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Video: Landscaping Balcony Terrace: 19 Retractable Awning Ideas
2023 Author: Lynn Laird | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-08-25 09:49
Are you doing your balcony or terrace layout ? Do you need ideas that will give you maximum protection from the sun? If you have already answered these questions, continue to contemplate our beautiful photo gallery! Deavita will present you with retractable awning ideas. Contemplate them, to choose the one that tempts you the most!
Balcony and terrace layout: the retractable awning will protect you from the sun in summer
Such an element of your balcony or terrace layout will protect you not only from the sun, but also from the curious eyes of your neighbors! You will thus enjoy more privacy in your outdoor space! In addition, you will protect your balcony from the rain! You don't have to worry about space either, because such an awning will not reduce it!
Balcony and terrace layout: retractable white awning idea
When choosing your retractable awning, you can opt for one that is manual, or else, automatic. It all depends on your personal preferences and your budget. In our gallery, you will find ideas for the different decorative patterns. Darker colors should be avoided, as they attract more sunlight.
White and yellow striped retractable awning
Red and white striped retractable awning for your balcony
Isn't that a very practical idea?
Retractable awning in red: protection from the sun and rain
Sitting in the shade thanks to a super chic retractable awning
Orange color retractable awning for the balcony and the garden
Super comfortable relaxation area on your balcony
Protect yourself from the curious eyes of your neighbors
And yes, as we already mentioned, the retractable awning will protect you from the curious eyes of your neighbors! You just have to look at the photo, above, to be convinced! What do you think? Would you like such an idea for your balcony?
More ideas to protect you from the sun and curious eyes
Whether modern, rustic or Provençal, the balcony garden will allow you to enjoy a country setting and all green, even if you live in a 3 bedroom apartment
A covered terrace offers several advantages. But what solution to cover a terrace? Should you choose a patio awning or a pergola?
Now is the time to collect some great ideas for your landscaping. No matter if you have a small balcony or a large terrace, let us
Take it off the beaten track and incorporate a retractable awning into your patio layout that will also look like a privacy screen. This idea vou
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A new video from the LCMS Office of International Mission (to watch, click here) shows how a $25,000 emergency grant from LCMS World Relief and Human Care is being used to help survivors of severe flooding on the Philippine island of Mindanao.
The flooding — caused by a Dec. 17 tropical storm — affected more than 120,000 people, many of whom are still in need of food, water and shelter, according to LCMS missionaries.
The 10-minute video is hosted by LCMS missionary Sean Harlow — the only resident LCMS missionary serving in the Philippines — and shows the contents of one of nearly 3,000 relief kits that are being assembled by Lutherans in the Philippines for distribution to flood victims.
Each of the kits includes a frying pan, a cooking pot, cups, utensils, plates, rice, noodles, coffee, water, medicine, a pail, a kettle and and a printed “introduction to the Lutheran church and the Christian faith,” according to Harlow.
“The church has really put in a lot of time and energy, strategically wanting to help people with their physical needs,” Harlow says in the video, “but they’re taking the opportunity to share their faith and to share God’s love through this catastrophe.”
The video includes comments from a local pastor of The Lutheran Church in the Philippines (LCP), LCP members who are helping in the relief effort, and LCP President Rev. James Cerdeñola, who describes the church body’s response and thanks the LCMS for its support.
Cerdeñola says it was painful to see “how disastrous the flash flood was” when he arrived in Mindanao on Christmas. “I have seen homes being destroyed, … subdivisions where people lived and now [are] nothing but mud.”
He was “so happy,” he said, when he heard about the initial grant from LCMS World Relief and Human Care. The relief items the grant has provided are appreciated, he said.
“It really was a big comfort to the people who lost members of their families, who lost their homes, who lost almost everything,” Cerdeñola says in the video. The people, he said, “are very grateful.”
He adds that he is “so happy that our pastors, our people who are helping serve and give this relief, always redirect these people: ‘Don’t thank us, thank God.’ “
He also expresses his appreciation to “all the members of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod. Thank you so much for your love, thank you so much for your care, and especially thank you so much for all the gifts that you’ve given us, so that through these gifts, and even in times of disaster like this, we could witness [and] show mercy and serve other people.”
To make a donation for Lutheran relief efforts in the Philippines:
Any funds not needed for this relief effort will be used for other disaster-response purposes as determined by LCMS World Relief and Human Care. Your gift is tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
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Genome-wide Profiling Identifies DNA Methylation Signatures of Aging in Rod Photoreceptors Associated with Alterations in Energy Metabolism
SourceCell Reports, 31, 3, (2020), article 107525
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SubjectRadboudumc 12: Sensory disorders DCMN: Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience
Aging-associated functional decline is accompanied by alterations in the epigenome. To explore DNA modifications that could influence visual function with age, we perform whole-genome bisulfite sequencing of purified mouse rod photoreceptors at four ages and identify 2,054 differentially methylated regions (DMRs). We detect many DMRs during early stages of aging and in rod regulatory regions, and some of these cluster at chromosomal hotspots, especially on chromosome 10, which includes a longevity interactome. Integration of methylome to age-related transcriptome changes, chromatin signatures, and first-order protein-protein interactions uncover an enrichment of DMRs in altered pathways that are associated with rod function, aging, and energy metabolism. In concordance, we detect reduced basal mitochondrial respiration and increased fatty acid dependency with retinal age in ex vivo assays. Our study reveals age-dependent genomic and chromatin features susceptible to DNA methylation changes in rod photoreceptors and identifies a link between DNA methylation and energy metabolism in aging.
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How Can Health & Safety Training Benefit My Business?
Why is health & safety training important?
Training sessions afford your team with the skills to get their jobs done safely and more efficiently.
Productivity is a fundamental component to a successful business, and staff that feel comfortable and safe in their environment have been proven to possess higher productivity levels.
By investing time and money into training for your employees, it shows you value them, which in turn, can improve loyalty and staff retention, saving your business money in staff turnovers.
How can it benefit the company & my team?
Training is a great way for your team to develop new skills, increase their productivity and motivation and ultimately increase their contributions to your business.
A recent survey showed that 40% of employees leave their job in the first year if they don’t receive adequate training; whereas employees that do receive health & safety training and e learning are more likely to stay and progress within the company.
Businesses that do have good employee benefits often attract the best candidates, meaning better quality staff for your business.
What training should I provide to my staff?
Online Induction Systems are a great tool for Health & Safety training. These systems can be used by staff, site visitors and contractors alike anytime, anywhere and helps create a basis for further development training / e learning.
Our Induction and Training systems, are designed to link up all aspects of the Health and Safety Induction and staff development process in the simplest way possible. With features for e Learning, control of works, toolbox talks and more, we will custom build your very own bespoke branded system that will control your induction and training sessions in one place. We work directly with all of our clients to create your perfect online employee portal.
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UK Food Law – The Basics will introduce you to the UK’s laws and regulations governing food production, transport, retail, and consumption. Through a series of online lectures and engagement in forum-based seminars, you will build a robust understanding of food legislation, beginning with the evolution of food laws in the UK throughout its history. This overview will provide context to modern developments. It will lead you to explore the foundations of modern food legislation and their place within the overall structure of legal requirements placed on the food industry.
After completing the course, you will have an excellent understanding of current legislation, know where to find and interpret laws relating to your profession, and participate in (and contribute to) the development of future UK food law. Given the foundational importance of the law to the entire length of the food supply chain, this course will be of direct use to professionals in any aspect of the agrifood sector. It will benefit their activities and that of their employer.
Upon completing this course, participants will be able to:
- Evaluate how sustainability plans imposed by their own business or those around them will impact raw material quality.
- Be able to recommend changes and improvements to the sustainability plan for their business.
The following transferable skills will be developed in this course:
- Critical evaluation of data from a variety of sources
- Effective communication of scientific information in oral and written format with scientific rigour
- Debating skills
- Knowledge of UK food legislation, its origins, overall structure and critical components
- Knowledge of the legal requirements which are imposed on the food industry
In providing the basic background information and knowledge of UK food law, this course will cover the following topics:
- Historical development of UK food law
- Current policies and procedures
- Main elements of current UK food law
The course will consist of five weeks ofmaterial, including video lectures, guided reading, interactive workbooks and online discussion boards delivered by experts in the area. Discussion and feedback will take place through the Virtual Learning Environment associated with the course and e-mail.
Blackboard Multiple choice question tests used during distance learning delivery. Questions related to video lectures and directed reading contribute 20% of the course mark. Written assignment (2000 word report): individual assignment. Contributes 80% of the course mark.
Self-assessment multiple choice question tests used during distance learning delivery.
|Course Dates||26th February 2024|
|Type/Duration||4 Weeks online|
|Entry Requirements||Graduate level or relevant experience|
|Course Provider||University of Reading|
|Provider Reference Number||FZMR12|
|Course Arrangements||Full joining instructions will be confirmed by the course provider.|
|Course Location||Online, University of Reading|
|Course Logistics||Delivered entirely online through the University of Reading’s Virtual Learning Environment over an
four-week period, it is suggested that material is reviewed every week; however, participants
may vary their speed of learning to suit their requirements.The course is available as Continued Professional Development or with the award of 5 academic
credits for participants completing a postgraduate programme*.*please contact the EPTH office if you wish to complete the module for academic credit.
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As an artist much of my activity revolves around the production of creative works (musical compositions) and the research underpinning these works. My pedagogic interests lie in skill acquisition for musical composition and conducting, and how synaesthesia affects the work of creative people and young people's learning experiences. As an Honorary Antarctic Fellow I also research works by creative artists who have been to the Ice and how it affects their work practices. I particularly enjoy working with young composers and conductors and sharing these observations when working with pre-service teachers in the School of Teacher Education at the College of Education, Health and Human Development. | <urn:uuid:70e77b55-c299-471f-b626-b9eaea274e4c> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://researchprofile.canterbury.ac.nz/Researcher.aspx?researcherid=2096673 | 2023-09-23T17:04:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.933322 | 192 |
Within the entire National Football League, there are only two players who currently serve in the military — and both of them made it to Super Bowl LI this year.
Ben Garland, an offensive guard for the Atlanta Falcons, also serves as a captain in the Colorado Air National Guard’s 140th Wing as a public affairs officer and graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy. Army Maj. Earl Brown, who serves in the communications department for the NFL, says another reserve component Super Bowl player, New England Patriots, long snapper Joe Cardona is an ensign in the Navy Reserves. He is the first Naval Academy graduate to be drafted into the NFL since 1993.
The California-native had served a year of active duty for the Navy when he was shifted to the reserves and designated him as a supply corps officer, easing some of the demands on his football schedule. After playing for the Navy’s winning football team for all four years of his college career, Cardona had the opportunity to continue that winning streak when the Patriots beat the Falcons in the 2017 Super Bowl.
What made you decide on the Navy?
I’m from San Diego, being a Navy town, I always grew up around it. And, my dad served in the Navy for 24 years and just seeing the Navy everywhere around me growing up it was a no-brainer when the Naval Academy offered for me to come play football and gave me an opportunity to serve.
As a kid, did you always know you wanted to be on this path of football and military service?
I saw myself serving and that was what the childhood career was for me, or at least what I wanted to do and it wasn’t until maybe my junior year of college that I realized I could have the potential, the ability to play in the NFL just as I developed in school and developed as an athlete. And it wasn’t until really before the draft that I found out I would have the opportunity to get the chance to play in the NFL and that’s all it really was, was ‘we’ll give this guy a chance’ … To say the least, it was very unexpected to be able to play in the NFL.
What was the moment like when you realized you would be playing professional football?
It was just surreal — you know, you go from, like I said, I grew up playing and never thought it would materialize, although I thought I was pretty lucky to get to play at the college level. It was definitely surreal leading up to those first practices not knowing how I’d stack up, but it ended up being — at the end of the day — football out there’s normal. It’s what I’ve done forever. It all sort of fell into place.
How have you maintained being in the NFL player and maintaining the military side of your career?
It definitely became a concern because I’ve seen myself going down this path of being a naval officer, and my main concern in the whole draft process and football stuff was whether I could get an opportunity at that career as well. That first year being on active duty, things were looking very unsure because I was stretched so thin between the two it was hard to do either one with a clear focus and do my best at both… Going into the reserves, it actually gave me the opportunity to have both careers going simultaneously.
Are there intersections between the military and playing for the Patriots?
I would say the biggest similarities are teamwork and … the wherewithal to know I have to do my job and I am a part of this big process. It’s important to fill my cog in the wheel. I’m doing my job so it can help accomplish the mission, you know on the football field or off, and that’s important in both football and military sense.
What can people learn from your story?
With hard work and persistence, really anything is possible. A lot of things happened to fall in place, and I had some great mentors who I learned a lot from and navigating the water between the two — football and the military — haven’t always been easy. Just showing a commitment and having that commitment to both, whatever you do, and really committing is what’s going to help you achieve whatever you can imagine.
Cardona’s story gained national attention because he needed a waiver from his command to miss drill weekend in order to play in that Super Bowl game. He says they were fully supportive of him and continue to be accommodating of his football requirements. His near-future plans include pursuing a degree in business and hoping to continue his success both on and off the field. | <urn:uuid:84df6a24-4837-4f18-8e55-a72771143d64> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://reservenationalguard.com/off-duty/for-love-of-country-for-love-of-the-game/ | 2023-09-23T17:23:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.98705 | 973 |
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Receiving quality care from an emergency medicine physician following a 9-1-1 call is critical, but how can you bring the expertise of the physician directly to the patient without transport to the ED to reduce delays in care and unnecessary admissions? From initial emergency dispatch and treatment in place to in-transit care, telehealth has a place in the EMS care.
In the webinar, Dr. Bryan Graham, Medical Director of the Virtual Emergency Medicine Program at Cleveland Clinic, and Chris O’Rourke, Institute Administrator for the Emergency Services Institute at Cleveland Clinic, discussed how the health system has scaled and grown its Virtual ED Model to divert unnecessary emergency department admissions and reduce readmission, all while replicating emergency care in the field.
Watch the on-demand webinar to learn how Cleveland Clinic:
- Avoided ED transports for 70% of patients
- Secured buy-in from EMS agencies
- Partnered with a major wireless network operator to improve connectivity in the field
- Staffed its program with dedicated emergency medicine physicians
- Dr. Bryan Graham, Medical Director, Virtual Emergency Medicine Program, Cleveland Clinic
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What is the best method to determine the required URLs for Autodesk Single User licensing are accessible?
Autodesk recently updated their Autodesk Licensing Support Tool to include a user interface (UI) in version 220.127.116.112. Through the new UI version of the Autodesk Licensing Support Tool, users can change the licensing method for their installed Autodesk applications, check if the URL’s used for Autodesk licensing are accessible, reset the local Autodesk account login, enable verbose logging, and view the Autodesk installed versions for licensing components.
The instructions below provide the necessary steps to use the AdskLicensingSupportToolUI to “Check URLs” .
For additional references regarding required URLs, use the link below to review the Autodesk documentation.
The Autodesk Licensing Support Tool can be downloaded from the Autodesk link below.
The file will download as a .zip file. Extract the zip file and you will encounter two folders. Open the folder AdskLicesningSupportToolUI.
Right click on AdskLicensingSupportToolUI.exe to “Run as administrator”.
A User Access Control dialog box may appear asking if you want this application to make changes. Select Yes. (Administrator permissions are required to run all the tools from the AdskLicensingSupportToolUI.)
The Autodesk Licensing Support Tool will appear on screen. Select the Connections tab and then select “Check URLs”.
The tool will begin checking all Autodesk required and optional URLs.
When the tool finishes, scroll down the list to review the Accessible column to confirm the results equal True. If all URLs show the value True then all required Autodesk URLs are accessible and Single-user licensing should be able to function properly.
If there is a problem accessing the URLs, the problem URL will show False in the Accessible column and be highlighted. See example below.
If the results are “False” , Please contact your Network administrator to resolve the problem.
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While industry regulations provide some guidance when it comes to requirements management, every organization has to develop their own processes that match the product they are developing. A team’s requirements management process and the tools they use must also meet the everyday needs of engineers working on the product in order to support them, rather than hinder them.
In this webinar, automotive experts Adrian Rolufs (Automotive Solutions Lead at Jama Software) and Fabian Koark (CEO at INVENSITY) share best practices for establishing cutting edge requirements engineering for the automotive industry. This webinar will enable you to improve your requirements management and engineering process, no matter which regulations you follow or software you use.
Watch this webinar to learn how to:
Measure the performance of your existing requirements management and engineering activities
Find the right requirements management strategy for your organization
Analyze the needs and use-cases of the different engineering roles
Define and establish the right engineering layers and links to promote fast decomposition and transparent traceability
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Despite intravenous nitrate boluses being used in original studies demonstrating benefit in acute heart failure1,2, I regularly meet reluctance from both physicians and nurses in the emergency department to give them.
Their resistance seems to be based on a concern for inducing hypotension, and they prefer to ‘titrate up’ an infusion.
iv nitrate options include nitroglycerin (GTN), and isosorbide dinitrate (ISDN). Studies have used ISDN 4mg every 4 mins, ISDN 3mg every 5 mins, and GTN 2mg every 3 mins3.
There are a number of reasons to avoid starting with a low rate infusion in a sick heart failure patient.
Matthew Reed highlighted cannula size as an important factor4:
If a GTN infusion is commenced at a rate of 1 ml/h, a critically unwell patient with a large cannula—for example, a grey cannula (16G) — will have to wait over 6 min for the drug to enter the body. This compares with 1.5 min for a pink cannula (20G) at the same infusion rate. If a large-diameter cannula is chosen for these patients, then a fast initial infusion rate should also be chosen to ensure that the GTN begins to act quickly.
Alistair Steel subsequently pointed out further reasons to avoid slow infusions5:
(1) mechanical slack within an infusion device may mean an infusion set at 1 ml/h will take many minutes for the driver to contact and advance the syringe plunger. For this reason, infusions should be purged before patient connection.
(2) the pharmacokinetics of the drug should be considered. At low infusion rates it will take significant time for a steady state to be achieved (a drug such as GTN, with a half-life of 2 min, would require 10 min to achieve steady state). For clinical effects to be seen quickly, a bolus should be given before commencing infusions.
(3) the use of 1 ml/h infusions (8 µg/min using a 0.5% solution) may be excessively cautious – the British National Formulary recommends a therapeutic dose range from 10 to 200 µg/min. Furthermore, there is emerging evidence that, when used for decompensated heart failure, higher doses of GTN are associated with more favourable outcomes.
(4) at low infusion rates any obstruction in the intravenous system will take a proportionally longer time to become apparent, as it will take longer for the pressure to build up and trigger the syringe pump’s high pressure alarm..
Now a recent study confirms such a regimen can be used safely in the elderly. ISDN 3mg bolus treatment was not associated with higher rates of hypotension in the elderly population treated for heart failure in the emergency department. Despite a small study and a retrospective design, this lends support to the practice of iv bolus nitrate therapy for acute heart failure, even in the elderly.
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2. High-doses intravenous isosorbide dinitrate is safer and better than Bi-PAP ventilation combined with conventional treatment for severe pulmonary edema
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3. Managing acute pulmonary oedema with high or standard dose nitrate
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4. Administering a glyceryl trinitrate infusion: big is not always best
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5. Administering a glyceryl trinitrate infusion: faster is better than slower
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6. Isosorbide dinitrate bolus for heart failure in elderly emergency patients: a retrospective study
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Signed into law by President Trump on December 20, 2019, the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement (SECURE) Act brings a number of changes for the new year. The passage of the SECURE Act in late December has immediate impact through two very significant changes. As of January 1, 2020, the required minimum distribution (RMD) age for retirement accounts and one big rule regarding inherited IRAs and TSPs have changed.
NEW RMD AGE
RMDs are amounts that must be withdrawn from traditional and Roth TSP accounts and traditional IRAs once a certain age is reached, and for TSP accounts, once you are separated from federal service. In the past, when you reached age 70 ½ and were separated from service, you were required to begin taking RMDs from your TSP accounts. For anyone separated from service and age 70 ½ before January 1, 2020, the old RMD rules still apply.
Anyone who turns 70 ½ and will be separated from federal service on or after January 1, 2020, has a new RMD age: 72. The new RMD age also means that you can now contribute to your TSP or traditional IRA until age 72. See the chart below to determine your RMD age for TSP accounts.
|Traditional or Roth TSP|
|Separated from Service and age 70 ½ before January 1, 2020||RMD at 70 ½|
|Separated from Service and age 70 ½ on or after January 1, 2020||RMD at 72|
It’s important to remember that TSP and IRA rules are not exactly the same. For TSP, you do not have to take RMDs if you are still working for the federal government; however, this is not the case for IRAs. When it comes to traditional IRAs, RMDs must be taken whether you are still working or not. Keep in mind that RMDs still do not apply to Roth IRAs. See the chart below to determine your RMD age for IRAs.
|70 ½ before January 1, 2020||RMD at 70 ½|
|70 ½ on or after January 1, 2020||RMD at 72|
KEY CHANGE TO INHERITED IRAs AND TSPs
The SECURE Act also contains a significant shift regarding inherited IRAs and TSPs. In the past, inherited retirement accounts could be stretched out over the lifetime of the recipient. This strategy, known as the “stretch IRA”, is now limited to certain requirements. With a few exceptions, IRAs inherited on or after January 1, 2020, must now be withdrawn from the account within 10 years of the account owner’s death.
For inherited TSPs, this rule will not yet be implemented. Inherited TSPs will not be subject to the new ten-year distribution for employees who die before Jan 1, 2022. In essence, federal employees have almost two more years until the “stretch” rule is eliminated.
Stretching the IRA is still an option if you inherit the IRA under one of the four exceptions below:
- Surviving spouse
- Disabled or chronically ill individuals
- Individuals who are not more than 10 years younger than the IRA owner
- Child of the IRA owner who is a minor
The changes implemented with the passage of the SECURE Act have significant tax and wealth preservation implications. For a more detailed look at how these changes will affect you, it may be a good idea to speak with your financial professional today. | <urn:uuid:af1f10b7-ed4b-43ac-88f3-6da56e9c5cfc> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://retireinstitute.com/secure-act-brings-changes-to-tsp-and-roth-ira/ | 2023-09-23T17:14:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.95709 | 735 |
Chinese president, Xi Zinping, recently went to Moscow to meet with Putin. While there, the two signed various cooperation agreements ranging from economic trade to the joint production of television programs.
Side note: If two states are concerned about producing TV shows together, the primary purpose is for propaganda and not your entertainment.
Anyway, the big news that broke today is that Russia will now be using the Chinese Yuan to settle payments when trading with Africa, South America and Asia. Here’s an excerpt from Putin’s speech..
🇷🇺 Russia to use Chinese yuan instead of US dollars to settle trade with Asia, Africa, and Latin America. pic.twitter.com/ptuDybKL56
— Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) March 22, 2023
Both China and Russia have been building up their gold reserves lately, and when it comes to gold production, they’re ranked #1 and #2 worldwide. China holds the top spot, while Russia is currently tied with Australia for the #2 position.
There’s a lot of speculation that a gold backed Yuan might be in the works, which is a move that would likely dethrone the USD as the world reserve currency.
Problem is, while a gold backed currency is certainly an improvement to the unbacked currency we’re currently using, it still requires trust in the government to maintain accurate backing – which monetary history shows isn’t a sure bet.
Also a concern is that the Yuan as the world reserve would give China too much influence internationally, and with them being an authoritarian, communist regime, that’s the last thing we want.
A sovereign, fully transparent, decentralized currency like Bitcoin which can’t be manipulated makes a lot more sense to serve that purpose.
Anyway, the biggest concern here is that historically, when leaders make moves to shift away from using the USD in international trade, war usually follows.
To learn more about those instances, read this article as it’ll explain the real motives for the destruction of Iraq, Libya etc. | <urn:uuid:7aaf4b2e-84ce-464f-a874-9db02a334974> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://revoltfinance.com/russia-to-use-chinese-yuan-for-international-trade/ | 2023-09-23T17:40:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.944799 | 435 |
Pragmatic play is a young company founded in 2015 with the goal of helping to drive mobile gambling forward. Its hard work hasn’t gone unnoticed, with the provider winning a number of awards in its short history. Pragmatic play is headquartered in Malta, an island nation located in the Mediterranean Sea. Its games can be found at a variety of casino sites hosted around the world.
Slot games are the cornerstone of pragmatic play’s multi-product portfolio, which also features table and live dealer games, bingo, and virtual sports in over 31 languages and currencies. The developer has a strong commitment to immersive gameplay and unique math models that deliver exceptional quality across all titles. In addition, its games are tested by independent agencies to ensure fairness and integrity.
One of the biggest challenges for casino games providers is balancing player demand and maintaining the right game balance. This is particularly true in the case of online slots, where players are diverse and have different preferences. Some like low volatility slots that offer a high number of winning chances for a low price while others prefer taking risks and choose higher variance slots. Pragmatic Play understands these differences and strives to create games that cater to all types of players.
The company’s table games are well-designed and intuitive to use, which makes them a good choice for newcomers and veteran gamblers alike. Its version of roulette, for example, has enough space for all the bets and provides useful hints for novices. The same can be said of its blackjack and baccarat games. All of these games can be played on Windows, Apple, and Android devices.
While the games from pragmatic play are very well-made, there are a few things that could be improved. For example, the Snake Totem bonus game could be a little more challenging. The bonus rounds are not as exciting as they should be, and it can be frustrating to try to get to the next level.
The games from Pragmatic Play are compatible with a wide range of betting rates, which makes them accessible to gamers on all budgets. This allows gamers with limited spending power to enjoy the games, while players who have more money can place larger bets and increase their chances of winning big prizes. In addition, the games are available in all major regulated markets and supported by a comprehensive set of tools. These include a unified API integration that can be easily implemented by operators. | <urn:uuid:21072db7-16a2-40fe-afb5-21a01cc0b863> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://rgvequalvoice.org/pragmatic-play-review-15/ | 2023-09-23T16:31:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.958552 | 489 |
Beloit Turner Middle School
Project Description: This project included seal coating and modifying the existing parking lot to improve traffic flow, safety, ADA access, 71 additional parking stalls, and a connection to Flack Road. Grading and berms for on-campus cross-country routes were also implemented.
Client: Beloit Turner School District
Location: 1237 E Inman Parkway, Town of Beloit, WI
Project Year: 2021
Lead Batterman Staff: Alex Feuling
Biggest Challenge and How it was Solved: The school wanted to include berms and grade change on site for a future cross-country route. The site is fairly flat and the parking lot expansion project would not yield a significant amount of spoil material.
It was coordinated to use spoil material from four other Turner School District projects that were also taking place, to provide the required amount of material to construct the berms.
Field Data: 195,105 sqft, 4.48 acres
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Widely regarded as one of greatest stage and screen actors, both in his native Great Britain and internationally, twice nominated for the Oscar and recipient of every major theatrical award in UK and US, Ian Murray McKellen was born on May 25, 1939 in Burnley, Lancashire, England, to Margery Lois (Sutcliffe) and Denis Murray McKellen, a civil engineer. He is of Scottish, Northern Irish, and English descent. During his early childhood, his parents moved with Ian and his sister Jean to the mill town of Wigan. It was in this small town that young Ian rode out World War II. He soon developed a fascination with acting and the theater, which was encouraged by his parents. They would take him to plays, those by William Shakespeare, in particular. The amateur school productions fostered Ian's growing passion for theatre.
When Ian was of age to begin attending school, he made sure to get roles in all of the productions. At Bolton School in particular, he developed his skills early on. Indeed, his first role in a Shakespearian play was at Bolton, as Malvolio in "Twelfth Night". Ian soon began attending Stratford-upon-Avon theater festivals, where he saw the greats perform: Laurence Olivier, Wendy Hiller, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson and Paul Robeson. He continued his education in English Drama, but soon it fell by the wayside as he concentrated more and more on performing. He eventually obtained his Bachelor of Arts in 1961, and began his career in earnest.
McKellen began working in theatre over the next few years. Very few people knew of Ian's homosexuality; he saw no reason to go public, nor had he told his family. They did not seem interested in the subject and so he saw no reason to bring it up. In 1988, Ian publicly came out of the closet on the BBC Radio 4 program, while discussing Margaret Thatcher's "Section 28" legislation, which made the promotion of homosexuality as a family relationship by local authorities an offense. It was reason enough for McKellen to take a stand. He has been active in the gay rights movement ever since.
Ian resides in Limehouse, where he has also lived with his former long-time partner Sean Mathias. The two men have also worked together on the film Bent (1997) as well as in acclaimed stage productions. To this day, McKellen works mostly in theater, and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990 for his efforts in the arts. However, he has managed to make several quite successful forays into film. He has appeared in several productions of Shakespeare's works including his well received Richard III (1995), and in a variety of other movies. However, it has only been recently that his star has finally begun to shine in the eyes of North American audiences. Roles in various films, Cold Comfort Farm (1995), Apt Pupil (1998) and Gods and Monsters (1998), riveted audiences. The latter, in particular, created a sensation in Hollywood, and McKellen's role garnered him several of awards and nominations, including a Golden Globe and an Oscar nod. McKellen, as he continues to work extensively on stage, he always keeps on 'solidifying' his 'role' as Laurence Olivier's worthy 'successor' in the best sense too, such as _King Lear (2008)_ directed by Trevor Nunn and in a range of other staggering performances full of generously euphoric delight that have included "Peter Pan" and Noël Coward's "Present Laughter", as well as Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" and Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land", both in acclaimed productions brilliantly directed by Sean Mathias.
McKellen found mainstream success with his performance as Magneto in X-Men (2000) and its sequels. His largest mark on the big screen may be as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy directed by Peter Jackson, which he reprized in The Hobbit trilogy. | <urn:uuid:d5e13d51-14ea-487d-be0d-4b7806d95eab> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://rialto.interticket.com/person/ian-mckellen-14034 | 2023-09-23T17:50:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.989388 | 829 |
A Note About Obsolescence
This website was started in 2009. Back then, the digital cameras that I used, as well as the sizes that we believed images should be for the Internet, were different.
On August 27, 2023, I decided to rebuild this site, using newer technology. I wanted to take advantage of the Gutenberg Block Editor, as well as some other advanced tech.
Some of the images in posts on this site did not scale up as well as I would like. Consequently, they may appear either blurred, or pixelated, as does the Featured Image for “The Dolphins Leap Tonight” from 2009. My plan over the next-however-long-it-takes is to go through all the images, and, for those which I can still find my old digital negatives, I will update them. For those which I cannot find the old negatives, I’ll try to tweak them with newer photo-editing software to improve their quality at the larger sizes I am now using for images on this website.
So stay tuned!
About This Website, Blog, and Me (the Photographer-Owner)
RickHorowitz.Photography is the photography and photographic art website of award-winning photographer, Rick Horowitz. Previously, the website was listed as SoShootMe.com. However, frankly, I’ve gotten tired of the cost of fighting off trademark infringers, and so I registered RickHorowitz.Photography.
I blog at unpredictable times and intervals. Frankly, at least as of January 2019, I have more frequently updated my posts to my Viewbug account. Starting in February 2019, however, I intend to change that, as I have upgraded my website, and will also be adding Galleries here.
Although I don’t anticipate updating this site on a daily basis, as some photographers might, the site will provide a showcase for some of my work as well as a location for photography clients to view proof albums.
Currently, I am available to shoot events (excluding weddings), concerts, bands (including album covers), indoor and outdoor portraiture, model portfolios and “boudoir” photography (sometimes known as “intimates”). Shootings are by appointment only, rates are negotiable, and payment is in advance. I can be reached at (559) 233-8886.
Those familiar with modeling & photography have probably heard of the concept of “TFP/CD” which stands for “time for prints/CD.” I have done a limited amount of TFP/CD work, but only if the model is bringing something new to add to my own portfolio, and signs a release so that I can utilize the images. More of my work with models can be seen at Model Mayhem.
Contact me for your photography modeling session, and see why one model wrote:
So Shoot Me!® Photography is definitely my favorite to work with. Rick has a great eye for detail, and went far out of his way to make sure I was comfortable for the duration of the shoot. He has amazing drive, and vision, and I would recommend him to any model!
Sidenote: For a while, my photography business and website were called “So Shoot Me!®” And, yes, I did register the trademark. But I grew tired of fighting off those people who could care less about the legal rights of others: the lawyers are just too expensive. So I changed the name. I still own So Shoot Me!®, and it’s still a registered trademark. Maybe I’ll sue a few people to convince them the law matters.
I have also shot sets for models who have submitted to SuicideGirls.
For details, contact me at (559) 681-1888, or email me here using my first name of “rick” adding the at symbol (if you don’t know what that means, I can’t help you) followed by the name of this domain (rickhorowitz.photography).
Those of you who have been on the Internet for a while now will realize that in the previous paragraph, I did not list my actual email address because of spam concerns, but you will understand how to put this together to reach me.
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Using an average speed of 8.3 mph* it would take 36.3 minutes to travel 5 miles on an electric bike.
*average speed calculated using The University of Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange (download)
With eBiking becoming more popular for commuting, shopping and sight seeing the need to “plan” your trip becomes more important. EBikes will get you to your destination faster, and since you can nearly keep up with traffic odds are you might even be safer.
To confirm studies I’ve read I put together a little study and compared it to larger studies using electric bikes in urban studies.
Key Factors in My Study
- The time an e-bike will take to travel 5 miles (I timed my ride 5 times)
- Why e-bikes ideal for mid-range rides
- eBike and standard bike comparison
- How much faster is an e-bike than a normal bike (I averaged 9.8 mph on an ebike)
- Factors that affect e-bike speed (I ride 5 times per week)
My eBike takes 20.3 minutes to travel 5 miles. I averaged a speed 14.8 mph. Meanwhile, a conventional bike needs 46 minutes to reach the same distance (@6.5 mph*). Wind, load capacity, and hills can affect this speed.
You can see my data from the timed 5 mile trip here 👉 (David’s 5 Mile eBike Data)
Suppose you wonder which is faster and more efficient between e-bikes and regular bikes. In that case, this article will help you figure it out. What was really interesting is that my ebike data is support by a study done in Germany. (Source)
Some say that electric bikes are the future of human transportation. They are fast, convenient, and allow you to get to various places without much effort. Out of all the benefits e-bikes provide, the one that cyclists most talk about is speed.
So, to see how fast an e-bike is, we examined how long it would take to reach 5 miles.
Plan for 40 minutes when riding 5 miles. This adds a little bit of time for variations in the road like hills and stops, along with wind. To calculate times for a variety of rides use the formula below.
Time = Distance / Speed
If your distance is 10 miles, and eBike speed is 8 mph , plan for 1.25 hours. To convert to minutes multiple by 60, in this case 75 minutes.
If your using kph the same equation applies. Just remember to use metric speed and distance. 5
One of the best reasons electric bikes are ideal for 5-mile rides is that they do not require much physical effort to run. While you still need to pedal, an e-bike has an electric drive system that consists of a battery and a motor. As soon as you exert physical power onto the pedals, the motor will start working to make the pedals feel lighter.
Thanks to the electric bike’s motor, you do not have to exert the same amount of pedaling power that you would if you were riding a standard bike. For this reason, you will reach your destination without feeling too tired.
There is no denying that e-bikes surged in popularity in recent years. In 2021 alone, manufacturers sold about 607,600 electric vehicle units in the US. But how does an electric bike differ from a conventional bike?
The most significant difference between a standard bike and an electric bike is that the latter has a motor. This motor has a rechargeable battery, which powers the e-bike when you propel the pedal. As mentioned previously, an e-bike’s motor makes pedaling work more manageable, allowing you to reach your destination quickly.
Meanwhile, a standard bike solely relies on your physical power to run.
Mid-drive motors allow the rider to use the gears of the bike, just like when pedaling. This allows you to adjust the gears to the terrain. Low gears for hills and wind and high gears for speed.
The components of an e-bike and its manual counterpart are the same. This reason is why you will see bike conversion kits that you can use to turn a manual bike into an electric bike.
Apart from adding a motor to an e-bike, it also has a small display monitor, which you will not find in a standard bike. This monitor displays the amount of charge the e-bike’s battery has, speed, and mileage.
The electrical drive system of an e-bike has some weight, so an e-bike is heavier than a standard bike. Still, this system contributes power to the e-bike, so there will be no drag unless you carry heavy loads while riding.
I’ve got a group of articles explaining why eBikes are Awesome Check Them Out Below 👇
- I love riding eBikes, want to learn why? Read 👉 What Are The (Great) Features of Electric Bikes?
- Are you weighing the Pros and Cons of getting an eBike? Let me help 👉 Electric Bike Pros and Cons
- Interested in how it “feels” to ride an eBike? Awesome 👉 What Does it Feel Like to Ride an eBike?
- What is “Pedal Assist? Let me explain it in this article. 👉 What is Pedal Assist and How Does it Work?
As mentioned, an e-bike has an average speed of 8.2 mph. Meanwhile, a conventional bike can only ride 6.5 mph. To see how much faster you will reach 5 miles when riding an e-bike, let us calculate the amount of time it will take for a standard bike to reach the same distance. (Average Speed Source)
Time = Distance / Speed
= 5 miles / 8.3 mph for ebike. Time = .61 hours or 36.3 minutes
= 5 miles / 6.5 mph for ebike. Time = .77 hours or 45.9 minutes
For a 5 mile ride you can save just shy of 10 minutes using an eBike
True enough, an e-bike can run faster than a standard bike. But similar to the latter, some factors affect the speed of your e-bike.
According to the book Physics In Daily Life, the wind that blows against a biker increases drag. So, when cycling on a windy day, you must expect the wind to slow your e-bike’s speed.
When cycling uphill, you have to overcome the force of gravity. This gravity adds drag to the electric bike and pulls it down while you are cycling uphill.
According to a study done at the Wellness Institute And Research Center of Old Dominion University, cycling uphill requires the cyclist to exert more power. But while increased power will help you cover a steep path, it will not allow you to maintain the same speed your e-bike has on flat roads.
Similar to wind, the weight your e-bike is carrying increases drag. So, if you bring a heavy bag while cycling, your e-bike will run slower than its usual speed.
RIDE e MTB Pro Tip: With eBikes growing in popularity learning all the terms and definitions can be a bit overwhelming. Let me help with this comprehensive glossary. 👉 eBike Glossary
My non- scientific study tracked pretty closely to larger scale studies. An e-bike is undeniably faster than a standard bike due to its motor. While the study at the University of Tennessee concluded an eBike has an average speed of 8.3 mph, I was able to achieve 14.8 mph. My ride data closely matches a German study.
What I love most about writing and researching for this article is that eBike sales are getting folks out on two wheels more than ever before. As a general rule – plan for 40 minutes for a 5 mile eBike ride. 🚵♂️
- Schleinitz, K., Petzoldt, T., Franke-Bartholdt, L., Krems, J.F., & Gehlert, T. (2017). The German Naturalistic Cycling Study – Comparing cycling speed of riders of different e-bikes and conventional bicycles. Safety Science, 92, 290-297. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2015.07.027 (Download)
- Statistica Research Department. Estimated plug-in electric light vehicle sales in the United States from 2016 to 2021. https://www.statista.com/statistics/665823/sales-of-plug-in-light-vehicles-in-the-us/ Accessed January 25, 2023.
- Jo Hermans. Physics in Daily Life. EDP Sciences: 2011. https://www.europhysicsnews.org/articles/epn/pdf/2006/02/epn06204.pdf. Accessed January 25, 2023.
- David P. Swain. Cycling Uphill And Downhill. https://www.sportsci.org/jour/9804/dps.html#uphill. Accessed January 25, 2023.
- A comparative health and safety analysis of electric-assist and regular bicycles in an on-campus bicycle sharing system. TRACE https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/2445/ Accessed February 8, 2023 | <urn:uuid:d83c88ca-7f3f-4a4c-b1fb-d71b4bdc9ac7> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://rideemtb.com/how-long-to-bike-5-miles-on-an-ebike/ | 2023-09-23T18:02:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.930149 | 1,976 |
MSE Equity Price Index extends decline
The MSE Equity Price Index continued to drift lower as it slipped by a further 0.69% to 3,569.065 points reflecting the declines in the ordinary shares of RS2, APS and Mapfre Middlesea. On the other hand, BMIT, Farsons and Loqus traded unchanged. Overall trading activity in equities remained subdued as only €0.03 million worth of shares changed hands. Download today’s Equity Market Summary.
The ordinary shares of RS2 Software plc moved 0.7% lower to an over three-year low of €1.37 across 15,176 shares.
APS Bank plc retracted by 1.5% to the €0.64 level on a total of 5,057 shares.
Mapfre Middlesea plc lost 14.3% to a seven-year low of €1.50 level albeit on trivial volumes.
Low trading activity also took place in the equities of BMIT Technologies plc and Simonds Farsons Cisk plc which stayed at the €0.48 and €7.60 levels respectively.
A single deal of 9,666 shares left the share price of Loqus Holdings plc at the €0.15 level.
The RF MGS Index rebounded by 0.17% from its all-time low to resurface above the 920 level as movements across international financial markets remained highly volatile amid the prevailing uncertain global macroeconomic environment. On the economic front, preliminary inflationary data in Spain showed that consumer prices increased by less than expected. Meanwhile in the US, the number of job openings increased sharply reflecting the tight labour market conditions in the world’s largest economy.
This report contains public information only and is not to be construed as investment advice or an offer to buy or sell any securities. Information contained herein is based on data obtained from sources considered to be reliable, but no representations or guarantees are made with regard to the accuracy of the data. Stock markets are volatile and subject to fluctuations which cannot be reasonably foreseen. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. Rizzo, Farrugia & Co. (Stockbrokers) Limited is a company licensed to undertake investment services in Malta by the MFSA under the Investment Services Act, Cap. 370 of the Laws of Malta and a member of the Malta Stock Exchange. | <urn:uuid:010d8ec5-17f4-4c4b-becb-8cd425bdca37> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://rizzofarrugia.com/market-highlights/daily-market-highlights/daily-market-highlights-30-08-2022/ | 2023-09-23T18:58:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.938453 | 490 |
Civil engineering firm in Phoenix, Arizona.
Dibble & Associates Consulting Engineers (a Civil Engineering firm in Phoenix, Arizona) contracted RJD Creative to undertake a comprehensive branding research, analysis and development project to assess their corporate brand. Phase 1 of the project involved branding research including 30 in-person client, sub-consultant and staff interviews, 100+ web surveys, secondary competitor research, analysis of the collected research data and reporting and distillation of research data into manageable key findings.
Phase 2 involved a Brand Strategy Recommendation including a slight restructuring of the corporate brand to embrace existing positive attributes within a simplified brand structure the company can effectively use in its marketing efforts. Also recommended was a contraction of the very long and cumbersome existing company name to the more compact “Dibble Engineering”, which clients were already using.
These recommendations were followed by an audit of their existing creative strategy and supporting collateral materials and web site, as well as a revised set of Creative Strategy Recommendations. These included development of a new logo and practice identity icons, revised corporate color palette, revised corporate typeface recommendations, examples of the new brand identity system in use in corporate stationery, corporate brochures, web site, apparel, promotional items and vehicle graphics. RJD Creative developed a comprehensive Brand Identity Standards manual that detailed all recommendations. | <urn:uuid:d64fd0c7-2ab4-4b64-91c2-7f4f9a15483b> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://rjdcreative.com/portfolio/case-studies/dibble-engineering/ | 2023-09-23T18:19:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.925268 | 275 |
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McCartney has been recognised as one of the most successful composers and performers of all time, with 60 gold discs and sales of over 100 million albums and 100 million singles of his work with the Beatles and as a solo artist. More than 2,200 artists have covered his Beatles song "Yesterday", more than any other copyrighted song in history. Wings' 1977 release "Mull of Kintyre" is one of the all-time best-selling singles in the UK. A two-time inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (as a member of the Beatles in 1988, and as a solo artist in 1999), and a 21-time Grammy Award winner (having won both individually and with the Beatles), McCartney has written, or co-written 32 songs that have reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, and as of 2014 he has sold more than 15.5million RIAA-certified units in the United States. McCartney, Lennon, Harrison and Starr received MBEs in 1965, and in 1997, McCartney was knighted for his services to music.
"Golden Slumbers" is a song by the Beatles, part of the climactic medley on their 1969 album Abbey Road. The song begins the progression that leads to the end of the album and is followed by "Carry That Weight". The two songs were recorded together as a single piece, and both were written by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon–McCartney), strings and brass arranged and scored by producer George Martin.
"Golden Slumbers" is based on the poem "Cradle Song", a lullaby by the dramatist Thomas Dekker. The poem appears in Dekker's 1603 comedy Patient Grissel. McCartney saw sheet music for Dekker's lullaby at his father's home in Liverpool, left on a piano by his stepsister Ruth. Unable to read music, he created his own music. McCartney uses the first stanza of the original poem, with minor word changes, adding to it a single lyric line repeated with minor variation. Abbey Road does not credit Dekker with the stanza or with the title. Thomas Dekker's poem was set to music by Peter Warlock in 1918, also by Charles Villiers Stanford and Alfredo Casella. | <urn:uuid:7b38ca82-7ff9-48ee-abd3-3871f0a2989c> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://ro.wn.com/Golden_Slumbers_Carry_That_Weight_The_End_Paul_Mccartney | 2023-09-23T19:10:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.977998 | 517 |
Aloha, all! This is one of those days when I have to wonder what I was thinking about when I chose the themes for the SUO (Stampin' Up! Only) Challenges! Today's theme is, "Favorite New Toys," with the idea being that lots of us who love Stampin' Up! (demonstrators and non-demonstrators alike) would certainly have some new products … [Read more...] about I Have to Pick a Favorite?!
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Aloha, all! I just love CASE (Copy And Share with Everyone!) challenges. For one thing, the basic idea for the card is right there so I don't have to do too much thinking - just deciding what I'd like to do differently. Today's CASE challenge was almost a perfect card to CASE - perfect in the sense that it took me … [Read more...] about So Quick and Easy!
Aloha, all! I'm back from my travels and all unpacked! I'm exhausted, but I had a great time. I knew when I left that one of the first things I'd have to do is to come up with a project for my SUDSOL Online Demonstrator group's CASE (Copy and Share with Everyone) challenge for the week - so I did it ahead of time (surprise! - … [Read more...] about Thanksgiving and Another CASE Card! | <urn:uuid:84fd012f-f317-4916-a59a-0c525c8d59b7> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://robinscraftroom.com/tag/label-bracket-punch/ | 2023-09-23T17:37:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.97204 | 285 |
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There are a lot of things that people want to know about a day in the life of a criminal lawyer and it is possible that they require a shrewd lawyer for criminal defense as they seek to defend their rights as well as avoid being in jail for an act they may not even have done.
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Food and Agriculture
What ethical challenges exist within our global food and agriculture systems?
The Rock Ethics Institute integrates ethical considerations, processes, and objectives into interdisciplinary Food and Agriculture research at Penn State. The scholarship of our Core and Affiliate faculty positions the REI as a global leader in agricultural and food ethics research and a trusted voice on these issues among academics and the broader public.
Research Project I: Shifting Discourses on Food Security, Food Sovereignty, and Technology in the Post-COVID Era.
The year 2020 involved multiple intertwined crises: COVID-19, economic contraction, and racial strife. Few if any social institutions have been unscathed and the world is still scrambling to respond, including food security and food sovereignty actors. At the same time, long-term sociotechnical trends outside of agriculture also impact how food system actors are reconfiguring and repositioning themselves. Is the current moment of crisis opening new windows of possibility, or simply accelerating our previous sociotechnical trajectory? Over the past year, FIELDS convenor Robert Chiles and FIELDS undergraduate fellow Anderson Longenecker have analyzed this phenomenon by conducting a discourse analysis of elite-level discourses on agriculture and technology (n = 300 articles). Our research question is both descriptive and interpretive. With respect to the former, we ask “What discourses are food system experts and tech experts using to make sense of and rearticulate the meaning, significance, and ethical implications of the post-COVID era?” With respect to the latter, we ask “What are the implications of these discourses and their institutional/material enactments with respect to food security and food sovereignty proponents?” Preliminary results were presented at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.
Research Project II: The Political Economy of Cellular Agriculture in South Africa: Livelihoods, Governance, and Climate Justice.
Cellular agriculture involves the production of meat and dairy products from stem cells rather than live animals. This technology has primarily been developed in the United States, Europe, Israel, Japan, and China, but in just the past several years, three cellular agriculture start-ups have emerged in South Africa. Studying the cellular agriculture phenomenon in South Africa helps to illustrate the convergence of multiple sociotechnical storylines in the modern era: climate change, socioeconomic and racial inequality, industrial animal agriculture, and the 4th Industrial Revolution. In June 2022, FIELDS convenor Robert Chiles traveled to Cape Town, South Africa to do a pilot study, network, and lay the foundation for a future sabbatical year. Project findings will inform and advance contemporary literature and debate in the sociology of agriculture, environmental sociology, science and technology studies, settler colonialism and postcolonial theory, the sociology of race and racism, and development studies.
School administrators and food service directors face many challenges when trying to make ethical decisions about what meals to provide students through the National School Lunch Program. Considering menu items, the environment where the children eat, the time allowed for lunches, and more; the decisions are frequently made with little decision-making guidance and under tight regulatory, cost, and resource constraints.
The Rock Ethics Institute Ethical Decision-Making Among School Food Service Stakeholders Initiative seeks to understand the obstacles and challenges stakeholders face in making such decisions and to leverage this understanding to develop an ethical decision-making framework to guide such decisions for these stakeholders.
The project creates far-reaching research and pedagogical synergies by leveraging the expertise of Penn State’s Food Decisions Research Laboratory (which is directed by initiative convener Amit Sharma) and the REI’s Food Innovation, Ethics, Leadership, Development, and Sustainability (FIELDS) initiative, under the direction of co-convener Robert M. Chiles—providing deep, meaningful research opportunities for both Penn State undergraduate and graduate students. | <urn:uuid:092b0fd6-e41c-4aa4-9d0a-f36e0cd906e6> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://rockethics.psu.edu/topics/food-and-agriculture/ | 2023-09-23T16:43:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.906271 | 818 |
We train all breeds and all ages.
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With Private Lessons, we come to your home once per week for about an hour. Private lesson dog training is a great way to get the training for your dog that you want as long as you have the time to spend with the dog to accomplish your goals. In each lesson we review the skills from the previous lesson and teach a new skill for the following week. With private lessons we teach you how to train and work with your own dog. We will teach you how to successfully take your dog through all three phases of training to ensure that you have a reliable, well-rounded dog.
Basic Training Tools are required with our advanced private session packages. Our off-leash private lessons will require E-Collar remote training collar that you can purchase at a discounted rate from my store these user-friendly collars have been a staple of our training programs and are designed to get results.
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Serbian midfielder Nemanja Matic is set to leave Roma.
According to the latest report by Gianluca Di Marzio of Sky Sport, Roma have accepted Rennes offer for Matic who will leave for a fixed fee of €3 million.
The veteran player will join Rennes on a long-term deal after having agreed to personal terms earlier in the month.
Matic is set to travel to France later today in order to complete his medical with Rennes.
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Welcome to Astoria Retirement Residence located in Port Coquitlam, BC. Centrally located in Port Coquitlam, BC. Astoria’s residents and employees go out of their way to make you feel at home.
Centrally located in Port Coquitlam, BC, Astoria is inspired by the mountain chalets of Whistler and Jasper. This is the sort of place where everybody knows your name – a vibrant, social community full of friendship and connection. Whether you’re gathering in Papa George’s Piano Bar, staying strong in the Canucks Wellness & Exercise Centre, or playing games in Art’s & Soc’s Billiards Room, Astoria’s residents and team members go out of their way to make you feel at home.
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The rules for Squeezing on page 192 of the PHB state:
Squeezing into Smaller Spaces
A creature can squeeze through a space that is large enough for a creature one size smaller than it. Thus, a Large creature can squeeze through a passage that's only 5 feet wide.
Using these rules, can an Ogre squeeze through a corridor that is 5 feet wide and has one or both walls created by the Wall of Fire spell without entering the spells' area and taking damage?
For context, in the actual situation there was a straight brick wall, and a PC cast a straight-line Wall of Fire parallel to that wall, with the damaging heat emanating outside the formed corridor, leaving a 5ft wide safe gap for the PCs to fit through. The intent was to force the Large enemies to take fire damage, should they choose to approach the PCs through the corridor. | <urn:uuid:fb2e2c20-e2f4-4e1e-8740-f38080f2a293> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/191393/can-large-characters-squeeze-through-a-5ft-corridor-between-walls-of-fire?noredirect=1 | 2023-09-23T18:32:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.955584 | 180 |
R&R Events merges with your team to become your event production division. From themed parties for employees, customers or milestone family events to trade shows, conferences, sporting events (golf tournaments, marathons), to large scale city-wide audio-visual, staging, fireworks-coordinating extravaganzas – this is exactly what we do, from concept to unplugging the last amp and loading the trucks. You’re welcome.
At R&R, we create ‘things.’ You imagine them, and we build them. Our “imagination station” is busy every day with custom work that simply isn’t available in anyone’s inventory…until now.
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From inventive centerpieces and custom florals to linens, chairs, staging, audio-visual equipment to backdrops, R&R loves to show off our ‘shiny things’ so you can rent them – and make your event as special as it can be.
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Details, details – and a LOT of them. Organizing all of these tedious details, while dealing with an overall grand vision, can be a tricky business. But after thirty years, we’ve got this. We work with you to help design, then manage, your event from concept to break-down.
Set-up for an event – whether a gala, marathon, golf tournament, concert or anniversary party – is time-consuming. Issues arise, even with state-of-the-art equipment. R&R sets-up, manages on-location, monitors production and breaks down. Or you can cherry-pick what you need us to do.
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From tackling large scale concrete projects for commercial developments to modest residential works and even miscellaneous concrete projects, Robertson’s is pleased to say that we do them all! We’re dedicated to helping build communities by extending our services to projects of all types regardless of scale.
Robertson’s is the leading producer of ready-mixed concrete and construction aggregates in the Southern California area, covering Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside, Orange County, San Diego Counties and Imperial Counties. We are proud member of each community we service, and we are equally proud to be of service to every community we help build. Contact us today! | <urn:uuid:6a25dd91-5588-40ac-bff6-10699a53962f> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://rrmca.com/miscellaneous/ | 2023-09-23T18:46:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.943926 | 136 |
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Plant Care Profile: Alocasia Pink Dragon
Common Name: Alocasia Pink Dragon
Scientific Name: Alocasia 'Pink Dragon'
Description: Alocasia Pink Dragon is a striking and exotic plant known for its large, arrowhead-shaped leaves with vibrant pink veins that contrast beautifully against the deep green foliage. It is a compact variety of Alocasia, making it an excellent choice for both indoor and outdoor spaces.
Light Requirements: Place your Alocasia Pink Dragon in bright, indirect light. Avoid direct sunlight, as it can scorch the leaves. Providing filtered sunlight through sheer curtains or placing the plant near a north or east-facing window is ideal.
Watering: Keep the soil consistently moist but not waterlogged. Water your Alocasia Pink Dragon when the top inch of the soil feels dry to the touch. Ensure proper drainage to prevent root rot. During the growing season (spring and summer), increase watering frequency, and reduce it during the dormant period (fall and winter).
Humidity: Alocasia Pink Dragon thrives in high humidity environments. Mist the leaves regularly or use a humidity tray to maintain humidity levels. You can also place the pot on a tray filled with water and pebbles to increase local humidity.
Temperature: Maintain a warm and humid environment for your Alocasia Pink Dragon. Ideal temperatures range between 65°F to 80°F (18°C to 27°C). Avoid exposing the plant to drafts or sudden temperature fluctuations.
Fertilization: Feed your Alocasia Pink Dragon with a balanced, water-soluble fertilizer every 4-6 weeks during the growing season (spring and summer). Reduce fertilization frequency in the dormant period. Be cautious not to over-fertilize, as it can lead to salt buildup in the soil.
Potting and Repotting: Repot your Alocasia Pink Dragon every 1-2 years or when you notice it becoming root-bound. Use a well-draining potting mix rich in organic matter. Choose a pot that is one size larger than the current one.
Pruning: Remove any yellowing or damaged leaves by cutting them close to the base. Regularly pruning can help maintain the plant's overall health and appearance.
Pests and Diseases: Keep an eye out for common houseplant pests like spider mites, aphids, and mealybugs. Inspect the leaves regularly and treat any infestations promptly with insecticidal soap or neem oil. Alocasia Pink Dragon is generally disease-resistant but can be susceptible to root rot if overwatered.
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- Use a well-draining potting mix to prevent waterlogging.
- Avoid sudden temperature changes and cold drafts.
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Running the Hangover Classic in Salisbury, MA has become a quasi-New Year’s tradition in our family. Amelia and I ran it first in 2009 when we decided to sign up for the Will Run For Beer Series (who could resist?!). The Hangover Classic was the first race of the series. The night before the race there was such a significant snow storm that we questioned whether the race would actually be held. But knowing runners and not hearing of any cancellation we drove to the race the next morning. The roads were still snowy and the wind was intense. As we neared the start of the race we saw a huge plume of snow shooting up from a massive snowbank ahead of us. We assumed it was coming from a snow blower. But, no, it was actually just wind-blown snow coming off a massive snowbank. Oh, boy!
Inches of snow covered the roads as we ran the course, making for one of those “one step forward-two steps back” type of runs. But we persevered and finished the race, relishing the warm pub, cold beer, and the contented feeling of accomplishment as we waited for Amelia to claim her age division winner prize.
Subsequent races have brought additional challenges including courses diverted due to flooding and unfailingly frigid temps and strong winds. But the chance to start a new year with a fun run followed by festivities keeps us coming back.
Mike and I have run the 5K a number of times but this year we signed up for the 10K. We are in the midst of our training for the Houston Rhythm and Blues Half Marathon in February and we were due for a tempo run so we figured the Hangover Classic would be perfect. Although we weren’t hungover, we had seen the New Year in with games, celebrating, good food and plenty of drinks with Hannah and Todd the night before. The race is about an hour from our home so this factor combined with a late night made us appreciate the 11:30 start time.
We arrived in plenty of time to pick up our spiffy green, long-sleeve T-shirt,
take care of the usual pre-race “business”, and scoot back to the car to warm up for a bit. As the starting time approached we headed back towards the start. We decided to join the huge throng of runners waiting for one last dash into the porta-potties. The race organizers announced that they would delay the start about 5 minutes due to the large number of people who were still in line for the bathrooms. However, as we waited in a line that never seemed to get shorter, it became apparent that the race was going to start before we reached the head of the line.
Personally, anxiety over timing last minute porta-potty stops is truly one of my biggest race day concerns. Somehow, it has always worked out fine for the countless races we’ve run. My worries that the race would start without me had been unfounded. This time, however, the dream/nightmare I’ve had where everyone has left and I haven’t started the race yet actually came true! We decided that making this pit stop was going to be essential to a good race. The race was chipped timed and we weren’t in contention for any awards so we decided it was not a big deal if we started after the official start. As we looked around we realized we were not the only runners who made this decision which was somehow reassuring.
So after a brief delay we were ready to cross the starting line…by ourselves! It definitely felt weird to have watched as the throng of runners left the starting area and it felt kind of surreal to be heading out on our own. But we soon realized what an advantage it was! The usual surge as the gun goes off followed by the inevitable decrease to a walking pace that we commonly experience in our middle-of-the-pack spot never happened. There was no weaving around slower runners or veering around walkers. The road ahead was wide open and we relished this unexpected bonus.
My other racing fear is being the very last person to finish the race. This fear helped spur us on and shortly we were passing several walkers and runners. Before long we were running with runners ahead of and behind us. Although the road was still quite empty, the race felt more routine now.
The course is very flat and winds around the seaside area of Salisbury. A multitude of volunteers cheerfully directed us as we wove our way along the course. A number of spectators braved the cold and cheered us on. The run had a wonderfully festive feel to it. I don’t think I’ve ever said, “Happy New Year” to so many people before. It felt great! And speaking of “great” we were thrilled with our pace which we were able to keep steady for the first 3 miles. It only decreased a few seconds per mile on the second half of the course. The lovely tail wind that we had enjoyed in the first half became a pretty intense head wind as we looped back. But we felt strong and finished in a time that really pleased us. And we weren’t the last participants to cross the finish line!
We took a few minutes to stretch, marvel at those who were heading into the frigid North Atlantic Ocean for the optional ocean plunge,
and take the inevitable awkward (for us) “selfie”.
But this year when we entered the bar this was the view as we tried to make our way to where the beer was being poured.
We realized that there is an advantage to running the 5K…and maybe starting with the rest of the pack. However, since we would soon be heading to the airport to pick up Amelia for her holiday visit home we opted to forgo the line. We stopped at The Grog in Newburyport, MA for our own celebratory drinks and lunch.
We congratulated ourselves on a great run despite its unorthodox beginning. We cheered our efforts and the start of another year of running.
How did you spend your New Year’s Day? Have you ever experienced starting line challenges? Best wishes for a year filled with good health, adventures, and fun!
Quest State#: 3
Dates Run: 1/1/2009, 1/1/2010, 1/1/2013, 1/1/15
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A mob of more than 200 reportedly people ransacked a mosque at a village in Gurugram assaulting people who were praying inside and threatened to expel them from the village reports PTI.
At around 7.20 p.m. this tweet was on social media
Last night, while offering Isha prayer at Bhura Kala village in Gurgaon, Hindutva goons from the same village attacked the worshipers inside the mosque while offering namaz, later they also attacked women outside the mosque. In which 4-5 people were injured. + pic.twitter.com/DuuxcsWDFQ
— Meer Faisal (@meerfaisal01) October 13, 2022
The complainant also said that the conflict erupted on Wednesday morning, when a mob comprising about 200 people reportedly led by Rajesh Chauhan alias Babu, Anil Bhadoria, and Sanjay Vyas surrounded the mosque and entered the prayer hall where they threatened the namazis (faithful offering prayers) with expulsion from the village.
“In the night again, when we were praying inside the prayer hall in the mosque, the mob came and assaulted the namazis and even locked the prayer hall. They also threatened to kill us,” the Subedar said in his complaint, according to the police.
Since it took a while for the police to reach, the accused had fled. However, the police recovered a mobile phone from the spot which may belong to someone part of the attacking mob, officials said.
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The GlucoBerry supplement is a doctor-formulated dietary supplement designed to help people manage their blood sugar levels. Its natural ingredients are carefully chosen to improve kidney function and prevent the accumulation of fat around the pancreas. In addition to its benefits for diabetics, it also promotes healthy hormone levels and glucose tolerance.
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GlucoBerry is a dietary supplement that has been specifically formulated to support healthy blood sugar levels. The supplement contains clinically proven natural ingredients that work together to improve kidney function, combat insulin resistance, and support the body’s natural hormone levels and glucose tolerance.
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GlucoBerry is a dietary supplement designed to help regulate blood sugar levels in the body. The product is made with a unique blend of natural ingredients that work synergistically to promote healthy blood sugar levels. Let’s take a closer look at the key ingredients in GlucoBerry and how they contribute to its effectiveness:
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In this devastating moment in the world with a war raging in Ukraine,
I find myself alternating between grief,
hope and existential wondering.
And then somehow, because I believe it’s integral to some important part of my humanity,
I continue to try to notice beauty in ordinary things,
and to notice myself, even in the middle of my big questions, reaching for love and joy.
I’ve been wondering out loud about what makes small, angry men war
Do they lash out in the hopes that their mothers will hold them tight
and tell them it is going to be okay
that what they are doing doesn’t have to be this way…….
I was wondering about the way the spring bulbs are pushing up towards the light
long before anyone else tells them it’s too cold or too soon to dare to flourish.
I have been wracking my brain until it pounded
about the ancient wisdom in every cell
contained within the spaces of my fleshy body
to come to some truth as to whether it is possible to know too much…..
because one moment I’m awestruck by the stars twinkling above
and the next my heart is broken open in my grieving the dead light.
It makes my hands burn in an effort to deliver
a soothing balm for all the anxious souls desperate for a safe container
to remember to keep on living into love
in these wondrous and brutal times….
Where we are so terrified of our own demise that
we protect a life we are not living as though
we have the luxury of time to squander…..
I want to look away from the images of babies crying as sirens wail
and beloved pets that will go unfed
left unattended to wander the icy cold streets where those who loved them
lament, exiled in strange lands where they cannot bury their dead…..
I can’t unknow what I know any more than you can….
The stark truth is that these dark days will leave another deep scar upon our psyche.
I am wondering how much salt we will need to rub into those open wounds
Before we can access the strength of our internal protest
and act out of pure hearts…..
to writhe and wail and grieve
and feel so we can heal.
I’m asking for a small pinprick of sanity in the fabric of our very being –
a temporary reprieve from knowing too much….
so that we can collapse into the arms of the great mother
and keep our hearts open to imagining the reason
why we are here?
simply to be –
the dream weavers
the soul shakers
– the holy grail of our humanity.
We can be this for each other.
We can do hard things
We can love, not hate.
We can do anything.
In my wonderings out loud I have come to know
and unknow –
that if we all just let ourselves imagine
what it would be like to take another form
to be something else like a tree or a bird or another person…..
there would be no trauma wounds to kiss
no thing to forgive or make right or whole.
I am wondering ……..
Can we do that?
Can we BE that?
Together, anything is possible
because we can never know too much.
May you give generously to yourself, court joy like a homecoming for a long last friend,
hold tight to your dreams, do better,
cherish the tender times you have with the ones you love.
I love you.
Trust you are safe
Trust in what is possible, together.
May your caring be the medicine that will guide us to our hearts in our words and in our actions.
May consciousness increase with compassion and fierce love.
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un curso de milagros wanted to reveal this story together with all of you. As a college student of the Course Within Miracles, one particular of my ambitions is to be able to appear at every single moment as an opportunity to train forgiveness.
I had one particular of those instances the other day. This was the subtle, but really tangible experience in the power of forgiveness in our everyday lives.
I got just finished my night with all the group I operate using on a regular basis in Todas las Vegas. A client had thrown some sort of $ 100 computer chip up onto the stage as some sort of tip. ( Good! ) So I actually went to typically the casino cage to be able to money in this specific chip so typically the band could divided it up.
As I was waiting in series, a different man emerged up and basically walked right in front of me. He did not appear my approach, he just acted as if We were invisible, and proceeded to have in front of me. So, the initial instict is, like, “uh, about to catch going to cut looking at me, pal”, and i also started getting all tense plus red in the face and just about all that. And this particular guy, who cut, then was moaning to himself concerning how extended it had been taking in typically the line!! “Oh, guy what are these people doing back there, oh, come UPON!! ” Geez.
But then I kept in mind the Course in addition to what it states, so I believed about looking from this scenario in another way. I thought, precisely what does it make a difference if he should go initial anyways? Can it be going to destroy me if We wait an further 30 seconds in order to money in this chip which I was fortunate enough to get inside the first spot? You already know, perhaps this man just gambled away his entire home or a thing!
Consequently, I let this go, and I actually relaxed.
Something amazing happened. Not more than two mere seconds following that thought, this man flipped, looked directly in me, and took his location within line behind myself! I was astonished.
This forgiveness stuff genuinely works. Similar to the Course teaches, in case you decide on to observe points differently, an individual WILL.
Adore and Forgiveness, Jamie
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Tuesday, December 30, 2014
There is a situation that many people worry about, and although they won’t always let it be known, it weighs on them heavily, sometimes for years. I am referring to their fear of a certain loved one in their life who they feel will miss out on Heaven. I would not be surprised if someone who is reading this blog today is in that category. One thing is for sure, however, and that is that almost every one of us has a preconceived idea of who will go to Heaven one day and who will not. Even though we may keep our opinions secret, we all have established certain criteria in our minds that will determine who goes to Heaven and who misses out. For example, those who habitually use profanity, are unfaithful or addicted to drugs, alcohol, or pornography, don’t get along well with others, are loners, don’t go to any church, or are forever angry with God, just to name a few, can’t possibly be candidates for Heaven in the eyes of many.
If there is a one or several loved ones in your life that you are worried won’t make Heaven someday, I want to remind you today of a few eternal truths. First of all, please remember that God is always good, just, merciful, forgiving, patient, loving, kind and faithful. Jesus told His audience one day, “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in Heaven give good things to them that ask Him?” (Matthew 7:11) Therefore if you are asking God for the salvation of a loved one, is that not a good thing, and will He deny it to you? Want more? John wrote: “And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.” (1 John 5:14) Is it not “according to His will” to pray for someone’s salvation? Peter wrote that God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. (See 2 Peter 3:9) Isn’t God’s will pretty clear regarding this issue?
There are many other promises in the Word of God that should encourage you today not to give up on people, and especially the Lord. To me, if all else seems to fail, I always remember that God uttered this truth many ages ago: “I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.” (See Exodus 33:19) The bottom line is that anybody who ever enters Heaven, will get there because of God’s grace and mercy. You needed it when you came to Christ, and those who you are praying for are in the same situation. If God had mercy on us, He will have mercy on them. After your initial surprise for being there one day, don’t be surprised if someone you worried wouldn’t make it is there too. After all, God did say He will show mercy to anybody to whom He wants to show mercy.
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The agreement caps a busy period for the supplier, following a succession of major commercial deals with prominent regional operators, as well as tripling bet counts across LatAm during the past few months.
Commenting on the deal, Eddie Morales, LatAm Sales Director at BetGames.TV said: “We are thrilled to launch with Doradobet, an exciting operator boasting a world class white label product in VirtualSoft.
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The county this week abruptly expanded its contract with a thus-far untested traveling nursing agency from $100,000 to $1 million.
Earlier this year, as part of the preparations for the 2016-17 county budget, the county’s chief purchasing agent, Laurie Rozko, authorized the issuance of a non-competitive master blanket purchase order to Fastaff in the amount of $100,000 for the period of July 20, 2016, through July 19, 2017.
Fastaff is a rapid response nurse staffing company based in Greenwood Village, Colorado. The nurses on hire from Fastaff were intended to cover assignments in the operating, emergency and maternity rooms at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, the primary campus of the San Bernardino County’s county hospital.
Rozko had the authority to make such a commitment under County Policy 11-04.
From the initiation of the current fiscal year on July 1 through earlier this week, of the $100,000 authorized for hiring Fastaff nurses, none of that money had been expended.
At the recommendation of William L. Gilbert, the director of Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, the county board of supervisors this week, agreed to increase the $100,000 master blanket purchase order with Fastaff by an additional $900,000 for nursing staffing services.
According to Gilbert, “Experienced operating room (OR) staff is vital to patient care in the ARMC OR, as well as other critical care areas such as the labor and delivery (L&D) department and emergency department (ED), which all require additional staffing at this time. Each of these areas requires special skills and experience. The ARMC OR staffing is currently at a critical level due to increased patient volume, recent departure of staff in difficult to recruit positions, and staff on short or long term leave. These staffing issues will negatively impact the ability to operate the minimum number of operating rooms to meet patient needs for elective and trauma surgeries. ARMC has researched staffing vendors currently providing registry services to supplement the ARMC nursing staff to cover absences and ensure that ARMC maintains nurse-to-patient ratios required by Assembly Bill 394; however, these vendors were unable to provide any staff with OR experience.”
Gilbert continued, “Registry nurses perform services under per diem contracts. Traveler nurses specialize in providing rapid response nursing services in urgent or crucial situations. Traveler nurses are placed on temporary longer term assignments under four to 13 week contracts, will travel outside of their local area to assignments, and are compensated at a higher rate to do so than registry nurses. Some of the current registry vendors contracted with ARMC provide both registry and traveler nurses. ARMC has been able to tentatively obtain contracts with four traveler nurses through Fastaff for the OR with a projected cost of $450,000.”
Gilbert said that “In order to reduce reliance on traveler nurses, ARMC has initiated a new nurse training program to complement the number of experienced OR nurses. The program provides training to six nurses per session, trained over a six-month period to prepare them to work in the OR. Each nurse is being offered a 13-week contract to staff the OR, providing for the safety, health, and social service needs of county residents by ensuring patient care continues while the hiring process for permanent staff is completed by the county. ARMC anticipates a list of candidates to begin interviewing shortly. However, none of the applicants have the necessary OR experience, so will be part of the new six-month nurse training program. Fastaff will also provide staff to fill additional vacancies in the critical care areas of L&D and ED. The availability of registry nurses to augment the staffing needs of the ED has decreased over the past three to four months, as many registry nurses have taken permanent positions with other local hospitals and health care organizations.”
Gilbert justified the county’s use of Fastaff as a sole-source vendor thusly, “This is a non-competitive procurement based on specialized credentials, as Fastaff is able to provide ARMC with traveler nursing staff with the required experience in OR, L&D, and ED. In an effort to procure these specific staffing services, the ARMC Materiel Management Department contacted each of the current vendors contracted with ARMC to provide registry nursing services. Of the vendors that responded, none were able to provide ARMC with nursing staff with the required experience. Two of these vendors, Medical
Staffing Network and Healthcare Pros, responded that they are currently recruiting for nurses with this experience. As none of the current registry vendors are able to provide these services to ARMC, an additional vendor was found to provide ARMC with traveler nurses for the OR, L&D, and ED.”
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Diego Valeri and the Portland Timbers have yet to reportedly reach an agreement regarding a new contract.
First reported by ESPN and added to by The Athletic, the Timbers are reluctant to guarantee one of their three designated player spots to the 33-year-old Valeri. Valeri will turn 34-years-old next season, but could very well be playing his final season in Portland if things don’t change.
Sources: Negotiations between the Portland Timbers and Diego Valeri have hit a rough patch, raising the possibility that the Argentine could be playing his final few games for the club.
— Sam Stejskal (@samstejskal) September 24, 2019
The club currently has an option for Valeri’s services for 2020, but the Argentine is expecting a new contract overall.
Since joining the Timbers in 2013, Valeri has been one of the most productive attackers in MLS. In 210 regular-season appearances, Valeri has recorded 76 goals and 81 assists for the club. He is one of six MLS players all-time to have at least 75 goals and 75 assists.
Valeri helped the club win the 2015 MLS Cup and also led them to a birth in last season’s final against Atlanta United, in which the Timbers lost 2-0.
In 30 appearances this season, Valeri has eight goals and 16 assists as the Timbers try to make a late push for a playoff spot.
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Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas)
Stranding Location: Shelter Cove on Hilton Head Island, SC
Arrival Date: 2/26/2017
Weight: 6.5 lbs
Cove was found floating on the water’s surface by citizens in Shelter Cove on Hilton Head Island. Once South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) was called, volunteer transporter Amber Kuehan quickly responded. Michelle Patte, SCDNR Sea Turtle Coordinator, met Amber halfway between Hilton Head and Charleston and transported this little green to our hospital. Upon arrival, Cove was alert and responsive, but he did have a lowered heart rate and was missing a left, rear flipper. Cove is the first patient that we have admitted to our hospital this year!
Our Sea Turtle Care Center staff quickly admitted Cove, gave him an initial exam, pulled blood and took radiographs. Radiographs revealed a significant amount of gas in the gastrointestinal tract, and bloodwork results indicated that Cove was dehydrated. Subcutaneous (under the skin) fluids and vitamins were administered to treat dehydration and a course of antibiotics was started. Aquarium veterinarian, Dr. Shane Boylan, also examined both of Cove’s eyes, which were positive for corneal abrasions. The missing left, rear flipper was already healed and was most likely caused by a predator attack. Though Cove was pretty active, he was placed in a tub with shallow water overnight.
March 1, 2017: The day after admit, Cove was tube fed a radiopaque liquid that allows us to view the GI contents through a series of radiographs. Cove defecated a small amount and tested negative for any intestinal parasites. Since Cove cannot dive to rest on the bottom of the tank, he was placed in a tank with very shallow water. We are currently treating the corneal abrasions with ophthalmic antibiotic drops, and Cove will be pulled every three days for an antibiotic injection.
April 3, 2017: Cove is doing wonderfully! Cove is eating all of his/ greens and protein, and he is gaining weight! Sea Turtle Care Center staff has provided this energetic, young turtle with an enrichment “cove” to hide under.
May 5, 2017: Cove received a physical exam along with a blood draw this week. Pending bloodwork results, Cove is almost ready for release! Cove is one energetic and sassy patient! Though Cove is too small to receive flipper tags, she received a P.I.T tag, which is similar to a microchip, underneath her skin.
May 10, 2017
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Perfect for date night, these 5 Valentine’s Scavenger Hunts for Adults are a fun alternative to the typical dinner and a movie.
Bored with date night? Make Valentine’s Day special with an interactive game. This list includes 5 romantic Valentine’s Scavenger Hunts for adults.
You might also like: Valentine’s Scavenger Hunt Ideas for Kids and Families
Not sure how to play a scavenger hunt? Check out our post about a Valentine’s Day Scavenger Hunt which includes several different ways to play.
5 Valentine’s Scavenger Hunts for Adults
Mix it up this Valentine’s with an interactive date night. These Valentine’s Day Scavenger Hunts for adults include clue ideas, gift ideas, and more!
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Complete "Mission Valentine" by solving all of the clues in this love-themed scavenger hunt.
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Find 20 clue ideas, along with gift ideas and planning tips, to create a romantic scavenger Hunt.
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Living on a Dime shares 6 example clues for a treasure hunt around the house.
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A Bit of Sweet and Color shares tons of clue ideas and gift ideas to place at each clue spot.
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This fun scavenger hunt uses the lyrics of popular songs to direct couples (or teams) to find the right item.
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SCCRA works to maintain the integrity of court reporters in South Carolina.
SCCRA is the professional organization for court reporters in South Carolina that educates, protects, and promotes the court reporting profession. SCCRA monitors and promotes legislation favorable to the interests of court reporters in South Carolina.
SCCRA is an affiliated state unit of the NCRA and NVRA and encourages its members to uphold the ideals set forth by both professional organizations. SCCRA's annual state-of-the-art conferences provide varieties of educational opportunities through carefully planned sessions and workshops meeting NCRA and NVRA requirements for continuing education credits, as well as relaxing social and networking functions. Annual conferences are held at various locations throughout South Carolina state and provide highly-anticipated social opportunities to meet court reporting’s most influential leaders and technological vendors.
SCCRA's RAN Socials ( Reporter Area Network Socials) - Quarterly networking opportunities for members to meet and chat at convenient social venues throughout the state.
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Liver dysfunction in Pennsylvania's multitransfused hemophiliacs.
Transaminase values [alanine amino transferase (ALT) and aspartate amino transferase (AST)] and markers for hepatitis B were serially determined in 558 hemophiliacs exposed to blood products. Hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) persistent for over 12 months was present in 6% of the patients. Antibody to hepatitis B surface antigen (anti-HBs) was noted in 90% of the 259 patients treated with factor VIII or IX concentrates but in only 49% of the 43 patients treated with fresh frozen plasma (FFP) or cryoprecipitate. Persistently abnormal transaminase values were noted in 31% of the patients treated with commercial concentrates but in only one (2%) of the patients exposed to cryoprecipitate or FFP. This difference continued even when the two groups of patients were matched for the amount of blood products, up to 50,000 units, which they had received in the study period. In the concentrate-treated patients, no correlation could be found between transaminase values and the number of units of factor VIII or IX they had received during the six years of the study (1973-1978).
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Hasiba, U., Eyster, M. E., Gill, F. M., Kajani, M., Lewis, J. H., Lusch, C. J., Prager, D., Rice, S. A., & Shapiro, S. S. (1980). Liver dysfunction in Pennsylvania's multitransfused hemophiliacs. Digestive diseases and sciences, 25(10), 776–782. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01345298
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Current Automotive Design Trends
The world of automotive design is constantly evolving, with car manufacturers always looking for new ways to attract buyers. However, not all design trends are created equal. Some have been widely criticized by consumers and industry experts alike. In this article, we will discuss some of the worst current automotive design trends.
The Overuse of Large Grilles
One of the most prominent design trends in recent years has been the use of large grilles on the front of cars. While this trend can be traced back to the BMW kidney grille, many manufacturers have taken it to the extreme, with grilles that take up the entire front of the car. While some may argue that these grilles provide better engine cooling, they are often criticized for being visually unappealing and out of proportion with the rest of the car’s design.
Excessive Use of LED Lighting
Another trend that has been widely criticized is the excessive use of LED lighting. While these lights can certainly add a modern and futuristic touch to a car’s design, many manufacturers have gone overboard, incorporating them in almost every aspect of a car’s exterior and interior. The result is often a car that looks overly busy and tacky, with too many bright lights and distracting patterns.
Lack of Originality
One of the most disappointing trends in automotive design is the lack of originality. Many cars today look very similar to one another, with similar body shapes and design cues. This is partly due to the fact that many manufacturers are using the same platforms and components across multiple models, but it also reflects a lack of creativity and originality in the design process. Consumers want cars that stand out and have a unique personality, but all too often, they are presented with uninspired designs that blend in with the crowd.
Overemphasis on Crossover SUVs
Finally, one trend that has been dominating the automotive market in recent years is the overemphasis on crossover SUVs. While these vehicles can be practical and versatile, they are not suitable for everyone. Many consumers prefer traditional sedans or coupes, but the market seems to be moving away from these models in favor of crossovers. This trend has led to a homogenization of the automotive landscape, with many manufacturers abandoning their more unique models in favor of SUVs that all look and feel the same.
In conclusion, there are several current automotive design trends that are widely criticized by consumers and industry experts. These include the overuse of large grilles, excessive use of LED lighting, lack of originality, and overemphasis on crossover SUVs. While some of these trends may be driven by practical considerations or market demand, it is important for car manufacturers to remember that good design is about more than just meeting these criteria. Cars should also be visually appealing, innovative, and able to stand out from the crowd. | <urn:uuid:dbda5c54-97d3-4020-b7e2-79291aa5f1be> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://scholarshiptoday.info/what-are-the-worst-current-automotive-design-trends.html | 2023-09-23T18:52:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.963536 | 586 |
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Volume 54, Issue 84
Communication | Journalism Studies | Mass Communication | Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Walking on a balance beam or riding a bike both require motion and balance. This program will reveal how unbalanced forces create motion, while balanced forces keep things still. Students also learn how concepts like velocity, acceleration and momentum fit into this puzzle. A unique hands-on activity combined with vivid imagery and graphics will clearly illustrate these concepts to students. This program is one of 11 volumes in the Physical Science for Children DVD Series in the Schlessinger Science Library. Part of the Schlessinger Science Library for Children Collection. This title correlates to the National Science Education Standards for Physical Science -- properties of objects and materials, position and motion of objects, and light, heat, electricity and magnetism. A Teacher's Guide is included and available online. 23 minutes. Grades K to 4. | <urn:uuid:61782671-3270-4a77-9bb1-ab28067e948c> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://schoolmasters.com/products/all-about-motion-balance-dvd | 2023-09-23T18:50:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.88715 | 159 |
For just a little while, we ask you to consider trading comfort for shelter. To ask: what does it mean to be dreamt rather than dream, or to be claimed by a place? For some of us, these are yearnings almost painful to contemplate.
The wilderness vigil is something immeasurably ancient, and the way our ancestors tuned their ear to the furry emanations of the living earth.
Here, under the emerald bough of Dartmoor forest, we invite you to seek what they sought. In this place they called Dumnonia, or Defenascir, on the island they used to call Albion, we invite you to walk out of this century altogether.
What does that look like?
Four days and nights alone in the forest.
Just like the fairy tales.
Everywhere people are talking about the desperate need for a new story. We suggest that the stories worth attending to arise from the earth itself. We don’t need commentary about the earth, we need disclosures from the earth.
The wilderness vigil is a moment when the grinding of your ambitions and your griefs settle into the ground of something far deeper. This is always the place we have gone to mark transition – from one stage of life to another. It can be difficult, wonderful, resolutely un-ecstatic, and absolutely life-changing. Tribal folk have always known it was where you go to die and get born. A place where big questions get asked, things bend their heads to die and green shoots spring up.
This is not a teaching from a human realm. This is the old bones of the mountain as teacher, the swift raven overhead as guide. This is ancestor time. They can be tough instructors, but grip blessings in their beaks.
These vigils involve a re-calibration of what some of us understand by the words wilderness rites-of-passage. There has, we believe, sometimes been a little too much emphasis on a giddy upswing of psychological transformation as the wilderness cheers us on. Nature as a trilling and warbling backdrop.
We join the voices of many before us and say we believe it’s really about the move from the psyche that lives in your chest, to you within a wider psyche of lapwing, oak root and granite tor. That’s the big move.
We are out there to hear more than the whirring cogs of our own drama.
That is the journey from dreaming to getting dreamt, getting claimed by a place. It’s usually a slow, sometimes difficult and often mysterious process. Without a long term commitment to stewarding the experience afterwards, it can be hard to grasp quite what transpired. Friends, that’s where the work begins. Don’t come looking for honey if you don’t want to become a bee.
These vigils are part of a long standing engagement from the School of Myth to offer deeply experiential work with the living world. We are really interested in a deepening conversation with a specific stretch of land over a long period of time.
Having long been in love with oral culture we are paying specific attention to the local, rather than an emphasis on the pan-global relevance of the ceremony. This will grow straight out of the dark soil of Dartmoor.
The School has a particular way of approaching the wilderness fast; to develop what has been called “a community of wild ethics” (Abram). We place an emphasis on mythological literacy as a profound medium with which to deepen understanding of what actually transpired out there out the hill.
It sees these forages into the bush as a dialogue with a non human world, and such an experience needs subtle handling. What makes this experience so nourishing is in part the holding – the professional support, the telling of your story to trained guides who have both fasted themselves and can assist you in the locating of the deeper story within your experience.
The wilderness vigil spans eight days in total and includes four days and nights fasting alone on private land on Dartmoor – no tent, no fire, no food. Just a tarp, sleeping bag and water.
If you would like to be kept updated on details for 2024 (this year is booked up), please contact . Please note that participants of our Stalking the Rebel Soul 5-weekend programme get priority for places.
Also highly recommended is Martin’s book Wolf Milk which you can find here.
Currently, Dr Martin Shaw is not personally guiding Wolf Milk. These vigils are led by wilderness rites of passage guides and School of Myth faculty Tim Russell, David Stevenson and Tina Burchill, trained by Dr Martin Shaw. They are in their 9th year of this work. You can read more about them here. Trainee guides Lucy Cooper and Michael Martin will be joining some groups.
What does it mean to be dreamt rather than dream, or to be claimed by a place?
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If you want to see something on campus that is not currently available, or if you need more information, contact:
The Office of Student Affairs
209 Health & Wellness Building
Current Religious Organizations:
Nancy Schorchinsky, faculty adviser, [email protected]
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Drive On Your Own: The Gardens and Graves of Laurel Hill
October 26, 2022 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm$35
RAIN DATE: Please also reserve Thursday, October 27 from 10 am to 3 pm on your calendar. Refunds will not be given if you can’t make the rain date.
Enjoy tours of both Laurel Hill East in Philadelphia and Laurel Hill West in Bala Cynwyd with Senior Horticulturist Gregg Tepper, Arboretum Manager Aaron Greenberg, and Education Programs Manager Mackenzie Knight-Fochs (formerly Program Manager at the cemeteries!). See garden highlights and graves of notable horticulturists, including John and Gertrude Wister and Arthur Hoyt Scott and Edith Wilder Scott.
Established in 1836 as the second garden-designed cemetery in the United States, Laurel Hill East is the nation’s first National Historic Landmark cemetery. John Jay Smith, the site’s founding visionary, had planned for Laurel Hill to be a school of instruction in architecture, culture, landscape gardening, arboriculture and botany. Laurel Hill East was not only established as a permanent, non-sectarian burial place for the dead, but also as a scenic, riverside sanctuary for the living. Together with Laurel Hill West (incorporated in 1869 across the Schuylkill River), the cemeteries form a 265-acre, Level II Accredited Arboretum. The Arboretum at Laurel Hill Arboretum has a curated living collection of over 6,000 specimen trees and shrubs representing over 700 unique species and cultivars, several state champion trees, as well as several site-specific display gardens. There is no better way to spend a lovely fall day than taking in the beautiful art, stunning views, and scenic nature of these two cemeteries.
Trips are a member benefit; to learn more about becoming an Associate of the Scott Arboretum, click here.
Important information about this event. Thank you for reading before registering:
- Trips with the Scott Arboretum are a member-only benefit. This drive-on-your-own trip is limited to 25 members of the Associates of the Scott Arboretum.
- To learn how to become a member, click here.
- Online payment is required to register and is open to the first 25 members who sign up. No checks or cash will be accepted.
- Reserve Thursday, October 27 from 10 am to 3 pm on your calendar as the rain date. Refunds will not be given if you can’t make the rain date.
- Non-vaccinated participants are asked to please wear a mask.
- Restrooms will be available at both cemeteries.
- The addresses and parking instructions will be emailed to participants the week of the trip.
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Cliff Richard is an actor, performer, musician, and pop singer from Britain. Cliff Richard is a multifaceted artist, actor, producer, businessman, and philanthropist who has peaked at number one on the charts in each of the last 60 years. In the UK, he is the artist with the biggest single sales volume of all time, having sold 260 million albums globally.
“There had been nothing worth listening to in British music before Cliff and the Shadows,” even the late John Lennon famously asserted. “There had been nothing worth listening to in British music before Cliff and the Shadows,” even the late John Lennon famously asserted.
His tune We Don’t Talk Anymore reached the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 in the 1980s, despite the fact that he never enjoyed the same level of success in the US. Discover if Cliff Richard is married, as well as his age, height, relationships, and net worth, by reading this article.
Is Cliff Richard Married?
Cliff Richard, The Singer Has Never Been Married, but He Has Dated Other Famous People. Sue Barker, the host of A Question of Sport and a former tennis player, was once dated by Sir Cliff. The two are reported to have hit it off right away when they first met in 1982.
Sue Barke was the other, but he realized he didn’t love her enough to commit to a lifetime of marriage before asking her to be his wife. Cliff Richard was the subject of numerous recent allegations alleging his covert marriage.
There are rumors that he married in secret, with just his closest friends and relatives in attendance. Last week, he was also spotted donning a wedding band. This sparked speculation about his wedding and led others to believe that he was wed.
Cliff Richard’s Dating History
Cliff Richard has previously dated a few women. In 1961, he began dating Australian dancer Delia Wicks, with whom he dated for eighteen months. He dated Una Stubbs, an actress, until their split. He was close to Jackie Irving throughout their 1960s relationship.
He dated Olivia Newton-John in the early part of the 1970s. He was in a relationship with Sue Barker, a former tennis player, from 1982 to 1986. Healthy Celeb claims that they stayed close friends even after their breakup.
Cliff Richard’s Professional Life
His tune We Don’t Talk Anymore reached the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 in the 1980s, despite the fact that he never enjoyed the same level of success in the US. In the 1980 movie Xanadu, he collaborated with Olivia Newton-John, the rising star of Australian pop music, on the song “Suddenly.”
Richard eventually admitted that he had fallen in love with Olivia Newton-John in the early 1970s. Richard responded to a question on why he never got married by saying that he had “a few false alarms” and had “been in love, but marriage is a big commitment, and being an artist consumes a great deal of time.”
Richard was made a Knight Bachelor on June 17, 1995, which is the lowest honor in the British system of knighthood. Sir Cliff Richard once asked a television interviewer, “If I was gay, would it make any difference?” in response to persistent allegations about his sexual orientation. | <urn:uuid:570be25d-90e3-43d3-976f-27465e6c4119> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://scpsassam.org/celebrity/is-cliff-richard-married/ | 2023-09-23T18:44:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.983844 | 701 |
Branden på Wood Street
1929 fattade fabriken på Wood Street eld och skadorna blev förödande. Trots det kunde man tillverka skor igen reda efter en vecka. Nedan återberättar Andrew Loake om sin fars minnen från händelsen.
I don’t think it can be pure coincidence that the date in 1929 on which the factory caught fire was 5th November. It has always been assumed, but never known for certain, that the cause of it was a firework.
All of the Clicking (cutting) room, most of the Closing (stitching) room and the leather room were destroyed.
My father was born in Kettering and grew up in a small house in one of the neighbouring streets just a few hundred yards from the factory. Although only a 7 year old boy at the time, he had very clear memories of looking out of his parents’ bedroom window and seeing the flames of his father’s factory on fire.
The damage was devastating.
Later in life, when he looked back on these events, he was amazed by the friendliness of the people of Kettering.
The next morning after the fire, other shoe manufacturers in the town were already offering us help by lending us machinery and by offering temporary accommodation for some of the workers.
Machinery suppliers were also very quick to offer their help by providing replacement machines at short notice.
Many of the clickers (leather cutters) worked from bedrooms in neighbouring houses.
It really was quite extraordinary how people who would normally be in competition with us were rallying round to help.
It is perhaps worth remembering that it had only been 10 years since the end of the First World War, and I suppose people were used to the idea of trying to survive in extraordinary circumstances and helping others who were in difficulty.
I sometimes wonder how different things might be if the same thing were to occur today. I hope we never find out.
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Saint Nick’s Trees in York, Maine, is Perfect for Getting Your Christmas Tree as a Family or Date Night
Editor's note: This article was written by a Townsquare Media Northern New England contributor and may contain the individual's views, opinions, or personal experiences.
The day after Thanksgiving, my wife and I decided to get our Christmas tree, a tradition as old as time.
It was raining this year, so many people were Black Friday shopping, but not necessarily at tree farms. New(ish) to the area, I decided to give "Saint Nick's Trees" in York, Maine, a try, and I am so happy I did.
Saint Nick's Trees instantly put me in the Christmas and holiday spirit. Truthfully, I was not quite in the spirit until I got my tree. It was not necessarily the tree that lifted me, but the entirety of my visit to Saint Nick's Trees.
Immediately when pulling in, I smiled and felt the Christmas magic at Saint Nick's. There was a beautiful display of trees, lights, and more.
"Saint Nick’s is all about the experience," said owner Paul Corgan. "I wanted to create a magical experience for people to have as a family tradition each year and, through seeing people come back year after year, I think it’s working...just this past weekend alone, a dozen or so groups told me it feels like a Hallmark movie set to be at Saint Nick’s, which is awesome to hear."
Hallmark movie set it is. My wife and I were thrilled to be a part of the magical village that was Saint Nick's. Even more so, the help, support, and patience we were treated to by the entire staff was outstanding.
Since it was early in the season, not all of the trees were open. I had two employees, one of them being owner Paul Corgan, opening multiple trees at once to try and find the right one.
Eventually, Corgan took us out back to a beautiful 10 ft. tree. They bundled the monster up, loaded it onto the roof of my car, and hardly let me do a thing. It was phenomenal service.
Again, it was more than just the trees or the service. It was the experience. It was amazing to know that Corgan, originally from Kennebunk, opened Saint Nick's with his brother and sister-in-law. Also on the property is Bell Farm Shop, which Corgan's brother and sister-in-law own.
"Now, people can come by to shop for a tree at Saint Nick’s, stop in Bell Farm Shops for great gifts and décor, and grab a seasonal drink and delicious snack at Nectar Café out front— all right here at Bell Farm Shops on Route 1 in York," according to Cogen.
Saint Nick’s might sell our early this year, given the record opening weekend, according to the owner. "If people are looking to get in the holiday spirit, Bell Farm Shops has super fun events with Santa every Wednesday night through December. More info and tickets can be found on their website."
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SecondBite has successfully partnered with Victoria University (VU) for a second year to provide free and nutritious takeaway meals for VU students.
Since SecondBite first collaborated with Victoria University in July 2021, a dedicated team of staff and student volunteers has given out thousands of meal packs to support vulnerable students affected by the pandemic.
The service runs twice a week from an outdoor pop-up tent at the university’s Footscray Nicholson Campus.
Registered students can choose from five healthy meals that vary each week, based on ingredients available.
Food packs are available to cater to multiple diets which accomodate both meat and vegetarian options like beef and basil, mustard spiced chicken, and mixed vegetable braise with miso.
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This week, VU Vice-Chancellor Professor Adam Shoemaker and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (People and Organisation) Professor Peter Radoll joined the team to distribute the meals and meet students.
“This is a fantastic initiative that provides very practical support for our students.”
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Luciano Freire, an international student who recently arrived from Brazil to study a Master of Secondary Education, said the service was very important to students like him who are managing their money on a tight student budget. “I go weekly and I calculate I am saving about $50 a week. I always enjoy the variety of food and I like meeting other students, including students like myself from other countries.” | <urn:uuid:63c07039-5f46-4f67-8b3a-673ee426e8f7> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://secondbite.org/secondbite-partners-with-victoria-university-to-offer-free-meals-for-students/ | 2023-09-23T18:00:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.953359 | 358 |
This is the third post in a series that formed the basis of my 2017 DevCon session on Increasing Code Quality While Staying Lean. Check out the first post for an introduction to the series. This series describes techniques that have made a big impact at SeedCode and we hope you’re inspired to incorporate some of these into your own work.
We Break Things into Small Chunks
Of all the things we do, this probably has the widest application. I think of this when I’m replying to a customer’s email, when I’m designing a new feature, or writing up the cases for what’s to be done in a sprint. And the more I keep this in mind, the better things go.
Here’s what we do:
We deliver every 3 to 10 hours of code.
For large projects, we deliver every week.
Deliver means deploy: putting code into production with data migration and everything.
[bctt tweet=”Break things into small chunks & deliver as they’re done–so we don’t outrun our understanding of the problem.” username=”seedcode”]
We do not listen to a client for 2 hours then head into the desert for 4 months to build their software, hoping they like it when we return. That is not how great software is made. Instead, we break things into really small chunks so we don’t outrun our understanding of the client’s issues. And, by delivering small pieces of work more often, that work gets validated quickly so clients can easily course correct.
In order for this to work, the small pieces of larger mods need to be put-into-production. It doesn’t help to deliver small pieces if they’re not deployed and validated. So whenever possible we construct sprints so that the outcome is a usable small feature—not part of a feature.
The same applies to work on our own products. We should have many small deliverables (many short QA videos) over the course of a two-week sprint instead of realizing at the end of the sprint that we made an assumption early on that went unchecked because nobody saw our work for weeks.
Tactics for Shipping Small Chunks & Why This Works
What does this look like when we’re making cases for each other and for subs?
- Cases should be binary: something that’s either completely done or not.
- Subcontractor cases should be < 10 hours. Ideally < 5 hours.
- Use timeboxing to keep things small. That means sticking to your delivery schedule even when features start to balloon. At the end of our sprints we QA and ship what we have and create new cases for the gaps or undone edge cases. Those become just more small chunks.
- We create gap / bug cases as we find them during development and QA.
- In cases where what we have isn’t a whole user-facing feature, we may disable the interface but still ship the code.
- FileMaker developers often freak out about this since “deployment” is one of the toughest things they do. Migrating data, managing serial numbers, and backfilling data changes is all time consuming and fragile. All I can say is that this is a place to invest in systems–be they as simple as thorough checklists, scripted imports, or moving solutions to the separation model. (At some point I hope Dan will publish an article on how he manages weekly deployments on our big projects.)
Delivering FileMaker Projects Every Week
We’ve been delivering in small chunks for a long time now: at least 6 years. But the best evidence for why this works comes from the fact that we’re delivering more often on our biggest projects. When we started our largest custom development project five years ago, we decided to deliver every three weeks, at the end of each sprint. This seemed audacious at the time and I remember lots of talks with Jason about how that would work. That original plan was delivering 70 hours of new work every three weeks (we QA’ed that work in 2-3 hour cases, with a video for each case).
But over time, and especially as we got into trickier parts of the project, Jason started doing some mid-sprint deliveries. He said it was less stressful to deliver what he’d done as it was finished than to save it up for a bigger delivery, with more moving parts, at the end of the sprint.
That eventually turned into delivering every week. And this just came about organically as a result of Jason trying to get a handle on his work. Jason and Dan are now delivering about 30 hours a week on that project. That we started delivering more often on our toughest project–and have stuck with it–is the best evidence we have that this works.
Why This Works
We don’t outrun our understanding of the problem
With small chunks, we’re just speaking to the customer more often. Our work is also getting validated because it’s being deployed in small enough pieces for the customer to digest. This means our work can get seen by all our constituents, not just the project’s informants. And we’re getting feedback now, instead of months from now.
[bctt tweet=”The only real mistake is to build the wrong thing.” username=”seedcode”]
No more half-done features: increased restart speed
It sucks to restart work on something that was never finished. And this means greater role portability as it’s easier to pick up someone else’s finished work than that undone novel you found in their drawer.
Redefines what’s a “bug”
This one sneaks up on you, but if you’re always delivering small chunks, it gets much easier to make a distinction between an error (i.e. “this column does not add up”) and something that just hasn’t been tackled yet (“I thought we’d be able to sort these columns by clicking on the header?”).
Most of what we used to call “bugs” are really either things we misunderstood or edges we hadn’t gotten to yet. An iterative delivery process makes that obvious both to your clients and your developers, keeping everyone’s morale high and making billing disputes a non-issue. Billing looks more like agreeing on a run rate (dollars per week or per sprint) and then comparing that to the velocity of features being delivered.
Reduced cognitive load
Uncommitted code Unmerged code is the greatest cognitive load, the loudest spooky music: large amounts of unmerged code are cancer.
We call this role-playing “the game” and we’ve found two real benefits to playing the game, even when applied to things that already appear to be pretty small features.
- It somehow just makes you see the feature more clearly. In particular, it lets you see the consequences of each change you propose to make: the lens of “ship every day” seems to throw consequences into relief.
- The truly tangible benefit is agility (below).
We were recently working on a small new feature for a customer: maybe 10 hours of code in DayBack Online. As part of the game we’ve broken this into 4 pieces and had deployed each one to DayBack Online as it was completed. The day before we’d promised to deliver the whole thing to our customer, one of our developers had an “automotive complication” that required his full attention. We emailed the customer and told them that their feature was live except for a small interface refinement (the last chuck we hadn’t shipped yet) and that we’d get that deployed next week. The customer was happy, and our developer could get to work on his car without distraction.
Picture the alternate universe in which we hadn’t deployed those 3 earlier chunks: in order to get the customer anything, we need to rush the QA and deployment of everything we’d done so far, risking the inclusion of unfinished code, and definitely stressing our developer at a time when they needed to step away from the project in the first place.
And when that developer does come back to finish the last piece, it will really feel like a refinement to something already completed, rather than like opening up the entire feature again.
That’s just a small example of something we’ve seen over and over since we started delivering more often. When we have to change direction, because someone’s car breaks down or because a customer pivots to another area of their project, we’ve more or less packed our bags already. We’re ready to head in a new direction, knowing that we can easily come back to the code we’re setting aside.
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Mindfulness has been shown to reduce anxiety, improve body satisfaction, reduce bias, and even help depression. It’s never too late to start meditating if you’re an adult, but you can also help kids practice mindfulness with fun games too.
In the age of iPhones and tablets, we all need time to unplug and re-center ourselves — especially children. Here are fun activities that anyone of any age can do to help them practice mindfulness.
What is a Mindfulness Game?
A mindfulness game is one that forces you to slow down and think about the present moment or your inner world. They foster mindfulness, or the feeling of being aware of one’s body, emotions, or current experience.
Mindfulness is a skill one must grow and improve upon through time, like how a weightlifter must grow their muscles after increasingly adding the duration of their workout. The more one practices mindfulness, the easier it becomes, and the stronger the mindfulness “muscle” becomes.
These mindfulness games are a way to dip your toes into the mindfulness field. While the best way to practice mindfulness is perhaps meditation — or focusing on your breath for extended periods of time — these games certainly help if you or your kids get bored with meditation.
Why Mindfulness Games Are Helpful
They Don’t Take Up Much Time
The best part about these mindfulness games is that they can usually be done in less than five minutes. That short amount of time matches a child’s short attention span perfectly.
Once you master one mindfulness game for a certain amount of time, you can slowly increase the duration of the activity. Since mindfulness games tend to require patience and paying attention to something, whether it be one’s surroundings or internal world, the games help improve one’s attention span.
A long attention span is crucial for accomplishing meaningful work, but this current age opens us up to countless distractions. Cal Newport says as much in his book Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, which highlights the danger of distraction to our true productivity.
Adults tend to mind this more than children, but children can benefit from building their attention span too. Not only will being able to focus help boost performance in school but also improve their enjoyment of highly edifying acts like reading and talking to friends and loved ones.
Our attention is constantly being undermined by social media, notifications, and videos with lots of jump cuts. Increasing how long you do your mindfulness games is a way to get your and your child’s attention back.
Support Self-Growth in Emotional Intelligence
Some mindfulness games aim to improve one’s focus and attention span. Others prompt you to notice your emotions and reactions to things, which in turn force you to be retrospective.
When one learns deeper truths about how their minds operate, they improve their emotional intelligence. For those who don’t know, emotional intelligence is defined as the ability to understand and manage one’s own emotions and the emotions of others.
You may slowly grow your emotional intelligence as you go through life. Facing arduous experiences like death, break-ups, and moving cities force us to act calm and collected even when our emotions run haywire.
But instead of facing a situation that spurs us to grow, we can slowly grow our emotional intelligence so that we can be prepared when life hits us with tough experiences.
Building mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and maturity through daily games is one great way to do that.
People of all ages feel stress. Lots of kids feel pressure to succeed in school and in other extra-curricular activities, thanks to their parents, peers, and society. And as kids grow into teenagers and young adults, the stress of college and joining “the real world” can make that stress grow exponentially.
That’s why it’s good to teach kids how to manage their stress at an early age. Everyone is bound to experience intense periods of their stress at some points, and so it’s easy to rely on unhealthy coping mechanisms during that time, such as binge eating, drinking too much alcohol, and consuming illicit drugs.
Stress can be considered a toxin due to how intensely it can disrupt your mind, body, and relationships. Therefore, the better someone learns to handle their stress, the better off they’ll be in life. The same is true for children as well as adults.
Help Beginners Get Started
It’s really easy for beginners to mindfulness to get bored. Meditation can be daunting. Sit in a dark room and just listen to your breath for 10 minutes? You can’t scratch that itch on the back of your neck, and you feel awkward when you have to cough at some point. Besides, is just sitting there and breathing actually helping you grow?
Well, yes, but some people more so than others need to build up to meditation and it’s mindfulness fruits. And like with how these games can help build your attention span, so too can these mindfulness games help build your tolerance to mindfulness in general.
This notion is especially true for kids, who need more encouragement to stay still and be introspective. While mindfulness games can aid anyone in life, kids will appreciate them more than other age groups.
Help Socialize and Boost Self-Esteem
Some mindfulness games can be done alone. Others require a group or an instructor to facilitate the game.
When mindfulness activities are done with more than one person at a time, they instantly become social endeavors. And since mindfulness games tend to spur you to be retrospective and positive, they can help boost the participant’s self-esteem.
The more people — especially children — do group mindfulness games, the more they do build rapport with the game’s members. If the kids start as strangers, they’re likely to become friends by the end of the game session. And if the kids already know each other, they can deepen their friendship into life-long bonds thanks to mindfulness games.
Top Mindfulness Games
The first mindfulness exercise helps put our emotions into perspective. As a result, it builds patience and emotional intelligence.
For this game, all you need is a jar, water, and glitter. Put some glitter into the jar and add water till it’s full. Immediately after adding the water and attaching the lid, the glitter should be suspended in the water and floating about, but you might still be able to see some clear parts of unobstructed water.
Now, shake the jar vigorously. Upon doing so, the glitter should completely obscure the water so that you can’t see through it.
While the glitter still flurries around the water, ask the person you’re playing with to hold up a certain amount of fingers behind the jar. It’s your task to guess how many fingers they’re holding up. The chances are high that you will say you don’t know or guess incorrectly.
The glitter is a metaphor for your emotions when they become very strong and feel like they’re getting the best of you. It’s hard to see what’s actually happening on the other side because you can’t see past the blizzard of feelings blocking your way.
The only way to guess correctly is to wait for the glitter to settle down to the bottom of the jar again. You might be able to guess correctly before the glitter completely settles, but your vision will still be obstructed because you didn’t wait long enough.
The main lesson of this game is that patience during tense situations is the only way to make rational, clear-headed decisions. When we’re angry or upset, we often can’t see past our emotions. They move too quickly and too forcefully, and the only way to see clearly is to wait. Trying to agitate the jar further only prolongs the flurry of glitter.
So the next time you get mad, give yourself some time. Take a walk for a few seconds or count to 10. You have to let time pass because that’s the only way emotions settle. You can’t hasten the process, and if you try to make choices when the emotions are still in full swing, you’re likely to make a mistake.
The point of the game seems to be solidified after the first time you play the game, but you can play the game multiple times until you have enough of it.
Balance on One Foot
When you try to balance on one foot, you often find yourself twitching to find your balance and sticking your arms forward and back to stay upright.
However, the reason you lack balance is that you’re unfocused. Try balancing on one foot and focusing on one spot on the floor near you. Stick your finger out and point to that spot to really visualize it. When you boost your focus, you boost your balance. Keep trying until you’re able to bend down and touch that spot on the floor while balancing on one leg.
The reason this game is so effective is that you can do it anywhere. You can do it while you wait for your morning breakfast burrito to heat up in the microwave while you’re still in your pajamas, for example.
This game is best done while you’re alone if you’re afraid of getting embarrassed, but you can do it with another person to feel less silly. By doing it with another person, you can add an air of competition to make things more interesting.
The more you do this game, the easier it becomes. You find your balance faster and touch the spot on the floor more quickly.
This game is nice because it gives your brain a button to push. You go from lackadaisical, unfocused blur in your daily life to a snapping into focus — as if you’ve pressed a button. It’s like a picture coming into resolution, and you feel your body and the spot on the floor like a whole unit.
You can then tap that mental focus button for school or work. Playtime is over — you have business to do. It was touching a spot on the floor originally, but now it’s getting a paper finished or filling out those invoices.
In short, while this game might seem silly and juvenile at first, it creates a shortcut to easily calming your mind and giving you total-body focus whenever you demand.
Again, it seems weird, but Jenga helps you improve your mindfulness. Here’s why.
Jenga is a game of patience and thinking before you make a decision. You have to be sure you want to pull that block out to prevent the Jenga tower from collapsing. As a result, you have to think with precision and pause before you make a choice. From there, you become more aware of the consequences of your actions to hopefully avoid making the wrong outcome.
So while Jenga seems like a fun, family-friendly group game, you can glean some mindfulness lessons from the session. It’s fun to do with friends and loved ones, so you have to put your choices in perspective to what other people will decide to do as well.
And not only that, but being the one to cause the Jenga tower to fall is a great exercise in emotion management. It’s never a fun feeling to lose and watch your mistake clatter onto the ground.
If your box of Jenga is slowly gathering dust on the board game shelf, wipe it off and bust it out. It has more lessons to it that you think.
This activity doesn’t solely need to be done with pennies, as you can do it with other coins as well. The penny is preferred, though, because it’s often deemed as a useless, forgettable currency. But it’s frivolity is where the learning lesson lies.
Have a small cup filled with pennies — about five to start. Pick one penny out of the cup and study it. Concentrate hard on the penny’s features, such as any dents in the penny’s side, the year it’s from, or how the president’s face looked.
After 10 seconds, return the penny to the cup and shake it around, so you lose where you placed it. Now it’s your job to try to find the penny you studied.
All pennies tend to look-a-like if you don’t pay attention. But when you hone your eye, you find that you can notice differentiation in seemingly identical items. There are differences in everything, though, which is why finding them is so enriching.
This game can be done anywhere at any age. It’s beneficial to all. This is especially good if you find yourself forgetful, or if your friends often comment that you’re oblivious to details. If you want to improve your ability to see detail and remember the little things, this game is for you.
This game is better suited for children. If you’re outside at, say, a park, prompt your kids to count how many animals they see — as if they’re at a free-range nature reserve, and they are the zookeeper who needs to keep track of them all.
There is an abundance of animals that we as adults see but often ignore, like squirrels and pigeons. But children don’t feel bored with these animals quite yet, which is why this game is so enticing. They can feel like they’re in control of their surroundings while noticing the cool creatures in their midst.
The purpose of this game is to notice all the animals around you and keep count simply. If you’d like to make it a competition, you could set the rule that whoever finds the most animals at the end of the time outside wins. Dogs and other domesticated animals count too.
The more animals you start to count, the more you notice differentiations between them, because how do you know if the pigeon you saw previously was the one you already counted? Not only does this game teach you to pay better attention to your surroundings, but you’re forced to notice finer details of what you do see as well.
This next game teaches participants impulse control, patience, and breathwork. It’s also a simple way to make a game out of items you probably already have lying around the house. As with Zookeeper, this game is particularly helpful for children.
Have the children participating in the game lie on their backs on the ground. This should preferably be indoors where the children in a setting the children are familiar with and comfortable in.
As the children lay on the ground, have small items on-hand nearby, such as Legos or small toys. Starting at the legs, place an item on the child’s leg. After about thirty seconds, add an item on the child’s knees. Slowly work your way up till you get to their chin. To keep things simple, opt to use only seven or eight items.
The goal of the game is to see how long it would take before the first item falls, so it’s best to have a stopwatch handy. Some children get bored and might go to scratch their chin or switch their position, but doing so will cause them to lose the game quicker.
Therefore, they must also learn to control their impulses and practice self-control. Self-control is often called the key to a successful life, as it allows you to not only do the necessary but perhaps unpleasant activities for a successful life, such as studying for your classes or going to the gym but avoid instant-gratification that is often at odds with successful habits.
It’s never too early to teach kids to control their impulses and practice willpower. This game is a great way to do that in a fun setting.
As with Jenga, Simon Says is a simple and popular game that teaches mindfulness principles. You can find the game in physical form at most board game stores or in a digital version online for free.
Simon Says consists of a circular game board with four parts so that it looks like a pie chart with four quarter-part sections. There’s also usually a circle in the middle that says “Simon,” so there’s no confusion about what game you’re playing.
Then, one of the four sections will light up. After it’s been lit up, it’s your turn to repeat what Simon said. Once you’ve hit the correct button, two sequences will light up in random order, and you’ll have to repeat the same sequence correctly.
The sequences progress longer and longer. With every round, it becomes easier to mess up. That’s why having laser-focus during every round decreases the likelihood of a mistake.
Simon Says is a classic game for a reason: the premise is simple, but it slowly becomes harder and harder to win. But the more you play the game, not only does your short-term memory improve, but your ability to focus as well.
If you’d like to play a free and rudimentary version of Simon Says, you can do so here. You might just have to ensure you have the proper flash plug-ins enabled on your computer.
This is more of an arts and crafts game, and it’s best to do with lots of people. Since it has a child-like element to it, it’s best suited for children 12 and under.
Bring in a bunch of old magazines you don’t mind cutting things out of. With plenty of glue and scissors to go around the group, ask everyone to cut things out of the magazine that they think is meaningful to them. It would be best to have some construction or printer paper on hand so that the kids can keep their cut-outs in one place.
The point of this game is to practice the other part of mindfulness that often gets forgotten about: affirmations. Mindfulness isn’t just about focusing on your breath or controlling your impulses. Mindfulness also includes changing the way we think about our thoughts and our abilities to influence them.
The more negative thoughts we have, the more likely we are to fall into toxic mindsets that foster more negative thoughts. When we think we’re not good enough, when we think we’re not as talented as the people around us, we let those thoughts take over and control our behavior. In short, we create our realities based on our thoughts.
That’s why actively trying to put more positive thoughts into our minds is so important. The more positive thoughts we think, the better the outcomes of our life will be. And not only that, those positive thoughts can lead us to have a better image of our bodies and ourselves as well.
With depression rising among young teens, it’s crucial to teach kids to treasure positive thoughts and keep it with them. It’s never too early to teach people to be positive and focus on the aspects of themselves that they like, and this exercise helps facilitate that.
On a warm, clear night, lay upon the ground and gaze into the stars. Not only will you be floored with immense perspective in life — mainly how insignificant you and all your problems are and how there are bigger things (like planets and stars) out there that you will never know about — you can also be lucky enough to see a shooting star.
Shooting stars are actually pieces of space rock or dust that gets close to the Earth’s atmosphere, which is why you can see it.
There are lots to observe about space if you only pay attention. So grab a blanket and lie out under the stars. If you’re with friends, try to see who can count the most shooting stars. It’s a fun way to spend time doing humanity’s most timeless activities: looking up at a starry sky and wondering what it all means.
Tense and Relax
This game teaches inner-body focus so that participants are always aware of what’s going on in their bodies. It’s also a relaxation game — and a great way to fall asleep.
Have participants lie down on their backs in a brightly lit room. You need the brightness to prevent people from falling asleep mid-game.
Tell them to clench their feet as tensely as they can for five seconds then relax. Ask them to note how their feet feel without having them actually say a word.
Next goes the calves, thighs, butt and hips, hands, stomach, chest, arms, neck, and face. Once each of these body parts have been tensed, ask the participants to tense their whole body then relax. They should feel a total body sense of calm and release as if they could drift off to sleep at any moment.
This exercise is good for people who are anxious and find that they can’t relax. It’s also good exercise for insomniacs.
Mindfulness isn’t just for the mind. Exercises like this one help incorporate the body into mindfulness as well.
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It seems as though goalkeeper Pepe Reina will be staying in Italy after all rather than moving back to his native Spain, at least according to one report.
Reina spent the second half of the season on loan at Aston Villa but the English club do not appear keen on making it a permanent deal.
Calciomercato.com recently reported that the 37-year-old goalkeeper has reached an agreement with Valencia. The basis of the agreement is a two-year contract worth around €2m per season, €1m less than what he earns now.
According to Calciomercato.it, it is now Lazio who are one step away from signing the veteran stopper. The Biancocelesti have been in the market for a new back-up keeper ahead of their return to the Champions League, one with useful experience for the dressing room.
Reina still has another year on his contract with Milan but they will let him go for free, and the report adds that he will likely sign with Lazio at the beginning of next week.
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Joni was born and raised in Winona along the Mississippi River loving anything and everything related to the Driftless area. As a child, I was always coming home with a stray snake, lonely frog or injured bird and always had a pair of binoculars or camera around my neck. Today, as a Minnesota Master Naturalist and retired violinist, I have developed an intimate relationship with the Natural world around me with its wonder, emotion, music, textures, aromas and vibrant colors. My camera and lens have become my instrument that leads me out into Nature and nurtures my creativity and passion. My goal is to bring to life these emotions to my viewers through my fine art Nature Photography.
I am inspired daily with almost childlike wonder to all of the beauty of plants and animals that surround me along the Mississippi River while bringing me closer to Nature as I quietly sit side by side with her. Photography allows me to see into the depths of the souls of all that I encounter and ultimately bring that life into my images. | <urn:uuid:99b00e00-f455-488b-ab99-135d28147d69> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://semva.com/joni-welda-2/ | 2023-09-23T17:10:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.969669 | 207 |
Senda was created in 2010 after the realization that too much money was being spent on soccer advertisements and too little on making quality products and paying fair wages. In addition, the pure joy and community of the beautiful game was replaced with a Win-At-All-Costs mentality across too many soccer fields. It was time for change.
Senda customers help provide living wages to workers making premium quality soccer balls in Fair Trade working conditions, giving them the freedom to focus on craftsmanship. Further, Senda focuses on promoting joy and community through the beautiful game, which goes hand-in-hand with achieving results on and off the field.
Argentina-raised Santiago found solace in soccer and its community after moving to the U.S. to pursue a new life and education. The ability to connect with people through the sport helped him see the power of the game in a new light, but he discovered that something wasn’t quite right about the soccer industry.
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Furnished Apartment Checklist
When it comes to moving into a furnished apartment, having a checklist can be incredibly helpful to ensure you have everything you need for a comfortable and enjoyable living experience. Furnished apartments offer convenience and ease, providing you with the essential items you need without the hassle of purchasing and transporting furniture and appliances. In this article, we will guide you through a comprehensive checklist, covering all the must-haves to turn your furnished apartment into a cozy and functional home.
1. Kitchen Essentials
The heart of any home is the kitchen, and a furnished apartment should be no exception. Check for the following kitchen essentials:
Cookware and Utensils
- Pots and pans
- Cooking utensils (spatula, ladle, whisk, etc.)
- Knives and cutting board
- Can opener
- Plates, bowls, and glasses
- Flatware (forks, knives, spoons)
- Coffee mugs
- Toaster or toaster oven
- Coffee maker
2. Bedroom Comfort
A good night’s sleep is crucial for your well-being. Ensure your furnished apartment has the following bedroom essentials:
- Comfortable mattress
- Pillows and pillowcases
- Bedsheets and blankets
- Dresser or wardrobe for clothing storage
- Hangers for your clothes
- A nightstand with a lamp for easy access to essentials
3. Living Room Necessities
The living room is where you unwind and relax after a long day. Check for these essentials:
Sofa and Coffee Table
- Comfortable sofa or couch
- Coffee table for placing drinks and snacks
- Television with remote
- High-speed internet access
- Dining table and chairs for enjoying meals
4. Bathroom Supplies
Make sure your furnished apartment is equipped with the following bathroom essentials:
- Bath towels and hand towels
- WashclothsPersonal Care
- Toiletries (shampoo, conditioner, soap, etc.)
- Trash cans and trash bags
- Cleaning products (multi-surface cleaner, toilet cleaner, etc.)
5. Essential Electronics
In today’s digital age, having the right electronics is essential. Check for the following:
- Ensure you have a reliable Wi-Fi connection
- Power strips and charging cables for your devices
6. Laundry Area
If your furnished apartment includes laundry facilities, check for the following:
Washer and Dryer
- Ensure they are in good working condition
- Laundry detergent
- Fabric softener
Moving into a furnished apartment should be an exciting and stress-free experience. With this comprehensive checklist, you can rest assured that you have all the essentials needed for a comfortable home away from home.
Frequently Ask Questions on Furnished Apartment Checklist
1. Can I add my own furniture to a furnished apartment?
In most cases, furnished apartments do not allow additional furniture, but you can always check with the landlord.
2. Are utilities typically included in furnished apartments?
Yes, many furnished apartments include basic utilities such as water, electricity, and gas.
3. What’s the advantage of renting a furnished apartment?
Renting a furnished apartment saves you the hassle and cost of buying and moving furniture.
4. Can I negotiate the rent for a furnished apartment?
It’s possible to negotiate the rent, especially for longer lease terms.
5. What should I do if something in the apartment needs repair?
Contact your landlord or property manager immediately to report any maintenance issues.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NBA athlete Enes Freedom startled many when he tweeted that in order to prove how ridiculous it is for biological men to play in women’s sports, he would “put on a wig, identify as a woman and start dominating the WNBA.” The bold move was to make his point clear. “Biological males don’t belong in women’s spaces. I’m talking about restrooms… I’m talking about locker rooms, I’m talking about sports pretty much,” he explained. “I’m just in shock this even is a debate. So, I was like, enough is enough, male athletes should just go out there and support that cause. No male athlete out there would do that because they’re scared of getting canceled. So you know what, I was like, I’ll be the first one.”
Enes Freedom’s bold approach is being celebrated by conservatives across the country who have had enough of the radical push to put transgender athletes in women’s sports. Judge Phil Ginn, president of Southern Evangelical Seminary (SES, www.ses.edu) commented that Freedom’s tongue-in-cheek suggestion should be the catalyst for more men and women to stand up and support common sense.
“I am, or at least I was at one point, a great fan of basketball,” said Ginn. “Unfortunately, like many other sports, the encroaching politics of radical indoctrination have ruined what once was a favorite past time of many. The NBA and WNBA have been reduced to nothing more than seething caldrons of immorality and overhyped, Hollywood-infused, individual opulence void of real-world cognizance.
“In the midst of all of this, Enes Freedom (formerly Enes Canter) balked at the onslaught of false political correctness and had the courage to call out the hypocrisy of the NBA. Though I don’t agree with Enes in many areas, I admire his willingness to expose the truth of the hypocrisy of the NBA in their full-frontal attack against basic moral values, along with the promotion of anti-American Marxist organizations under the pseudo cover of promoting human rights. Of course, all this occurred while the NBA was at the same time cozying up to the likes of vile human rights violators like Xi Jinping of China and Recep Erdogan of Turkey. What did Enes’s proclamation of the truth get him? Ostracization from the NBA and threats of arrest and death from his, and our nation’s, enemies.
“Apparently, Enes is up to bat again with his criticism of the absurdity of biological men participating in women’s sports. With tongue in cheek, he is offering to don a wig, change his name to Enisha, and join the WNBA. This caricature of the stupidity of the argument for transgender men involved in women’s sports could easily be seen when this 6’ 10”, 250-pound behemoth of a man laces up his basketball shoes against the best the WNBA has to offer. Though Enes could only be categorized as a journey man player on the men’s court, he would obviously dominate over the women (if he could just keep his wig on). Come to think of it, the sight of Enes and his wig on the court might easily increase the paltry average per game attendance of 5,700 people at WNBA games. It might even get me to tune in once in a while.”
Ginn concluded, “At Southern Evangelical Seminary, we know intuitively and rationally through natural law and the Scripture that the current math of our American culture simply does not add up. We as a nation are being hornswoggled by the insidious ideations of atheistic Marxist philosophy, and we are standing by while our children are devoured as sacrifices to this false religion of humanism. Isn’t it about time that we just stopped listening to the morass of falsehood permeating the soap opera being played out in our nation? If Enes Freedom has the courage to stand up to the falsehoods, should we not also be brave enough to at least shine the light of the Gospel into the darkness descending on our beloved nation? If you listen very closely, you may just hear the faint hum of repentance and resolve ascending in the hearts of Christians all across this nation. Southern Evangelical Seminary is planning to be at the forefront of this movement. We welcome you to join us if you will.” | <urn:uuid:c99c80fa-ed99-44db-99fe-a356990351cb> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://ses.edu/judge-phil-ginn-urges-believers-to-fight-for-truth-against-insidious-ideations-of-atheistic-marxist-philosophy/ | 2023-09-23T18:32:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.965956 | 972 |
This listing is for all nine (9) WotC Black Star league promo cards from the 2001 Year 2 Johto. League cycle from Wizards of the Coast.
These are the 9 league promos. Season 1: #30 Togepi (January 2001). Season 2: #31 Cleffa (February 2001). Season 3: #32 Smeargle (March 2001).Season 4: #33 Scizor (April 2001). Season 5: #36 Igglybuff (May 2001). Bonus card - #35 Pichu (holofoil) - awarded in Season 3 for. These cards came straight from the cellophane bag into penny sleeves.
Cards are NM/M - the cards in the photos are representative of the ones you will receive. This is a fixed-price listing. NOTE: The Ho-oH figure is NOT included.I place him in the photo to verify the pictures are of an item from my collection. I have no control over this part of the process.
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University of Salford
Abstract: Scholars of media ecology, and what Fuller has called ‘media ecologies’ (2005), are interested in how real social change is possible, and in fact necessary, in the era of neoliberal takeups of digital media. By questioning hierarchical formations in the arrangements of lives, production and the lines of force for interactivity, which have historically been uni-directional and fundamentally restricting, the peer to peer (P2P) production movement is an example of the type of media ecology that promises ‘deep’ social, as well as mental, and environmental (in the sense of places of work and production), change. Do the networked commons emerging from P2P production, founded in the free software and hardware arena, and the ecologies of productive and artistic cooperation therein pose a resilient threat to capitalism, from within capitalism?
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Free (Libre)/Open Source Software (FLOSS) is an open, evolutionary arena in which hundreds and sometimes thousands of users voluntarily explore and design code, spot bugs in code, make contributions to the code, release software, create artwork, and develop licenses in a fashion that is becoming increasingly prevalent in the otherwise hugely monopolised software market. This ‘computerisation movement’ emerged as a challenge to the monopolisation of the software market by such mammoth firms as Microsoft and IBM, and is portrayed as being revolutionary (Elliot and Scacchi, 2004; DiBona, Ockman, and Stone, 1999; Kling and Iacono, 1988). Its ‘ultimate goal’ is ‘to provide free software to do all of the jobs computer users want to do and thus make proprietary software obsolete’ (Free Software Foundation, 2005).- 2 -
However, if it is to succeed in bringing about a new social order (Kling and Lacono, 1988), this movement must be re-evaluated from a critical standpoint through a look into the practices of knowledge production based on radical licenses for property sharing and development such as the General Public Licence (GPL) and the emerging subjectivities of participants. Free Software may be viewed as a social movement while Open Source is perhaps a development methodology, but it is not always necessary to isolate analysis to one or the other, firstly due to the extensive overlap in software communities, and secondly because their rhizomatic roots emerge from a shared intellectual and moral response to the exploitation of markets by powerful firms (see Elliot and Scacchi, 2004). Here, I query whether the activities of collaborative software producers as well as hardware production communities such as those found in FabLabs, which release playbots and other blueprints for machine replications as well as agricultural and construction initiatives, can indeed be perceived as revolutionary due to their subversive work and production methods. The recursive communities (Kelty 2006; Powell 2008) that develop around these practices are linked, with shared practices, goals and self-perceptions. People’s emerging subjectivities are the most important dimension of such radical production ecologies, because they reflect both the immaterial and material dimensions of the inherently political projects involved.- 3 -
Social theorists including Hardt and Negri (2001), Boutang (2008), Lazzarato (1996), and Virno (2002) discuss new technologies’ appropriation of work as an immaterial and conceptual (and sometimes slavish) activity. The extraction of surplus value from work in the creative and cultural industries, as well as from any employment relationship built on new technologies, is a new and unique category of potential exploitation. This is interestingly also less bounded to the Fordist piece rate work structures of management and the wage relation. The appropriation of the self, of the hegemony of the subject involved, is part of the neoliberal capitalist project. This can also be seen in education and employment policy, as I have demonstrated in my 2010 book (Moore, 2010). There I claim that governments and the elite transnational capitalist class struggles to adapt to, and subsume, potential revolutionary factions within the knowledge and information economy. These struggles provide tensions within the P2P community likewise, as I indicate in my work with Paul A. Taylor (2009). This work analyses participants’ motivations for getting involved in usually unpaid FLOSS projects when simultaneously facing the precarious world of work. In spite of these tensions, I argue here that the creative and networked industries provide the components for creating post-capitalist relationships, or if that is somewhat optimistic, at least a challenge to capitalist relationships. Explicit methods of immaterial and material production and emerging P2P ecologies are built on tenets that defy capitalism and allow subjectivities that blossom outside of the dominant models that are fraught with competition and rivalries.- 4 -
At the University of Maine Law School’s Fourth Annual Technology and Law Conference, Portland, Maine, Professor Eben Moglen argued that:
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Free software is an invocation for particular social purposes of the ability to develop resources in commons… it is the single way in which we have produced the most important works of Western intellectual achievement since the Renaissance. It is also the way in which we have managed for all time fisheries, surface water resources, and large numbers of other forms of resource beyond human production. Free software presents an attempt to construct a commons in cyberspace with respect to executable computer code. It works. (Moglen, 2003)
FLOSS projects have an intense focus on open source and the collaborative ‘philosophies’ of free software. Yet many hardware production projects, alternative currencies, and FLOSS-related ecological and environmental activisms also share a concern for the planet’s sustainable future. In the process, they rework the production of subjectivity. For example, geek publics, as emerging from community wireless projects, are another instance of a relevant oppositional subjectivity (as seen in the work of Powell ).- 7 -
This article, then, is about the subjectivities of people involved in peer to peer (P2P) production. P2P is a model or perhaps, better termed, an ecology of production that aims to defy and resist the hierarchies and the rules of ownership that drive productive models within capitalism. It may also offer possibilities for workers’ formations of radicalised subjectivities. The argument that the P2P ecologies of production are groundbreaking and emancipating is found for example in the work of Bauwens (2009) and Benkler (2006), among others. Criticisms leveled at the phenomenon include those contained in case studies by people involved, such as Zawinski’s (1999) account of work on Mozilla. Critics point to the clique-like activities of producers, suggesting that P2P producers ‘cease to be a bazaar model and turn into a core team, which to a lot of people is a polite word for a clique’ (Cox, 1998).- 8 -
In response, I will investigate a range of projects that aim to provide a lived alternative to the existing dominant modes of capitalist production. These provide an alternative model, better termed an ‘ecology’; not a model of capitalism, but an ecology of potential post-capitalism. The increasingly successful ecologies of cooperative and collaborative production have become a threat to globalised information capitalism, as much through contributors’ value systems as through material outputs. In this sense, the global capitalist passive revolution that I have identified in other work (Moore, 2007, 2010) is likely to be challenged.- 9 -
I look at the media ecology or ‘ecosophy’ of P2P software and hardware production as something that begins with people’s subjectivities, is perpetuated and reproduced by subjectivities-in-common, and becomes the core for a potential revolution. Networked communities of P2P production are, in the sense of free software, virtual.These groups are made up of geeks, artists, hackers, designers, carpenters and programmers, all of whom are committed to a radical ecology based on tenets that defy the proprietary and competitive relations that dominate the majority of productive relationships in the current, seemingly post-industrial, digital age. P2P production communities are composed of the following three dimensions: social relations, human subjectivity and the environment (see Guattari, 2008, for a breakdown of these categories). It is the new configuration of the relations between these that could effectively challenge existing hegemonic social relations of production. So this article first looks at how critical theorists may understand the relationship between P2P activity and the subjectivities formed within networks. More specifically it looks to the way the objectives of producers and artists affect the development of subjectivity within recursive communities. The article then looks at the activities within communities of the software and hardware producers themselves.
Considering Subjectivities- 10 -
Conceptions of how subjectivities are formed are now dramatically altering in the light of developing technologies and the new ways in which people interact with technology. The dark side of this, reflected in government policy, is not the only dimension of this transformation. In fact, there is an emancipatory potential within relationships that can now be established with the new uses of technology, and with new patterns for governance outside old industrial capitalist hierarchies. On the other hand, attempts to harness the potential for revolution, evident within the P2P production movement which I discuss in following sections, are also increasingly evident in government policy that tries to dictate and define subjectivity through educative means. The struggles over the vectors of subjectivation involved, as discussed in Guattari (2008) and Colman (2008) are, as Goddard states in the present volume, part of a ‘mental ecology in which sensibilities, intelligence and processes of desire take place’. This is thus also the ‘site where politics take place’ (Goddard in this issue).- 11 -
If P2P production becomes an alternative and revolutionary space, it will be via the possibilities for the formations of revolutionary subjectivities that may emerge as people become increasingly involved in ‘passionate work’ in the digital and cultural economies (McRobbie, 2009: 123) where this kind of production occurs. This could ultimately involve challenging global capitalist hegemony,not only through a new distributed aesthetics but also new affective subjectivies. The subjectivity as well as social status of the capitalist him/herself is challenged with competing collaborative forms of subjectivity. As these new types of self identifications are developed within organic social movements, transformation becomes increasingly possible.- 12 -
Here Matthew Fuller’s (2005) provocative adaptation of the concept of media ecology is useful. Fuller refers to media ecologies that allow for more dynamism between the relevant components, relationships and methods by which ecologies are co-created, often in response to a perceived absence of something in society, or as an attempted response to perceived social violence. For Fuller, for example, pirate radio emerged in the context of people’s desire for fringe cultural expression and for multiplicities emerging from ‘multiple networks of production, multiple locations … multiple media forms … sustained by scenes and rhymatic drives that refuse to give in’ (2005: 52). Rather than the traditional static relationships of mainstream media such as broadcaster/audience, producer/consumer, manager/managed, these new media ecologies allowed people the space for self expression and thus creation of alternative subjectivities, as well as potentials for the transformation of the world around them with the use of technologies.- 13 -
To elaborate the potentials in new subjectivities in this context, one can turn to Deleuze and Guattari’s (1987) adaptation of Foucault’s treatise on subjectivation, or the process of becoming subject, as a biopolitical power struggle. To challenge the ‘major crisis of our era’, Guattari emphasises that we need to work together to cultivate:
- · A nascent subjectivity
- · A constantly mutating socius
- · An environment in the process of being reinvented. (2008, 45)
Here, I intend to look at a lived example of the commons to identify how the multitude may express itself in a potentially subjectively revolutionary ecology, wherein production of the self can be owned separate to the results of interpellation, where capitalism is no longer the horizon of subsumption and where multiplicity can become both singular and shared in a way that disrupts the contemporary hegemony of capitalist norms, such as the proprietary ownership of ideas within digital production.- 15 -
However, this mode of aesthetico-political subjectivity differs from the more celebrated forms of ‘creative freedom’. Most critical theorists have viewed aesthetics as a domain reserved for artists and ‘creatives’, and this paralysis continues in the work of Richard Florida and Charles Leadbeater, ‘insiders’ who busily decide on best working practices and design the future of work (Amoore 2006, 26), and who have celebrated promises in which ‘creative freedom, design stardom, and self-expression drives designers to work in temporary or freelance jobs and to forgo financial security thus feeding capitalism an endless supply of young, fresh talent’ (Turner-Rahman 2005). As Witheford points out however ‘inside this bourgeois dream lie the seeds of a bourgeois nightmare’ (1999, 5-6). McRobbie (2002) and Amoore (2006) note that this exhilarating promise in practice facilitates the capitalist project and makes it difficult for workers to unionise and thus to protect themselves.- 16 -
On all nodes of the spectrum from the far right to the radical left, changes to the workplace, the removal of job security and casualised professional work alongside widespread casualisation, and the rise of flexibilised precariat maintenance and/or types of service work, are issues that have been associated with the rise of technological developments during what has been called the age of information, ‘new times’, the global knowledge-based economy, high-technology societies, technetronic societies, and so on. Capital has been able to reinvent and ‘socialise’ itself in these contexts, as seen in the restructuring of education around a perceived ideal type of employable and socialised worker. The result is that we are seeing a conscious fusion of capital with society that can have a range of affects on people surviving within its grip.- 17 -
In this situation, labour has supposedly become dematerialised, through the elimination of skill as tangibly measured and explicitly identified with the producer herself. This is a contemporary continuation of the capitalist project of alienation. In addition, work is removed from fixed capital through the transference of the practices involving owned property into unprecedented arenas of commodified knowledge by way of information technologies. Labour power is thus removed from the factory and immaterialised through deterritorialisation, which is the ‘disconnection of the conscious organism from its identity code, the effect of non-acknowledgement of the imaginary’ (Berardi, 2009: 150). With identity and thus representation removed, cognitive work appears to exist in direct competition with the computer. Post-Fordist capitalism realises Stalin’s formula: ‘man is the most precious capital’ (cited in Gorz, 1999: 6). The individual is now expected not only to work, but also to valorise his/her own work, and to become a competitive entity with capital itself through the incorporation of his/her own subjectivity into the practice of work.- 18 -
The infatuation with a new creative world of work or ‘playbour’ hints toward a seeming turn from labour in the traditional model wherein surplus value is owned by capitalists. Theorists of cognitive capitalism suggest that knowledge workers are expected to contribute endlessly to value creation by way of personally directed lifelong learning and mass intellectuality. Virno and the advocates of operaismo note that work is not just alienated from the producer in the capitalist relationship of production, but in fact, life is completely subsumed by work (2002). The Italian ‘workerists’ disagreed with Gramsci’s thesis on the war of position (which loosely, is the idea that positioning one’s strategic advantage is as important as the attack) and instead advocated direct action: the multitude that results is a movement that will enact radical transformation and change through a radical configuration of subjectivities. While this movement has differences with Gramscian theories of power, the commitment to ideas and emancipatory possibilities located within the superstructure are shared. - 19 -
A growing population of over-qualified, highly skilled individuals now work in the ‘internal margins’, or the internal ghettos, that line the sidestreets resulting from a growing lack of stable employment within the market for knowledge workers. As a result of the emerging impermanence of work, and as knowledge becomes increasingly commodified, several contradictions have emerged. For example, ‘reflective statements’ and cognitive scaffolding (Pedagogy for Employability 2006) are prioritised over recursive community building, or commons based production. Assumptions extend into the realm of people’s abilities and skills, despite the difficulties that knowledge work poses for traditional distinctions between the objective or technical skill needed for task related work and the subjective, social capabilities that are now increasingly measured by employers in a ‘war for talent’ (Brown and Hesketh, 2004: 65-88).
Peer Production and the Commons- 20 -
The peer to peer production movement originated in the Free Software and Hackerspace communities.These communities represent a social movement to an extent, although ‘movement is an awkward word; not all participants would define their participation that way’ (Kelty 2008, 113). Some people participate because this is is a ‘pragmatic methodology’ that shares ‘practices first and ideologies second’ (113). Nonetheless, FLOSS and the open hardware community is composed of some radical people who are committed to explicitly go beyond the strictures of capitalist production processes in a way that can overcome the measures of value that have controlled the employability (and thus subjectivity) discourse until now. While government led employability and skills campaigns have created a specific ideologue of the seemingly employable worker, the peer production protocol is composed by an ecology of interactivity that offers an alternative set of practices to capitalism. This is an ecology in which people are seen to be free to individually and/or collaboratively and cooperatively identify subjectivity, or subjectivities, that are not confined to the straightjacket of competition, profit and proprietary-driven action, or the associated values these activities require.- 21 -
Yet where are P2P collaborative spaces in today’s real world? These include Media labs based on the model of Access Space or the Brasilian Pontos de Cultura programme, which have applied the P2P approach on a national scale; coworking spaces and social media cafes (like London’s Tuttle Club); Fab Labs for manufacturing, found in locations as diverse as Iceland and Afghanistan; Vinay Gupta’s Hexayurt project; Studio spaces like TenantSpin, the micro-TV station in Liverpool based in a flat in a towerblock; Hackerspaces; Community Media (Hine 2009); and Intentional Communities which include ‘ecovillages, cohousing communities, residential land trusts, communes, student co-ops, urban housing cooperatives, intentional living, alternative communities, cooperative living, and other projects where people strive together with a common vision’ (Intentional Communities 2010). These radical spaces are based on the following principles as set forward by the P2P Foundation:
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Our mission is to extend the Open Source model to the provision of any goods and services—Open Source Economics. This means opening access to the information and technology which enables a different economic system to be realized, one based on the integration of natural ecology, social ecology, and industrial ecology. This economic system is based on open access—based on widely accessible information and associated access to productive capital—distributed into the hands of an increased number of people. We believe that a highly distributed, increasingly participatory model of production is the core of a democratic society, where stability is established naturally by the balance of human activity with sustainable extraction of natural resources. This is the opposite of the current mainstream of centralized economies, which have a structurally built-in tendency towards overproduction. (P2P Foundation 2009)
These post- or alternate-capitalist suggestions for communities that are dedicated to the ‘commons’ are claimed to be far more resilient to capitalist subsumption than previous communities. While market-based capitalism is based on the private ownership of the means of production and hierarchically organised corporations, this new ecology is based on shared ownership and shared upgrading/product development rights, and therefore activities that by their very nature do not permit proprietary behaviour. This movement recognises that workers are becoming increasingly empowered, a group who ‘unlike factory workers basically own or control their own means of production: i.e. their brains, computers, and access to the socialised network that is the internet’ (Bauwens 2009, 2). They are thus able to create scenarios or ecologies of co-creation which are decidedly ‘not just about firms improving their social marketing, open innovation, community-building and learning efforts to generate new proprietary and valuable knowledge with/from their customers’ (Lawer 2009). These self-organising communities impose a threat to the hegemony of the traditional firm, and because of their radical organization by way of non-market production ‘there is a limit to how far such firms can “own” channels of knowledge production and are able to manage engagement when they apply a market-based logic and its associated capabilities’ (ibid., citing Benkler, 2006).- 24 -
People who are interested in co-creation and peer production are labouring and producing in a way that should not be treated as a curiosity or as a fad. Passionate and intelligent people living in a multitude of locations are volunteering online, for example, to co-author Wikipedia, thereby constituting a collective challenge to classical regimes of knowledge production and verification (Benkler 2006, 5-6). What we are seeing is a ‘new mode of production emerging in the middle of the most advanced economies in the world’ (ibid.). This ecology of production poses a real threat to the current dominant mode and people involved are increasingly able to circumnavigate the supposed reflexive requirements for preparing themselves to become and remain employable. The autonomous worker of a networked information economy, as well as the producers of open manufacture based communities, have unprecedented power to cooperate across open spaces that were previously unavailable in the factory. Without a wage relation between the traditional definitions of employee and employed, the possibilities begin to emerge for overcoming the fundamental strictures of the capitalist employment relationship. The cultures that have emerged from this process have been discussed as being more truly democratic for nearly a decade. Both consensus and democratic means are used to lead towards becoming more fully individual or self-governing. This means using consensus or democratic means for vital infrastructure; the best and most widely adopted outcomes are from the adaptive systems created that enable an individual freedom of adaptation, without the knowledge of or permission by core developers, as these adaptations do not endanger, but merely enrich, the core design. Peer production holds the possibility for a ‘genuinely new form of production’ that is based on ‘permission-less self-aggregation around the creation of common value’ (Bauwens 2009).- 25 -
Bauwens (2009) separates the terms peer production, peer governance and peer property to give a ‘beginner’s guide’ to the political economy of P2P production:
- 1) peer production: wherever a group of peers decided to engage in the production of a common resource
- 2) peer governance: the means they choose to govern themselves while they engage in such pursuit
- 3) peer property: the institutional and legal framework they choose to guard against the private appropriation of this common work; this usually takes the form of non-exclusionary forms of universal common property, as defined through the General Public License, some forms of the Creative Commons licenses, or similar derivatives.
These practices differ significantly, indeed almost diametrically, from the traditional versions of firm-based capitalist exchanges and production. Participants are involved in constructing and reconstructing intentionally radical economic and social situations. The management and governance of related projects needs to be critically examined to assess to what extent community-based ecologies found within the FLOSS community can challenge the traditional understanding of property rights, ownership, motivation, complexity and the ‘human firm’ (Tomer, 1999) along with challenges to rational actor and corporate models. The community-based movement is linked to the re-creation of subjectivities that exist outside of capitalism, can produce its own economic ‘truth’ regime of value, and has begun to display significant possibilities for challenging the dominance of competitive capitalism. Yet the cultural and macro-structural properties of community-based ecologies of work must be contrasted to those of the firm to discern their relevance and implications for broader ethico-political changes within and across societies. For instance, in the present volume, Parikka refers to the emerging media ecological methodologies that can identify and outline ‘subjectivities that do not follow the normal definitions of subjectivities based in consciousness, morals, or for example human sociality, but .. a more radical material relationality and sociability’ (Parikka in this issue). In particular, the emerging open hardware community demonstrates the complexities and the potential revolutionary dimensions of ‘radical material relationality and sociability’.- 27 -
P2P production has been able to bring together the otherwise differently developed Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the open source movement, and now the open source hardware creating community. The latter are, for example, committed to OHANDA, which is a database of design repositories allowing collaboration, strictly operating under the GPL and copyleft licensing in hardware production projects (Powell 2011). Collaborative practices give each group of producers a subversive framework for knowledge sharing and a radical space to express subversive identities that reject competitiveness and obsessive individualism. This ecology potentially overthrows, or at least dramatically challenges, the current dominant model of flexibilised subjectivities which are positioned around capitalist norms. Weber shows that ‘authority within a firm and the price mechanism across firms are standard means to efficiently coordinate specialised knowledge in a complex division of labour—but neither is operative in open source’ (Weber 2004). Yet without guaranteed wages, what are the incentives for participation and contribution? These key differences noted in participant subjectivities could indeed be the key for overthrowing the capitalist wage relationship. People within the P2P ecologies for production see themselves as autonomous producers, without the pressure of a boss and thus the capitalist employment relationship is removed. Where is the ‘boss of it all’ in open ecology communities? Indeed, it exists within subjectivities. While workers’ knowledge within capitalist companies automatically becomes the intellectual property of employers, the FSF and FLOSS and open hardware ecologies allow a level of personal ‘possession’ of the product and through this formation of revolutionary subjectivities and thus the self. The recursive commons is born.- 28 -
Several P2P hardware projects have emerged in recent years. These include the work of Smari McCarthy, Director of Taj Fab Lab in Jalalabad, Afghanistan and native of Iceland, and Xavier Leonard, who run the following projects and Fab Labs:
- – Peer escrow identity management system
- – Crowdsourced democracy system
- – Mutualist monetary system
- – Economic information system (CyberSyn inspired)
- – Natural resource mapping system
- – Arbitrary arbitration protocol
- – Peer-to-peer education system
- – Distributed Healthcare system
- – Executive authority management
Fab Labs and related projects include:
- – Vestmannaeyjar Iceland Fab Lab
- – FabFi wireless project
- – Afghanistan Fab Lab
- – Open Manufacturing
- – FOME
- – Icelandic Society for Digital Freedoms
Other projects include the Manchester FabLabs project initiated by Dr. Eddie Kirkby and others, overseen by the Manufacturing Institute in Manchester. Based within the Chips Building in Manchester’s New Islington area, this is the 35th Fab Lab in the world. Haydn Insley acts as Charity Project Manager. As reported by Parley (2010), Julie Madigan who is the Chief Executive of the Manufacturing Institute claims ‘this is an opportunity to broaden our innovation base and increase crucial invention skills. It is a proven grass roots approach that will directly benefit the economy and different parts of the community’.- 31 -
Another example is Paul Hartzog and Sam Rose’s involvement in the establishment of another project entitled ‘21st Century Wealth-generating Ecologies and an Infrastructure for Open Everything’ (Hartzog and Rose 2009). Then there is Dr. Marcin Jakubowski’s work as Director for Permaculture and Open Manufacturing, which is the basis for his Factor E Farm Project using peer production methodologies. Factor E Farm is an experiment of putting theory into practice. Dr. Jakubowski and several others have been applying P2P methodologies and codes of practice to their work since the Farm’s inception. The aim is to create a ‘global village construction set’ and these activists are ‘refining existing technologies and techniques into simple, easily replicated, open source designs with closed, zero-waste resource cycles’ (ibid.). P2P workers in these communities claim to control their own manufacturing and production and see this as a crucial step toward a post-capitalist world. ‘By our analysis, most of the technologies needed for a sustainable and pleasant standard of living could be reduced to the cost of scrap metal + labor. There is immense potential for social transformation once this technology is fully developed for building interconnected self-sufficient villages, since people will be freed from material constraints and able to seek self-actualization’ (ibid).- 32 -
Open Source Ecology is another P2P hardware project that calls itself ‘a movement dedicated to the collaborative development of the world’s first replicable, open source, modern off-grid “global village”. By using permaculture and digital fabrication together to provide for basic needs and open source methodology to allow cheap replication of the entire village, we hope to empower anyone who desires to move beyond the struggle for survival and evolve to freedom’ (Open Source Ecology 2009).- 33 -
The Open Ecology peer production collaboration cycle and methodology is the following:
- – Feedback throughout
- – Fabrication, potentially in distributed locations
- – Resource donations
- -Quality markup technical drawings
- -3D computer models
- -Economic analysis
- -Further design
- -Worknet workspace as initial development, ending in dedicated wiki webspace
- -Technology administrator: for each product (ibid.)
These projects are far more than research and development activities for digital neoliberal capitalism, despite the well documented and at times successful mainstream attempts at subsumption. Within the hardware community, from the nascent stages of design and creation there is a strong commitment to collaboration and the commons. As such, these communities pose a significant challenge to post-Fordist capitalism. They go beyond the limits of preceding free software movements, due to their materiality and their capacity to generate full post-capitalist ecologies. These have a sustainability and fuller embodiment of all dimensions of sociality, beyond the limitations of free software.- 35 -
Many of the people working in the commons, in both software and hardware production, are dedicated to taking the means of production away from the elite digerati as well as the corporate moguls who are the most recent reactionary examples of Gramsci’s organic intellectuals (Gramsci 1971). This is despite the fact that the idea of the ecology has been integrated at some points into management discourse and cybernetics. However, a real battle has begun between management interpretations of ecologies and those who intend to challenge a managerialist policy that, as stated, is becoming increasingly invasive and biopolitical. A revolution of subjectivity is needed, along the lines we have begun to see in the terms described in this article. This needs to create environments in which people can labour and live in an interdependent and self-sustaining way, outside of capitalist modes and means of production. Can P2P production values change users’ incentives, directing these towards participation in form of production that transcend competition, ownership, and profit seeking?
Towards a Conclusion- 36 -
The emerging P2P ecology allows us to open a critical perspective on the technological determinism and privileging of technical innovation that now pervades contemporary neoliberal digital capitalism. Indeed, this ecological change within social and technological relations coincides with these contemporary modalities of production, seen in dominant and pervasive enterprise initiatives in every labour sector in the neoliberal era. Can the emergence of P2P participants’ battle with capital transform the traditional hierarchies that characterised sites of production typical of the industrial age? The contemporary post-capitalist ecology I have described here does seem to allow workers to arrest their own self-management. They return to a situation wherein people can formulate revolutionary subjectivities and own their labour and means of production, rather than continue to be subordinated to hierarchies and deterministic views of technology and progress. The self-organising communities of peer production threaten the status quo by taking ownership of the means and modes of production. This also involves rethinking ecologies of production , beginning with the structuring of capital output into a commons from which to adopt and adapt, whether personally or communally, through the use of the General Public Licensing model which renders intellectual property obsolete.- 37 -
Through ‘commoning’ and through the production of open software and hardware and related alternative protocols, it has become possible to challenge capitalism. Capitalist elites do counter this, cutting through the aesthetic veneer that advances the autonomous affective self (Colman, 2010: 3). Yet the peer production movement, as media ecology, still poses an active, potentially revolutionary challenge to the contemporary post-industrial project of capitalist subsumption.- 38 -
- Neo-Gramscians (Bieler, Cox, Gill, Moore, Morton, Worth, etc.) have given Gramsci’s theories an international dimension, and their work provides analyses of how ideas are made concrete and hegemonic, and how they continue to prevent revolution.
- Bearing in mind that ‘organic’ in this sense is not the organic we often think regarding pesticide free, genetically authentic gardens or all-natural foods and so on. Gramsci means that the elite are as capable of planting what might appear to be radical ideas as revolutionaries or subversives are, and have been able to cultivate their own species of intellectuals through forming corporate links and building alliances in ways that fuel capitalism.
- Lovink (2004) argues that the Internet and new media have both frightened and excited capitalists: frightened because it is in many ways still unexplored territory and provides a space that is less familiar with copyright and intellectual property restrictions; but also excited about the profit making implications.
Acknowledgements- 39 -
I would like to thank Alison Powell, Felicity Colman, Michel Bauwens, Jussi Parikka, Michael Goddard, Smari McCarthy, Matthew Fuller, Athina Karatzogianni and George Dafermos for their generous comments, guidance, and support throughout the writing of this article.
Biographical Note- 40 -
Phoebe has two interrelated research interests: international labour struggle; and post-capitalist models for socio-political economies that can resolve labour struggle, some of which are found in digital communities. Her recent research monograph entitled The International Political Economy of Work and Employability (Palgrave, Aug 2010) examines the effects of global shifts to a knowledge-based economy on people, using comparative studies of policy and the related ‘employable’ subjectivity and personality ideal types. Previous publications include ‘UK Education, Employability, and Everyday Life’ (Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies (2009) 7(1); and a co-authored piece with Paul A. Taylor entitled ‘Exploitation of the Self in Community-Based Software Production: Workers’ Freedoms or Firm Foundations?’ Capital and Class (2009), 97: 99–120.
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LinkedIn Romance frauds in 2020: bear in mind, and How to Protect Yourself
LinkedIn might be
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cons tend to be almost everywhere.
The reality is that relationship frauds happen on pretty much every social networking platform that is available, and they are particularly common on sites which have drive messaging features. In the end, romance scams in essence began with Yahoo Messenger along with other message boards in the early days of websites.
LinkedIn is an
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Why is LinkedIn
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LinkedIn relationship frauds normally have very little related to that it really is a website that connects together company pros.
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Since LinkedIn isn’t
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other cause versus simple fact that they do not belong here. The LinkedIn profile
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from left field to make almost no feeling. Fraudsters commonly throw truly huge
nets to find out if they get any hits, so that they’re accustomed getting rejected. All they need
is just one large fish in which to stay creation.
The fundamental guideline here is whenever some body starts inquiring a lot of private concerns in personal messages on LinkedIn, you are working with a scammer. Shut it down and report it immediately.
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there is part of attempting to stay away from scammers by staying away from social media marketing platforms altogether. The reality is that folks face cons each day on the internet and traditional. It is the method of the planet.
The fundamental concept
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scammer. It is that simple.
LinkedIn love frauds, the fraudsters will contact you about points that have
nothing to do with your occupation. If someone contacts both you and requires in case you are
married, you understand they can be phishing for information. Should you keep speaking with
them, you’re requesting problems.
Any individual calling
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to get a brand new sweetheart or gf. The most obvious exemption is when
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commitment with an overall total stranger.
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scammer appear too good to be true.
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At the termination of the
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Longtime friends – bearded Joe Henderson and clean shaven Mike Knopke – are said to sympathize with their various shaving issues.
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Knopke bought high-end products and used a safety razor for “baby’s soft” skin, but he was hesitant about the prices.
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With their own line, they also have more control over packaging, bottle sizes, ingredients and prices.
They work in the basement of Knopke’s Overland Park house or sometimes Henderson’s Olathe house, making enough products to last two or three months.
âWe’re control freaks,â Henderson said. âWe can manage it better and make significantly more money, which allows us to be competitive entering the retail space. “
This includes responding to requests from outlets, such as hair salons, who want to offer the products.
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Other products include safety razors and blades, straight razors, brushes and bowls, beard scissors, beard cleansers and combs.
Currently, products and gift boxes are sold on their website, www.kcshave.com, and on Etsy, an e-commerce site. They have about 30 gift box options ranging from around $ 19.95 to over $ 100. They also make personalized boxes, like their groomsmen gift boxes.
They sent bloggers samples to spread the word and also handed out a free premium kit on social media sites like Instagram, Facebook and Twitter to create a buzz.
âI love the entrepreneurial side, and having a passion for the products has definitely helped me,â Knopke said.
Henderson now wears a shorter beard in warmer weather and for his upcoming wedding in September.
âI shave every day too. It has to stay beautiful, âhe said. âBut I get a little cranky around some beards. They don’t know how to take care of themselves or how to use the products. For the love of all that is sacred, just a comb and a wash can keep it soft and fragrant.
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