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BASF´s highly effective alternative to pure acids
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A Japanese city has been forced to hire a special unit to hunt troops of aggressive monkeys that have been terrorizing residents for weeks — with the savage simians even sneaking into people’s homes and trying to snatch babies.
At least 58 people have been attacked by the primates — Japanese macaques — in Yamaguchi, a city about two hours west of Hiroshima, since July 8.
According to reports, the macaques aren’t interested in food, so traps haven’t worked. They have targeted mostly children and older women.
“They are so smart, and they tend to sneak up and attack from behind, often grabbing at your legs,” city official Masato Saito said on Wednesday.
A woman was assaulted by a monkey while hanging laundry on her porch. A man in his 70s was attacked in his sleep, officials said.
A distraught mother recalled how one of the furry bandits tried to make off with her child.
“I was vacuuming in the living room and heard the sound of my baby crying loudly,” the mom said, according to the London Times, citing a local television station in Yamaguchi.
“When I went in to check, there was a monkey pulling the baby across the floor as if trying to make off with it.”
Another father described how he heard crying and rushed downstairs at his home.
“Then I saw a monkey hunching over my child,” he told the Mainichi Shimbun daily, according to CBS News.
Local news station TV Yamaguchim reported that more than half of the victims have been women in their 40s or older, and at least six victims have been children under 10 years old, according to NBC News.
Initially, officials thought it was just one menacing marque.
The male primate — estimated to be 4 years old and measuring 1 foot 6 inches in height and weighing 15 pounds — was trapped on Tuesday on the grounds of a local high school by the monkey-hunting crew, who are armed with tranquilizer guns.
The furry bandit was then euthanized, but more attacks continued to be reported.
No one has been seriously injured so far, but all monkey attack victims have been advised to get hospital treatment as a precaution.
When confronted by a monkey, the instructions are: Do not look them in the eye; make yourself look as big as possible, such as by spreading open your coat; then back away as quietly as possible without making sudden moves, according to Saito.
No one seems to know why the attacks have occurred, and where exactly the troop of monkeys came from remains unclear.
“I have never seen anything like this my entire life,” Saito said.
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AUDUSD Forecast Video for 25.05.23
Australian Dollar vs US Dollar Technical Analysis
The Australian dollar had a rough session on Wednesday as we continue to see a lot of trouble out there and are waiting to see whether we will have more of a “risk off” type of market. This could be about to kick off a major leg lower, and if the market does close to a fresh, new swing low, then the Australian dollar could very well drop down to the 0.64 level. All things being equal, this is a market that I do think will continue to see plenty of sellers if we are going to continue to see a lot of trouble.
On the other hand, if the market were to see a turnaround, then we could reenter the previous consolidation area. It’s probably worth noting that the market has recently broken through the 0.66 level a couple of times, so unless we can hang on to significant bearishness, we could very well see this market turn right back around. However, I do think that it is probably only a matter of time before we see the breakdown, mainly due to the fact that we have so much in the way of concern around the world. Furthermore, the market has to pay close attention to the commodity markets because there will be a great influence on the Aussie as it is Australia’s biggest export.
Pay particular attention to China, as Chinese demand is always a major input into the Aussie economy. Even if we do rally from here, it’s very likely that there will be a lot of resistance just above, especially near the 50-Day EMA, which is currently at the 0.67 level. In general, this is a situation where we will continue to see a lot of volatility, which can offer a lot of opportunities. At this point, I do favor shorting the Australian dollar rather than buying it, but that does not necessarily mean that we are going to shoot straight up in the air. At this point, it is probably only a matter of time before we see exhaustion enter the market on any short-term rally. All things being equal, this is a market that is going to struggle to see a lot of upward momentum.
For a look at all of today’s economic events, check out our economic calendar.
This article was originally posted on FX Empire
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The Right Honourable Sir Francis H. D. Bell, P.C., G.C.M.G., K.C.,: His Life and Times
Chapter XI. — Legislative Council Reform
Legislative Council Reform.
Should the Council be elective?—Bell's efforts checked—A barren victory—Political complications—The Act still dormant.
The first large policy measure launched by Bell after the Reform Government took office was a Bill designed to reform the constitution of the Legislative Council. This was unfortunate; for Bell had only recently become Leader of the Council and had not yet established the remarkable personal ascendancy he achieved as time went on. He was a newcomer who had still to win the confidence and goodwill of the Council. Moreover, the Bill was unpalatable to the Councillors personally, for it invited them to sacrifice their comparative security of tenure under the nominative system for all the vicissitudes of popular election. It is true, each Councillor would be allowed to work out his existing term of office, but that afforded only a temporary comfort. Bell assumed that they would be convinced by the force of his logic and the strength of his arguments. He was still too much of the advocate and too little of the diplomat. Had he foreseen that for years he would page 94carry this measure like the Ancient Mariner's albatross tied round his neck, it might have quenched his zeal for reform.
He had induced Massey to include this proposal in his election platform, and at a later date he said that he had joined the Government for the express purpose of advocating it.
The Legislative Council is not a body which has ever aroused any great political interest on the part of the electors. At most times they have regarded it with an amused or cynical tolerance, as a refuge for old politicians, and as a useful channel of patronage for the Ministry of the day; nevertheless, it has always contained a sprinkling of men of ripe political experience, including ex-Cabinet Ministers, ex-High Commissioners, and some eminent lawyers. Yet any Prime Minister will acknowledge that he has a pigeon-hole always crammed with letters urging for the most varied reasons the claims of the writers or their friends to seats in the Council. A Minister in the House of Representatives, when embarrassed by some suggested amendment to his Bill, will often escape for the time being by promising to have it considered in the Legislative Council, in the hope that before that stage is reached his critic will have forgotten the whole matter. Sometimes, however, under the leadership of a distinguished law draftsman, such as Sir Francis Bell, really valuable amendments are made in Bills that have come up from the House of Representatives.
"There is hardly a Bill that comes up from the other House," said the Hon. Mr. Triggs in 1920, page 95 "that is not materially improved by a few touches from Bell's master hand."
On one occasion, while I was a Minister, I sent up a Bill to the Legislative Council and received the following whimsical reply from Sir Francis Bell:
"Dear Stewart,—I have made several amendments to your Bill and had it approved by the Legislative Council. Except the Lords amend your Bills, you labour in vain that build them."
To understand the object that Bell had in view it is necessary to recall a few points in the history of the Council. Under the original Constitution Act of 1852, in spite of the protest of Sir George Grey, the Legislative Council was made to consist of nominated members appointed for life.*
"I fear that if we go hand in hand with the House of Representatives we shall gain credit for no enlightenment or ability of our own. But if we throw out their measures we shall be treated as factious obstructionists. If I am right it is a political blunder to have set up an institution at work which at the threshold of its existence can neither command respect nor attachment and must submit to be treated to indifference if not with worse feelings."
When Massey announced his policy in the Wellington Town Hall at the 1911 election he said:
"The system of appointment for a term of seven. years is unsatisfactory, for although it has been shown that a man may be independent when appointed, yet in the course of two or three years he loses his independence and becomes a subservient supporter of the Party in power. What we want is to democratize the members of the Legislative Council."
Accordingly, about a month after Massey's Government took office, the Budget set out details of the proposal. It was pointed out that, of the life members appointed before 1891, only seven now survived, and there were thirty-two members appointed for fixed terms. The principle objection to life appointees was that "they were not sufficiently impressed with the importance of political changes desired by the constituencies and advocated by members elected to the House of Representatives." But, in the opinion of the Government, the 1891 method "was still more unsatisfactory in its results. After a trial of twenty-one years that method stood condemned." It was therefore now proposed to substitute direct election by the vote of the people. There were to be two constituencies—the North Island and the South Island—each returning twenty members on the system of proportional representation; the existing nominated members were to hold office until the expiry of their terms.page 97
Bell personally directed the drafting of the greater part of the Bill, and launched it in the Legislative Council in a speech which was described as "strikingly comprehensive, admirably lucid, and logically most convincing."*
Throughout the country the basic principle that the members of the Legislative Council should be elected and not appointed was received with favour. The main argument alleged against it was that the constituencies were too large, and that poor men would not be able to compete for election. But in reply to this Bell quoted the experience of Australia with regard to elections to the Senate.
Although the Bill was obviously distasteful to the members of the Legislative Council, they had no desire to come to an open clash with a new Government and a new leader deeply in earnest. The second reading was carried by a large majority—24 to 8. But on going into Committee the Council passed a resolution that, while they approved of the principle of election, they would not proceed further until next session, in order to give the electors an opportunity of considering the proposals.
Thus the first major policy measure introduced by Bell was temporarily side-tracked, and in the course of the next few years this ill-fated reform was to cause him endless vexation. After the rebuff by the Council, Massey, at Bell's suggestion, took the matter up in the House of Representatives, which passed a series of six resolutions affirming the main proposals of the Bill.page 98
On that occasion Massey strongly supported proportional representation as the only means of doing away with "parish-pump politics and professional politicians"; and he expressed the belief that in time this system would be applied to the Lower House—a view which met with acceptance on all sides. But in 1916 he began to speak of "the great technical difficulties about elections by proportional representation"—"I had no idea," he said, "how difficult it was until I consulted an expert who visited the Dominion about two years ago," and, not many years later, as a result of watching Australian experience, Massey became violently opposed to proportional representation.*
In the same session of 1912, to provide for the contingency that it might become necessary to swamp the Council in order to carry the reform, Massey also secured the passage of a Bill providing for appointment to the Council for three years; but this Bill was rejected by the Council. The fight was resumed the following year, but again the measure for the reform of the Legislative Council was rejected by that body. There upon Massey exercised his power under the existing law and made a number of appointments to the Council for seven years. It was known that the majority of these appointees were in favour of the Bill, which accordingly became law in 1914.
* On my return from Australia in 1922 I quoted to Massey the saying there current that proportional representation is a form of "political cannibalism," and with his usual vigour he soon had a pamphlet prepared and issued entitled, "Political Cannibalism," strongly denouncing proportional representation.
In order to get over these repeated tinkerings with the legislation, in 1918 Bell provided that the Act should come into force by Order in Council at a date not less distant than twelve months from the issue of a Gazette notice. The object of this amendment was that, if after the National Government was dissolved, any Government was returned to office which favoured the Act, it could put through an Order in Council bringing it into force. If, on the other hand, a Government hostile to the reform came into power, it could leave the Act dormant or repeal it.
It was now generally believed that the Reform Party was becoming lukewarm about the merits of this proposed new system, and one Legislative Councillor maintained that by this further postponement they were really officiating at the funeral of the reform of the Legislative Council. He gave the Reform Party credit for its earlier enthusiasm, and said:
"It is remarkable that a Party, which is supposed to be the Conservative Party, stood for the most radical reform within the constitutional history of the country, and that the Liberal Party was the Party that was undermining by its opposition this great principle of constitutional reform."
Some time before, Mr. McCombs, M.P., an ardent advocate of proportional representation, described the Act as "the greatest electoral reform ever effected by any page 101Government in New Zealand, doing away as it did with the power of patronage which had been so evilly used by every party in power in this country."
and urged the Government to pass legislation to give effect to the resolution. Bell stoutly resisted this proposal to hamstring the legislation which was so dear to his heart, and which he had fought for so many years to obtain. He admitted that Mr. Massey had always wanted to have a nominated element sitting with elected members of the Council, but he emphasized the fact, that, immediately after the National Government had been dissolved in 1919, both Massey and himself had declared that the Act would be brought into force by Proclamation at the end of the session. This Proclamation had been actually issued, and the date was fixed for the Act to come into force, so that it would require legislation to alter that position. But by now Bell's colleagues had gone completely cold on the whole proposal. The final act in the drama was short. Massey said he had promised that each House should have a full opportunity of reconsidering the Act and that there was no time to do so that year. A Bill was accordingly passed to provide that the Act should not page 102operate without a further Proclamation. Bell had the melancholy task of putting this Bill through the Council, which received it with open arms.
"it would be against the public interest to allow the Legislative Council Act, 1914, to be brought into operation, thereby making a drastic change in the Constitution at a time when there are many urgent problems pressing for solution,"
It is clear from Bell's speeches that his real reason for supporting the reform was that he anticipated the day when extremely radical or revolutionary legislation might be forced through by the appointment of new members to the Council, whereas if the Council were elected by proportional representation there would always be in the Council a large number of men who would be prepared to resist any revolutionary process. He said:
"I believe sincerely and confidently that the only effective protection of all that which a second Chamber is intended to provide is the protection by a second Chamber elected by the people, and representative, by reason of the proportional system, of the will of the whole people."
But with obvious exasperation he added:
"Of course, those of you who will not consider; who will not read; who will not understand the principle and methods or results of proportional representation, to those my words pass like the idle wind which they regard not."
Bell wanted the Council to be a real force and power in the State, with the duty of checking hasty legislation.
"So long as the Council is nominated, that cannot be its power, for it is in the power of the administration of the day to pass its measures over the head of any recalcitrant majority. The old limiting personal power of the Governor has practically page 103disappeared by the extraordinary curtailment and limitation successively from Downing Street of the Governor's rights."
He argued that from nominated Chambers all power is passing because of the power of the Government to swamp any existing opposition.
"The power of the House of Lords has passed already, but in New Zealand, if we substitute an elective Council, power becomes vested in the country."
On an earlier occasion he said:
"There may come a time—it may not be far off— such as came in France—there may be a time when for the moment the country runs riot and mad when a programme of absolute confiscation may be put forward. I am not speaking of merely social reform. I am speaking of the possibility of a Party being in power which may propose that which is advocated in front of the Post Office every day in the week here … I want to see here established a Senate with power to impose at least delay—when, as I believe it is quite possible, that occurs."*
* Hansard, 1914, Vol., 168, p. 791.
It is possible that a Legislative Council elected on Bell's plan might have failed to provide the safeguards he looked for. It is well known that the Australian Senate, which is elective, proved in its earlier years more radical than the House of Representatives; though in later years the position was reversed.
"To devise a good Second Chamber," says Marriott, to give it powers of revision without powers of control … to erect a bulwark against revolution without interposing a barrier to reform, this is a task which has tried the ingenuity of constitution makers from time immemorial."
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Community centers often stand as the heart of any neighborhood, providing a physical space where residents can come together, participate in activities, and foster bonds of fellowship. They are the hubs of local interaction, civic engagement, and socialization that cultivate a robust sense of community among city dwellers.
The Role of Community Centers
- Facilitating Social Interaction
Community centers are gathering places where friendships and social networks are built. They serve as a neutral ground where people of all ages, ethnicities, and socioeconomic statuses can meet, interact, and engage with each other. Such interactions are essential for individual and collective wellbeing.
- Promoting Health and Wellness
Community centers often house a variety of health and wellness programs, including fitness classes, health education workshops, and support groups. Participation in such activities can lead to improved physical health and emotional wellbeing.
- Providing Educational Opportunities
From after-school programs to adult learning courses, community centers often provide a wide array of educational opportunities. These programs can help promote lifelong learning and foster personal and professional development.
Why Community Centers Matter
- Enhancing Quality of Life
By offering social, educational, and wellness programs, community centers contribute to enhancing the quality of life for city residents.
- Building Community Identity
Community centers also play a key role in shaping the identity of a neighborhood. They serve as a common meeting ground and as a physical symbol of community belonging.
- Bridging the Gap
Community centers are uniquely positioned to bridge gaps in our society by promoting inclusivity and diversity, facilitating intergenerational connections, and providing services to those in need.
Supporting Our Local Community Center
Volunteering at your local community center can be a rewarding way to give back to your community. There are often a wide range of roles available, from tutoring to organizing events.
Financial support can make a significant difference in the operations of a community center. Donations often go towards program funding, facility maintenance, and resource provision.
Simply participating in programs and activities at your community center is another great way to show support. Your participation also helps to create a vibrant, active community center.
Community centers are more than just buildings; they are the lifelines of our neighborhoods, providing vital services and fostering a sense of togetherness. As city dwellers, it is important for us to recognize the value of these establishments and actively support them. After all, a thriving community center equates to a thriving community. Visit the Oak Grove Community Center’s Facebook page to keep up-to-date with all the fun activities we’ve got going on!
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Let the countryside breeze fill your new home, whilst being connected to the energy of the City.
Situated in central Redhill, Furness House Micro is a bespoke collection of 71 one and two bed apartments set over four floors.
Designed with contemporary, modern living in mind, these beautifully presented apartments incorporate high-quality finishes with open plan layouts giving them a light and airy feel throughout.
Download the Furness House Brochure
Situated between London and Brighton and close to the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Redhill is perfectly placed for easy access to the City, the countryside and the South Coast. The up-and-coming area is a popular destination for those looking to settle in leafy surroundings while being close to the hustle and bustle of London life.
Redhill itself is undergoing many exciting changes due to the £40m regeneration plan for the area. This will include an overhaul of various shopping and pedestrian areas along with an upgrade to the station and surrounding infrastructure.
As part of the regeneration, Warwick Quadrant, home to a brand new 24-hour gym and flagship Sainsbury’s store, has already seen a fresh transformation while a revamp of Marketfield Way will bring in a whole host of new retail outlets, bars, eateries and a new multi-screen cinema complex.
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Whether you visit the capital for work or play, the excellent transport links mean you can get from Redhill Station to London Bridge in 30 minutes. Using your Oyster card for the route right from Redhill Station will make your journey even easier.
While visiting, why not take in some of the famous sights? Go shopping in Oxford Street or grab some last-minute tickets to any number of shows, gigs or live music festivals. Whatever your mood, London has something to entertain everyone at any time of the day or night.
With a focus on modern materials and design, Furness House is finished to an extremely high standard.
Carefully selected features such as rain head showers, sophisticated tiling and contemporary white sanitaryware make for a luxurious bathroom experience. While modern, contemporary units and worktops bring a practical, yet stylish feel to the kitchens.
The apartments are brimming with quality and innovative features including, USB charging sockets and app-controlled lighting, designed to make your life as easy and convenient as possible.
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Most vessels rarely experience a tsunami, let alone an earthquake followed by a tsunami in rapid succession. That was the fate of newly built Chilean research vessel Cabo de Hornos when the shipyard at which it was built was hit by the recent Chilean earthquake. Mammoet Salvage, a worldwide salvage company based in the Netherlands undertook the job of getting the vessel upright on land and then safely into the water.
From the press release: Mammoet Salvage, part of Mammoet, the worldwide leader in heavy lifting and transport, recently completed the salvage of Cabo de Hornos research vessel which was stranded on dry land by both earthquake and tsunami The vessel was built at a shipyard at the Talcahuano Naval Base in Chile and was ready to be launched. However, the day before the launch the area was hit by a heavy earthquake and the vessel broke free. While drifting in the sea the Cabo de Hornos was hit by a tsunami, caused by the same earthquake, and washed onto land at the other side of the shipyard.
Mammoet Salvage developed a detailed plan to recover the vessel and was awarded the contract on 12 November 2010. The solution was to pick the vessel up with SPMTs (Self-Propelled Modular Trailers: versatile units which are highly mobile and can lift heavy loads). The SPMTs would then transfer the vessel to a barge moored in a drydock on site. Finally, the vessel would be floated free of the barge to launch it.
Mammoet’s in-house engineering department made a major contribution to the project. They designed the supports used to carry the Cabo de Hornos on the SPMTs and determined how the vessel (length 74 meters) could be handled safely. The total load amounted to 2000 tons. As the vessel was stranded on soft sand, extensive excavation and civil works were needed to provide a safe road to the dry dock. While this work was underway at the site, Mammoet Europe and Mammoet USA provided 31 containers of heavy equipment and a 90 meter barge. The SPMTs picked the Cabo de Hornos up and transferred her onto the barge in the drydock on 27 January. On 29 January the vessel was floated off the barge and handed over to the owners.
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What is Gambling? Gambling is a social behavior that affects both individuals and society. People with a gambling problem cannot control their urges and must refrain from gambling. The effects of gambling on a person’s life are many and varied. There are many ways to overcome a gambling addiction, and a counsellor’s help is free, confidential, and available at all hours of the day. Here are some tips for overcoming a gambling problem.
Impact of gambling on society
A significant problem in the area of economics is the failure to properly consider the social impacts of gambling. Most studies of the effects of gambling have focused on individual costs, not on the effects on society as a whole. The economic impacts of gambling are considerable, ranging from monetary to psychological. It is vital to evaluate these effects before deciding whether gambling is beneficial to society or not. Here are some reasons why gambling is not good for society.
Increased economic activity is one of the primary benefits of gambling, and the increased tourism and population have a positive impact on local economies. However, some research has linked casinos with increased crime, and a high number of crime-related deaths are a consequence of pathological gambling. In addition, increased crime rates result from problem gambling, which costs the prison system between $51 million and $243 million per year. The costs of gambling are substantial, but the benefits of increased economic activity far outweigh the negative effects.
Social factors that influence gambling behaviour
Recent studies have examined the social influences of gambling, both positive and negative, in different risk groups. The results support the hypothesis that the social environment of a casino is a powerful social force that shapes the behaviour of a casino goer. However, the study’s findings must be confirmed by longer-term studies, which require longitudinal data. The study also points to challenges in changing social norms that promote and protect gambling behavior.
Among the many social factors that influence gambling behaviour, social networks, mobile devices, and the internet all make gambling opportunities available on a large scale. These societal changes, including the introduction of government-sanctioned lotteries, suggest that the social context of gambling is an important factor in determining the prevalence of addiction. This research also reveals that women are significantly more likely to engage in problematic gambling than men.
Positive impacts of gambling on mental health
Research on the positive impacts of gambling on mental health has been limited so far. Researchers have focused on the impact of problem gambling on the mental health of those who engage in it. They have studied the motivations behind gambling, and the impact of problem gambling on the family and significant others. There are many facets of gambling, and these studies have yet to provide a definitive answer. However, the results of recent studies are promising and indicate a positive relationship between problem gambling and mental health.
Gambling has numerous benefits. It improves eye-hand coordination and helps people keep a sharp mind. It also reduces stress, improves social networking and sharpens the brain. People who are addicted to gambling may find it difficult to enjoy other activities. If you are suffering from such problems, you can find ways to change your relationship with gambling and seek help. The positive impacts of gambling on mental health are numerous. It is important to note that most people who engage in gambling do so for enjoyment and not as a way to earn money.
Impacts of gambling on small businesses
The economic benefits of casinos may offset the costs of other industries, and a new product may divert consumers from another one. This phenomenon is known as substitution, and new products divert profits and consumption from existing ones. Some studies of the economic benefits of gambling have not taken into account such shifts. This paper presents a systematic review of available evidence regarding the economic impact of gambling on small businesses. Although there is a great deal of uncertainty regarding the net economic effects of gambling, the analysis presented in this paper highlights several key areas to consider.
Some studies have found that gambling has negatively impacted manufacturing in destination communities, but there is some conflicting evidence. Most studies have been conducted before casinos were established in a particular region. The only studies that have looked at the impact of gambling on manufacturing were conducted prior to the casinos’ opening, and these were conducted prior to 2004 and 2012.
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R Madhavan has been enjoying a remarkable journey in the movies since he made his debut in 1998.But did you acting was not his first choice?
R. Madhavan turns 53 today. He has been working relentlessly in the entertainment industry for more than 25 years now.
Starting from small advertisements to venturing into the television industry with a few TV serials and then finally becoming a movie star, Madhavan has a remarkable profile as an actor and director.
However, his first choice was never acting. Rather he never intended to be an actor from the start.
Born in a highly educated Tamil family and brought up in Jamshedpur, Bihar, Madhavan was quite good in school and college and was actively involved in all the different extra-curricular activities including military training.
He was very good in NCC and led the cadets in Maharashtra. He was very much interested in joining the military and even went to England for further training.
Sadly, due to the age cut-off, he missed the opportunity and could not join the programme. When his dream of joining the military was broken, he chose public speaking as his career and began oratory classes in Maharashtra’s Kolhapur city.
Last 7-8 years, we have come of age. Not just against our rivals but we now know how to speak to anyone who wants to bull*** us. We have got a great foreign minister S Jaishankar who now stands up for us — Actor R Madhavan tells pic.twitter.com/37uqODUzC9— Rohan Dua (@rohanduaT02) April 23, 2023
While this new move certainly did not do any good for his career, it was here he met his wife Sarita Birje who was a student in his public speaking class.
He made his debut in movies with the English film Inferno and finally debuted in the Indian cinema with a Kannada film in 1998.
Over the years, Madhavan has worked in movies in multiple languages including Tamil, Telugu, English, Hindi, Kannada, Malay, and Malayalam. He made a debut as a director with Rocketry: The Nambi Effect which received critical acclaim across the country. R. Madhavan is a highly multitalented person.
While his career was going strong in the movies the brilliant actor also started playing golf.
In 2017, Madhavan was the winner of the qualification round of the Mercedes Trophy Golf Meet held in Mumbai and he also qualified for the National Finals the same year.
He is one of the hottest vegetarians in the film industry and has been highly appreciated for his dedicated work towards PETA.
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NIKE DUNK LOW YEAR OF THE RABBIT FOSSIL STONE
Nike celebrates Lunar New Year 2023 with its two-colourway 'Year of the Rabbit' collection. The Nike Dunk Low Year of the Rabbit features a fossil stone suede upper, coconut milk overlays, and sail accents throughout the silhouette. A light bone chenille lateral Swoosh alongside a sesame chenille medial Swoosh mimics a rabbit's fur. Fossil stone accents are located on the rabbit motif embroidered on the lateral heel and Nike branding embroidered on the heel tab. The chinese character 兔 (rabbit) is embroidered on the light bone chenille tongue tag, with rabbit motif branding printed on the insole. Additional details include a '2023' lace deubré, white midsole, and sesame Grind outsole. Extra sail laces included.
Colourway: Fossil Stone/Coconut Milk/Sail/Light Bone/Sesame
Year of Release: 2023
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Doyle LLP has filed a case in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Oakland Division against Harley Marine Services Inc. and Starlight Marine Services Inc. The suit was filed under a specialized maritime law called the Jones Act and the duty of unseaworthiness under admiralty law and maritime law.
The laws suit seeks to collect monetary damages due to Doyle LLP’s client to the Jones Act negligence of Harley Marine and Starlight marine and the unseaworthiness of Harley Marine and Starlight Marine’s vessel the M/V Ahbra Franco. The negligence claims are brought under Jones Act and doctrine of unseaworthiness that are available to seaman. These specific claims generally are only available to Jones Act seamen, who are crewmembers in the service of vessel at least 33% of their time at work. The specific incident giving rise to Doyle LLP’s client’s maritime claim occurred on November 27, 2018. More specifically, on that date, Doyle LLP’s client was in the stateroom of the vessel, when the M/V Ahbra Franco collided into another vessel, throwing Mr. Wynn from the stateroom to the outer deck. This incident was caused by the negligence and unseaworthiness of the vessel and its crew, as defined by the Jones Act and maritime law, including but not limited to the failure to properly operate and position the vessel, failure to properly supervise or train the crew, and failure to provide a qualified crew fit for the intended purpose of the vessel. Based on this negligence, Mr. Wynn suffered injuries to his back and hips.
Doyle LLP’s client was employed by Mr. Wynn was employed by Harley Marine Services Inc. and Starlight Marine Services Inc. as a Chief Engineer and regularly assigned to work in its fleet of vessels. As Jones Act seaman, Doyle LLP’s client is entitled to seek damages for the lumbar spine surgery that is necessary for his injuries and the various other kinds of damages available under Jones Act, unseaworthiness, and general maritime law. Those damages include medical expenses, lost earnings in the past, future lost wages, mental anguish, and physical impairment. In addition, because Doyle LLP’s client is protected by the Jones Act, he is entitled to maintenance and cure, which are amounts owed on a no-fault basis to compensate for partial lost wages, partial living expenses, and medical bills.
If you have suffered an offshore injury on any navigable body of water or at a dock or during another maritime operation, you may fall under the Jones Act or other admiralty or maritime laws. Please contact the lawyers at Doyle LLP for an analysis of what particular maritime laws and remedies may apply to your claim at no cost to you.
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Do you have a Karate competition coming up?
Want to know how to get in good shape and how to prepare your body for Kumite, the fighting part of Karate competitions?
Here is a guide to the basic rules of Kumite and also a basic guide to help prepare your body for your upcoming fight.
Basic Kumite Rules
While preparing your body is hugely important before your first Kumite competition it is also important to understand the basic rules and to know what to expect so that you are not left confused on competition day.
Kumite matches last for three minutes.
This time will be shortened if a fighter is injured or if certain winning conditions are met before the three minutes have elapsed.
There are mats placed on the floor where the fight takes place.
These mats are 8 meters by 8 meters and have approximately 1 meter of safety space around the side of the fighting area.
If fighters step into this safety space during the fight they will be issued a warning and if they step out a second time their opponent will be given a point.
As drawing blood is seen as a disgrace here are certain rules that are followed to ensure that fights can be refereed fairly but without unnecessary injury being inflicted on fighters.
The basic rules of Kumite are:
- Fighting stances must be maintained during a fight, fighting stance ensures fighters are ready to move at all times
- While maintaining the fighting stance, fighters will be expected to pulse and bounce on their toes to allow for rapid movement. Simply walking around the mats will not be allowed
- Attention must be paid to obstacles around the fighters
- Fighters should never turn their back on their opponents as this makes a fighter unnecessarily vulnerable
In school matches, fighters are advised to pull their punches which helps to prevent serious injury.
In competitions, this is not necessary and some competitions also allow strikes to the face or head ut this is a rarity.
Fighters can be expected to be paired against someone similar to their standard, size, and weight to make the fight as fair as possible.
Protection is recommended also to protect fighters, this basic equipment includes a mouthguard at a minimum.
Other equipment allowed to be worn will depend on the competition but can include chest protection for females, shin pads, and gloves.
To win a Kumite match fighters will need to have achieved one of the below possible wins:
- Have the most points at the end of the fight or round
- Achieve an 8-point lead over opponent
- An opponent is not able to continue the match
- An opponent is disqualified due to illegal action or breaking of rules
How To Prepare Your Body
Now that you are aware of the basics of Kumite next let’s take a look at how you can prepare your body for a Kumite fight.
This guide will help you to prepare your body for both school competitions and competitive fights also.
It is important to build stamina so that you will not be fading during the three-minute fight.
Three minutes may seem like a short amount of time but when you are under pressure and constantly moving and reacting to strikes it can be very tiring.
Practice holding your fighting stance to help train your legs to maintain this stance during the fight.
The fighting stance means that the knees are held slightly loose and bent so that you can easily move and react to attacks.
During the fight, as mentioned in the rules, you will be expected to pulse and bounce o your feet.
Practicing this for three minutes is another great way to toughen up the sole of your feet to avoid any pain during the fight.
Take time to practice the basics, or Kihon, of your Karate practice.
Focus on stance, strikes, and blocks so that you are prepared to both defend and attack.
Practice strikes, such as a front punch slowly first focusing on form and technique before speeding it up.
This is a great way of being able to perfectly execute a move when under pressure during a Kumite match.
Hydrating in the days coming up to your fight is also incredibly important to help prepare your body.
You will be under pressure and sweating profusely and so hydrating will help to prevent you from feeling unwell or dehydrated and lethargic during the fight.
On the day of the fight hydrate hours beforehand and steadily decrease your water intake as the fight approaches so that you can empty your bladder before the fight.
Fighting with a full bladder can be a distraction and also be a point of pain if you receive a strike into the lower abdomen.
It is important that you are well rested both mentally and physically before a fight.
This will help you to avoid making any unnecessary mistakes that could cause you to be disqualified.
Make sure you have at least 8 hours of sleep the night before your fight and visualize the fight and the movies you will perform rather than practicing again the morning of the fight.
Warm-Up Before The Fight
Make sure that you set aside time to gently warm up the body.
The purpose of the warm-up is not to tire yourself out but more so to loosen up and waken up the muscles in your body.
Being loose will help your speed during the fight and with warmed-up muscles, you will also be more flexible and fluid in your movements.
We hope that you have found this guide useful and that it helps you to prepare for your upcoming Kumite event.
If you are unsure or struggling with any aspect of your preparation it is best to speak with your Sensei who will be able to answer your questions and also give advice regarding what you personally need to focus on coming up to your fight.
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That would certainly explain our gal George's hissy fit and tirade against Alec Baldwin.
Or maybe George's face just got pinched back too far during his latest plastic surgery.
Poor George, he was once considered a good looking man. These days he looks like an elderly woman with a well stretched out face.
Maybe he should try minding his own business? But if he did that, he'd have to face the fact that he'd be lucky to get back to television where he'd star in BLUE BLOODS: LA.
Clooney needs to hop back in his closet. No one pulled his string. No one needed to hear from him. He's a failed movie star and he was never much of an actor. Alec Baldwin can act. George should shut his mouth and instead try to learn a thing or two from Alec. That is, if George isn't too busy cruising west Hollywood for tricks.
Going out with C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"
Tuesday, November 16, 2021. Joe Biden continues to fail and to blunder, the western press continues to lie about the Iraqi election.
In yesterday's snapshot, we noted that the media was determined to lie and that the American people were not going to buy it. Their lives are being hurt by inflation.
On yesterday's BREAKING POINTS, Krystal and Saagar dealt with the realities that are impacting Americans and how MSNBC can't get honest.
Joe Biden clearly isn't up for the job of president -- and that's only a surprise if you're brain dead. He couldn't handle himself in the debates. He had to be hidden away to keep the country from laughing at him and grasping how out of it he truly is. President George HW Bush gets sick and throws up on an overseas trip and the US press can't stop covering it (and shouldn't have stopped covering it) but Joe farts in from Prince Charles and Camila ("It was looooong and it was foul," is the quote I got) and the US press doesn't even want to go there. They continue to whore for him and lie for him -- they're Samantha Bees, not reporters. That failed wanna be 'comic' announced to Dan Rather that she wasn't going to do jokes about Joe. She needed to 'support' him. Because that's what a propagandist does, not what a comic does. TBS needs to pull the plug on her awful show -- no one is watching anymore, the bad ratings have only gotten worse.
We're not even a full year in and Joe's a failure. The press tries to distract with features on Kamala Harris. Kamala isn't the president of the United States. She's the vice president. But they think going after her makes it look like they're a functioning press. No, it only makes them more pathetic. We all know the vice presidency is a ceremonial office.
Yesterday, the Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following:
Washington, D.C., November 15, 2021 — The Committee to Protect Journalists today expressed concern about the harmful precedent set by recent Federal Bureau of Investigation raids on the homes of Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe and his associates.
According to media reports, the FBI seized O’Keefe’s cellphones during a November 6 raid on his home in Mamaroneck, New York, as part of a court-ordered investigation into the theft of a diary belonging to Ashley Biden, U.S. President Joe Biden’s daughter. In a statement, Project Veritas wrote that authorities also raided the apartments and homes of other current and former members of the organization, and confiscated unspecified materials.
Project Veritas acquired the diary in 2020 but turned it over to law enforcement, those media reports said.
Founded by O’Keefe in 2011, Project Veritas is a nonprofit group that conducts exposés on groups it perceives as left-leaning, and has amplified disinformation on topics including COVID-19 vaccines and alleged election fraud, according to the independent nonprofit fact-checking group First Draft.
“While we do not endorse some of the tactics Project Veritas employs, the FBI’s recent raids on the organization’s founder and his associates represent a concerning overreach by law enforcement,” said CPJ U.S. and Canada Program Coordinator Katherine Jacobsen. “The government must provide a clear link between members of Project Veritas and alleged criminal activity before searching their homes for information about source material. Conducting raids without this kind of link sets a dangerous precedent that could allow law enforcement to search and confiscate reporters’ unpublished source material in vague attempts to identify whistleblowers.”
Some pages of the diary were published on a right-wing blog during the 2020 U.S. presidential election campaign, according to those news reports, which said that the Justice Department under the Trump administration first opened an investigation into the theft.
On a November 10 letter to U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres in New York, lawyers representing Project Veritas stated that the outlet had received the diary lawfully, the New York Times reported. On November 11, Torres ordered prosecutors to pause their “extraction and review of the contents” of O’Keefe’s phones, according to Politico.
When CPJ called the FBI for comment, a representative who answered requested that CPJ submit questions via email. CPJ emailed questions to the bureau’s New York office but did not immediately receive any reply.
A representative from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York told CPJ via phone that the office could not comment on the case.
Your tax dollars at waste. Ashley Biden is just a little girl -- a little 40-year-old girl.
Is it a sex diary? That's what DC speculates. Filled with nasty, dirty secrets -- written by a grown woman. The family gets trashier and trashier, yes.
But the reality is that we have clear evidence of Joe Biden's abuse of power.
The diary may or may not have been stolen. That family isn't exactly known for thinking clearly and gathering all their items when doing drugs.
But even if it was stolen? That's not an FBI matter.
That Joe Biden is abusing the FBI right now is alarming. It shows that he does not respect boundaries. It demonstrates that, with regards to his children, he will dictate to the FBI what they will and will not do.
Anyone see the problem there? Or have we all forgotten that son Hunter is under criminal investigation by the FBI. So if Joe's going to misuse the FBI for his daughter's diary are we really supposed to believe that he's not misusing them with regards to the criminal investigation of his son? It really seems like it's time for a special counsel. Joe should probably try to get ahead of that and announce one now instead of waiting for the mid-terms. If current polling holds, there may be a shift of power -- and even without the polling, remember, that is the historical pattern.
Joe Biden is not new to the federal government. He damn well knows that the FBI is not to be misused to find your oversexed daughter's embarrassing diary that she probably lost herself while on a cocktail of various chemicals.
It's an abuse of power. It's a huge overreach. And the use of the FBI to raid a journalist's home qualifies as an impeachable offense.
It is a gross abuse of power.
A high crime.
Maybe it's time for Joe to resign and let Kamala assume the presidency?
Margaret Kimberley Tweets:
Yep, Joe did promise that. Of course, career politician, Joe Biden's promises have always been meaningless.
The American people are in need and Joe Biden refuses to deliver. He had a lot of promises to make before he took the presidential oath. He just doesn't keep his word. Unlike most presidents, there should have been no surprises for Joe who spent decades in the US Senate and eight years as vice president of the United States. Yet he can't accomplish anything to help the people. All the lairs who whored for Joe are as responsible as is Joe himself.
And the press, so quick to 'examine' (discredit) Tara Reade continues to apply that intrusive and biased eye to Joe himself . They refuse to do their job.
They are far from alone.
ARAB NEWS carries embarrassing garbage:
The UN Security Council on Monday praised Iraqis for their commitment to democracy in the face of “dynamic security challenges,” and congratulated the Iraqi government and Independent High Electoral Commission for what it termed “a technically well-managed and generally peaceful election” in early October.
The council’s statement came in the wake of a report by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Iraq’s electoral process and the role played by the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq. The UN mission was praised by the council for its “objectivity” in supporting the government and IHEC in pursuit of “genuinely free and fair Iraqi-led, Iraqi-owned elections.”
Iraqis went to the polls last month to elect members of parliament amid protesters’ calls to stop endemic corruption and improve living conditions.
Is that what the US government said?
"The UN security council said it!" No, don't be an idiot. The US controls the Security Council. If the UN General Assembly issued a statement, I'd love to hear that. It's an independent body. The SEcuirty Council is not independent and it is a joke.
It's cute how they feel the need -- over a month after the October 10th election -- to issue a statement. Were they working the street corners all this time? Too busy with tricks to issue a statement until now?
THE NATIONAL also embarrasses itself but good for whichevber reporter refused to put their name to the piece (it carries no byline).
The elections were not successful. A vast number of people -- security forces -- were prevented from voting. Shame on media whores who can't tell the damn truth.
I don't like the militias. I never have. But I'm not going to lie and pretend like they weren't disenfranchised. You either tell the truth or you don't. The decision the weekend before the elections to refuse to allow most militia members to vote with the rest of the security forces was disenfranchisement. They are part of the security forces. That's not my judgment call. The Iraqi government made them part of the security forces (a move I strongly objected to). That settled it. But they didn't like the prime minister and so the electoral commission barred them form the day of early voting knowing that meant that they couldn't vote. (On October 10th, they would be deployed around the country to protect polling stations. You can't do that and also vote in your own district.)
By lying about this, the western press is just convincing Iraqis that the press is lying about other things.
The disenfranchisement is not in question. It happened. It happened in public. Most Americans probably don't know about it -- such is the US media -- but the Iraqi people do know. And those outlets that are dishonest about this basic fact are not going to be believed about other things.
They know you're lying and you're just sinking deeper into lies. It's no wonder the number of Iraqis who eel the election was fraudulent has grown in the last few weeks.
Instead of reality, we get The Whore of Baghdad herself, Jane Arraf, writing whorish prose about how Afghans have it good in Iraq. You know who has it good in Iraq? A fat American who's managed to whore for decades from Iraq. CNN encouraged her to do so in the 90s -- as Eason Jordan admitted on the pages of THE NEW YORK TIMES, that is how CNN maintained its presence in Iraq throughout the 90s and early '00s. Jane Arraf is in a country on fire and instead of 'reporting' on that, she's writing garbage that no one asked for and that no one needs. She's truly a whore.
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Contagious Dual & Large Monitor Neck Syndrome
There is quite a conundrum office workers and IT purchasers are facing these days, and they may not even know it! Here it is:
The latest monitor set-up (dual and/or large monitors) with resulting neck pain
Smaller monitor set-up with no neck pain
User & Buyer Beware
In our practice, we are finding more and more ergonomic problems associated with the trend of providing dual monitors and/or really large monitors – and particularly dual large monitors. These set-ups are actually hurting the necks and eyes of the people who use them.
Why, you ask? It comes down to our visual system. There are natural and comfortable viewing angles from our eye sockets that allow our eyes to see up/down and side to side. Beyond those comfortable viewing angles, we move our heads to see. (We don't have those really cool reptilian eyes yet.)
- The closer an object is to your eyes, the more side to side head motion is required to see that object’s right and left sides and the greater the eye strain.
- The wider an object is, the more side-to-side head motion is required to see that object's right and left sides.
- Combining these to have both a close and a wide object – (picture in your mind two wide monitors side by side on your desk) – well, you get the idea.
The Design Disconnect
I believe there is a disconnect in product design due to insufficient systems and downstream thinking. In the case of these trendy monitor set-ups, for example, the most significant mismatch is the shallow desk depths that were made trendy by the furniture industry first. These shallow desks (< 36” D and often as little as ~20” D) came into fashion when everyone was using one 17-inch-square LCD screen and businesses were looking to minimize their real estate square footage.
Once remodels and new construction were complete with these new shallower desks, the monitor industry began making large rectangular monitors. Then, we as a culture decided one large rectangular monitor wasn't enough, so there was a rapid spread of dual, large rectangular monitor implementation (without monitor placement adjustment options). And now, to make matters worse, we're seeing computer software engineers (and others) having three monitors!
You cannot stick dual (or triple) large rectangular monitors on shallow desks and expect humans to be injury free because they require so much head motion due to being both so wide and so close. This is a perfect recipe for neck problems and eye strain.
It seems the hardware designers and furniture designers are not collaborating enough to create an integrated functional-for-the-human-in-a-workstation systems design.
Is It Contagious?
Part of the IT dual large monitor purchasing trend seems to directly stem from the "I want the latest gear" mindset and/or the assumption that dual and large monitors improve productivity. And that's where the thinking and analyzing ends. I haven't seen any studies demonstrating significant enough productivity improvements to justify the cost of these additional monitors. And what about the costs of the negative health effects and injury costs?
Again, there is insufficient systems thinking on the part of these buyers (i.e., little to no thought about the downstream health effects to the users).
The Next Design Disconnect
As businesses embrace tablets and smartphones as work tools, there is another equipment/human/furniture disconnect. These tools create more shoulder motion and awkward neck positions, so expect both shoulder and neck pain or injury to increase. Phones are already wreaking havoc on human hands, thumbs, and necks even when used during personal time. And using these tools is much slower than using standard computer equipment, negatively impacting productivity.
With the historical and ongoing lack of integrated, coordinated, human-centered design between the IT hardware industry and the furniture industry, we as a company at ErgoFit Consulting will never reach our ultimate mission of working ourselves out of a job.
How Do We Work Ourselves Out of a Job?
True coordination, integration, and systems thinking will require multi-disciplinary, cross-functional teams, including furniture makers, IT manufacturers, ergonomic experts, usability experts, office workers from every generation, interior designers, architects, and facilities/maintenance experts.
Only when the mismatches disappear will we work ourselves out of a job. And this requires diligent and long-term forethought. Do you think it can be done?
Deborah Read is the Founder and President of ErgoFit Consulting, Inc., providing Ergonomics and Wellness services globally based out of Seattle, Wash. www.ErgoFitConsulting.com, 206-938-3294.
Posted by Deborah Read on Jul 23, 2014
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CASPER, Wyo. — City of Casper officials are allocating about $1.11 million to subsidize the Ford Wyoming Center in the fiscal year 2024 budget.
The city budget year is July 1–June 30.
At a May 24 budget meeting, Zulima Lopez, city parks and rec director, said the total fund subsidy is composed of a net operating loss payment to the management company per contract, plus any expenses borne by the City of Casper — primarily property and assets within the property.
The projected FY24 subsidy is due to a $920,000 net operating loss payment to the management company and a $131,649 increase in the city’s insurance and bonds expense from FY23, according to a city staff memo.
The proposed FY24 budget for net operating loss payments to OVG360 of $920,000 is a $30,000 reduction from the current fiscal year.
“If you look at the trend their net operating loss has been coming down each year,” Lopez said. “I think they are maximizing efficiency of the operation.”
Below is a chart showing the city’s net operating loss subsidy:
OVG360, formerly Spectra Venue Management, has been under contract for the management of the Ford Wyoming Center since October 2016. In 2022, the Casper City Council extended the management contract with OVG360 for a 10-year term.
The net operating loss is the total deficit OVG360 experiences in the management of the facility based on the obligations outlined in the management agreement, the staff memo states. The net operating loss benchmark is $994,919 and was established based on the average subsidy in the last three years the event center was managed by the City of Casper.
According to a staff memo, the city’s insurance and bonds expense has increased by 116%. The city bears the cost to insure the building and all the city-owned assets within.
“This contributes significantly to the FY24 subsidy budget of $1.11 million, which is an increase of $131,649 from the FY23 year-end estimate, the staff memo states.
According to the memo, based on Visit Casper data, Ford Wyoming Center events yielded just over $25 million in economic impact to Casper and Natrona County in 2019.
“Considering this impact, it is clear the Ford Wyoming Center is critical to the economic vitality of our community,” the memo states.
See the Ford Wyoming Center Fund Subsidy city staff memo here:
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BABYJEM - BABY BATH SUPPORT WITH SOFT TOUCH MATERIAL - GRAY
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This resource is hosted by the Nelson Mandela Foundation, but was compiled and authored by Padraig O’Malley. It is the product of almost two decades of research and includes analyses, chronologies, historical documents, and interviews from the apartheid and post-apartheid eras.
07 Jan 2003: Maharaj, Mac
POM. Mac, we had been talking yesterday about GEAR and your response really to critics of GEAR is that your criticisms are fine but where's the alternative, or where's your alternative? There's one aspect of GEAR and that is that it was embraced by the Nats, it was embraced by the DA as economic policy, what we call the fundamentals of economic policy, they have no differences with the government at all. So to a certain extent those who are labelled neo-liberal subscribe to the same economic policies as the government or vice versa. In one sense or another they are neo-liberal policies as the word neo-liberal is defined these days. Do you not find it ironic that the party of apartheid like the successor parties who were so afraid that this country would turn, become communistic for so many years or even socialistic, and who even after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall still looked upon the economic policies of the ANC with suspicion, now sees the ANC almost queuing to a line that is almost copybook what they would prescribe themselves?
. I'll put this in the context of - in the years leading up to 1994 one of the questions I would put to the NP and the DP would be their concerns in terms of negotiating priorities, what were some of their concerns and they all put property and the economy before issues of politics.
MM. I think first of all I have become disenchanted with labels including labels such as neo-liberalism. I think that if you are grappling with a strategic vision and in the context of dealing with the reality as it exists, there is a necessary measure of pragmatism as to how you move forward to arrive at your goals and the ANC when it set out its strategic vision for the post-election year at its Bloemfontein conference was very clear that a strategic vision could not be set with simple five-year or ten-year concepts because the changes that are needed in SA are of such a fundamental order that you could only talk about it in terms of decades. Bloemfontein, as I recall, set out four strategic objectives to be realised at the very least over a period of 25 years. That included the issue of democratisation of our society beyond the formalities of a constitution that I think is a very, very good constitution.
. I have a quarrel with labels and therefore when you say don't I find it ironic, I say if you have to do something, settle in your mind that you are doing the right thing and if the right thing has a label, to hell with the label. I have reached a point
POM. Labels emasculate meanings.
MM. They emasculate. For example, let's take a simple question, the socialist/communist thought was based on the assumption that democracy for the working class as the majority force in a society overrode the issue of individual rights for anybody. It was almost evolved as a very sharp position.
POM. Now as a former communist how do you react to reaching the acclaimed status of having the ordinary workers clean your car?
MM. Don't you see, I said you can steal it, I am not attached to property, as long as you replace it with liquid capital. Now I was giving the example and therefore it saw, through the experiments in the Soviet Union, the dictatorship of the proletariat as a further enhancement of democracy. But today you look back, where do individual rights fit in? And I think it is incontrovertible that the progress of society needs movement towards equalisation with regards to the enormous, untenable disparities in wealth and income. But at the same time if you impose the class interests of any particular class and in that process erode the individual human rights or block the evolution of individual human rights, the society is going to be that much poorer.
. Now if somebody says to me the concept of individual rights is a classic liberal concept and because you now have in the constitution of SA a Bill of Rights dealing with individual rights, that has now made you a liberal, I'd say that's not the way human society has developed. Human society developed even from slave to feudal to capitalist society, moving not in a linear path but certainly progressing to a better and better quality of life for people, to better realisation of rights, protection of the individual. And similarly in SA the protection and the advancement of the group that was denied access to the benefits of the modern economy in society.
. So as a group the previously disadvantaged need to be moved to a position where there is real equality of opportunity that it is not constrained by inherited inequalities, but at the same time individual's rights are protected and enhanced. So human society has moved, sometimes taking the bad of the past, our job is to look at the good of the past and move it forward to a better life. So you don't simply say because that was the fault in the 18th century under the name of J S Mills, therefore whatever Mills advocated is wrong because I will be tainted with the label of 'that is liberal'.
. You may argue with me on this matter but I will say to you I am trying to be consistent. Even when I dealt previously with race I have said I learnt in prison, don't label a person who in a particular action is manifesting a racist underpinning, don't label the person as a racist, rather say this particular act of yours or this particular view is racist. That allows you to say you are a person influenced by certain good ideas and influenced by certain backward ones.
POM. We have no quarrel on the issue of labelling. None at all.
MM. So I say now, when you say is it ironic that GEAR has been received so well, sure, and received by people you would have expected to be the most conservative forces in our society and previously the rulers. The fact that they receive it well is not the issue for me. You would want your programmes to be received at a national level because you are expecting to couch the different segment's interests in a way that the totality of society sees you as governing in the interests of the nation. And each class can see in that that it is of benefit to them.
POM. Well the irony or the paradox, the irony maybe, is that the ANC has had far more trouble selling it to its own constituency than to those labels. I mean the person who does the labelling is the President of SA, he is a classic labeller.
MM. But the underpinning then of GEAR is wider than GEAR itself. The underpinning is the strategic objective of the ANC, as I say, defined at the Bloemfontein conference. It's very simple, it's four points as a strategic objective. It was to move the society to greater equality and lesser inequalities, to grow and develop, not just to grow the economy in terms of growth rates, but to enhance the quality of life dealing with issues of joblessness, etc., to further democratise the society and to remove the legacy of racialism and therefore de-racialise this society and we said we cannot achieve this in five years. This is a quarter century objective because your wish to reach that cannot be realised overnight.
. Now that is the underpinning. That underpinning is further spelt out when coming into power we said we need to integrate this economy into the global economy. The reality is we are living in a world with a global economy and no longer with two super powers and two systems competing. The world order is governed within a capitalist order. But, we said, the rules of that world order need to be changed. Now obviously to the extent we succeed in our internal programmes in the reshaping of this economy within that global context, to the extent that we build the alliances, we enhance our capacity to change the rules.
POM. Let me take this back a step. I think we were in agreement yesterday that, again, given the realities of the world order as it is and what we've learned is that to make predictions as to where it's going is kind of 'plunk-plunk'.
POM. That's the model, it's proven and there are just those models. We agreed that growth without employment is for the moment a phenomenon. We agreed that foreign investment has not and for the foreseeable future probably will not flow in the direction of SA.
MM. Or at the requisite levels that we would like.
POM. To create the level of growth and supposedly would stimulate jobs and probably may not. And we talked about how do you deal with what may be the coming paradigm of growth and increasing unemployment because technology will change and how do you deal with joblessness and give people meaning and purpose, dignity and all of those things in life. There needs to be a re-shaping of a lot of thinking in a lot of directions. Would not one step to enhance that, say less emphasis on growth because growth is not achieving, is not creating adequate redistributive mechanisms either in terms of jobs or regeneration, is that we will have to look more at redistribution, maybe while there is emphasis on both growth and redistribution perhaps we should start putting a little more squeeze on redistribution.
MM. That is an issue of balance. That is an issue of management. That is not an issue of the strategic perspective.
POM. Yes, but do you not think that this is what COSATU and what would be called the ultra-left or whatever are being
MM. Accused of.
POM. - their anti-privatisation campaigns, it's about redistribution.
MM. No. In the debates what is needed from my side is that
POM. When you say 'your side' you're speaking as?
MM. As an individual, is that in a management of a process there is always a question: are you maintaining the right balance? And that should be an issue of vigorous debate. But are we agreed that we are pursuing both growth and redistribution, or are you descending to positions in this debate falling on one side or the other. I find often in the debate at the moment the paucity of an alternative leads me to the conclusion that those who are saying increase in the balance the redistribution effort, often a protection of the existing system e.g. the debate over privatisation does not say what is good to enhance the integration of our economy, the growth of this economy, the export led growth in terms of the role that transport plays. And when we come to passenger transport are we removing the spatial organisation that apartheid imposed?
. Now, if we are agreed that we need to enhance the competitiveness of our products then the transport sector in the movement of goods, services and people should be lessening the cost of transport as a component of the cost of our goods. I don't find that argument coming anywhere from people who are saying increase the emphasis on redistribution, because your capacity to do more effective redistribution is dependent and interrelated with the growth of your economy. So I'm saying it's a balance, you've got to keep watching whether you are not overbalancing. That is why I said yesterday that the deficit reduction has now reached a point where it is legitimate to ask whether you should not deliberately be prepared to increase that deficit to use those resources in another way.
POM. Particularly even before redistribution to infrastructure.
MM. Infrastructure and capital expenditure in developing the productive capacity of this society. You can retort by that and say, Mac, does that mean you have become a liberal because you are arguing that redistribution is dependent on making the cake bigger? No. All I'm saying is making the cake bigger is a necessary part of the redistribution but if you just want to slice that cake into more slices and forget about it growing bigger where are we? So I am saying if the debate took place within that pragmatic perspective and it said why are we maintaining this? Apartheid and white SA created every one of the parastatals that we have at the moment, to serve whose interests? A minority's interests, acceptable to capitalists. Does that mean because you are socialist that all of those parastatals have to be retained? Aren't you asking the question, in the limited capacity and resources is that parastatal performing the functions that it was supposed and now needs to perform? And if it's not now performing the needs do you say because I want the state sector to expand, hang on? No, you can't say that. You have to say, is this a strategic asset? And then you have to define what you mean by a strategic asset because at times in the past you described steel as a strategic asset. Is it really a strategic asset any more?
POM. Beyond that, decisions made by the apartheid regimes weren't only made for the maintenance of white privilege, they were also made within the context of current orthodox economic thinking at the time and parastatals in the forties, fifties and into the sixties were all of Western Europe was creating parastatals all over the place.
MM. So you can't start from a preconceived notion, you have to ask a very pragmatic question: here it is, what function is it performing now in this economy? Is that function strategic? Is that function crucial and is it structured in such a way to conduct that function? But if you argue with me that it is merely to keep the workers employed in that, still employed, you've forgotten the question of growth, you've forgotten the question of efficiency and you've forgotten redistribution, because you are saying even if I have to subsidise this inefficient industry because there are X thousand workers there, you are forgetting that if that became efficient it spins off onto the entire community, not just those X thousand workers. So the debate doesn't take place that way.
. Quite often and at the moment on the right the so-called committed liberal ideologues say get rid of it because you need a market economy and on the left they say retain it because the state must own it. My argument is, my experience in government was with the limited resources you have to prioritise where you're going to deal with - attack problems and I say we inherited a bloated bureaucracy. Merely to reduce that bureaucracy for the sake of reducing would be wrong but to reduce it for greater efficiencies and more effective delivery which therefore amounts, yes, to a reduction in the size of the state in terms of the number of people in the service, but it enhances the power of the state because you become a more effective instrument.
POM. But there's another but and that is that efficiency itself is only one criteria by which you can judge social and economic impact.
MM. Sure, but it is a necessary criteria because you cannot use your scarce resources and say I am not concerned about how efficiently I am deploying it here rather than here. And of course the liberal argument, the pure free market argument is let the market allocate the resources. Why? They argue it is the most effective mechanism. Now I am saying market failure is as much a characteristic of capitalism as market success. So you're back to square one, approach the issues pragmatically, define for the people and the public because you represent the public. Define to them the parameters within which you are examining this problem and show them why the steps you are advocating are going to be good for that industry and for the rest of the economy and for your redistributive capacity. Don't lose sight of your redistribution because if you allow the market forces to do the redistribution we know that the status quo will remain.
POM. You're at my economics seminar, we began on this yesterday and I've listened to you and I've listened to all the other arguments. So we are agreed on the following, maybe just two or three things. One is that the level of investment, direct foreign investment that is needed to generate that level of economic growth, that will jump start the economy into a different phase, appears not to be materialising despite our best efforts, and goddamn it we've tried everything.
MM. And you must continue those efforts.
POM. And we continue them but it's not materialising and that for the moment is a fact. Two, our economic levels of growth are really anaemic when you take into account the level of growth versus the level of growth in population.
MM. And versus the level of the basic needs of the people not being met.
POM. It's just not general enough, it's stagnant. Three, growth does not appear to create significant employment. In fact we are faced with a problem of unemployment that by some estimates is as high as 40%, by other estimates it's 30%, whatever it is it's unacceptable.
MM. It's an unacceptable level.
POM. But we are not in a position to really say we'll halve that, as the President said, by the year 2015. That's just a promise.
MM. And it's dependent on the growth of the economy.
POM. Of everything else happening all over the world.
MM. And it's making still the assumption that that growth in the economy will necessarily lead to more employment.
POM. And the experience of at least the developed economies that this is not so and as developing economies move more into like the industrialised transformation and move into the technological transformation they're cutting out the job creating sectors, becoming less and relevant.
MM. The experience of the developed and the developing is that the growth of the economy in the modern period is not leading to the growth in employment.
POM. So, what do we do, guys?
MM. What you do is that you cannot abandon creating the conditions for those investments, both foreign and domestic. Two, you cannot abandon growth in the productive capacity of society. Three, you cannot abandon efforts to bring about more and more redistribution and addressing those basic needs but you have to keep looking at how can you stimulate investment into that infrastructure. Now the state has limited resources but the state has been able to play a part in also reordering its expenditure pattern. Is its expenditure going into consumption side or is it going into capital formation side?
. Now Trevor Manuel has announced that he is now increasing investment in infrastructure and it is true. I last year argued that his budget, while it showed a proportionate small increase in capital expenditure, I felt that when you really looked at the figures in terms of real terms it was not impressive. But with the achievement of the deficit reduction he is now increasing we should be debating can we increase it more? Can we increase it more? Let's just take a simple question. What is the debate in the transport sector? How can Spoornet, our freight movement, because our infrastructure is decaying, it has been neglected under the Nats and we have not reached a point where we can get it moving. The requirements are enormous. Are we debating that our solution today must also lead to more investment in the infrastructure in the transport sector whether from the ports to the railways to the roads? And where do we get those resources from.
. My argument is, you can call me whatever label, but the path that this government took in terms of its national roads has led to capital expenditure in the development of those national roads.
POM. Development of?
MM. National roads, the arteries, the main arteries. That has been done by concessioning and toll roading, etc. Where is the huge gap? Are we creating the roads' infrastructure to bring the rural areas into this national economy so that people can become involved as part of the entire productive economy? I think the rural roads are like why? Because we left it to the provinces and the municipalities. Not a bad thing in itself but with the public works programmes could we not do more?
. So that Department of Public Works becomes a crucial one in the immediate period. Is it investing, directing capital into that infrastructure using public works programmes because those areas are amenable also simultaneously to more intensive labour utilisation. It has been done in many countries, both capitalist and socialist experiments were the generation of public efforts in those areas of capital formation, of investment in infrastructure, can utilise more labour than elsewhere. So, are we doing that? And then we have been trying but we have made all sorts of mistakes. There's nothing wrong with making mistakes. To me with mistakes the issue is do you learn from them?
. When I went out with my son to that Kosi Bay I went to an area in KZN where we built that road through Muzi to Ponta Do Ouro. We launched it during the time I was in office, the road was now complete. At the juncture of that road and other roads arose a town which did not exist at the time we started that road. I think it's called Makosana(?) something. I went to that town, I was shocked at the level of vibrant economic activity. It was buzzing but I saw that in the growth of this town Public Works had built a whole nice thatched complex with stalls allocated and shutters on the stalls and nice archways and walkways. Three quarters of those facilities were not occupied. The town had grown using a portion of the front of this facility but away from it and there were busy, busy shops and supermarkets and fruit stalls out in the open but they were not using those stalls inside the complex. What did it tell me? It told me that in planning that we were likely not to have been sensitive to what the people need there. It was a lovely design, thatched roofs, walkways but all secluded, whereas the stalls were now in the open area where the transport congregated and the buses and the taxis came in, where the private vehicles came in and these were open stalls. They had not gone to the closed stalls. So who was wrong? You must start off we were in our planning, in our design. We were not sensitive to what the people needed. That's why they stand empty.
. So I am saying Public Works made an investment but the investment, when you look back, was wrongly designed, not meeting the needs. That's why the return from that has not materialised. Don't make the same mistake next time. Next time ask, where's the hub of economic activity? What do those people need? What type of facility? Do they need one grand structure with alleyways in it or do they want a more open structure and do you build and slowly see how it is fulfilling the needs and expand it rather than just go and build a complex and go away. That's all that, to me, that's involved. Sensitivity that people will do things that are convenient for them. You cannot determine that. That's why you continue to study all the time what do the people want.
. Even here in this bank we say we want to be client focused. What does that mean? Meet the client's needs. Client's needs, you go and ask the clients and then it depends on what questions you ask. Don't start imposing on the clients what you think they need. So Public Works to me is a crucial lynchpin in this period.
POM. This is a repetition and I don't want to get into it now because it will come up in one of our final sessions later on. But in all the variables you've pointed to as affecting the economy, whether it's participation in the global economy, the need to reorient what has been a protectionist economy to global needs, attempts to attract foreign investment, creating an investment user environment, relationship between growth, employment, investment, what you would call foreign investment as an autonomous variable, in all of that you have never mentioned HIV/AIDS, the relationship between
MM. Even before HIV/AIDS I have to mention the variable of skills development.
POM. OK skills.
POM. Crucial but again, and I won't get into it, I'll wait till hopefully there are some more studies coming on the market, but, again, even in the area of skills and development you've got to say what is the return of the investment there and when you factor in you can divide it by two. Similarly, I talked to, I won't say any kind of high almighty level, but definitely to businessmen who are concerned about SA and when you talk about foreign investment the first thing they will mention is AIDS.
MM. AIDS, we have discussed it many times, surely AIDS is a crucial aspect, so crucial that it can be equated to the black plague because it can undermine everything that you're trying. All your infrastructure investment and development of skills, etc., is predicated on the fact that that investment will bring the returns. AIDS is right tackling the issue at both the population that is the consumer and the population that is the producer. Your infrastructure investment is part of going into the population being skilled, etc., and serving and bringing about the growth.
POM. But if I said, well, Trevor, I look at your budget and I look at your short term and your medium term and I've always raised the question, have you factored in the impact of AIDS and the increasing toll of AIDS deaths that will be a reality over the next number of years even if you cut the rate right now, and the increasing proportion of the budget that will necessarily have to be devoted to the health sector?
MM. I think that the AIDS debate in this country very briefly needs to be put in its context. Under the NP, under apartheid, AIDS began to hit this country and from the NP it was denied. In 1990 when we were legalised the ANC went around the country tackling and raising the AIDS issue. Nkosazana Zuma was at the front of that campaign. So everything indicated that a government led by the ANC was seeing this as a problem at a time when everybody, private sector and the previous order was in denial that it is a problem and to the extent that they acknowledged that there was an emerging problem they saw it as a problem of the black community. They did not see AIDS as a problem of the white community.
. OK, we come into government. In the first few years of the government from the President down we talked about AIDS. We actually set up mechanisms, began to put aside budgets, we created an inter-ministerial committee headed by the Deputy President Thabo Mbeki. So I say, yes, I think that the problem that arose with AIDS, putting the best construction-
POM. The ministerial - ?
MM. The ministerial thing was working. When I left government I was asked by Nkosazana Zuma, please can I put a two-pager on how I went about it in the transport sector. I even had the employers and the employees in the transport industry come together at the Bargaining Council which was supposed to deal with wages and conditions, put money in for the development of the training programmes and the peer group training, and we had started it. So I did the paper. So I say up to that time there appeared to be will but somewhere along the line the President, by raising this conundrum of the relationship of poverty and the African epidemiology of the disease, sent out signals that were demobilising.
. I think the matter was not helped by the stance of the Minister of Health because however sophisticated the arguments of the President were, the Minister of Health in simplifying the arguments just tied it up into knots. The message that came across, and the more the President dug in his heels, the more he aligned himself with the dissident camp no matter how much he may argue that intellectually he was trying to do all sorts of efforts to deal with the African epidemiology (is it the right word?). In that situation we reached a huge impasse and a demobilisation of effort. Even civic action groups like TAC found themselves now in confrontation with government rather than working together. Even the issue of the pricing of the drugs and the battle with the pharmaceuticals became distorted by this position and the result is nowhere do you find in the forecasting and projections efforts to quantify and put into the forecast the impact of AIDS down the line.
. Two things have happened since then. One, we cannot underestimate the position that Madiba took publicly and Tutu has been taking publicly. We cannot underestimate the effect of the TAC stance in building a momentum to change that position. Where are we now? We're at the point where the ANC conference in Stellenbosch has led to a shift in the stance of the ANC government. How far is that going to be carried through? I don't know. I still think it's a struggle but I think that the stance is shifting. I see in today's papers that the AIDS activists who have been doing the sit-in have just called it off, I think they are saying diplomatically because of the appeal by the Minister of Health. That does not mean that they have come to an understanding with the Minister of Health but it is certainly that from the AIDS activists there is a stance that's saying we see the prospect of government changing its position so tactically we are prepared to back off from this sit-in because we hold out the hope that the stance of government is going to change.
POM. That government will follow the order of the Constitutional Court.
MM. Yes, and implement it, because the previous order they welcomed it but the implementation has become the problem and the minister's statement on the implementation and some of the MEC's, particularly Mpumalanga, were not helpful at all to the process.
POM. Don't get into AIDS. I just want to go back to investment because there was a survey done, and I will try to track it down, but there was a survey that indicated that among international investors that SA still fell into the category of an area, a country of uncertainty and the uncertainty factor was related to how AIDS was being dealt with, the impact of AIDS, and, two, at the time the study was being carried out the rand, particularly the volatility and fluctuations of the rand, were two hedges against investment here. So that two ways of making that autonomous variable less autonomous perhaps might be to deal with, as you well know, they don't make investments in areas they consider to be where there's uncertainty attached, where the level of uncertainty
MM. You can raise that matter in the context of foreign direct investment but I say the AIDS issue has a far greater reasoning that says you've got to wage this war against AIDS. It's that foreign direct investment may factor it in in its considerations. I don't see it as a very significant issue because AIDS is ravishing Angola, it's not raised as the uncertainty factor in Angola in the flow. So that's neither here nor there. I do not want to challenge that argument that it arises as a consideration in the investors' minds, I think that I would raise it still in the fundamental core that, guys, because we went into this state of denial we have (a) failed so far to make it a real war of the people against AIDS and (b) we have not been able to factor it in as a meaningful variable in our projections of the future in every area be it health services that you've got to provide, be it education, be it productivity in our economy and be it the skills that our economy needs. So it needs to be factored in and what I'm saying is that now on the AIDS issue the question of the war against HIV/AIDS (there needs to be) a movement in government stance.
. You raised two issues, one is making it a war against AIDS, two is factoring it in your forecasts in every arena of public and private life. I think that the two are inter-related. But it is crucial now and raises signs for some optimism that we are moving into that war phase. If government's stance shifts it has opened an obstacle that was blocking the opening of the war front against AIDS. It was confusing the public and it was even creating friction with the private sector where it sees the problem and wants to address it on its own, e.g. the mines. So that shift is taking place there but that shift will not be measurable only if you are carrying out an awareness war. It involves also treatment of those who are suffering, who are living with it and it all involves from national budget to all forecasting to incorporate it, including the private sector, and it involves things like the price of pharmaceuticals, the generics and all those things. But the two issues are the war, a shift in government's stances makes that war more realisable and it makes it more possible that government in its own forecasting begins to do it. And it's correct that people like you should raise the issue: why is your medium term expenditure framework, why is it that it does not have an item 'the impact of AIDS'?
POM. Especially since your department commissioned three years ago studies to estimate it.
MM. To estimate it. Sure.
POM. They only can be estimates, you're not going to get a model that's
MM. I've told you we've done it here in this group as a result of one segment pointing to a prevalence higher than we thought. We started a study, we've done the modelling and it's just waiting for the modelling exercise and its output and its forecast and its costing to go up to the executive before we are able to talk about it openly, but we have moved. But if government began to move all of us would begin to do it, not as something we are just doing on our own but as something we know is part of the national effort and it will enrich government's own forecast. Between the situation that was prevailing mid last year, 2002, and the situation as it is at the beginning of January 2003, there are now some grounds for optimism.
. You're looking at me cynically as if to say, Mac, you've done your best to defend this government. No, I'm talking from a country/global perspective. And I saw last night what Zambia is doing. I think at about one o'clock I watched SABC Channel Africa and there it said there's a special programme coming up on Zambia now making it a war against AIDS. Interesting. I didn't see the programme, it was just advertising the programme that one of these nights, they told the date and time, that there is this special programme dealing with how Zambia is now beginning to wage the war against AIDS and dealing with the steps that it is taking, but it showed in clips hospital beds with AIDS patients in Zambia.
POM. Well we will leave it there because we could spend the whole day going round in circles. Just to conclude this section on whatever, the discussion within the NEC on GEAR
MM. Oh yes, let's round that up on GEAR. Let me concede that while I think there were all these flaws, there are all the results issues of the effect of GEAR. Process-wise I think there is a legitimate criticism that GEAR got formulated in the perception of the public in the back rooms and got imposed and therefore the consultative processes to carry the alliance and the public into it was inadequate. I think there's an important message there in the development of democracy in this country. I am not advocating endless consultation but I think that the transition in SA from autocratic rule of apartheid to a democratic rule took place in the context that our deepening of democracy must accept consultation with all stakeholders and role players as a necessary part of the process of evolving positions. You can make the consultation shorter, you can sometimes make them longer, but you cannot avoid consultation.
POM. But the debates within we talked about labelling and it strikes me that the debate on GEAR/privatisation, whatever you want to call it since that's one of its major components, has become a matter of labelling, it's reduced itself to that.
POM. There is no intellectual debate.
MM. And there is no point in allocating fault because both sides of the debate have resorted to labelling.
POM. Did this begin in what I'm getting at is the cabinet accepted GEAR but in the NEC was the discussion about it far more heated and ideological?
MM. Yes, it kept cropping up in various NEC meetings and it kept at times being pushed under the carpet when it would surface. I can recall instances where it would rear its head, sometimes it would rear its head in informal discussion but never, never was it adequately addressed to say, OK chaps. You will remember when GEAR was announced, Trevor Manuel announced 'non-negotiable'. I think that contributed to the hardening of positions. All he needed to say was, and maybe it's easy to be wise in hindsight, all he needed to say is that we had certain pressures in government, we had to arrive at a position, we've taken it. Unfortunately, we've made a mistake, we've not engaged in adequate consultation. We are pursuing it but in the meantime within a structured way I am ready to come and explain its rationale and everything and let's debate it while government pursues it, but please, any disagreements, don't act against it because the consultations will take place over this period and to the extent that those consultations require any modification it's a modification of the data that you populate that model with. It's not a modification of the model itself, so I am prepared to go that far. And I think things would have been held differently. So in the NEC it popped up as debates from time to time and sometimes we debated a bit and then it passed away, sometimes it would be pushed under the carpet but always it would be said we will discuss this in the alliance, and the alliance never got down to discussing it as far as I know.
POM. Never discussed it properly?
MM. No, as far as I can see because by that time I'd moved out. I don't see that the alliance sat down and had a structured discussion on GEAR which led to a point where there are conclusions. Each time they came out of it to the public arena I just saw positions continuing to harden more and more. The privatisation debate to me should never have taken place. We had agreed with the unions on the National Framework Agreement at the time when I was in government, with the trade union leadership of COSATU, published it and we had filed it by agreement of government and COSATU with NEDLAC. All that was required was to continue with the procedures and objectives as stated in that agreement and if government felt that in some aspects the procedures were too cumbersome, table the issues and if COSATU felt that the implementation of that agreement was weakening here and there, table it and discuss it because the National Framework Agreement agreed to the restructuring of state assets but it stated procedures and conditionalities and defined the objectives of those restructuring.
POM. The National Framework Agreement was?
MM. Was signed between government it was around 1997/98. I was part of the government team. Alec Erwin was there, Stella was there, oh a cross section of ministers. We debated into the nights, day after day. We signed it, we created structures in accordance with it in the transport sector, we moved forward. And no matter what anybody says, whether the results have been wrong or right, Airports was done in that way with the agreement of the unions, Telkom's partial privatisation when Jay Naidoo was Minister of Telecommunications, was done with the agreement of the unions.
POM. Moving to the constitution when the National Assembly sat as the Constitutional Assembly, or was it the Constituent Assembly?
MM. Constitutional Assembly because some parties in this country didn't like the word 'Constituent' Assembly because it had been used in our first positions, so the compromise was we changed the name.
POM. That's like saying what was I amazed at recently? It was at the ANC conference when they sang the National Anthem and everybody dug into Die Stem.
MM. No, but on the Constitutional Assembly this word 'Constituent' Assembly, it's origins go back to the French Republic so it has had this republican tinge to it and when we put it in the Harare Declaration and everything and you go back to our call for a National Convention, so convention was looking like a bad word, constituent was looking like a bad word, we were saying it's going to be elected delegates. Oh, big problem, elected delegates! Is this your idea of a Constituent Assembly? Then when we saw the interim constitution all we said is that the two Houses of Parliament are the elected people so the two Houses sitting together will be that assembly. How do you argue against that? Somebody said, "Can we call it the Constitutional Assembly because it's going to write the constitution?" Fine. But all the elements of the Constituent Assembly, that it's going to write the constitution, that it's going to be made up of people elected by the population and then we had to add those constitutional principles that it will go to the Constitutional Court for certification, for compatibility with those principles. OK, OK, that's fine.
POM. If you look at the final constitution, and I'm sure I asked you this in an earlier interview and I could even dig up the question, in what ways did it significantly differ from the interim constitution and to whom would you accrue the gains and to whom the losses?
MM. I can't remember at the moment, Padraig, any substantive differences between the two. Sure, the chapter on interim measures is gone. Sure, there is a little more finer formulation of the relationship between central government, provincial government and municipal government, a little more checks and balances. There was still the need for that constitution, the final constitution to be certified by the Constitutional Court against the framework of the constitutional principles. I think there were refinements here and there particularly with regards to local government. I do not recall any significant substantive changes to the Bill of Rights. We retained the Bill of Rights being an integral part of the constitution. I think that there was a lot of fine tuning around some of these autonomous bodies like the Reserve Bank. No, when you ask the question at the moment I cannot recall any substantive issue.
POM. Well I have four specific categories here, I suppose I should ask the questions or put the questions down. One, the answer is obvious, what did the NP not get that it wanted?
MM. Oh we dropped away the civil service security because that was a five-year thing so that dropped away.
POM. The government of national unity.
MM. We dropped the government of national unity because it fell away in terms of the interim constitution.
POM. But the NP wanted to keep it.
MM. Now the NP wanted to perpetuate it.
POM. If De Klerk was so unhappy with it and felt himself demeaned and that the NP was not playing a really significant role and in a sense was being emasculated as a political party by its continued participation in the government of national unity, why would he have fought so strongly for its perpetuation?
MM. I think that was political jockeying. I think that when he wanted it in the final constitution he regarded it as an entrance that would allow for group rights to be still brought back, that if you removed that mandatory requirement for a government of coalition thereby you removed that opening. Yet in the meantime in practice in the existing government of national unity the forces on his side wanted him to pull out. And behind that, him to pull out, was a whole lot of political in-fighting going on in the leadership of the NP. I think the NP had not overcome within its own leadership the blaming phase, oh, so-and-so sold out at Kempton Park, oh so-and-so sold out here, oh so-and-so caused a problem. I think Delport, Hernus Kriel, I think Kriel definitely had ambitions.
POM. Was there anything that the NP got in the final constitution that it wanted and the ANC didn't really want to concede but gave in the spirit of accommodation?
MM. I think all the fundamental trade-offs had taken place at Kempton Park. I think the fundamental difference between Kempton Park and the Constitutional Assembly is that the balance of the forces participating had shifted dramatically. At Kempton Park you had 19 parties sitting around, government sitting as government and as NP, and I think that in Kempton Park the enormous battle was that government thought it had created a table where it was the overwhelming, the predominant force, and so the battle took place there around a table that looked like stacked against us and yet we had to find ways to prevail. So all the compromises took place there.
. In the Constitutional Assembly now with an elected set of representatives all the small parties had disappeared and those that came through in parliament were so small that they really even if they had the will they did not have the capacity to participate significantly. The NP came in still on a reasonable high that it could be a significant force. The technical argument that here are the constitutional principles agreed, here is the Bill of Rights agreed and here is now the constitution. Fundamentally the job is fine tune. You could not put a fresher experience on the table to say after the interim constitution we now have an experience of a reasonable length that allows us to say change this, change that. The table had changed completely and to the extent the NP would say today, 'I have a problem with that final constitution', they could not even now say it was not a legitimate and credible process. So I think sitting back now in 2003 no party can say that the Constitutional Assembly, I come out of it with deep grievances. No.
POM. Well it may only be a debating point, but wasn't it at that point in time that the approach of the NP was as far as possible to ensure that the interim constitution was in fact the final constitution and what you are saying is in a sense that's correct, there was a lot of fine tuning but what was agreed at Kempton Park with a little bit of fine tuning here was in fact the final constitution and that while the NP or De Klerk might have been pissed off that he didn't get permanent power sharing, permanent power sharing was never provided for in the interim constitution anyway?
POM. And he had signed off on that.
MM. And there was no hope that he could bring it back. No hope.
POM. Except you have the New National Party sitting in
MM. You see the time when we said 'interim' at Kempton Park, well before it was even agreed, the constitution, because there was a fear that what would be put into it would become a permanent blockage to real democracy being realised. But as the constitution was finally completed in November 1993 what was left? Composition of the cabinet, we made it a voluntary coalition and we made it terminal. How does cabinet function and take decisions?
POM. That was a required coalition.
MM. It was a mandatory coalition but voluntary for a party. If you got a certain threshold you had a right to be in it but you need not exercise that right. But it said terminal, five years. How cabinet should take decisions they wanted all sorts of mechanisms with vetoing structures, majority decision but in the spirit of consensus making. Who was to vote? Every person whatever their colour, male or female, at 18 I think, a universal franchise. Then the tussle became federal or unitary state. What emerged was a whole mixed bag. Federalists could walk in, walk out saying we got it. ANC certainly gave on many, many federal aspects, but ANC itself has also changed so that by the time they came to the final constitution many, many ANC people in parliament and in the structures within the provincial systems wanted more power for their province. So the debate no longer became do you want federalism or do you want a unitary state. So I am saying even that debate events had outstripped the debate.
POM. I just want to ask this on the NEC itself. For the first time you really had a change in 1991 in the character of the ANC. For decades it had been people in exile, now you had the participation and inclusion of people who had been in the mass movements here and the inclusion of people from other sectors, to some extent people who didn't know each other very well or their habits. How in its workings did the NEC of 1991 differ from the NEC of 1985 which also would have been a first because it included Indians and coloureds and whites for the first time?
MM. The big change well there are all sorts of small things, it became larger, 90 people, yes people that didn't know each other, all that. At Kabwe we didn't even know who we were who this one is called, this name, where does he come from? We didn't know. But you were in the camps in Angola, you were a soldier. I think the big change was the consciousness that our commitment to non-sexism now had to be manifested in the compositions. It was not an overnight change, we had already begun to move in that at least commitment in words in exile, here, but I think that in the post-1990 reconstitution of the ANC inside the country this impulse became firm and became one that you wanted to practically translate. And the interesting thing about that is that quite apart from the 30% quota that we put subsequently, even before we set the quota that consciousness had permeated a very large number of the delegates almost to the point where that consciousness did not have to be spoken of very sharply, there were still speakers who would slip into sexist language. The chap was still on his feet talking when there would be oohs and aahs and before the oohs and aahs had finished the chap would be embarrassed. To me that was an enormous shift which you could feel in the post-1991 era and it began to come through stronger and stronger. That's the big change for me.
. Non-racism, always there. Preceding every conference you will hear members, some so-called leaders, speaking intemperate, descending to racist language, like the one over Jeremy Cronin. I think Dumisane Mkwai was absolutely a rabid racist in what he said. But you look at Stellenbosch and the outcome, you look at who is elected and where they came up, you can't find a sign of it. Those jockeyings that start in that emotional way, I think politicians have a tendency to speak in intemperate language. There seems to be something in political posturing that lends to demagoguery. There is something about when you talk to an audience of 5000 people, some chemistry that happens to you that the more they applaud you the more you like to be outrageous, and some people then think that the baser things are the way to get away with things. It is what is now called between populism but all these words have shifting meanings. But I think that intemperateness almost seems to be a characteristic of politicians. Fortunately in SA whenever it has manifested itself in the ranks of the ANC it's always a minority where the outcome comes through.
POM. That can also lead to something equally as abhorrent and that is political correctness practised to an extent where it almost emasculates strong and vigorous debate.
MM. You know that's true but my impression, and this is a controversial one, I'm just thinking on my feet, it's just an idea that comes to me, the ANC has been at its vigorous best in debate in two situations, where it has faced deep divisions or where the person or persons at the topmost leadership of the ANC set the tone. At Kabwe OR systematically encouraged, even at the conference, debate. Now I don't want to become personal, there cannot be a finger pointed at a particular President of the ANC to say this one discouraged debate, all of them followed that pattern, that the issue be put on, let people debate and at the end of the debate you try to wrap it up and bring out a consensus position.
POM. There's a general consensus throughout the country, whether you're aware of it or not, that Thabo discourages debate. OK?
MM. How? This is what they don't know
POM. Do you know something the rest of us don't know?
MM. Yes. Read his speeches, it's the way he builds a statement which you're happy with but it's ambiguous when you try to unpack it. Secondly, he brings a formidable intellectual force in the argument. Quite often I believe when you look back that intellectual force has brought in anecdotal information outside of your knowledge and therefore presented in a way where you're not ready to say, wait a minute, is this anecdotal or substantial? So it becomes almost intellectually overwhelming. And to the extent we say there is no debate let us acknowledge part of the debate is that the people allow themselves to be overwhelmed, not because
POM. He discourages it.
MM. - he's got a stick that he wields. That's why he can also say with certain legitimacy, "What do you mean no debate?"
POM. That's compliancy. It's called acquiescence.
POM. It's called having your own people around you so they will not challenge you.
MM. It therefore raises a more fundamental issue, whether consensus seeking and consensual politics is not also something that has a limited a shelf life. I don't know. We live in a country at the moment where consensus seeking became a necessary instrument at CODESA but are we not generalising it and incorporating it into our practice so far that we're now elevating it to be a hallmark of democracy?
POM. A principle rather than a ?
MM. I don't know the answer but I know that we are contributors to that lack of debate.
POM. Well was there a difference in perspectives of those who had been in exile and those who were home grown?
MM. No. I don't think there was a difference in perspective. There was no difference in strategic goals. I don't think there were big disagreements about tactics but I think that we did begin to enter the era of normalisation of politics and therefore career orientation, which is part of normal politics, become a feature of life. I think much of it, the factions at the moment have not been around policy but simply promotion of one's careers.
POM. Sorry, many of the - ?
MM. The factionalism, the divisions have been about careers dressed up under the guise of some larger good. It is an inability to accept that seeking a career is in the nature of if you regard politics as a profession, part of it
POM. The same thing applies to struggle. I've been re-reading, it'll be in another session, your interviews with Howard Barrell, and I don't want to get into them now but one of the questions I'll be raising is that from your remarks to him it comes across very clearly that what was motivating many people on many occasions was not moving the struggle forward but keeping the struggle exactly where it was and they were doing so for positions of power and influence and patronage and status within the ANC itself in its little cocoon in Lusaka.
MM. Yes, except that they could not defend I'm saying the normal ambition of a career today just (break in recording) In the struggle period if you said openly that my ambition is ten years down the line to be the President of the ANC it was incompatible with the environment, but today it should be normal for a person to say I'm going into parliament because I hope in ten years to be the President of the country.
POM. But that doesn't mean that a person in the struggle wasn't saying to himself that in ten years I intend to be and therefore I have to go about it in these sort of subterranean manoeuvrings?
MM. Sure. All I'm saying is you could not regard that statement of ambition as a normal participant. So the change now is for a person who says that, just recognise it as normal to be saying, normal to be entertained and say now with that career orientation how do we regulate ourselves so that that ambition is placed within a framework of the conduct that is acceptable.
POM. Just taking back to, to finalise this, and with Archbishop Tutu who called it first the gravy train. For a number of years when issues of corruption were raised the government or the ANC would say why don't you talk about the corruption that went on during the apartheid era? Why do you just point to our corruption and anyway we are better. It's being built out of proportion. In fact at this point it's not being blown out of proportion. It's sad to see the number of people from the past who genuinely were engaged in the struggle to free this country who have in one way or another allowed themselves to become corrupted in their positions or who have taken advantage of their positions to engage in corrupt practices. Why? Why did it become so easy?
MM. I personally think in part it's because of the nature of our transition. Our transition was built on moving forward in a co-operative framework. We therefore had to create mechanisms where the old and the new guard were brought in, the old order and the new order. Usually when there's a turmoil the new order even if it is saying in all its orientation appropriates certain moral high ground to itself and one of those moral high grounds is service to the people. That was diluted in SA. You did not get that message coming through that there is a moral measuring rod by which our practice will be different from the practice of the old orderbecause if you said that you were like saying to the people in the government of coalition, you there are that old order, so that message got fudged and that message did not get carried through into the public arena as a consistent message and it's one of the errors.
POM. But there has to be something more.
MM. Sure, there must be more. I am sure we can sit down and discuss several elements of it but I am trying to say what is the element that is different from other situations that is peculiar to us? Here we were sitting in this government, you didn't want to say let's do it different from the way they did it. You said I want to do it different policywise, we didn't say I want my practice to be different.
POM. But over nine years, almost on a daily basis you will see in the papers an article about a scam, about millions missing here, millions missing there, millions unaccounted for. It's a continuous thing.
MM. It's not the problem of the millions missing. The problem is there's something that seems to be inhibiting those in power from punishing people when that happens and punishing the people in higher positions more severely than the people in lower positions. It's as simple as that to me.
POM. What you're really saying is that it's like committing a crime. If you are 'a career criminal' the odds of getting caught and convicted weighed against the possible rewards from committing a burglary or a robbery or whatever, on a rational level you would choose the robbery when you weighed the probabilities in the same way as it applies to corruption.
MM. You're not seeing the top guys. I think the higher you are in leadership the stronger the sanction should be because when you impose sanction against a person at the top the impact of that message throughout society is more meaningful than if you take a chap who has robbed somebody of their handbag here and give him one year and the chap at the top you say R20,000 fine, and the chap is still in the same social circles, he's still in the cocktail circuit. There's something inhibiting the powers that be at the moment. They say they want to punish but the people are saying we don't see the punishment. And then in a defensive way they say, here, let me give you a list of so many civil servants who have been fined. But you say, I haven't seen the DG, the director, the minister go. This is a problem. When you're changing the moral fibre it is even more important, when you're redressing this fractured fabric of society and re-stitching it and bringing a sense of morality it's necessary that you should be harsher at the top. It's necessary that it should be publicly seen and that's not happening at the moment. No matter how many people are being arrested and charged there is no sense you know what society is, that pressure is coming from the top and being applied at the top. That's the problem and maybe it's because of some defensive, something that is placing those in power in a defensive state that says, oh if I fire this person he's a comrade. I think we should be gentle with comrades but I think also what is the substance of the crime. I think that there should be a sense that when you've robbed the public you are abusing a trust that is fundamental to the career of politics because you can only restore the balance if it is acknowledged that the profession of politics is built on the assumption that you are there as a servant of the public. You may advance your own career but it is the nature of the profession that says its rationale for existence is that it is serving the public.
POM. But I was talking to Khetso yesterday. One of the consistent themes that emerged in our conversation was he saying, yes, this won't happen or that won't happen unless the political will is there, and his overall assessment of government was that there is no political will in this country.
MM. Yes, I would expect him to formulate that and I would support that formulation in many instances and that includes this question of corruption. The test of whether that political will is there is how you apply it to your closest colleagues, not how you're going to apply it to somebody you don't know who's an anonymous face. So if you call it political will I would support that view and I say that that political will is absent because it seems to me that the powers that be are too often when these things crop up, in a defensive posture. It's like closed shops.
POM. Is there still this syndrome and it goes back to what angered you over Vula and that is that when you dressed down some members of the NEC because of their public comments, your position was that you do not attack a comrade, you are degenerate in a struggle, you don't disown a comrade, that is not what this is about particularly given the situation you were in then when you knew you were in real negotiations, you were in that in between sticky stage. Is there still that in public at senior levels, at middle levels in public life here that if you are a comrade or have been a comrade that there's a loyalty factor that kicks in, that even if you've been engaged in some correct practice for me to expose it would bring disparagement on the ANC so I let it go?
MM. No, that was not the issue. The issue was you were still at war. When your comrade runs into trouble against the enemy who do you give the benefit of the doubt to, the enemy or your comrade? I say you give it to your comrade because you don't have access to the facts. The situation is different that we're talking about now. Now you're in power, you're living in a democracy, you have to create a sense of accountability and you have to create a sense of moral conduct in everybody. That's not who's the enemy. The enemy is lawlessness, the enemy is lack of morality and respect for life. Against that enemy don't give me the benefit for corruption. But you have it.
. You've triggered off something funny in me. I don't sympathise with Jeremy, I have many reservations about Jeremy Cronin but the language used in attacking him robbed those who criticised him of the language he used in that interview, he used a nice catch phrase. To me it's not as if Zimbabwe is not descended into tyranny, to me the problem is that while you use a nice phrase on our doorstep you made it sound as if that form of corruption democracy is an African phenomenon, yet it happens. It's happened in China, it's happened in Russia, it's happened in other countries and it's wrong to make it sound as if it's a feature of Africa. So he used a very emotional term, very close, but having used that term the attack on him was as demagogic and then became racist. Then, I want to avoid being personal, but Jeremy is the only person who in the 1999 elections at Wits University published in Business Day and personally attacked me for my role as Minister of Transport. He, by name, said, "Mac's policies are a disaster for the people."
POM. This is in nineteen - ?
MM. 1999. And he saw me subsequently, he never even came and said, Mac, I'm sorry, it was an off the cuff remark, I was in a corner.
POM. Was he quoted?
MM. Yes quoted in Business Day at a Wits University debate. But then go back, there was a time when I was in the government, a minister, and Saki when I was abroad attacked me personally in the most vituperative language on TV. I came back and saw clips of it. He said, "The Minister has a hidden agenda and I am going to expose him. He was a member of the NEC. Yes he's CEO of Transnet, he's attacking the Minister of Transport in public. Nothing happened to him, nobody said, Comrade, you justify your remarks or you withdraw them.
. So the environment began to grow, so when Jeremy comes along and starts using this 'white messiah', immediately putting him into a position that if you're white you're some lesser person. And this he's saying about a fellow colleague in the ANC who has been longer in jail than Dumisane has ever been. Nobody says to him that that is unacceptable
. So I think that the thing that we're talking about here is firstly you've got to set the tone, you've got to set the pace too and you've got to show that this is not an issue where you can invoke an enemy to be able to evoke a solidarity because to fight corruption, to fight abuse of public trust, the enemy in that case is a negative social phenomenon and when you then give that person the benefit of the doubt you are actually giving the person the benefit of the doubt as against the public interest. So it's a different scenario and I think you've got to make a distinction between being in war. If I'm sitting here in the trench and there are the opposing forces, if one of my comrades in this trench fool-heartedly steps out into the open terrain to attack the enemy and gets shot, am I supposed to sit back and say you bloody sod while he is writhing there in pain, maybe only shot in his leg but now going to die, am I supposed to say, good for you, let them kill you? Or am I going to say to my fellow soldiers here, can you train your fire here while I go and pull him back into the trench to save his life? I could say train your fire there and let me go and pull him back, at the risk of my own life, but I don't say bloody bastard, you should not have got out of this foxhole so you pay the price. That's a fundamental concept of comradeship and solidarity to me. And yes, while politically I've stayed with the ANC, I still support it, make no mistake my human respect for some of my comrades in the leadership is zero. It won't change because that's the position that I saw in the line of fire and to me that was that, it's lost.
POM. You have so often when you've talked about setting the tone, you have summits on moral regeneration, it's now almost become a cliché to call for an RDP of the soul, but the tone is not set. You had all these editorials that appeared
MM. It's nice in words. Words are actions.
POM. - five months ago after the spate of child rapes.
MM. I can turn round with these twenty soldiers that we entered the trench, I can say how we talked about the need to be together, to act in unison, to train the fire on the orders of our commander and how to secure ourselves. All fine in theory but under the heat of that battle somebody is going to do something that is against what we agreed. The test is when that person who ran out of the trench, thinking he's still coming to grips with the enemy, but shot in the leg and lying there in that open ground, the test is what I do. I said to them we must all stand together and we are stronger together and even when we train our fire it's more effective if we train it uniformly. Now I'm the one that has the duty to say now, chaps, we're going to rescue that guy. You train your fire this side, you do that, I'm going to pull him. And then they said to me, wait a minute, you're our commander, you are being as reckless if you go to rescue him. You stay here and keep command, I'm going. But it's the action. All the talk is theory and training if it's not backed up by action. Where's the respect? It loses it's power.
POM. Well this, and I'll go back to it again, but I would say you're hitting now on themes that you very explicitly talked about in your interviews with Howard, that among many of the people whose names are legends of the struggle it was all talk, talk and talk that never got translated into an action. I'm leaving that to hang there because I'll go into it later.
MM. With this caveat. Even when I say that there are colleagues of mine that I've lost respect for I would be wrong if from that position I then claimed that some of those individuals could not regain the respect. I would be wrong if I did not now acknowledge that in every individual there is the potential to correct themselves. Whether I would be big enough to acknowledge that a particular individual who lost my respect has regained it, whether I would be big enough I don't know, but nothing has happened since then that those individuals that I lost respect for have done anything to regain it. But I must leave it open that people always change, but I'm acknowledging that I'm not sure whether I'll be big enough to acknowledge it. That doesn't mean I won't do things with them but don't ask me to put my life on the line for his life.
POM. Just before we leave the taxi wars became a kind of a standard feature, they're still going on, they're unending. What did you identify as the problem in the industry that led to so much violence?
MM. It was an industry that was allowed to grow up in anarchy by the NP government. As simple as that.
POM. Did you have taxi wars during the NP government?
MM. In the NP days the NP stimulated them actually from the time the NP encouraged the formation of the SA Black Taxi Association as a buffer against us guerrillas. They used taxi drivers to report on our presence and movements. They encouraged that Association, but when we politically won SABTA to support the Namibian independence the Nats found that they had a problem in the child that they had created.
POM. But here we're talking about 1985 when there were no kombis.
MM. It started up with a sedan car being allowed to be pirate taxis but when the Association was created, the SA Black Taxi Association, the government gave its blessings and in that taxi order were people who had deserted us in 1960, were people who were gangsters, criminals, and the government security forces found it convenient to recruit many of them to become their informants to report on our guerrilla movements. They were happy with that so lawlessness was there and anarchy but as long as it was utilisable against us they were happy, but when Namibian independence came SABTA sent hundreds of kombis to do ferrying of voters to enable the Namibian election to take place. From that moment you had a proliferation of associations growing up and now the anarchy was not just between
POM. Why from that moment?
MM. Because the government feared it had lost the collaborationist stance of the Association to a stance of support for the liberation struggle and it now said, it encouraged any group to grow up as an association where the wars became between associations. In that condition of anarchy it just ran riot, doing it's own thing for their own benefits and the police would just close an eye.
POM. Were the police part of the problem?
MM. At the minimum closing an eye but the security forces were part of the problem.
POM. While you were minister?
MM. By the time I'm minister and I want to bring order to this industry, huge vested interests, collaboration by government departments with those criminal elements, in the police force, all over, in local governments, in licensing offices, everywhere, but it included the police and it included the intelligence section of the police.
POM. Now were they colluding as owners?
MM. In the case of black policeman they were owners and the others they were getting rewards.
POM. The intelligence services were involved?
POM. For what purpose?
MM. Because previously the intelligence services from the police side were using them as informers and eyes and ears in the struggle against the liberation forces.
POM. And now?
MM. Now just to make money, just to be able to perpetuate their jobs, justify their existence. I never saw an intelligence report when I was in government that was meaningful of the taxi violence. I had to sit down and knock their heads and say I'll write a list of 30 names of the leading warlords and I'll turn the page over so you can't see it, you write your list. "Oh no we can't."I say, "You are doing intelligence work, you've got informants, you've got agents all over, write your list. Why can't we write a list of 30 thirty people and compare your list and my list and agree that here in both lists there are ten names that repeatedly appear. Now get down to it and do your job and get the information so that I can charge those ten. And you, police, lock them up." It didn't happen.
POM. Now would you not ring your colleague?
MM. I called my colleagues, the Minister of Justice, the Minister of Police, and I sat down and we signed an agreement.
POM. And they didn't follow up?
MM. Oh they followed up, we set up a joint task force. The police set up a task force, a presidential unit. Nothing happened. "What's happening, Minister?" We were trying to get them resources, we need safe houses, they need vehicles, they need clandestine houses, trying to get them all that. Let's have a report, call him here. Comes here, "I'm doing this, I'm doing that." "Hey, I told you, where's the list of the top ten suspects? Are you busy wanting resources throughout the country?" I had a list of the ten and the ten are in high places, get resources for those ten, watch them and let's see. "Ja, ja, ja, we're busy." Then they locked up some people, a leading warlord in Cape Town locked up. The case comes to court, drags on, drags on, docket disappears, case is inefficiently prepared, the chap walks scot free. What happened? In the end I said to my colleagues in government, "Ministers, close the bloody unit. Close that unit. It's made up of the wrong people."
POM. Did you get a report?
MM. I told my colleague, the Minister of Safety & Security, I said, "Listen, that chap there in your Crime & Intelligence Unit on taxis, that's a bloody Security Branch man from the past. He's a bloody corrupt bastard." I said, "But it's your job, you've got to get rid of him."
POM. And nothing happened?
MM. Ja, ja, ja. Maybe he didn't believe me. I went to the Minister of Justice, I said, "Join in the meeting, I want to fast track this process." He joined in the meeting. We called the press and we announced to them that we've decided now to work together, taxi warlords your days are numbered, we're on top of it. Nothing happened.
POM. So again it was a case of if I
MM. Lack of political will.
POM. And if I wanted to be a taxi warlord if I said my chances of enriching myself versus my chances of going to jail, the probabilities are strongly in favour of being able to enrich myself.
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. You're using this kind of whole excuse of psychotherapy, you're using it now to your own advantage. Oh I've got to see my psychotherapist, we've got to cut and you're here. Oh I've got to see him twice.
MM. These are difficult questions, Padraig. One needs to be cautious not to be overwhelmed by the moment.
POM. That's why I send it back to you for comment and for review, not to change the content but one can always look at the language. You are always free to look at the language in which you put something and to say, oh that's excessive language, in fact the excessiveness of the language takes away from the point I was trying to make.
MM. The validity of the point. And one has to always ensure that validity doesn't get lost by the emotions of the moment and the most difficult thing is by your own ego, in my position. It's been a great life, many painful moments, many bitter moments, but nobody can live a life if you allow those painful, bitter moments to overwhelm your consciousness. When you came in I was talking to somebody on the phone who was saying, here's a job offer that I've got, should I take it up? It was an MP, and I said to her it's an interesting job but have you got the passion to do it? She said yes. And I said, "As long as there's a potential for your passion to grow in your job. If it's not there don't do it." And this chap called me just now about my affairs from another division of the bank, "I'm thinking of doing this thing." I said, "Listen, please select something better as a potential for your passion to grow. If it doesn't have that potential do not take it. Nothing else matters because you will never be fulfillingly engaged if you cannot generate the passion."
POM. A continuing feature of your life is (i) the existence of these passions and (ii) your ability to find ways to express them.
MM. And to avoid particular impediments from -
POM. So to a degree for all the incredibly dark experiences you've gone through, you've been in one sense extraordinarily lucky in the sense that most people grow up, go to school, have to take a job whether or not they're interested in it, get stuck in a job.
MM. Just grinding away.
POM. And grind their lives away, but that's their life.
MM. That is one of the enduring, valid points made by Marx when he brought up the category of the alienation predicated on the fact that everything had become commoditised and he traced it down to the production, I don't know which examples he used, but I say just the making of a shoe. There was a stage in society where the craftsmen made the shoe from start to finish and could see the finished product so that you could feel, but the modern production line with the conveyor belt you're just stamping the eyelets in, you never see the finished product, and a huge alienation and of commodities takes place. Now you can't cry about that, it's the nature of modern society but the point about that is that you need to find ways to compensate so that people can feel passionate about their lives because once everything denies them any passion in life, their work doesn't give them passion, for God's sake the next challenge in this world is that people must treat leisure time as something that is so valuable that you need to skill yourself how to use your leisure time.
POM. Well I hope this country doesn't follow what they have done in the US which is seven hours of television a day.
MM. You even eat your meal in front of a TV. It's no different than sitting at a conveyor belt. That's why I was so chuffed, I haven't done anything for my kids to help them there, but when my daughter left on this holiday the first time, well not the first time, but this time alone with her gang of friends and a few days before she left I said, "Joey, what's your programme, what are you going to do? You're going to be in Cape Town for ten days, what are you doing there?" And she said, "Dad, you know we have a problem, we are five of us, there is no activity that does not have one person or other in the group who has a fear of that activity, but we're going to be doing it." I said, "What do you mean?" She said, "We want to go abseiling but there's so-and-so who's scared of abseiling. We're going to be doing kloofing but there's this other one who is scared of kloofing. Then we want to do this but this other one is scared of that." And when I listened to her list I said, "What a wonderful thing my baby." She said, "Why?" I said, "I don't see here that every night you are going to go to a club, just clubbing." She says, "Dad where are you living? We're not going to go clubbing, we're going to have a ball." So I said, "But is there no club?" "Oh yes there is one night we're going clubbing out of ten." I just said to myself I don't care if you're jumping off cliffs and you're bungee jumping and you're jumping down waterfalls and you're going sand-boarding and you're going bicycling, you're wonderful. You're just simply too wonderful for me because without any guidance from us parents and you can see now, I didn't even know what was abseiling but I say they are distributing their activities, their leisure with such action-packed fun things where if they had to just do what was common denominator and nobody had a fear nothing would happen. But they were to bolster each other but they were doing active, variant things. She said, "And we're going to the Botanical Gardens and we're going to climb Table Mountain from that route, from the Botanical Mountains"' I said, "Climbing Table Mountain?" "Yes, on foot. Then we're going to be too tired, we'll come down with the cable car." Fine, fine.
. Now we should be overwhelmingly showing our kids today in the schools how to spend their free time, not by lecturing them but by involving them and the fun of doing all those activities and we should be doing everything not to make them just stick to oneactivity.
POM. But most children don't grow up in the environment that Joey grew up in or in the environment in which she chooses her friends.
MM. I agree with you but the only thing is don't move to the point where you say poverty and deprivation deny you the opportunity. I grew up poor but I could go cycling on my own, nobody told me to go cycling. I could go fishing, I could take a quarter loaf of bread and go away for the whole weekend, but that quarter loaf of bread when I was really tired and I sat down to eat it, tasted like the most palatial meal. The point about it is, yes, it limits it but I'm saying in our schools, in our activity we should be exposing young people to that because that's going to be an important component of the quality of their lives against the alienation that the majority will experience in the workplace. What fun is there to be working in a huge complex like this? 30,000 people. You must feel you're just insignificant. So fulfilment is the attitudes which you have here at the workplace but more important also, what do you do when you leave the workplace? Does it compensate for that alien issue which is inherent in that work structure? I think that's one of the most crucial things because I don't know how to spend my leisure time. I didn't know what it was to have a holiday. Leisure time is going to be one of the crucial determinants of humankind's future.
POM. When one sees the model out there of what people do one is not encouraged.
MM. Because besides the alienation that takes place in the workplace from what you're producing, there is also the professionalisation of leisure time so that if you're playing soccer you must only play soccer, if you're playing tennis you must be going to coaching and it's to become the top tennis player so that every damn thing from your diet to everything you're thinking is tennis. That's not leisure, that's work and this is what happens so you've got professionalisation and this whole separation of the producer from what he's producing. That's why I feel so hurt even in our inter-personal interactions, I know I like to keep being flippant and joking but in the service industry which has become the biggest employer, be decent to the people who are serving you, make their day, man. Don't let them go home feeling that, Jesus, they were just serving a bunch of ogres who just feel that because they've got the money they can just order them about and make them feel smaller and smaller. I just find it so offensive because I say why should that person feel that they must do their work with some passion? You see it all over and in SA the complication was that it was also a black/white divide. That's why even when I'm being bloody flippant I don't care whether Philippa walks in, this lady walks in, I've never met her, say something that makes them happy. I don't understand the need for that lack of
POM. Sorry, the bus drivers invaded?
MM. Invaded Struben Street, blockaded it with buses, abandoned the buses in the street, all the corridors of the street were blocked, hundreds of buses and about 6000 of them now congregated in front my office shouting slogans, carrying banners, demanding to see me. And I said to Khetso, "What are their demands?" He says, "Well we've gone down there, they say they want to put their demands to you, to the minister." So he doesn't know what the demands are. He says, "I've offered them to select a delegation and come up to your office and meet you. They refused." So I said, "What do you suggest I do?" He says, "I think you should go down and see them." So he got a megaphone, get it, come on, let's go. His confidence in me, my confidence in his judgement that coincides with my instincts, OK. We go down there, they're heckling away, people are shouting all sorts of epithets. Get hold of this megaphone, get onto a little bit of a makeshift raised place, I don't know whether a car or something, and I address them. I say, "I am told you've got grievances. I am sure you have." "Yes!" "I'm told you want to see me." "Yes." I said, "Well, the door is open and I'm saying to you two things, number one, appoint a delegation to come and sit down and discuss with me, people that you choose, maximum so many. Number two, before that meeting takes place lift this blockade, let the traffic move easily and disperse. Let's have an orderly discussion, proper listen and we talk." A few slogans here and there, Amandla, the cheering. Some were shouting, "Oh no!" I said, "What's wrong with you? Do you want us to run the country or do you want us to mess up this country?" Quite tough language. "It's enough, get your delegation, I want them in my office in 15 minutes. The rest of you, I want the blockade lifted before they walk to my office and I want you to disperse." They dispersed and all the white civil servants were saying, "Shit! What is this? This is a thing that we used force, would get your arms and teargas them."
. Of course that's not the end of the story, those buses left and they had complaints against the Minister of Public Enterprises who was running Escom then. From there they drove to Escom.
POM. A different response.
MM. They burnt down the buildings at Escom.
POM. They what?
MM. They burnt the buildings down at Escom.
POM. That's a slightly different response.
MM. The Escom leadership didn't want to see them. I tell you, Padraig, this life
POM. Yes but I would say give you a crowd and a challenge and you're running towards the crowd.
MM. No I don't think it's because even a crowd if you don't allow them to boil over, they like people who are courageous and they like straightness. They don't want long things, they don't want you to fudge the issues. They want you to say yes, there are bloody problems, man, but let's talk about it, let's find a way forward and let's do it with one thing we want to build this country. You're not denying that there is something behind their anger and that's the essence of it and I think that they are always generous unless you've allowed the situation to become so inflamed that it's too late after that. So it was not a question of Khetso waiting until the thing had boiled over. He was able to say to me, "They have assembled there, I went down there, I proposed a way forward with the leadership. They turned it down", and he came straightaway to say because he knew he could come and I suppose he would say I knew if I went to Mac he wasn't going to hide. Perhaps he had in his mind that the only way forward is Mac address them but he knew that the issue would arise and I would say yes, it's right to go and meet them. The fact that they are saying go to hell, apparently they swore at Khetso and chased him away.
. Then there was the other time in the early stages of the taxi thing, Khetso says he's organising a conference of all the taxi representatives throughout the country, 250 to 300, we paid for that, the consultation meeting and we had it at the Volkswagen Centre at Midrand on a Saturday. So Khetso comes and briefs me, this conference is on, we're going to be putting our proposals there of the way forward, etc. OK, good, I support you. He said, "No, Mac, I want you to come and make the opening address and then you leave and then you come back to make the closing address. The rest I and my team will manage the discussions." I said, "Great." So Saturday morning comes, we go off to the VW Centre, the auditorium is packed but I make sure I go there ten minutes early and there are still delegates hanging around and I read the chat light-heartedly, assemble, I've got a speech Khetso helped prepare. I speak to them, I address them and I tell them that now carry on with your conference, I'll come back this afternoon, excuse me, and I go off.
. Now as I'm going out, I said, "What time do you want me back?" Khetso says, "Conference should be over by about half past three, so you're free until then." I said, "Fine." Eleven o'clock a phone call, Khetso, he says, "They've hijacked the conference." So I said, "What do you mean?" He says, "Shortly after you left as we went on with the meeting, about half an hour into the meeting they put a proposal from the floor that they needed to caucus amongst themselves for a few minutes. So I allowed them and I and the officials left the room. The caucus has not stopped, they have decided in their caucus to continue the meeting without us and they are not letting us back into the room and they are having their conference, so they've taken over the conference." I said, "What are you going to do?" He said, "Well I'm waiting, I thought I should just inform you of this. I am going to leave them till lunch time and when they have their lunch and they reassemble I'm going in." I said, "Good, when do you want me?" He said, "I'll let you know at lunch time." During the lunch time he hears from the delegates that they have concluded their meeting, that when they resume at lunch time they want Khetso there and when Khetso is there what they want to do is they want to read out a riot act to Khetso, a set of ultimatums, take it or leave it. So I said, "What do you think you should do?" So he says, "Well I have to go back there and I have to hear them." So I said, "OK, I'm on my way, I'll be joining you."
. So I rush, I get there, the conference has resumed after lunch. There's Khetso on the platform busy taking notes at one end of the table and there's a chap at the microphone in the middle of each issue, he was a preacher so he really got these guys going. Every point he itemised the point, stated their position, put their demand to me and gave me on some 48 hours on others two weeks, on some seven days, we want your response, this is our demand. And to each one he puts it to the audience, he says, "I'm summarising", and Khetso is busy and they have told Khetso, "You record it now." He's giving it ad lib on the hoof and each section, "Is that correct?" "And this one we give him 48 hours for a response." Phew! I go sit next to Khetso and he whispers to me, he says, "Well this is what's happening." I said, "OK. You've got film slides?" He said, "Yes." I say, "Get ready, start preparing slides of a cluster of issues and start preparing in each topic what is the way forward." And there's no time to consult what the issues are. He says, "Why?" I said, "No, I'm taking over this meeting." He says, "How?" I said, "Let's see, I don't know."
. Anyway, the speaker goes on and then what does he say? He says, "That concludes our demands, the conference is over, delegates drive safely, speedy journey home"' He's closed the meeting. I jump up, I rush to the microphone, I said, "Hold on, you're not leaving. You've put your demands, it's recorded. Now the meeting starts because I am responding to you." Everybody is looking, what the hell is this? And somebody shouts, "No, we're going." "No, I paid for this conference. You will at least have the courtesy to hear me out." Some people are mumbling, "OK, OK, it's Mac." "Khetso, have you got slide one ready?" He says yes. I don't even know what's on the slide. Put it on the machine, projector, put it up, I'm looking at it for the first time. I say, "Is this an issue that you put up?" Yes. OK. Now from just the topic on the slide I work out what the issue is in my mind, raise the matter. Now on this matter I don't come to the part that they have put 48 hours for response. Now what's the issue here? In my mind the issue is this or this or this. Do you guys agree? Somebody heckles, "Hey chaps, let's go." So I say to the chap, I spot his face, "What's your problem? Are you scared to discuss?" And I turn to the audience, "Are you people such cowards that you are afraid to talk like grown ups? You want to run away? Is that the cowardice you have? Is this how we fought apartheid? Come on, you want to run, run. You, you're the one that said let's go, do you want to leave? Are you a coward? Go." Everybody bursts out laughing, everybody is laughing. I said, "Now great, guys, at least we can laugh. Let's talk and you, don't worry, sit down, sit down. You want to cause trouble you're welcome", because I have seen them isolating him. "By the way if you want to heckle please do so and just put your hand up, I'll call you to the microphone to do the heckling so that everybody can hear." And everybody is now laughing.
. Then I come back and I say, "Now on this one all I have is a note from Khetso, the way forward is this process. Nonsense." I said, "No", and I'm blocking the slides bit by bit, "The way forward chaps is to follow a process involving you." Somebody else heckles, "Ah we don't want a process." I said, "But you're going to be in it. What's your problem?" "No, you're going to pick." I said, "No, no, no, you, you must serve on that task force." "No not me." I said, "Why? I'm saying let the biggest troublemaker here stand up and we'll put him in the team. Does anybody have a problem with it?" And of course I can see amongst themselves they realise that that one is a troublemaker even amongst them. So I see one chap he's unhappy, so I say, "Oh, you people realise he's a troublemaker amongst yourselves too, so you don't have confidence in him?" I said, "I'm prepared to put him there, are you prepared to vote him there? And by the way, are you prepared to serve on that body?" The chap said, "No." I said, "What's happened? I thought you want to solve the problems, you want to take over my conference. Now I'm giving you a chance to take over the process. What's your problem?"
. On my feet on that platform I negotiated every point, but the strong thing about Khetso was that I had now negotiated all the key issues and got them to agree. Now I was worked up and I was giving them a bit of a lecture and Khetso sensed that, wait a minute, you've got agreement on all the fundamentals, don't overshoot now because if you start going to the technical minor points they might start rumbling. And him, no offence, I took no offence because I said that's the judgement somebody else must make, I can't make it, I'm negotiating on the hoof. And Khetso just walked up to the microphone, he said, "I think we are at the point where the conference is over." That was enough for me, so I say, "Yes, can we now close this conference? We're right at the point on how to move forward on every issue, I undertake to carry out every part that I want to and I expect you to rise to the challenge. Are we agreed? Can we close this conference?" "Yes, yes, yes." Finished.
. So I am saying there's goodwill there and you can't often carry it on your own. You need a team of people and had it not been for Khetso sensing that, right, we've achieved everything, all the key things have been achieved, now don't and obviously it's going through his mind, we've gone beyond our expectations so don't now try to get the last ounce out of it. And you must have people who have the courage to say in front of everybody that I think we should close it, interrupting me but feeling free enough that he can interrupt me. That was a hell of an issue.
POM. You enjoyed every minute.
MM. Every minute of it. And when I left here they had arrived in their Mercs and at that time I had the Jetta, the VW car, and they had arrived in their Mercedes Benz and BMWs and everything, and I had arrived just with a driver, no other bodyguards. When I'm leaving the conference you should have seen, as my car is going past, overtaking somebody, others are coming and overtaking me, hooting away, "Oh Mac, Oh Mac!" And I'm busy saying, "Where's the preacher? Where's the preacher?"
POM. Well I've got Claudia saying on the occasion when you ran out of gas in The Wilds or whatever that she was scared stiff, where would we get gas, our cover is going to be blown, the only thing you were saying was, "See, you screwed up." You had an argument about it.
MM. What were you saying about Ivan and his wife? That they're on the way to Hermanus?
POM. Yes, and I'll speak to them tonight. And I have Leanne calling the others. When I got home now I'll make some calls. I'm seeing Ivan Pillay at
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Split testing: A powerful method to increase your open and click rate
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How you can improve your email campaigns with split testing
Here is the technique I use, and I have results with it.
I must tell you I have a big list, and I segment it according to various criteria.
So when I send an email, I divide the segment to whom I want to send an email into three parts. 25%, 25%,50%
I send 25%,25% of the segment at the morning testing subject lines, CTA, or some parts in the email (depending on what I want to split test). Then, finally, I send the last email to 50% of the segment at noon (business email) or night (if I promote affiliate product) with the winning subject line, CTA, or another part of the email.
In this case, 75% of the segment gets the winning subject line, CTA, or another part of the email, and the open and click rate of the email is bigger.
I encourage you always to split test your email campaigns.
Here is what you can split test
This is the most used feature in split testing. You need to create two subject lines and send them to your target audience. You will continue to use the winning subject line in the following emails ( if you have an automated email campaign) or in the next broadcast (if you use 25%,25%,50% principle).
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The mil-dot reticle uses a crosshair pattern with four 0.25 millimeter dots on each axis. With these simple dots, a trained user can make range measurements that allow precise targeting and wind drift compensation. Although this can be done with laser range-finders which require batteries and extra gear to carry, for the gun enthusiast, adding this unique scope to your arsenal is a skill to embrace.
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BASIC SCRIPTURES Our Manna Daily 19 July 2023
BASIC SCRIPTURE: JOB 42: 10-17
10 And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
11 Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
12 So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.
14 And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.
15 And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
16 After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.
17 So Job died, being old and full of days.
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Keywords: Meta-learning, Few-Shot Learning, Rademacher Complexity, Statistical Learning Theory
TL;DR: We provide a statistical analysis of fine-tuning-based meta-learning, and establish a sample complexity gap from a standard baseline.
Abstract: Representation learning has served as a key tool for meta-learning, enabling rapid learning of new tasks. Recent works like MAML learn task-specific representations by finding an initial representation requiring minimal per-task adaptation (i.e. a fine-tuning-based objective). We present a theoretical framework for analyzing a MAML-like algorithm, assuming all available tasks require approximately the same representation. We then provide risk bounds on predictors found by fine-tuning via gradient descent, demonstrating that the method provably leverages the shared structure. We illustrate these bounds in the logistic regression and neural network settings. In contrast, we establish settings where learning one representation for all tasks (i.e. using a "frozen representation" objective) fails. Notably, any such algorithm cannot outperform directly learning the target task with no other information, in the worst case. This separation underscores the benefit of fine-tuning-based over “frozen representation” objectives in few-shot learning.
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Langmatz’ optical distribution frame (ODF) EK 245, with which the company has been creating quite a sensation since its launch in 2012. A series of improvements have been made in the current successor, the ODF 2.0, which further simplify the installation and above all, operation of the distribution frame, making it more flexible. With its new model, the Garmisch-Partenkirchen-based company promises to build on its past success story, incorporating various customer requests into the redesign. The Langmatz ODF is designed as an above-ground outdoor cabinet for durable and cost-effective optical fibre distribution. The new ODF 2.0 boasts a wide range of features that significantly facilitate and support the various installation steps. The mounting panel for the E&MMS splice cassettes is attached to the inside of the cabinet door. It is no longer necessary for the installer to swivel the splice cassette section (E&MMS) during wiring and assembly of the optical fibre connections – he thus has full access to the entire working area. In addition, the door opening angle, extendible from 90 to 130 degrees, eases handling of the optical fibres. Cables are routed between the door and the cabinet interior via a flexible pipe, which securely guides the optical fibre cables from the E&MMS splice cassette area to the cabinet section on the inside of the door.
Until now there has been a persistent problem when fixing the pipes to the base plate, in that the usual clamping rings were tricky to fit, however the ODF 2.0 provides a ground-breaking solution. By using fixing lugs for the micropipes, Langmatz is able to provide optimum individual strain relief, guaranteeing secure attachment of the pipes when passing through the base plate. In addition, the Langmatz fixing lugs now enable the pipes to be more easily adjusted during installation. The removable base plate with plastic frame is an additional new feature and supports the different installation stages when fitting micropipes to the ODF. The new version of the ODF is also eight kilogrammes lighter than its predecessor.
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Is artificial intelligence (AI) useful in website design? If yes, what uses? The proposed question can be asked in another way: How does artificial intelligence help designers and site developers to create more interactive and dynamic sites?
The answer to that question is yes. Artificial intelligence is used in website design. It also has important uses. Every day, the number of web designers and developers who take help of artificial intelligence in web design is increasing. In addition to knowing the answer to that question, it is necessary to answer another important and related question: Why is artificial intelligence used in website design?
If we take a look at the history of artificial intelligence, we will find that entrusting tasks to machines is one of the very, very old dreams of humans. Artificial intelligence evolved with that initial idea and proved to be able to do things better than humans. In this content, I answer the questions posed. I will also tell you why artificial intelligence does some things better than web designers.
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The most important applications of artificial intelligence in website design
Using artificial intelligence as much as possible in various products is the main arena of competition between the giants of the technology world.
The main reason for that growing trend is that users and consumers welcome the features and capabilities that artificial intelligence adds to digital products. AI has made it possible to create products that directly affect the way users work and live. For example, users like and use voice assistants. Artificial intelligence and its important subfields, machine learning and deep learning, made natural language processing possible. If it wasn’t for that technology, voice assistants wouldn’t have been made.
Websites, especially store websites, are products that users interact with directly. AI improves the quality of that interaction. The best example for improving the user’s interaction with the store site is the products that are suggested to him based on the previous purchases and the user’s searches on the site. It is as if the site knows the user very well and knows what he wants. But in fact, it is the artificial intelligence used on the site that recognizes the users.
So, when artificial intelligence is used in website design, user interaction with the website becomes more targeted, optimized and faster. It means that the user experience of the site is improved. As a result, users welcome AI-powered sites with better UX.
In general, the applications of AI in web design improve the user experience of the site, and this is one of the main reasons for using artificial intelligence in web design.
2 main applications of AI in web design
The most important applications of artificial intelligence in web design can be divided into two general categories:
- In the first category of applications (i.e. chatbots and product recommendations), artificial intelligence directly improves the user experience on the site.
- In the second category of applications (that is, those that affect the development and performance of the site), indirect artificial intelligence makes the user’s interaction with the site satisfactory.
1. Artificial intelligence knows the user of the site and can give him answers and suggestions
How many years have you been shopping on Amazon? If someone examines all your behavior and purchases over the past few years, they can definitely make some guesses about your interests and purchasing power. Artificial intelligence (in fact, machine learning) does the same thing on the site (especially store sites). It examines the behaviors and interactions of users, recognizes them in order to provide better and more targeted service and product suggestions to each user. When you find and buy what you were looking for on the site sooner, both you and the store owner are satisfied.
Artificial intelligence does not only use the knowledge of users’ needs to suggest products. Artificial intelligence on the site talks directly with users and answers their questions. Yes, the chatbots that greet you when you enter a site and ask how they can help you are built with artificial intelligence. Big companies have entrusted part of their customer affairs and site support to artificial intelligence and software (chatbots) built with it.
The designer and developer of the site do not need to work hard to add those two possibilities to the site:
- The first can be developed with artificial intelligence based frameworks.
- For the latter, there are two ways: building a chatbot with Python or using ready-made software. Some software companies (like appypie) specialize in creating chatbots for businesses.
2. AI helps site SEO, custom site development and UI design
If the site does not have good content, user interface design, speed and performance; it cannot create a satisfactory interaction for the user. In addition, the site must be optimized (SEO) to rank in search engines. The better the ranking of the site in search engines, the more users will visit the site. Artificial intelligence-based tools help site SEO.
The needs of users and their interests are different. You and I may both be users/customers of the Amazon site, but we do not pay attention to all its advertisements and offers. According to the knowledge it gets from each user, artificial intelligence is able to personalize the site and its content to a certain extent. It means to show things to the user on each page of the site that it knows the user is interested in.
The needs of businesses are also different. The design of the site should be such that it meets the needs of the business and each of its users as much as possible. Custom or dedicated site design and development is important for this reason. Artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms help the developer to make each site specific to the site owner and its users.
Interfaces are user interfaces (buttons, icons, navigation, etc.) that allow the user to do something on the site and communicate with it. UI design is completely user-oriented. Because they must be both attractive and practical for the user. So, to design the user interface, you must know the users very well. What artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms do well?
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Derrick Mitchell Jr car accident happened October 4, 2019 and he had to undergo an emergency surgery.
24 year old Derrick Mitchell Jr. is a 6-0, 185-pound Wide Receiver from Saint Louis, Missouri. He was Team Incarnate Word Cardinals.
Reports from loved ones say Derrick is fighting for his life. Please say a prayer for him.
Press play to watch a video from Derrick Mitchell Jr car accident scene below.
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Read posts from loved ones confirming that Derrick is still fighting:
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- From Derrick Scott
My dude Derrick Mitchell Jr is still fighting y’all keep him and his family in your prayers he is still here!!!!
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How to Find a Helsinki Escort
Helsinki offers many high-class escort girls that will meet your sexual fantasies and fetishes, from massages, body work and role playing sessions to accompanying you to special events or private parties.
If you want to spend some time with one of these stunning ladies, booking them on an escort website or app is the easiest way. Many websites feature search functions that enable you to narrow your options down by location and age ranges; others even feature reviews from previous users to help determine if an escort will meet your expectations.
When searching for an escort in Helsinki, be sure to use a trusted website with verified pictures and profiles that detail each individual. This will allow you to avoid scammers while also guaranteeing you get exactly what was promised. Also avoid websites which require payments upfront before meeting in person as these could be signs of fraud.
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Are you seeking the ideal travel partner in Helsinki? Escorts offer beautiful sexy women who will do everything possible to satisfy all of your desires from exotic dances and shows, intimate dinners and romantic strolls – even social events and corporate meetings, depending on what suits you best!
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Browse an escort directory like 2backpage, which provides access to both local and international escorts. With user-friendly filters and real-world photos of models available for bookings. Joining is free, with ads free-for-post. Also included on 2backpage are payment methods like credit cards and PayPal allowing for increased sales opportunities and reviews for customer trust building purposes as well as creating company pages to promote business listings on this platform.
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On Monday next Sean Hogan (author of The Black and Tans in North Tipperary) will deliver our January lecture. Seamus Burke (1893 – 1967) was a TD for Tipperary from 1918 to 1938. The elements of privilege, tragedy, loss, achievement, celebrity and controversy will be found in Hogan’s telling of the story of Burke’s life. Burke’s parents were from Borrisoleigh and the family gained a considerable fortune in America, enabling them to live among a social elite. But his early life was blighted by the death from scarlatina of his two elder brothers. He was educated by the Jesuits in both Fordham College, New York and Clongowes Wood, and qualified as a barrister in 1916.
Burke’s story encompasses a critical period in Irish politics, in which he was a significant player of the national scene. In December 1918, at the age of 25, he was returned as Sinn Féin TD for mid-Tipperary. One of his roles during the turbulent years of the War of Independence was raising funds in America for the underground Irish Republic. However, he was the only Tipperary TD to support the Treaty in 1922 and, during the Civil War which followed, his home at Rockforest House, Roscrea was burned after four Anti-Treaty IRA were executed in Roscrea in January 1923.
Burke headed the polls in Tipperary in several subsequent elections and became Minister for Local Government and Public Health in W.T. Cosgrave’s Government of 1923 – 27. His was a very significant contribution to the development of the new state during difficult years. Although largely absent in the standard texts of the period, Burke’s was a contribution of the same order as his well-known Ministerial colleague and school friend from Clongowes, Kevin O’Higgins, who was assassinated in 1927.
In 1929, Burke married Zenaide Bashkiroff, a 21 year old woman from the top echelons of the displaced Russian aristocracy, who had fled the Bolshevik revolution and ended up in Ireland. Her story is fascinating too and adds to the intrigue of Burke’s life. During the 1930s, Burke was active in debates about the merits of fascism and communism in Europe.
He was a trenchant critic of De Valera and eventually lost his seat in 1938. He retired from politics after narrowly failing to take the last seat in the 1943 election. He later moved to England where he died in 1967. He is buried in Glankeen.
Venue; Abbey Court Hotel, Nenagh, Mon. 9th January, 8.30PM. All welcome, non-members €5 Adm. (this can be offset against membership fee if you subsequently join OHS).
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Let The Right One In Episode 5 release date is quite soon. The main themes shown to us in this series are psychology as well as horror, and drama. Andrew Hinderaker has created the show for Showtime. The main inspiration behind its plot was from the books written by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who is a Swedish writer. We see the main focus is laid on Mark as well as his daughter Eleanor.
Their lives were altered for eternity when Eleanor became a vampire ten years ago when she was 13 years old. This means that she will always be a child and never grow up. The little girl has only been able to lead a quiet life in the dark and can only go out at night. Mark, loving her despite her nature, is doing everything in his power to be able to save her daughter.
In order to stay alive, Eleanor needs to feed on human blood. After a lot of years, with the start of the series, we see that the duo has finally come back to New York City to live and even find a cure for her.
Let The Right One In Episodes Recap
Back in Let The Right One, In Episode 3, titled Broken Glass, we saw that Naomi is a homicide detective. She has taken upon a case of a recent murder in the city which had Mark involved in the same. Thus, after he learns about her profession, he makes sure to cover his tracks. As for Eleanor, she comes to know that Isaiah is bullied in school almost every day. Thus, he wants to take revenge on them all. Later, we see that Naomi has been working on the murder case along with Ben, her partner. The two make a huge discovery about the same, but in turn, they also uncover a new, horrifying secret.
In the 4th episode of the season, titled Outings, we saw that Mark and Zeke are now having a great time at the restaurant. The place is celebrating its tenth anniversary, and it all ends with a huge surprise that no one could have anticipated. At the same time, we see that Elanor and Isaiah are having their own enjoyment when they sneak out of their houses to spend a magical night. Naomi is having a hard time, though. There are new developments in her case, but she is struggling with the same. Claire is more than happy to make higher strides in the episodes.
Let The Right One In Episode 5 Release Date
Let The Right One In Episode 5 release date is on the 6th of November 2022. The episode is titled Quoquo Modo Necessarium. It will drop out on Showtime at 10 PM Eastern Time. New episodes are released every week on Sundays.
How to Watch Let The Right One In Episode 5
Let The Right One In Episode 5 can be watched easily when the episode airs on Showtime at the designated date and time slot we have provided. Later, these episodes will be available to stream from the official website of the channel. Users can buy a subscription to the same at just 10.99 dollars a month. New users are provided with a free trial as well. You can use the same to watch Let The Right One In Episode 5 for free in the United States legally.
Let The Right One In Episode 5 Spoilers
Let The Right One In Episode 5 is titled Quoquo Modo Necessarium. In this episode, we will witness that Mark is trying to clean up a mess yet again and hide it from Naomi. Zeke chimes in to help him with the same. Claire is at the lab but is not able to find anything ulterior.
Soon, Matthew comes in with a solution that might actually work well for the team. By the end of the episode, we will witness Naomi coming across a grave discovery. This will also give shape to the fear that she thought she had in the first place.
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Sports manga and anime haven’t traditionally been released here in the US very often. In Japan, they tend to make up some of the most popular, enduring titles and several have been extraordinarily influential classics. Baseball in particular is a major sport in Japan, so Big Windup! has a substantial number of fellow manga and anime that have never (and for many, probably will never) been released domestically. The sheer number and variety of baseball manga and anime could easily warrant at least a short book to cover comprehensively, so a full history is rather beyond the scope of this article. But I’ll try here to present as comprehensive a listing of baseball anime as possible.
Star of the Giants (Kyojin no Hoshi)
There’s really nowhere else to start than Star of the Giants, penned by legendary scenario writer Kajiwara Ikki (Ashita no Joe [as Asao Takamori], Tiger Mask) and illustrated by Noboru Kawasaki. It was the first sports anime, helped launch Weekly Shonen Magazine into sales over a million in the late 60’s, is inextricably tied to the real Yomiuri Giants baseball team, and has left a massive and indelible mark on Japanese pop culture. If you watch any sports or martial arts anime, you’ve stood in Star of the Giants‘ shadow–it debuted the exaggerated special wind-up and pitching sequences, the burning passion sports epic, the tearful melodramatic speeches and embraces between team members and coaches, and most importantly it created Training Hell.
The hellish preparation that protagonist Hyuma Hoshi endured as a child became so famous that it’s even the touchstone used in interviews and biographies for real life Japanese baseball star Ichiro Suzuki’s own incredibly tough childhoold training. It’s possible that Star of the Giants helped to keep baseball as popular in Japan as it is, given the way it’s referenced among players as a primary part of their inspiration for joining up and it in turn spawned so many other series that may have equally affected even more aspiring players. It may be impossible to overestimate the importance of this series to manga, anime and Japanese sports culture.
The series follows Hyuma Hoshi, a young boy with promising pitching talent, who wants to follow in the footsteps of his father, a professional baseball player. He goes through grueling training to develop his skills, eventually joining the real-life Yomiuri Giants team. (Interestingly, the other Giants members were all real players, including legendary pitcher Masaichi Kaneda.) Despite realizing his dream of becoming a professional, the world of baseball is a harsh one and the series is remembered so strongly partially due to its depressing conclusion.
The original manga spanned 19 volumes and was adapated a number of times. There were three TV series: Star of the Giants (1968-1971) with 182 episodes, New Star of the Giants (1977-1978) with 52 episodes, and New Star of the Giants II (1979) with 23 episodes. There were also about 5 compilation movies produced from 1969 through 1977, plus a special crossover episode with Astro Boy.
Otoko do Ahou! Koushien
The first of the Shinji Mizushima block of baseball hits, Otoko do-Ahou! Koushien ran in Shonen Sunday from 1970-1975 for a total of 28 volumes. During 1970-1971, 156 10-minute episodes were produced for TV. The series isn’t Mizushima’s best known series (we’ll get to that in a bit) but it was well regarded enough that an additional followup story was done for Shonen Sunday‘s 40th anniversary in 1999.
The series is about Fujimura Koushien, an incredibly straightforward and simple (to the point of being kind of stupid) boy named for the famous Koushien stadium of high school baseball fame. Like Fujimura’s personality, his pitching is straight on, relying on strong-arm fastballs. Along with his teammates, Fujimura fights to conquer his namesake tournament and advance to a career in the pros.
Apache Baseball Team (Apatchi Yakyuugun)
This Toei series, based off a manga by Kobako Hanato and Sachio Umemoto, ran from 1971-1972 for a total of 26 episodes. It follows a former high school championship pitcher, Takeshi Dojima, who moves out to a rural mountain village to become a baseball coach. There he teaches a group of poor and delinquent youth, and tries to lead them into the major high school baseball tournament.
This seems to be more of a cult hit than anything, and is difficult to come by. Though the major directing duties were handled by Kazuya Miyazaki, several episodes were directed by future Ghibli star Isao Takahata (Grave of the Fireflies, Only Yesterday).
Following on the heels of Otoko do Ahou! Koushien and the next huge title after Star of the Giants is Shinji Mizushima’s Dokaben, a 48 volume smash hit manga serialized in Weekly Shonen Champion from 1972-1981. The series was adapted into a 163 episode TV anime starting in 1976. It continued to rank in the top 100 on wide-ranging favorite anime polls and its distinctive art style, particularly the “rubbery” way it conveys extreme energy and motion, continues to be noted by comics scholars like Scott McCloud and Fred Schodt.
The series revolves around heavy eater Taro Yamada (the title, Dokaben, is a reference to a type of bento that he likes to eat) and his middle school baseball teammates. It continues to follow the characters in their baseball careers through high school and into the pros, with followup manga like Dai Koushien, Dokaben Pro Baseball Story and Dokaben SuperStars (which is still showing up on top comic sales rankings in Japan).
Song of Baseball Enthusiasts (Yakyuukyou no Uta)
Based off a 17 volume series (1972-1976) by Shinji Mizushima, the author of Dokaben, this 25 episode anime started in 1977. Though less famous than Dokaben, it’s high on my licensing wishlist that will never, ever happen. The reason is that, in a rare move for a shonen baseball series, it focuses on a star female pitcher who can compete with regular baseball pros, the manager who fights to get her admitted into standard teams, and two separated twin brothers who find each other through the sport. It’s a love song to youth and baseball!
This series, based off a Monthly Shonen Jump manga by Akio Chiba that ran from 1972-1979, was adapted into two 1980 TV anime movies. The movies were recut into a movie release in 1981 and in 1983 the series finally received a 26 episode TV adaptation.
The story in Captain is somewhat unorthodox, as the story features the Captain position of the Nakano baseball club rather than a particular individual. When one Captain graduates, the story focuses on the next person to take over.
Mitsuru Adachi’s first original work, Nine was serialized in Monthly Shonen Sunday Zoukan during 1978-1979. It was later adapted into several TV anime movies during 1983-1984. It was fairly successful, but ultimately only the lead up to Adachi’s huge breakthrough with Touch (see below).
Similar to Touch, the series is a blend of sports and romance centered around two boys and one girl, but it has a rather more lighthearted bent. Track star Katsuya Niimi and judo champion Susumu Karasawa are about to start high school. Before entering they meet Yuri Nakao, daughter of the school’s baseball coach, crying over a lost match. It turns out that the team isn’t doing well at all, and will get shut down if they don’t turn their record around. Wanting to help Yuri and feeling bad for the team, the two decide to abandon their previous sports careers and join the baseball team in hopes of taking them all the way to Koushien.
Mitsuru Adachi is a household name and a recognized master of storytelling through manga, and Touch is probably the key series that put him there. Serialized in Shonen Sunday from 1981-1986, it received multiple anime adaptations: a 101 episode TV series from 1985-1987, three compilation movies, and two follow-up TV specials in 1998 and 2001. The original TV series is one of the highest rated anime of all time. Touch stands as one of the most famous and beloved anime and manga, with its blend of deft, realistic characterization, romance and sports drama.
The series revolves around three major characters: identical twin brothers Kazuya and Tatsuya Uesugi, and their childhood friend Minami Asakura. The three of them have been neighbors since they were born and are incredibly close. There’s even a shared clubhouse set up in the back yards for the three of them to share. In their teens, the three are still as close as ever but romantic tensions begin to intrude. Everyone assumes that cute, responsible Minami will end up with Kazuya, the star student and athlete, over slacker Tatsuya but it may not be the case after all. Their happy, peaceful life and Kazuya’s baseball aspirations are cruelly interrupted, however, when Kazuya is killed saving a child from being run over by a truck. Minami and Tatsuya are left to continue on, brought together and pushed forward by Kazuya’s memory–Minami in competitive gymnastics, and Tatsuya attempting to pick up where his brother left off and guide the team to Koushien.
Meimon! The Third Baseball Club (Meimon! Daisan Yakyuubu)
This 40 episode series from 1988 was based off of Toshiyuki Mutsu’s 10 volume gag manga, serialized in Shonen Magazine. Apparently popular enough due to the length of both manga and anime, it doesn’t seem to be particularly well known anymore.
The series chronicles a crappy third-string high school baseball club that has to fight not only against teams from rival schools, but also the superior Number 1 and Number 2 clubs at their own school.
Miracle Giants Domu-kun
This short series from 1989, clocking in at only 10 episodes, was based off a manga by legendary creator Shotaro Ishinomori (Cyborg 009, Kamen Rider, Kikaider).
Taking the usual exaggerated baseball elements even further, the series follows a fifth-grade baseball prodigy named Domu who was taught a magical, super-powerful pitch by his late father, a legendary Yomiuri Giants player. Witnessing the ultra pitch, the Giants immediately recruit Domu (you know, despite the fact that he’s in elementary school – they compromise by only having him allowed to play home games) and become unbeatable. He proceeds to play against a number of real-life star players as well as other fictional characters like cute girl disguised as a boy Melody Norman and ex-bullfighter Don Carlos.
After Touch, Mitsuru Adachi worked on several shoujo romances and a fantasy romantic comedy before returning to baseball manga with H2. Serialized in Shonen Sunday from 1992-1999, it was popular enough to span 34 volumes and receive a 41 episode TV anime adaptation in 1995-1996.
Hiro Kunimi, Hideo Tachibana and Atsushi Noda were middle school baseball teammates, and helped lead their team to an unbeaten record and multiple national championship wins. It all fell apart, however, when Hiro and Noda were both diagnosed with career-ending injuries, ending any hopes of making it to Koushien. Hiro and Noda switch to other sports less affected by their injuries and attend a school without any baseball team. Hideo splits off to a highly ranked baseball school to continue playing. But when Hiro and Noda learn that the doctor who diagnosed them was a quack, they become determined to talk their baseball-hating headmaster into forming a new team and heading straight for Koushien.
One of the few series here not based on an original manga, Princess Nine is a 26 episode TV anime that aired on NHK in 1998. Despite being only a minor series, it’s notable for being the first baseball anime commercially released in America, by ADV in 2001.
The series is also one of the few featuring female protagonists. Following in the footsteps of Song of Baseball Enthusiasts and perhaps setting the stage for this year’s Taisho Baseball Girls, it centers on Ryo Hayakawa, daughter of a disgraced rising star pitcher. Determined to succeed her father and prove that girls are just as capable at sports as boys, Ryo leads the baseball team at Kisaragi School for Girls. Their aim is to make it all the way through the National High School Baseball Championship to qualify for and win the famous Koushien tournament.
Azusa Will Help! (Azusa, Otetsudai Shimasu!)
This is a weird little OAV from 2004, animated by Tokyo Movie Shinsha after the script won Animax channel’s Animax Taishou scriptwriting contest. It’s quite short, clocking in at only one 45-minute episode. It also stands out a bit from the other baseball anime as it’s also a sci-fi comedy.
Azusa Will Help takes place in the future, when robot athletes have become legal. Karugamo High’s baseball team is already doing badly, and their coach is fundamentally opposed to the use of robots for sport. But when they lose players after a particularly bad game, leaving them with too few to remain active, main character Shunpei decides it might be time to invest in a robot after all. Unfortunately they don’t have very much money, so the only robot they can possibly afford is an outdated model of maid robot who knows nothing about baseball!
MAJOR is undoubtedly the current baseball giant. Based on a Shonen Sunday title by Takuya Mitsuda, the manga began in 1994 and is still going at around 71 collected volumes. The TV anime adaptation began airing in 2004 and just completed its 5th season at 129 episodes. An anime movie was also released in 2008, bridging the storyline gap between the first two seasons.
MAJOR follows the life story of baseball genius Goro Honda from kindergarten all the way to the professional league. Goro’s father Shigeharu was a pro pitcher wavering between the major and minor league, and Goro wanted nothing more than to become a pro like his dad. A serious arm injury ends Shigeharu’s career as a pitcher, but unwilling to quit baseball or let his son down, Shigeharu successfully makes the switch to batter and makes it back to the majors. Sadly, tragedy strikes again but Goro only becomes more determined to succeed his father as a star pitcher in the major leagues.
The original manga for Play Ball, by Akio Chiba, ran in Weekly Shonen Jump from 1973-1978, concurrently with Chiba’s other hit baseball series Captain. It wasn’t until 2005, however, that it was adapted into a TV anime with a second series following in 2006. The original manga won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shonen along with Captain.
Takao Taniguchi was a baseball captain in middle school, but continuing a game despite broken fingers costs him his career. During high school he joins the soccer club instead, but never finds the passion for it that he had for baseball. Unable to fully devote himself to soccer, he decides to return to baseball only to find the school’s team full of inexperienced, lackluster players. Under Taniguchi’s guidance, however, the team begins to improve.
Based on a manga by Shinobu Kaitani, serialized in Business Jump from 1998-2006, this 25 episode TV anime ran from 2008-2009. Perhaps spurred on by the anime adaptation’s production, the previously halted manga restarted just prior to the airing of the first episode.
One Outs is unique among the other series here, as it’s a fusion of baseball series with the gambling genre. It focuses less on traditional baseball play and tactics than gambling series style mind games. Prodigy and star batter Hiromichi Kojima is on the continually losing Lycaons team and finds himself in a slump. Not wanting to abandon the Lycaons or end his career on such a downward note, he heads to a private training camp in Okinawa. He and his teammates stumble upon a form of baseball gambling known as One Outs: a highly simplified game with only a pitcher facing off against a batter. The undefeated king of One Outs is pitcher Tokuchi Toua, a slow speed pitcher with icewater in his veins and the unnerving ability to get inside his opponents’ heads and find the perfect way to trip them up. Kojima manages to win Toua over to the Lycaons where he signs an odd gambling based contract, the “One Outs Contract.” Maybe the Lycaons can finally break their slump, if the team’s owner doesn’t ruin it in an effort to sabotage Toua.
It’s 2009 and Adachi is still going strong as the master of baseball manga, with the now airing anime adaptation of his manga Cross Game, ongoing in Shonen Sunday since 2005. Currently the manga stands at around 15 volumes with the anime planned for 26 episodes.
The series is very similar to Adachi’s mega-hit Touch. Koh Kitamura, son of a sporting goods store owner, is childhood friends with the four Tsukishima daughters of the Clover cafe and attached batting center: Ichiyo, Wakaba, Aoba and Momiji. Koh and Wakaba are inseperable, and seem destined to be a couple. Aoba, an excellent natural pitcher, resents Koh for monopolizing her beloved older sister and refuses to believe Wakaba’s statements about Koh’s pitching potential. Koh shows little outward enthusiasm for baseball, but when tragedy strikes the Tsukishima family he begins to apply himself seriously toward reaching Koushien. Along the way, Aoba acts as a rival and mentor to Koh.
Taisho Baseball Girls (Taisho Yakyuu Musume)
The newest baseball series, based off a seinen light novel series by Atsushi Kagurasaka, Taisho Baseball Girls is currently airing this season. Sadly, no simulcast arrangements have been made for it. The series stands out from others on this list due to its historical setting, but it bears the closest resemblance in cast and storyline to Princess Nine.
Set in 1925, the story centers around Koume Suzukawa, daughter of a Western-style restaurant owner, who begins attending one of the all girls academies recently established in Japan. Her classmate Akiko Ogasawara, daughter of a rich family, resents her baseball player fiancée for declaring that women should stay in the home and have no need for education. Determined to prove that women are just as capable as men, she decides to form a girls’ baseball team at her school and challenge him at his own specialty. Sports are considered vulgar and unladylike, so the girls have to contend not only with learning how to play from step one but also disapproval from school and parents, and difficulty finding other teams to practice with.
This story was originally posted in August 2009.
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Mold is one of the most common causes of indoor allergies. It can lead to asthma attacks, respiratory problems and other allergic reactions. Mold can’t exist without moisture, so you can effectively clear out your problems with mold by controlling moisture in your home. If you are experiencing problems with mold, here are five moisture control tips you should focus on to get rid of it.
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- Fix leaks. Pipes under the sink and running behind the walls could be leaking, which provides the moisture mold needs to thrive. Fix these leaks to get rid of mold issues.
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- Wipe off wet surfaces. Get in the habit of wiping down the shower or tub after showering or bathing to discourage mold growth.
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Arthritis is a disorder that can make the most simple of tasks the most difficult. If arthritis is so debilitating that you can’t live your life, do something about it! This article is intended to help you and others like you. Educate yourself on arthritis now.
Women with arthritis should avoid high heels. While high heels look nice, they aren’t so nice to your feet. This will damage your knee and make arthritis even worse. Comfortable, flat-soled shoes with good arch support will alleviate some of your arthritis pain. Your feet and legs will be grateful.
If you are suffering from rheumatoid arthritis, make sure you’re getting enough omega-3 in your diet. If you’re not, consider taking a supplement like fish oil to help get those levels up. Studies have shown that omega-3 has many anti-inflammatory benefits for those who suffer from rheumatoid arthritis.
Try taking warm baths with bath salts before going to sleep if you have arthritis. Doing so induces physical relaxation and diminishes arthritic pain for a while, allowing you comfort long enough to fall asleep and rest longer.
Because arthritis can effect the way that you cook, it is important that you buy the proper cookware and utensils. If you pick any old utensil, you may find that you cannot use it. It is recommended that people with arthritis get lightweight cooking utensils that have easy grips.
Try and reduce the stress in your life as a means of reducing your arthritis. Chemicals are released when your body is stressed. These chemicals can trigger inflammation, which can increase the pain associated with arthritis. You need to brush up on managing time and exercising to deal with stress and anxiety.
Sleep in the right bed. Talk with your doctor to discover the best type of bed you should look into, considering your personal conditions. Every condition is different, so proper medical advice should be heeded to find the most beneficial bed for yours.
Have a regular eating schedule. Test your body to find out what eating pattern works best for you, and set up a distinct schedule around those times. If you find yourself hungry at a time when you are not scheduled to eat, have a light nutritious snack to keep yourself energetic and on schedule.
Keep your home clear and organized. Having a clean home can not only better your mood, but it also can prevent any safety hazards that may be lurking in the form of trips and falls. Get some help to straighten up your home, and you will have an easier time keeping it that way.
Watch your knees. Your knees absorb at least three times the impact of any other joint on your body, so they need extra care. Always make sure to use pads when kneeling and try to flex them often. Sitting cross-legged for too long can also cause issues, so you should stretch them out on a regular basis.
Regarding side effects, if your medication is one that may cause fatigue or other similar issues, you may want to discuss finding a different medication with your doctor. Fatigue is already a huge issue for people who suffer from arthritis, and you may not want a medication that is going to further aggravate that.
If you have been having trouble turning door knobs, consider having your door hardware switched out for handles instead of knobs. When you are dealing with arthritis flare ups, you can use your elbow and forearm to do the work of opening the door saving your hands the trouble.
If you suffer from arthritis, consider taking a yoga class to boost your overall health and well-being. Yoga helps you workout your body and mind using stretching and relaxation techniques, which can be helpful for arthritis sufferers. If you do not want to join a public class, there are a number of yoga DVDs on the market. Using a DVD to workout with offers the same benefits as a class, but you don’t have to leave your house.
When dealing with arthritis pain you have to protect your joints. Always be thinking about your joints and your joint health and protect them from injury. So be careful; instead of lifting a heavy object, slide it, or use your shoulder to open a door instead of using your hand.
Many people with arthritis become depressed because of their condition. It can alter many different aspects of their lives. Consider going to counseling to help you feel better. Counseling can help you identify problems in a way that will help you to think and act differently so that you can feel good about yourself.
As you know, if you’re a chronic arthritis sufferer and from reading the beginning of this article, arthritis can make it difficult to go about daily tasks. If you are an arthritis sufferer, hopefully this article has shown you something you can try to manage your condition and start living better.
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An Interactive 5-Day Training Course
Human Resources Development & Personnel Management
Transforming HR for Tomorrow's World
To be relevant, HR needs to demonstrate that it makes a contribution at all levels. This involves ensuring that the management team is supported in their attempts to manage. At the same time HR has to ensure that employees are motivated, supported and developed. This can only be done through the management team.
The out of date approach says that HR is visible and controlling, requiring the rest of the organisation to follow policies developed within the HR function. The up to date approach is that HR facilitates and supports assisting the management team in efforts to improve productivity and commitment. HR is at the centre of change but change is handled by and through the management team. In this way change is more effective and longer lasting.
However, this approach requires a new type of HR function with new practices and a series of new skills within the HR team. This Oxford Human Resources Development & Personnel Management training Course will give you the confidence to develop a new sort of HR function; show you a new approach and help you with learning the new practices and skills.
This Oxford Management Centre training course will highlight:
- Ideas for developing an HR strategy which relates to socio-economic trends
- Ways of improving employee motivation
- Methods for developing employees and improving contribution
- Ideas for reforming the relationship between HR and the rest of the organisation
- Getting the best out of the use of competencies
At the end of this training Course, you will learn to:
- Understand the history and development of HR and Personnel Management practices
- Maximise the benefits from effective human resource management
- Apply the key HR and HRD strategies for improving organisational success
- Work effectively with the line management team
- Develop a response to the key issues surrounding HR e.g., career development, effective succession planning, making a success of performance management, etc.
The training methodology used is designed to encourage maximum participation by all delegates. The presenter will suggest ideas and theories to the delegates and then encourage them to test out the ideas by the use of discussion, small group work, exercises and feedback.
Each day of the training will end by delegates completing their own record of what has been learned on the day and considering how the ideas might be transferred back to the workplace.
- The training Course is a mixture of theory and practice
- Explanations are provided of the main theories surrounding the development of effective HR
- The theories are then put into practice by the use of practical exercises
The purpose of this Human Resources Development & Personnel Management training Course from an organisations point of view is to constructively challenge to the organisation’s approach to Human Resource Development and Personnel Management.
As a result, an organisation which applies these ideas will experience:
- Lower staff turnover
- More effectiveness in selection and assessment
- Greater motivation
- More commitment from the workforce
- More effective identification and development of poor performers
- Better value for money from the Human Resource function
As a result of attending this Oxford Management training Course, delegates will be equipped to develop effective people management practices. They will:
- Know how to critically evaluate current HR practices
- Be able to introduce an effective recruitment process
- Understand how to get people to work more effectively
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Who Should Attend?
This training course is designed for:
- HR practitioners and line-professionals with development or personnel responsibilities
- People in HR, Personnel or Training and Development role
- Professionals with an interest in people management and development would also benefit
Introduction to HRM, HRD and HRP
- Course Introduction and Objectives
- The Context for HR
- Change Management
- Human Resource Management vs. Personnel Management
- Human Resource Development (HRD)
- Human Resource Planning (HRP)
- Strategic HRM – The New HR Strategic Model
Resourcing & Recruitment
- The Employment Psychological Contract
- Why do good people leave?
- The Process Approach to Interviewing
- Induction, Job Descriptions and References
- Personality Questionnaires and Forms of Testing
- Methods of Detecting When Applicants Don’t Tell The Truth
- The New Recruitment Process to Avoid Litigation
- Understanding Competencies and Competency based Assessment
Pay & Employee Reward
- Employee Motivation
- Salary, Bonuses & Benefits
- Competency and Performance Based Pay
- Different Structures – different pay and rewards
- Total Pay Concept
- Salary Surveys
Training Learning & Development
- Career Management
- Personal Development
- How Flat Organisational Structures and Empowered Teams Affect Training and Development
- Self Development
- 360° Feedback as a Development Tool
Value for Money from HR
- The New HR Structure
- New Roles within HR
- HR Business Partners
- Value of Trend Analysis and HRP
- Internal and External Frameworks
- Proving ROI on HR Activities
Oxford Management Centre Certificate will be provided to delegates who successfully completed the training course.
All Training Courses delivered by Oxford Management by default are eligible for CPE Credit.
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Huskies Open With Pool Play Success In Salem
Results now updated as of Saturday morning
SALEM, Ore. - Washington Beach Volleyball opened up its season at Corban University in Salem today, competing in a pairs tournament along with Portland, Boise State, and the host Corban Warriors.
Based on Saturday's round robin results, bracket play will be held on Sunday.
Corban Pairs Tournament
Mar. 13, 2021
Dahl/Robinson (UW) def. Chartier/Mejia (BSU) - 21-18, 21-17
Dahl/Robinson (UW) def. Hunter/Ayala (CU) - 21-11, 21-13
Shook/Petersen (UW) def. Lee/Nolan (UP) - 21-11, 21-12
Martin/Wilson (BSU) def. Shook/Petersen (UW) - 21-12, 21-4
McPherson/Loreen (UW) def. Hoeft/Wodke (UP) - 21-15, 21-13
McPherson/Loreen (UW) def. Bantilan/Latu (CU) - 21-11, 21-6
Niece/Weber (UW) def. Miller/Condon (CU) - 21-13, 21-16
Benson/Hansen (BSU) def. Niece/Weber (UW) - 14-21, 21-19, 15-10
Schilling/Yerex (UW) def. Clark/Daviscourt (CU) - 21-23, 21-18, 15-10
Schilling/Yerex (UW) def. Watkins/Tan (BSU) - 25-23, 21-10
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House Painting Ideas for Beginners
Are you prepared to give your home a lovely new look, yet really feel overwhelmed by the process? It can be intimidating to start painting walls and ceilings from square one, but with some professional advice and reliable house painting concepts for newbies, you can turn your vision right into truth. In this blog post, we'll cover everything from picking color design to budgeting for products to make sure that you have all the information needed to tackle painting your area like an outright pro!
Select a color pattern that complements the existing layout of your home
Choosing a color scheme that harmonizes well with your home's existing layout can be a daunting task. Nevertheless, with a little assistance, you can attain a cohesive, refined appearance. As an expert in home design, my suggestion is to first think about the color combination already existing in your home's highlight, such as flooring, wall paint, or furnishings. From there, think about complementary shade alternatives as well as try out shades and colors. Keep in mind to likewise think about the lights in the room, as it can influence just how colors show up. By taking these steps, you can create a color scheme that improves the beauty and also design of your home.
Use high quality paint as well as brushes for a professional finish
If you're searching for a professional surface when painting, it's vital to utilize top notch paint and brushes. This is a basic regulation that any expert in painting would certainly vouch for. When making use of premium paint, you accomplish a smooth color coating that lasts longer than those created by low-budget paints. Meanwhile, utilizing premium brushes likewise ensures better control and precision, enabling you to create a professional surface that will certainly be the envy of your friends as well as next-door neighbors. So don't stint your tools or products when it comes to painting - buy high quality as well as gain the outcomes!
Enclose areas to avoid paint spills
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Philadelphia, PA – December 4, 2020 − State Senator Christine Tartaglione (D-Philadelphia) and her colleagues in the PA Senate Democratic Caucus today unveiled a new $4 billion COVID-19 relief and recovery plan that would provide resources directly to Pennsylvania families, workers, businesses, healthcare providers, educational institutions, first responders, local governments, and other entities that have been devastated financially by the pandemic.
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Hardware wallets are probably the safest way you can store your Zcash since the private key to your coins is kept offline on the device itself. There are two main companies to consider when it comes to hardware wallets. Skrill and Neteller both offer yet another alternative payment method for purchasing Zcash. Here at Kriptomat, we’re thrilled to support both of these electronic options. However, despite the comparison with BTC, Zcash is still a budding cryptocurrency with a developing framework of operation. Will the previous historical price action of ZEC help provide an insight into its future price movements?
For every token in the cryptocurrency market, the risk is an important factor to consider. In the same manner, Zcash is not free from risks, meaning you must carefully evaluate different factors that might affect your investment in the token. Since you’re paying from the US, you incur no deposit fees when you use any of the supported payment methods. This is another great perk that makes eToro a low-cost broker. One of the most impressive features of Webull is the platform’s significantly low minimum deposit requirement. To get started with investing in Zcash on Webull, all you need to meet is a $1 minimum.
If you leave your coins on the exchange you risk losing them if the exchange gets hacked or goes insolvent. Binance is the biggest crypto to crypto exchange out there and one of the industry leaders. If you’re looking to buy Zcash and already own a different cryptocurrency you can use Binanace to exchange between them. Exodus – A simple to use desktop only wallet that allows you to store Zcash as well as a variety of other cryptocurrencies. This wallet is extremely recommended for new users as it’s very simple to install and operate. Kriptomat provides a free and secure digital wallet for storing your Zcash, but if you would like to send your Zcash to an external address, this can be done at any time.
When should I buy Zcash?
That’s completely up to you! Our price charts and indicators make it easy to analyze the price of ZEC if you want to follow a strategy. You can also set up an alert to be notified when ZEC reaches a specific price. Whenever you’re ready, we’ll make the buying process fast and simple.
Register an account and complete the Know Your Customer process by uploading a pic of your ID/passport plus a selfie. The ZEC token is a powerful ally to those in the market seeking more privacy. This token consistently remains in the top 20 cryptocurrencies in terms of market cap. Zcash’s network relies on a dual key arrangement to provide its services. These keys are used for audit purposes or sharing information without disclosing it to the entire world. This key allows some individuals to see private information ETC about your transactions.
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Some s may also ask for a phone number and photo ID, so it’s a good idea to have those ready. While Zcash isn’t the most popular privacy coin, it has had some success as a medium of exchange. The project has partnered with platforms like Moon and Flexa SPEDN to enable users to pay for goods and services at physical and online retailers. Several online merchants also support direct Zcash payments.
- Buy Zcash and spend it in a physical store, instead of having to withdraw AUD or make a bank transfer with fiat currencies.
- If you want to invest in ZEC tokens today – a heavily regulated broker like eToro is a great option here.
- The main difference between the models is that the Model T has a touch screen for easier usability and also better privacy.
- You’ll often buy derivatives from a contract for difference broker, though Zcash is also tradable via futures contracts.
Only 100 billion XRP (network’s currency) exist, and its prices varied starting from less than $0.01 to a high of over $3. Bitcoin Gold – a result of a Bitcoin hard fork aimed at re-decentralizing cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin Gold attracted much attention due to its controversies. Following a career as a photographer and video producer, Alice began working in financial services as an IFA in 2007.
Is Zcash on Coinbase?
Coinbase customers can receive Zcash from both transparent and shielded addresses and send Zcash to transparent addresses.
The trading platform provides tight spreads and highly liquid digital markets. You also gain access to institutional-grade algorithmic capabilities, advanced market research and analysis tools. Some crypto exchanges will let you sign up without passing a KYC. However, all centralized ones will — and the same goes for brokers.
Alternative IRA Services (“AIS”) dba BitcoinIRA.com is a platform that connects consumers to qualified custodians, digital wallets and cryptocurrency exchanges. The company is not a custodian, is not a digital wallet and is not an exchange. It’s a known fact that one of the leading features of a growing market is the prevailing number of transactions which is even more price-driven if it’s a scarce product. ZEC has a limited supply in the digital assets market making the price effect more visible. However, these factors drive an extensive adoption as more institutions integrate the privacy benefit of the protocol into their daily transactions. This affects demand and creates a “fear of missing out” among investors which helps in driving confidence and more adoption.
This allows us to provide dynamic price predictions based on current market activity. This has brought a huge number of investors into the chain making ZEC’s global entry into the sector massive and extremely profitable. This in turn spiked the demand and supply of Zcash as more people bought. Zcash is regarded as one of the leading projects in the cryptocurrency market with a high level of underlying Innovation and a leading team. ZEC is the first blockchain-based open-source asset that was built with the same framework as Bitcoin. The foundation of the development of this token has enabled its versatile integration into other protocols and the generic interoperability feature of Bitcoin.
That’s how much the how to invest in zcash wallet market value is expected to grow comparing the years of 2019 and 2025. So after you Buy Zcash with a card, be sure to choose the most secure hardware wallet for it. The broker allows all US investors to add funds to their accounts without paying any fees. This policy applies to both debit/credit cards and the ACH option.
As you can see from the above, when choosing to https://www.beaxy.com/ with a broker like eToro – you can cash out your tokens with ease. Here, we discuss the procedure involved in selling your Zcash tokens. Therefore, suppose you simply want to invest the minimum possible stake in Zcash, you’d enter $25. However, if you’re willing to invest more, you can simply adjust the stake size using the plus (+) and minus (-) symbols beside the box. Once you’ve entered your stake, click on the Ópen Trade’ button to complete the Zcash investment process.
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A new study finds that the total value of digital wallets transactions will rise from $9 trillion in 2023 to $16 trillion in 2028, a growth of 77%.
This trend is driven by growth across both developed and developing markets, as the increased adoption of advanced services such as BNPL (Buy Now, Pay Later) and microloans drives end-user engagement.
The study found that in a highly congested wallets landscape, diversifying their appeal to users is vital.
Advanced Services Create New Revenue Streams
The report identified advanced services as a key source of revenue growth for digital wallets. Advanced services, such as BNPL or microloans, are allowing digital wallet providers to diversify their revenue.
The popularity of BNPL, especially among younger consumers, will draw greater numbers of users, and generate additional revenue. This approach can be seen with Apple’s roll-out of add-on services, including Apple Pay Later.
“Advanced services give digital wallet providers an opportunity to differentiate themselves in a congested market and generate additional revenue,” says Research author Michael Greenwood.
“Super app strategies, which many digital wallets are pursuing, will rely on the effective deployment of advanced services at scale.”
QR code payments
High growth in Southeast Asia and other developing markets is largely down to financial inclusivity that QR payments offer; enabling unbanked users to access digital payments. Conversely, Western markets have seen very limited adoption; highlighting the global divide in QR payment markets.
Critical International Interoperability Standards
National QR payment schemes, including India’s UPI and Brazil’s Pix, played a key role in encouraging market adoption, with their success driving implementation of national schemes in 2023 in Kenya and Bangladesh.
However, the research found significant growth to market volume will come from cross-border interoperability within Southeast Asian markets.
While international interoperability has been offered from payment providers like Alipay for years, national QR payment standards are now unifying across borders, like:
- Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand have already unified their payment standards; enabling businesses to accept payments from international visitors using their domestic digital wallets.
- Singapore and the Philippines set to collaborate by the end of 2023; further unifying payments across the region.
QR P2P Bank Transfers See Traction in Europe
The adoption of QR payments overall in the west remains low.
However, according to the research, the area of QR P2P bank transfers has gained significant traction since 2022, with Belgium’s Payconiq and Spain’s Bizum used by a significant proportion of users.
Furthermore, Revolut and Vipps MobilePay have been promoting P2P and business-based QR solutions across Europe through reduced transaction fees.
To maximise adoption, payment providers should focus on offering competitive pricing versus established local payment methods.
Security & Convenience Key Drivers
The research found that security benefits are a key driver of digital wallet use in e-commerce in developed markets and with QR codes.
Many consumers do not wish to enter card information online. With digital wallets, this issue is reduced, as tokenisation enables card and other payment information to be used in a highly secure way.
The research also identified that as digital wallets become broader, including elements of digital identity, convenience will play a greater role; enabling wallet services to act as an all-inclusive app for financial wellbeing.
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With the Platform Coops Now! course and accelerator about to start, it is timely to reflect on some great work done by Megan Larcom, Jenny Weissbourd and Jeremy Avins.
They undertook a study of the alt-labor movement – being those organisations and campaigns working outside of traditional bargaining structures. They looked at how alt-labor is evolving and where it is succeeding.
High touch versus high tech – the challenges of organising at scale
The table above captures the lens through which they viewed this landscape. Essentially they categorised organisations by the scale of their activities – to what extent they were high touch versus high tech.
To explain their approach:
Work shapers – are those organisations that facilitate or restructure labor’s role in the workplace, giving workers a direct role in governance, management or ownership. These co-determination strategies are high touch as they are very much about workers and their relationship with the management of specific companies. For example, Lobster 207 – a business very similar to our very own Geraldton Fisherman’s Coop.
Worker centres – are also extremely high touch organisations that are focussed on information and training of labor. Eg. The Laundry Workers Center
Coalition builders – organisations that are serving workers day-to-day but by working on systemic change, often drawing on traditional organising approaches. The Justice for Janitors campaign led by the SEIU is an example.
Platform connectors – organisations drawing on scale as their source of power, as they are set-up as platform-based intermediaries. Workers can share experiences and build campaigns at scale. For example, the WorkIt app that grew our of Our Walmart and has been adapted in Australia by the the United Workers Union for care workers.
Information equalisers – organisations that help workers overcome information asymmetry. They give the example of https://www.glassdoor.com.au/ – a jobs matching platform similar to Seek. Not sure that I agree that these companies are alt-labor organisations – unless they are platform coops (but more on that below).
A key challenge then is discovering how to blend the high touch and high tech.
The union-coop model – Lobster 207
Lobster 207 is a great example of the union-coop model, as it’s both a local lodge of the IAM union and a marketing coop that provides members with a way to influence industry and to capture more financial value from their labor.
It started in 2012 in response to a crisis, as coops so often do. Lobster prices were at a level that made being a lobsterman simply unsustainable. A serendipitous connection led to the introduction of the IAM who approved an ‘unusual organising campaign’. It was unusual because the lobstermen were self-employed.
The campaign first involved flying the lobstermen to attend training by the IAM in organising and political tactics with the aim of equipping them to form their own local and take power back from the industry. In Sep13, with legal help from the IAM, Local 207 was formed. At the same time the Marine Lobster Union, a statewide marketing cooperative, was incorporated. This enabled the lobstermen to be exempted from anti-trust provisions, and become price-setters rather than takers. From 100 members in 2014, they grew to 550 members, or 10% of the industry, by 2016.
Their success can be attributed to two key factors:
Political – the union was able to help them organise, for example, training members in group bargaining strategy, and enabling them to lobby for specific legislation and run candidates for industry bodies.
Economic – the cooperative business was able to command higher prices and with their group buying power to acquire their own wholesale business (funded by the Bank of Labor and IAM locals).
Lobster 207 is a shining example of the union-coop model where a cooperative becomes a powerful mechanism for worker voice. The alignment of interests across members as business owners means that they can have greater control over their work while leveraging solidarity to increase their bargaining power.
Where are the platform coops?
There is a very large platform coop shaped hole in the research. To be fair the paper was published in Jan18, and as platform coops are still very much an emerging sector their profile as alt-labor organisations at that time was easily obscured from view. So let’s see how they would fit into their nomenclature:
Platform coops as information equalisers – The idea that a privately-owned labour hire platform, that generates its revenue from employers, could be considered an alt-labor organisation is deeply flawed. However a worker-owned platform does offer a very clear mechanism for workers to address issues such as information asymmetry. Sadly, we have a current example of this in Australia where the $500m Working for Victoria Fund, that has been tasked with addressing the unemployment crisis, has chosen to exclusively partner with a privately owned labor-hire platform. Workers, and the organisations that represent them, are unable to access any of the information that is being aggregated by this platform. This is a striking example of the difference between a platform coop that is owned by its members and aligned to their interests, and a privately owned platform that will always aim to maximise returns to its shareholders.
Platform coops as platform connectors – If our social media were owned by its users, then they would be the perfect platform connectors. As they are not, there is a very real and significant role for trade unions to use their resources to create the platforms that can play this connecting role. The WorkIt app is a great example of this. A platform coop is the perfect operating structure for unions and other organisations to aggregate their resources and collaboratively create the technologies that we need to build the labor movement.
Platform coops as work shapers, worker centres and coalition builders – One of the most exciting things about platform coops is that they offer the promise of being able to blend the high tech with the high touch. As member-owned businesses, cooperatives are designed to promote individual agency while aggregating group power. This means that a platform coop for cleaners can both enable creation of a ‘quality assured’ brand at scale (and thereby scarcity) while also enabling cleaners to create localised nodes where they can work as local teams. The Up&Go model in Brooklyn is a great example of this.
The future of the union-coop model
The opportunity for the labor movement to grow around the union-coop model is profound. As the paper concludes, the union-coop model shows:
unions can support self-employed workers through a coop
a sustainable economic approach where union dues are paid out of business profits
the value of union political organising experience, tactics and training
They conclude that “A new labor movement requires collaboration not competition” between the old and the new… and I would add between our trade unions themselves.
I’d recommend investing 15 mins to watch their video – here and if you’re keen their research can be found – here.
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Melbourne. Off-spinner Nathan Lyon believes the talks over the Ashes will not hamper Australia’s preparations for the World Test Championship final and even termed the upcoming final against India as a ‘grand final’. The WTC final between India and Australia will be played at The Oval from June 7. At the same time, the five-Test Ashes series against England will begin on June 16. Lyon told the Australian Associated Press, “We are playing the Ashes but before that there is a big match to play. The WTC final is our grand final and this is where the season will start.”
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The Sony Xperia 10 V is a captivating device that effortlessly blends cutting-edge technology with sleek design. From its immersive display to its impressive camera capabilities, this smartphone is a true masterpiece that caters to the needs of the modern smartphone user. Let’s delve into the remarkable features and exceptional performance of the Sony Xperia 10 V.
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Steven Schick has always been an inspiration to me. He is an amazing percussionist, conductor and educator. When I was an undergrad, I will never forget a one week residency at the LA County Museum where he played three solo recitals, each with a different program, from memory!
This video is long, but it definitely worth watching. “In the debut episode of a 6-part series exploring what it means to be musical, renowned percussionist Steven Schick presents the origins and global development of percussion-based composition as a “physical art.”
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Learning is the response from a demand to grow or do something that you have never done before. Horsemanship, like life, is an unending journey of learning for both horse and rider. No person comes into the world knowing horsemanship. By the same token, no horse comes into the world knowing what the human is asking of him. In the art of horsemanship, the student is not only the horse but also the human. In this article the word ‘student’ will be applied to both entities.
In most cases, the human is the one who steps into the horse’s life. It is the human who is asking something of the horse. And the horse is only asking for a fair deal. With most occupations in life, a license or diploma is required. Doctors, lawyers, plumbers, accountants, electricians and other disciplines demand years of education and money to receive a degree or diploma. Only with this achievement does one have the authority to practice a trade. Unfortunately for the horse, there is no requirement of a license or education to ride or even purchase this amazing animal. I think most of us would agree that the majority of people who own or ride horses know little or nothing about the horse. The human is the one who must make the conscientious effort to become educated in the art of equine. Each person must put his ego aside, be truthful and seek out whatever it takes to learn horsemanship.
It has been my experience that the majority of humans who are starting out in horsemanship believe that the endeavor will be simple. To these people, horsemanship is ‘kick it to go, pull it to stop’ and ‘why won’t it do what I told it to do?’ Truly, my favorite comment by novice horseman, (which they usually say in frustration), is “This horse has a mind of its own!” I always respond “Whose mind did you think he was going to have!?” In my opinion, the slowest and hardest way to learn horsemanship is to try and teach oneself.
Learning how to ride without instruction is like trying to cook an intricate meal without any recipe. I am often asked, “Where do I start?” To this I reply “The beginning would be nice!” Years ago, as a young horseman, I found information difficult to obtain and experienced horsemen close mouthed about their techniques. Most old horse masters got their knowledge through the school of hard knocks and they figured you ought to get it that way as well. Fortunately for horse people today, there is an abundance of readily available information through magazines, books, videos, clinics, instructors, and expositions. Conscientious horse people of today, whether beginner, intermediate, or advanced, are helping themselves by attending one of the many educational opportunities offered throughout the country.
To be great in anything, I think you must do it every day. If you cannot do it, you must think about it, visualize it, or read about it. With a little investigation, one can find out who the better horseman are in your area. Start with lessons and surround yourself with the world of horses. One thing will lead to another. You will meet new people and make new friends who have the same interest in horses. These are the seeds you plant and you nurture then with knowledge.
Horsemanship is a physical, mental, and emotional endeavor for both man and horse. Horsemanship is always a work in progress. I must warn you that it is hard work but if you love horses, it will be the most rewarding work you ever do. Learning is expounding, compounding, and mathematical. The more you learn, the more fun horsemanship becomes. Like anything worthwhile, the learning process can be frustrating. Do not let frustration get the better of you. With desire, determination, and dedication, anything will get better. As you hone your equine skills, it becomes easier for the horse to understand what you want and don’t want. Remember that the horse seeks the level of the rider. Be patient and do not forget that your equine friend is learning as well. The horse, just like you, will have good days and bad days. This is part of the learning process.
Remember, as students of the horse, not only are we learning but we are also teaching. The horse is always learning something from us.. Whether that something is good or bad will be up to you. To be a good teacher, you must first be a good student. When it comes to horses and horsemanship, the horse may be the best teacher. Don’t forget to let the horse teach you as much as you teach him. Remember, teaching is the art of communication and communication requires TWO minds listening and TWO minds open- yours and the horses.
A Native Texan Craig Cameron, one of the original clinicians, is on the road more than 44 weeks a year covering 80,000 miles demonstrating the style of horsemanship he has perfected in the last 23 years. Called the “public defender of the horse,” Craig dedicates himself to those who educate their horses by first educating themselves. At an age where most have long since retired the thought of starting colts, Craig Cameron, known as “The Cowboy’s Clinician,” starts hundreds of horses each year. Learn more about Craig Cameron at www.CraigCameron.com
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This article was printed in Performance Horse Digest, Volume 9, Issue 8
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Atlanta, GA (September 18, 2021) – At 12:16 p.m. on the afternoon of Friday, September 17, a tractor-trailer collision occurred on a highway in Atlanta.
According to Atlanta Police, the accident happened in the southbound lanes of I-75 around the area of Windy Hill Road. A tractor-trailer was driving in the area when the driver collided with a passenger vehicle due to reasons that are not yet known. The vehicles involved in the accident were badly damaged as a result.
Paramedics, fire crews, and numerous other responders were dispatched to the scene to help those in need. One or more victims, who have not yet been identified, were taken to local hospitals for treatment. Their conditions are not known at this time.
The roadway was blocked in the left lane of traffic until police were able to clear the scene.
No further details have been released. The investigation into the circumstances of the accident continues.
Our thoughts are with the injured victims and their families in hopes of a full recovery.
Truck Accidents in Georgia
Tractor-trailers are known for being some of the largest vehicles on Georgia roads. This means that they are capable of causing some of the most extensive harm in the event of an accident. Hundreds of thousands of truck accidents happen every year, leading to immense harm to those involved. In just one recent year’s time in the U.S., over 110,000 people were seriously injured in truck accidents due to the negligence of others. Truck drivers are expected to be some of the safest drivers on our roads but these accidents still continue to occur every year. If you have been hurt in a truck accident, you should have the dedicated help of an attorney on your side.
Being injured in a truck accident can have a huge impact on every aspect of your life. If you have been injured in a collision, you should speak with an Atlanta truck accident attorney who has your best interests in mind. Because truck drivers spend a long period of time on our roads, they are more likely to drive distracted or fall asleep at the wheel. Serious injuries result from truck accidents every single year. If you have been injured in one of these accidents, you should seek the dedicated help of an Atlanta personal injury attorney that you can trust.
Atlanta Truck Accident Attorneys
If you have been hurt in a truck accident, our attorneys at Kenneth S. Nugent, PC are here to help you. We understand how difficult it can be to face the aftermath of a truck accident. Unfortunately, truck accident claims are incredibly complex and it is not always easy to navigate the Georgia legal system. There are many parties who could be at fault for a truck accident. These include truck drivers, trucking companies, manufacturers, cargo loaders, and more. If you have been hurt in a serious truck accident, you may be feeling alone and confused. It is important that you have help along the way. Please do not hesitate to contact an accident attorney in Atlanta at (888) 579-1790 to find out what options are available for you.
Note: We have constructed this post using outside sources, including news bulletins and first-hand accounts from outside sources. The details concerning this accident have not been independently verified and so, if you have identified false information, please inform us immediately. We will adjust the post to reflect accurate content.
Disclaimer: At Kenneth S. Nugent, PC Attorneys at Law, we are always looking to improve the quality and safety of our state and have been saddened by the outcome of many accidents across Georgia. We hope to inform those in our community about these accidents in the hopes that they will work to avoid serious Georgia accidents in the future. These posts are not to be taken as a solicitation for business. The information within should never be misconstrued as medical or legal advice. We hope that all involved in these accidents will receive a speedy recovery. The photos depicted in these posts are not representative of the actual accident scene.
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Since installing ECOCA cookstoves to 50 families at the Bidibidi Refugee Settlement, we have had some updates from Simon from Pesitho and some of our great partners at Caritas Uganda. Simon has been working hard conducting technical training with the team from Caritas, ensuring there are on the ground partners, who are from both the local community and residents of the settlement, can address any technical issues with the ECOCA.
Many of the families who have received an ECOCA have stated that they prefer the taste of their food. Since most of the dishes cooked tend to require boiling, such as rice, beans or porridge, cooking over fire can often result in small pieces of ash falling into the pot, making the food taste very bitter. Other times there is an overwhelming taste of smoke which takes away the intended flavours of the dish.
Simon was able to take part in one of the dish creation activities, where our Caritas partners test out different dishes cooked on the ECOCA. This time it was an omelette.
The pilot ECOCA has two heat options: low and high. Using high is for cooking meals like beans and rice. Low is for reheating meals since most families tend to cook a large meal at lunch time and reheat the food for their meal in the evening.
To make an omelette, simply select high. Add some oil followed by eggs and let the omelette cook. Place the lid on the pot to allow the food to cook faster.
Although it is still early stages, many of the ECOCA households have already commented on reducing their firewood consumption. This has not only reduced costs for many families, but also the time spent for on collecting firewood when purchasing is not an option – an arduous task than can take between 2-6 hours.
Having the LED lamps not only make indoor cooking late at night possible with the lamp being shared between 2 rooms, but also household chores, homework sessions, reading time ( 7/15 families mentioned their home has become a study home for neighbouring children), going to latrines late at night and also having more time for children to stay up and play. Families have said their home is now ‘full of light’ and that many ‘feel more secure’ now with their lamps!
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Native to South America, and found in the United States from North Carolina to all of Florida.
An summer annual plant that grows in a prostrate, spreading habit, potentially forming thick mats over the soil. Plants favor open, disturbed habitats and flowering occurs from midsummer into early fall.
Mature plants form thick mats on the soil. Stems and leaves are very thick and fleshy, with the leaves only about ½ inch long, but wide and flat, and crowded along the stems. Lighter-colored hairs can be found in the axils of the leaves. Flowers occur at the ends of the stems, and they are about ½ inch in diameter and have 5 bright pink to purple petals.
Characteristicts Important to Control:
Generally not a particularly invasive weed, but hand removal is effective where the plants are not wanted.
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Owned by Google, Panoramio is a photo sharing site with a bit of a difference. It’s essentially a large community photo project, where the members attempt to map the world in snapshots of various landscapes and scenes. This isn’t a site where you’ll find photos of people, but rather of buildings, fields and vistas, natural phenomenon and more.
When you load up the site you’re presented with a huge map. You can explore it manually or search for a particular place. From there you’re presented with several key locations and the photos taken in those areas. The clever thing is that you can add your own photos when you’re on the move. This creates a kind of interactive catalog of sites all around the globe.
Panoramio.com will appeal to photographers who enjoy taking landscapes rather than portraits. There are a lot of beautiful images, some of which are chosen by Google to become the main image for a particular area.
Panoramio is a great addition to Google Maps. For some people, Panoramio is helpful when doing some reconnaissance of an area before visiting. For other people, it comes to the rescue when they are desperately trying to remember the name of a castle they visited, while on holiday in Scotland, many years ago. Using Panoramio, one can explore the landscape and quickly see a picture of the mystery castle with its flag, emblazoned with that amazing crest, flying high in the cold northern winds.
Uploading your photos is simple: you just need an account, then you can link it to your phone, or upload via your desktop. You can tag each photo to identify its location, and it’s then added to the large catalog of images of that location.
Members can comment on each other’s photos, which is a good way to get motivated and to meet other people online. You can also build a list of your favorite photos, and follow the members whose photography you like most.
Beyond that, though, there’s little to Panoramio.com. You can capture and store photos online which aren’t strictly map-based, but the limit is 2GB. Other limits prohibit the upload of very large files (the maximum per image is 25MB), so if you want to take really high definition photos, you may wish to look elsewhere for storage.
This site is free to use, and quite intuitive. It can seem a bit chaotic at times but you soon get used to the layout and how things function. It won’t be useful for producing gifts, or for storing regular photos of special events or people in your life, but if you like landscape photography then it’s worth checking out.
Click on the button below to check out Panoramio.com for yourself...
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The History of Life
History of Life is a collection of over 400 found photographs chronicling the history of modern China, from the 1910s to the late 1990s. Compiled from over 600,000 negatives, Cai Dong Dong curated this remarkable book using salvaged negatives from public records and discarded photographs of ordinary Chinese citizens.
History of Life
Hardback, 17x22cm, 500 pages
Limited edition 700 copies
To access the full length talk you need to be registered and logged in.
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The nation stands united to commemorate Defense and Martyrs Day, a solemn occasion to honour the martyrs and Ghazis who were the bastion of resistance in the 1965 war.
The commemoration serves as a poignant reminder of the resilience exhibited by the martyrs and Ghazis, who embodied a fortress of courage and determination, standing staunch against the enemy’s onslaught to safeguard the nation’s soil.
The event is a tribute to the relentless spirit that thwarted the malicious intentions of the adversary during the 1965 conflict.
A Day of Salutes and Solemn Prayers
The dawn of this significant day was heralded with an awe-inspiring 31-gun salute echoing in the Federal Capital, followed by a respectful 21-gun salute resounding in the provincial capitals.
Special prayers were fervently recited after the Fajr prayer in mosques nationwide as a testament to the spiritual solidarity and hope that fuels the nation. These prayers encapsulated the aspirations for the country’s progress and prosperity and emotional pleas for liberating the territories illicitly occupied by India, including Kashmir.
On this solemn occasion, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee and the Service Chiefs, along with the Armed Forces, expressed heartfelt tributes to the martyrs, their families, and the veterans who displayed unparalleled bravery during the Defense and Martyrs Day.
Per the statements released by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the military leadership recounted the awe-inspiring September 6, 1965 events. The narratives emphasized the remarkable display of valour where a smaller yet morally upright force triumphed over a numerically superior adversary, showcasing an exceptional blend of professionalism, determination, and faith.
The ISPR emphasized that the heroism and sacrifices witnessed on that fateful day continue to fuel the spirit of newer generations, instilling in them a genuine patriotism and an unwavering commitment to safeguarding the nation from internal and external threats, thereby ensuring the perpetual defence and glory of the motherland.
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SACRAMENTO, CA - FEBRUARY 28: Marvin Bagley III #35 of the Sacramento Kings shoots the ball during the game against the Charlotte Hornets on February 28, 2021 at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2021 NBAE (Photo by Rocky Widner/NBAE via Getty Images)
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February 28th, 2021
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PCR Hemp Oil is a type of oil that is made from the hemp plant, which is a variety of the Cannabis sativa plant with significantly lower amounts of THC (tetrahydrocannabinol). The hemp plant is a source of many phytocannabinoids, which are compounds that are similar to the cannabinoids produced by the human body, as well as many phytonutrients, terpenes, vitamins and fatty acids.
What is the meaning of PCR Hemp Oil?
The abbreviation PCR in PCR Hemp Oil stands for “Phytocannabinoid Rich”. Phytocannabinoid Rich Hemp Oil is sometimes called “Phytocannabinoid Hemp Oil”, “PCR Oil”, “PCR Hemp Oil” or “PCR CBD Oil”.
There are a few types of PCR Hemp Oil, but only full-spectrum hemp oil contains all the phytocannabinoids and compounds found in the hemp plant, unlike broad-spectrum hemp oil and concentrated isolates made from the hemp or cannabis plant. The types of PCR Hemp Oil are discussed below.
How is PCR Hemp Oil Made?
Phytocannabinoid Rich Hemp Oil is typically made by extracting the oil from the hemp plant using a process called CO2 extraction. This method involves using pressurized carbon dioxide to extract the oil from the plant material, which helps to preserve the purity and potency of the oil. When combined with cold, enclosed and continuous manufacturing processes and chromatographic techniques, CO2 extraction yields the best results, preventing the degradation of the delicate compounds found in the hemp plant.
What is a Phytocannabinoid?
A phytocannabinoid is a type of molecule that is produced by plants, specifically the hemp plant. Similar to phytocannabinods, endocannabinoids are a class of chemical compounds produced by the human body that interact with the endocannabinoid system. The endocannabinoid system is a complex network of receptors and signaling pathways that plays a role in a wide range of physiological processes, including pain perception, immune function, mood, and appetite.
There are over 100 known plant based cannabinoids. Common phytocannabinoids include delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), cannabidiol (CBD), cannabigerol (CBG), and cannabichromene (CBC). These compounds are believed to have potential health benefits, and they have become increasingly popular in recent years as people look for natural ways to support their health and well-being.
Does PCR Hemp Oil Contain THC?
The most well-known phytocannabinoid is THC. It is the psychoactive compound found in marijuana, a distinct variety of the Cannabis sativa plant. Hemp plants contain only trace amounts of THC (less than 0.3 percent), so Phytocannabinoid Rich Hemp Oil does not have the same psychoactive effects as marijuana.
Does PCR Hemp Oil Contain CBD?
Unlike cannabis plant, the most abundant phytocannabinoid found in the hemp plant is CBD. It is believed to have a number of potential expected functions, including regulating the inflammatory and immune response, stress, pain control, sleep and brain functions, similar effects of endocannabinoids that are naturally produced by the human body.
Types of PCR Hemp Oil
There are a few different types of Phytocannabinoid Rich Hemp Oil, each with its own unique characteristics:
- Full-spectrum hemp oil: Full-spectrum hemp oil is made from the whole hemp plant, including the leaves, flowers, and stalks. It contains all of the cannabinoids found in the hemp plant, as well as other compounds such as terpenes and flavonoids. Full-spectrum hemp oil is believed to have a “synergistic” effect (also called “the entourage effect”), meaning that the compounds in the oil work together to enhance the overall benefits of the oil.
- Broad-spectrum hemp oil: Broad-spectrum oil is similar to full-spectrum hemp oil, but it has had the THC removed via multiple chemical reactions. It contains all of the other phytocannabinoids and compounds found in the hemp plant, with undetectable levels of THC, but less of the “synergistic” effect discussed above.
- CBD isolate: CBD isolate is a pure form of CBD that has had all of the other phytocannabinoids and compounds removed. It is typically a white powder that is 99% pure CBD.
Keep in mind that hemp oil is often consumed in tincture form for maximum absorption. The compounds in the oil become much easier for the body to absorbe once they are dissolved in ethanol.
Although people’s needs and desires vary, it is often recommended to use a full-spectrum hemp oil extract products in order to receive the full benefits of hemp and other cannabinoids naturally found in the plant. Broad-spectrum hemp oil and concentrated isolates are perceived to be not nearly as effective as full-spectrum formulas.
The Benefits of PCR Hemp Oil
As endocannabinoids produced by our bodies interact with the endocannabinoid system supporting a wide range of physiological processes, including pain perception, inflammatory process, immune function, mood, and appetite, there is a growing body of research that suggests that phytocannabinoids, such as those found in hemp oil, may support similar functions of our bodies as a dietary supplement, including regulating the inflammatory and immune response, stress, pain control, sleep and brain functions. As for the difference in effectiveness between hemp products, full-spectrum hemp oil is perceived to be better than the alternatives thanks to its “synergistic” effect, but of course quality of the final product needs to be taken into consideration when a certain brand is chosen. It is believed that when all the compounds naturally found in the hemp plant are present, they may work together to enhance the overall benefits of the oil.
How to use PCR Hemp Oil
Phytocannabinoid Rich Hemp Oil can be used in a variety of ways, depending on the specific product and the desired effect. Some common methods of using hemp oil include:
- Oral ingestion: Phytocannabinoid Rich Hemp Oil can be taken orally in the form of softgels, capsules, gummies, or drops. When taken orally, the effects of the oil may take longer to be felt, but they may also last longer.
- Sublingual administration: It can also be taken sublingually (below the tongue) in the form of drops. When taken sublingually, the oil is absorbed through the mucous membranes in the mouth and enters the bloodstream directly, which may produce faster effects.
- Topical application: Phytocannabinoid Rich Hemp Oil can be applied topically in the form of lotions, creams, or salves. When applied topically, the oil is absorbed through the skin and can be used to target specific areas of the body.
- Inhalation: Phytocannabinoid Rich Hemp Oil can be inhaled using a vaporizer or e-cigarette. When inhaled, the oil is absorbed through the lungs and enters the bloodstream directly, which may produce faster effects, but this use is not recommended to those seeking primarily health benefits.
It’s important to follow the instructions on the specific product you are using and to start with a low dose, gradually increasing as needed and always check with your healthcare provider first before you decide to use any natural product as a supplement.
To learn more about hemp, check out the PhytoLogica Blog.
These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Statements regarding dietary supplements have not been evaluated by the FDA and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or health condition.
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Online sbobet is a popular gambling website that allows players to play games and earn real money. It is available to people around the world and has an easy-to-use interface. It also offers a wide variety of games, including the classics like roulette and blackjack. The site is available in many languages and has a customer support team that is available to answer any questions.
Sbobet is a great option for beginners and offers a free account, so players can try out the game before they deposit any money. However, it is important to read the terms and conditions carefully before making any bets. Additionally, it is a good idea to consult experts who can offer tips on how to improve your chances of winning. There are many websites and social media accounts that offer this type of information, so be sure to check them before placing your bets.
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CALLS by the leaders of two German police unions for politicians to U-Turn on the their progressive march towards cannabis legalisation have been roundly condemned. This comes as political talks continue towards the the formation of a cannabis-friendly ‘Traffic-Light Coalition’. It appears that it is just these talks – and the potential for adult-use legalisation…
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CALLS by the leaders of two German police unions for politicians to U-Turn on the their progressive march towards cannabis legalisation have been roundly condemned.
This comes as political talks continue towards the the formation of a cannabis-friendly ‘Traffic-Light Coalition’.
It appears that it is just these talks – and the potential for adult-use legalisation – which has prompted the German police to speak out.
Oliver Malchow, head of Germany’s police union (GdP), told the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung – a regional daily newspaper – ‘that there must finally be an end to trivializing the joint’.
He went on to say that cannabis use can lead to ‘significant health problems and social conflicts, especially among young people’.
Speaking to the same publication fellow Police Union boss and Christian Democrat (CDU) politician Rainer Wendt of The German Police Union (DPolG) said: ”It would be the start of a stoned future instead of the launch of a modern Germany if this project were included in the coalition agreement of a traffic light coalition.”
He branded cannabis a gateway drug, and said he feared fatal consequences of adult-use legalisation would be a rise in road traffic accidents, (although studies into this have not reached any firm conclusions).
Growing Police Hostility To Cannabis
The German police have become increasingly hostile to cannabis and hemp over the last few years.
There have been a number of incidents recently where they have moved to confiscate products and arrest the sellers of hemp and CBD products.
In one such case two hemp tea sellers were given six-month suspended prison sentences for drug-trafficking, before the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) came down on the side of the retailers.
German cannabis lawyer Kai-Friedrich Niermann is now leading a fightback through the courts against this prohibitionist mindset.
Old Myths And Lies
He said: “Many of the detectives and police officers I speak to are done with prosecuting businesses for selling CBD flowers, or hemp tea, they have had enough of all of this in relation to cannabis and they want to get on with real police work.
“These are the attitudes of the old warriors regurgitating their old myths and lies. Public opinion has shifted and the majority of the country is now in favour of reform.
“The detectives are in favour of reform (see below) and I’ve no idea why they came up with this old stuff. The science has proved them wrong. The German Supreme court, in 1994, has said cannabis is not a gateway drug and there is no evidence of harm to young people. These are their last arguments and they are not scientifically true.”
Finn Hansel, Managing Director and Co-Founder, of leading German cannabis business Sanity Group said the police statement is ‘to be expected’.
“Mr Wendt is a conservative politician and if you see his argument you realize that he is not really familiar with the topic.
“However, two things he said are quite revealing. His arguments that cannabis is dangerous because you don’t know the composition of the products in the market, and, that cannabis is dangerous for young people are both arguments for legalization and not against it.
“Only legal cannabis can control product quality and composition and only legal cannabis can set clear age ranges.”
He went on to say that in 2018 a third police union – the Confederation of Detective Officers – had said they are supportive of the legalization.
He added: “This is an example of the prohibitionist mindset which is now fading in Germany. Not even the conservative (CDU) party has yet commented on these statements. I think legalization is just ahead of us.”
Jürgen Neumeyer, Managing Director of the German Cannabis Industry Association (BvCW), said the latest comments from the police are indicative of the ‘prohibitionist mindset’ that still exists in the force, and elsewhere, and that science has shown their claims over the potential harmful impacts of cannabis to be ‘untrue’.
Philip Schetter, Managing Director of German medical cannabis wholesale distributor and manufacturer Cantourage believes it is important to establish a ‘systematic roadmap for the legalization of cannabis involving all parties including the police’.
He added: “In these discussions, we should look at the real-world data at hand – for example, from Canada – and make decisions based on facts. To my knowledge, there was not a hike in crimes and accidents. At the end of the day, there will be more, and safer, products available.”
Post-Election Cannabis Coalitions
Following last month’s Federal Elections the Greens and the Free Democrat Party (FDP) with a cumulative 210 parliamentary seats are the largest block in the Bundestag, with both behind an adult-use cannabis market.
The two are currently talks with potential suitors, the Social Democrats (SPD), who claimed 206 seats, and the outgoing Chancellor Merkel’s CDU, with 196.
The Greens have drafted their own adult-use regulations and the FDP leader Christian Lindner, when asked which project would be easiest to implement with the Greens, answered the ‘legalisation of cannabis’.
Their most likely suitor is the SPD, which is a left-leaning party which has previously proposed undertaking adult-use trials in German cities.
Such a Traffic Light Coalition – red (SPD), yellow (FDP) and green – will deliver a cumulative 416 seats well above the 368 required for an overall majority.
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Langkawi is a great place to relax, where active entertainment can be combined with interesting tours. The island is also famous for its pristine beauty and rich cultural heritage. Where else can you enjoy many kilometers of the amazing beaches? Of course, on Langkawi! Moreover, Langkawi is the best place to get close to nature, and spend an incredible weekend with your kids. So, check out the following most interesting spots for your children on Langkawi…
Underwater World Langkawi
It’s not the biggest one, but very good and great oceanarium with a decorative jungle with waterfalls and ponds. Passing from one room to another, you will get acquainted with a variety of fish, sharks, huge crabs, penguins, turtles, mollusks and jellyfish. There’s a 15-meter underwater tunnel, which allows observing a marine life in almost natural conditions. Also, Underwater World Langkawi is home for lots of birds and monkeys. Generally, the oceanarium provides a fascinating collection of 5000 inhabitants. You can observe the feeding of sharks, as well as touch some exotic inhabitants.
Location: Jalan Pantai Chenang
Hours: Monday-Sunday 10am-6pm
Admission: adults RM46, kids (3-12) RM36
What can the Oriental Village offer? The huge territory of the village features children’s playgrounds, and a plenty of entertainments including catamarans, pony and elephant rides, feeding of rabbits and fish. Oriental Village is a large green area with restaurants, shops, lakes, bridges and lots of activities. Feeding of rabbits will definitely satisfy your kid, and it costs only RM1. So, the main thing is not to spend all the money for carrots!
Location: Burau Bay Padang Matsirat
Hours: Monday-Sunday 7am-12am
Admission: visit is free of charge
Sky Bridge & Sky Cab Langkawi
Langkawi Island is a picturesque spot full of green tropical forests, sandy beaches and has everything for a wonderful weekend. And in order to enjoy this beauty from the amazing height of 700 meters, just visit Langkawi Sky Bridge. Firstly, a cable car with spectacular 360-degree panorama will take you to the top of the Ganung Mountain, where the bridge is situated.
The length of the bridge is 125 meters and the width is 1.8 meters. There’re triangular platforms on the edges of the bridge, where you and your kids can stop and admire fantastic views of Langkawi, the Andaman Sea and the neighboring islands. Since the bridge is curved, you can enjoy the delightful scenery from different angles.
Location: Jalan Telaga Tujuh
Hours: Friday-Sunday 9.30am-7pm, Monday-Thursday 10am-7pm
Admission: Sky Cab – RM55 adults, RM40 kids; Sky Bridge – RM8 adults, RM5 kids
Langkawi Wildlife Park
Langkawi Wildlife Park is a zoo with many animals and birds of rare species. In fact, this is a contact zoo, so you can easily caress, feed and take animals to the hands.
Generally, Langkawi Wildlife Park is a tropical garden with the area of about 2 hectares. The territory is divided into several zones full of green spaces, flowers, trees, ponds and waterfalls. The zoo offers several dozen of animals and a little more than two thousand birds. The major feature is that the animals are placed in open aviaries and freely move through the territory.
Langkawi’s Park is a great place to spend 3-4 hours and get a plenty of positive emotions.
Location: Lot 1485, Kampung Belanga Pecah, Jalan Ayer Hangat
Hours: Monday-Sunday 8.30am-6pm
Admission: RM39 adults, RM22 kids 3-12
What is Pantai Kok? It’s almost wild and secluded beach with a crystal clear sea, a gently sloping entrance to water and perfect snow-white sand. Also, Pantai Kok Beach is an incredibly beautiful place overlooking Andaman Sea and tropical forests! So, if you and your kids like swimming, sunbathing and picnic, it’s hard to find a more suitable spot than Pantai Kok. Of course, you can spend there even the whole day, but don’t forget to stock up on food in advance.
Location: Pantai Kok Langkawi
Admission: free of charge
This crocodile farm is home to more than a thousand crocodiles and alligators of various species and sizes. The visitors will be able to see the shows with the participation of these dangerous animals, as well as their feeding.
The farm covers an area of 20 acres, and it’s located on a fairly picturesque territory. In addition to ordinary crocodiles, there are special compartments with alligators having various bodily injuries or anomalies: tailless, toothless, with a flattened jaw, humpbacked and others.
Also, you can see there a 28-year-old crocodile Bujang Kawi, who was born without teeth, but despite that he eats well, and features a length of 4 meters and weight of 454 kilograms.
Location: Pantai Kok Langkawi
Hours: Monday-Sunday 9am-6pm, crocodile shows start at 11.15am and 2.45pm
Admission: RM8 adults, RM6 kids 3-12
So, Langkawi is a very suitable destination for your family trip, especially in case you like calm and quite relaxation. The island offers a plenty of entertainments for you and your little ones, and you should visit them for sure. As Langkawi’ doesn’t feature well-functioning public transport system, the only comfortable way to visit these places is a rental vehicle. You can rent a car at Langkawi Airport.
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So, you’ve determined to eliminate your realtor and promote your personal home to keep away from these excessive fee charges. The present property market will not be precisely heaven on Earth for the time being, however there are nonetheless loads of methods to get a great worth for your own home quick. This text provides you a primary gross sales plan.
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Fireball Mickey Mouse Hawaiian Shirt
Are you looking for a unique and stylish shirt to wear this summer? If so, you?ll want to check out the Fireball Mickey Mouse Hawaiian Shirt. This shirt is made from 100% cotton and features a detailed Mickey Mouse design. The shirt is machine-washable and has a comfortable fit that will make it perfect for any summer activity. Don?t wait any longer ? order your Fireball Mickey Mouse Hawaiian Shirt today!
History of the Fireball Mickey Mouse Hawaiian Shirt
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Features of the Fireball Mickey Mouse Hawaiian Shirt
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How to order a Fireball Mickey Mouse Hawaiian Shirt
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Nourish your puppy pal with the balanced diet nature intended with Taste of the Wild Pacific Stream Puppy Recipe Grain-Free Dry Dog Food! Formulated with novel proteins including salmon, this grain-free recipe includes peas and sweet potatoes that deliver the highly-digestible energy your growing puppy needs, along with natural antioxidant support from real fruits and vegetables and dried chicory root for prebiotic support and healthy digestion. Essential minerals are chelated with amino acids to optimize their absorption and ensure maximum benefit, for complete and balanced nutrition with a taste of the wild your furry friend constantly craves!
- This smoke-flavored salmon dry puppy food is crafted with real fish as the #1 ingredient and is high in protein (27%) to help support bones, joints and lean, strong muscles in puppies and nursing or pregnant mothers.
- Crafted with vitamins and minerals from real fruits and superfoods, omega fatty acids for skin and coat health and nutrients for the energy your furry friend needs thrive!
- Contains species-specific K9 Strain Proprietary Probiotics, along with antioxidants and prebiotics to help support healthy digestion, immune system health and overall health and wellness.
- Made in the USA by a family-owned brand that only uses quality ingredients from trusted domestic and global sources.
- A grain-free recipe specially crafted for puppies.
- Protein - 27.00%
- Fat - 15.00%
- Fiber - 5.00%
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Grandview Park Tree Care Event
Tuesday, September 26, 2023, 5:00pm – 7:00pm
Meeting Location: Grandview Park (part of Emerald View Park), 499 Bailey Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15211 (meet by bandstand/overlook)
Parking: On-street parking
Join the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy and Tree Pittsburgh in Grandview Park to help mulch and care for trees that were planted by community volunteers. We will provide the tools, equipment, and snacks!
What to bring: A filled water bottle (we will provide some extra water for refilling). Please wear sturdy footwear/closed-toe shoes and clothes that you don’t mind getting a bit dirty.
Weather: Please dress for the weather—i.e. rain jacket or sunscreen/hat. We will work in light rain but will cancel in the event of predicted heavy rain or thunderstorms.
IMPORTANT: Please click HERE to read our safety guidelines and Hold Harmless and Release of Liability Waiver.
Photos/Media: Please note that a photographer or PPC staff may be on-site to capture photos and video from the program. The photos/video captured may be used to help the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy further promote its mission. Please advise the photographer or PPC staff on-site if you DO NOT want your photo/video taken.
Release and Indemnity Note: By attending this event, I agree to release the City of Pittsburgh, The Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy and their employees (collectively the “CITY” or the “PPC”) and agree to indemnify and hold the CITY and PPC, harmless from all claims, damages, or actions of any kind which might result from participation in, or attendance at, Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy Events resulting from any of the CITY’s or the PPC’s acts of omissions whether negligent or otherwise.
Health Guidelines: The Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy is currently following all CDC guidelines regarding the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic. The Parks Conservancy asks program and special event attendees to follow all current safety measures outlined by the CDC and local health agencies. Please note that the Conservancy cannot be held liable for any exposure to the COVID-19 virus. Additionally, the Conservancy cannot guarantee that program and special event attendees will not become infected by the coronavirus/COVID-19.
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Where to Get Chicken Wings Delivery in Purcell, OK
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Some of Purcell's Best Chicken Wings
What makes Domino’s specialty chicken menu in Purcell so special? You can have your wings your way by picking from our delicious menu options like Spicy Pineapple Jalapeno Bites or Classic Hot Buffalo Boneless Wings. And there’s always more! It’s your call if you want to pick up your chicken dinner, or if you’d rather have your chicken wings delivered to your home, office, or to a local Domino’s Hotspot® near you!
Plain, Saucy, or Both! Purcell, OK Chicken Wing Delivery
Domino’s chicken is amazing no matter how you order it, whether that’s oven-crisp Hot Wings, or lightly breaded Buffalo Chicken Bites drizzled in your must-have dipping sauce. Does the word “drizzle” make your taste buds sizzle? Explore Domino’s Purcell specialty chicken menu.
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Your Career Reinvention Elevator Pitch
What is an ‘elevator pitch’? (It’s also referred to as an ‘elevator story or ‘elevator speech’.) It is a 30-second story that tells people who you are and what you do (30-seconds being the approximate amount of time you have to impress a hot prospect while riding in an elevator, hence the name).
The goal of an elevator pitch is to provoke interest so that your target (potential client, hiring company, prospect, etc.) will keep talking to you. For a career reinvention elevator pitch, you must craft a story for where you want to go (your new career) rather than where you’ve been!
An elevator pitch is usually one to three sentences. It always contains the following four elements:
- What you do: A quick summary of yourself as a candidate
- Who you do it for: The types of firms or individuals that would find your services helpful; your target
- What value you bring: The benefit a potential firm would experience by hiring you
- How you want to be perceived by the target: The qualities you want to be known for
Any elevator pitch you craft must be able to pass what’s called the “So what?” test. This means that your story must be interesting, compelling and useful enough that your target prospect cannot say ‘so what?’ in response to your pitch.
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- Mature Spread 18 - 24 Inches
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The Revolution Sweet Bell Pepper is an outstanding hybrid that develops large peppers up to 4 inches long and wide. These thick-walled, red and green fruits are ideal for stuffing but are equally good when eaten raw. Maturing in as few as 72 days, fruits are harvestable from midsummer onwards depending on planting time. Revolution has good disease resistance and will even fruit in colder weather.
Revolution Sweet Bell Pepper Plant Care
Peppers are tender plants and should not be placed outside until all risk of frost has gone and the soil warmed up. Revolution Sweet Bell Pepper Plant thrives in a warm spot where it will receive full sun; a south-facing and sheltered spot is where it likes to be. When planting this pepper out as a row, it can be spaced at a distance of 18 to 24 inches.
Growing Revolution Sweet Bell Pepper Plant
The Revolution Sweet Bell Pepper Plant tends to reach a maximum size of 18-24 inches. If given the right growing conditions, harvestable fruits can be picked in 72 days. This sweet pepper is suitable for growing outside when the soil temperature is above 65°F, or kept in a greenhouse or polytunnel.
Perfectly suited to growing in containers, the Revolution Sweet Bell Pepper Plant requires a minimum pot size of around 12 inches across. A fertile and free-draining potting mix is necessary for this pepper to grow well.
Watering Revolution Sweet Bell Pepper Plant
Sweet pepper plants prefer to be watered little and often to keep the soil moist. When grown in a pot or container, peppers need to be watered more frequently than those grown in the ground.
Feeding Revolution Sweet Bell Pepper Plant
When grown in fertile soil, Revolution Sweet Bell Pepper generally doesn’t require any extra fertilizer. However, to give it a boost and to encourage its fruits, a fertilizer high in potassium and phosphorus can be applied every 2 weeks once the first flowers form.
Revolution Sweet Bell Pepper Plant Information
|USDA Hardiness Zones: 9 - 12|
|Plant Type: Edible Plants|
|Light Exposure: Full Sun (At Least 6 Hours Of Direct Sunlight)|
|Mature Height: 18 - 24 Inches|
|Mature Spread: 18 - 24 Inches|
|Spacing: 18 - 24 Inches|
|Flower Color(s): None|
|Foliage Type: Herbaceous|
|Foliage Color(s): Green|
|Seasonal Interest: N/A|
|Uses: Borders, Containers, Mass Planting|
|Features: Low Maintenance|
|Brand: Goodness Grows|
|Common Name: Revolution Sweet Bell Pepper Plant|
|Other Name(s): Revolution Sweet Bell Pepper|
|Scientific Name: Pepper 'Revolution'|
Please Note: The pictures below are to give a general representation of the different container sizes. The actual size/ages of plants are estimates and will vary based on; type of plant, time of year, last pruning & many other factors.
For more detailed information, please click here.
Plant Addict Guarantee (Included On All Plant Orders)
Plant Addicts guarantees your plant(s) will arrive happy and healthy, but the plant(s) are being shipped through the mail and accidents happen. If the plant is dead, has dried out roots or the incorrect item was shipped just notify Plant Addicts within 3 days upon delivery. We may ask for pictures but will try to make it as easy as possible for you. Please note plant(s) with damaged branches or wilted leaves will not qualify for this guarantee. Plants are very resilient and will rebound quickly when cared for correctly.
For information on how to care for you new plant please check out our guide. Guide: How to Care for Your New Plant(s)
Plant Addicts Warranty - 1 Year (Extra Purchase Required)
We encourage all plant lovers to purchase the Plant Addicts Warranty whether you’re new or an expert. There are many variables outside our control and yours that can cause the demise of your plant(s). Examples would be hungry animals, drought, poor soil conditions, over watering, disease, insects & many other factors. The Plant Addicts Warranty is a 1 year warranty protecting you from all the unknowns and will replace your plant if it moves on to the plant afterlife.
The warranty is purchased on a per plant basis and must be purchased at the same time as the plant purchase. We will cover 100% of the price of the plant but the warranty does not cover shipping cost. Simply let us know if your plant has died within one year of receiving it and we’ll get you a new one shipped out. We may ask for photos for documentation purposes but again we’ll try to make it as easy as possible.
For more information, please go to our Shipping & Returns page at the bottom of the website.
Standard Colors: 2-3 business days
Special Order Colors: 8 weeks - this is due to the planter being custom made with the color(s) of your choice
Please Note: On special orders there can not be any cancellations
Time of Order:
- If there is extreme heat we’ll delay shipping.
- We’ll have to review what areas the plants are traveling through along with your location
Once your plant is shipped you’ll receive an email with tracking information. Depending on the above criteria we’ll ship your plant(s) towards beginning of the following week from your order. We put together this helpful guide of what to do when you receive your plants in the mail.
It is important to know that all of our plants are clearly labeled for which growing zones the plant can survive in. The plants are thoroughly trialed and tested in every growing zone before we state the plant can grow in a zone. Again, our #1 priority is to ship the plants to you healthy and ready to thrive in your location. So we will do everything in our power to do so.
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The Mysteries of Acorn-Shaped Winter Squash Growth
Acorn-shaped winter squash is a beautiful and delicious vegetable that can add so much flavor to your meals. But if you’re planning on growing these tasty treats, it’s important to understand the ins and outs of their growth process.
Patience is Key
If you’re looking for a quick-growing plant, acorn-shaped winter squash might not be the best option. These plants take an average of 80-100 days from planting to harvest, depending on weather conditions and other factors.
Ideal Growing Conditions
To ensure the healthiest growth possible for your acorn-shaped winter squash, it’s important to provide them with adequate sunlight (at least six hours per day), well-draining soil rich in nutrients, and plenty of water.
While pruning isn’t necessary for acorn-shaped winter squash growth, it can help control vine length and keep your garden tidy. Simply remove any dead or damaged leaves as needed.
Harvesting Your Squash
Once your squashes reach maturity (around 3-4 inches in diameter), they should be ready to harvest! Be sure to use sharp shears or a knife when removing them from the vine, being careful not to damage surrounding foliage.
In conclusion, while growing acorn-shaped winter squash may require patience and diligence, there’s nothing quite like enjoying the fruits of your labor come harvest time. With proper care and attention paid throughout each stage of growth, you’ll soon have a bounty of flavorful vegetables at your fingertips!
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The Perplexing Nature of Parsley Root Growth
Are you curious about growing parsley root in your garden? Well, get ready for a journey that requires patience and perseverance.
Understanding the Growing Process
The first step towards growing parsley root is planting seedlings or seeds in well-draining soil with good fertility levels. Once planted, water regularly to keep the soil moist but not soggy.
The Lengthy Wait Time
But here’s where things get tricky – parsley root takes an average of 90-120 days to mature! That’s almost four months of waiting before you can harvest your crop.
Factors Affecting Grow Time
Several factors will affect the growth time of your parsley roots, including temperature, light levels, soil quality and moisture content. So it may take longer or shorter depending on these variables.
Dealing With Impatience
If you’re feeling impatient and wondering if there is anything else you can do to speed up the process; unfortunately not really… You just have to wait it out while making sure all conditions for optimal growth are met.
Growing parsley root may seem like a daunting task because of its lengthy grow-time , but don’t let that discourage you from trying this delicious root vegetable in your garden today! Just be patient, follow best practices when planting and caring for your plants whilst keeping track how long does it take till maturity point which would help determine success or failure along the way. Happy gardening!
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Kubernetes is a complex platform that provides for highly scalable, efficient use of containers. Operating enterprise Kubernetes deployment is difficult. it can also be highly problematic for companies that just try to “wing it” and figure out what to do as they go along.
Don’t let that be you. Here are some best practices to employ when running Kubernetes in production.
Kubernetes environments are extremely dynamic. Services are deployed and updated frequently. Nodes are added and removed from clusters. Clusters are spun up and down according to workload.
To streamline the ability to deploy and maintain services, keep in mind deployment best practices—these ones in particular:
- Ensuring Open and Flexible Environments
Kubernetes runs on a variety of computing infrastructure, including commodity servers. Existing hardware can be redeployed to run Kubernetes along with newly procured servers. You have your choice of running Kubernetes on bare metal, virtual machines (VMs), or in public clouds.
If you already have an established VM environment, running Kubernetes in that environment can be a logical choice. If you’d rather not maintain physical infrastructure, running Kubernetes in a public cloud is a good option and one with low barriers to entry.
- Standardize the Container Build Process
Containers are a key building block of a microservice architecture, and how they’re managed directly impacts the efficiency, reliability, and availability of services running in Kubernetes clusters.
The container build process should be automated using a continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) system. Open source tools such as Jenkins are widely used CI/CD tools. Major public cloud providers also offer CI/CD services. These tools reduce the workload on developers when deploying a service. They also allow for automated testing prior to deployment, and can support rollback operations when needed.
- Ensure Self-Service
Developers shouldn’t have to coordinate with IT administrators to deploy and monitor services running in Kubernetes clusters. To ensure developers can manage deployments, it’s important to provide tools for deploying and scanning applications.
For example, Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes and supports defining, deploying, and upgrading applications, which can streamline the management of applications. Security scanning tools should be in place, as well, to help developers identify vulnerabilities in applications before they’re deployed.
- Applications and Storage
With developers and admins alike working across multiple environments, it’s also important to have policies in place to enable efficient use of resources. Consider role-based access control (RBAC) policies and limits to ensure resources are used fairly, and that no single deployment consumes an excessive amount of resources.
There are a number of operations best practices to consider, which will help reduce the operational overhead associated with maintaining Kubernetes clusters.
- Cluster Observability
The idea behind single-pane-of-glass visibility is that all information needed to understand and diagnose the current state of the cluster, deployments, and other components should be available from a single tool.
For example, from a single application, administrators should be able to configure monitoring, analyze monitoring data, and specify alerts triggered by that monitoring data. Plan to use a standardized set of monitoring tools for collecting, storing, analyzing, and visualizing performance monitoring data.
When scaling with Kubernetes, you have the option of scaling the size of a cluster or increasing the number of clusters. When workloads vary widely, the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler can be used to adjust the number of nodes in a deployment. Kubernetes also has a Vertical Pod Autoscaler, but that’s currently in beta release and shouldn’t be used in production.
One scaling question you’ll face is whether to run one cluster or multiple clusters. Kubernetes can scale to thousands of nodes and hundreds of thousands of pods, so a single cluster can meet many use cases.
- Governance and Security
To start with, plan to implement granular RBACs. These can be used to implement the principle of “least privilege,” which states that users should have only the permissions they need to perform tasks assigned to them and no more.
Use audit trails to track security-related changes in the system. For example, operations, like adding a user and changing permissions, should be logged. Also, use encryption to secure communications both within and outside of the cluster.
It’s a best practice to scan applications for vulnerabilities. In a similar way, you should review vulnerabilities in Kubernetes software and patch as necessary. This is a situation in which it may be beneficial to have multiple clusters, because a patch can be deployed to a single cluster and evaluated before rolling it out to others.
They’re ‘Best’ Practices for a Reason
Kubernetes is a complex platform that provides for highly scalable, efficient use of computing and storage resources. But it can also be highly problematic for companies that just try to “wing it” and figure out what to do as they go along.
Don’t let that be you. Following the best practices outlined here will help to ensure that you realize the optimal benefit of your Kubernetes investment. Download the full tech brief, Production Grade Kubernetes best practices checklist.
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Underride guards are safety equipment that can be added to tractor trailers and other large, commercial trucks to protect drivers of passenger vehicles from fatal injuries. These pieces of equipment can keep a vehicle that collides with the side or back of semi-truck from going under the truck, thus turning a fatal crash into something more akin to a rear-end crash. An article in Forbes called underride guards “a kind of metal bumper that hangs from the back of a high-riding semi to stop a smaller vehicle from sliding underneath in a rear-end crash.” Unfortunately, it is not just your car that is may get completely run over. Without side and rear underride guards, the driver and front seat passenger are likely to be crushed and killed if their vehicle ends up in an accident with a large truck.
An underride guard is a large, metal panel that acts as a bumper attached to the rear and the side of 18-wheelers to prevent smaller, passenger vehicles from slipping under the truck in a crash. In the spring of 2017, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) conducted crash tests to show how side underride guards can help to prevent side underride crashes, and the tests showed that side underride guards can potentially save lives. The video “Car vs. Truck” shows the astonishing 2017 IIHS crash test results.
The video portrays the results of the side-impact of a sedan traveling 35-mph with a tractor trailer. The first crash shows a passenger vehicle crashing into the side of the truck that has been equipped with a fiberglass side-skirt, which is designed to improve the truck’s aerodynamics. The sedan slides under the side of the truck, crushing the front end of the car and then crushing the passenger compartment as the driver and front seat occupants come into contact with the side of the truck.
The test with the AngelWing side underride guard device attached shows how the guard causes the sedan to bounce back after striking it and the vehicles airbags deploy further cushioning the impact on the driver. The video shows how having side underride guards installed can help prevent the gruesome deaths that can occur without them making side crashes with large trucks more survivable.
In an article in AutoWeek.com, the IIHS said, “In 2015, 301 of the 1,542 passenger vehicle occupants killed in two-vehicle crashes with a tractor-trailer died when their vehicles struck the side of a tractor-trailer. This compares with the 292 people who died when their passenger vehicles struck the rear of a tractor-trailer. Because of gaps in federal crash data, IIHS researchers can’t determine exactly how many of these crashes involve underride, but they estimate that underride occurs in about half of fatal crashes between large trucks and passenger vehicles.”
IIHS data estimates that about 750 people were killed in underride crashes in 2015, and they are recommending that the federal government require truck manufacturers to add side guards to their trucks to save lives. David Zuby, IIHS vice president said, “Our tests and research show that side under-ride guards have the potential to save lives. We think a mandate for side under-ride guards on large trucks has merit, especially as crash deaths continue to rise on our roads.” An IIHS study found that side underride guards could help reduce the risk of injury in about 90% of side impact crashes between smaller, passenger vehicles and large trucks.
Our compassionate Phoenix truck accident attorneys fight for you as you seek justice in the form of fair compensation when you have been hurt in a truck crash. We offer free consultations where you can discuss your case with an experienced Arizona truck accident attorney. We invite you to call Plattner & Verderame, P.C. now at 602-266-2002, or fill out our contact form.
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Shining Force II is a strategy/RPG hybrid with cartoon-like graphics. The game is comprised of two modes: exploration, in which the hero and his companions engage in the role-playing game standard of talking to townspeople, exploring new lands, and furthering the plot; and battle mode, in which the combat is resolved from a tactical point of view, with individual combats being resolved from a close-up view with animated characters. Play Shining Force II online!
Shining Force II game description
The plot consists of such quests as saving a princess from the clutches of demons, rebuilding the hero’s hometown, and uniting the various forces of good together against the hero’s nemesis. Along the way, the hero will be joined by many characters who seek to aid him in his journey.
Several of these characters can only be obtained by completing side quests. In addition, random battles can occur between the programmed scenarios, giving the hero’s party a chance to obtain experience and gain levels outside of the set scenarios.
There are several difficulty levels in the game, selectable when starting a new game. In addition, there is a configuration code that allows cheats to be activated, including the ability to control the enemy units.
Play Shining Force II online
You can play Shining Force II online here, in web browser for free!
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Wicked fans have been waiting for a feature film adaptation of the Tony-winning Broadway musical for a while now. The project has seen its fair share of starts and stops since the movie discussions began in 2003. Thankfully, there seems to be hope at the end of the yellow brick road, as production is finally ramping up under the direction of John M. Chu. Since the Crazy Rich Asians alum took the gig, he’s shared occasional updates about the progress that’s being made. Now, Chu has revealed a huge detail about how the play is being adapted, and wow.
The always delightful John M. Chu posted this most recent announcement to Twitter, in the form of a screenshot from his “OzPhone.” In it, the director confirmed that the adaptation will be split into two movies and not a single installment as many assumed. Chu also explained the decision to divide the story into two parts:
This is a very tall order, but one that admirers of the stage play are sure to appreciate. The show, which is based on Gregory Maguire’s Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, has a number of memorable scenes and musical numbers like “Popular” and “Defying Gravity.” Those are sure to be sights to behold on a big screen. One has to wonder at what point the story will be split up. The musical has two acts, so the director and his collaborators could divide it up that way. Regardless though, the pair of features are in good hands with the Step Up alum. You can see the rest of his message down below:
Special #Wicked Movie Announcement… ✌🏼🎬🧹🌸💚sent from my OzPhone: pic.twitter.com/4qPpvVD4rRApril 26, 2022
John M. Chu has an interesting body of work, as he’s worked within multiple genres, including action and comedy. He made his mark within the realm of cinematic musicals with his 2021 adaptation of In the Heights, though. Not only was a pitch-perfect translation of Quiara Alegría Hudes and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s work, it also gifted audiences with a movie starring a predominantly Latino cast. And Chu’s casting for his newest venture is already off to a very impressive start.
Back in November, Wicked found its two leads in Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, who will play Glinda and Elphaba, respectively. The director even managed to capture their emotional reactions to being cast. Shortly after, both actresses got the seal of approval from their OG predecessors, Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel. Erivo confirmed just last month that she and Grande are already building chemistry and both are incredibly excited to get into the thick of things. The rest of the cast is sure to be stacked with serious talent (yet I wouldn’t count on James Corden being added to the roster).
The adaptation is definitely shaping up to be something special, and it’ll be exciting to see what John M. Chu and co. create. Based on his recent message, he clearly understands just how important this story is to people, and he’s sure to take great care while bringing this Wizard of Oz spinoff to the silver screen.
The first Wicked movie is set to hit theaters in December 2024 with the second arriving at the same time the following year.
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With a deep appreciation for craftsmanship and the artistry involved in creating heritage-quality knitwear, Plexida Knitwear is proud to introduce the Custom Knitwear Service.
Drawing on over a decade of experience, we offer one-of-a-kind garments that truly reflect your style and measurements, handcrafted with great attention to detail by our team of skilled artisans.
Choose from our selection of existing models and personalize them to your liking. With an extensive color palette, you can select your preferred hue. We also offer the option to adjust measurements and customize the length, ensuring a truly unique garment that embraces your body and enhances your individual style.
Our designs embody effortless elegance, inspired by the beauty of simplicity and sophisticated forms. We specialize in creating timeless and relaxed knitwear that embraces your body, celebrating your unique style.
For brides-to-be seeking the perfect knitwear to complete their bridal ensemble, we take pride in offering a personalized experience. Throughout the process, we prioritize your needs and provide dedicated attention.
We understand the significance of these special occasions, crafting knits that not only meet your vision but also become cherished heirlooms. When you entrust us with handcrafting your wedding cardigan, you are investing in premium knitwear that stands the test of time in terms of both style and quality.
To request your custom knitwear, simply email us at firstname.lastname@example.org, or fill in the form here, with your desired design and modifications. Our team will promptly provide you with all the necessary information, including an estimate of cost and delivery time.
Discover the joy of owning knitwear as unique as you are. Embrace the perfect fit for every occasion with Plexida Knitwear's exquisite handcrafted garments.
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Students work on the 60’s Neve desk.
Last week, students in their final year of our BA (Hons) Music Production & Sound Engineering Degree headed down to the incredible Lynchmob Studios to record 70s inspired Psych band Caper Parade. The final year of the course focuses on advanced mixing and mastering, with students learning to use Protools in a professional, commercial environment using full SSL consoles in 5.1 surround. Students record a live act (provided by Point Blank) and are tasked with setting up the studio before getting down to recording.
This time, students were lucky enough to record at Max Heyes’ (Z Management, Point Blank) Lynchmob studios. Max has worked with artists such as Primal Scream, Paul Weller, Ocean Colour Scene, Doves and on singles by Jamiroquai and Massive Attack. His remarkable studio has a 1960s Neve Mixing desk, 60’s mics and a plethora of assorted contemporary and vintage equipment. It is a true analogue paradise. Our BA (Hons) Music Production & Sound Engineering Degree can provide you with the tools necessary to take your productions above and beyond. With modules on Sound design, Mixing, DAWs, Composition, Djing, Music Business, Engineering, Mastering and more you will leave us overflowing with knowledge, kick starting your career in music and leaving you in good stead moving forwards. Using our London studios incredible facilities, you will have access to all sorts of hardware, from synthesisers and samplers to full recording booths. For a virtual tour, click here, or come and see the studios for yourself. Tours are held every Wed at 5.30pm and Sat at 12.30pm. Click here to reserve your place.
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You don’t have to be a spoken-word enthusiast to appreciate the beautiful poetic expressions on the Spoken Word Poetry Podcast. Host Ariana R. Cherry’s performance art, music, and poetry are well-combined to take us on an emotional journey episode after episode.
Her near-hypnotic reading of her poem, “Life is a Creative Process,” evokes the fluidity of the human experience and invites us to embrace the journey and everything that comes with it.
While she is not an interviewing pro, she makes up for it with her engaging perspective and fresh, open-minded approach. Her guests are authors and poets who clearly have been carefully selected to inspire commitment to one’s craft. They bring balance to the podcast, so listeners have both the fruit of Ariana’s unbridled creativity and real-life examples of those who have turned their passion into a longstanding profession.
It is compelling to listen to the breadth of Ariana’s work as it continues to evolve. She creates in response to what she feels and what is happening around her while sharing from the heart, thereby effectively touching listeners’ souls. Her piano compositions are as evocative as her poetry, and at the end of each episode, she leaves us wanting more.
What will Ariana bring next? Listen to Spoken Word Poetry Podcast to find out.
April 2022 Issue
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Plot: Chow Siu-Lung (Stephen Chow), son of Chow Fei-Hung (Yuen Wah), Fei-Hung was a comrade of the late Bruce Lee, Fei-Hung admired him so much he even named his son after him (Bruce Chow Siu-Lung, using both his English first name and his Chinese name ‘Siu-Lung’). Now retired from his days as a stuntman he now runs a martial arts school on his ancestral land, Tai O.
Chow who is a keen martial artist seems to have a stronger interest in Snooker instead of martial arts. He spends most of his time either playing Snooker, which doesn’t impress Fei-Hung. When he is actually practicing martial arts he trains with his childhood friend Mo (Teresa Mo). Mo whose martial arts skills are superior to Chow has a bit of a crush for him, but he’s too slow to catch on.
With the return of Fei-Hung’s god brother Yan (Leung Kar-Yan), Fei-Hung convinces Yan to take Chow over to Hong Kong and let him see what life is like in the real world. Yan, who really collects protection money in Hong Kong is actually quite bad at his job, it’s whether other gangs have taking the money first or clients refusing. Yan soon discovers Chow’s talent in snooker and decides to place bets on the side soon making both Chow and Yan very rich.
Yan finds himself in trouble with a group of loan sharks (led by Shing Fui-On), Yan reasons with them and convinces them to organize a game of snooker with Chow and they could pick his opponent. The stakes are; if Chow wins, Yan’s debt is cleared, if the sharks win, they win the rights to Fei-Hung’s ancestral land.
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The boys are black in town ! We couldn’t resist…after our award-winning pairing from last season of two of the best Ireland has to offer we’re here again with a Dublin double to drive even Oscar wild. Yes, the premiere of Season 2 has landed and it’s strictly an amber tie event but please, no puking on the red carpet- I’ve only just had it dry cleaned.
Up tonight: We get hip with Guinness’s Hop House 13 then embrace the bold and the beautiful with a sampling of their Foreign Extra Stout. Cheers!
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Diana Khoi Nguyen and Lan Duong, reading at the Global Museum
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Poets Diana Khoi Nguyen and Lan Duong each share their work, and engage in conversation with their audience, on this afternoon program at SF State's Global Museum site in the Fine Arts Building. Co-presented by The Poetry Center, DVAN: Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network, and The Global Museum, in conjunction with the exhibition Textures of Remembrance: Vietnamese Artists and Writers Reflect on the Vietnamese Diaspora, gathering work exploring the date of April 30, 1975, marking the Fall/Liberation of Saigon.
Diana Khoi Nguyen, poet and multimedia artist, is the author of Ghost Of (Omnidawn 2018) which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the forthcoming collection, Root Fractures (Scribner 2024). Nguyen is a Kundiman fellow, recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and winner of the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, and 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Currently, she is core faculty in the Randolph College Low-Residency MFA and an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
Lan P. Duong is Associate Professor in Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Her debut book of poetry, Nothing Follows, is one of three titles coming in 2023 in the new Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network Series of books from Texas Tech University Press. She is also the author of Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism (Temple University Press, 2012). Duong’s creative works have appeared in Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose, Bold Words: Asian American Writing to Span the Centuries, Tilting the Continent: Southeast Asian American Writing, Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, and Crab Orchard Review. She lives in Pasadena, California.
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Thomas Scott, CRPS is one of the Zachary residents featured in our Black History Makers feature in the winter 2023 issue.
Born and raised in Zachary, financial adviser Thomas Scott knows the value of community. He serves on numerous local boards of directors, plays the organ at local church services, and is the radio announcer at every Broncos home football game.
Growing up, he learned not to talk about money. “It was a cultural thing,” he explains. “You never wanted to embarrass someone for lack thereof.” That meant that many Black families missed out on conversations about growing wealth or making sure that property stayed within the family after a death.
Owning real estate has long been a vehicle for building wealth, but not one that Black Americans had access to until the Fair Housing Act expanded homeownership opportunities in 1968. So generational wealth for Black families is a relatively new concept. Scott says it’s rare for any of his Black clients’ grandfathers to have had any kind of investments. “Their fathers may have, but that’s where it stops.”
In his role as a financial advisor, Scott is now open to talk about money and investments in a way that teaches people what they have and how they can build it. He’s inspired to educate on building wealth and investing for the future and loves his clients’ input on investments because that means they’re actively engaged in the process.
If you’d like to know more about his financial advisory services, contact him at (225) 654-4191.
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1. Nucleosides and bases in physiological fluids result from metabolism of nucleic acids and nucleotides and from dietary sources. As nucleotide catabolism increases during tissue injury, nucleosides and bases could serve as useful biochemical markers in arthritis.
2. We have quantified nucleosides and bases in synovial fluid and plasma by high-performance liquid chromatography in order to examine whether nucleotide metabolism is increased in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis.
3. At least ten u.v.-absorbing compounds were detected in plasma and synovial fluid; only urate, creatinine, hypoxanthine and uridine were present in identifiable and quantifiable amounts.
4. In synovial fluid from patients with rheumatoid arthritis the concentration of hypoxanthine was increased and that of urate decreased compared with osteoarthritis.
5. These data suggest that there is an increase in purine metabolism in the rheumatoid arthritis joint and that hypoxanthine is a potential marker of synovitis.
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