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Prague, Czech Republic
The Nuselska apartment building is situated in Prague 4 – Michle, where a torso of an early 20th century city blocks meets an older, organically grown development. The area has been targeted by developers during the recent years, mostly in a form of not particularly city-forming solitary residential buildings.
The urban structure has been defined by terrain morphology in the valley of the Botic creek between Pankrac and Tyrsuv vrch which prevented further expansion of a traditional city block development. The result of it is a disorganised, materially chaotic environment, where negative impressions are intensified by a peripheral character and a poor socio-economic status of the wider area. The Nuselska street, a significant composition and circulation axis, forms a backbone of the area.
The newly built apartment building is situated in a vacant gap between the existing Nuselska street buildings. Its mass and shape were largely determined by a specific spatial configuration of the adjacent buildings, which differ by more than a hundred years in age and therefore are very disparate.
A recently constructed residential building on the south side is rather deep, whereas the Art Nouveau Hotel Michle building on the north side is shallow with additional two storey extensions in its courtyard. The adjacent buildings further differ in height as well as in the number of floors.
The new apartment building, designed with seven floors above ground and one underground floor, forms sort of a twin with its neighbouring building, which was developed by the same investor. They share their underground parking entrance and the passageway into the courtyard. With the exception of the street level commerce unit, the building consists solely of apartments. Small studios and one bedroom apartments face the street side, whereas the larger ones open up into the courtyard. The biggest three bedroom apartments are located on the top floors.
The street frontage connects seamlessly with the neighbouring buildings and fills the formerly incomplete street front. The street line of the ground floor is kinked in order to create a bay for cars waiting to enter the courtyard passageway. As the building is located in a place where Nuselska street turns around Tyrsuv vrch, the facade of the second to sixth storey is spatially bent out into the turn and cantilevered over the side walk, which enables interesting views in both directions of the boulevard. This effect is further enhanced by glazed loggias, designed in the break of the street facade.
The courtyard facade, oriented towards the Botic creek is designed as terraced. While on the south side the object has the same depth of the tract as a connecting apartment building, on the north side the lower floors respond to the significant depth of development activities in the adjacent plot and, conversely, less depth in their own hotel on the upper floors.
The form of the apartment building is simplistic and clean, deemed the only appropriate one within the context of the chaotic surroundings. The building is designed with a monolithic reinforced concrete load bearing structure with the exception of the top two floors, which are lined with ceramic blocks. The facades, solved as a contact thermal insulation system, are coated with a white plaster and divided by spacious black framed windows. More costly brushed facade was chosen for the street frontage. The railings on the windows, loggias, balconies and terraces are designed as frameless glass. The street parterre is cladded in large format sheets of black enamelled glass.
The exterior colours are reduced to black and white, with the exception of wooden floors on terraces, balconies and loggias, which are kept in natural colour. In contrast to the muted colours, the entrance spaces of the building are accentuated by a golden stucco on one of the side walls, which guides visitors from the entrance to the elevator and stairwell. The golden accent is clearly visible from the street through the display windows.
The colour scheme of the interiors is also subtle. The walls of communal spaces are light grey, just like the ceramic floor tiles of the stairwell or the steel door frames and doors of utility rooms. Steel railings and handrails of the staircases are black, just as the HPL foil upon the carpentry fowling of distributors on the main landings of the staircases, which simultaneously integrate graphic information indicating the floor number. Natural wooden finishes also appear in the interiors of the building: oak veneer on the entrance and interior doors of the apartments or oak flooring inside the apartments. Another distinctive feature of the entrance hall is a single-flight steel staircase with black terrazzo fliers and a glass railing.
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Today’s post comes to us from our colleague Charlie Domer of Wisconsin.
This is the second installment in our series on the dangers of hair-straightening products with formaldehyde.
For many of us, the word formaldehyde conjures up images of high school biology class, and glass jars full of preserved frogs. But for Molly Scrutton, a stylist from Portland, Oregan, it most likely calls to mind the sore throat and aching chest she felt after giving her clients the Brazilian Blowout hair treatment.
After investigating and learning that other stylists had suffered from similar symptoms, Scrutton reported it to local health officials. Since then, Brazilian Blowout has been found to contain over 10 times the amount of formaldehyde considered safe.
Turns out formaldehyde is pretty nasty stuff. Here’s why:
Formaldehyde does terrible things to the body.
Formaldehyde can irritate the eyes and nose, causing coughing and wheezing. It can cause allergic reactions of the skin, eyes and lungs, such as asthma-like breathing problems, skin rashes, and itching. Effects reported by users of formaldehyde-laced hair straightening products include eye disorders, nervous system disorders, respiratory tract problems, chest pain, vomiting and rash. If you have been exposed to a hair straightener and suffer from any of these symptoms, you should seek medical treatment immediately.
Sometimes the effects of formaldehyde exposure are irreversible or fatal.
When formaldehyde is sprayed into the eyes, it can cause blindness. It is also a known carcinogen, and has been linked to nose and lung cancer.
Formaldehyde is absorbed into the body quickly and easily
It is a colorless, strong-smelling gas that can be breathed into your lungs. It can irritate your eyes just by being in the air, as it did for the reporter in this ABC clip as she was getting her hair done. It can be absorbed into your skin, and even if you wear gloves while using a product, you can be exposed accidentally if you touch your face, eat food, or drink without first washing your hands.
It’s time Brazilian Blowout is removed from product shelves. If you’re a customer, tell your stylist that you don’t want to be near the stuff.
Unfortunately, Brazilian Blowout isn’t the only hair straightening product found to have formaldehyde in it. Check back in a few days for the next installment of Dangerous Beauty, to read about a few more of the hair straightening products that contain deadly formaldehyde, and the manufacturers who lie about it.
Charlie Domer practices as part of the father-son duo team of Domer Law in Wisconsin. Charlie’s work representing injured workers has earned him recognition in 2008, 2009 and 2010 on the Rising Stars list in Wisconsin Super Lawyers. He is also a prolific writer and co-authored West’s treatise on Wisconsin Workers’ Compensation Law together with his father Thomas Domer. Together, Thomas and Charlie Domer work tirelessly to represent and protect the rights of Wisconsin’s injured workers.
Prior results do not guarantee outcomes.
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Federica met the Program Work is Progress through her participation in a legal webinar on the protection of workers with disabilities in the Covid context.
After that, within an interview with the Program’s counsellor and legal advisor she shared with them her problems, which originates from her disease, but were heavily affecting her professional situation.
The woman has been working for 20 years as a saleswoman in a department store. After years of working as a salesclerk with excellent results, she was promoted to a coordinating role, without having the recognition of the higher classification level.
After several months and during the pandemic period, she was relocated in the sales department, without any explanation and without any consideration for the risks that she may running as a cancer patient in a work context in direct contact with the public.
Federica, who had been diagnosed with cancer a few years earlier and was undergoing treatment to prevent possible recurrences (a rather heavy treatment that has also caused her a thrombus), found this job too tiring for her physical conditions, and dangerous in relation to the possibility of being infected by Covid. She was increasingly anxious about the work environment and asked for support in managing her relationship with her employer.
The lawyer encouraged her to ask for smart working but, despite the legitimacy of her request, the company refused. Federica was then affected by covid, obviously attributing the incident to her work in direct contact with the public. During quarantine, she shared with us all her fury and frustration at the lack of consideration that the company had for her condition, the concern for her own health and the health of her family. Finally, she collapsed in a desperate cry, declaring being very distressed by the events and no longer able to cope with them, despite she considered herself once “a strong woman”.
declaring being very distressed by the events and no longer able to cope with them, despite she considered herself once “a strong woman”. At the same time, the lawyer helped her to protect her rights, providing her with the legal references referred to her rights to obtain the smart working, as well as supported in the communication and mediation with the company, avoiding to permanently compromise the relationship.
The joint interventions, psychological and legal, helped Federica to recover balance and calmness, dealing more effectively with the critical situations she was facing (cancer pathology, covid infection, fear of contagion of loved ones, fatigue, and work claims). Today we can say that Federica has regained serenity and well-being, and this greatly helped her to keep her job.
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In this book summary, the book in focus is “Think and Trade Like a Champion” by Mark Minervini– a literary gem in the world of finance that equips traders with the arsenal they need to navigate the chaotic terrain of the stock markets.
In the ceaseless roller coaster of the financial markets, only a few have managed to rise above the tumult and secure consistent profitability. These are not just individuals; they are pioneers, visionaries, and most importantly, champions. Today’s discourse centers on one such champion and his doctrine that has become a tour de force in the world of trading. The book in focus is “Think & Trade Like a Champion” – a literary gem in the world of finance that equips traders with the arsenal they need to navigate the chaotic terrain of the stock markets.
A deep dive into this insightful work unveils the multilayered components of successful trading, which are far more than just crunching numbers and predicting patterns. It is about understanding the psychology that drives the market, honing your trading strategies, discerning the crucial pivot points, and embracing the concept of Continuous Process Reengineering (CPR) in your approach. In essence, “Think & Trade Like a Champion” provides a roadmap for both fledgling and seasoned traders to foster the mindset and skillset required to excel in financial markets.
The beauty of this book lies in its simplicity. It eschews the convoluted financial jargon, making it a palatable read for anyone aspiring to excel in trading. Each page is loaded with practical advice, strategic insights, and experiential wisdom that doesn’t shy away from showcasing the reality of trading – the victories, the losses, and most importantly, the learnings.
As we embark on this journey, we will meticulously dissect 18 key ideas presented in the book. The goal is to translate these insights into actionable strategies that you can implement in your trading endeavors. Remember, knowledge is power, but applied knowledge is transformative.
So, let’s step into the realm of champion traders and uncover what it takes to thrive in the seemingly unpredictable world of finance. If you’re ready to put your learning cap on, sit tight and let’s delve into the universe of “Think & Trade Like a Champion.”
Key Ideas from Think and Trade Like a Champion:
- Trading Psychology: The book expounds on the importance of psychological resilience. Traders often fall prey to emotions like fear and greed. Learning to stay disciplined, focused, and emotionally detached during trading can help navigate the market fluctuations better.
- Market Awareness: A champion trader always keeps a keen eye on the broader market indices. Not just the technical analysis, but also global events, and market sentiment.
- Continuous Learning: The book emphasizes a trader’s journey as a continuum of learning and adaptation. As markets evolve, so should trading strategies and techniques.
- Position Sizing: This concept is about managing risk through the number of stocks purchased. Understanding this can help mitigate potential losses and improve overall performance.
- Cutting Losses: One of the most significant teachings is knowing when to exit. It’s essential to set stop-loss orders to protect your portfolio from major downturns.
- Patience: Good trades require waiting for the right moment. Successful traders are patient, allowing winning trades to run their course.
- Sound Planning: Each trade should begin with a well-thought-out plan, including entry and exit points, and risk-reward ratio.
- Recognizing Patterns: The book emphasizes the importance of identifying recurring patterns in stock price movements and how they can signal potential trading opportunities.
- Pivot Points: These are specific price levels that, when breached, often result in significant price movement. Effective use of pivot points can greatly enhance trading profitability.
- Emotional Mastery: Learning to control emotions and avoiding impulsive decisions is key to becoming a champion trader.
- Trend Following: The book suggests that traders should align their trades with the prevailing market trends, rather than attempting to predict market tops and bottoms.
- Risk Management: Effective risk management strategies are essential in ensuring long-term trading success.
- Record Keeping: Maintaining a trading journal that records all transactions, observations, and reflections helps in refining strategies over time.
- The Power of Compounding: Understanding and utilizing the power of compounding can significantly increase trading profits over time.
- Avoiding Overtrading: Overtrading often leads to decision fatigue and increased transaction costs, negatively impacting profitability.
- Market Cycles: Being aware of market cycles and adapting trading strategies accordingly is a significant aspect of successful trading.
- Continuous Process Reengineering (CPR): The book introduces the concept of CPR in trading, which is about consistently evaluating and improving trading processes.
- Trading as a Business: Lastly, the book emphasizes viewing trading as a business rather than a hobby. This mindset shift can drastically improve one’s approach and outcomes in trading.
We’ve now unraveled the core concepts behind “Think & Trade Like a Champion.” These insights, when internalized and applied, have the potential to fundamentally change your trading paradigm. Remember, the financial markets aren’t a battleground but a field of opportunities waiting for the discerning trader.
However, it’s not just about understanding these ideas but incorporating them into your daily trading life. It’s the difference between knowing the path and walking the path. So, keep these insights handy, reflect on them, and strive to incorporate them into your trading toolbox.
And finally, remember that becoming a champion is not a destination, but a journey. A journey marked by persistence, learning, adaptation, and resilience. As you venture into the world of financial markets, armed with these champion strategies, you’ll find that every challenge becomes an opportunity for growth. Happy trading!
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Kratom is a popular botanical supplement sourced from Mitragyna speciosa, a relative of the coffee plant family, and is used to support a general sense of wellbeing. Native to Southeast Asia, people worldwide have incorporated it into their wellness routines for hundreds of years to access the benefits of alkaloid compounds and promote overall balance in their health and wellness.
If you’re looking to introduce this dynamic plant into your wellness regimen, here are some tips on which Kratom strains to try to begin your journey.
Understanding Kratom Strains and Uses
There are three main Kratom strains, each with distinct alkaloid profiles that have differing effects on the user. The main strains include green, white, and red veins. Each variety is named for the stem and leaf which change color over time, depending on how long they are fermented or dried.
White and green Kratom is generally best for daytime use, whereas the red vein strain is recommended for nighttime. You can visit this website to learn more about each strain.
- White Vein Kratom
White Kratom is a stimulating strain that promotes cognitive function and focus to help you feel more motivated.
- Red Vein Kratom
This Kratom strain tends to have more calming effects by promoting a relaxed state of mind, making it particularly useful for evening use.
- Green Vein Kratom
This strain of Kratom is a blend of its red and white counterparts. Green Kratom helps support motivation, focus, and cheerfulness. This can be a great starter for beginners due to its milder effects while still providing a sense of optimism and stimulation.
As a Kratom newcomer, starting with the milder green strain can be helpful before moving onto strains with stronger outcomes. From there, you can explore other varieties to get a feel for how you respond to each one and which benefits you enjoy most.
Once you’ve gained familiarity with the various strains, you may wish to begin exploring hybrids that blend the best benefits of different vein varieties. If you prefer the uplifting sense of motivation and focus you find from green and white vein Kratom, you can mix the two to support alertness and balanced wellbeing.
Like any new health routine, it’s best to take your time and see what works for you before moving into more complicated blends. By trying the three main strains first, you’ll gain a sense of what varieties interact well with your body and can then make more informed decisions about which hybrids you may enjoy.
Try Kratom Samples
Just as you might test other products before buying them, Kratom newbies may wish to consider sampling different strains of Kratom to determine the best fit for them. Suppliers like Kats Botanicals offer sample packs, including ones designed specifically for beginners, that you can check out here before committing to a particular product.
These are a great starting point for anyone who wants to explore various strains and forms of Kratom. Along with choosing the right strain for you, it’s essential to experiment with your favorite way of consuming it.
While chewing or brewing Kratom leaves is a traditional method that’s been used for centuries, more modern ways of consuming Kratom include ingesting Kratom powder and capsules. Like crushed Kratom leaves, the powder can be mixed into drinks and smoothies. It can also be consumed with a “toss and wash,” where you place the powder on your tongue and wash it down with a beverage.
Similarly, you can access Kratom’s benefits by taking capsules. Because Kratom can have a somewhat bitter taste and smell, some users prefer it in capsule form for a quick and tasteless addition to their daily routine.
Whether you enjoy mixing your Kratom in a delicious smoothie with your other favorite ingredients, sipping on Kratom tea with some honey for added sweetness, or taking a handy capsule to tackle the busy day ahead, there are endless ways you can unlock the benefits of this natural remedy.
Do Your Research
In addition to reading up on the various varieties and forms of Kratom, it’s essential to look into any laws around Kratom in your area. Due to Kratom’s more recent emergence in the Western world, every state and municipality handles its legal status differently. Be sure to check it’s legal where you live before you buy it.
Kratom is a natural remedy with an assortment of strains that provide both daytime and nighttime benefits. Whether you’re looking for a sense of motivation or calm, there are endless types of Kratom that you can enjoy.
If you’re new to Kratom, consider starting with a green strain for a more mild blend that allows you to ease into its botanical effects. From there, you can explore other strains and hybrids in various forms to find the perfect combination that supports your wellbeing.
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HBO Max’s “Velma” isn’t your average Scooby-Doo show — and not just because there’s literally no Scooby-Doo in it. In the new animated series, the world of Mystery Inc. gets an adult twist with Mindy Kaling, Sam Richardson, Glenn Howerton, and Constance Wu voicing the roles of Velma Dinkley, Norville “Shaggy” Rogers, Fred Jones, and Daphne Blake, respectively.
The series was developed by Charlie Grandy, with Kaling serving as an executive producer. The show’s first two episodes, which premiered on Jan. 12, feature some jokes about its more adult tone and even some nudity. But the biggest change to the beloved mystery-solvers cartoon comes at the end of “Velma”‘s second episode — when Daphne kisses Velma!
Here’s how it happens: The show’s plot follows Velma, who loves solving mysteries because her mom was a mystery writer. However, her mother went missing years back, and whenever Velma tries to solve a mystery now, she has terrifying, debilitating panic attacks. On top of that, Daphne and Velma used to be friends but had a dramatic falling out. In the first two episodes, some girls at school are murdered and Fred is the number one suspect. But when Velma starts to investigate, those pesky panic attacks get in her way. At the end of episode two, Velma has another panic attack when Daphne gives her some info about her mom’s disappearance, and the latter can’t figure out a way for her to snap out of it — so she kisses Velma. The panic attack ends, and soothing music plays. Daphne then asks if it worked. Velma says it did, so they kiss some more while a heartbroken Norville watches from afar.
In episodes three and four, which were release Jan. 19, Daphne and Velma’s friendship — and potential relationship — gets a little more complicated. In episode three, Velma is shocked in the aftermath of the kiss — and pretty happy about it. But she tells Norville it’s “not a big deal” and that she’s still pretty confused because she’s always had a crush on Fred. And when she and Daphne try to talk to each other about it, they just get into a fight, and Velma convinces herself she’s not popular enough for Daphne in the latter’s mind. In order to get back at Daphne, Velma reads aloud from her own diary to the whole school, which backfires.
At the end of the episode, Velma apologizes to Daphne, who tells her she’s been dealing with a lot of abandonment issues around the search for her birth parents and also the end of her friendship with Velma. She admits their kiss was “amazing,” but they decide to be friends again while they both try to figure their stuff out.
In episode four, the town decides that the serial killer is only going after hot girls, so they task Velma with making a list of the hottest girls so they can protect them. Velma says that for her, Daphne is the hottest girl. She gets Fred to make the list for her. Fred, meanwhile, decides that he’s really in love with Velma, who turns him down once and for all.
As the season continues, it seems the budding romance between Velma and Daphne will continue to be part of the plot. This is pretty huge for the world of Scooby-Doo, as the cartoon has been long held as a childhood classic. Many fans have been interpreting Velma as queer for years, and 2022’s “Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!” showed Velma developing a crush on a woman she meets. Many fans celebrated the moment, as it was the first time the character was canonically queer.
However, that special didn’t include any implications about Daphne, who many fans have also viewed as queer for years. James Gunn even revealed in 2020 that in his original script for 2002’s live-action “Scooby-Doo: The Movie” (which stars Sarah Michelle Gellar as Daphne and Linda Cardellini as Velma), Velma was portrayed as gay and she and Daphne kissed.
Daphne and Velma kissing — and maybe even dating — in “Velma” is huge for both characters and will likely make some fans very, very happy. Long live these mystery-solving queer icons.
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Rohit Sharma’s 85-ball 101 throughout India’s 90-run victory over New Zealand on Tuesday ended a long-awaited drought of centuries, going again three years.
In that point, although, his stats counsel he has made a key change to his method on the prime of the innings.
With the 2023 World Cup on the horizon, the Indian captain is attempting to rework himself into an aggressive opener and provides India the sort of quick-fire begins that Virender Sehwag gave in the course of the 2011 World Cup. The previous opener scored 380 runs from seven video games at a median of 47.50 and a blistering strike fee of 122.50 within the match.
Previous to Tuesday, since his final 100, Rohit had been averaging 39.61 from 15 innings at a strike fee of 103.62, giving his facet fast begins with the bat, going after the bowlers proper from the primary ball.
This comes as a stark distinction to how he had been beginning innings up to now.
The 35-year-old started his India profession as a middle-order batsman. Earlier than 2013, he scored 1,978 runs at a median of 23 with a mediocre strike fee. Odd innings now and again confirmed the category of the batsman, however represented nothing substantial.
It was not till he was handed the accountability of being India’s opener that Rohit develop into one of many biggest white-ball batsmen within the nation’s historical past. Holder of a world-record three double-hundreds, in addition to the very best particular person rating in ODIs (264), he has amassed 7,663 runs at a median of 55.93 as an opener, at a strike fee of 92.71.
— BCCI (@BCCI) January 24, 2023
Nonetheless, Rohit’s excessive strike fee could be attributed to how he explodes after getting himself in. In line with ESPNCricinfo, Rohit strikes at 72.93 within the first powerplay of an ODI innings in comparison with Virender Sehwag’s strike fee of 98.86 in the identical part (Because the stats can be found).
Rohit, in his recently-adopted new avatar, aspires to vary that as a result of wants of the staff.
‘Accumulators’ on the prime
“Both openers (Gill and Kishan) have done really well. But looking at how both have gone through, I think it is fair that we give Gill a chance to have a fair run because, in the last games, Gill got a lot of runs as well.” Rohit stated earlier than the primary ODI towards New Zealand.
This assertion offers a good indication that Gill goes to get a protracted rope within the facet and has a powerful likelihood of beginning as an opener within the World Cup, whereas Virat Kohli will preserve his place because the quantity three batsman for India.
Each Virat and Gill have extraordinarily good averages and greater than respectable strike charges for the trendy sport. Nonetheless, each batters are what cricket followers would name “accumulators”.
Gill and Virat usually are not the Sehwags of this world however extra like Sachin Tendulkar or Gautam Gambir, who rotate the strike to construct their innings and blast on the finish. Virat’s current 166 in Thiruvananthapuram towards Sri Lanka had eight sixes, his private highest in an ODI innings. Nonetheless, all of them got here after he had reached his 100.
Watch his majestic TON 🎥 👇https://t.co/S10ONsMMLI pic.twitter.com/iJIGbOKShx
— BCCI (@BCCI) January 24, 2023
Virat Kohli strikes at 73.88 each time he has come within the first Powerplay to bat and Gill strikes at 92.32 in his quick profession to date.
With two of the highest three being “accumulators”, it turns into mandatory for Rohit to be the aggressor on the prime and push the opposition on the again foot. Even when he goes early there’s sufficient pedigree within the remaining prime two to put a strong basis for the likes of Hardik Pandya and Suryakumar Yadav to capitalise on.
The World Cup query
For India, delivering the highest honours is an absolute necessity to whet the urge for food of its cricket-crazy followers, particularly contemplating their trophy-cabinet has been empty since 2013.
The just lately concluded 2022 World Cup in Australia could also be of a special format, however confirmed what strain can do to even the extra skilled gamers like KL Rahul and Rohit himself. The facet adopted a safety-first method, particularly the highest order of the batting, regardless of taking part in attacking cricket till earlier than the match.
“Whatever I have seen of him (Dhoni) leading the side for all these years, he never panicked, took time while taking decisions. There are those similarities in me too,” Rohit stated in 2018 when he took the reigns for a quick interval for the Asia Cup. Nonetheless, the strain of the massive event was on show on him as a full-time captain, and all the staff, in the course of the 2022 semifinal towards England.
The ODI World Cup comes again to India after 12 years and the strain shall be ramped up larger than what the staff confronted in 2015, 2019 and even on the 2022 T20 World Cup. To play freely for him on the prime and captain the facet in a house world cup isn’t any simple feat.
Time will inform whether or not Rohit can do a Sehwag from the 2011 World Cup, or put out the ODI model of his under-pressure efficiency on the T20 World Cup.
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This March, we have a new animal coming from the zoo due to the closure of the zoo due to not having a permit from the local government. WRC Jogja temporarily accommodated an orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) and a Sun bear (Helarctos malayanus) for a health check before being flown to Kalimantan for further rehabilitation.
This 10-year-old orangutan’s condition is quite worrying because he suffers from stress and malnutrition. We also did some blood sample checks, TB tests, and other tests to determine the condition, as did the sun bear.
The condition of the sun bear is also very sad. He had quite a severe infection of the teeth and gums, leading to sinusitis, due to his four primary canines being cut off intentionally in his previous life. I can’t imagine how long he’s been eating.
To reduce his suffering, with the help of a team from GLZoo Jogja’s team, we extracted one of the canines that had been damaged and infected. The process of removing the infected tooth took approximately two hours. We hope this sun bear does not feel pain anymore. 🐻
During the treatment at our place, the condition of both seemed to be gradually improving. The feed in the form of fruits and enclosures, which are far more appropriate than before, also restores the mentality of the animals.
In mid-March, we and the Jogja Natural Resource Conservation Center (BKSDA) and Center of Orangutan Protection (COP), translocated three Changeable-hawk eagles and one Black-winged kite eagle to the Javan Eagle Wildlife Sanctuary Center in West Java. After our team of doctors conducted a medical examination and was declared healthy, these four eagles will be further rehabilitated and will soon be released into the wild.
Another project that we are doing is continuing the Malayan giant turtle project. As an introduction, a small pond has been started in the WRC Jogja area. This is done to monitor turtles in the breeding process, which is successfully carried out in larger ponds.
Then, at the end of March, we also received animal care for cases of illegal sales entrusted by the police and the Jogja BKSDA in the form of 14 Javan porcupines of various sizes, from babies to juveniles to brooders. Some of the animals are in fairly good condition, but some have suffered injuries due to entanglement and stress while in the cage. Because it is reported that these animals are being hunted and are still wild, after being observed for several days and declared healthy, they can be immediately returned to their habitat.
Taking care of animals before they are released back into the wild certainly costs a lot of money. Feed, vitamins, cage cleanliness, and animal welfare are very important to consider. Help us care for protected wildlife by donating through this link.
The rise of illegal trade, if not immediately followed up, will continue to threaten the lives of wild animals in nature. Therefore, do not buy wildlife, because buying it means you are already supporting the illegal wildlife trade. Hopefully, there will be no more illegal ownership of protected animals for the purpose of education by opening a zoo without paying attention to their health and welfare. If that happens, we hope the government will immediately close it and give severe sanctions to the owner.
Let animals live freely in their natural environment.
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An exceptional rare find in as new condition a much desired 4-6-2 Streamlined Bulleid Pacific Sir Winston Churchill Locomotive. This range of locomotive models were introduced in 1982 (P4). A later version with alternative lining followed in 1990- until the closure of the factory in 1992! This earlier locomotive model reference W2265 is second to none in condition and appears at best test run only!.
The locomotive is complete in every respect. It includes the original box with stamped ends and is again in near new condition. Also included is the instruction manual and usual holding rings and tissue! The inner box is stamped in black with production code Packer no.1 date stamp 00216. The production of this locomotive can be dated to Jan 1986.
The SR West Country and Battle of Britain classes, collectively known as Light Pacific’s or informally as Spam Cans, are air-smoothed 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotives designed for the Southern Railway by its Chief Mechanical Engineer Oliver Bulleid.
WE CHALLENGE ANYONE TO FIND BETTER! AN OPPORTUNITY NOT TO BE MISSED!
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There are few situations where word choice matters more than in discussions of race and ethnicity.
Such topics are often politically-charged minefields of taut emotions and flared tempers. Even small mistakes can be distracting and even unintentionally insulting—things serious writers should seek to avoid at all costs.
Here, more than ever, then, it is important for writers to choose their words carefully. One relatively benign misstep in writing can cause you to lose readers.
In everyday speech, these words are used interchangeably, but, in formal writing, the difference can be important. Knowing whether race or ethnicity is a more appropriate choice for a given context is one step on the road to culturally competent writing.
What is the Difference Between Race and Ethnicity?
In this post, I will discuss the differences between these two words. I will use both of them in sentences, so you can see them in context.
Plus, I will show you a mnemonic device that can help you decide whether to use ethnicity or race in your next piece.
When to Use Race
What does race mean? The word race has several meanings, one of which is a contest of speed.
Here are a few examples,
- Greg felt he was being discriminated against based on his race.
- The law should treat people equally—regardless of their race or religion.
- Attorneys also asked if race might influence their verdict, or if they’ve heard arguments that race was a factor in the investigation. –The Washington Post
In most cases, people use race when referring to physical characteristics of humans, although advancements in human genetics have disproved many of the traditional classifications, making the word race more vague and less precise.
In everyday speech, race is usually a polite term for skin color.
When to Use Ethnicity
What does ethnicity mean? Ethnicity is also a noun. It refers to human affiliation based on shared cultural characteristics, like language, religion, or other aspects of culture.
Here are a few more examples,
- Anders threw a party celebrating cultural aspects of his Scandinavian ethnicity.
- One of my coworkers tried to explain to me the difference between Eritrean and Ethiopian ethnicity, but I still did not understand.
- Hispanics make up 39 percent of the new cadet class, in a department that is 27 percent Hispanic, while Asian and Pacific Islanders make up 21.9 percent of the new cadets, or triple the percentage of current officers of that ethnicity. –New York Post
In most cases, people use ethnicity when referring to cultural characteristics of humans. As such, ethnicity, generally speaking, is a more useful idea than race, as it encompasses racial characteristics in addition to aspects of culture.
Race vs. Ethnicity – How to Decide
Both race and ethnicity are accepted terms for human categorization, and, in everyday language, they are often used interchangeably, since both terms have some overlap in people groups. Still, for formal writing (and linguistic precision) you will need to know how to choose between them.
Race refers to the physical characteristics of someone. In this sense, race is something that is outwardly manifested. For example, the color of someone’s skin would be described as his or her race, not ethnicity. Since race deal with physical characteristics, it is a much more limited idea than ethnicity.
Ethnicity refers to the cultural characteristics of someone. In this sense, ethnicity is something that is not always visible. Looking at an individual, you will not always know the language he speaks, the religion he practices, the country he comes from, etc.
This is because ethnicity doesn’t deal with physical attributes.
Now, how can you easily keep these two term separated in your mind for future writing? Here’s a helpful mnemonic to remember ethnicity vs. race.
Ethnicity and culture each contain the letter T, so you can mentally link them that way.
Is it race or ethnicity? Race and ethnicity are two systems of human affiliation.
- Race refers to physical characteristics.
- Ethnicity refers to cultural characteristics, like language and religion, and can include race as well.
Ethnicity and culture each contain the letter T, so remembering this fact can help you decide when to use ethnicity to describe categories of humans.
Language has the power to both clarify and confuse, but by choosing words carefully you can be sure that your point is always understood. Be sure to check this site any time you have questions about difficult writing topics.
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Aug 7, 2020
Moschino, Ferretti parent sees lower sales, swings to net loss
Aug 7, 2020
Aeffe SpA reported a 31.4 per cent sales decline to €118.9 million in its first half ended on June 30, compared to sales of €173.3 million in the same period last year. The group also incurred a net Loss for the six-month period of €10.9 million compared to net profit of €5.1 million in H1 FY19.
“The Covid 19 pandemic impacted on the results of the first half of 2020 causing a generalised drop in consumption. The group has implemented actions such as the expansion of the outsourced production base to ensure the punctuality of the deliveries of the F/W 2020 collections and has developed an advanced “virtual showroom” to present the new collections remotely to buyers and sector operators unable to travel,” Massimo Ferretti, executive chairman, said in a press release.
Wholesale revenue fell 28.3 per cent to €86.7 million and retail sales fell 41.3 per cent to €27.1 million, while EBITDA for the period fell to €0.6 million at the company that owns the Alberta Ferretti and Moschino labels, among others.
In H1, sales in the Italian market decreased 34 per cent to €52.7 million, the fall being driven by both the wholesale and retail channels, which both suffered from the rigid measures to restrict the spread of the pandemic.
In the rest of Europe sales dropped 4 per cent to €37.1 million. Sales in Asia and rest of the world slipped 45.2 per cent to €24.9 million and sales in America during H1 plunged 55 per cent to €4.1 million.
Copyright © 2023 Fibre2Fashion. All rights reserved.
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See the version list below for details.
dotnet add package IP-2-Country.WebNet77 --version 1.0.2
NuGet\Install-Package IP-2-Country.WebNet77 -Version 1.0.2
<PackageReference Include="IP-2-Country.WebNet77" Version="1.0.2" />
paket add IP-2-Country.WebNet77 --version 1.0.2
#r "nuget: IP-2-Country.WebNet77, 1.0.2"
// Install IP-2-Country.WebNet77 as a Cake Addin #addin nuget:?package=IP-2-Country.WebNet77&version=1.0.2 // Install IP-2-Country.WebNet77 as a Cake Tool #tool nuget:?package=IP-2-Country.WebNet77&version=1.0.2
IP2Location Datasource for http://software77.net/geo-ip
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This package is not used by any NuGet packages.
This package is not used by any popular GitHub repositories.
* Dropped broken NetStandard2.0 support
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By blog team member, Kiran. To learn more about Kiran, check out our team page!
Chances are you’ve heard of this fantastic newish way for foodies (and those just looking to get together with the gals – or guys!) to connect; it’s called a Soup Swap. It’s a wonderful excuse to hang out with good friends, make some new ones, or even get to know some of your neighbors. Oh, and I almost forgot – you also get to try lots of great new soups and you get to stock them in your freezer. Can we say win-win?!
Some pointers to keep in mind:
- Planning is key.
It’s not like a cookie exchange where you can spend an hour or two baking before you leave. For the soup swap, you’ll need to provide your guests with ample time to create the goods. A two- to three-week notice should provide plenty of prep time.
- Set some guidelines.
Each attendee is to bring a set amount of one type of soup in separate containers. I asked my guests to bring six containers, each with 1 quart of their soup. (Please note that many recipes will have to be doubled or even tripled to get to this quantity.) Soups should be cold or frozen when they arrive.
- Suggest containers.
Now lets talk about the containers themselves. Some may find it easiest to put their soup stash in freezer-safe large Ziploc bags. Jars are, of course, all the rage these days; just make sure to leave some room at the top for expansion of the soup when it freezes. I got these ADORABLE jars for the occasion, and I’ll have to get more since I fell in love with them – so pretty! Update: Be sure to follow Weck’s recommendations if freezing. These Ball widemouth jars are another freezer safe option.
- Label your goodies.
My fabulous designer friend was kind enough to put a whole party package together for you to download* – free! Find invitations and soup labels (as pictured in the image above). Did I mention they are super cute to boot?!
*Be sure to use Avery Template 8383 for the Postcards (or print them on card stock) and Avery Template 22830 for the 2 1/2″ Round Labels.
- Print and share.
Have everyone bring a copy of their recipe along with their soup selection. This alleviates any worries regarding allergies and such, and also lets them cook up the same concoction in the future if they (hopefully!) like it.
The sky’s the limit when it comes to soup choices, though some may freeze better than others. For example, if your soup includes a pasta, you may want to not include it in your recipe and simply mention this on the side. Vegetarians should be aware that they may end up with some soups that they can give away to others, and those who have family members with allergies may want to double-check ingredients used – again, a good reason to include the recipes.
How to plan one of your own:
- Determine a date and invite your group.
Printed invites are always pretty (remember free download above), and of course there are always the evites or even a simple email to your girls. Weeknights always give you a chance to break away from the ordinary, but weekend (or even weekday) afternoons also work just as well.
- Plan for some snacks and munchies.
Put on a pot of chili or a soup to serve in keeping with the theme; other appetizers and finger foods are always a good thing to also have on hand as well.
- Include some buffer.
Though your guests may not arrive at the same time, the “swapping” is somewhat of an organized event. Plan a half or full hour on the front end for socializing, wine drinking or whatever fits your fancy for the beginning of your party. Let your attendees know that the swapping will start at a designated time.
- Introduce each soup.
When it’s time to begin, each guest gets to tell a bit about her offering. This includes where the recipe is from and what ingredients are in it. Maybe it’s a family favorite or one you’ve been making for years. Be sure to share this with the crowd!
- Time to swap!
Next, each guest picks a number. The number indicates what order you may begin selecting soups, assuming there are not enough containers for everyone. If you have 6 people in attendance and everyone brought 6 quarts, you can obviously skip this step. Assuming this is not the case, No. 1 picks the first, No. 2 picks next, and so on. This is repeated until all soup is gone. I actually was a bit hesitant with this method, worrying that someone’s soup may not get selected. But honestly, if I had 3 quarts left of the soup that I made myself, I really would have no issues with it. Hey, I’m just happy to have food on hand in my house – with a family of 6, it’s a never-ending battle! That’s my opinion, though.
- In the end.
Everyone should leave with the same number of containers – but it will be a variety of bisques, gumbos, potages or bouillabaisses to try. Fun, right?!
Here are some of the soups that my guests brought to my party:
Another brought Butternut Squash Soup, but it was a personal recipe so I don’t have a link to share, unfortunately.
I made a yummy carrot soup from our friends at Simple Green Smoothies. I must say that I had a really tough time deciding on what to make, but I wanted my guests to try something different. My event was mid-day and I served Chili, a Chopped Salad and Whole Wheat Rolls.
This is definitely a fun event for foodies of all stages. I will say that in creating my invite list, I honestly didn’t even consider inviting those who (don’t like to cook) and would think this would be a chore. What fun would that be for them anyway?! I also think this would be a fun event to host a few times a year (maybe once every 6 weeks during colder months??), to see what different recipes could be discovered and tried. We didn’t try any of the soups at our party, but I think that could be a fun addition, too. I thought it was neat to see what soups my guests selected, and I also was turned on to new recipes which I may not have come across otherwise. Something I always appreciate!
Below I’ve included a few more soup recipes for inspiration for you, but I also want to hear from you since there are lots of ways to host a soup swap. What has worked for you? What hasn’t? Want to share a favorite soup recipe in the comments section? We’d love to see it! And if you are inspired by this post and end up hosting one – please share the outcome in the comments below and/or with some photos on Facebook or Instagram! Happy souping:).
Slow Cooker Potato Soup (page 276 in Lisa’s cookbook)
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A Joint Statement by the
Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC and Early Childhood Educators of BC
The BC government’s Child Care BC strategy provides an opportunity for child care providers to receive more direct operating funding (CCOF), with accountability measures, to begin building a universal child care system. This approach is supported by the research, well underway in many other wealthy countries and Canadian provinces, and consistent with the widely-endorsed $10aDay Child Care Plan. We urge all child care providers to apply to join the Child Care Fee Reduction Initiative promptly so that they can receive additional funds to reduce parent fees and participate in building a system of high quality, affordable child care in BC.
Here are some key points to consider:
1. Change can be challenging and will take time but the status quo – with unaffordable parent fees, low ECE wages, and too few licensed spaces - is unacceptable.
2. As proposed in the $10aDay Plan, government’s approach in Child Care BC includes all existing providers – licensed and unlicensed, centre-based, multi-age, and family, not-for-profit and for-profit – and supports them with additional resources to enhance affordability, quality, and access.
3. First steps on affordability, for those who opt-in to new Child Care Fee Reduction Initiative are:
- A long overdue 10% lift in base CCOF funding
- Additional funding to cover 100% of the required parent fee reduction
On the application forms, providers are asked to provide recent data on parent fees as well as planned increases for 2018/19. If approved for the Initiative, providers agree not to increase fees beyond their planned levels without prior approval from the Ministry.
4. In addition to the Fee Reduction Initiative, Child Care BC includes additional resources for a workforce development strategy that includes ECE compensation and, later this year, an Affordable Child Care Benefit that will replace and expand on the current child care subsidy system. We continue to urge government to address ECE compensation promptly, and to ensure that the new affordability measures are effective for both families and providers.
5. Since launched 7 years ago the $10aDay Plan has generated unprecedented support. When people had questions or concerns, we invited them to offer alternative solutions. Although no complete alternative has emerged, 2 ideas continue to float around:
- Simply increase parent fee subsidies – this approach hasn’t worked in BC in the past, nor has it worked anywhere else. Raising fee subsidies leads to higher parent fees.
- Introduce kindergarten for 4-year-old children, and perhaps 3-year-old children - while the $10aDay Plan calls for moving child care into the Ministry of Education, lowering the age of kindergarten ignores the needs of families with younger children and the full-time child care needs of families with 3- and 4-year-old children. It simply extends the existing stress for families trying to find before and after school care. It also undermines – or may even eliminate – existing child care providers who’ve worked for many years trying to provide quality, affordable care without adequate public funding support. Instead, the $10aDay Plan integrates the strengths of public education (direct public funding, universal access, and qualified, fairly-compensated teachers) with the strengths of existing child care services. Government’s Child Care BC strategy incorporates key elements of the $10aDay approach.
6. There may be some providers who choose not to join the new system. The current high-demand, low supply market may serve their business interests or they may have concerns about accountability for the new operating funds. Without these new funds, their fees may be higher than average. However, from a taxpayer perspective, it makes sense that more public funding is tied to more public accountability.
7. Once information about the Fee Reduction Initiative is clarified, most providers will likely opt in because they are committed to making high quality, affordable child care available to all families who choose it. In fact, many are eager to opt in because they recognize the child care sector is changing and they can pass on benefits to families promptly.
8. Moving from the current child care chaos to a high quality, cohesive system requires change from all of us. As we said in the $10aDay Plan it “will take generosity of spirit, community engagement and vigilance and an openness to learn through practice – and make adjustments as needed.”
9. It’s important to remember that the fee reduction is a first step to building a quality, affordable child care system for BC. It is essential that the next steps address workforce issues for educators, including the need for increased compensation, along with more licensed spaces.
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PAX Personal Vaporizer
Now available from 180 Smoke, the PAX personal vaporizer is a premium loose leaf and dry herb vaporizer. Handheld, small, and incredibly discreet, this personal vaporizer is truly the take-anywhere device.
Vaporizing materials with devices like the PAX helps to eliminate carcinogens, smoke, and tar - known to cause cancer and other life-threatening conditions. This truly handheld device fits perfectly in your pocket, and produces next to zero scent or lasting odor. Easy to clean and maintain, the kit comes with everything you need to fully enjoy your vaporizer.
- Efficient vaporization of dry herbs - a truly healthy alternative to smoking
- Simple to use, fill, clean, and charge
- Anodized aluminum shell so the device does not get too hot to hold
- Ten-year warranty complete with every purchase
- Supremely portable; fits in your pocket with ease
- Weighs less than your smartphone!
- Variable temperature settings indicated by different colored lights
- Delivers pure, clean vapor. ZERO combustion, ZERO tar
- Docking charging mechanism - easy to use - battery recharges in 2 hours and will last for approximately 5 sessions
- Heats in approximately 30 seconds, indicated by a green light
PAX Vaporizer Includes:
- 1 x AC wall charging dock
- 1 x Cleaning Kit
- 2 x Packets of mouthpiece lubricant
- 1 x PAX instruction manual
- 1 Month warranty with 180 Smoke
- 10 year manufacturer’s warranty
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First and foremost, we are a printer. We also understand that to become a strategic partner, we must offer much more than that. Our Web-2-Print digital storefront engine, Fulfillment and Mailing capabilities help complete the circle. Our suite of services and unparalleled customer experience teams will procure, produce and deliver your marketing strategy.
We know this website can't truly show you the printing techniques we have mastered over the years. Request samples below and we will send you free premium samples.Request Samples
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Here at Three Sixty Engineering, keeping up with the latest technologies in Mechanical Engineering and HVAC is high priority, which is why two of our mechanical engineers are attending the AHR Expo, a three-day conference co-sponsored by ASHRAE and AHRI. As one (1) of Colorado’s eleven (11) certified ASHRAE High-Performance Building Design Professional’s (HBDP), our President, Denise Dihle P.E., LEED AP BD+C, HBDP, CxA, leads by example and encourages the staff to stay involved and informed.
The conference, taking place January 30, 2017 through February 1, 2017 in Las Vegas, NV, will host more than 2,000 exhibitors and attract crowds of 60,000 industry professionals from every state in the U.S. and 150 countries worldwide per the AHR Expo website http://ahrexpo.com. Beginning as a heating and ventilation show 85 years ago, the expo has evolved into the leading HVACR event.
Before heading to the conference, one of our Project Managers, Taylor Reese LEED AP BD+C, CxA, shared his thoughts on why the AHR Expo is important to attend.
The ASHRAE Conference provides a unique opportunity to take part in courses taught by top experts in the field and industry leaders. For entry-level engineers, it presents an opportunity to dig into the fundamental topics on which they can build their knowledge. For experienced engineers, it’s a chance to dive deep into unique complex system applications, address the latest code updates, and investigate innovative energy-saving strategies.
With literally thousands of exhibitors at the AHR Expo, it’s a great place to learn about all the new technology, and really experience it hands-on. It provides an opportunity to speak with the people directly involved in developing and building the equipment.
The ASHRAE Conference and AHR Expo bring so many people in our industry together in one city. It’s rare to have a situation where everyone you’re meeting is likely related to your field and everyday work. Whether you’re sitting in a panel discussion asking questions to a major manufacturer’s CEO or having evening drinks with a fellow consulting engineer, there are bound to be little pieces of knowledge and experience you can glean from others that can be applied to the next tough project.
Our team is looking forward to meeting upon their return to hear about what’s new in the industry and how we can use new equipment and technologies to better serve our clients on current and upcoming projects.
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British Journalist Clarissa Ward and her husband Philipp von Bernstorff are the parents of two children. They are together for years now. Find more about the journalist in this article.
Clarissa is a mother of two children. Her elder son is Ezra Albrecht Nikolas Nour von Bernstorff. The couple’s second child, son Caspar Hugo Augustus Idris von Bernstorff, was born two years later.
Ward probably earns an annual salary of over 100 thousand dollars as a chief correspondent.
Clarissa Ward Husband And Children
Clarissa and her husband Philipp Von Bernstorf met in 2007 at a dinner party.
Ward was immediately captivated by Philipp when he told her, “I think war correspondents are egomaniacs.
They took their relationship a step further by getting married in November 2016 in London. The couple had a small wedding ceremony at Chelsea Old Town, with only 46 people in attendance. A lunch followed the ceremony at their home in Notting Hill, where they hosted the event.
My eyes were filled with tears, but they were tears of joy. “I didn’t cry because I was beautiful, but because it was a happy kind of crying,” Ward said of her wedding day.
In Ward’s social media posts, she frequently mentions her husband, from wishing him a happy birthday to making casual posts.
When Ward and Philipp expanded their family from two to three, they welcomed two children.
Caspar Hugo Augustus Idris, their second child, was born in 2020. Their firstborn is Ezra Albrecht Nikolas Nour, who was born in 2018.
Clarissa Ward Age: How Old Is She?
Clarissa Ward’s age is 41 years old.
On January 31, 1980, she was born to a British father and an American mother in London. In addition to growing up in London, she attended boarding school in England.
Middlebury College awarded her an honorary doctor of letters degree.
Also, French and Italian are Ward’s native languages, and he has conversational proficiency in Russian, Arabic, and Spanish and a basic understanding of Mandarin Chinese.
Clarissa Ward Net Worth
As a chief correspondent, Ward’s annual net worth is likely to be more than $100,000, given her dominance in the broadcasting media. And has amassed a substantial salary in the millions.
Additionally, she is the author of a book, On All Fronts, published in 2020, which details her experiences as a journalist while covering stories around the globe.
Her perseverance and dedication have led to a successful journalism career.
Throughout her career, CNN’s chief correspondent has won seven Emmy awards, along with a few other prestigious honors.
Find Clarissa On Instagram
As @clarissawardcnn, Clarissa is an active Instagram user.
She has a verified Instagram account with over 249k followers and 398 posts.
As of right now, she’s writing about the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan.
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March 24 was a day to remember for South Korean football fans and players.
The men’s national team had gone more than 11 years without beating Iran but that streak ended on Thursday when it won 2-0 to move top of its World Cup qualifying group.
And the moment was witnessed by 64,375 fans at the Seoul World Cup Stadium, the most spectators welcomed at a sporting event in South Korea since the pandemic started.
South Korean captain Son Heung-min and defender Kim Young-gwon each slotted home and celebrated their goals in front of the fans who were all strictly wearing masks.
“I haven’t seen a crowd of 60,000 people recently, and preparations for the game were festive, so I felt the atmosphere was hyped up even at the stadium gate,” South Korean fan Won Jong-in told CNN Sport. “Of course, the game was good, but I think it’s fair to say that fans were feeling the vibe. It was inspiring to see lit Red Devils headbands filling the stands!
“It was a really good game. I don’t remember the last time I smiled and jumped, watching national team’s games recently. It feels as if I’ve been to a festival.”
In a post-match interview aired on TV, Son said he had missed laughing and enjoying the game with the fans.
“So many fans came [to the game] at a late hour on a weekday, helping us to play a good game,” Son said, thanking the spectators for filling the stands.
Spectators held up colored cards to spell “We missed you” before kickoff – something prepared by the Korea Football Association (KFA) to mark the return of a large crowd.
KFA said they chose the statement to express the emotions of both the fans and players after the pandemic had forced a cap on the number of spectators able to attend matches.
When Covid-19 first struck the country in 2020, South Korea had banned spectators entirely from sporting events.
The K-League was among a handful of football leagues that played behind closed doors after the world game was largely shut down.
The country had managed to keep its total Covid-19 cases relatively low until the highly transmittable Omicron became the dominant variant in January 2022.
As the variant spread fast, health authorities decided to focus on minimizing critical cases and deaths instead of dedicating its resources to curbing the number of total infections.
The country’s infection total since the pandemic began surpassed 10 million on Tuesday, meaning roughly one out of every five South Koreans have now been infected at some stage of the pandemic.
But the country has stopped using vaccines passes, which were required to enter public facilities including sporting events, and will scrap the seven-day mandatory quarantine for fully vaccinated international travelers starting April 1.
As the measures eased, health authorities allowed up to 299 people at sporting events but added that related ministries could grant permission for gatherings of 300 and more.
On Thursday, 64,375 fans had their temperatures checked upon entry and sat in the stands with their masks on. Vaccine passes and physical distancing were not imposed, however.
The KFA played pre-recorded voices of the fans during the game, as chanting is still banned to prevent further spreading of Covid-19.
Supporter Won told CNN that he could notice the lack of chanting as the biggest difference between games before the pandemic and now.
“In terms of football games, I’d have to say chanting … I hope that Covid-19 would settle soon so that supporting culture such as chanting would be back.”
Despite South Korea seeing its deadliest day of the pandemic on Wednesday, with 470 deaths reported in a 24-hour period, Thursday’s match was sold out.
Seoul World Cup Stadium, the biggest football stadium in the country, has only been sold out 10 times in history, including Thursday’s record, according to the KFA.
Securing a ticket was extremely competitive. The ticketing website struggled to cope and was down for 42 minutes as over 230,000 people simultaneously tried to access it.
“Considering the traffic figures of previous sold-out A matches, we had prepared a server sufficient for 120,000 people to simultaneously access this time,” the KFA said in a statement, apologizing for the inconvenience it caused.
But those who managed to get tickets enjoyed a special night.
A few minutes before the final whistle, fans turned their phone flashlights on to celebrate ending the winless streak against Iran.
“Last night, I got to feel the importance of the fans once again… I really missed it. Thank you so much. Thank you for making it a happy night!!” Son wrote on his Instagram Friday.
While fans at the game enjoyed being back at the stadium with the players and crowd, some expressed concerns online.
“Covid-19 infection is not decreasing but 60,000 seats at the World Cup Stadium sold out?” one tweeted.
“The administration let the World Cup Stadium get sold out while Covid-19 infection and death are soaring,” another wrote.
South Korea will travel to the UAE for its final Qatar World Cup qualifier on March 29, though the squad has already secured its passage to the World Cup in Qatar, set for later this year.
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Nikon D6 DSLR Camera (Body Only) The peak of Nikon's DSLR lineup, the D6 is a no-holds-barred camera with a focus on speed, performance, reliability, and precision. Adept in both photo and video realms, the D6 revolves around a 20.8MP FX-format sensor and an EXPEED 6 image processor that enables an impressive 14 fps continuous shooting rate, a native sensitivity range from ISO 100-102400 (expandable up to ISO 3280000), and UHD 4K video recording at 30 fps. When working with stills, a revised high-density Multi-CAM 37K autofocus system features 105 cross-type points that improve focusing precision and speed, and with 1.6x greater frame coverage, the need to recompose while shooting is greatly reduced. This focusing system also works with 17 customizable Group Area AF patterns to suit working in cluttered or busy scenarios or with fast-moving subjects.
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Based on a loan to finance the purchase of the listed product price assuming a 36-month term and a 26.99% APR. Actual terms may vary and are subject to credit approval. Rates range from 26.99% to 35.99% APR.
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posted on Dec, 8 2015 @ 01:54 PM
"Lucy Allan, MP for Telford, posted an edited comment targeting her on Facebook – but had added the line ‘unless you die’.
Allan wanted to portray the ‘unacceptable’ torrent of abuse MPs receive ‘most days and that most people tolerate silently’."
Are there any lengths these people will not go to in an attempt to justify there obviously unwanted hence illegal attack on the nation of Syria?
I mean come on, she blatantly adds the words "unless you die", essentially faking a death threat. Then claims she done so to highlight an unacceptable
torrent of abuse!
She should be jailed held accountable and prosecuted to the full extent of the law!
Fact is if these people can lie about death threats we have to wonder what else do they get up to and exactly how far they will go in an attempt to
justify there actions?
edit on 8-12-2015
by andy06shake because: (no reason given)
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The Accuride CB1234 Pocket Door Slide is an easy-to-install movement solution for concealed cabinet doors. The slide uses a novel design for self-alignment, ensuring smooth movement. The Accuride CB1234 allows a door to retract within a cabinet, preserving a clean esthetic.
The Accuride CB1234 is an ideal movement solution for residential and vehicular cabinetry. The Accuride CB1234 Pocket Door Slide is identical to the CB123, but does not include 35mm hinges for mounting. For more information, download the Accuride 1234 Technical Shhet below. For an option with hinges included, please view the Accuride CB123
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Aligned to give clear views of the sunset from the contemporary garden room this garden is both relaxing and stimulating. The large reflective pool is traversed via limestone stepping stones that appear to float over the water, while the gentle trickle from the water rill eases your worries away.
A beech hedge divides the garden in two and provides the client with a quite reading area known as the green courtyard.
Water rill and pond.
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Waterfall is connected to pond filter which keeps the water clear.
The formal garden is aligned with the sunset.
Our green courtyard.
Clipped box spiral.
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WiRC Mentoring Sessions: The difference difference – adding value through supporting neurodiversity
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Chair: Stephen Sanders, Visiting Professor at Kingston University Business School and Senior Advisor, Board of Acin
Stephen Sanders is a former senior executive in the investment banking industry, specialising in regulation, compliance, governance and risk management. He was most recently a Managing Director at JP Morgan for a number of years, where he was EMEA Head of Regulatory Policy (working with trade bodies, regulators and the EU institutions on MiFID, EMIR, GDPR and BRRD) and subsequently Chief Compliance Officer for EMEA (running a team of 600 across 30 jurisdictions).
In a career spanning 38 years, he has held management roles as a market regulator with the London Stock Exchange, and in compliance and risk with J. Rothschild Group, Deutsche Bank Group and RBS Group. Having written and edited books in his specialist fields and taught for both City University Business School and the ISMA Centre at Reading University, he is now a Visiting Professor at Kingston University Business School. He is a senior advisor to the Board of Acin Limited. Stephen has a BA (Hons) in English & History (CNAA), and an MSc from the London School of Economics.
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Posted on24 October 2019
ACT Senior Research Fellows Announced
The Australian College of Theology congratulates the following scholars who have been appointed as ACT Senior Research Fellows.
Rev Dr Michael Bird Ridley College
Dr Stephen Garner Laidlaw College
Rev Dr Myk Habets Laidlaw College
Dr Jason Lam Melbourne School of Theology
Dr Peter Riddell Melbourne School of Theology
Rev Dr Brian Rosner Ridley College
Rev Dr Justin Tan Melbourne School of Theology
Rev Dr Lindsay Wilson Ridley College
All are proven, high quality researchers, with exciting research plans in train. Each will be featured individually on the ACT website in the coming weeks.
The ACT will also be making further announcements of initiatives to promote research and scholarship.
Rev Dr Martin Sutherland
Australian College of Theology
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They Make It So Easy
When pro-athletes are scouted for more than their athletic ability. One mistake and it's all taken away.
This project is important to me because of all the people involved. The entire cast were classmates of mine, and we’ve watched each other struggle and grow through the years. This business can be tricky, and allows some of us to work and some of us not as many opportunities. This is the beginning of my production company where talented, hardworking, passionate, artists will come together and create. This is for a family of artists that are working together to support one another and create opportunities. That is what makes it all so exciting, knowing this is just the beginning!
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In Niger, the country’s agricultural production is faced with the adverse impacts of climate change due to insufficient water availability. The weather variability and climate change have a direct impact on food security, especially in rural areas. On other hand, in areas where water is available, there are difficulties in pumping and accessing the water.
This project aims to provide a sustainable solution to the issue of low agricultural production and food insecurity. The project is a pilot project aiming to strengthen the resilience of populations and to prevent so called “maladaptation.” It targets the problem of expenses related to fetching water together with the management of water resources. In addition, the project will seek synergy with other ongoing projects in the country and benefit from their approaches.
The main objective is to strengthen the resilience of agriculture to climate change to support food security in Niger, through the promotion of modern irrigation techniques. The project focuses directly on about 200 pilots farmers groups under small-scale irrigation.
Specific objectives are:
- Strengthen the capacity of stakeholders on resilient irrigation systems to climate change and disseminate lessons learned during the project execution;
- Support the development of efficient technologies for sustainable management of water resources, conserve soil of irrigated areas and reduce energy costs associated with pumping of irrigation water;
- Support the diversification of livelihoods to improve the incomes of farmers.
The project will be financed by the Adaptation Fund, BOAD, and the Government of Niger. Please see the financing plan in the attached project proposal. The adaptation measures in this project concern the responses to the water economy and the means that allow access to water regardless of climate disorders. The resources of the Adaptation Fund are more oriented towards the acquisition of water-saving equipment while those of BOAD will be used to purchase equipment to facilitate water drawing.
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Ad Astra has been ranked No. 1 among Top 5 Most Promising HR Consulting Companies in India by SiliconIndia. They have ranked us as a firm in India that specializes in blending the global resources and best practices, thus meeting the talent demands of clients. Ad Astra is a women-owned organisation and our promoters have been ranked among top 25 women entrepreneurs building India globally. Ad Astra has won awards from Fortune 50 firms for being a partner of choice for diversity hiring.
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Leading with Sensitivity – through thoughtfulness and responsibility
Nirupama V.G.Managing Director
The Managing Director and mastermind behind Ad Astra, Nirupama V G, comes with a 25-year experience in HR, Business Development, and Recruitment Consulting. As part of the Management Team, Nirupama has co-founded 3 of India’s largest HR Consulting firms which were later acquired by Multinational HR firms. She has been an integral part of many Multinational companies successfully setting up their operations and has been driving successful service delivery in some of the toughest industries. She is revered as a Thought Leader in the HR Consulting and Recruitment Industry in India. She has also served on the Executive Council of Executive Recruiters Association and is a Career Mentor with Monster– the world’s largest job portal. She holds an MBA in HR from NIPM, India.
Sourav BoseVice President
A co-founder of Ad Astra, Sourav Bose, heads the international business and India’s eastern region Business Operations. His MBA from Burdwan University, India coupled with over two decades of experience in Business Development and Recruitment Consulting, has made him an expert in Turnkey Project Management. He has helped various companies set up their operations in the eastern region of India. He believes in a focused approach and continuous investment to enhance operational and delivery standards. He specialises in the implementation of global best practices along with a blend of technology and CRM. In his stint before Ad Astra, he built the entire business of a large recruitment firm, which made the company one of the top 3 firms in a span of 1 year.
Manuj BijGeneral Manager
Packed with two decades of experience in the talent search and staffing industry, Manuj, has been successful in placing CXO talents in industries like FMCG, Automobile, Consumer Durable, Telecom, Heavy Manufacturing, Chemical and Infrastructure. He has successfully executed multiple RPOs and Project Hirings, for various multinationals and large Indian corporations. He currently heads the northern region operations for Ad Astra. He enjoys networking and creating high-performance teams while being adept at key Account Management and Business Development. He is a commerce graduate and MBA by qualification.
Bikram BasuGeneral Manager
The head of Business Development of the western region, Bikram Basu, has experience in various areas like sales, marketing, consulting and business development. Before moving to Consulting 10 years before, he has had 15 years of experience in training, logistics and telecom. In Ad Astra, as a part of the Strategy Team, he works on the acquisition and mining of National Strategic Accounts, utilising his expertise in research. He is a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management from NIS Sparta, India.
Amrita MenonGeneral Manager - BD
Amrita takes care of Business Development for Southern Region in Ad Astra Consultants. She comes with more than 25 years of experience across various industries like Banking and Finance, Advertising and Retail . Post the initial stint at Apple Finance, she took on senior roles as a private banker at ING Vysya Bank and Societe Generale. After 15 years in banking and finance, she moved to the Advertising and Retail industry where she worked at as a business development consultant. She holds a post graduate diploma in Business Management from T. A. Pai Management Institute. She is an avid runner and has taken part in many half marathons across India.
Dr G K JayaramAdvisory Board Chairperson
G.K. Jayaram is the founder and managing director of the Institute of Leadership and Institutional Development (ILID). He was the first Chairman of Infosys, and the Founding Director of the award-winning Infosys Leadership Institute based in Mysore. Jayaram has had a four decades-long career in the consulting and corporate worlds.
V RajaAdvisory Board Member
In a career spanning over 37 years in Fortune 100 companies, including Philips ( 2 years) , GE (14 years) and Unilever (8 Years), held leadership roles such as CEO (13 years), CFO (11 years), Business Development Director, Sourcing, Commodity Buying head, HR and Legal cum Secretarial leader.
D N PrasadAdvisory Board Member
Conferred as a Master Professional(IHRP-MP) by Institute for Human Resource Professionals (IHRP) in 2019, D N Prasad is well-known in the HR Space. He has now joined Public Service with the Singapore Government, as Senior Director for Strategy, People and Organization, with GovTech. Prior to this he worked Infosys for over seven years and in google for eleven years. Currently serves on the board of Management Studies of T.A. Pai Management Institute.
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This was a commission with a difference. When my good friend, Ronn Bechler, turned 50, his wife commissioned me to photograph the weathered 'ghost' signage that still adorned the old brick wall of the shoe factory that had belonged to his grandfather nearly one hundred years earlier. Located in Chapel St, Fitzroy, just back from the intersection of Johnson St and Brunswick St, it was a miracle of sorts that it hadn't been bulldozed for redevelopment a long time ago. While a more elaborate version of the project might have called for a cherry picker to lift me up and in line with the signage, I was able to take a stable enough shot with my Nikon D610 and Manfrotto tripod to then correct the perspective in Photoshop so as to accomplish a perfectly square image.
Another challenge was getting the timing right so that the telegraph poles weren't casting shadows across the signage as was the case the first time I attempted to get the source shot.
As I wanted to make it a large, art-grade print, I was able to upscale the edited image using software called Topaz Gigapixel and then had it printed on archival paper by a group of fine art printers in Brunswick called Hound & Bone. The final printed item was then beautifully framed by Icon Frames in Malvern who specialise in gallery grade artwork.
Included with the photos hereis a shot of the framed artwork insitu.
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Scope of the Study
Infrared (IR) and thermal imaging technology help to detect people and objects in complete darkness and in diverse conditions. IR and thermal imaging systems market has high growth prospects owing to increasing applications in the surveillance and security, transportation, military vehicle vision, thermography, and others. Further, increasing spending on military modernization program across the globe expected to drive the demand for IR and thermal imaging systems over the forecasted period.
The market study is being classified by Type (Portable IR and Thermal Imaging Systems and Stationary IR and Thermal Imaging Systems), by Application (Surveillance and Security, Transportation, Military Vehicle Vision, Thermography and Others) and major geographies with country level break-up.
Flir Systems Inc. (United States), Lockheed Martin (United States), Thales Group (France), Honeywell Aerospace (United States), Elbit Systems Ltd. (Israel), BAE Systems (United Kingdom), L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. (United States), Raytheon Company (United States), Fortive (United States) and ULIS (France) are some of the key players profiled in the study. Additionally, the Vendors which are also part of the research are Axis Communications (Sweden), Leonardo (Italy) and Thermoteknix Systems (United Kingdom).
Leading global players are focusing on strategic partnerships to improve their products. In addition, companies are focusing on increasing their client base to strengthen market position and to enhance product offerings. Research Analyst at AMA predicts that United States Vendors will contribute to the maximum growth of Global IR and Thermal Imaging Systems market throughout the predicted period.
AdvanceMarketAnalytics has segmented the market of Global IR and Thermal Imaging Systems market by Type, Application and Region.
On the basis of geography, the market of IR and Thermal Imaging Systems has been segmented into South America (Brazil, Argentina, Rest of South America), Asia Pacific (China, Japan, India, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia, Rest of Asia-Pacific), Europe (Germany, France, Italy, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Rest of Europe), MEA (Middle East, Africa), North America (United States, Canada, Mexico). If we see Market by Technology, the sub-segment i.e. Uncooled Infrared Thermal Imaging Systems will boost the IR and Thermal Imaging Systems market. Additionally, the rising demand from SMEs and various industry verticals gives enough cushion to market growth.
- Rising Military Budgets Worldwide
- Increasing Demand for IR and Thermal Imaging Systems for Surveillance and Security
- Emergence of High Definition Thermal Imaging Technology
- Emphasizing On the Soldier Modernization Programs
- Stringent Government Policies Regarding IR and Thermal Imaging Devices
- Growing Demand for Remote IR and Thermal Imaging Devices
- Increasing Demand from the Developing Economies
- Lack of Awareness in the Emerging Economies
Customization in the Report Available:The Study can be customized to meet your requirements. Please connect with our representative, who will ensure you get a report that suits your needs.
Data related to EXIM [Export- Import], production & consumption by country or regional level break-up can be provided based on client request**
** Confirmation on availability of data would be informed prior purchase
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In short, it doesn’t run Linux very well. (sigh)
When and if Eric reads this he’s just going to shake his head. For two years in a row now I’ve been lured by the wonders of new laptops announced at CES, and in both years I’ve been disappointed. He tells me I’m stupid for ordering the “new shiny” and expecting it to work, but I refuse to give up my dream.
Luckily this isn’t a huge issue for me since my main machines are desktops, but my second generation Dell XPS 13 “sputnik” is getting a little old. I am really looking forward to a slightly larger screen. The pixel density isn’t great on my laptop, especially compared to what is out now, and I am finding myself a little cramped for screen real estate.
The new XPS 13 is an amazingly beautiful device. I spent over three days trying to get it to work just because it was gorgeous. It had become precious to me.
But it was not to be. I first started out with my default desktop, Linux Mint. It installed easily and I was very happy to see that code had been added to deal with the insane size of the screen (3600×1800 pixels). While a few icons were still small (like the reload arrow at the end of the Firefox search bar) most adjusted well, including the icons in the settings window. Great job Cinnamon team.
No, the issue I fought long and hard to fix was the touchpad. Every minute or so it would just freeze:
Feb 1 13:15:48 sting kernel: [ 1746.787178] psmouse serio1: resync failed, issuing reconnect request Feb 1 13:15:52 sting kernel: [ 1750.722621] psmouse serio1: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1 Feb 1 13:15:52 sting kernel: [ 1750.723734] psmouse serio1: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1 Feb 1 13:15:52 sting kernel: [ 1750.724642] psmouse serio1: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1 Feb 1 13:15:52 sting kernel: [ 1750.725717] psmouse serio1: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1 Feb 1 13:15:52 sting kernel: [ 1750.737756] psmouse serio1: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 - driver resynced. Feb 1 13:15:55 sting kernel: [ 1753.855093] psmouse serio1: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 2 bytes away. Feb 1 13:15:55 sting kernel: [ 1754.361293] psmouse serio1: resync failed, issuing reconnect request
I found a post that discussed changing out the driver which seemed to help, some but I could never get the problem to go completely away. The amazingly helpful Arch Linux folks suggested some workarounds, but nothing helped. I found it ironic that the touch screen worked fine.
I then switched to Ubuntu, thinking that might help. It didn’t, and along the way I lost audio. It seemed the audio device would just disappear. I tried 14.04, 14.10 and the alpha of 15.04. Also, Ubuntu did not handle the resolution well. While I could adjust the settings, it wasn’t done automatically for me like with Cinnamon, and certain things like the settings window remained tiny and somewhat “clipped”.
I went back to Mint and discovered that now I had wonky audio issues there. Sometimes it would be there and other times not. I stayed on 17.1 but updated the kernel to the 3.19 release candidate, but that didn’t help.
The scariest issue was that on occasion the screen would just go blank. It didn’t kill the system, if I was playing a movie file you could still hear the audio (assuming that was working), but no combination of key strokes would bring it back. I did find that closing the screen (to suspend) and reopening it would fix it for awhile, but I don’t necessarily want to have to do that in the middle of an important presentation.
Note: while the system seemed to suspend and resume okay, the power light didn’t blink to let you know it was still on like on the older XPS 13 model.
Now I’m certain that most of this will be corrected in the next few months. The Broadwell chipset is still pretty new, and rumor has it that Dell plans to support Ubuntu 14.04 on this laptop, but they will have a lot of work to do since it seems to require the 3.18+ kernel for most of the new shiny.
In the meantime I returned it and bought an M3800 preloaded with Ubuntu. While it is a bigger laptop than I’m used to, I like supporting Linux-native products and I will at least have the ability to contact Dell with issues should they arise.
I should point out that, while not quite to Apple standards, Dell has been pretty amazing throughout the process of ordering and returning this laptop. While not ready for prime time, if you are in the market in a couple of months for a small, awesome Linux laptop, be sure to check out the XPS 13. But unless you are a masochist like me, you definitely should wait.
Oh, and if any Dell folks should join the ranks of my three readers, I’m more than happy to test any unit you might send my way (grin).
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The Accountant in Bankruptcy in Scotland have released their third quarter Statistics for 2017-18.
The figures show that the number of sequestration in Scotland have fallen, whilst the number of debtors granting protected trust deeds has increased.
There has also been a slight increase on the number of debtors who have entered debt payment programmes under the Debt Arrangement Scheme.
Speaking on the release of the figures, the Minister for Business, Innovation and Energy Paul Wheelhouse said: “The longer term trend for bankruptcy is very much a downward one and it is heartening to see this reflected in these recent figures.
“There is absolutely no doubt in my mind the UK Government’s persistence with its failed policy of austerity is causing real hardship and strain for financially vulnerable families all across Scotland. They face even more challenges once the impact of the UK Government’s reckless determination to pursue an economically damaging Brexit becomes known.
“However, these Accountant in Bankruptcy figures indicate the numbers of people falling into bankruptcy and signing protected trust deeds are around half of what we saw eight or nine years ago. The Scottish Government is doing what it can to mitigate the worst of these Westminster policies.
“The Debt Arrangement Scheme is the only statutory debt management programme in the UK and we are rightly proud of its success in providing a viable option for those seeking to pay their debts without plunging into insolvency.”
The full report can be accessed here.
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It’s a tough time to be a recent graduate.
“It’s not easy to jump into the job market and have every headline say it’s going to be tougher than ever,” University of Texas at Austin grad Vanessa Zielinksi told AgencySpy.
“That ignited something in us and we wanted to do something that was positive and still contributing to the world,” added fellow graduate Cruz Rendon.
Rendon and Zielinski are among the University of Texas at Austin grads who came together to form their own agency, Class of 2020, with an emphasis on their expertise of the Gen Z perspective and a stated mission to “empower, grow and support the relationship between brands and communities in a time where it matters most.”
So far they’ve been encouraged by the reception they’re getting.
“Everyone we’ve talked to has showered us with support and it’s really motivating to see that we can be motivated by the people around us to do good work and what we finished school to do,” Isaac Watson said.
Among Class of 2020’s current projects is a collaboration with DeVries Global to reveal “insights on this generation in a post-pandemic environment,” Rendon explained.
“For every generation there’s this big before and after,” Watson said, adding that Gen Z is now considering, “What world do we want to keep? What kind of world do we promote?
Class of 2020 is also working with partners including the 4A’s, Andy Roddick Foundation, APC Collective, Edelman, MAIP, Margin Walker and Publicis Groupe, according to its website. The agency believes it can offer a distinct, informed, inside perspective on Gen Z. In addition to working with brands, Class of 2020 works with agencies to provide extra help to existing agency teams on assignments typically given to interns or entry-level employees while also offering consultation on social media, content creation, campaign ideation, promotion/media relations, and research.
“There’s so much data coming out about our generation. I’m a strategist and a total data nerd. What I’m excited about is we do understand the data, but what we get to do is color that data with stories, with relevant memes,” Zielinski explained. “We really understand what that [data] means. I’m excited to have that discourse with agencies and clients and make sure what they’re saying isn’t missing the point.”
She added that while there’s a great deal of emphasis placed on Gen Z’s extensive screen time and use of social media, what’s often missed is the empathy and openness that goes into those social connections.
“I think that’s because we’ve been building online communities on our own. We get to see what their stories are like so when something is new to someone who is older, we are like, ‘We get that, our friend across the world gets that, they’ve gone through it.’ We have our hearts open and our minds open as well,” Rendon said.
Class of 2020 operates in an open and collaborative environment across services including creative and experiential ideation, PR, social media, strategic planning and research, with each member of its team focusing on a different specialty. Rendon specializes in PR and media relations and leads new business conversations with potential clients, Zielinksi takes a client-facing role on brand planning and strategy, Watson specializes in creative and experiential and Meagan Doyle handles digital and social media.
“We don’t exactly know where it will be in a year or two years from now but we’re all [gaining] valuable experience,” Rendon said. “I didn’t know everything that went into starting a business and now I have that foundation.”
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Alipay is the most widely used third-party online/mobile payment service provider in China. With over 100 million daily transactions and over 800 million monthly active users. Its primary product is a digital wallet, Alipay Wallet, which also includes a mobile app that allows customers to conduct transactions directly from their mobile devices.
Alipay is a must-have payment method for any business looking to reach a critical mass of Chinese shoppers both home and abroad. It's available in 70 markets and has already been adopted by over 3 million merchants worldwide.
Want to see how people pay in other countries?
Browse and filter 100+ payment methods on region, channel, and more.
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Header photo: 404 Plant’s honey mustard TiNDLE chicken bagel
The Singapore food-tech game is strong. A few months back, we brought you news of the debut of Singapore-based KARANA, a whole plant-based meat made of jackfruit that’s already popping up loads around town, receiving very positive reviews.
The meaning behind the unique name “TiNDLE” – no, it has nothing to do with Tinder! – is twofold. First, it’s inspired by John Tyndall, the Irish physicist who first discovered the greenhouse-gas effect in 1859. It’s also similar in sound to the word “kindle”, inspiring an idea to come to life.
TiNDLE ingredients: texturised protein (soy, wheat gluten, wheat starch), Lipi™ (sunflower oil, natural flavouring), coconut oil, methylcellulose, oat fibre
In the ingredient list above, it’s the Lipi™ that is the secret component. This trademarked sauce contains plant-based ingredients that provide a boost of flavour; these include sea salt and plants in the allium family such as garlic and onion. The only ingredient on the list that is likely unknown to most is methylcellulose, but we learned that this is a harmless culinary binder derived from cellulose, which is found in plant cells – akin to egg white or cornflour.
TiNDLE nutritional profile (per 100g): 120 calories, 5g total fat (0g trans fat), 0mg cholesterol, 180mg sodium, 9g carbohydrate, 17g protein
Comparing TiNDLE’s nutritional profile to a 100-gram piece of cooked skinless and boneless chicken breast is much of a muchness. It has slightly fewer calories – 120, in comparison to chicken breast’s 165 – but the protein component is less, at 17g vs 31g, and the sodium content of TiNDLE is almost double, at 180g vs 74mg.
TiNDLE may not be any healthier than chicken, but it is better for the planet. According to the brand, TiNDLE requires 74% less land and 82% less water, while also producing 88% less greenhouse-gas emissions compared to traditional chicken.
Put to the taste
We tried a sampling of TiNDLE dishes at Brazilian-Japanese eatery Uma Nota in SoHo, and we found the dishes in which the TiNDLE was disguised fared better. The pastéis de frango – deep-fried Brazilian pastries filled with shredded TiNDLE – and chicken skewers – here, in the form of kushiage-like skewers coated in panko – were delicious, well seasoned and fried and served with punchy sauces. We weren’t as enamoured with the TiNDLE chicken burger, where it was all about the plump patty. The texture and flavour here were on the processed side.
Chef Gustavo Vargas of Uma Nota explains his reason for adding TiNDLE dishes to the menu, saying, “Working with TiNDLE has been a creative challenge for us.
Brazilian cuisine is known for an abundance of meat options, and we’re now able to recreate traditional street snacks like pastéis and Japanese-style kushiage, offering new dishes to our customers looking for non-meat dishes.”
We recommend trying TiNDLE dishes that are fried in some fashion – perhaps nuggets or popcorn chicken – to make up for the spongy texture of the plant-based meat.
Where to find TiNDLE in Hong Kong
Alvy’s “My TiNDLE Chick” Pizza
TiNDLE is already being featured on the menus of 16 popular restaurants around town, from pizza at Alvy’s in Kennedy Town to a Sichuan-inspired taco at two-Michelin-starred Bo Innovation, in partnership with Classic Fine Foods, a leading gourmet food and ingredient distributor:
- Balsamic TiNDLE chicken and mushroom salad
- Honey mustard TiNDLE chicken bagel
- My “TiNDLE Chick” Pizza
- “Yes, I’m a Vego” Burger
- TiNDLE chicken and waffles
- Smoked TiNDLE Sichuan taco
- Orange TiNDLE chicken
- Pineapple bun TiNDLE sandwich
- TiNDLE chicken and porcini risotto
- TiNDLE chicken larb tort
DOUBLESHOT by Cupping Room
- TiNDLE sando
- Pan-fried TiNDLE chicken with garlic mushroom fried rice and corn tofu
- TiNDLE chicken croquettes with sauteéd asparagus and mushrooms and date-honey sauce
Katsumoto Sando Bar
- TiNDLE “KFT” fried karaage
- TiNDLE tsukune
- Cheesy spicy TINDLE chicken balls with honey mustard sauce
- Market spinach and TINDLE chicken salad
- Kare merah
Potato Head Hong Kong
- TiNDLE Kiev
- TiNDLE Hustle
- The TiNDLE Sandwich
- Pastéis de frango
Brazilian-style deep-fried wontons filled with TiNDLE chicken, served with avocado vinaigrette
- TiNDLE chicken skewers
Crispy TiNDLE chicken, vegan herb mayo, togarashi
W Hong Kong
- W Nachos TiNDLE Fiesta
Big Birdy’s “Yes, I’m a Vego” Burger
To celebrate the launch of TiNDLE in the 852, the brand is planning a series of giveaways from 5–7 July, with 100 TiNDLE dishes given away for free each day at DOUBLESHOT by Cupping Room (5 July at 1pm), 404 Plant (6 July at 1pm) and Big Birdy’s Wanchai shop (7 July at 1pm). That’s a total of 300 in sandos, bagels and burgers on the house, folks! This is a great way to dip your toes into the plant-based meat world if you’re a newbie or to continue on your sustainable eating journey.
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- Meeting Triumph and Disaster
- Written by Conor Friedersdorf
- Published December 15, 2016
- 196 pages
Milton Shedd co-founded history's most famous oceanarium, forever changing humanity's relationship to the ocean. Yet SeaWorld was far from his only achievement.
Author Conor Friedersdorf vividly recounts an adventurous childhood in 1920s California, a family trying to survive the Great Depression, a young man who snuck behind Japanese lines in World War II — where he penned love letters to his wife — a "hall-of-fame" angler in the style of Zane Grey, and an entrepreneur who shaped the golden age of amusement parks.
Friedersdorf presents the fullest-ever account of how SeaWorld began. And he shows how Milt Shedd's love for the ocean led to the creation of a pioneering foundation dedicated to marine research and conservation.
In this narrative of Shedd's professional and personal lives, Friedersdorf not only engages those of us interested in SeaWorld but tells the story of a man's passions and how he succeeded in organizing his life around them.
As the former chairman and guiding light of AFTCO, we hope that Milt Shedd's personal family story provides better insight into our company.
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Have you read of the know-like-trust variable? It’s the ONLY reason why prospective customers change to clientele!
Potential customers who arrive across your goods and products and services for the very first time will only purchase from you when they get to know you, like you and belief you. This therefore signifies that among other factors, you have to construct Reliability in the market.
But how do you do that with no breaking the financial institution?
The least complicated and most worthwhile way to fast track your believability in the minds of your prospective customers and consumers, is by employing joint undertaking marketing in your tiny company. This consists of signing up for forces with a reputable business e.g. a important player in your business (your joint enterprise companion), so that you can piggyback on their trustworthiness and shine in their glow.
How will that be of advantage to your organization?
Your joint venture partner would have likely used decades building a superior reputation within their market. They as a result have influence and believability with their consumers. By partnering with them, you will be tapping into this resource.
You will improve your reliability and status as a direct consequence of associating with a respectable joint venture spouse. This will subsequently magnetize additional consumers, extra revenue, and much more profits to your business enterprise!
Why would a further company be fascinated in partnering with your small business?
Simply because joint venture marketing and advertising is about combining small business means like trustworthiness, time, cash, experience, expertise, and so on, to build a acquire-gain predicament that will benefit the corporations included, and advantage their clientele at the exact same time.
Converse show host, Dr. Phil, was a pretty much unfamiliar psychiatrist before Oprah Winfrey launched him to the entire world. He obtained trustworthiness as a end result of Oprah’s impact. The scenario research portion of this posting clarifies why a world-renowned mogul like Oprah Winfrey would companion with an not known psychiatrist.
How do you know no matter if a possible joint venture companion is respectable?
* Locate out what the media, and their prospective customers and purchasers consider about them
* Look at their enterprise ethics
* Overview and guarantee that their products and solutions are of high top quality
* Evaluate their buyer provider specifications
It really is vital to ensure that your probable joint enterprise partners are reliable. Associating with a small business that has a poor reputation will damage your personal small business, and that defeats the function of rising your credibility.
Here’s A Circumstance Study…
Oprah Winfrey appreciates what her audience would like to observe, and hence created a strategic alliance with Dr. Phil, a psychiatrist who was a almost unfamiliar medical doctor in advance of appearing on Oprah’s demonstrate, and had hardly ever been on tv.
He begun executing guest appearances on her show and his “convey to it like it is” type was pretty well known with Oprah’s audience. Around time, the audience desired to see a lot more and additional of Dr. Phil. At some point, Oprah available to produce a show for Dr. Phil, and he commenced a daily afternoon communicate show of his possess.
Dr. Phil has benefited from this alliance by getting publicity and Believability via Oprah’s impact. Oprah has benefited by incorporating one more system to her empire, and acquiring a proportion of the revenue from that demonstrate. And, the television audience enjoys finding a system that features free of charge guidance and true-lifetime situation reports that have an impact on their life. They would or else have to shell out hundreds of $$$ for non-public sessions with Dr. Phil.
This situation examine illustrates what I phone a gain-earn-win problem that can only be provided via the electrical power of joint venture marketing and advertising.
Copyright © 2005 by Habiba Abubakar and Emprez. All rights reserved.
Notice: You are welcome to republish this posting as very long as the resource box at the stop is involved fully and unaltered.
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Numerous small business house owners know the net can be an big resource for promoting their business enterprise or producing immediate product sales. Nonetheless the benefits from internet marketing and advertising and search engine optimization recognized by a business enterprise can range greatly centered on the items or solutions the small business delivers.
Not all corporations will benefit from look for advertising similarly.
An critical component in figuring out the likely benefits of search engine internet marketing is pertinent look for volume. For instance a small business that presents real estate will appreciate a large lookup volume that crosses all demographics. In contrast a authentic estate legal professional will have a a great deal more compact look for volume, and more slender demographics – yet research remains an essential option that ought to not be disregarded in spite of the lower number of potential people. Knowledge how your business’s niche will affect your probable for search engine targeted visitors is essential to placing practical anticipations and scheduling an effective net advertising and marketing system. A organization for a private consulting organization may possibly also have a very low lookup quantity for pertinent vital phrases so a diverse strategy will be required to raise visitors.
For a enterprise with a reduced search volume competitiveness may be even greater for productive keyword phrases than a remarkably searched subject, as a end result the business enterprise proprietor will need to have to focus considerably of their on the web advertising exertion on marketing, social networking, bookmarking, and any of the wide variety of world-wide-web 2. web-sites that enable users to publish their have content material. This will be important as it will allow a minimal lookup volume business enterprise to actively getting publicity to far more net customers as properly as goal their audience. In distinction a company proprietor who’s marketplace has a significant relevant look for volume could get far more return by focusing on conventional Search engine optimization. A large number of visits can be attained by optimizing for extensive-tail or “heat” critical phrases as very well as small or “incredibly hot” key phrases. This method will web lots of visits even if the research industry is really competitive and a lot more often than not extensive-tail important text have bigger conversion fees than “very hot” vital text.
By studying the pertinent search quantity for your business’s area of interest you can also keep away from creating negative decisions with your marketing and advertising pounds. For case in point a company that sells a item on the web will have very little reward from compensated promoting for a area look for advertiser this sort of as Area.com. Several people today lookup for commodity or manufacturer name items by location and any money expended to localize the queries will most likely be squandered these lookups are having said that a excellent prospect for conventional Search engine optimisation. Benefiting from a potentially large research quantity and the marketing from the product’s manufacturer to endorse world wide web queries, a hugely optimized web page can acquire lots of visits and if made with excellent usability in mind also obtain many conversions!
The ethical of the tale is to do your exploration and fully grasp the probable added benefits to your company of research marketing. A good understanding of the research quantity, demographics and habits of your industries web users can indicate the variation in between dollars and exertion effectively-expended or a deficiency of returns.
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As son of Carpenter I grew up in contact with the wood in the sawdust in the middle of the workshop of my father who was my playground for years!
I have always enjoyed making all sorts of things on my own and it is quite natural that I tried my first nets!
The models, forms and finishes we evolved over time.
I usually try to work with local wood species
My nets are built in acacia and ash in terms of shape because it is the woods that combine the best technical qualities, they are flexible and hard woods that allow to build very strong shapes but also very light!
The entanglement is usually done in fruit tree (cherry, etc...) but can be made of the essence of your choice!
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The Airbag Jeans are launching soon!
The Airbag Jeans look and feel like any other pair of jeans when not inflated
The Airbag Jeans are reusable; just replace a CO2 cartridge
The mechanical trigger belt connects to your bike and activates the airbag
The fabric is extremely abrasion resistant, but looks and feels like regular denim
The Airbag Jeans are made with breathable fabric
The Airbag Jeans are breathable, and the black color is water repellent
Mechanical trigger belt activates the airbag
Airbag inflates within milliseconds
The jeans are made with water repellent, breathable and abrasion resistant fabric which looks and feels like regular denim. The fabric was first developed to be used in space.
Unlike many other airbag products, you can easily prepare your Airbag Jeans for another ride after deployment; just replace the CO2 cartridge.
Machine wash your Airbag Jeans like any other pair of pants; just remove the airbag module
In addition to the airbag, the jeans are armoured with CE approved pads on the knees
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 824825
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Q. I need to preserve some United Airlines MileagePlus frequent flyer miles that are due to expire soon, but I don’t have a United credit card and I don’t plan to fly on them or on a partner airline any time soon. Any suggestions?
A. There’s no excuse for anyone to have miles expire. Most airlines have shopping mall sites where they will award you anywhere between 1 and even up to 24 bonus frequent flyer miles for every dollar spent (that’s in addition to at least 1 mile per dollar charged on a frequent flyer-affiliated credit card). So, for example, if you spent $10 on drugstore.com, walmart.com, or hundreds of other merchant web sites, not only will you get bonus miles, but you will preserve any expiring frequent flyer miles. Airlines also have dining programs, which you can register for and when you dine at participating restaurants, you get bonus miles and also preserve miles. Since almost everyone shops or dines out, this is a great way to extend the life of your miles. You can use any credit card to make these purchases. For more information, check out our recent blog post on the subject.
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Job TypeFull Time
Job FieldProject Management
Overall purpose of the role:
Based in Nairobi with regular travel to field locations and reporting to the Head of Programme Management Unit the Project Officer will be responsible for providing project and operational support to the BORESHA consortium, led by DRC. The selected candidate will be responsible for coordinating communications, website administration, documentation, filing, recording minutes of meetings, organizing meetings/workshops, organizing field travel, and liaising with consortium agency field teams to ensure timely support to operational locations. The Project Officer will also help with the coordination of high-level visits to the project, tracking partner reports by following up various actions, and disseminating information to PMU and consortium staff. The incumbent will work closely with PMU and consortium staff to exchange information and support project delivery.
- As the Communications Office, manage the Communication department of the Consortium; ensure that set targets are met as per the approved implementation plans.
- Conduct regular communications training and capacity building for staff in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya.
- Ensure the EU Communication and visibility guidelines are adhered to.
- Manage and maintain the social media pages of the consortium
- Quality assurance of products according to BORESHA’S brand manual in terms of layout, design and writing of various publications and visibility materials from the partners.
- Provide support to the partners in the development and production of visibility materials including liaising with designers, print houses, etc.
- Assist in knowledge documentation; Support documentation and publication of work and lessons.
- Conduct field visits to collect both written and visual documentation of BORESHA’s work in the form of photography, videos, human interest stories, case studies and slideshows
- Develop, design and maintain bi-monthly project newsletter
- Coordinate videographers and graphic designers to produce compelling content / publications.
- Ensure effective communications across different media and formats in adherence to the Consortium’s Communication Standards
- Manage the Consortium’s website; as the Content officer ensure regular posting of information; Ensure page is up to date, accurate and compelling.
- Write, edit, and distribute content, including publications, press releases, website content, and other marketing material that communicates the Consortium’s activities
- Build and maintain relationships with journalists in Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia and audiences that will help advance our work.
- Ensure timely and accurate execution of the day-to-day project requirements by ensuring project master work plans are followed, handling information requests and inquiries, advising visitors, scheduling meetings, and support on completing project documentation, among other related tasks
- Support the Head of PMU in coordinating activities including trainings, kick-off and program review meetings, field visits, and internally and externally organized workshops. This role will also include taking meeting notes for those meetings/workshops attended, preparation of materials for programmatic meetings, and compilation and distribution of meeting minutes and relevant information.
- Communicate with implementing partners as advised by the Head of PMU
- Organize and coordinate visits by donors, government authorities, country team members or headquarter staff
- Liaise regularly with staff in other departments, field offices, consultants, partners, and other external contacts to ensure effective information flow and timely actions
- Maintain an effective filing system to include key correspondence, organization/project reports, financial information and other relevant documents
- Responsible for day-to-day project correspondence, information sharing and filing, ensuring that appropriate follow-up actions are taken for on behalf of the Head of PMU.
- Maintain records and track the status of action points arising from Project Steering Committee, Technical Working Group and other BORESHA meetings.
- Ensure compliance with financial processes and financial records according to DRC and donor rules, regulations, policies and strategies
- Support project implementation processes as directed by the Head of PMU. With support from the M&E
- Coordinator, Finance Coordinator other PMU and consortium member staff, play a focal role in the project
- Inception Phase that involves ensuring work plans, budgets, office space, staffing etc. are in place for project start-up activities
- Collection, analysis and presentation of information for identification of areas for support and program formulation/ implementation
- Develop talking points, background, and briefing materials for meetings, publicity, and advocacy in collaboration with the communications staff of DRC and other consortium members.
- Ensure that all key program documentation is filed and easily accessible and retrievable
- Monitor and check project management reports for compliance with activities, expenditures and work plans
With support from DRC Administrative Unit, make logistical arrangements for program staff and guests, flight bookings and accommodation
Experience and technical competencies:
- Minimum 2 years of relevant program and/or administrative experience is required
- Excellent knowledge of Project Management and Support is required
- Experience in the use of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages
- Ability to perform a variety of standard tasks related to programs management, including screening and collecting of project documentation, project data entering, preparation of revisions, filing, provision of information
- Flexible, with ability to work handle multiple tasks and meet strict deadlines
- Strong planning, organization and problem-solving skills with ability to work hands-on, independently, and within team in a difficult work environment
- Excellent report writing skills in English
- Strong communication (written & spoken) and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work cooperatively with staff from diverse cultures
- Previous experience working with an NGO is preferred
- A University Degree in Social Sciences or any other related degree
- DRC Core Competencies:
In this position, you are expected to demonstrate DRC’ five core competencies:
- Striving for excellence: You focus on reaching results while ensuring an efficient process.
- Collaborating: You involve relevant parties and encourage feedback.
- Taking the lead: You take ownership and initiative while aiming for innovation.
- Communicating: You listen and speak effectively and honestly.
- Demonstrating integrity: You act in line with our vision and values.
Contract: 9 months contract with possibility of extension, subject to funding and performance. Salary and conditions will be in accordance with the Danish Refugee Council terms of employment for National staff. This position is open to KENYAN NATIONALS ONLY.
Availability: 1st March 2021
Duty station: Nairobi with frequent travel to remote field locations in Mandera County, Kenya, Dollow Region, Somalia, and Dollo Ado Region, Ethiopia.
MODE OF APPLICATION
Click “APPLY FOR JOB” button above to apply for this job.
About Danish Refugee Council
The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a humanitarian, non-governmental, non-profit organisation founded in 1956 that works in more than 30 countries throughout the world.
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Submitted by Robin Riddell-Gambel
Big Lake Elementary
I wrote this lesson plan for UAF class LS593 Invigorating Your Library with AASL National Standards. Learning About Your Library – Each One Teach One
Intended grade levels 3rd and up
Prior knowledge needed: Genres, alphabetizing, numerical order
Materials: Sticky notes labels with sections ( i.e. 398.2 L-S or RIO-RYD), index cards for notes, tent cards or numbered signs.)
Objective: Each student becomes a mini-expert or guide for their section and shares their knowledge with others as they come through on tour.
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Reverberation time and sound decay curve
In general, the reverberation time is calculated and measured on the basis DIN EN ISO 3382.
Usually, for block-shaped rooms with room dimensions differing less than factor three from each other, the constraints for the development of a diffuse sound field are fulfilled. A diffuse sound field is present, if at every location, the sound is inciding from every direction with identical intensity (constant energy density independent of location). The diminishment of the sound pressure level in the diffuse sound field can be achieved by sound absorbing installations at an arbitrary location in the sound field. Often, the spectral reverberation time can be optimized by statistical calculation. Thereby, the requirements for the spectral reverberation time defined in DIN 18041 are determined by the utilization and the size of the room.
Rooms with longitudinal and lateral extension greater than the triple ceiling height are called as flat rooms and require the determination of the sound decay curve (diminishment of sound pressure level for doubling of distance) according to DIN EN ISO 14257 as well as VDI 3760. The diminishment of the sound pressure level in such rooms can be achieved by targeted allocation of sound absorbing installations at reflecting room surfaces. A digital room model allows the efficient prediction and optimization of the acoustic efficiency of acoustic installations.
The evaluation of the speech intelligibility in multipurpose halls and concert halls is often carried out on the basis of the speech intelligibility index C50 (C80) depending on location. It describes the ratio of the inciding sound energy for a defined time interval and the total inciding sound energy. The index is determined by means of the impulse response of the room depending on location.
A further criterion to evaluate the speech intelligibility is the so-called speech transmission index (STI). The STI characterizes the quality of the transmission of speech along a transmission line from the source to the receiver. Therefore, it is especially applied with respect to the speech intelligibility of electroacoustic sound systems. In combination with a digital room model, the calculation of the STI can be carried out for a multitude of source positions and receiver positions. Together with the measurement of the reverberation time, the measurement of the STI is regulated in DIN EN ISO 3382.
To evaluate the efficiency of sound masking systems, additional specific criteria are applied.
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We take sunlight for granted. In our hubris we produce our own version of light and imagine it an acceptable replacement. Oddly, we have a greater appreciation of plants’ need for natural light than our own. Recent research now adds depression to the already lengthy list of illnesses associated with inadequate sunlight.
In the early 1980’s, knowledge that light could shift circadian and seasonal rhythms in animals coincided with a growing appreciation of a subset of depressed patients who experienced a seasonal pattern. The syndrome was called seasonal affective disorder (SAD). SAD is a condition characterized by the annual recurrence of depressive episodes in fall and winter followed by remission in spring and summer.
Bright Light Therapy (BIT) quickly became a first-line clinical standard for treatment of SAD. Numerous studies have proven its efficacy. Unlike the disturbingly low response rates of the two dozen medications for typical depression, SAD has proven astonishingly responsive to BlT (80%)5. Light therapy is also remarkably safe and free of side effects that can make antidepressants an unappealing option.
Read the full artivle here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-spector-md/darkness-lifted-light-therapy-for-depression-no-longer-a-seasonal-thing_b_8812042.html
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Duaa course Remembering Allah “Azkar”
Azkar are the supplications that Muslims say in different and specific times seeking refuge with God and asking for His protection. There are different times that Muslims should say specific supplications and also any supplications he/she wants
to seek forgiveness and mercy from Allah. So, there are the supplications of the morning; its time starts with the Al-Fajr (dawn) prayer. And evening supplications start from the Al-asr prayer to the Maghrib prayer. You say these supplications to praise God and seek His forgiveness, blessings and mercy. There are many other supplications a Muslim can recite in different situations of life. There are supplications before sleeping, before going into or out of the house; before entering or getting out of the bathroom, supplication before eating or drinking, and so on. If a Muslim needs ease, protection, blessing, and facilitation in everything he/she does, he/she should not forget to say the supplications we learned from our beloved Prophet (peace be upon him). Moreover, the most important supplication is starting everything in the name of God.
Those who start everything in life in the name of Allah will come on the Day of Judgment and say: “In the name of Allah” before they read their reckoning book. May Allah accept our good deeds and reward all of us with Jannah. Ameen.
And there are some supplications are chosen from Quran and Sunnah of the prophet (PUH).
Dua to be recited in the morning
أَصْبَـحْـنا وَأَصْبَـحْ المُـلكُ للَّهِ رَبِّ العـالَمـين ، اللّهُـمَّ إِنِّـي أسْـأَلُـكَ خَـيْرَ هـذا الـيَوْم ، فَـتْحَهُ ، وَنَصْـرَهُ ، وَنـورَهُ وَبَـرَكَتَـهُ ، وَهُـداهُ ، وَأَعـوذُ بِـكَ مِـنْ شَـرِّ ما فـيهِ وَشَـرِّ ما بَعْـدَه
(Hisn from Abu Dawood)
Alternatively, recite this dua
اللّهُـمَّ بِكَ أَصْـبَحْنا وَبِكَ أَمْسَـينا ، وَبِكَ نَحْـيا وَبِكَ نَمُـوتُ وَإِلَـيْكَ المَصِيْر
When the sun rises recite
الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي أَقَالَنَا يَوْمَنَا هَذَا وَلَمْ يُهْلِكْنَا بِذُنُوبِنَا (مُسْلِمْ)
In the evening recite
أَمْسَيْنَا وَأَمْسَى الْمُلْكُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ خَيْرَ هَذِهِ اللَّيْلَةَ فَتْحَهَا وَنَصْرَهَا وَنُورَهَا وَبَرَكَتَهَا وَهُدَاهَا وَأَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ شَرِّ مَا فِيهَا وَشَرِّ مَا بَعْدَهَا
Alternatively, recite this
اللَّهُمَّ بَكَ أَمْسَيْنَا وَبِكَ أَصْبَحْنَا وَبِكَ نَحْيَا وَبِكَ نَمُوتُ وَإِلَيْكَ النُّشُورُ
After the expiry of Maghrib time, recite this dua
اللَّهُمَّ إِنَّ هَذَا إِقْبَالُ لَيْلِكَ وَإِدْبَارُ نَهَارِكَ وَأَصْوَاتُ دُعَاتِكَ فَاغْفِرْ لِي
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الَّذِي لَا يَضُرُّ مَعَ اسْمِهِ شَيْءٌ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَلَا فِي السَّمَاءِ وَهُوَ السَّمِيعُ الْعَلِيمُ
فَسُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ حِينَ تُمْسُونَ وَحِينَ تُصْبِحُونَ * وَلَهُ الْحَمْدُ فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَعَشِيًّا وَحِينَ تُظْهِرُونَ * يُخْرِجُ الْحَيَّ مِنَ الْمَيِّتِ وَيُخْرِجُ الْمَيِّتَ مِنَ الْحَيِّ وَيُحْيِي الْأَرْضَ بَعْدَ مَوْتِهَا وَكَذَلِكَ تُخْرَجُونَ
حم * تَنزِيلُ الْكِتَابِ مِنَ اللَّهِ الْعَزِيزِ الْعَلِيمِ * غَافِرِ الذَّنبِ وَقَابِلِ التَّوْبِ شَدِيدِ الْعِقَابِ ذِي الطَّوْلِ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا هُوَ إِلَيْهِ الْمَصِيرُ
اللَّهُ لاَ إِلَـهَ إِلاَّ هُوَ الْحَيُّ الْقَيُّومُ لاَ تَأْخُذُهُ سِنَةٌ وَلاَ نَوْمٌ لَّهُ مَا فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَمَا فِي الْأَرْضِ مَن ذَا الَّذِي يَشْفَعُ عِندَهُ إِلاَّ بِإِذْنِهِ يَعْلَمُ مَا بَيْنَ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَمَا خَلْفَهُمْ وَلاَ يُحِيطُونَ بِشَيْءٍ مِّنْ عِلْمِهِ إِلاَّ بِمَا شَاءَ وَسِعَ كُرْسِيُّهُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ وَلاَ يَئُودُهُ حِفْظُهُمَا وَهُوَ الْعَلِيُّ الْعَظِيمُ
اللَّهُمَّ مَا أَصْبَحَ بِي مِنْ نِعْمَةٍ أَوْ بِأَحَدٍ مِنْ خَلْقِكَ فَمِنْكَ وَحْدَكَ لَا شَرِيكَ لَكَ فَلَكَ الْحَمْدُ وَلَكَ الشُّكْرُ
Benefit: The recitation of Surah al-Ikhlaas, Surah al-Falaq and Surah an-Naas three times each in the mornings and evenings, has been encouraged in the Ahadith.
Supplications to be recited at night
Uthman (R.A.) states that a person who recites from
إِنَّ فِي خَلْقِ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ
Jabir (R.A.) states that Prophet Mohammad (S.A.W.) never slept before reciting Surah Alif Laam Meem Sajda (21 para) and Surah Tabarakal Lazi.
Abdullah bin Masood (R.A.) narrates that Prophet Mohammad (S.A.W.) has stated that the person who recites the last two verses of Suratul Baqarah till the end, then these two verses will be sufficient for him/her, i.e., Allah will protect him/her from all evil and ploys.
When retiring to sleep, make wudhu (ablution), dust off the bed three times, lie on the right side, place the right hand under the head or cheeks and recite the following dua three times.
(Mishkat and Hsinul Hasin, Bukhari Muslim)
اللَّهُمَّ قِنِي عَذَابَكَ يَوْمَ تَجْمَعُ عِبَادَكَ
“O Allah, save me from the punishment on the Day when You will gather Your servants”.
Alternatively, recite this dua
بِاسْمِكَ رَبِّي وَضَعْتُ جَنْبِي وَبِكَ أَرْفَعُهُ إِنْ أَمْسَكْتَ نَفْسِي فَارْحَمْهَا وَإِنْ أَرْسَلْتَهَا فَاحْفَظْهَا بِمَا تَحْفَظُ بِهِ عِبَادَكَ الصَّالِحِينَ
“Oh my Lord, I have taken Your name and placed myself on my side and by Your power will rise up again. If you take my soul whilst I am sleeping (grant me death) then have mercy on my soul, and if you leave me (let me live) by your power, protect me by that with which you have protected your righteous servants”.
Urdu is the word “Zikr”, which means “mention”. “Azkar” is the plural form of Zikar. In Islam, this means praying to the creator for blessings and forgiving us for our mistakes. Azkar is done through different forms of prayers or prayers. Muslims believe that they were all created by Allah. No one is perfect in this society, thanks to the people of Azkar who pray to God for the forgiveness of their sins. They maintain that Allah will consider his good works in the Hereafter.
Five daily prayers are the most important responsibilities for Muslims. Prayers are reminiscent of their god and seek many opportunities for guidance and forgiveness.
Everyone must perform Azkar and learn Azkar. It is important to know how much time you spend praying five times. This is essential for the Islamic people. If you want to take a five-step prayer course, there are many options for taking this Azkar course. The objective of this course is to teach the correct way to return to Islam or young students. Especially for those who still seek God’s grace and study various forms of worship. The correct way to read each verse is very important in Islam.
This Azkar course will cover the following points:
➢ In this course, teachers introduce students to Islamic law, the principles of law, and the first development of fiqh.
➢ Teachers teach the study of cleaning methods and rules.
➢ Complete the prayer study five times.
Azkar is part of the quintuple prayer that Muslims must pray at certain times of the day. So every day the Islamic people called Allah and asked for protection against evil. As you read certain duels at this time, you seek God’s forgiveness and satisfaction. This Azkar course teaches students a goal for which every Muslim believer should remember to beg every day. Teachers explain each verse and also show how it should be pronounced. That said, it will help protect you from harm.
More information about the courses.
Every Islamic nation must know how to pronounce it and pronounce it correctly. The objectives of this course are included here:
Teachers teach the meaning of this emotion and, also, give students an understanding of the reasons to be discussed before entering or leaving the house, before leaving and entering the bathroom, before drinking or eating something. , and soon
Teachers help the students understand the importance of God and teach them to start everything in the name of God.
Who can take this course?
Everyone should take these Courses for Learning Dua. There are many things you can learn to improve your knowledge of Azkar. Anyone could take this course. Basic knowledge of the Arabic language is required to take this course. A man or a woman, a child, or an old man, everyone should do it. If someone cannot come to an educational institution, they should try Online Dua Courses.
Furthermore, it has been said that Azkar Lessons are not required for the following groups of people: elders, children, women, slaves (who were present until Islam prohibited it), and travelers. , sick, blind disabled, etc. Everyone should take this course.
This is mentioned in the Koran, in the Sunnah, in Sunni Islam, in Shia Islam, and it can also be found in the history of Islam.
Islamic lessons for children will help them understand Islamic knowledge. Another great option for children and their parents is that they can learn this at home, as online courses are now available. A child has more opportunities than an adult to take something sincere. With a very innovative and reliable learning process, there is another type of age group for children.
There are also free lessons available for children with which you can decide whether or not to accept your child. You can still choose the Koran school, but you can also think about choosing online.
What does the course include?
In Islamic communities, Muslims remind God of the daily calls to prayer, called adhan. An important feature of Azkar is that the prayer time is dictated, which depends on the position of the sun.
➢ FAJR: Muslim prayer begins the day, by remembering God. Muslim man performs fajr until dawn.
➢ DHUHR: After the fajr, Muslims remember God again at noon.
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October 14, 2022
Flutist/composer Itai Kriss
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This essay maps the potential, and risks, of artificially intelligent regulation: regulatory arrangements that use a complex computational algorithm or another artificial agent either to define a legal norm or to guide its implementation. The ubiquity of AI systems in modern organizations all but guarantees that regulators or the parties they regulate will make use of learning algorithms or novel techniques to analyze data in the process of defining, implementing, or complying with regulatory requirements. We offer an account of the possible benefits and harms of artificially intelligent regulation. Its mix of costs and rewards, we show, depend primarily on whether AI is deployed in ways aimed merely at shoring up existing hierarchies, or whether AI systems are embedded in and around legal frameworks carefully structured and evaluated to better our lives, environment, and future.
Unheralded and by inches, computational tools clustered under the label “artificial intelligence” are creeping into state and U.S. federal agencies’ toolkits for elucidating, implementing, and enforcing the law.1 The Transportation Security Agency is required by law to deploy full-body millimeter-wave scanners trained to identify specific persons whose body shape indicates the need for further screening.2 Sixty-three other civilian agencies of the federal government use more than 150 predictive tools to find facts, craft binding rules, exercise enforcement-related discretion, and detect violations of federal law.3 Local and state governments use similar tools to detect employment-benefit fraud, predict child abuse, and allocate police.4 In local criminal courts, prosecutors obtain convictions by drawing on probabilistic DNA analysis software.5 Local, state, and federal governments also leverage regulation to induce private parties to create and adopt new computational tools. The Department of Health and Human Services in 2016 created an algorithmic “security risk assessment tool” for health care providers needing to verify that their medical-records systems comport with federal data-security rules.6 Large investment banks increasingly adopt algorithmic tools as a means of complying with antifraud or money-laundering laws. Without fanfare, or wide public deliberation, the era of artificially intelligent regulation is almost certainly at hand.
We aim to map the potential, and risks, inherent in that new era. By artificially intelligent regulation, we mean regulatory arrangements that use a complex computational algorithm, or another artificial agent, either to define a legal norm or to guide its implementation. To see how AI might be integrated into the regulatory process at four distinct points–problem identification, empirical inquiry, rule formulation, and rule implementation–consider the following examples:
- A statute governing financial institutions’ anti–money laundering responsibilities might define an explicitly Bayesian learning tool as part of an adequate anti–money laundering system. So long as a bank incorporates the tool, it would fall into a safe harbor against liability. The legally mandatory instrument, moreover, would dynamically update to account for new sorts of malfeasance at the regulatory authority’s direction.
- Selecting particular people or families for the nation’s refugee resettlement program, an agency might adopt as regulation a machine learning instrument to make acceptable decisions accounting for more vectors than can be easily calculated by a human decision-maker. The instrument will once again dynamically update to account for changing patterns of migration, geopolitical conditions, climatic change, and regional economic conditions. Human decision-makers might have to overcome a variety of challenges to take account of all of those relevant and complex streams of information quickly and accurately. An AI instrument could account for this information in a manner that contrasts with how human decision-makers would approach the problem without wholly breaking from the forms of human decision-making.
- A pollution emissions standard for manufacturing plants might be enacted as a reinforcement-learning algorithm. This instrument would define targets based on changing patterns of behavior and calculations of elasticity. It would hence respond dynamically to changing circumstances, including shifting strategies by emitting companies and their customers, quicker and cheaper than human modifications of regulation.
- An AI-infused mechanism might be adopted by law to allocate vaccines during a pandemic based on evolving data about a disease’s spread, its symptoms, and the public’s behavioral responses. Again, the regulation would take the form of a reinforcement-learning tool that changed based on evolving public-health circumstances.
These examples share common traits. Critically, in each one, the law itself operates through a legally preordained computation process. In the first, regulation defines compliance in terms of a (continually updated) algorithm. In the second, the distribution of state benefits is a product of an algorithm cast in law; distributions are not set in advance but emerge as a result of the algorithm’s interaction with novel information. In the third, the algorithm-as-law defines a standard of conduct for private parties accounting for ways in which they, and others, respond in real time. In the final example, the regulatory goal (defined as, say, maximum epidemic abatement) is formulated by hand in advance, but how that goal is realized is constantly recalibrated via computation of new data. In each of these use cases, a machine substantially displaces a different sort of human judgment.
The ubiquity of AI systems in modern organizations all but guarantees that regulators or the parties they oversee will make use of learning algorithms or novel techniques to analyze data in the process of defining, implementing, or complying with regulatory requirements. At one end of the continuum is the relatively incidental, isolated use of an AI system to assess whether data indicate that organizational enforcement priorities have changed over the course of a decade. At the other end of the spectrum is the statute that defines a financial institution’s responsibility to guard against money laundering by formally defining, as a legal norm instantiated in a digital medium, a specific Bayesian updating function. Somewhere on the continuum one might draw a line to distinguish “artificially intelligent regulation” from more incidental use of manufactured intelligence merely to offer limited advice to legal decision-makers or evaluate the implementation of ordinary laws.
What to make of these arrangements is an intricate question that merits no simple answer. The public debate on regulatory AI is polarized between boosters and doomsayers. AI’s diffusion across state instrumentalities hence provokes either shrill alarm or unblinking optimism. Minneapolis, San Francisco, and Oakland, for example, have all banned private facial recognition technologies that trawl public surveillance footage with AI tools. These jurisdictions enact the view that “AI is invariably designed to amplify the forms of power it has been deployed to optimize.”7 In contrast, Chicago and Detroit recently purchased real-time facial recognition systems to integrate into their citywide camera networks.
We diverge from scholars who offer either pure celebration or lament about AI’s effect on law. Rather, we think that artificially intelligent regulation holds promise and peril. As digitally native law, it exploits potential gains from new predictive technologies, and these gains have attendant costs and serious risks. We readily acknowledge AI’s risks to human agency and democratic politics.8 We also think that the environmental impact of an industry already producing an estimated 3–3.6 percent of global greenhouse gas emission will also loom larger as usage increases.9 But we reject the broad claim that AI, as part of responsible social regulation with careful contingency planning and institutional safeguards, cannot deepen democracy, improve human welfare, or empower marginalized groups.10 Its mix of ensuing harms and rewards will instead depend on whether AI is deployed merely to shore up existing hierarchies, or whether its use aims to empower and better our lives, environment, and future.
We offer here an account of the possibilities of artificially intelligent regulation as a good and as a harm. We then offer thoughts on the “metaregulation” of artificially intelligent regulation–that is, the larger regulatory frameworks in which agencies’ decisions to adopt or reject AI tools might be nested–within a democratic framework. Neither wholesale resistance nor an unthinking embrace of AI governance is justified. The national state and its agencies will almost certainly deepen entanglements with new predictive technologies. The ensuing form of artificially intelligent regulation, though, is not graven in stone. Experimentation with AI can help us better understand and resolve challenges arising from society’s often-conflicting expectations of the legal system for technical accuracy, democratic legitimacy, even-handed enforcement, and the nuanced consideration of situational factors. These various rule-of-law elements can be in tension with each other. AI systems can relax that tension, or perhaps exacerbate it in a specific case. But we see no alternative to the hard work of making sure that artificially intelligent regulation is designed to, and in fact does, advance the common good, and not deepen inequality or short-circuit democratic judgment.
Artificially intelligent regulation (AIR) is a legal norm that directly incorporates an algorithm capable of learning and adapting to new information, or the closely related activity of relying heavily on an algorithm to interpret or enforce a regulatory norm that may or may not itself directly incorporate an algorithm. The agency problem in regulation is familiar, but the AIR solution for it–and potentially achieving other goals–is novel.
We focus here on “regulation” in the sense of laws, rules, and guidance promulgated by an agency or department as part of an overarching legal framework for private activities like financial trading or health care. Regulation also includes the government’s efforts to control its own workings, such as policing and immigration. We do not address here the role of AI in the common law.11 Our topic is distinct from discussions of “personalized” common-law rules of contract and tort law developed by courts rather than regulators.12
Our topic has analogies to certain long-standing arrangements in regulatory law. Some regulations already incorporate external standards by reference, such as industry norms, or encompass nontextual information.13 Although current administrative norms governing the Federal Register (the authoritative compendium of all regulations promulgated by agencies of the national government) may complicate the inclusion of a dynamic algorithm directly in a federal regulatory rule through incorporation by reference, both statutes and regulatory rules are sometimes drafted to allow agencies or the public to take account of changing knowledge or conditions.14 AIR can also act as a supplement or substitute for bureaucratically lodged discretion. The law is itself capable of evolving as agencies learn. Just as case-by-case adjudication elaborates the common law, so artificially intelligent law also adapts. But the locus of adaptation of AI is likely to be a standard internal to a statute or regulation, not a body of case law accreting over time.
Even well before legal norms become automated or intelligent, regulators will have little choice but to take seriously the world’s increasing dependence on AI. The Internet shook governance beginning in the late twentieth century. It forced public agencies to contend, willingly or not, with new ways of disseminating information, networking computers, and shaping public perceptions.15 Regulators cannot unwind the widespread commercial adoption of AI techniques, such as backpropagation, neural nets, and large-language models, among contemporary firms. Algorithmic social media feeds, big-data trading platforms, and medical diagnostic tools powered by machine learning are, moreover, unlikely to be abandoned given consumer demand and the real welfare gains derived from them. Nor will regulated firms, including media platforms, banks, hospitals, and manufacturers, cease to innovate in respect to these tools–if nothing else because of unstinting foreign competition. The synergies between state and private enterprise in China, in particular, lend this commercial contest a geopolitical edge that cannot be wished away.16 Military agencies will keep pioneering technologies–like the communication protocols developed for the ARPANET project in the late 1960s that preceded the Internet–that invariably leak into civilian application. The conclusion that AI will increasingly infuse both government and society, therefore, is not mere lazy technological determinism. It is a reasonable inference from readily observable trends.
Still, invention is not the same as innovation.17 Not all digital tools catch on. The recent history of machine learning innovation has been uneven, punctuated by unexpected stops and starts. Whether new technologies are picked up, and how their benefits and costs are distributed, depends on social, economic, cultural, and even legal forces. However acute the pressures toward AI diffusion and adoption might be at this moment, nothing excuses regulators, jurists, and scholars from the difficult task of figuring out how those new tools are slotted into, and interact with, existing private or public institutions, as well as extant hierarchies coded by race, ethnicity, gender, or wealth. Nothing makes existing technological arrangements ineluctable. The monopolistic scale and network effects of dominant social media platforms, for example, was a contingent result of federal regulatory choices.18 Antitrust law might still find a way to reverse Facebook’s and Google’s dominance. Locally, the Los Angeles Police Department’s April 2020 decision to abandon Palantir’s crime-prediction software suggests that not all technological adoptions travel a one-way street. Predictions that AI inevitably serves to discriminate and disempower can enlist powerful historical examples. Their forward-looking force rests on a questionable disregard of democratic agency.
It would be a mistake to say that artificially intelligent regulation will ever completely displace human judgment in some form at some stage of the regulatory process. Human discernment designs and creates the learning tool embedded in the law. The fact that the application of rules to specific cases does not happen through the exercise of human discretion does not–indeed, cannot–lead to a complete absence of such discretion.19 There may not always be a human in (or on) the loop, but there is always a human exercising her judgment as to policy goals, what data are relevant to those goals, and how best to reconcile competing values: she may simply not be visible. With AIR, those judgments likely occur earlier in the design and implementation process. These judgments will tend not to be situated decisions, of the kind regulators now make, about how a norm applies to specific facts and particular persons. An instrument for matching refugees, for example, will not have information on particular flows of people, and almost certainly will be designed by engineers with little or no direct understanding of the refugee experience. As a result, the design stage of artificially intelligent regulations and the ensuing specification of predictive tools is a context in which biases (including invidious beliefs about race, gender, or other legally protected classifications), blind spots, and inaccurate generalizations filter into law. This human element of artificially intelligent regulation may well be occluded from the view of regulated parties.
Nevertheless, policy-makers and the public may have compelling reasons to move human judgment upstream and to filter it through a machine learning tool. At a very general level, AIR has the potential to make law and legal instruments more trustworthy–more amenable to accounting and discipline–and thereby to reduce the transaction costs of translating legal norms across different platforms and institutions.
The positive case for AIR comprises several elements. First, AIR can push agencies to define a societal goal more explicitly. Many AI instruments are organized around a “cost function” that examines each set of predictions of an outcome variable derived from historical data and defines a “cost” or penalty between predictions and the true (observed) outcome. The instrument is then trained to minimize that cost.20 Writing a cost function requires a precise understanding of the social goals regulation seeks to advance. Because that judgment must be explicitly made, the cost function is an opportunity to air to the public both regulatory goals and the manner in which trade-offs are made.
A second benefit of AIR is flexibility over time. Agencies presently promulgate regulations and guidance as a means of implementing statutes periodically enacted by a legislature. Regulation often uses abstract or vague terms, or simply broadly sets a policy goal. Implementing that abstract statutory ambition–whether it is a safe workplace, a technologically feasible but environmentally tolerable level of emissions, or a decent refugee regime–requires translation. Regulators need then to write out their abstract goals in terms of particular rules or applications, bringing lofty aspiration into material form. AIR allows a well-informed legislature to install into law its abstract policy goal in a durable and adaptable way. Where regulation adopts a reinforcement learning tool, the legislature also benefits from information that is not available at the time a law is passed. Hence, a resettlement algorithm might account for unanticipated shifts in migration patterns, or an antifraud tool could learn to recognize new species of criminal conduct. Thanks to this ability to build into law the capacity to dynamically update, a legislature condemned to only intermittent formal action via bicameralism and presentment is freed from frozen-at-the-moment-of-enactment text. This kind of flexibility may be especially valuable if the U.S. Supreme Court imposes new restrictions on Congress’s ability to delegate through general grants of powers to federal agencies, with the latter filling in details with regulations.21 A law directing creation of an AIR might be a substitute for flexibility otherwise exercised through agency rulemaking over time.
A related benefit pertains to legislators’ “agency cost” problem. Regulators may have different policy preferences from legislators. They might be excessively close to a regulated industry. Or they might slack off.22 One way to mitigate agency slack is with ex post judicial review. But the use of courts as an oversight mechanism has costs. Litigation can be used to delay desirable regulation. Fearing a suit, budget-constrained agencies might forgo action. Regulated parties, anticipating judicial review, have an incentive to lobby for particular judicial appointments.23
AIR addresses agency slack in a different way. By impounding their judgments into a digitally native tool, legislators drain away later discretion about how a law is enforced. The resources used up in translating verbal standards back and forth to code and mathematical specification are likely to be smaller than the social resources sucked up by litigation clashes between interest groups and the government. AIR, however, does not eliminate agency problems entirely. Realistically, legislators must rely on technologists and coders to craft an instrument. Unless a legislator can trust the designers of digitally native law, as well as the sources of training data, the specter of “capture” and distorted preferences arises once more.24 Legislators could demand benchmarking and transparency in AI design “appropriate for practical reasoning,” not just in terms of technical detail.25 Such arrangements might further facilitate either ex post judicial review (especially when individual rights are at issue) or legislative committee-based oversight.
The advance of AIR under these conditions may also alter democratic governance more broadly. At present, a legislature enacts a law with limited control over how its terms are understood and applied in the future. Later legislatures can use their appropriations power and their ability to jawbone agency leaders to nudge regulation toward their preferred policies, even when they diverge from those of the enacting legislature. Sometimes, courts step in to interpret statutes in ways that force the later legislature to act more overtly by passing new law.26 But not always, and not reliably.
AIR might scramble such arrangements. In principle, it empowers an enacting legislature. That body has the ability to enact not just the law in an abstract form, but also to embed a mechanism for updating. This sharpens the importance of the discrete political moment in which a law is enacted; it also diminishes the importance of the legislative power to influence agencies in the long term. Arguably, this is salutary in terms of democratic norms. It ups the stakes of the actual legislating moment, when the voting public is most likely attentive, while diminishing the importance of periods in which the public is less engaged, and legislative influence more diffuse. This helps voters exercise retrospective judgment about their representatives. On the other hand, AIR, in a paradoxical sense, by making formal laws less brittle and more capable of built-in adaptation, could conceivably enable long-past legislative coalitions to endure beyond their expiration date. Hence, it may empower the dead hand of the past against the influence of living legislators wielding a current democratic imprimatur.
Finally, it is worth considering whether AIR can be used to broaden access to legal institutions and the benefits of law more generally. Algorithmic tools already facilitate estate planning via websites such as LegalZoom. While these instruments are not without complications, it is worth considering ways in which AIR might be used to empower ordinary citizens presently discouraged from seeking legal remedies by litigation’s complexity and cost.27 This is one important way of resisting the complacent assumption that AI is an innovation that necessarily and inevitably concentrates power and increases pernicious social inequalities.
All should not be presumed to be well with this potential new era of regulation. Just as it enables optimal adaptability, diminished agency costs, and lower transaction costs, so artificially intelligent regulation will engender new problems of transparency, legitimacy, and even equity. All raise fundamental questions of constitutional magnitude.
To begin, it is premature to assume AIR always reproduces undesirable or malign forms of hierarchy. Though regulation is not guaranteed to enhance social welfare, neither is it intrinsically regressive. It has advanced the cause of civil rights, workplace safety and health, environmental protection, and consumer rights. AIR is just one species of regulation. Of course, all lawmaking risks interest-group capture or the unintended perpetuation of invidious stereotypes. AIR, like any kind of legal intervention, must be scrutinized for those risks. In particular, AIR empowers a new class of experts–computer scientists and engineers–at present noteworthy for its lack of gender, racial, and ethnic diversity. Finding diversity in such expertise and turning the latter to serve the public good is not impossible: biological and medical science has shown as much. But it will require sustained institutional change.
More seriously, the ends and means of AIR–like many of the complex statutes that Congress, in particular, has enacted–are not necessarily readily perceived or understood by nonspecialist members of the public or elected officials. The value of an algorithm that diminishes conventional principal-agent problems involving human-led agencies also means that standards might evolve in problematic ways. This may be a result, for example, of mistakes in how a reinforcement learning reward function is specified, or it can be a consequence of adversarial disruptions. There is a question whether any adaptational “drift” distorts what the law achieves, or instead demands fresh involvement by the very mix of experts, politically accountable officials, and competing stakeholder pressures that optimistic proponents might expect these new forms of law to render unnecessary.
A yet more fundamental question is whether an AI-based legal arrangement would be perceived as legitimate in either a sociological or legalistic sense. The ability of the public to understand what AI does at the front end is limited, although that is also true of many existing laws and legal institutions. Leaving aside the precision with which a dynamic legal provision “aligns” with a defensible macroconcept of social welfare in advance, the way such provision evolves over time is not made legitimate without further ingredients. These include the capacity of concentrically larger circles of people, including agency officials and regulated parties at minimum, to understand certain things about how a system performs. Also relevant is affected parties’ capacity to argue in terms the public understands about why AIR is performing adequately (or not) relative to the rest of the jurisdiction’s legal commitments. Agencies or lawmakers could also create “tripwires” to prevent excesses in the use of public, coercive authority; capture or co-option by private interests through de facto private delegation; or violations of due process, equal protection, or anticorruption norms. Certain uses of coercion may also be ipso facto illegitimate without human oversight.
Such measures could be calibrated to promote institutions that allow debate about how a law gets implemented in a particular situation and about the policy and value assumptions supporting the law. Equally important are arrangements that prevent the use of AIR as a shield to prevent public accountability for the coercive use of power. Here, “public accountability” means that some people must accept responsibility for the use of coercive authority in ways that account for material and emotional consequences, including loss of income, reputational degradation, loss of interesting work, and misrecognition by peers or authority figures.
Finally, with opacity comes the risk that algorithms reenact malign hierarchies of race, ethnicity, class, and gender via inscrutable code and invisible design choices.28 The terminology of “bias” in AI is used in varied and inconsistent ways. In our view, the most powerful normative concerns arise when the use of AI imposes material harms on a historically subordinated group.29 Machine bias defined in this way need not flow from any conscious decision to suppress a historically subordinate group. It can result simply from inattention or ignorance by programmers who are not members of those classes. Preventing intentional or inadvertent reproduction of these hierarchies requires active attention to the code inserted into regulation. As recent turmoil at Google’s ethics division suggests, the implementation of equity is no simple matter, but demands organizational leadership and effective staffing.
None of this means AIR should be eschewed. But technical limitations and public resistance mean AIR will likely be limited in scope for some time. More interesting to us is how the emergence of AIR raises questions about the “metaregulatory” structure of administrative and regulatory law. That is, how should the law itself guide the creation and oversight of digitally native law?
The law has already developed tools to audit and evaluate ordinary regulation; cost-benefit analysis is foremost among them. AIR requires rethinking and retooling government’s auditing and oversight capacity to extend values of equity and rationality into its frameworks. As governments create “sandboxes” in which to build and test AIR, they will need to apply robust norms of transparency and benchmarking to ensure that AI is not just the product of–but also facilitates–reasonable and informed deliberation. Experiments with AIR may benefit from building in some of the encumbrances that surely make laypeople wonder about law as it operates today. Digitally infused regulations might therefore explicitly incorporate interpretive mechanisms that will “translate” a standard into ordinary language. Periodic audits for practical bias along race, gender, and other lines might be mandated by law, with failure to pass connected to a penalty of statutory rescission.
More broadly, a federal agency can be imagined for being responsible for sourcing, testing, and auditing new digital tools. Such an agency could be especially helpful given some of the persistent difficulties public organizations face when making procurement decisions. The agency would benefit from a capacity to experiment with recruitment and retention tools, including rotation and part-time arrangements subject to appropriate safeguards against conflicts of interest, to layer into the highest levels of the public sector the kind of expertise and mix of cultures helpful in enhancing government capacity for assessment of AIR. It would operate much as the General Services Administration, established by President Harry Truman in 1949, serving as a hub for digitally native law, a source of auditing expertise, and a locus for public complaint.
For the foreseeable future, AIR offers fascinating possibilities for enhancing governance, but it will nonetheless face intense constraints. Given the risks entailed, perhaps this is as it should be. If AIR is to become legitimate, it must face a trial by fire under the abiding rule-of-law constraints familiar from our existing, imperfect legal system. Further, it will be subject to the coterie of pluralistic pressures capable of creating such enormous friction for even the most elegantly designed legal reforms. Both will confer legitimacy and limit risks of severe error, but also erode AIR’s possibilities and promise. Perhaps such friction is not entirely useless. Perhaps, indeed, it has the potential to force nuance into discussions about how to reconcile contending ideas about what sort of social welfare regulation is supposed to advance. The resulting constraints also offer a powerful reminder that the social benefits of AIR depend at least as much on our society’s capacity to engage in intelligent governance as they do on continued progress in machine learning.
© 2022 by Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar & Aziz Z. Huq. Published under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
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- 2Federal Register 81 (42) (2016): 11363.
- 3Engstrom et al., Government by Algorithm, 15–16.
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- 12Ariel Porat and Lior Jacob Strahilevitz, “Personalizing Default Rules and Disclosure with Big Data,” Michigan Law Review 112 (8) (2014): 1417–1478.
- 13Federal regulations may incorporate “published data, criteria, standards, specifications, techniques, illustrations, or similar material.” 1 CFR § 51.7 (a)(2)(i); and Emily S. Bremer, “On the Cost of Private Standards in Public Law,” Kansas Law Review 63 (2015): 279, 296.
- 14Office of the Federal Register, IBR Handbook (Washington, D.C.: Office of the Federal Register, 2018). See, for example, Whitman v. American Trucking Associations, 531 U.S. 457 (2001), discussing the EPA’s responsibility under Section 109(b)(1) of the Clean Air Act to set National Ambient Air Quality Standards that are “requisite to protect the public health.”
- 15See Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2008).
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The New York Mets are a professional baseball team based in Flushing, Queens, in New York City, New York. The Mets are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League. From 1964 to the present, the Mets have played in Shea Stadium. In 2009, they moved to their new home, Citi Field.
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Rachel Bryant (Linda Blair) is your average, all-American girl: a good student, a champion horse jumper, and in a loving relationship with her boyfriend. But that all begins to change when her orphaned cousin Julia (Lee Purcell) comes to live with the family. Soon, a series of unexplainable mishaps befall Rachel and Julia becomes everybody’s favorite, leading Rachel to begin to suspect that her cousin might be up to something evil—witchcraft! Based on the classic YA novel by Lois Duncan and directed by horror master Wes Craven, SUMMER OF FEAR is a made-for-TV shocker that transcends its small-screen origins.
Note: Not available for bookings in the United States or Canada.
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With more than a million people facing hunger due to the devastating famine currently ravaging southern Madagascar, donors, foreign governments and regional leaders must ramp up aid efforts to avert a potential human rights crisis, said Amnesty International.
As the country experiences its worst drought in 40 years, two United Nations agencies, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) last week issued an urgent warning to draw international attention to the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Southern Madagascar.
The rights of more than a million people are currently threatened in Southern Madagascar, with thousands at risk of starvation and more than a million struggling to access sufficient quantities of foodTamara Léger, Amnesty International’s Madagascar Programme Advisor
“The rights of more than a million people are currently threatened in Southern Madagascar, with thousands at risk of starvation and more than a million struggling to access sufficient quantities of food. The situation is dire and there is an immediate need for coordinated regional and global action to help avert what could easily become a human catastrophe,” said Tamara Léger, Amnesty International’s Madagascar Programme Advisor.
“Regional leaders and the international community cannot afford to stand by and watch while people die of hunger in Madagascar. The international community must come together and mobilise resources to help the country in this hour of need.”
The current famine situation became critical in September 2020, at the start of the lean season. The crisis is unfolding after the region has seen three consecutive years of drought, causing the worst drought the country has experienced in 40 years. According to the WFP, around 1.14 million people in the south of Madagascar are facing serious food insecurity, with 14,000 of those in a “catastrophe” situation – the highest in the five-step scale of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). Children and women have been most affected by the drought, and families have been forced into extreme measures to survive, including selling their belongings and engaging in child labour. Children are also missing school due to hunger.
In March, Amnesty International gathered testimonies from women, children and men affected by the drought, highlighting how the situation has negatively impacted on the enjoyment of their human rights to life, access to food, water, health and education, among others.
Dozens of deaths have been recorded in some villages, but there are no precise estimates of famine related deaths. Survivors of hunger have told the organization how they are trying to do everything to avoid dying, including skipping meals and eating cactuses and clay.
The situation is dire and there is an immediate need for coordinated regional and global action to help avert what could easily become a human catastrophe
Oline Ampisoa, a 63-year-old widow, mother to three and grandmother to nine, said: ‘We used to eat three times a day. We would eat corn, sorghum sweet potatoes, and manioc, but right now, you can hardly find anything. If you are able to earn some money, you can buy manioc and save some, by only eating it for dinner.”
“In the morning and at lunchtime, we either don’t eat anything, or we eat young cactuses. We remove the thorns and then we boil them, and we give that to the children. I even cry when I watch the children eat sometimes, but there’s nothing more I can do,” she added.
The situation is particularly dire for children, for whom the lack of necessary nutrients prevents them from developing properly. According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a tool used by governments, UN Agencies, NGOs, and civil society for improving food security analysis and decision-making, approximately 27,100 children required lifesaving treatment for severe malnutrition in 2020, and 135,476 children under five were wasted
Seventeen-year-old Mosa told Amnesty International that he is no longer able to go to school because of the drought: “I don’t go to school at the moment… When I eat tamarind mixed with clay, my stomach hurts, and that’s why I don’t go to school anymore. Because of hunger, when I got to school, I wasn’t at ease, and when the teachers explain the class, my head was always elsewhere,” he said.
Mosa’s story mirrors those of many other children spoken to by Amnesty International, who have been forced to abandon school due to hunger.
The WFP said it urgently needs $USD 74 million over the next six months to offset the impact and the risk of famine in Madagascar, as the 2021 harvest of crops is expected to be less than half the five-year average. The agency also predicted that the lean season is likely to be prolonged and severe, starting in October 2021.
Wealthier countries must also support effective early-warning systems, disaster preparedness and climate change adaptation strategies to save lives and protect human rights in countries like Madagascar and others facing similar risks
International cooperation and assistance is a key human rights obligation. As per the international standards, states are required to seek international assistance where they cannot meet their human rights obligations. There is also a corresponding obligation on states that are in a position to assist, to provide such assistance. Both donors, and states that receive this assistance must ensure that it is used in a way that is compliant with the principles of non-discrimination and equality.
Average annual rainfall has been declining over the last century in the south of Madagascar, while average temperatures have increased over the past 15 years. Based on projected trends, Madagascar is likely to be more severely affected by drought in the future, with further decreasing rainfall, and a continued increase in temperature.
“As the effects of climate change intensify, the situation in the South of Madagascar will only get worse. The devastation wrought by this famine is yet another reminder to all states, and particularly those most responsible for the climate crisis, about their obligation to protect people by urgently reducing emissions,” said Tamara Léger.
“Wealthier countries must also support effective early-warning systems, disaster preparedness and climate change adaptation strategies to save lives and protect human rights in countries like Madagascar and others facing similar risks.”
Amnesty International will be releasing a report on the drought in Southern Madagascar, and its human rights impact, later this year.
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Product information "Thermoelectric Peltier Modules for Industrial Applications"
Kryotherm produces a wide range of single-stage thermoelectric coolers (TECs) that can be used for industrial applications. These TECs are able to solve most of the tasks of industrial cooling and thermo-stabilizing and are subdivided by design to high efficient, standard, one or two sections, round, square or rectangular shape ones, with or without a hole.
Kryotherm’s thermoelectric coolers for industrial applications provide high efficiency, reliability, and performance accuracy. Operation at temperature cycling conditions often requires rapid periodical changes of the temperatures of one or both sides of a TEC in a wide (several tens of degrees) range and a lifetime up to 500,000 cycles. Our thermoelectric coolers for industrial applications produced by Kryotherm meet all the modern industrial standards and special requirements. The quality and reliability of TECs are verified by numerous tests performed according to Kryotherm’s advanced Quality Management System.
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for a few days when i meditate and even when i dont, i feel a sensation in the navel.previously this area used to throb on the spine along with the others, but now it feels like the navel itself strongly throbs,or gets pulled inside or something like a door being open there. and automatically i forget focusing on the kutastha and do that on the navel instead .the sensation is highly pleasurable, but i dont know why it happens or if it is good or bad.the root chakra gets stimullated as well. help
A sensation this strong could be something physical in the body. You may wish to consult a doctor. You indicate that the sensation is pleasurable. Let us just say, for now, that this experience is coming from your meditation (since I am not a doctor and we don’t give medical advice!).
Is meditation new to you? Since I do not know the answer to that question, I’ll simply address the possibility that this energy pulsation comes from your chakra and astral body.
It is possible that the third chakra is being stimulated by your meditation practice and then in turn stimulating the root chakra. The fact that it pleasurable AND that it distracts your concentration at the kutastha. Here are some things to try:
1. Continue your meditation technique(s) and practice as you’ve been taught.
2. When or if this sensation begins to distract you, allow your attention to be re-directed to the navel for a few minutes. Sit with the sensation without judging or indulging, just observe it.
3. When you feel calm with it slowly begin to invite or draw the energy upward from the navel chakra (manipura) first to the heart. Let the energy settle in the heart for a brief time.
4. Then continue to gently coax the energy further up, chakra by chakra, to the Kutastha.
5. Remain at the kutastha for as long as you can or until the energy in the lower chakras begins to fade.
There are more concentrated chakra techniques I could describe but it would take much longer than a simple email. Let me say, for now, that you could spend more time at each chakra, beginning at the heart center (chanting AUM, for example), throat, medulla, kutastha.
You could also synchronize your inhalation with mentally drawing and cooling the energy up from the navel center upwards to the Kutastha. (Just let the exhalation happen naturally but keep using repeating the inhalation technique for several minutes.)
It is important to gently re-direct the energy upwards but DO NOT FORCE it. If it threatens to overwhelm you, stop your meditation and do some stretches or chant mantra or pray to God or guru. Very likely, unless it is a medical issue, it is nothing to be concerned about and will very likely go away if you work with it calmly and sensitively.
ok? Blessings to you!
Seattle WA USA
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Retreats, Reunions, Business Workshops
Celebrations of all Kinds
Dinner bell is ringing!
It is so important to have quality meals at any event. Here at Anderson Lodge, we have wonderful kitchens for your use. We have the following options for serving meals for your event.
You are required to communicate with Anderson Lodge for these choices. If you are having an outside caterer, notify Anderson Lodge. Provide name of caterer, business name, and contact information. The caterer must clean and sanitize kitchen after use and take care of clearing and washing dishes.
Meals can make or break an event. Here at Anderson Lodge we have put a lot of effort into providing quality kitchens that allow you to just bring in your food and not worry about bringing can openers, china, or coffee pots for example. It’s easy to cook for a crowd at Anderson Lodge. From preparation to serving, it is wonderfully organized for you.
Our kitchens are very well stocked and you are free to use our china, flatware, cooking and serving dishes. You will find plenty of conveniences such as: water pitchers and coffee carafes, large coffee urns, serving platters and bowls, dish towels, ziplocs and foil. Both facilities have commercial dishwashers and refrigerators.
You may notice that we charge kitchen fees with every booking. The kitchen fees allow us to keep our facilities maintained and equipped with all the many commercial appliances and baking/cooking/serving supplies.
If you choose our preferred caterer, you will be in direct contact with the caterer to book their services. They can cater any meal you choose. Request appetizers, lunches, dinners, breakfasts, snacks, or even box lunches. They can do it all! All catering deposits, gratuities & payments will be made directly to the caterer. The caterer will define all prices and services.
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING REGARDING OUR KITCHEN FEE POLICY:
We have very well stocked kitchens with commercial appliances. We try to provide quality kitchens for you to use. You can count on a commercial dishwasher and commercial refrigeration at both the Hilltop House and the Main Lodge. In our kitchens you will find china and flatware for 150 people. We have acrylic tumblers, acrylic water pitchers, and coffee carafes. Speaking of coffee, we have large coffee urns for large groups and 2 Mr. Coffee pots for smaller groups. We have large white serving platters and salad bowls plus 6-8 glass serving dishes and many baking and food prep utensils. The kitchen fees allow us to update and maintain our commercial appliances and equip our kitchens with many baking/cooking/serving supplies. You will be amazed at our well-stocked kitchens
We do not have catering as a part of our Anderson Lodge rental packages. But you have the choice of:
Kitchen Fees: (Add 9.8% tax)
ALL GROUPS PAY $50 KITCHEN FEE FOR EACH DAY OF RENTAL
Self-Catering: No additional fee beyond the $50/day+tax kitchen fee if Volunteers (Unpaid people) provide the meals for your retreat and no one is being paid for this service.
Preferred Caterer: Verification from caterer required.
- $50 Kitchen Fee WAIVED for any day/s a preferred caterer provides meals
- $50 Kitchen Fee+tax WILL APPLY to any day/s without a preferred caterer.
- $50/day+tax Kitchen Fee applies
- Add $90+tax Caterer Kitchen Fee if Outside Caterer provides some or all of your meals.
Our Preferred Caterer
Our preferred caterer is very experienced with catering AND frequently caterers for Anderson Lodge. Choosing a preferred caterer will insure that your event is in good hands. They know the location of supplies, have knowledge of traffic flow, and can answer questions about your stay at the Lodge. It makes such a difference having a caterer who is familiar with our facilities. If you are interested in a preferred caterer, please contact the Lodge office.
Meal Plan Ideas
Here are a few ideas of what past groups have organized as a part of meal plans:
- Taco, pasta, or baked potato bar
- Scandinavian smorgåsbord
- Dessert Bar
- Snack Service
- Barbecue Buffet
- Fiesta Buffet
- Stuffed french toast & fruit breakfast
- Italian Night
- Mexican Dinner Party
- Hawaiian Luau night
The options for retreat meals are endless. Just talk to your caterer or brainstorm with your families. It’s all possible at Anderson Lodge.
If you are self-catering, we would be happy to help you plan and give you any information you might need to make your meal plan successful.
The kitchens are well equipped and the dining areas are large enough for your whole group. When you visit either the Main Lodge or the Hilltop House you will be absolutely amazed at the outdoor dining areas with spectacular views. Groups renting in warmer weather often can be seen at the barbecue or roasting hot dogs in the outdoor amphitheater.
Dining at Anderson Lodge
Our grand conference rooms and spacious reception pavilions are amazing spaces for any celebration or large group gathering. Please follow all COVID-related precautions and stress cleanliness with your guests. There are sanitizing stations in our conference room and reception pavilion.
- There’s room for a large buffet and conference rounds with chairs for your meal.
- You must open windows and use fans to increase ventilation.
- At least twelve 60″ conference round tables can be placed in either space.
- You will also have access to 8′ and 6′ rectangular tables.
- Please know that the leather couches and the fabric side chairs STAY IN THE CONFERENCE ROOM.
- Do NOT take the furniture to another room or outside. It’s okay to move them to the perimeter of the room, but do NOT move them out of the room.
- Do not move the piano. It stays in the conference room. Moving and jostling pianos can damage them, as well as getting them out of tune.
Whatever the celebration you have planned here at Anderson Lodge, the venue will enhance your event!
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HUAWEI shipped 108 million smartphones in 2015, income up 77%
We already knew that HUAWEI was having a good year when the company announced a big leap in its yearly profits last week and HUAWEI has just announced some more details about its 2015 performance at CES 2016. The Chinese smartphone brand has seen a big jump in its yearly smartphone shipments and an even larger increase in revenue.
In total, HUAWEI shipped 108 million smartphones throughout 2015, making it the first Chinese manufacturer to breach the 100 million unit milestone. This is an increase in shipments of 44 percent over the previous year, thanks to strong sales of its flagship smartphones in Europe and a growing market share in the Middle East and Africa.
Looking at specific handsets, HUAWEI shipped 4.5 million P8 flagships this year, 7 million Mate 7 smartphones and 800,000 Mate S units, which has been on the market for 4 months now. Unfortunately, the company hasn’t released any sales figures for the Nexus 6P that it launched in collaboration with Google, but views this as a key device for helping to break into the North American market.
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All of this has led to a large boost to the company’s yearly revenue. HUAWEI has declared that its annual income exceeded $20 billion USD, which comes close to a 70 percent increase when compared with 2014. HUAWEI already stated that its full year profits have increase by 35 percent, but has not given an exact figure.
Along with its financial results, HUAWEI has also used its time at CES 2016 to announce the global launch of its Mate 8 handset, although it won’t be appearing in the US. The Mate 8 hit shelves back in early December but was initially only available in China. We imagine that extra details about exact regions, carriers and pricing will be revealed in time. You can find everything that you need to know about the HUAWEI Mate 8 in our hands-on preview.
HUAWEI certainly appears to have been one of the big winners in 2015, at a time when other major smartphone vendors have been struggling to maintain their leading market shares and profits. With key partnerships developed with Google and automotive manufacturers, and new products in the wearables and smart home markets, HUAWEI has set itself up nicely for a strong start to 2016.
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There's no greater regret than gambling that you'll never need phone or laptop insurance... and then needing it once it's too late. AppleCare Plus and Samsung Care Plus can be a bit costly on top of your new phone price, but much less costly than having to pay full price for display repairs or to replace a stolen phone.
The question is, does Apple or Samsung do a better job at insuring your devices? Which one gives you your money's worth, and which one doesn't properly cover certain claims?
This Samsung Care Plus vs. AppleCare Plus guide will compare types of insurance claims — accidents, thefts, display cracks, malfunctions, and more — across both services to see which handles it better for the consumer.
Note: This article specifically focuses on U.S. pricing for both services. Both AppleCare Plus and Samsung Care Plus are available in at least 50 countries, but terms and conditions may vary depending on where you live.
How does Samsung Care Plus work?
Samsung Care Plus covers repairs for Samsung phones, tablets, earbuds, smartwatches, and computers. You can purchase Care Plus during checkout on Samsung.com or add it within 60 days of purchase.
Samsung offers four types of Care Plus coverage: Care Plus Essentials, Care Plus, Care Plus with Theft and Loss, and NY Only Insurance.
The Essentials plan costs a flat rate for a 24-month period and only covers mechanical failure and 24/7 tech support for Samsung earbuds and computers. Care+ adds repairs for accidents, drops, spills, and screen repair, as well as next-day replacement for broken items, and applies to all Samsung tech.
Anecdotally, we've heard from Care Plus subscribers that Samsung sometimes refuses to cover water damage repairs, despite the promise to protect against "spills." This may have changed in recent years, however.
Care Plus with Theft and Loss is self-explanatory — it replaces a stolen phone, tablet, or watch — but also adds same-day replacement and Knox Guard for extra security. The New York-specific plan only covers theft and loss but gives you same-day replacements from a Samsung store.
|Protection||Care Plus Essentials||Care Plus||Care Plus with Theft and Loss|
|Device types||Earbuds, computers||Phones, tablets, watches, earbuds, computers||Phones, tablets, watches|
|24/7 Expert Support||✔️||✔️||✔️|
|Samsung Genuine Parts and Certified Technicians||✔️||✔️||✔️|
|Mail-in repair or replacement||✔️||✔️||✔️|
|$0 mechanical fixes||✔️||✔️||✔️|
|$29 screen repair||Row 5 - Cell 1||✔️||✔️|
|Unlimited repairs||Row 6 - Cell 1||✔️||✔️|
|Drops and spills||Row 7 - Cell 1||✔️||✔️|
|Next business day replacement||Row 8 - Cell 1||✔️||✔️|
|Same-day replacement and set-up||Row 9 - Cell 1||Row 9 - Cell 2||✔️|
|Theft and Loss Coverage||Row 10 - Cell 1||Row 10 - Cell 2||✔️|
|Knox Guard||Row 11 - Cell 1||Row 11 - Cell 2||✔️|
Further complicating Care Plus, Samsung prices its plans in four different "tiers" based on the value of the device. Newer or more valuable devices like the Galaxy Z Fold 5 fall into the priciest tier, while budget models like the Galaxy A54 are tier 1. The top tiers have higher monthly prices and higher deductibles.
Even more complicated, you can pay either a monthly rate for 36 months of coverage or a flat rate for 24 months. Plus, the costs vary depending on whether your insured device is a Tier 4 phone or a Tier 4 watch. It's all too much to list out here, so see the Samsung Care Plus support page for an up-to-date pricing list.
Focusing on the main Care Plus package, you pay nothing for internal mechanical failure, $29 for a cracked display, or $99 for accidental damage regardless of the tier, and there's no limit to the number of repairs.
If you buy the Theft and Loss package, the plan covers three lost device claims per year, and you pay either $99, $149, or $199, depending on the tiered value.
How does AppleCare Plus work?
At its core, AppleCare Plus isn't especially different from Samsung Care Plus. But there are differences in terms of types of devices, pricing, theft coverage, and length.
You must either purchase it on Apple.com alongside your device or within 60 days of your purchase. Like Samsung's plan, it can protect iPhones, iPads, MacBooks, Apple Watches, and AirPods; its exclusive categories are Apple TV devices and HomePod speakers.
Like Samsung Care Plus, AppleCare Plus lets you buy either a fixed two-year plan or a monthly plan, depending on how you like to pay. The difference is that Apple lets you extend your coverage indefinitely so long as you never stop paying, whereas Samsung only offers a three-year maximum.
Considering both companies offer at least five years of software support for their devices, Apple's policy (which may just seem like greed) is actually good for customers that don't switch devices every year.
A downside to AppleCare Plus is that Apple only offers a Theft plan for iPhone buyers. You're not able to pay to insure your iPad or Apple Watch against theft, whereas you can get a replacement Galaxy Tab S9 or Galaxy Watch 6 if you pay extra.
Like Samsung, Apple charges more or less depending on how new or valuable that device is. For example, an iPhone 14 Pro AppleCare Plus plan costs $9.99/month, while an iPhone SE (3rd Gen) costs $3.99/month.
Also, like Samsung, Apple charges nothing for hardware repairs where the consumer isn't at fault, $29 for screen repair, or $99 for accidental damage repair for its iPhones. For iPads or Apple Watches, all screen or accidental repairs have a $49 or $69 deductible, respectively. AirPods repairs have a $29 deductible, while MacBook repairs are $99 for the display or $299 for accidental damage.
AppleCare Plus provides free battery replacement across iPhones, iPads, and MacBooks so long as the capacity has fallen below 80% of its original capacity. Samsung covers "battery failure" under the $0 mechanical repairs category but doesn't specifically mention what happens if your battery capacity becomes too short. It may not be covered in the same way.
Samsung Care Plus vs. AppleCare Plus: Which is better?
Without diving into specific tiers or products, below are the price ranges for the main AppleCare Plus and Samsung Care Plus categories, specifically how much you pay to get a service plan before any deductibles.
|Category||AppleCare Plus cost||Samsung Care Plus cost|
|Phones||$4–$10 per month; $79–$200 for 2 years||$3–$11 per month; $49–$239 for 2 years|
|Phones (w/ Theft protection)||$7.49–$13.49 per month; $149–$269 for 2 years||$8–$16 per month; $129–$329 for 2 years|
|Tablets||$3.49–$8 per month; $69–$149 annually||$5–$8 per month; $79–$149 for 2 year plan|
|Watches||$2.49–$5 per month; $49–$99 for 2 years||$3 per month; $49 for 2 years|
|Earbuds||$29 for 2 years ($59 for Max)||$40 for 2 years|
|Computers||$35–$180 annually; $99–$499 for 3 years||$100–$200 for 2 years|
As you can see, most of these AppleCare Plus and Samsung Care Plus price ranges fall fairly close to one another, depending on how each company values a specific device. Newer, flagship devices fall on the high end, while buying new, last-gen devices will cost less to insure.
In terms of noticeable differences, Samsung charges more for high-end phone repairs because its Z Fold series costs more to repair, whereas Apple doesn't sell an iPhone in that $1,800 range. Meanwhile, for a high-end MacBook Pro or (especially) Mac Pro repairs, it costs a lot more than a Galaxy Book 3 Ultra.
Otherwise, we've already discussed most of the key Samsung Care Plus vs. AppleCare Plus differences that make one better than the other.
Samsung protects its tablets and watches against theft, while Apple doesn't. AppleCare Plus offers free battery replacement when the capacity falls below 80%; Samsung seems to only cover total battery failure. And Apple lets you extend your coverage indefinitely, while Samsung has hard caps at two or three years depending on if you pay monthly or upfront.
Both care services send you a box or return label to send your damaged device from home, along with an express replacement device if applicable. But U.S.-based Apple users really benefit from the hundreds of Apple Stores across the country since they can make an appointment, check to see if repairs are covered, and send the damaged device from the store directly.
Samsung has just five U.S.-based Experience Stores at last count. It makes you file a claim through a service called Servify or take your device to a partner like uBreakiFix or Best Buy to try and fix it via 3rd-party. As our colleague's Care Plus horror story shows, however, Samsung's system can sometimes cause headaches if Samsung's partners don't have the "Samsung Genuine Parts" that your device needs.
Ultimately, we're always going to recommend that you pay for Samsung Care Plus or AppleCare Plus, whichever device ecosystem you use. Without them, any accidental damage or screen repair will cost you hundreds of dollars more; with them, your device will stay in good shape long enough to be a valuable trade-in for your next high-end Android phone or iPhone.
If we had to pick a winner between the two, it would probably be AppleCare Plus because of factors like in-person appointments with Apple employees and no artificial cut-off for plans. Samsung is the better option in case of theft, whereas Apple doesn't care about stolen watches or tablets, but the reliance on 3rd-party partners sometimes causes issues.
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Michael spent years freelancing on every tech topic under the sun before settling down on the real exciting stuff: virtual reality, fitness wearables, gaming, and how tech intersects with our world. He's a semi-reformed Apple-to-Android user who loves running, D&D, and Star Wars. Find him on Twitter at @Michael_L_Hicks.
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Hi! Welcome to Janice's Ponds. My turtles are mostly red eared sliders and painted turtles. Each is an adoptee and unique in his or her own way. It's fun getting to know their personalities and watching them in as close to a natural surrounding as I can create. The habitat is 9 years old but is constantly changing. Because it keeps expanding in size, so does the population.
I am happy to adopt your pet water and box turtles but only between June 1 and September 1. The rest of the year my pond is closed.
Please contact me only during those times. Thank you.
Janice's Ponds - A Turtle Habitat and the Turtles Who Live There
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Hermès White Avantage Sneakers
These Hermès White Avantage Sneakers are cool low-tops with understated luxury styling! The uppers are made of white leather with black leather behind the heels, white laces through silver eyelets, sleek angled H’s (H en Biais, for you francophones) printed on the sides, and leather inners. In great condition with a box, two dustbags, and extra laces, they have light wear on the rubber soles and a few light scratches throughout. You can never go wrong with a fresh pair of white trainers!
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GenusCrepidium See All Search Site
This small terrestrial orchid may be Crepidium commelinifolium, or a very closely related species.
It sometimes is identified as Malaxis commelinifolia, but that is a synonym for the accepted species name noted above.
This orchid has an unusual, tall and thin growth form. The alternating leaves are stunning in both color and appearance. The coloration has various shades of bright green with brownish-red flushing, and the shape is very sharply lanceolate with strongly undulate margins.
The bloom spike is somewhat tall and thin, with gorgeous, tiny, reddish-purple flowers.
This plant grows well in a typical grow bin setup with high humidity and a substrate comprised of sphagnum, fine orchid bark, leaf litter, and some microfauna. See my grow bin tutorial series for more info.
Where to Buy
- GBIF search for "Crepidium"
- Kew Plants of the World search for "Crepidium"
- WikiSpecies search for "Crepidium"
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how is manipulation shown in Enders game
The Asteroid Belt
Ender-short for his age, brown hair, brown eyes
Page 265 to 266
No. A manipulated variable is the same as an independent variable.
The covered jar was the manipulated variable and the responding variable was the result: No maggots.
Dap and Mazer Rackham
Mazer is Enders teacher during enders game. he trained him to beat the formics. [SPOILER] he made ender think that he was testing him with games when ender was actually fighting in the war. They first met on Eros, the asteriod where Command School was held. In the book Ender In Exile they are companions who are close during the begining of the book before Ender leaves for Colony 1 (later named Shakespeare
The enemy's gate is DOWN!
On Planet Eros, Ender finds the Giant's Drink dream in the landscape. He walks up to the castle in which the mirror showed Peter. He lifts the mirror from the wall; he finds the Hive Queens cocoon left for Ender to begin a new bugger civilization( the bugger's were actually good).
No - Ender does not die at the end of "Ender's Game". He survives to go with the first wave of colonists who are heading out to colonize all the worlds previously occupied by the Formics. He suffers death, of a sort, in one of the later books of the Enders quartet.
In the book Peter likes Valentine. The book is called Ender's Game.
no connection between ender's game and hitler..... i hope this help ':)
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bionicle is Lego's so i would have to say Lego universe
Minecraft, Blockland, Lego Universe
Lego universe is an MMO and MMO do not have sequels but instead expansions. Considering now that Lego Universe has been closed like the other hundreds of MMOs that don't do so well in today's economy lego will probably stick with normal singleplayer and co-op games for a while before reattempting the MMO concept.
if you are looking for games like fussion fall........try marvel superhero squad..or dc universe online........they will do untill marvel universe online is released
If you would like to request help from the Lego Universe team, visit the Lego Universe website, click on help, and 'Request Help'. You should be able to contact them from here.
there is a norther game that's there to minecrafter
There are many free building games online. If you like Lego, Brick building style games check out Roblox in the related links.
A game similar to Lego Universe, is Club Penguin. It has the same kind of idea and is just as fun!
Yes there are several other games like Roblox. There is Lego Universe, a game where you build bricks and play with friends online. There is also Minecraft, a game where you build stuff with blocks and try to survive from evil creatures.
Although beta testers like me are testing Lego universe, we have no idea when netdevil and Lego will release this game. The best guess is by the end of 2010.
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It’s getting close to graduation and I can’t get myself to start packing all my food stuff for the big move this Sunday. Each time I told myself to focus and pack, my ADD kicked into high gear and the cardboard boxes and bubble wrap took a back seat to my distractions. Yesterday I decided to procrastinate with good taste and make wine-braised mushrooms with a goat cheese and mascarpone topping. What, what? I still have 4 more days until the parental unit gets here and starts complaining about how unproductive I’ve been this past week.
Anna, my host mom from Italy (and my friend Francesco’s actual mom), came a week early to spend time in Ithaca before the big day. Since I’m a believer that not every dinner party has to be an 8-course, 20-guest ordeal, I called up Francesco and invited him and his mom over for some wine and appetizers. I made her biscotti recipe and whipped up a batch of my wine-braised mushroom cups.
Puff pastry is key for this appetizer; and if you haven’t already discovered Foodbeam, Fanny offers a brilliant step-by-step crash course on this classic French dough. Can you make do using the store-bought stuff? I guess. But only if your foodie conscience actually allows you to pick up the pre-packaged dough that has been sitting in the frozen isle of your local grocery store for who knows how long and has been stamped with a generic 2-year window of expiration… sigh.
Braising the mushrooms is a walk in the park. All you have to do is sauté them over high heat, deglaze the pan with balsamic vinegar and red wine, and lower the heat until most of the liquid evaporates.
Braised Mushroom Cups
(yields approx. 24 cups)
- 1 lb. crimini mushrooms, de-stemmed
- 2 tbsp butter
- 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 2 tsp. fresh thyme
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1 tbsp. balsamic vinegar
- 300 ml wine (1 small glass)
- 300 g. puff pastry
- 150 g. goat cheese
- 100 g. mascarpone cheese
- zest & juice of 1 lemon
- chives, for garnish
Putting them all together
- Sauté mushrooms over high heat with butter, olive oil, thyme and garlic for about a few minutes until browned.
- Deglaze the pan with balsamic vinegar and wine and lower heat to medium until most of the liquid has evaporated (apprrox. 25 minutes) and set aside.
- Cut out circle rounds of puff pastry and bake in a mini muffin tin to make the individual cups (poke holes before baking to prevent excessive puffing).
- Mix the cheeses, lemon zest and lemon juice for the topping.
- Scoop a few mushrooms into each cup and top with the lemon-infused cheese mixture. Garnish with chopped chives and serve.
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Portuguese and Surfing in Lisbon
Among Lisbon’s many wonderful things to see and do, one of the main things that attracts our students to this fascinating city is its beach culture. With beautiful sandy beaches surrounding the city and stretching along three coastlines, it is no surprise that surfing in Lisbon is a popular sport amongst tourists and locals alike. And with such stunning views of the colourful city from out at sea, you won’t be able to resist the urge to grab your surfboard and head to the beach! To make things even easier, we offer a special combined Portuguese and Surfing course at our school in Lisbon, giving you the opportunity to sharpen up on your Portuguese skills and learning to surf in your free-time, whilst meeting like-minded students from across the world.
Portuguese and Surfing
Learn Portuguese in the mornings and spend your afternoons on the beach! On this course, students receive 15 Portuguese lessons per week in small groups of no more than 8 students.
In the afternoons, you’ll head off to the beach for surf practice! If you book the 2-week course, you will receive 5 surf lessons across the 2 weeks, and if you book the 4-week course, you will receive 10 lessons across the 4 weeks. Surf Classes will be scheduled depending upon the weather conditions, and take place in mini-groups of around 6 students. The course price includes transportation, all necessary surf materials and insurance.
Course Duration: 2 or 4 weeks
Level: Suitable for students of all levels of experience
- Stay with a Portuguese host family on a bed and breakfast basis, where you can get an authentic experience of the Lisbon way of life and practise your Portuguese skills in a real-life context
- If you would like to live with other students from the language school, you can stay in a shared apartment. Accommodation is offered in private rooms with shared bathroom, kitchen and living facilities
- Alternatively, you can choose the student residence accommodation, where you will live with students from all over the world
It wouldn’t be language immersion without a cultural activity programme! Each week, you will be given the opportunity to get involved with a vast array of social activities organised by our friendly school staff. These vary from week to week, but may include city walks, dinners, wine-tasting, Portuguese films, lectures, live music, museum visits, and so much more!
How to get there
You can fly into Lisbon airport, which has great transport links to the city centre. Alternatively, we can arrange a private transfer to pick you up from the airport to take you directly to your accommodation. Please note that the transfer service is not included in the price and will incur an additional fee.
Location of our school in Lisbon
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Prices for Lisbon
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Adopting the university reform on good governance and Bologna process at each HEIs, through the definition and validation of institutional action plans.
Supporting the implementation of Bologna Process within HEIs in Kurdistan region of Iraq by improving knowledge on recognition of credits and learning mobility.
Improving HEIs capacities on quality assurance mechanisms, strategic planning, management and accountability practices.
Enhancing good governance, by strengthening the definition and development of HEIs roadmap.
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RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman on Monday issued a royal order approving allocation of SR20 billion ($5.32 billion) to help citizens mitigate the impacts of rising global prices.
Half of the allocated money will go to social insurance beneficiaries and the Citizen Account Program.
Earlier, while chairing a meeting of the Council of Economic and Development Affairs Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman stressed the need to focus on the Kingdom’s neediest citizens in the wake of the increasing cost of some basic needs.
He laid emphasis on the important roles of ministries and government agencies in monitoring international developments, the Saudi Press Agency reported.
It includes issues related to food supply chains, monitoring markets, product availability and price levels, and protecting and encouraging fair competition, as well as combating and preventing monopolistic practices that affect legitimate competition or the interest of the consumers.
During the meeting held in Jeddah, the council reviewed several economic and development issues. The ministries of commerce, environment, water and agriculture and economy and planning jointly gave a presentation on the price levels of different products in the Kingdom.
The Health Ministry also briefed the council on the developments related to the coronavirus disease. The ministry’s presentation included an update following the decision to lift the precautionary measures related to COVID-19 and updates on administering vaccines. The council was also briefed about this year’s Hajj preparations and the state of the epidemiological situation internationally.
The top body also followed up on the periodic presentation submitted by the Ministry of Economy and Planning containing the analysis of economic activities and the impact of the pandemic.
The council has taken the necessary recommendations on these issues, SPA said.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development recently predicted that Saudi Arabia is expected to enjoy lower levels of inflation at a time when the world’s economies are suffering from a spike in global food and commodity prices.
Saudi Arabia’s gross domestic product is expected to grow by more than double the rate of other G20 economies, the OECD said.
The Saudi economy will grow by 7.8 percent in 2022, while G20 economies are expected to grow by 2.9 percent, reported OECD in its economic outlook.
The OECD also revised up the Saudi gross domestic product growth in 2023 to 9.0 percent, tripling the G20 average growth, while the Kingdom’s inflation rate will remain below the G20 average of 6.3 percent.
Saudi Arabia, Argentina, and Turkey are among the few rare cases showing positive GDP growth since the Ukraine war started.
Saudi Arabia’s annual consumer inflation slowed to 2.2 percent in May, from 2.3 percent in April, according to the latest data released by the General Authority for Statistics.
The slowdown in headline inflation is driven mainly by the deceleration of growth in miscellaneous goods, transport as well as clothing and footwear prices, data compiled by Arab News revealed.
In May, the main components of the CPI inflation were food and beverages (+4.2 percent) and transport (+4 percent), according to GASTAT.
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Now Leasing Homes!
Modern Home Rentals in Antelope, CA
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Your single-family home at The Arbors is situated in a stunning gated community featuring 150 acres of beautifully manicured grounds to keep you smiling every day. Far from typical apartment living, our friendly community offers newly-renovated homes and provides a unique rental opportunity.
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From acres of lush, landscaped grounds to quiet cul-de-sacs + private pet park, the entire complex is geared for maximum resident comfort and made for friends and family.Learn More
Our prime location near Sacramento and Roseville provides easy access to shopping centers, excellent schools within walking distance, easy access to I-80 Freeway, 2-hours to Lake Tahoe, close to 2 golf courses, parks, trails and nature preserves.
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Standing at the Bella Vista Sakaigahama Resort Hotel in Onomichi, Hiroshima; is a majestic wedding chapel on a hill that enjoys a panoramic view of the Inland Sea of Japan. How could the act of marriage be encapsulated in space? Well, by entwining two spiral stairways and thus realizing a free-standing building of unprecedented composition.
By joining two spiral stairways so that one supports the other, NAP Architects produced a free-standing structure. Just as two lives go through twists and turns before uniting as one, the two spirals seamlessly connect at the 15.4 metre summit to form a single ribbon. At the core of their movement is a chapel where the people who have supported the bride and groom are waiting. The chapel aisle looks toward an existing symbolic tree; and the altar stands before the tree where 80 seats are positioned for views to the ocean through the trees.
Wedding chapels, as a building typology, have always followed a route configuration. The bride walks down the aisle with her father; and after the ceremony, the same aisle becomes a route of departure for the bride and groom. In the process of walking this path, every step awakens memories and emotions. What makes the Ribbon Chapel so special is that the wedding ceremony takes form as the bride and groom climb separate stairways to meet at the top; to ask for heaven’s permission to join as one and declare their marriage. The two, who have lived separate lives, then walk back down the stairway together.
In the traditional sense, a building is composed of distinct elements: roof, wall, and floor. Here, however, the entwining stairways perform the functions of roofs, eaves, walls, and floors to produce the building’s spaces. The stairways widen in breadth in response to location and function; such as at the summit where the couple meets; and sometimes in directions having fine views; or in places where the eaves must be deep to thermally shield the interior from the sun.
The simple building is composed only of paths, along which sceneries of ocean, mountains, sky, and distant islands successively appear and disappear. Although it is only a small building, the design team made attempts to accommodate the emotions of the bride and groom and the thoughts of the celebrants by extending the aisle to a total length of 160 metres and in so doing creating not just a building but rather a range of experiences.
Moving on to construction technology, the building’s exterior is finished in upright wood panels, painted white so as to deepen in beauty as time passes; and titanium zinc – an alloy resistant to damage from the sea breeze and pliable enough to be applied to curvature. Employing the zinc alloy on the coping, walls, ceiling, and window sashes enabled a simple design that was unified by a single aesthetic appeal.
Looking for more inspiring resort designs? Check out Stunning Underwater Hotel Room in Zanzibar.
Architects: NAP Architects
Location: Hiroshima, Japan
Structure Design: Ove Arup & Partners Ltd
Structural Contractor: S Structure
Area: 80 sqm
Status: Completed, 2013
Photographs: Koji Fujii / Nacasa & Partners Inc
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Our Case Results
A Long Track Record of Success
For 20 years, our Miami criminal defense attorney at Law Office of Armando J. Hernandez, P.A. has been fighting on behalf of clients throughout Florida. As a result, we have successfully helped countless individuals get the criminal charges they were facing dismissed or reduced. We can help you too. Whether you have been charged with a sex crime, violent crime, DUI, or anything else, we can handle it. To see how we assisted our past clients, feel free to browse through our case results here.
If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to us today at (305) 400-0074 or contact us online.
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Located 15 minutes away from Arras in the heart of the mining basin, the Louvre-Lens Museum has attracted over 3.5 million visitors since it opened in 2012. With its Galerie du Temps (Gallery of Time) and temporary exhibitions of international stature, this unique place is a journey through time and space.
The Galerie du Temps, brimming with masterpieces
To cover 4,000 years of human artistic endeavour, from the advent of writing through to the mid-nineteenth century: this is the challenge met by the Galerie du Temps, an emblematic part of the Louvre-Lens.
This vast open space, to which admission is free, contains some 200 masterpieces from the galleries of the Louvre in Paris: sculptures, mosaics, bas-reliefs, sarcophagi and innumerable paintings. Some priceless works, such as Liberty Leading the People (Delacroix) and Œdipus and the Sphinx (Ingres) have spent time here.
Conversely, the Galerie des Expositions Temporaires (temporary exhibitions gallery) (paying) has played host to internationally significant events – Rubens, The Etruscans, Love – while the Pavillon de Verre (Glass pavilion) serves as a cultural laboratory. At the Louvre-Lens, those with an interest in behind-the-scenes activities can even visit the reserves and take part in restoration workshops.
An architecture of transparency
Clean lines, incredible volumes that bathe the interior with light and finally five large blocks, 360 metres long, which blend into the landscape. The Louvre-Lens is characterised by its modern and simply-styled architecture. Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, the two architects of the Japanese architectural firm Sanaa, were awarded the Équerre d’Argent architecture award in 2013 in recognition of their work on the atmosphere, reflections and perfect handling of light at the French museum.
The Louvre-Lens Park
A visit to the Louvre-Lens starts with the park. The landscape architect Catherine Mosbach has created landscaped islets for visitors: here, a recreational meadow, there, the inner circle, a little further on, the pioneer wood. In addition to the 6,000 trees and 26,000 shrubs planted, also to be admired are the long lake, Tenir by Françoise Pétrovicth, the first contemporary art sculpture to be installed in the park, and those small copses offering an unusual tableau with the Bollaert-Delelis stadium in the background.
The louvre-Lens in practice
- Louvre-Lens Museum, 99, rue Paul Bert – 62 300 Lens.
- Tel: +33 (0)3 21 18 62 62 – www.louvrelens.fr
- Open daily (except Tuesdays), 10.00am to 6.00pm.
- Gallery of Time and Glass Pavilion: free and open admission.
- Temporary Exhibitions Gallery: €10/€5 (18-25s). Free admission for under-18s.
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The history of dolls is as old as the history of mankind. This is proven by excavations from all eras.
The glazed porcelain dolls you see in front of you date from between 1830 and 1890. They were called mannequins, Parisienne or tea dolls and were used exclusively as fashion dolls for adults. The doll manufacturers always tried to dress them according to the latest trends. Twice a year, France, America and England produced their own collections for each country according to the latest fashion magazines. You could see everything that belonged to the wardrobe; from shirts to evening dresses, over jewellery to hats. Fashion dolls existed already much earlier. In 1391 the French king was charged 459 francs for fashion dolls wardrobe by Robert de Varennes, who was the court embroiderer of Charles VI.
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CON-TEMPORARY Art Observatorium and Jizaino present a further group exhibition to never quench but project indefinitely into the future the message of the shaman-artist who inspired many generations and promoted the environmentalist awareness in our society, in particular during his intense relation with the Italian cultural scene. This show wants to keep the debate running on the truest and deepest feeling of love for the nature that pushed him, through artworks by contemporary artists who confront with his way to express and make art, his activities, his personality or even his figure. We Are Joseph Beuys 6 - 26 April 2022 CON-TEMPORARY Art Observatorium Corso Buenos Aires 42 11 Lavagna, Italy Open all days 10 am - 6 pm booking on www.ctao.eu Free entrance http://ctao.eu/
This is an opportunity to exhibit your work for one month at ViewPoint Gallery, a dynamic photography gallery located in historic Bedford, Nova Scotia, close to downtown Halifax. ViewPoint is dedicated solely to photography and is the only co-operative photography gallery in Eastern Canada. Please go to: https://www.viewpointgallery.ca/vipc-submission-guidelines for details.
https://arcgallery.wufoo.com/forms/body-politics/ Beginning with the policing of women’s bodies, and expanding to examine all forms of body policing and discrimination. ARC will host a juried exhibition in January 2022 to address these themes. Body politics shape the socio-political climate and affect basic human rights. From the #metoo movement and rape culture, to domestic violence, to gender politics, and right down to the politics of hair in the classroom and workplace, we want to hear from you with work that addresses ideas around bodily autonomy. Juror: Ginny Sykes
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Anyone who ever tried to use a 7-segment display knows that a) you need a lot of pins and b) if you want to use shift registers there is a lot of wiring to do. The AK-Mr.Wood-L tries to workaround those problems by integrating a 7-segment display and a shift register on the same board.
The display can be easily managed by using only 3 pins (Data, Clock and Latch) and works well with SPI-like interfaces, with Arduino’s shiftOut() function or code ready to work with the most common 8-Bit Serial-In, Parallel-Out shift registers. Power supply can be from 3V to 5.5V.
The AK-Mr.Wood-L is static: this means once a number, character or string is shifted out, it stays visible. There is no need to continuously scan the shift register to keep the data visible.
The AK-Mr.Wood-L can be daisy-chained. Daisy-chain means that the several AK-Mr.Wood-L boards can be connected together to form a larger display. Every time a bit is shifted in the first board, one bit shifts out to the next board. When Clock, Latch and OE signals are asserted, they are on all the chained boards.
For this purpose the AK-Mr.Wood-L features special pads on the back of the board that can be used to easily chain another board, by soldering the pads. These pads carry all the signals from one board to another, including power supply and GND. These signals are also available on the board’s pins, so the boards can also be daisy-chained by using those.
In order to keep a good signal quality when daisy-chaining the boards, we included buffers for the signal that are shared among multiple boards (Latch, Clock, OE). The signals have a direction, and it’s from left to right (the bits are shifted in from the first board on the left, and travel to the right).
The AK-Mr.Wood-L features a high-quality 7-segment display and a SN74LV595A shift register from Texas Instruments. All mounted in a small four layers PCB. The board comes with two mounting holes and 0.1″ (2.54mm) spaced pins.
We have 2 available display colors: red and green.
We have prepared an Arduino library ready to be used with the AK-Mr.Wood-L board. This library includes functions to display strings and numbers in an easy way, using standard Arduino functions. You can find the library in the links here below. A library usage guide can be found here.
Wondering why we called it Mr.Wood? In honor to F W Wood, inventor of the seven (eight really) segment display.
- 3.3V to 5V power supply.
- Integrated shift register.
- High quality 7-segment display.
- Ease of use with a minimum of 3 pins.
- Easy daisy-chaining.
- 2 Mounting holes.
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Psoriatic Arthritis and Sleep
Is your PsA causing you sleepless nights? Here's why and how to get the rest you need.
By Kenna Simmons
People with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) are more likely to have trouble sleeping. The authors of a study published in the International Journal of Dermatology in 2016 found obstructive sleep apnea was so common in people with psoriasis that they suggested patients should be screened for it.
If you’re having trouble sleeping, you already know about the fatigue it causes. You may be feeling effects like trouble concentrating, remembering things or mood changes. Poor sleep increases the risk of weight gain and obesity, which puts extra stress on your joints. As if that weren’t enough, disrupted sleep can worsen joint pain, and some experts think it may increase inflammation, too.
Recognizing the issues that are affecting your sleep can help you find relief.
Symptom Control is Critical
Painful joints or itchy skin may make it hard to fall asleep or stay that way. “Chronic pain is associated with disruptive and un-refreshing sleep,” says John Davis III, MD, rheumatologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. To stop the vicious cycle of pain interrupting sleep — which leads to more pain — act quickly. If you’re having trouble sleeping or experiencing a flare, talk to your rheumatologist and dermatologist. Adjusting your medications and making lifestyle changes may help to relieve symptoms.
You can take action on your own to improve your sleep habits, too. “Unfortunately, we live in a society where we’re plugged in 24/7,” says Camilo Ruiz, DO, medical director at Sleep and Internal Medicine Specialists in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. He talks with his patients about how much sleep they need — most adults need about seven or eight hours, with anything less than six possibly affecting your health. He also discusses their environment. Do they share the bed with kids or pets? Do they spend most of their day in artificial light?
“Light is an important timekeeper,” Dr. Ruiz says, with darkness helping signal to your body that it’s bedtime, and light signaling that it’s time to wake up. That’s one reason you should put your phone or tablet away before going to bed, since the light from the screen can throw off your body’s clock. See Sleep Tips for Arthritis for more dos and don’ts.
Diagnosing and Treating Sleep Disorders
If your PsA symptoms are in check and you feel good about your sleep habits but are still struggling, it may be time to see a sleep specialist. Start by talking to your rheumatologist. Dr. Davis says he routinely screens his patients for sleep problems and makes referrals to sleep doctors. “It’s not uncommon to identify people [with sleep disorders] because we’re asking about sleep and hearing about daytime [sleepiness] or snoring from sleep partners,” he says. For mild symptoms, he will sometimes recommend an overnight oximetry test, which can be done at home. It involves wearing a device, usually a finger clip, to measure oxygen levels. It can help identify people who need more tests, like an overnight sleep study.
- Sleep apnea. This is a condition where someone briefly stops breathing involuntarily many times during the night because the airway closes. It’s diagnosed with an overnight sleep study usually done at a sleep lab. A technician attaches electrodes to your head and body that monitor everything from brain waves and rapid eye movements to oxygen levels and breathing.
Although you may think you won’t be able to sleep at the lab, most people sleep enough for the test to work. If you’re diagnosed with sleep apnea, your doctor may prescribe a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) device that provides air pressure to keep your airway open while you sleep. It can take time to get used to wearing a CPAP, and you may have to try different masks to find the right one. But the benefits are substantial. In addition to daytime fatigue, having untreated sleep apnea raises your risk for high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke. Losing extra weight and getting enough exercise also help treat sleep apnea.
- Restless legs syndrome. An uncomfortable sensation in the legs along with an irresistible urge to move them can cause poor sleep. It may show up in a sleep study, but there isn’t a test for it. Your doctor may ask about symptoms and check your iron levels, says Dr. Ruiz. “If the levels are low, we’ll prescribe a supplement,” he says. “There are also medications we can prescribe to treat this condition.”
- Anxiety. For some people, trouble sleeping turns into its own habit — you start to worry about not getting enough rest, and the anxiety keeps you up. That’s why experts say you should get up if you can’t sleep, do something quiet for a bit (like read a book or listen to soft music — but no screen time) and then go back to bed when you feel sleepy. People who have anxiety about their sleeplessness can benefit from retraining their negative thoughts about sleep using cognitive behavioral therapy techniques. A sleep specialist can help.
- Medications for insomnia. There are medications that can help insomnia. Dr. Ruiz often starts with over-the-counter melatonin, a hormone that signals the body it’s time to go to bed soon. “If patients don’t improve, we can move on to [prescription medications],” he says. But they carry risks of dependency if used for more than a few weeks. “These are things we have to discuss, whether they feel comfortable taking these medications for a period of time,” he says.
The healthiest solution is to find the reason for your sleepless nights and fix the problems that are keeping you up.
National Sleep Foundation. 2015 Sleep in America™ Poll Finds Pain a Significant Challenge When It Comes to Americans’ Sleep. https://www.sleepfoundation.org/media-center/press-release/2015-sleep-america-poll/page/0/1
National Sleep Foundation. How Lack of Sleep Impacts Cognitive Performance and Focus. https://www.sleepfoundation.org/how-sleep-works/how-lack-sleep-impacts-cognitive-performance-and-focus
National Sleep Foundation. Insomnia. https://www.sleepfoundation.org/insomnia/content/treatment
NINDS. Restless Legs Syndrome Fact Sheet. https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/Patient-Caregiver-Education/Fact-Sheets/Restless-Legs-Syndrome-Fact-Sheet#5
National Sleep Foundation. The Complex Relationship Between Sleep, Depression & Anxiety. https://www.sleepfoundation.org/excessivesleepiness/content/the-complex-relationship-between-sleep-depression-anxiety
Shalom G, et al. Psoriasis and obstructive sleep apnea. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27420909
Sleep.org. What Happens During a Sleep Study. https://www.sleep.org/articles/what-happens-during-sleep-study/
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Where and How to File the Petition
Knowing where and when to file a visa petition is critical. Choose the wrong processing center, and precious time will be lost. Wait too long to begin the process, and the foreign guest artist will miss a key performance date. Read on for all of the information needed for submitting a petition to the right place, at the right time, using the right petition method.
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Dr. Iqbal is double board certified in Child & Adolescent and Adult Psychiatry and believes in the integrative and collaborative treatment approach towards patients, their family and other professionals involved. Dr. Iqbal specializes in treating ADHD, Mood Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Eating Disorders, Psychosis, PTSD and women’s mental health.
After deciding that she wanted the ability to treat a full range of ages, she completed specialized training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry through the fellowship program at the University of Maryland/Sheppard Pratt. During this fellowship, Dr. Iqbal served as the Chief Fellow for Sheppard Pratt health System. She was also the winner of the SAMHSA/AACAP award during her training and has special interest in systems of care approach and integrative medicine and treatment modules.
Dr. Iqbal continues to work as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at University of Maryland, Baltimore where she is responsible for supervising residents and fellows, Maryland medicaid medication authorizations as well as being the consultant psychiatrist for the Maryland School for the Deaf in Frederick Maryland.
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US business insurer FM Global plans to lift its allocation to Asia as it expands the non-US portion of its investment portfolio, a senior executive told AsianInvestor.
“We will [raise allocations] as there is a lot of potential across Asia,” Sanjay Chawla, CIO of FM Global, told AsianInvestor.
"While there are broadcasted geo-political risks in the region, we do believe that there are opportunities in Southeast Asian markets that can be approached cautiously.”
Chawla, who is based in the US, joined FM Global as CIO in March 2018 and is charged with overseeing the firm’s general account and pension assets.
FM Global is a leading US business insurer with a focus on property insurance, and has about $22.5 billion in invested assets at the end of December 2022, according to its 2022 annual report, released earlier this week.
The insurer has dedicated external strategies focused on Asian markets and countries.
Chawla noted that the insurer’s interest in Asia investments has grown in recent years.
“We have historically focused on developed markets with a concentration in the US, but in the last five years, we have evolved our allocation from 5% to 12-15% non-US,” said Chawla.
“This includes Asia, which we expect to be front and center of any global growth trend, as it emerges cyclically and/or structurally.”
Strategic asset allocations are made across five asset classes: equities, fixed income, alternatives, multi-assets, and cash and cash equivalents.
The equities allocation includes U.S. and international equities, while fixed income allocation includes long duration and opportunistic strategies.
The alternatives asset allocation includes absolute return and private investments.
Chawla noted that markets outside the US have evolved since the time of the BRICS – a reference to the acronym grouping Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
“India and China are now at the forefront of the global economy, and India is stepping up following….. global disruptions,” he noted.
FM Global is not alone in that sentiment: other global pension funds and sovereign wealth funds have told AsianInvestor that India has become a favoured investment destination in recent months.
India’s population is also estimated to have surpassed that of mainland China, according to recent estimates, presenting the opportuntity for a demographic dividend - the ability, in theory, to improve economic growth potential as a result of a growing working population and per capita income.
Chawla said he saw several compelling and differentiated opportunities in Asia from a regional viewpoint.
“An important innovation-led ecosystem has emerged in Singapore and there is good momentum on innovation brewing in India,” he said.
“While India has its risks, and the Indian market has a tendency to become overly optimistic and get ahead of itself, we do believe that being diligent and selective will deliver outperformance in the long run.
"While the [Indian] currency has a natural depreciation embedded in its outlook, the track record is of very marginal, gradual local currency depreciation.”
Opportunities are also available in other high-growth emerging markets, such as Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines, he said.
He noted that Japan could also provide another positive surprise as global markets rebalance to find a new point of equilibrium.
“As much as we want to be optimistic about Latin America, we see a more vibrant opportunity set in Asia, given more stable local political conditions.”
The insurer emphasised it remains selective about the opportunities in the region, and does not want to paint Asia and emerging markets with the same brush.
Overall, the the long-term opportunity is broader in emerging markets, given the valuations compared to developed markets, and FM Global will continue to look for additional opportunities, Chawla said.
BRACED FOR VOLATILITY
Overall, 2023 is set up for persistent market volatility, according to FM Global.
“Interest rates have gone up and are potentially nearing their peak levels, while rates are expected to stay higher for longer, making fixed income a more attractive investment opportunity this year.
With risk-free assets earning about 5% as a baseline, investors are likely to demand higher returns from risk assets such as equities.
Typically the 3-month treasury bill is considered as a risk-free asset in the US -- the instrument is currently trading around 4.95% to 5%.
Equities now have a higher bar to clear, with a required return of about 5%, as the US risk-free rate plus an acceptable risk premium, said Chawla.
Last year, there were significant market disruptions from the start of the year, and with high valuations and rising interest rates, there were limited options from an investability standpoint, he said.
“This year, the investment opportunity set has reset, providing a broader range of return generating investment options.
"There is a risk to markets with persistently higher inflation, but my sense is that given the drawdowns observed in various traditional asset classes last year, these investments will perform better in 2023, as will liquid alternatives, which were valuable diversifying strategies last year as well.”
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How To: Give A Great Massage
Essential Knowledge: How To Give A Great Massage
Page 1 of 2This isn't going to be a Playboy instructional video on how to handle women too beautiful to exist in real life and how to make them respond in ways no one has ever heard of. The idea here is to turn you into a massage master Jedi, a relaxation guru if you will.
That's really what a good rubdown is — a way to relieve stress and channel positive energy through to the other person. Not only is it one of the best ways to signal to your partner that you're ready to move to the next level physically, but it's also a fantastic way to let her know how much you care.
You're probably familiar with specific types of massages. Shiatsu is an Eastern art that combines acupuncture with acupressure to allow the regulation of the energy flow. Rolfing is another medically oriented technique aimed at the straightening of the body, strongly resembling chiropractic.
The best known, however, is the Swedish massage, which is pretty much what will be covered here. It's a full body massage with relaxation as its goal. Other styles such as sports massage, reflexology, myotherapy, and myofascial release are also of a therapeutic nature.
Before you get started with a massageThe environment in which you intend to proceed should be carefully mulled over. It should be relaxing in most fundamental way. There shouldn't be any children or pets around to interrupt. The room must be at a comfortable temperature and your woman shouldn't be subjected to any drafts. Take the time to dim the lights and make sure the drapes are pulled shut so that there are no distractions. It's not enough just to light a scented candle; make sure your environment is clean and uncluttered.
Plan on summoning the music connoisseur within you and make a playlist of relaxing music. For relaxation's sake, we prefer instrumental compositions. The mellow jazz of Dave Brubeck or Stan Getz are worth trying.
Your woman should be comfortable with you; if she doesn't feel completely at ease, then she won't be able to fully let go. She should entirely disrobe once you assure her that her more intimate parts will be covered. It is possible to work around bra straps and panty lines but it should be avoided if possible.
Come to the massage equippedShe should lie down on a hard surface so that all her muscles are adequately supported: a firm mattress or a futon are ideal. Also, allow enough space for you to be able to circulate around her and work contentedly.
Have towels on hand. Not only will you need some to cover her where the sun isn't supposed to shine, but it is also important to cover the areas that you have already massaged so that the body heat you will have generated won't escape and leave her chilly. A folded towel or a small pillow should be provided for her head.
Read on for more on how to give an amazing massage...
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Medications prescribed by Aspire Weight Loss Solutions
Phentermine works by activating the sympathetic nervous system to increase metabolism and suppress appetite. These two mechanisms work together to both increase total daily energy expenditure and decrease food cravings.
Topiramate alters a variety of GABA and Glutamate channels in the brain to suppress cravings and appetite.
Bupropion works by inhibiting neurotransmitter reuptake of norepinephrine and dopamine. By holding higher concentrations of these in the brain, neurons increase signaling and alter hunger and mood.
Naltrexone is a mu-receptor antagonist (blocker). This inhibits the effects on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis from this receptor, and thus suppresses appetite and cravings.
Orlistat works directly as a lipase inhibitor. By blocking the breakdown of fats in the intestines, fats cannot be absorbed and are excreted in stool.
Semaglutide to increase insulin levels by activating cells in the pancreas. It also triggers hormone release to delay the emptying of the stomach, sometimes causing nausea
Liraglutide works to increase insulin levels by activating cells in the pancreas. It also triggers hormone release to delay the emptying of the stomach, sometimes causing nausea.
Tizrepatide receptors work to decrease the rate your stomach empties– keeping you full for longer! They also work to decrease your appetite and cravings.
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In the world of skincare, having youthful and glowing skin is an essential aspect of grooming. The skin is the largest organ of the human body, and as we age, our body's natural collagen production begins to slow down. Fine lines, wrinkles, and sagging skin are the visible signs of aging that show up on the skin. Collagen is the key to youthful and glowing skin. The good news is that there is a natural, plant-based ingredient that can give your skin the collagen boost it needs - Bakuchiol.
Collagen and its importance for youthful skin
Collagen is a protein that is naturally present in our skin, bones, and muscles. It is responsible for maintaining skin elasticity and firmness. As we age, our body's natural collagen production decreases, and the skin becomes thinner and more fragile. This decrease in collagen production leads to fine lines, wrinkles, and sagging skin.
The importance of collagen for youthful skin cannot be overemphasized. Collagen not only helps to maintain skin elasticity and firmness, but it also helps to keep the skin hydrated, plump, and supple. The skin's ability to retain moisture decreases with age, which is why it's essential to keep the skin hydrated by using products that promote collagen production.
Bakuchiol is a natural ingredient that has been found to be effective in boosting collagen production. This plant-based ingredient is derived from the seeds of the babchi plant and has been used in traditional medicine for centuries. Bakuchiol is a game-changer in the world of skincare as it provides a natural alternative to harsh chemicals that can do more harm than good in the long run.
How Bakuchiol boosts collagen production
Bakuchiol is a powerful antioxidant that helps to stimulate collagen production in the skin. It works by activating the genes responsible for collagen production, which in turn leads to smoother and more youthful-looking skin. Unlike retinol, which can cause skin irritation and sensitivity, Bakuchiol is gentle and safe for even the most sensitive skin types.
Research studies have shown that Bakuchiol is just as effective as retinol in reducing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. A study published in the British Journal of Dermatology found that Bakuchiol significantly improved fine lines, pigmentation, and skin firmness after 12 weeks of use.
How to incorporate Bakuchiol into your skincare routine
If you're looking to incorporate Bakuchiol into your skincare routine, there are several ways to do so. You can find Bakuchiol in serums, moisturizers, and facial oils. When using Bakuchiol, it's important to start slowly and build up to daily use to avoid any potential skin irritation. It's also essential to use sunscreen daily as Bakuchiol can increase sun sensitivity.
To get the most out of Bakuchiol, it's recommended to use it in conjunction with other natural ingredients that boost collagen production. Vitamin C, hyaluronic acid, and peptides are all natural ingredients that work synergistically with Bakuchiol to give your skin the collagen boost it needs.
Tips for maximizing the benefits of Bakuchiol
To maximize the benefits of Bakuchiol, it's important to use it correctly. Here are some tips to help you get the most out of Bakuchiol:
- Start slowly: Begin by using Bakuchiol once or twice a week and gradually increase to daily use.
- Use sunscreen: Bakuchiol can increase sun sensitivity, so it's important to use sunscreen daily.
- Use with other natural ingredients: Bakuchiol works synergistically with other natural ingredients that boost collagen production, so it's recommended to use it in conjunction with other skincare products that contain vitamin C, hyaluronic acid, and peptides.
- Be patient: It takes time for Bakuchiol to show results, so be patient and consistent with your skincare routine.
Other natural ingredients that can boost collagen production
There are several other natural ingredients that can boost collagen production and improve the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. Vitamin C is a potent antioxidant that helps to brighten the skin and boost collagen production. Hyaluronic acid is a humectant that helps to keep the skin hydrated and plump. Peptides are short chains of amino acids that help to stimulate collagen production.
Common myths about skincare and collagen production
There are several common myths about skincare and collagen production. One of the most common myths is that collagen supplements can improve the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. While collagen supplements can improve overall skin health, they are not effective in boosting collagen production in the skin.
Another common myth is that expensive skincare products are more effective than affordable ones. While some expensive skincare products may contain high-quality ingredients, price does not always equate to effectiveness. It's essential to read ingredient labels and choose products that contain natural ingredients that have been scientifically proven to boost collagen production.
Conclusion and final thoughts
Bakuchiol is a game-changer in the world of skincare. This natural, plant-based ingredient is gentle and safe for even the most sensitive skin types, and it's been scientifically proven to boost collagen production and improve the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. By incorporating Bakuchiol into your skincare routine and using it in conjunction with other natural ingredients that boost collagen production, you can achieve smoother, healthier-looking skin that glows with youthfulness.
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Have you ever wished for a skincare ingredient that can nourish and hydrate your skin? Then you need to start using squalene! Squalene provides many amazing benefits to the skin, including deep hydration, protection from environmental damage, and overall skin health. It works by locking in moisture and shielding the skin from environmental factors like UV rays, pollutants, and harsh weather conditions. It can also help reduce the appearance of wrinkles and fine lines, while giving skin a more youthful, glowing complexion. Plus, it’s an excellent choice for those who suffer from acne, eczema, or psoriasis, as it can help reduce inflammation and irritation. So, if you’re looking for an all-natural way to moisturize and nourish your skin, then try adding squalene to your skincare routine today!
Benefits of Squalene
Squalene is an amazing skincare ingredient that offers many benefits to the skin. Here are a few of them:
- Deep Hydration - Squalene is an excellent humectant that can draw and retain water from the environment and lock it into the skin. Using a moisturizer with squalene can help provide hydration and nourishment to skin that is lacking in both.
- Protection From Environmental Damage - Squalene is an excellent antioxidant that can shield the skin from oxidative damage caused by UV rays, pollution, and other harmful environmental factors. It can also help prevent the formation of wrinkles and other signs of aging.
- Overall Skin Health - Squalene is very effective at preventing and treating certain skin conditions, like acne, psoriasis, and eczema. It can also help reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.
How to Use Squalene
Squalene is an incredibly useful and effective skincare ingredient. It can be used in many different ways and is suitable for all skin types, even the most sensitive. Here are a few ways that you can add squalene to your skincare routine:
- Moisturizer - This is the most common way to use squalene. Simply choose a moisturizer that contains squalene as an active ingredient. You can also add a few drops of squalene to your favourite moisturizer to make it more hydrating and nourishing.
- Cream - If you have dry or sensitive skin, then a cream would be an excellent choice. You can use it on its own or as a base for a more hydrating moisturizer.
- Serum - Squalene works best when it’s applied topically, but it can also be used as an ingredient in skincare serums. If you want to add squalene to your skincare routine but don’t know how, a serum is a great place to start.
How Squalene Helps with Acne, Eczema, and Psoriasis
Squalene is an excellent moisturizer, but it’s also an effective anti-inflammatory agent, making it an excellent choice for those who suffer from acne, eczema, or psoriasis. Squalene can be applied topically or ingested orally, so it can be used in two ways to help reduce the symptoms of these skin conditions:
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Things To Do In Galveston
It’s surprising that there are so many things to do in Galveston. And no trip to Galveston Island is complete without visiting the Historic Downtown, Strand & Seaport areas. Our team has put together the ultimate guide to experiencing Galveston for you. Take a look, you just might find your next adventure! Make sure you get the most out of your stay and experience all that Galveston has to offer!
Things to Do – Historical Areas
Once known as the “Wall Street of the Southwest”, Galveston’s famed avenue, The Strand, anchors the historic downtown. Recognized as a National Historic Landmark for its outstanding collection of 19th century architecture.
After the Hurricane of 1900 the area became a warehouse district. And it wasn’t until the 1960’s that the area was revived and restored, eventually being added to the ‘List of America’s Most Endangered Places’ in 2009.
Today The Strand is the heart of a vibrant downtown and waterfront. Offering shopping, dining, museums, entertainment, accommodations and nightlife.
A popular Galveston destination stop for visitors and locals alike – abuzz with art, culture, unique shops, chic eateries with outdoor seating, and true Galveston hospitality. The District boasts Sixty-Eight 2019 Best of Galveston awards, and is one of only 24 districts designated by the State of Texas as a Cultural Arts and Entertainment District.
You’ll be transported back in time, as you stroll through the historic Victorian architecture. Its artsy atmosphere has made this area a fresh hangout for locals and the center of the island’s most popular cultural events.
Things to Do – Galveston Adventure Parks
Cool off and BLAST OFF this summer at our water park near Houston, Texas. Even if you prefer rivers, wave pools, and lounging in the sun. There is something for everyone at this unique Texas attraction.
Things to Do – Moody Gardens Pyramids
Things to Do – Galveston Beaches
Located directly across Seawall Blvd. - only a few minutes walk time between you and the ocean!! Known for its cleanliness and freshly blown in sand! Find seashells scattered across the wide spread beach, rent beach chairs and umbrellas (seasonally) for ultimate relaxation and rest assured knowing that there's a lifeguard on duty!
Named one of the “10 Best Beaches for Families” by Family Vacation Critic in 2013. Offering plenty of amenities for a day at the beach as well as on duty lifeguards. The park is home to a pavilion, concessions, restrooms, showers, chair and umbrella rentals, beach volleyball courts, children's playground and more. Admission fees may exist.
Things to Do in Galveston – Adventures
K6 Island Sports is your fun in the sun headquarters. Providing you all of your outdoor adventure needs! Golf Carts, Kayaks, Bicycles, Fishing, Surf Boards and more! FREE DELIVERY!
Things to Do – Galveston Tours & Museums
Restored to its turn of the century splendor, this 28,000 square-foot, four-story Galveston historic home was completed in 1895. Featured on the Travel Channel's 'Most Famous in Texas'. Option of self-guided audio or guided tour options.
Due to prosperity enjoyed by Galveston in the late 1800's there are a number of meticulously restored mansions throughout the town, many of which can be toured...and a few may surprise you with stories of being haunted.
Hurricane Ike damaged and uprooted many trees. Years later, sculptures have replaced the majestic oaks. Local artists have carved amazing art pieces out of what once was towering oak trees.
During the mid 19th century, Galveston, though not a large city by world standards, emerged as an international city with immigration and trade from around the U.S. and around the world. The island has sometimes been called the “Ellis Island of the West”
During the 1920s and 1930s, the city re-emerged as a major tourist destination. But soon fell on though times as it was overshadowed by the nearby growing city of Houston. After a long stagnant period during the 40s and 50s, in 1957, the Galveston Historical Foundation began its efforts to preserve historic buildings. The community rose together and with restoration efforts financed by motivated investors within the community, the city once again evolved and gradually created the Strand Historic District, And a new, family-oriented tourism emerged in the city over many years.
Before you looking at all there is to do in Galveston, learn about how it came to be. At the end of the 19th century, the city of Galveston was a booming metropolis with a population of 37,000. During this golden era of Galveston’s history, the city was home to a number of historical Texas events. Including the state’s first:
- post office (1836)
- naval base (1836)
- insurance company (1854)
- gas lights (1856)
- Roman Catholic hospital (1866)
- Jewish Reform Congregation (1868)
- electric lights (1883)
- medical college (1891)
- opera house (1870)
- orphanage (1876)
- telephone (1878)
- school for nurses (1890).
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ACF50 Anti-Corrosion Formula Spray
Rust and corrosion can wreak havoc on your grill due to exposure to outdoor elements like water. To keep your grill in top shape, consider using ACF-50, a powerful corrosion protector trusted by the aerospace industry to safeguard aircraft and electronics. Here's why it's a great choice:
- Ultimate Corrosion Protection: ACF-50 creates a shield that repels moisture, preventing rust and corrosion from developing.
- Long-Lasting Defense: A single application of ACF-50 can protect your grill for months, even in harsh conditions.
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How to Use:
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- Apply ACF-50: Shake the ACF-50 can well and spray it evenly over the grill's surface.
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"The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people." - John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
These are the Atlantica Party's guiding principles:
- All individuals have the same inherent rights.
- Our current political system produces poor decisions and needs reform.
- We need more citizen involvement.
- Nova Scotia can be a wealthy "have province" using the free market.
1. The Atlantica Party believes the free market can expand our economy, which will expand tax revenues allowing the government to enhance services and/or lower taxes. To accomplish this, we need to unleash our entrepreneurs:
- Reduce or eliminate business taxes. Put money back into the pockets of the people who create opportunity and wealth. This will also encourage business to move here.
- Reintroduce the Balanced Budget Act to ensure we live within our means and do not borrow on our children's future.
- Engage in a ten-year debt elimination plan to eliminate our sizable annual interest expense, which reduces spending on government services such as health care.
- Privatize the cannabis and alcohol business. Let the free market provide better pricing, better supply, and opportunities for local businesses.
- Encourage regional private venture capital and start-up support for entrepreneurs.
- Limit government spending growth to the rate of population growth.
- Investigate a flat tax for Nova Scotia. This will make paying taxes simple, close loopholes for the wealthy, and ensure taxation is fair. It also makes raising taxes a very obvious undertaking.
- NOTE: AP has presented balanced budgets that accomplish all these things. These changes are very doable!
2. The Atlantica Party supports open debate on the use of our natural resources, including fossil fuels:
- Implement the most efficient and environmentally responsible practices possible. Nova Scotia is fortunate to have many resources available for our prudent use; they can significantly improve our economy and improve the quality of life for every Nova Scotian. Let the people decide after a public debate.
3. Government should work for you. We need:
- A free Legislature with a full separation of powers to oversee all government actions. Currently, the government manipulates the Legislature to get what it wants. Only an independent Legislature can halt bad policies by voting them down and encourage good polices.
- An end to coercive secret voting, all votes must be free votes in the Legislature reported in real-time. Right now, you have no voting record for your MLA. How are they voting?
- A reformed electoral system to encourage citizens to vote and to serve as MLAs. Voter participation has been dropping for years.
- Constituents empowered to trigger a by-election (without the Premier's permission) if they become dissatisfied with an MLA's actions. This will ensure the MLA is not just a creature of the party and can safely ignore the people's views.
- The ability for Nova Scotians to organize binding referenda on topics of interest to them such as daylight savings time or clearcutting without political interference.
- A written Constitution that states clearly "who can do what". Think pro-rogation.
4. Money & MLAs
- End the taxpayer money-per-vote handout for political parties. Let the parties raise their funds from their supporters.
- Replace the current pension 22-to-1 (!) scheme with a 1-to-1 RRSP plan in which MLAs and taxpayers contribute. This is the same pension scheme most working Nova Scotians have.
- Ensure MLAs who have committed a felony crime while in office be stripped of their pension privileges. No brainer.
- Have an independent citizen panel review MLA salaries and tie increases to, say, inflation. Tie salary bonuses to reasonable economic indicators such as wealth creation per capita. (Currently, they decide their salaries and benefits!)
5. Forward Progress
- Make Nova Scotia a leader in fulfilling Access to Information requests.
- Encourage school choice.
The Atlantica Party is Nova Scotia's newest registered political party. The Atlantica Party is Nova Scotia's only political alternative committed to transforming Nova Scotia's democracy and making Nova Scotia a have province.
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Youngman 2 section alluminium ladder
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Youngman deluxe alluminium ladder suitable for cielings over 2800mm.
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Owning your own restaurant is an achievement in and of itself. I would aruge no one understands that accomplishment better than Amanda Hamer. Her rise to owning her own restaurant, Boukan EdibleBliss (with co-partner Amir) has been on her radar since her childhood. Formally joining the restaurant, Amanda brought her talents to The Danforth in this merge of Haitian-Caribbean food.
We caught up with this busy chef to see how things are cooking at her very own restaurant.
WELCOME TO THE DANFORTH, QUEEN
Amanda’s path to culinary entrepreneurship was something her mother, who’s now passed, was always encouraging. “I remember her telling me stories of me playing in the toilet bowl pretending I was making soup! I used to bang on pots and pans. She always knew I had a love for food. I would ask her questions her Guyanese recipes and why she did things a certain way, always learning,” shares Amanda.
That exhuberance and love for food, even at such a young age carried through to community camp in Regent Park. Making cakes and pies at camp led to high school classes, and eventually, George Brown College. After graduation, Amanda worked at a few restaurants in Toronto, but honed her skills for catering and grew her curiousity for quality foods while at Pusateri’s.
BOUKAN EDIBLEBLISS IS BORN
After working the line at DW Alexander, a now-shuttered bar at by St Lawrence Market, Amanda grew uninspired. “I could literally do the whole shift with my eyes closed,” said Amanda. Knowing it was time to call it quits was one thing, but what to do next was another.
With two children to care for, and the courage and determination to desire change, Amanda quit and started EdibleBliss11. The feedback was tremendous. Her catering business was making waves, with a feature on Breakfast Television and various media outlets, her future was looking secure.
That’s when Boukan came calling. The owner, Amir, knew of Amanda’s talents and was persistant in having her vision attached to his restaurant. Amanda had never cooked Haitian food before, but quickly grew confidence in the kitchen. Their blend of Caribbean-Haitian cuisine has been a hit with their repeat and new customers.
BRINGING THAT CARIBBEAN CULTURE TO HER CITY
Fans of EdibleBliss11 can take comfort in knowing many of their favourite dishes, including the famous Jamaican Rum Cake Cheesecake, which regularly sells out at Boukan EdibleBliss are on the menu still. Brunches prove popular, with live music adding a dynamic new energy to this stretch of The Danforth.
But Amanda is honest in how her commitment has changed her life.
“Right now, there’s no days off. I just take extra long showers, I meditate, I pray. I was dating, but that didn’t work out. Right now, I am just pretty much here all the time. That’s my life now.”Chef and Restaurant-Owner Amanda Hamer
Book ahead for party time, Boukan EdibleBliss offers buy-outs and offers reservations to all parties.
Interview may be edited for length/clarity.
All images by Libby Roach.
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The latest release of the Virtual Performance Solution software available from ESI Group is now available. The system empowers manufacturers to evaluate and optimize product performance across multiple domains, so they can develop higher performance products at lower cost and in less time.
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