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In this company town where residents set their watches by the paper mill's shift whistle, many don't have time to talk about toxic pollution or environmental regulations.
They don't like discussing anything that could threaten the economic health of the "dot on the map" between Apalachicola and Panama City along Florida's northern Gulf Coast.
"If the paper mill goes, a hell of a lot of people would be out of business," says "Miss Mary" Fowler, knocking down a stiff drink at Port St. Joe's bar, where she is a regular at the only flicker of nightlife in the town. "Tell the government to get . . . out of here and let us live. How have people survived here if it's unsafe?"
Few Florida communities have quite the economic umbilical cord that connects Port St. Joe and its paper mill.
But many North Floridians have traditionally depended on the paper and pulp plants that form an economic spine across the top of the state. The industry employs more than 42,000 workers in Florida and has a payroll of $1.1-billion.
The cost of the industry's good jobs has long been the paper mills' release of millions of gallons of toxic wastewater into the region's winding, shady rivers, the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean.
But state and federal regulators have worked with the mills in recent years to reduce the amount of toxic materials in their wastewater. Most of the mills have succeeded in removing detectable levels of dioxin, which has been linked to cancer in laboratory rats and is a byproduct of using chlorine to bleach paper.
The mills also are working with environmental regulators to restore the health of polluted waterways like the Fenholloway River in Taylor County and Eleven Mile Creek in Escambia County.
Of the seven pulp and paper mills listed among the state's top 25 polluters, six cut their toxic waste releases over a five-year period, according to an Associated Press computer analysis of federal Toxic Release Inventory records from 1989 to 1993.
But the scars of fierce battles between paper mills and the people living near them have been slow to heal in some communities.
Joy Towles Cummings, a resident-turned-activist, blames Buckeye Florida's cellulose mill in Perry for fouling residents' well water and polluting the Fenholloway so much it carries the dubious distinction of being the state's only industrial-class river.
"This is what we take a bath in, water our gardens with, bathe our babies in," Cummings says. "If it's not safe to drink, how can we use it?"
The mill's owners have been providing free drinking water to residents living along the river for four years, but say they are resolving problems with residents' well water and cleaning up the Fenholloway.
Buckeye Florida officials say they will stop providing drinking water to nearby residents by year's end when additional homes in a corridor along the river are hooked up to Perry's municipal water system.
Throughout the state, toxic chemical pollution, sewage effluent and fertilizer-tainted runoff from farms threaten Florida's pressured water supply.
The AP computer analysis showed that TRI-regulated industries alone dumped more than 2.1-million pounds of toxic wastes into surface water in 1993 in the 10 counties with the largest amount of this pollution.
The companies with the most direct toxic impact on surface water are Florida's pulp and paper mills, particularly plants that use chlorine to bleach the pulp and make white paper: Champion International in Escambia County; Stone Container Corp. in Bay County; St. Joe Paper Mill in Gulf County; Buckeye Florida in Taylor County; Georgia-Pacific in Putnam County; and ITT Rayonier in Nassau County.
The bleach mills have long had a reputation as heavy polluters of nearby streams, rivers and bays. But regulators say the bleach mills have made strides in cleaning up their wastewater, and none are reporting detectable levels of dioxin now.
In Escambia County, Champion International has worked _ under pressure from environmentalists _ to clean up Eleven Mile Creek, which had dioxin-tainted fish. As a result of the cleanup, a health warning about eating fish from the creek was lifted about a year ago, EPA officials said.
Environmental supervisor Kyle Moore says Champion has switched to bleaching with chlorine dioxide instead of chlorine to reduce its dioxin discharge and the discoloration of its wastewater.
But environmental groups retain a deep suspicion of the bleach mills after decades of heavy pollution and feuding.
In Bay County, environmental groups sued the county to improve its treatment of wastewater from Stone Container Corp.
"As soon as our lawsuit was filed, the company and county started doing everything they should have done," says Candis Harbison of the Audubon Society.
And there is the Fenholloway _ the state's only industrial river and the scene of one of its most bitter environmental battles.
Buckeye Florida's cellulose mill was once owned by Procter & Gamble, but former company executives have taken over in a partnership backed by Procter & Gamble.
Regulators found dioxin in fish
tissue in the Fenholloway downstream from Buckeye and a fish consumption advisory is still in effect. Seagrasses in the Gulf of Mexico died from the Fenholloway's inky water. And some Perry residents have complained bitterly that the plant ruined their well water, which smelled bad and was discolored.
"Industry has got to realize that human life is more important than the dollar bill," says area resident Sarah Paris, who blames the mill for the region's water problems.
Scientists found tiny fish _ relatives of the guppy _ in the Fenholloway and Eleven Mile Creek that had male and female characteristics. Buckeye officials said the cause of the fish characteristics is not certain and could be due to a naturally occurring phenomenon.
EPA research ecologist William Davis says the characteristics of the fish, which were nicknamed "bearded ladyfish," were not related to dioxin. But Davis says the unusual fish apparently were linked to a plant product released during the process of breaking down wood chips into pulp for use in making paper.
Now Buckeye has proposed a $39-million cleanup plan to restore wetlands at the headwaters of the Fenholloway, make its discolored effluent clearer, inject oxygen in its treated wastewater and build a pipeline to discharge the wastewater at the mouth of the Fenholloway.
Cummings, who lives near the company's Perry plant, is not impressed by the cleanup plan.
"They're buying time," she says. "The fact that they want to build a pipe from the current discharge point to the Gulf of Mexico will not solve this problem. It's kind of ridiculous that the state and federal government would let them do it."
Buckeye spokesman Dan Simmons acknowledges that some environmentalists and residents are skeptical: "Our position is, "Let's improve the river, preserve our economic base, but let's don't do something that will come back to haunt us.' "
The top 10 Florida counties for discharge of toxic chemicals into surface water in 1993. Several counties have industries producing millions of gallons of polluted water, but they recycle it into huge wastewater treatment plants the industry helps the cities or counties finance.
1. Nassau 1,806,165 pounds
2. Santa Rosa 243,245 pounds
3. Duval 39,701 pounds
4. Escambia 18,440 pounds
5. Taylor 16,470 pounds
6. Putnam 12,198 pounds
7. Pasco 4,463 pounds
8. Hillsborough 3,565 pounds
9. Hamilton 1,390 pounds
10. Manatee 1,100 pounds
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Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday announced a stay-at-home order for Floridians. The state was slower than many to take such a strict measure.
Q: When does the order take effect?
A: Friday at 12:01 a.m. It’s supposed to be in place until April 30.
Q: How is this different than the local orders in Pinellas and Hillsborough?
A: The local orders were more permissible in one major way than the new state mandate. In both Pinellas and Hillsborough, non-essential businesses were allowed to stay open if they followed social distancing rules, sticking to groups of 10 or fewer people with customers at least 6 feet apart.
DeSantis’ order shuts that down.
The governor’s office on Friday clarified exactly how in its own Q&A: Businesses that offer non-essential services must close to customers, but they “are encouraged to provide delivery or pickup and to take orders online or by telephone."
The update followed two days of confusion. The original mandate the governor signed did not explicitly instruct non-essential businesses to close but laid out restrictions on who could leave their homes and why. That led to uncertainty, with Pinellas officials interpreting it to mean that thousands of businesses would need to close Friday, including barbershops and car washes, among others.
Meanwhile, Tampa officials seemed to have a different idea. City attorney Gina Grimes said any business could stay open if able to maintain 6 feet of physical distancing between people.
The governor’s office says businesses remaining open do not need a permit or other documentation.
Q: Who has to stay at home?
A: According to the original order, anyone who isn’t going out for essential work or an essential activity (like grocery shopping, more on that below).
But based on the Q&A released by the governor’s office Friday, it would seem workers operating delivery or pick-up at non-essential businesses might also be able to leave. The guidance was not clear.
Residents do not need paperwork to move about, according to the governor, but "some businesses may wish to provide a letter to employees to clarify that their business is indeed an essential service.”
Q: So I could leave?
A: Yes, for a number of reasons.
The list of essential work is broad, including health care workers, law enforcement, utility workers, journalists, pharmacists, gas station clerks, plumbers, landscapers, weather forecasters and more. The executive order says the state will maintain lists of essential services on the websites of the Florida Department of Health and Florida Division of Emergency Management.
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DeSantis drew on existing breakdowns of essential activities from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Miami-Dade County (which has issued guidelines across several local orders). The lists are long.
Places that can remain open include not just hospitals and grocery stores but hardware stores, pet supply stores, gun stores and laundromats.
Also allowed, according to the executive order: “Caring for or otherwise assisting a loved one or friend” and “Attending religious services conducted in churches, synagogues and houses of worship.”
That last one quickly became controversial. Just this week, Hillsborough deputies arrested a pastor who held large in-person services, saying he violated local emergency orders. The county rules said residents had to stay in except when they left to pick up groceries or medicine, exercise or complete essential work that couldn’t be done at home.
DeSantis’ initial order Wednesday was supposed to override local orders only where they were more permissive than the state, meaning Hillsborough’s tighter restrictions would stand. An amendment he quietly signed hours later appeared to go further, superseding any local regulations that conflicted with the executive order. Specifically, the new language read: “This order shall supersede any conflicting official action or order issued by local officials in response to COVID-19.”
That prompted Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren to write on Twitter that the governor was "usurping local control & forcing us to permit social contact that we don’t want.” DeSantis, in a news conference later Thursday, said he was okay with local authorities issuing stricter standards but did not think officials had the right to completely shut down churches.
Then Friday, his general counsel wrote an email to local government officials saying they were not pre-empted. The goal, lawyer Joe Jacquot wrote, was simply to block local governments from adding businesses to the essential services list that the governor did not want.
“You can use your own authority to close or restrict how any business/organization must comply with your codes,” he wrote. “The Governor’s Order does not give a business/organization any 'right’ to avoid your codes.”
The governor’s Q&A says that “churches, synagogues, or other houses of worship” could hold services but “the Florida Department of Health encourages them” to follow guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which are lengthy but advise consulting with local health officials.
As an example, in Tampa, Grimes said Friday that any religious gathering should not include groups of more than 10 people.
The Q&A also declared that local officials are allowed “to adopt requirements directly on businesses, operations or venues, including buildings, beaches and parks, that may be stricter” than the state order.
Q: What if I’m a senior citizen?
A: Based on the latest explanation from the state, it doesn’t seem like seniors are treated much differently than everyone else. Neither the order nor Q&A define the term “senior," but the most recent guidance is that such residents, along with those with chronic health conditions, “may leave their homes when necessary to obtain or provide essential services or conduct essential activities.”
That advice seems to diverge with the plain text of DeSantis’ original order, which read: "Senior citizens and individuals with a significant underlying medical condition (such as chronic lung disease, moderate-to-severe asthma, serious heart conditions, immunocompromised status, cancer, diabetes, severe obesity, renal failure and liver disease) shall stay at home and take all measures to limit the risk of exposure to COVID-19.”
Q: Can I go for a walk?
A: Yes. “Participating in recreational activities (consistent with social distancing guidelines) such as walking, biking, fishing, hunting, running, or swimming” is allowed.
Note that a number of parks across Tampa Bay have already closed.
The order does not list golf specifically, but the Florida State Golf Association says it received confirmation from the governor’s office that the game is considered an “essential recreational activity," as long as people follow recommendations for social distancing.
Q: Can I go on my boat?
A: The state references Miami-Dade County’s boating rules, which have evolved in recent days to shut down marinas and boat launches except for people with commercial saltwater licenses, for fishing purposes only, or law enforcement patrols and rescues. Liveaboards can also have access, or people taking their boats out of the water for maintenance. Read more on the Miami-Dade orders here.
Q: What happens if I don’t listen?
A: The Q&A on Friday said: “Violation of the Governor’s Executive Order is a second-degree misdemeanor,” which could be enforced by law enforcement.
That was a clarification from earlier in the week, when the governor said he didn’t know but the state would "figure out on the back end how this will work out.”
The executive order says local authorities are responsible for breaking up groups of more than 10 people. “A social gathering in a public space is not an essential activity,” the order reads.
Q: Does this change anything with restaurants?
A: The orders issued earlier by the state, instructing restaurants to close or move to take-out or delivery only, remain in effect. The latest update says: “All businesses or organizations are encouraged to provide delivery, carry-out or curbside service outside of the business or organization, of orders placed online or via telephone, to the greatest extent practicable.”
Q: Can I still work from home?
A: Yes. In fact, the state encourages it.
Times staff writers Mimi Andelman, Steve Contorno, Mark Puente, Josh Solomon, Dan Sullivan, Divya Kumar and Tony Marrero contributed to this report.
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My friend Dan built the electronics for a temperature controller for his electric smoker. I figured since I have the CNC mill, it was a moral imperative for me to do some nice enclosure work for him to make the project look slick. Dan admitted his initial attempts at the case work with a Dremel tool were lacking somewhat, so about a month back he passed the guts over to me so I could have a go at it. It took a few attempts to come up with a design I was satisfied with and execute it well enough to consider it done, but I chalk all of that up to gaining experience on the machine. I was pleased to finally be able to present the finished product to him last night!
The electronics originally fit into a waterproof PVC Carlon box. The lid had been previously attacked with a Dremel, but I figured if I cut out a large window and made an insert for it, we could salvage it as well as end up with a nifty look. So, I started out by CNC milling out a roughly 4.7″ square from the lid. I then made a clear polycarbonate insert, just slightly smaller by about 0.010″, so it would slip fit inside and stay in place with a flange. The polycarbonate insert received some decorative milling on the front panel, and some functional drilling on the rear panel to provide mounting and a place for the knob to pass through. The insert also got an engraving treatment with some text using the new high speed spindle mount that I built last week. Since getting engraving working well, I had tried a few experiments of back painting engraved text. I did the same for the Smoke-O-Tron, using some water-based Rust-Oleum hobby paint. I made sure the see-through LCD window was well masked off with the original paper that came with the polycarbonate as well as some supplemental electrical tape. I sanded the back of the insert, avoiding the LCD window, with 220 grit in my random orbit sander, and applied a couple of coats of black spray paint.
The main electronics consists of the main PCB and a small character LCD. After one misguided attempt of doing blind tapped holes in the clear insert (ugly and visible), I came up with the much cleaner “mezzanine” approach. This is often done in front panel work in devices, especially when varying heights have to be accounted for. The particular scheme I chose a completely clean front panel look with no visible screws. The electronics mount to both sides of a small polycarbonate plate, and the plate itself is mounted to the PVC enclosure by way of some custom-length standoffs. The standoffs also serve to sandwich the front panel PVC insert in place.
I also made a quick shaft adapter/extender for the encoder wheel, which adapts from 6mm to .250″ and provides a long enough shaft extension that passes through the mezzanine, front panel insert, and into the knob.
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Those of us that spend a lot of time on social media have been there: something pops up and it’s so out of nowhere, that your first thought is “I’m not believing this until I see it from multiple trusted sites.” Sadly, in 2020 we’ve had that feeling a lot. For many, the first time this year was at the end of January (The “Before Times”), when word trickled in that Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash.
For me, that type of moment happened on Friday night a little after 10 PM when I came across the AP tweet notifying the world of Chadwick Boseman’s passing. The statement itself was just perplexing and there was no way you could believe it was true:
BREAKING: 'Black Panther' actor Chadwick Boseman dies at 43 after 4-year fight with colon cancer, representative tells AP. Find updates here: https://t.co/QdE82STPlK— The Associated Press (@AP) August 29, 2020
“Wait,” I thought. “I didn’t know he had been battling colon cancer. For four years? Nah, that can’t be right, that has to be a typo or something. Is that the blue check mark AP account? Ok, it has to be a mistake. Surely, if he would have been battling cancer for four years, strong enough to kill him, we would have heard about it by now.”
Unfortunately it was true, and a few minutes later in what has become, ironically, the most liked ever on Twitter, his own account confirmed the truly shocking news:
You are going to go to other sites and read beautiful eulogies for him. I can’t begin to summarize the remarkable career he had, playing so many iconic men and doing it so well. One thing always made me smile just a little bit more anytime I saw him light up the screen after Black Panther in February, 2018. It all boiled down to a moment on “First Take” as he was doing press for the movie. After all of the showbiz talk, the hosts asked him about the NBA because they happened to be in LA for All Star Weekend. That’s when he piped up that he really didn’t have an NBA team, instead:
The quote came about a week after Carolina’s great win over the Blue Devils in the Smith Center, and it felt like another huge win because, hey, how many fans get to say they can include the Black Panther as one of their big supporters? I always loved being able to slide that “Yeah, and he pulls for Carolina” into conversations with friends when we were discussing the next little bit of Marvel magic that was about to happen.
You may have noticed there isn’t an embed of him actually saying this on the show, because I powered through a Google and You Tube search to find it, and just couldn’t lay my hands on it (if you do find it, please feel free to throw it in the comments below). That said, in case there were any doubt there is proof of his fandom thanks to the “Inside the NBA” crew interviewing Boseman before opening night of this NBA Season.
The pure joy Kenny Smith has on his face when he knows what Boseman is going to say is a real beauty to behold. With Boseman being born in 1976, he would have been around 8-10 years old during The Jet’s time at UNC, and that’s prime time for a fandom to really blossom. Put that together with the fact that he’s from South Carolina, and the fandom makes sense. So, Boseman may have been a Howard alumnus — and a deservedly proud one — but we all basically accepted him as a Tar Heel.
But looking back on that clip, what’s even more remarkable is that he did that interview three years into his cancer fight. No one had any idea.
Funny thing, unless I had told you, no one would have known anything about mine, either.
The release indicated that Boseman was 43 when he passed and was diagnosed with Stage III colon cancer back in 2016. For those lucky enough to not know the different stages, basically the first couple of stages indicate the tumor is there but hasn’t moved beyond the actual location of the cancer. Stage III means that the cancer has spread to the point where it is now in your lymph nodes, which is how it can potentially spread to becoming Stage IV, when it has moved into other organs. Mine never moved beyond the lymph nodes, and I “only” had to endure four months of a bi-weekly chemotherapy infusion, six weeks of radiation with oral chemo, and the complete removal of my large intestine, which included, to put it delicately, having where it used to end being sewn up.
When Boseman gave that first quote to “First Take,” I hadn’t even been diagnosed. The tumor was nothing more than an occasional pain in my backside. By the time he was asked about his fandom again by “Inside the NBA,” I was not only done, I had been declared officially cancer free for over a month. He was still fighting.
Just typing those words still knocks me back. I had always thought of my treatments as annoying, inconvenient, and maybe even frustrating. The funny thing is, though, is that they worked. By the time blood work was done after a couple of treatments, they could already tell the cancer markers in my blood were going down, and I never got sick during the whole thing. My hair thinned, but other than that no one would really know it was going on unless I had explicitly told them. I had decided early on that I would be “public” about what was going on, because I didn’t want some people to know and others to not, but only a few knew about the “bad days.” Those days I would be showering and randomly need to throw up for no reason, or the days when I just was so tired I could barely see straight. To the outside world I laughed about not being able to drink cold things, but it annoyed the hell out of me to not be able to have anything cold for fear of my throat becoming instantly numb. You don’t complain about the increasing metallic taste in your mouth, and you really don’t want to go into graphic details of the prep needed for scans or exams of the area. That doesn’t exactly make for great water cooler or dinner conversation.
I never complained, though, because I knew that it could be so much worse. At the start of the process, the doctors gave me a 65-70% chance, which when you’re dealing with cancer at any stage makes you feel confident. When it’s spread in any form, it makes you feel great. There were small bumps along the way, but with the support I had from the great medical team and my wonderful friends, family, and colleagues, I came through great. I never really had to face my own mortality because there weren’t any real setbacks. I was just some guy who works a desk job and managed to swallow his pride in enough time to see a doctor and get great treatment, that happened to work.
So when the news of Boseman’s passing came through, I felt a crushing weight hit me. Here was this guy who had so many more advantages than I in a lot of ways. By the time he was diagnosed, he had already signed on to be the Black Panther, and had had enough iconic roles to the point where whatever he needed to kick this disease, he'd have much easier access to it. He wouldn’t have to fight with insurance companies, take a lesser treatment because someone sitting at a desk thought he didn’t qualify for it, any of that. You never knew he was fighting. Same age, same organ, same stage, way more famous, and yet he didn’t make it and I did. If that doesn’t knock you off your feet, nothing will.
With that I’ll push out the public service piece to this: colorectal cancers are really starting to pop up in younger people. On my first sit down with my outstanding oncologist, he had remarked that this type of cancer was really starting to show up in younger people. In the coming days, I hope it comes out as to what caused Boseman to get checked out and get the diagnosis, but whatever it was the world is a better place because he did. There’s not enough room to go into the socioeconomic concerns or a discussion of the American healthcare system than can leave so many behind to the point where when they actually can’t get diagnosed, or if they do it’s too late, or they simply can’t afford to do it. That’s a real problem, but so is something that those with access confront: embarrassment. To get this diagnosed properly, you have to get a colonoscopy. It’s not fun, although the drugs you get are. Because of current guidelines, you may have to fight like hell with your insurance to get them to cover it should there be a suspicion, but if you see symptoms, don’t just try to wish it better. I survived, and Boseman may not have but he got four years, and look at what he did in those four years. My hope is the last bit of legacy Boseman will leave is that many more people that had been putting off getting seen will do so.
Speaking of those four years Boseman had; for Christmas in 2018, along with the tickets to the BC game, my wife gave me a book that I devoured in about two nights. Everyday I fight was the autobiography from Stuart Scott that detailed his life including his cancer fight. I had been meaning to read it, but reading it then with only two chemo treatments left helped put the words in a broader perspective. It reminded me that for all the “sacrifices” I was making, it was nothing compared to what others were going through just to eek out one more year, one more week, or one more hour. Before he passed in 2015, Scott had a memorable ESPY speech. He gave it likely knowing it would be one of the last times people would see him in public. Included in it was this line:
When you die, that does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live and in the manner in which you live.
Look at what Boseman did since 2016. I’d like to think that sometime in the last couple of days, he’s gotten a chance to see Stu. Stu would greet him with a simple “you sure kicked cancer’s ass like we did to Michigan State in 2009, didn’t you?”
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The IRS expanded its streamlined filing compliance procedures in 2014 to allow more taxpayers with offshore bank accounts to take advantage of the program. The procedures are now available to some taxpayers living in the United States, as well as many U.S. taxpayers living outside the country.
Benefits of Streamlined Filing Compliance Procedures
The main benefit of the streamlined filing compliance procedures is that they allow taxpayers with unreported foreign financial accounts to become compliant with the law without facing severe criminal and civil penalties. Eligible foreign U.S. taxpayers will have all penalties waived, and eligible domestic taxpayers will pay only a miscellaneous offshore penalty of five percent of the balance of the foreign accounts.
The normal civil penalties for FBAR violations can be up to the greater of $100,000 or 50 percent of the account balance for willful violations, and criminal penalties can include fines up to $250,000 and up to five years in prison. Compared to these penalties, paying the IRS five percent of the account balance can seem like a great deal.
However, these streamlined procedures are only available to taxpayers who certify that their file to failure FBARs was non-willful. Taxpayers who willfully hid their offshore accounts are not eligible, but may have other options, such as the Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program.
Eligibility for Streamlined Procedures
If the IRS has initiated an examination against you, you will not be eligible for the streamlined filing compliance procedures. This program also cannot be combined with the Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program, so you will have to determine which program is a better fit for your tax situation by consulting with a tax attorney.
For domestic taxpayers, the following requirements must be met:
- they must not meet the non-residency requirement (explained below),
- required tax returns for the past 3 years must been filed timely,
- must have failed to pay tax on income from a foreign financial account, and
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TLRH | SLLCS Seminar| ‘Porn Philology? On Editing the Notorious Mutzenbacher Novel (1906)’
Tuesday, 12 October 2021, 4 – 5pm
A talk by Dr Clemens Ruthner (German Dept, TCD) chaired by Prof Mary Cosgroveas part of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies Research Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub.
The novel (or allegedly: auto-biography) Josefine Mutzenbacher. Die Geschichte einer Wienerischen Dirne. Von ihr selbst erzählt [The Story of a Viennese Harlot, told by herself] this is probably the most notorious text in Austrian turn-of-the-centuries literature. Published anonymously in 1906, the text is no less than a crystallization point for almost all discourses on sexuality in the 20th and 21st centuries: a livre maudit, and at the same time one of the great erotic bestsellers in German (or rather: Viennese) language, which whole generations of Central European men read under the school desk as a sex education of sorts. Die Mutzenbacher was policed, and even banned, but also adapted for cinema in 1970 - and repeatedly appreciated for its artistically obscene humour, e.g. by Oswald Wiener, one of the leading authors of the avantgardist Wiener Gruppe of the 1950s and 60s, who wrote two essays on the novel.
However, the search for the pornographic author continues: Felix Salten, the author of the famous children's book Bambi, is a usual suspect, but forensic linguistics tells a different story. Also, Die Mutzenbacher has always raised the question what is morally permissible when you spreak of sex, and what is not - and finally, at what age do you ‘own’ your sex: Does this novel count among the "writings harmful to minors"? Is it allowed to sell it and demand royalties for it - or should it better be forbidden by law? Is its female protagonist the forerunner of a female self-empowerment, or is the novel the culmination of an incredible objectification of women as sexual commodities, and even child pornography? How do the strategies of this representation of sexuality work and within what historical context can they be re-read in an illuminating way? But first, you need an academically acceptable edition of the text…
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With THL entering the off-season, it’s time to discuss draft picks. No, THL has not suddenly adopted an NFL-style player management system; this is for the THL Draft Series tournament!
12 captains have assembled and are ready to recruit a team of champions, free of any PR restrictions. Many of the THL’s superstar players stand ready for the draft, but questions remain. Who will be selected as the number 1 draft pick? Who will drop and be the steal of the draft? Will captains aim to maximize team chemistry, or will they purely go for the best remaining players? Bonemasher, our resident 4 series THL captain, is here to help sift through and decipher the potential draft picks.
After looking back at past seasons, reviewing player PR, and taking into account Hearthstone-related Twitter posts, the following elite players stand out as the potential top draft pick:
Superchicken - Our first candidate has already notched Pro and Hero series championships in Stormwind and is looking to make it a triple with a win in the THL Draft Series. Someone with such pedigree this season is bound to get attention.
Aviously - Avi is a Legacy Hall of Famer and has the highest PR rating of available players. He also boasts a lifetime win rate of more than 60% across Pro, Hero and Legacy. Whoever picks him up is getting a proven winner.
Liquidox - Ox was in the first class for the Pro Series Hall of Fame. He went undefeated in Barrens but didn’t have the best season in Stormwind. Form is temporary though; class is permanent.
basedinc - based went 9-4 in Hero last season, leading her team BANDS to a semi-final appearance. She’s been widely considered one of the best number one seeds in THL for multiple seasons now.
AlwaysLethal - AlwaysLethal led Golden Wisps of THL’s Legacy format to the top of the regular season standings with an impressive 8-2 record. This power player is in form this season and shouldn’t be underestimated.
RonMexico - Don’t let this Legacy 3 seed fool you. His PR might be one of the biggest steals in the draft. Ron boasted an 8-4 record in the Hero Series and a 7-1 record in Pro last season. He’s also a Legacy Hall of Famer and has the best hair in all of THL.
These aren’t the only players with a strong pedigree. There are many more high PR players in contention for selection in the first round too, if not the top pick itself. Let’s break down a few players who could be worth a great deal to their teams if chosen at their respective levels.
550 PR - Wild9, TStew, MrPython, Dabs, Mechnificant, BZRK, D0nkey, Saber
Captains can’t go wrong with a 550 PR player. Some Hero and Legacy teams have up to 3 of them! Any of these players can get snapped up in the first round, and all are proven competitors with strong THL and ladder track records
450+ PR - Jammies, Mick, Nice Jewish Owl, Chewie, RiceBowl, CmaccompH, Caleb, vinospumoni, DoctorBOMD
Some of these players are just as good as the 550 PR players above but have the added benefit of falling to a lower seed on most teams. I wouldn’t be surprised to see many of these players picked ahead of their 550 PR counterparts as captains try to strategize their seeding and take advantage of PR differences among their picks.
After all the high PR juggernauts are picked, captains are left looking for hidden gems at lower PR tiers. THL series victories have historically been built on hidden gems, the low-PR players straight out of TESPA who help lead their teams to glory. Want to know who some of those hidden gems might be? We’re happy to speculate!
Cyansheepies - I’m not sure how he comes in at 344.83 PR. He can hold his own against any player in Pro. Expect him to be snapped up shortly after the top players are taken.
Dragonrider - With experience casting Blizzard tournaments, can Dragonrider’s exposure to high level play raise her own game to the next level? After checking out some of her streams and her successes on ladder, I can say with confidence: yes it has!
Mojopowell - The best 5 seed in legacy should not be in the 5 seed, and won’t be for much longer if he keeps this level of play up. 262.71 PR is nowhere near his level of play. If I had to pick a sleeper, here it is.
Finally, we have players from our very own THL Content - Geranium Battle, Dusharmo, JRJuggerlaw, Donde, Diamond, and Doctorfeesh.
Each of these players talks a lot about Hearthstone play at a top-level, but can they back that talk up? More importantly, will Donde find a way to rig PAR for this event too? Only time will tell.
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Inside a large, windowless room in an electronics factory in south Shanghai, about 15 workers are eyeing a small robot arm with frustration. Near the end of the production line where optical networking equipment is being packed into boxes for shipping, the robot sits motionless.
“The system is down,” explains Nie Juan, a woman in her early 20s who is responsible for quality control. Her team has been testing the robot for the past week. The machine is meant to place stickers on the boxes containing new routers, and it seemed to have mastered the task quite nicely. But then it suddenly stopped working. “The robot does save labor,” Nie tells me, her brow furrowed, “but it is difficult to maintain.”
The hitch reflects a much bigger technological challenge facing China’s manufacturers today. Wages in Shanghai have more than doubled in the past seven years, and the company that owns the factory, Cambridge Industries Group, faces fierce competition from increasingly high-tech operations in Germany, Japan, and the United States. To address both of these problems, CIG wants to replace two-thirds of its 3,000 workers with machines this year. Within a few more years, it wants the operation to be almost entirely automated, creating a so-called “dark factory.” The idea is that with so few people around, you could switch the lights off and leave the place to the machines.
But as the idle robot arm on CIG’s packaging line suggests, replacing humans with machines is not an easy task. Most industrial robots have to be extensively programmed, and they will perform a job properly only if everything is positioned just so. Much of the production work done in Chinese factories requires dexterity, flexibility, and common sense. If a box comes down the line at an odd angle, for instance, a worker has to adjust his or her hand before affixing the label. A few hours later, the same worker might be tasked with affixing a new label to a different kind of box. And the following day he or she might be moved to another part of the line entirely.
Despite the huge challenges, countless manufacturers in China are planning to transform their production processes using robotics and automation at an unprecedented scale. In some ways, they don’t really have a choice. Human labor in China is no longer as cheap as it once was, especially compared with labor in rival manufacturing hubs growing quickly in Asia. In Vietnam, Thailand, and Indonesia, factory wages can be less than a third of what they are in the urban centers of China. One solution, many manufacturers—and government officials—believe, is to replace human workers with machines.
The results of this effort will be felt globally. Almost a quarter of the world’s products are made in China today. If China can use robots and other advanced technologies to retool types of production never before automated, that might turn the country, now the world’s sweatshop, into a hub of high-tech innovation. Less clear, however, is how that would affect the millions of workers recruited to China’s booming factories.
There are still plenty of workers around now as I tour CIG’s factory with the company’s CEO, Gerald Wong, a compact man who earned degrees from MIT in the 1980s. We watch a team of people performing delicate soldering on circuit boards, and another group clicking circuit boards into plastic casings. Wong stops to demonstrate a task that is proving especially hard to automate: attaching a flexible wire to a circuit board. “It’s always curled differently,” he says with annoyance.
But there are some impressive examples of automation creeping through Wong’s factory, too. As we walk by a row of machines that stamp chips into circuit boards, a wheeled robot roughly the size of a mini-fridge rolls by ferrying components in the other direction. Wong steps in front of the machine to show me how it will detect him and stop. In another part of the factory, we watch a robot arm grab finished circuit boards from a conveyor belt and place them into a machine that automatically checks their software. Wong explains that his company is testing a robot that does the soldering work we saw earlier more quickly and reliably than a person.
After we finish the tour, he says, “It is very clear in China: people will either go into automation or they will go out of the manufacturing business.”
Automate or bust
China’s economic miracle is directly attributable to its manufacturing industry. Approximately 100 million people are employed in manufacturing in China (in the U.S., the number is around 12 million), and the sector accounts for almost 36 percent of China’s gross domestic product. During the last few decades, manufacturing empires were forged around the Yangtze River Delta, Bohai Bay outside Beijing, and the Pearl River Delta in the south. Millions of low-skilled migrant workers found employment in gigantic factories, producing an unimaginable range of products, from socks to servers. China accounted for just 3 percent of global manufacturing output in 1990. Today it produces almost a quarter, including 80 percent of all air conditioners, 71 percent of all mobile phones, and 63 percent of the world’s shoes. For consumers around the world, this manufacturing boom has meant many low-cost products, from affordable iPhones to flat-screen televisions.
In recent years, though, China’s manufacturing engine has started to stall. Wages have increased at a crippling 12 percent per year on average since 2001. Chinese exports fell last year for the first time since the financial crisis of 2009. And toward the end of 2015 the Caixin Purchasing Managers’ Index, a widely used indicator of manufacturing activity, showed that the sector had contracted for the 10th month in a row. Just as China’s manufacturing boom fed the global economy, the prospect of its decline has already started to spook the world’s financial markets.
Automation appears to offer an enticing technological solution. China already imports a huge number of industrial robots, but the country lags far behind competitors in the ratio of robots to workers. In South Korea, for instance, there are 478 robots per 10,000 workers; in Japan the figure is 315; in Germany, 292; in the United States it is 164. In China that number is only 36.
The Chinese government is keen to change this. On March 16, officials approved the latest Five Year Plan for China’s economy, which is reported to include an initiative that will make billions of yuan available for manufacturers to upgrade to technologies including advanced machinery and robots. The government also plans to create dozens of innovation centers across the country to showcase advanced manufacturing technologies. Some regional authorities in China have been especially bold in their own efforts. Last year the government of Guangdong, a province that contains many large manufacturing operations, promised to spend $150 billion equipping factories with industrial robots and creating two new centers dedicated to advanced automation.
The goal is to overtake Germany, Japan, and the United States in terms of manufacturing sophistication by 2049, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. To make that happen, the government needs Chinese manufacturers to adopt robots by the millions. It also wants Chinese companies to start producing more of these robots.
The hope is that this will create a virtuous cycle, helping to birth a new high-tech industry and inspiring innovations that could spill over from manufacturing into other sectors and products.
Introducing hordes of robot workers is hardly something that can be done overnight, however. That much is clear from the struggles faced by Foxconn, a $130 billion Taiwanese manufacturer famous for employing hundreds of thousands of workers in city-size factories—and for making, among other products, Apple’s iPhones. In 2011, Foxconn’s founder and CEO, Terry Gou, said he expected to have a million robots in his company’s plants by 2014. Three years later, the effort had proved more challenging than expected, and just a few tens of thousands of robots had been deployed.
Despite the challenges, Day Chia-peng, general manager of Foxconn’s automation technology development committee, says the company is automating a growing number of tasks on its lines. These include the manufacture of displays and printed circuit boards, although processes that involve bending or snapping components into place still pose challenges. The company is even exploring ways that products themselves can be redesigned to make automated manufacturing easier. And it recently said it will sell some of the robots it has developed in-house to other manufacturers.
The transition from human to robot workers may upend Chinese society. Some displaced factory workers could find employment in the service sector, but not all of the 100 million now employed in factories will find such jobs a good match. So a sudden shift toward robots and automation could cause economic hardship and social unrest. “You can make the argument that robotic technology is the way to save manufacturing in China,” says Yasheng Huang, a professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. “But China also has a huge labor force. What are you going to do with them?”
A few days before visiting CIG, I went to China’s first major robotics event, the World Robot Conference, held inside a vast exhibition hall located within Beijing’s Olympic Park. The city was in the grip of an unusually cold spell, and producing the electricity to meet its heating needs had resulted in lung-searing air pollution from nearby coal power plants. But the snow and smog had done nothing to deter hundreds of researchers and companies, and thousands of attendees, from coming to the event.
First came a theatrical opening ceremony, during which a huge video wall showed innovations from China’s ancient history spliced, somewhat oddly, with clips of robots from science fiction movies. The guest list included several high-ranking Chinese politicians. Li Yuanchao, China’s vice president, read messages of congratulations from President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang. The vice president said that investing in robotics research would not only feed the country’s manufacturing industry but encourage greater domestic innovation.
After watching several talks, I wandered past endless demos set up by robot companies and research institutes. I watched as an enormous industrial robot fitted with a fork-like appendage went through some sort of routine factory work at terrifying speed. Other demos were more whimsical, like a small industrial machine performing a mesmerizing rendition of a traditional Chinese dragon dance (in full costume), and a mobile robot equipped with two racquets playing badminton with excited attendees. A humanoid robot with flashing eyes was carrying a small automated vacuum cleaner around on a tray.
It was also possible to grasp just how ambitious China will be in trying to replace human workers in its factories. HIT Robot Group, a company affiliated with one of the country’s foremost technical universities, Harbin Institute of Technology, had mocked up a battery production line that itself seemed like one giant robot. Robotic vehicles ferried components between various manufacturing machines. The only spots for humans were inside a control room in the center and on a line where especially fiddly manual work needed to be done. I later learned that HIT estimates the new factory could reduce human labor by as much as 85 percent.
But it was also evident that as a country with a history of seemingly endless cheap labor, China had to date been outpaced in the robot revolution. Rethink Robotics, a Boston-based company, was showing off a pair of flexible and intelligent industrial machines. Unlike conventional industrial robots, these products, called Baxter and Sawyer, require very little programming, and they are equipped with sensors that allow them to recognize objects and avoid hitting people. They also cost between $20,000 and $30,000 instead of the hundreds of thousands typical of an industrial robot. Speaking to me after the event, Rethink founder and robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks said that China represents a huge potential market for his company, which recently opened offices in Shanghai. Chinese robot makers are likely to start making more flexible and intelligent robots, too. But for now their products lag behind those of Western manufacturers.
“A game we often play when we go to a trade show in the Far East is we go and see the industrial robots from little companies and say, ‘Oh, that’s a copy of that, and that’s a copy of that,’” Brooks said. It will, he suggested, take time for China’s robotics companies to catch up.
Reinvented in China
To see for myself how far China’s researchers have to go, I visited Shanghai Jiao Tong University, one of the country’s most prestigious institutions and home to China’s oldest academic robotics lab, founded in 1979. I found myself on a lush and sprawling campus in a quiet suburb in south Shanghai, surrounded by students cycling around on squeaky bicycles. There, I found a modern-looking building that housed the robotics lab.
Zhu Xiangyang, a professor in his late 40s with thin glasses and a fleece sweater-vest, welcomed me to his office with tea and an irrepressible smile. The lab has a few dozen professors and research scientists and more than 100 doctoral and master’s students, and Zhu is justifiably proud of its research. In one room was a brain-controlled robotic wheelchair, operated by means of an electroencephalogram cap worn by a graduate student. A video showed a cyborg cockroach fitted with a wireless implant that connected to its peripheral nervous system and made it possible to control the creature’s movements from a computer. In another room, a researcher demonstrated snakelike and soft-bodied robots capable of reaching or crawling through narrow spaces. Inside a garage, a prototype self-driving car, not unlike one of Google’s, is being developed in collaboration with a Chinese carmaker called Chery.
Despite the impressive research projects at places like Jiao Tong, I kept wondering just how China will fulfill its manufacturing ambitions. Kai Yu is the founder of a startup called Horizon Robotics and was previously the head of an AI-focused research lab set up by Baidu, China’s dominant Internet company. Within the Baidu lab, Yu and colleagues were focused on a field of AI called deep learning, which involves training large simulated neural networks to recognize patterns in data. Researchers are now starting to explore how machine learning might make the next generation of industrial robots even smarter and more flexible. “In the future, what I see is China being more creative [in robotics],” Yu told me. “Original design, original ideas, but also some of the fundamental technologies, like deep learning, neural networks, artificial intelligence.”
Yu believes that the AI techniques developed by China’s big Internet companies for search, e-commerce, and other purposes could be applied to robots. “China has a very good opportunity to catch up,” he said. “The skills they have learned in the last five years can be transferred to making intelligent machines.”
When I later toured CIG’s factory, it wasn’t too hard to imagine how such advances could start feeding into Wong’s efforts to automate his operation. For one thing, a robot capable of learning and adapting presumably wouldn’t be baffled by a misaligned box that needs labeling.
After the tour, Wong took me through a PowerPoint presentation that laid out the company’s plan for the next few years, and then the conversation turned to intelligent robotics. “We’re going to use standard robots at first,” Wong said. “But then we’re going to use more advanced ones. More and more, we need to get into more advanced robotics. That can help make a dark factory.”
Given the economic imperative, the government’s determination, and the country’s growing technological sophistication, it seems very likely that manufacturing companies across China will automate successfully and that the country will become a leader in the technologies of advanced automation.
And yet it’s strange to think about the changes in store for Chinese manufacturing workers. At one point during our tour we had passed a group of about 20 people taking an afternoon break. Everyone was apparently snoozing, heads rested on arms folded in front of them. That’s hardly something a robot needs to do. But I couldn’t help wondering what will happen to these workers once robots have taken their jobs. Wong says they will most likely return to their hometowns and find employment there, on a farm or perhaps in a shop or restaurant. That may be so, but for some it won’t be so simple.
A week after leaving China, I received an e-mail from Wong with some more information about his plans, along with a characteristically bold promise. “Stay in touch,” he wrote. “We will make the dark factory happen.”
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The best smart speakers can be a handy tool for children - from helping them with their homework to letting them chat to family and friends and even listen to their favorite music and audiobooks.
The inbuilt voice assistants are great for education and keeping the kids amused, but there’s a worry that kids could stumble on something inappropriate if left to their own devices with Amazon’s voice assistant.
You can’t supervise them 24-7 so how can you strike the right balance between keeping them safe and letting them benefit from Alexa’s expertise?
This is where Amazon Kids on Alexa comes in. The free-to-use service lets you restrict when Alexa can be accessed, the Alexa skills that can be used and even blocks explicit lyrics when listening to Amazon Music, Apple Music or Spotify.
Initially launched in the US in September 2020, Amazon Kids on Alexa has now been made available in the UK as well.
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As we’ve already mentioned, Amazon Kids on Alexa is a free-to-use parental controls service that when switched on, lets you set time limits on when, and for how long the smart speaker can be used.
It also allows pausing access to the device at any point - ideal if you want the kids to concentrate on eating dinner rather than interacting with a voice assistant.
It comes built-in to the new Echo Dot Kids smart speaker, which is priced at $59.99 / £59.99 (around AU$80), and is available with either a tiger or panda theme. However if you have an existing Echo smart speaker in your home, including an Amazon Echo (2020), Amazon Echo Dot (2020) and even the Amazon Echo 1st generation, you can enable Amazon Kids on Alexa through the Alexa app.
If your child has a subscription to Amazon Kids+, which offers unlimited access to child-friendly audiobooks, apps, games and tv shows, this can also now be used on any Amazon Echo smart speaker - although only content that’s audible rather than visual will be available.
We spoke to Amazon and a representative confirmed that Amazon Kids on Alexa and Amazon Kids+ doesn’t work on Amazon’s line of smart displays, such as the Echo Show 5 (2nd generation) and the Echo Show 10. Amazon told TechRadar it wasn’t able to reveal if this will change in the future.
Amazon Kids on Alexa offers more than just the ability to set use limits. When we activated Amazon Kids, we noticed Alexa’s tone softened and the language it used was more child-friendly.
For example, when we asked Alexa to tell a joke when Amazon Kids was enabled, it responded with a joke that would “tickle your funny bone”.
There were plenty of age-appropriate stories and jokes on offer, and Alexa was also able to provide spelling, definitions and even answer some mathematics questions for us when Amazon Kids on Alexa was switched on, although it can also do this in normal mode.
Crucially however, voice purchasing was disabled by default - so no more remembering to toggle this option in the Alexa app when the kids are around.
Amazon Kids on Alexa also does an effective job at preventing tracks with explicit lyrics being played. We requested a track loaded with swearing from Fatboy Slim album ‘We’ve Come A Long Way Baby’ and were impressed to find it wasn't possible.
However, we were able to play plenty of explicit-language free friendly tracks from Kylie Minogue, Justin Timberlake and even some Disney records.
Voice calling is enabled so children can use an Echo smart speaker to communicate with other Amazon smart speakers in the home or call their friend’s that have an Echo speaker (as long as their friend is assigned as an approved contact by you through the Alexa app)
Finally using the Parent Dashboard, which can be accessed through the Alexa app or on Amazon’s website, we were able to restrict the apps and Alexa skills that could be used when Amazon Kids was enabled, so ensuring kids can’t mess with smart home gadgets or , as well as review the skills that had been used while Amazon Kids on Alexa was enabled.
How do I turn on Amazon Kids on Alexa?
To switch on Amazon Kids on Alexa, open the Alexa app on your phone or table and select the 'Devices’ tab. Tap Echo & Alexa then select the devices you want to install the parental controls on.
Choose the settings icon from the top right-hand corner and then select ‘Amazon Kids’ from the options displayed. Move the slider to the on position.
From here you can add a profile for each child to your household, if they don’t already have any Amazon devices. As well as adding the name, and selecting an icon, you’ll also need to add their date of birth, so age-appropriate content and responses are given.
If they ‘own’ (well, have control of) Amazon devices, the profile will show up automatically, so you just need to select it from the list given.
Only one child can use an Echo with Amazon Kids enabled at a time, however you can easily switch the profiles in the Parent Dashboard.
Once Amazon Kids is enabled in the Alexa app, you’ll still need to ask Alexa on the device itself to open Amazon Kids, otherwise it’ll behave as though there are no parental controls
We also tried asking Alexa on the device to turn off Amazon Kids and revert back to normal mode, just in case any cheeky children thought they couldn’t circumnavigate the parental controls, but handily Alexa just says it can’t help and to ask a grown-up
If you’re a grown-up and you want to revert your Amazon Echo smart speaker into its full, non-child friendly state, you’ll have to disable it in the app
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Why public beheadings get millions of views
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• June 2015
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About Dr Johnson Mwangi
Dr Johnson Mwangi, a Fellow of the Academy of Dentistry International (ADI) and a fellow of Pierre Fauchard Academy (PFA), obtained his Doctor of Dental Surgery Degree at The University of Nairobi in Kenya.
While fulfilling his commitment to continuing education, he is a Participant in NYU Dentistry’s Linhart Continuing Dental Education Program where he is continually acquiring the tools to go farther and perform even better.
It’s about leadership, making things happen, and putting your stamp on the future of dentistry which is a cause he deeply believes in.
He is also a member of The American Dental Association.
Stemming from his love of children , Dr. Johnson Mwangi is a Director at Imani Montessori School – An ultra-modern pre – school/kindergarten based in Nairobi Kenya, specifically for children 1.8 to 6 years old.
Education & Credentials
Dr Johnson Mwangi, a leading dentist in Kenya graduated with a Bachelor of Dental Surgery ( BDS) from the University of Nairobi in 1991. On completion of one year internship at Kenyatta National Hospital, he joined Kijabe Mission Hospital as the deputy director of dental services where he worked for 3 1/2 years before moving to private practice in 1996.
Dr Johnson Mwangi also holds a Masters in Business Administration MBA (Strategic Management) from the University of Nairobi.
He also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Oral Implantology (PGDOI) from the University of Pretoria and the University of New York.
Throughout the course of his education and experience, Dr. Mwangi has attained a great deal of certifications, skill and expertise with implant dentistry, cosmetic dentistry, preventive dentistry and restorative dentistry.
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Rachel Stuhlmann surprised her followers with an Instagram post that will leave them breathless. The beautiful American tennis influencer, who will follow the US Open in New York, has reproposed four really super sensual outfits, which she wore during the Taste of Tennis events in New York, Washington DC, Miami and Indian Wells.
In the post she wrote: "Hi US Open! The @tasteoftennis is my favorite 4 nights of the year. Which 2023 blue carpet look is your favorite? New York, DC, Miami or Indian Wells." We are quite sure that the choice will be very difficult for the fans and followers of the beautiful Rachel:
Rachel Stuhlmann and her carerr as Tennis Influencer
Social networks have made a real breakthrough and have had an increasingly frequent use, with tennis players who have begun to use them constantly.Not just tennis players because some influencers have also created communities of followers linked to this sport.
Over the years the world of sport and consequently also tennis has had to deal with an important change. Taylor Fritz's girlfriend, the beautiful Morgan Riddle is a clear example with the girl who posts daily developments of how Fritz behaves not only on the tennis court, but also off it.
Rachel Stuhlmann, the most famous and beautiful tennis influencer on the planet, is one of the most important sport influencer on social media. Her career at the University of Missouri ended early, but she remained connected to the sport.And the photos, as we can see, prove it.
Rachel previously played college level tennis, but her results weren't extraordinary and she eventually wanted to start a different relationship with the sport. She began by advertising tennis brands and gradually became more prominent on the American scene and beyond.Rachel sees her greatest idols in two legends such as Rafael Nadal and Serena William while among current tennis players she appreciates Ons Jabeur and above all the young Russian Andrey Rublev.
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Montana's Advocate for Accountability
It was a little more than two years ago that Jon Tester won the opportunity to represent Montana in the U.S. Senate by a margin of fewer than 3,000 votes. At the time, incumbent Sen. Conrad Burns made a point of reminding Montanans of his influence on the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee. At the same time, then-Sen. Minority Leader Harry Reid, now the Senate Majority Leader, made a point of promising to seat Tester on that same committee "as soon as possible."
"As soon as possible" turned out to be this past week, when partway through Tester's first term he was finally given that promised seat. If his past performance is any indication, Tester will be a fine addition to the Appropriations Committee. However, even as we congratulate Tester and wish him well in his new duties, we have to note that he hasn't exactly spent the past two years sitting on his hands. In fact, while we might quibble with a few of his decisions, his overall performance on the Veteran's Affairs, Indian Affairs and Banking committees has been downright impressive.
As a member of the Veteran's Affairs Committee, Tester has consistently pushed for increases in the mileage reimbursement rate that helps many Montana veterans in rural communities get to their appointments. Most recently, he and Republican Rep. Denny Rehberg both succeeded in pushing the Department of Veterans Affairs to pick up the $300 tab for families of deceased veterans who wished to be buried in the new veterans cemetery in Missoula.
Although Tester is a member of the Democratic Party, he often seems more than willing to cross party lines in the interests of doing what's right for all Montanans. Thus he was the lone Democrat to vote against giving $15 billion in emergency loans to the auto industry, on top of his earlier vote against the $700 billion bailout for the financial industry.
We had the opportunity to discuss Tester's opposition to the bailouts when he dropped by the Missoulian to meet with the editorial board about a month ago. He explained that he was not opposed to using federal money to prop up the economy, but that he had grave – and unanswered – questions about the apparent lack of accountability.
Tester's concerns were echoed last Friday in a scathing report from the congressional panel charged with overseeing the
$700 billion bailout. Unbelievably, the panel said it could not complete its investigation into how the funds are being used because the Treasury Department is flat-out refusing to answer questions.
And now that President George Bush and President-elect Barack Obama are teaming up to push hundreds of billions in economic stimulus funds forward, we can only be grateful to have someone like Tester pushing back, calling for meaningful investments that come with plenty of scrutiny, transparency and accountability.
But this certainly isn't the first time we've heard Tester talk about the importance of public transparency. Just last week, Plum Creek Timber Co. opted to drop a controversial road easement deal it had been working on with the U.S. Forest Service – in secret – for months, citing strong public opposition. The public might never have had the opportunity to express its opposition if not for Tester, who was instrumental in calling for public involvement in the easement amendment process.
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Following Maryland lacrosse’s 10-4 win over Navy to start the 2018 season, Midshipmen head coach Rick Sowell said that Maryland is a “reload team, not a rebuild team.”
That’s not surprising considering the Terps’ track record under head coach John Tillman, but this year there seemed to be more questions than normal. Maryland lost one of the best attack lines in the country in Matt Rambo, Colin Heacock, and Dylan Maltz, as well as possibly two of the nation’s best players at their respect positions in short-stick midfielder Isaiah Davis-Allen and defender Tim Muller.
Maryland still had familiar faces at each position, but there was a lot of production to replace. Five starters today either didn’t play or played in less than half of Terps games last year, and several contributors off the bench saw their first serious action.
“To get an opening season win against a tough rival and a group that always plays hard, a lot of guys getting their first action and the weather being what it is, I thought the guys showed a lot of toughness,” Tillman said.
Tillman knew he would need some players to step up this season, but this week had an extra bump in the road. On Friday, Tillman received a call from a trainer that senior defender and captain Bryce Young wouldn’t be able to play the next day due to an undisclosed injury. Senior Michael Adler, who appeared in just six games last season after transferring from UMass-Lowell, started in his absence.
“Michael Adler did a tremendous job,” Tillman said. “He basically stole possessions diving to back up a goal. He’s a guy who worked really hard on the scout team and we have a lot of confidence in him.”
Sophomore defender Jack Welding also made his first career start after appearing in seven games last year.
But Young’s injury wasn’t the only thing that happened Friday. Tillman also said that midfielder Connor Kelly had food poisoning Thursday night, and they were unsure whether he was going to play.
“It was an interesting morning, probably went to the coffee machine a little more than normal,” Tillman said. “We always talk about the next man mentality and the kids bought into that.”
Although Kelly still had a solid day with one goal and three assists, the Terps received contributions from several new players on offense. Redshirt freshman and Syracuse transfer Logan Wisnauskas scored his first career goal and chipped in an assist, sophomore Ethan Mintzer scored his first career goal and redshirt freshman Anthony DeMaio made his first career start.
However, the biggest game came from freshman midfielder Bubba Fairman. In his first college game, Inside Lacrosse’s No. 2 recruit had a hat trick and even hustled back to cause a turnover around midfield after having his shot saved at the other end.
“I think Bubba has one of the greatest mindsets towards lacrosse,” redshirt senior goalie Dan Morris said of Fairman. “He loves the game and always wants to learn. Tim [Rotanz] and I live with each other, and Bubba’s been to our apartment several times to go over plays and things like that. He has a great attitude towards the game and always wants to continue to grow and develop.”
As Maryland tries to turn the page on last year’s team and start another potential run to Championship Weekend, it will continue to need players to step up like they did this weekend to complement returning stars.
“I think that’s the way this team is going to be built,” Tillman said. “I don’t think it’s going to be a lot of household names, but we just try to find wins and whatever we need to do, these kids have shown they’re willing to do what they need to do.” | <urn:uuid:16d5a405-2921-44d2-8d9b-42b450aa98b9> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.testudotimes.com/maryland-terps/2018/2/11/16999364/mens-lacrosse-navy-win-new-faces-play-bubba-fairman-john-tillman | 2023-09-23T18:20:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.982798 | 848 |
It’s that time of year again. Bengalis around the country, and the world, are gearing up for their five-day extravaganza. From October 1 to 5, parts of cities around India will be transformed—brightly lit pujo pandals, music and dance, delicious aromas, and raucous laughter will take over the night.
The ceremonial worship will begin on Shasti the sixth day after Mahalaya and be carried through over the next four days. Saptami, Ashtami, Navami and Dashami. The most important historical dimension of the festival lay in its transition from the courtyards of elite homes to the neighborhoods of public spaces in the city. These community pujas around 4000 which are organized just in the city of Kolkata, constitute the most effervescent phase of the festival. Durga Puja has now become a vast street festival.
A sight of an enormous exhibition of public art on a scale that is few parallels in any other festival of the world. With the active engagement of artists many of these displays have taken on the local name of theme pujas and they have produced a new genre of contemporary festival art around individual pujas. The new forms of theme pujas with kind of art practices where older traditions have blended with the contemporary. The sound of dhaak traditional Bengali drumming and the arti veneration of the goddess is integral to the ritualistic ambiance of the festival.
Now that the city’s Durga Puja is on UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list, this year the celebrations are getting more spectacular than ever before.
The Durga Puja pandals in Kolkata are famous for their grandeur, authenticity and opulence. This is the time of year when these pandals come alive with intricate carvings, paintings, sculptures and other decorations that pay tribute to the goddess, Ma Durga.
Shree Bhumi – Lake Town
Shree Bhoomi Sporting Club, known for their captivating puja pandals has set the theme as Vatican City’s St. Peters Basilica church this year. The club, located at Bidhannar, is also celebrating its the Golden Jubilee Celebration of 50 years. Last year themed as Burj Khalifa, the club expects this year’s theme will fulfil people’s wishes to visit the European country right here in Kolkata.
Rajdanga Naba Udah Sangha – East Kolkata Township
Rajdanga Naba Uday Sangha highlights marine pollution this year. As rising pollution levels and water scarcity are emerging as fundamental challenges for people across the planet, Durga puja committees in Kolkata have come up with a theme named ‘Ashani Sanket’ (Bengali) in English Distant Thunder to raise awareness on environment conservation.
Mudiali Club – Kalighat
Mudiali Club which is located in South Kolkata, has been celebrating Durga Puja for 88 years. This year, they took an initiative to go one step ahead to conduct eco-friendly puja.
This year, they have decided that the entire decor in the puja pandal will be lit up through solar power. On the grid, solar systems have been set up in pandal.
FD Block, Salt Lake
FD Block of Salt Lake known for award winning themes year on year, has depicted a fictional story of a tribal clan which is on the verge of extinction this year. The committee has made an artificial village amid the jungle using eco-friendly products or without any plastic products.
The Babubagan Sarbojanin Durgotsav Puja – Dhakuria
The Babubagan Sarbojanin Durgotsav Puja pandal at Dhakuria in South Kolkata has come with this unique theme of “Maa Tujhe Salaam.” The pandal’s theme is in the spirit of the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav celebrations.
Baghbazar Sarbojanin Durgotsav- Baghbazar
This is one of the oldest pujas in Kolkata that is more than a century old. It is famous for its striking traditional idol and pandal.
Bosepukur Sitala Mandir – Kasba
This group comes up with some really innovative themes, especially in their pandal decor. Once, the entire pandal was made of kulhads, or terracotta teacups. Another time, clay was moulded to resemble biscuits, in an attempt to raise awareness about equal food distribution.
Ballygunge Cultural Association – Ballygunge
This is a vibrant and fun pujo that just gets more lavish each year. Its eclectic mix of members, from national sportsmen to cultural giants, is reflected in the massive pandals, interesting murtis (idols), and most energetic dhakis (drummers).
This year they are creating one of a kind replica of Malaysia’s Petronas twin towers as their pandal for Durga Pujo. Nearly 70 workers helped in building the 148-foot tall pandal.
Suruchi Sangha – New Alipore
This pandal is very artsy and focuses on a different Indian state each year. What I love about the Suruchi Sangha pujo is that the idols also reflect the theme.
Maddox Square – Ballygunge
Calcutta’s families, couples, literary elite and aspiring literary elite, and students from across college campuses spent many an idyllic hour at the large park inside a quiet residential neighborhood. Majorly attracting South Kolkata pandal-hoppers.
Rajabari Pujos – North Kolkata
At first, the Durga puja celebration at a vast scale was within the walls of aristocrats and elites of Kolkata. To date, the tradition of the idol in the thakurdalan (courtyard) is maintained by the families. Each home has its unique customs.
Witness the ‘MetaPujo’ this year as Durga Puja enters the Metaverse universe for the first time in history!
For the first time in history, the Durga Puja has entered the world of Metaverse! Yes, you read that right. India’s Durga Puja this year has become MetaPujo as all the prominent puja pandals in Kolkata will be accessible through 3D twins on the metaverse. The famous puja pandals including Ahiritola Sarbojanin, Deshapriya Park, Ballygunge Cultural and Tala Prattay have turned into Metaverse.
Tulip Star Durgostav – Juhu
A pandal where you can spot many celebrities as it is organized by the North Bombay Durga Puja Charitable Trust, patronized by many celebrities such as Rani Mukherji, and Kajol.
Lokhandwala Durgotsav – Andheri
One of the happening puja pandals as it exudes the flavor of Bengal with its authentic food stalls and cultural programs.
Ramkrishna Mission Durgotsav – Khar
The rituals here are conducted with such great devotion that you get transported back to Bengal. An iconic and beautiful pandal to be witnessed in Mumbai.
Chembur Durgotsav – Chembur
Since 1954, Chembur Durga Puja Association has been conducting puja. It’s a huge tourist attraction with over 1.5 lakh people visiting every year.
The Powai Sarbojonin Pujo – Powai
The Powai Sarbojonin pujo has been gaining attention for its creative pandals. For the past few years, they have been recreating facades of famous temples such as Odisha’s Konark Sun temple and Delhi’s Lotus Temple. This year, the theme is community-centric, and the pandal will be built entirely of natural products like jute and bamboo. With great food stalls and engaging competitions, this one is always a hit.
Navi Mumbai and Thane
The Navi Mumbai Cultural Association and Vashi Cultural Association organise the most well-known of Navi Mumbai’s pujos, with creative pandals, and food and handicraft stalls rivalling that of Shivaji Park. Thane has a few smaller but extremely creative pandals—themes have included recreations of pujos in the huts of rural Bengal to a depiction of Mother Nature through Durga. Worth dropping in for a while.
The Bengal Association – T.Nagar
One of the first Durga Pujas in Chennai with various cultural performances, dance and drama artists, and musicians from Kolkata.
Dakshini Society – Anna Nagar
Started in 1995, the Dakhsini Society is well known for its puja celebrations or Sarodotsav in Anna Nagar. There is music, dances, and even theatres reciting some of the oldest folklore associated with the festival
SMCA Durga Puja – Besant Nagar
Organizes one of the oldest Durga Puja pandals in Chennai. You can munch on home-cooked food here. The food stalls usually serve Kolkata biriyani, Mughlai porotta, and kosha mangsho.
Sri Ramakrishna Math – Mylapore
It’s away from the usual extravaganza of pujas and a more spiritual connection with the goddess. The greenery and tranquillity of the Math take in the divine beauty of the goddess.
Chittaranjan Park Kalibari
A go-to place for every single Bengali in Delhi. CR park is the most happening place during pujo with committees organizing different events to keep up with the fervor of non-Bengalis and Bengalis zeal.
Matri Mandir – Safdarjung Enclave
It is a place that houses quiet, calm, and serene Kali Bari that too amid Delhi. Pujo celebration here is done in a beautiful traditional way.
Minto Road – Rajiv Chowk
It is one of the beautiful and traditional pandals offering an incredible amalgamation of culture and Bengali tradition. This pandal is well known for its ‘Dhunuchi Nach’ and best pushpanjali. This puja pandal is a big spot of entertainment since 1940.
Timarpur and Civil Lines Puja Samity
Known for its thematic pandal is one of the most gorgeous pandals in Delhi visited by a such crowd that wants a community feeling.
Bengalee Association – Ulsoor
It is one of the oldest Durga puja in town and they are going to celebrate their 73 rd year in 2022. Also known for organizing dandiya on Navami. the pandal also puts up a large number of multi-cuisine food stalls, clothes, automobiles, handicrafts, etc. along with performances by its members and renowned artists from West Bengal.
JP Nagar/Kanakapura Road
One of the biggest puja pandals in the city and one of the most happening puja venues in South Bangalore.
Jayamahal Sarbajanin Durga Puja
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A “GAME-changing” new cholesterol drug which could prevent thousands of heart attacks and strokes is being rolled out by the NHS.
The revolutionary new treatment, called inclisiran, is given as an injection twice a year and can be used alongside statins.
It will be given to 300,000 patients initially as part of a multi-million-pound deal approved by health watchdog Nice.
Meindert Boysen, deputy chief executive of Nice, said: “This represents a potential game-changer in preventing thousands of people from dying prematurely from heart attacks and strokes.
“We’re pleased to be able to recommend it as a cost-effective option on the NHS, supported by the ground-breaking deal between the NHS and the drug’s makers Novartis.”
More than two in five people in England have high cholesterol which puts them at risk of heart disease.
Around 6.5million adults are currently taking lipid-lowering drugs like statins.
It’s estimated that inclisiran could prevent 55,000 heart attacks and strokes, saving 30,000 lives within the next decade.
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Amanda Pritchard, chief executive of the NHS, said: “This world-leading deal will save lives and enable hundreds of thousands of people to benefit from this revolutionary treatment, while also being fair to taxpayers.”
Prof Kausik Ray, director of the Imperial Centre for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, said: “This is great news for patients. It will reduce their medication burden and offer convenience.
“It’s a game-changer for patients and the NHS.”
Clinical trials showed inclisiran reduces a fatty substance called LDL-C found in the blood, which makes people more likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke.
It works by boosting the liver’s ability to remove harmful cholesterol.
The drug was bought by Swiss pharmaceutical firm Novartis in 2019 in a £7.7billion deal.
Health secretary Sajid Javid said: “This ground-breaking new drug further demonstrates the UK’s excellent track record for identifying the world’s most innovative treatments and ensuring NHS patients are able to access them at the earliest opportunity.
“Thanks to this collaboration, this life-saving new treatment will make a difference to hundreds of thousands of people across England. This is a huge step forward in tackling the scourge of heart disease, which tragically kills thousands every year.
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THE 2.0 COLLECTIVE JOINS PRESTIGIOUS TECHSTARS ACCELERATOR
The future of work startup's participation means professionals deserve more
Charlotte, February 13, 2023 - The 2.0 Collective, a company democratizing career strategy for high-performers to capture, imagine, and advance their careers, is proud to announce its selection to participate in the Techstars accelerator program in Austin, Texas. This program will provide the company with elite mentorship, resources and network opportunities to bring its innovative platform and services to even more deserving professionals.
Techstars is widely recognized as one of the top startup accelerators in the world with the acceptance rate hovering around 1%, and The 2.0 Collective is honored to be a part of this prestigious program. Through Techstars, the company will join a special community of ambitious entrepreneurs across the globe, including a few notable Charlotte startups to go through the program, and will have the opportunity to select the most ideal advisors for the future of the company.
"At 2.0, democratizing career advancement looks like learning from future you – the you that has made it to where you’re trying to reach right now,” ," said Lynn Luong, co-founder and CEO. "I’ll be honest – we weren’t looking to join an accelerator. We were heads-down in building for Charlotte, but when we met Managing Director Amos Schwartzfarb and heard about the LEVERS Framework for repeatability, we knew that we could unlock so much more with this expertise. Cities like Charlotte have brilliant, ambitious professionals that are changing the way we look at work, and there needs to be a career support system like 2.0.”
The company revolutionizes professional development with its cutting-edge career management tool that allows you to experiment and action a plan throughout one’s career whether it’s navigating transitions, office politics, or wild ideas. This tool leverages a professional's unique identity, offering a resource database and personal Strategist-in-Residence (actual middle and senior leaders still in the workplace) to support informed career decisions. 2.0 offers an affordable alternative to traditional executive coaching and career services. Its pricing model is designed to provide ongoing support, similar to a gym membership, no matter where your career path may take you. With these factors in mind, the company is poised to make a significant impact for ambitious professionals.
“This program gives The 2.0 Collective an exceptional opportunity to learn from some amazing minds, and further refine the business to make sure we’re bringing only the absolute best to our members. This program hits us at a perfect time,” says Garrett Evans, co-founder, and COO “and we’re looking forward to growing alongside Charlotte, and other great cities to come!”
As The 2.0 Collective participates in this 12-week program, events and career strategy continues in Charlotte under a dedicated, growing team. The next event will be late February on the new Collective Community featuring a new program called “Industry Icons” – the who’s who of your 2.0 showcasing industry leaders sharing the gritty parts of their career.
If interested, book an introductory Career Clarity call with a matched Strategist at https://www.the20.co.
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Apple shares Q3 2022 financial results, reporting revenue of $83.0 billion
Apple has posted its financial results for the third quarter of 2022, reporting a June quarter revenue record of $83.0 billion, up 2 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $1.20.
The Q3 2022 results narrowly exceed earlier analysts expectations, with $AAPL stock up following the announcement.
Apple’s board of directors has declared a cash dividend of $0.23 per share of the Company’s common stock. The dividend is payable on August 11, 2022 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on August 8, 2022.
“This quarter’s record results speak to Apple’s constant efforts to innovate, to advance new possibilities, and to enrich the lives of our customers,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO in a press release online. “As always, we are leading with our values, and expressing them in everything we build, from new features that are designed to protect user privacy and security, to tools that will enhance accessibility, part of our longstanding commitment to create products for everyone.”
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“Milk is for babies, when you grow up you have to drink beer,” Arnold Schwarzenegger quipped to a fan in Pumping Iron. It was a joke. Though he’s always enjoyed the occasional stein of suds, beer was not a regular part of Arnold’s bodybuilding diet. But it brings up a point: How does alcohol affect fitness and body composition? Are beer, wine, or hard liquor in moderation compatible with weight-training? The Barbell investigates the science of alcohol and exercise.
DEHYDRATION AND IMPAIRED PERFORMANCE
Alcohol is diuretic, which leads to increased urine production and subsequent dehydration. In turn, dehydration can compromise exercise performance by reducing strength, endurance, and coordination. A study highlights that even mild dehydration of 2% body mass loss can negatively affect aerobic performance and muscular endurance . Working out in a dehydrated state can also heighten the risk of heat-related illnesses and injuries.
COORDINATION AND COMPROMISED TECHNIQUE
This one is obvious, but let’s quickly address it anyway. Booze negatively impacts coordination, balance, and reaction time, which raises the risks of exercise injuries . Of course, you wouldn’t squat drunk. But don’t workout directly after consuming any alcohol.
As the American Heart Association points out, moderate alcohol consumption has been associated with potential cardiovascular benefits (and not just red wine), but excessive intake can have adverse effects. Booze increases your heart rate and blood pressure, which may negatively impact your exercise capacity and cardiovascular health. A study suggests that heavy drinking is associated with an increased risk of atrial fibrillation, a condition that can compromise exercise tolerance and overall health .
MUSCLE RECOVERY AND NUTRIENT ABSORPTION
Drinking alcohol interferes with the body’s natural recovery mechanisms, inhibiting protein synthesis and glycogen replenishment, which impairs the body’s ability to repair and build muscle after workouts. Additionally, intoxicants can hinder the absorption of essential nutrients, including vitamins and minerals, which are crucial for optimal exercise performance.
The caloric content of alcohol, combined with its lack of nutritional value, can disrupt energy balance and metabolism. Booze is calorie-dense (a regular can of beer averages 150 calories, light beer averages 100 calories) but with little or no protein, and excessive consumption can lead to an increased intake of “empty” calories. Moreover, alcohol interferes with fat oxidation and can lead to increased fat storage.
Quality sleep is essential for exercise recovery, muscle growth, and overall health. Alcohol consumption disrupts sleep patterns, leading to fragmented and restless slumber. This sleep disturbance, coupled with booze’s immune-suppressive effects, can hinder recovery and increase susceptibility to illness. Research indicates that alcohol disrupts sleep architecture, leading to a decrease in sleep quality .
The feeling of sluggishness, headaches, and fatigue associated with drinking booze can diminish motivation to exercise. Hangovers and the general sense of malaise can deter you from going to the gym or engaging in any vigorous physical activity.
ALCOHOL AND EXERCISE: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
FAQ: Can I consume a moderate amount of alcohol before a workout?
Drinking booze, even in moderation, before a hard workout is not advised. Alcohol’s dehydrating effects can impact your exercise performance by reducing endurance and strength. Moreover, it can impair coordination and reaction time, increasing injury risks. That said, light drinking and light exercising are frequently paired without consequences. If you had a beer or two and want to “sweat it out” with, say, some pickup basketball or football, go for it.
FAQ: Can I drink after a workout?
While it’s not recommended to drink alcohol immediately after a workout, a moderate intake later on may be okay. However, it’s crucial to stay aware of your hydration levels and prioritize proper post-workout nutrition to support recovery. And you should certainly not stop off at the bar for multiple rounds on your way home from the gym. One study looked at how young men were affected by heavy alcohol intake (the equivalent of drinking around seven beers over three hours) after exercise . The research found the subjects had reduced muscle protein synthesis—the metabolic process that helps the body build muscle—compared to when no alcohol was downed.
FAQ: How long after drinking should I wait before exercising?
Allow sufficient time for alcohol to leave your system before exercising. On average, the body metabolizes about one standard drink per hour. (A standard drink is a 12 oz. can of beer, glass of wine, shot of hard liquor, etc.) So, one beer, wait one hour. Three glasses of wine, wait three hours.
FAQ: Can moderate alcohol consumption have any benefits for exercise?
Some research suggests that moderate alcohol consumption might have limited cardiovascular benefits. However, these potential benefits are often outweighed by the negative impacts of alcohol on exercise performance, recovery, and overall health.
FAQ: How does alcohol affect muscle recovery?
Alcohol can hinder muscle recovery by disrupting protein synthesis and glycogen replenishment. These processes are crucial for repairing and building muscle.
FAQ: How many calories in a drink of alcohol?
Here are the approximate calories for some popular alcoholic drinks:
6.8 oz. pina colada — 525 calories
8 oz. margarita — 275 calories
8 oz. rum and Coke — 185 calories
12 oz. can of beer — 150 calories
12. oz. hard apple cider — 150 calories
5 oz. glass of wine — 120 calories
2 oz. standard martini — 120 calories
8 oz. rum and Diet Coke — 100 calories
12 oz. can of light beer — 100 calories
1.5 oz. of liquor — 100 calories
ALCOHOL AND EXERCISE: CONCLUSION
Alcohol consumption can lead to dehydration, impaired muscle recovery, compromised coordination, disrupted metabolism, adverse cardiovascular effects, sleep disruption, immune system suppression, and decreased motivation. Whew! To optimize strength, endurance, and muscularity, avoid alcohol entirely before working out and drink only in moderation at all other times. And don’t take Arnold’s jokes seriously.
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3. Larsson, S. C., et al. (2014), “Alcohol consumption and risk of atrial fibrillation: a prospective study and dose-response meta-analysis,” European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 21(5), 634-641.
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One of the down sides to business, especially online and TV sales business, is that for every ten honest small companies, there is one that practices with shady ethics; WC Budget Savers is a prime example. Look I am not one to ridicule, but the laundry list of offenses by this company is so long that it would take putting Neo back into the Matrix to stop the scamming and fraudulent activity and figure out what it is this company actually does.
Here’s what happens. You either go online or call some phone number from an infomercial to receive a product that you are intrigued by and purchase. During that conversation you unknowingly consent to a “Free Trial” for another service. Sometimes you will receive a call from these people offering you a free gift, but sometimes you don’t even get that! The reason why I say not at all, is because in some cases they do not even list what other companies they are affiliated with, but do tell you that they can sell or “share” your information. Here is an example of that from Flirty Girl. This happened to a client of mine who purchased their fitness DVDs from their TV commercial. Here is what their site says:
Other Disclosures. We may share your personal information with carefully selected vendors, business partners and other organizations that are not a part of the Savvier Family. These companies may use the information we share to provide special opportunities and offers to you. If you do not want us to share information you provide to us with vendors, business partners and other organizations that are not part of the Savvier Family, please click here.
You have to scroll all the way to the bottom of the front page to get to the privacy link, which by the way is very small. Then after you get there you still have to read about 65% of their terms before you find this “other” portion. They do offer an “Opt Out” option, but it is set up in a way that you have to look for it. So if you have no idea where or what it is, POOF! You’re open to their offers!
Companies like WC Budget Savers pay for this information and then do whatever it is they do with it. In most cases consumers are being charged an array of different amounts from as little as $1.00 in the beginning to as much as $29.99 per month without even authorizing the charges. After the consumer discovers these charges, they begin a merry-go-round of phone calls to the different numbers that they have been provided. In some cases, the numbers listed are not even to the company but to personal cell phones of people who are not even involved. When the consumer finally gets through, they are promised a full refund. In some cases this has come to pass, in other cases not at all. Not only have these customers had to fight these charges, but some cases they were forced to close their bank accounts to ensure even further charges!
I can’t stress enough the needs for ethics in business, but if you are doing something like this, it probably won’t matter to you. The sad thing is it appears that WC Budget Savers might actually have a real service to offer, but at this point who cares? Why would anyone want to do business with a company that conducts themselves in this manner.
If you know of a fraudulent service or a company that is conducting themselves in a less than ethical way, please submit it to me at www.theworldbyphil.com. I will investigate it and tell everyone!
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Bomb Cosmetics The Last Unicorn Bath Bomb 160g
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Bomb Cosmetics The Last Unicorn Bath Bomb: A Bath Blaster thought to be nothing more than a myth, filled with a fruity floral perfumed fragrance and magical ylang ylang & jasmine essential oils as powers. Watch as she fizzes and dances around the tub, turning the water a pretty pastel pink and leaving a trail of her skin softening natural butters. A rare creature, crowned with a swirl of skin softening natural butters to gently kiss you into a magical world of sweet scents. With pure Ylang Ylang & Jasmine pure essential oils to leave you feeling unique! | <urn:uuid:a8cf843c-6380-4130-8b76-66c338b3b56f> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.thebeautystore.com/collections/bestsellers/products/bomb-cosmetics-the-last-unicorn-bath-bomb-160g | 2023-09-23T17:42:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.890667 | 153 |
I’m sure you ‘ve seen the news coverage. A restaurant in Virginia recently cancelled a Christian non-profit group’s reservation for a pre-booked private banquet. The cancellation call came about 90 minutes before the time the group was to have arrived. The reason for the cancellation? The employees felt ‘unsafe” serving the Christian group.
There are lots of things we can say about this. On one hand we can’t help but think that the employees must be the same people who demand ‘safe spaces’ on college campuses because they aren’t stout enough to socialize with someone who thinks differently.
Or, we could think, “How ironic. These are the same people who are suing a Christian baker for refusing to provide a wedding cake for a same-sex marriage.”
I suppose we could also think, “Hurray for the restaurant owner. No reason to serve people who think differently.”
Snarky comments aside, there is a significant lesson in this for Christians.
This incident is just one expression of a deeper trend. We’ve witnessed the culture shift in the last three decades from being primarily ‘Christian’ to ‘secular’ and now we’re seeing the next phase – ‘anti-Christian.’ I expect we’ll see other expressions of the growing anti-Christian mindset over the next few years.
There are lots of reasons for this. The release of files from Twitter has exposed how wide-spread is the conspiracy to prevent free speech and the expression of ideas which run counter to the progressive agenda — big tech, the legacy media, and various government agencies colluding together to suppress information.
We’ve all heard the expression, “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupt absolutely.” Typically that translates into suppressing the speech of those who disagree with you. It is predictably one of the first initiatives of those who come to power. We see that played out in Iran, as the rulers suppress free speech and refuse to allow people to question them. We see it in Russia, as the Putin administration censors any idea that runs counter to its version of events. And we see it here in the US, as the ruling elite suppress any ideas that question their agenda.
If the suppression of free speech was limited to political agendas, it would be worrisome and unacceptable. But the suppression of speech goes beyond political agendas and now includes spiritual issues. The Christian group was denied service, not for any political reasons, but because they support the Biblical guidance in regard to families and marriage. This antipathy to Christianity from the left goes back generations and can trace its modern-day roots to Karl Marx and the communist dictatorships that sprouted from him. It is now an integral part of the left’s mind set.
But the media portrait is just one of many factors that have contributed to the anti-Christian culture. Much of it is our own fault. We have been too comfortable in our lifestyles, where we piously go to church on Sunday, and then live by the world’s rules Monday through Saturday. We’ve been taught that the institutional church is the focal point of our Christianity, and it’s been comfortable to believe that. We hide behind that concept as it gives us a reason to stay quiet and keep our faith buried in the marketplace – “Because I attend church on Sunday I don’t need to stand up for Christ during the week.”
So, our colleagues, customers, and vendors don’t see Christians as intelligent, hard-working, and empathetic, because we have chosen to remain on the sidelines. We see the unfortunate consequences in incidents like this. How long will it be before the trend accelerates and Christians are persecuted?
So, we will continue to see, in ever more blatant incidents, big tech, the legacy media, and government agencies put forth a derogatory portrait of Christians. The average American will continue to be exposed to a very twisted view of Christianity.
Unless Christian businesspeople step up.
We can provide a personal alternative to the media’s manipulated messages. It’s one thing to see a message on social media, it is quite another to see lived out in someone you know.
The time is now for Christians in the marketplace to shed their cloak of anonymity and begin to be visible and verbal in the marketplace.
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The supercentenarian Sarah Knauss died at the age of 119. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
At the time of her death at age 119 years and 97 days, she held the Guinness World Record for oldest living person.
The daughter of Amelia and Walter Clark, Knauss (born Sarah DeRemer Clark) lived and died in Pennsylvania. She outlived her husband Abraham Lincoln Knauss by more than three decades; the couple’s one child, Kathryn Knauss Sullivan, died in 2005 at the age of 101. | <urn:uuid:db7918ce-27fc-4314-9d37-bc0af5a645b0> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.thecelebritydeaths.com/sarah-knauss-death-cause-and-date/ | 2023-09-23T17:41:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.972208 | 125 |
Let the childhood memories begin! Growing up Mister Rogers was always on our tv in the morning and now we can take a peek behind the scenes in the new movie, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is a timely story of kindness triumphing over cynicism, based on the true story of a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Tom Junod. After a jaded magazine writer (Emmy winner Matthew Rhys) is assigned a profile of Fred Rogers, he overcomes his skepticism, learning about empathy, kindness, and decency from America’s most beloved neighbor.
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Snappy: General Kagan, do you feel odd when people call you general?
Kagan: No. Should I?
Snappy: Just wondered. [Aside: Sheesh.]
Bitey: Because, I think my colleague seems to mean, you don't work in the military. Never have. Right?
Kagan: Well, no, I haven't.
Bitey: [To Snappy: Zing!]
Snappy: How about when people called you dean? How'd that make you feel?
Bitey: What does vapid mean?
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There are so many good reasons to visit Senigallia, a stunning and super-relaxed beach town in the heart of Marche in Central Italy. By the way, if you want to know more about Marche (and get a serious case of wanderlust in the meantime), check out our Marche in 12 Instagrams post!
Part of Italy’s beauty lies in its diversity – from the green mountains of South Tyrol to the sun-drenched alleyways of Sicily and the metropolitan buzz of Milan, I’m always at a loss when I’m asked to identify quintessentially ‘Italian’ places. And I’m even more at a loss when I need to recommend places that are ‘authentic’ and ‘tourist free’ at the same time.
Then we visited Marche. A region with a big, green-blue heart. Where you can follow cats meandering around walled villages. Where you can go hiking or caving, and end your day with a sunset swim on some of Italy’s best beaches. A place where lunch turns into aperitivo and then into dinner – because you simply can’t stop enjoying all that delicious food and wine.
Most importantly, Marche will win you over with the friendliness of its locals and its top-class service – and it’s not as touristy as neighbouring regions, meaning it’s not so hard to visit Marche on a budget. There’s no better place to experience Marche hospitality than visiting Senigallia, the region’s premiere seaside resort. Wide sandy beaches, clear sea and lots of summer events, including the top swing & rock’n roll festival in Europe – honestly, what’s not to like?
Yet, visit Senigallia, and you’ll see there’s a lot more then just beaches – the town has plenty to keep you busy on a rainy day. You can visit well-preserved Renaissance palazzos, fresco-covered churches and archaeological sites, cycle all over town, enjoy the best ice cream in Italy or just fill your face with delicious seafood and white wine. If the bustle of the coast all gets a bit too much, just drive off to the hills and get lost between sunflower fields and cobbled alleyways, and enjoy silence in the midday heat.
After our recent three-day visit to Senigallia and surrounds, we’ve compiled this list of things to do and see when you visit Senigallia – including a very special day trip. As you’ll see, it’s not just about the beach – even though Senigallia beach is very special indeed!
Visit Senigallia – Things to Do
1) Lie on the ‘Velvet Beach’
Senigallia is famous for its spiaggia di velluto, meaning ‘velvet beach’ – 13 kilometres of fine golden sand, leading up to the aquamarine waters of the Adriatic Sea. The sea is always calm, and the sandy bottom has a gentle gradient, making it ideal for families and less-comfortable swimmers.
In true Italian style, the bulk of Senigallia’s beach is taken up by bagni, beach clubs with umbrellas, sun loungers and – sometimes – even a seaside spa. We stayed at Terrazza Marconi, where access to a beach club right across the road is included in the price of all rooms, alongside fluffy beach towels and chilled water.
On top of that, Senigallia beach is Blue Flag certified – an international eco label given to seaside location that respect a stringent series of environmental, educational and accessibility criteria. All the more reason to visit!
2) Check out the ‘Rotonda a Mare’
Ask any Italian what Senigallia is famous for, and the answer will be la Rotonda, of course! The Rotonda a Mare is Senigallia’s most famous tourist attraction, a pier with a round-shaped pavilion at its end, built over the sea. The Rotonda was erected in the 1930s, and throughout the years it was used as a ballroom, restaurant, conference hall and wedding location.
The Rotonda can be visited for free every day in summer between 6 pm and midnight – the pavilion is empty save when it is used for pop-up dinners or other events, but it’s still worth a visit for its wonderful views over the Adriatic and for its unique architecture.
3) Party at Summer Festivals
Senigallia is also famous for its summer festivals – first and foremost is Summer Jamboree, a two-week swing, rock and roll and lindy hop extravaganza, dedicated to American culture and music in the 1940s and 50s. This year the Summer Jamboree takes place between July 26th and August 6th and it includes 46 free concerts, dance classes, burlesque shows, a vintage market and street food.
Another popular summer festival in Senigallia is Deejay Xmasters, a free event dedicated to music and extreme sports. It’s on from July 15th to 23rd this year, with performances by pro athletes and opportunity to try activities like flyboard, parkour, kitesurfing and aerial dancing.
Other Senigallia Points of Interest – Beyond the Beaches
4) Best Sunrise and Sunset Locations
All along the Adriatic, the sun rises from the sea – now, I’m not an early riser by any means, but if you come to Senigallia, I strongly recommend waking up early to watch the sunrise in summer. The sun rises around 5.30 in July, and it’s one of the rare moments when you can experience this buzzing seaside town in total peace and quiet.
The Rotonda is the perfect location to watch the sunrise – as you can see, the sun rises just behind it, creating a brilliant photo opportunity. You’re more than likely to be alone, save for a few health junkies running along the beach.
If you can’t quite make it in time for sunrise, sunset still makes for wonderful photo opps. The sun sets approximately at 9 pm in July, and the rocks at the fare end of the port are the best location – as you can see from this image, the shape of the coast makes it look as if the sun is setting into the sea.
5) Discover the History of Senigallia Through Architecture
Unlike many seaside resorts developed over the last century, Senigallia has a history that stretches back millennia, having been settled by a Gallic tribe in pre-Roman times. A walk around the historic center is a great way to spend an afternoon away from the beach, or you can turn this history outing into a full day activity if you so wish.
Start with a visit of the Area Archeologica Fenice, located under the theatre of the same name, where you’ll be able to discover the remains of Sena Gallica, the Roman nucleus of the city. Crossing the historic centre, you’ll no doubt notice the huge Rocca Roveresca, a fortified castle that was also the ancestral home of the Della Rovere, the family that ruled Senigallia in Renaissance times. The rocca can be visited and it is now used as a location for art exhibitions.
In the 18th century, Senigallia was at the centre of the flourishing Adriatic trade, and it hosted a trade fair that contributed to the development of the city. Senigallia points of interest dating back to this time include the Portici Ercolani, a row of covered porticos built along one of the banks of the Misa River that flows into the port. The Portici were built to serve as a covered arcade for the trade fair, and a second row of porticos was meant to be built on the opposite bank, but then the fair was hit by a crisis and the project was dropped.
Another interesting sight is the Foro Annonario, a neoclassical round square surrounded by porticos that is still the location for the daily fruit and veg market. Wandering around Senigallia you’ll also find examples of Fascist architecture, erected after the city was damaged by an earthquake in 1930. The Rotonda is one example – other buildings include the Scuola Elementare Pascoli and the recently-restored Casa del Balilla.
6) Visit Palazzetto Baviera
As you can see, there are many things to do in Senigallia away from the beach – however, if you only had time for one Senigallia tourist attraction, I’d choose Palazzetto Baviera, a Renaissance palazzo located just around the corner from Rocca Roveresca – looking unassuming from the outside, absolutely breathtaking from the inside.
The Palazzetto was home to the noble Baviera family, who clearly didn’t spare expenses when it was time to decorate the interiors – the ceilings of rooms on the upper floor were all decorated with exquisite stucco work by local artist Federico Brandani, who took over 5 years to complete this masterpiece.
7) Enjoy the Best Chocolate Ice-Cream in Italy
All this touring around the historic centre will no doubt make you hungry. Just across the Misa River from the porticoes you’ll find Via Carducci, heart of a once-seedy area now full of cute cafes and alfresco restaurants and gelato shops. One of them is Gelateria Brunelli, awarded as the best chocolate icecream in Italy – of course you simply MUST try chocolate, perhaps accompanied by creative flavours like Portonovo with caramelised peanuts and chocolate.
8) Head to the Best Senigallia Restaurants
Trust me, you won’t go hungry when you visit Senigallia. Whether you opt for a beachside dinner or choose one of the restaurants in the historic centre, good food and excellent service are pretty much guaranteed.
There’s nowhere more romantic than Senigallia’s lungomare for a lunch with sea view – we spent two full days in Senigallia and both days we went to L’Angolino sul Mare, a beachside restaurant located right opposite the Rotonda. We had the chance to try several dishes, from traditional linguine ai frutti di mare (seafood pasta) and more creative pasta dishes like passatelli with clams and tomato (see below, on the right hand side).
Another excellent seafood restaurant is La Pagaia, in a scenic harbour-side location. La Pagaia is slightly more upmarket and service is truly outstanding – if you get the chance, try their fritto misto, famous for being the best in Senigallia.
Fish rules supreme on Senigallia menus, but if you want to sample the flavours of the Marche hills, Rimante in the historic centre is a great option, with alfresco dining in a secluded alleyway. It was a very hot night, but we couldn’t help ordering some tasty meat-based dishes – a cold cuts platter, rabbit ‘porchetta style’, roasted goose (I know, that was a bit crazy) and the tastiest pasta cacio e pepe this side of Rome.
9) Visit Corinaldo
If you fancy a quick trip away from the bustling atmosphere of Senigallia, Corinaldo is a great idea. This pretty walled village is located in the hills just behind the coast, barely half an hour drive from Senigallia – and driving there is half the fun, surrounded by a hundred shades of green and sunflowers, with their heads bowed in the midday sun.
We visited Corinaldo on a hot morning, and there was not a single soul out and about – save for a lone child chasing a football. Corinaldo is also known as il paese dei pazzi, meaning ‘the village of crazy people’, because of their quirky history and traditions.
One of Corinaldo’s ‘crazy sights’ is the house of Scuretto, a local cobbler and wine lover. Scuretto’s son had moved to America in search of fortune in the early 20th century and sent money to his father every month – money that was always spent on wine and spirits. Suspicious that construction works were taking longer than usual, Scuretto’s son asked his father for a picture of the new home. Scuretto just built the façade, snapped a pic and headed straight to the pub – and when his son discovered the trick, the money ended and the rest of the house was never built.
Another cool Corinaldo tale is that of the ‘polenta in the well’. Corinaldo is built on a hillside, and a 100-step stairwell connects its highest and lowest point. Once upon a time, a farmer was heading back from the fields with a corn sack on his back. He was tired from all those steps, so he leaned briefly on a well to rest – but the sack ended up into the well, and the farmer lowered himself down to try and save it. Here is where facts and myth intertwine – some say that the corn turned into polenta, and the legend of ‘polenta in the well’ began.
Besides stories and crazy traditions, Corinaldo is a delight to explore. Between narrow streets, panoramic towers and cascading bougainvillea photo lovers will be happy – and everyone will be glad to soak up the silence and admire the wonderful views over the hills, before heading back to Senigallia.
Where to Stay in Senigallia
Our base in Senigallia was Terrazza Marconi Hotel & Spamarine, a four-star property located on Senigallia’s lungomare, just opposite the Rotonda. Rooms were comfortable and with all mod-cons, and we especially loved the fact that access to a beach club is included with all rooms.
If you don’t fancy swimming in the Adriatic you can head to the Spamarine, a beachside spa with warm-water pool where six different kinds of water jets turn a simple seaside dip into a truly relaxing experience. There are also sun loungers, canopy beds and even the opportunity to enjoy a beach massage, with or without oils.
Another great asset of Terrazza Marconi – which is kind of revealed in the name – is its wonderful rooftop terrace, perfect to enjoy breakfast with a view, a sunset aperitivo or a nightcap. You can also have dinner on the rooftop, and after having sampled aperitivo snacks, I’m pretty sure dinner would be delicious as well!
We would like to thank Confcommercio Marche Centrali, Marche Tourism, Feel Senigallia and Ilaria Barbotti for having invited us to join this trip. All views are my own.
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Washington makes for strange alliances—and even stranger enemies. But this could wind up being the oddest confrontation of all. Chiquita, the world’s largest banana producer, is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to block a 9/11 victims’ bill, The Daily Beast has learned. And outraged supporters of the legislation accuse a senior lawmaker, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, of working with the fruit kings to stand in their way.
According to Congressional lobbying disclosures, Chiquita has spent some $780,000 over the past year and a half lobbying against the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA), a bill conceived of and supported by a group of 9/11 victims and families to aid their claims against actors who supported the terrorist attacks.
The result is a stalled piece of terrorism legislation that shows the dizzying influence of a deeply pocketed corporation, and how its tremendous power is prevailing over the interests of the most sympathetic of little guys: 9/11 victims. And it illustrates how the influence of major fruit companies—such a core component of 20th-century American policy that they gave rise to the phrase “Banana Republics”—endures today.
“The path to justice for me and the other 9/11 family members and survivors is being blocked by a banana company. I think Chiquita should mind their own bananas and let justice be served,” said Terry Strada, whose husband was killed in the terrorist attacks.
The major fruit supplier is not in any way connected with 9/11, but in 2007 it pleaded guilty to making over 100 payments to the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), a right-wing paramilitary group designated by the United States as a terrorist organization.
Chiquita, which had operated in Colombia for over 100 years, began making payments to the terrorist organization after a 1997 meeting between an AUC leader and a senior executive of its Colombian subsidiary. Nearly every month, additional payments followed. The fruit company has maintained that it only made payments due to extortionary threats of violence, and reacted to protect the lives of its workers.
Through a deal in which Chiquita was represented by now-Attorney General Eric Holder, the fruit company agreed to pay a $25 million fine. Chiquita acknowledged that between 1997 and 2004, it made over $1.7 million in payments in cash and checks to the terrorist group.
“Does [AUC] financing make Chiquita liable for the acts of terrorism and murder committed by those terrorists? That’s the question,” said Terry Collingsworth, a lawyer involved in a lawsuit against Chiquita. “To the extent that JASTA changes that or clarifies that standard, it would present a threat to Chiquita.”
By 2003, Chiquita’s most profitable operation was its Colombian subsidiary. That same year, Chiquita officials consulted the opinion of outside lawyers in Washington, D.C., who pointedly advised that the payments were illegal and needed to be halted. They did not stop until Feb. 4, 2004. The subsidiary was sold off later that year.
Having acknowledged payments to terrorists—though they claim to be extorted—Chiquita’s interests conflict with those of 9/11 victims’ families.
The Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act was conceived after a group of 9/11 victims’ families ran into a number of legal issues in their efforts to sue supporters of terrorism after the attacks. The group, 9/11 Families United For Justice Against Terrorism, consists of some 6,500 individuals: family members of those killed and those directly injured in the attacks of 9/11.
The group is headed by Strada and Sharon Premoli, who survived the attacks from the 80th floor of the World Trade Center’s north tower.
A primary legal issue for the victims was disagreement amongst varying federal circuit courts over whether groups that aided and abetted terrorists could be found civilly liable. JASTA would clarify the Anti-Terrorism Act by expanding liability against those that had funded terrorists.
“It would also make it clear that victims of terrorist attacks both outside and inside the U.S. could seek damages against perpetrators,” explained Matt House, a spokesman for Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the primary sponsor for the bill in the Senate.
By expanding the liability of groups that have aided and abetted terrorism, the bill incidentally became relevant to Chiquita, with its history of paying off the terrorists of the AUC.
Chiquita certainly appeared to respond as if JASTA were a threat. In the months after the bill was reintroduced in the House and Senate, the fourth quarter of 2013, Chiquita spent $450,000 hiring lobbyists from Covington and Burling, a high-powered white shoe law firm. [Disclosure: The Daily Beast is also a client of Covington and Burling.] Chiquita acknowledged working with Congressional staff on JASTA.
“Chiquita supports the stated objectives of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act,” the company said in a statement to The Daily Beast. “Chiquita’s sole interest is to ensure that the legislation does not inadvertently promote litigation against individuals and companies who, like Chiquita, were victims of extortion by terrorist groups.”
According to a Congressional source with direct knowledge of the lobbying, the fruit conglomerate approached lawmakers with Chiquita facilities in their districts—as well Congress members with influence over their senior colleagues like Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., the primary sponsor of JASTA in the House.
The lobbyists appeared to find an ear in the office of senior lawmaker Rep. Bob Goodlatte. Goodlatte chairs the House Judiciary Committee, where JASTA now sits languishing.
In November, a group representing 9/11 Families United For Justice Against Terrorism met with Zachary Somers, a senior aide to Goodlatte.
One member of the group, a minister, wept openly. At another point, one attendee blurted out that that the only part of her husband’s body that was recovered was his head. Meanwhile, the group claims, Somers acted dismissive and at one point in the meeting picked lint off his jacket. Then Somers said his boss had objections to their bill.
When asked if Chiquita had approached Goodlatte’s office, and whether Chiquita had been the only group to express concerns, Somers replied affirmatively on both counts, according to three participants in the meeting. (Somers did not respond to a request for comment, but a Goodlatte aide denied he was rude to the families.)
In December the same 9/11 group met with Goodlatte himself in Lynchburg, Va., which is in the congressman’s district. Some of the victims’ families characterized the congressman as being short with the group, at one point remarking to one of the 9/11 widows that she was not even one of his constituents.
When Deanna Wirth, an educational aide and constituent whose father died in the North Tower, began talking about her father’s last words before death, she claims Goodlatte responded, “Weren’t you compensated for that?”
As an adult child of a 9/11 victim, Wirth was not compensated. Her face dropped.
“I just thought it was a rude question. I couldn’t believe that came out of his mouth,” Wirth said. “He was very rude, and in my opinion, not very compassionate about what we went through.”
Goodlatte’s office declined to answer direct questions about their position on JASTA, on whether they had met with Chiquita representatives, or on his conduct with the 9/11 victims’ families.
Last month, Goodlatte’s office quietly let it be known on Capitol Hill that the chairman would not support progress on JASTA, a disappointing setback for the 9/11 victims’ families group.
A Goodlatte aide hinted that the chairman opposed the bill, but would not confirm this in a statement to The Daily Beast.
“The Chairman and the lead staffer on this issue examined the legislation and received feedback from various companies and organizations about the effects of the legislation,” said a House Judiciary aide. “Numerous high-level groups in the business community oppose the legislation because the breadth of the proposed changes risks exposing law-abiding U.S. companies to frivolous lawsuits and potentially massive civil liability.”
Asked which companies and groups oppose the legislation, Goodlatte’s office said 20 groups opposed JASTA but refused to name any of them.
“Goodlatte needs to permit the bill [to move] through his committee, but he has expressed reluctance to do so,” said Premoli.
Other lawmakers have declined to speak publicly about JASTA. Rep. Peter King’s office declined to discuss its own bill. “The ongoing conversations and negotiations are staying private,” said King spokesman Kevin Fogarty.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, did not respond to a request for comment.
In September 2012, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act. But the legislation stalled, and was reintroduced in the House and Senate last fall—only to find fresh opposition from an unlikely source.
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By David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler
New York Times (9/26/13)
The Department of Health and Human Services’ breathless report touts the 53 choices and low premiums available through the new health insurance exchanges. But citizens of other developed nations would laugh at this definition of choice, and the rosy rate quotes hide nasty news for those who aren’t forever young.
As The Times reported, the lower than expected rates reflect many insurers’ decisions to pare down their provider networks for plans offered through the exchanges. You may have a choice of insurer, but little choice of doctor or hospital. So in Los Angeles, low cost means you’re not welcome at the top ranked hospitals: Cedars Sinai and U.C.L.A.
In the past the uninsured and Medicaid patients traveled in medical steerage – or not at all; private insurance guaranteed a place in first class care. Much of [the] health law’s new private coverage looks a lot like a Medicaid H.M.O. – coverage that restricts and segregates lower-income patients from the affluent. Top-class care is increasingly reserved for the well-to-do.
Canadians or the French or Germans have little or no choice of who pays their medical bills. But they can choose any hospital and any doctor. And they’re not socked with the enormous uncovered bills that will still afflict insured Americans. Elsewhere, insurance pretty much covers what you need.
In contrast, plans offered through the exchanges will saddle those who gets sick with hefty deductibles and co-payments – $2000 deductibles and 20 percent co-payments thereafter are typical in Massachusetts, the prototype for Obamacare.
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Walking down Centre St. in Shawville, it is hard to miss the giant mural of Mario & Luigi on the walls of the Renaissance Variety building emblematic of their store.
Celeb,rating their 20th anniversary of being in business in Shawville, Jason and Lorna Yereck commissioned the mural that was in the works for two weeks. The couple sells everything from used books, movies, games, and CDs and their latest is Lorna’s handmade wax candles that they are currently selling in their store, called “candles in the attic.”
Local artist, Gabriel Proulx, hopes to one day take his artistic talents professionally and highlighted that creating art has always been a part of his life.
“I do art of all types, murals, photography, graphic design, and whatever else might be worth trying out.”
Still trying to make a name for himself Proulx saw this as a great opportunity. “It meant so much to me to have the opportunity to work on the mural at RV. As someone trying to build an art career, leaving a mark like that is a huge milestone,” he said.
Although he worked in construction for many years, after his mother passed away he made a promise to himself that he would pursue a career in art, said Proulx.
Happy with how it turned out, Jason highlighted that they might go ahead and paint another wall. The store is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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This lemon cream salmon is a skillet preparation that takes just 15 minutes and delivers a delicious dinner or lunch. Tender salmon and a creamy lemon garlic sauce are perfect with rice, pasta, or veggies.
Ever since I started getting good quality salmon delivered from Wild Alaskan Seafood company, I’ve been really loving all the ways I can make delicious meals fast.
This lemon cream salmon is a variation on my cast iron salmon cooking technique. It’s SO FAST to cook filets on the stove top that way. This recipe enhances it by making a pan sauce that simmers with the fish as it finishes.
You’re left with a tender, medium salmon filet in a garlicky, lemony, creamy sauce that you’ll want to spoon over the top and devour every bite.
Ingredients & Substitutions
It’s just a handful of easy ingredients to make this come together in a snap. I’ve also shared my best tips for swapping or prepping them if you don’t have exactly what’s called for.
- Skinless salmon filets – I’m using sockeye salmon, which is absolutely delicious if you can get it. I actually skin them myself which is super easy to do.
- Use a sharp, thin knife to cut a corner of skin away from the filet. Place SKIN SIDE DOWN on a cutting board.
- Grip the edge of the skin and wriggle your knife, keeping it flat against the cutting board to separate the skin from the filet.
- Lemons – I’m using meyer lemon because it’s the season and I basically find them irresistible. But any fresh lemon will work. We’ll be using the zest and juice, so fresh is preferred. But, if you only have bottled juice that will work for the sauce, you’ll just be missing out on seasoning the filets with zest.
- Garlic – Fresh garlic is necessary for the lemon cream sauce. Slice it thinly instead of mincing or pressing it to prevent burning.
- Salt & Pepper – Seasoning the salmon and the sauce is what makes this perfect.
- Heavy Cream – This is great for quick pan sauces because the fat content makes it less likely to separate (curdle) at high heat. You can use half and half, but lower the heat, and understand it won’t thicken the same.
How to Make Pan Seared Salmon with Lemon Garlic Cream Sauce
This is NOT a complicated recipe, I promise! But I do have a few tips to make sure your salmon is cooked perfectly and the pan sauce is as flavorful as possible.
- Use a good pan – I prefer my cast iron skillet for this, but stainless steel would also work. I like a good sear on my salmon, but nonstick can work if that’s what you have.
- Preheat over high heat – To cook the salmon quickly and get it to the right temperature, I like to start over medium high. When the salmon hits the pan, I turn it down to medium and let it cook without moving for 3-4 minutes.
- Reduce the heat after the flip – Once you’ve got that top sear, flip and turn the heat down to medium low. That helps prevent the sauce from reducing too fast.
- Add the sauce ingredients quickly– I add the lemon juice and cream to the pan at the same time and stir or swirl the pan to mix it. Then let the fish simmer in the sauce as it thickens. It should only take 2 minutes or so for both to be ready.
- Don’t overcook the fish– It’s pretty common for me to see recipes that cook salmon until it’s well done. You DON’T need to do that. Salmon is safe (and delicious) at 145°F. I pull it from the pan at that temp and it usually cooks another 5°F which is perfect for me. You can cook it longer, but too much longer and your fish will dry out.
This lemon cream salmon is so good that we usually serve it simply. A pot of rice, mashed potatoes, lemon pepper potatoes, or pasta is all we need with a big spoonful of sauce over the top. I do recommend some asiago bread or garlic bread rolls to soak up extra sauce!
I’m not a big fan of reheating fish, so I generally only cook the amount that we’ll eat at one meal. It cooks pretty quickly, so I don’t mind whipping it up fresh. But that’s a personal preference.
To store leftovers, keep them in a sealed container in the fridge for up to 3 days. Reheat gently on the stove to prevent the fish from drying out.
I hope you love this quick and easy, creamy lemon garlic salmon! Check out one of my other seafood recipes while you’re here too. Happy Eating!
Lemon Cream Salmon
- 2 4 ounce salmon filets skinless
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon lemon zest
- 1 tablespoon grapeseed oil
- 2 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 3 cloves garlic
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- Slice the garlic into thin pieces and zest and juice the lemon to get 1 tablespoon of juice.
- Preheat a cast iron (or stainless steel pan) over medium high heat with the oil.
- Season the salmon on both sides with salt, pepper, garlic powder, and lemon zest.
- Place in oil and let sear for 2-3 minutes.
- Turn the pan down to medium low and flip the salmon. Add in the butter and garlic and cook for 1 minute.
- Add in 2 tablespoons of cream and the lemon juice and let simmer for 1-2 more minutes until the salmon is cooked to 145°F (medium) or to your liking.
- Take off the heat and stir in remaining cream and taste the sauce, season to taste and serve.
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Popular Hindi Movies inspired by books
Books or movies? Well, I sure know my answer but what about you? Do you enjoy it when books you love are adapted into movies? The answer to that depends on how the movie turns out in the end. As long as the movies do complete justice to the imagination of the book, they should be good to go. On that note, here’s a list of Hindi movies that were inspired by books and stories written by famous authors.
1.7 Khoon Maaf (2011)
Directed by Vishal Bhardwaj, 7 Khoon Maaf is a stunning adaptation of Ruskin Bond’s short story Susanna’s Seven Husbands. It may not be an entire novel but Susanna’s Seven Husbands has everything to be adapted into a feature film. The movie is about a femme fatale, Susanna Anna-Marie who kills seven men in her quest for love. She falls in love seven times and marries seven times. The first six when were a horror for her but the seventh, that’s suspense!
2. Devdas (2002)
The tale of the hopeless romantic Devdas is known to every Indian alike. The 1917 novel by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay has been adapted into films in several languages. There are around three versions in Hindi itself. The most popular one is the second version which was directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali in 2002. The film stars Shahrukh Khan as the titular lead and Aishwariya Rai and Madhuri Dixit played the female leads. The film was a big success at the box office. The latest version of the reputed novel is directed by Anurag Kashyap and has a different approach. Read more about it below.
3. Aisha (2011)
Aisha starring Sonam Kapoor is the film adaptation of Emma, Jane Austen’s novel published in 1815. But don’t worry, Aisha is not set in a historic era! The novel has been well adapted for the current time frame. Aisha is a high-class Delhi girl who takes a great interest in matchmaking. Her disregard for what others want slowly starts to affect her friends and things begin to go downhill for Aisha. The movie is a fun and exciting watch for almost anyone.
4. Parineeta (2005)
Parineeta is yet another movie adaptation of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s famous Bengali novel, Parineeta. The movie marked the Bollywood debut of the sensational actress Vidya Balan and brought together Bollywood actors like Saif Ali Khan and Sanjay Dutt under one roof. Parineeta, set in the year 1914 is a romantic tale that explores the class divide of India during the pre-independence era.
5. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Slumdog Millionaire is a movie that brought international attention to India. The movie is however loosely based on the 2005 novel Q & A by Vikas Swarup. The movie had won the Best Film for the year at the 2009 Academy Awards. The movie also won the Academy Award for Best Original Score (Resool Pookutty) and Best Original Song (A R Rahman) that year. Slumdog Millionaire is the story of an 18-year-old boy Jamal Malik belonging to the slums of Mumbai who enters the TV show ‘Who wants to be a Millionaire?’ To everyone’s surprise, Jamal answers all the questions correctly. How did a boy from the slums answer all the questions? Watch the film to find out!
You must be wondering why I have not included movies adapted from Chetan Bhagat novels? Well, that is because I have an entire post on that! Read more about it here.
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Russia appeared close to taking control of Bakhmut on Monday, although Ukraine said it continued to fight on in the south-west fringes of the city largely devastated by an intense year of deadly fighting.
Hanna Mailar, Ukraine’s deputy defence minister, said Ukraine still controlled “certain facilities” in the Litak district, but reports said the defenders had lost control of the last of the remaining high-rises in the eastern Ukrainian city.
Ukraine has switched its primary focus to engaging in limited counterattacks on the higher ground to the immediate north-west and south of the ruined city, which could be used to threaten the Russian attackers below.
“The offensive potential of the enemy has been significantly reduced, huge losses have been inflicted on the enemy” Mailar said. She added: “We have gained time for certain actions, which will be discussed later.”
Bakhmut was first shelled in May 2022 and Russian forces consistently targeted the mining city that had a pre-war population of about 70,000. Although not considered of particular strategic value, the city has acquired a high symbolic value for both sides in the conflict.
The two sides fought building by building in the most intense fighting seen in Europe since the end of the second world war, with Russia taking a year to advance about 24km on the Bakhmut sector of the eastern Donbas, a front that has otherwise remained relatively static since last autumn.
The effort was led by the Russian mercenary Wagner group, using seasoned veterans to command a large number of former prisoners. But experts question whether, as the battle draws to an end, Wagner can continue to fight further.
The Institute of the Study of War said on Sunday night it believed Wagner’s offensive was likely to be at its culmination point and that “it is unlikely that Wagner will continue fighting beyond Bakhmut at its current depleted state”.
Joe Biden, the US president, said at the G7 summit in Japan that Russia had suffered 100,000 casualties, killed and wounded, in fighting for the city, higher than previous Ukrainian estimates of 70,000. Ukraine does not release casualty figures but it is believed to have lost tens of thousands in the protracted struggle.
Wagner’s chief, Yevgeny Prigozhin, declared on Saturday that Bakhmut had fallen, filming himself at the city’s battered railway station a few kilometres behind the frontline. Other video footage showed Russian troops waving flags at the western edge of the city, although not in the Litak district still being fought over.
At that point, Prigozhin announced Wagner forces would withdraw from the city by Thursday, leaving its defence to regular Russian troops, although it was unclear whether that was a firm declaration of intent, or a feint designed to lure Ukrainian forces back into attacking the city.
Attacking forces are often considered at their most vulnerable when an advance culminates, usually due to combat exhaustion, and Ukraine has been hinting that it hopes to surround the invaders in the city by attacking to the north and south.
But the Ukrainian counterattacks remain relatively limited so far, and the expectation is that Kyiv will soon launch a more significant assault as the weather improves, using about 12 brigades-worth of troops, many of which have been equipped with western tanks, fighting vehicles and artillery.
Three civilians were killed and 14 injured across Ukraine in overnight shelling while the country’s air force said it had shot down four cruise missiles and 20 drones. But the air force spokesperson Yuri Inhat said Ukraine did not “have enough means” – air defences – to deal with high-speed ballistic missiles across the country.
Ukraine said it had reconnected the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to its external power supply after a brief outage that had left it reliant on emergency generators. Backup diesel generators were in use for a time at the site, to ensure nuclear fuel was kept cool and prevent a potential disaster.
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Tata Capital Financial Services and Tata Cleantech Capital will be merged with their parent company, Tata Capital, a stock exchange filing by Tata Capital Financial Services said.
The merger is being undertaken so that Tata Capital Financial Services can meet the revised regulatory framework as part of the Reserve Bank of India’s scale-based regulations.
In September 2022, RBI had added Tata Capital Financial Services to its list of non-bank lenders in the upper layer under scale-based regulations. It has to implement a board-approved policy for adopting the applicable enhanced regulatory framework and mandatorily list within three years of the central bank’s classification as an ‘upper layer’ non-bank lender.
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A new report from Pregnant Then Screwed (based on results found by Women in Data) has revealed that only 42% of women going through fertility treatment actually told their boss.
Of those who did tell their employer, one in four of the women then experienced unfair treatment at work as a result.
Why is it a gender issue, when men also experience infertility?
Around half of infertility issues are caused by male factor infertility, however, it’s mostly women who have the invasive procedures or experience side-effects from the fertility drugs and therefore require more time off from work. It would also, subsequently, be the women who may need lighter duties during pregnancy and potentially more time off after the birth.
What does this bias against fertility treatment look like?
Some women feel unsupported while going through the emotional struggles of infertility and IVF, but for others, the bias can be more direct and personal. Serena toldPregnant Then Screwed, ‘I have been told repeatedly that any side effects from fertility treatment are self-inflicted and I was selfish for having special measures in place as it put more pressure on the rest of the team, just so I could have a baby.’
A recent report by Fertility Family states that ‘women surveyed are more likely to not receive any support from employers whilst experiencing fertility issues (42%women vs 30% men).’
What impact does this bias have on businesses longer term?
Being unsupported in the work place during fertility treatment can lead to longer term mental health issues, meaning more time off and costing employers more in the long run. Many employees fear that their long-term career progress will be jeopardised if they are open about having fertility treatment. In some cases, employees are being forced to choose between their job and fertility treatment and this may lead to businesses losing valuable, conscientious employees. Employers also risk being sued if they are shown to be discriminating against women.
Where does the law stand regarding time off for fertility treatment?
The report by Fertility Family, states that ‘the law currently doesn’t support women in this position. There’s currently a Bill trying to get through parliament to give employees a statutory right to take time off work to attend fertility clinic appointments. The second reading was on March 24th and the results are currently ‘in progress.’
What could be done by employers to address this discrimination?
Regardless of the results of the Bill, there are many measures that employers can take in order to ensure that employees going through fertility treatment are not subjected to discrimination. These may include:
· Increasing their own awareness of what is involved with IVF, so that any reasonable adjustments can be made
· Ensuring that line managers receive training on fertility issues, as currently only 2% do
· Helping employees who need counselling to be able to access it, by knowing where to direct people to for additional support
· Offering flexible working hours to accommodate appointments
· Improving lines of open communication, so that all of their employees feel supported, heard and treated equally
Here at the IVF Network, we understand the importance of equality for everyone going through fertility issues and treatment. We keep up-to-date with medical developments and social changes, the new laws and the support available. We provide a wide range of information, in an easy-to-access form, through our dedicated channel of experts, our website and our blog posts, to help you to make informed choices at every stage of your personal fertility journey.
We believe that education is the key to supporting both employees and employers. To increase awareness in the corporate world, we work with companies, to help them to create or improve their fertility policies. We also support them with implementation, offering workshops for line managers and employees, to increase their understanding of the impact of fertility treatment within our diverse community. Together, we can make a difference.
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Call it what you want, Kim Tibbs calls it Destiny. Singing from out the womb, this preacher’s daughter credits her late father for her musical ability. She has over 30 years of musical experience and wears many hats: arranger, keyboardist, lyricist, accomplished Pianist, Producer, and Songwriter. All that and brains too, she holds two Masters degrees and is working on her Doctorate. She literally schools while she sings.
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When the twelve-year-old Franz Liszt (1811–1886) arrived in Paris in 1823 with his parents, he had already astounded audiences with his extraordinary musical gifts in his native Hungary as well as in Germany and, most notably, Vienna, where Beethoven anointed him with a kiss on the forehead. Not long after his arrival in Paris, he would also amaze the sophisticated cultural community of the City of Light.
Through nearly fifty manuscripts, first editions, letters, and related materials drawn almost entirely from the Morgan's collections, the exhibition Liszt in Paris: Enduring Encounters celebrates the art and the diverse and fertile artistic world of the virtuoso pianist-composer.
Despite his fame and talent, when Liszt arrived in Paris, he was refused admittance to the Conservatoire because of a recent ruling banning foreigners. Nonetheless, Paris remained Liszt's home base for many years. By the 1830s, Liszt was a fixture both on the concert stage and in Paris's artistic and aristocratic circles. He came into contact with the leading novelists, poets, painters, and musicians of the day, among them Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870), Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), Victor Hugo (1802–1885), Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847), Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864), Gioacchino Rossini (1792–1868), and Ary Scheffer (1795–1858).
The show begins by introducing Franz Liszt as the prodigy who at an early age was already composing as well as concertizing. The section includes an edition of his first published work, written at the age of eleven, and a playbill for a concert at which Liszt performed a "New Fantasia on Piano-Forte," at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, in London at the age of fifteen.
The viewer is then introduced to the maturing Liszt and his encounters with fellow musicians Berlioz, Chopin, Paganini, and later Wagner. Liszt met Hector Berlioz (1803–1869) on December 4, 1830, the eve of the premiere of the Frenchman's Symphonie Fantastique. Liszt's transcription (published in 1834) and performances helped popularize the piece, which was not published in its original form until 1845. Both an album leaf in Berlioz's hand containing the waltz theme from the second movement and an early edition of the orchestral score are on view.
Berlioz, whose Le Roi de Thulé (the text taken from Goethe's Faust) was later incorporated into his Damnation de Faust, shared with Liszt his love of Goethe's work and dedicated the Damnation to him. Liszt reciprocated by dedicating his Faust Symphony to Berlioz. The autograph manuscript of Le Roi de Thulé and the piano-vocal score of La Damnation de Faust are joined by Delacroix's drawing Mephistopheles Appears Before Faust. Also highlighted in this section is the autograph manuscript of Liszt's First Piano Concerto, a work that received its premiere in 1855 in Weimar (where Liszt had moved after being appointed director of court music) with Liszt as soloist and Berlioz conducting.
Liszt met Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) shortly after the latter's arrival in Paris in September 1831 and attended his Paris debut at the Salle Pleyel on February 26, 1832. Displayed along with the playbill for this concert are the first piano solo edition of Chopin's Piano Concerto, op. 11, and the autograph manuscript of his "Là ci darem la mano" variations, both pieces among those that Chopin performed at his debut. Their friendship also led Chopin to dedicate his "Études," op. 10 to his fellow pianist. Both the first French edition of the complete Opus 10, as well as the autograph manuscript of Opus 10, no. 3, are featured in the exhibition along with Liszt's 1852 appreciation and biography of Chopin.
In Paris Liszt heard the violinist Nicolò Paganini (1782–1840) for the first time in 1832. Impressed by Paganini's virtuoso technique, Liszt immediately set about translating the violinist's exceptional artistry for the piano. The result was the fiendishly difficult Grande Fantaisie de bravoure sur "La Clochette" de Paganini. Paganini's 24 Capricci was another point of departure, forming the basis for Liszt's Grandes études de Paganini. All three scores are featured in the exhibition.
In 1841 at the Paris Conservatoire, Liszt performed Beethoven's Emperor Concerto with Berlioz conducting. In attendance was Richard Wagner (1813–1883), who reviewed the performance for the Dresden Abend-Zeitung. Liszt was to become one of Wagner's staunchest supporters (and eventually his father-in-law). He premiered Wagner's opera Lohengrin at Weimar in 1850. After Wagner's death in February 1883, Liszt composed Am Grabe Richard Wagners on May 22, which would have been Wagner's seventieth birthday. Liszt's essay on Lohengrin, the first edition of the opera's libretto, and the autograph manuscript of Am Grabe Richard Wagners are also on view.
In addition, the autograph manuscript of Schubert's Erlkönig (text by Goethe) is displayed alongside Liszt's published transcription of the song for piano.
Liszt in Paris: Enduring Encounters is organized by Frances Barulich, Mary Flagler Cary Curator of Music Manuscripts and Printed Music, the Morgan Library & Museum.
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Postmodern Jukebox, abbreviated as PMJ, is a musical project aimed toward recreating popular songs in a vintage fashion. PMJ was founded by the pianist and arranger, Scott Bradlee, in 2011. His mission in mind was to present songs in an unpredictable variety--strictly a blast from the past, so to speak. PMJ tends to present songs through vintage interpretations of jazz, ragtime, and swing music.
The top four best songs the project covered, in my opinion, are Complicated by Avril Lavigne, Somebody I Used to Know by Goyte, Stacy's Mom by Fountains of Wayne, and All the Small Things by Blink-182.
PMJ featured the lovely Annie Bosko. The band didn't alter the song too much, but they definitely refined it to a jazzy interpretation. They also added emphasis in the pre-chorus and chorus section, which worked well for the singer, Annie, and the style of music. Annie's version--talent-wise--is very much so an improvement from the original song.
Annie's soprano vocals were crisp, strong, and sometimes airy. She truly gave the song justice!
2. SOMEBODY I USED TO KNOW
The band covered this song twice throughout its six year lifetime. The second cover, featuring Hannah Gill, is a true gem. Her alto range brought a depth to the big band version of Somebody I Used to Know. Also, you can clearly hear every instrument, finger snapping, and tonal variety.
Since the original showed a two-sided story sung by two singers (Gotye and Kimbra), you must know that PMJ reduced the story to one person's perspective. That might take away from the song (it does), but it also adds the PMJ originality in their covers. Overall, this cover is very strong and really fantastic to listen to.
3. STACY'S MOM
Maybe you remember Casey Abrams from American Idol. Well, he collaborated with PMJ for the cover of Stacy's Mom. The original song was already pretty fun and upbeat, and luckily that did not change for PMJ's cover. Although Casey Abram's energy in performance and voice definitely added a new layer of fun! At some point in the song he gives directions for the clarinet through varied vocals.
The cover is endearing, and has a nice big band feel to it.
4. ALL THE SMALL THINGS
Do you already miss Puddles Pity Party from America's Got Talent? Well, he's been working with PMJ since 2013. Puddles sang his heart out with every collaboration with PMJ. From Royals by Lorde to All the Small Things by Blink-182, Puddles and PMJ created covers of these songs filled with lush sadness, haunting despair, and unique musical arrangements. Although I enjoy all covers created by Puddles and PMJ, All the Small Things is my absolute favorite because not only does it deliver on the musical project's mission, but it is so well-tailored for Puddles.
Postmodern Jukebox slowed down All the Small Things, creating a somber tune. We hear Puddles singing in a velvety low octave. When he sung higher notes, it sounded truly haunting. The female back up singers sang a different verse while Puddles sang throughout at times, which was pretty cool. And the way the song ends is amazing--with nobody but Puddles left in the shot, trying to regain his breath. This cover added much depth to the seemingly shallow song.
So why should you listen to Postmodern Jukebox? Well, if you love the sound of older music, simply love listening to covers, or a true music lover you are missing out if you haven't listened to PMJ yet! Definitely buy their songs on iTunes or at least support them by listening to them on YouTube and forwarding it to your friends. | <urn:uuid:65bcc3fc-5afa-4570-8041-60739b3cd648> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.theodysseyonline.com/why-you-should-listen-postmodern-jukebox | 2023-09-23T17:58:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.960323 | 827 |
EPA must articulate and justify how its ozone decisions protect the public health.
This December, the Obama Administration will again have to decide how much air quality is needed to protect public health and welfare. Last year, the administration, after a prolonged internal battle, decided not to tighten the air quality standards for ozone because achieving the standards would be too costly. Now the administration will have to decide whether and how much to tighten the air quality standards for fine particles—those capable of penetrating into the deep lung.
Fine particles are, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says, a threat to public health. The most important effect is premature mortality, particularly in the very old. Premature deaths number in perhaps the tens of thousands annually, often in the form of cardiovascular mortality. Other effects include increases in hospital and emergency room visits, and the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Those of low socio-economic status seem particularly at risk. And, so far as we know, there is no safe level of fine particles.
The Clean Air Act requires EPA to establish ambient air quality standards – limits on the permissible concentration of a pollutant in the air – for such pollutants. EPA first set ambient air quality standards for fine particles in 1997. The long-term annual standard—the key to reducing exposures—was set at 15 micrograms per cubic meter of air. After a prolonged judicial fight, these standards were upheld by the courts. In 2006, EPA decided not to tighten the 15 microgram standard despite the recommendation of the agency’s science advisors that it do so. The agency’s standard was remanded by the D.C. Circuit for failure to provide an adequate explanation–e.g. why the agency would not use studies of short-term effects to help set a standard for long-term effects, and vice versa. The court allowed the standard, though, to remain in place.
EPA has been ordered to complete its current review promptly, and has just issued proposed standards. The agency asked that it be given until August, 2013, to issue a final rulemaking; instead, the court set this December as the deadline. As a result, the fine particle standards will be the midnight rulemaking par excellence.
The agency deserves sympathy, even though its review was delayed—the staff that works on such standards has been steadily developing other air quality standards for the past six years. The time for action is so short that it will strain the agency’s scarce resources. Moreover, the task of standard-setting is quite difficult. It is hard to decide precisely the particle level that results in measurable premature deaths. So EPA must make a policy choice about how to deal with the uncertainties and gaps in what we know—that is, how protective should we be in the face of our ignorance.
Some commentators have suggested that Congress or EPA should set principles to follow in setting the standards. But while principles would help cabin EPA’s judgment, it seems unlikely that one could ever devise a principle for deciding, for instance, how much uncertainty is too much to justify regulation, or how to appraise a scientific study. Cost-benefit, advocated by some as a possible principle, contains many uncertainties. In general, any principles are bound to be so vague as to be of limited use.
This situation is hardly unique to environmental law. Doctors learn criteria to use in diagnosing and treating disease. Yet curing a patient cannot be reduced to rules, because it requires judgment. The same is as true in protecting public health. Indeed, the Clean Air Act recognizes this relationship when it says that standards to protect public health have to be requisite “in the judgment of the Administrator.”
Yet to say something is a matter of judgment does not immunize EPA. Administrative law sensibly mandates that an agency explain its judgment in a non-arbitrary matter. Being laypeople, we cannot expect to know as much as the expert, but we at least are entitled to an explanation we can understand—just as one would expect a doctor to explain in lay terms why one must undergo an uncomfortable medical test.
Unfortunately, EPA does not well explain its proposed decision to set the health-based standard in the 12-13 microgram range. EPA staff urged that the standard be set in the 11-12 range. Even the top of this level would be below the annual average at which health effects have been shown. A standard of 11 would afford a greater margin between the standard and the studies finding health effects. The staff added that considering a standard as high as 13 would be “reasonable” if the agency chose to discount on technical grounds the prime long-term study showing effects at lower levels than that. On the other hand, the staff conceded, there were still reliable studies showing effects below that level. Then, too, the staff said that there were uncertainties about effects occurring at the lower levels. Thus, the staff suggested that policymakers should consider the 11-13 range, and the agency’s science advisors concurred.
EPA opted for the high end. The agency acknowledges in the proposal that four studies show effects down to below 12 micrograms. But it picks 12 to 13 on the grounds that this range places the most emphasis on the most robust studies—without explaining why it decided that the studies showing lower effects are not robust enough. It also suggests that the 12-13 range offers an adequate margin of safety to account for our ignorance, as required by the Clean Air Act, but does not explain why or how.
Some in Washington believe that consideration of cost, although barred by the statute, influenced the decision, just as with the Obama Administration’s decision last year not to tighten the ozone standard. One account is that EPA decided that a standard of 11 would cause more unemployment than politically possible, and so the agency picked the high end of the plausible range.
It would not be surprising if this happened. As Senator Edmund Muskie, father of the Clean Air Act, remarked over thirty years ago, the failure to find safe levels means that the Administrator must make a pragmatic judgment about where to set the standard. Costs inevitably play a role; yet, benefits should play a role as well, and a standard of 11 would actually result in the greatest net benefits. The bar against considering cost is in part a way of telling the Administrator not to put much emphasis on cost. It also means that the Administrator, in setting a standard, must speak the language of public health.
Here the agency has so far failed to do so. This is undesirable because the proposed standard will attract a firestorm of criticism. Industry representatives are already arguing that the health effects do not arise from fine particles as a class, but rather are due to specific chemicals in the mass; taking that stance would exempt many sources needing to comply. Some in Congress are questioning, as with other EPA rules, the impact of the rules on a weak economy. And the standard will, of course, affect protection of public health. It is important for EPA to get the standard right and to articulate its rationales clearly. | <urn:uuid:0180e868-940f-4feb-8bf3-ba31748fca2f> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.theregreview.org/2012/07/17/17-oren-particles/ | 2023-09-23T18:44:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.959996 | 1,438 |
A Spear of Summer Grass
By Deanna Raybourn
Publisher: Harlequin Mira
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Delilah Drummond is her mother’s daughter—an often-married socialite who excels at spending money and flirting with scandal. But when Delilah’s most recent husband commits suicide immediately after receiving divorce papers and Delilah, who has maintained her own name, refuses to surrender the royal jewels that she has inherited from the man who made her his widow before she could make him her ex and refuses to adopt an appropriately remorseful attitude, the resulting scandal reaches international proportions. There are rumors of an investigation being opened, and her maternal grandfather in Louisiana is making noises about cutting off all financial support. Delilah’s mother, her favorite former step-father, and her lawyer and former husband #2 are in agreement that Delilah must leave Paris.
Delilah refuses to consider America where Prohibition is the law of the land, but she has fond memories of the fascination her step-father’s African diary held for her when she read it as a teenager. Thus, when he offers her Fairlight, the home he built on the banks of Lake Wanyama, Delilah agrees to accept exile from Europe. Two weeks later, accompanied by a distant Drummond cousin and poor relation, Dora, or Dodo, Delilah sets sail on a British ship for Mombasa. The dutiful, dull Dodo, whose two interests are God and gardens, will serve as a combination chaperone and personal maid.
From the moment of her arrival in Kenya, Delilah begins to learn just how different Kenya is from the world she has left, and yet, strangely, some things remain the same. The violence and beauty of the country leave her weak-kneed. She is still in the Nairobi train station when she sees a man beaten so severely that his blood splashes on her shoes, and before she arrives at Fairlight, she has her forehead marked with the blood of a buffalo she helped to kill, signifying “first African blood.” But her reputation has preceded her, and the lieutenant governor, concerned that she might become involved in escapades that would reflect badly on Kenya, insists that she cannot linger in Nairobi. She soon finds old friends in the area and joins them in a lifestyle that, despite the setting, is as hedonistic as the one she left in Paris.
Delilah also finds that the nursing skills she acquired for service in World War I are useful in this new environment, and she shocks and angers some by her humane treatment of the Blacks in her employ. Through all of these experiences, there is safari guide J. Ryder White, an arrogant, complex alpha with a core of tenderness, who infuriates her, challenges her, and fascinates her. A part of and yet distinct from the British expatriate community, Ryder proves to be a “stayer,” the kind of man Delilah never expected to encounter again. But Delilah must change before her heart is willing to accept that truth.
Raybourn leaves her popular Lady Julia Gray series to give readers this standalone novel that combines historical fiction with murder mystery and a substantial thread of romance. Set amid the decadence of the wealthy in the1920s and three years after Kenya had been declared a British crown colony, the story includes both the sparkle and the darkness of the period. The racial conflicts between the European colonials, the Africans, and the Indians are growing and shaping the politics of the era, and the lavish lifestyle of the European community is a stark contrast to the injustice and exploitation of colonialism. Raybourn uses all of this history in the story of a woman who embodies its contradictions and complexities.
I had a really difficult time deciding how to “grade” this book. Deanna Raybourn is an amazing writer, and her skills are evident from the opening line to the final one. Her vivid descriptions of Kenya frequently made me feel as if I were watching a movie on a theater screen rather than reading a book. That was the effect of this description:
A tiny herd of elephants looked infinitesimal from our lofty height, and when Ryder stilled the engine, I heard nothing but the long rush of wind up from the valley floor. It carried with it every promise of Africa, that wind. It smelled of green water and red earth and the animals that roamed it. And there was something more, something old as the rocks. It might have been the smell of the Almighty himself, and I knew there were no words for this place. It was sacred, as no place I had ever been before.
Her prose is always beautifully lucid and often lyrical as well. When Delilah arrives at Fairlight expecting to see the place she had imagined when she was a child and finds instead a house falling apart, she expresses her disillusionment:
Of all emotions, disappointment is the most difficult to hide. Rage, hatred, envy—those are easy to mask. But disappointment strikes to the heart of the child within us, resurrecting every unsatisfactory Christmas, every failed wish made on a shooting star.
The poignancy of some passages is powerfully moving, as in this passage when Delilah responds to Dodo's question about whether Delilah ever loved any of the men in her life after her first husband:
You close your eyes and suddenly he’s not there anymore. What you loved, or thought you loved, just isn’t there, and there is a man-shaped hole in your memory of where he used to be. The sad part is when it happens when he’s sitting at the same table or lying in the same bed. You can turn and look at him and not even remember his name because he was just a visitor. He was a man who was only passing through your heart, and you never really made a place for him, so he just keeps passing. My husbands since Johnny have been passing men. Not a stayer among them.
At the other end of the emotional spectrum are tiny details that left me with a delighted smile, details such as Delilah’s car, a lipstick-red Hispano-Suiza with leopard upholstery that seems perfect for her and also evoked images of the Hispano-Suiza in P. G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle short stories and novels and the book, Fordyce’s Sermons, which Delilah had to balance on her head when learning to walk like a lady. (Fordyce’s Sermons is the 1767 guidebook to female conduct from which Mr. Collins read to the Bennet sisters in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.)
In the con column is a heroine I could not like. Delilah is at times entertaining, she is more rarely sympathetic, and she is always interesting, but she is also, for much of the book, selfish, shallow, and amoral. She treats her cousin with condescension some times and with careless cruelty at other times. When she spends her last night in Paris with former husband #2, a married man with two young children, she thinks she may even be rendering a service to his wife since he’s jollier after sex with Delilah and the guilt over his infidelity leads him to purchase an expensive present for his wife. The list of her offenses that the lieutenant governor in Nairobi names include “stealing a car outside a Harlem nightclub and driving it into the Hudson” and being “caught in flagrante with a judge’s eighteen-year-old son in Dallas.” Granted Delilah changes, but by that time, I disliked so many things about her that I could not feel any real connection with her. I’m not a reader who needs to identify with the heroine, but I do, especially with the intimacy between character and reader that comes with a first person point of view, need to like her.
If the vivid evocation of time and place, an atypical heroine and hero, and wonderful prose are sufficient to make you love a book, you may be one of the readers giving A Spear of Summer Grass high marks. If likeable characters are a prime criterion for you, you may, as I did, have mixed reactions to this novel. | <urn:uuid:4999d857-9e8c-46cd-96e9-2a2151f3fea8> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.theromancedish.com/2013/04/guest-review-spear-of-summer-grass.html | 2023-09-23T17:08:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.971744 | 1,790 |
Train Like an Athlete – At HOME!
This plan includes:
35+ exercise instructional videos
Video training on to build a home gym (on a tiny budget)
Training to failure (what it is and why it’s important)
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I don’t know about you, but I’ve never really been a big fan of this “holiday”.
Yes, it’s nice when you have someone to be able to celebrate, but even when I was coupled up, I didn’t really look forward to it. I always felt like I was forcing myself to be romantic and girly and I’m really neither of those things by default. I’m supposed to want things like flowers, chocolate, and jewelry and I’m just like…give me steak and some booze and I’ll be happy. Not much different from any other day.
To be fair, I’ll take the chocolate though. Because I loves me some chocolate. And chocolate covered strawberries are just an absolute treasure.
That said, now that I’m single, I thought I’d round up some spots that don’t pressure you to bring an actual date. Because that’s how I like to live. No pressure. No judgment.
Anti Valentine's Day Guide 2018
- Boucherie French Dinner with the Gals
Calling all single ladies! Boucherie is having a “Galentine’s Day” special for the single ladies in
NYC. Enjoy a pre-fix menu and a bottle of wine with your girls. When booking for dinner
mention Galentine’s Day Special. Website link here.
99 7th Ave S, New York, NY 10014
- Dirt Candy Solo Dinner
Prefer to dine alone? The vegetarian restaurant Dirt Candy is having a $75 solo-dinner with
seven mini courses and a glass of prosecco or a virgin vegetable cocktail. Website link here.
86 Allen St, New York, NY 10002
- Duane Park Dinner and Show
Enjoy a Three Course Prix Fixe and a Plume-Packed Burlesque show with friends at Duane Park.
Dinner seatings: 5:30pm for $100 per person or at 8:30pm for $140 per person. Website link here.
308 Bowery, New York, NY 10012
- Bar LunÀtico Flamenco Dancing and Dinner
Famous Flamenco dancer Leslie Royba will be performing at Bar LunÀtico starting at 8:30 p.m.
The Flamenco-themed night will include flavorful Spanish dishes and special cocktails. Website link here.
486 Halsey St, Brooklyn, NY 11233
- Eat, Drink, and be Messy at Dinosaur Bar-B-Que
For those who prefer pigging out instead of dressing-to-impress, Dinosaur Bar-B-Que is having
Eat, Drink, and be Messy Anti-Valentine’s Day meals anytime from 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m. Stuff
your face with saucy barbecue dishes and specialty drinks. Website link here.
604 Union St, Brooklyn, NY 11215
- Love Ball
The West Village Meatball Shop location will be hosting a 7-course off-menu dinner for Vday. The courses start at “Flirting” (Green Eggs and Ham Quail Eggs), progress to “2nd Base” (Ricotta gnocchi w/prosciutto) and end with “One More Time Behind the Bleachers” (Bombe Glacee). All courses listed on the site. $75 per person, reservations only. Website link here.
64 Greenwich Ave, New York, NY 10011
- BBQ Bromance at Virgil’s Real Barbecue
Need a day to chill with your bros? Virgil’s Real Barbecue is having a special BBQ Bromance
deal for the day with popcorn shrimp, a full rack of Memphis ribs and a slice of red velvet cake.
And can’t forget the beer and shots of Knob Creek bourbon. Amen. Website link here.
Virgil’s Real Barbecue
152 W 44th St, New York, NY 10036
- Single’s Awareness Day at Momofuku Noodle Bar
Slurping noodles is so attractive especially when you’re alone. Momofuku Noodle Bar is
offering a three course tasting menu on the 14th along with its regular a la carte menu. Website link here.
Momofuku Noodle Bar
171 1st Ave, New York, NY 10003
- Spend Galentine’s Day at Bagatelle
Groups of five or more who reserve a table will receive a complimentary truffle pizza. In addition they will offer a 3-course prix fixe menu for $85 with options like tuna tartar and honey-glazed duck breast. And of course, chocolate mousse for dessert and more. Reservations link here.
1 Little West 12th Street
- Penthouse Rooftop Singles Party at Sir Henri
A Valentine’s Day Party for all who are single and ready to mingle. Enjoy a night filled with prosecco, small bites, a live DJ and dancing while soaking in the 18th floor view of Manhattan. For table reservations and a special gift, email email@example.com. Website link here.
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The chana dal under the brand name ‘Bharat Dal’ will be sold at the rate of Rs 60 per kg for one kg pack and Rs 55 per kg for 30 kg pack.
As many as 79 crore people, out of 81 crore entitled under the food law, are getting highly subsidised wheat and rice, Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said on Friday.
He asked the states to provide the names of the remaining two crore people so that they could also get cheaper foodgrains under the National Food Security Act (NFSA). Under this law, the government provides five kgs of foodgrains per person per month at Rs 1-3 per kg.
Replying to supplementaries during question hour in the Rajya Sabha, Paswan also sought to allay members' apprehensions about linking of Aadhaar to the scheme, saying those entitled would get the benefits even if they do not have the Aadhaar number.
"There is a provision of providing subsidised food to up to 81 crore people under the NFSA and 79 crore people are getting it. It is now the responsibility of the state governments to provide the names of the remaining 2 crore people who are entitled to the benefit," he said in the Rajya Sabha during question hour.
There are around 50 lakh people from UP whose names have not been provided, Paswan said adding that similarly, many in Bihar were also not availing the benefits.
Responding to members' concerns, Paswan also said that though the government wanted increased usage of Aadhaar, if a person does not have the unique identity number, it does not mean that he or she should be deprived of the benefits he or she is entitled to.
Speaking about the NFSA, the Union Minister said that the previous UPA government had also made a major contribution.
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Guided by the purpose of wellbeing, the essence of Norm Architects’ style is balance: richness focused by restraint, simplicity imbued with warmth, complexity heightened by order. Be it architecture, interiors, or furniture, Norm’s unique brand of soft minimalism speaks to the mind as much as the body, creating and curating spaces for all. The first self-curated monograph by Norm Architects, ‘Soft Minimal’ showcases a range of works which facilitated their establishment as key figures within Nordic design.
Just north of the bustling city center of Copenhagen, Norm Architects has carried out a full renovation of a private family home overlooking the water and a grand marina. With a focus on bringing out the house’s inherent modernist qualities and putting it on display, the home is now a calm refuge of clean lines and natural materials to retreat to in a busy everyday life.
Elegantly set in the beautiful East Anglian landscape, on the border of a working farm in Suffolk (UK), the Pavilion House is a real inside-out construction. The shapes and materials of the interior all carry a certain tranquillity and simplicity, while every room offers a different glimpse of the outside. There is a certain humility within the architecture, acknowledging that the big-ticket item in the setting is indeed the countryside; it doesn’t try to compete with it, but frames it instead.
Situated deep in the Swedish forests, close to a tiny winter sport area, a small traditional wooden retreat sits on top of a ridge formed millions of years ago. Besides the pine forest covering the fault, the surrounding landscape is a low undulating region of heaths and ridges that rise above gently sloping sandy beaches and small beach towns. Now completely remodeled, the space feels entirely intertwined with nature – both in terms of materiality and outlook …
Norm Architects have completed the interior refurbishment of the private residence “Sandbjerg Residence” in north of Copenhagen, marrying country house charm and contemporary sophistication.
Located in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka, K House is a secluded beach front property surrounded by lush greenery and breath-taking views…
Norm Architects has created the interior architecture for the 70 foot yacht “Bella”, the first of the Y/Yachts model Y7 manufactured in Greifswald by Michael Schmidt Yachtbau.
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Christmas is fast approaching and if you happened to see my last post, “buy with purpose” can be a serious challenge as time ticks down before 12/25.
One of my best friends recently told me about the “4-gift rule”. I had heard about it years ago, but never thought about it again. “Something they want, something they need, something to wear and something to read;” as I strive for more minimalish living, I love this concept, and started thinking about ways to incorporate it this year and in the future.
For kids, it can be challenging, especially as they get older… ‘Santa’s going to bring me every single LEGO!’, ‘my friend got 27 gifts!’ , ‘I told you I don’t like yellow anymore!’ … can all make parents completely crazy. Not that kids are intentionally ungrateful - but with all the commercialization of Christmas, it can be hard for young ones to understand that it’s a season of giving - not receiving. So as you shop for your children this year, consider these four plus optional three gifts to make the most of what you give:
The “4 Gift Rule”
Three “Bonus” Gifts
Stuff doesn’t have to be expensive or excessive. Try using the 4 gifts as your “Santa” gifts if you do Santa, or try it opposite.
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Brick oven pizzas are usually made with premium components and are generally served as individual pies. Pizza oven build. They can be found in a range of designs, consisting of Neapolitan, Roman, and Sicilian, and are typically topped with traditional components like tomatoes, cheese, and cured meats.
Due to the high warm of the Brick oven, pizza is commonly cooked in just a few mins, giving it a one-of-a-kind appearance and taste that establishes it aside from other kinds of pizza. Pizza oven build. Whether you prefer a traditional Margherita or a much more daring garnishes, a Brick oven pizza is a scrumptious as well as rewarding dish that will certainly leave you craving extra.
Ooni Pizza Oven
The Ooni Pizza Oven is a compact, portable outside pizza oven that is developed for making restaurant-quality pizzas at house. The Ooni Pizza Oven is best for outdoor events, camping journeys, and also backyard BBQs, as well as is very easy to carry and establish up.
Advantages of a Ooni Pizza Oven – Pizza Oven Build
1. Quick Cooking: With its heat and distinct layout, an Ooni pizza oven can cook a pizza in simply 60 secs, providing you the chance to take pleasure in a delicious and also warm pizza in a snap. Pizza oven build.
2. Versatility: Not only is an Ooni pizza oven terrific for cooking pizzas, but it can additionally be made use of to cook various other recipes such as steak, veggies, as well as also bread.
3. portable: With its small style and light-weight building and construction, an Ooni pizza oven is easy to take with you any place you go, making it ideal for camping, tailgating, as well as outdoor celebrations. Pizza oven build.
4. Enhanced Cooking Control: With its integrated thermostat and also adjustable flame control, an Ooni pizza oven provides you complete control over the cooking process, permitting you to prepare your food precisely just how you desire it.
5. Practical Fueling: An Ooni pizza oven makes use of lp gas as its gas source, making it convenient as well as easy to use.
6. Budget friendly: Compared to conventional wood-fired pizza ovens, an Ooni pizza oven is much more economical and also available, making it an outstanding option for those who intend to enjoy the delicious preference of wood-fired pizzas without the expense.
7. Easy to Clean: With its non-stick surface area and removable elements, an Ooni pizza oven is easy to clean as well as keep, making sure that it lasts for many years to find.
Bertello Pizza Oven – Pizza Oven Build
The Bertello Pizza Oven is a portable outside pizza oven that can be made use of for food preparation genuine, wood-fired pizzas in your very own yard. Pizza oven build. It is created to reach temperature levels up to 932 ° F and also has a integrated temperature level scale to keep an eye on the warm. The oven includes a light-weight and portable layout, making it very easy to deliver and also set up anywhere. The Bertello Pizza Oven is sustained by Propane, timber or charcoal and can prepare a pizza in just 2 minutes. It has a stainless steel construction, which provides sturdiness and cleans a wind. With the Bertello Pizza Oven, you can take pleasure in tasty, wood-fired pizzas right in your own yard.
Wood Fired Pizza Oven
A wood fired pizza oven is a type of oven that makes use of wood as the major resource of gas to cook pizza. It is a traditional as well as rustic method of cooking that has actually been used for centuries. Pizza oven build. The oven is heated by a fire that is developed inside the oven, which then distributes warmth to the cooking surface area. The high temperatures generated by the wood fire give the pizza a distinct and also delicious taste, in addition to a crispy and fluffy crust. The timber terminated pizza oven is likewise functional and also can be made use of to cook other foods, such as meats, vegetables, and bread. It is a prominent alternative for outdoor kitchen areas, restaurants, and also homes where food preparation with timber is a wanted experience.
Gozney Pizza Oven – Pizza Oven Build
The Gozney Pizza Oven is a high-end, professional grade pizza oven developed for both industrial as well as home usage. It is made from top notch, heat-resistant materials and also is created to give constant, also warmth circulation to make certain that every pizza is prepared to perfection. Pizza oven build. The oven has a big cooking surface, enabling you to cook numerous pizzas at once, as well as its insulation aids to maintain heat, so you can cook pizzas swiftly and also successfully. In addition, the oven includes a dampness control system that aids to control the humidity levels in the cooking chamber, causing flawlessly crispy crusts and juicy garnishes every time. With its streamlined style, convenience of use, as well as regular food preparation results, the Gozney Pizza Oven is an exceptional selection for any individual looking to cook restaurant-quality pizzas at home.
Pizza Oven For Sale
If you are seeking a pizza oven for sale, there are several choices offered. Right here are a few of the prominent choices:.
1.Wood-Fired Pizza Oven: Pizza oven build. This kind of oven uses wood as gas as well as can be warmed up in 30 minutes. It’s suitable for outdoor kitchen areas, patios or yard grilling.
2. Propane Pizza Oven: This kind of oven utilizes propane gas as gas and also is portable, making it easy to move from place to place. It’s a excellent option for outdoor events and also events.
3. Countertop Pizza Oven: Pizza oven build. This kind of oven is created for interior usage and is portable, making it excellent for smaller kitchen areas. It operates on power and also is best for making personal-sized pizzas.
4. Conveyor Pizza Oven: This type of oven is commonly located in industrial kitchens as well as pizzerias. It uses conveyor belts to equally cook the pizza and also is perfect for high-volume production.
5. Infrared Pizza Oven: This type of oven makes use of infrared innovation to prepare the pizza, causing a crunchy crust. It’s a excellent option for those who want a quick, convenient and also efficient way to make pizza in your home.
Regardless of the sort of pizza oven you choose, make sure it meets your needs and is within your budget plan. Pizza oven build.
Do It Yourself Pizza Oven – Pizza Oven Build
Constructing a DIY pizza oven can be a fun and satisfying project. Pizza oven build. Here are the steps to make your own pizza oven:.
1. Collect products: You will require firebricks, concrete, sand, a steel drum, steel mesh, as well as a chimney.
2. Develop the foundation: The structure must be constructed from firebricks. You can either build a square or round base, depending on the shape of your drum.
3. Install the steel drum: The drum need to be placed in the facility of the firebrick foundation. Make sure it is level.
4. Mix the cement: Mix the cement, sand, as well as water to make a thick paste.
5. Apply the concrete combination: Pizza oven build. Use the concrete mix to cover the entire drum, consisting of the lid.
6. Develop the smokeshaft: The chimney must be placed on the top of the oven. It must be made of metal mesh and also ought to be tall sufficient to allow smoke as well as warmth to run away.
7. Let it dry: Let the concrete combination dry totally, which need to take about 24 hrs.
8. Paint: Paint the outside of the oven to secure it from the aspects.
9. Light the fire: Light the fire in the oven and let it warm up for about an hour. Pizza oven build.
10. Prepare your pizza: Place the pizza on a pizza rock and also allow it cook for around 10 mins, or until the crust is crunchy and celebrity is melted.
Appreciate your tasty homemade pizza!
Which is the very best Pizza Oven?
Some of the best pizza ovens are:.
1. Uuni 3 Portable Wood-Fired Pizza Oven. Pizza oven build.
2. Ooni Koda 16 Portable Gas-Powered Pizza Oven.
3. Breville Crispy Crust Pizza Maker.
4. Cuisinart Alfrescamore Outdoor Pizza Oven.
5. Camp Chef Italia Artisan Pizza Oven.
It ultimately depends on individual preferences and also demands, such as budget, size, fuel resource, and also cooking capacities.
BBQ Guys Discounts – Pizza Oven Build
BBQ Guys supplies numerous discounts throughout the year. Several of the existing as well as recent discounts consist of:.
1. Summer Sale: Up to 25% off on select grills, outside kitchen areas, and devices.
2. Memorial Day Sale: Up to 25% off on grills, outside kitchens, and also more. Pizza oven build.
3. Dad’s Day Sale: Up to 25% off on grills and also outdoor kitchen areas.
4. Labor Day Sale: Up to 25% off on grills and also outdoor cooking areas.
5. Black Friday Sale: Up to 40% off on pick grills as well as outside cooking areas.
6. Cyber Monday Sale: Up to 40% off on select grills as well as outdoor kitchen areas.
7. Free Shipping: BBQ Guys uses cost-free delivery on orders over $49.
8. Coupon Codes: BBQ Guys provides various promotion codes throughout the year, which can be used to get discount rates on select products.
It’s advised to check the BBQ Guys site or register for their e-mail e-newsletter to stay upgraded on the most up to date discount rates and promotions. Pizza oven build.
An outside pizza oven is a type of oven designed for outside cooking, particularly for making pizzas. The BBQ Guys Pizza Oven is a premium, wood-fired pizza oven that is made to boost your outside cooking experience. Pizza oven build. Brick oven pizza is a kind of pizza that is baked in a wood-fired Brick oven. The Ooni Pizza Oven is a compact, portable outdoor pizza oven that is made for making restaurant-quality pizzas at house. The Bertello Pizza Oven is a portable outdoor pizza oven that can be used for cooking authentic, wood-fired pizzas in your own backyard. | <urn:uuid:b5821b5a-5b4e-4ec9-b32b-4b35443c7590> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.thetrendtribe.com/best-outdoor-pizza-oven/pizza-oven-build-best-outdoor-pizza-oven/ | 2023-09-23T17:27:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.956121 | 3,054 |
Ready for pizza? Electric Pizza Oven Commercial. Pizza ovens in a variety of sizes and styles that mimic wood-fired pizza ovens with incredible results. Versatile and portable outdoor pizza ovens for great pizza in your backyard or beyond. From wood-fired flavor to gas-powered reliability.
The 7 Best Pizza Ovens of 2022 for Indoor and Outdoor Use – Electric Pizza Oven Commercial
After strenuous testing, the most effective general choice is the Ooni Koda 12 Gas-Powered Outdoor Pizza Oven. Electric pizza oven commercial. This gas oven is easy to use, portable, and tosses out a prepared pizza in 60 secs! For an indoor version, have a look at the Breville Smart Oven Pizzaiolo, which resembles wood-fired pizza stoves with extraordinary results.
Why Choose A Wood Fired Pizza Oven? Electric Pizza Oven Commercial
Electric pizza oven commercial. One of the most traditional gas for pizza ovens. Wood fired cooking is the most effective way to get real, timber terminated preference out of all your meals. Electric pizza oven commercial. Verified over centuries to be reliable, as well as used specifically by leading cooks around the globe.
The two major downsides are longer warm up times ( generally 20 minutes plus) and extra tidy up from ash left behind by the timber.
The Breville Smart Oven Pizzaiolo is a marvel of design, clearly designed by a group devoted to making the ideal pizza from the convenience of your very own cooking area. Electric pizza oven commercial. It is the only electric option capable of accomplishing 700 ° F + temperature levels to reproduce the magic of a conventional wood-fired oven.
Pi Pizza Oven – Wood and Gas Burning | Electric Pizza Oven Commercial
The pizza oven for every person. Make wood-fired pizzas that thrill, or bake with gas by adding the gas burner. Electric pizza oven commercial. Pull good moments fresh from the fire with genuine design reinvented for the modern-day yard.
Why Choose A Gas Pizza Oven?
A wonderful alternative to link to an existing gas line, gas pizza stoves are available in both Natural Gas as well as Liquid Propane. Electric pizza oven commercial. Provided the fire is instantaneous, warm up times are in minutes, and also there’s no extra particles to clean up from ash.
Both main downsides are trouble to acquire a real, wood discharged preference for your dishes, and possible heater maintenance in the future.
Reaches Temperatures of 800 Degrees Fahrenheit If you’re looking to make restaurant-quality pizza at home, this pizza oven is your finest bet. DWYM Outdoor and also Garden Experts plus Countertop Pizza Oven, Pizza Oven Radar, Willy Smoke, Grillness.
Why Choose A Hybrid Pizza Oven? Electric Pizza Oven Commercial
The very best of both worlds. Electric pizza oven commercial. Offered in both Natural Gas and also Propane Gas for rapid warm up times, and also the flexibility to prepare with timber to achieve that delicious, timber fired preference, you can not fail with a hybrid stove.
The primary downside is price. For the added versatility, crossbreed ovens are a lot more pricey than gas and timber just choices.
Chicago Brick Oven | Authentic, Wood-Fired Outdoor Pizza Oven – Electric Pizza Oven Commercial
Chicago Brick Oven’s authentic, wood fired outside pizza oven layout is Neapolitan-inspired as well as made in the USA. Electric pizza oven commercial. From counter top or stand outside pizza stoves to wood-burning brick ovens or hybrids, Chicago Brick Oven has a online reputation for matchless product high quality as well as design advancement.
We provide outside kitchens, fire places, pergolas, pizza ovens, fire tables and far more, and we supply several assembly as well as delivery options to match your preferences. Fire-resistant materials. Electric pizza oven commercial. Fire and also wood belong with each other in a fireplace– not in your outside cooking area.
Timber Fired Pizza Oven. Gets to Temperatures of 800 Degrees Fahrenheit If you’re seeking to make restaurant quality pizza at home, this pizza oven is your best choice. DWYM Outdoor and also Garden Experts plus Countertop Pizza Oven, Pizza Oven Radar, Willy Smoke, Grillness. Electric pizza oven commercial. Along with customer testimonials from Amazon.
Top Pizza Oven Reviews. While looking into the most effective pizza stoves, we checked out hundreds of scores and also testimonies from professionals and also customers. Electric pizza oven commercial. Our testimonials include stoves that are durable, easy to use, as well as cook top-quality pizzas. Since we are assessing various pizza stoves, we intend to provide the very best suggestions, which is based around your requirements.
The Oster Convection Pizza Drawer is a best interior pizza stove and also must have for any type of house cook who desires fast as well as tasty pizzas, quesadillas or various other items up to 12 inches in size. Electric pizza oven commercial. With turbo convection warm modern technology, this functional electrical design can cook up pizzas and other foods to any size with ease!
Are pizza ovens any kind of good and also should you obtain one? Electric Pizza Oven Commercial.
In short, pizza stoves can be great, however not all pizza ovens are made equal. What’s more, pizza ovens can likewise prepare pizza in just 60 secs!
Since this pizza oven is wood fired, this oven bakes pizzas with a abundant, great smoky taste. It is excellent for baking pepperoni, beef, and poultry pizzas. As an included benefit, this pizza stove comes complete with devices enabling it to be made use of to cook hamburgers, steaks, lamb chops, fish, and a lot more. It is one of the most versatile pizza oven in this review.
The hearth pizza stove utilizes the copyrighted Air Plus System to get to preferred cooking temperatures in just 15 – 20 mins while consuming much less timber. Electric pizza oven commercial. Prepare to 4 pizzas at a time on the 32 x 24 inch fire brick food preparation surface.
Alfa stoves: quickly and also high-performance appliances. They light up promptly, warmth up to 500 ° C( 1000 ° F) in only 10 minutes and also can prepare a pizza in one minute hence decreasing power consumption and also waiting times.
Attempt this little outdoor stove, move your pizza celebrations outside. Find outdoor pizza oven bargains: Ooni Karu 16 Multi-Fuel Pizza Oven $799.00. Ooni Koda 16 Gas-Powered Pizza Oven, $599.00. Ooni Premium Natural Firestarter, Set Of 50, $19.95.
Ooni vs Roccbox: Which Is The Best Pizza Oven & Why Electric Pizza Oven Commercial
The Roccbox Is A Great But Flawed Pizza Oven. The Roccbox by Gozney is a functional exterior pizza oven capable of making use of 3 different sorts of fuel ( timber, charcoal and also propane). Electric pizza oven commercial. The Roccbox is completely able to deliver wood-fired deliciousness at temperature levels of as much as 950 ° F (500 ° C) which makes it perfect for Neapolitan style pizza.
Avantco CPO-12 Stainless Steel Countertop Pizza/ Snack Oven – 120V, 1450W Electric Pizza Oven Commercial
Promptly whip up deliciously cheesy pizzas and also other cozy snack foods with the Avantco CPO-12 counter top pizza/ treat oven! Electric pizza oven commercial. Constructed of long lasting stainless steel, this 1450W oven is large sufficient to hold up to a 12″ pizza. Its 2 1/2″ tall opening makes it simple to pack pizzas as well as other snacks on the managed wire rack, as well as a integrated 30 min timer lets you know when your treats are heated.
Empava Outdoor Wood Fired and also Gas Pizza Oven PG03 – Empava Appliances
A wood-fired pizza stove makes use of high temperature levels to present tasty tastes and also one-of-a-kind cooked textures to your food. There’s nothing higher than a delicious dish prepared in a yard pizza stove.
Pizza Ovens Wood Pellet Pizza Maker Portable Pizza Grill Outdoor – Electric Pizza Oven Commercial
Enjoy your very own made pizza with the mobile pizza oven! After ignition, the pizza stove only needs 5 minutes of preheating. Electric pizza oven commercial. It can warm up to 842 ” and also cook a pizza in a very short time. You can inspect the inner temperature with the integrated thermostat.
Empava Outdoor Wood Fired and also Gas Pizza Oven PG03. Electric Pizza Oven Commercial
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The need of the hour is a useful Metaverse
Updated: May 19
News articles have been rife with the Struggles of Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse, and his vision of a utopian future, where billions of people would inhabit this immersive virtual environment where you work, play in a hybrid augmented/virtual reality. In our view, it does not matter about the billions of dollars already spent. However, to make the Metaverse ubiquitous like the web is in our lives, it should become a collaborative environment where multiple vendors build this world together, combining their different strengths to make this vision a reality, and most importantly the metaverse should be useful.
The easiest way to describe the Metaverse would be to use key movies that have illustrated this theme. You have the Matrix series, Inception and even Tron, which have successfully demonstrated what a Metaverse could look like or feel like. But the problem is much deeper. Environments that have been created so far are run by either a single company, without a collaborative vision and the potential pitfalls are so much deeper than just a “Metaverse.”
Let us focus on our Humans first
With the dependency on Virtual Headsets, like the Meta Quest 2 and the Meta Quest Pro, you are limiting the scale of usage and controlling the type of users who could access this universe. Technology should not be a limiting factor; it should allow us to reap the benefits and leave the disadvantages. After all is it not easy to just go back to the web and dump the metaverse? Shouldn’t the usage be tailored to adapt to current user habits and behaviours rather than try to force new ones down their throat?
Ideally, we should try and create technology, and its dependent technologies to motivate us in a direction that could be ideal. It should allow us to meet new people in new environments that we otherwise could not meet in real life, have new interactions, encourage new ideas, and finally foster fundamental changes that benefit humanity. That is exactly what kind of technology we need right now.
Building a useful Metaverse
We understand that the metaverse is a steppingstone to something bigger and conceivably better. I think after all, we have a genuine understanding of what we want. The end goal is having the virtual world overlaid upon our physical world, where we can interact with our present reality with more information and services in a more interactive manner. It’s not about adding computer animations, and graphics onto our physical world, which serves no purpose and is ultimately just a gimmick. In fact, we need a way to present experiences, information, and services in a way that merges both the physical and digital world.
The Ideal Metaverse
To create an environment where hundred of millions of users spend their day to day lives, we need just two basic steps to make this a reality.
Consistency both in experience and expectations
The ability to marry the physical world in real-time to the real world.
So, let us focus on how we get there.
So, what do we mean by consistency? It is simple. It is a ‘shared stage’ of sorts where everyone is not only seeing the same thing, but they are also experiencing the same thing. And this is across devices and not dependent to one vendor, one operating system, one universe or one region.
Like how Google Maps recently and very cleverly I might add have launched augmented reality (as a new feature) allowing you to see the surroundings to match the actual environment to your destination. Now imagine this, being able to navigate across multiple levels. You reach the building, and Google Maps tells you that you need to go to the 32nd floor, but before that you need to check in to the reception, which requires some sort of identification to enter. This is a use case that is tailored for the real world, and hence adoption is going to be a lot easier because it makes our lives easier, taking care of mundane tasks.
Now let us take a step further. Instead of allowing you to physically check in to the reception, Google Maps could take care of this, submitting your ID via an automated system, and allowing you to use the NFC system on your phone to get through the boom gates, and all of this done in advance well before you even reach the location. It is like the usual GPS with a ton of added features and services that just make sense. If such a service was available, wouldn’t you use it?
Wearables that don't make you look like a robot
While we understand that it takes time and numerous iterations to improve this technology, AR is yet in a very nascent stage of its development. A ton of innovation is required to really build and manage the flow of information, and 5G is a step in the right direction. But the fundamentals are the same. We need to deliver this complex technology in a way that is socially acceptable.
We have evolved from the days of mainframes to computers, to PCs to laptops to smartphones to smart watches. The one thing that is constant is that technology and processing power has evolved, and the size has reduced. Creating wearables can make this new reality malleable, but to make it useable it must mimic real use cases, and most importantly real life.
Yes, we need to start somewhere so this trend continues, but a starting point of $1,500 for a Meta quest is prohibitive to making this Metaverse a reality. And the fundamental problem is if we are creating for the initial subset of users (i.e., people who have a disposable income of $1,500 to splurge on a bit of technology), we are limiting the future developments to cater to that user group. When you want to revolutionize something as fundamental as how we access technology, and if we are aiming for the Metaverse to replace or be an alternative to the web, it needs to be created for the masses. Let us face it, the current and future potential applications of the Metaverse should not be restricted to the gaming and entertainment industries.
Businesses across all domains need to not only start preparing for the Metaverse but have a larger voice in how this unique environment/world is created. It’s not about competitive edge anymore, it’s the fundamentals of how technology should be leveraged for humanity’s needs.
The ultimate immersive experience
This is exactly what the Metaverse is. Like Zuckerberg said:
The metaverse is the next frontier in connecting people, just like social networking was when we got started… Over time, I hope we are seen as a metaverse company, and I want to anchor our work and our identity on what we’re building towards.
Fine speech, but to do that, you need everyone working on board. I mean after all the Horizon World should ideally be using a combination of Unity and Unreal Engine to create a better more realistic world. If you want a virtual world that imitates our real world, you need the digital environment to have the right textures that makes it feel close to our physical reality, with a little bit of photorealism.
This collaborative experience can ideally be laid out in multiple stages:
Enablers lay the foundation of the core technology which the Metaverse runs on. They should ideally cover the basics like governance, security and privacy, and also facilitate the operation of the metaverse economy. This is where Web 3.0, Blockchain, AI, crypto currencies and NFTs would ideally be situated.
The infrastructure covers the hardware and software requirements for the Metaverse, but let’s go a bit deeper. To us, infrastructure is also the environments, the core world. Just like it is in our physical world.
Platforms & Tools
Platforms and Tools allow the creation and deployment of Metaverse experiences. This could be Web Browsers, Dapps, App Stores, Render Engines, AI services, etc. But more importantly this is where you try to build a coexistence of immersive technologies like AR, VR, Unity and Unreal Engine, sort of cooperating with a slight modification of experience, depending on the device used.
Content is the final piece. This is where developers, creators and even users are active. In an ideal metaverse, your users create the world and the environment which drives the overall Metaverse experience, either through a mimicry of the physical world, or an alternative world where your imagination is allowed to run wild.
Our Ideal Solution
It's simple. Democracy.
Allow the creation of an open source metaverse which allows organizations and people to borrow systems and applications to build a shared universe that is virtual and could be a bridge between the physical and the virtual world. This allows a proliferation of technology and applications, as people will end up building for their own preferred use cases, kind of how the web started and grew.
Why waste a lot of time for no reason and allow a single company to be burdened with such a huge responsibility? Share it, distribute it, and this is how we build a new web, which is not only useable for the bulk of users, but can evolve and grow in the future without limitations and hinderances.
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Mate for Each Other
After a happily married computer-matched couple sell Jack on the merits of computer dating, the fun begins when Jack secretly signs up.
- The trio receives a visit from an old friend. Joan, and her new husband, Tom. Tom and Joan met through a computer dating service and try to convince Jack that he, too, can find his "Ms. Right" through a computer. Jack says he is not interested, but secretly makes a date through the dating service. Despite Larry's ribbing Jack is determined to follow through and goes to the restaurant to meet his date. When "Ms. Johnson" arrives, she turns out to be Janet! Jack and Janet end up having a wonderful but unromantic time. They are embarrassed about the situation, and once they get home, decide not to tell anyone about it. Unknown to them, Terri overhears and misinterprets their conversation. Then Larry comes in, follows Terri into the bedroom and tries to comfort her. Jack and Janet overhear them and misinterpret that conversation. In the end, the four get together and all the misunderstandings are cleared up. | <urn:uuid:34c04618-6faf-4f60-9323-820c13511420> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.threescompany.com/episode/mate-for-each-other/ | 2023-09-23T16:38:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.960352 | 242 |
Thrillz On Wheelz is the Ultimate Mobile Entertainment for Calgary and southern Alberta Schools, Churches, Camps, Fundraisers and more!
Looking for a new way to bring excitement to your next school function, civic event, fundraiser or festival? The Thrillz On Wheelz Mobile Video Game Theatre is perfect for fund drives, academic and attendance rewards, safe graduation and prom entertainment! We also provide gaming entertainment for Alberta’s Summer and Day Camps, Youth Groups or Kids Clubs! Need something new and unique for your Church Event, Fair or Festival, Fundraiser or Open House? We provide the best in mobile video gaming fun and we bring it to you!
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I had to go to my mom’s house today and check on it like I do quite often. However, today it was raining. There’s something about rainy days that make me think about memories of long ago days.
When I walked into the old dinning room I was reminded of my mom’s long table with her various tablecloths . She always had a different tablecloth on her long dinning room table. She felt that it was a standard necessity to have. She had one white laced tablecloth that she used on special occasions. I can remember her pulling it out for when she would bring a date over for the first time to meet me. She also pulled it out on other special occasions as well.
I honestly didn’t understand why it was such a big deal to have a special tablecloth. However, looking back I think it made more of a difference than I wanted to admit. Decorations play more of an impact on memories than one realizes until a person can no longer be involved with the person who made those memories.
I know Christmas, New Year’s Day, and now Valentine’s have all passed now recently. However, we do still have many other holidays coming up. I feel that my mind set has changed about creating more memories for my kids to remember. I’ve seen many wonderful ideas all over Pinterest. I feel it’s time to start actually making them with the kids. | <urn:uuid:5797e7ef-8074-4614-aaf7-a0c78b6156b4> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.tidbitsofexperience.com/rainy-day-memories/ | 2023-09-23T17:18:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.984483 | 302 |
About the Fart Citation Pad
As a responsible citizen it's your duty to police other people's behavior–the good, the bad, and the gassy. Issue this semi-official-ish citation for squeezing the breeze and cutting the cheese, whether offenders are friends, coworkers, loved ones, or total strangers. Do your part to enforce clean-air standards, not to mention good manners!
- Because all things fart = funny gag gifts
- Prank stuff to up your funny dad game!
- 4 x 6.5 inches, 60 sheets
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If we feel confident we can get your items delivered to you, then we're happy to ship them. For the United States we use either USPS or UPS and for international orders we exclusively use USPS. All of our shipped items include tracking.
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We want you to be pleased as punch with what you buy! We will be happy to return or exchange new, unused merchandise within one week of receipt. The original shipping cost is nonrefundable, and you will be responsible for returning the item to us. Please contact us for a return authorization before sending anything back.
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When we say this ride pulls 4 Gs at 60 mph, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out it must be wild fun. Let’s review: 4 Gs + 60 mph @ 160 feet off the ground = major adrenaline rush. We would double dare you to try this, but your friends will take care of that.
Single Skyscraper Rides: $28.50 per person
Height Requirement: 48″
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Thats' right, version 1.04 of Smash Remix adds in Konami's Goemon – or 'Mystical Ninja' as some of you might know him. This in itself is pretty cool, but that's not all; the new update also brings with it Peppy Hare (Star Fox), Slippy Toad (Star Fox), Polygon Ganondorf (Zelda) and Polygon Falco (Star Fox).
Smash Remix is described as a mod which aims to stay true to the feel of the original Nintendo 64 game while expanding it via new fighters and stages. It also has a focus on tournament-level play.
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When Jacquelyn Scott checked her mailbox in August, she found a letter from an unexpected sender: the Environmental Protection Agency.
Its message was even more surprising. A facility less than half a mile away from Scott's south Memphis home -- one that she didn't know existed -- emits ethylene oxide.
In its letter, the EPA told Scott and other residents that ethylene oxide is about 60 times more dangerous than it previously thought but assured them that the facility at 2396 Florida St. was following regulations.
Scott said she scanned the letter and put it aside. Soon after, she got an email from Memphis Community Against Pollution about a meeting at the South Branch Library to discuss ethylene oxide's cancer risk. That message got Scott's full attention.
Sterilization Services of Tennessee appeared on the EPA's list of high-risk facilities in August, but the company has refused to comment until after there are new regulations on the books.
About 85% of ethylene oxide releases are fugitive emissions, meaning they escape through vents, doors and windows, but EPA regulations don't account for this type of emission. The EPA is moving to enact tighter restrictions on the chemical's emissions, but a pending lawsuit claims the agency has already missed two deadlines for new standards.
The dangers of ethylene oxide
Sterilization Services uses ethylene oxide to disinfect medical and dental equipment. It's one of about 100 commercial sterilizers in the country. Some of the chemical properties that make ethylene oxide an effective sterilizing agent are also the same reasons it's carcinogenic to humans.
If someone near the facility is exposed to ethylene oxide all day, every day, from birth until age 70, their cancer risk is 2,000 in a million -- 20 times higher than EPA's acceptable risk level.
The risk in the outermost parts of Memphis' area impacted by Sterilization Services is about 100 in a million, which meets EPA's benchmark for unacceptable risk. That's in addition to residents' risk of developing cancer for reasons other than chemical exposure.
Scott has unknowingly lived on the residential street closest to the facility -- less than half a mile away -- since 1986, so she attended Memphis Community Against Pollution's meeting about the cancer risks to learn more.
Prior to that meeting, the EPA also hosted two community meetings in October at Monumental Baptist Church on South Parkway, where EPA representatives shared a detailed overview of ethylene oxide and assured residents that the agency is working on more protective regulations.
But Scott, and many other residents, said they missed the memo; either they don't remember getting a letter from the EPA in the mail, they didn't see the invitation to the meeting in that letter or they didn't understand the risk.
After learning more, Scott wondered: "Why all of a sudden? What happened that brought this to (EPA's) attention?"
Lawsuit hopes to give EPA a deadline
In 2016, the EPA learned that ethylene oxide is 60 times more toxic than it previously estimated. In 2019, it announced plans to draft new regulations for the chemical. In 2021, the EPA's Office of Inspector General urged the agency to draft a new rule. Otherwise, the office said it can't guarantee that its regulations protect public health.
The EPA set a deadline for spring 2022, but after the agency pushed its own deadline back multiple times, an environmental law group took action in the hopes of getting the EPA on a court-mandated schedule.
In a new lawsuit, Earthjustice -- on behalf of California Communities Against Toxics, Clean Power Lake County, the Rio Grande International Study Center, the Sierra Club and the Union of Concerned Scientists -- claims that the EPA has missed multiple regulatory deadlines.
The agency did not respond in time for publication.
The Clean Air Act requires the EPA to review its emission standards at least every eight years. The lawsuit's lead attorney, Marvin Brown, acknowledged that rulemaking is a delicate process that requires a lot of information but said more than 16 years have passed since the EPA reviewed its ethylene oxide regulations.
"By failing to timely revise its sterilizer rule, EPA has left communities to fend for themselves against a deadly, cancer-causing chemical," Brown said. "No one should get cancer from the facilities that make sure that medical equipment is safe."
It wasn't until August that Memphis residents learned of their exposure. That's when the EPA published a list of the 23 highest-risk facilities.
"Our regulations are not protective enough. The rules are not good enough," Madeline Beal, EPA's senior risk communications adviser, told Memphians in October.
Too close to home
The ethylene oxide-emitting facilities are most often in low-income neighborhoods and communities of color, which are already grappling with health risks from heavy industrial activity, Brown said.
From Scott's front yard, she can see plumes of smoke from Valero over her neighbor's houses to the right. Sterilization Services of Tennessee is to the left, just around the corner.
"Everybody under the Clean Air Act is entitled to clean air, and right now, we're creating sacrifice zones," Brown said.
Vera Holmes is the president of the Mallory Heights Center for Community Development. It's one of a few neighborhoods in the facility's vicinity. She's been walking door-to-door, telling people about their risk from ethylene oxide, along with the other industrial facilities in the area.
"It's so bad within this community that people are truly walking dead," Holmes said. "So many people are so sick."
Other communities in different parts of the country learned about their cancer risk from ethylene oxide years ago.
Urszula Tanouye lives in Willowbrook, Illinois, about 20 miles southwest of Chicago -- and at the time, about a mile away from Sterigenics, a facility that emitted ethylene oxide.
In mid-2018, Tanouye learned about the neighborhood's risk after EPA employees requested an emissions study. Bill Wehrum, assistant administrator of EPA's air and radiation division at the time, directed local EPA officials to not release the data yet.
They published the report regardless, but later took it down.
It was too late, though. The mayor had a copy of the report and posted it to Willowbrook's website. The results revealed a higher-than-expected cancer risk from Sterigenics' ethylene oxide emissions.
Within days, the community packed a town hall with wide-ranging attendees: the mayor, state politicians, EPA officials, the county health department and representatives from Sterigenics.
A federal report a few months later confirmed the risk. Air monitoring continued for about six months, and in early 2019, Illinois strengthened its state ethylene oxide regulations. The Illinois EPA issued a seal order, effectively shutting Sterigenics down until it complied with new state regulations.
By September 2019, Sterigenics closed its doors. Once a facility closes, the risk ends, because ethylene oxide doesn't linger in the air for long.
Brown said Willowbrook is an outlier in many ways: It's wealthy (the second-wealthiest county in Illinois), majority-white (about 80%) and it's the only place he knows of a commercial sterilizer closing its plant. The community also benefited from the presence of a local EPA warehouse, which Tanouye said kickstarted their case with air monitoring data -- something that other communities have to fight for.
"We worked hard for it, but we also got lucky," Tanouye said.
By now, the conversation about ethylene oxide is over for most of Willowbrook. Some residents are already settling lawsuits, including one individual who received $363 million in damages.
But some advocates such as Tanouye have kept reaching out to communities that are just learning about their risk, like Memphis.
Local government looks to what it can do
"This is pretty much history in Black America," said Angela Johnson of Memphis Community Against Pollution.
At Memphis City Councilman Edmund Ford's request, EPA's Caroline Freeman delivered a virtual presentation to the body Jan. 10. She's the director of the air and radiation division.
"EPA is concerned about this risk," Freeman told the council.
Some of the other high-risk facilities that the EPA identified have voluntarily reduced emissions until the agency's new rules are in place; Sterilization Services of Tennessee has not, but its sister companies in Georgia and Virginia have, Freeman said.
If the local facility doesn't voluntarily take action, Ford said he'd like to see it closed. The council unanimously approved a resolution Jan. 24 urging Sterilization Services of Tennessee to voluntarily reduce its ethylene oxide emissions ahead of more protective EPA regulations.
"It seems like we're moving ahead, but it almost seems like it's at a snail's pace," Councilman Jeff Warren said.
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The Israel Innovation Authority has set out to double the number of women entrepreneurs it backs over the next two years, and has approved an incentives program to provide increased support of startup initiatives led by women.
The aim of the decision is to make a “significant step” toward narrowing the gender gap and increasing the number of female entrepreneurs in the Israeli innovation ecosystem, the authority said in a statement.
Under the new plan, women-led start-ups — which means that women hold at least 33 percent ownership and a managerial or technological role in the company — will be eligible for research and development grants of up to 75% of the company’s R&D funding in the first year of the program, and 70% of funding in the second year, with a budget cap of up to NIS 2.5 million ($690,000) in the first year and NIS 4.5 million ($1.24 million) in the second year.
In addition to the grants, the Innovation Authority plans to set up a dedicated support program for women to enable them to access all of the tools that the authority makes available to fledgling entrepreneurs, including helping them overcome funding challenges and create networking opportunities with potential investors.
As Israel faces an annual shortage of some 15,000 skilled workers — engineers and programmers — the nation is tapping into populations, including women, Arab Israelis and ultra-Orthodox sectors, who have been left largely sidelined by the tech boom.
According to research cited by the authority, only 8% of Israeli startups are led by women — similar to much of the Western world. The percentage of applications submitted by female entrepreneurs in 2017-2018 to the Israel Innovation Authority’s Early Stage Incentive Program was about 10% of total applications.
“The designated incentive program for women-led ventures is a tool aimed at fulfilling the inherent potential for technological innovation in all segments of Israeli society,” the authority said in the statement.
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By "unbalanced approach" I mean they put most, if not all, their time, effort & money into one or two (fun) aspects of prepping, while ignoring all the rest. Some may buy gold and silver; others guns and ammo. Still others may get way into gardening. Which is fine. The mistake they have in common, though, is ignoring all the other (less fun) aspects of prepping to focus exclusively on their preferred prep.Yet preparedness requires attention to a wide variety of potential problems and their solutions, not just the fun ones.
Here is a great example of what I mean: Several years ago when the Doomsday Prepper series was all the rage, a local TV news program did a regular segment featuring local preppers. One of the "preppers" featured was an somewhat older man (probably early 60s) who showed off his gun collection with great pride. I don't remember the exact number, but it was something like 89 firearms of all types. When they interviewed his wife, she complained that he simply wasn't interested in other aspects of prepping like food and water storage, and they still hadn't gotten those basics squared away yet.
The gentleman simply wasn't a prepper or survivalist. He was a gun collector. Nothing wrong with that, but simply having a lot of guns doesn't make you prepared, if that is all you are doing. Being a "prepper" was simply the excuse he gave his wife for buying all those guns.
I think some folks make be making a similar mistake with gold and silver. The radio and TV ads make it seem simple: buy some gold and silver, then rest comfortably in the knowledge that you are prepared for any economic meltdown or collapse of the dollar.
Precious metals certainly may have a place in any preparedness plan, but by themselves gold and silver are not a preparedness plan. Once doomsday happens, you are going to need more than just some, or even a lot of, gold and silver to survive.
The solution is simple: Don't concentrate all your efforts into only one or two categories of prepping because they are more fun than other preps. You need to also do the less fun stuff of getting your finances in order, paying off debt, learning first aid & CPR, learning home repair courses, acquiring hand tools and gardening equipment, learning how to garden, getting you communication plans squared away, prepping your home security, and accumulating at least a year's worth of food, water, medicine and other supplies, among many other things.
Here are a couple of articles of mine you may also be interested in:
- A quick, no frills, down & dirty guide to preparing for the End
- End-of-Year "To Do" List for Preppers and Survivalists
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With a lightweight, breathable weave, this stitched and embroidered Giraffe Appliqué Long Sleeve One Piece allows for year-round fun. Like the short sleeve versions, it merges form and functionality with an envelope neckline, ring-snap closures, and a narrow stitching process using a low-sheen thread.
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What’s new in converting: industry leaders respond
Gambini and PCMC replied to Tissue World´s questions on what their most recent converting technical developments are, and how they give customers a competitive edge
What technical developments can we expect in converting for 2012 and beyond?
Catoni: “The main issues are technical developments that ensure a high quality finished product that doesn’t neglect the converting line’s flexibility and efficiency. This means that for 2012 and beyond, our focus is on our latest innovation, the TOUCHMAX, on which a pattern change is achieved in three minutes directly from the HMI control panel. The selected roll configuration settings are completely automatic, no manual operation is involved, which maximises safety at work and reduces changeover time.”
Spinelli: “The Forte Industrial is with no doubt the most important innovation among our recent developments. Two complete lines are already installed and in production, while two more are scheduled for delivery in the first and second quarter of 2012 respectively: each of them has been specifically developed, involving a dedicated R&D effort that day by day adds new features, continuously enhancing every single component of the Forte Industrial line.
“Among the most innovative aspects of the Forte Industrial are: the TNT system (tension nip torque) for a uniform winding tension, and the special core chucks with two degrees of freedom. In the course of 2012 our R&D team will be dedicated to the study of further enhancements focused on every single unit comprising our lines, and in most cases these will be considered confidential projects carried out for specific customers.”
What are the latest opportunities/challenges for converting companies and their customers in 2012?
Catoni: “The main challenge is to be able to meet market needs and demands. For example, retailers are now increasingly demanding various embossing patterns in order to increase and diversify their products range. The main challenge facing converting companies is to have the right equipment to achieve maximum flexibility without increasing the production cost.”
Spinelli: “PCMC’s challenge in recent years and for the ones to come is to provide the highest level of technology even to mediumlevel converters: we apply our top-of-therange standards and the consequential benefits are also beneficial to lower-capacity machinery ranges.
“We are currently developing a Forte line for a speed range of 600 mpm that is able to offer exactly the same benefits as the wellknown Forte 800 line: maximum accessibility and design simplicity, operator friendliness, lower maintenance, supreme product quality, complete reliability, material and energy waste reduced near to zero. A line for medium-size converters that will be profitable not only at the moment of purchase but during the entire course of its production life.”
What new ways are you ensuring that the quality of cut is consistent?
Catoni: “We put a lot of attention into the sharpening unit and our products are equiped with a servo motor that ensures accurate movement. We strongly believe that our stationery cut combined with our sturdy universal log clamps are ideal for higher quality.”
“We are helping our customer’s costs by providing reliable and efficent equipment designed to ensure constant quality.” Luca Catoni, Gambini
Spinelli: “PCMC has recently introduced the Ecotrim®, a highly innovative patented system built into PCMC continuous motion log saws. The two clamps holding the log being cut follow the movement of the blade and are placed very close to one another. The benefits are improved cut quality, especially the end cuts; reduced length of trim cookies on BRT and HHT (max 15 mm); improved product appearance; less cut length variation, which improves downstream reliability.
“Last but not least: shorter trim length (saving transport and/or recycling costs) meaning either an extra roll per log (when combined with a slightly shorter cut length), or same productivity with narrower paper; or a slightly longer cut length with the same paper.
“Ecotrim® provides these benefits with no additional floor space and ease of changing web width.”
What features are you incorporating to minimise downtime between changes in print design, embossing design or roll format?
cantilever system and gearless technology ensuring a quick sleeve change-over and a fast accurate colour phasing, reducing machine downtime and minimising waste. “Our embossing machines are designed to reach maximum flexibility, and our solution allows a quick roll change without any mechanical intervention directly from HMI, therefore reducing to the minimum machine downtime.”
Spinelli: “For years PCMC has been offering customers effective devices for reducing change downtime, such as the well known Easy Change and Quick Change series of embossers, the Net technology, the quick change of cliché on printers, cantilever systems and automatic cleaning after colour change. “Today we are working on some confidential projects that will lead to a further evolution of the embossers, through increased adjustment precision of the rolls and further maintenance reduction.”
Which particular automation features distinguish your converting technology, and how do they improve productive efficiency?
Catoni: “The main features are the automated roll positioning on our embosser combined with the loading pressure control adjustment from HMI. The innovative embosser-laminator TOUCHMAX allows pattern change in three minutes reducing machine downtime and therefore improving efficiency.”
Spinelli: “The Forte Industrial rewinder features the core diameter change from panel thanks to which, in a few seconds, the threefreedom- degree winding nest is reconfigured in a completely automatic way from a core diameter of 35mm to 90mm. The complete automation of this tool-free operation allows reduced access to the machine for higher safety, while at the same time increasing productivity thanks to the rapidity of the changeover.”
Identify one or two areas of technology in which your converting systems really stand out.
Catoni: “Definitely embosser-laminators. All Gambini units are designed and manufactured to guarantee an easy, quick and safe product changeover, and they have common predominant features: simplicity, flexibility and reliability. The embossing units can all be equipped with automated loading pressure control and our latest development, FlexLess embossing rolls, ensure a constant nip at any working pressure, therefore there’s no need for crowned rolls and/or skewing devices.”
Spinelli: “Again three devices featured by the Forte range. First of all the reduced foldback length, adjustable from panel in a range from 20 to 45 mm.
“Secondly the TNT (tension nip torque) system, a technology dedicated to the converting of high-density rolls. While on traditional rewinders it is possible to control only the position of the riding roll, the TNT system allows control of the overall nip exerted on the log during its growth. This means a uniform control of rider roll, upper and lower rolls during winding, that translates into consistent winding and uniform winding tension. This system will be available in 2012, with the first installation being planned in a new line in early 2012.
“PCMC’s challenge in recent years and for the ones to come is to provide the highest level of technology.” Stefano Spinelli, PCMC
“The third aspect is the active core position control allowed by special core chucks with two degrees of freedom (horizontal and vertical). The core does not follow the free movement of the growing log but can be controlled and adjusted in position, with great benefits on the quality and characteristics of the winding.”
How are you helping your customers with their costs and quality requirements?
Catoni: “Providing reliable and efficient equipment designed to ensure constant quality.”
Spinelli : “Guaranteeing profitability for the customer while at the same time maintaining high quality of the product is the main target of PCMC R&D activities.
“In particular, in recent years we have successfully worked to reduce energy consumption on all machinery and the waste of material at all levels: some examples of this are the minimised consumption of glue for core gluing; the elimination or remarkable reduction of the trim on the final cut of the log, thanks to the no-trim system. This is a consequence of the anti-coning effect of the log allowed by the active core position control on the Forte rewinders.” | <urn:uuid:0a091742-5551-4f25-8362-250e710f07c6> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.tissueworldmagazine.com/12_febmar/12_febmar_features-technical-reports/ | 2023-09-23T17:36:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.924197 | 1,776 |
OUTSIDE "REAL WORLD" PROJECTS
One of the benchmarks of TFX is outside "real-world" projects. From time to time, we are called upon to fabricate items for collectors, independent film makers and businesses. Below is some of our recent work.
We made the candle head and hands.
Muscle suit, hands, head cowl, legs and hoofed boots. Off the shelf prosthetic, altered and applied by students.
Hand crafted cart with working gears and ax chopping action.
To help kick off the first year of the Berea-Midpark merger, and the new TitanFX program, we worked on a project for a local eatery. The objective was to make a one of a kind prop - and it had to be GORY! | <urn:uuid:07c160b6-e3b3-4047-b7c0-ce455d4a3698> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.titanfx.org/untitled-mainPage | 2023-09-23T19:00:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.957485 | 165 |
Understanding the pet store-puppy mill connection, most animal lovers get their new dogs from reputable breeders or rescue organizations. The number of rescue groups has escalated during recent years, but sadly, not all “rescues” are legitimate, and with photos of adorable animals and sad stories told, it is not always easy to spot the signs of a con waiting to happen. Scams target people of all backgrounds, ages, and income levels, and they look like the real thing, using many clever techniques to con people into donating money…..scammers are professional at convincing people that they are helping dogs that, without their help, may not survive. When animal lovers give money to a group and later find out they have been duped, the most common comment is “But they are such NICE people.” NO, they are not such nice people….they have learned to be smooth and charismatic, and know that the “nicer” they appear, the more successful their scams will be, and the more money they will bring in.
Knowledge is the strongest defense against scammers posing as rescues, so learning the red flags can help protect you from fraud. Just because a person flashes a not-for-profit authorization does NOT necessarily mean it is a trustworthy group; most scammers have somehow obtained not-for-profit status, and will usually have an official looking folder filled with official looking documents. They may be members of the highly respected Petfinder.com organization. However, I was very disappointed last week when Kristen Winterhalter, Outreach Coordinator for Petfinder.com confirmed that “Petfinder doesn’t get involved with members’ operations,” which sadly means that it is up to the individual adopter to sort out the good from the bad. Beware: a slick, sophisticated web site does not guarantee integrity!
Legitimate rescuers will request references as well as information about your living situation and experience with pets. Many require a home visit to help determine that the animal’s needs will be adequately met, and they emphasize their willingness to take the pet back if you are unable to care for him. Animals are spayed or neutered prior to adoption, and, although animals, like humans, can have minor health issues despite having received appropriate medical care, an attempt has been made to identify any illnesses, and documentation from a veterinarian is given to the adopter. Legitimate groups do not regularly change the name of their organization or claim various associations. They do not suggest meeting at the local convenience store, or random places to transact business. They provide paperwork to verify any statements made.
Fraudulent rescue groups may have a heart-wrenching sob story with the scammer “pushing your buttons” to convince you that the poor animal may never find a home unless you take pity on her. Often they claim that they have spent a great deal of money on medical treatment, but will give you a “special deal” if you will take her. Ask to see vet records for medical expense and ask specific questions. Insist on documentation, and don’t accept vague answers, or a promise that the papers “will be sent to you.” Check with neighbors, veterinarians, and other rescue groups IN THE AREA where the group is located. If your gut feeling tells you something is not right, check with the local authorities.
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For inspiration in designing her latest collection, Nicole Miller had to look no farther than her 15-year-old son.
"He let me in his backpack," Miller quipped backstage after debuting her spring collection at Fashion Week on Friday. Her son, Palmer, grinned.
Miller's collection seemed aimed at a downtown, 20-something woman, with many references to street chic, from bicycle clothing to messenger bags to bomber jackets. Above all, there was color — bold bursts of it.
"It's no longer black with a little color," she said. "It's color, with a little black."
Asked her influences, she mentioned "the whole bicycle thing — I got really interested in vintage bicycle clothing. And skateboarding, and Formula One." Indeed, her notes for the show referred to "a skateboard shredding through the air, the zooming tempo of an inline track, the velocity of a bicycle racing toward the goal."
Yet there was some delicacy, too, with one of the biggest hits a gray and peach beaded dress with graceful cutouts in back.
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One would have to be young, thin and gorgeous to pull that one off — even more so, perhaps, to pull off two sheer applique tanks that proudly displayed the wearer's breasts.
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Apple iPhone 6s Specification
- Up to 14 hours
- 12 MP
- Screen Size
- 4.7" in
- SIM Type Nano SIM
- Internal memory 16GB
- Cellular support 2G 3G 4G
- Maximum Talk-time Up to 14 hours
- Bluetooth 4.1
- GPS A-GPS and GLONASS
- Wifi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac
- Weatherproofing / IP Rating Not rated
- Operating System Apple iOS
- Colour GREY
- Weight (grams) 143
- Memory card slot None
- Processor 2 GHz Dual-core
- Chipset Apple A9
- Dimensions 138.3 x 67.1 x 7.1 mm
- Screen resolution 1334 x 750
- Screen size 4.7"
- Screen type IPS
- Type IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
- Size 4.7 inches, 60.9 cm2 (~65.6% screen-to-body ratio)
- Resolution 750 x 1334 pixels, 16:9 ratio (~326 ppi density)
- Protection Ion-strengthened glass, oleophobic coating
- Camera Megapixels 12
- Camera Flash LED
- Selfie Camera 5 Megapixels
- Technology GSM / CDMA / HSPA / EVDO / LTE
- 2G bands GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
- 3G bands HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100
- 4G bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 28, 29 - A1688
- Speed HSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps, LTE-A (2CA) Cat6 300/50 Mbps, EV-DO Rev.A 3.1 Mbps
- Announced 2015, September 09
- Status Available. Released 2015, September 25
- Weight 143 g (5.04 oz)
- Build Glass front (Gorilla Glass), aluminum back, aluminum frame
- SIM Nano-SIM
- OS iOS 9, upgradable to iOS 13.5
- CPU Dual-core 1.84 GHz Twister
- GPU PowerVR GT7600 (six-core graphics)
- Card slot No
- Internal 16GB 2GB RAM, 32GB 2GB RAM, 64GB 2GB RAM, 128GB 2GB RAM
- Single 12 MP, f/2.2, 29mm (standard), 1/3", 1.22µm, PDAF
- Features Dual-LED dual-tone flash, HDR
- Video 4K@30fps, 1080p@60fps,1080p@120fps, 720p@240fps
- Loudspeaker Yes
- 3.5mm jack Yes
- WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, hotspot
- NFC Yes (Apple Pay only)
- Radio No
- USB 2.0, proprietary reversible connector
- Sensors Fingerprint (front-mounted), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer
- Stand-by Up to 240 h (3G)
- Talk time Up to 14 h (3G)
- Music play Up to 50 h
- Colors Space Gray, Silver, Gold, Rose Gold
- Models A1633, A1688, A1691, A1700
- SAR 1.14 W/kg (head) 1.14 W/kg (body)
- SAR EU 0.87 W/kg (head) 0.98 W/kg (body)
- Price ? 28,999 / $ 119.99 / £ 149.00 / € 149.00
- Performance Basemark OS II 2.0: 2195
- Display Contrast ratio: 1481 (nominal), 3.783 (sunlight)
- Camera Photo / Video
- Audio quality Noise -93.8dB / Crosstalk -73.2dB
- Battery life Endurance rating 62h
iPhone 6s Deals
When it comes to getting the best iPhone 6s deals, you have an incredible range to choose from. Apple tech remains popular and in-demand years after it was first realised and the iPhone 6s is no exception thanks to the robust build and high-end quality that the California technology giants impart on all their mobile phones. So, although it was released a few years ago, the 6s still features everything you need from a smartphone and makes the perfect choice for a wide range of users.
It is the older style design with the central home button and heavyset frame that is really iconic of the first generation of handsets before the made the switch to infinity screens with the iPhone X and everything after that. If you are looking to get an iOS handset but find the newest flagship phones out of your budget range, an older model is undoubtedly the way to go. You get all the functionality and style at a price your pocket will really love, and we have gathered the best of reviews from all network providers to help you find the perfect deal for you.
iPhone 6s Contract Offers
Pay monthly deals remain the most popular way to get a new handset, as unlike pay-as-you-go, you can accurately predict your monthly payment and budget accordingly. In order to make sure you are never left with any nasty surprises, it is essential to choose a deal that offers everything you need and leaves you safely away from going over your allowance in any area. Mobile phone contracts tend to comprise three main areas, the talk time, texts and data allowances.
It is very common to find unlimited calls and texts, so you won’t go over your allowance there, but you can be charged for certain premium numbers to be sure to understand what these are. If you do call these there is no warning and the call charges will be added to your next bill. The same applies to texts, most of which will be free and within allowances but things like competitions etc. that are entered via text message will generate a charge on your next bill. Most providers have itemised billing available, so if you are concerned, you can check to see what you have been charged for.
iPhone 6s Big Data Deals
Data is the most problematic area and one that lots of people get wrong, resulting in unwanted charges at the end of the month. Data kicks in when you have no access to WiFi and use apps or push and pull data over the internet, so things like sending and receiving emails or streaming movies. If you primarily live connected to WiFi and have it at work as well as the home you might not have a very high data requirement, but if you rely on your mobile to be your internet source then you might want to consider a big data deal.
More and more providers are offering these now as they realise that customers are living on the go and need access to more. Before you sign up to any deal you need to consider how much data you will use, some of the big data deals are so big they are actually unlimited, in which case you are not going to be at risk of going over your allowances. Of course, these deals cost more money, and therefore you should pay for what you need plus a little more to allow for unusual days when things might not go according to plan.
iPhone 6s Cheapest Deals
What this ultimately means is that the cheapest deal on offer might not be the best for you, as if it only contains 1GB of data and you use considerably more you are going to find your monthly bill is always a lot more than you wanted it to be. By all means, shop around to get the best price but do it based on the amount of data you need. If you find 30GB of data will be enough, then compare all deals in that price bracket and find the cheapest of those.
There are also other ways to save money when it comes to getting a pay monthly phone deal, firstly there is a saving to be made if you are prepared to contribute to the cost of the handset, and each contract will show you how this can be done and what impact it has on the price. You will also find that some deals come with cashback, which means you save money on what usually would be a higher spec deal. This can either be automatic meaning the network applies it for you or something you need to claim, in which case you must remember to do as asked to get the benefit.
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DUIs are on the decrease. Strict penalties, harsh rules, and constant patrolling by police personnel have resulted in DUIs decreasing all over America. However, this does not mean DUIs do not happen. New York and Brooklyn experience several horrific DUIs every year. According to the Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility, there are about 344 alcohol-impaired driving fatalities in the city every year. More than 195 of these people were under the age of 21 and repeat offenses are common.
Drunk with Kids
Take the case of Anthony Pollydore. According to the Post, Pollydore was drunk when he braked abruptly and rammed into a street light. His passengers, five-year-old son, and 11-year-old and 12-year-old stepsons, were jerked about in the car and were critically injured. In fact, the 11-year-old died of his injuries. This was Pollydore’s third DUI offense.
Similarly, a veteran NYPD detective was arrested for driving while intoxicated while he was off duty. According to Onlinenews.com, James Nash crashed his Cadillac into to the corner of West 4th Street on Wednesday evening. This arrest was just one of the many arrests involving NYPD police officers and alcohol.
In another unrelated case, 26-year old Garfield Gwood was arrested for driving his BMW into a stationary garbage truck. One of the passengers in the BMW died while the driver GWood and another passenger were listed in critical state. Gwood apparently already had an outstanding warrant for DWI.
Although these are scary examples, all of them are true and terrifyingly common. New York and its suburbs are struggling to control flaring DUI levels and they’ve now implemented a multi-pronged program to control the DUI menace.
- Enforcement programs – The state plans to up their roving DUI patrols all over popular highways.
- Tighter court procedures – The state has decided to create a dedicated DWI attorney or prosecutorial staff. The DWI attorneys will be educated and trained on special procedures required to convict repeat offenders. The court will also set up supervisory programs for repeat offenders and a DWI support unit for the victims as well.
- Probation programs – First time offenders will have to complete a compulsory safety driving program. They will also be intensively supervised and a support unit would be set up for victims of DUIs and DWIs.
- Public education – One of the best ways to reduce DUIs and DWIs is by educating the public. The state plans to set up an intensive media program during sporting, cultural, and musical events to promote safe driving.
The Right Kind of DUI Attorney
Although this kind of a multi-pronged approach is a prudent idea, it may take a long time to actually start showing effects. For first time offenders and repeat offenders, this is going to be a really tough time. DUIs are hard to beat and with New York’s strict DUI program, almost every offender will require a marvelous and dedicated Brooklyn, NY accident attorney. The offender may not get off scot-free but a stellar Brooklyn, NY accident attorney may be able to minimize the penalties and fines as much as possible. | <urn:uuid:6e545c07-660d-4800-92b3-9d8acfa36e24> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.tornasolbroadcast.com/2014/11/24/brooklyn-experiencing-a-flare-in-duis/ | 2023-09-23T17:18:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.97545 | 664 |
Saints transformed a 12-0 deficit into a 12-20 victory as the champions scored 20 unanswered points to prevail over a depleted Wakefield side.
Chris Chester was down to 17 fit players as eight players were stood down due to one positive Covid-19 case, but the game went ahead as planned.
Tommy Makinson made his well-anticipated return after completing his five-match suspension, while James Graham will be out for two weeks after being forced into 14-day isolation.
Wakefield stormed into a 12-point lead in the opening quarter; Reece Lyne’s in-field kick was captured by Alex Walker in support and Ryan Hampshire’s short ball allowed Craig Kopczak to crash over.
Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook broke through tackles by three defenders to slam the ball down and Josh Simm’s adventurous offload provided Lachlan Coote with a simple finish. Coote’s second conversion meant Wakefield had their first half-time lead, albeit two points, of the season.
Regan Grace broke the second-half deadlock on 62 minutes when he received a delicious looping pass from Jonny Lomax and weaved in-field to cross.
James Roby broke through the line and found Lomax, who showed great vision and gifted an in support Coote for his second of the night, while Coote’s conversion boosted Saints into a two-score lead.
Matty Ashurst scored a consolation in the final minute as he showed determination to dot the ball down in the in-goal.
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Note: This feature is in the Aug. TT&C 2015 issue.
Jacob, age 2, sits on an 864G Bobcat. He later scratch-built one of these using card stock and hot glue.
The large model pictured here is an X331 RC Bobcat excavator, made by Echo Toys Ltd., that is in mint condition. This is one of Jacob’s favorite models.
Two of Jacob’s Bobcat models. The smaller one is an M-T55 mini track loader that he scratch-built from card stock. The larger Bobcat is a T-250 compact track loader that was also built out of card stock.
Jacob and his father, Ron Heshelman, at the Bobcat factory in Gwinner, N.D.
Jacob Heshelman of Williams, Ind., is a fairly normal teenager. In school, he participated in track, basketball and bowling, and he is eager about entering Mitchell High School, as a freshman, this fall.
Perhaps his only unusual behavior is his love of Bobcat model toys. “The first model I remember ever owning was a T-200 Bobcat compact track loader,” the 14-year-old said. “I was very young when my parents bought it for me, and I totally trashed it over time. Most of the models from my childhood met similar fates, but as I’ve begun to seriously collect Bobcat models, I have searched for the models from my childhood. I now have a mint-condition T-200 that I got from the local dealership.”
When he was about 10 years old, Jacob became a serious collector. “My first true collectible model was a die-cast T-200 Bobcat compact track loader, made by Ertl, that Dad purchased from Hopf Equipment in Jasper, Ind. This is the model that replaced my childhood model and that whetted my appetite for collecting and customizing models. I began customizing about two years later.”
Jacob likes the Bobcat company because it is an American-based manufacturer of farm and construction equipment. The company sells skid steer loaders (what most of us consider Bobcats), compact excavators, compact utility vehicles, compact tractors and other small hydraulic equipment under the Bobcat brand name. It is a major manufacturing company operating in North Dakota.
Melroe Manufacturing joined with the Kellers to introduce the four-wheeled M-400 model skid-steer loader in 1960. By 1962, Melroe began using the name “Bobcat” as its trade name for such products. The rest, as they say, is history.
In all, Jacob has about 300 models in his collection, with 52 Bobcat models. He also has Bobcat rugs, banners and hats.
“I consider the Bobcat advertising part of my model collection, because many of the pieces were given to me and are one-of-a-kind. For example, I have two Bobcat hats that were given to me. Both were custom stitched with Bobcat logos. I’ve never seen any other hats like them. I also have a limited advertising piece that I received from a dealer. It is 1 of 50, made for dealerships only.”
Jacob has chosen to ignore scales when choosing a model. He concentrates on detail, quality of the model and the company the model represents. Although he loves Bobcat, he also has Case, Caterpillar and other companies represented in his collection.
“I have a large collection of tractors, dump trucks, skid steers and bucket trucks,” Jacob said. “I have a lot of different equipment, and my collection is growing every day. Dad has promised to help me build a new display case in our basement to showcase the collection.”
The first model that Jacob customized was a die-cast T-770 Bobcat compact track loader (manufactured under a Bobcat licensing agreement).
“I put on a complete forestry package with a forestry mulcher head. I had seen the real machine in operation and thought it was a neat piece of equipment. When I looked for a model of it, I discovered there weren’t any, so I customized my own. I added guards to the cab, a front door, a back window, guards on the lights and hydraulics, and, of course, the forestry mulcher head.”
Not only was the T-770 Jacob’s first customizing job, it has proven to be his most difficult. “The T-770 forestry cutter is a detailed piece of equipment,” Jacob said. “It has safety glass, air intake covers and hydraulic guards. The hydraulic hoses are very small, and I have big hands, so it was hard for me to install the hoses on the cutting head. Also, cutting the foam and shaping it for the cutting head was difficult because it needed to be shaped in such a way that the blades could be easily attached. I guess customizing my most difficult model first trained me to take on harder customizing jobs.”
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The unique feature of the Himalayan Zoological Park is that it is more of a natural habitat for wildlife than the conventional zoo that limits the movement of animals. Situated 3 km from the city and on a scenic hillcrest, the sprawling 230 hectares of land captivates your senses. The picturesque surroundings of the zoo include the majestic Khangchendzonga range. The altitudes of the park, range from 6545 feet to 8152 feet and you would love your walk through the rich greenery. When human mind seeks natural environment to relax and unwind, is it not justice to let animals enjoy their natural abode? Though zoo is the only way through which man can view wild life directly, the thought behind Himalayan Zoological Park to ensure the best atmosphere for wildlife in the process is very inspiring.
More than the variety of animals you see here, it is how you see these animals that matters the most. Within the small enclosures that restrict animals in a normal zoo, you will be seeing the animals minus their spirits. Here, the enclosures are so huge that you have to walk a good distance to reach each of the ‘enclosures’. This ‘home’alike’ atmosphere makes animals move about with their spirits intact.
The zoo was established in the year 1991. Owing to the splendid and massive shelters for the animals, you may end up viewing lesser animals during your visit. Here, it is the animals’ world and they live the way they are used to and comfortable with. Even if you spot only a few animals, you will be glad to have viewed them real ‘live’. Some of the wildlife seen here are snow leopard, clouded leopard, leopard cat, Himalayan black bear, red panda, barking deer and Himalayan palm civet. Never mind if you missed a few, the dense forests have more on offer. Your mind will be fully occupied being amidst the stunning landscape with lush greenery and flowers that you will have far more to say on your return. | <urn:uuid:cbd47860-1835-430e-8a88-70fd9db4c0ab> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.transindiatravels.com/sikkim/gangtok/himalayan-zoological-park/ | 2023-09-23T17:29:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.925302 | 425 |
Due to the enclosed nature of the Crater it has virtually formed its own ecosystem. Besides the stunning scenery, one of the main attractions of this area is the variety of flora and fauna found in a remarkably compact area all year round. In the South west corner there is the Lerai Forest, which is mainly comprised of yellow fever trees (a member of the acacia family). To the north of the forest is a shallow soda lake called Lake Magadi and to the east you will find Gorigor Swamp and the Ngoitokitok Springs where pods of hippo are to be found. The north of the Crater is, on the whole, much drier and consists of the open grasslands which characterizes the Crater floor; this is where the majority of the resident game resides.
You are guaranteed to see large concentrations of game on any Ngorongoro safari. The mineral-rich floor of this spectacular bowl is largely flat, open and covered in nutritious grasses – much to the liking of large herds of zebra and wildebeest, which graze here. These extensive open plains are also home to herds of buffalo, Thomson’s gazelle, Grant’s gazelle and Tsessebe (often called topi). You’ll also find East Africa’s best population of black rhino here, which are often seen in open grasslands. Breeding herds of elephant pass through the Ngorongoro Crater itself only rarely, but you will see a scattering of old bulls, including some of the biggest tuskers left alive in Africa today. The only surprising absentees from the Crater are Impala and Giraffe; it is thought that this is perhaps because of the lack of open woodlands and browsing species of trees which these two tend to thrive on.
The high numbers of herbivores supports the densest populations of predators found anywhere in Africa. The reliable presence of these predators has helped to make an Ngorongoro safari so popular. The Crater’s lion population varies significantly over time, the one constant being their complete disregard of vehicles; they will hunt within yards of a vehicle, and when exhausted even seek shade beside them. Spotted hyenas are even more common here, often competing with the lion, and there’s are a small but growing number of cheetah. Leopards are around, especially in the vicinity of the Lerai Forest. Side-striped and the lovely golden jackal are often seen skulking around, whilst bat-eared foxes are a rarer sight.
Having waxed lyrical about the Ngorongoro Crater’s wildlife, the reality of safaris there isn’t always as amazing. The sheer number of vehicles in the crater, combined with its open environment, can destroy any sense of wilderness. It can feel crowded and busy. Often, this will be mitigated by amazing game sightings, but not always. So whilst the Ngorongoro’s wildlife is stupendous, the Ngorongoro Crater safari experience isn’t always as good as you might imagine. | <urn:uuid:626f88b5-ad95-48ca-9fa3-071cb77a0a09> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.transleninvestments.com/tanzania-safari-destinations/ngorongoro-crater-safari/ | 2023-09-23T18:30:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.955082 | 653 |
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Why You Should Visit a Casino in Essex this Year
Holidays give you the opportunity to refresh, relax, and have fun. If you are looking for a place to visit in the coming holiday season, consider Essex as the perfect destination. There are several things you can do in Essex. However, apart from the beautiful scenery, luxurious hotels, and museums that people commonly praise, an underrated activity is visiting one of the city’s land-based casinos.
If you’re looking for a superb casino experience while in the city, you should definitely visit one of their land-based casinos. The gaming industry in Essex is promising, and each of the city’s casinos offers a variety of games. Especially if it’s your first time playing, you might want to learn how to play a few of the most popular games before entering one of these Essex casinos and starting to play. Since you’re dealing with money, it’s important to educate yourself on the games, and be responsible when playing. There is always the option to visit online casinos like platincasino.co.uk to practice from the comfort of your home, while also educating yourself on the variety of games before heading to a physical casino.
That being said, once you’re properly educated on the games and you’ve decided you’re going to visit Essex as your next travel destination to have a brilliant experience at one of their land-based casinos, make sure you do so by being responsible.
Enjoy your time off with in a different way
Essex County boasts some of the best tourist destinations in the United Kingdom. Some must-visit destinations include:
- Colchester Zoo to watch the wildlife.
- The Essex coastline to enjoy the ocean breeze and have fun on some of the most beautiful beaches.
- Lakeside Shopping Centre.
After a long day of activities, how will you be spending your night? Of course, you can’t just go to bed immediately. It would be best if you had some time to mingle and make new friends. As mentioned earlier, Essex boasts some of the best nightclubs and elegant casinos in the country. You can have a fun night out by visiting a nightclub to dance all night long or a casino to play your favourite casino games.
Casino games are so much fun, and there are so many of them
Casinos in this city offer a unique and memorable experience. You can play all your favourite casino table games and slot machine games when visiting one. Enjoy a few drinks, explore new meals, and enjoy the music in the background while you’re at it too. However, if you can’t make it along to one of the casinos in Essex, then you can still have some fun by visiting an online casino that offers live casino games during your stay.
The casino atmosphere in Essex is brilliant
This city is the home to some of the best casinos in England. Essex has grown into being one of the most attractive destinations for casino players. If you’re ready to meet other casino players from around the globe, then Essex is one of the best places for you. Visit one of these casinos to be part of the incredible atmosphere they offer.
To visit the clubs after your casino experience
Gaming and clubbing are some reasons many travellers love visiting Essex. If you are yet to visit this city, then you are missing out on a lot. The city boasts some of the best nightclubs in the region. After visiting one of the casinos, the night would still be young. So, get ready for a great night out. Essex is an excellent entertainment destination for locals and tourists. Its proximity to London also gives Essex an edge over other tourists destinations in the region. Some of the best clubs in the city include Garage Brunch, Unit 7, and Faces Nightclub. Make sure to check them out.
Essex is one of the best destinations for anyone looking for an excellent casino experience. However, the city has a lot more to offer besides its elegant casinos. These include the nightclubs, restaurants, and several other marvellous destinations. Furthermore, there are multiple affordable top-rated hotels within the city where you can stay at during your stay. It’s a no brainer, visit Essex!
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Besides being in Ghana for the wedding, we wanted to do some local exploration. Ghana does not have much of a developed tourism industry. There are several worthy sites, one of them was rather close to where we were staying, so we hired a tro tro (minibus that functions similar to a taxi for more people) to take us there. I’ll talk more about transport options in my next post.
Just down the coast road from the hotel back towards Accra is Cape Coast. Here we visited the Castle which has served many purposes through the years, but its best known as the last stop for thousands of slaves before being loaded on boats bound for the new world. It was originally build by Sweden in the 1650s as a trading post and changed hands various times through the centuries. It is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Knowing the history and the horrors of what went on here makes it a somewhat emotional place to visit. The tour guide mentioned that there are a lot of American guests who visit to follow the footsteps of their ancestors. I can certainly relate since I’ve done the same in some of my past travels in Munich and other places to walk where my ancestors did.
Here are some photos:
Views from the Castle
From the top of the castle there are some great views of the surrounding beaches and city.
This was an interesting stop on our trip in Ghana. Maybe I like visiting darker places on occasion in my travels, but I guess I feel history shouldn’t be sanitized. This is an easy spot to reach, its right in Cape Coast which has bus service from Accra, or taxis would work too. I like historic places, and this particular location has a long and interesting story to tell.
Next post on my Ghana trip will discuss some of the transportation I experienced and a visit to another site nearby, Kakum National Park for a tour above the trees.
Other posts about my Africa trip:
- A Trip of Firsts
- Initial thoughts on my trip to Ghana
- United 787 Dreamliner BusinessFirst from Houston to Lagos
- An extended layover in Lagos Nigeria and a flight on Africa World Airways
- Cash only in Accra, Ghana, and Africa in general
- The drive from Accra to Cape Coast with a van full of wedding guests
- A stay at the Ko-Sa Beach Resort, Cape Coast, Ghana
- Exploring history of the slave trade in Cape Coast (this post)
- Travel to Kakum National Park and being the only obruni on the bus to Accra
- A flight on Arik Air and a longer layover at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos
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Tri-C is a partner with the Ohio Department of Higher Education in supporting students who are committed to majors in the STEM fields: science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medical/health careers.
Choose Ohio First (COF) program scholarships are awarded at Tri-C on a competitive-application basis, and may be renewed until graduation. Scholarship recipients participate in a variety of activities promoting creativity, collaboration, self-confidence and degree completion.
A COF student’s specific activities are determined in collaboration with a faculty mentor. All Tri-C students meeting the COF eligibility requirements may apply for a COF scholarship, but students in underrepresented populations are especially encouraged to apply.
COF program admission is limited to fall semester. Program rules do not permit spring semester admissions.
For consideration, an applicant must be entering Tri-C for the first time (see College Credit Plus exception below) and meet all of the following criteria:
- An Ohio resident with the current legal status to remain permanently in the United States.
- New Tri-C student status as of the first term in the COF program. For College Credit Plus (CCP) students, new-student status is defined as the first term at Tri-C since graduating from high school.
- Cumulative 3.0 grade point average or higher on a 4.0 GPA scale, based on either high school or transfer transcript (Tri-C transcript for former Tri-C CCP students).
- Be eligible for college level English and Math
- Enrolled in at least 6 credits of college-level (1000-level or higher) classes relevant to the student’s academic plan for degree completion during each semester of participation.
- Declared major in an approved STEMM discipline – questions about eligible majors may be directed to Rebecca Stolzman, 216-987-4660 or firstname.lastname@example.org.
- Available to attend and participate in Choose Ohio First activities.
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I get lost in a bookshop – browsing, flicking and sipping (since most have coffee shops attached). But there’s one bookshop in the UK that goes beyond just “selling books” - Waterstones.
What I love about Waterstones is that every so often you come across a book with a hand-written note from a staff member explaining why they loved reading the book. A simple gesture that brings an expert and authentic influence to the customer experience.
Employees of Waterstones clearly love to read (I wouldn’t be surprised if this pre-requisite is part of their recruitment process). Selling books is a job. Loving to read is a passion.
Building trust with potential buyers is the absolute foundation of Social Selling and Employee Advocacy. According to the State Of Sales 2018 Report by LinkedIn, it’s more important than ever for sales professionals to earn and maintain trust as consumer scepticism of big brands peaks. In fact;
- 51% of decision makers rank trust as the #1 factor they desire in a salesperson
- Followed by responsiveness (42%)
- Expertise in the field (42%)
- Problem solving (37%)
- Transparency (34%)
Note that creepy, pushy, aggressive and desperate aren’t in the list? Brand authenticity is key to building a trusted customer experience.
Onalytica recently published Employee Advocacy 2.0: Leveraging Influence in partnership with Tribal Impact. A 50+ page white paper packed full of insights about employee advocacy from experts across the industry exploring the power of connecting influential employees to market influencers via authentic conversations.
Creating Expert Influence In An Authentic Way
Simple. Your employees represent the most credible voice of your brand. By enabling them to be part of your brand conversation on social media will scale the reach of your message, drive quality conversions and build a pipeline of relationships that will convert at a much higher ratio than any other lead source.
At Tribal, we often engage with companies that have either invested in an employee advocacy tool or LinkedIn Sales Navigator licenses but are still struggling to measure the impact.
1. Different Employees Will Adopt Different Roles On Social Media
I hate to break it to you, but not all your employee’s will want to be on social media at work. Accept that and move on. Understand the role each employee may want to play in your advocacy plan.
- Some won’t be interested (that’s fine by the way – leave them alone)
- Some will share content.
- Others will curate content.
- A few will want to create content.
We use our Employee Social Media Impact quiz to identify where your employees currently are and where they want (and sometimes need) to be. It helps us target training more accurately.
2. Discover Your Strongest Advocates And Potential Influencers
There are a couple of ways to do this.
Use LinkedIn Sales Navigator and create a Lead Search for employees that work for your company. Use the Spotlight bar along the top to focus the search on those that have shared in the last 30 days. You have just discovered a subset of employees that already see the value in being active on LinkedIn. You don’t have to convince them. Hurrah!
You can do something similar with Twitter. Use FollowerWonk and search bios for mentions of your brand. You can then sort this by Social Authority and Followers. You can quickly build a picture of your active employees on Twitter.
3. Fast Track Your Experts With Enablement And Support
You’ve identified your experts/potential experts. Help them optimise their LinkedIn profile so it reflects their personality and specialist area using keywords. As they create content, they will attract more attention so make sure their profile is tip-top.
Now you can support them with training and/or copy-writing to transfer knowledge out of their head and into fully optimised content for your website. Use social listening to understand trending topics and suggest themes. Use platforms like BuzzSumo to understand what kind of content you need to invest in.
4. Get Expert Generated Content Into The Hands Of Your Employees
This is where employee advocacy platforms fit perfectly. Encouraging employees to share peer content is going to be a lot easier than encouraging them to share marketing content. It’s more appealing for several reasons – it’s not promotional, it’s authentic and it’s written by a colleague.
Advocacy tools make it easy for nervous employees to share content on social media. It’s pre-approved and therefore safe. It can be done via an app and therefore easy.
More importantly, they provide you with the analytics to demonstrate the impact of employee generated content and employee sharing on your website traffic. Use the UTM tracking codes within the advocacy platforms to feed into your Google Analytics dashboard and start measuring the impact of employee generated content vs other content.
5. Give Your Employees A Platform To Voice Their Expertise
If you want to scale this approach and encourage other employees to follow, make it easy for them. No-one goes from “sharing content” to “writing 2000-word blog posts” overnight. At Tribal, we use Passle for ‘commentary blogging’. A quick way to impart our insights around current articles and news stories.
Provide a platform where employees can openly share their expertise at their own pace and in their own time. Provide training and support at various stages of the employee social media learning journey. Offer feedback, optimisation services and analytics to encourage long-term participation.
A Staged Approach To Employee Advocacy 2.0
Building influence through employee advocacy and social selling needs a holistic staged approach.
- First understand who your current social champions are. These will be the people who advocate to other employees internally.
- You then need to appreciate (and accept) not all your employees will want to use social media for work. That’s okay. Don’t force it. Certainly don’t mandate it. This is a cultural shift that will happen over time.
- Next, create social media training tailored to the needs of your employee community. Each employee will start their social media learning journey from different place and perspectives. Also understand they will learn in different ways.
- Finally, appreciate that this social business transformation doesn’t happen overnight. You’re signing up to a marathon, not a sprint and it takes endurance.
Driving Social Business transformation can be a lonely journey. You will face objection and frustration but this is part of the adventure towards transforming your organisation.
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Originally posted by Balzz
If anyone knows an LCBO that still has it in stock, I will be in your debt. It's getting embarassing buying the little 1 oz. bottles.
Originally posted by SneakyPete
A friend of mine bought a bottle at the LCBO at the Bayview Village plaza. Bayview and Sheppard. | <urn:uuid:5a738222-5e31-4852-a7fa-c6ec1505b638> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.tribemagazine.com/board/threads/soho-lychee-liqueur.5194/ | 2023-09-23T18:21:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.949799 | 76 |
The day is drawing near and this weeks ThursDIY Boo-fest is full of sparkly, spooky, fun projects to get you and your home ready for Halloween.
Cathie Filian gets us started with this awesome EEK Halloween Marquee Sign.
We’re always learning with Mark Montano, who shows us How to Make Paper in this easy to follow video.
Need a quick and totally fabulous costume? Margot Potter shares her Sparkle Kitty Mask plus 3 more!
Heather Mann of Dollar Store Crafts makes these super cute and quick Sugar Skull Coin Purses.
Introducing the newest member of our ThursDIY group Aunt Peaches who made these oh so chic and sparkly gourd decorations in her Pimp My gourd DIY.
The days are getting cooler and Mark Montano wants you to stay chic and warm with this Pom Pom Scarf DIY.
Looking for a detailed tutorial to create your own Day of the Dead Makeup? Look no further.
Stephenie Hamen will make our decor simply spooky with this A Wonderfully Wicked Wreath tutorial.
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10.25" x 14.5" Acrylic on muslin over mdf
This piece nicely demonstrates my love of an internal logic that when examined piece by piece doesn’t seem to hold up but somehow makes perfect sense when viewed as a whole. A yellow curve intrudes on a horizontal line, a green one passes over a vertical line and bends its top. Everything lines up but it isn’t immediately clear why.
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Iranian Soldiers Take Control of Iraqi Oil Well
Iranian troops have again entered Iraqi territory, though in a disputed border section, and taken control of an oil well in the al-Fakkah field, about 200 miles from Baghdad. — JCL
Wait, before you go…
AP via Google:
Iranian troops have crossed into Iraqi territory and seized an oil well that lies in a disputed area along the two countries’ southern border, Iraq’s deputy foreign Minster said Friday.
The deputy minister, Mohammed Haj Mahmoud, said Iranian troops seized oil well No. 4 Thursday night in the al-Fakkah oil field, located about 200 miles (about 320 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad. The oil field is one of Iraq’s largest.
[…] “We are coordinating with the Oil Ministry regarding this issue. This is not the first time that the Iranians have tried to prevent Iraqis from investing in oil fields in border areas. Tomorrow, we might summon the Iranian ambassador to discuss this issue,” Mahmoud told The Associated Press.
The al-Fakkah field is considered a shared field between Iran and Iraq, meaning both nations are able to pump oil from it, but the Iraqis consider oil well No. 4 theirs.
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Daniel Nagel is an investment advisor representative with TSFG, LLC with over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry. He is licensed in securities, holding Series 7 and 63 registrations with LPL Financial and Series 65 registration with TSFG, LLC. Dan is also licensed in insurance. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois in Champaign with a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Dan has been recognized for the following awards:
- 2011 – 2022 Chairman’s Club – LPL Financial. This distinction is based on an annual production ranking of registered financial advisors supported by LPL Financial. This ranking based on production puts Dan in the top 6% of the firm’s advisors nationwide.
- 2012 – 2015 Five Star Wealth Manager as seen in Chicago Magazine. Award based on 10 objective criteria associated with providing quality services to clients such as credentials, experience, and assets under management among other factors. Wealth managers do not pay a fee to be considered or placed on the final list of 2012-2015 Five Star Wealth Managers.
As the original financial planner of Baxter Credit Union in 1996, Dan devoted his time and skills to building its financial planning practice. The program grew from zero assets to 150 million dollars under management in just eight years.
Dan enjoys watching sports. His favorite teams are the Cubs, Bears and his Alma Mater, Illinois. Dan enjoys spending time with his family, playing golf and traveling. | <urn:uuid:d336f06e-21a0-41b3-ae66-ff77258cbbc8> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.tsfinancialgroupllc.com/team/daniel-m-nagel | 2023-09-23T18:36:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.964838 | 294 |
The days and years have sped so rapidly by, and now I find that not only am I no longer young. I’m past the years called middle age.
I also find that as I continue to grow older, I truly need Your help and stamina to keep me close to Your house of prayer. The Devil would have me think of my aching bones and worn muscles.
It is true that at times I am unable to get out to church, although You know, Lord, how much I really want to come. Yet, I pray that I may not give in to Satan by using my minor aches and pains as excuses to stay home from worship on Sunday and Wednesday nights, opting to follow the easy way by watching TV.
Lord, as I near heaven’s gate, may I be found more and more in prayer. Satan would try to deter me by whispering that I have prayed enough down through the years, and that since I am old, I do not need to spend as much time in that exercise. May I always remember that the Devil is a liar.
Lord, help me also with my Bible reading. You know how Satan tries to make us think that the stories recorded in Your Word are “old hat” by now. I have gone over them time and time again, but I know better than to believe I have learned everything there is to know about them. Take me back to the Book with a new zeal and a renewed ardor.
Help me to keep on serving by being faithful in my Sunday school class, by attending the monthly mission service downtown, by helping in the convalescent home outreach, by writing notes of cheer to others, by keeping myself joyfully active rather than becoming mousy and withdrawn, by being young at heart–even when my body tells me that old age is slowing me down.
Lord, the baits of Satan are a bit different for me now than they were when I was younger. I am no longer tempted by lustful pastimes or superficial pleasures. Yet I am tempted to boredom, even to monotony, and this spills over into my spiritual life.
Can I dare forget that it is still more blessed to give than to receive? Or that giving can be merely a cup of cold water in His name–a smile, a handshake, a call, a greeting card, a right attitude, an encouraging word, a pat on a child’s shoulder, an uplifting word to a teenager, an intercessory prayer. There is still a great deal that I can do of worth.
Lord, my hands are not pretty like they used to be. They are not smooth and muscled like they once were. But they still can clasp another hand in Christ’s love. They can make a pie for someone else. They can pick up a phone to call another person with the note of Christ’s love and encouragement.
Lord, my mind is not always as alert as it once was. But it still recalls past answers to prayer, the wonderful services I have experienced, the memories of bodily healings and spiritual touches from heaven. So remind me to share my faith in Christ with those who are younger. Help me to encourage and lift those who are starting out on the Christian walk.
Lord, I see the teens and remember when I was young. But don’t let me pass the youth by, myself contributing to the generation gap. Instead, help me to put my arm around their shoulders, to whisper in their ears that I am praying for them. It is easy to be critical. But, Lord, I want to love them.
Lord, I need You now as much as I’ve ever needed You. I am growing older. In the short time still allotted to me on earth, please make me more and more like You! | <urn:uuid:753fb420-cd21-4713-a814-f281f743a8ae> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.turnbacktogod.com/prayer-of-the-old/ | 2023-09-23T17:00:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.977102 | 794 |
Piece description from the artist
One of the best views of the city at night is from the corner of Speer and 23rd looking east. Here you see the Speer bridge going over i70 and the Platt river, as well as of course the obvious stunning view of Denver's own unique skyline.
Christopher Clark specializes in oil paintings of many subjects: romance, dancing, music, Italy, animals, and cityscapes. His impressionist style is compelled by bold brushwork, brilliant colors, and a luminous sense of light.
Christopher Clark has studied art his entire life, ever since he was a boy watching Bob Ross painting shows on TV (that wacky guy with the afro painting "happy little trees"). His art studies and travels have taken him all over the world in pursuit of culture, art knowledge, and painting subjects.
Christopher's favorite subject to paint is light itself, meaning anything becomes a beautiful subject if the light is stunning. Christopher's paintings are collected all over the world, and he is available for commissions of all kinds. | <urn:uuid:10a83218-4dda-4d44-a76f-1d4ad3f4c65f> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.turningart.com/art/denver-skyline-from-speer-and-23rd-ave-at-night-by-christopher-clark | 2023-09-23T17:25:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.967963 | 216 |
Snowy Backyard at Night
Piece description from the artist
Tracks through deep snow in a backyard at night.
Other works by Will Elmore
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Our classic game of chess is upgraded by GoChess, it’s a magical board that combines technology and AI to revolutionize the way to play this board game. As a fully-robotic smart board, GoChess features self-moving pieces with color-coded coaching lights. It is claimed to be most advanced and powerful chessboard ever invented.
As a chess player, you’ll know that this board game demands analytical thinking and strategic planning. Therefore, many players have to face variety range of challenges when they try to improve their skill. Many players struggle to find themselves partners to play with as playing Chess can be such a time-consuming activity. Playing offline requires real-life opponents with comparable skill levels to play with, but online play doesn’t provide that tactile excitement of a physical board. [Buy It Here]
GoChess is an interactive chess board that tackles all those problems by providing all-in-one solution. It combines a robotic board, light, and AI technology that allow you to connect with other players online at anytime, anywhere. This smart chess board connects you to all level of players all around the world, helping you improve your skills when you play with better and smarter players. You can play, learn, and socialize like never before.
Self-moving pieces technology looks like magic, well, GoChess board conceals a hidden patent pending robotic mechanism that moves chess pieces to their respective places as response to the opponent’s moves. The board also comes with intelligent magnetic sensors that track every move, that’s why those pieces move magically as if you play with an invisible opponent.
GoChess board gives you freedom to play directly through other popular chess platforms such as Chess.com or Lichess. Therefore, even when a player doesn’t have GoChess, they can still join with other GoChess players through smartphone or PC. [Buy It Here] | <urn:uuid:a33ee3ac-8cf2-4490-aa0a-9c80b1f9176d> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.tuvie.com/gochess-robotic-chess-board-with-ai-technology-connects-you-with-players-all-around-the-world/ | 2023-09-23T19:09:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.96071 | 396 |
Updated: Feb 22
OAPs who have moved overseas to live may not be eligible for State Pension increments so they will not receive the 10.1% rise in April.
Do we sympathise or say tough luck? You opted out of this society for another and that's it. Is it a bit like the Harry and Meghan situation?
I'm not sure. | <urn:uuid:c659edaf-0ebc-48ec-8154-a415688017ff> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.twithay.com/post/oaps-overseas | 2023-09-23T19:00:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.949165 | 82 |
Texas Legislature Session Drawing to a Close - How Else can You Protect Your Interests?
With the 83rd Regular Session of the Texas Legislature having just ended, it may feel too late to make progress on important initiatives, or to fight new legislation that poses a problem for your business. Fortunately, that’s not the case. Even after the regular session ends, you still have an opportunity to protect your interests in a few key ways.
Know Important Post-Session Deadlines
Once the regular session is over, there are still a couple of important deadlines:
Prior to either of the June 16 date, you still have a chance to make your voice heard if a bill hasn’t yet become law. The second date is particularly important if your business will be impacted by a new law that doesn’t have an effective date, as this becomes the effective date.
Discuss Your Options with an Experienced Lobby Firm
If there’s a piece of legislation that threatens your business, it’s important to discuss your options with an experienced lobby firm, like The Posey Law Firm, P.C. A good lawyer and lobbyist may be able to pursue court action or other remedies if a new law is problematic. This is your last immediate line of defense if you’re unhappy with something enacted during this legislative session.
Start Planning for the Next Legislative Session
The next regular session of the Texas Legislature is scheduled to begin in January, 2015. It’s not too early to start planning your approach for the next session. It takes time to draft bills, introduce them and gain popularity. Fewer than one in four bills gets through a regular session, so having a thorough plan - and beginning your lobbying early - can make a world of difference. There’s also the propsect of using a special session to address concerns. While not an open venue to tackle every issue, it may offer a chance to make progress on some initiatives. Contact The Posey Law Firm, PC today to discuss your government relations needs. | <urn:uuid:61e17dae-32c6-48da-b5cf-10e6e4228f9b> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.txlobbyfirm.com/blog/texas-legislature-session-draws-to-a-close---how-else-can-you-protect-your-interests-.cfm | 2023-09-23T18:17:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.930028 | 416 |
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