inner solutions, at least you’ll have some other peoples’ solutions for “inspiration.”
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The Step Parent Support Group touches on various subjects. Everything ultimately revolves around making your new marriage the best it can be, improving the quality of your relationship, and helping serve your kids’ best interest.
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This is like something out of every kid’s fantasy. Geoff de Ruiter, a graduate student at University of Northern British Columbia has the perfect getaway: a tiny treehouse on Pender island in British Columbia. The house features a bedroom loft, small sitting area, kitchen and composting toilet.
Geoff de Ruiter used lots of recycled materials for the project, including the railings made from wood found on the property and hardwood floors from Habitat For Humanity. Photo credit: Geoff de Ruiter
De Ruiter, a PhD candidate studying bio-energy and carbon management, splits his time between Pender Island and Prince George, where the university is located. He paid $35,000 for the property and spent another $8,200 to build his house. “One of the original reasonings for this was place stability. So if everything goes wrong in my life, all I have to do is basically pay my property taxes and I own everything outright,” de Ruiter told Huffington Post. “Stability to me is also sustainability. Because it means we are not needing to forever chase resources.”
The grad student used lots of recycled materials for the project, including the railings made from wood found on the property and hardwood floors from Habitat For Humanity. For heating and electric, de Ruiter’s neighbors graciously let him run a single power cord up to his home, powering his mini-fridge, two lightbulbs and an electric heater. For showers, he takes a 15-minute walk to the marina/pub downtown.
The treehouse has a simple, but beautiful rustic design. Photo credit: Geoff de Ruiter
Clearly, de Ruiter’s self-sufficient lifestyle has a lighter impact than most. By sharing resources with his neighbors, he is also building stronger community. “I think it needs to be legitimized by municipalities and cities, de Ruiter told Huffington Post. “When you live in a tiny house, you have to live outside of it more. And that means enjoying your community more.”
It’s time to take a more realistic approach to the fact that all of us lucky enough to live that long will become ever more dependent as we age. It’s time to face reality and place caring for one another at the heart of the human endeavor.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Feb. 24, 2017) – Current and former Roush Fenway Racing drivers Trevor Bayne, Ryan Reed, Greg Biffle and David Ragan all share a unique bond; each driver scored historic first wins at the famed Daytona International Speedway.
Biffle, in his rookie season in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series at Roush Fenway, captured his first victory in the series on July 5, 2003 at the 2.5-mile superspeedway. After starting 30th, Biffle found his way to the front, leading the final 21 laps to take his first checkered flag.
In just his second start in the Cup Series, piloting the No. 21 Ford for the Wood Brothers, Bayne advanced from a 32nd starting position and led the final six laps to earn his first career victory in the Great American Race on February 20, 2011. Bayne took the checkered flag just one day after his 20th birthday, making him the youngest Daytona 500 winner of all time – a record which still stands.
Later that season, another Roush Fenway driver would find victory lane for the first time at Daytona. David Ragan started the scheduled 160-lap race in fifth. Ragan found the lead for a total of seven laps on three different occasions early in the race. The driver of the No. 6 Ford retook the lead during overtime on Lap 163 and never looked back, earning his first career Cup victory.
In 198 Cup Series starts at Daytona, Roush Fenway has six wins, two of which are Daytona 500 victories. The organization also boasts five poles, 38 top-fives, and 72 top-10s.
While Bayne chases his second Daytona 500 victory in the No. 6 AdvoCare Ford, Roush Fenway teammate Ricky Stenhouse Jr. seeks his first win in the Daytona 500, driving the No. 17 Fastenal Ford.
In 2015, Reed earned his first career NASCAR XFINITY Series victory in the season-opener at Daytona International Speedway. Reed qualified eighth for the 120-lap race and remained in contention for the duration of the race, taking the lead for the first time of the day on Lap 88. The young driver paced the field for 13 laps, before dropping back into the top-10. As the race came to a close, Reed maneuvered into position to battle for the lead. Reed crossed the finish line just ahead of his competitors to capture the victory. The victory was team owner Jack Roush’s first at Daytona in the NASCAR XFINITY Series.
In 89 NASCAR XFINITY Series starts at Daytona, Roush Fenway has earned one victory and two poles, along with 20 top-five and 43 top-10 finishes.
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After the conference ended, Lorraine and I had two open days. We used both days hiking in Death Valley, California.
The temperatures on day 2 were up in the low 90s. I cannot imagine hiking this area during the summer months when the temperatures exceed 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
I have some great images to share over the next week. I can’t do much with them here as I am running on a small netbook. However, I did take a jpeg shot of Lorraine and myself at Badwater Basin.
Badwater Basin is the lowest point in North America, with an elevation of 282 ft below sea level.
With repeated freeze-thaw and evaporation cycles the thin salt crust is gradually pushed into hexagonal honeycomb shapes.
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I set up the Grammarly desktop app on my Windows 10 maker and had no problems checking in to my account. The app looks excellent and the design is extremely functional; I especially like the side panel’s dark accents and minimalist icons. Users can select in between making up text directly in an editor and importing an existing document.
If you just paste and copy text from a Word file into the Grammarly app, Grammarly says it only retains vibrant and italic formatting, lists, headers, and links. You won’t see any formatted text while you work in the Grammarly editor, but the file retains all of the original format whenever you export it.
Given that the editor now fortunately includes format tools such as for vibrant, italics, highlights, headings, lists, and links (both bulleted and numbered), you might simply write straight in the Grammarly app. However, it’s most likely easier to keep writing in Word or Google Docs and utilize the dedicated Grammarly tools for those platforms. Grammarly Check Capitalization
Within a document, the best side of the window homes tabs for spelling and grammar mistakes, premium composing checks, a plagiarism checker, a human proofreader option, and a general composing score based on these factors. As mentioned earlier, the writing score is valuable for getting a quick check of your writing progress and how much revising you have actually left.
Two other functions available are Goals and Performance. Objectives launches whenever you import a brand-new file; it assists Grammarly adjust its edits based upon the context of your writing. For example, you can specify your intent (inform, explain, convince, tell a story), audience, design, and emotion. Premium users can pick in between various writing domains, consisting of Academic, Business, and Creative. The Efficiency popup shows you general data such as word count and reading time, in addition to vocabulary and readability metrics. These metrics are calculated based upon contrast with other Grammarly users and the Readability score is based upon the Flesch reading-ease test. Both additions make Grammarly more useful at a higher level than that of easy mistake monitoring.
I still utilize Grammarly on a routine basis to check whatever I publish on this blog site. I have a respectable grasp on grammar and English guidelines already, but it’s unexpected how typos and little mistakes can creep into anybody’s writing.
So what is Grammarly? Is it worth it? And can it change a human proofreader or editor?
I address these questions and more in my Grammarly review below.
This review is a huge one as I wanted to be as thorough as I could. If you’re pressed for time, utilize the tabulation to avoid to areas that interest you most.
If you do any sort of composing online, you have actually most likely become aware of Grammarly. With over 10 million daily active users, it’s the most popular spelling and grammar checker on the internet.
So what’s all the buzz about? What does Grammarly actually do?
Here’s how it works:
Grammarly evaluates a piece of text you have actually composed and look for any errors. The complimentary variation covers the essentials (punctuation, grammar, and spelling), while the premium variation takes it an action further, using stylistic and best-writing-practice tips.
It can be the distinction in between writing something clear and engaging versus writing something careless and less than professional.
FeatureWhat it doesThe “additional” Grammarly touch
Grammar and PunctuationIt spots innovative and fundamental grammar and punctuation errors– alliteration, comma splices, run-on sentences, pieces, and much more.If you’re not sure why an error is a mistake, no problem: Grammarly will inform you. It gives you a fast and easy-to-understand lesson.
Spell CheckIt checks every word in your writing for spelling errors.More robust and thorough than your typical Microsoft Word spell checker, Grammarly’s spell check has superior accuracy, possibly the best readily available.
PlagiarismIt can scan your entire file for any cases of plagiarism, unintentional.not or deliberate every case of plagiarism was done on purpose, which is why a tool like Grammarly is important to provide your documents the full plagiarism rundown prior to you release anything online.
Writing StyleIt provides that “near human” touch by using ideas, recommendations, and guidance on your composing style.Perhaps the most underappreciated Grammarly function. It offers you help with sentence-length, overall readability, and other actionable insights on improving your writing. If you want to become a much better author, this is precisely what you need.
No matter what type of composing you might be doing– expert writing, casual writing, pastime writing– Grammarly can assist you improve your emails, social media posts, blog sites, and official papers.
In saying that, I think the following individuals can benefit the most from utilizing Grammarly: Grammarly Check Capitalization
Content marketers and copywriters
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The importance of decanting to getting the best out of wine of any age.
At RIEDEL, we advocate the importance of decanting all wines, as any wine can benefit from being decanted – be it white, red, or sparkling wine, or old and young wines. In this piece, we focus on the benefits and differences in decanting young and old wines - specifically, the different reasons why they benefit from decanting, plus the contrasting approaches to take when decanting young and old wines.
Decanting a young wine can have the remarkable effect of helping it to mature further through aeration. This exposure to oxygen softens the wine's tannins and reduces any harsh flavors, resulting in a more approachable wine with better-developed and integrated flavors and aromas. Of course, the extent of the effect of decanting will vary from wine to wine, but all these interactions that see a younger wine's qualities blossom are made possible through the process of decanting and allowing a wine to breathe properly prior to consumption.
When decanting a young wine, we recommend you pour it vigorously into your RIEDEL decanter of choice. By energetically upending a young bottle of wine into a decanter, you aerate the wine entirely and vigorously, revealing greater aromatic expression and more character and complexity.
With most of our RIEDEL decanters having a capacity exceeding 1 liter, we usually recommend that you decant an entire 750ml bottle of wine into them. If you have a particularly large bottle of wine, such as a magnum, pour it into the decanter up to where the wine has the largest surface area so it can breathe as efficiently as possible.
In terms of timing, since the aim with young wines is to speed up the aging process through decanting, we typically recommend a decanting time of at least 1 hour before drinking. This extended exposure to air helps soften the tannins and allows the wine's flavors and aromas to develop further. This aeration also burns off sulfites in wine, which are compounds used to preserve its freshness. This is good up to a point as it aids the maturing process, but it also underlines why you shouldn't decant a young wine for too long, as it would eventually result in the wine going bad. Exact time requirements vary from wine to wine, so it can be helpful to taste the wine periodically during the decanting process to assess its progress and determine when it has reached the desired level of aeration.
All of our expertly crafted RIEDEL decanters will help to develop the flavors and aromas of young wines, but there are some that we made to be extra effective in this regard. RIEDEL Decanters, such as the Eve Decanter, the Mamba Decanter, and the Boa Decanter, are designed to enable a process we call 'double decanting', which makes them perfect for younger wines. The shapes of these specially designed decanters include air pockets that actively aerate your wine as it moves through to pour. These air pockets create a vacuum that pops oxygen into the wine as it travels through the decanter, adding to the aeration the wine then enjoys once it rests inside it.
Due to the natural aging process that they have gone through, old wines don't have the same level of need for maturing through aeration that young wines have. Instead, old wines primarily benefit from decanting because it allows you to separate sediment from the wine before drinking. This sediment builds up during aging and can spoil the texture and enjoyment of an otherwise fantastic wine if it is erroneously left in the mix when the time comes to sip it. Using a decanter lets you remove this sediment before pouring the wine into your glass. Adding an extra pour also means you get a second bite of the cherry when you transfer the wine from decanter to wine glass if you're unable to remove all the sediment on the first pour.
In contrast to young wines, we recommend decanting mature wines slowly and gently. Old wines can benefit from gentle aeration, but depending on factors such as the age of the wine and how it has been stored, the excessive oxidation that vigorous pouring can cause risks striping the remaining character from an older wine. A slow pour from bottle to decanter also allows for better control over ensuring the wine's sediment remains in the bottle. While slowly decanting an older wine, let the wine flow smoothly down the walls of the decanter to aerate gradually.
As with younger wines, we recommend decanting an entire bottle if possible. Doing this allows for the separation of any sediment that may be present, ensuring a clearer and smoother pour when serving. Since old wines don't require as much aeration as young wines, you don't need to decant them for as long - around 30 minutes should suffice in most cases, but this will vary from wine to wine.
When decanting an older wine, we recommend using a fine crystal decanter, as the superior clarity of crystal allows for a better visual assessment of the wine's color, clarity, and any sediment present. Fortunately for you, that's one box that every RIEDEL decanter ticks. As well as this, choosing a decanter with a broad base can give you more stability and control when decanting your wine, while decanters with sloped sides, such as our RIEDEL Amadeo Decanters or our RIEDEL Escargot Decanter make it easier to perform a slower pour of your wine into the decanter. Our double decanting pieces that we recommend for younger wines can still be excellent choices for old wines, but be sure to be especially mindful that you perform a controlled pour of your wine with these decanters so that you don't over-aerate the wine.
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On 19 January, rallies were held in Russian cities in memory of the lawyer Stanislav Markelov and the journalist Anastasia Baburova, who were killed by far-right nationalists in 2009 in Moscow.
The day before that, the online magazine ‘7×7’ spoke to the Director of the SOVA Centre for Information & Analysis and winner of the Moscow Helsinki Group prize, Aleksandr Verkhovsky, about how Russia’s far-right and far-left have changed over the past 20 years, why it is that the government initially collaborated with right-wing activists, and then destroyed the movement, and what fascists and anti-fascists now have in common.
There were always many more of the far-right
We are speaking on the eve of the anniversary of the 2009 murder of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova, who were killed by members of the far-right movement. Explain, if you would, for those who haven’t been following, what the far-right and far-left movements had been like up to that point 11 years ago. What did they stand for and how did they operate?
I’m an authority on the far-right, but I’m no expert on the far-left. I’ve been aware of them, to a degree, for many years, but I haven’t studied them. So I’m not as well informed about one as the other. And the subjects themselves differ in almost every way.
In the early 2000s, there was a fairly powerful far-right movement, which differed from that of the 1990s in that it was very much geared towards violence. Of course, it had a political body fronting it – the Movement Against Illegal Immigration (the DPNI, an extremist organisation banned in Russia), and later on, some other organisations. But it basically involved street violence and people who combined that with some sort of political activism. That feature of the 1990s resulted largely from impunity.
By comparison, the far-left movement was relatively weak. Also, within it, a specific anti-fascist agenda took shape. While it had always been around in some form, as a youth movement, specifically, well, that came about in the 2000s.
The landscape at that time was shifting. It revolved around core groups of anarchists or people with communist views – Trotskyists, if you will – and also by people who didn’t hold any particular views as such but were just annoyed by the neo-Nazis on the streets. Either they were annoyed by them on an ideological level, or it was the violence itself that annoyed them, or both of those things applied.
Of course, you get people of all ages, but fundamentally, this was specifically about young people, and it was very much tied to the music scene and certain bands. Sometimes this had the appearance, to be blunt, of clashes between fans of various rock bands. To the casual observer, these conflicts often looked like clashes among groups of friends. But actually, even if a person who called themselves anti-fascist didn’t have a positive agenda as such, they simply didn’t like the Neo-Nazis. That negative stance was very much an ideological one.
Accordingly, ideas about what anti-fascism ought to look like vary from one person to another. Some believe that you need to mould kids in school, while others think that you have to find nazis and punch them in the face. There was this documentary once about antifa in which they asked these musicians what antifascism was. They answered, “These people should be ******! That’s it. End of!”.
Importantly, these lads perceived the situation as a violent power struggle; the idea of rehabilitating your opponent simply didn’t come into it. Whereas for others it did. Moreover, we know that views have very often changed, in both directions. After all, we are dealing with young people here, and so the divide has never been completely clear.
As I said, things aren’t evenly balanced here in every respect. Nazis were almost always on top, with one or two local exceptions.
Why were there more ultra-rightists?
Because generally the leftist movement, if you leave out the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, isn’t very developed here. You can find all sorts of deeper explanations for it, but the result is visible to all: it was generally always weak.
The 2000s – that was the time when the numerous groups of street Nazis formed the basis of the nationalist movement. In some sense it was fashionable among a certain subculture of youth. It reflected mass tendencies to xenophobia. The ultra-right worried about the invasion of migrants, people from the Caucasus who (it seemed to them) were occupying the country.
I participated in the “Russian March” in 2007 in Moscow. That phenomenon was interesting to me as a journalist. At the meeting there were old ladies in the first row. And when they shouted “Russia for Russians” from the rostrum and listed all the people who should be kicked out, those old ladies all enthusiastically repeated the slogans. I saw a lot of older people.
I remember the 2007 march very well. There were some old ladies, sure, but in general they were the exception. In fact it was a march of youth, quite war-like. Of course Belov [Aleksander Belov, coordinator of the DPNI Central Committee] wasn’t yet 20, but he was active very young.
The ultra-right also had the upper hand in that they were much more popular among football supporters. Although football fans are a little differently constituted — it’s a separate milieu that overlaps with political circles.
Generally, the sides were completely unequal. Apart from that, the anti-fascists weren’t at all in a mood for killing people. Neither were the Nazis. That boundary on killing is very important. Attacks were very rarely and badly investigated, and the victims seldom even went to the police, but if you’ve got a corpse, there’s no way out of it, there’s going to be a criminal case and some kind of investigation. Nobody wants it. But nevertheless there were more killings on the side of the Nazis.
What role did the authorities play in the 2000s? Did they have agents infiltrate the rightwing movement?
That’s a complicated story. Of course the militia, the FSB and probably the president’s office had its agents. They didn’t even need agents so much. If we remember the Surkov era [Vladislav Surkov, inventor of the concept of “sovereign democracy”, crafted the internal politics of the Russian Federation from his post as first deputy in the President’s office from 2008 to 2011], it was the dominant idea that the administration should concern itself with everybody and find ways of manipulating them. You don’t need agents for that, you need intermediaries of a kind, people who can go back and forth.
There was no need to create groups. They grew like mushrooms anyway. Of course there was infiltration and there were attempts at manipulation. The story of “Russian Image” [an ultra-rightwing organization] is a prime example. That organization was helped to grow and given the appearance of influence so that some of the smaller groups ran to join them from DPNI and thereby weakened the DPNI as the main political actor on the far right.
Then it was though that Russian street nationalism was a political problem and you had to deal with it seriously. Center “E” [The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs] used repressive methods, although they also used preventive methods and infiltration. And the President’s office did the smears and scandals.
How did this change the situation that followed? That is, the behaviour towards these movements of the right and left?
The security forces are all different, with their sympathies. There are times when they have pronounced political leanings. But in general, the law enforcement system views all of these fringe movements very negatively, especially the violent ones. That’s why I think the situation hasn’t gotten worse. The discovery of the Militant Organization of Russian Nationalists dramatically shifted the administration’s position, because it became clear that the whole thing with Russian Image was, essentially, a failure.
The FSB were great, they uncovered everything. And while the FSB were arresting Tikhonov, the presidential administration allowed this same Russian Image to hold a concert on Bolotnaya Square. It didn’t look so great, because these events took place at the same time. Antifa’s time came later, when they attempted a serious revolt and tried to step outside the boundaries of conflicts between marginal oppositional groups.
It’s clear there was another issue that existed both before and after this. There’s the opposition in the broader sense of the word, and everyone recognizes that it’s not very powerful. Frankly, before 2012, it was extremely weak. The rally for Khimki Forest was considered an accomplishment, but everyone there fit in the square around the Pushkin monument in Pushkin Square. It was pretty puny. The Russian March was the main oppositional event in the country simply in terms of size, so it’s clear that people were paying attention.
Then, in December 2011, the scale changed dramatically. These radical movements stopped attracting attention, although the people who were at Bolotnaya Square in 2012 definitely did not represent any serious threat of destabilization.
Our government is always three steps ahead and is trying to nip the threat in the bud, as it were. And therefore, radical groups focused on violence are viewed by the government as a critical element that must be monitored.
Udaltsov appeared to be one of these potentially dangerous rebels. But if he were to decide to lead some sort of attack, the ordinary people who were at the Bolotnaya protest wouldn’t be there. But there are a number of people involved in the Left Front organization who are truly capable of some sort of attack.
And this approach by the authorities continues to this day. Suppose there’s a large Navalny rally. You always want to say, “Look, such peaceful young people.” But somewhere out there in the crowd there are radicals, and if they are organized correctly the situation could be destabilized, or there could be an attack on someone or other. None of this is really within the realm of possibility, because we don’t see it happening, but as speculation, as a hypothetical, it could be. I have a feeling that this theoretical idea still plays an important role. People believe that there’s a potential threat, so it must be monitored all the time. This applies to the far right and far left, to any groups that could objectively or hypothetically use violence.
If I understand correctly, the turning point in relation to far-right movements in Russia occurred once Surkov had left the president’s administration?
There wasn’t just one turning point, but several. But the real turning point was Kondopoga.
This was a very significant event. It wasn’t about the fact that a restaurant was set on fire, but the fact that on that day, there was no authority whatsoever in the city. All top brass ran off, and it turned out that for some essentially spurious reason, those in charge of the city had simply disappeared. So it was in Kondopoga, but then what if it suddenly was somewhere else? It is a serious threat. And then they decided to take on the nationalists because they played a certain role, although it’s clear that it wasn’t really about them. If Belov hadn’t come to Kondopoga the situation would have remained unchanged.
After that, the Centre E agency was created, which first and foremost deals with these issues. Talk that hate crimes were just hooliganism ended. When those in power realised this represented a threat not for migrants from Tajikistan – to which the state was indifferent – but to the state itself, suddenly things changed.
Then when Surkov left, the complex games ended. Furthermore, all that time, the repressions, roughly speaking, increased every year until these groups of street fighters had not been well and truly thinned out. Hundreds and hundreds of people were jailed. And the next generation of “young idealists”, as one colleague put it, who had joined this movement, were now afraid, while before then they had not been afraid.
This changed the situation and the ultraright movement became more political. They started talking about democracy and human rights. So the pressure they had applied suddenly everything changed. Then the mass protests happened that led to an increase in repression on the whole, and, of course, affected the nationalists too.
And then there was the story of the huge number of prosecutions for expressions of opinion, which eventually numbered in the hundreds. This change happened before the protests, at some point in 2011, without any external reason. I suspect that the repressive machinery had been finally restructured and was able to do this. Because for your average inspector to launch an investigation into a post on VKontakte would be quite out of the ordinary – they don’t work like that normally. But when they learnt how to do this, it all became possible.
Then there was Ukraine, the division within the nationalist movement and the threat that military mobilisation might somehow backfire. And already in autumn 2014, we see fierce reprisals against nationalists beginning, because they were hypothetically speaking a potential breeding ground for militants. These repressions continue, although it is no longer so clear what their targets are: there is no one to really take action against, the movement is virtually crushed. Only small groups remained. Now, it looks like the repressions against these ultraright groups won’t increase any further because the groups themselves have become insignificant.Is there any common denominator characterising those who remain in the far-right movement and those who remain in the far-left movement? Are they making any political demands? Or are they simply making their views known?
The thing they have in common is oppositionism. We need to understand that almost all of them, anarchists and all the left-wingers and nationalists alike, are opposition groups. And that makes it all the more apparent when the nationalists cannot organise their own big rallies; they simply don’t have enough people. They have to go to other people’s rallies – the pro-Donbass groups go to rallies with the KPRF and the Left Front, and the (nominally) pro-Kiev groups go to rallies of the liberal opposition. The far left go to both, but under different circumstances. And what do they still have in common? Only 19 January.
Do you think that the conditions are in place for the far-right or far-left movements in Russia to gain the momentum they had 10 or 15 years ago?
Yes. I’m not talking about the far left. I don’t think there’s much potential for it to pick up steam – after all, it didn’t manage to do so previously. I can’t bring myself to believe that escalating social stratification or something of the sort will mobilise the far left, because people can convert their social dissatisfaction into anything at all, and it certainly doesn’t need to be revolutionary left-wing ideas. To be perfectly honest, that’s probably the last thing that would happen. The conversion of this dissatisfaction into far-right ideas is a definite possibility, however.
The nationalist movement that emerged in the 1990s was essentially about nostalgia and looking back to Russia’s “golden age”, but that is not a particularly good foundation for a political movement. To a large extent, this nostalgia resulted from trauma, crisis and the subsequent collapse of the USSR, but after a while this got swept under the carpet, and it was replaced by this straightforward, fervent and racist nationalism, aimed at getting rid of “newcomers” and achieving an illusory cultural homogeneity. This kind of thing is much easier for people to understand and much more relevant to their lives, which means that there is a constant source of fuel to fan the flames.
But as we now know, this too proved unsuccessful, and the far right ultimately ground to a halt and all but died out. Does this mean that we’ll never see it again, not even in a different configuration? No, not at all. I think that we probably will. I don’t know which constellation of events might cause that to happen. And the North Caucasus is still bubbling away, even if it is largely off the radar of those living elsewhere in the Russian Federation.
I wouldn’t like to guess how it might happen, but I certainly think it might happen; after all, anything’s possible. If a serious crisis occurs, it’s likely that the ethnicity of those involved will be mentioned, because that’s the easiest and most accessible way of framing a story – and that in turn may well trigger a new wave of ethnic nationalism with completely different protagonists. And that’s just what comes to mind first – what really happens may be something else completely, it’s impossible for me to know.
It’s also fair to say that the imperial version of nationalism has been successfully – very successfully – monopolised by the state. You can attempt to observe it from the side lines, but there’s very little point since you won’t achieve anything. Or you can act the clown, but even clowns fall out of favour.
We have a historian, [Nikolai] Starikov, who once created a party, by the way. We have Deputy [Evgeny] Fedorov with his NOD [National Liberation Movement, which advocates freeing us from “U.S. neocolonial dependence” by means of restoring the sovereignty of the Russian Federation through changing the Constitution]. That is, one can continue on in this vein and try to stand out against this backdrop, but this idea, as we have seen in any number of examples, doesn’t work.
The Rodina party, still alive by the way, what is it? Nothing. But in some indefinite future, if something should happen to our state monolith, then imperial ideology might be rejected by the elite but become the motor for political mobilization. One can imagine all sorts of things.
One other point. Right now there is a strange phenomenon. In a certain sense it relates to the entire oppositional field.
Right now, differences in views are not that important. What is more important is that people oppose the regime. Exactly how they oppose the regime is of secondary importance.
At one time we saw this with the nationalists, which in the 1990s quarreled desperately over important questions of how exactly a monarchy might or might not be established, how to think about Stalin, and so forth. And in the 2000s, it became clear that all these differences still existed, but it didn’t really matter.
What does matter is fighting the “interlopers” and this anti-Russian regime, as they put it. The rest we can resolve later, so to speak.
An analogous transition is happening right now, at the start of the new decade, I think, in the oppositional field as a whole. How this will be reflected on the future political configuration, including on the formally persistent opposition between the ultraright and ultraleft, is anyone’s guess. Then there are, finally, the National Bolsheviks [NBP]. The NBP was founded on the principle that you can be ultraright or ultraleft, you can be perpendicular for all they care, the main thing is that it all be cool and fun. Okay, understandably this can’t be repeated literally, but why not something in that vein.
Stanislav Markelov was a lawyer for the Moscow Human Rights Centre. He defended antifascists and participated in several high-profile cases. Anastasia Baburova worked as a freelance correspondent for Novaya gazeta and wrote about the antifascist movement. On 19 January 2009, they were shot in Moscow by ultraright activists Evgeny Khasis and Nikita Tikhonov. In 2011 Khasis was sentenced to 18 years’ imprisonment, Tikhonov to life imprisonment.
There is an article on “The Russian March” of 2007 in Moscow on Lenta.ru «И „Нашим“, и фашам». It says that unlike in previous years, “no one asked the activists to refrain from fascist greetings and they took full advantage of this. “Come on, now, ****** out of here! Russia for the Russians, Moscow for the Muscovites!” The crowd ran through one nationalist rallying cry after another without the slightest embarrassment. New slogans were added as well. For example, the capacious “***** Chechnya, *****!”— to harmonize with the soccer chant.”
There were mass riots in Kondopoga in late August and early September 2006. A group of people from the Caucasus started a fight in a restaurant and killed two local residents. On the eve of the victims’ funeral, residents of the city smashed several shops belonging to people from the Caucasus, then set fire to a restaurant, and pogroms began in Kondopoga. A few dozen families who had come there from the Caucasus were forced to leave. Law enforcement agencies were brought to the town from all over Karelia.
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Wildrose Official Opposition utilities critic Joe Anglin is calling on Energy Minister Ken Hughes to immediately release a major report on electricity prices in Alberta after significant delays and missed deadlines.
Hughes promised to release the Retail Market Review Committee’s final report before the end of 2012. He received the committee’s report — which contains recommendations to, among other things, reduce the volatility of electricity prices — three months ago. Along with the report, Hughes also promised to release the government’s response to its recommendations.
“With the dead of winter on the horizon and power bills on the rise, Albertans deserve to know what — if anything — this government is going to do to lower power bills for their families and businesses,” Anglin said. “Minister Hughes has been sitting on this report long enough. The time has come for action.”
Albertans pay some of the highest electricity bills in Canada, Anglin noted. Action needs to be taken to start reducing the wild price spikes Alberta families and businesses experience in the cold winter months.
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday approved the appointment of Rev. Yakubu Pam as the Executive Secretary of Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission (NCPC).
The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, Garba Shehu, confirmed this in a statement in Abuja.
Until his appointment, Pam was the Chairman of the Plateau State Christian Pilgrims Welfare Board.
He hails from Gyel, Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State and holds a first degree in Christian Education.
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Lawrence P. Carolla began his commercial real estate career in 1977 with The Horne Company, where he remained for 10 years. Mr. Carolla specialized in industrial leasing and sales. In 1987, he began working in real estate brokerage and development.
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A post-apocalyptic story of survival in a surreal prison built in the ruins of Tokyo.
Framed for the brutal murders of his classmates by the mysterious Red Man, middle school student Ganta Igarashi finds himself sentenced to death and sent to the bizarre and fatal theme park/prison that has risen from the ruins of the Great Tokyo Earthquake—a hell on earth known as “Deadman Wonderland.”
Ganta and Warden Makina join forces to prevent Tamaki from gaining control of the Ninben killers. But the “Ko Unit,” the ultimate Ninben, stands in their way. Once hostile toward Ganta, the residents of G-Ward offer their help, but each must fight against their old wounds as well as battling the Ko Unit. Ganta’s search for the truth is going to cost him, every step of the way.
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Don’t sleep on the Huffington iPad magazine! That’s my message to everyone for the holiday season. Huffington just marked their six-month anniversary of publication, and the now-free weekly app has become a powerful example of original tablet publishing. I’ve been doing a bunch of iPad consulting lately, and Huffington is always the first app I point to as something that is smart, original, engaging, and fully utilizing the power of the platform. Creative director Josh Klenert and his ace team have been creating some brilliant imagery and design, tapping a stellar crew of illustrators, photographers, and infographic-makers. It’s been fun to watch the Huffington design morph and mature, especially since it’s not based on an existing print publication format.
The app’s cover design fuses the sensibility of gonzo altweeklies with the cool, modern, restrained look of the Dirk Barnett-era Newsweek, plus a dash of Arthur Hochstein‘s pop-Photoshop Time magazine covers. And the cover imagery swings from illustration to photograph to photo-illustration, with a constantly revolving collection of artists and photographers. In an era when newsweeklies are dropping like flies, it’s inspiring to see someone still experimenting with the format, especially as a tablet-only app. I have no sense of the long-term viability of Huffington as a business proposition, but as a project it’s on the cutting-edge of tablet content creation.
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PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that you are in default in payment of rent for the above described premises in the sum of , representing rent due for the period from to .
Your failure to pay rent or vacate the premises within FIVE (5) judicial days following the Date of Service of this notice may result in your landlord applying to the Justice Court for an eviction order. If the court determines that you are guilty of an unlawful detainer, the court may issue a summary order for your removal or an order providing for your nonadmittance, directing the sheriff or constable to remove you within twenty-four (24) hours after receipt of the order. Pursuant to NRS 118A.390, you may seek relief if a landlord unlawfully removes you from the premises or excludes you by blocking or attempting to block your entry upon the premises or willfully interrupts or causes or permits the interruption of an essential service required by the rental agreement or chapter 118A of the Nevada Revised Statutes.
YOU ARE HEREBY ADVISED OF YOUR RIGHT TO CONTEST THIS NOTICE by filing an Affidavit (or Answer), no later than noon on the fifth full judicial day following the Date of Service of this notice, with the Justice Court stating that you have tendered payment or are not in default in the payment of rent.
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Since moving to California, I find myself missing the seasons. I grew up in Virginia, where the leaves change colour every September. When living in England, there was a yearly rotation of scarves and heavy coats to mark the coming of autumn. It seems silly to complain about the year-round temperate climate that blesses the beachy shores of SoCal, but it gets pretty boring here in paradise. Plus, I look better in layers.
This week’s selection of games brings a little dose of autumn, for those who are similarly denied its pleasures or simply can’t wait for the leaves to turn.
Ian MacLarty’s Forests are for Trees
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I remember playing McLarty’s Catacombs of Solaris tucked up in a hotel room bed in Nottingham two Novembers ago -- so it’s possible that my memories of autumn have seeped their way into all of Ian McLarty’s endless explorers. Or, as my partner calls them, “hell prisons for the eyes.” Enter Forests are for Trees -- an equally colourful and meditative journey through a collection of trees (otherwise known as a wood, or forest).
McLarty describes the goal for Catacombs of Solaris as to simply, “find your favourite room in the catacombs.” The goal is similar for Forests: find your favourite forest, tree, or colour and go there. It’s beautiful and calming, but also a bit unnerving (I once got lost in the colour mauve). The best sort of autumn walk.
Florian Veltman’s Lieve Oma
We’ve talked about Lieve Oma a bit before on RPS, but I think there are few games which encapsulate the feeling of autumn in the way that Veltman does here. “It is the season for penny buns,” and you are out on a walk with your granny to find some. The game is a dedication to Veltman’s own grandmother, and the time they spent together picking mushrooms. As you walk along, the two of you talk and give space for each other. At the end of the day, Veltman says, the game is about those who give children the space that they need.
The colours are lush and the music is dreamy -- and the leaves positively crunch underfoot. It’s an emotional little mushroom jaunt.
Solomon Fletcher’s Witch Pizza
How often has this happened to you? You are part of a coven of witches, and you are hungry. But you don’t know whether or not to order some pizza! This endless struggle of hungry witches versus pizza has been immortalised in Fletcher’s game, Witch Pizza. It’s a quick little Twine game, doing what Twine games do best: be cute, be funny, and inspire me to get pizza. 10/10.
Finji’s Lost Constellation and Longest Night
“Ah, the revolutionary zeal of kids from the suburbs.” These picks are technically two games, but they’re related so I’m counting them as one. Lost Constellation and Longest Night are supplementary games to Infinite Fall/Finji’s 2016 indie darling, Night in the Woods. Created by Alec Holowka, Scott Benson, and Bethany Hockenberry alongside their successful Kickstarter campaign, Lost Constellation and Longest Night are late autumn at its finest. Though they’re set in the same realm as Night in the Woods lore-wise, the two games are completely stand alone from its tentpole, and from each other. Either can be enjoyed in one sitting, though Lost Constellation is the shorter of the two if you’re pressed for time.
Lost Constellation is a connect-the-dots rumination on the 13 signs of an in-game zodiac, and Longest Night is a bedtime story/platformer of skeletons, witches, and old forest gods. They are both exemplary of the rust belt Americana stylings of Night in the Woods, but in a smaller package. The realism is magical, the music is killer, and you’ll be lucky to get out of this cold night alive.
Cardboard Computer’s Neighbor, from the Triennale Collection
There are parts of living in the desert I do not mind so much, even as the seasons carry on in other parts of the country. Cardboard Computer’s game Neighbor, from 2016’s Triennale Game Collection, does a good job of summing up what there is to love. There’s a sort of mysticism in its denial. The Triennale Game Collection, according to its Steam page, is a “virtual exhibition of video games created for the XXI Triennale International Exhibition by five of the world’s most renowned independent game designers, showcasing these artists’ experimental approach to interactivity.”
In addition to Cardboard Computer, the collection features works from Mario von Rickenbach and Christian Etter, Tale of Tales, Pol Clarissou, and Everest Pipkin. All of the games from the Triennale are free and absolutely worth playing, but I should add that I know some of the designers on this list, in the “We get lunch sometimes,” sort of way -- Pol, Everest, and Jake Elliot of Cardboard Computer. But neither lunch nor friendship are at the heart of why I love these games, or Neighbor especially. There is an admirable persistence to the desert -- it never really seems to end. The desert in Neighbor is much the same: unchanging, endless, no time for autumns and winters. There is always something out there, something just beyond what the cactuses, crystals, and cauldrons are telling.
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Kentucky’s made a point of adding checkerboard to its branding profile in past years, adding blue checkerboard in its end zone design and adding a large checkerboard stripe on the side of its basketball uniforms.
The additions made for a fun joking point in the border rivalry as the Wildcats tried to include a classic Tennessee design in their athletic department.
After Tennessee rolled Kentucky, 73-60, inside Thompson-Boling Arena last February the Vol Hoops Twitter account had some fun, tweeting a cease and desist at Kentucky for stealing the patented Tennessee checkerboard.
OG checkerboard. pic.twitter.com/zAvEjwLrG5
— Tennessee Basketball (@Vol_Hoops) February 16, 2022
After seven months, Kentucky respected Tennessee’s request. The Wildcats released new basketball uniforms Tuesday, removing the checkerboard design and adding a pair of stripes instead.
A closer look at our new home uniforms 👀 pic.twitter.com/KqTrtxqn5d
— Kentucky Men’s Basketball (@KentuckyMBB) September 6, 2022
The Tennessee basketball Twitter, in turn, retweeted the aforementioned Tweet from February. The cease and desist troll came to the top of the timeline for the 252.1 thousand accounts following Tennessee as the Wildcats gave in to the pressure.
More From RTI: See Tennessee’s Complete 2022-23 Basketball Schedule
Tennessee basketball is in the midst of an unprecedented run of success against Kentucky. Rick Barnes arrival in Knoxville rejuvenated both the Tennessee basketball program and the rivalry matchup.
Since Barnes’ arrival, Tennessee is 10-7 against the Wildcats in two seasons including a victory in the 2022 SEC Tournament Semifinals. The win moved the Vols to 2-1 on the season against their northern rival and set the stage for the program’s first SEC Tournament Championship since 1979.
Tennessee has beaten Kentucky in each of Barnes’ seven years including multiple victories in 2018, 2019 and 2022. Barnes has been more successful against the SEC’s best historical basketball program than any other Volunteer coach.
Since Barnes’ arrival, Tennessee is 5-2 against Kentucky in Thompson-Boling Arena, 3-4 at Rupp Arena and 2-1 in the SEC Tournament (wins in Nashville and Tampa, loss in St. Louis).
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This picture was taken in 1984 when I was a horn player in a high energy R&B/Rock band playing in clubs from NYC to New Paltz NY. That’s me in the back. I was carefully positioned to conceal the idea that I do not own a black leather jacket which was mandatory for the photo shoot.
In the picture, front row, left to right is Lawrence Cimino (Drums), Tony Cambria (Guitar/Vocals), (Wild) Bill Acosta (Bass), Tony Quinto (Vocals). In the back, myself (Trumpet/Flugelhorn) and Tommy Porto (Tenor Sax). We played our own cover arrangements of traditional R&B tunes like "Hold on", “Heard it thru the grapevine”, “Rock steady”, “I feel good”, etc. If you know these songs and their artists, you get the idea. These individuals who accepted me were true professional musicians.
I was introduced to Majesty through association with the Hudson Valley NY Musician’s Union Local 238. Other memorable jobs (or should I say gigs) were to fill in for trumpet players in the Catskills. To keep pace with them I would attend jazz clinics and summer programs at the Univ of Mass at Amherst where studio musicians and jazz legends (Ray Copland, Billy Taylor, Stanton Davis, etc.) would critique my playing. I was given ample positive encouragement and instruction as well as humbling comments such as “work on intonation” and “technique needs practice”.
Someone once said to me “You would do better spending your evenings making wooden horse bookends and selling them”. My answer was, "sounds interesting but, I don’t enjoy making wooden bookends. Right now, I am happy playing and performing."
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