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It’s a fact: Uncrewed systems deliver medical supplies faster, cheaper, and safer than conventional ground and air systems, and they help emergency service providers bring better care more quickly to disaster zones.
- UV LATAM/UAV Peru is partnering with the German firm Wingcopter to use cargo drones to bring medical supplies to remote villages in the Peruvian Andes. Company leaders say the program will expedite the delivery of medicines, vaccines, laboratory samples, blood, and specific treatments for patients in these hard-to-reach places while reducing the carbon footprint and making the supply chain greener and more sustainable.
- The Dutch firm Avy has developed the Drone Response Network, a quick response solution that can instantly deploy autonomous drones to carry out urgent and lifesaving missions. The network combines docking stations with Avy’s Aera autonomous drones to support medical deliveries or emergency services during critical incidents. The network has been used to fight fires, conduct search and rescue missions, and improve situational awareness is high-risk situations.
- In the UK, Skyfarer is leading a consortium of businesses and government agencies focused on creating a UAV network to deliver vaccines, blood, and other critical items to medical facilities. The partners hope to create a hub-and-spoke model that will facilitate the fast and effective delivery of medical supplies, a model that can be expanded and rolled-out across the country.
These and many other examples illustrate the viability of using drones for medical and emergency operations. They have inspired government groups, companies, and investors to increase their involvement in the sector.
A recent study stated that the worldwide medical drone delivery market would enjoy a compound annual growth rate of 24.9% between this year and 2027. By the end of the timeframe, the study asserted, the industry would be worth more than $643 million. Another study projected that the global medical drone market will increase from $254.7 million in 2021 to $1,410.9 million in 2028, rising at a compound annual growth rate of 27.70%.
Whether these predictions come true remains to be seen, but there is little question that the use of drones to delivery medical supplies and aid in emergency operations will continue to expand.
As an article in Nature Medicine details, many efforts are currently underway to bring healthcare-related drone operations to places like Scotland, Malawi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Canada, the South Pacific, and other regions. The article stated that “half of the world’s population have limited access to healthcare” and “drones can help to ramp up national healthcare systems, and connect hospitals and laboratories with patients, improving outcomes and reducing waiting times, especially in remote communities.”
Projects are also progressing in the US to increase the use of uncrewed systems to aid health and emergency efforts. For example, Zipline recently received part 135 certification from the FAA, which will enable the company to fly up to 26 miles roundtrip. With the ability to conduct longer flights, Zipline plans to work with three major healthcare partners to expand on-demand medical delivery operations by drone in North Carolina.
Later this year, Zipline intends to begin similar operations in Utah and Arkansas. These operations will build in the company’s highly successful drone delivery work in Ghana and Rwanda.
As the UAV industry grows and develops—and as more doctors, patients, and emergency services professionals embrace the technology—we can expect to see more and more projects like these.
Commercial UAV Expo is organizing a closed-door, roundtable discussion for like-minded individuals to connect and discuss the future of drones in medical supply delivery and emergency services. Interested in joining? Learn more and apply here.
Registration is now open - click here to register today.
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Visme lets you see the data
Like any online infographic generator, Visme requires you to bring the data and the idea. Also, creating an excellent Visme product requires patience and an eye for the visual. Building an infographic takes time. That being said, Visme is a fine product with which to work. I own a license with Piktochart for the heavy lifting of infographic generation, but Visme works well for straightforward use in the hands of both teachers and students.
How I Use It
Visme makes data pop through the use of eye-catching graphics. Visualizing data is finally getting the attention that it deserves, and Visme is a leader in turning numbers into the art of understanding. I use Visme to show" the data. For example, I created a Visme showing the impact of the U.S. economic might on the combatant nations during World War II. My students immediately realized that the Axis forces were all but doomed to failure as of December 10, 1941, when Hitler's Germany chose to declare war upon the United States. | <urn:uuid:a220caca-5871-4bf9-adaa-a0198f99740e> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.commonsense.org/education/reviews/visme/teacher-reviews/4052676 | 2023-09-24T22:55:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.927443 | 229 |
Bringing together all the greats—from Air Jordan 1 to Air Presto—Nike and Virgil Abloh reinvented sneaker culture with the collaborative project The Ten and redesigned 10 sneaker icons. Experience engineering ingenuity and Abloh’s investigative design process: each shoe is a piece of industrial design, a readymade sculpture, and a wearable all at once. The artful Swiss binding showcases an open spine, reflecting Abloh’s deconstructive vocabulary and disclosing the production of ICONS.
Hardcover, Swiss binding with open spine, 10 x 11.7 in., 5.14 lb, 352 pages
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Over a decade ago, I was one of the co-founders of a small Catholic blog called Vox Nova. The goal of the blog was precisely that—to be a “new voice” for authentic and consistent Catholic social teaching. Most of us on that blog hewed to traditional teaching on social justice and were identified with the Catholic left. But we also tried hard to be consistent—we didn’t disdain Humanae Vitae, ignore abortion, call for women priests, or denigrate Church teachings on sexuality. In doing so, we sought to challenge the presumptions of those who monopolized the mantel of “faithful, orthodox Catholicism.” We were attacked relentlessly for exposing their inconsistency. But in an ocean of right-wing Catholic opinion, Vox Nova was easily drowned out, in the end making only the tiniest of ripples.
The same cannot be said of the forceful essay in La Civiltà Cattolica by Fr. Antonio Spadaro, SJ, and Marcelo Figueroa, which shone a light on the pathologies of a certain brand of American Catholicism. And the extent and vitriol of the pushback from the highest echelons of American right-wing Catholicism only shows that Spadaro and Figueroa have hit a nerve.
Many have criticized this essay for being too sweeping in its generalizations. But this misses the point. It was not intended as a scholarly discourse. The point is that the basic thesis is certainly correct—that a small but vocal and influential segment of American Catholicism is now far more comfortable with the world of right-wing political evangelicalism than with global Catholicism. (Commonweal’s editors commented on it here, and contributing editor Massimo Faggioli wrote on it here.) This world is a Calvinist world, manifesting politically in the twin ideas that the United States is God’s chosen country with a unique destiny in the world’s history, which gives rise to a dualistic outlook, and that God bestows material rewards on his favored, which leads to a full-throttled embrace of capitalism. This latter pathology comes in different levels, of course, the nadir being the appalling “prosperity gospel.”
All of this gives rise to a highly distorted vision of Christianity in the public square. It exalts a libertarian ethos predicated on the belief that free market outcomes are just and virtuous, and that people who lose out have only themselves to blame. It exalts individualism and personal responsibility over solidarity and communal obligation. And it bestows quasi-canonical status on the U.S. constitutional order. In doing this, it fails to appreciate that its (Lockean) understanding of freedom differs from the Christian understanding of freedom. It fails to appreciate that the American approach to rights is rooted more in liberal individualism than in the Catholic conception of rights twinned with duties—encompassing rights to the preconditions of human flourishing, such as a living wage, housing, medical care, education, and necessary social services (as enunciated, for example, in Pope John XXIII’s landmark encyclical Pacem in Terris). The best that can be said is that the U.S. constitutional order is not incompatible with Catholicism. But the same can be said of the constitutions of most countries.
At the same time, this distorted vision embraces American exceptionalism over Christian notions of “infinite relationality” (to use a term associated with Metropolitan John Zizioulas of the Orthodox Church). It glorifies the military, insists on a maximum military budget, and defends U.S. military adventurism across the globe. It is comfortable with the death penalty and even torture. It denies the existence of climate change, which is partly a reflection of libertarianism, partly a reflection of American exceptionalism, and partly a reflection of the corrupting influence of financial interests. | <urn:uuid:3a4f2f76-3369-47a0-93ed-0bdb98995be7> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/forceful-essay-hits-nerve | 2023-09-25T00:23:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.943433 | 818 |
Supply chains are crucial networks of contractual arrangements that provide goods and services to an organization for internal use or onward sale to customers. To ensure the quality of these products, the supply chain is typically managed with contract conditions and oversight. However, workplace safety is a critical issue that must be considered throughout the supply chain.
According to the International Labour Organisation, more than 2.3 million people die every year as a result of occupational accidents or work-related diseases. In addition, 317 million accidents occur on the job annually, resulting in significant human and business costs. Inadequate workplace safety drains approximately 4% of global GDP each year, leading to costly issues such as early retirements, loss of skilled staff, absenteeism, and high insurance premiums.
Three key factors govern workplace safety across the supply chain: economic and resource pressures, the size of the working environment, and the lack of a coordinated approach to workplace safety and communication. To improve workplace safety, exporters can use resources such as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategies, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) guidelines, and government regulations and industry regulatory bodies.
CSR strategies can be used to advocate for better workplace safety practices and impose financial penalties on those who do not comply with agreed standards. The ILO has developed standard workplace and labour safety guidelines, research documents, and resources to help companies create safer workplaces for staff across their enterprise and supply chain. Governments and regulatory bodies can help regulate supply chains through work health and safety legislation, principal contractor duties, and other legislation that protect vulnerable workers.
To ensure compliance with workplace safety guidelines, consistent, scalable, end-to-end auditing is necessary. Compliance Checkpoint is a flexible and scalable software platform that automates audit, risk, and compliance tasks using integrated cloud technology and tablet functionality. Adopting this solution can better manage compliance requirements across an organization and the entire supply chain, leading to real business benefits.
July 20, 2023
How Technology is Expanding Commercial Insurance Offerings: Now & Future With Dale Hoppe, Vice President, WC Programs, Nationwide and Jacob Geyer, Chief Insurance Officer, CompScience moderated by Kevin McClain, Senior Consultant, E&S Product, Nationwide Get insights on the workers comp market landscape and how Nationwide’s insuretech program offerings are expanding. CompScience will be showcased, focusing […]Read more
July 11, 2023
Poor ergonomics refers to the design or arrangement of a workspace or equipment that causes discomfort or strain on the body, leading to physical stress and potential injury. There are solutions to ergonomic issues such as changes to workflows that improve worker ergonomics. Detecting ergonomic issues in industrial settings is the key to mitigating […]Read more
June 20, 2023
Learn why AI is rapidly transforming workplace safety into a differentiator and how you can use safety analytics from CompScience to help clients lower injury rates and lower costs. Mike Seling and Jacob Geyer explain how AI is rapidly transforming workplace safety into a differentiator for agents and how you can use safety analytics help […]Read more
May 16, 2023
Learn about transformational safety analytics from CompScience that utilizes workplace video to generate predictive models from that safety managers and ergonomists can use to report and improve injury rates in manufacturing, logistics, construction and more. This 45 min webinar was presented by Kris Mizel, CSP, Head of Loss Control and Lauren Wandell, Head of Ergonomics […]Read more
May 5, 2023
Workers’ compensation insurance is a type of insurance that provides benefits to employees who are injured or become ill as a result of their work. The purpose of workers’ compensation insurance is to ensure that employees have access to medical care and financial support in the event of a workplace injury or illness, and to […]Read more
May 5, 2023
Here are a few strategies that may be helpful in convincing a CFO to prioritize workplace safety. It may not be clear at first why improving safety with analytics is important, but reducing accidents and improving an X-mod has high impact on costs. Talk with CompScience about how we can help reduce injuries with […]Read more | <urn:uuid:697a6a43-27af-4f72-bd47-ff7f66b63c74> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.compscience.com/blog/why-supply-chain-safety-matters/ | 2023-09-25T00:38:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.942726 | 856 |
MyDIY Center, has entered into an agreement with Ginsu to manufacture and release the brand’s first outdoor grill. The Ginsu Kamado Ceramic Grill was introduced at the Inspired Home Show in Chicago March 5-7 at McCormick Place and will compete with other popular Kamado grill offerings. MyDIY Center President Jeremy Cantor said “Over the years, the Ginsu portfolio has grown to provide innovative solutions throughout the kitchen and today, MyDIY Center is excited to partner with Ginsu to expand their brand portfolio into the barbecue and outdoor living space with the first Ginsu grill.”
The 15″ Kamado Ceramic Grill is bundled with
- A grill cover
- Half-moon griddle
- Meat gloves
- An electric starter to light the coals
- A digital meat thermometer
It will be available exclusively through MyDIYCenter.com and the MyDIY Center Store on Amazon. It is said to launch in June of 2022 and will retail for $599. | <urn:uuid:2cff2d0d-8344-48c9-9fdf-d0a6d90cedcd> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.cookoutnews.com/knife-maker-ginsu-launches-new-kamado-grill/ | 2023-09-25T00:06:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.949712 | 212 |
This was done in honor of a wonderful man’s birthday who was visiting our church. A Godly man spreading the Holy Word. We love you Dr. Sharp…. may God bless you…with many many more birthdays.
A very simple cake …chocolate. Covered in green tinted buttercream and dotted with pink. The cake is a 9 inch round cake cut in half, glued together with icing and turned over on it’s side so that the round part made a back.
The details (head, tail, fins) were just piped using various icing tips. Quick and last minute but turned out to be a fun time as we celebrated with him at a church meal on his last night of his visit with us. | <urn:uuid:77067e1e-ab89-42cf-8667-1de66d346530> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.coolest-birthday-cakes.com/cool-green-dino-birthday-cake/ | 2023-09-25T01:00:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.980865 | 153 |
Want to have a cold beer every now and again…while doing a spreadsheet…in the office? If you thought there was no chance of getting away with that, you might want to reconsider your strategy. Timbuk2’s Dolores Chiller is a Classic Messenger bag that’s been converted into a fully-working cooler, allowing you to carry a stack of beer on ice, while looking no different than an ordinary satchel.
That’s right. No need to make do with a stack of warm beer under your desk drawer, camouflage it with aluminum foil in the freezer or raise your supervisor’s suspicions by carrying an actual cooler to work. Just throw a six pack in the messenger bag, fill it with ice and walk to your cubicle just like every other drone around you. Once you get a little stressed, pop one and it all goes away.
Able to hold at least 12 cans of your favorite brew, the Dolores Chiller features a fully-insulated interior that keeps those drinks chilled throughout the day. Waterproof TPU lining keeps all the moisture inside, so there’s no sign you’re even carrying a single cube of ice. The bag itself is extremely low-profile, with a ballistic nylon exterior and an adjustable side-cam shoulder strap. They even threw in a red metal cap opener on the strap, in case you prefer to carry bottles around.
Don’t care about getting drunk in the middle of the day? No problem. The Dolores Chiller plays nice as a regular cooler too, keeping your sodas and juices cool for an afternoon at the park. It’s available for $110. Beer not included. | <urn:uuid:46ff076d-1ae3-43b9-9a41-a9727c015b9a> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.coolthings.com/dolores-chiller-beer-cooler-hides-under-messenger-bag/ | 2023-09-24T23:35:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.93575 | 350 |
Logfiles in Marketing Suite
Copernica keeps a log of all sent messages. We keep data on events: deliveries, clicks, opens, retries, etc. These log files can be retrieved through the REST API, but the Marketing Suite also has an interface for it. You'll find it under the 'Operations Log' tab in the left menu.
The 'Operations Log' tab allows you to see the log files of all messages on a specific day. The files are sorted by application (MarketingSuite or Publisher) and type (click, delivery, etc.). Clicking on one of the categories will show the mailings of that day, specified by their destination ID, and some other information.
The destination IDs of messages are clickable. Click one, and you'll get to the Message Information screen. Here, you'll find all the details on the message, such as the full content of the message, recipient, subject, attachments, and more.
Next to the mailing itself are two tabs: 'Events' and 'Template'. 'Events' shows the full details on every event that occurred with the email, like the exact time it was opened, on what device and which operating system was used.
'Template' holds information on the template that was used, like its ID and how many times it has been used.
Downloading log files
It is possible to download log files to your computer using the 'Download' button in the Operations Log. Another way of retrieving log files is through the REST API, or to get notified of events using WebHooks. The following logfiles are available for Marketing Suite:
|Prefix||Type of information|
|cdm-attempts||General info about mails sent with Marketing Suite (MS)|
|cdm-abuse||Info about mails sent via MS that triggered a notification|
|cdm-click||Info about clicks generated from mails sent with MS|
|cdm-delivery||Info about delivered mails sent with MS|
|cdm-error||Info about mails sent with MS that triggered an error|
|cdm-impression||Info about impressions from mails sent with MS|
|cdm-retry||Info about mails sent via MS for which we retry a delivery|
|cdm-unsubscribe||Info about mails sent via MS that triggered an unsubscribe|
|feedback-loop-errors||Info about errors in your feedback loops| | <urn:uuid:fe63aae4-80e9-4f3a-aa00-af08f2f65ec5> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.copernica.com/en/documentation/logfiles-ms | 2023-09-25T00:13:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.89358 | 521 |
Welcome to Copleywest
We’ve an interesting, some would say eclectic, mix of classic cars always on offer and we find something to love about each and every one.
Get To Know Us.
Welcome to the CopleyWest website. December 2023 will mark our 28th year of buying and selling sports and classics. We are now on both coasts of the continental US to better cater to you. Our Newport Beach location is close to the beach in Orange County and located between Los Angeles and San Diego.
Click on the Showroom button to see our varied selection currently on offer.
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Click here to access a PDF version of this guide.
1. Visit the Venetian Pool's page on the website.
2. Select "Book Now" at the top of the screen.
3. Select the date you desire to visit.
Please note: Non-residents do not need an account. If you are a resident of Coral Gables, you will be required to log in or create an account. The account will need to be verified by the Community Recreation Department for your discount to apply.
4. Insert the total number of tickets you wish to purchase.
5. Check off which type of ticket you are purchasing (adult or child). Make sure the quantity matches the total tickets inserted on Step 4. Select the “Copy Tickler”, “Waiver”, and input your name and email. Click continue.
6. Review your purchase items and apply coupons/gift certificates. Click "Proceed to Checkout" for payment.
7. Input your payment information and click continue to finalize purchase. You will then receive an email confirmation showing receipt number, Venetian Pool receipt and access tickets. Please check your junk mail. Sometimes the city’s emails are redirected there.
If you do not receive your tickets, then please email us at firstname.lastname@example.org. | <urn:uuid:0da93404-0f77-4279-89e6-6414e8467ac1> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.coralgables.com/department/community-recreation/venetian-pool-ticket-purchasing-guide | 2023-09-24T23:06:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.86597 | 280 |
As the largest joint in the human body the knee is responsible for a similar proportion of visits to CORE. As with any joint, the knee can be painful for many different reasons. Chronic conditions such as osteoarthritis can cause slowly progressive pain without apparent cause. Additionally, knee pain can occur suddenly from an injury. The providers at CORE have “seen it all” and are able to diagnose and rectify the vast majority of knee problems. We understand how knee pain can limit any person’s lifestyle and strive to utilize the most advanced methods to restore that active lifestyle.
If you are experiencing any of the following knee symptoms call for an appointment soon to mitigate the risk of doing further damage to your knee.
- Painful popping or snapping in or around the knee.
- Any severe pain around the knee area
- Inability to move or bend the knee
- Limping or inability to walk comfortably
- Swelling within the knee or calf area
- Knee gives out with walking, running or sports activities
- After an acute knee injury
- Pain following previous joint- replacement surgery
At Core, the most advanced non-surgical and surgical techniques are utilized to treat a vast array of knee disorders.
Total knee replacement is a very successful surgical treatment for knee arthritis. Over the years, minimally invasive knee replacement surgical techniques have been developed to lessen tissue trauma and improve patient outcomes. This minimally invasive approach involves much smaller incisions than the usual 10-12 inch incisions used in the traditional knee replacement and spares the quadriceps muscle and tendon, which control bending of the knee, from being cut to access the knee joint.
Robotic-assisted knee replacement surgery is an alternative to the conventional knee replacement procedure. It is performed using robotic-arm technology that allows your surgeon to precisely perform the surgery through a smaller incision as compared to traditional surgery.
Revision knee replacement surgery involves replacing a part or all your previous knee prosthesis with a new prosthesis. Although total knee replacement surgery is successful, sometimes the procedure can fail due to various reasons and may require a second revision surgery.
Navio robotic TKR is a new surgical technique developed by Smith & Nephew which uses robotics to perform total knee replacement through a small incision. The Navio robotic technology allows your surgeon to accurately size and position the implant without the need for a preoperative CT scan or placement of rods in your thigh bone.
Knee cartilage restoration is a surgical technique to repair damaged articular cartilage in the knee joint by stimulating new growth of cartilage or by transplanting cartilage into areas with defects in order to relieve pain and restore normal function to the knee.
The joint surface is covered by a smooth articular surface that allows pain-free movement in the joint. Arthritis is a general term covering numerous conditions where the joint surface or cartilage wears out. This surface can wear out for several reasons; often the definite cause is not known. Arthritis often affects the knee joint. When the articular cartilage wears out, the bone ends rub on one another and cause pain.
Knee pain is a common condition affecting individuals of various age groups. It not only affects movement but also impacts your quality of life. An injury or disease of the knee joint or any structure surrounding the knee can result in knee pain. A precise diagnosis of the underlying cause is important to develop an appropriate treatment plan.
The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is one of the major ligaments of the knee. It is located in the middle of the knee and runs from the femur (thighbone) to the tibia (shinbone). The ACL prevents the tibia from sliding out in front of the femur. Together with the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL), it provides rotational stability to the knee.
The kneecap or patella forms a part of the knee joint. It is present at the front of the knee, protecting the knee and providing attachment to various muscle groups of the thigh and leg. The undersurface of the kneecap and the lower end of the femur are coated with articular cartilage, which helps in smooth movement of the knee joint. A fracture in the kneecap is rare but common in adult males.
A meniscal tear is a common knee injury in athletes, especially those involved in contact sports. A sudden bend or twist in your knee causes the meniscus to tear. Elderly people are more prone to degenerative meniscal tears as the cartilage wears out and weakens with age.
Knee dislocation is a condition that occurs when the bones that form the knee joint, namely the femur or thigh bone get separated from the shin bone. This can cause serious damage to the nerves, blood vessels, and ligaments surrounding the knee, leading to a decline in strength and overall health of the leg.
The knee is a complex joint made up of different structures - bones, tendons, ligaments, and muscles. They all work together to maintain the knee’s normal function and provide stability to the knee during movement.
Having a well-functioning healthy knee is essential for our mobility and ability to participate in various activities. Understanding the anatomy of the knee enhances your ability to discuss and choose the right treatment procedure for knee problems with your doctor.
Bones of the Knee
The knee is a hinge joint made up of two bones, the thighbone (femur) and shinbone (tibia). There are two round knobs at the end of the femur called femoral condyles that articulate with the flat surface of the tibia called the tibial plateau. The tibial plateau on the inside of the leg is called the medial tibial plateau and on the outside of the leg, the lateral tibial plateau.
The two femoral condyles form a groove on the front (anterior) side of the knee called the patellofemoral groove. A small bone called the patella sits in this groove and forms the kneecap. It acts as a shield and protects the knee joint from direct trauma.
A fourth bone called the fibula is the other bone of the lower leg. This forms a small joint with the tibia. This joint has very little movement and is not considered a part of the main joint of the knee.
Articular Cartilage and Menisci of the Knee
Movement of the bones causes friction between the articulating surfaces. To reduce this friction, all articulating surfaces involved in the movement are covered with a white, shiny, slippery layer called articular cartilage. The articulating surface of the femoral condyles, tibial plateaus and the back of the patella are covered with this cartilage. The cartilage provides a smooth surface that facilitates easy movement.
To further reduce friction between the articulating surfaces of the bones, the knee joint is lined by a synovial membrane that produces a thick clear fluid called synovial fluid. This fluid lubricates and nourishes the cartilage and bones inside the joint capsule.
Within the knee joint, between the femur and tibia, are two C-shaped cartilaginous structures called menisci. Menisci function to provide stability to the knee by spreading the weight of the upper body across the whole surface of the tibial plateau. The menisci help in load-bearing i.e. it prevents the weight from concentrating onto a small area, which could damage the articular cartilage. The menisci also act as a cushion between the femur and tibia by absorbing the shock produced by activities such as walking, running and jumping.
Ligaments of the Knee
Ligaments are tough bands of tissue that connect one bone to another bone. The ligaments of the knee stabilize the knee joint. There are two important groups of ligaments that hold the bones of the knee joint together, collateral and cruciate ligaments.
Collateral ligaments are present on either side of the knee. They prevent the knee from moving too far during side to side motion. The collateral ligament on the inside is called the medial collateral ligament (MCL) and the collateral ligament on the outside is called the lateral collateral ligament (LCL).
Cruciate ligaments, present inside the knee joint, control the back-and-forth motion of the knee. The cruciate ligament in the front of the knee is called anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and the cruciate ligament in the back of the knee is called posterior cruciate ligament (PCL).
Muscles of the Knee
There are two major muscles in the knee - the quadriceps and the hamstrings, which enable movement of the knee joint. The quadriceps muscles are located in front of the thigh. When the quadriceps muscles contract, the knee straightens. The hamstrings are located at the back of the thigh. When the hamstring muscles contract, the knee bends.
Tendons of the Knee
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Motoyuki Shibata, noted translator of American literature and a University of Tokyo professor, emailed me, “I don’t know how much longer we can stay calm. Since the nuclear plants are down and we are not going to have the amount of electricity necessary for the way of life we have been used to, we need to figure out a drastically new way of living and that’s easier said than done.”
A drastically new way, Shibata wrote, not a tweak here and there, so besides this real enough fear of radiation, there is also the long term challenge of living with less energy, but there is hardly anyone anywhere who is ready to power down. Most dismiss the concept outright. We’re conditioned to want more, not less. Confusing technology with fuel, knowledge with gas, they believe science will find a way to accommodate us all. Surely someone will come up with a car powered by wheezes, sneezes, farts and recycled wet dreams, etc.
This modern world is a mirage. It is a bleep and aberration in mankind’s history. With all of its gadgetry and convenience, our contemporary setting has only been enabled by an incredibly cheap source of energy, petroleum, but oil supply has peaked, so Bush steered us towards ethanol. To convert food into fuel, corn into beaucoup mileage, was supposed to be the answer, all those starving to death be damned! Like Bush, Obama touts nuclear energy while fighting oil wars. Without juice, this show’s over. If there’s black gold under your land, gentlemen, the U.S. will be the first to offer advices and inhumanitarian assistance, its cruise missiles ablazing.
Twenty nine percent of Japan’s electricity comes from nuclear power. As with so many calamities of the last century or so, energy is at the heart of it. The United States’ oil embargo against Japan precipitated war between these nations. Eighty percent of Japanese oil import had come from America, then the world’s leading oil exporter. Then came Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which killed over 200,000 Japanese within four months, with many more dying from cancer later. These traumas spawned, among other nightmares, an imaginary dinosaur wading in from the sea to destroy Japanese cities, yet after World War II, an occupied Japan was nudged towards nuclear power by the United States. The only country to suffer from nuclear bombs then became the world’s second leading generator of nuclear energy, after only the U.S. At the Fukushima Power Plant, all six of the distressed reactors were designed by General Electrics. As oil dwindles, nuclear power was supposed to pick up some of the slack, but as is becoming clear, yet again, there are inherent risks.
Newspapers worldwide have remarked on the stoicism, dignity, discipline and civility of the ordinary Japanese in response to their overlapping tragedies. It would be reasonable to conclude that these traits will allow Japan to cope and move forward better than most societies. When cities and infrastructures are destroyed, it’s the human capital, above all, that will rebuild them, but national traits are always difficult to discuss. They are all relative, many people will insist. A society can function any which way it wants to, appropriate to its culture and environment. To imply that there’s a better way in any arena is to be intolerant, chauvinistic or racist.
Two days ago, many American newspapers featured on their front pages a photo of a Chinese mob jostling with each other to buy iodized salt, which they thought would protect them from nuclear radiation. One couldn’t help but contrast this chaotic scene with Japanese lining up orderly for hours outside supermarkets and gas stations. Without passing too many value judgments, it is fair to speculate if China would fare as well during a crisis similar to what’s happening in Japan?
During the Lunar New Year celebration of 2010, Japan sent to Vietnam a chrysanthemum. Within minutes of its display in Hanoi, the tree was completely denuded, plucked of all its flowers by a mob. This appalling display of every man for himself, I just want my own flower and to hell with the lovely sight, provoked severe commentary from a few Vietnamese intellectuals. “Like a pack of monkeys,” someone even concluded.
The most forthright racial or ethnic judgments are often blurted within one’s own community, but we can all benefit from more candor and courage in discussing group traits, however, as long as they are not made with genocidal malice. I will say that the Vietnamese have little respect for public order. They don’t stand in lines or stop at red lights. Soon as they step out of their front doors, they litter, even in hallways outside their apartments. Yet in war, a true crisis, Vietnamese can work together so efficiently and with such self sacrifice that they have often been compared by foreigners to ants. This is not exactly a compliment, as is made clear by this passage from French novelist Jean Lartéguy, “This frenzied activity by sexless insects seemed directed from a distance, as if, somewhere in this colony, some huge queen was to be found, a sort of monstrous central brain which served as the collective consciousness of these ants.” Fearful of being overrun, perhaps, many Europeans have attributed sexlessness to the most populous race. No sex, yet so many children!
Back to the Chinese: the sense of public order, or civility, if you will, increases as one travels from mainland China to Hong Kong, to Taiwan, to Singapore. The same Chinese gene, but they comport themselves quite differently in these diverse places, so culture is not racially encoded. People can certainly be taught how to behave better, or be allowed or encouraged to act much worse than even monkeys.
And where is America in regard to all this? Where is she heading? On television, political pundits routinely insult and cut each other off. American teens strut around with T-shirts decorated with knives, guns, hand grenades and skulls. Web comments to Youtube videos and news stories seethe with racial hatred. (The election of our first black president, even one who does nothing for blacks whatsoever, or any other poor folks, for that matter, has provoked a frightful racial backlash. This, sadly, will turn out to be Obama’s most enduring legacy.) Caged fighting is being staged everywhere, in small towns, on military bases, even by churches. It’s all in jest, you say, it’s just goofy fun, which is what Rush Limbaugh considered Abu Ghraib, by the way. We are a fun and goofy people, if a tad violent.
As America attacks yet another oil-producing country, as she hijacks Libya’s revolution, many Americans are transfixed by March Madness. When Bush invaded Iraq in 2003, we were also staring at a bouncing ball for hours on end. Until the televisions go black, I suppose, most of us will pretend that nothing outside our doors has really changed. Belief in the trumpeted recovery means a yearning for life circa 2007, before the crash. As this ebbs and ebbs, we’ll find out what we’re really made of.
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By IVY BROWN
NORTH PORT, Fla. (Court TV) — A Florida man is accused of brutally murdering his adoptive parents and fleeing from officers at the scene.
Dima Tower, 22, was arrested Sept. 1, in Sarasota County. He’s accused of killing Robbie James Tower and Jennifer Christine Tower the day before.
According to court documents obtained by Court TV, police were called to the Tower residence when a neighbor reported a female knocking on their door, “screaming, ‘I need help, I need help.'” The neighbor said the woman was gone when they answered the door, but there was “a large amount of blood on the front steps.”
When officers arrived at the scene, they spotted Dima “with visible blood, shutting the trunk of a black vehicle.” Dima allegedly fled the scene, initiating a pursuit. His vehicle was ultimately “forced to a stop” on the interstate and he fled into the woods, evading authorities.
At the Tower residence, officers found the bodies of Robbie and Jennifer “lying head-to-head, face down on the floor in the living room” covered in blood. An arrest affidavit describes blood throughout the home, including the master bedroom and kitchen.
Dima was arrested at a Shell Gas station in North Venice the following day. He was booked on two counts of murder.
According to Fox News, Dima was adopted from Ukraine as a teenager. The couple reportedly met Dima during a series of mission trips.
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At the point when you stop to consider how hard your immune system works for you, it’s completely astounding.
It’s a incredibly unpredictable system that works constant to protect and defend your body from infection. It’s likewise a system that relies upon great sustenance so as to work appropriately.
As Malaysia doesn’t encounter the four seasons, residents are lucky that they don’t need to manage the diseases that will in general accompany chilly climate.
In any case, Malaysia’s climate can likewise be tricky – it very well may be hot and dry, or wet and rainy.
Studies have demonstrated that heatwaves can lessen the body’s safe reaction to this season’s cold virus, or influence vaccines and nutrition. This is the reason fortifying your immune system is so significant.
Your immune system is comprised of your very own military of “soldiers”.
They secure your body by recognizing anything remote, from an infection to a microscopic organisms to a parasite, at that point searching it out and destroying it.
Our bodies rely upon appropriate nutrients and a healthy way of life to keep our defences strong.
Here are three things that are important to help keep your immune system tip-top shape:
Your immune system has some “special forces” as white blood cells.
These cells produce particular proteins called antibodies, which search out and demolish attacking infections and microbes.
As antibodies are proteins, you need sufficient protein in the eating regimen to guarantee that you’ll have the option to fabricate the antibodies your body needs.
Healthy proteins, similar to fish, poultry, lean meats, soy nourishments and low-fat dairy items, give the building blocks your body needs to make these particular proteins.
2. Fruits and vegetables
Fruits and vegetables are key players in immune system health as they’re incredible sources of vitamins A and C, just as phytonutrients.
Vitamin C encourages your body to deliver antibodies, while vitamin A supports the health of your skin and the tissues of your stomach related tract and respiratory system.
These go about as first lines of prevention against foreign invaders.
A large number of the phytonutrients found in fruits and veggies act as antioxidants, which can help decrease oxidative weight on the body that may debilitate your body’s capacity to ward off sickness.
3. Great bacteria
Keeping your stomach related system healthy is additionally significant in supporting invulnerable capacity.
Your stomach related tract is home to trillions of bacteria that have various capacities in advancing wellbeing.
A few strains of bacteria assist you with separating the fiber in your nourishments, others devour intestinal gas, while yet others help produce vitamins like vitamins K and B12.
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Whether you are associated with digital marketing, affiliate marketing, or simply offering your services and products…Anthony Morrision Systeme Io… when it comes to working online, at some point, even if it is just a fundamental landing page or sales funnel, you will need a website.
This post will explain two distinct pieces of software that resolve this issue.
Which is much better, Systeme.io or Getresponse?
The concern is which is better, Systeme.io or GetResponse.
This software application has its benefits and downsides, however the primary difference is.
Systeme provides a free life time account with minimal abilities, however they are all you require as a beginning.
Let us take a detailed comparison between both these platforms.
Here are the 14 features of Systeme.io:
1. Available In 2 Languages:
It was just available in French when Systeme.io launched.
That is no longer the case, and it is likewise available in English.
i’m a solopreneur running my online course company from home and i’ve used a handful of various tools to do that in the past now i only use one tool and all in one platform which is called kajabi however whenever i speak about kajabi i constantly get talk about the price due to the fact that it’s rather pricey at around two thousand dollars a year and i’m thinking that’s likewise what aurelion the ceo of systemio believed when he decided to make an extremely comparable platform but at a fraction of the expense more on price later on first i want to run you through some of the features of system io that enable you to run an online business with one platform [Music] first of all you get a basic page builder that allows you to develop all sort of pages to send your traffic to i believe this is necessary no wordpress websites or other half integrated sites where things break and doesn’t work no integrated pages built inside the tool is what we’re after what i frequently do is
that i make a youtube video where i discuss one of my courses then i suggest that the viewer clicks the link in the description if they wish to find out more and after that that links to a landing page which leads to a checkout page such pages can quickly be constructed with systems visual page contractor there are great deals of ready-made design templates to select from
and i truly like the fact that the editor is so visual very user-friendly to alter the indications and add in new elements and obstructs [Music] let’s state you’ve managed to send out some traffic to the page you have actually just developed and now someone register for an email newsletter on that page what you want to do now is that you wish to enlist them in an automated sequence of emails that presents you and your services in system io these e-mail sequences are called projects you create a string of e-mails with design templates or as plain text i enjoy the plain text format and then you pick a hold-up the delay
figures out for how long prior to a system sends out this email automatically if you simply wish to send one e-mail to your entire list that’s a newsletter and it works the same way as campaigns you create your emails in a streamlined variation of the page contractor altogether a basic and very intuitive way to handle and create email send [Music] system io must basically pay for itself right we subscribe to these tools in order to make more money by offering products and items is exactly what we’re diving into today i’m especially interested in the course setup where you set up your lessons in the same way you produce new emails
or blog site pages it all uses the very same editor when previewing the lessons i think the student experience could be a little much better there’s everything you need performance not much however wise to do in regards to altering the general layout of how trainees are going to consume your course besides courses system supports offering course bundles subscriptions and even physical items if you offer merch or something like that in general this module is super easy to use and quick i really like
the speed of the interface as this is the location you’re going to spend a great deal of hours one method to invest less time on manual work is to use the last function
i want to highlight in this evaluation is automations automations are essentially a set of guidelines that you established where you have a trigger for instance a trainee signs up and then there’s an automatic action for example the trainee get access to a course and is sent out a welcome e-mail there are 2 ways to establish automations in system io first one is with an extremely basic if this then that guidelines engine in system it’s called a trigger and an action when someone enrolls in a course send them a welcome email
Offering this capability in lots of languages helps the system accommodate a more significant number of users.
2. There Are No Surprise Costs/Fees:
System.io is currently undergoing maintenance.
It is now being upgraded daily with new templates and performance.
There are now an infinite variety of mobile phone users worldwide.
The majority of people use their cellular phone routinely for browsing and interacting with other internet users.
Systeme.io is compatible with mobile devices, and you might quickly modify your site from your mobile device.
You might also use systeme.io to produce an online store on your phone.
4. Various Modes Of Payment:
Systeme.io accepts a range of payment methods.
This allows web business owners to compare payment processors while processing payments.
Apart from that, giving a range of payment choices guarantees that a lot of online website owners are dealt with.
PayPal and Stripe are 2 of the online payment methods permitted.
5. The Very Best Email Autoresponders Include The Following:
Systeme.io has integrated e-mail storage.
The storage alternative might be utilized to conserve e-mails from tutors and students.
Furthermore, its centers make it possible for students and instructors to communicate in public and private interactions.
13. Individualized Registration Landing Page:
The landing page serves as the preliminary impression students get of a school.
Having a premium and visually enticing enrolling landing page helps your school attract more trainees.
Systeme.io provides a distinctive possibility to have your landing page developed by market professionals.
All you need to do is provide a description for your registration page, and system.io will look after the rest.
An enrollment page must include all the resources vital to facilitate trainee registration.
This saves students time by getting rid of the requirement to search for the application area and get disheartened at the same time.
CTA buttons must be thoroughly put throughout the personalized landing page to facilitate this procedure.
14. Page Builder With Drag-and-Drop Performance:
Drag and drop abilities allow you to develop websites even if you lack coding proficiency easily.
This is enabled by the user-friendly user interface, which includes directions tailored to each individual.
Additionally, this site stimulates creativity, enabling you to construct attractive pages using its diverse toolkit.
These tools are available in different tastes but are all appropriate for developing a few of the most impressive web pages.
There are over 180 landing pages and site design templates accessible and A/B testing and responsive design.
All premium subscriptions include unrestricted landing pages and a variety of numerous forms. Anthony Morrision Systeme Io
Many choices are accessible, including the significant eCommerce, CRM, social networking, and content management system (CMS) platforms.
Bear in mind that the Free strategy does not feature any integrations.
4. Different Gain Access To Levels For Accounts:
The complimentary and fundamental plans support a maximum of one user, but the expert plan supports up to five.
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Pāpa'aloa, Big island, Hawaii
The Pāpa’aloa Homestead is an off-grid home with panoramic views along the Big Island’s Hāmākua coast. The openness that embraces this view comes at the expense of exposure to intense winds and rain during the wet season and sun and heat during dry times. We committed to designing a house open to the land and the sky, that not only created an awareness of the movement of the sun through the day, but also offered protection from the extreme elements.
We accomplished this by creating a spoke-and-wheel layout with an exterior segmented concrete ring that shields the house from extreme weather while providing deep lanais to enjoy living outside. The concrete ring supports glu-lam beams radiating from a central concrete column. Connected to this central column is an atrium filled with Hāpu’u fern, Ama’u fern, Ti plants and orchids. Sun fills this atrium spilling filtered light into the center of the house. The plant filled atrium also divides the open living area from the more private zones. | <urn:uuid:be65534e-364f-4b4c-a081-6f7a9f4041df> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.craigsteely.com/project/papaaloa-homestead/ | 2023-09-25T00:19:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.918793 | 249 |
Brands have long recognised the value of collaborating with artists. Stephen Minasvand, co-founder and Head of Design at minds + assembly, sat down with Creative Boom to discuss some of the most iconic collaborations throughout history.
When it comes to great examples of artist collaborations, you could take the long list of Château Mouton Rothschild wine labels designed by a roster of famous artists – from Pablo Picasso to Lucien Freud. Or you might point to fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli's collaboration with Salvador Dalí for the iconic 'Organza Dinner Dress with Painted Lobster' in 1937. Or what about Vodka brand Absolut's many canny artistic collaborations, including with Keith Haring and Damien Hirst? It meant their bottles quickly became collector's items.
These kinds of partnerships can drum up significant hype around a product, while an artist's input can add certain kudos or even elevate a brand's cultural identity.
Stephen Minasvand, co-founder and Head of Design at minds + assembly, joined us to discuss some of the most iconic collaborations throughout history. He also explained how artists and brands could work together in authentic and sustainable ways and talked us through his own experience developing strong collaborations at minds + assembly.
According to Minasvand, the original brand and artist collaboration was Pears Soap's use of an 1886 painting by Sir John Everett Millais in advertisements. "It was controversial at the time," Minasvand told Creative Boom. The image, showing the artist's grandson looking up at a bubble, was bought by the company's managing director T.J. Barratt, hoping it would bring an air of respectability to the product. Minasvand said: "Sir John did give permission – after some initial hesitation – but it caused debate in the art world about the future relationship between high culture and advertising.
British artist Damien Hirst's prolific collaborations with brands show which side of that debate he's landed on. "Hirst's belief is that art should not be confined to gallery walls but be something 'you can live with'," Minasvand explained. In 2009, Hirst joined forces with New York skate brand Supreme to produce a series of skate decks and a Box Logo tee featuring his 'Spot' paintings. Minasvand told Creative Boom: "The decks now sell for thousands at art auctions. He also collaborated with fashion house Alexander McQueen to create 30 limited edition patterns of its iconic skull print scarf, as well as creating a collection for shoe brand Vans."
Today, Minasvand said, "artistic collaborations with brands are expanding in new and purposeful ways". He cited Khora, a virtual and augmented reality production studio that collaborated with energy company Ørsted to create a 360° VR 'Space Safari' experience. Minasvand said: "Ørsted, which has gone from fossil fuel-burning to one of the world's most sustainable energy companies, wanted a creative and immersive way to foster a greater sense of responsibility for our 'shared home' and so, with Khora, gave people a chance to experience a virtual space mission."
It's clear that brand and artist collaborations have potent power for communicating a brand's cultural relevancy and staying power – but what makes for a good collaboration?
According to Minasvand, "the key to any successful collaboration is to fully utilise the artist's creativity, whether that's bringing a feeling to life or embodying a message".
To him, it's about the level of commitment and expertise an artist can bring. He said artists possess "a level of expertise that is only achieved through total and unwavering commitment." This, he suggests, contrasts the big-picture thinking inherent in a designer's perspective. "It's wonderful being a designer, don't get me wrong. I explore different mediums, technologies, and approaches, challenging myself to find new ways to express meaningful communication to people who need it most. However, you could argue the exploration ultimately dilutes my focus."
That combination of a big-picture view from a designer and artistic rigour from an artist, when both are truly focused on communicating through their unique skills, is what makes a collaboration truly great.
Minasvand went on to say: "It's why minds + assembly collaborated with prosthetics make-up artist Louie Zakarian, who has worked for years on Saturday Night Live, and photographer Randal Ford for 2020 Connect the Swells campaign. It shines a light on the experiences of patients suffering from hereditary angioedema (HAE) with a visual representation of their symptoms while helping those who have not yet been diagnosed find the right treatment."
Minds + assembly also developed artist collaborations for the Society of Valued Minds, a platform breaking stigmas around mental health. "The artists we work with represent incredible minds living boldly with mental conditions. They're singers, designers, musicians, but also suicide survivors, schizophrenics, and more," said Minasvand, reflecting on the unique way that artists can express vulnerability and triumph, especially when it comes to tough topics like navigating mental health struggles.
To ensure effective collaboration, Minasvand believes that "Brands must remember that they are working with the artist for a reason. There's nothing worse than containing [an artist's] creativity. It's like telling Michael Jordan how to shoot. If the client and/or agency push their own vision too hard or put too many restrictions on the artist, the whole thing becomes meaningless."
On the flip side, he says that artists must also remember they were chosen to communicate a message on behalf of the brand. "Finding the right balance is critical," said Minasvand. He relayed a piece of advice that his own collaborator, Randal Ford, who has also worked with brands like Pepsi, Pfizer and Verizon, offered: "Randal says that finding the right balance is done by building trust." Minasvand recalled something Ford told him while working on the Connect the Swells campaign: "'On a personal level, when a client puts their trust in me, I work that much harder to exceed expectations.'"
Another piece of advice that Minasvand has for brands seeking to make the next big artist x brand collab? "Brands must make sure there is an understanding about what they want to communicate before the artist sets off," he told Creative Boom. "Think: what are you trying to say? What is the emotional connection you are trying to create? That symbiosis between the artist and the brand is everything."
When asked why he believes artist collaborations can be so enriching for brands, Minasvand summed it up powerfully: "There is a tremendous power in the individuality an artist can bring. Artists allow us to understand uniquely. In a world where art can be interpreted a million ways and where machine learning and AI are transforming our realities and understanding of how art can be produced, I'm beginning to truly learn that the individual, the person, the human, even the 'soul', is everything when it comes to art. I've discovered that who I am and what I believe often comes from my connection with art." | <urn:uuid:7184c407-a2c9-4554-8b7b-f86a8b6867b0> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.creativeboom.com/features/what-makes-a-great-brand-and-artist-collaboration/ | 2023-09-25T00:43:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.960541 | 1,478 |
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Loader - 540R Back
- Increased lift capacity
- Seat-mounted loader joystick for optimum control, visibility and comfort
- Remote Implement Unlatch
- Automatic mast latch to easily attach/detach loader
The 540R Loaders comes base equipped with single-point hydraulic connector. This feature saves time and effort when installing and removing the loader.
To disconnect the hydraulic connection between the loader and the tractor, it is necessary to relieve the hydraulic system oil pressure on the tractor.
Through time, increased width in tractor hoods have caused issues with available space for running traditional oil lines of a loader along the boom, making them more susceptible to damage.
To improve this situation, the oil lines have been routed through the boom arm and the torque tube, improving line protection and the appearance of the loader.
Only leave the operator's station once to disconnect the loader
John Deere loaders are easily removed and reinstalled on tractors without tools. The automatic mast latch (AML) parking system allows removing or attaching the loader to the tractor in minutes without the need for tools.
Easy and quick steps to disconnect the loader:
- Lower the loader to ground, turn tractor off and release hydraulic pressure from joystick
- Exit operator's station
- Open / lower parking stands (both left and right)
- Turn the boom cylinder valve lever to the unlocked position
- Remove loader hydraulics
- Unlock the mast pins (both left and right) and then able to back away
Removing or parking the loader
To disconnect the loader, the bucket has to be flat on a stable ground (1). The operator must place the bucket flat on the ground, turn off tractor and release hydraulic pressure from joystick. (2) Exit the operator station and (3) lower the self-adjustable parking stands on both sides of the loader. The self-adjustable parking stands allow the driver to park the loader on irregular terrain and still keep a good position relative to the mounting frame, to attach the loader correctly later on. The parking stands can be set without tools. (4) After lowering the parking stands, the hydraulic couplers on the right-hand side of the loader must be removed and (5) the loader must be unlocked from the tractor mounting frames (both right and left side).
After these easy steps, the operator is ready to move the tractor.
Connecting the loader
Connecting the loader is fast and convenient thanks to the ramp design on the mounting frames and the AML equipped with a floating device. Only drive the tractor to bring the mounting frames inside the mast until the latching indicators are in lock position (visible from operator's station). Then the driver can lift up the parking stands, connect the hydraulic coupler for hydraulic and electric loader power to the tractor. Fast, intuitive and maintenance-free design, the loader connection and disconnection brings the tractor ready for any tasks.
A hydraulic shut-off valve is included with the R-Series Loaders to ensure the loader does not lower suddenly. For example, this allows the boom to be locked out when someone is required to be located under the loader boom for service work on the tractor. It should not be used for extended periods of time unless an appropriate support stand is also utilized.
Fast bucket cycle times are important to dump the load from the bucket as quickly as possible, (quite often) in order to be as productive as possible, while completing loading operations. The bucket cylinder design can have a major impact on this cycle time, especially for the mechanical self-leveling (MSL) loaders.
All MSL H-Series Loaders utilize false rod bucket cylinders. A false rod cylinder has a smaller displacement of oil requirement on the head end of the cylinder, which allows this cylinder to dump much faster than a normal cylinder.
An enhancement to the loader is the suspension system. A great level of loader productivity is achieved with the LSS.
- An accumulator charged with nitrogen and connected to the head-end lift cylinder hose through a T-fitting provides shock absorption
- The cylinders move in and out to allow the boom to float
- Bales can be transported more efficiently from one end of the field to the other over frozen, hard-packed, or rutted terrain
NOTE: Check bale handling capability of tractor before use.
- Pallets can be moved easily without sustaining cargo damage
- Pallets of seed or fertilizer can be carried across a yard without a bag spilling and creating a costly mess
- Properly ballasted tractor with LSS has increased stability, creating a smoother ride for the operator
Cost of Ownership
Extended life of loader pins and bushings
Less stress on tractor axle
Reasons for turning LSS off include:
- Digging applications - with LSS on, the cylinders retract slightly, losing lifting power
- Holding a grade when blading - with LSS on, it is difficult to hold a constant grade
- Precise pallet and bale handling - with LSS on, the load moves up and down slightly while being positioned
- Parking a loader - with LSS on, when down pressure is applied, the lift cylinders retract slightly, making it more difficult to park
The switch is conveniently located in the operator’s station to avoid having to exit the operator station to manually move the handle on the LSS.
LSS can also be ordered with a manual shutoff. Depending on the tractor/loader model, the accumulator is located in different places. On the H180 the accumulator is mounted outside the bottom of the mounting frame. On the 5 Series Tractors, the accumulator is mounted near the inside of the rear right wheel. On 6 Series Tractors and larger, it is mounted in between the hydraulic connection and the mounting frame.
Measured at 800 mm ahead of pivot (V)
Measured at 800 mm ahead of pivot (X)
Measured at 800 mm ahead of pivot (Z)
At 59-in. (1500-mm) lift height (XX)
At ground-level line (ZZ)
At full height - bucket level(B)
At full height - bucket dumped (C)
At ground level - bucket level (F)
63.75 degree (angle)
Rollback angle, degrees (G)
47 degree (angle)
Loader lower, seconds
Bucket dump, seconds
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In the Italian-speaking party of Switzerland there is another "Lega", in
addition to the already described Lega dei Ticinesi.
This is the "Lega Sud" (Southern League), that should not be mixed up with
correspondingly named parties in Southern Italy.
The Lega Sud is closely linked to the Italian Lega Nord and wants closer ties to the adjacent parts of Italy, especially Lombardy.
The symbol is very much in the Lega Nord style, being a circle showing a red map of Ticino with the Visconti's serpent as well as three swords; the inscription "TICINO & MESOLCINA" refers to the two Italian speaking territories, the canton of Ticino and the Mesolcina valley in Graubünden.
The flag is square, white with the symbol [1,2]. They also use the Insubrian flag .
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Guest Blog by Lorraine Coleman, Vice President of Social Services at Acacia Network and Secretary of the CSH Metro Team’s New York Advisory Board.
Supportive Housing empowers individuals and families to grow and thrive in the community while challenging the higher health risks associated with poverty. Before their tenancy in supportive housing, residents likely experienced unhealthy living environments, poor education and schools, low wage-earning opportunities with limited mobility, and inferior medical and behavioral health care.
Their lives were transformed by supportive housing but now like the rest of America, they are graying and that presents new challenges for all of us.
By 2050 there will be 83.7 million people over the age of 65; with 1 in 5 being Hispanic. For New York residents, it is imperative that affordable and supportive housing options are available to everyone who needs them. Just as important, we must ensure the appropriate community-based services are in place for every member of our aging society.
Financial barriers and acculturation have negatively impacted traditional elder care in the Hispanic community. In part due to their close familial ties, Hispanic elderly live longer than their non-Hispanic counterparts. But there are larger numbers experiencing poor health and services. The Hispanic elderly face:
- 64% higher diabetes and obesity rates
- Alzheimer’s symptoms that are exhibited 7 years earlier
- Higher reliance on Medicaid and Social Security
- Inadequate care coverage; 30% lack health insurance
- Scarcity of culturally and linguistically sensitive providers
Through supportive housing, community-based social services providers care for seniors while ensuring caregivers have peace of mind. For Acacia Network, a not-for-profit Latino-led integrated care organization, this was a challenge that resonated with our mission to partner in our communities, lead change, and promote healthy and prosperous individuals and families in a healthy environment.
Through the MRT Senior Supportive Housing Pilot funded by the New York State Department of Health (DOH), Acacia was able to identify a primarily monolingual, aging Hispanic community within supportive housing struggling with histories of poor health and healthcare access. Introduction of culturally and linguistically competent services and perseverance lead to the acceptance of supports that assist tenants with aging successfully in place.
With CSH’s partnership, Acacia was linked to private resources to further enhance our capabilities. CSH has been an advocate and an educator for serving the elderly who are aging in place in supportive housing. They leverage the knowledge of the community-based provider with data and statistics, and work to push policy changes and develop new resources for social service staff and agencies interested in serving the aging population.
The DOH Pilot had a significant impact on the lives of the seniors we help. With the funding available and assistance from CSH, we can expand the scope and breadth of our services and ensure more Hispanics aging in supportive housing are receiving the care they deserve.
Access the full whitepaper Promoting Healthy Aging in Supportive Housing:
A Review of the MRT Senior Supportive Housing Pilot by clicking here.
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Some of these names are familiar, others not so much. But all of these groundbreaking female artists are worth greater appreciation.
When Carly Simon released her first album, she added something rich and uniquely different to the canon of female singer/songwriters.
Joni Mitchell is marking the 50th of one of her most influential albums, “Ladies of the Canyon.” It spoke to women (and all of us) in a very particular way.
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By Jonathan Smith
Culver City will soon be collecting taxes on short-term rentals made through Airbnb after the city council directed staff to enter into a voluntary agreement with the popular rental website.
The decision came last week after elected officials directed staff to seek a transient-occupancy tax voluntarily through an agreement. The agreement will be similar to how the city collects taxes from hotels.
City staff said that Culver City can collect on these taxes even though such rentals are illegal within city limits.
Staff, through research, has found that more than 200 short-term rentals are operating in the city, according to reports.
Staff also said Airbnb has similar transient-occupancy tax agreements with other surrounding cities, staff reported.
Council also asked staff to jumpstart compiling some type of regulation to help govern these rentals.
In recent years, short-term rental websites, like Airbnb and HomeAway, have operated within the city limits, to fanfare and resentment. Short-term rentals allow guests to stay in homes and apartments owned by residents in the city, similar to hotels and hostels.
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12 Best Things to Do in Ha Giang
12 Best Things To Do in Ha Giang
For an authentic Vietnamese adventure, prioritize Ha Giang. This remote mountainous haven boasts awe-inspiring scenery and diverse ethnic cultures. From challenging treks to vibrant markets, Ha Giang promises a distinctive journey unlike any other in Vietnam. This guide unveils the most remarkable Ha Giang experiences, ensuring you maximize your visit.
1. Explore Ha Giang loop on motorbike:
Prepare for an enthralling journey that promises unmatched fascination! Ha Giang's charm lies in its awe-inspiring landscapes – majestic mountains and verdant valleys stretch out before you, painting an exquisite panorama that seems to touch the heavens. Picture yourself on a captivating adventure along the meandering roads of Ha Giang, Vietnam. As you navigate the winding mountain paths on a motorbike, a rush of exhilaration courses through your veins, invigorating your senses. The locals in Ha Giang warmly embrace you, revealing their innate friendliness and genuine hospitality. Immerse yourself in their captivating tales, exploring the depths of their distinctive cultures and time-honored traditions. Venturing deeper, your taste buds are in for a treat. Ha Giang's culinary treasures are a revelation – delectable local delights like corn wine and succulent grilled chicken dance harmoniously on your palate, leaving an indelible imprint of joyous flavors.
2. See rice paddy fields in Hoang Su Phi
Contrary to the notion that Ha Giang lacks the elegant golden terraced rice fields akin to Sapa or Mu Cang Chai, allow us to enlighten you that Hoang Su Phi in Ha Giang boasts some of Vietnam's most breathtaking and dramatic terraced landscapes. Nestled in the western reaches of Ha Giang Province, at the foothills of Tay Con Linh Mountain, Hoang Su Phi is a geographic gem. During the harvest season, this region offers a mesmerizing spectacle as the golden terraces blend seamlessly with the wisps of white clouds. These terraced fields have evolved beyond mere agricultural plots; they are masterpieces born from the locals' unyielding toil. Hoang Su Phi treats visitors to awe-inspiring vistas of tier upon tier of rice fields cascading down the mountainsides. This captivating panorama is an absolute must for every traveler to Ha Giang. A testament to the marriage of farming ingenuity and engineering, these fields are adorned with hues that captivate and astonish. To truly soak in their splendor, embark on a guided trek that leads you through these enchanting landscapes. Amidst the terraced fields, tranquility embraces you, offering moments of solace and endless opportunities to capture breathtaking photographs.
3. Witness Heaven Gate & the Quan Ba twin mountains
Perched at an elevation of 1500 meters above sea level, the Quan Ba Heaven Gate presents an awe-inspiring panorama that stretches across the valley below. This gateway stands as the initial threshold to the Dong Van Plateau. An intriguing historical layer adorns this site – a colossal wooden door, 150 centimeters thick, was erected at the Gate of Heaven in 1939. Once, beyond this door lay another realm, often referred to as the "autonomous region of the Meo people," encompassing Quan Ba, Meo Vac, Yen Minh, and Dong Van districts. Adjacent to National Highway 4C and situated 40 kilometers away from Ha Giang City, the Quan Ba Twin Mountains manifest as a captivating spectacle. Amidst the rocky terrain and terraced fields, these two mountains emerge in peculiar shapes, evoking a sense of wonder in those who behold them. Entwined with the legend of the poetic Fairy Mount, these mountains have become a charming and enchanting landmark that graces the roadside with its ethereal beauty.
4. Capture the views from Tham Ma pass
An essential highlight of my journey through Ha Giang was the captivating Tham Ma Pass. As you venture upwards along this pass, a mesmerizing panorama of the encompassing mountains and valleys unfolds before your eyes. The route generously offers numerous chances to halt and capture the scenic beauty through photographs. For those fortunate enough to arrive at Tham Ma Pass during the enchanting golden hour, the spectacle takes on an even more spellbinding quality. The sun's gentle descent bathes the terrain in a warm, luminous hue, crafting an utterly memorable and enchanting encounter.
5. Stroll around Hmong King Palace
A remarkable architectural gem from the early 1900s, the Hmong King Palace stands as a testament to craftsmanship. The intricate carvings and traditional Hmong textiles that adorn the wooden structure create a captivating visual tapestry. Boasting an expansive layout of over 100 rooms and a sprawling courtyard, the palace is a sight to behold. Today, this palace has been thoughtfully transformed into a museum, offering an immersive journey into Hmong culture and history. Exploring its halls, I was enthralled by the insights into the Hmong way of life, their enduring traditions and customs, and their pivotal role in the tapestry of Vietnamese history.
6. Stay in an ethnic homestay
Embarking on an ethnic homestay journey in Ha Giang is a doorway to immersion in authentic experiences. Opting to reside with a Hmong family within their traditional stilted abode was a heartwarming encounter, as their hospitality knew no bounds. This avenue also serves as a splendid pathway to unravel the intricate threads of local culture, customs, and age-old ways. Moreover, the culinary delights served were a true highlight, each meal a culinary masterpiece crafted from locally sourced, fresh ingredients.
7. Reach Lung Cu flag tower
A compelling destination not to be missed in Ha Giang is the Lung Cu flag tower, proudly standing at the utmost northern tip of Vietnam. Ascending the steep incline to reach the tower is a rewarding feat, as the breathtaking panoramic vistas of the encompassing terrain unfold before you. The flag tower itself is a remarkable architectural marvel and a prime vantage point for capturing stunning photographs. This locale also hosts vibrant ethnic minority communities, providing a unique opportunity to delve into their rich cultures and time-honored traditions.
8. Cruise Nho Que river
Embarking on a leisurely cruise along the Nho Que River presents an enticing opportunity to enhance your Ha Giang journey. This waterway is renowned for its mesmerizing natural beauty, characterized by majestic cliffs and verdant foliage gracing its shores. The tranquility of the experience lends itself to relaxation, enabling travelers to absorb the awe-inspiring panoramas that unveil the striking Ma Pi Leng Pass and the enchanting Dong Van Karst Plateau. An especially captivating aspect of the cruise is the passage through the Tu San canyon, where the river gracefully winds between imposing cliffs, creating a narrow and captivating gorge.
9. Conquer Ma Pi Leng’s pass
Traversing the Ma Pi Leng Pass unveils an extraordinary chapter of nature's grandeur, etching over 20 kilometers along the 4C highway. This journey bestows upon travelers a panoramic spectacle, unveiling profound chasms, the meandering Nho Que River, and the majestic silhouettes of towering mountains cloaked in shades of gray. As you navigate through the enchanting Ma Pi Leng, witness ethereal veils of mist gracefully embrace the winding pathways, rendering an experience reminiscent of timeless narratives. Perched at an elevation of 2000 meters above sea level, be prepared for temperatures nearing zero degrees, particularly during the winter months.
10. Discover the vibrant local markets
Dong Van Market: Every Sunday, the Dong Van Market springs to life in the heart of the ancient town. An array of fresh produce, handicrafts, clothing, and local delights awaits. Engage with vendors, haggle playfully, and savor the delectable street food to embrace the authentic local way of life.
Meo Vac Market: Experience the vibrant culture of Ha Giang's ethnic communities at the Meo Vac Market. Engage with friendly vendors who proudly showcase fresh produce, handmade crafts, and traditional attire. This is an opportunity to connect, share stories, and be a part of the local narrative.
Khau Vai Love Market: Experience the distinct Khau Vai Love Market, an exceptional cultural event held on the 27th day of the third lunar month in Meo Vac's Khau Vai commune. Couples with clandestine affairs reunite in traditional attire, partaking in captivating customs, songs, and dances that narrate the region's unique traditions.
11. Hiking and Trekking:
Embark on an exhilarating journey through the rugged landscapes of Ha Giang, where trekking and hiking unveil a world of natural beauty and cultural immersion. This northern Vietnamese gem offers an array of trekking routes that traverse towering mountains, serene valleys, and ethnic minority villages.
12. See buckwheat flowers
Ha Giang's fame is inseparable from the enchanting buckwheat flower. This bloom is synonymous with the region's majestic mountains, forming an endless source of inspiration for nature lovers. Amid the green forest, the hills are adorned with white, blue, pink, and purple hues of buckwheat, a sight so captivating that one could gaze upon it forever. The optimal time to witness this spectacle is during autumn, when the landscape is adorned with a stunning pink and white floral carpet.
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Panic strikes at the National Hill View Public School after a hoax bomb threat
The National Hill View Public School in Ideal Homes Township in RR Nagar area of Bengaluru, Karnataka, received a hoax bomb threat through email on July 18. As soon as the school authorities realised the threat email, they immediately informed the police officials. Within no time, a bomb disposal squad and sniffer dog squad rushed to the school and inspected the school premises.
According to the sources, the threat email was received around 8.30 in the morning. Immediately the school management evacuated around 1,500 students from the school and shifted them to the neighbouring schools within half an hour. This step was taken as a preventive measure as the news about the bomb threat became public knowledge, and panic-stricken parents rushed to the school to enquire about the safety of their kids.
The police officials did a detailed investigation and inspected the school premises thoroughly. The search operation did not discover any suspicious device. Whereas, the email was declared a hoax. Later on, the school authorities declared a holiday over the incident as the students seemed tensed due to this incident.
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Chris Matheson has always been a man on a mission. He is currently leading the Australian Top Bike Championship, and if all goes well at this weekend’s Gulf Western Oil Nitro Thunder, he will be well on the way to take out an unprecedented sixth title.
“In my business life it’s all about KPI’s, performance and challenges,” said Matheson. It’s no different in my racing world. I know some people do it for the thrill and speed, however for me it’s the challenge of being the best, breaking records and winning championships.
When the 5 x Australian Top Fuel Motorcycle champion Chris Matheson withdrew from racing last November in Sydney due to a spinal injury, rumors circulated that the 10-year veteran racer was done.
“I was challenged to prove them wrong. I’m sure my family and friends would like me to find a less demanding sport, but that’s not me. It’s not in my DNA. I love going fast and winning championships.
“My doctor has often said maybe I should take up something less stressful and punishing. My reply is not today!
This weekend Matheson and his Nitro Voodoo team return to Sydney Dragway for the third time this season to contest Rd 5 of the 400 Thunder Top Bike Championship.
Looking back to Round 2 of the championship, Matheson recalls the challenges he was faced with following the back injury he sustained during Friday’s qualifying. Despite a visit to the doctors, the pain was unbearable, forcing Matheson to withdraw from further competition.
Matheson said,” We have been chasing our dream all year to run quick and win rounds, however in the process, the best strategies don’t always work out.
“Sometimes you win and sometimes you don’t. Sometimes mechanical parts fail or even people can fail, as it did in my case.
“I felt sick to the core letting our supporters and importantly my team down. Pulling out was a defining moment. It also didn’t take long for the rumours to circulate, but that was to be expected,” explained Matheson.
“But that was then and this is now. This weekend I’m 100% focused on our race strategy, as is the entire team. We are determined to reach our goals and we know there will be some bumps, but that’s the challenge of our sport and the test of true character, no different to the daily lives we live.”
Matheson leads the championship at the critical point of the series. With just two rounds left the opportunity to gain points is diminishing.
“A points buffer would be beneficial to any of the front runners prior to the Winternationals, said Matheson, however, let’s see what plays out this weekend.”
Matheson holds the Sydney Dragway track record of 6.07 seconds and is focused on bettering that and bagging some more points.
“Last time in Sydney we went 6.08 only to see the final uncontested due to an incident with a car that damaged the catch nets. We were definitely trying to go quicker; however, it was taken out of our hands,” said Matheson.
“The track will be good and we expect a big crowd in attendance. We also expect a good field of Top Bikes who have the potential to upset the balance.
Matheson finished by saying, “The Australian Top Bike Group will be hosting, a free Nitro Thunder Meet & Greet BBQ on Thursday night. We are Inviting racers, crew and fans to drop in around 8 pm for a cold drink and a sausage sandwich. Hope to see you there.”
2018/19 400 Thunder Top Bike Championship (After Rd 4)
Chris Matheson (Qld) 305
Gavin Spann (Qld) 290
Jay Upton (WA) 276
Les Holden (WA) 158
Adam Layton (NSW) 126
Rod Barchet (NSW) 44
Tony Wood (WA) 25
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Saturday 6am…..getting up and checking weather conditions. Wet roads, slight sprinkles and roads seem to be drying. 6:30am, taking in the usual bowl of oatmeal pre-ride breakfast meal. Watching the news wondering if the rain will hold off until the ride is completed today. 7:20am start to get dressed, piecing together what layers to wear. Do I need a rain jacket? Booties? Ear warmers? It’s a crap shoot on what will be found out on the road today. 7:35am, check bike tires, put on shoes and start pedaling to meet the group at the covered parking lot across from Karen’s Bakery. The first mile I’m a little cold but after the second mile rolls by I’m thinking I have picked the right combination of layers and winter gear. 7:50 or so arrive at the parking lot. Say hi to Steve Ward (El Patron) who is getting ready to ride up to Georgetown on a BP training ride. He states he might see snow…….
Five riders show up to start this ride. Brian (ride leader), Chad, Claire, Miles, Eric and myself. We are feeling pretty good about today’s ride. We might beat the forecast of rain later today. As we roll out the roads are semi dry across the Auburn Folsom bridge. Descending to the north AR bike trail the pavement is wet/dry. Brian and I are at the front pulling the group for the first ten or so miles at a medium pace. Clair and Miles take over and pull for a long period taking us close to the first major route turn at (Northegate) rain drops start hitting us. The levee bike trail is wet with light rain falling. I am riding next to rather than right behind the rider in front to keep away from the wet rooster tail off the rear wheel. We make the one stop for restrooms and water with rain coming down at a pretty good rate.
We get a much needed tail wind down Levee road. I’m seeing an average mph between 22-25 depending on who is on the front. We are all getting wet at this point. Staying warm is on our minds. The easy part of the ride is winding down as we make the turn onto Riego road heading east. Just as Brian gets a pace set….I have the rear tire go flat. I get the tire off and find something in the tread. Brian gets the offending particle out for me, and I get the new tube and tire mounted a quickly as possible. My hands are freezing! Just as we are ready to go the rain lets up. I get out to the front and start soft pedaling until everyone is on and then start to slowly wind up the pace. With the cross wind I’m seeing a 19.4 mph average speed and I keep pounding out this pace not looking back as there is not much shoulder to work with and traffic speeding along the road. After a while I get the feeling that no one is behind me. I take a quick look and see Chad back a couple hundred meters and the rest of the group back even further. Geeze…..I did not mean to drop the group on this stretch of road, just pace them though without slowing too much. I slowed down and let Chad catch up, he said he dropped back to help pull the group back. Chad and I slowed to let the Brian, Eric, Claire and Miles catch up. Then Chad went up front and took a long pull with me on second wheel and Claire third wheel. Chad pulled us all the way to the next turn onto Fiddyment.
The rain was spotty the rest of the way through Roseville. The group was split a few time at stop lights and rollers on Roseville Parkway. The last section of Roseville parkway has a slight climb to Barton Road. Miles went off the front, Chad and I chasing. Brian, Clair and Eric were kept pounding out a reasonable climbing pace. I caught up with Chad, we passed Miles and put a little gap between us and Miles by the time we reached Barton Road. Brian, Clair and Eric arrived soon after.
The last section of the ride should have been easy to return to Karen’s. I was in autopilot on Barton telling Brian that these rollers used to hurt me bad. Not so much today! Just after the last roller we encountered a 90 degree right turn. Brian went in first, Miles dove in looked OK but suddenly the back end broke loose and Miles was down hard on the tarmac. I was back a few bike lengths and had just committed to a line through this turn. Miles was right in my line. Race day instincts took over…..A quick assessment of options went through my mind…..#1 slow as much as possible before hitting into Miles, #2 Get off line, slow as much as possible and look for a soft place to land. I went for option #2. As I slowed I over braked and locked up the rear, passed by the outside of Miles and spotted the point where I wanted to hit the wood fence and hopefully glance off it and stay upright. Once I hit the fence I knew that I was going over the bars. I tucked my head and rolled with the bike. I finished the roll laying on my side with my left leg still clipped in. Somehow I managed to not to get hurt. Miles was not so lucky and was not getting up too quick. We took a little while to let Miles get up and make sure he was not hurt bad. Checked the bikes over to make sure they were in riding condition and then rode the last 1-2 miles together back to Karen’s.
Everyone was soaked to the bone during this ride. I have to give Claire credit as she wore the least amount of gear for the entire ride. One layer of arm warmers, no leg warmers and light gloves. Claire, I do not know how you stayed warm today!
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Phil Okwedy - Chief Storyteller
“Creativity is just connecting things” – Steve Jobs
I’m not sure I’d agree with the ‘just’ in Jobs' quote but everything is connected.
Three years ago, when I finally made the decision to quit teaching and become a fulltime storyteller, panic set in almost immediately! How on Earth would I ever make a living?
Like the proverbial drowning man, I began clutching at straws. I’d spent my last period as a teacher facilitating philosophy sessions using story, and this seemed an obvious area for development. I was deep into researching how I could market and monetize this on the internet when I had a chance meeting with a friend.
Having explained my panic and what I intended to do with it, my friend looked at me and said:
“That sounds like your head leading, but in deciding to leave teaching aren’t you following your heart?”
It was a lightbulb moment. One that has illuminated my path ever since. So, when I was invited to join Cymbrogi – Companions of the Heart – and help facilitate the creativity element of the programme, it really was a no-brainer.
“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” ― Maya Angelou
As a teacher, I’d been delighted that the Welsh government put creativity at the heart of the new curriculum. Creativity, long associated with the “spark of genius” moment is now recognised as an innate human skill and therefore, like a muscle, something that can be strengthened and developed. As a storyteller, I think that rather than the myth of originality, creativity happens when we expand the range of our next possible moves by making as many corresponding and conflicting
connections as we possibly can…with ideas, things and, most importantly, people.
“The most important thing each of us can know is our unique gift and how to use it in the world. Individuality is cherished and nurtured, because, in order for the whole to flourish, each of us has to be strong in who we are and carry our gifts with conviction, so they can be shared with others.” – Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer.
The key to unlocking those gifts lies in the exercising of the creative muscles - to do that we must connect - and, as we look forward into an uncertain future, there has never been a more important time to do that.
“All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life: he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.” Chief Seattle.
Find out more about Phil https://www.philokwedystoryteller.co.uk/
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Following several days of violence in Egypt, the United Nations (UN), Amnesty International, and the United States (US) have expressed concern over the deteriorating state of affairs in the country.
The UN’s high commissioner for human rights Navi Pillay expressed “alarm” on Tuesday and urged all parties to hold a serious dialogue to halt the spread of violence.
She also called on the government to “urgently rethink its responses to the unrest which have ranged from excessive use of force on one hand, to complete failure to protect people, especially women, on the other.”
Pillay said, given the current fragile and unstable state of the nation, “Each missed opportunity to reach national consensus and each example of excessive use of force by security forces is aggravating an already frighteningly tense and volatile situation.”
She also lashed out against sexual harassment in public areas: “I deplore the fact that sexual violence is permitted to occur with apparent impunity in a public square, and that the authorities have failed to prevent these attacks or to bring more than a single prosecution against the hundreds of men involved in these vicious attacks.”
Morsy’s call for dialogue was welcomed by Pillay, who urged him to “listen to the demonstrators’ demands, tackle grassroots problems, address key issues raised by the opposition with regard to the recently adopted constitution and to take immediate measures to solve the numerous serious problems currently affecting the judicial system.”
In a report release Monday titled “Egypt: Uprising commemoration unleashed death and destruction,” Amnesty International concluded that security forces had used excessive force when dealing with protests and urged police from using lethal force “unless it is unavoidable to protect human life.”
The report was based on observations by an Amnesty researcher who concluded security forces in Suez had used deadly force in various situations which protesters posed no threat to the lives of the officers or others.
Amnesty noted that security forces did not follow protocol established by Egyptian legislation which, “while falling short of international standards, sets some limits on the use of firearms by police, including requiring the issuing of audible warnings and aiming at the feet.”
“As more protests continue today to commemorate the bloodiest day of the ‘25 January Revolution’, the Egyptian authorities must issue clear orders to those policing protests to respect freedom of peaceful assembly and avoid unnecessary or excessive force,” said Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui. “They must make absolutely clear that those that use arbitrary and excessive force will be brought to justice.”
Hadj Sahraoui demanded authorities ensure investigations into the violence are carried out by an independent and impartial body that is not implicated in the killing, adding that “recent events in Egypt demonstrate that there is no way forward unless there is a real accountability for police abuse and justice is delivered by an independent judiciary.”
In response to emergency law enforced in Suez, Port Said, and Ismailia, Amnesty “urged Egyptian authorities to consider whether less intrusive measures would be better suited to restore order.”
The US government also responded to the turmoil, calling the past few days “difficult and violent,” and adding they would be watching events unfold.
Department of State spokesperson Victoria Noland said the US was gratified to hear President Mohamed Morsy’s call to political parties for open discussion, adding that political forces in Egypt should “avail themselves of this opportunity to work together through dialogue to deal with the underlying issues.” | <urn:uuid:2632b6d3-6084-4a7c-8e04-77a49f6c3c0a> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2013/01/29/continued-violence-prompts-international-reaction/ | 2023-09-25T00:25:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.95688 | 754 |
No Tracks In The Snow
A collection of early ambient and experimental works from prolific American artist Mkl Anderson (lovesliescrushing, 4K, Bluesanct Records). Album includes 8 tracks recorded between ‘96-’02, for fans of Current 93, Nurse With Wound, Loscil, Halfer Trio, and Flying Saucer Attack...
For over twenty years, Mkl Anderson has curated a vast archive of recorded material for his cinematic ritual ambient industrial project, Drekka. He works with memory not only as a subject but also as a healing process, continually delving into this personal world of sound; examining, revisiting, and repurposing recordings in an attempt to recall a past which sings from the darkness surrounding the tenuous provinces of memory and dreams - the real ghosts of time and sound.
No Tracks in the Snow is a collection of tracks from the early days of Drekka’s history; the third offering for Dais Records and an appendix between the second and third parts of the 'Tarwestraat' trilogy of LPs for the label.
Recorded between 1996 and 2002, the album showcases Drekka's early exploratory development across a variety of styles. And yet it is also Drekka in the present moment; culled, curated, and assembled with care. Not unlike Jorge Luis Borges’ A Personal Anthology - or indeed any of Drekka’s own recent work - this recording can be understood as a cohesive narrative more than as a simple compilation.
As Drekka moved from its Bristol, UK influenced space folk beginnings, backwards towards Anderson's earlier UK industrial tape culture foundation, his predilection for reworking pieces over time was emerging; recontextualizing narratives to bring out new truths from one's own history. This process would become a cornerstone of Anderson's work for the decades to follow.
- Grey Marble Vinyl LP | 100 edition (sold out)
- Black Vinyl LP
- The First Hundred Seconds (overdub)
- Approx. 6 minutes
- Instrumental 3
- Thirty-three years will not be a long time
- Christmas 1974 or 1974
- We who are not lonely
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Child's Play 13: Dake Fest!
May 31, 2023
Join us for our 13th Annual Child's Play fundraiser! This year's theme: Dake Fest, brings all the vibes of Coachella and all the good food, music, and FUN this event is known for. All proceeds go to help local children with disabilities to enjoy more independence, more inclusion, and more fun.
To purchase tickets, please visit www.givebutter.com/dakefest.
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With patient care shifting to outpatient clinics and home-based medical care, clinical laboratory managers should beef up outreach lab testing services
Declining patient volume is shuttering hospitals across the United States as hospitals lose patients to ambulatory care centers and home-based medical care. This trend directly impacts the pathologists and medical technologists who work in the clinical laboratories of these hospitals.
Empty Beds Indicator of Failing Hospitals
Most pathologists are unaware that, between 2008 and 2013, nearly 130 community hospitals closed. That left 4,974 hospitals operating in the United States, according to American Hospital Association (AHA) 2015 Hospital Statistics, which are based on data from the 2013 AHA Annual Survey.
It is no surprise that below-average occupancy rates are a common denominator of most failed hospital, noted the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). The 14 hospitals that closed in 2013 had an average occupancy rate of 34%. This is lower than the 48% average occupancy rate of the hospital nearest to the closing hospital, MedPAC stated in its March 2015 report to Congress.
Going forward, there is no indication that the survival rate will improve for hospitals saddled with empty beds. Lakewood Hospital in Lakewood, Ohio is the latest example of a low-occupancy-rate hospital shutting its doors and shifting care to outpatient clinics. Earlier this year, in January, Cleveland Clinic announced plans to close the 200-bed hospital and replace it with a $34 million, 62,000-square-foot family heath center and emergency department.
“Healthcare in America is in the midst of an unprecedented transformation and the way care is delivered to patients is rapidly shifting,” said Toby Cosgrove, M.D., President and CEO of Cleveland Clinic, in a statement. “Our goal is to best meet the medical needs of the Lakewood community for today and the future.”
Rural Hospitals at Greater Risk
In rural areas, hospitals are closing at an even faster clip, with 33 closures since 2013, including two so far this year, according to statistics from the National Rural Health Research Program at the University of North Carolina. Pathologists whose pathology groups serve rural hospitals are watching how healthcare’s ongoing transformation is making it tougher for these institutions to attract patients.
In a Modern Healthcare article, reporter Melanie Evans points out that hospitals are seeing their bottom lines squeezed by “high deductibles, better technology, more case management, and shrinking reimbursement.”
Policy changes fueled by the Affordable Care Act, such as the impending implementation of the “two-midnight” rule under which Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will consider an admission inpatient only if the patient’s stay crosses “two midnights,” also are taking a toll on hospitals still recovering from the Great Recession of 2007 to 2009.
Most clinical laboratory managers know that hospital admissions have been declining in recent years. Inpatient days fell from 179,043,949 to 169,860,722 between 2008 and 2012 while occupancy rates slipped steadily, from 77% in 1980 to 64% in 2008 to 60% in 2013, according to Modern Healthcare.
“Numerous markets across the country now have more hospital beds than they need,” Evans writes. “Given the intense pressure on hospitals to reduce costs, many healthcare organizations are driven to participate in narrow-network health plans as a way of outflanking the growing competition.”
Mergers and Acquisitions Are Probably Biggest Threat to Smaller Hospitals
Overcapacity—inpatient beds that go unused—is fueling a wave of mergers and acquisitions while also causing major academic medical centers to shed beds. As an example, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center plans to eliminate 410 beds or roughly 8.5% of its capacity, Modern Healthcare reports. “For academic medical centers, the high cost of their education, research, and specialty services makes them less competitive as occupancy rates fall,” Evans writes.
Yet small hospitals in rural areas may be the most at risk. Community hospitals often have fewer options for cost cutting since clinical laboratories, pharmacies, pathology labs, and other departments already may operate with only a handful of employees, making reductions in overhead difficult. In addition, they may not be attractive acquisition targets.
“The stand-alone, community hospital is going the way of the dinosaur,” declared Angela Mattie, Chairwoman of the health care management and organizational leadership department at Quinnipiac University, in a USA Today article.
Home Healthcare Adds Pressure to Hospitals
In the future, the financial pressures on hospitals may only increase as competition grows to include hospital-at-home care. Managedcaremag.com reports that the “Hospital-at-Home” program, developed by the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, provides “hospital-level care in a patient’s home as a substitute for inpatient hospital care and has been utilized by health systems across the country and is being covered by several health insurance plans as well.”
A yearlong study of the program’s effectiveness within a New Mexico health system showed the hospital-at-home program reduced costs by 19% and provided equal or better outcomes than for hospital inpatients. Dark Daily has written about the hospital-in-the-home care model and early successes recorded by such a project in Australia (2011) as well as the ongoing project in New Mexico (2012).
Like accountable care organizations and patient-centered medical homes, the model of hospital-in-the-home has the potential to reduce the total cost of a patient health encounter while contributing to improved outcomes. However, because these new care models are organized to keep patients out of hospitals, the cumulative effect will be to reduce the number of inpatients. In turn, this will mean a declining volume of medical laboratory testing in these hospitals. The growing number of closed hospitals in recent years is evidence that the trend of declining inpatient usage will be ongoing.
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Health insurers want to control the rapid growth in expensive genetic and molecular assays
For many clinical laboratories and pathology groups, genetic tests and molecular diagnostic assays are the fastest-growing part of the test menu. This is true both in the increased volume of specimens for genetic tests and the growing number of such medical laboratory tests that are accepted for clinical use.
This is a bright spot for the nation’s clinical pathology laboratories. That’s because many genetic tests and molecular assays deliver significant clinical value to the physician and his or her patient—while generating ample reimbursement for the medical laboratory that performs these tests. | <urn:uuid:9a9a74cd-27d1-4253-9e12-ebae33816c2f> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.darkdaily.com/tag/molecular-testing-white-paper/ | 2023-09-25T00:32:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.917893 | 125 |
Appending Cell Phone Numbers
This is a process you may want to do each year to your customer database. This will add new cell phone numbers and update old ones.
The way it works is that we match your list against the master cell phone database. We match by first name, last name and address. This is the most accurate way to insure you are getting the cell phone number of the person you want.
Our wireless phone database is one of the largest available. It is continuously maintained and updated through multiple response channels. This helps boost your chances of reaching the people you want to reach!
Reverse cell phone appending
In this process, we take the list of cell phone numbers you have and append the names and addresses of that wireless phone owner.
This takes your list of unidentifiable numbers and makes them useable!
Before you start dialing
Most of the same best practices of telemarketing apply to calling cell phones. Make sure you have created the perfect script and practiced it. Also, before embarking on any telemarketing campaign, make sure you know all the rules. The FTC website has lots of great information. I am also answering a few often-asked questions below.
How you can use a Cell phone list?
Telemarketing, surveys, interviews, polls, political calls, consumer information calls.
Is it illegal to cold call cell phones?
Federal law prohibits any calls to cellphones using automatic dialers or prerecorded messages, regardless of whether the cellphone is listed on the national Do-Not-Call Registry. The second allows businesses to call cellphone numbers if the recipient has given written permission, either on paper or by email.
Can telemarketers call cell phones?
Telemarketing calls to peoples’ home are prohibited before 8 am or after 9 pm. Telemarketers are required to comply immediately with any do-not-call request a consumer makes during a call.
Is there are cell phone do not call list?
The federal government does not maintain and is not establishing a separate Do-Not-Call list for wireless phone numbers.
Wireless phone subscribers have always been able to add their personal wireless phone numbers to the national Do-Not-Call list. They can do this either add your personal wireless phone number to the national Do-Not-Call listonline, or by calling toll-free – 1-888-382-1222 – from the phone number they wish to register. The rules require callers that are not exempt from the rules to stop telemarketing calls 30 days after someone registers their number.
How accurate are cell phone lists?
You should expect anywhere between 15-20% disconnected or wrong numbers. While we are constantly updating and verifying information, there will always be some numbers that have changed between updates. The average American changes their smartphones every two years. Often people change their phone number when they get a better deal from a different provider. Another new phenomenon is that people who were working remotely are changing their cell numbers so they are no longer “on-call” 24/7. | <urn:uuid:7969e080-df33-40d3-b981-05c198d95e09> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.datamangroup.com/cell-phone-lists/ | 2023-09-24T23:24:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.931251 | 633 |
If you would like to quickly create an Outlook note that containing all the contents of multiple Plain Text files, you can read this article. Here we will introduce a rapid method to you.
In my previous article – “2 Means to Batch Import Multiple Plain Text Files as Separate Outlook Notes“, you can learn the ways to batch import a lot of text files into Outlook as individual notes. Perhaps after reading it, you may also long for a fast way to merge and import multiple Plain Text files into a single Outlook note. Therefore, in the followings, we will make this idea come true with another piece of code.
Merge and Import Multiple Plain Text Files into a Single Outlook Note
- First off, move and store all the Plain Text files to the same Windows folder.
- Then, start your Outlook application.
- Next, trigger Outlook VBA editor with reference to “How to Run VBA Code in Your Outlook“.
- Subsequently, copy the following VBA code into a module or project.
Sub BatchImportPlainTextFilesAsSingleNote() Dim strLocalFolder As String Dim objFileSystem As Object Dim objFolder As Object Dim objFile As Object Dim strFileExtension As String Dim objTextStream As Object Dim strText As String Dim objNote As Outlook.NoteItem 'Change the path of the folder storing the source plain text files strLocalFolder = "E:\Notes" Set objFileSystem = CreateObject("scripting.FileSystemObject") Set objFolder = objFileSystem.GetFolder(strLocalFolder) Set objNote = Outlook.Application.CreateItem(olNoteItem) 'Import the text files into the new Note For Each objFile In objFolder.Files strFileExtension = objFileSystem.GetExtensionName(objFile) If strFileExtension = "txt" Then Set objTextStream = objFileSystem.OpenTextFile(objFile.Path) strText = objTextStream.ReadAll objNote.Body = objNote.Body & vbCr & "---------------------" & vbCr & vbCr & Left(objFileSystem.GetFileName(objFile), Len(objFileSystem.GetFileName(objFile)) - 4) & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & strText End If Next 'Save the Note objNote.Body = "Notes from Plain Text Files" & vbCr & vbCr & objNote.Body objNote.Save objNote.Display End Sub
- After that, press “F5” to run this macro.
- When macro completes, a new note item will be created and displayed, as shown in the following screenshot.
If Outlook PST File Is Inaccessible
Have you ever received the error message that mentioned your Outlook PST file is inaccessible? Generally speaking, it refers to that the PST file has been corrupt. Thus, under this circumstance, you have to take the following actions. In the first place, if you’ve backed up your PST file before, simply recover data from backups. Yet, if there isn’t effective backup, you can try the inbox repair tool, Scanpst, to fix the PST file. The worst case is that the internal tool also fails. At that time, your last resort would be a more experienced and trustworthy utility, like DataNumen Outlook Repair.
Shirley Zhang is a data recovery expert in DataNumen, Inc., which is the world leader in data recovery technologies, including mdf fix and outlook repair software products. For more information visit www.datanumen.com | <urn:uuid:efcf7711-8fc1-45bc-ad9b-b118c9c9b30f> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.datanumen.com/blogs/how-to-quickly-merge-and-import-multiple-plain-text-files-into-a-single-outlook-note/ | 2023-09-24T23:54:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.768072 | 757 |
Fig 1. Rossi Florentino’s section of the Galerie Francois Ier (1535–1539) in the Chateau de Fontainebleau is one of 12 bays on the gallery, each different. In General, the subjects appear to be allegories of the reign of Francis I. The central fresco here – one of those most likely to be by Rosso’s own hand – is the “Death of Adonis”, which may refer to the death of the dauphin in 1536. The salamander is above the king’s personal emblem. A similar mixture of painting and stucco – Roman and Florentine ideas – was used by Primaticco.
Fig 2. Michelangelo’s Porta Pia, Rome, begun in 1561, is a fine example of mannerist license. There are no true capitals and the pseudo-capitals are fragments of an architrave topped by the guttae of a frieze.
Fig 3. Michelangelo's "Victory" (c. 1527–1528) was designed to stand in a niche in the lowest zone of the tomb of Julius II to be flanked by a pair of slaves. The continuous spiral movement of the figures is known as the figura serpentinata (snake-like figure) which Michelangelo is said to have thought most perfect.
Fig 4. Parmigianino’s “Madonna with the Long Neck” (1534–1536) was painted for Elena Baiardi, for a church in Parma. The subject refers to St Helen’s vision of the Cross, represented in the crystal vase. All the figures react to this vision – the Virgin by seeing in the child across her knees a prefiguration of the Passion. The column is a symbol of the Virgin’s purity. The content is comparable to that of an altarpiece by Correggio (c. 1494–1534), but the ecstasy seems more stylish than expressive, and strikingly elegant in form.
Fig 5. Bartholomaus Spranger’s “Venus and Adonis” (c. 1590) was characteristic of the taste of Rudolph II and his court at Prague, where there was an unusual interest in all things strange and improbable. Spranger was a cosmopolitan artist, trained in Antwerp, Paris, Parma and Rome, who exerted great influence in the last stages of Mannerism through his engraver Goltzius. In general he gives the impression, as here, of finding his style as absurd as his subjects.
Fig 6. Gianbologna’s “The Rape of the Sabine” (1582) seems to have been made without the artist having in view a subject, a site or a patron, but only the ambition to show the world that, contrary to rumor, he could work as well on a colossal scale in marble as in small bronzes (on which he made his reputation). He believed that he had made his task as difficult as possible by multiplying the figures and by varying their age and sex. The piece’s title was arrived at when the work was complete.
Fig 7. Cellini's bronze bust of Duke Cosimo I of Florence was made between 1545 and 1547. Cosimo was a Medici who was created Grand Duke of Tuscany in 1569. He was a great art-lover and Cellini's Parton.
The High Renaissance style in Florence and Rome had been in many ways artificial, most obviously in its grace, idealism and tendency to exaggerated posturing. The achievement of the major artists was a perfect style, or so it seemed; and the pursuit of perfect style was to become an end in itself. The phase so characterized is called Mannerism (from maniera, Italian for "style").
Qualities of style
Artifice was not the only quality of style felt worthy of further cultivation; novelty, licence, variety, and the esoteric were appreciated in the sixteenth century – in the criticism of Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574), for example – as never before and the demonstration of artistic genius was thought a legitimate object in a work of art. This demonstration could become the work's true subject. Mannerism was a late Renaissance style and it was important that all the beliefs on which it was based could be justified by selective reading of ancient authorities. But the surviving monuments of antiquity were studied in a new spirit, paying particular attention to license, complexity, and grace. In northern countries the appreciation of similar qualities in late Gothic art facilitated the reception of the new style, but Gothic as such was held in contempt and what was supplied was of classical breeding.
The phenomenon of Mannerism did not occur everywhere – Venice, for example, was almost immune – and its arrival was never marked by a sharp break but by a shift of emphasis. Qualities such as grace appear in many stages in Renaissance art and were generally subject to inflation across the period; in some centers, as art looked inward at itself and not outward at nature, an extra twist of the spiral produced hyperinflation. This first happened in Rome; and perhaps it had already happened by 1520 in the work of Raphael and Michelangelo.
Artistic conditions in Rome soon after 1520 were ideal for the growth of Mannerism. A brilliant group of young artists, the pupils of Raphael, Florentines such as G. B. Rosso (Rosso Fiorentino, 1494–1540) and Benvenuto Cellini (1500–1571), and north Italians such as Girolamo Parmigianino (1503–1540), were impelled toward the display of virtuosity by their own competitive situation, by the qualities of the last works of Raphael (died 1520), and by the current work of Michelangelo (1475–1564). The latter's drawings were rich in invention, his sculpture suave and refined away from the natural, his architecture increasingly more marked by license than by rule (Fig 2, 3). The dispersal of this group had begun before the sack of Rome in 1527, but that event was directly effective in the spread of Mannerism, through Perino del Vaga (c. 1500–1547) to Genoa, through Parmigianino to Emilia, and through Rosso, eventually, to Fontainebleau. Furthermore, the Mannerist style was unusually accessible because so much of it appeared in engravings.
In Italy the most impressive Mannerist in the 1530s, if Michelangelo is excepted, was certainly Parmigianino, first in Bologna and then in Parma. His "Madonna with the Long Neck" (Fig 4) is one of a number of religious works whose spiritual message is less obvious than their elegant forms, rhythmic grace, refinement of detail, and airless, unreal color. After 1540, Florence became the most vital Italian center and remained so until the early seventeenth century under the patronage of the Medici dukes. Cosimo I (1519–1574) assembled a team of highly talented artists: the painters Salviati (1510–1563) and Il Bronzino (1502–1572), the sculptors Cellini (Fig 7) and Bartolommeo Ammanati (1511–1592), and the architect Buontalenti (1536–1608). To this court and its new nobility was attracted, in about 1560, the one really great artist who worked wholly in the Mannerist style – the Fleming Gianbologna (1529–1608). No sculptor's work has ever been so suavely complex, nor made so purposefully to be admired for its art. He brought the bronze statuette to perfection but, partly in emulation of Michelangelo, worked also on a large scale in marble (Fig 6).
|Gianbologna’s “Astronomy” (c. 1573) is one of the most highly finished of this artist’s statuettes and was made to be turned round in the hand so that the brilliance and variety of its composition could be admired. From any angle the forms make a balanced and complicated design, each one different. In his work Gianbologna took a characteristic aspect of the 16th century – making art for connoisseurs – to its logical conclusion. He believed that the subject was of no particular significance, the figures being chosen “to give scope to the science and accomplishment of art”.|
It is natural that a style that tended to preciosity and rested upon technical accomplishment should flourish in metalwork and jewelry; Cellini, whose gold saltcellar was completed for Francis I, was the most famous goldsmith of the period, but the richest concentration of talent was in south Germany in the second half of the century.
|Wensel Jamnitzer’s ewer (c. 1570) is made of silver gilt, enamelled and inlaid. Vases of surprising fantasy, in bronze and silver, survived from the Roman Empire. Thereafter, the creation of more witty and complex tableware was a main Mannerist preoccupation. Jamnitzer (1508-1585) used casts of real animals.|
Centers of Mannerism in the north were mainly, but not exclusively, at courts, and the first of these was at Fontainebleau. There, from about 1530, the decoration of Francis's new chateau was emphatically Mannerist, and very influential (for example, in England). The principal artists there were Italian – Rosso and Primaticcio – and their main work was the Galerie Francois Ier, an exuberant mixture of stylized allegorical painting and complex stucco relief (Fig 1) where first appeared the universal currency of Mannerist decoration, strapwork (ornamental strap-like bands). Around 1600 the last vital centers of Mannerism were in Holland (the school of Haarlem) and at the court of Rudolph II at Prague, where the Flemish painter Bartholomaus Spranger (1546–1611) and the Dutch sculptor Adriaen de Vries (c. 1548–1626) produced decadent, erotic art of the highest order. | <urn:uuid:b807a0ed-b3e6-4c2f-9060-ef6138447ae7> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia_of_history/M/Mannerism.html | 2023-09-24T22:57:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.972612 | 2,186 |
Monroe, James (1758–1831)
"I have called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the old." When George Canning, the British Foreign Minister, boastfully addressed the House of Commons in 1826 he claimed to have weakened 'Old World' Spain by recognizing the independence of those colonies in South America which had revolted against Spanish rule.
But Canning was not the first to take this step, and indeed the New World was already very much in existence. Three years earlier the fifth President of the United States, James Monroe, had made an astonishing declaration in which he denounced any form of European interference in the affairs of the entire American continent. And he had recognized the independence of Gran Colombia, Buenos Aires, Mexico, and Chile from their Spanish masters.
From rebel to President
James Monroe was born in Virginia on April 28, 1758. His father was of Scottish and his mother of Welsh descent. He went to college at the age of 16, but in 1776 he joined the army to take part in the struggle for independence which had broken out against the British. Thus at an early age he was fighting to remove the foreigner from American soil.
The War of Independence ended in the defeat of the British, and in 1780 Monroe began to study law under the future President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson. Two years later he was elected to the Virginian House of Delegates, and at the age of 24 became a member of the Governor's Council. In 1790 he entered national politics as a member of the United States Senate.
Monroe held many posts in the United States government, including those of minister to both France and Great Britain. Above all he became the chief negotiator in attempts to acquire the territories of Louisiana from the governments of France and Spain respectively. Louisiana was purchased in 1803, but Florida did not become finally independent of Spain until 1821.
At the beginning of the 19th century many foreign countries had possessions in both North and South America. The British had been thrown out of the United States during the War of Independence, but they were firmly entrenched in Canada. Both Spain and Portugal had possessions in South America, while Spain, as we have seen, also owned Florida. Louisiana belonged to France. Even Russia was threatening to establish a colony in the extreme northwest of America.
James Monroe quickly became an acknowledged leader in the fight to prevent America from becoming a pawn in European politics.
In 1811 he became Secretary of State, which made him responsible for foreign affairs, and in 1814, when war broke out between the United States and Great Britain, he became Secretary for War. In 1816 he was elected to the Presidency of the United States, and four years later was re-elected with every electoral vote except one cast in his favor. That one vote was cast for his opponent in order to preserve for George Washington the honor of being the only unanimously elected President.
After his retirement from the Presidency in 1824, Monroe's later years were marred by growing poverty. He was compelled to ask the government for a grant to help him settle his debts. He died, appropriately enough, on Independence Day, July 4, 1831.
Go home, Europeans!
On December 2, 1823, James Monroe made the famous declaration since known as the Monroe Doctrine. This declaration applied the principles of independence from European colonization and interference not only to the United States but to the entire continent of America. The message ran: "We owe it therefore to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety."
Apart from the compromise reached over the British Colony of Canada, the Monroe Doctrine has been a guiding influence in the policy of the United States for well over 150 years. It meant that the government of the United States would regard any attempt by foreign powers to acquire influence or possessions anywhere in America as a threat to herself; and she would oppose that threat. It did not mean that the United States considered she had a 'protectorate' over the other independent countries of America.
This has always been carefully stressed by United States Presidents. When the United States opposed French intervention in Mexico in 1867, she made it clear that once the French were out there would be no more United States interference in that country.
But this high-principled doctrine had its dangers. It resulted in the United States' isolation from Europe in the 1920s and '30s, for if the United Sates forbade Europeans to interfere in the Americas, she herself had no right to interfere in Europe.
When the United States forced the Soviet Union to dismantle her missile bases in Cuba in 1962 it was with the Doctrine of James Monroe very much in mind. | <urn:uuid:ebc59e59-f8f7-4569-8484-b0f83fc7a3f0> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia_of_history/M/Monroe.html | 2023-09-25T00:57:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.987053 | 991 |
The Dayton City Commission has approved a legal settlement in a wrongful death complaint filed by the mother and estate of Michael Tuck Sr., who was shot and killed by a Dayton police officer.
Dayton will pay $300,000 to Tuck’s mother and attorney and $200,000 to Metlife Assignment Company Inc.
On Aug. 22, 2019, Tuck, 29, was fatally shot by officer Cody Hartings. Tuck ran from a traffic stop and when caught, allegedly grabbed the officer’s Taser and pointed it at him.
Tuck’s mother, Renita Tuck-Walker, sued Hartings, the city and the police chief, claiming her son’s civil rights were violated because Hartings used excessive and unreasonable force.
Cruiser camera video captured the traffic stop, but Dayton police did not regularly wear body cameras at the time, so there is not police video of the shooting, which happened over 300 yards away after Tuck fled.
Mediation was held in early November, and the parties agreed to a settlement that dismisses the case.
The payment to Metlife will provide structured payments to Tuck’s two children — $100,000 each — and the other payment goes to the executor of the estate, which will pay attorneys, expenses and the remainder will go to the mother, said John Musto, Dayton’s assistant city attorney.
Musto declined further comment, saying the city generally does not comment on legal settlements.
Robert Gresham, an attorney with Wright & Schulte who represented the plaintiff, said there were disputed witness claims and statements, and evidence contradicting Hartings’ claims about what happened, but Tuck is not alive to tell his side of the story.
“Generally, Mr. Tuck’s family believes this was a tragic and avoidable situation and Michael should still be with us,” he said, adding that Tuck was the father of two young children.
“This outcome allows the family to attempt to move forward with the grieving process without this lawsuit constantly re-opening the wound of their loss,” Gresham said.
Tuck was driving a vehicle that was pulled over by Dayton police in an alley between Gramont and Anna streets in West Dayton.
Police said they pulled over the vehicle for erratic driving, and Tuck got out of the vehicle and ran away.
Officer Hartings chased Tuck and said when he caught up to him, a struggle ensued in an area near Brooklyn Avenue.
In an audio recording of police radio traffic, Hartings can be heard saying, “He’s trying to take my Taser.”
Tuck-Walker’s lawsuit in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court claimed that Hartings used deadly force without justification and that the city and police department failed their duty to provide adequate training to Hartings about proper use of deadly force.
But the defendants in court filings claimed the city, the police department and officer Hartings are immune from liability, and the officer’s actions were objectively reasonable and did not rise to the level of misconduct.
Hartings said Tuck ignored his commands and asked the officer to shoot him, according to a memo filed as part of the defendants’ motion for summary judgment.
Hartings said he unsuccessfully tried to tase Tuck, and during a struggle, Tuck knocked his taser from his hands and picked it up and pointed it at him, the memo states.
Hartings said he feared that Tuck would immobilize him with his Taser and take his weapon and kill him, the memo states, and Hartings fired two shots, hitting Tuck once, with the bullet striking his arm and torso.
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More than half of the Dayton area’s public school districts will be in contract negotiations with their employee unions this spring, affecting school budgets, plus pay and working conditions for staff.
While COVID-related issues like online teaching and safety protocols have dominated the past year in schools, those issues seem to be less central to contract talks.
Kettering City Schools and the Miami Valley Career Technology Center are among the very few who have already ratified new contract agreements this spring. Superintendent Nick Weldy said there were no changes tied to COVID issues in MVCTC’s new three-year contract, adding that after a “crazy year,” people wanted to keep negotiations simple.
Kettering’s school board and teachers union did include a pandemic-related memorandum of Intent in their new three-year deal. But it simply says that if the district offers a remote school option next fall, that plan will be developed with input from the teachers union.
“I feel like our district has done a great job of working together to try to do what is best for everyone all year,” said Kettering teachers union President Karen Gouge. “So we left that language open to a discussion between the board and (the union).”
Scott DiMauro, president of the state’s largest teachers union, the Ohio Education Association, said multiple districts reached COVID-related MOUs with their unions over the past year.
Some dealt with the challenges of simultaneous online/in-person teaching and some with safety protocols, especially for unions that include food service and custodial workers. DiMauro said some of those agreements will sunset this fall as schools get closer to normal approaches.
Sara Clark, chief legal counsel for the Ohio School Boards Association, said it makes sense that negotiations will depend on how the year has gone in each district.
“There isn’t a standard model for how schools have operated during the pandemic and, as a result, I think negotiations will vary significantly from one district to the next this spring,” Clark said.
Failure to agree
A few schools were unable to reach new agreements with their unions last summer, and employees are still working under the terms of expired contracts.
The single union that represents Vandalia-Butler’s teachers, custodians, secretaries and others is in that situation, and district officials say negotiations are ongoing.
Contracts for teachers and busing staff in Lebanon schools expired last summer, and while the teachers reached a new deal in December, the transportation staff are still in negotiations.
Greenon schools’ classified staff are working under the terms of an expired contract. District treasurer Brad McKee said he couldn’t say much because of a confidentiality clause concerning negotiations. But he confirmed that the State Employment Relations Board is involved in Greenon’s dispute resolution process.
Wages, contract details
Twenty-three of 40 local school districts are either in negotiations now, or will be within a month.
Centerville, West Carrollton, Springboro and Northridge are in talks now. Fairborn, Miamisburg and Troy will start late this month or early in May. Xenia Superintendent Gabe Lofton said his district reached a tentative agreement with their teachers union, and will start talks with classified staff next week.
Bellbrook-Sugarcreek schools, whose May 4 tax levy will have a significant impact on district finances, have not started negotiations with either of their unions yet, according to Superintendent Doug Cozad.
Among the contracts that have been wrapped up, wage increases have been fairly low compared to previous years. Kettering’s three-year deal calls for the district’s base salary to go up 2% in the first year, 1.5% in Year 2 and 1% in Year 3, according to district spokeswoman Kari Basson. Lebanon’s two-year deal from December includes 1.75% and 1.5% raises, Treasurer Eric Sotzing said.
MVCTC’s new contracts for both teachers and classified staff include raises of 2.5%, 2.0% and 2.5% for the three years, while the district’s share of employee health premiums will go down very slightly, Weldy said.
Tecumseh teachers had been working under an expired contract all year until ratifying a new deal in March that runs through June 2022. Treasurer Denise Robinson said rather than a base salary increase for 2020-21, the parties agreed to one-time stipend payments of $1,500 per person (2.5% of a year’s salary for someone making $60,000).
Robinson said Tecumseh’s new contract did not address COVID-19 concerns. Centerville Superintendent Tom Henderson said his district is nearing the end of negotiations, and they’ve also been limited largely to salary and benefit issues, after teachers took a base salary freeze for this year.
OSBA’s Clark said those COVID-year issues have cropped up in some negotiations around the state — things like class size limits, live-streaming protocols, snow day policies, evaluations for teachers during remote learning, and teacher leave policies due to quarantine situations.
“With regard to safety concerns and protocols, I think there is some reluctance to put language in the negotiated agreement … since the standards, requirements and recommendations are so fluid,” she said.
How school union contracts work
Every local school district’s teaching staff is unionized, primarily through the Ohio Education Association, although a few are affiliated with the Ohio Federation of Teachers. In a majority of districts, other “classified” staff (custodians, bus drivers, food service and others) are represented by a separate union.
Each local union negotiates a contract (2 or 3 years is common) with its individual school district. The contracts generally follow a similar form, with employees’ pay largely determined by their length of service and education level.
But the details vary widely — the maximum annual teacher salary listed in tiny Jefferson Twp. schools’ contract is $66,742, while Beavercreek, Centerville and Kettering are among the districts where a teacher can hit $100,000.
Some critics have argued that teacher pay systems should reward quality of performance rather than just years of experience. Oakwood is one of the few Ohio districts that has a merit pay plan in their teacher contract, but that plan is currently undergoing a review by the district and union, with recommendations due in January 2022.
OEA President Scott DiMauro pointed out that Ohio is hitting the 10-year anniversary of Senate Bill 5, when voters solidly approved collective bargaining for public employees. He said there’s wide disagreement on how to measure teacher effectiveness for merit pay plans, and argued that the current salary scales eliminate previous gender inequities in teacher pay.
Terms of these contracts are important financially because 70-85% of most schools’ general fund expenses are staff wages and benefits. Schools lost some state funding in the past year, but got a boost from federal COVID relief money. Now they’re carefully watching the ongoing state budget process, which includes debate over a new school funding formula.
— Jeremy P. Kelley, Staff Writer
Teacher contract status
This list shows which year each school district’s current teacher contract expires.
Summer 2020 — Vandalia-Butler (working under terms of expired contract)
Summer 2021 — Centerville, Springboro, Miamisburg, Troy, Fairborn, Xenia, Mad River, West Carrollton, Bellbrook, Tipp City, Valley View, Northridge, New Lebanon, Newton, Bethel, Waynesville, Eaton
Summer 2022 — Dayton, Beavercreek, Huber Heights, Lebanon, Northmont, Franklin, Trotwood, Tecumseh, Milton-Union, Bradford, Greeneview, Yellow Springs, Cedar Cliff, Jefferson Twp.
Summer 2023 — Piqua, Miami East, Covington, Brookville, Carlisle, Greenon
Summer 2024 — Kettering, Oakwood, Miami Valley CTC
NOTE: Several other districts are negotiating with unions for non-teaching staff in 2021.
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The prototype of Russia’s next generation Armata main battle tank is ready for testing, which will begin by November, the head of the Russian Tank Forces said Saturday.
“The prototypes will be unveiled soon at an exhibit in Nizhny Tagil, and their tests will kick off within a month or two, I believe,” Lt. Gen. Alexander Shevchenko said on Echo Moskvy radio.
The biannual Russian Arms Expo will run in the Urals city in September 25-28 this year. Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said in July that the country’s leadership will get a sneak preview of the new tank during the arms fair.
An unmanned version of the Armata main battle tank is also on the cards, Shevchenko said.
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Definitions for argument
ˈɑr gyə məntar·gu·ment
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word argument.
a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
"it was a strong argument that his hypothesis was true"
controversy, contention, contestation, disputation, disceptation, tilt, argument, arguingnoun
a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement
"they were involved in a violent argument"
argument, argumentation, debatenoun
a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal
"the argument over foreign aid goes on and on"
argument, literary argumentnoun
a summary of the subject or plot of a literary work or play or movie
"the editor added the argument to the poem"
(computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program
a variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value determines the dependent variable; if f(x)=y, x is the independent variable
argumentation, logical argument, argument, line of reasoning, linenoun
a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning
"I can't follow your line of reasoning"
A fact or statement used to support a proposition; .
in a function definition; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter.
A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.
There is no more palpable and convincing argument of the existence of a Deity.
A verbal dispute; a quarrel.
A process of reasoning.
The argument is not about things, but names.
A series of propositions organized so that the final proposition is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding propositions, which function as premises.
Consider the argument: 15) I am hungry; therefore I am hungry. Intuitively this should count as valid. But suppose we thought of the components of arguments as sentences, and suppose we imagine the context shifting between the utterance of the premise and the utterance of the conclusion. Suppose you are hungry and utter the premise, and I am not hungry and utter the conclusion. Then we would have a true premise and a false conclusion, so the argument would not be valid. Clearly we need to avoid such problems, and introducing the notion of a proposition, in the style of this section, is one way of doing so.
The independent variable of a function.
The phase of a complex number.
A value, or reference to a value, passed to a function.
A parameter at a function call; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter.
Any of the phrases that bears a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause.
The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends.
The altitude is the argument of the refraction.
The subject matter of a discourse, writing, or artistic representation; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem.
You and love are still my argument.
Matter for question; business in hand.
As neere as I could ſift him on that argument, On ſome apparant danger ſeene in him, Aym‘d at your Highneſſe, no inueterate malice.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Etymology: argumentum, Lat.
We sometimes see, on our theatres, vice rewarded, at least unpunished; yet it ought not to be an argument against the art. John Dryden, Tyrannick Love. Pref. to.
When any thing is proved by as good arguments as that thing is capable of, supposing it were; we ought not in reason to make any doubt of the existence of that thing. John Tillotson, Preface.
And thus we have our author’s two great and only arguments to prove, that heirs are lords over their brethren. John Locke.
That she who ev’n but now was your best object,
Your praise’s argument, balm of your age,
Dearest and best. William Shakespeare, King Lear.
To the height of this great argument
I may assert eternal providence,
And justify the ways of God to man. John Milton, Par. Lost, b. i.
Sad task! yet argument
Not less, but more heroick than the wrath
Of stern Achilles. John Milton, Par. Lost, b. ix.
A much longer discourse my argument requires; your merciful dispositions a much shorter. Thomas Sprat, Sermons.
The argument of the work, that is, its principal action, the œconomy and disposition of it, are the things which distinguish copies from originals. John Dryden, Æn. Pref.
This day, in argument upon a case,
Some words there grew ’twixt Somerset and me. William Shakespeare, H. VI.
If the idea be not agreed on betwixt the speaker and hearer, the argument is not about things, but names. John Locke.
It was much like an argument that fell out last night, where each of us fell in praise of our country mistresses. William Shakespeare, Cymbeline.
The best moral argument to patience, in my opinion, is the advantage of patience itself. John Tillotson.
This, before that revelation had enlightened the world, was the very best argument for a future state. Francis Atterbury, Sermons.
In logic and philosophy, an argument is a series of statements (in a natural language), called the premises or premisses (both spellings are acceptable), intended to determine the degree of truth of another statement, the conclusion. The logical form of an argument in a natural language can be represented in a symbolic formal language, and independently of natural language formally defined "arguments" can be made in math and computer science. Logic is the study of the forms of reasoning in arguments and the development of standards and criteria to evaluate arguments. Deductive arguments can be valid or sound: in a valid argument, premisses necessitate the conclusion, even if one or more of the premisses is false and the conclusion is false; in a sound argument, true premisses necessitate a true conclusion. Inductive arguments, by contrast, can have different degrees of logical strength: the stronger or more cogent the argument, the greater the probability that the conclusion is true, the weaker the argument, the lesser that probability. The standards for evaluating non-deductive arguments may rest on different or additional criteria than truth—for example, the persuasiveness of so-called "indispensability claims" in transcendental arguments, the quality of hypotheses in retroduction, or even the disclosure of new possibilities for thinking and acting.
An argument is a set of statements or reasons put forth to support a certain perspective, conclusion, or viewpoint. It often refers to a discussion or debate where opposing viewpoints are presented, analyzed, or defended. In logic, it consists of a premise and a conclusion. In philosophy, it's a series of statements leading to a conclusion. It can also refer to a verbal disagreement or confrontation between individuals or groups. Arguments are used in various fields, including law, academia, philosophy, and everyday conversations.
a reason or reasons offered in proof, to induce belief, or convince the mind; reasoning expressed in words; as, an argument about, concerning, or regarding a proposition, for or in favor of it, or against it
a process of reasoning, or a controversy made up of rational proofs; argumentation; discussion; disputation
the subject matter of a discourse, writing, or artistic representation; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem
matter for question; business in hand
the quantity on which another quantity in a table depends; as, the altitude is the argument of the refraction
the independent variable upon whose value that of a function depends
to make an argument; to argue
Etymology: [L. argumentari.]
In logic and philosophy, an argument is an attempt to persuade someone of something, by giving reasons for accepting a particular conclusion as evident. The general structure of an argument in a natural language is that of premises in support of a claim: the conclusion. The structure of some arguments can also be set out in a formal language, and formally-defined "arguments" can be made independently of natural language arguments, as in math, logic and computer science. In a typical deductive argument, the premises are meant to provide a guarantee of the truth of the conclusion, while in an inductive argument, they are thought to provide reasons supporting the conclusion's probable truth. The standards for evaluating non-deductive arguments may rest on different or additional criteria than truth, for example, the persuasiveness of so-called "indispensability claims" in transcendental arguments, the quality of hypotheses in retroduction, or even the disclosure of new possibilities for thinking and acting. The standards and criteria used in evaluating arguments and their forms of reasoning are studied in logic. Ways of formulating arguments effectively are studied in rhetoric. An argument in a formal language shows the logical form of the symbolically-represented or natural language arguments obtained by its interpretations.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
ärg′ū-ment, n. a statement, or reason based on such, offered as proof: a series of reasons or a step in such: discussion: subject of a discourse: summary of the subject-matter of a book: (obs.) matter of controversy.—adjs. Argument′able, Argument′al.—n. Argumentā′tion, an arguing or reasoning.—adj. Argument′ative.—adv. Argument′atively.—n. Argument′ativeness. [L. argumentum. See Argue.]
The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz
Breaking and entering the ear, assault and battery on the brain and disturbing the peace.
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
An astronomical quantity upon which an equation depends,--or any known number by which an unknown one proportional to the first may be found.
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'argument' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1253
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'argument' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1306
Rank popularity for the word 'argument' in Nouns Frequency: #363
The numerical value of argument in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
The numerical value of argument in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
The argument 'for' is that the science shows we are experiencing a dramatic change of climate and we could have extreme conditions, with consequences in terms of war and refugees, the argument 'against' would be: does a prize to the environment fall outside the boundaries of Nobel's will? This was an argument used when Al Gore and the IPCC won in 2007.
Virtually everything that can be attributed to progress by using fetal tissue can also use other types of tissue, if it were the only way to do something and there was no other way, there might be an argument. But under these circumstances, there isn't a legitimate argument.
I see it as crony capitalism. The argument that other countries do it is an argument that just does not fly with me. We’re America.
I always resisted the green jobs argument, the global warming argument. All of that wasn't going to work in Georgia.
The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.
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- дискусия, аргумент, довод, спорBulgarian
- arguzennoù, arguz, arguzoù, tabut, arguzenn, tabutoùBreton
- argument, argumentació, disputaCatalan, Valencian
- argument, hádkaCzech
- Streitgespräch, Diskussion, Argument, Streit, ArgumentationGerman
- όρισμα, επιχείρημα, καβγάςGreek
- bronca, pelea, riña, argumento, discusión, argumentaciónSpanish
- väittely, perustelu, riita, argumenttiFinnish
- argumentation, querelle, argumentFrench
- connsachadh, connspaidScottish Gaelic
- טענה, טיעון, ארגומנט, ויכוחHebrew
- վիճաբանություն, վեճ, արգումենտ, կռվան, փաստարկArmenian
- argomento, argomentazione, discussioneItalian
- 引数, 論争Japanese
- قڕهبڕ, شهڕهقسهKurdish
- далилдөө, негизделүү, тартыш, дискуссия, ыспат, айтыш, негиздөө, аргумент, талаш, жыйынтык, негиз, далил, жүйөKyrgyz
- argumentatio, argumentumLatin
- arguments, argumentācija, neatkarīgais mainīgaisLatvian
- argument, betoog, ruzieDutch
- saadtahNavajo, Navaho
- argumentacja, kłótnia, argumentPolish
- discussão, argumento, argumentaçãoPortuguese
- contraargumentare, argument, ceartă, disputăRomanian
- обоснование, аргумент, спорRussian
- spor, prepirSlovene
- diskussion, dispyt, argument, gräl, argumentationSwedish
- వాగ్వాదము, విభేదించుTelugu
- savunma, ispatlama, genlik, hüccet, akıl yürütme, argument, kanıt, değişken, münakaşa, sav, tartışma, delilTurkish
- lý lẽ, lí lẽVietnamese
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Well that was fun.
Watching the Pistons soundly handle the two-time returning champion Golden State Warriors on Saturday was an unusually low blood pressure-d affair. It felt more like the way Warriors fans have felt the last four years. Fun, exciting, a bit tense but never really in doubt, even when you look at the numbers and see that they didn’t even shoot that well.
Golden State kept threatening but Detroit calmly kept responding, parrying every blow with an assortment of line ups and styles that honestly must seem a bit disorienting for an opposing coach. The excitement in watching came less from a doubt of the outcome of the game and more from the lineups Dwane Casey threw out there and being fascinated by how the energy ebbed and flowed between them.
On one end of the spectrum you have with the very deliberate half court offense lead by the defacto point guard Blake Griffin, where he basically says “this is what we’re going to do, everytime”. On the other end you have the frenetic beautiful chaos of the second team lead by the roadrunner* speed of Ish Smith (meep meep!) which basically is “try to figure out what we’re doing here because even we don’t know exactly what’s going on”.
(*Hat tip to Mike Snyder)
Both styles are unsustainable for a complete game but work so well in tandem as complete changes of pace. And Casey masterfully was able to slide in combinations of those two offenses so things never got predictable, and the players seemed to thrive off of this, which is of course what is the inherent necessity of a system like that that works only because it never seems to stay the same. Players have to be ready to go with the flow because they never know exactly how long they’ll be out there or who they’ll be playing with.
There is a lot being said about the fact that the team now sits at a very similar record to the team that last year plummeted out of playoff contention seemingly immediately after pundits began to buy into the idea they were for real. The squad, especially the one on the floor, is not so different to the one from last year. But one key element (besides a Reggie Jackson injury) that does seem different is that the team seems to be gelling more than ever.
In a very telling account from former Piston SG great Richard “Rip” Hamilton when he sat down with George Blaha and Greg Kelser during their broadcast of the game on Saturday night he said there was a different energy on the bench this year. That the players were pulling for each other more than they had done in the past few years. Yeah, those would be the Stan Van Gundy years (at least).
Whether this is more to do with Casey or the other new members of the coaching staff or new vets or a training camp with Blake Griffin it’s impossible to know. But there seems to be a level of buy in from the players to trust each other and play a type of system like this, where playing time and lineups vary. You can’t play like this if they don’t.
Of course it’s easy to be excited after a win like this but what’s really encouraging is that their offensive numbers weren’t even that good. They were monsters on defense but that’s a whole other story.
But the system is starting to get there, and that’s what’s most exciting.
“Our guys understand their roles and they are accepting the role and being the most valuable player they can in that role,” Pistons coach Dwane Casey said. “We’re playing with energy and we were able to beat the champs on a night when we only shot 44 percent and 34 percent from the line.
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Lil Nas X is coming off huge hits like ‘Industry Baby’ & ‘Montero,’ but a popular concept would make him an even bigger force… in Fortnite with an ICON Series skin of his very own.
The rising talent has made his impression on Billboard’s Hot 100 and streaming charts for years, and his meme game on the internet has been nothing short of legendary. The gaming community has gotten to know Lil Nas X over the years thanks to events like his Roblox concert and the like.
There’s plenty of Fortnite fans familiar with the artist at this point, and plenty that wouldn’t mind seeing a skin in his honor.
It goes without saying that the Fortnite community can get really creative when campaigning for content they want in the game, and this time’s no different.
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- Contents of Council Packet:
- I. Call to Order
- II. Introduction of Council Members
- III. Approval of October 1, 2009 Meeting Report
- IV. IICEI Workgroup Reports
- Finance Workgroup
- Service Delay Workgroup
- V. Early Intervention Taskforce Working Group Reports
- Service Delivery and Transition
- VI. Service Coordination Evaluation Study
- VII. Lead Agency Report
- VIII. Adjournment
Bob Cammarata, ICG Health Care Services
Gerri Clark, Division of Specialized Care for Children
Julie Doetsch for Deborah Saunders, IL Dept of Healthcare and Family Services
Janet Gully, DHS, Bureau of Early Intervention
Roselyn Harris for Gina Ruther, DHS, Bureau of Child Care and Development
Kay Henderson, IL State Board of Education
Beatrice, Nichols, IICEI Chairperson, Head Start
Deanna Pratcher, parent, Thonton
Sandy Ryan, IL Council on Developmental Disabilities
Kathy Schrock, Easter Seals DuPage and Fox Valley
Robin York for Andria Goss, IL Department of Children and Family Services
Therese Wehman, Elmhurst College
Mary Peterson, DFPR, Division of Insurance
Karrie Potter, parent, Neoga
David Rubovits, PhD, Jewish Child and Family Services
Dorelia Rivera Martinez, Elmwood
Diane Blythe, parent, Crystal Lake
Connie Sims, DHS, Division of Developmental Disabilities
Myrtis Sullivan, DHS, Division of Community Health and Prevention
Joyce Smith, Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House
Gail Tanner, IL Department of Public Health
Contents of Council Packet:
- Lead Agency Report - April 15, 2010
- Draft Report from January 14, 2010
- Service Coordination Evaluation Study
- CFC Reviews/Recommendations
I. Call to Order
The Illinois Interagency Council on Early Intervention convened at 10:03 a.m.
II. Introduction of Council Members
Council members introduced themselves.
III. Approval of October 1, 2009 Meeting Report
The January 14, 2010 Meeting Report was approved as written. Bob Cammarata recognized that this is the week of the young child.
IV. IICEI Workgroup Reports
Kathy Schrock provided a report on the Finance Workgroup. The group met three times since the last council meeting. Topics of discussion have included, payment delays, the potential of a 10% ($7.6 million) cut in the Early Intervention appropriation, and recommendations from the EI Taskforce.
The Finance Workgroup helps the Bureau look for ways to cut back and be more efficient.
Information from the CBO billing unit was reviewed. Ways to assist providers in submitting insurance payment information are needed, so that the amount of EI services paid by insurance would not have to be extrapolated.
Service Delay Workgroup
Bob Cammarata reported on the work of the Service Delay Workgroup. The work of this group over the last 11/2 years was reviewed, including the development of the Integrated Approach document, which states the following. "The Service Delay Workgroup recommends that the EI Council accept the Workgroup's recommendation to implement an integrated service approach and that this recommendation be forwarded to the IICEI Finance Workgroup for further discussion as well as to the Bureau for the development of an implementation plan." In response to a question, Mr. Cammarata clarified that this recommendation does not exclude the use of other approaches, but supports the selection of this approach depending on the individual child's circumstances so that the child receives quality EI services.
Therese Wehman explained that being able to bill for time (under IFSP development) for consultative communication between team members is needed for the approach to be successful. Dee Dee Lowery, CFC #1 manager, responded to questions and explained how several IFSP have been written and services implemented after families chose the approach as part of a pilot effort. The Bureau has allowed the billing of off-site IFSP development time as part of the pilot. Training is needed for all providers. Service coordinators need to learn how to write detailed/accurate IFSPs that include well-documented strategies.
Kathy Schrock asked for clarification of the Finance Workgroup's role in reviewing the approach and associated costs and projected savings. To accomplish this, the workgroup would need to know training costs, along with parameters on how much consultation would be needed and reductions in services realized. Mr. Cammarata explained the group had not looked at cost. The group discussed service delays issues around the state. Piloting of the approach would help with identifying actual costs.
The importance of the Workgroup's efforts to involve professional organizations in the development of this recommendation was recognized. The Council accepted the recommendation from the Workgroup.
V. Early Intervention Taskforce Working Group Reports
Janet Gully reviewed the charge of the EI Taskforce and explained that, when the report is published it will be made available for public comment. Council member were invited to provide comments at that time. The Department will consider the recommendations as part of an ongoing process, but there are no plans to make immediate changes to the EI system. Recommendations will be discuss with the Council at its July meeting. Workgroup chairs provided the following information.
Service Delivery and Transition
Lynn Liston and Jennifer Barrett-Zitkus explained that the Service Delivery/Transition Workgroup has been basing its work on EI principles. How the Workgroup has functioned was explained. The group has considered federal law and what other states are doing. Work has been divided into child find, referral, evaluation/assessment, IFSP development, services and supports, and transition. Recommendations are being developed using a consensus building process, using a strength-based approach. Issues have been worked through using electronic (WIKI) resources to share comments.
Ted Burke shared the process that the Workgroup has used to discuss issues that include:
- EI rates are insufficient to attract and retain qualified providers
- There is a lack of culturally and linguistically competent personnel
- Communication with providers from the lead agency needs to be improved
- How research-based approaches fit into EI
- Finding providers in rural areas
- Attracting college graduates to the system
- Difficulties for associate-level providers in EI
- Each CFC does things differently
- Service coordinator skills and supports
- Over-reliance on interpreters
- Clarification of how to use students in EI
Representation on the Workgroup and use of technology were discussed. The group discussed issues identified by the Taskforce, recommendations, desired outcomes/benefits, steps needed to implement recommendations, and existing resources. Resources from national associations and other states have been shared.
Dawn Melchoirre and Karen Yarborough explained that the Workgroup has looked at what is going on in qualitative and quantitative monitoring, with a wide range of folks involved in the Workgroup process. Topics that have been discussed include the Program Integrity Project, the ombudsman function, and monitoring activities currently going on in the state. Discussion of the current monitoring process identified that it focuses on adhering to policies and procedures, not at quality. A web-based data system, similar to those used by other states, would be a key piece in the system.
Carl LaMell provided the recommendations from the Workgroup, including the following:
- Reduce incentives to CFCs by 50%
- Reduce total LIC Coordination costs
- Reduce funding to CFCs for pediatric consultative, parent liaison, social/emotional consultant services - allowing CFCs to put the dollars where needed, with approval of the Bureau
- Reduce the rate of pay for language interpreters
- Reduce current evaluation/assessment costs
- Implement a web-based data management and claims processing system
Janet Gully thanked Kirsten Hammock for her work facilitating the EI Taskforce and explained that a workgroup of CFC managers are looking at duplications in the pediatric consultative, parent liaison, social/emotional consultant and LIC coordination functions. CFC would submit a plan on how these functions would be implemented. Kay Henderson suggested that CFC offices access local resources.
VI. Service Coordination Evaluation Study
Ted Burke reviewed the Evaluating the Illinois Service Coordination Model report. He explained the methodologies used to complete a study of the Illinois service coordination model, including the use of national and Illinois data and research, surveys, focus groups, time studies, and individual interviews with national models. The evaluation team and the outcomes from each component of the study were reviewed. The report looks at a designated service coordination model to accomplish statewide equality in delivery of services, services delivered in fidelity to EI guiding principles, and long-term fiscal stability for the Illinois EI system.
Each of the following recommendations was reviewed. CFC managers have provided a response to these recommendations, which were attached to the report. These come as recommendations to the Department, but should change and grow as the system changes and should not be reviewed in isolation from the rest of the system.
- Consolidate the number of Child and Family Connections Regions from 25 statewide to 5 statewide for consistency and quality control
- Develop practice guidelines, support on-going professional development planning, and implement a new Service Coordinator Evaluator role
- Centralize Child and Family Connections Consultative and Support Functions
- Implement functional, secure, accessible technology systems for the Illinois Early Intervention System
- Accountability, Monitoring and Quality Assurance
Council members discussed several of the recommendation with comments that include the following.
- This is a really a great report and is a good starting point.
- The feedback from the managers was exceptional.
- It is difficult to see how reducing the number of CFC offices to 5 would improve consistency. This issue and the alternate recommendation from the CFC managers were discussed.
- The need to significantly reduce the caseload was identified as a requirement for implementing the proposed service coordinator evaluator role.
- Savings would not be realized unless a web-based data system is implemented.
- It was recognized that the program is doing well and that the surveys indicated satisfaction.
- The time study of the service coordination position is a benefit.
- A concern was expressed that CFC offices work in the community would be lost with centralization of functions.
VII. Lead Agency Report
Janet Gully comments included the following:
- A $7.6 mil reduction in the EI state appropriation has been proposed.
- Nyle Robinson has moved to the position of Bureau Chief for Home Services in the Division of Rehabilitation Services and Blake Whitson has been assigned as the new data manager
- Chelsea Guillen started the system ombudsman position on February 15, 2010, and has been looking at data and working with the CFC pilot projects for Program Integrity.
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By implementing the tactics below, you will increase your store visitors and increase your sales.
#1 Set up a page on Google My Business
The first step is setting up an account for your location on Google My Business. Google My Business is an internet-based service for business owners and operated by Google. Your Business Profile appears right when people are searching for your business or businesses like yours on Google Search and Maps.
#2 Use SEM ads with a location extension
Once your account has been set up under Google My Business with an address, you can link your account to your Adwords account. With an Adwords campaign using location extension you can help people find your business locations by showing your ads with your address, a map to your site, or the distance to your business.
#3 Run an ad campaign using a radius or specific zip codes
With location targeting, you can target your city, neighbourhood, and zip code. You can also target by radius from your actual address. With specific location targeting, you make sure only people in your area see your ads.
#4 Promote your business on Waze Local Ads
Waze is used by millions of people every day. You can set up your locations as pins on Waze for free. Once your pins are set, you can advertise with Waze and bring drivers to your business.
#5 Use Geo-fencing targeting
Geo-fencing targeting is a newer targeting tactic. To use this method, you define an actual location you would like to use. This location can be your store, your neighbourhood, your competitors’ stores, or a conference center. When a person gets into the actual boundaries of your geofencing targeting in the physical world, your ads will be served on their mobile device.
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drive customers to my store using Digital Marketing Tactics
#6 Have a mobile site that loads quickly and has navigation buttons
Having a website is not enough. Make sure that your mobile site is easy to navigate and loads quickly. I recommend AMP page for mobile to help optimize. When a person standing on the street looking for his next stop having a fast loading mobile page is critical. Your mobile site should be easy to navigate with an address and map for easy navigation.
#7 Set your address on your Facebook page
Make sure your Facebook page (as well as other social media accounts) have been set up with your business address and maps for easy navigation.
#8 Encourage your visitors to “Check-In” at your store
Connect offline with online by asking your site visitors to “Check-in” at your location on Facebook, Instagram, and other social media platforms. With the check-ins, your location will have more visibility and awareness online.
#9 Use local hashtags on your Instagram posts
When you post on your Instagram or any other social media platform, add hashtags of your neighbourhood, link to your location and always add a location in your posts.
Some examples are: #YongeandBloor #downtowntoronto #littleitalytoronto #northyork
#10 Encourage visits to post about your place
Social media is essential when it comes to local businesses. You can set up something in your actual location that will encourage people to take a photo on your site and post it.
It can be beautiful wall art, a funny quote on the floor, or a refreshing drink that people must share.
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So far this year, multiple piracy websites have gone down as part of a large-scale crackdown from the music industry.
Thanks to aggressive subpoenas from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), YouTubNow, a self-described “powerful” YouTube stream-ripper, has indefinitely closed its doors. But that’s just one theater in a broader war, one that also includes long-running litigation against ISPs.
In a surprise agreement with the RIAA, Cox Communications agreed to hand over the personal information of 2,793 pirating business subscribers. This includes the names, payment information, and addresses of business subscribers who have apparently downloaded illegal content. Only one business has challenged the ruling – a hospital and medical care facility.
Then, teaming up with the IFPI and Music Canada, the RIAA promptly shut down notorious pirate cyberlocker DBRee. The agreement forced the domain’s unnamed owner to write on his website,
“Making available copyright-protected music on the internet without authorization from the copyright holder is illegal. Willful, commercial scale copyright infringement could lead to a criminal conviction. Illegal music services exploit the work of artists and pay nothing to those creating and investing in music.”
Then, obtaining more subpoenas against NameCheap and Cloudflare, the industry successfully took down two music piracy websites – Mixstep and NoFile.
Yet, not everything has gone as well as the industry has hoped for.
Despite obtaining subpoenas, the RIAA remains locked in a fierce battle against Y2Mate, one of the world’s largest stream-rippers. The powerful organization also hopes American courts will rule against Russian stream-ripper FLVTO and its sister site, 2Conv, but that remains a steep uphill climb.
Now, a global organization has aided efforts to take down even more illegal websites.
Will a database help identify – and take down – suspected pirates?
Over in Australia, the music industry – led by Warner, Sony, and Universal Music – successfully won a major injunction. Two months ago, a federal judge issued a broad ruling, demanding major Australian ISPs to block stream-rippers.
According to Music Rights Australia (MRA), forced site-blocking remains a viable anti-piracy strategy.
“We use this effective and efficient no-fault remedy to block the illegal sites which undermine the many licensed online services which give music fans the music they love where, when, and how they want to hear it.”
All of those efforts are now being complemented by a worldwide blacklist.
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) – part of the United Nations – has launched a new database. Dubbed Building Respect for Intellectual Property (or BRIP, for short), UN Member States will promptly report “problematic sites.” After looking at the database, advertisers may choose to block these “bad” websites.
WIPO first introduced the idea of a global anti-piracy database in 2017.
Explaining the purpose of BRIP, WIPO wrote,
“The BRIP Database is now open for the acceptance of Authorized Contributors from WIPO Member States and Authorized Users from the advertising sector.
“It comprises a secure, access-controlled online platform, to which authorized agencies in WIPO Member States may upload lists of websites which deliberately facilitate the infringement of copyright.”
In short, WIPO hopes BRIP will cut pirate sites’ revenue. The organization writes that this will “reduce the flow of money to illegal website operators.” In addition, brands no longer risk “tarnishment.” Legitimate advertising also won’t appear “illegally” on websites. This, writes WIPO, confuses consumers.
Member States will assign their own submitters who will add pirate websites to BRIP. AGCOM, an Italian telecom regulator, and KCOPA, a Korean copyright protection agency, tested the database prior to its launch.
Concluding its statement promoting BRIP, the WIPO wrote,
“The project responds to increased interest among policy-makers in methods of building respect for intellectual property which rely on voluntary cooperation, rather than on judicial or other compulsory measures.”
Yet, the organization conceded that the possibility for failure still exists. Member States must participate to ensure BRIP’s viability.
“Its success will, however, depend on the extent to which it is adopted by Member State agencies and the advertising sector.”
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Indonesian e-commerce company Bhinneka plans to launch its IPO on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2018, in the wake of a US$22mil investment from Indonesian VC firm Ideosource last November.
After 25 years in operations, lifestyle retail giant Mitra Adi Perkasa (MAP) finally took the digital plunge by officially launching its own e-commerce site, MAP Emall.
The days when Internet companies dominated the e-commerce markets in South-East Asia may be coming to an end, writes Karamjit Singh.
Backed by a US$500-million investment commitment from one of Indonesia’s biggest conglomerates, Lippo Group, MatahariMall.com believes it is on the right path to becoming the biggest e-commerce player in the country.
Jual produk personal dan jamin privasi pelanggan Potensi pasar masih besar, edukasi dibutuhkan
Anchanto said it has signed an MoU with Pos Logistik Indonesia to bring its technology, expertise and regional network to the fast-growing Indonesian market.
The Indonesian Government is in the process of drafting a roadmap to address six key areas, with one of them looking at opening up the e-commerce sector to foreign investors.
Indonesian President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo has cut short his first state visit to the United States to return home and look into the increasingly critical haze situation, but first managed to get US President Barack Obama to agree to deeper ICT cooperation between the two countries.
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There’s no doubt that Windows 11 is the latest and greatest operating system from Microsoft. However, be it TPM 2.0 or CPU restrictions, not everyone might be able to run the new operating system on their PC.
If you still want to try Windows 11, though, you can install Windows 11 on a virtual machine. This lets you virtualize Windows separately from your existing installation with no risk to your PC. Here’s how to do this on Windows.
Please note that, while possible, Microsoft doesn’t officially support running Windows 11 on a virtual machine. The company offers Windows 365 Cloud PC, a commercial and business solution where you can run
The easiest way to install Windows 11 on a virtual machine in Windows is with Oracle VirtualBox. It’s a free, purpose-built virtualizer for x86 hardware, targeted at server, desktop, and embedded use. It’s quite popular with Windows enthusiasts, and it’s simple to use.
To get started, visit the Oracle Virtualbox website and download the app. Oracle Virtualbox is free, and there’s no fee involved. Just click the Windows hosts option and allow your PC to download the program. When finished, navigate to the file and launch it. If you’re on a Mac or Linux machine, be sure to choose the MacOS or Linux downloads. The steps for installing Windows on a Virtual Machine are the same.
Step 1: Next up, you’ll want to download Windows 11. You’ll need an ISO file from Microsoft. To do this, visit the Download Windows 11 webpage. Scroll down to the Download
Step 2: With Windows 11 downloaded, it’s time to install Oracle Virtualbox. Find where the file is saved and double-click to launch it. Follow the prompts on your screen by clicking Next. If you want quick access, you can create Start Menu, Shortcut, and Quick Launch entries. You’ll also need to install a network interface, too, so be sure to click Yes. This will temporarily interrupt your network connectivity. Keep clicking Next and agree to any install prompts on your screen. It may take several minutes.
Step 3: Once setup is complete, you can set up your virtual machine. Launch Oracle Virtualbox from your desktop or Start Menu. Click the blue New button. Name your virtual machine; we prefer the name "Windows 11." You can then choose Microsoft Windows under Type and then choose
Step 4: For this step, you need to allocate resources. Under the Create virtual machine step, be sure to adjust the memory size. If your PC has a lot of RAM, then be sure to give the virtual machine at least a few gigabytes of RAM. The more
In addition to RAM, you’ll also have to create a virtual hard disk. The virtual hard disk is where you’ll store files and apps on your virtual machine. Click the Create button and choose VDI (VirtualBox Disk Image) and then choose Next.
In the next step, it’s best to use Dynamically allocated. This will only use space on your physical hard disk as it fills up, but it will not shrink again when space on it is freed up. If you want a more traditional experience, you can use Fixed size, but this might take longer to create. Drag the slider around to adjust the VDI size and click Create.
Next up, you’ll want to install Windows 11 on your new virtual machine. Click the name of the virtual machine in the sidebar and choose Settings. In the sidebar, choose Storage. Under where it says Controller: SATA, look for the blue icon of a CD Drive.
Click on the CD icon where it says Empty and click over to the right where it says Optical drive. Be sure to select the Live CD/DVD. You’ll then want to click the Blue CD icon that’s right next to this and select Choose a disk file. Navigate to where you saved your Windows 11 ISO and then open it with Open. You can then complete the process by clicking OK.
Next, follow these steps below closely.
Step 1: Now that everything is set up, you can launch your new virtual machine. Click the Start icon and quickly click inside the virtual machine window. Your mouse will be captured by the virtual machine, but you can exit the capture at any time by clicking the Right control key. Be sure to act quickly and press any key on your keyboard to boot up the Windows 11 install experience.
Note that Microsoft doesn’t officially support running Windows 11 in a virtual machine. There is a workaround, however.
Step 2: Once you’re at the Windows Setup screen, hit Shift + F10 on your keyboard. This will launch Command Prompt. Type Regedit and hit Enter, then head to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SYSTEM > Setup on the left side. Right-click on Setup and select New > Key. Name it "LabConfig" and press Enter.
Step 3: After that, right-click on LabConfig and select New > Dword (32-bit) and create a new value named "BypassTPMCheck." Set its data to one by right-clicking on it and selecting Modify.
Step 4: Next, follow the same steps, and this time, create BypassTPMCheck and set its data to one. Also, create BypassSecureBootCheck and set its value to one, too. It should look like our image below.
When done, close the registry editor, go back to the command prompt, and type "exit." You can then proceed with the Windows 11 install as normal. Be sure to click Custom, choose Unallocated space, and then New. Click OK and then choose the partition with the biggest size to install
If you find that, after a while, you aren't a huge fan of your new operating system, you can always uninstall Windows 11. Windows 10 still holds up well compared to its newer sibling, so don't feel bad if you choose to revert.
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Face laser treatments can effectively reduce fine lines, wrinkles, age spots and acne scars on the skin while improving texture, elasticity and plumpness. But before choosing one for yourself it’s essential to understand how they work and the outcomes you can expect.
How Facial Lasers Work
Light is essential for our overall health and well-being, from aiding vision to immune systems to moods. It plays a particularly significant role in skin health – which explains why lasers have become so popular within cosmetics industries and dermatology practices.
When treating skin, several laser types are available: carbon dioxide (CO2), erbium:YAG and fractional CO2. Which laser type you choose will depend on your specific skin tone and condition.
Carbon Dioxide and Erbium:YAG Lasers for the Face
The most widely used laser to resurface skin is a carbon dioxide laser. This device delivers short bursts of energy into the outer layers of skin to eliminate damaged cells and stimulate collagen production in the dermis.
Lasers are most effective for eliminating deep wrinkles, aging spots and sun damage; however they may not be as successful in treating acne scars or other superficial marks.
Non-Ablative Lasers for the Face
Non-ablative lasers are another option when treating skin issues; they’re less aggressive than ablative lasers and do not cause permanent changes to skin color.
Non-ablative treatments lack the power of ablative lasers, but are still effective at smoothing fine lines and wrinkles while improving skin tone and texture. Non-ablative treatments are perfect for patients who want to reduce their facial features without undergoing an invasive procedure.
Fractional Lasers for the Face
Fractional lasers for facial skin care use a non-ablative type of laser similar to erbium:YAG, but with shorter wavelengths. This allows smaller treatment zones than with an ablative laser and faster recovery times afterward.
It is also less invasive than other ablative lasers, meaning you typically only need multiple sessions to achieve optimal results.
Before you can see the full benefits of laser skin rejuvenation, you must wait several months. This is because new cells need time to mature and fully develop before you see visible improvements.
Other lasers not typically used for resurfacing purposes include intense pulsed light (IPL) and violet-blue light therapy (VBL). While less invasive than the lasers listed above, these treatments can still have a significant impact on your skin.
What to Expect After Your Laser Facial Treatment
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In their quest to decipher the complex code of autism, which can run in families, most scientists have focused on genes. But a large survey of identical and fraternal twins, published in July, offers convincing evidence that environmental factors are at least as crucial as genetics in determining whether a child will develop the neuropsychiatric disease. “I think the environment has to be taken seriously,” says lead author Joachim Hallmayer, a psychiatric geneticist at the Stanford University School of Medicine. “There is a huge role for other factors besides genetics that we do not understand.”
Twin studies are valuable because they help distinguish between genetic and environmental contributors. Identical twins share all their genes; fraternal twins share no more genes than normal siblings do, but they get exposed to the same environment in the womb and at home during infancy. Past twin studies of autism had flaws, however. A 1977 study concluded autism was almost entirely the result of genetics, but it included only 21 twin pairs and came at a time when diagnostic tests for the disorder were poor.
Hallmayer’s study of 192 twin pairs tells a much different story. As expected, he found that if one identical twin has autism, the other usually does too. However, he also saw higher rates for fraternal twins—31 percent for males and 36 percent for females—than genetics alone would predict. A statistical analysis showed that environmental factors accounted for more than half of autism risk. Genes were about 40 percent responsible.
Now researchers face the challenge of identifying specific environmental triggers. Vaccinations have long been ruled out, but this year studies of influences in the womb have tentatively linked mothers’ antidepressant use, high blood pressure, and diabetes to increased autism rates. Scientists are eagerly awaiting results from a near-complete study examining autism’s link to mothers’ immune cells that attack brain proteins in the developing fetus. | <urn:uuid:476f077c-8950-46c6-a54d-269089089015> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/76-environment-gets-more-blame-for-autism | 2023-09-25T00:51:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.965774 | 389 |
2. Don’t forget your camera and autograph book.
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Talk about the need to make a college-level education more accessible is common. Everyone understands that a college education is valuable and that many jobs list a degree as a requirement for applying, so those without a college degree are missing out on significant opportunities in the future.
So, what does it actually take to make higher education accessible to a larger portion of the population? Affordability.
There are numerous programs designed to help students pay for college. Some options, like grants and scholarships, allow students to access funds that do not need to be repaid under most circumstances. But these funds don’t actually make the college experience more affordable, just cheaper. And student loans don’t improve affordability and only delay the need to meet the payment requirements (with interest).
If something is affordable, it is considered within one’s financial means. And for many, the cost of tuition today just isn’t affordable.
Affordability of applying
A surprising barrier for many low-income students applying to college are the fees associated with the application process. For example, SAT, ACT and AP exam fees can be substantial. Then, once suitable scores are earned, an additional fee is required for every educational institution to which they apply.
While many of these fees are waived for those meeting certain income-based criteria, the income requirements are often quite strict. Students whose families are slightly above the cutoff will find these costs challenging. That can mean that low-income households may only be able to afford for the student to take one exam, a single time. In addition, they will be limited to the number of colleges to which they can apply based solely on financial barriers.
By lowering, or eliminating, some of these costs, higher education can be more accessible to lower-income households. They will have more opportunities to test, giving them chances to improve their scores over time, as well as the option of applying to more schools.
Improving tuition affordability
The costs of higher education have risen dramatically, at one point tripling over the course of three decades. However, the typical rise in household income is comparably negligible. And that means that a college education has become less affordable over time, even though it is now considered to be a necessity.
Lower-income students who don’t find sufficient grants or scholarships to manage the majority of the cost will likely determine a degree to be outside of their reach. Even if loans are available, the amounts required may be too intimidating to students who are part of a household whose annual income falls well below the amount charged as tuition.
Even if tuition amounts can’t be lowered, the affordability for low-income students can be improved by providing resources to help them obtain as much financial assistance as possible in the form of grants and scholarships. Providing education about available opportunities and assistance in meeting application requirements will help the student access more funding sources, and possibly eliminate out-of-pocket expenses.
Cost is the barrier
Often, the primary barrier between any student and a college education is the cost. While tuition and fees can’t be entirely eliminated from the paradigm, moves are available to help those most in need navigate these expenses more effectively.
In addition, widen the requirements for free or low-cost testing and application fees to improve the chances that low-income students will receive suitable scores and be accepted into high-quality schools.
Affordability is the key.
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Let’s face it: New York is a big state, and driving here can be intimidating. Traffic laws are strict, and you’ll need to know how to navigate the streets safely to avoid a traffic ticket or an accident. Luckily for you, this guide will help explain New York State’s point system and provide information on how drivers can benefit from completing an approved defensive driving course.
What is the New York Point System?
The New York Point System is a way of measuring the number of traffic violations you have committed. Each time you commit a violation, the NY DMV will add points to your license. If you accumulate too many points or the DMV determines that your driving habits put other drivers at risk, they may suspend your license.
The New York DMV uses an accumulation system where each ticket has its own point value based on its severity; speeding tickets are worth 3 points, while reckless driving is worth 5 points. Points stay on your license for 18 months from when they were issued and can only be removed by taking New York-approved defensive driving classes (we’ll talk about those later).
When you accumulate 6 points or more on your New York State driving record within a period of 18 months, the NY DMV will require you to pay a Driver Responsibility Assessment fee.
New York’s Point Reduction Program
The NYS Point Reduction Program is a great way to reduce your points. If you have been convicted of a traffic violation, such as speeding or failure to stop at a red light, the court will assign points against your license. Once you have accumulated enough points on your license, it can be suspended or revoked by the NYS DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles).
You can apply for the NYS Point Reduction Program if:* You were not involved in an accident.* You were driving under 20 mph over the limit.* There were no passengers under 18 years old with you when charged with an offense.* Another person did not own your vehicle at the time of the arrest
How Does the Point Reduction Program Work?
If you receive a traffic ticket in New York State, the court will notify you of the points assessed against your driving record. The more serious the violation, the greater number of points will be assessed against your license. For example, speeding ten miles over the speed limit could add between 3 points and 11 points depending on your speed. Reckless driving would result in 5 points to your record. If you accumulate 6 or more points within 18 months, then New York DMV will revoke or suspend your driver’s license.
The Point Reduction Program allows drivers who have committed less serious violations, such as speeding 1 to 10 miles per hour above the posted speed limit or failing to yield right-of-way at intersections with stop signs but no lights. Both are common occurrences among teens learning how to drive. You can reduce point totals by completing a defensive driving course offered by licensed providers throughout New York State.
How to Qualify for Point Reduction in New York State
To qualify for a point reduction, you must:
- Have a clean driving record for at least three years. You could not qualify for a point reduction if you were convicted of a moving violation in the last 18 months.
- Not have completed a defensive driving course within the past 18 months. You can still enroll in one now or later on
- Ensure it doesn’t appear as completed within that time frame on your DMV record.
Point Reduction Process Overview
To apply for a point reduction in New York, you must first meet the following criteria:
- You must have been ticketed within the past 18 months.
- You must not have completed a defensive driving course within the last 18 months.
- You must have your certificate of completion when going to the DMV.
Once these requirements have been met, you can fill out an application on the DMV website, submit it in person at any New York State DMV location, or mail it in with payment via check or money order (credit cards are not accepted).
Drivers Can Get Their Insurance Rates Reduced if They Complete a Defensive Driving Course
If you’ve received a traffic ticket, knowing there are ways to reduce your insurance rates is essential. You can take a defensive driving course every three years to maintain the insurance discount. First, check the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles website for information about your violation. From there, contact an attorney or visit the courthouse to learn what action should be taken next.
If you have questions about how defensive driving courses can help reduce your insurance costs after completing one and want more information on courses available near you, visit our page on defensive driving courses in New York State
New York’s Point Reduction Program is an excellent option if you’re looking to reduce your car insurance rates. The program offers drivers the chance to get their points reduced by completing a defensive driving course and passing the exam at the end of it. If you want more information about how this program works and whether or not it’s right for you, check out our partners at Improv Learning for the most comprehensive and fun defensive driving course in New York state.
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How Can I Access the MLS? Become an Agent. The first and best way to access the MLS is to become an agent. Partner With an Agent. Build a Relationship With the MLS. Sign Up as an Unlicensed Assistant. Use a Syndication Service. Use a Public MLS Site. Use an IDX Site. Use Another Real Estate Site.
How do I change brokerage in Nevada?
Youll need to submit Form 505 first, the Termination of Real Estate Salesperson. Then youll need Form 504, Real Estate License or Permit Change, and a $20 change of broker/employer fee.
How do I file a complaint against a Realtor in Nevada?
File a Complaint Complete a Statement of Fact Form 514. Provide a complete and detailed sworn statement of your complaint. Name all parties present during conversations or actions. Use dates and time to indicate when conversations/actions took place.
Can I transfer my Nevada real estate license to California?
Thats right. California is one of the few states that do not offer any reciprocity. That means, if you have an active license in another state, you still have to complete a California-accredited real estate school, pass the state exam, and sign with a brokerage.
What is the Nevada Real Estate Division?
In the case of real estate, the Nevada Real Estate Division is the states governing body. The divisions authority lies in their power to enforce the Nevada Revised Statutes on real estate. One of the real estate divisions most important responsibilities is keeping track of Nevadas real estate licensees.
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I am honored with your favor of the 30th Ulto., containing a return of the Tobacco by you purchased for the public. This return appears to me consitent with the intention of the Council of State in their recommendation to me. It is true, that I expected where any appeared, on a survey, to be damaged, it would be necessary to pick it, so as not only to separate the good from the bad and damaged, but also to prevent that damaged from water from being further communicated to the good. This I believe will be effected by the measures you have taken.
Reports with me are, from their frequency, grown less and disagreeable & of course I do not pay that attention to them as formerly. However, I often feel for those whose rectitude I am well satisfied in, and believe me, Sir, I have ever, and do still, consider you as one of those, and shall not easily be led to believe the contrary. The reports respecting your purchases have not been carried so great a length here, as you mention. What further may be necessary to be done to or with the Tobacco will undoubtedly fall within your province; no insinuations of others would induce me to apply to any other, as I know, upon a proper investigation of facts as they really were, your Country will be as well satisfied with your Conduct as I am in this particular.
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Chimeras in research
In biological research, chimeras are artificially produced by physically mixing cells from two different organisms. Chimeras are not hybrids, […] (like a donkey and a horse) that form a single zygote that will develop as much as it can (in this case into a live mule […]);
in comparison, chimeras are the physical mixing of cells from two independent zygotes:
for example, one from the donkey and one from the horse. “Chimera” is a broad term and is often applied to many different types of mixing of cells from two different species.
Some chimeras can result in the eventual development of an adult animal composed of cells from both donors, which may be of different species – for example, in 1984 a chimeric geep was produced by combining embryos from a goat and a sheep.
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It’s the new sensational series of the Fall season Killing Eve, a psychological thriller, incubated by the insightful Phoebe Waller-Bridge, features a MI5 inquirer tracking down a serial killer with an angel face. Totally mesmerizing! Forget your social life.
The serial killer was a woman
And it’s a small revolution! Leave behind Dexter, Hannibal Lecter and John le Rouge. A new devilish heroine has just entered in the very masculine circle of psychopaths on the small screen. Her name: Villanelle. A hired killer working for a mysterious organization called Les Douze, the lovely young woman (a slight air of Claire Keim, comes across as just angelic… that’s before you see her emasculate her prey or stick a hair pin in someone’s eye) travels all around Europe depending on the missions entrusted by Konstantin, her Russian intermediary with shady designs troubles. The big high of the young lady: “Seeing life ebb away slowly in the eyes of my victims.” All this with a cute pout and designer clothes. You are already hooked? Just wait for the follow-up.
A totally amoral duel
Because, since she spend her time killing people, Villanelle (Jodie Comer seen in the The White Princess, stunning !) logically is spotted. After having sliced the femoral artery of a Russian mafia type in central London (we told you she was not miss Goody Two Shoes…), she is spotted by the British secret services.
Propelled to the head of a secret inquiry section, agent Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh, our Cristina Yang of Grey’s Anatomy) is in charge of putting a strop to this bloody carnage and to figure out who is really pulling the strings undercover. And their… drama unfolds! Or rather a big crush. A quasi erotic fascination takes place between the married woman with a very staid family life and the sanguinary killer with the Botticelli Venus face. A cat and mouse game that in itself epitomizes the series. Amoral? Yes ! And incredibly joyful.
A gem of black humour
However no creepy ambiance in Killing Eve. Each episode (the first season counts 8, to thus be savoured piano) is filled with comic situations (without spoiling if for you, just be aware that when Villanelle invites herself for dinner at Eve’s, it’s Shepherd’s pie on the menu). And with reason. Behind this adaptation of the novel Codename Villanelle by Luke Jennings, one fines sharp penmanship of Phoebe Waller-Bridge (who had already conquered us with her cult series Fleabag). Funny, flippant and ferociously addictive: this new could very well keep us riveted on our couch the entire Fall. You have been warned…
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bracketology 101: how to fill out your march madness bracket, like a total pro
March Madness (aka the NCAA Men’s College Basketball Tournament) starts this week, and we’re here to make sure that you can...er, productively waste time along with your colleagues.
Published Mar 16, 2016 4:00 AM
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By: TipOff Sports
March Madness (aka the NCAA Men’s College Basketball Tournament) starts this week, which means employees will be filling out brackets and getting distracted during the work day to the tune of billions of dollars worth of lower productivity. Fortunately, we’re here to make sure that you can…er, productively waste time along with your colleagues.
How The Tournament Works
The top 64 teams in the country face off in a single-elimination tournament. Win a game and you advance, lose and your season’s over, and you go back to campus and homework (read: beer pong) again. There are four ‘regions’ with teams therein “seeded” #1 (best) through #16 (get the bus home ready) in each region. The reward for having a good season is an easy start to the tournament, so each #1 seed starts by playing each #16; the #2 plays the #15, and so on.
(ProTip: No #16 has ever beaten a #1.) The games take place over three weeks, with pauses after every two rounds so that in theory the student-athletes can extremely hypothetically attend classes they’ve been missing while on national TV. The winner of each region advances to the Final Four.
Be a Bracket Ninja
One great thing about filling out a tournament bracket is that it takes five minutes, makes otherwise inane games suddenly interesting, and people who watch zero college basketball often do better than diehard fans. You can imagine how much fun it will be when you trounce that friend or coworker who thinks he knows his stuff. In fact, if you simply pick the favored team in every game, you’ll beat most of your friends while they craftily yet stupidly try to predict upsets.
What to do:
– Go to the TipOff-exclusive tournament page – Create a CBS Sports login – Use the Pool Password: WatercoolerWords – Click your bracket, then fill it out by clicking who you think will win each game, all the way through the finals – Make sure to do this all by 11 AM ET Thursday — after that, the brackets lock, and you’ll miss your chance for no-downside bragging rights. – Sit back, relax, and wait to win your extremely official TIPOFF TROPHY… provided you win the pool (which you will, right? Cuz you’re you).
How To Fill Out Your Bracket
Every March, “experts” appear out of nowhere and call themselves “bracketologists.” Don’t listen to them: you’re better off taking stock market advice from Jim Cramer (he’s so bad as to be statistically improbable) than putting your faith in the TV talking heads spouting tournament tips. The tourney is extremely unpredictable, and with 9.2 bajillion — sorry, “quintillion” — possible tournament outcomes, anyone confident that their bracket is even close to fully correct is either insane, from the future, or on television.
But here are some tips:
A lower seed indicates a better team, and going with the favorite is generally the safer bet. But correctly calling upsets is more exciting, and you only need to get one to start bragging.
If you’re flying blind, don’t choose an upset of the #1 seeds too early. In our bracket, picking the team that wins a Final Four game is worth much more than correctly picking a first round game, so you’ll want some of your picks to still be around late in the tourney.
Don’t stress about it. Most of your friends will be impressed that you even did a bracket this year at all.
Who’re the Favorites?
This year, way more than most, there’s no clear favorite. But for starters, look at the #1 seeds: Kansas, North Carolina, Virginia, and — for the first time ever — Oregon.
If You Insist…
Here are a couple of first round upsets we at TipOff might stick in our own brackets: #11 Gonzaga over #6 Seton Hall and #10 VCU over #7 Oregon St. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.
“I know any given bracket has a one in 9 quintillion chance of being perfect, but, I don’t know, I’ve got a good feeling about this.”
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We held this one back, just to give Bioshock a shot at Game of the Year for 2007. But for 2008, the gloves come off! All games coming out this year have been warned: You are up against Nathan “Bagel” Stapley’s My Game about Me: Olympic Challenge!
It’s hardly fair. I mean, it’s not just one game, but THREE GAMES IN ONE. And it features music by Razmig Mavlian. Does your game have music by Razmig Mavlian? Unlikely. Is it possible to make Leonardo da Vinci barf in your game? What’s that? No? Well, then, try to enjoy this fabulous game through your tears of envy, and better luck next time!
Except here’s a spoiler: You’re going to lose next time as well. And the time after that. Four times from now, we’re going to be on vacation, so you might have a chance that time. But then after that will come another long streak of us winning. Better buy clothes that look good with green, pal. | <urn:uuid:ab5bf69b-c102-4ba1-bb3a-d4398f6c9fb5> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.doublefine.com/news/his-game-about-him | 2023-09-24T23:46:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.947918 | 244 |
Bishop Harold has instituted Revd William (Bill) Press as rector of Knockbreda Parish, Belfast. Revd Eddie Coulter (pictured right), Superintendent of Irish Church Missions, Dublin and a longtime friend of Bill’s, gave the address at the service on 26 June.
Bill and Eddie have served together in Serbia at Crosslinks’ Schools of Bible Training and also have in common their curacies at Knockbreda under the former rector and Archdeacon of Down, Ven Philip Patterson.
Bill is married to Claire, who works part–time as an English teacher at Portadown College, and they have three children, Sam (11), Cara (8) and Mark (5).
Previously he was Rector of Kilhorne Church, Annalong. Bill served there for 9 very happy years. Before his appointment to Kilhorne he was curate in St Elizabeth’s Dundonald and prior to that Knockbreda parish.
He was ordained by Bishop Harold in 1999 and so has spent all of his ministry to date in Down and Dromore. Prior to ordination, Bill worked in industry as an electrical and electronic engineer.
Bill’s priorities in ministry include expository Bible teaching and preaching, pastoral care of the vulnerable, and evangelism, especially among young people.
Speaking about returning to Knockbreda, Bill said: “Claire and I are very excited at the prospect of ministering again in Knockbreda. We look forward to building on the faithful work of our friend the late Philip Patterson. As a family we are very grateful for the prayers of so many – both in Knockreda and Annalong.” | <urn:uuid:04cd4148-0729-441d-a558-fd41b78690f1> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.downanddromore.org/news/2014/06/Revd-Bill-Press-instituted-in-Knockbreda | 2023-09-24T23:14:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.975422 | 350 |
The Atlas Paradox by Olivie Blake
I love finding a good fantasy series. There are so many out there that people talk about on social media, so it’s fun to find a new one. I was so intrigued by The Atlas Six and its concept, so it only made logical sense to continue the series with The Atlas Paradox.
The Atlas Paradox is the long-awaited sequel to Olivie Blake’s New York Times bestselling dark academic sensation The Atlas Six ―guaranteed to have even more yearning, backstabbing, betrayal, and chaos.
Six magicians were presented with the opportunity of a lifetime.
Five are now members of the Society.
Two paths lie before them.
All must pick a side.
Alliances will be tested, hearts will be broken, and The Society of Alexandrians will be revealed for what it a secret society with raw, world-changing power, headed by a man whose plans to change life as we know it are already under way.
“The Atlas Six introduced six of the most devious, talented, and flawed characters to ever find themselves in a magical library, and then sets them against one another in a series of stunning betrayals and reversals. As much a delicious contest of wit, will, and passion as it is of magic…half mystery, half puzzle, and wholly a delight.”― New York Times bestselling author Holly Black
Confession: I have a serious complex about feeling the need to finish a book series. I don’t like loose ends, so I want to know how the author strategized getting readers to the end of this pre-“purchased” series of books.
It is because of this that I am so sad there’s another book coming out after The Atlas Paradox. This series as a concept had such incredible promise, and it just didn’t land.
I’ve been working my way through some older television shows. (Mostly all those CW superhero shows.) In so many of them, it reaches a point where there are just too many characters or character turnover that it isn’t a show anymore. That’s what The Atlas Paradox felt like.
We already had perspectives from 6+ people in the first book. Now, we take those perspectives and a few of them are in different locations, meaning it’s almost an entirely different story that we’re having to track.
The thing that kills me the most about the book is how pretentious it is. It’s all these people whining about philosophy and research and…it just doesn’t make sense! It’s like that person in a group of people who always needs to feel smarter than everyone else…but they’re all like that.
It took me a while to get through The Atlas Paradox. In fact, I even had to put it down at one point and come back to it a couple months later. Truthfully, I don’t know that I would recommend it, and I’ll probably wait to get the final book from the library so I don’t have to buy it.
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November 25, 2022
Nov 25, 2022 - Nov 25, 2022
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(29 September 2020) – The Development Partner Institute (DPI Mining) warmly welcomes Flow Partners as a Supporting company.
Sharing a core belief in the power of collaboration, both organisations emphasise an inclusive, whole-of-value-chain approach in tackling complex problems through innovation.
“It is a privilege to welcome on board a progressive, agile company such as Flow Partners as a DPI Supporter,” said Executive Director Wendy Tyrrell. “Under Laura Mottola’s leadership, Flow Partners has achieved real clarity on how people, processes and technology can pull together to make a positive impact in the mining sector. This innovation mindset is a perfect fit with our work here at DPI Mining.”
“Flow Partners is delighted to support the pioneering work that DPI is undertaking,” said Laura Mottola, Flow Partners President and CEO. “We are passionate about transforming the global mining and metals industry through collaborative problem-solving, ideation, and implementation of innovative approaches. We are eager to join DPI’s responsible sourcing coalition and other work related to making mining an important contributor to and beneficiary of the circular economy.”
Together with Heather Gamble, CEO of Women On The Move, Laura Mottola is also co-founder of the Artemis Project, an organization established to accelerate business outcomes for female entrepreneurs in the mining and metals industry.
“Raising awareness and opportunities for collaboration between mining companies and female entrepreneurs helps drive innovation and diversity and increase return on investment for mining companies,” explained Heather Gamble. “We have learned a great deal through the Artemis Project and we are looking forward to bringing our insights and learnings to help enrich and accelerate DPI’s programs of work.”
The two organizations have already identified priority areas for collaboration. DPI’s Responsible Sourcing Coalition (‘RESCO’), which focuses on a whole-of-value-chain approach to sourcing, will benefit significantly from Flow Partners deep experience in the mining sector’s role in the circular economy. DPI’s program focusing on the SDGs and the mining sector in Australia will also be able to draw on lessons learned from the Artemis Project’s work on the SDGs in mining in the Canadian context.
About Flow Partners
Flow Partners is a Value Network of multidisciplinary professionals with extensive mining industry experience across commodities and geographies, open pit and underground, as well as greenfield projects and brownfield operations. We are a global company based in Montreal, Canada, and Santiago, Chile. Our approach is people-centric and focused on developing the internal capability of our client organizations to systemically identify and unlock improvement opportunities. Our Lean Mining® methodology addresses the ore-to-market production system and supporting functions, from the mining face to the customer. We leverage technology appropriately in order to enable a more productive total system, where business integration delivers sustainable performance.
To learn more, visit us at www.flowpartners.com
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Proceedings of The 6th International Conference on Advanced Research in Management, Business and Finance
The Effect of the Attitudes Toward Advertisements on the Attitude toward Brands (The Role of Brand Familiarity)
Ahmed AL Jazea
Previous studies have confirmed that attitude toward advertising (Aad) has a strong relationship with attitude toward brand (Ab). The present study assessed the impact of consumers’ attitudes toward advertisements (Aad) on attitudes toward brands (Ab) and prior attitudes toward brands (PAB). 125 Saudi male teachers who viewed the cover head (Projeh) advertisements were surveyed. The study measured their attitudes toward advertisement (Aad), their attitude toward brand (Ab), and their prior attitude toward brand (PAB). The result of this study is that the attitude toward advertisements positively and significantly affects the attitude toward the brand. However, there was no effect of prior attitude toward the brand on the relationship between attitude toward advertisement (Aad) and attitude toward brand (Ab).
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In 2015, Walter Scott fled for his life, stalked by a policeman who then cold bloodedly shot him in the back. We all saw the video and in response to this murder I made the artwork, “A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday.” This simple banner, printed with the eponymous words, is an update of an iconic flag that the NAACP flew from their national headquarters window in New York in the nineteen-twenties and thirties the day after someone was lynched. It read simply: “A Man Was Lynched Yesterday” and was part of a their anti-lynching campaign — a national effort to end that scourge.
During the Jim Crow era, Black people were terrorized by lynching — often public and publicized extra legal torture and murder of Black people. It was a threat that hung over all Black people who knew that for any reason or no reason whatsoever we could be killed and the killers would never be brought to justice. Now the police are playing the same role of terror that lynch mobs did at the turn of the century. It is a threat that hangs over all Black people, that we can be killed by the police for no reason whatsoever; for a traffic stop, for selling CDs, for selling cigarettes. Shot to death, choked to death, tasered to death. Standing still, fleeing. Shot in the chest, shot in the back. Hands up, hands down. Point blank range or at a distance. And the police never face justice for their crimes. Like lynchers in the Jim Crow era, there can be eye witnesses, and now even video evidence, and yet the police get away with murder.
My art often looks at how the past sets the stage for the present but also exists in the present in new form. This artwork is an unfortunately necessary update to address a horror from the past that is haunting us in the present.
Responding to the recent police killings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, this updated flag was a last minute addition to For Freedoms at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York (July 2016). It was an unusual, bold, courageous and fitting decision for the gallery to decide to include “A Man Was Lynched…” The art was displayed on the outside of the gallery in a highly visible manner in a way that was evocative of the NAACP presentation. Immediately people responded and initiated a much needed wider conversation, leading to coverage in the New York Times, PBS Newshour Magazine, Fox News, Hyperallergic, Artnet.com and on social media.
There is an epidemic of police killing people. 1,134 stolen lives in 2015 alone. Around the country, people are deeply concerned and taking action—from determined protest shutting down streets to respected athletes, musicians and artists are making powerful statements and art. This is inspiring and needs to grow. I’m glad for A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday to be part of the growing dissent and ferment as people act to end police terror.
Because of the recent interest in this work it has been/is slated to be exhibited in several institutions including:
Whiteny Museum of American Art, “An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whiteny’s Collection 1940-2017″
SECCA (South Eastern Center for Contemporary art), “Dispatches”
Gallery MOMO, “Selling the Shadow,” exhibition in Capetown organized by Ayana Jackson
The Design Museum, London UK, “Hope to Nope”
CAC (Contemporary Art Center New Orleans)
Rush Arts Philadelphia
Rowan University, “A Sharp Divide”
African American Museum of Philadelphia, “Arresting Patterns”
McColl Center “The World is a Mirror of My Freedom”
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FLIGHT OF THE
OFFICIAL WORLD TOUR
A good friend and brilliant designer Georgina asked me one day if I would be interested in doing a t-shirt design for Flight of the Conchords. Georgina had been doing many designs for Brett and Jermaine (the stars of Flight of the Conchords) and said they were wanting an illustrator/designer to take on the next world tour brand & t-shirt design – so being a fan myself I jumped at the opportunity. Brett and Jermaine gave me one simple direction and that has they loved 80's rock tours shirts and in particularly the sci-fi/ rock look of Journey's tour shirts.
I designed up Brett and Jermaine as magical spacemen with glowing eyes and giving a supersonic high five.
Wonderfully, Brett and Jermaine dug my initial sketches so much so that they asked to put a rush to final, making the shirt be the official world tour shirt. | <urn:uuid:f49e9487-249e-4a38-a1f5-3894443200d4> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.drewbeam.com/flight-of-the-conchords | 2023-09-24T23:34:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.944862 | 210 |
Arthritis is a degenerative disease of the joints that can affect joints all over the body and can be particularly debilitating in the hands. Arthritis can cause a great deal of pain in the hands and, over time, can cause deformity and disability. Dr. Fichadia has helped many patients regain their independence by restoring function and comfort.
Patients experiencing arthritic pain and loss of function may benefit greatly from available surgical optionshand procedure. Patients that may be considered for arthritis hand surgery may have the following symptoms:
- Range of motion changes – patients with moderate to severe arthritis may experience range of motion changes such as a rough, grinding motion or even a looseness to the joint that inhibits control and function.
- Swelling – As the joints begin to accumulate stress they will swell, preventing further movement.
- Warm to the touch – Much of the time, an arthritic joint will feel warm to the touch as the body’s response to inflammation.
Arthritis does not have to result in a painful or sedentary life. It is important to seek help early so that treatment can begin, and you can return to doing what matters most to you.
Fortunately, there are non-surgical options such as medications, injections, and supporting the joint with a splint. If these are not effective, you’ll have a few surgical options. The first is using a fusion of the bones of the knuckle joints to create a stronger joint, but this can lead to decreased range of motion. Another option is a complete replacement of the joint using an artificial substitute. You’ll discuss these options at length with Dr. Fichadia, but here are some basics to know before your consultation.
Treatment options for arthritis of the hand and wrist include medication, splinting, injections, and surgery, and are determined based on:
- How far the arthritis has progressed
- How many joints are involved
- Your age, activity level and other medical conditions
- If the dominant or non-dominant hand is affected
- Your personal goals, home support structure, and ability to understand the treatment and comply with a therapy program
Medications treat symptoms but cannot restore joint cartilage or reverse joint damage. The most common medications for arthritis are anti-inflammatories, which stop the body from producing chemicals that cause joint swelling and pain. Examples of anti-inflammatory drugs include medications such as acetaminophen and ibuprofen.
Glucosamine and chondroitin are widely advertised dietary supplements or “neutraceuticals.” Neutraceuticals are not drugs. Rather, they are compounds that are the “building blocks” of cartilage. They were originally used by veterinarians to treat arthritic hips in dogs. However, neutraceuticals have not yet been studied as a treatment of hand and wrist arthritis. (Note: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration does not test dietary supplements. These compounds may cause negative interactions with other medications. Always consult your doctor before taking dietary supplements.)
When first-line treatment with anti-inflammatory medication is not appropriate, injections may be used. These typically contain a long-lasting anesthetic and a steroid that can provide pain relief for weeks to months. The injections can be repeated, but only a limited number of times, due to possible side effects, such as lightening of the skin, weakening of the tendons and ligaments and infection.
Injections are usually combined with splinting of the affected joint. The splint helps support the affected joint to ease the stress placed on it from frequent use and activities. Splints are typically worn during periods when the joints hurt. They should be small enough to allow functional use of the hand when they are worn. Wearing the splint for too long can lead to muscle deterioration (atrophy). Muscles can assist in stabilizing injured joints, so atrophy should be prevented.
If nonsurgical treatment fails to give relief, surgery is usually discussed. There are many surgical options. The chosen course of surgical treatment should be one that has a reasonable chance of providing long-term pain relief and return to function. It should be tailored to your individual needs.
If there is any way the joint can be preserved or reconstructed, this option is usually chosen.
When the damage has progressed to a point that the surfaces will no longer work, a joint replacement or a fusion (arthrodesis) is performed.
During fusion, also known as arthrodesis, the bones of the knuckle joints are fused to create a stronger and more stable knuckle. While this method can eliminate pain, it will also result in less flexibility and range of motion.
Joint replacement, or arthroplasty, includes removing the worn down joint and replacing it with an artificial replacement. This type of arthritis hand surgery also relieves pain but since the joint is being replaced, some function is possible.
After your procedure, it will be very important that you follow Dr. Fichadia’s aftercare and recovery instructions. During this recovery period, you may need to modify your everyday activities in order to put less stress on your hand while it heals. Dr. Fichadia may also recommend that you see a physical therapist or an occupational therapist to help you return to your normal everyday activities.
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Cottages at TrailsideD.R. Horton, America's Builder, presents the Greensboro, available as a quick move-in low maintenance home in Whitestown, Indiana. This 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath two-story home features a welcoming foyer, downstairs den and upstairs loft. The great room is open to the kitchen and dining area, offering flexibility for entertaining. The gorgeous kitchen boasts plenty of counter and cabinet space with 42inch cabinets, quartz countertops, breakfast bar and pantry. The upstairs primary bedroom offers a large walk-in closet and ensuite bathroom, which features a double vanity sink, tiled shower, linen storage and private commode. This plan comes with an open back patio and rear load garage. Community amenities are fabulous and include a 24 hour fitness center, community amenity area and event space, swimming pool, bocce, tennis, pickleball and basketball courts, gardens, trails and more! Photos representative of plan only and may vary as built.
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From top research universities and institutions, breathtaking scenery and a vibrant culture, this city offers plenty of activities to fit your lifestyle needs. Whether you’re taking a nature hike with your kids at Garfield Park, enjoying a romantic evening in the Wholesale District, or discovering local culture in downtown’s Fountain Square – the Indianapolis community offers a variety of ways to help make your new house a home.
PARKS & RECREATION
Garfield Park: This 30-acre outdoor recreational space, located on the southern edge of the city’s Historic District, offers a variety of amenities including a walkway, two playgrounds, park café, and a scenic, two-tiered white cast-iron fountain.
Indianapolis Public Transportation Corporation (IndyGo): As the main provider of transportation in the state capital and surrounding metropolitan area, this transit system offers an expansive fleet of 168 buses, with 7,000 daily stops for nearly 31,600 riders daily.
Wholesale District: As the front-and-center entertainment neighborhood in downtown Indiana, this district offers plenty of restaurants, bars, musical venues and numerous other ways to explore the cultural capital city after dark.
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It’s been a while since I’ve been on a good rant. Lately I keep stumbling across news that the manual transmission is dying in the States. This has been an issue for a long, long time across many makes and models. And it has finally made it’s way to the last holdout in the full-size truck segment, the RAM 2500.
Before this news, I was entertaining the idea of trading my current tow rig for something newer with more bells and whistles such as nav and bluetooth. RAM’s decision to axe the manual transmission officially killed that desire. I will gladly keep driving my current rig, a 2015 Ram 2500 Tradesman simply to keep shifting my own gears.
To drive the point home, I purchased the truck new in 2014 looking for a full size diesel truck. Ford and Chevy had already phased the manual out so RAM was my only option. It didn’t hurt that the 2500 is coupled with a Cummins 6.7l motor. A motor known for it’s reliability and ease of maintenance. Making the purchase pretty easy and straight forward a the RAM was literally the only manufacturer that could meet my criteria of diesel, manual, 4×4 and 4 door.
Shifting gears with a manual equipped diesel is a little different from the gas powered motors most are used to. For instance, the redline is around 3k rpm and with such a heavy flywheel, the Cummins motor revs a lot slower. In fact, after purchase, I promptly bounced the tach off the rev limiter on the way home. Oh well, that’s what it is there for. The clutch is pretty heavy as well and you aren’t going to go around town rev matching. (Believe me I tried) However, this is probably the most rewarding manual I have driven. The heavy clutch, low revs, short initial gearing and substantial shifts all combine to make you feel like you are really driving something special. It’s a different feeling from a sports car and everything must be done with purpose and intent. Forceful while remaining smooth. Other drivetrains in this segment are simply boring next to the 6 speed equipped Cummins.
Some of my fellow racers swear by manual tow rigs and others think it’s crazy. We tow to areas that can be quite hilly and one of the great features on the truck is an anti-rollback system that slowly releases the rear brakes as you release the clutch. This eliminates rollback on tricky hills which is a worry for some. Especially towing. Aside from that, the truck tows as expected.
Back to the Rant
Every vehicle I own, aside from my wife’s Jeep, is a manual. This will continue to be the case as long as possible. That means I will keep the current truck for the foreseeable future and am out of the new truck market till someone high enough at Dodge comes to their senses. Until then, I will do whatever I need to in order to prolong it’s service life.
On a positive note, this opens up more avenues here and I will start adding maintenance and modification guides in the tech section for anyone else finding themselves facing the same scenario. | <urn:uuid:57e6d672-d6b8-4383-be4e-20911ab69ad0> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.driftopia.com/2019/10/28/why-i-wont-buy-a-new-truck-2015-ram-2500-manual/ | 2023-09-25T00:29:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.95445 | 674 |
In a healthy marriage, it’s normal for couples to say, “I love you” on a regular basis. As important as these words are, Brenen and Morgan Beeler reveal in this short video another way to express how you feel that can have an even greater impact on your relationship. The Beelers take this lesson from Dr. James and Shirley Dobson’s Night Light for Couples (page 16) and explain how to make love flourish in your marriage.
What "I Love You" Looks Like Every Day
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Calling ALL eCommerce business owners:
When’s the last time you checked your email marketing strategy?
Has recent success got you thinking it’s perfect?
Whether you’ve recently strategized,
Or haven’t looked at it in ages (you know who you are),
Brendan Tully is here to show you 4 email marketing mistakes that –
…even YOU are making.
Email marketing generates up to 30% of an eCommerce store’s revenue.
Do you CAPITALIZE on that cash flow?
Or are you letting good money slip through your fingers.
These mistakes PROVE that you rob yourself of your OWN money.
Identify them –
And watch your conversion rates blast through the roof.
It’s not rocket science.
Any regular Joe can rack up sales with these golden insights.
Brendan’s worked with over 2,000 biz owners in the last 5 years.
He WANTS you to gain from his experience.
So quit being “regular eCommerce Joe”…
And notice that elephant in the room.
Simple tweaks produce MASSIVE results.
Brendan shows you WHAT they are…
…and HOW to fix them.
The money’s there.
Tune-in to make sure your eCommerce store gets all of it.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
- a simple trick to remove friction from the sales process (less friction = more sales)
- how to break the mold on your standard abandon cart email sequence to gain a deep connection with those cart ditchers
- why offering discounts can actually hurt your conversion rates (and how to use them strategically)
- how to avoid sounding needy in your abandon cart emails (ditch the hard sale and use this style of email instead)
- effective insights to gain a long-term mindset that converts more sales than any discount ever offered
- how to use all that header space to your advantage (use this info to gain an edge over your bigger competitors)
- the crippling effects of a sub-par product page (ease the friction by infusing this into all your product descriptions)
- how to reduce customer overhead with a simple maneuver you can implement today.
- a bulletproof hack to write solid transactional, abandon cart, and other emails you need to convert more sales in your ecommerce business
John McIntyre:Hey, it’s John McIntyre here, Autoresponder Guy, and it’s time for episode 71 of the McMethod Email Marketing Podcast where you get nitty – gritty techniques, tips and strategies to make more money in your business with email marketing, with sales funnels, with all those little conversion elements and marketing. Okay, now today I’ll be talking to a good friend of mine. His name is Brendan Tully.
He’s one of the most knowledgeable guys I know on e-commerce, so setting up an e-commerce store and more importantly, not so much for beginners, he really knows what he’s talking about, especially when it comes to helping people who already have an e-commerce store, helping them make more money with all these sort of little conversion hacks. He’s just built a product which I think is a fantastic product with just a basically a long list of simple steps that anyone can take who already has a store to increase their profitability and make more money and make more sales.
Today, we’re going to be talking about four classic email marketing mistakes. Now, the interesting thing here is that it’s a little bit controversial, not crazy controversial, but a little bit. The reason why is that I’ve done a couple of podcasts before with e-commerce email marketing experts, Ezra Firestone and X Wang. Now, they’ve mentioned things that Brendan sort of takes a different slant to. He goes off in a different direction. He has some interesting, compelling arguments for why he does so.
Now, he’s a very known honest, down to earth Aussie guy, so you’ve got two Aussie accents in this show, in this episode not just one. Okay, to get the show on the road for this episode of the Email Marketing Podcast go to themcmethod.com/71.
Now, here is this week’s McMaster’s Insight of the Week, the DAT formula. Now, what is the DAT formula? I love formulas. First of all, before I tell you what the formula is, the reason why I love formulas like this is that it makes writing copy and it makes writing emails, it makes creating marketing pieces for your business really easy and really straightforward, so I’m a big believer in breaking things down into a formula or a framework. Whatever you want to call it, okay. Now, the DAT formula is like this:
Number one, you describe the problem, all right? That’s step one. Step two is you agitate it, and step 3 is present your solution. Now, this, I introduced this DAT formula in one of the products inside McMasters in pages that convert because this is the simplest easiest way to write a great sales pitch for any sort of products your selling even if you’re trying to get someone to sign up to your list. Anytime you want someone to take an action, the DAT formula is fantastic for it.
Now, it’s a little bit finicky. When you describe the problem such as “Are you sick of being fat?” Then you agitate it, and then you start talking about, well, “Here’s why it sucks to be fat.” You’re trying to get them feel the pain of what it is like to be fat. Before you present your solution, instead of going like “Well, are you sick of being fat?” and then agitate it. “Well, here’s why it sucks being fat. You don’t have energy. You can’t run around with your kids.” Instead of them going, “Well, that’s where my product comes in.”
Before you present your solution, you really need to present your solution in a general context, so you describe the problem: “Are you sick of being fat?” This is a very colloquial, casual example. “Are you being fat?” You agitate it by saying, “Well, now you don’t have energy. You can’t run around with your kids. You’re going to die early,” all this sort of stuff. You see what I’m doing? I’m just making them feel the pain of their problem. That’s all the agitation stage is about, okay?
Then before I present my solution though, I’m going to say, “What if there was an easy, simple way to lose weight and get fit?” Alright, and the problem there’s tons of products out there that don’t work. You’ve tried pills.
You’ve tried blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, so I sort of talk about the solution in a general way, before I actually present the actual solution, so I’m like: “What if there was a simple way to do things that didn’t involve dieting, that didn’t involve painful workouts and didn’t involve all of this stuff?” Then I go: “That’s where lose weight in 10 days — lose 10 pounds in 10 days comes in, my product.” Lose 10 pounds in 10 days is my simple step by step program on how to lose weight blah, blah, blah.
The idea is you describe the problem, you agitate it, but before you present your specific solution, you need to describe the solution in sort of a general detail so that when you present your product so that it’s pre-framed as the ultimate solution. That’s a bit like saying you describe their problem, “Are they fat?”; you agitate it, “Here’s why it sucks to be fat …”; and then you might talk about “Well, there is a solution, but here’s the problem …”
You go back to the problem: “The problem is with most solutions they don’t work because of X, Y and Z, and because they don’t work …” You agitate it again, so you’re going problem, agitate, and then the solution is obviously to buy a product on weight loss, but then there’s a new problem: “Most products suck. The reason why that’s bad is that then you go and spend money. You waste money and time, and you don’t get what you want,” so we’ve gone problem, agitate, solution, and then we’ve gone back to problem, different problem this time, that most products suck. We’ve agitated it, and then we present your solution which is: “That’s where my product comes in.”
I think about it like that. I could probably come up with a 2X DAT formula, where you describe the problem, agitate, present a general solution, then describe the problem with the average solution then rinse and repeat the same formula, okay? That’s the problem I said that most people having with this formula, this problem, agitate, solution, is they go straight into their pitch, rather than talking about the solution in a general context of pre-framing, okay, so that’s this week McMasters Insight of the Week.
This insight came from McMasters, obviously. McMasters is my private training community. There is a forum. There’s monthly webinars, several products inside the community, including the McIntyre method which is a four-week training program on how to write an autoresponder, so if you want to learn more about that, go to themcmethod.com. There is a link in the top header. Learn more about McMasters and find out how to join.
I’ve got one review and then we’ll get into this interview. This review is from Mr. Sean Markey. Sean says, “Five stars. Love it. Hey man, super love the show. Getting into the thick of things with my business and really starting to be able to use a lot of things that you teach in the show. Going to be joining your membership site soon, I suspect. Rock on.”
Well, Sean, I can’t wait to see you inside McMasters and we can jump on these training webinars and we can talk about these insights inside. Yeah, it would actually be cool to have you in there, man. Anyway, if you want to leave a review for the show, you will put a huge smile on my face and make me crack up like this when I forget what to say.
Go to Itunes. Search for the McMethod Email Marketing Podcast and leave me your review. Tell me what you think. Good and bad, I’ll take it. Okay, now, let’s get into today’s interview with Mr. Brendan Tully and the four classic email, well, e-commerce email marketing mistakes.
It’s John McIntyre here, the Autoresponder Guy, and I’m here with Brendan Tully. Now, Brendan’s a consultant who I actually met way back in Sydney about three years ago before I’d moved to the Philippines, before I knew anything about copywriting business, or any of that and had all of those starry stars in my eyes about what sort of lifestyle you can get from it. I found Brendan on this forum and we … you lived in Sydney at the time, as well, so we met up. We had a beer and a lunch or something like that, and I was telling you about content site that made 400 bucks a month, and Brendan told me that it wasn’t a business and … we just had a conversation about that. It just totally blew my mind.
Anyway, today, I thought I’d bring him on, he’s an e-commerce guy or a marketing consultant, but he’s got an e-commerce product coming out, a training product, which …. He’s just done a lot of cool e-commerce stuff and I’ve been through some of the product. While I’m not an e-commerce guy, it’s really actionable. Some of these screen shots, there’s just a lot of time put into this, so we’ll talk about that, but first, we’re going to talk about the four classic email marketing mistakes when it comes to e-commerce store owners.
If you’ve heard the other podcast with, I think it was X Wang and Ezra Firestone, this is going to be a little bit more of a not so much controversial, but a bit of a different take, coming at it from a different angle which is … Brendan usually does this. I’ve seen him do this in forums where everyone’s coming out saying one thing, and then he goes, “Look guys, this isn’t how it works. This is how it works.” That’s what today’s going to be about. Anyway, we’ll get into that. Brendan, how are you doing?
Brendan Tully:Yes, good mate, good mate. You make me sound like a grumpy old man. Come on.
John McIntyre:Just flowing with it man. It’s like … with these intros, like I said, I don’t plan them out too much these days. It’s just see what comes to mind like get a bit of inspiration from the divine and see what comes out.
Brendan Tully:Nice, I have some contrary viewpoints that I think often they’re very valid.
John McIntyre:I think they are, too, but are we bracketing this one in the rant tag like the …
Brendan Tully:I don’t think it’s quite a rant, so yeah, I don’t think we need to put the rant tags around this one.
John McIntyre:That’s a good one. All right, before we do that, I’ve kind of given you a sort of the JMac intro, how about you give a list sort of a background on who you are and what you do.
Brendan Tully:Yeah, sure, so as you said, I run Home Marketing Consultants, so I run a consultancy called The Search Engine shop. It’s been around for five years, five and a half years; started in 2008. Before that, I actually ran an IT company for about eight years. We had 20-25 staff, and as well as owned a fairly sizable online store that back in the day, we actually acquired it for free. Then the first year, we took it from doing a 100k revenue a year to a million, and then in the second year, took it from doing a million to 6 and ½ million. It’s a long story, but we were fairly young at the time like 24-25 and had no idea how to manage that much cash flow and that many people and a business of that size.
There’s a big division between growing a business and business growth, and completely uncontrolled explosive growth where you’re so out of your depth that the business has just outgrown you by a long way, so ultimately we ran out of cash and both businesses failed as a result.
Other than that, I started doing online marketing stuff. I started getting a lot of calls from people asking about e-commerce and SEO’s. This was back in 2007 and 2008, and that’s how the Search Engine Shop started. I was very lucky in 2009 that with some friends, we won a government contract to do workshops and trainings for small business owners, so we’ve actually been doing those workshops for contractors. They enrolled in various forms for the last few years. I basically built the business on the back of those workshops.
Over the last five years, I’ve worked with around through the workshops and one-on-one consulting and services with around 2,000 businesses and most of them, they’re probably broken down into three, [durasale 00:09:40] small business, bricks and mortar, retail kind of businesses, e-commerce businesses, and bigger corporate businesses and marketing departments.
That’s the primary business of the Search Engine Shop. I’m actually in the process of taking the e-commerce bit out and splitting it out into its own brand called the Pareto E-commerce, so as you mentioned, we have a new product that we’re kind of in beta testing called the Pareto E-commerce Blueprint. What that is is basically the same consulting process that I run through with e-commerce clients in a DIY format because today a lot of people, e-commerce business owners are tech-savvy and can do the work themselves. They just need a bit of guidance and need to know what to do.
John McIntyre:I went and took a look at it. I like the idea of just like a list of I don’t know how many tweaks it was when I checked it out, but just a long list of here’s call up your bank and ask for a, I think it was a cheaper rate on the processing and then it was like just do this and just do this and then just do this. It was kind of cool. It was just a list of actions that you could take. Someone could sign up and just go through them and I don’t know, aim to set up one of those things once a week or something, and by the end of the year, you’d have a much more profitable store than you did at the start.
Brendan Tully:Yeah, absolutely. Like a lot of it, there’s no rocket science, and a lot of its common sense. It’s kind of like those things that people just forget about or they ignore or it’s not on their radar, so I have four things to talk about today, classic email marketing mistakes that e-commerce business owners make.
I think a lot of these come from people reading a lot of blog posts online and just following the general wisdom that’s out there on the internet that’s not necessarily that hasn’t been, I guess, checked or logic-checked and they haven’t run it through because they’ve read it online and they just assume that’s what they need to do. They haven’t really run it through their own filter and thought about it in detail and logically approached it.
I guess they’re in a way contrary in viewpoints or again these are like kind of obvious things like they’re just like, “Ah, yeah, that makes sense. Let’s try it and see what happens,” and you can get a completely different result. In a sense, they’re kind of 80/20. You do them. They’re small little tweaks, but they can have a massive impact.
John McIntyre:Cool, all right, so four classic contrarian. We’ll make sure to put that contrarian in our marketing mistakes. This is stuff like I haven’t done e-commerce before, so I have spoken to Ezra and this guy X and like it makes sense to me that you should do an abandoned cart email that you should do some auto follow up. What you’re talking about here and what we’re getting into is sort of doing it with a little more finesse instead of just firing away emails at these places with these events actually put some strategy into it.
Brendan Tully:Yeah, exactly, I think a lot of it comes as well … I’ve got a lot of real world sales experience like selling in person, selling big IT projects and things like that so for me a lot of these things are common sense, but a lot of people who run online stores and doing email marketing haven’t necessarily sold in person, so they wouldn’t necessarily think about these when they’re setting them up. The first one is abandoned cart emails and absolutely, you’ve done podcasts on it before – you need to have an abandoned cart email system placed. It just makes sense. It’s easy.
John McIntyre:What’s an abandoned cart email system?
Brendan Tully:Abandoned cart basically is anytime someone comes to the website puts together a shopping cart, gets some way through the checkout process and leaves the website. The abandoned cart email system or cart abandonment system will detect that and send them a series of emails based on where they are in the checkout process, so basically asking them why they didn’t checkout their order.
John McIntyre:Okay, and so what we’ve done, from what I remember in the previous podcasts, usual thing is you just send them out three emails, five emails. One goes out an hour after. One goes out a day after, and you could offer them a discount. You could give them a testimonial. You could remind them about the guarantee, and they’re all sort of standard things that you might do, but you’re talking about something that’s a little bit different. That’s the mistake, right, is doing just that?
Brendan Tully:Yeah, so what I think is really trying a close-harder approach, so pushing them into the sale rather than trying to find out why they didn’t purchase in the first place. Basically, people have their priorities wrong, so with cart abandonment emails, the typical or the standard approach is I want to get the conversion. It’s like trying to make the sale like really, “Here’s a discount. Here, try this. Check this out. Here’s a bigger discount.”
If you think about it, if you were in a physical retail store, you walked in there, you poked around, picked out some products, had a look around, decided not to buy and walked out. If the sales guy came out and ran down the street chasing after you screaming that he’d give you a 10% discount, and you said no and he was like, “20% discount, 50% discount.” That’s not a very sophisticated … it might work you know if the discount’s big enough, but that’s not a very sophisticated way of selling, and it cheapens your brand and it’s not very effective. Instead, the priority should be to uncover why they didn’t check out, so find out the reason why they didn’t complete the purchase.
Now, obviously, there’s going to be some people who got interrupted that had internet connection problem. They got distracted. They walked away from the PC. There’s going to be a proportion of those, so typically on the first email any sort of reminder is going to pick up those people, but asking them what was wrong if we did something wrong, why you didn’t check out, and then using those insights, asking them for a reply.
You’ve talked about it – the basic email structure should always be sent from a real person’s email address so they can reply to and asking them why they didn’t check out and using those insights to improve the website, make tweaks and changes, change the pricing structure or whatever it is. Long term will work a lot better than just simply throwing discounts and focusing on trying to make the conversion or the sale.
John McIntyre:Okay, so we’re thinking much a long term perspective where you sort of bringing that sort of iterative process when every time someone gets a reply, you might create a Google doc or a spreadsheet with all of the different reasons why people aren’t checking out. Then once a month you go in there and you kind of go, “All right, everyone’s saying that they didn’t know the kind of guarantee, so maybe we can make our guarantee more visible in the header of the page or something like that or that we have free shipping.” That sort of thing, using the information that will reply to these emails to sort of drive the development and the optimization of the website.
Brendan Tully:Absolutely, and you’ll notice, over time, you’ll see the trends, so it might be that your shipping cost is too high or all of a sudden there’s a cheaper competitor on the market and your prices are too high compared to those. Just throwing away the discounts and trying to close harder is a stupid way to approach it. If you approach it with some finesse and find out, uncover the objections basically and then answer those objections in updating the website content, changing the marketing strategy or whatever it is, long term it’s a much better approach than simply just trying to make the sale.
John McIntyre:I like the story there, too, when you got like, “If you went into a store, and you didn’t buy something. You walked out and some guy is chasing you down the street yelling out discounts at you,” maybe it works but that kind of – that story sort of highlights just the stupidity like it’s a bit silly. It’s just silly. There’s much better ways to go about it.
Brendan Tully:Yeah, absolutely.
John McIntyre:All right then, well let’s do the classic contrarian email marketing mistake number two.
Brendan Tully:Okay, let’s go into the next one, using unsophisticated sales and marketing tactics. The classic one is just like what we’ve talked about, discounts, so throwing away discounts without any strategy around them. Discounts really should be the last option. You don’t want to cheapen the product or throw away margin when a better sales tactic will work or be more effective.
Discounts are really the last resort. You shouldn’t use them so often. You shouldn’t be throwing them away every month; doing a sale without a good reason. I would share and say whatever you do, make sure that the discounts are the last thing that you try in all your marketing. There are other things you can try upfront for example, a buyer’s guide or top ten tips for things people don’t know about this product. Something like that is going to be more sophisticated and probably work better than just throwing away the discounts.
Again, if you take the real walking into a retail store analogy, you walk in there, you look at products, sales guy comes up to you, the first thing he says is he has 10% off. It just doesn’t make sense, so you want to explain the products, help the customer make a buying decision rather than just saying, “Here’s a discount, quick buy.”
John McIntyre:This is going to – I mean you can give the discounts and get the sale, but you’re saying what’s going to lead to sort of I mean more of a long term profitability with the store or maybe even a short term profitability that’s going to take more time to massage the sale.
Brendan Tully:Yeah, absolutely, so stop trying to … there are some reasons to use discounts, right, so they can be used strategically to increase the size of orders for example, so you can have an opt in pop-up when people get to the site where there’s a $10 coupon if they spend more than $200 or something like that. That’s using discounts in a smarter way because you’re using that to increase the order value, but simply just throwing away money is a bad idea.
It’s important to think about there are things customers need to know in order for them to make the purchase, so they need to know about shipping methods. They need to know about payment methods, returns and warranties, so those sort of things. A lot of people forget that they need to remove the friction from the sales process. Updating the website, copy and content to help the customer uncover more of those things or find that information out more easily will often work much better than just simply throwing away the discount.
Classic one is we see on e-commerce sites product page copy that really has a line of text about the product and that’s it. It has nothing about shipping, returns, warranty or payment information, so simply just being better about the sales copy and the sales message will work a lot better than just throwing out discounts out there.
John McIntyre:Okay, so is this the sort of thing you’d have in like the product description or could you have like in the header, you might have free shipping on all orders over a $100 or you could make it sort of like a site-wide explanation or would you have product specific sales copy?
Brendan Tully:It depends. There’s definitely … The header is something that a lot of e-commerce stores underutilize. It’s a big chunky bit of space that displays on every page, so if there is something like free shipping or there’s some advantage you have over competitors, absolutely that should be in the header because that appears on every page and a lot of people for an e-commerce store in particular, most customers are not coming in through the home page. They don’t read all of the sales copy on the home page, so having something in the header is more likely to make them stick around.
I like to think, the way I explain to my clients is that the product copy, the copy on the product pages should really act as a sales letter in itself. The customer should be able to get the majority of the information they need to make the purchase without having to leave that page, so that means really that product description should have something about shipping and something about payment information and warranty and maybe some videos or a link to a buyers guide or some extra information. If the customer has the click around to find out about shipping information, it’s adding more friction to the sales process, and it’s probably going to hurt your conversion rate.
John McIntyre:Okay, so what you could do is you could have a widget on the side, in the sidebar or something like that that explains sort of in more detail because you’re not going to be able to fit that in the header, that sort of explains how it like [buy process 00:20:02] how it works or something that’s like, “Well, first you make an order and second, this happens and third, this happens,” really just so they know exactly what’s going to happen when they make an order and the shipping, the returns and all of that sort of stuff and then you have product specific copy just explaining the product itself in the description which is usually the more words you’ve got, the more selling you can really do, as long as it’s interesting.
That’s the usually the idea, so kind of take some time to actually sort of articulate what the product is and who it’s for and what it’s going to do or them.
Brendan Tully:Yeahp, absolutely. It depends on the site layout as well. Ultimately what you’re going to be able to do, so different site layouts are going to allow you to do different things, but yeah. It’s a classic mistake, not enough sales copy on product description pages. One good tool that we use that you often – because it’s hard when it’s your site, you’re so blind to these things and you’re not the customer, so you don’t see a lot of these things, you don’t feel a lot of these problems.
Two tools that we use to uncover a lot of this stuff, one is CrazyEgg Heat Map Analytics, so you can kind of see the visitor behavior as they’re poking around the site. Another good one is ClickTale Analytics Suite and actually see videos of user behavior on the site. You can see them clicking around and scrolling up and down the page, moving through all different pages and it gives you a good feel for what they’re looking for. You see them land on a product page then click out to the shipping then click the contact us page and bounce around the site, so you get a much better feel for what the customer’s looking for and what they’re doing.
John McIntyre:Okay, okay. Well, cool, what’s mistake number three?
Brendan Tully:Okay, number three is – we kind of talked about this already, but caring more about the conversion than the customer, so a classic one, auto-follow-up emails, post-purchase emails, and I know you’ve had podcasts about this before with other guests talking about there’s a whole bunch of strategies around you could have automated sequences and order respondents about following them up and if they have consumables, emailing them after three months or whatever, following up to see if they’re going to buy more consumables.
One of the key things that people forget is if you care about the customers and make them feel cared for, that’s one of the best ways to improve your conversion rate. Classic way to make the customer feel cared or a really easy way to do that is have the order follow-up emails and typically that’s a review request email that goes out, so 10 – 20 days after people order, the e-commerce system will send them an email automatically saying, “Can you put a review on our page? How’d the product go?” Adding a couple of lines in there to just ask the customer if they received the order. What do they think about the product? Is it doing what it needs to do?
Just asking them a few questions and caring and asking them to reply with their feedback will work a lot better than just saying, “Hey, could you put a review for the product?”
John McIntyre:Okay, so sort of treating them like a person instead of just a sale?
Brendan Tully:Mhmm. You’ve got to think if you think about the customer if they’re your best friend, if your best friend orders from your site, 10 days after the order, you’re going to shoot them an email and say, “Hey! How’d you go? What do you think about the product?” If you treat the customer like they’re your best friend, then the whole email marketing system is going to work much better for you and the conversions will just be easy. You won’t be pushing uphill all the time.
John McIntyre:Okay, so I guess it would be worth having someone on the support staff to reply and respond to those emails that come in from customers.
Brendan Tully:Yeah, absolutely, it really depends on the size of the store, so if you’re a small store, you can have the emails coming out from your name. If you were running a site, you could have the emails actually the automated emails come out with [email protected] or whatever, and they reply and they go directly to you, but if you have a bigger site where you have customer service people you can make someone dedicated in the customer service team to stick their name on the outbound emails and they handle the replies.
John McIntyre:Okay, okay. I like this. Would you have like an email going out first that says, “Hey, I just wanted to know how the product was?” and then after that you’d send another email about the review?
Brendan Tully:I usually do it in one because a lot of the time when dealing with a small business clients that the e-commerce system will only support on email, so usually, we’ll put up – you could do both, but usually we’ll just lump it in together with the same emails so we start of, “Hey, it’s John from McMethod or whatever. We just wanted to see how the order went. Did it actually arrive?” We set the order follow-up email usually to go out 18 to 20 days after the sale because by that stage, they should actually have the order.
The product should have arrived, so ask them whether it’s actually arrived, what they think about it, if they have any feedback, so just ask them to reply, so we ask them, “Do you have any feedback or ways we can improve the website or anything you didn’t like about the website?” Then we have the blurb, the kind of standard copy with has the link to the product page where they can submit a review on it. Ask them for a favor, “Can you do me a favor? If you have three minutes, just put a review for the product and let us know what you thought of or think about the product itself.”
John McIntyre:Okay. What about things like, so within that sequence you’ve got the review, sort of like the asking treating them like a person asking them for a review, can you do things like say, ten days in you send them an email with sort of like “Here’s how to get the most from your new kitchen knives” or something like that?
Brendan Tully:Yeah, absolutely, I mean it depends on what the product is and it’s definitely product and market specific, but yeah, again just caring and treating them like your best friend. If they’re your best friend, if your best friend ordered, what would you send them after the sale? If you think about it through that sort of lens, you’ll write much better emails and the whole order respondent post-purchase sequence will work much better.
John McIntyre:Okay, does that mean, so like when I’m emailing my friend sometimes, I kind of write pretty casual. Can you get away with that sort of thing with follow-up emails?
Brendan Tully:Yeah, I think so. I think you’ve got to walk the fine line. It depends how casual. It needs to be casual sounding, and one hack to do that instead of opening a blank word document or opening the email tool and trying to write emails from there is actually just open your Mac mail or your Gmail and write the email in there because your mind will frame it differently and it will sound more natural and more casual rather than a bit more forced and … You don’t want it to come off like being kind of cheesy or even sleazy, so …
John McIntyre:Yeah, okay, well, what if I were, I don’t know, friends with Rob Hanley? He’s got this way of doing – this sort of thing where you go on Facebook, he’s got a few fake accounts with pictures and sort of like an avatar that he’s drawn up so they each have a personality, and then he pretends he’s writing to them and writes them a message and copies and pastes that message to his email to send it out to his list.
Brendan Tully:Yeah, I mean anything you can do kind of hack it, and get it out of your own way like it’s really hard to stare at a blank page where you’re in your own email client or in Facebook half the time, well, half the day, so it’s really comfortable to start writing in there. You just got to make it sound more natural and flowy rather than forced and kind of manufactured.
John McIntyre:Okay, well, let’s move on to the last one, number four.
Brendan Tully:The last one: we’re just not paying enough attention to email in general. One really common mistake or one really probably more of an oversight than a mistake is e-commerce business owners set up a site and business is running great, been running for a few years and the owner themselves or anyone in the business hasn’t been through the checkout themselves in years, so they don’t actually know, they’re not familiar with what the extent of the checkout, how it’s working, what’s wrong, what the emails look like.
By not paying attention to emails and caring about even just those automated transactional emails, often they’ll be saying the wrong things and it won’t look good or they’re missing out on a huge opportunity to do better emails and send better emails to the customer because I know in the X Wang podcast, he talked about leveraging those transactional emails and they’re a huge opportunity because people read them. Also not just from a conversion perspective, but from a customer service perspective, answering common email uncommon questions in those emails can also significantly reduce the customer service overhead as well.
I’ll say that email is probably in almost every business is probably the cheapest marketing tool they have and one of the easiest ones. There’s a very low barrier to entry and once you are doing email, it’s very easy to tweak it and do it better. I’ll tell you it’s just generally not paying attention and not caring about it enough.
Those e-commerce businesses that are giving so much time and attention to SEO and Ad words and they’ve got all of these consultants and management going on for those marketing channels and there’s nobody really caring about the email marketing, so I would say giving it more attention, some dedication is really going to pay off and you’ll see it – how it impacts the conversion rate if you consistently give it some attention.
John McIntyre:I liked it, too, how – I mean the cool thing about email is that it’s such a automated sort of system, so that once you’ve got this setup, you might want to check it once a month or once every three months going go through that check out process to see what’s actually going can, but once it’s all done, you can kind of just … then you go back to SEO and page traffic and you just kind of pour leads into that funnel email sort of part of that conversion process.
Brendan Tully:Yeah, absolutely. It’s the ultimate way to clone yourself because you do something once and it because it’s systemized and automated, it happens every time without you thinking about it. That’s why it’s easy to forget about it, as well, like it’s easy to forget that it’s so powerful if you give it some time and attention or put some attention towards improving it over time.
John McIntyre:Hmmm, but with the transactional emails, so you’ve got the like order confirmation, the shipping confirmation emails, what sort of – like do you have like a sort of like a template or three different emails or five specific emails that you put in those? How do you do it?
Brendan Tully:I don’t have anything templated, apart from just giving them some attention and the big win there particularly the transactional emails is getting ahead of any customer service inquiries, so you want to tell the customer how they can find the tracking information about their shipment. You want to tell them what to expect next like in the selling process as a general rule you should always, the customer should always know what’s next, so you should be leading them and leading the way, so in those transactional emails you should be explaining them or telling them what to expect as the next step.
You see, the default emails that come out of e-commerce systems are terrible. They’re badly formatted. They have a whole bunch of words in there that are not very marketing-friendly, I guess, so I’d say, again, with the transactional stuff, it’s bare the focus on the customer and caring about the customer as opposed to simply trying to make the transaction, and so if you can anticipate what they’re asking or take those common customer service questions and rework the transaction emails overtime, the customer will feel better and their general experience with you will be better so I think that’s where for me, that’s where I’ve seen the win on those transactional emails.
John McIntyre:Okay, and what about some sort of referral in there when they’ve bought say, I don’t know, a big steak knife or a set of steak knives to cut up steak and of course. Then you offer them some you like, “Well, would you like this big meat cleaver, as well?” Would that be the sort of thing that you could put in a transaction email? It doesn’t have to be the main topic, but it could be just down the bottom, so they read the email, they read the customer service stuff. Then in the bottom, it might say, “By the way, people who often buy steak knives, they also buy this meat cleaver.”
Brendan Tully:Yeah, I think if it adds value then it’s definitely worth trying and testing – I think you need to test it and see what offers work better, but if you think if there’s something that’s going to add value to them if they – maybe they need a sharpener for their knives or they need to know. Maybe you could just send them a link to a page with “How to Sharpen the Knives” and on there, your sharpening product or whatever, but if you’re going to if there’s something that will add value to them or the sale or the whole transaction process in general, you should absolutely be promoting it.
You should be there to help the customer. Selling is not – people have a bad – selling typically has a bad rep. It’s really solving someone’s problems, so if you can solve their problem better by if there’s a complimentary product or service or there’s another company that you’re partnered with even, maybe getting affiliate or a [fill 00:31:27] permission then anything like that absolutely can go in transactional emails or just like a proposed purchase follow-up.
John McIntyre:Okay, cool. All right, well, we’re right on time. We’re running 30 minutes, now. Before we go though, let’s talk about Pareto E-commerce. What’s the deal?
Brendan Tully:What’s the deal? Well, the website’s paretoecommerce.com, so if anybody’s interested in checking it out, they can head over there and stick their email address in, and they’ll get a whole bunch of information. Like I said, it’s basically my consulting product broken down into DIY format, so once it’s on up the site, it will walk you through a bunch of modules and you’ll also get the tools that I use when I’m working with clients, so you get like a framework document, which is really just this spreadsheet with the list of their improvement items and some conditional formatting in there, as well, so you can actually track where you’re at with those improvement items.
Particularly if you’re a bigger store, it’s a good way to manage a delegate that goes out. Typically, there’s something like 120 improvement items in there, line items and typically, when we do consulting with clients, we’ll get three to five improvements done per month. It really is, there’s a lot of meaty stuff in there, and it’s probably realistically, if you’re hustling, you could probably get all the improvements done in 6 or 12 months, but if you’re a bigger site and a bigger business, then there’s probably a few years worth of improvement action items there.
It’s a bit different to your standard information product where it’s not just throwing information at you; it’s giving you the tools to actually go out and be able to do it yourself. The add-on tools and cloud tools that we use to do things like abandoned cart emails and post-purchase follow-up and all that sort of stuff.
John McIntyre:Okay. This isn’t like – there’s a lot of other products out there where they teach you about drop shipping and e-commerce as a sort of like a Biz-Opp, business opportunity, whereas this is more for someone who’s already got a store, who’s already making money and just wants to get better results with it, so they’re sort of like an experience entrepreneur, they’re already getting results.
Brendan Tully:Yeah, so it’s definitely, it will work better for established businesses and typically you need to be earning six figures a year revenue or more to get the most out of it. If you’re a small authority doing five figures a year, you will get some benefit, and the price is right now, the price is 197 Australian a quarter which works out every two bucks a day, so it’s not super expensive anyway, but …
John McIntyre:It’s less than a Starbucks coffee a day, right?
Brendan Tully:Yeah, exactly, but the bigger you are, these are kind of multiplier type improvements, so if you have a big site to begin with, making an improvement that improves sales by five percent. If you have a million dollar business that’s going to be a much bigger improvement than a business doing a hundred grand a year.
John McIntyre:Yeahp, yeahp, yeahp, absolutely, okay, so they sign up and they go through it, and they can sort of pick and choose which direction they want to go in?
Brendan Tully:Yeah, they get – so it’s broken down into sections. The first section is quick win, so whenever I work with a client you want to hit the quick wins first. Then some of these things are super simple like for example, the abandoned cart emails. Just by implementing something like that can be a massive win for conversion rate, so start off with quick wins which should within the first couple of weeks, the product should pay for itself and making you money
John McIntyre:Cool, and then after that, that goes into the main list of changes. This – I like the idea here where you kind of go in there and maybe you can do it yourself or do it to some contractor or an employee and you just pick like you said, three to five things, maybe ten things, depending how busy you are, just hand them out and then that’s sort of your work done for the month.
Brendan Tully:Yeah, and I’ve got templates like Swipe files where you can just – I have some examples in there where you can just simply cut and paste and change out the words to your business name and you’re away.
John McIntyre:Yeahp, and just to get back to the name, I don’t know if we’ve mentioned it yet, but this whole idea of the Pareto principle of – I’ve had Perry Marshall in here to talk about this whole 80/20 idea, so you’re talking about little changes that produce big results?
Brendan Tully:Yeahp, absolutely.
John McIntyre:Sweet, so that’s the paretoecommerce.com. I’ll have a link to that in the show notes at themcmethod.com, and if someone’s interested in your consulting or wants to learn more about that, where would they go for that?
Brendan Tully:Probably, head over to my consulting website thesearchengineshop.com, and shoot me an email through the Contact Us form.
John McIntyre:Cool, all right, so links to all that at the McMethod. Brendan, thanks for coming on the show.
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Eli Lilly (NYSE:LLY) announced today that it plans to invest more than $1 billion to create a new manufacturing site in North Carolina.
Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly’s new facility, which it expects will create nearly 600 jobs in Concord, North Carolina, will manufacture parenteral (injectable) products and devices while increasing the company’s manufacturing capacity.
The company said in a news release that it selected Concord as the location because of the manufacturing technology experience of the local labor force, its proximity to universities with strong science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs and its access to major transportation infrastructure.
Last year, the company announced a $470 million investment in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Lilly said the new Concord site, in conjunction with the investment in Research Triangle Park, will allow the company to strengthen relationships with local governments and universities while diversifying its presence in the state.
The company expects 600 new jobs for highly skilled workers including scientists, engineers and manufacturing personnel. An estimated 500 additional positions will be required while the facility is under construction. The investment in Concord remains contingent upon the completion of county and municipal government permitting and related approvals.
“Lilly is entering an exciting period of growth and we are committed to delivering innovative medicines to patients around the world,” Lilly Manufacturing Operations SVP and President Edgardo Hernandez said in the release. “Expanding our manufacturing footprint in North Carolina enables us to continue to produce today’s medicines while providing additional capacity to manufacture the medicines of tomorrow.
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Do you want to professionalize supply chain at a fast growing and international E-commerce organization? Do you have passion for supply chain management and logistics? Develop and implement new processes and procedures together with your team. Location Middenmeer / Kop van Noord-Holland.
Dakvenster.com is part of the VKR Group. “Bringing light to life” – that is what this group of companies stands for. For over 75 years the VKR Group has been committed to improving the quality of life through daylight and fresh air.
The VKR Group does this by putting their core values of “Commitment”, “Mutual respect”, “Improvements”, “Local initiatives” and “Thoroughness” into practice every day. In addition, VKR invests almost 50% of its profits in charities.
For Dakvenster.com we are looking for a Supply chain manager who has experience with the development and implementation of new processes and procedures.
Dakvenster.com is a fast growing E-commerce organization that sells roof windows mainly in Germany, Belgium, France, Austria and the Netherlands. In Middenmeer is a warehouse of 8.000m2 from which the products are delivered by own drivers. The organization now has about 50 employees and is located in Middenmeer (Noord/Holland).
There are about 30 drivers, 5 warehouse employees, a customer service department and some staff employees. The lines are short. With your knowledge, skills and experience, you can make direct impact on the people, the processes and procedures and thus on the results of Dakvenster.com.
What are you going to do?
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- Professionalize and optimize procedures of purchasing, forecasting, inventory management, capacity planning, warehouse design and transportation operations;
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- Develop and motivate employees and monitor results;
- Oversee the daily workflow and schedules of the department;
- Collaborate with other departments to close operational gaps;
- Digitize and automate all work related processes;
- Obviously you are a member of the Management Team of Dakvenster.com.
- A bachelor or master degree in Supply Chain management, Business Administration or a similar field of study;
- At least 3 years of working experience within Supply Chain/ Logistics in a retail organization;
- At least 5 years of working experience in a management position;
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Everyone has their favourite steam locomotive, so which are the Top 10 in popularity? Without causing offence to those who treasure one particular engine here we bring - in no particular order - the ten best-known of Britain's amazing collection of giants of the steam age.
In this programme you will see the following locomotives: Clan Line, Union of South Africa, Duchess of Sutherland, Britannia, King Edward II, Clun Castle, Braunton, Mayflower, Leander and, of course, Flying Scotsman - together with their classmates - across the British railway network, on both public and private lines. All are seen in detail and working hard, as good today as they have ever been.
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Public engagement project
Mentally Healthy Tayside archives project
This pilot project built on the work that we have done using our hospital and asylum records to contribute to nursing, social work and medical classes.
This pilot project built on the work that we have done using our hospital and asylum records to contribute to nursing, social work and medical classes. Working with Jacqueline Eccles from Health Sciences and with the support of the Dundee Health Minds network, we introduced a group of mental health service users to our local history archives and in particular to those relating to the asylums in Tayside. This led to conversations about the treatment of people with mental illness and learning disabilities in the past and how this can inform approaches today. Over a number of sessions we explored how today’s service users can describe and record their experiences for people to access in future. The project was Highly Commended in the 2020 Stephen Fry Awards for Public Engagement and we are part of a National Heritage Lottery funded nationwide project which will lead to further work in this area in 2022 and 2023. | <urn:uuid:34cb4942-f311-4e68-ac4f-535144b3db50> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.dundee.ac.uk/projects/mentally-healthy-tayside-archives-project | 2023-09-25T00:11:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.934806 | 228 |
The man who drapes this light weight dupatta/stole will add touch of elegance to his outfit. This dupatta can be clubbed with a Kurta, Sherwani, Achkan, Dhoti or Jodhpuri Suit. Swathed with floral woven pattern, this classic accessory is a must in every man's your Ethnic Indian Collection.
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Sabrina is an energy work practitioner, artist, seer, healer, and clear channel. Over 10 years ago, she was guided on this path to heal at the roots and come back home to her authentic self. Sabrina currently offers public and private sound baths, circles, and workshops, as well as different kinds of private healing sessions. The services she offers are an ever-evolving blend of her own embodied medicine and lived experience, mentorships and training with her teachers, and guided by her heart, Mother Earth and Spirit. Sabrina also creates handmade crystal and stone jewelry, paintings, sacred art, as well as grows and creates organic plant & flower medicines for the body, mind, and spirit.
Sabrina loves to help people embody their true essence, and tap into their own intuition and True power. She believes that each of us carry our own answers within and have an innate ability to self-heal. Part of her story includes healing herself from chronic, "incurable" autoimmune dis-ease (multiple sclerosis), naturally, with no medication and following her intuition as her guide. Part one of her healing story is posted here.
'Earth Astara' means 'Heaven on Earth.'
Bringing Heaven down to Earth. Being a bridge between both worlds.
Experiencing heaven or paradise (a state of being) here on Earth now, in our bodies.
To Sabrina, being a bridge between Earth and the cosmos, means we have access to our infinite Spirit, more of our True, multidimensional Self and natural gifts, in a grounded, here and now, present way. We remember ourselves as interconnected with all of Life. We harmonize with Nature. We become a vessel for love and miracles to flow through us. The vibration of Love amplifies, and the planet heals. | <urn:uuid:53a00e98-1af7-44db-b928-ca01012c5d49> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.earthastara.com/about | 2023-09-24T23:30:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.96245 | 375 |
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Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation Grants $250,000 to Provide New Hampshire Residents with Job Training for High-Demand FieldsMay 10, 2018
New Hampshire Charitable Foundation will award workforce-training scholarships over three years
BOSTON, May 10, 2018 – Eastern Bank, America’s oldest and largest mutual bank, today announced a new partnership with the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation that will provide scholarships to hundreds of New Hampshire residents and give them the opportunity to move quickly into high-wage, rewarding jobs.
The $250,000 grant from Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation to the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, plus matching donations by generous New Hampshire families, will nearly double the number of scholarships awarded for short-term education and workforce training over three years. Awards will be given to students in professional training, certificate programs and two-year degree programs.
“These incredibly generous gifts will give people the opportunity to do fulfilling work that increases their families’ economic security and helps them contribute to and sustain New Hampshire’s communities and economy,” said Richard Ober, president and CEO of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. “These scholarships are life-changers for New Hampshire families, and will help meet critical workforce needs in New Hampshire.”
Scholarships will be awarded to people working to earn high-value credentials in high-demand fields, including traditional trades, advanced manufacturing, financial services, health care and information technology. The program focuses on students who experience barriers to opportunity: New Americans, those with significant financial need, and students who are the first in their families to attend college.
Bob Rivers, Chair and CEO of Eastern Bank, said, “This partnership represents the perfect alignment of Eastern’s mission as a social enterprise and the needs of business. Helping students who are the first in their family to attend college, for example, gain access to opportunity through education and workforce training is not only the ‘right thing’ to do, but also the ‘smart thing’ to do, as we and other businesses depend upon the further growth and vibrancy of the workforce and our communities throughout New Hampshire.”
Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation has made more than $2.7 million in grants to approximately 300 New Hampshire nonprofits since 2015, and has donated 10 percent of its net income to charity over 10 years. It has focused significant recent grantmaking towards supporting immigrants in our communities.
“Without immigration, the population and economy of New England would not be growing,” Rivers said. “As they always have been, New Americans are a very significant economic and cultural driver without which the health of our communities would be in peril.”
The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation will administer the scholarships through its student aid program. The Charitable Foundation is New Hampshire’s statewide community foundation and the largest provider of publicly available student aid in New Hampshire, awarding more than $6 million to some 1,600 New Hampshire students each year.
About the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation is New Hampshire’s statewide community foundation, founded in 1962 by and for the people of New Hampshire. The Foundation manages a growing collection of 1,900 funds created by generous individuals, families and businesses, and awards more than $40 million in grants and scholarships every year. The Foundation works with generous and visionary citizens to maximize the power of their giving, supports great work happening in our communities and leads and collaborates on high-impact initiatives. For more information, visit www.nhcf.org or call 603-225-6641.
About Eastern Bank
Founded in 1818 and celebrating its 200th anniversary in 2018, Boston-based Eastern Bank is America’s oldest and largest mutual bank, with $11 billion in assets and over 120 locations serving communities in eastern Massachusetts, southern and coastal New Hampshire and Rhode Island. Eastern provides exceptional access to fairly priced banking, investment and insurance products and services for consumers and businesses of all sizes. Eastern Bank, which includes Eastern Wealth Management and Eastern Insurance, is known for its outspoken advocacy and community support that has exceeded more than $110 million in charitable giving since 1999. An inclusive company, Eastern employs 1,900+ deeply committed professionals who value relationships with their customers, colleagues and communities. Join us for good at www.easternbank.com and follow Eastern on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram.
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At Eastwood Church…
WE BELIEVE the Bible is the infallible, inerrant, and inspired word of God.
WE BELIEVE there is one living and true God, eternally existing in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and that these three are equal in every divine perfection.
WE BELIEVE in God the Father, an infinite, personal spirit, perfect in holiness, wisdom, power, and love, and that He concerns Himself in the affairs of men, hears and answers prayer, and saves from sin and death all who come to Him through Jesus Christ.
WE BELIEVE in Jesus Christ, that He is God’s only begotten Son, conceived by the Holy Spirit, and was fully God and fully man. We believe in His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles and teachings, His atoning death, His bodily resurrection, His ascension into heaven, and His imminent return to earth.
WE BELIEVE in the Holy Spirit, who came forth from the Father and the Son to convict the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment. We believe His work is to regenerate, sanctify, and set the believer apart to a holy life. We believe the Holy Spirit indwells every believer in Christ, and He is an abiding helper, teacher, and guide into all truth.
WE BELIEVE that Satan is a person, the author of sin and the cause of the fall of man, that he is the declared enemy of God and man, and that he shall be eternally punished in the lake of fire.
WE BELIEVE man was created by God in His own image and that man sinned and thereby incurred physical, spiritual, and eternal death, which is separation from God, and that therefore, all human beings are born with a sinful nature, are sinners by choice, and are under condemnation.
WE BELIEVE we are saved solely by grace, through faith in the blood, sacrificial death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
WE BELIEVE all who repent, forsake sin, and trust Jesus Christ as Savior have been regenerated by the Holy Spirit and become new creations, delivered from condemnation and receive eternal life with God, and that this position as a believer in Christ is eternally secure.
WE BELIEVE in the universal church, a living, spiritual body of which Christ is the head and all regenerated persons are members. We believe in the local church, consisting of a body of believers in Jesus Christ, baptized on a credible profession of faith, and associated for worship, work, fellowship, and ministering to one another.
WE BELIEVE that all believers in Christ should live for the glory of God and the well-being of his fellow man, that his conduct should be blameless before the world, that he should be a faithful steward of his possessions, and that he should seek to realize the full stature of maturity in Christ.
WE BELIEVE that Jesus Christ has committed two ordinances to the local church, baptism by full immersion and the Lord’s Supper, and that these two ordinances should be observed and administered until His return.
WE BELIEVE in the personal and visible return of the Lord Jesus Christ to earth and the establishment of His Kingdom. We believe in the resurrection of the body, the final judgment, the eternal joy of the righteous, and the endless suffering of the wicked.
In subscribing to the above beliefs, we by no means set aside, or undervalue, any of the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, all of which we believe to be God’s own written Word, given to us by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. The knowledge and belief of the truth stated above we believe is necessary to sound doctrine and therefore should be embraced by those who would join this church. No teaching should be done contrary to the above statements of belief. | <urn:uuid:b765038d-dd49-4b87-bb6f-3593fc7eed3f> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.eastwoodchurch.com/home/we-believe/ | 2023-09-24T23:13:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.948318 | 806 |
As you live out your college life in Wisconsin, you may simultaneously experience excitement, challenge and stress. Whether academics come easily to you and you barely have to study to ace your final exams or you typically have to pull several all-nighters and give up most of your free time activities just to make the grade, as long as you do your best and try to avoid some of the problems often associated with campus living, you’ll likely succeed in earning a degree in your chosen field of study.
It’s no secret that college students encounter increased peer pressure and temptations at much higher levels than those they experience in high school. While there’s typically nothing wrong with kicking back and enjoying some rest and relaxation with friends to rejuvenate your spirit after a long, hard week of studies, you are definitely at risk for some very serious consequences if you wind up drinking alcohol and getting behind the wheel of a car.
Is the party really worth it?
Weighing the potential pros and cons of a particular situation is something every college student must do when choosing how to spend free time on or off campus. If you plan to drink alcohol in a social setting, you’ll definitely want to be aware of the following consequences that may accompany your choices:
- Do you know approximately 80 out of every 100 college students in Wisconsin and throughout the nation meet criteria for alcohol use disorders? This is something to keep in mind when deciding whether to engage in drinking at college.
- Regardless of your gender, consuming alcohol may place you at grave risk for sexual assault. If you’re between ages 18 and 24, you are in the high risk category for date rape and other alcohol-related attacks.
- Nearly 2,000 of your college age peers die each year in accidents and incidents related to alcohol consumption.
- If you drive after drinking alcohol, not only might you wind up in a collision that results in injury to yourself or others, you may face charges in criminal court if a police officer arrests you on suspicion of drunk driving.
- Having an OWI on your record can cause you to be suspended or expelled from school. If administrators allow you to continue enrollment, you may suffer negative ramifications in your academic life as well as your financial situation.
It may be easier than you think for occasional drinking to become a bad habit or addiction. If you’re brain is in a fog the morning after an all-night party, it may be nearly impossible to focus on your studies or prepare for an important exam. School issues may pale in comparison to the major legal problems you may encounter if you face OWI charges in college.
Help is available
If you want to talk to someone about possible alcohol use disorder or simply want to hear other people’s creative ideas for avoiding alcohol-related problems in college and maximizing your study time, you can reach out to other students who have succeeded in achieving similar goals or ask your school administrators about available programs to help.
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The subject of marijuana use and possession continues to be a contentious issue in many states. While some states have legalized its use, either medicinally or recreationally, others have maintained strict laws concerning its possession and use. If you find yourself caught up in the enforcement of these laws, knowing what to expect can be vital.
Here you will find out what happens following an arrest for marijuana possession in Wisconsin.
The initial encounter
When Wisconsin police suspect you of possessing marijuana, they may approach you to ask questions or investigate further. You need to know that you have rights during this encounter. For example, you can ask if you are free to leave or if they have a warrant to search you or your property.
The arrest process
If the police have reasonable cause to believe you possess marijuana, they can arrest you. They will take you to the police station for booking, which involves fingerprinting and photographing.
Charges and sentencing
In Wisconsin, the severity of charges for marijuana possession depends on the quantity found and whether it is your first offense. For first-time offenders caught with a small amount of marijuana, it is a misdemeanor. Penalties can include a fine, jail time or both. However, subsequent offenses or possession of larger quantities can result in more severe charges and harsher penalties.
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