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Casper Ruud Pays Tribute To 'Rare Talent' Alcaraz Following US Open Clash
The rapid rise of Carlos Alcaraz has been described as 'incredible' by Norway's Casper Ruud after he was denied his maiden Grand Slam title by the teenager at the US Open.
Ruud, who is four years older than the Spanish 19-year-old, was edged out in four sets at the New York major where he became the first male player from his country to reach the final. Despite battling on court for more than three hours, Ruud was unable to find a way to tame his rival who had played three consecutive five-set matches heading into their clash.
The triumph has elevated Alcaraz to the world No.1 position, making him the first teenager to do so in the history of the ATP rankings. He is also the youngest man to win a major title since his idol Rafael Nadal did so at the 2005 French Open.
"It's incredibly impressive what he has achieved already as a teenager. It's sometimes hard to believe he's only a teenager," Ruud said of the rising star. "He's more than four years younger than me. It's incredible. He's one of these few rare talents that comes up every now and then in sports. That's what it seems like. Let's see how his career develops, but it's going all in the right direction."
Starting the year outside the top 30, Alcaraz's rise to the top has seen him claim two ATP 500 titles and two Masters 1000 trophies prior to winning his biggest title in New York. On the European clay, he achieved the rare milestone of getting consecutive wins over Nadal and Novak Djokovic. Against top 10 opposition, he has a win-loss record of 9-4 this season.
"He has shown incredible fighting spirit and will to win. He was down a match point a couple of matches ago (at the US Open) and was able to turn around and end up winning the tournament," Ruud commented. "He's riding that wave. At the moment he's the best player in the world in my eyes. He deserves that spot. I'm happy that we played each other in the final and that we played for the title and the world No. 1 spot." He added.
So what is it that makes the youngster stand out in the men's game? Ruud points out that one special aspect of his game is his speed as he draws parallels between Alcaraz and two greats of the game.
"He's very fast. He's very quick. He's a great mover. He can get to balls that we've probably never seen before," he analyzed. "Rafa, when he was Carlos' age, he was also similar. He tracked down everything. Almost no one could hit a winner on him. Novak (Djokovic) is the same with his flexibility. He gets to certain shots that you think, How is that even possible? Carlos has sort of a mixture of both. He's fast and flexible. He can slide around. It's impressive."
Whilst currently in Alcaraz's shadow, Ruud has risen to a ranking high of No.2 in what is yet another milestone for Norwegian tennis. He has now reached the final of two out of the last three Grand Slam tournaments after also finishing runner-up at the French Open.
There is also a psychological boost from his run at the US Open on a surface which is not his favourite.
"I'm proud of the match and the two weeks. I gave it all. I left it all out on the court. Played some phenomenal tennis throughout the two weeks, probably my best tennis ever on this surface. So I'm very happy in the end," Ruud comm | eng | dc9ef5d7-909d-4dd2-b925-86849651a360 | https://www.ubitennis.net/2022/09/casper-ruud-pays-tribute-to-rare-talent-alcaraz-following-us-open-clash/ |
The Inside View of the Task Force Formed to Tackle Money Laundering and Financing Terrorism in Kenya
Following the announcement by Treasury Cabinet Secretary Njuguna Ndung'u, the Kenyan government has set up a task force aimed at combating money laundering, financing terrorism, and proliferation financing.
The formation of this task force comes at a time when financial crimes have become more complex and frequent.
The task force, comprising the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and 15 other agencies, will be headed by a Treasury representative and will monitor the financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction by wealthy individuals.
The team's responsibilities include monitoring the implementation of the National Strategy on the action plan against crimes, making appropriate policy recommendations, reviewing existing policies, strategies, and legislations, and providing appropriate recommendations to the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Economic Planning.
The Financial Reporting Centre (FRC) will run a secretariat to coordinate the task force's activities and liaise with other government agencies. The task force will also provide reports on the steps taken in its action plan.
This move is a positive step towards combating financial crimes and ensuring that Kenya's financial system is transparent and free from illicit activities.
The task force comprises various government agencies, including the Office of the Attorney-General, State Departments for Internal Security, Foreign Affairs, and Immigration, and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP). Additionally, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), Assets Recovery Agency (ARA), National Intelligence Service (NIS), Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA), Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), Insurance Regulatory Authority (IRA), National Counter Terrorism Centre, and Capital Markets Authority (CMA) are also included.
The task force's efforts are expected to go a long way in promoting transparency, integrity, and accountability in the financial sector, thereby enhancing the country's economic growth and development | eng | 6a69a7fb-d12d-4d1b-bd04-911d100796e8 | https://kazinikazi.co.ke/the-inside-view-of-the-task-force-formed-to-tackle-money-laundering-and-financing-terrorism-in-kenya/ |
What Are Sidechains? — Scaling Blockchain on the Side
Read on to learn what sidechains are, how they work, and which ecosystems are using them.
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In a previous article, we spoke in detail about blockchain's biggest challenge, scalability. This is often known as the cryptocurrencies world's 'holy grail' and one of the key elements holding it back from hitting the mainstream and competing directly with payment systems like Visa and Paypal. In this piece, we'll delve deeper into another promising solution to the issue, which are sidechains. Read on to learn what sidechains are, how they work, and which ecosystems are using them.
What is a Sidechain?
A Sidechain is a discrete blockchain linked to the main blockchain
A Sidechain is a discrete blockchain linked to the main blockchain (mainchain) using a 2-way peg. Sidechain enables token or digital assets to be transferred between mainchain and sidechain at a predetermined rate. Sidechain was invented by Dr Adam Back published in his paper 'Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains.'
Sidechains need to interact with the mainchain and require tokens to be locked on the mainchain. A sidechain can be public or private. Each sidechain is an independent blockchain network with its own token, protocol, consensus and security. There can be multiple sidechains connected to the mainchain depending upon the design of the blockchain. Inter-sidechain communication is also possible using the mainnet as a relay network.
Sidechains can be used to run blockchain applications (decentralised apps or dapps) and take a load off the mainchain. This way, blockchain can be scaled by adding sidechains. Sidechains can also be coupled with other scaling solutions.
A typical sidechain implementation creates a transaction on the first blockchain (the mainchain) by locking the assets, then creating a transaction on the second blockchain (the sidechain) and providing cryptographic proofs to the transaction that the assets were locked correctly on the first blockchain.
Although sidechains look to be a promising solution, there's no such thing as a free lunch. Sidechains required a lot of effort and investment for the initial set-up. They also add complexity to the blockchain design. Since sidechains are independent blockchains, they can be compromised if network power distribution is inappropriate, needing a cautious design. If a sidechain is compromised, it won't affect the mainchain, so they can be used to experiment with new protocols and improvements to the mainchain.
Unlike sharding, sidechains do not require tight coupling. Except for the initial set-up cost, sidechains generally perform better over payment channels. Unlike payment channels, transactions are not private on sidechains. Also, users are not required to be present online to execute the transaction as in payment channels. The payment channel requires an extra cost to add or remove a participant, which is unnecessary for sidechains.
Examples of Sidechain Protocols
How it Works in Detail: the Plasma Sidechain
Plasma is a layer two scalability solution for the Ethereum blockchain. It's a framework for creating a sidechain (also known as child chains or plasma chains) that interacts with the Ethereum blockchain. Sidechains are independent blockchain and can also create another sidechain. The plasma architecture can be seen as a hierarchical tree of sidechains. Since each side chain operates independently and runs parallel to mainchain and other sidechains, the speed and efficiency are optimised. In addition, each sidechain can be used to process unique applications in the same secure ecosystem. Plasma uses proof-of-stake as a consensus mechanism instead of proof-of-work to provide faster transaction execution.
A smart contract is created and deployed on the mainchain (parent blockchain) at the time of sidechain creation. This smart contract contains rules, token exchange rate and state hashes of the sidechain. A sidechain periodically submits state information to the parent blockchain. Block commitments flow down, and exits can be submitted to any parent chain, ultimately being committed to the root blockchain. The lighting network can be implemented on the top of the plasma layer (i.e. sidechains) to facilitate instant transactions.
If you want to learn more about what else helps speed up and scale blockchain, also give our article on the different types of consensus a read.
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Which Figures Have Rotation Symmetry Select Each Correct Answer
Which Figures Have Rotation Symmetry Select Each Correct Answer. Describe the symmetries of each figure by finding the axes of reflection and the angles of rotation (a) how many reflection symmetries does figure (a) have? The figure has 6 lines of symmetry.
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The figure has 6 lines of symmetry. Which figures have rotation symmetry?
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This type of symmetry implies that when a figure is rotated it matches its original shape. The figure has rotational symmetry, and the angle of rotation is 60°.
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This type of symmetry implies that when a figure is rotated it matches its original shape. Give the order the rotational symmetry for each figure. | eng | b2f836e7-80a2-472d-a331-5b2373b10140 | https://ero-blog.com/2156/which-figures-have-rotation-symmetry-select-each-correct-answer.html |
D214 Stories
Mom was a music education professor; Dad was a music teacher and band director. Dad's idea of fun during family road trips was to quiz their three young sons on the differences between Mozart and Beethoven. So, yes, maybe it was written in the stars - or somewhere between the key and time signatures - that Elliott and Spencer Hile would pursue careers in music.
For reasons that no longer matter so much, Alex Mendoza dropped out of high school. "But I knew I couldn't be fooling around. I knew I needed my high school diploma to get a better job," he said. He went to his counselor at Elk Grove High School, who suggested earning his GED through a District 214 Community Education program.
Vasyl Mattichuk wanted to become a U.S. citizen. After several years, he said, "I had been working here, living here and wanted to be a part of this country. I wanted to help this country, I wanted to vote, and travel with an American passport." He read about District 214 Community Education's U.S. citizenship preparation classes in the newspaper, and signed up for classes in 2021.
"Tee Up for 214" takes on a new twist. This year's District 214 Education Foundation fundraiser will be held at Topgolf in Schaumburg. Proceeds are used to provide opportunities for students' future success.
Wheeling High School is hosting the 55th Annual Chicagoland Marching Band Festival on Saturday, September 16, 2023. It is the longest consecutive running marching band festival in northeastern Illinois.
On August 17, the team of world religions teachers from District 214, led by Prospect High School's John Camardella, made a presentation to the Parliament of the World's Religions 2023 convocation in downtown Chicago. The presentation was titled: "A U.S. Public School District Fully Committed to Religious Literacy? Yes!" | eng | d3443273-e62e-4ad8-ab35-21e2c9bc6448 | https://www.d214.org/Domain/9 |
Midlife is a State of Mind
July 20, 2023July 20, 2023
Midlife is a state of mind. It's not a specific time. It's a time of transition. Years ago, when we didn't live as long, people defined midlife as an age, like around 40. That was if you were lucky to live to 80. The "crisis" of midlife crisis was caused by becoming acutely aware of your own mortality. Maybe your parents were getting older or passing on or maybe it was the relatives like the "great" aunties, etc. I remember as a younger person thinking of those people (who were close to my age now) as the"old people" in the family. I am that age now and I do not see myself as an old person!
What is Midlife?
What I have been thinking about a lot is the term midlife. For me, "midlife" refers to a time of life when one is in transition. It's not about age but about what's happening in a person's life. For example, a parent experiencing their children going off to college could be viewed as a midlife experience. I get why it's referred to as "empty nest" but most people I know, even the ones who don't have a job where they get paid or a business don't consider their lives empty in any way imaginable.
Midlife in Your Work Life
Another example of midlife could be a time in your life when you are changing careers, or perhaps, taking the leap from job to entrepreneur. There are lots of feelings, emotions and changes to deal with and it can be a very exciting time!!
Then there is the midlife transition when you realize you want to keep working but your stamina and mental bandwidth seem to be slowing down. It's like you want to keep going but you brain and body say no!
Midlife in Your Relationships
Midlife in your relationships can appear in many different forms.
One form of midlife in a relationship is when you realize you want something different in the relationship you are in with your spouse or life partner. This offers you a great opportunity to explore and see if you will grow closer together or if you will grow apart.
Another type of midlife in a relationship can occur with the death of a spouse or life partner. You get to choose how you will move through this time. Are you going to stay in the same place with it for the rest of your life (which many people do) or are you going to allow these huge "midlife" changes.
Throughout our lives we have so many opportunities to ask ourselves, who am I now? At each step of the way we are all of who we were, all of who we became up to that point in time and all possibility into the future. When you look at midlife in that way, it can be a very exciting adventure! | eng | d8a84cc9-d758-4673-94f4-46caab950ecd | https://wholeheartpath.com/2023/07/midlife-is-a-state-of-mind/ |
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Overview
Congressional Documents are frequently used to compile legislative histories. These materials may help interpret the intent behind a law or better understand the language of an act or statute. They can also answer questions related to committees and members involved, changes in language, and votes.
Congressional documents include Bills, Committee Prints, Congressional Debates, Hearings, House and Senate Documents, and House and Senate Reports. | eng | aa8a9284-fe48-423e-a551-bfccfd17629b | https://guides.jenkinslaw.org/congressional-documents |
The same engineering works last Sunday when I went to Worthing for a Middlesex County Youth Darts match against Sussex, unbelievable that they still charge full fares (£25 for a day return from Croydon to Worthing, the mind boggles) when they aren't providing a complete service. | eng | 06a5894e-de5c-4e2b-9b44-4bde2250ca9f | http://forum.hendonfc.net/article/40784 |
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thing instead, imo. | eng | 86e3529f-2182-466f-8d75-86e44b922dc3 | https://www.mail-archive.com/whatwg@lists.whatwg.org/msg39673.html |
INTRODUCING CHILDREN TO ARCHITECTURE
The Conseil National de l'Ordre des Architectes (France) held a webinar on 8 March 2023, entitled 'Sensibiliser les enfants à l'architecture' ('Introducing children to architecture'). The webinar explored resources available to architects when visiting schools or groups of children to teach them about architecture and examined best practices when working with young people.
Hosted by Julien Vincent of the Ordre des Architectes, the webinar included information about the architecture and children training offered by the Académie de Nantes, as well as the archipedagogie.org site run by the Réseau des Maisons de l'architecture. Guest speakers Virginie Feisthauer from the CROA PACA and Laetitia Chaussonnaud from the FNCAUE also contributed to discussions. | eng | 73ee6005-c40a-4b56-9864-a177aec01a0e | https://www.uia-architectes.org/en/news/introducing-children-to-architecture/ |
Sharʿab was one of the most controversial regions in Yemen. The people of Sharʿab were known for being rebellious and troublemakers. Thus, the government treated the people of Sharʿab poorly and didn't provide them water facilities. It was reported that the Imam of Yemen, Ahmad Hamidaddin once said: "If Sharʿab was in the borders I would have sold it".[6][7]
The Himyarite prince of the Manakhis was killed in Wadi Nakhlah in Sharʿab region.[8]
After the 26 September Revolution, (1962-1970)the new rulers of Yemen decided to divide Sharʿab into two districts so it could be easily controlled. Sharʿab was divided into "East Sharʿab" with As-Salam region as its center, "West Sharʿab" with Ar-Ronah region as its center.[7] The government didn't make any strategic or vital roads in Sharʿab.[6] The government also created a pro-government small division in Sharʿab called al-Mikhlaf (Arabic: المخلاف) that served as a barrier between Sharʿab and the city of Taiz. The government gave people al-Mikhlaf many jobs and weapons.
The division of Sharʿab created a political polarization between Sharʿab as-Salam (East Sharʿab) and Sharʿab Ar Rawnah (West Sharʿab). Sharʿab as-Salam became leftistcommunist while Sharʿab Ar Rawnah was supporting the al-Islah party in Yemen which is a Yemeni Salafi party.[6] A war later occurred called Harb al-Jabhah between Sharʿab as-Salam in one side and Sharʿab Ar Rawnah with the government in the other side. The war was part of NDF Rebellion. Muammar Al Gathafi supported Sharʿab as-Salam and gave them land mines. The mines were planted in many places in Sharʿab. The war ended after 4 years. The government won and took control of Sharʿab as-Salam.[6] The war of Jabhah weakened the people of Sharʿab.
In the 2011 crisis in Yemen, the people of al-Mikhlaf took over the city of Taiz after fighting that was more deadly than the fighting in the capital. The Sheikh of al-Mikhlaf, Hamoud Saeed al-Mikhlafi, become the leader of Taiz. Most people of the city of Taiz supported and loved al-Mikhlafi leadership.[9] After the crisis ended, Hamoud Saeed al-Mikhlafi gave the leadership of Taiz to the new government but he was still popular among the people of Taiz.
After the Houthis attacked the city of Taiz in 2015, Hamoud Saeed al-Mikhlafi returned and fought in the frontlines against the Houthis. The death toll of Houthis who were killed by al-Mikhlafi forces was higher than those who were killed by the government and Saudi-led coalition airstrikes. According to some witnesses, the Houthis bodies were daily transferred from Taiz to Dhamar and 'Amran. Taiz was the only city in north Yemen that the Houthis were not able to control.
The people of Shurrab fought in the war and mostly fought with al-Mikhlafi against al-Houthi.[10]
Al-Mikhlafi's son and brother were killed in the battles with Al-Houthi Al-Mikhlafi then traveled to Turkey. According to al-Mikhlafi, he left after he realised that the Saudi-led coalition was attacking his troops and not supporting him with weapons. He said that this is mainly because the U.A.E. accuses him of being part of the Muslim Brotherhood movement which he denies.[11][12][13]
After al-Mikhlafi left Taiz, a teenage warlord, Ghazwan al-Mikhlafi who is also from the al-Mikhlaf region took control of Taiz city and is also fighting against the al-Qaeda-linked militia in Taiz. However, Ghazwan was not beloved by the people of Taiz city. He is said to be controlling Taiz with fear and his militia are terrorising people. According to the Middle East Eye, Critics of Ghazwan are often frightened of openly confronting him. International and regional NEO refused to discuss his practices with the Middle East Eye. It is often from outside the city of Taiz that he is criticized.[14]
Rural districts in Yemen are divided into 'Uzaal (Sub-districts) while Uzaal are divided into villages. There are eighteen Uzaal in Shar'ab As Salam.[16] In the post-Ottoman Empire administrative divisions, Sharʿab was mostly part of a province called Kaza al-ʿUdayn (Arabic: قضاء العدين) and was part of Ibb region.
There was a large Jewish community in Sharʿab as-Salam. The community is believed to have existed in Yemen as early as circa 130 CE until its demise around 1940. Sharʿab as-Salam was considered one of the most illustrious places of Jewish settlement in Yemen. Many distinguished Jewish personalities were born there, including the rabbis Shalom Sharabi, Mordechai Sharabi and Shalom Shabazi. It was an important place of Torah learning, and home to many Yeshivot and schools. It had a population of over 10,000 Jews and was a major industrial centre of Yemen, where goldsmiths' work, weaving, commerce, silk trading and shoemaking were the main industries of the day. The Sharabi Jews have a slightly different pronunciation than most other Yemenite Jews. | eng | d0c1cbe4-b2b3-4bf6-8c55-6f094c7bd873 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shar%27ab_as-Salam_District |
Anadiplosis is an important figure of speech in literature because it helps to create rhythm and repetition, which can be used to emphasize certain ideas or themes. It can also help to make a piece of writing more memorable.
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What is the significance of anadiplosis in literature?
Anadiplosis is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences.
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Anadiplosis is a figure of speech in which the last word or phrase of one clause or sentence is repeated at the beginning of the next clause or sentence.
What is anadiplosis in English?
Anadiplosis is a figure of speech in which the last word or phrase of one clause or sentence is used as the first word or phrase of the next clause or sentence. | eng | 9b94abaa-0c83-424c-855e-a3626968015e | https://myliterature.net/faq/why-is-anadiplosis-important-in-literature/ |
Shing-Tung Yau, a renowned mathematician, has achieved remarkable feats in numerous sectors of mathematics, including differential equations, algebraic geometry, computer graphics, and more. He was awarded the prestigious Fields Medal, often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Mathematics," at the age of 34. Currently, Yau continues to conduct research in mathematics and teaches at multiple higher research institutions in China and the United States. On March 23, he gave an exclusive interview to China Daily at Qiuzhen College, Tsinghua University, where he shared his views on the importance of mathematics and its relevance in modern society.
Yau believes that mathematics is one of the most crucial subjects, and its importance cannot be overstated. According to him, mathematics forms the foundation of modern society, and social development would be impossible without progress in science and technology, all of which must come from, and cannot be separated from, mathematics. In fact, Yau argues that human civilization today would not exist without mathematics, as modern technology heavily relies on it. From connecting individuals through smartphones to allocating resources most efficiently, mathematics is at the core of these essential modern technologies.
Despite the significance of mathematics in modern society, many individuals may underestimate the subject's relevance. When asked about this, Yau said that mathematics is often overlooked because people may not fully comprehend its critical role in their lives. He emphasized that even sociology cannot exist without mathematics. As a result, it is vital to raise awareness about the importance of mathematics in today's world.
One pressing issue that Yau addressed in the interview was the development of the chip industry amid US sanctions. He believes that the fundamental principles of the chip industry must be thoroughly understood before progress can be made. According to Yau, one of the primary reasons for difficulties in the field is that basic science is not yet well developed, and a solid grasp of some of the fundamental theories needed to manufacture chips is lacking. Thus, he suggests that efforts should be focused on developing the entire basic science to enhance the efficiency of the entire scientific and technological system.
China's success at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) was another topic of discussion in the interview. Yau acknowledged that the IMO has played a crucial role in promoting the discipline of mathematics worldwide, and China's success at the event has significantly contributed to its popularity in the country. According to Yau, the competition has helped to nurture young talent and promote mathematical research, and the success of Chinese students in the IMO has inspired many other students to take an interest in mathematics.
Despite the benefits of the IMO, Yau also expressed concerns about the overemphasis on exams in education. He believes that too much emphasis on exams may not lead to effective learning, as it may lead to rote memorization rather than a deep understanding of the subject. Instead, Yau suggests that students should be encouraged to develop a genuine interest in mathematics and be provided with opportunities to apply their knowledge in real-world situations.
Yau also discussed the challenges facing mathematics education in China. He believes that although the Chinese education system has made significant progress in recent years, there is still room for improvement. He suggested that students should be encouraged to develop critical thinking skills rather than just mastering exam techniques. Yau also emphasized the importance of providing students with a broad and comprehensive education in mathematics, as it is essential to foster creativity and innovation.
Shing-Tung Yau's interview highlighted the importance of mathematics in modern society and its significance in various sectors. He emphasized that mathematics is not just another subject, but rather, it is fundamental to the development of modern technology and human civilization. Yau also acknowledged the benefits of the IMO and the need to promote mathematical education, while cautioning against the overemphasis on exams in education.
The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is often seen as just an exam, rather than a platform for mathematical research, according to Shing-Tung Yau, a renowned mathematician. In an exclusive interview with China Daily, Yau argued that excessive emphasis on exams can diminish children's interest in mathematics, and advocated for greater focus on the development of basic science.
While Yau acknowledged the importance of exams, he argued that children spend too much time preparing for them, which can dampen their enthusiasm for mathematics. Instead, he urged educators to encourage students to pursue their own interests in the subject, and to focus on achieving individual goals rather than competing with others.
Yau also spoke out against the stereotype of mathematicians as socially awkward or eccentric, arguing that most mathematicians are ordinary people who enjoy a wide range of hobbies and interests. He called on the media to portray mathematicians as "thoughtful scholars" rather than quirky outliers.
In terms of popularizing mathematics, Yau suggested that mathematicians could do more to communicate the practical applications of the subject. He cited examples such as group theory, which can be used to solve Rubik's Cube puzzles, and the Bernoulli Equation, which explains how the pressure in a pipe changes as water flows through it. By demonstrating the relevance of mathematics to everyday life, mathematicians can help to increase public interest in the subject.
Yau also noted the importance of mathematical methods in areas such as investment and stock trading. He argued that mathematicians could make a valuable contribution by explaining how statistical and probabilistic models can be used to make investment decisions. By presenting these ideas in a popular format, mathematicians can engage a wider audience and help to promote the relevance of mathematics in the modern world.
In order to increase interest in mathematics, Yau recommended that mathematicians should engage in science popularization, even if they are not naturally inclined to do so. By communicating the practical applications of mathematics and sharing stories of successful mathematicians, they can help to inspire the next generation of mathematicians and promote the continued development of the subject.
Becoming a mathematician is a great career choice for those who have a talent and interest in mathematics. It's a stable career with a steady salary, and it doesn't require sacrificing sleep or hair loss. However, not everyone has the natural ability or inclination to become a mathematician. So, how can ordinary people cultivate their interest in mathematics, and how can parents encourage their children's interest in the subject?
Many parents are overly concerned with their children's academic performance and exam scores, while neglecting to foster their interests and curiosity. However, interest and curiosity are the key factors that lead to a lifelong love of learning and the pursuit of knowledge. Parents should give their children the freedom to explore their interests and to engage with the world around them. Children should be encouraged to learn about basic science through exposure to nature and everyday experiences.
Chinese students are under tremendous pressure from kindergarten to high school, which can stifle their natural instincts and curiosity. However, once they graduate from high school, many students feel that they have finished their education and lose interest in learning. To prevent this, it is important to give children the freedom and space to explore their interests and develop a love of learning from a young age.
To become a world leader in technology, China must encourage the next generation to study not only mathematics, but also all basic sciences. Basic science is the foundation of all modern technologies, and China must vigorously develop this field if it wants to become a technological superpower. This summer, an international basic science conference will be hosted to promote this goal. This conference will help inspire the next generation of scientists and encourage them to pursue careers in basic science.
In addition to encouraging children to pursue their interests, it is important to provide them with a strong foundation in middle school and high school. Students need to develop good study habits and gain knowledge through hard work and dedication. By laying a strong foundation in basic science and mathematics, students will be well-prepared to pursue careers in science and technology.
Ultimately, cultivating an interest in mathematics requires a multi-faceted approach. Parents should encourage their children to explore their interests and engage with the world around them. Schools should provide students with a strong foundation in basic science and mathematics. And at the national level, China must invest in basic science research and encourage the next generation of scientists to pursue careers in this field. By working together, we can inspire a new generation of mathematicians and scientists who will drive technological progress and innovation. | eng | c5ce3f4b-a2f3-47a9-8847-26c5f284ff94 | https://beijingtimes.com/lifestyle/2023/04/15/exam-focused-education-and-the-need-for-a-broader-approach/ |
sustainablecitiescollective.com. November 21, 2013. Five years after the implementation of the Pacifying Police Unit – a law enforcement program aimed at reclaiming territories controlled by gangs – many utilities and services in Rio de Janeiro still have difficulty operating in the city's slums. This is the case of the Post Office, which fails to deliver mail in the streets and alleys of Rio hills. According to the Rio de Janeiro Post Office, the reason for this is a lack of "signposts and ordered numbering, and overall conditions of access." To overcome this shortage, slum dwellers have created informal organizations such as the "Community Post", which works in the Vidigal neighborhood.
Mail Community was created in 1997 by four friends who wanted to do something good for Vidigal's slums and at the same time generate employment. "We had seen services like this in the Itanhangá neighborhood. We saw how the project worked there and decided to launch something similar in Vidigal," says Edson Pepper, one of the founders of the program. "We decided to go from house to house in Vidigial to announce our service and earn the confidence of the owner." For two months, Mail Community offered free delivery to earn the trust of the locals and get them used to the service.
reneweconomy.com.au. November 20, 2013. An Australian founded clean energy company that is allowing slum-dwellers in India to replace expensive and highly polluting kerosene lamps with cheaper solar energy is to receive an award at the UN climate change talks on Wednesday.
Pollinate Energy is one of two Australian initiatives to get awards under the Lighthouse initiative for the UN's Momentum for Change program. The other is the Australian-based 1 Million Women initiative, which aims to build a movement to get one million women to take small steps in their everyday lives to cut emissions.
The not-for-profit Pollinate Energy began its operations in the slums of Bangalore, initially with the aim of allowing children to do school work after the sun sets, and to reduce reliance on kerosene lamps, which eats up a large part of incomes with fuel costs and can cause health problems, burns and fires.
pacmas.org. November 18, 2013. Denise Nawara was a participant at the PACMAS-funded Housing Rights in Melanesia workshop. Here, she explores how women are disproportionately affected by a lack of housing rights through the experience of two Solomon Islands women living in the squatter settlement of Kalekana on Suva's outskirts.
While shelter is a basic need and a key indicator of development and social wellbeing, the women of Kalekana, a few kilometres outside Fiji's capital, Suva, have for decades suffered in the shadows of silence. Here, where direct descendants of Solomon Islanders call home, chronic water shortage and poor hygiene have plagued families for generations, some as long as 60 years.
Women like Akesa Tinai, who have young children to raise, feed and send to school without the presence of their husbands, suffer the most. Akesa lives in a cramped four-room flat that does not have running water and toilet facilities, compounding her burden of bringing up five children on a meagre budget. When there is no money, she often skips lunch so that her children can have food after school. They sometimes have tea with rice or
These heartbreaking pictures show the squalid conditions that thousands of Roma children are forced to call home in the city of Kosice, Slovakia.
The city, the largest in eastern Slovakia, received £51 million when it was named the European Capital of Culture 2013 alongside Marseille, France. The money is to be invested into the city's infrastructure, creative industries and tourism.
However, in the suburb of Lunik IX around 8,000 Slovakian Roma, most of them children, live in squalor in one of the world's worst slums.
moonofthesouth.com. November 15, 2013. South Africa's low-income earners will have to wait a little bit longer before getting a mortgaged house, as the issue of affordability continues to hamper the housing finance market on the African continent.
Though the affordable housing market in South Africa is defined as households earning between R3 500 and R25 000 (about US$350 and US$2500), First National Bank (FNB) said last week that currently there is no supply of houses to a household earning between R3 500 and R9 000 in the country.
The bank's survey shows that 96% of people knocking on its doors for a financed house are first-time homeowners who are most affected by issues of affordability and economic risks such as interest rate increases, inflationary pressures and unemployment.
The African Union for Housing Finance (AUHF) recently identified affordability of formal housing as one of the key areas where governments, private sector and development finance institutions should urgently focus on to enhance the performance of Africa's housing markets. | eng | c6e17540-a410-4a0b-81c9-07a6b5b158bb | https://rozenbergquarterly.com/2013/11/page/2/ |
You asked — what is the national average student loan debt?
The national average student loan debt in the United States is approximately $32,731.
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Based on my practical knowledge and expertise in the field, the national average student loan debt in the United States is approximately $32,731. However, it's important to note that this number can vary depending on various factors such as the type of institution attended, level of education, and individual financial circumstances.
To provide a more comprehensive understanding of the topic, here are some interesting facts related to student loan debt:
Rising Tuition Costs: Over the years, the cost of higher education has been steadily increasing, resulting in a significant growth in student loan debt. According to the College Board, the average annual tuition and fees for public colleges and universities have more than doubled over the past two decades.
Increasing Number of Borrowers: Student loan debt is becoming increasingly prevalent, with a growing number of individuals relying on loans to finance their education. According to the Federal Reserve, approximately 45 million Americans currently hold student loan debt.
Impact on Financial Wellbeing: Student loans can have a long-lasting impact on borrowers' financial wellbeing. High debt burdens can hinder individuals from achieving important milestones such as buying a home, starting a family, or saving for retirement. It is essential for borrowers to understand the implications and develop strategies to manage their debt effectively.
Interest Rates and Repayment Options: Student loans typically come with interest rates, which vary based on the type of loan. Higher interest rates can significantly impact the total amount repaid over time. It is crucial for borrowers to explore and understand the various repayment options available to them, such as income-driven repayment plans or loan forgiveness programs.
Emotional and Psychological Impact: The burden of student loan debt can take a toll on borrowers' mental health. The stress and anxiety associated with debt repayment can affect overall well-being and lead to financial distress. Seeking support and guidance from professionals or financial advisors can be beneficial in navigating the challenges of student loan debt.
In order to provide a clear overview of student loan debt in the United States, here is a table comparing the average student loan debt for different types of higher education institutions:
In conclusion, student loan debt is a significant issue in the United States, affecting millions of borrowers. Understanding the average debt amount and the various complexities surrounding student loans is crucial for individuals planning to pursue higher education or those currently navigating the repayment process. As the saying goes, "Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today." It is essential to be informed and make wise decisions regarding student loans to ensure a bright future.
Watch a video on the subjectThe average federal student loan debt is $37,338 per borrower. Private student loan debt averages $54,921 per borrower. The average student borrows over $30,000 to pursue a bachelor's degree.
The average student loan debt in the United States varies depending on the source, but it is around $37,000 to $39,000. Federal loans make up the majority of student loans, with private loans representing a smaller percentage. The average time to pay off student loan debt is 20 years. Student loan debt has more than doubled since 2007 and is the second-highest consumer debt category after mortgages. Despite a slight decrease in borrowing in 2021, the average total student debt remains around $30,000.
Average Student Loan Debt According to the Department of Education, in 2022, the average student loan debt for federal loans was $37,574. That's approximately $1.63 trillion of outstanding debt divided by a total of 43.5 million borrowers. [1]
The average student loan debt among borrowers in America is $39,381, according to Experian. Federal loans made up 92.4% of all student loans in 2021, and private loans represented the remaining 7.6%, according to a report from MeasureOne. Here's a breakdown of student loan debt in America.
How Much Is the Average Student Loan Debt in the US? The average student loan debt in the U.S. in 2021 was $37,693. There's a slight increase from the $36,510 recorded average in 2020. Since 2007, the average debt has more than doubled. Of all consumer debt categories, student loan debt is the second-highest after
The average federal student loan debt is $36,510 per borrower and private student loan debt averages $54,921 per borrower, according to recent data from Educationdata.org. Since Spring 2020, the average student loan debt increased by 1.6%. Looking forward, the average student-loan debt holder takes 20 years to pay off
Average student loan debt has been on the rise as families try to keep up with soaring college costs. Though 2021 college graduates who borrowed to pay for school took out, on average, $208 less in loans compared with the prior year, the average total student debt continues to hover around $30,000, according to U.S. News
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Beside this, What is the current national average of student loan debt in the US? The average federal student loan debt balance is $37,338 while the total average balance (including private loan debt) may be as high as $40,114. Less than 2% of private student loans enter default as of 2021's fourth financial quarter (2021 Q4).
Then, What is the average time to pay off the student loan debt? Response to this: 10 years The standard student loan payoff time for federal student loans is 10 years. However, repayment time depends on the loan amount and how much you can pay a month. A bachelor's degree-holder with the average amount of federal loan debt would need to pay at least $290 a month to pay off their loan in 10 years or less.
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Furthermore, How long to pay off 60k in student loans?Furthermore, Are student loans good debt or bad debt?Beside aboveAdditionally, What is the national average of student loans? The average student loan for the four years is almost $40,000It certainly hurts consumer spending, which is bad for the national economy. College degrees tend to drive vastly different
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5G Application In Healthcare, Farming, Manufacturing And Many Other Industries
Every generational jump in wireless network technology opens new possibilities that did not exist before that generation. We have come from the first generation that enabled calling to the fifth generation that is capable of much more than people thought just a few years ago. These capabilities are enabled by faster internet speeds, higher bandwidth, and low latency connections. The fifth generation of wireless network technology, 5G, has applications that extend far beyond calling and accessing the internet. 5G is seeing applications in numerous industries, and it is these applications we will be discussing in this article.
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Healthcare
The need for information to reach medical professionals as fast as possible and for healthcare workers to have the latest information on their patients is paramount. In case of emergencies, 5G is making it easier for medical professionals to receive near-instantaneous alerts should there be a medical emergency with one of their patients. Wearable devices that make this possible ensure people get the help they require fast.
The faster speeds and higher bandwidth that come with 5G also make it possible for medical professionals to share patient information quickly. This happens regardless of how large the files are because the network can transmit more data per unit time than 4G networks.
The low latency afforded by 5G also means remote treatment is possible. Such remote treatment is not only possible through telemedicine, which has been available through 4G technology, but also through robotics. Robots can receive commands in real-time no matter where a doctor or surgeon is, breaking down barriers to healthcare and necessary surgeries.
According to research done by melitabusiness.com, the use of 5G for real-time patient monitoring will add $123 billion to the global GDP by 2030, while the use of remote treatment will add $89.8 billion.
Retail
5G is set to change customer experiences in the retail sector. With 5G enabling augmented and virtual reality shopping, customers will be able to shop in virtual stores and add items to virtual carts. All of this then gets billed to their credit card without the customers leaving their homes.
For the fashion retail industry, shoppers will be able to try different iterations of different fashion items to see how they look on them. Additionally, businesses can use these same systems to gauge interest and customer interactions and send real-time offers if they seem unlikely to add the item to their cart.
This is estimated to improve customer experiences and satisfaction while adding $12 billion to the retail industry annually by 2030.
Manufacturing
The manufacturing industry, where robotics and connections between different machines play a huge role, is set to be impacted the most by the introduction of and advancements in 5G technology. The manufacturing sector falls squarely within this description. With the connection of different equipment within manufacturing facilities, manufacturing companies can improve their operations and make their processes more flexible.
These connections will allow the automation of processes so companies can react quickly to changes in demand and thus changes to their manufacturing processes without any human interventions. Doing so will reduce costs and remove inefficiencies.
Predictive maintenance will also become one of the aspects of manufacturing impacted by 5G. Companies can know when each machine needs maintenance using AI, Internet-of-Things, and 5G. They will not have to wait for them to break down to do the necessary servicing, which will help control maintenance costs and reduce the impact of unexpected breakdowns. Such breakdowns can have an impact on whole supply chains, and this is why preventing them through predictive maintenance is so important.
Agriculture
Data will be a significant player in agriculture in the foreseeable future. Farmers will rely more on data than chemicals to ensure optimum agricultural production. Farmers are already using sensors in their fields to see which areas need water, pest management, or disease management.
In livestock farming, the use of wearables will make it easier to connect many IoT devices to make monitoring livestock health easier. With all the data they collect and with proper management, farmers can reduce the use of antibiotics and other chemicals while keeping their livestock healthy and production up, all without compromising the food supply.
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The Automotive Industry
Apart from the manufacturing industry, the automotive is perhaps the industry that will be the most impacted by 5G. Players in the automotive industry are already implementing 5G in their self-driving vehicles. Using this connectivity, they can update and upgrade these cars, so they are running the latest software, making them safer and improving their functionality.
Additionally, Vehicle-to-Everything communication will become huge as the 5G rollout continues. Vehicle-to-Everything communication allows self-driving vehicles to communicate with everything around them, including other cars, traffic signals, and cyclists. Doing so will make for safer roads while reducing many of the bottlenecks caused by humans that lead to traffic congestion.
Some companies are already experimenting with platooning. Platooning is an arrangement where self-driving trucks follow a driver-driven truck, communicating with it using 5G. Doing so helps reduce fuel consumption, pollution, and is also proving to provide safety benefits as well.
5G is already being used for communication in mobile and computing devices. Different industries are taking advantage of it to improve efficiency, reduce costs, make the world safer, reduce pollution, and a lot more. With the 5G roll-out still ongoing, it is reasonable to conclude that there is a lot more 5G can do; we just have not had the opportunity to explore all the possibilities contraception on campus; doctors go on trial over HIPAA disclosures, conspiracy in Russia probe. | eng | 97528446-71e2-41e7-9422-0299ce5fceeb | https://marylandreporter.com/2022/01/11/5g-application-in-healthcare-farming-manufacturing-and-many-other-industries/ |
FIRST Education
Math Center
OUR STORY
The FIRST Education Math Center was developed to support educators in their implementation of high quality and high impact math instruction in order to meet the needs of today's math learners. Math instruction has changed from traditional more procedural knowledge to requiring students to construct viable arguments, solve problems using multiple strategies and collaborate with each other which require a conceptual understanding of mathematics today. This is a vast pedagogical shift from how most teachers were taught to teach math. Our entire team of math consultants are currently in roles just like yours. We understand the challenges schools face today in educating our math learners. We have a proven track record of success in implementing high quality curriculum and instruction, coaching and achieving desirable student outcomes. We will work to develop and strengthen your math pedagogy by listening, collaboration, and working alongside you and your team to create a high quality, high impact math environment by providing practical and meaningful support to your teachers and leaders to bring about real sustainable change.
MISSION
The FIRST Education Math Center provides training, coaching, resources and support to leaders and teachers so that math instruction is systemically aligned and intentionally designed in order to improve student learning for ALL students.
VISION
The FIRST Education Math Center will develop teachers and leaders to have confidence in their math skills and implement math best practices to provide opportunity for all students to experience high levels of growth and achievement.
our services
Institutes and Workshops
We can partner with your organization in offering affordable and customized institutes and/or webinars in which your professional learning communities (PLCs) can not only learn about math topics aligned to your goals, but also apply what they are learning to their own context. The content is designed to move you toward excellence in math instruction and leadership at all levels in your organization (e.g. system leaders, school leaders, and/or classroom educators).
On-Site and Virtual Coaching
Our team can provide onsite coaching designed to help guide teams through the change process. Coaches are experienced facilitators and have guided teachers and leaders in schools for many years. Our math team will work side-by-side with your team and/or leaders to collaborate, build teacher capacity, and help ensure real sustainable change.
Math Audit and
Action Planning
Collaboratively, we work with you to analyze your math data and your current instructional practices using an audit process. With support from our team, clearly defined actions and outcomes for staff, students, and leaders will be developed to put you on a path toward meeting your goals. | eng | de455d16-fc57-421a-9d9b-62de3e4c2bca | https://www.firsteducation-us.com/mathematics |
Can I stop or uninstall ose.exe?
Since ose.exe is not a crucial system process, you can stop it if you don't need the Microsoft Office Suite. To stop the process, follow the steps below:
Press the Windows key + X and select the Task Manager option.
Click the Services tab at the top.
Right-click the ose service.
Finally, select the Stop option, you will be able to stop the process temporarily. But if you need to remove it completely, follow the steps below to remove the Microsoft Office Suite:
Press the Windows key + R, type appwiz.cpl, and click OK.
Right-click your Office suite and select Uninstall.
Finally, follow the onscreen instructions to complete the removal process.
You can now rest assured that you have gotten rid of the process with Microsoft Office Suite removed.
How to fix common ose.exe errors
1. Update your PC
Press the Windows key + I and select Windows Update in the left pane.
Click the Check for updates button in the right pane.
Finally, download and install all available updates, including the optional ones.
The ose.exe process is majorly focused on aiding the update process of the Microsoft Office Suite. So, to keep it functional, you need to ensure your PC is updated.
3. Perform a system restore
Finally, click the Finish button and follow the onscreen instructions to complete the process.
Sometimes, it might be hard to trace the cause of the ose.exe issue. Your best bet here is to perform a system restore to a point before you start experiencing this issue.
With this, we can end this comprehensive guide on everything you need to know about the ose.exe process. The process is generally safe but not an important system process.
So you can always disable it if you feel like doing so. If you want to know about the TextInputHost.exe process, check our detailed guide.
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What is ADA? used in lawsuits alleging that websites do not comply with legal standards.
Under the federal Act, discrimination against persons with disabilities is prohibited.
They are guaranteed the same opportunities as all other citizens to participate in the mainstream of American society, including:
the possibility of getting a job and promotion
the possibility to purchase goods and services
the possibility to participate in and receive programs offered by the state and local administration services.
The ADA Compliance Act, passed in 1990, is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against persons with disabilities in all areas of public life, including workplaces, schools, transportation, and all public and private places open to the general public. This Act is divided into five parts (or sections), which refer to different areas of public life.
What is ADA compliance? The ADA specifications require private business owners to maintain an environment that is accessible to all. Thus, guests with disabilities who visit the site should be provided with features that eliminate potential purchasing goods and services problems. You need to conduct ADA software testing to ensure that your site meets all the rules and does not limit the possibilities of other people.
Accessibility testing sections
Part I Hiring.
This part of the law is designed to help people with disabilities gain access to the same job opportunities and benefits available to people without disabilities. Your business must have all ADA compliance.
Applies to employers with 15 or more employees.
Requires employers to provide due diligence, adapting to the specific needs of qualified job seekers or employees. A reasonable accommodation is a change that does not cause undue hardship to the employer.
Defines disability, sets guidelines for making reasonable accommodations, reviews medical examinations and requests, and identifies an immediate threat when there is a risk of significant harm to the health or safety of an individual with a disability or others.
Prohibits discrimination based on disability by community organizations, which are programs, services, and activities run by state and local governments.
Requires government agencies (programs, services, and activities carried out by state and local governments) to be accessible to people with disabilities. If the question concerns sites, then they must pass ADA software testing.
Outlines the requirements for self-assessment and planning, making reasonable changes in policies, practices, and procedures where necessary to avoid discrimination, identification of architectural barriers, and effective communication with persons with hearing, vision, and speech impairments.
Establishes minimum standards for accessibility for change, construction of new structures, and removal of barriers. Directs companies to make intelligent changes to the way they do business when serving people with disabilities.
Requires businesses to take the steps necessary to communicate effectively with impaired customers' vision, hearing, and speech. And sites must comply with ADA specifications.
Telephone and Internet companies are required to provide a nationwide system of intergovernmental and interstate telecommunications relay services that enables people with hearing and speech impairments to communicate by telephone.
Requires closed captioning for official announcements of federally funded public services.
Contains several provisions concerning the Act in general, including its relationship to other laws, state legal immunities, its impact on insurance and benefits providers, prohibitions on retaliation and coercion, drug abuse, and attorney fees. Provides a list of specific conditions that should not be considered a disability. It is obligatory to pass accessibility testing.
Public transportation offered by the state or local government (for example, bus and passenger train) is subject to ADA Title II.
Transport offered by a private company (such as taxis, airport transfers, and intercity bus companies), covered by Section III.
The US Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration publishes information, instructions, and regulations regarding public transportation.
ADA software testing
ADA requires all local government officials to ensure that people with disabilities have equal access to all programs, services, and facilities. This requirement means that within the framework of the pre-emptive right to use sites, shops, and online stores, all infrastructure facilities intended for pedestrians must be accessible to persons with disabilities in the same way as all websites.
ADA Modernization Plan:
includes information on the applicability of an upgrade plan within the ADA specifications.
informs the public about the measures of protection from the manifestation of discrimination provided for in ADA law.
provides information on how public members can submit applications to the district with ideas to improve access for persons with disabilities or file complaints.
identifies persons responsible for ADA compliance.
provides the opportunity for stakeholder participation, including persons with disabilities or organizations representing the interests of persons with disabilities opportunities, in reviewing and improving the modernization plan.
FAQ
What does ADA compliance mean?
ADA compliance means that your site should be as accessible as possible for people with limited capabilities.
What are ADA guidelines?
ADA is a law that prohibits all kinds of discrimination against people with disabilities in all areas of life. From shops and transport to schools and websites.
What is an ADA violation?
A violation of the ADA is when people with disabilities cannot receive proper service; they are denied qualified self-employment because of their disability, etc. | eng | d6fd86f4-3819-4682-af0d-25eb5fbcca1a | https://allyable.com/what-is-ada/ |
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Completed in 1897 as Chicago's first central public library, the building was designed to impress and to prove that Chicago had grown into a sophisticated metropolis. The country's top architects and craftsmen used the most sumptuous materials, such as rare imported marbles, polished brass, fine hardwoods, and mosaics of Favrile glass, mother-of-pearl and colored stone, to create an architectural showplace. Located on the south side of the building, the world's largest stained glass Tiffany dome ― 38 feet in diameter with some 30,000 pieces of glass ― was restored to its original splendor in 2008. On the north side of the building is a 40-foot-diameter dome with some 50,000 pieces of glass in an intricate Renaissance pattern, designed by Healy & Millet.
In 1991, the building was established as the Chicago Cultural Center by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, the nation's first and most comprehensive free municipal cultural venue. Every year, the Chicago Cultural Center presents hundreds of free international, national, regional and local artists, musicians and performers, providing a showcase where the public can enjoy and learn about the arts.
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What Do We Do?
We protect open space and wildlife habitat to preserve our quality of life.Our mission is to conserve land throughout the Estes Valley and surrounding areas for current and future generations.
What is a conservation easement?
Conservation easements are the most commonly used method for private land owners to permanently limit uses of the land in order to protect its conservation value. It allows the landowners the ability to continue to own and use their land, but some rights are restricted.
For example, the conservation easement may only allow the owner to build one house on the property, but allow the growing of crops. Each conservation easement is uniquely structured to protect conservation values while maintaining property owner's rights. The easement could apply to all or just part of a property, and need not require public access. Future owners will also be bound by the easement's terms, and the land trust is responsible for making sure the easement's terms are followed perpetually.
Why donate a conservation easement?
Love of the LandSaving Limited Resources
Our air and water are limited resources. The tree canopy and vegetation serve as critical filters for our air and offset carbon emissions. Wetlands that border our rivers, lakes and streams filter pollution before it reaches our drinking water. Conserving land helps protect the important resources we all depend on.
Economic Benefits
In addition to health and food benefits, conserving land increases property values near greenbelts, saves tax dollars by encouraging more efficient development, and reduces the need for expensive water filtration facilities. Recent studies indicate that for every $1 invested in conservation easements, an annual return of $6 or more is generated for the community.
Helping Community
Conservation easements help protect community resources that come from the land – water, food security, wildlife, and places for recreation and reflection, promote stronger local communities by giving citizens knowledge and support to reach out to their neighbors to protect the local places they love, and serve as a part of a national community of staff, volunteers, members and advocates committed to private land conservation across the country.
What are "Conservation Values"?
Generally, conservation values are the natural features of land, such as meadows, forests and rivers. Specifically, conservation values are defined in Section 170(h) of the IRS Code, as exhibiting at least one of the following four conservation purposes:
Preservation of land for outdoor recreation/education for the general public.
Protection of relatively natural habitat of fish, wildlife, or plants, or similar ecosystem.
Preservation of certain open space for the scenic enjoyment of the general public, or pursuant to a government conservation policy and will yield a significant public benefit.
Preservation of a historically important land or a certified historic structure
The country's first land trusts originated in the 1850s in Massachusetts. Today more than 1,500 local, regional, and national land trusts across the nation protect more than nine million acres of farmland, wetlands, ranches, forests, watersheds, and river corridors.
Do you allow public access on all properties?
The majority of our easements do not require public access and the owner retains the right to prohibit trespassing. Three of our conservation easements require public access as part of the easement. Read about our properties here.
Usually, when land is placed in a conservation easement, the public is not invited to enter the property. The landowner places a conservation easement on the property to protect it from further development, and protection is designed to last forever. Title to the property remains with the landowner, but further commercial or residential development is permanently restricted. So the public enjoys the open vistas and the wildlife habitat is protected, but it's still private property.
Our Founders
At a dinner party in 1987 local residents Jim Crain, Pieter Hondius, Robert Irvin, Lorna Knowlton, Ralph Read, Roland Retrum, and Maurice Worley ardently discussed the need for an organized protection and preservation of the beautiful surroundings of the Estes Valley for future generations to see and enjoy. After several meetings, a land preservation nucleus took shape and Articles of Incorporation for Estes Valley Land Trust (EVLT) were filed with the Colorado Department of State on May 8, 1987. In August of that year, the Internal Revenue Service recognized the Land Trust as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt corporation.
These seven forward-thinkers became our founding board members. We have had over 70 individuals serve on our board since then.
Land Trust Alliance Accreditation
TheLand Trust Accreditation Commission first offered land trust accreditation in 2008, and EVLT was one of a prestigious first group of 39 land trusts (out of over 1,500) to be awarded this designation. The Commission awards accreditation to land trusts that demonstrate compliance with each of twelve accreditation indicator practices drawn fromLand Trust Standards and Practices, the ethical and technical guidelines for the responsible operation of a land trust. EVLT has been reaccredited twice since then.
For the public, knowing that a land trust is accredited provides recognition and confidence that the land trust is engaged in the long-term protection of the land in the public interest. Accreditation also aids land trusts in fine-tuning their policies and streamlining their operations during the review process. The Commission conducts an extensive review of the application and grants accreditation only to land trusts that meet the rigorous standards.
Since 2009, the State of Colorado has implemented a certification program as a requirement for any organization that accepts donations of conservation easements with Colorado tax benefits. EVLT has achieved and annually renews its Certification as a Conservation Easement Holder through theColorado Department of Regulatory Agencies' Division of Real Estate.
The Estes Valley Land Trust's mission is to conserve land throughout the Estes Valley and surrounding areas. In 2020, the Board of Directors decided that how we achieve this mission is as important as the mission itself and that a set or organizational core values is needed to help make decisions, operate ethically and in unison.
Our Core Values
We Are Passionate – We are in awe of nature and conserving land is a labor of love. Our work is inspiring, it changes lives, and our results last forever. We share our passion for nature by getting outside together.
We Strive for Excellence – We strive to always be better, to grow as professionals, and to develop new tools to conserve land and connect people with nature.
We Include Everyone – We serve all members of the community by listening actively and finding common ground. People come first and we intend to better understand and find solutions that serve all.
We Succeed by Working Together – As an apolitical force for land conservation, our approach is collaborative. We realize that we can go farther together and therefore we cultivate lasting relationships with volunteers, landowners, and public and private partners.
We Permanently Protect Land – Our conservation agreements with landowners are permanent and remain with the land. We defend the terms of those agreements, work with legal professionals as needed, and utilize all tools to steadfastly enforce each land protection agreement.
We Focus on Healthy Land – We are all intimately connected to the land. Healthy land provides healthy wildlife habitat and benefits humans in many ways. Numerous threats, both local and global, impact land and threaten biodiversity. We work with others to reduce those impacts and restore land.
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Importance of Fine Ergonomics For Reach Truck Drivers
Riding a forklift might seem easy since the driver doesn't drive for long distances. However, its repetitive nature can be very tiring for drivers. The driver inadvertently covers more distance than a truck driver, driving the forklift all day.
Besides fatigue, truck drivers risk developing health problems. Poor posture due to driving for long hours slows them down and reduces overall productivity. The driver spends more time seeking medical attention than driving the forklift.
Many truck drivers complain of discomfort and back pain caused by poor posture. Reach truckdrivers have to drive for an average of 8 to 12 hours per shift. Their tasks are highly repetitive. They must maintain the same rigid posture and have no time to stretch or take a break.
Therefore, adopting the correct posture is vital in keeping their spine aligned to avoid lower back and neck pain. Additionally, sitting in a poor posture for long periods causes tension, stiff neck, stress, and sore shoulders. You can keep your forklift drivers healthy by ensuring they have fine ergonomics that allow them to maintain the proper posture.
For instance, your trucks should have adjustable interiors to accommodate drivers of different heights. Each driver can adjust the interiors as per their preferences to easily reach the pedal and controls and sit high enough for a clear view of the front, side windows, and mirrors.
Fine Ergonomics Help Prevent Accidents
Fine ergonomics are vital in avoiding accidents at the workplace. For instance, they should adjust it to ensure drivers can reach the pedals and get a clear view of the front. They avoid bumping into walls, merchandise on the ground, or racks. Improperly adjusted interiors can impair their driving resulting in accidents that result in losses or permanent disability.
For instance, you can adjust the interior to allow the driver to reach the controls without overstretching their legs or arms. Other trucks, such as double deep reach trucksshould also be more ergonomical, so drivers can control the vehicle to enhance safe driving. The truck should also have other safety features such as head restraints, airbags, and safety belts.
Improved Productivity
Fine ergonomics enhance comfort and reduce health issues for reach truck drivers, enhancing their productivity since they don't have underlying problems. Pain can be a distraction preventing drivers from focusing on work. Consequently, they may need more time to meet their quarter by the end of their shift.
When the pain becomes severe, the drivers will spend much time seeking medical help. Therefore, they spend most of their time out of work, thus affecting their productivity. The missed hours can also create gaps in the delivery and storage of merchandise, affecting your business negatively. Other drivers may have to work overtime to cover for their colleagues, affecting their productivity and not getting enough rest.
Ergonomics are vital in any workplace and more so for reach truck drivers. Fine ergonomics keep the drivers healthy and comfortable, enhancing their productivity. They can focus more on work instead of taking days off to seek medical care. Additionally, forklift drivers can see all around to avoid accidents | eng | d6b8031c-e79d-47a1-99ef-6b67fbf10192 | https://businessfig.com/importance-of-fine-ergonomics-for-reach-truck-drivers/ |
Undocumented, DREAMER students say they are here to stay
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The Student Community of Progressive Empowerment sponsored a virtual event Tuesday evening connecting students who support immigrants' rights, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival recipients and undocumented students at the University of Michigan.
Students formed SCOPE in 2016 after U.S. Customs and Border Patrol visited the U-M campus at a career fair. SCOPE members said the agency's visit created an unsafe, anxious environment on campus.
SCOPE seeks to support DACA beneficiaries and other undocumented students, who face limited rights and the risk of deportation. Members of SCOPE described the organization as a family and a safe space while sharing personal experiences at the meeting.
"I still hear the stories of the things that my father lived through to get through this to get to this country, and how he was able to gain residency through the Reagan Administration," said Hector Galvan, program manager at the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives and SCOPE member. "That was transformative for our lives because half of my siblings were born in Mexico and half of us were born in the U.S."
During the event, SCOPE members spoke about the difficulties of being undocumented, including not being eligible to have a social security number, appear on a payroll, own a bank account or apply for a driver's license.
Since its founding, SCOPE's members have faced continued uncertainty. President Trump moved to rescind DACA in 2017 and his administration has withdrawn or weakened many Obama-era protections. Beneficiaries must renew DACA status every year, instead of every three years. It costs $495 to renew DACA.
Requests to travel to other countries for emergency reasons such as visiting family members, known as advanced parole, have been revoked. The current administration closed DACA to new applicants, and now it protects only those who have been grandfathered in.
Rackham student Ivana Lopez-Espinosa, a member of SCOPE, said the risks to undocumented people and DACA recipients predate the Trump administration.
"The current political environment isn't threatening our lives. This isn't new, it has been happening since 2016 and even before that," Lopez-Espinosa said. "The Obama administration was not nice to immigrants. There were mass deportations under Obama like right now with Trump."
In 2019, SCOPE organized a rally for undocumented students and DACA recipients with a large turnout. They demanded the University address issues related to meeting financial need, fair opportunities for jobs, housing and appointment of primary contacts.
Though the University did not meet all of the demands, it resulted in the creation of two part-time positions at the University aimed at supporting students who are undocumented or receive DACA. LSA senior Sandra Perez, a member of SCOPE who is also a DACA beneficiary, said solely student activism has pushed the University to make the campus more welcoming.
"It's always student activism at the root of change — like we don't see active effort from the University to say, 'Hey we support undocumented students and we're the ones who are going to create the website, we're the ones who are going to meet your demands,'" Perez said. "It's always the students pushing for the change. I don't appreciate that."
SCOPE created a website that helped prospective undocumented students navigate the admission process and the financial aid process. Under previous University policy, undocumented students who enrolled at the University more than 28 months after graduating high school or obtaining a GED certificate were classified as international students, even if they had lived most of their life in Michigan.
When advocating for this policy to be revised, SCOPE students argued that this policy created financial barriers for undocumented students, especially those that tried to transfer to the University from community college. SCOPE students also said the appeals process for in-state tuition lacked transparency, as they said it was unclear why some students were granted in-state status while others weren't.
After SCOPE's activism, the University extended the time limit to apply for in-state tuition from 28 months after graduating high school to 40 months in July 2019. Even though the policy was revised, one of the students who advocated for the policy change could not retroactively change his status to in-state.
At Tuesday's event, members of SCOPE such as Business junior Alex Jimenez said they'd like to see the University continue to revise the in-state tuition policy. He said some of his undocumented friends who transfer to the University are still considered international students.
"To me, probably the most critical policy that needs to be changed right now is that I had friends who ended up not being able to continue their education at U of M because they wouldn't be able to afford it," Jimenez said. "I think that's a really big failure of the University itself."
Jimenez also said there should be a "Dream Center" — a center dedicated to helping and offering support for undocumented students and DACA recipients. Rackham student Joanna Dimas said she'd like to see a scholarship specifically for undocumented and DACA students.
"These are all tangible things that can be done from the administrative and institutional leaders," Dimas said. "I just don't know if that's their priority right now with everything going on, but it should be a priority."
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Is out. McKinney was a huge lost scheme wise. Both CBs. One of whom in FB they weren't even counting on this year. They need to lock up Dexter ASAP and hope they start getting guys back. AO had a good year last year. This year he's hurt. Let's hope he gets back but considering what Dallas did to the Vikings the Giants played pretty well | eng | 20b37ec2-8fb3-4aef-8926-25eae91322f8 | https://corner.bigblueinteractive.com/index.php?mode=2&thread=628808&show_all=1 |
What is Flooring?
Is the type of flooring that is installed on the ground. It can be natural, artificial, or a combination of both. Flooring typically consists of squares, rectangles, circles, or other shapes.
There are three main types of flooring: Hardwood Flooring, Carpet Flooring, and Tile Flooring.
Hardwood Flooring is most common in U.S. households and generally looks like oak wood. It's strong and durable but can also be expensive to install.
Carpet Flooring is popular in Europe and North America and typically has a harder surface than hardwood or wood-based flooring. It can be more expensive to buy but can last longer if kept clean and dry.
Tile Flooring is used mainly in Asia and South America and has a unique finish that may look similar to marble or granite.
It's not as durable as carpet but can be more affordable to install because it doesn't require any preparation before installation.
What are the Different Types of Garage Cabinets?
A garage cabinet is a storage space that is also used to install flooring in a home.
It typically has at least one drawer and one open shelf for holding tools, equipment, and other items.
A garage cabinet can also be equipped with a power drill, saw, and other tools to allow you to easily install flooring in your garage.
Get started with Flooring
Before you start installing flooring in your garage, it's important to find the right kind of flooring for your space. There are many types of flooring available, and it can be hard to decide which one is best for your needs.
It's also important to choose the right type of flooring for your garage – a hardwood or tile floor might work well for a traditional garage, while a rubber or felt floor would be perfect for an eco-friendly storage area.
Once you've installed some basic flooring in your garage, it's time to get creative.
By creating custom cabinets or garages out of our favorite materials – like concrete or wood – you'll need help from a professional installer!
Tips for Successfully Installing Flooring
Before you begin installation, be sure to choose the right flooring for your garage.
Choose a material that is durable and easy to clean, and don't forget to factor in the size of your space.
Flooring is an important part of any home. It can be used to cover a floor in the living room, hallway, or bedroom, or to provide a surface for storage and equipment.
There are many different types of flooring available on the market, so it's important to choose the right one for your space and needs.
By learning about the different types of flooring and how to get started with installation, you'll be able to successfully install your floors in no time. | eng | 0de42fd6-8e9e-488b-85aa-86aec3a7f65f | https://renewresurfacing.com/why-should-consider-getting-garage-flooring-and-garage-cabinets-installed/ |
Grace
"He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass." | George Herbert
They say, 'write about what you know'. Well, here's what I know: forgiveness is hard.
Like, really hard.
Forgiveness coexists in the same universe as injustice, loss, and the pain of deep physical, emotional or spiritual wounds. The need for forgiveness only exists because of the destructive impact sin has in our world and all the terrible ways in which humansImagine a man lost the middle of the Atlantic ocean. He doesn't remember how he got there or where he's going, all he knows is this endless swimming in circles. No ships in sight, he's been treading water for hours and now he's beginning to tire. There's a very real danger that he will actually drown – that's if the hypothermia doesn't get to him first. He doesn't realise this, however. He thinks he'll be…
The subject of God's grace permeates every aspect of the Gospel, giving it weight and power. The saving acts of God, due to the work of Jesus on the cross and Jesus' resurrection from the dead bring reconciliation ("atonement") between people and God. This is why the Gospel is described as a message of hope for the whole world (Luke 14:15-24).
The word 'grace' itself is described by one author as "the last, best word" in English, remaining… | eng | 5e4c22c7-8869-416b-abdc-4bfa73f61a2f | https://www.carrielloydshaw.com/category/grace/ |
Empowering young women with LOVE
This video celebrates International Women's Day by highlighting the journey of LOVE founder Claudia Espinosa.
Espinoza: If you come from a different background, you have to assimilate into the new culture. So when you think about the psychological development of an adolescent, all the other things that young people are dealing with, and you add this new process of acculturation and belonging, it can seem really overwhelming. If you don't have the right support and guidance, a lot can go wrong.
WSN: Claudia Espinoza moved to New York from Cali, Colombia in 2000. Although she had to adapt to a new culture and overcome many obstacles, she persevered.
Espinoza: I am currently at NYU Steinhardt. I am pursuing a doctorate in education and the goal is to graduate this May. What I see myself doing is really using my talents, skills, and passion to make a big impact on the education that young people, but especially young women, get in New York City. And I think there are big gaps and a lot more to do, and so I want to use this degree to do that.
WSN: Back in 2012, while Espinoza was still pursuing her master's degree in public administration at New York University Wagner, she founded the nonprofit Latinos on the Edge of Excellence, the LOVE Mentoring Program. From volunteering to funding, LOVE has continued to grow over the past 11 years to empower young immigrants, especially young women.
Espinoza: We have developed partnerships with public schools throughout New York. We insist on health education, and the goal is to improve the education that young women receive in high schools, mainly related to mental health, reproductive health, college and career preparation. Therefore, every week we visit our partner schools, conduct hour-long sessions supported by our program coordinators. But the main component is mentoring. We recruit college students who attend our partner schools and help arrange classes.
Suarez: My favorite thing about teaching, especially in school, is how smart the young girls are. I love having these intellectual conversations with them, talking to them about these difficult issues and seeing them really make a difference from my perspective. I think it's very powerful, and I think I'm also exposed to different cultures, being in our background, you know, where our culture influences how we look at things. It really is such a diverse experience.
WSN: Is there a particular person or incident that inspired you to do this?
Espinoza: I worked for an organization many years ago, and I supported young Latin Americans. They started the program because young Latinos in New York City have the highest rate of suicide attempts. They moved here, maybe without families, without speaking the language. Thinking or feeling, "Can I do this?" can make you think about many things. It can lead you to depression, it can lead to feelings of hopelessness.
WSN: According to new CDC data released on February 13, 2023, nearly three in five American teenage girls felt consistently sad or hopeless in 2021, a nearly 60% increase and the highest rate reported in a decade.
WSN: Who is your role model, or who supported you when you felt completely hopeless?
Espinoza: So I grew up in a good family. I was lucky enough to get a good education at Columbia, so I had, I would say, the pillars that a lot of the young women we support don't have. And also being part of the same community, I felt that I wanted to do something to change this reality.
WSN: And there are also many students of color, and especially women of color, struggling and facing self-doubt in college who want to be entrepreneurs like you. What advice would you like to give them?
Espinoza: Well, first, be clear about what you want to do, because this is very important. So, with a clear understanding of what that specific goal is, what makes your idea different? One thing I can tell you is that people have 10 seconds of attention, and if you don't understand what you want, you're wasting those 10 seconds. So I would say for any woman, you know, from any background, it doesn't matter – just be clear about what you want. And then when you've determined what it is, go get it because you can do it. | eng | c2ac6d81-305f-451a-abc1-5e16da924950 | https://newslivewashington.com/empowering-young-women-with-love/123157/ |
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🎧 Anne Lister: The First Modern Lesbian?
t's a rare thing to hear first hand the experiences of marginalised people in history. So often their voices are silenced, and their histories erased.
Which is why Anne Lister's diaries, which tell us in intimate details what it was like to be a proud lesbian in 19th century Yorkshire, are such an important resource.
What was grobbling? What is Anne Lister's legacy? And what do her coded diaries tell us about life as a lesbian during the industrial revolution? Join us today as we delve Betwixt the Sheets on the legacy of Anne Lister, with historian Anne Choma, the lead adviser on BBC One's series of Anne Lister, Gentleman Jack, and author of 'Gentleman Jack - The Real Anne Lister'.
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🎧 A History of Queer Women
One thing's for certain, queer people have always been a part of society. The language may not have always been there to describe them in all of their wonderful forms, and the history books may not have always told their stories, but they have always been there. | eng | 668e5fbd-9911-4792-95a3-e3937970ac97 | https://access.historyhit.com/betwixt-the-sheets/videos/anne-lister-the-first-modern-lesbian |
A few reasons why queer allies hesitate to support you publicly!
Queer allies are generally people who come forward to support people from the queer community in every possible way and also stand against all the odds to face queerphobic societal norms. These allies are pretty much important for any queer person to bring normality to society and mostly all these queer allies are heterosexuals. They can be your friends, relatives, cousins and well-wishers. Amidst these judgmental scenarios in society, supporting patterns are also getting compromised because of the narrow mindsets of people around. Hence, the queer allies who truly want to support queer people publicly, hesitate a bit to show their love and support and the reasons are ridiculous to even consider but you being a queer person, need to know and fight against such complexities to make sure your queer allies happily support you without any hesitation.
It's extremely distressing to feel one's sexual orientation becoming doubtful and being at stake when one supports queer people. This is a common phenomenon where some prudish people doubt a heterosexual person's gender identity and sexual orientation if he/she supports any queer person. In addition to that, these people even target and tag them as queer people by spreading unnecessary rumours about the orientations of true queer allies. Imagine, if you are a queer person and someone tags you as straight, how do you feel? You surely get offended, right? So it is quite understandable for any queer ally to hesitate to extend their support to any queer person publicly.
Your queer ally can be supportive and protective, but it doesn't mean the people belonging to your queer ally's circle can show the same kind of support. Various people have various mindsets, and you can't expect the same behaviour from every person. Under the influence of such people be it queerphobic people or people who aren't aware of people who are stubborn to accept, there is a possibility of mixed supporting behaviour from your true queer ally, especially in public. Sometimes the people in your queer allies' lives may become the strong reason for the hesitation of extending support to you publicly.
Similarly, if you are best friends with many straight people, you can easily understand how different your queer life is when compared to theirs and sometimes you may feel odd about their behaviour when they act a little restrictive and rigid when you people are hanging out together in public, especially if you are that queer person whose dressing patterns and behavioural patterns are queer.
Even though your mom is your closest queer ally, she may feel a bit hesitant to talk about you when she knows that people are going to judge you, and your best girl pal may not include you in her party plans when she is with her homophobic boyfriend, your cousins may ask you to compromise your queer personality because their friends are not aware of anything about the queer community, you may not get invited for some events where conservative people make their presences, you may feel left out when your friends don't tag you along to a place which is a small town filled with close-minded people. All these people are your true queer allies but sometimes they end up thinking twice before extending their support publicly to you for being a queer person.
In this modern scenario, being a queer person isn't a big deal but at the same time, some conservative and conventional people portray it as a big deal as if it is a sin to be a queer person. In a workspace where thousands of people work together under the same roof, you can't expect everyone to accept you and your orientation without judging you. Because of these very people, your true queer allies may hesitate to extend their support to you in some degrading situations by thinking about the further consequences and complications.
So, being a queer how do you nullify this phenomenon, where you make sure your queer allies remain undisturbed without getting influenced by these petty-minded people? Well, even though you feel it is a disgusting factor, sometimes you need to accept and understand the scenario from your queer ally's point of view. To blur the lines, all you can do is to bring the improvement in the situation by toning down the whole scenario. This can happen only if you know where to and where not to expect their support, at least this won't bring you disappointment. And if you are brave enough to deal with the situation, stand for yourself and stand for your queer allies by announcing their unconditional support to society. Also, work for the change where you publicly make your queer allies comfortable enough to support you without hesitation. This takes some time to settle and make your queer ally give no damn to people when it comes to being with you without compromising their sexual orientations. And it all happens only when you and your queer allies understand each other better. | eng | 8714b3f7-9a40-4533-a0e0-3bca6fb43500 | https://www.everydayqueerlife.com/post/a-few-reasons-why-queer-allies-hesitate-to-support-you-publicly |
Re: Perl 5.10.1 Smartmatch Num ~~ Numish Options
* Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> [2009-09-02 00:00]:
> In Perl 5 you can't make the difference between a string and
> a number.
And FWIW, this actually extends further: there is also no boolean
type in Perl 5. Truth is simply a property of most scalar values
and does not have a separate identity (ie. it is not some
distinct value in its own right). So you also cannot tell whether
a scalar is a boolean or not.
Which causes some annoyance in dealing with JSON or Bencode.
Regards,
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Westward expansion, also known as the settling of the American West, was a major development in the history of the United States. During the 19th century, the country experienced a significant growth in population, economy, and territory as settlers moved westward in search of land, opportunity, and a better life. This expansion was driven by a variety of factors, including the desire for land, the desire for new opportunities, and the belief in Manifest Destiny, the idea that it was the divine right of the United States to expand across the continent.
One of the primary reasons for westward expansion was the desire for land. As the population of the United States grew, the demand for land also increased. Many people saw the West as a place where they could start a new life and own their own land. This desire for land was particularly strong among farmers, who saw the fertile soil of the West as an opportunity to start their own farms and provide for their families.
In addition to the desire for land, the desire for new opportunities also played a role in westward expansion. Many people saw the West as a place where they could start a new life and pursue their dreams. This was particularly true for people who were unable to achieve success in the East, where the competition for jobs and opportunities was often fierce. The West offered a chance for these people to start over and build a new life for themselves.
The belief in Manifest Destiny was also a driving force behind westward expansion. This idea, which held that it was the divine right of the United States to expand across the continent, was used to justify the acquisition of new territory and the displacement of indigenous peoples. Many Americans believed that it was their destiny to settle the West and bring civilization to the "uncivilized" lands.
Westward expansion had a significant impact on the United States. It contributed to the growth and development of the country, and it also had a profound effect on the indigenous peoples who lived in the West. Many of these indigenous peoples were forced off their land and subjected to violence and exploitation as the United States expanded.
Overall, westward expansion played a major role in the history of the United States. It contributed to the growth and development of the country, but it also had a significant impact on the indigenous peoples who lived in the West. Despite the many challenges and conflicts that arose during this period, the expansion of the United States into the West ultimately shaped the country into what it is today.
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America fought back against the impressment against American Sailors. The rapid expansion of infrastructure, more specifically the railroads, would then purge the country into a new era of medicine, manufacture, and agricultural inventions Neil, 1964. The Louisiana Purchase helped create better security against foreign powers. As the expansion continued, so did their teaching of democracy and capitalism all across the country. Share this: Facebook Facebook logo Twitter Twitter logo Reddit Reddit logo LinkedIn LinkedIn logo WhatsApp WhatsApp logo Former president Thomas Jefferson believed that for our nation to succeed, we needed to expand and that our nation future it depended on the westward expansion, he also thought that the republic depended on the virtuous citizenry for its survival. People in America at the time looked towards the future wealth they could obtain by expanding west. Westward Expansion After Civil War 762 Words 4 Pages In the years following the Revolutionary War the United States would begin to expand, although not popular among all citizens, it helped shape the country into what we know today.
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The territory was rich in natural resources, including timber, minerals, and fertile land, and it was strategically located at the mouth of the Mississippi River, which was a major transportation and trade route. Capitalism is a mostly non controlling government so you would have a lot of freedom and choice. Yet blacks encountered segregation in the North as well. One of the most important impacts of the Louisiana Purchase was the expansion of the United States into the western part of the continent. However, the chief force beyond internal US conflict in the nineteenth century, which repeatedly threatened the state of the Union and eventually drove the nation to civil war, was not the institution of slavery itself, not necessarily the question of whether or not persons could be owned and treated as chattel property or not.
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The Supreme Court decided that any federal law that is unconstitutional it will not have any bearing on decisions within the courts. In 1682, the French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, also known as Sieur de La Salle, claimed the Mississippi River Valley for France and named it Louisiana in honor of King Louis XIV. Having heard stories of the fertile land and abundant game in Kentucky that lay beyond the forbidding Appalachian Mountains, Daniel Boone often set out in the wilderness to explore westward expansion essay land and to hunt for beaver-skin that was much in demand in Europe. The war lasted for two years with a win for the Americans after several small victories at sea. The Native Americans were conquered and the railroads brought greater civilizations. Conclusion To conclude, the idea of manifest destiny has played an important role in preparing the country for the westward expansion. Despite the government's favor for territorial expansion, the controversy was spread throughout the 13 colonies on the idea of expansion.
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The railroads allowed helped the farmers by connecting them to other regions to sell their products. As the lands were inhabited, it came with a challenge as they tried to expand their properties by acquiring it from the Native Americans by any means. This led to achieving the ultimate goal of possession and the United States which spread from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean. The Louisiana Purchase was a significant event in American history because it significantly expanded the size of the United States and played a pivotal role in the country's development. If the United States had not conducted its policy in accordance with the manifest destiny, it might have experienced a certain economic decline caused by a resource scarcity; a swell in population might have yielded to heavy mortality due to the increased fights for the limited resources and the spate of criminal activities caused by high unemployment.
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Some examples of government sponsored reasons include the Homestead Acts, Mexican War, and the Gadsden Purchase. The immigrants started to flocked to cities to work in factories. Andrew Carnegie used horizontal integration which created a monopoly. Since the West was underdeveloped and uncivilized, many decided to expand the land. The biggest clash between the two was the Fourteenth Amendment 1866, which gave citizenship to everyone born in the U. This would not be the only acquisition of territory that the United States would complete between the years of 1789 and 1815 but it would be the initial acquisition of territory that would develop this newly formed nation. I think the biggest reason for the movement was all of the new land.
The American settlers were moving rapidly to what is referred to as the Midwest today and this necessitated the development of infrastructure through the development of canals, roads, and railroads. This expansion opened up new opportunities for settlement and development, and it played a key role in the country's westward expansion. The government even encouraged Western Expansion by passing the Homestead act, which promises to give 160 acres of land to anyone who can live in the West for five continuous years. There were many different reasons why people moved, including a search for a fresh start at life, a chance at starting an economic success through agriculture and …show more content… People were drawn to the West because it was scene as the last resort to make a living when all else failed in the East. The Louisiana Purchase was a land deal between the United States and France in which the United States acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River.
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After the decision Aaron removed himself which left the Federalist in charge of the House. The purchase gave the US access to the Mississippi river which allowed for expansion of river trade to the North and South from the center of the US. The war was knocking at the door, and on April 12, 1861 the Confederates bombarded Union soldiers at Fort Sumter, South Carolina. The proper role of government is support the growing country and to spread capitalism. Under the Compromise, California was admitted to the Union as a free state; the slave trade was outlawed in Washington, D.
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In 1848, American victory in the Mexican—American war yielded huge acquisition of land and increased domestic tensions over slavery. With boundless territory to conquer and a growing sense of nationalism, many citizens of the United States felt that it was their duty and obligation to expand from Expansion Of Westward Expansion Prior to the 1800s, US expansion had been accepted by the government in the thirteen colonies. They hoped to start farming when they reached Kansas, however many failed because of the lack of money to start a farm. At the same time, the United States was also facing a number of challenges and was looking to expand its territory. Conclusion Westward Expansion Westward Expansion Essay Examples Many students are faced with westward expansion essay problem of finding ideas for writing their essays. The negotiator asked him to name the price for the entire territory. He took James Monroe into custody.
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The prices for products became cheaper and workers salaries increased slightly. Farmers were able to buy fertile farmland cheaply in states like Iowa, Nebraska, and …show more content… Tens of thousands of people moved, creating future cities like San Francisco and Denver. The Republicans wanted to remind everyone that the Democrats were traitors while the Democrats called themselves the Redeemers, who had saved the South from Republican and Black domination. Grant become President of the U. This led to a boom in mining towns and the growth of industries such as timber and ranching. Now that Jefferson is in office he started creating his cabinet and his administration.
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This website contains a database with more than 50 essay examples, using which you can easily find inspiration for creating your own essay on Westward Expansion. These farmers did not mind high prices and high interest on loans due to the growing success of American agricultural products. The Homestead Acts was one of the first reasons for westward expansion. The American West was a vast, largely unsettled region with plenty of land available for farming, ranching, and mining. When Jefferson became President in 1801, one of his main goals was to secure the port of New Orleans and the surrounding territory for the United States. In March of 1811, Congress brought in several your Republicans from the West and the South which would came to be known as the War Hawks. | eng | 4c79e24f-061d-4985-8481-c984b9612d68 | http://blog.sigma-systems.com/westward-expansion-essay.html |
Asianart.org – Challenge Your Perception of Asian Art
Art affects different individuals in different ways. For some it is motivating, invigorating, and a way for them to put their life into perspective, or and to a context. Other see art as a way to better understand the artist, the time that he or she lived in, and the circumstances that affect their way of viewing the world. Regardless of the affect that artistic expression has on you, the people at asianart.org are hoping that their exhibit of artwork from the Orient will move you to feel something.
Jay Xu, director of the Asian Art Museum says that his goal in presenting his collection of artwork is to inspire people to have conversations, and to challenge their ideas, and their perception of certain things. He also mentioned that the artwork that is being displayed at the museum, is from multiple countries, and from multiple time periods. According asianart.org his mission is to lead a diverse global audience in discovering the unique material, aesthetic, and intellectual achievements of Asian art and culture.
There are multiple exhibits on display, and a visitor to asianart.org can learn a little bit about all of them. You are invited to see for example why the exhibits of PHANTOMS OF ASIA Contemporary Awakens the Past has generated so much interest. You will be given the chance to immerse yourself in the more than 2000 works of art that come from countries like China, Japan, and Korea. You are being invited to learn about their cultural, historical, and religious significance. All of this and more awaits you at this museum. | eng | d8cc5d7e-7755-4667-8617-bad2e5393783 | https://www.killerstartups.com/review/asianart-org-challenge-your-perception-of-asian-art |
Everything to know about Cavities
Yes, it is still common for children to get cavities. The goal is to identify risk early enough so that you can take more preventative action versus restorative action.
So what exactly are cavities?
A cavity is essentially a hole in a tooth caused by a small bacterial infection of that specific tooth structure. Cavities can show up in different ways but are more frequently a darker black to brown area on a tooth. If your dentist detects a cavity, either visibly on a chewing surface or hidden between the teeth, it should be treated early to prevent problems.
If left untreated, a cavity rarely if ever repairs itself. A cavity will continue to damage a tooth by eroding away more enamel and dentin until pain and swelling become a problem. This can lead to a lot of pain and result in dental abscess/infection, expensive dental work or even early tooth loss and shifting of permanent teeth.
How do cavities develop?
Our mouths are full of bacteria!
Cavities occur when harmful bacteria breakdown the sugar we eat and produce an acidic by-product. The more time teeth are exposed to these acids, the more likely they are to decay. Routinely brushing our teeth reduces this acidity and therefore reduced the risk for cavities.
How will I know if my child is developing a cavity?
The first sign of tooth decay might be the appearance of a white spot on the tooth. A white spot appears when there is a loss of enamel. Enamel is the hard, protective cover of our teeth.
If holes in the enamel are being formed faster than they can be repaired then a cavity will start developing. Once a cavity has formed, the white spot will likely become black or brown, get bigger and lead to the previously mentioned problems if not treated.
How do you treat a cavity?
Be sure to visit your dentist twice a year so they can keep an eye on your little ones teeth. You can also incorporate these oral tips in their daily routine. Give us a call at (949) 644-0611 to schedule your appointment. | eng | 2b718f6f-dc5d-40d4-ae7b-2976705ba640 | https://herschsmiles.com/everything-to-know-about-cavities/ |
A biology experiment requires the preparation of a water bath at 37.0∘C( body temperature). The temperature of the cold tap water is 22.0∘C, and the temperature of the hot tap water is 55.0∘C. If a student starts with 90.0 g of cold water, what mass of hot water must be added to reach 37.0∘C? | eng | 2c2c3b5f-0679-4a6e-8576-a55fd4065ab6 | https://ask.learncbse.in/t/a-biology-experiment-requires-the-preparation-of-a-water-bath-at-37-0-c-body-temperature/58443 |
Stove and Oven Repair Services in Pflugerville, Texas
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Fixing your stove and oven is generally cheaper than replacing them. However, if your oven is old and regularly breaking down, it could be better to buy a new one. You might need a new oven if yours has a rusted interior or cracks in the glass that can allow heat to escape and lead to longer cooking times.
Both types of ovens have their own advantages. Electric ovens are less expensive and distribute heat more evenly, which makes them better for roasting and baking. However, gas ovens are quicker to heat up and cook food. | eng | 638fd509-bc61-41ac-aa14-7c6070f1f755 | https://www.ahs.com/services/stove-and-oven-repair/pflugerville-tx/ |
COVID-19 Prevention Statement By Survivors2 Advocacy Group, Greece
This direct advocacy piece from a group of torture survivors living in Greece is important because it highlights the unique power and expertise that survivors hold, as they speak directly to issues they are being affected by and living through. Their piece also highlights the failures of the Greek government to protect them from COVID-19, which in the end is a failure to protect everyone living in Greece.
Survivors2 is a self-advocacy group comprising asylum seekers, refugees and undocumented people who have experienced torture currently living in Greece. All members of the group are either current or former patients of the Medécins sans Frontières rehabilitation clinic for torture survivors, based in Athens, Greece. In this piece the group directly addresses the Greek government on its own and on 'behalf of their brothers and sisters living in Greece.'
They state that as well as their health having intrinsic importance and that they have a right to health care in Greece, their health is directly linked to all people in Greece and the Greek state. They highlight that the government has been intent on stemming the spread of COVID-19 amongst its citizens, but it has not focused on protecting the more than 115,000 refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented people. They go on to describe the abysmal living and sanitation conditions of Moria reception centre on Lesvos and the failure to provide people with adequate information and resources about how they can protect themselves. They are worried. Everyone must stay at home, but Survivors2 asks: "What happens if your home is in a camp?" How can people be expected to follow government guidelines when they have no access to the necessary resources? The group emphasises that the government has been abusing and marginalising refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented people for years and that the conditions they are forced to live in are dangerous.
Survivors2 ends by reminding the government that, just like all other citizens in Greece they too inhabit the country, also have a right to healthcare and that they are worried about their own health and the health of the country. They then provide some recommendations for the government. | eng | a15218bb-fd92-4217-87a3-24316041e29d | https://lamplifeboatladder.org/blog/posts/2021/march/covid-19-prevention-statement-by-survivors2-advocacy-group-greece/ |
Melamine
Melamine is a thermosetting plastic that is known for its durability, heat resistance, and chemical resistance.
By Carl Nesset
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Melamine: An Overview of Material Properties, History, and Industrial Usage
Melamine is a synthetic organic compound with a chemical formula of C3H6N6. It is a white crystalline powder that is most commonly used in the manufacturing of plastics, laminates, adhesives, and coatings. Melamine is a durable and heat-resistant material that is also resistant to chemicals, making it a popular choice in a variety of industrial applications.
Melamine was first synthesised in the early 1830s by a German chemist named Justus von Liebig. However, it was not until the 1950s that Melamine began to be used on an industrial scale. In the years since it has become a popular material in many industries due to its unique properties and versatility.
What is it:
Melamine is a thermosetting plastic that is lightweight, durable, and highly resistant to heat, chemicals, and moisture. It is a good electrical insulator and has low thermal conductivity. Melamine is also resistant to scratches and impact, making it ideal for use in products that require high durability.
Material Properties of Melamine
Melamine is a thermosetting plastic, which means that it is a material that can only be moulded or shaped once. Once heated and set, it cannot be re-moulded or reshaped. This makes Melamine a popular choice for products that require high durability and resistance to heat and chemicals.
Melamine has several other unique properties as well, including its high strength-to-weight ratio, low thermal conductivity, and excellent electrical insulation properties. It is also resistant to water, acid, and alkaline substances.
Industrial Usage of Melamine
Melamine is used in a wide range of industrial applications, including the production of laminates, adhesives, coatings, and plastics. It is commonly used as a binder in manufacturing particleboard, a type of engineered wood product. It is also used in the production of melamine foam, which is a soft, lightweight material that is used for insulation, soundproofing, and cleaning.
One of the most common industrial applications for Melamine is in the production of melamine formaldehyde (MF) resin. This resin is used in the manufacture of laminates and coatings, as well as in the production of moulded products like plates, bowls, and other household items.
Application Areas of Melamine
Melamine is used in a variety of applications, including consumer products, industrial products, and even in the automotive industry. It is commonly used in tableware manufacturing, including plates, bowls, and cups. It also produces kitchen utensils, like spatulas and mixing spoons.
Melamine is also used to produce high-pressure laminates (HPL), which are used in various applications, including countertops, furniture, and wall coverings. HPL is a durable and attractive material resistant to moisture, heat, and chemicals.
Consumer Product Examples
Melamine is used in various consumer products, including dishes, utensils, and even children's toys. One of the most common uses for Melamine in consumer products is in manufacturing dinnerware, like plates and bowls. These products are popular because they are durable, lightweight, and breakage-resistant.
However, it is essential to note that there have been concerns about the safety of Melamine in certain consumer products. In 2008, a large-scale scandal erupted in China when it was discovered that Melamine had been added to infant formula to boost its protein content. This led to widespread recalls and some infant deaths. As a result, there is ongoing concern about the safety of Melamine in certain products, particularly those that come into contact with food.
Recycling of Melamine
Melamine can be recycled, but it is not a widely used practice. Melamine's recycling process is complex and costly, making it less attractive than other materials that are easier to recycle. Additionally, melamine products often contain other materials, such as adhesives or laminates, making recycling more difficult.
Melamine is a thermosetting plastic that cannot be melted and reformed like thermoplastics. This makes the recycling process for Melamine more complex and less common. However, some methods of recycling Melamine have been developed.
The most common method for recycling Melamine is through a chemical recycling process that involves breaking down the plastic into its chemical components. This process typically involves heating the material to high temperatures in the presence of a chemical catalyst, which breaks down the melamine resin into its constituent parts. The resulting material can then be used as a raw material to produce new plastic products.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Melamine Recycling
One advantage of recycling Melamine is that it can help reduce the amount of plastic waste generated. Recycling melamine also has the potential to conserve natural resources by reducing the need for virgin plastic materials. Additionally, recycling melamine can be more cost-effective than producing new plastic from scratch.
However, there are also some disadvantages to recycling melamine. One challenge is that the process can be complex and costly, making it less attractive than other materials that are easier to recycle. Additionally, melamine products often contain other materials, such as adhesives or laminates, making recycling more difficult.
Environmental and Global Impact of Melamine Recycling
Recycling Melamine can positively impact the environment by reducing the amount of plastic waste sent to landfills or incinerated. This can help conserve natural resources and reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with producing new plastic materials.
However, the impact of melamine recycling on a global scale currently needs to be improved due to the challenges associated with the recycling process. In addition, there needs to be more infrastructure and investment in melamine recycling facilities, which can make it challenging to scale up recycling efforts.
Despite these challenges, there is growing interest in developing new technologies and processes for melamine recycling. This could lead to increased recycling rates and a reduction in the environmental impact of plastic waste.
In conclusion, while melamine recycling can be more complex and less common than other plastics, it has the potential to reduce plastic waste and conserve natural resources. While there are challenges associated with melamine recycling, including the complexity of the process and the limited infrastructure for recycling, new technologies and processes are being developed that could increase recycling rates and reduce the environmental impact of plastic waste.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Melamine Compared to Alternative Plastics
Melamine has several advantages over other plastics, including its high durability, resistance to heat and chemicals, and low thermal conductivity. It is also a lightweight material, making it easy to handle and transport. Additionally, Melamine is an affordable option compared to other materials, such as porcelain or ceramic.
However, there are also some disadvantages to using Melamine. One of the main concerns is the potential for contamination, particularly when used in food and beverage products. Melamine is not recommended for use in microwave ovens, as it can release toxic gases when heated.
Market Price Developments of Melamine
The market price for Melamine can vary based on a variety of factors, including supply and demand, raw material costs, and global economic conditions. In recent years, the price of Melamine has been relatively stable, with minor fluctuations in response to changing market conditions.
Future Market Prognosis of Melamine
The future market for Melamine is expected to grow, particularly in emerging markets where there is a high demand for affordable and durable consumer products. However, there is also growing concern about the safety of Melamine in certain applications, particularly those that come into contact with food.
As a result, there is likely to be increasing demand for alternative materials that offer similar properties to Melamine but with improved safety profiles. This could include materials like bamboo or bioplastics, which are more environmentally friendly and may offer safer alternatives for use in consumer products.
Melamine
Melamine is a thermosetting plastic known for its durability, heat, and chemical resistance. It is widely used in manufacturing industrial and consumer products, including dishware, kitchen utensils, automotive parts, and electrical components. While Melamine has several advantages over other materials, such as affordability and low thermal conductivity, there are also some concerns about its safety and potential for contamination. Nevertheless, the future market for Melamine is expected to grow, particularly in emerging markets with a high demand for affordable and durable consumer products.
As the demand for sustainable materials and circular economy practices grows, it is important for the plastics and recycling industries to explore new ways of reducing waste and improving the reuse and recovery of materials like Melamine. This includes developing innovative recycling technologies, educating consumers about responsible disposal, and promoting the use of sustainable alternatives to Melamine in appropriate applications. By working together, we can create a more sustainable and resilient future for the plastics industry and the planet as a whole | eng | fd2859d9-109e-4e1c-abb9-ec1b2b9bf072 | https://www.recycledplastic.com/melamine/ |
How To Enter A Financial Market
There are many ways of getting into a financial market. Investors are daily bombarded with opportunities to trade and invest and the question of which method is best often arises.
Whether you are investing or trading, you will need to look at price movements and make decisions based on those movements. At the heart of both are prediction and forecast. Through the analysis of data, investors decide to trade or invest in a business because of the potential they see in its future.
Entering a financial market has many points of entry including Contracts For Differences (CFDs) and investing.
What Are CFDs?
Contracts For Differences (CFDs) are contracts between an investor and a company. The trader may buy or sell to the company, under the stipulation of the contract. When the contract has ended, the parties exchange the differences between the opening and closing trade prices. These types of contracts are always settled in cash. Physical goods, products or securities are never a means of payment.
Investors can benefit from price movements without owning a single asset. In essence, contracts for differences are a trading strategy. They are a form of derivative trading. A derivative contract derives its value from the performance of the underlying assets.
What Are Investments
An investment is when an investor takes full ownership of an asset or shares within a company. It is particularly suitable for those who want long term value increments rather than shorter term.
Investors benefit from increments in prices and they may also be recipients of dividends and rights to vote if such benefits are applicable and available for them.
Unlike in CFDs, leveraging is not an option. This is because the investment is direct.
The only way to profit through investment is by prices rising above the initial opening point. This is unlike CFDs that can benefit both from falls and rises in prices.
Differences Between CFDs And Investing
You do need to own or purchase an asset when trading CFDs. They rely on the underlying price value of assets without investing in the full price. Investing on the other hand requires that an investor own an asset to trade.
CFDs are normally exempted from stamp duty. This is usually because CFDs do not require investors to purchase assets. They do have to pay capital gains tax for profit made. Investments are not exempted from stamp duty because of their ownership of underlying assets.
CFDs requires active trading because of their short term nature. Investing, however, is more passive because they are a long term investment.
Which Is Better? – CFDs or Investing
CFDs are two very different methods of entering into a financial market and various factors need to be considered when deciding which is the better alternative.
CFDs Have the following benefits;
It has wide access to various markets
It trades based on leverage
Traders have two options i.e. going long or short.
Allows investors to save on money through stamp duty.
It does not have time constraints and therefore, has no expiration date.
Disadvantages of CFDs
The risks are very high. You can end up losing more than you invested
Leverage makes margins in losses greater i.e. it magnifies losses just as much as it does for profits.
Choosing brokers can be tricky for CFDs. It is relatively difficult to know those that are legitimate. This is generally because the market being generally unrestricted.
Share trading (investing) has the following benefits;
It mainly deals with global stocks and ETFs.
Allows investors to take ownership of assets.
It is suitable for investors who are comfortable paying for the full value of an asset beforehand.
Conclusion
Any investor must do their research thoroughly before determining their mode of entry into a financial market. Consider factors like whether you want to trade short term or invest long term. Coming into the market with an informed mind makes any investor less likely to make errors and also to make smarter choices. Assessing the risks involved as well makes it easier to decide which investments or trades are better. CFDs are usually not recommended for beginners. It is not easy to comprehend and the statistics show that up to 76% of investors lose their money. | eng | 2c8f5a69-7375-47d6-8b4a-3ba7e84e3274 | https://capital-investment.ch/2021/08/07/how-to-enter-a-financial-market/ |
Number Tracing Printable Worksheets
Number tracing is an entertaining number recognition activity. Number tracing displays various numbers that are easy for children to understand. By doing number tracing, children's fine motor skills will improve.
What is Number Tracing?
Number tracing is an entertaining number recognition activity. Number tracing displays various numbers that are easy for children to understand. By doing number tracing, children's fine motor skills will improve. Number tracing can also improve hand-eye coordination and recognize numbers easily.
Number tracing is taught to children to help them recognize numbers easily. These tracing activities are an important foundation for learning to read and write. Because they have to move their fingers to do the tracing, this activity can make them have good handwriting skills.
You need to teach children about number tracing from an early age. Train them to use number tracing worksheets. This worksheet is the easiest tool to teach number tracing to children. They have to practice doing number tracing every day.
Not only can they be traced, those numbers can also be written and colored. These activities can be taught to preschoolers and kindergarteners. Number tracing can be taught at school and at home.
How to Teach Number Tracing to Kids?
Actually, you can do many ways to teach number tracing to children. Most teachers will ask children to do number tracing one by one on the board. You can also use flashcards or pictures to help children do number tracing in a fun way. An example is by using pumpkin-themed number templates.
However, we recommend that you use a number tracing worksheet. If using a worksheet, use a worksheet with a clear font. Fonts are important in making it easier for children to do number tracing on the worksheet.
If the font used is not clear, it will be difficult for children to read the numbers there. Finally, it will make it difficult for them to do number tracing.
When teaching number tracing to children, start teaching number tracing with the easiest numbers first. So, you can teach numbers 1-10. If children understand those numbers, move on to teaching complex numbers.
If they already understand a lot of numbers, teach them to write the numbers down. Later, those worksheets can also be used to teach children about mathematical calculations using number counting worksheets or color by number math worksheets.
What are Number Tracing Activities?
There are several number tracing activities that can be the best way to teach number tracing in a fun way. An example is creating a worksheet with simple math operations written using dotted lines. Children can trace the numbers and calculate the results of the calculation.
In addition, you can also create a worksheet with several numbers. Then, create an image that represents the number. An example is the number 4 and four apple images. The number 4 needs to be written with a dotted line. You can also ask the children to do some of the following number-tracing activities.
Numbers Collage: You can use magnetic numbers to teach number tracing to kids. Give them some magnetic numbers and let them trace the numbers on the paper using a marker. They can also trace the numbers using watercolors and their fingers.
Calendar: Kids can use the calendar to trace numbers. There are numbers 1-31 on the calendar. You can write the numbers on the calendar with a dotted line. Children can trace all the numbers with their fingers or writing tools.
Projection: Use a projector and draw numbers. You can use a projector to create shadows on the wall. Children can trace the shadow of the number using their fingers.
What are the Benefits of Number Tracing?
Number tracing is an activity that is often taught to children. Why? This is because children will get many benefits from number outline tracing. Here are some of the main benefits of number tracing for kids.
Learn to Draw: Although number tracing is related to numbers, children can learn to draw from number tracing. So, number tracing helps children to understand various shapes of numbers through the number outlines. By studying these shapes, children can make unique pictures from these shapes. So, if you want to make children able to draw well, you can teach number tracing to children.
Simplify the Learning Process: As we have explained above, number tracing is a great way to start teaching complex numbers. Therefore, number tracing is a tool that turns complex things into simple things. So, children can use number tracing to do a simple learning process. You can use the concept of tracing in various learning activities for children to help them understand new things.
Developing Other Skills: Number tracing is also a way to develop various skills. The main skills that can be improved by using number tracing are visual-spatial and fine motor skills. Those two skills play an important role in helping children learn to read, write, and count.
Increase Confidence: Children who frequently do number tracing will also have good self-confidence. That's because they have to write the numbers. If they can do that, they must be proud of themselves. It can increase their self-confidence.
Understanding Details: If children cannot understand details, you can use number tracing as a tool to help children understand details. The reason is, children have to focus on various shapes of numbers. So, they will understand all the details of the numbers. This ability can help them to understand the details of other objects easily.
Article written by Shasmitha Mutiara, last updated on Sep 19, 2021 and edited by Printablee Team.
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In pre-Columbian Mexico the tomatillo was most likely consumed in greater quantities than red tomatoes. Although often mistaken for green tomatoes tomatillos are actually members of the same botanical family as gooseberries and not related to the tomato.
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 yellow onion, finely chopped
1 clove garlic, finely minced
6 to 8 tomatillos, husks removed, coarsely chopped
4 mild, long green chilis, toasted, peeled, seeded and chopped
1/4 cup water
2 teaspspoons chopped cilantro
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Instructions: Pour the oil in a non-stick saucepan and saute the onion and garlic for 3 to 4 minutes, Add the tomatillos, chilis and water and cook over low heat for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool, then stir in the cilantro, salt and pepper. Chill in refrigerator for at least an hour before serving. | eng | 9b5060ac-7654-47fa-a0bf-2bc0b02a2a9a | https://www.baxtercountymg.com/monthly-newsletter/green-chili-tomatillo-salsa |
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How to Avoid Common Thanksgiving Injuries
While Thanksgiving is known as a day to reflect on what matters most in your life, if you're not careful, it can also include a trip to the emergency room. The Ochsner Health Emergency Department shares these tips for avoiding common Thanksgiving injuries:
Burns
Cooking a Thanksgiving meal is a lot of work and preparation can last several hours. When you are trying to manage too many dishes at once, handling boiling hot pots and pans or removing a heavy turkey from the oven, burns are bound to happen. To prevent them, make sure to use oven mitts, avoid wearing loose clothing and keep pot handles away from the front edge of the stove. Above all, pay attention and move slowly. Too many cooks in the kitchen got you distracted? Tell them to go mingle with other guests in another room.
Home Fires
According to the National Fire Protection Association, unattended cooking accounts for 40 percent of home fires on Thanksgiving. Keep your home safe by paying attention when cooking and having a fire extinguisher on hand. If you're deep frying a turkey, make sure your turkey is fully thawed before cooking and always deep fry outdoors.
Knife Injuries
You've spent hours cooking the perfect turkey—don't let it be ruined by an inexperienced carver, or a dull knife. Take your time and make sure you give any task that requires knifework to someone who knows what they are doing. Keep your knives sharp for easy slicing and your cutting board secure, so there is no excess movement when working. Be sure to slice away from your palms and fingers and never look away while using a knife. If you drop a knife, don't try to catch it, just let the knife fall to the floor. Lastly, make sure to keep all knives out of the reach of children.
Food Poisoning
You've overindulged on the big Thanksgiving meal and are ready for a nice nap, so you don't bother putting the food away since you're just going to eat again in a few hours. That's a holiday recipe for food poisoning.
There are a variety of factors that can contribute to foodborne illness, the medical term for food poisoning:
Food not heated to proper temperatures
Poor air circulation from an overstuffed refrigerator
Leaving food out for several hours
Some safe food-handling tips include:
Refrigerate all food right away at the proper temperature, 40 degrees Fahrenheit, and freeze at 0 degrees Fahrenheit;
Wash hands well with soap and warm water;
Clean and disinfect countertops, plates and utensils before and during preparation as you touch raw foods and
As with any social gathering, drink responsibly. The holidays are a time to celebrate, but drinking excessively can lead to dangerous reactions from prescription medication to heightened emotional stress. Drinking in moderation means no more than one alcoholic drink per day for women and no more than two drinks per day for men | eng | 1995ca11-bc0a-49c6-8c21-8917c145f1fd | https://news.ochsner.org/news-releases/how-to-avoid-common-thanksgiving-injuries |
Optimists Regulate Stress Better
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Posted July 24, 2013
According to new research, optimists are better able to regulate stress levels than their pessimist peers. The research from Concordia University's Department of Psychology has confirmed that cortisol—the "stress hormone"—tends to remain stable in people with upbeat personalities, resulting in better stress management.
The study tracked 135 adults aged 60 or older over the course of six years. Older adults were the focus of this study because they face particular age-related stressors and they have higher cortisol levels. The participants indicated their level of optimism or pessimism along a continuum. They also collected saliva samples five times daily (so cortisol levels could be measured) and reported their daily stress levels. Stress levels were measured against the subject's own average, which provided a comprehensive view of how stress levels are regulated.
By measuring stress against the participants' personal averages, the researchers were able to control for the fact that events that are stressful to one person may not be stressful for another. Study co-author and Ph.D. candidate in clinical psychology Joelle Jobin, stated, "for some people, going to the grocery store on a Saturday morning can be very stressful, so that's why we asked people how often they felt stressed or overwhelmed during the day and compared people to their own averages, then analyzed their responses by looking at the stress levels over many days."
The researchers discovered that pessimists have higher stress baseline than optimists. Furthermore, pessimists do not regulate stress as effectively as optimists. On a day when a pessimist encounters a stressful situation, it is difficult for his or her cortisol levels to return to normal. Optimists, however, are safeguarded from this.
One quirk that the researchers discovered is that optimists tend to have a burst of cortisol when they wake up in the morning, but the cortisol levels quickly return to normal. Since cortisol is not strictly related to stress (it is also "our 'get up and do things' hormone," according to Jobin), this may help optimists become engaged and focused.
This study is published in the American Psychological Association's Heart Psychology journal embedded | eng | d43dbce1-c7c8-48ed-8c31-a3ce749ca5d2 | https://integratedlistening.com/blog/optimists-regulate-stress-better/ |
Discover Unforgettable Romantic Escapes in Winter Wonderland Colorado
Discover Unforgettable Romantic Escapes in Winter Wonderland Colorado
Embrace the Magic of Mountain Retreats
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Escape to the secluded beauty of Colorado's alpine resorts and indulge in luxury accommodations that cater to your every desire. Nestled amidst breathtaking mountain scenery, these retreats offer the perfect blend of tranquility and romance. Imagine snuggling up by a crackling fireplace, sipping hot cocoa while overlooking snow-covered peaks, and soaking in private hot tubs under a starlit sky. Resorts such as The Little Nell in Aspen, The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, and The Ritz-Carlton Bachelor Gulch in Beaver Creek are renowned for their world-class amenities and impeccable service, ensuring an unforgettable romantic experience.
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Indulge in the ultimate relaxation and rejuvenation at Colorado's natural hot springs. Soak in warm mineral-rich waters while surrounded by snow-covered landscapes, providing a truly magical and romantic experience. Destinations such as Strawberry Park Hot Springs in Steamboat Springs and Dunton Hot Springs in Dolores offer serene and secluded settings where you can unwind and reconnect with your loved one. Immerse yourselves in the healing waters and let the stresses of daily life melt away as you embrace the tranquility of these natural wonders.
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To provide you with all the essential information for planning your splurge-worthy romantic escape in winter wonderland Colorado, here are answers to some frequently asked questions:
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Prepare to embark on a romantic winter getaway that will leave you with cherished memories and a renewed sense of love and adventure. Colorado's splurge-worthy romantic escapes offer the perfect blend of luxury, natural beauty, and thrilling experiences, ensuring an unforgettable journey for you and your partner. | eng | a31dcf73-8568-45d0-9c1b-9f1d72e033ff | https://www.vailbeavercreektransportation.com/discover-unforgettable-romantic-escapes-in-winter-wonderland-colorado.html |
Review: The First Doctor Adventures – The Demon Song Demon Songis the story that gives the set its name, the opening two-parter from new writer Bob Ayres.It's the modern style story of the set, set in the 2020s directly referencing the COVID-19 pandemic in its setting.Ayres manages to naturally bring the concepts of masking and social distancing into a story that isn't dealing with the pandemic, just integrating it as part of the "historical" setting (okay it's a present day setting but the pandemic will end and it will be a piece of history).The story actually deals with people going missing around Camden Town, something that only a YouTuber has noticed, a young couple is accidentally split when one of them disappears, and Dodo ends up disappearing quietly (though unlike The War Machines she still has a part to play in the story).Daniel De'ath, played by Henry Nott, is our demonic investigator, live-streaming to an unnamed platform his escapades, most likely Twitch or YouTube, and he is a complete conspiracy nut.He's sadly the only person who believes people are disappearing so the Doctor is forced to work with him, and Noonan plays these scenes in particular incredibly well.There is something great about the First Doctor in particular being increasingly annoyed by this man whose entire personality is bloviating about demons to an audience and living a pitiful life.Bhavnisha Parmar plays Archie Pawar, one half of the couple who has disappeared is essentially in the companion role once Dodo has disappeared and honestly she fits the archetype of the 1960s companion.It would actually be interesting if they paired two female companions and two female companions alone for the First Doctor.Now, The Demon Song does manage to tell an amazing story full of intrigue until about the last 15 minutes where Ayres' script starts to fall apart.It feels like there was enough material for three episodes and the second and third episodes were combined into a single second episode.The story feels like there is a point where the story should end but you pay attention to how much time is left in the episode and your heart sinks because the wrench that they throw into the works should be a cliffhanger.This honestly tarnishes what could have been a perfect debut from an author, but sadly it brings the story down quite a bit.7/10.
Nicholas Briggs provides the script for the four-part story, The Incherton Incident, and this is the story that feels like it could have been ripped straight from the 1960s in all the best ways.The TARDIS is dragged to the village of Incherton in 1947, the Second World War has ended, and there are German bombs going off left from early on in the war (at least that's the cover story).This is honestly an atypical story from Briggs, it's atmospheric and a slow burn through the first half while the second half becomes more obviously a pseudo historical story.Packed into every scene is this tension that something is going to go off, a plot will be revealed, or the world might come crashing down, indicative of the political tension of the time in which the story is set.There is an espionage element to the story, Dodo is accused of being a Soviet agent despite her insistence of being from Yorkshire, Genevieve Gaunt as Virginia Hancock is clearly a foreign agent from the word go.Gaunt is wonderful in her role, despite Briggs in the behind the scenes admitting she was not the first choice for the role.The edging of the characters towards a dangerous fate is incredibly important for making The Incherton Incident work as a story, there's an alien influence that seems almost incomprehensible as to what it is doing.A lot of the threat comes from the fact that ordinary people are being pushed towards acting violently, soldiers told to shoot on sight without questioning their orders, the danger of the bombs not necessarily all they seem, and the Doctor and Dodo on the back-foot.The Doctor doesn't have a complete understanding of the threat and is using his position as a time traveler to negate any potential damage to the timelines.This is a story that feels as if it is going to head towards a potential end of the world scenario.The villains of the piece don't end up being outright aliens, though there is the alien influence, but humanity which feels appropriate for the 1960s of the show.The entire examination of the immediate post-War tensions that would become the Cold War.Briggs also directs the set and the performances he gets out of his actors in this story in particular are especially wonderful, helping to bring the human element further to the surface.It's the best story to feature Stephen Noonan thus far as the First Doctor, and here's where it feels like he's genuinely settled back into the role.10 | eng | 08da766c-a9da-4281-8951-2cdc6a0ecdff | https://indiemacuser.com/2023/02/18/review-the-first-doctor-adventures-the-demon-song/ |
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How do I filter cells in Excel by color?
How do I filter cells in Excel by color?
On the Data tab, click Filter. in the column that contains the content that you want to filter. Under Filter, in the By color pop-up menu, select Cell Color, Font Color, or Cell Icon, and then click the criteria.
How do I filter in Excel 2003?
To apply the autofilter in Excel 2003:
First click on the range of cells that you want to filter.
In order to activate the Excel autofilter, select the Data menu at the top of your spreadsheet, and from this, select the option Filter and then the option AutoFilter (see above).
Can you filter rows in Excel by color?
If you want to filter the rows in your worksheet by colors in a particular column, you can use the Filter by Color option available in Excel 365 – Excel 2016. Apply Excel's AutoFilter in the usual way and then select the needed colors in the drop-down list.
Why can't I filter by cell color in Excel?
Spreadsheet is in sharing mode When this is true then for some reason the filter by color is not useable. To check if you workbook is shared you can go to the REVIEW tab and click on the SHARE WORKBOOK button. Untick it to switch it off and the filter by colour should reappear.
How do you filter colored sheets?
Sort by color
On your computer, open a spreadsheet in Google Sheets.
Select a range of cells.
Click Data. Create a filter.
To see filter options, go to the top of the range and click Filter . Sort by color: Choose which text or fill color to filter or sort by.
To turn the filter off, click Data. Remove filter.
How do I fill a cell with color in Excel?
Change the formula to use H if you want to.
click the Format button and select a red color.
close all dialogs.
How do I filter top 10 in Excel?
To use a Top 10 AutoFilter in Excel, click the AutoFilter drop-down arrow button next to the column heading for the field by which to filter the table. Next, roll down to the "Number Filters" choice. Then select the "Top 10…" option from the side menu that appears to open the "Top 10 AutoFilter" dialog box.
What is the AutoFilter in Excel?
Use the AutoFilter feature to find, show, or hide values—in one or more columns of data. You can filter based on choices you make from a list, or search to find the data that you seek. When you filter data, entire rows will be hidden if the values in one or more columns don't meet the filtering criteria.
Why is sort & filter grayed out in Excel?
The most common reason why the Sort and Filter icon is grayed out in Excel is because multiple sheets are selected. To ensure that you have only one active sheet in order to enable Soft and Filter icon, right click on the sheets and click on Ungroup Sheets. The Sort and Filter icon will now become active.
How do I filter by color in Excel Online?
How to Filter by Color in Excel
Open your spreadsheet.
Select the column you wish to filter that has color.
From the Sort & Filter group, click the Filter button. You should see a small drop-down arrow in the top-right corner of your column heading. | eng | 443eccaf-6639-4604-aed0-1782cc42b975 | https://ru-facts.com/how-do-i-filter-cells-in-excel-by-color/ |
Epilepsy is one of the most common diseases of the central nervous system, impacting nearly 50 million people around the world. Heterogeneous in nature, epilepsy presents in children and adults alike. Currently, surgery is one treatment approach that can completely cure epilepsy. However, not all individuals are eligible for surgical procedures or have successful outcomes. In addition to surgical approaches, antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) have also allowed individuals with epilepsy to achieve freedom from seizures. Others have found treatment through nonpharmacologic approaches such as vagus nerve stimulation, or responsive neurostimulationSex differences are essential factors in disease etiology and manifestation in many diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, and neurodegeneration [33].) policies to motivate researchers to consider sex differences [204]. However, drug repurposing, a promising alternative to traditional drug discovery by identifying novel uses for FDA-approved drugs, lacks sex-aware methods that can improve the identification of drugs that have sex-specific responses [7, 11, 14, 33]. [1, 7, 155]. They have not expanded to other data types, such as DNA variation, which has been beneficial in other drug repurposing methods that do not consider sex [114]. Additionally, some sex-aware methods suffer from poorer performance because a disproportionate number of male and female samples are available to train computational methods [7]. [151, 159]. Here we review how sex influences drug response, the current state of drug repurposing including with respect to sex-bias drug response, and how model organism study design choices influence drug repurposing validation.
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease and affects persons of all races, ethnic groups, and sexes. The disease is characterized by neuronal loss leading to cognitive decline and memory loss. There is no cure and the effectiveness of existing treatments is limited and depends on the time of diagnosis. The long prodromal period, during which patients' ability to live a normal life is not affected despite neuronal loss, often leads to a delayed diagnosis because it can be mistaken for normal aging of the brain. In order to make a substantial impact on AD patient survival, early diagnosis may provide a greater therapeutic window for future therapies to slow AD-associated neurodegeneration. Current gold standards for disease detection include magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography scans, which visualize amyloid β and phosphorylated tau depositions and aggregates. Liquid biopsies, already an active field of research in precision oncology, are hypothesized to provide early disease detection through minimally or non-invasive sample collection techniques. Liquid biopsies in AD have been studied in cerebrospinal fluid, blood, ocular, oral, and olfactory fluids. However, most of the focus has been on blood and cerebrospinal fluid due to biomarker specificity and sensitivity attributed to the effects of the blood-brain barrier and inter-laboratory variation during sample collection. Many studies have identified amyloid β and phosphorylated tau levels as putative biomarkers, however, advances in next-generation sequencing-based liquid biopsy methods have led to significant interest in identifying nucleic acid species associated with AD from liquid tissues. Differences in cell-free RNAs and DNAs have been described as potential biomarkers for AD and hold the potential to affect disease diagnosis, treatment, and future research avenues. | eng | 38d235dd-3775-418f-83f2-7661e7cc8e9f | https://www.lasseigne.org/blog/2022-publications/ |
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France's Third Republic lasted for seventy years and ended in tragedy and fiasco in June 1940. Military defeat and the death of the Republic were followed by the death of democracy. The final act of the Third Republic's last National Assembly, gathered together on July 10 in the ornate casino of the provincial spa of Vichy, was to place supreme power in the hands of the eighty-four-year-old Marshal Pétain. The Republic had been born in the turmoil of an earlier humiliation: the Franco-Prussian War, the loss of the border provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, and the butchery of the Paris Commune. It had seen the consolidation of France's colonial empire, the Dreyfus Affair, the triumph of anticlericalism over monarchist Catholicism, the Battle of Verdun, the Pyrrhic revenge of November 1918. By the time it died it was by far the longest-lived republic in France's history, and remains so today.
For much of the time the Third Republic gave the impression of being a prosperous and optimistic place. In its heyday, with its parliamentary constitution and democratic institutions, it appeared to have resolved the country's bitter conflict between sovereign and assembly, privilege and poverty, church and state. France could at last concentrate on its self-appointed, worldwide, rôle civilisateur. The Third Republic was not only the center of a global civilization, it provided the setting of the Belle Époque, of the worlds of Pagnol and Proust, of the art of Rodin and Renoir and Braque, of the music of Fauré and Debussy.
But behind the glittering show there was something empty and menacing in the Republic's social contract. For a land of sophisticated frivolity the birthrate was disastrously low. And for "a republic of virtue" it had a surprising number of affaires, or political scandals. The Dreyfus Affair, perhaps the most famous of all political scandals, in which a Jewish army officer was framed and convicted of espionage, took twelve years to resolve and revealed the true strength of French reaction. But it was followed by the persecution of religious orders by the anticlerical Radical Party leader Emile Combes, and by the secret blacklisting of Catholic army officers. In some ways progressive prejudice was shown to be as deeply entrenched as anti-Semitism.
By May 1940, when the Germans attacked, the French had had enough. Many of them went to war unwillingly, munichois in their hearts, grumbling and sullen, sabotaging their own war effort, ready in many cases to throw down their arms. Léon Werth in his great journal of the debacle described seeing a disciplined French unit preparing to shell a German position and being abused by women bystanders shouting, "Lâches! Lâches!" (cowards). One reason why Pétain was initially regarded as a national savior was the widely held view that his term of office could not possibly be as bad as the Third Republic.
For the historian Richard Cobb the Republic's turning point came with the Stavisky Affair, a political scandal which is now the subject of a definitive study by Paul Jankowski, associate professor of history at Brandeis University. Cobb considered that "Stavisky," which reached its climax in February 1934, was a watershed, dividing the years of light from the years of darkness, the joyful vision of René Clair from the defeated world of Georges Simenon.* It sounded the death knell of the republic of virtue and led directly to Vichy. It was because of the futile and politically irrelevant activities of the fraudulent financier Serge Alexandre Stavisky that the bitterest enemies of the Republic chose to unmask and launch an armed uprising that brought France to the brink of a fascist coup.
The storm broke on Christmas Eve, 1933, with the news of the arrest of the director of the Crédit Municipal (municipal pawnshop and loan office) in the southern town of Bayonne, who was accused of issuing over 200 million francs' worth of false negotiable bonds. The bonds were valueless since they were secured against emeralds supplied by a jeweler, "Monsieur Alexandre." Some of these emeralds did not exist, others were made of glass. Most investors had supposed that municipal bonds were backed by the state, but when the Bayonne bank collapsed nobody stepped in to negotiate payment. The second man to be arrested was the mayor of Bayonne, who was also the town's deputy in the National Assembly. At the same time an arrest warrant was issued for the founder of the bank, the same "Monsieur Alexandre"—the alias of a notorious con man, Sacha Stavisky.
Following the first news of the scandal, events moved quickly. Initial inquiries showed that a number of prominent politicians, all well acquainted with "Monsieur Alexandre," appeared to have some connection with the bank. All the names disclosed were supporters of the Parti Radical, the party that had been in office for most of the previous sixteen years. Stavisky's lawyer was a Radical deputy; a Radical minister had been peddling the Bayonne bonds, and the Paris public prosecutor, who was the brother-in-law of the Radical prime minister, Camille Chautemps, had allowed Stavisky to defer his trial on earlier fraud charges nineteen times. For the pol-itical press the sale of phony bonds was not a simple matter of a well-connected fraud. It was a story that disclosed the corruption lying at the heart of the Republic.
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On January 8, 1934, after two weeks of political uproar, Stavisky was traced to a chalet in the Alpine ski resort of Chamonix. The police report said that he shot himself in the head when they knocked on his door. The satirical newspaper Le Canard Enchaîné reinterpreted this account in a famous headline, "Stavisky commits suicide with a bullet fired at him at point-blank range." In other words Le Canard accused the prime minister, Chautemps, of ordering the police to murder Stavisky in order to save himself, his government, and a corrupt republic. In the newspaper of the monarchists of the extreme right, L'Action Française, the headline was "Chautemps, leader of a gang of thieves and assassins." The Communist Party's L'Humanité joined the chorus, concluding that the government had murdered Stavisky in Chamonix and that all of the country's principal leaders were his accomplices. During the following four weeks, two governments fell as a rabidly hostile press egged on the nationalist opposition in the Chamber of Deputies, while the Communist representatives sat chanting "Les Soviets! Les Soviets!"—the mantra of revolution. Communists and the extreme right vied with each other to destabilize the country. The street demonstrations grew in violence and culminated on February 6 in a two-day riot around the Place de la Concorde in central Paris during which seventeen people were shot dead and over 1,500 injured.
In that month France reached the verge of insurrection. The writer Roger Martin du Gard wrote to his daughter in Africa, "On all sides they're…preparing for an awful civil war." In fact under Gaston Doumergue—a nominally Radical former president recalled as prime minister, who promised institutional reform—civil war was averted. The republic survived, but the affair continued. Three weeks after the riots the body of Albert Prince, the prosecuting judge who had been charged with investigating Stavisky, was found tied to a railway line. Astonishingly, the official verdict was, once again, suicide. Twenty of Stavisky's accomplices were eventually tried and nine of them, including a retired army general and two Radical deputies, received prison sentences. In all six men connected with the case attempted suicide and four succeeded, reinforcing the suspicion that there had been a high-level conspiracy.
In a more stable society with strong institutions a case like Stavisky's might have been quickly settled. But the Third Republic after World War I was running on borrowed time. A nation that was bitterly divided, and had been since the 1789 Revolution, a nation that was over 80 percent Catholic with a solid monarchist minority, was being governed by a masonic, republican, anticlerical elite, many of whose members paid lip service to rational and humanistic principles. The separation of powers, the independence of justice, and the rules of democracy were supposed to guide the conduct of politicians who for much of the time instinctively governed on the basis of personal relations. If the Third Republic had one uniting national cause it was probably a hatred of Prussia and the recovery of Alsace and Lorraine. In 1914 the Republic subscribed briefly to l'union sacrée, the blood tie of war. When in November 1918 France won the war, the Third Republic lost its raison d'être. As the soldiers returned to civilian life they resumed their republican or antirepublican identities, and national unity started to unravel.
It is true that four separate official inquiries eventually established that most of Stavisky's victims were large insurance companies, that a relatively small amount of money had been lost, and that few of the officials and politicians supposedly involved had committed any offense. But these facts did nothing to calm people down. Millions of long-disenchanted citizens wanted to believe that the entire system of government was corrupt. They convinced themselves that their prime minister had practiced political murder, or that Stavisky had been part of a Jewish conspiracy against la Patrie—and that the police, the judges, and the banks were in his pocket.
The political scandal is of course a well-established French institution. A full-blown French affaire must tarnish the name of a minister or institution; it requires a suicide, preferably one that looks like a political murder; the presence of an attractive woman playing some mysterious role does it no harm at all; and when the affaire is officially resolved many of its most important aspects should continue to be questioned. French society seems frequently to be driven by a need for crisis; crisis brings the promise of revolu-tion, or at least radical change, and in a country that has never shown much talent for reform, the prospect of such change brings hope. Where there is no sign of crisis there is no hope, so society turns to the glimmer of hope offered by the semi-crisis of a running affaire. During the last ten years, two of the late President Mitterrand's close colleagues, one a former prime minister, were found shot dead by police service revolvers. At a time when Mitterrand's interminable labyrinth of corruption seemed to offer the French electorate no exit, both these "suicides" were swiftly transformed by the press and political observers into suspected cases of political murder. Today, when the institutions of the Fifth Republic are under heavy fire, there are at least four running affaires. One involves the newly reelected President Chirac; another has already brought down the president of the country's supreme Constitutional Court.
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Paul Jankowski's study is not concerned with the broader setting either of French political scandals or of "Stavisky" but concentrates on the mechanism of the fraud, the characters involved, and the feebleness of the institutions that opposed them. Previous historical studies left a number of questions open. Did official inquiries get to the bottom of the affair, or were other prominent politicians in the pay of Stavisky? What was the truth about his death? And why did Judge Prince, twice decorated in World War I, tie himself to a railway track? Jankowski sets out to answer these questions working from the original records, many of which were previously closed and which he describes as the most voluminous judicial archive he has ever seen.
Stavisky himself was curiously irrelevant to the affair that made his name celebrated, since he was dead before it got underway. This irony is acknowledged in Jankowski's book since we are given only one photograph of Serge Alexandre, taken by the police photographer. His body is lying on the floor of the ski chalet in Chamonix. The shot-away face is hidden and the most prominent feature of the portrait is his carpet slippers. In fact Stavisky, like many confidence tricksters, had a pleasant face. He had large appealing brown eyes, wavy brown hair, and a cheeky expression that made him look like a bright bellhop starting life in the lobby of a luxury hotel. When he was still a young man one of Stavisky's victims described him as "Russian, effeminate, lascivious" and claimed that none of the women he had seduced and cheated had ever sued him. That was not quite correct but it was no more inaccurate than the stereotypical reaction of the cultivated Etonian diplomat and anti-Nazi Robert Vansittart, who from London in 1934 described Stavisky as "one of those fugitives from Russian pogroms who abused western hospitality, part of the dregs and scum which change places." Jankowski's research uncovers a more interesting character.
Serge Alexandre was born in Slobodka, near Kiev, in the Ukraine in 1886. His Jewish parents brought him to France three years later and the family was naturalized by 1900. His father was a dentist who eventually acquired a good address in the 8th arrondissement near the Champs-Élysées and the boy was sent to a prestigious lycée. He was said to be stage-struck but, according to Jankowski, his only known link with the stage came in 1909 when Sacha, aged twenty-three, and his grandfather swindled the staff of a Paris theater out of their wages and went on the run. When war broke out in 1914 Stavisky was twenty-eight and was called up by the French army. He was supposed to march off to recover Alsace and Lorraine but he didn't march very far. He turned out to be a delicate young man who had to be discharged from the army for a variety of stomach complaints, including appendicitis. Perhaps he was of a nervous disposition; or perhaps the dentist's son was able to take advantage of the illicit wartime trade in powders that would provoke the symptoms of serious illness. His health improved as soon as the war ended.
In 1915 Stavisky, on military sick leave, made an early appearance in court for swindling an old lady out of 25,000 francs. He received a six-month sentence but jumped bail. In 1916 during the Battle of Verdun, which lasted ten months and involved most of the regiments in the French army, Stavisky was some distance behind the lines selling munitions he had not actually paid for to agents of the Italian government. In 1917 he made his first contribution to the war effort. Using his fiancée's money he launched a nightclub in the Rue Caumartin and put on musical numbers with titles such as "The Soldier on Leave" or "The Good Patriot." He was finally arrested in November 1918, just before the armistice, and was locked up for three months in Fresnes prison, only to be released under the general amnesty that celebrated France's victory.
It had been a long apprenticeship, but when the brave new postwar world was born, Serge Alexandre Stavisky was ready for it. Emerging from the ranks of thousands of petty crooks and swindlers who knew how to alter checks and forge stocks, Stavisky was arrested only once more, and that was for less than two weeks.
Instead he became a virtuoso operator in the world of mirrors that was financial Paris in the 1920s, a capital whose public life was filled with suicidal judges, blackmailing journalists, police officers who were working for swindlers, and swindlers who were assisting politicians to bankrupt insurance companies. Starting out as a police informer, Stavisky soon had policemen who were informing for him. Chauffeurs are frequently the best witnesses of their employer's private conversations and the official papers consulted by Jankowski are enlivened by his chauffeur's memories. Stavisky said he liked the stories of Edgar Wallace, "because of the criminals." He was never on the side of the police. "They bore me," he said. When he was in a tight corner he would tell his anxious associates, "The big question is to know how to arrange things. There's always some way to reach an understanding with everyone!"
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Not all his ventures succeeded; he himself was once swindled over the price of some racehorses by an eminent Rothschild. But Stavisky had skillfully placed himself at the center of a complex web of loans, investments, partial repayments, and simple thefts where no one could be sure who was holding what on behalf of whom. Anyone who made a fuss was immediately repaid and almost as quickly persuaded to invest some more. If there was no money available for immediate repayment Stavisky would offer dinner instead with some genuinely eminent figure who was apparently Serge Alexandre's new best friend. This higher form of theft requires a baser form of genius. Stavisky could bamboozle shrewd men without losing the common touch. At least one of the police officers who initially arrested him went to work on his behalf. On another occasion, released from prison and in need of a short-term identity, he assumed the name of his drunken jailer.
Stavisky kept a suite in the Hotel Claridge on the Champs-Élysées, and he loved to go shopping; in fact he spent money lavishly, particularly if he could spend it on Arlette. Before he shot himself he said goodbye to Arlette in a small Russian restaurant near the Place de l'Alma. He told her that he had ruined everything, that he was sorry, and that they would never take him alive, since he would not disgrace her or their son by going to prison. His father had suffered from the same horror of being locked up. In 1926, the successful dentist and survivor of the Ukrainian pogroms came under suspicion of assisting his son's criminal career and committed suicide beside a suburban rail track outside Paris. He was wearing his hat and spectacles and carrying his voter's card for convenient identification, and he chose to shoot himself in the mouth. That final self-judgment, or fraternal challenge to the mortician, by Stavisky senior is the sort of detail that would certainly have caught the attention of Simenon's Inspector Maigret.
Richard Cobb was right to date the France of Simenon from the Stavisky affair. Through Jankowski's generous use of detail one can see how the Russian adventurer could easily have become the central character in a roman dur by Simenon. Jankowski notes in passing that the best-selling author was actually employed to write a popular newspaper series on the Stavisky investigation (the articles do not rank among Simenon's better journalism). But there were other connections. The honest police officer who investigated the death of Judge Prince, Commissaire Marcel Guillaume, had earlier helped Simenon with practical advice while the novelist was creating the character of Maigret. Commissaire Guillaume, like Maigret, had a dislike of violent interrogations and told Simenon that he had found a more effective method for eliciting the truth. He would make a suspect strip naked in front of a roomful of fully clothed detectives. "They don't tell lies for long in that costume," said Guillaume.
One of the murderers Guillaume had already questioned and convicted was an old friend and former colleague of Georges Simenon. Sacha Stavisky seems to have exercised a powerful and possibly malign influence on the imagination of the young novelist. Like Maigret, the detectives who tracked Stavisky unavailingly over the years had to waste hours sitting around in the lobbies of hôtels de luxe being snubbed by a disdainful management. In his well-to-do old age, Georges Simenon, too, kept a suite in the same Hotel Claridge, the building that was eventually to become the scene of his own daughter's suicide by shooting.
Following the Stavisky Affair, during the last years of the Third Republic, Simenon's work grew in popularity. In the sordid realities of the novelist's imagined world, the world of The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By, The House by the Canal, The Night-Club, or Poisoned Relations, novels that deal with alcoholism, lunacy, the coldblooded seduction of domestic servants, suicide, and the association of sex with death or paralysis, Simenon reflected the national cynicism and despair that intensified in the wake of the Stavisky affair and culminated in the military debacle of 1940.
Jankowski's conclusions are the opposite of sensational—Stavisky did kill himself; no new names were involved; and Judge Prince also died by his own hand. But Jankowski nonetheless succeeds in throwing new light on the affair, and in reestablishing its importance. It is precisely because Sacha Stavisky was less sinister than first appeared to be the case that he is more significant. The best measure of the integrity of the Third Republic was that someone of so little weight could cause so much damage. But Jankowski has largely ignored the wider significance of the episode. To understand the violence of the reaction it aroused in France one has to remember that it took place at a time when European democracy, having been throttled at birth in Russia, was suppressed in Italy and Portugal and was already under attack in Spain. Meanwhile, following the German elections of March 1933, the Nazi Party had gained enough seats to be declared the sole legal party and Hitler had acquired dictatorial powers. During the last nine months of the year 30,000 German refugees, mostly Jewish, entered France. (The anti-Semitic press inflated the figure to "100,000 German Jewish immigrants.")
Perhaps in these circumstances the most interesting aspect of the Stavisky affair is not that it brought the Republic to the brink, but that the crisis passed. Instead of leading to a French Kristallnacht, "Stavisky" was followed by the Popular Front. Yet in 1934 France, like Germany, had a well-supported, nationalist, anti-Semitic right, angry about what it took to be the raw deal the country had received from the Treaty of Versailles and comforted by the hierarchy of its national Catholic Church. Furthermore, in the Third Republic, unlike in Weimar, anti-Semitism was intellectually respectable. The maîtres à penser of racism were at their desks. Overt anti-Semitism was evident in the work of such leading writers as Céline, Paul Morand, Jean Giraudoux, and Drieu la Rochelle. Both countries harbored armed political bands ready to support a fascist program. Nonetheless, while Stavisky, the perfect Jewish scapegoat, might have been seen as a truly guilty successor to Alfred Dreyfus, there was no coup. In fact, as Jankowski emphasizes, few of those who reported on the Stavisky affair at the time even mentioned that he was Jewish. They usually described him as Russian.
Instead of mounting a coup d'état the leaders of the extreme right called off their dogs. The royalist Charles Maurras, one of the forty "Immortals" of the Académie Française, and founder of Action Française, emphasized his disdain for Hitler's vulgar antisémi-tisme de peau while himself embodying the antisémitisme de l'esprit that was careful to state its respect for France's Jewish war heroes. His fastidious distinction helped ensure that, within eight years, dignified veterans in three-piece suits could be seen walking through the streets of occupied Paris wearing both their war medals and the yellow star. They thought themselves safe because they had fought under Pétain at Verdun. It was part of their tragedy that the Third Republic retained just enough life to survive Stavisky, challenge the panzers, and make way for collaboration.
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Top And you can Pounds Conditions During the Ancient Greece
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Top And you can Pounds Conditions During the Ancient Greece
While it's tough to say how significant everyone ancient Greek are, it is clear one to some were taller as opposed to others. Such as for instance, Homer are reportedly a bit tall to possess his some time may have existed step 1.85 yards (six foot 3 in) tall. Likewise, Socrates was seem to a bit short getting his time and have already been singular metre (3 base step three ins) high.
Furthermore, you are able one to certain old Greeks was indeed lightweight as opposed to others. For example, based on particular supply, Hesiod was slightly white despite getting an effective poet and you can politician through the Antiquity. Alternatively, Xenophon was presumably some big and regularly battled that have swords within the battle.
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Predicated on present studies, the typical ancient greek language are as much as extreme. So it level is about the same as the in-patient within the the united states now. Ancient Greeks was large than simply members of the rest out-of Europe due to the fact agriculture was its fundamental industry.
Nonetheless they consumed a far more healthy food choices, which included many vegetables and fruit. Being tall anticipate ancient Greeks to own a less complicated date agriculture and you will getting large cupboards getting circumstances it called for. For their peak, ancient Greeks been able to wear heavier attire without perception cumbersome otherwise embarrassing.
Their life expectancy was also much higher than regarding someone in other components of Europe due to their naturally healthy traditions models and you will significant stature. Despite are tall, ancient Greeks don't live-in a scene where imposing more than other people is actually recognized as esteemed otherwise powerful. Rather, it viewed being tall as a natural true blessing you to anticipate him or her accomplish some thing they never consider it is possible to- particularly make high civilizations!
Inside the old Greece, anyone ranged high and you can pounds. This is due to the fact that there are different lifestyles and you may diet habits in those days. Such, top of the classification had a tendency to be large than the all the way down kinds, and individuals consumed alot more creature healthy protein. This means that, they had a tendency to become heavy than simply people.
From inside the old Greece, level and you may weight criteria was indeed crucial. The average person are normally to extreme and you will weighed up to weight. This implied that people who had been taller otherwise big compared to person with average skills weren't sensed normal.
People in ancient Greece was basically normally very narrow, this is why they tended to have less minds and you may authorities. It was whilst is thought that a large head and you may a small looks would lead to higher intelligence and you can expertise.
Ancient Greeks including had extremely strict weightlifting guidelines, which made it difficult for individuals be fat or over weight. Whoever surpassed the newest recommended weights because of the more than is actually punishable legally.
As top and you may lbs was in fact very important for the old Greece, some body often tried to transform their appearance so you're able to fit into the society's requirements. They'd explore measures such as diet and physical working out to make an effort to compress their brains or get skinnier bodies.
Even after being really rigorous on the weight and peak, ancient Greeks did not have an extensive understanding of health problems related to being overweight otherwise obese. Simply because they believed that a huge looks is actually related with great power and you will stamina, and that produced individuals recognized and you may admired
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Tips And Tricks For Dealing With Eczema
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Eczema can literally make life miserable if you don't seek out the proper treatment. Instead of suffering through more breakouts, use the following suggestions to find relief from your eczema by following the treatment advice. Keep reading to learn much about this condition.
Avoid taking hot water if you suffer from eczema. Your daily shower should be warm and warm.Gently cleanse the skin with a gentle moisturizing skin cleanser rather than soap.
You should wear loose-fitting garments made of natural fibers like cotton. Avoid itchy materials like wool against the skin.Wash everything you buy right away in a mild, and rinse any new clothes two times prior to wearing.
Eczema can cause a lot. Scratching can damage the skin or even lead to an infection. Use moisturizer as much as possible and put on a cold compresses to relieve your symptoms.
Avoid getting worked up with stress as much as possible. Stress tends to make a flare up. If you find yourself in a stressful situation, try stress-relieving techniques, or figure out something relaxing to do. This could keep eczema flare ups from happening.
Maintain a comfortable temperature in your home if you are suffering from eczema. Temperatures of one extreme or too cold can cause a flare-up to occur. The humidifier can help keep the air to prevent your skin from becoming too dry.
Eczema typically causes skin to be dry and itchy. They actually lock in your natural oils and moisture. This will stop the skin from being damaged or cracked in the future.
Keep your nails trimmed and clean. This may make a rash worse, and having long nails will make things worse. You should also make sure your nails are clean as well.
Keep sweating to a minimum to keep eczema symptoms to a flare-up.Sweating a lot or becoming overheated can make eczema more irritating. Shower as soon as you are done with a workout.
A warm bath can help take some of the itching associated with eczema. Make sure that the water isn't too hot or cold.You can also try putting a little bleach since this can eliminate bacteria.
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Keep your skin moisturized to help prevent eczema. Moisturized skin stays soft and flexible is not as likely to crack. Use petroleum jelly and other unscented moisturizers that contain a minimal number of ingredients. Chemicals and fragrances that some moisturizers have can aggravate eczema worse rather than soothing it.
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We need to 'Degrow'
We have argued in previous articles that growth and world trade are driving forces for climate change. Unless this driver is understood and dealt with, then talk of containing global warming is simply hot air. Politicians need to lead in efforts to get voters to realise that our lifestyles must change.
If we want to tackle climate change and protect our future on the Earth, societies will need to adopt a degrowth model, in which we consume less, and use fewer materials and resources. Given how reliant we are on the growth model, this won't be an easy transition.
Now, two researchers in the UK and Sweden have been awarded the latest Atlas Award for examining this current and growing debate on the strategy to tackle climate change from the degrowth angle.
The article by Dr Milena Büchs, University of Leeds, UK and Prof. Max Koch, Lund University, Sweden, appeared this month in Futures, published by Elsevier.
While degrowth doesn't mean going back to a prehistoric way of life, it does mean reducing our consumption. To make the model work, we need to understand its impact on people's wellbeing, and therefore the concerns they might have about degrowth. This approach is dramatically different to the growth model that most countries around the world have adopted, and because of this, changing to a degrowth model may have far-reaching consequences.
"People aspire to buy a house, have a car and fly on really exotic holidays; these are the expectations that we grew up with," said Dr. Büchs explaining the close link between consumption and people's identities. "I think this will be the change that is required, to not see consumption of material goods and services as something that can fulfill our need to have an identity and some kind of status in society. The question is how that can be addressed in zero carbon ways."
In the paper, Dr. Büchs and Prof. Koch explore the concerns people have about the impact degrowth could have on their wellbeing in the short- to medium-term. The broader links degrowth has to our culture and society also have implications for wellbeing that might hinder its adoption; many of society's welfare-related institutions rely on the growth model: the education system; the labor market; and the legal system, for example.
Changing all this would be an unprecedented undertaking, but it's vital to our very survival, according to Dr. Büchs and Prof. Koch, who says
"If we don't understand the potential implications of degrowth on people's wellbeing, it will never become a reality."
"We need the public's support for this, which requires a lot of discussion and cultural change."
The researchers are planning further research in this area, including looking at engaging people in the transition, so they can better understand the concerns and overcome the barriers. If we are to plan for the future we need to understand the constraints on change.
It is hoped the research will help understand the thresholds within which we can live – the minimum amount of consumption, resource use or travel, and how we will satisfy our basic needs and what is the maximum level the planet can support within the limitations of climate change.
"If we don't do anything, if we just carry on as usual, very soon our survival will be under threat," said Prof. Koch.
"One of the counter-arguments to degrowth is that 'degrowthers' want to make people poorer and that this would have negative wellbeing implications; I think what one would need to make clear is that everybody's wellbeing will be undermined by climate change if we don't act on this now | eng | 72548abf-b883-4b2b-a51c-af44ac2f769c | https://www.thinend.today/2019/12/we-need-to-degrow.html |
Sirif Rusian Fikry was just 15 years old when he started college at the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), where he majored in electrical engineering. Subsequently, the Ph.D. Candidate at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He met an old friend, Mohammad Iksan, who was pursuing his doctorate in Singapore. in the city-state and the two launched an educational YouTube channel in 2016 called Hujan Tanda Tanya.
"We created content around popular science-related topics in a random and interactive way. As Ph.D. candidates, we were forced to take teaching classes, so we wanted to practice our teaching skills on the channel. The channel grew so fast, we won YouTube NextUp Indonesia in 2017," said Fikri. CASIA.
The videos received many comments from students. Fekri said many of them were able to understand basic sciences better at Hujan Tanda Tanya than at school, why Indonesia is prone to earthquakes, or how machine learning works, and more. Students started asking for some topics to discuss especially during exam season.
"From there, we realized that there was great value in combining science, teaching and filmmaking to help students better understand the subject," he said.
Back in Indonesia, Fikiri and Iksan meet a friend from college named Adriana Albert, a game designer who owns a boutique game studio in the West Java city of Bandung. In the year In 2018, they decided to found an education technology startup called Pahamifi.
The startup's mission is to improve students' performance in school through educational videos, live tutorials and test preparation. He also wants to help students fulfill their potential by finding the joy of learning, Fikiri said. "I eventually dropped out of my Ph.D. Because he showed great interest in teaching program and this startup," he added.
As an online learning platform for K-12 students covering science and social studies, Pahamify has four key products. Live practice tests for Indonesian national exams; Question banks; Live teaching sessions; and online learning content with videos, quizzes, flashcards and more. What sets the startup apart from the competition is the inclusion of animation and gamification for a more engaging learning experience, Fikry said.
"All of our content is produced in-house, and follows the standard Indonesian curriculum," he continued.
Pahamify's user base grew fifty-fold in 2020, thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic, which forced young people to study from home. The number of paid subscribers increased tenfold compared to the same period in 2019.
Pahamify uses a freemium model with various subscription options. Users can enjoy a selection of videos for free, but must subscribe to access the full library as well as live practice tests. A one-time live practice test session costs IDR 20,000 (USD 1.40), while users can enjoy a full-year package for IDR 40,000 (USD 2.82) for a one-month subscription or IDR 400,000 (USD 28.24).
During the outbreak, the platform has been offering various promotions and discounts, which has contributed to the increase in the number of users, Fikiri explained.
Pahimifin includes gamification in its learning materials. Users can choose their avatar and track their educational progress. Courtesy of Pahamifi.
Fikri added that one of the current challenges for the edtech platform is convincing parents to switch from offline to online education. "Parents are willing to pay for offline tutoring which is very expensive, often more than 15 million birr (US$1,059) per year. But when it comes to online tutoring, they are more hesitant to spend money. So getting paid subscribers is still a challenge and there is some way to change this mindset. I think it will take time.
Pahamifi was part of Y Combinator's Winter 2020 cohort. It raised undisclosed Series A funding in November from investors including Shuway Capital, Insignia Venture Partners and Lien Family Office. The company will use the new investment to expand its content library and increase its headcount, especially in the content and technology sectors, said Fikri.
Going forward, Pahamifi is looking at a new group of students. "While we are currently focusing on high schools, we receive many inquiries from elementary and high school students. This shows that many children enjoy our content even if they are not yet our target audience.
Although Pahamifi competes with mature players in the industry such as Ruangguru and Zenius, Fikiri believes that the edtech revolution has just begun in Indonesia. Currently, with the increasing unemployment rate in Indonesia, there is an opportunity to expand the content to other areas, including vocational training of professionals. "Edtech has a broad spectrum and we are exploring many opportunities in online education."
This article is part of KrASIA's "Startup Stories" series, where KrASIA writers talk to founders of tech companies in South and Southeast Asia. | eng | 35850e70-c478-460f-b8f9-9da7899b18e0 | https://businesspress.in/pahamify-combines-animation-and-gaming-to-engage-online-learners-startup-stories/ |
Importance of Monitoring and Controlling the Use of Chemicals
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In virtually all countries, there are laws that regulate what people can sell as food, drugs, and others to the public. It is therefore important to monitor and control drugs, food, and chemicals in the country because of the following reasons:
1. To ensure compliance with standard specifications.
2. To check the production, sale, and distribution of fake drugs.
3. To ensure that food, drugs, and chemicals are produced in a sanitary, environment.
4. Determine which hazardous substances are present in the workplace.
5. Provide information and training for employees.
6. To check practices, such as misguided packaging and labelling of banned food, drugs, and chemicals.
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A Second-Advent message: "Holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord!" Hebrews 12 In a season when we celebrate Advent — the first coming of Jesus — Pastor Percy Gutteridge reminds us that we are now in the time of the Second Advent — that is, we are in the days before Jesus' Second Coming. This message is an exposition of the twelfth chapte…
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The firstsfruits belong to God – materially and spiritually! Leviticus 23:9-14 There is much significance in the fact that the Feast of Firstfruits and the Feast of Pentecost were to be celebrated on the first day of the week. It signifies God's law of firstfruits. The Lord Jesus Christ, "the firstfruits of them that slept" (1 Corinthians 15:20), r…
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The famous Liberty Bell is inscribed with the words of Leviticus 25:10: "Proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof" — the proclamation of Jubilee! Leviticus 25:1-55 In this message Percy Gutteridge clearly explains the wonderful analogy between the Old Testament celebration of Jubilee and the glorious and complete freedo…
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2 Kings 2; Luke 1:17 Elijah and Elisha by Gustav Doré The Scriptures include many types, or figures, which help illustrate important foundational truths. In this look at the ministries of Elijah and Elisha, we see Elijah as a type of Old Covenant prophet, while Elisha is a type of the New Covenant prophet. Similarly, John the Baptist is the last of…
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Resurrection Day: Jesus on the Road to Emmaus by Gustav Doré Luke 24:1-35 This message examines the false theories concerning our Lord's resurrection, including and shows their errors. Pastor Gutteridge's teaching fully vindicates the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ on the third day, and shows its great significance for Christians. We thank F…
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The Lost Sheep by Alford Usher Soord Luke 15 "Uh, oh — another message on the parables of Luke 15!" If that was your first thought as you read the title, it's time for an attitude check. And that check would be very appropriate, because in this message, Pastor Percy Gutteridge looks at the different attitudes of the things and persons mentioned by …
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"Behold, a sower went forth to sow." Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23, 24-30, 31-32 As detailed in Matthew 13, Jesus told many parables, three of which had to do with seeds. With the words, "A sower went forth to sow," the first parable describes a sower who casts the seed of the word; the final disposition of the seed sifts out the true heirs of the Kingdom.…
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"Go and work in My vineyard." Matthew 21:28-32 Matthew 20:1-16 Matthew 20:20-28 Jesus taught us both the parable of the vineyard and the servants and the parable of the vineyard and the sons. One of the revealed truths in Scripture is the difference that the Lord makes between Servants and Sons. The exposition of these two parables brings out the d…
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Parable of the Talents (Anonymous) Matthew 25:14-30 From the parables of Jesus, the Good Servants and the Unprofitable Servants are delineated with their ultimate rewards. But there are not just two divisions on earth — the saved and the unsaved. There is a division in the ranks of the saved: there are servants and servant-sons. Servants may believ…
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The Unjust Steward (by Jan Luyken) Click to see the full image. Luke 16:1-13 God has always put His work out to the care of stewards. In the past, "Sons of God" came to report to Him at intervals (Job 1:6, etc.). Some have been unfaithful. In the present, God has His faithful and unfaithful servants who have the choice of far greater service in the…
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The Prodigal Son and His Father (woodcut by Gustav Doré) Click to see the full image. Luke 15:11-32 This message unfolds a fresh look at this story which is so familiar to us that we tend to think we'll be hearing the "same old, same old." But this is an entirely different approach, and may leave you amused, instructed, enlightened, stirred, challe…
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Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane (woodcut by Gustav Doré) The name Gethsemane means olive press. King David had his Gethsemane, and "great David's greater Son," the Lord Jesus, had His. It came on a pleasant night in spring under a full moon. From Christ's Gethsemane, by way of Calvary, the gift of the golden oil of the Spirit comes to us. But it …
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now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout." Have you ever clearly understood how Jesus Christ is God and Man, perfectly, at the same time? Here's a seemingly unrelated question: Have you ever given thought to Jesus' seamless garment, for which the soldiers gambled during the Crucifixion (John 19:23)? Why did Jesus wear a seamless…
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"I am the Vine, you are the branches." Of this message, Pastor Gutteridge wrote: God is the Husbandman, the great Vine-Dresser. He intends that His children should be fruitful with ever-increasing fruitfulness, so He purges them, that they may bring forth more fruit. But they must abide in the Vine as living branches in the Vine; and the Vine is Hi…
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Melchizedek Blessing Abram Pastor Percy Gutteridge prepared this message at the request of a number of people who wanted to know more about this great king-priest, Melchizedek, one of the greatest types of the Lord Jesus Christ revealed in the Scriptures. The purpose of this message is to unfold more of the perfection of the Lord Jesus Christ in Hi…
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Gustav Doré's illustration of Jesus at prayer in the garden. In this message, Pastor Percy Gutteridge will clearly explain just what intercession is, keying this study off the description of Messiah in Isaiah 52:13–52:12. Jesus is shown as the Great High Priest, ever interceding on behalf of a rebel world and a largely indifferent Church, pleading …
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Gustav Doré's rendering of the Baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist. (Click on the image for a larger view.) Consider the days mentioned in John 1 & 2. "The third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee" (John 2:1); but what about the other two days? Trace back each following day to the first mentioned, John 1:19, and you find that the third da…
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Percy Gutteridge In 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 Paul takes as a pattern the Marathon footrace of the ancient Greeks, well known to and partly copied by the Romans. This is a stimulating message on the Heavenly Race. Comfort and encouragement are given from the Scriptures and Christian experience. You will be surprised as to how much the epistles have to …
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Orpah returns as Ruth leaves with Naomi for Bethlehem Judah (from an illustration by Doré) Starting in Ruth chapter 1 as he did in last month's Grains from Gutteridge podcast, Pastor Gutteridge weaves in Peter's report about the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at the house of Cornelius (Acts 11), and brings forth a helpful message about our adoption …
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Ruth gleaning in the field of Boaz (from a 19th Century illustration) In this message, Percy Gutteridge explains both the Biblical doctrine of redemption and Jesus' role as our Kinsman-Redeemer. Redemption's part in God's great plan of salvation is made made clear in the beautiful story of Ruth. Other free audio messages by Pastor Gutteridge are av… | eng | 975c8228-a2d0-4f5f-b706-ea66023f3654 | https://he.player.fm/podcasts/Gutteridge |
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Technology:. Past to Present… 9 Social Studies. Thinking…out loud. Imagine if inventors like Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Ford, and Thomas Edison were still alive…what types of modern day technology would spark their interest? Think about the technology we have access to…
TechnologyThinking…out loud • Imagine if inventors like Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Ford, and Thomas Edison were still alive…what types of modern day technology would spark their interest? • Think about the technology we have access to… • How do we use modern day technology
What is Technology? • Technology: the application of knowledge and skills to make goods or to provide services. • Tools and machines to convert natural resources into products we need • Is both product and process • Technology is any product or process that allows humans to extend their natural abilities
Read together & discuss as a class… Revolution in Agriculture Revolution in Industry The "High-Tech" Revolution 1.Identify important forms of technology in each of these images 2.Consider the impact of each form on the lifestyle of people in each period Focus on Figure (pg 198)
Technology Time Line • In groups of 3-4 look over "A Global Technological Time Line" (pg 199) • Each person needs to select 1 fact from each area (Agriculture, Manufacturing and Industry, High Technology) that they'd like to share with the class… • Why did you pick these specific facts?
Technology in Everyday Life: Then and Now • Technology has certainly changed in the last number of years • We are constantly hearing about "upgrades", "better versions", faster, stronger and more capable technology • Let's have a look back in time…
In-Class Assignment • Alone or with ONE partner, pick one of the following inventors (once inventor is selected, he or she is off the list) • You get one class to complete research and make slideshow. • If you don't finish during class, you have afterschool and lunches… • Research the following…
Research and Answer the following • Cover slide • Picture of inventor • Student names • Date • Who is your inventor? • Date of birth/death • Place of birth • Education background • What did they invent (no more than 3 inventions please) • What motivated them? • Science? • Technology? • Family? • Curiosity? • What resources/technology did they have access to? • Wire? Metal? Plastic? Cable? Money? Tools? Etc. • How did the invention impact humans? • In your opinion, what do you think this inventor would think is a great new idea? | eng | d741e7e3-66c6-4dc3-9dc4-e7e4e8f7f4bb | https://fr.slideserve.com/chesna/technology-powerpoint-ppt-presentation |
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A social history of Labradors and how they have become the world's most beloved dogs, by writer, presenter and longtime dog lover Ben Fogle, whose beloved black Labrador, Inca, famously accompanied him on numerous journeys and adventures.
Labradors are the most popular breed of dog in the world. Not only great family companions, they also excel at hunting, tracking, retrieving, guiding and rescuing. But where did the breed originally come from? How did it develop? When did black, yellow and chocolate Labradors first appear? Did they really all come from Labrador in Canada, and are they really all related to just one dog?
In this first history of the Labrador, Ben Fogle goes in search of what makes Labradors so special. Their extraordinary companionship, intelligence, work ethic and loyalty are captured by Ben as he weaves the story of the breed into his own story of his beloved Inca. Ben visits Canada, discovers hair-raising stories of early Labrador exploits and uncovers stories of RNIB Labradors and Labradors at war, Labradors as working dogs and every other manifestation of the Labrador's character.
Exploring their origin, early characteristics and use as gun dogs, as therapy dogs, as police dogs, as search and rescue dogs and last - and absolutely not least - as family pets, Ben tells the story of a dog breed which has captured our imagination and love for hundreds of years.
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"Passionate and well-researched, this book will make you wag your tail with delight. Woof!" ( Tatler) "A must-read for anyone with an interest in the history of man's relationship to dogs, regardless of breed, and Fogle's typical adventure-style storytelling keeps the narrative light and entertaining." ( Independent) "Funny, entertaining and really rather inspiring, too." ( Daily Mail) "A great escapade told with refreshing frankness." ( Independent on Sunday)
Like a jumpy dog, hard to follow.
Would you consider the audio edition of Labrador: The Story of the World's Favourite Dog to be better than the print version?
Can't read the print version so can't comment.
What other book might you compare Labrador: The Story of the World's Favourite Dog to, and why?
Can't compare it to any other book I've read.
Which scene did you most enjoy?
When Ben and inca first met Kate Humble and Inca runs straight through the house and into the fish pond, also Inca singing to the rats.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
No.
Any additional comments?
I thought this book was well read but it jumped around too much between the history of the Labrador and ben's own history with Inca. I wish the history of the breed had been dealt with first, then Ben's own experiences. still an interesting listen though for someone who doesn't like dogs much.
Wonderfully engaging
Great book full of wonderful insights regarding Labradors and their background. Written and read by Ben Fogle who clearly also adores all things Labrador. Being a Labrador lover myself, this was a great find and I shall return to it many times over. Thanks Ben! | eng | 8af1a1af-6b73-4d61-a31f-e6354a407dbc | https://origin-www.audible.de/pd/Labrador-The-Story-of-the-Worlds-Favourite-Dog-Audiobook/B01C4O9IAM |
Never mind the honeybee: Maryland researchers want more buzz over saving native bee species
The sweat bee, often found in a metallic green color, nests in soil. The bee is one of the Maryland native species scientists say needs more study. (Courtesy of Phillip Moore/U.S. Geological Survey's Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab
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By SHAUNEEN MIRANDA
Capital News Service
WASHINGTON – Although honeybees have captured national attention in an effort to "save the bees," some Maryland entomologists want to shift the focus toward native bee species that are in graver danger.
Bees are the most important pollinators on Earth, critical to populating native plants and fundamental to ensuring the abundance and variety of agricultural crops.
Misguided information on which bee species to save has created a media frenzy over protecting the honeybee despite research pointing to steady honeybee populations, experts say.
"The honeybee is not the bee we need to save because it's not endangered," said Dr. Nathalie Steinhauer, science coordinator for the Bee Informed Partnership Inc. and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Maryland's Department of Entomology.
The honeybee is native to Europe, Africa and Asia. Early colonists brought these insects to the United States, where they now dominate research and general understanding of bees.
Beekeepers have managed to keep the overall number of honeybee colonies in North America stable over the last two decades, according to the Bee Informed Partnership, a coalition of researchers and labs established to improve the health and survival of honeybee colonies.
To be sure, pesticides, stress and diseases still hinder the health of honeybees nationwide.
But some native bee species, such as the rusty patched bumblebee, are truly endangered and often compete with honeybees to pollinate natural environments.
Part of the reason honeybees get so much attention stems from constant societal reinforcement of their importance.
Roughly 4,000 native bee species reside in North America and approximately 430 of those species inhabit Maryland, including at least 80 kinds of ground-dwelling mining bees, 20 species of leaf cutting bees, 10 types of bumblebees, plus carpenter bees, mason bees (they make mud nests) and squash bees (which live in the ground near pumpkins or squash plants).
But researching native bee species can be a daunting task, according to Jennifer Selfridge, the invertebrate ecologist for the Wildlife Heritage Program of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.
Many native bee species are tiny and solitary, and bee sampling is a relatively new development in entomology.
"The desire is to want to lump them into one big study so you can understand them all, but they're very different," Selfridge said.
Selfridge said the Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab's location in Maryland has led to more data and research on native bee species compared to other states.
Even so, research on Maryland's native bee species lags behind research on other insects and invertebrates due to the limited funding and lack of long-term datasets.
"The funding that we have available to us is generally more geared toward rare, threatened and endangered things, so things that are really in trouble," Selfridge said.
Droege said researchers often have to make crude inferences about native bee species in Maryland.
"'You can't find them anymore' is not a great, very nuanced survey program," Droege said.
"That's where we are. But worse is, things that are not bumblebees are so tiny, so obscure, we don't even know if they were there to begin with because we are describing entirely new species that weren't described before," he said.
Efforts to "save the bees" grew out of human actions, including urbanization that destroys natural insect habitats, including harming bee populations.
"I really want to emphasize: we do know that nature is changing," Droege said. "You don't put houses on the ground and have positive benefits to nature."
Maryland plays a role in endangering native bee species as urbanization also decreases flower populations, which bees need for pollination and survival.
"And the fact that we're losing landscape to urbanization is something that's going to actually increase the impacts of climate change," Steinhauer said.
Droege said increasing the diversity and number of flowers on Maryland's landscape could help native bee species survive.
"The state…is a big property owner, manager and a regulator, so you have regulations that surround a lot of things that would impact the number of flowers in the area, essentially," he said.
At the individual level, people can also make a positive impact on the future of bees.
As consumers, people can choose to support companies that make the effort to reduce the environmental impacts affecting bee populations, Steinhauer said.
Although commercial beekeeping helps with pollination and honey production, personal beekeeping can drive down the population of native bee species that compete with honeybees for pollination.
"If you're getting into honeybees because you want to save the environment, you're not –– you're doing the opposite," Droege said.
"Your hives are…not saving honeybees because honeybees have disease problems and your hive is probably a disease vector, if anything," he said.
The decline in populations of native bee species points to a larger biodiversity crisis facing the United States and the world, according to scientists.
"We are losing species at a rate that is faster than we've ever recorded in history," Steinhauer said. "Bees are not an exceptionDavid l. green
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Better Hearing And Speech Month
May. 21, 2023
BY: Elliott Sylvester
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Each May, Better Hearing and Speech Month provides a chance to raise awareness about communication disorders. For us at Trevor, it is a chance to support and celebrate LGBTQ young people with conditions that impact their hearing and speech. Hearing and speech conditions, like deafness, hearing impairment and loss, stuttering, muteness, and others, are very common, but we've found that LGBTQ young people with disabilities often lack the affirmation and support they deserve. And because you often can't see a disability just by looking at someone, LGBTQ young people with communication disorders can find themselves feeling invisible.
Having a non-visible disability (a catch-all phrase for disabilities not perceivable just by looking at someone, like chronic pain, vision impairment, and learning disabilities) can be challenging — unfortunately, because non-visible disabilities can't be seen right away, people who have them face misunderstandings and disbelief. Getting diagnosed with a non-visible disability is often a challenge; many people have to resort to self-diagnosis. As far as hearing impairment, The Trevor Project research found that 5% of LGBTQ young people reported experiencing deafness or serious difficulty hearing. Deaf LGBTQ young people reported significantly higher rates of discrimination and suicidal ideation in the last year due to their sexual orientation or gender identity compared to their hearing peers; deaf LGBTQ youth also reported high levels of family support reported approximately half the odds of considering or attempting suicide in the last year.
Data like this demonstrates the immense need for inclusion and support for deaf LGBTQ young people and LGBTQ young people with speech and hearing disorders. Accessibility, training, and disability competence are the key for people who work with or otherwise have relationships with LGBTQ young people; these are efforts that go far in making LGBTQ young people with disabilities feel comfortable and safe. Furthermore, LGBTQ young people with disabilities often face distinct forms of discrimination, so affirming both their gender and sexuality, as well as taking care of their needs, go hand-in-hand.
We're doing our part to give every LGBTQ young person the accessibility they need. The Trevor Project is committed to supporting LGBTQ young people with speech and hearing conditions, and are available and accessible 24/7. Our text and chat services use text-based communication, and our phone Lifeline can be accessed with the support of an interpreter or voice-to-text/text-to-voice service. We are continuing to update all of our resources and guides to be ADA-compliant, and our social media and video content is all captioned, so everyone can enjoy.
LGBTQ young people, whatever your needs are, we are here for you. You deserve competent, accessible care, and we are working to ensure every LGBTQ young person gets that care they deserveMuslims are finishing their final fasts of the holy month of Ramadan. For the last time this month, we will recite prayers, donate to charitable causes, and reflect upon our lives. Soon we will celebrate Eid, a celebratory day for exchanging gifts, sharing food with family and neighbors, and existing in community. The story for young LGBTQ Muslims can be a bit more complicated — it certainly was for me. Ramadan meant putting my faith on full display at school. The response from peers spanned from curious questions — "you can't even drink water?" — to more hateful comments. On…
Content Warning: Anti-LGBTQ Violence Today, June 12, marks the seventh year since the tragic shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. 49 people lost their lives that night, 68 were injured, and countless first responders and healthcare professionals were there and attending to them. The impact of this tragedy was felt by many, but for the Latinx community, LGBTQ people, and the Florida and Orlando community, the loss and shock was incalculable. I was 18 at the time, all the way in Illinois, and hearing the news, I cried reading the names of people whose names were just like… | eng | 00929b62-723f-4f63-858d-13d52bf64142 | https://www.thetrevorproject.org/blog/better-speech-and-hearing-month/ |
Virtual & Augmented Reality For Dummies by Paul Mealy-2018.pdf
Virtual & Augmented Reality For Dummies
by Paul Mealy
For Dummies English 2018-07-11 352 pages
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Title: Virtual & Augmented Reality For Dummies
Author: Paul Mealy
Length: 352 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English
Publisher: For Dummies
Publication Date: 2018-07-11
ISBN-10: 1119481341
ISBN-13: 9781119481348
Sales Rank: #893876 (See Top 100 Books)
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Description
An easy-to-understand primer on Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality
Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) are driving the next technological revolution. If you want to get in on the action, this book helps you understand what these technologies are, their history, how they're being used, and how they'll affect consumers both personally and professionally in the very near future.
With VR and AR poised to become mainstream within the next few years, an accessible book to bring users up to speed on the subject is sorely needed—and that's where this handy reference comes in! Rather than focusing on a specific piece of hardware (HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, iOS ARKit) or software (Unity, Unreal Engine), Virtual & Augmented Reality For Dummies offers a broad look at both VR and AR, giving you a bird's eye view of what you can expect as they continue to take the world by storm.
Keeps you up-to-date on the pulse of this fast-changing technology
Explores the many ways AR/VR are being used in fields such as healthcare, education, and entertainment
Includes interviews with designers, developers, and technologists currently working in the fields of VR and AR
Perfect for both potential content creators and content consumers, this book will change the way you approach and contribute to these emerging technologies.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Getting Started with Virtual and Augmented Reality
Chapter 1: Defining Virtual and Augmented Reality
Chapter 2: Exploring the Current State of Virtual Reality
Chapter 3: Exploring the Current State of Augmented Reality
Part 2: Consuming Content in Virtual and Augmented Reality
Chapter 4: Consuming Content in Vir tual Reality
Chapter 5: Consuming Content in Augmented Reality
Part 3: Creating Content in Virtual and Augmented Reality
Chapter 6: Evaluating Your Project
Chapter 7: Planning Your Virtual Reality Project
Chapter 8: Planning Your Augmented Reality Project
Chapter 9: Creating Content for Virtual and Augmented Reality
Part 4: Virtual and Augmented Reality in the Wild
Chapter 10: Exploring Virtual Reality Use Cases
Chapter 11: Exploring Augmented Reality Use Cases
Part 5: The Future of Virtual and Augmented Reality
Chapter 12: Assessing the Future of Virtual Reality
Chapter 13: Assessing the Future of Augmented Reality
Part 6: The Part of Tens
Chapter 14: Ten Questions about Virtual and Augmented Reality
Chapter 15: Ten Industries That Will Be Transformed by Virtual and Augmented Reality
Chapter 16: Ten (Or So) Mobile Apps for Experiencing Augmented Reality Today | eng | 9e79e09f-8749-432a-aba2-bb5ec0de8b81 | https://wenku.csdn.net/doc/646427ff5928463033c1b003 |
Year 6 2022 - 2023
Mrs McDermott
Welcome to the Year 6 home page!
This term our learning will be focused on Invaders and Settlers. We will be moving on from the work taught in year 3 and 4 on the Stone Age and the Romans and covering the Anglo Saxons in Autumn 1 (who some say were invited to Britain by the Romans in order to help them fight invaders from the North) and The Vikings in the second half term. Where possible we will make extra curricular links. Our DT this half term is all about the farm to fork process as the reason for Anglo Saxons invading Britin was due to the need for better farm land to grow crops. Their homeland was prone to flooding and so became a problem for them. We will be focusing on using healthy home grown vegetables to improve recipes in food techology. If anyone would like to support our learning in this topic and enjoys cooking, I would really appreciate your help so please send me a message.
In Literacy this term we will be developing our descriptive writing, deepending our understanding of the grammar associated with our writing structure. We will be reading a variety of books during this half term to engage pupils interest in reading as well as developing their reading skills such as visualsing, predicting, retreiving and inferring information, questionning and summarising. Please try and make time to listen and engage with your child's reading experience. Developing good reading habits at this age is priceless and develops a life long learner.
In maths we are focusing on place value and learning to solve problems with numbers up to ten million. Remember, if you can teach your child how to chant their times tables, they will become a confident mathemtician who's abilities are endless! I can teach them everything else you need to know so times tables will be the biggest focus for homework this term. Chant them, quiz them and you always have a range of activities on TT ROCKSTARS to help develop their fluency even further.
Make sure you keep an eye on Dojo as I will be posting important information and updates and sharing photos of our activities from the week.
This year, not only will we have sports ambassadors in year 6 but I am also selecting a media team, who I believe have some very interesting ideas for how they can transform our website and communicate in a range of different ways so watch out for that.
If you have any questions or queries, please do not hesitate to contact me on Class Dojo or as always my door is always open for anyone who wants to chat face to face.
Maths home learning will be TT Rockstars and NumBots. Please work on Times tables with your children, they need to work on knowing these inside out recalling tables quickly to problem solve. Consider the inverse operation of division, knowing that 64 divided by 8 = 8. The children will also be set regular tasks on Maths.co.uk that link to the in-class learning from the week.
Reading is another home learning you will do weekly. Reading is a fantastic way to learn and to stretch your imagination. In year 6, we work hard to develop our fluency and understanding of text, focussing on active reading where we question, summarise and investigate language. Please continue to read with your child at home and focus on asking them questions about the text they have read.
Grammar tasks will be assigned on SPAG.com. The tasks will link to the learning in-class and they will help inform the objectives that require further practise and teaching. These will be set weekly.
Year 5/6 Spellings are given to the children each week and they will be tested on a Friday 6 Important Information
MONDAY: Outdoor PE with Anthony - all children must come into school in their school PE kits (DV / red jumper) prepared for all weather.
TUESDAY: Swimming and squash - all children must come to school in PE kits (DV / red jumper) and bring their swimming kit with them.
WEDNESDAY: Orchestra - instruments
THURSDAY:
FRIDAY: Children will have Music, RE, and Forest school - all children must bring with them wellies and waterproofs to put on over their uniform.
Change of reading books.
Spelling test.
SPAG.com or Maths.co.uk task set.
All homework due in - spelling, Spag and Maths, reading
SATURDAY/SUNDAY: Fun, family time, games, getting outside and reading for pleasure
Things to remember:
School shoes and outdoor shoes must be brought to school everyday. These can be left at school in the shoe boxes.
All children with long hair must wear it tied back.
Children only need to bring the essentials into school every day – lunchbox and water bottle. They will be provided with all equipment.
Children are welcome to bring water bottles into the classroom to be kept on desks.
A suitable coat is vital as we will spend time outside every day, for daily miles, playtimes and other outdoor learning opportunities. | eng | b2e8925f-5326-4897-95f7-693ce2148bd7 | http://www.deanvalley.cheshire.sch.uk/class/year-6 |
Does anyone know how much (if anything) Logan charges for commercial usage of his album Zweihänder? I'm wanting to use it as filler for a game I am currently developing so I actually have something good to listen to while testing, as well as maybe include it in a couple videos that probably wouldn't be making money anyway.
Basically, how much does he charge and how would I go about contacting him specifically about this, to use the music in a game as a placeholder (not sold until music removed) and possibly in non monetizing videos? So not really commercial, but could be considered such. | eng | 67f84e79-b798-490b-8417-22a7c139af53 | https://forum.level1techs.com/t/zweihander-commercial-rights/34708 |
UNC researchers study impact of sound underwater
Thirty miles off the coast of North Carolina, researchers are using under water cameras and microphones to answer a question of aquatic acoustics.
Posted 10:57 p.m. Aug 25, 2016 — Updated 10:57 p.m. Aug 25, 2016
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MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. — Thirty miles off the coast of North Carolina, researchers are using under water cameras and microphones to answer a question of aquatic acoustics.
Researcher Avery Paxton is leading the project, studying how man-made sounds are affecting fish on reefs off the coast.
"There's still so many questions of how the fish are using these reefs, and how the sounds we humans make in the water can change how fish use their homes," she said.
The University of North Carolina Institute of Marine Science, along with Duke Marine labs and NOAA, want to establish a base line of fish activity before new energy development gears up in the ocean.
"We don't know how fish respond to loud noises when you explore for oil and gas, known as seismic surveying," Paxton said.
Seismic surveying blasts loud noise through the water into the ocean floor and measures the echo returned.
"We know from lab experiments where fish are in captivity and are exposed to loud noises that it can cause a lot of damage, but we don;t know how they respond in their natural environment," Paxton said.
And it's not just seismic surveying, boats, construction and structures left behind also have an impact.
"If you put a wind turbine and a renewable energy device in the marine environment, you can choose the sounds you experience on the reefs, and this may influence how the fish use their homes and thus are our fisheries," Paxton said. | eng | 05a13045-0b1d-43ed-a82d-3c48663ed4ce | https://www.wral.com/unc-researchers-study-impact-of-sound-underwater/15960501/ |
Bottom-up economic model
The best way to define the bottom-up approach economy is by contrasting it with trickle-down economics. Trickle-down postulates that if you grow the economy, even if it favors the top one 1% including big companies, the expectation is that the benefits will ultimately flow to the lowest part leading to economic growth and employment in general economy. Bottom-up is where you create economic rules focusing on the bottom end, in terms of the common citizen.
The bottom-up approach, has very little to do with the government or politicians providing goodies to the public but creating an enabling environment for the small and medium enterprises to thrive. This includes coming up with policies that decriminalise small traders; reduces the burden of taxation to SMEs; allowing small businesses, especially the millions in the informal sector, access cheap credit from financial institutions.
While the bottom-up approach is ideal, it will take some time before it takes shape. For it to work, there is need for change in the mindset of policymakers such as Treasury mandarins who believe that the economy is just about the modern sector, the industries, and banks. Those are the guys whose views determine the government policy to a large extent. Additionally, because the bottom of the pyramid comprises largely the informal sector, who do not have security to access credit, the government need to underwrite their loans so that banks can give them loans without fearing that they might default.
The bottom-up approach cannot be implemented in a country where there is high inequality with those at the bottom lacking the skills to even manage their own businesses. The majority of the people at the bottom, are quite miserable financially. They don't have even skills of initiating and managing small-scale businesses, something that requires a lot of public awareness and civic education.
With political will, the trickle-down economics can be restructured by creating a layer in the middle and try to pump resources from where they can be able now to jumpstart the economy as a plane that is accelerating to take off and then the fruits will start trickling down. When you talk about bottom-up economics, the government largesse is delivered to the bottom-end of the economy. Which might not allow for the efficient allocation of resources.
The government, should not directly confer benefits and, in any case, should get out of business, as it is not good at efficiently allocating resources. There is a consensus even among the political class that there is a need to focus on the ordinary citizens, most of whom make a living in the ubiquitous informal sector. Unfortunately, most of those in these businesses have not been able to share in the national cake with the government, channelling most of its money to mega infrastructural projects in which small businesses and individuals have had no stake.
Failure to address the issue of corruption, sees policymakers continue to be obsessed with the large infrastructural projects which have decent kickbacks. One of the most effective ways of bottom-up is simply, making credit cheap and available so that the common citizen doesn't need a million collateral documents to secure credit. The government of the day can come up with a policy in which banks undertake to lend a certain fraction of their money to SMEs as a condition of setting shop in the country.
Some people say that the surest form of bottom-up approach is devolution whose aim is to ensure that resources were channelled from the national government to the grassroots. Devolution is the only tax that the government pays to a third party other than debt repayment. It is compelled to pay it by the constitution or legislations. In any government there need to be some sort of mixture of a trickle-down and bottom-up approach.
For example, rural electrification in which homes and businesses in the rural areas are connected to the national grid can help those at the bottom in a major way. The bottom-up approach has been very popular in a lot of Asian countries. In the US, there is a divide in the Democratic Party where there is a faction that favours some kind of building from the middle, while there is the low-tax, pro-business wing. | eng | a1dce6a9-aa4e-437a-ad3f-75c1aec9d113 | https://victormochere.com/bottom-up-economic-model |
Yes I could easily compensate if the vit res was changed to poison, pierce or maybe chaos, these are hardly overcapped in my build. But if it changed to aether or bleed for example, I'd have a hard time to compensate. Unless I'm missing something of course.
If anything I'd say give some chaos resist to the mageslayer set or increase the current resists. Then again, I have no clue about item balancing and usually keep out of these discussions, I only reacted to this thead because your idea directly threatens my current favorite build
You can change glove component to the one that gives vita res for example (since your elemental is all right). Or you could use Tainted Heart in medal. A lot of ways, imo. Like jewellery augment that gives 50% to elemental, 15% bleed res and 15% vita res, etc. | eng | 4d5b4191-942c-4986-8c8d-9bc01f0e8339 | https://forums.crateentertainment.com/t/feedback-can-vitality-resist-on-mark-of-the-dark-dreams-be-changed-into-something-else-please/92887 |
Immerse yourself within London heritage sites as you explore the connections between historic literature and its social, political and cultural meanings.
Opportunities to enhance your employability by participating in public engagement initiatives with local creative partners.
Modules take advantage of local literary and theatrical heritage sites, to give you an immersive and geographically-distinct learning experience.
Why study Literature, Culture and Heritage?
Are you fascinated by the way literature can help us to explore a particular place or culture? Would you like to pursue a career in Heritage or even a PhD in Literature? If so, our Master's degree in Literature, Culture and Heritage is for you.
Our Master's degree in Literature, Culture and Heritage brings together the historical, cultural and literary heritage of West London. As a student on our MA Literature, Culture and Heritage, you will benefit from the unique position of St Mary's University in Twickenham and its proximity to Strawberry Hill House, the home of the Gothic and a physical representation of the impact of the global on the local through its heritage and collections.
You will also engage and collaborate with other historic buildings in the area, such as Chiswick House and Gardens, Hogarth's House and Orleans Gallery. Through field trips, museum exhibitions, novels, poetry, and theatre, as well as the study of a range of historical texts, we will interrogate colonialism, postcolonialism, religion and culture and confront difficult heritage spaces that explore race, religion, gender, nationhood and the role of place.
As a student on our Master's degree in Literature, Culture and Heritage, you will join a close-knit and passionate group of teachers and students in the Institute of Theology and Liberal Arts.
All of our Master's degrees are taught in seminar-style groups, with plenty of scope to discuss ideas in depth and get to know your tutors and fellow students well.
If you have a passion for Literature, Culture and Heritage, then our Master's degree will help you pursue it and develop your career in the process.
Why St Mary's?
You'll benefit from the wealth of prominent heritage sites local to us, including Hampton Court Palace and Strawberry Hill House, the latter of which is located on our West London campus. You'll have the opportunity to engage with archives and artefacts at these sites.
Lectures are taught at Strawberry Hill House, which means you'll be immersed in local heritage throughout your degree and gives you the opportunity to engage academically and creatively with the narratives you encounter.
Throughout the degree, you'll interact with a wide selection of literary and cultural movements and be introduced to a range of key disciplinary methodologies.
You'll then draw on the tools acquired across the course to conduct a rigorous and in-depth research project. This will take the form of either a dissertation or a creative, work-based project completed in collaboration with a local heritage partner.
Upcoming open days and webinars
We'll be running events for you to find out more about Literature, Culture and Heritage MA PGDip PGCert on the following dates:
Tuesday 25th April 2023, 5.30pm
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Literatures and Cultures from the Global to the Local (Core)
This module confronts - through literary, musical and artistic mediums - the experience of colonialism and empire. Exploring literary texts and cultural artefacts such as archives, music and oral histories, the module will consider issues of identity, nationalism, migration and transnationalism, taking into account the impact of capitalism and globalisation on world literatures.
Drawing on key theoretical texts, a selection of related talks and films, occidental and oriental music and an engagement with local heritage sites, the module will interrogate the experience of the colonised by entering into a discussion about postcolonial thought, literature and world music which 'writes back'.
Students will draw upon theorists such as Homi Bhabha, Benedict Anderson, Frantz Fanon, Elleke Boehmer, Paul Gilroy and Frederic Jameson to understand matters of how space and place are negotiated and reimagined in a postcolonial world.
Core
Gothic Spaces (Core)
An immersive view on the Gothic, and the production of imagined and literary places. Starting with Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto and its relationship to his Gothic castle, Strawberry Hill House, this module will consider the construction of literary places in and through literature, and the ways in which engagement with literature can offer meaningful and imaginative experiences to literary pilgrims and visitors to these places.
Side-stepping the anthropoid or megafaunal monsters that can dominate teachings of the Gothic, this module shines light on the murky 'background' of Gothic texts (both textual and contextual) to understand how features like landscape, atmosphere, domestic spaces and historical externalities are integral in constituting what we know and feel as a Gothic ambience in texts.
This module will also offer students the chance to consider the broader role of literature in the production of cultural heritage spaces, and the ways in which diverse audiences can be offered new readings of familiar texts and places
Core
Popery to Pragmatism: Catholicism in English Literature 1688-1960 (Core)
Spanning the Papist Acts of 1688 to the Catholic literary revival of the mid twentieth century, this module is designed to give students an understanding of the influence and contribution of Catholicism to modern English Literature.
Beginning with a focus on local literary figures, such as Alexander Pope and Horace Walpole, the module expands in chronological and geographic scope in order to interrogate how the changing political and religious identities of the period manifested in and influenced British writings of the modern period.
The module will look at writings by authors of Catholic, Protestant and no faith in order to build a holistic and nuanced picture of Catholicism's lasting impact on British culture.
In this module you'll think critically about how the kinds of historical narratives produced and consumed within society can exercise power, by legitimating or delegitimating particular world views or political projects, and by affording some histories representative space while others are excluded.
The module will open with an evaluation of the kinds of texts produced by professional historians, considering in particular the influence of national and Eurocentric nature of some historical frameworks.
Then you'll learn about historical narratives as they emerge from film, fiction, museums, art, video games and other entertainment forms.
The aim of this module is to allow you to think about the different ways in which historical knowledge is produced and consumed. Specifically, we suggest you consider:
How narrative forms structure the presentation of historical knowledge
The connections and differences between fictional and non-fictional historical forms
The role and practice of storytelling in public historical contexts
How and why some histories feature prominently in the historical record, while others are silenced
The ways in which the re-telling of some historical narratives, or their silencing, can have political implications.
Core Option 1
Heritage Spaces: Makings and Meanings (Core Option 1)
This module examines the relationships between the heritage sector and issues such as identity, nostalgia, social inclusion and the normalisation of cultural values.
Drawing on links with professional expertise in the field, the module looks closely at techniques for staging, curating, designing and story telling about the past.
You will be asked to consider what 'authenticity' means in the context of heritage sites and what type of 'experience' of the past are provided at such sites for audiences.
The module has a strong vocational focus, giving you the opportunity to engage with - and test - models of the presentation of historical knowledge through theoretical and practical consideration of a number of prominent heritage sites and spaces of various kinds, some in the West London area near St Mary's.
These sites include:
Strawberry Hill House
Ham House
Orléans House
Hampton Court Palace
Marble Hill House
Richmond town centre
Ham House
You will observe and critique their current presentation to the public, engaging with issues such as the constructed narrative of the building/site; its 'preferred' meanings and significance, how particular spaces within it are presented in light of that narrative and to consider alternative constructions of the past which might be offered through its physical remains.
You will also attend a taught session at The National Archives as a research resource for aspects of 'local' history, with support training in various record series.
Core Option 2
Dissertation (Core Option 2)
You will produce a 15,000 word essay on a topic of your choice (to be decided in collaboration with your supervisor).
Core Option 2
Creative Portfolio (Core Option 2)
You will conduct a work-based creative project in collaboration with Strawberry Hill House.
Please note: it is possible that a module listed on the website will not be able to run due to reasons beyond our control. For more information please refer to our course information disclaimer.
Career opportunities
Our Master's degree in Literature, Culture and Society offers you the chance to get involved with public engagement initiatives with Strawberry Hill House and other local heritage partners, enabling you to gain vocational skills while also bolstering your academic qualificationsTeaching takes place in interactive face-to-face seminars, with two on-campus sessions per week.
You'll be assessed through essays and portfolios as well as your final dissertation or creative work-based project.
Assessment methods
Our Master's degree in Literature, Culture and Heritage is assessed through a range of innovative methods, which include creative pieces, exhibitions, and critical commentaries as well as essays and presentations.
Tutors on the programme will guide you through all the requirements to ensure you are supported to succeed.
Modes of study
Whilst most students study all the modules required to graduate with the award of a Master's degree, you can also study fewer modules to complete a Postgraduate Certificate of Diploma.
The PGCert and PGDip routes can be popular for those in work looking for continuing professional development (CPD) opportunities.
Facilities
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
September 2023
Home: £9,300
International: £16,350 | eng | de334a05-3856-43e1-9840-6166d1933a65 | https://www.stmarys.ac.uk/postgraduate-courses-london/literature-culture-and-society |
June 12 – World Day Against Child Labor
SDG:
June 12 – World Day Against Child Labor was established by the UN-affiliated International Labor Organization (ILO) to limit child exploitation and comply with ILO Convention 182 on the most severe forms of work children and ILO Convention No. 138 on the Minimum Age of Employment. This day was celebrated for the first time in 2002.
Grupa Kęty S.A. as a signatory to the UN Global Compact, it respects and develops 10 principles, including principle 5. Abolish child labor | eng | c558285f-2c9a-4926-8575-81dd39705225 | https://grupakety.com/en/june-12-world-day-against-child-labor/ |
At Zenith Innovations, we understand the importance of streamlining operations and enhancing performance for businesses. As a leading IT services company, we are dedicated to delivering solutions that help organizations become more efficient and improve their overall performance.
At Zenith Innovations, we believe that technology should be a tool to help organizations succeed, not a hindrance to their progress. Our team is dedicated to delivering user-friendly solutions that are easy to use and provide real value to our clients.
Whether you're looking to improve your productivity, reduce costs, or stay ahead of the competition, the team at Zenith Innovations is here to help. We are dedicated to streamlining operations and enhancing performance for businesses, so you can focus on what you do best – growing and succeeding.
today's digital age, businesses require a comprehensive IT strategy to remain competitive and meet their customers' needs. Zenith Innovations, an IT services company and Zoho partner, has become a trusted name in the industry for providing businesses with tailored IT solutions. This article will explore why people like Zenith Innovations and why they trust their services. We will also delve into the details of Zenith Innovations' services, particularly their Zoho CRM implementationand Zoho One implementation.
Why People Like Zenith Innovations
Personalized Approach
At Zenith Innovations, one of their core values is to provide a personalized approach to their clients. They understand that every business has unique requirements, and therefore, they tailor their services to meet their clients' specific needs. Zenith's team of experienced professionals takes the time to understand their clients' goals and challenges to deliver the best solutions that fit their businesses.
Expertise
Zenith Innovations has been in the IT services industry for over a decade, providing businesses with end-to-end IT solutions. They have gained extensive experience in delivering IT services to clients across various industries. Their team of professionals has expert knowledge in Zoho solutions and other IT systems, which enables them to provide clients with quality IT services.
Trustworthiness
Zenith Innovations has earned the trust of their clients through their excellent service delivery. They have a proven track record of delivering successful projects to clients, making them a reliable and trustworthy IT services company. Their clients can rest assured that Zenith Innovations will always deliver on their promises.
Why People Trust Zenith Innovations
High-Quality Service Delivery
Zenith Innovations is committed to delivering high-quality services to their clients. They use industry-standard best practices and methodologies to ensure their services are of the highest quality. They also have a team of skilled professionals who are trained and certified in various IT systems, ensuring that clients receive top-notch services.
Customer Satisfaction
Customer satisfaction is at the core of Zenith Innovations' business. They work closely with their clients to understand their requirements and ensure that they are satisfied with the delivered solution. They also provide ongoing support to their clients to ensure they continue to meet their changing business needs.
Transparent Communication
Zenith Innovations believes in maintaining open and honest communication with their clients. They provide regular updates on the project's progress, discuss any challenges, and provide solutions to mitigate any risks. Their clients are always in the loop, ensuring that there are no surprises along the way.
Zenith Innovations Detail: Zoho CRM Implementation
Zenith Innovations is an advanced Zoho partner, specializing in Zoho CRM implementation. Zoho CRM is a cloud-based CRM system that provides businesses with a complete view of their customers' data, enabling them to make informed decisions. Zenith Innovations' team of professionals has extensive experience in implementing Zoho CRM for clients across various industries. They follow a proven methodology to ensure a successful implementation, which includes the following steps:
Discovery Phase
Zenith Innovations' team conducts a discovery phase to understand the client's business requirements, processes, and objectives. They identify the data fields that need to be captured and the automation that needs to be implemented.
Configuration Phase
In the configuration phase, Zenith Innovations sets up the Zoho CRM system according to the client's requirements. This includes creating custom fields, configuring the system workflows, and integrating third-party systems.
Testing Phase
Zenith Innovations' team conducts extensive testing to ensure that the Zoho CRM system is working as intended. They perform user acceptance testing (UAT) to ensure that the system meets the client's requirements. | eng | b35bc076-3233-4ab7-af9c-026be51a6998 | https://yourtrc.com/2023/02/16/streamlining-operations-and-enhancing-performance-with-zenith-innovations/ |
Silver Oak Parent and Student Handbook - You can find our school's policies and procedures in two places. Each year teachers give students a colorful Silver Oak folder that has our policies and procedures printed on it. You can also find our school guidelines on our Policies webpage.iReady, our comprehensive online learning program for math and reading that is personalized to your child's reading and math level and needs. iReady offers a wide range of interactive lessons and skill-building activities that enables students to strengthen their knowledge, fill any learning gaps, and stay academically engaged.
Students login through Clever or iReady using their district issued Google email address and password. Students email addresses are their student ID number@eesd.org. Student ID numbers can be found on your child's report card or you can call the school office or ask your teacher.
Family Guides
Access Student eTextbook and Other Resources on Path To Excel
Your child can now access their eTextbooks for English Language Acquisition (ELA) and Math through Path To Excel. Students can only access these books if they are given permission to use Google Apps for Education by their teacher.
Here are the steps for students:
This series of tutorials(opens in new window/tab) provides helpful information for parents and students for the devices and academic learning tools students are using. We hope these tips and tricks provide a successful experience for all learners.
Each year students participate in the Science Fair typically held in the spring. Winners from each school in the district advance to the Evergreen School District Science Fair. Students complete one of five types of projects: experiment, demonstration, model, collection, or invention. Each project focuses on science concepts correlated to grade-level standards. To view or print the Science Fair guidelines please see links below to our Science Fair Handbooks that are available in PDF format (Acrobat Reader required). Select your preferred language: | eng | 900f0802-44ee-47f9-9f0a-56812ee9abe2 | https://silveroak.eesd.org/resources/academic-tools |
Fusion product diagnostics can be used to determine afusion reaction rate,whichindicateshowclose theplasma is to the ultimate goal of making a power plant based on nuclear fusion. However, these diagnostics can also provide large amounts of additional information, such as ion temperatures, the thermonuclear fraction in the fusion reaction rate, deg… | eng | ad1523c5-a652-4f01-9e3e-709777d8a182 | https://scientific-publications.ukaea.uk/all-papers/?wpv_post_search=J.+K%C3%A4llne |
Team Chat
Communicate from any location in real-time.
A team chat app/tool is a type of software that enables people from multiple locations to communicate with each other in real-time. This tool is becoming increasingly popular among remote teams as it allows them to stay connected and collaborate effectively. Team chat apps allow users to exchange messages and share documents, as well as voice and video calls. Additionally, they provide a platform for users to brainstorm and work on projects together.
Team chat apps can help remote teams stay in touch with each other and coordinate their activities, even if they are located in different parts of the world. With these apps, everyone has access to the same information and can easily communicate with each other, which helps to foster collaboration. Team chat apps also provide a way for team members to share ideas, brainstorm solutions, and engage in problem-solving. Additionally, they can be used to organize meetings, assign tasks, and keep track of projects. | eng | 38afca0b-18eb-4ac8-93a8-5fda70e576a9 | https://allremote.jobs/remote-tools/category/team-chat |
Why More People Should Drink Hydrogen Water
Consumers take the necessary steps to improve their health by reviewing popular products that promote great health. Whether they review dietary supplements, new diet fads, or start a new exercise program, there is one product that is vital to achieving all their health and fitness aspirations.
Water is vital for the body since the body consists of mostly water. Everyone must drink enough water every day to avoid serious health complications. When reviewing options, people determine what health benefits the products offer first, and they determine the best way to improve their health by using the products. Hydrogen water presents great health benefits, and all the person has to do is drink it every day.
Getting the Necessary Amount of Water Each Day
Proper hydration prevents sluggishness and bad health, and doctors recommend drinking at least 8-8-ounces of water every day to stay hydrated. Proper hydration improves organ function and prevents the negative effects of dehydration that could damage the organs significantly.
When addressing health, it is critical for everyone to consume the right amount of water each day to balance the body and prevent a health crisis. Consumers can learn more about hydrogen water and its effects by visiting Drink HRW right now.
Helps You Feel Full Faster
People that drink adequate amounts of water feel full faster, and the water helps them lose weight faster. They will eat less food, and drinking water helps them eat smaller portions of food. Feeling full prevents the person from overeating and gaining more weight because of it. When dieting, they must drink adequate water to hydrate their body and make eliminating waste products easier.
May Lower the Effects of Migraines and Other Headaches
Migraines are often caused by dehydration, and patients may see an increase in their symptoms. These symptoms include pain from both or one side of the head, sensitivity to light, nausea, and vomiting. If the migraine patient doesn't stay hydrated, they may experience more frequent symptoms.
Drinking adequate amounts of water reduces symptoms and may improve the patient's health. Dehydration can increase the severity of the symptoms and decrease the person's quality of life. Hydrogen water is a great way to stay hydrated and prevent more frequent symptoms of migraines and other headaches.
Keeps the Colon Hydrated and Improves Digestion
Improving colon health lowers the risk of colon cancer, and the patient must keep their colon hydrated to keep the digestive system regulated. If the colon becomes dehydrated, they experience digestive upsets such as constipation. If the person has existing gastrointestinal diseases, they may experience severe symptoms that threaten their health.
Drinking hydrogen water helps them keep their colon hydrated and may prevent them from experiencing increased gastrointestinal symptoms. It will also prevent them from experiencing bloating, cramping, and pain from digestive upsets. Reviewing how water improves the digestive system shows consumers why it is imperative for them to drink enough water every day.
Rehydrates the Body When Exercising
When starting a new diet and exercise program, consumers must address hydration. As they exercise, they lose water through perspiration, and it's necessary to replace these water levels. Doctors recommend drinking water after exercising to restore balance in the body. Proper water levels improve the way the body performs during exercise. If their body is hydrated, the person sees an increase in their endurance.
Hydrogen water is a great product for restoring balance in the body, and it helps them stay hydrated when exercising. Consumers see improvements in their health and get more out of their exercise efforts.
Restores Energy Levels
Drinking water restores energy levels, too, and adults see improvements in these levels if they switch from carbonated beverages to hydrogen water. The purpose is to hydrate the body and avoid the sluggishness caused by caffeinated beverages. Coffee and energy drinks give the person an increase in energy because of the caffeine. However, it dehydrates the body, and they experience a sudden crash as the caffeine leaves the body.
Drinking water instead of caffeinated drinks helps people regulate their energy levels without any sudden crashes. They feel healthier and avoid the negative health effects of caffeine.
Keeping the Weight Off
Once people achieve their weight loss and fitness goals, they need help maintaining a healthier weight. This requires them to commit to a healthier diet and exercise plan. In doing so, they must avoid sugary drinks that cause weight gain and increase sugar intake. Substituting soft drinks or tea may improve the body and help them stay at a healthier weight.
It is paramount for the individual to stay on track with the diet and exercise efforts, or they will gain all the weight back. Choosing beverages more wisely helps them achieve these aspirations, and the person won't feel defeated if they gain a pound.
Makes It Easier to Drink Enough Water
Hydrogen water may offer a better tasting alternative to tap water. It is a great product to drink each day and ensures that everyone gets adequate amounts of water with a healthier diet. Staying hydrated is the best way to maintain health achievements and lower the risk of serious diseases.
If the person enjoys the way the water tastes, they are more likely to drink the right amount of water every day, and they won't suffer any health complications for it. Their organ function improves, they see changes in their body, and the person won't experience frequent digestive upsets. This is beneficial to overall great health.
Starting a healthier diet and exercise plan are the first steps to improving health and avoiding serious health risks. If the body becomes dehydrated, people suffer health complications that increase edema in the legs, may damage the organs, and cause a downward spiral.
Drinking at least 8-8-ounce glasses of water every day makes the consumers healthier and prevents serious risks. By drinking hydrogen water, they may get extra help with vitality and improve their health dramatically. Reviewing all the great health advantages of hydrogen water shows the consumers why it is popular and why they should try it. | eng | 7a401c2b-ca8c-4e07-bca0-e00a5d3d8e31 | https://marketbusinessnews.com/why-should-drink-hydrogen-water/253882/ |
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# What to Do in Rome on a Saturday
# What to Do in Rome on a Saturday
Are you planning a weekend trip to Rome and wondering how to make the most of your Saturday? Look no further! Rome is a city full of history, culture, and delicious food, and there's no shortage of things to do on a Saturday. Here are some recommendations to help you plan your perfect day in the Eternal City.
Morning: Explore Ancient Rome
Start your day early and head to the Colosseum, one of the most iconic landmarks in Rome. Avoid the crowds and take a guided tour to learn about the history of this impressive amphitheater. Afterward, walk over to the Roman Forum and Palatine Hill to explore more ancient ruins and take in the stunning views of the city.
Tip: Book your Colosseum tickets and tour in advance to skip the lines and make the most of your time in Rome.
Afternoon: Indulge in Italian Cuisine
After all that exploring, it's time for lunch! Head to Trastevere, a charming neighborhood known for its narrow streets and excellent restaurants. Stop by Pizzeria Ai Marmi for a delicious pizza al taglio (pizza by the slice) or try some authentic Roman pasta at Da Enzo al 29.
Tip: Don't forget to try the local specialty, supplì! These fried rice balls with a gooey cheese center are a must-try in Rome.
Evening: Experience Rome's Nightlife
As the sun sets, it's time to experience Rome's vibrant nightlife. Head to Campo de' Fiori, a bustling square filled with bars and restaurants. Grab a drink and enjoy the lively atmosphere before heading to the nearby Pantheon. This ancient temple is breathtaking at night, especially when it's illuminated.
Tip: If you're looking for a more upscale experience, head to the rooftop bar at the Hotel Raphael for stunning views of the city and delicious cocktails.
Conclusion
Rome is a city that truly has something for everyone, and a Saturday spent exploring its ancient ruins, indulging in Italian cuisine, and experiencing its vibrant nightlife is sure to be unforgettable. With these recommendations, you'll be able to make the most of your time in the Eternal City and create memories that will last a lifetime. | eng | 9e7bbc9a-8e69-482c-8914-64bf099f7312 | https://myurbanguide.com/what-to-do-in-rome-on-a-saturday/ |
In Finnish marine protected areas fishing is a traditional activity and is considered a part of the nature conservation management regime, usually included to the IUCN Category II or V. This situation prevent majority of marine areas in this country to include to the European Wilderness Network and IUCN Category I.
Consequence of this is that the marine Wilderness in Finnish network of marine protected areas is very rare.
Here is example of fishing rules in the Bothnian Sea National Park, Finland. Fishing with a simple rod and line or ice fishing tackle is not subject to fees or permits. Anyone fishing using other equipment in the state-owned waters in the Bothnian Sea National Park must pay the national fisheries management fee, but no permits is required from the owners of the water. To fish in privately owned water the owners permission is also needed.
Exception are strict marine nature reserves which have been established for scientific reasons. Their primary purpose is the conservation of nature and research. The regulations for the nature reserves are much stricter than those for the national parks of Finland. It is usually not permitted to travel inside the areas, although some areas have trails access for the public | eng | a64da763-a3a2-4528-a1b5-6972a7fa9a79 | https://wilderness-society.org/wilderness-marine-protected-areas/ |
The team found the exceptionally large meteorite in the so-called "Blue Ice Field", an area of blue ice and snowdrifts, about 60 kilometers from the Belgian Antarctic station.
The rock is larger than 99.7 percent of all meteorites that have been discovered in Antarctica to date. Most only weigh around 20 grams. This stone is a specimen weighing 7.6 kilograms. "It has a beautiful molten crust," enthuses earth scientist Maria Schönbächler. This crust is formed when the rock enters the Earth's atmosphere and falls to Earth as a glowing shooting star.
The chunk probably landed on a glacier in Antarctica millions of years ago, was then enclosed by the ice and traveled with the glacier. "In the blue ice areas where we searched, the glacier is eroded by the wind and meteorites appear again," explains the researcher.
Along with Prof. Dr. Schönbächler, two researchers from Belgium and one researcher | eng | 30879491-ea30-4360-8fa9-30e888ca06bf | https://switzerlandtimes.ch/people/discovery-in-antarctica-swiss-researcher-finds-extraordinary-meteorite/ |
Maybe because tm_gmtoff was not added to time.struct_time until Python 3.3
[1] and was not available from the most of the C libraries at the time?
(Well, at least
since 1993: .) | eng | 27392523-c865-4614-b588-3cc70d3574cc | https://mail.python.org/archives/list/datetime-sig@python.org/thread/QJG2F6NZPN3RUFKNEXBEQB4ATX5NFQI2/ |
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The 7th Circle - Endless Nightmare is a First Person Dungeon Crawler RPG for hardcore gamers. Inspired by classic games from the 90s, the game adds new juicy features to modernize a classic genre of role playing games.
The 7th Circle - Endless Nightmare is a journey into your subconscious; each character, each Alter Ego, represents a different personality, but they are all sharing the same goal: to discover what is hidden in the darkest part of your mind and free it from its demons. The blood slowly flows down from your wrists. You're about to faint...you are finally going to die, you know it. The blade falls from your hand. You hit the floor in a puddle of blood. You are dying. And this is just the beginning of your journey.
The game has a dark and creepy tone with a good amount of violence and gore. The gameplay isn't set in a specific time period, but the setting is more like a mix of different elements, some from the past (like old weapons or the dungeons themself) and some from a more modern era (like tv screens), while all the cutscenes are clearly set in the present. | eng | b314bd75-bba7-4333-8207-d1f1725f4fe7 | https://www.dungeoncrawlers.org/game/the-7th-circle-endless-nightmare/ |
Summary: Justin created three paintings for a show in Santa Barbara. He then decided to allow the paintings to be viewed, but not sold. Here's what happens when the paintings are sent to members of the Gang. Categories:Could be Canon, Alternate UniverseCharacters: None Challenges: None Challenges: None Open: Open
Everyone thinks Brian and Justin broke up after the attack at the Prom. What happens when they find out that Justin never was out of the picture? This series started out as a single story and then turned into five: "Betrayal", "Ambush", "Retribution", "Restoration", and "Ellis, Uniforms, and Girlfriends" (This is the Series Epilogue). I will be uploading all five stories in the coming days.
Post-season 5. A year after Justin leaves Brian for the Art World, his life in New York suddenly collapses catastrophically. Brian brings him back to Pittsburgh where he realizes he is being given a second chance; at love and at life.
Summary: After the end of season 5, Brian is still in Pittsburgh, and Justin is in New York, everything seems to be fine. It is? How about trying to be really together despite the others? And what about Justin to be Dad? And what about commitment, marriage, equality?rnrn Categories:Minor Character Death, Alternate UniverseCharacters: None Challenges: None Challenges: None Open: Closed | eng | ae05c2e8-a2e8-4765-8255-7f544a9c5199 | https://midnightwhispers.net/toplists.php?list=favseries |
Global Warming Could Have a Chilling Effect on the Military
Overview
Most debates and studies addressing potential climate change
have focused on the buildup of industrial greenhouse gases in the
atmosphere and a gradual increase in global temperatures. But
this "slow ramp"1 climate change scenario ignores recent and
rapidly advancing evidence that Earth's climate repeatedly has
become much colder, warmer, wetter, or drier—in time spans as
short as three to 10 years.
Earth's climate system appears to have sensitive thresholds,
the crossing of which shifts the system into different modes of
operation and triggers rapid, non-linear, and not necessarily
global changes. This new paradigm of abrupt climate change does
not appear to be on the radar screens of military planners, who
treat climate change as a long-term, low-level threat, with mostly
sociological, not national security, implications. But intense and
abrupt climate changes could escalate environmental issues into
unanticipated security threats, and could compromise an unprepared
military.
The global ocean circulation system, often called the Ocean
Conveyor, can change rapidly and shift the distribution patterns of
heat and rainfall over large areas of the globe. The North Atlantic
region is particularly vulnerable to abrupt regional coolings
linked to ocean circulation changes. Global warming and ocean
circulation changes also threaten the Arctic Ocean's sea ice cover.
Beyond the abrupt climatic impacts, fundamental changes in
ocean circulation also have immediate naval implications.
Recent evidence suggests that the oceans already may be
experiencing large-scale changes that could affect Earth's climate.
Military planners should begin to consider potential abrupt
climate change scenarios and their impacts on national defense. | eng | c238f257-a1a6-4a3f-92a4-a714b912ba01 | https://ndupress.ndu.edu/Media/News/News-Article-View/Article/1014418/global-warming-could-have-a-chilling-effect-on-the-military/ |
imagine you're working on this game, let's call it Fortnite
100 players drop into the map and kill each other and the last one alive wins
for some reason, the game crashes and bugs 10x more than smaller scale FPS that have games, despite requiring _less_ bugs. you will die often from the bugs
for some equally strange reason, games take 2-3 minutes to start, so when you wanna just grind early game fights to get good, you end up wasting a lot of time
now one day, you decide to fix the loading time: why not just never load anything, since its always the same map? just reset all objects to default positions and states
you create a system tracking each objects initial state so that you can call .Reset() on every single one when needed
then the manager steps in and sees you testing it out, as all the objects snap back to their initial positions and buildings get undestroyed, etc
>WOW anon, cool change you made!>now, can you make it tween and add a woosh sound?
now the game wooshes after each round. like it wasnt gay enough already being a simulator in a simulator
and of course it crashes sometimes during the woosh or the objects collide with each other back on the way to their initial positions and some amazingly predictable bugs occur (im not even making this shit up. fortnite had a bug where you placed a marker and it blocked people from moving past it)
now imagine 10000 soydevs do this every day. they just implement some trivial change and get proud of themselves like "yuup, i accomplished something big this year"
this is whats happening
how do we stop this retarded nigger shit?
games are just made of pure retarded nigger shit now
>>180806
the war would've gone differently if hortler wasn't rarted and had listened to his generals, reminder it was because of his retardation that the mp44 wasn't issued earlier, same with the me262
>>180811>if hortler wasn't rarted and had listened to his generals
The mistaken decisions (such as the one to hold Stalingrad and resupply it by air) were put into effect because Hitler was fed bullshit by his staff, leading him to think it is feasible.
>same with the me262
Same as above, it wasn't Hitler's fault; the information he was given (by Messerschmitt himself) were divorced from reality and the development went completely sideways than intended; instead of jet interceptor it was supposed to be a ground attack/CAS plane meant to disturb the allied beach landings.
Further reading:
It's been 8 years since Tropical Freeze (unless you count ports, which I don't)
When is the kong getting new vidya?
Since they went 3D with kirby it would be cool to see them try again with DK.
It would be also nice if they added badass looking enemies like in Jungle Beat.
>>179846>Aren't they still fuming with impotent rage that the gaijin made a better DKC game than they did?
No man, Nintendos devs loved Rare. Just because Yamauchi made the fucking retarded decision to sell them off doesn't mean the creatives had any bad blood with Rare aside from the shit from DK64
>>180403
Nintendo were retards about not purchasing Rare when they had the chance.
We could have had a proper Killer Instinct 3.
Also franchises like Conker, Banjo-Kazooie, Perfect Dark, KI would be still good, and would give Nintendo more IPs since they are stagnating on this regard (Splatoon apart)
General thread for video game footage editing and streaming. Ask questions, give advice, and share live streams ITT. Read the software list below first (all FOSS).
Previous threads:
editors
- Shotcut: A great video editor with various effects and filters, suitable for beginners and pros alike.
- Kdenlive: Buggy video editor by the KDE guys.
- Blender Video Editor: Part of Blender and utilizes its node system. Like Blender itself, a pain in the ass to use but supposedly powerful. recorders
- OBS: Record and/or stream anything on your screen, optimized for vidya. line tools
- ffmpeg: Swiss army knife of video manipulation, convert and trim videos among other features. Can record video and audio too but limited in that area.
>>180430
My peertube channel doesn't store any streams due to storage limitations on the instance I'm using, but I have the video files on my computer so if you want them just ask. I stream as wewuzstreamerznsheeit on cytube.
It's very unlikely that I'll upload everything, so it's best to specify which streams you're looking for.
>>180430>Can anyone point me to where our resident streamfags are keeping their VODs now?
Here's a list of sites that you can upload videos to, in addition to Peertube, but a few of them do come with caveats:
AfreecaTV (Requires a phone number):
Bitchute (Censors "extremist" content):
BitTube (Requires a real name):
D.tube:
Dailymotion (?):
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>>180594>Will be spending the time with the family
Very nice, enjoy it anon.
>>180599
Seconding VidLii for the nostalgia factor, although the video quality is reduced if you don't pay for premium. I think any PeerTube instance with relaxed storage limits will work best for storing VODs.
So you know how cuckchan made pokemon clover right, I have a suggestion that we make our own version of a pokemon game. Since there seems to be multiple anons on here who seem to be into pokemon or at least like to act retarded on pokemon showdown.
>>179340
I know some people scorn self-imposed bullshit but I got some decent challenge using monotype teams in my last few pokemon games.I actually had to give up on platinum with my all grass team because of the E4, between the bug guy, Flint and fucking Cynthia I would've had to grind up my leafy bois by like 10 lvls each.
I'm going to summarize my ideas I've shared, haven't chared, and ones I think that are good from the thread so I have a clearer picture.
Setting
Game is set in fictionalized Pokemon-equivalent of ancient Greece during one of their many conflicts. Locations represented in the game include Athens, Sparta, Troy, Lesbos, Cyprus, Delphi, Marathon, Mt Etna, and Mt Olympus. Both historical and mythological figures will inspire the various trainers and gym leaders.
Gameplay
Very similar to base Pokemon. Few if any Fakemons, not including regional variants like a Water-type Ponyta or Steel-type Hoothoot. Progression is still based around gym (or gymnasium since it's Greece) battles, but the world design is far more open with most towns being easily connected from the get-go by clear roads with more direct routes and and shortcuts being connected through typical tall grass and caves with higher-level Pokemon. Double battles are standard among trainers, and bandits that can steal your money, items, or even mons freely.
>>179013(OP)
pokemon is peak middle school vibes
it has to have immersive and environments like pic related
you dont understand the feeling
of being under these few hundred trees
while coming of age
its not just a new and secret world
it has to have a sexy redhead like misty
who you have your first boner to
this is what made og pokemon amazing
its inextricably intertwined with sexuality, you cant get rid of that part without killing it
this is the reason kids would knife each other at school over trading cards
this idea of exploring an unknown world with a mixture of hi tech and nature as freshly weened middle schoolers was what made it cool for me, while being the same age when it came out
Are you guys playing it?
Did you see the newest update?
I swear they are not even trying to save the game.
I wanted to see Pauline, but i hate how they feel the need to make her sing every fucking time she opens her mouth, especially in this game i expected her to drop that shit.
Her hyper strike is garbage, lazy and unimaginative, definitely the worst one in the whole fucking game, she just throws the ball in the air and hits it with a microphone, no energy or creativity whatsoever.
I also dislike her animations, bland and underwhelming, on par with Rosalina's
Diddy is okay i guess, i like his hyper strike, but his animations feel rushed and too short, like they were supposed to be 2/3 seconds longer and got cut, kinda weird.
The barrel armor looks like shit, worst one in the game hands down, if they wanted something DK related, they could have done a primitive-looking wood armor tied together with vines, that would have been way cooler than a having a different sized barrel in every limb.
I like the new stadium, it's nothing exceptional, but at least is the first one that doesn't look like a fucking reskin, and make me wish devs would go back and change the desert stadium as well to make it more different.
Do you think next update will actually be the last one?
Or do you think we'll get more in 2023?
If the next update is actually going to be the last one, and we won't get anything else apart from 2 more characters, 1 stadium and a new gear set, then this game is as good as dead, they didn't even try to save it.
>>164613(OP)
I have only played it around with Yuzu and at some friend's house because I wanted to get a feel for the game before deciding if it was worth my time, and it really was not. I have already made my twenty pointer on why this game is horrible, but the tl;dr is that no one gave a shit about the game being MARIO SOCCER, they cared about it being a high octane super fast and really expressive piece of competitive sportsball.
I mean, you take randos playing Strikers Charged, heck sometimes even just base Strikers, and you compare it to people playing Battle League at its most competitive level. The former has so much more style and you can really express yourself through the gameplay mechanics. The latter is only moderately better than Mario Sports Mix. Having to time passes on laggy online is the fucking worst. Having to use your own team mates as range extenders for players with bad tackling speed is even worse. The only thing that's making me happy is seeing how most videos about the game don't even reach 1k viewers and the League has barely anyone playing it.
>What would you like to see fixed or changed?
Honestly, I hope another game that is inspired by the other two strikers would come along and replace this.
>>171626
The other two Strikers didn't have many animations either, but they
3 MONTHS of wait, for just 2 characters and still no offline season mode, no story mode, no new customization, no new scoring animations, no new field type nor hazards, no alternate game modes, and the custumizable stadiums are still locked behind that shitty online mode.
Are they even trying!?
Also i would have preferred Koopa Troopa over Bowser Jr. any day, at least is a sidekick and you can make a team of Bowser and 3 Koopas like in previous games
What's this all about?
Fullderp is a game where one of us declares himself the champ and takes a ragtag team of six Pokémon assembled by anons into an online competitive Pokémon battling champ calls "new champ", the first anon to claim the title is our champ. He uses the first six legal Pokémon suggested after his claim as his team. Champ can also call "new team" when the old one became stale (rule of thumb: 40-60 minutes). Champ plays in National Dex unless specified otherwise.
Absolutely no experience is necessary and everything is done in-browser.
Rules
1. Champ can't forfeit, intentionally throw a match, or timer stall.
2. Champ may not edit a set without the suggester's permission.
As it is now the middle of August, I think it's safe to say that there will not be an anniversary stream unless someone surprises us. Even so, that isn't a reason to not celebrate and denigrate what I consider to be a treasure of the now-gone Tumblr era of Internet as well as catch up on the latest progress of the projects being worked on by anons.
I don't quite like Chess.
In more modern times, chess has a strong memorization element to it.
Chess Grandmasters are expected to memorize so much opening theory, they pretty much have seen all opening moves and know how good they are statistically, and they also memorize much that can happen after that. Some books with chess theory are so long, they can last more than 20 moves just analyzing what will be done.
Some older Grandmasters have abandoned modern chess because it has become a completely different game, as they mostly fought with creativity and there weren't such long winded analysis of opening moves. This is also why Chess960 is somewhat popular, since its imposible to memorize opening theory when there are 960 opening positions.
Think about it, isn't that like speedrunning?
>Makes memorization as important skill, minimizing or replacing whatever else they were supposed to do>Memorize the same moves so you can do them again and again, but honestly it seems worse than chess because it seems even less dynamic than before
>>172432
Based fitz
>>156795(OP)
I think it's got a different approach to it though. Chess is a really individualistic sport whereas speedrunning is usually a cooperative effort for all members of a community. Yes, there is competition among the top performers, but generally speaking 90% of speedrunning is routing, theorizing, discussions and strokes of luck. Most speedrunners have a cordial attitude towards each other and frequently watch and cheer on fellow speedrunners. Compare it to Chess, with all its unsportsmanlike attitudes and cheating. Yes, speedrunners cheat too, sometimes for prize money as well, but generally they fall under much bigger scrutiny exactly because the people who are interested in the game they're speedrunning care more about the technique than the actual results.
>>156795(OP)
not really. both have memorization but there's other aspects of both to consider. speedrunning requires dexterity and emphasizes peak performance over consistency. depending on the game it can also be more or less memorization focused depending on how much rng has to be played around. chess also inevitably has variance due to playing against a human opponent. while the set of optimal moves might be narrow enough to anticipate and recognize some probable game states, it's not like you can just memorize your way through an entire game. you'll have to apply your knowledge in an unanticipated way at some point
I learned about this game quite by accident the other day and I wanted to bring it to the attention of other anons. I could have posted this in the Indiepshit thread but I think the game looks promising enough to have its own thread.
>So what is it?
From the Kickstarter page: "The Big Catch is a 3D platformer all about tight expressive player movement, exploration, and FISH. You play as the acrobatic fisherman, Caster! Tasked by his boss Chef Leurre with saving the titular restaurant, The Big Catch, Caster ventures in search of ingredients to spice up the menu and bring in new customers."
The phrase "tight expressive player movement" would normally make my skin crawl because it sounds like a bunch of buzzwords put together by Smash Bros players, but once I actually saw gameplay I thought it looked very promising. You can tell by the way the character moves that the developers actually care about making the kinesthetics satisfying and fluid. I genuinely can't recall the last time I played a game that didn't have some kind of catch or hitch or clunkiness in the way characters moved around so I'm cautiously optimistic.
>Looks like shit
The devs said they were inspired by 5th gen platformers, which unfortunately means they're taking otherwise fine 3D graphics and plastering scanline and dithering filters over it. Luckily, there will be options to remove and configure the graphical effects to get t
>>179054
Stop letting degenerates influence your own personal taste. Crash was furry, Sly Cooper was furry, Klonoa was furry, Sonic was furry and so on so forth. Animal anthro have always been a thing in vidya and not because furries.
>>179200
But degenerates aren't influencing my personal taste?
>Animal anthro have always been a thing in vidya and not because furries
That doesn't make them - not furry? What the fuck does this have to do with anything? There isn't even such a thing as a furry it's a preinternet culture from a time where pseudonymous (gay) sex required setup rather than being the defacto state of being for any faggot with a willing hole.
The MC's design (facewise) is bad. It's not bad because it's furry, though it being furry probably had a hand in the process since it's not stylized. Look at #5 on >>179052 for something that's actually got a pronounced style. The fucking funded art in OP reveals it right away; it's like the MC has some cursed fucking bad-anime-no-nose effect going on where a snout should be, compared to the chef and the rival who actually have their snout/beak drawn as an object with depth rather than some sort of sidemouth abomination.
Furries draw beaks as a separate object with it's own texture anyway. That'd look fucking bad as it always does, but especially so here with how low fidelity the designs are.
>>178936>devs put the ebin maymay hat in the game
Well shit, and here I was already scramblin' to fire up gimp™ and those sumbitches make me look stupid.
Anyway, game looks FUN and I'll keep an eye on it.
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The irritable bowel syndrome
December 15, 2020Dr. Adrian Weingart
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This disease is becoming more and more common these days and causes serious problems for around 14 million Germans. But what is irritable bowel syndrome - or an irritable bowel actually? How can this disease be treated? And how exactly does all this relate to the intestinal flora? You can find out all about it in this blog post.
1. What is irritable bowel syndrome?
The irritable bowel syndrome, also known as irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS for short, is a disease of the digestive tract - more precisely, a functional disorder of the intestine. This is usually due to the fact that the intestinal flora of those affected is not healthy. This causes a number of symptoms, such as bloating, abdominal pain and diarrhea. Compared to healthy people, certain harmful or disruptive strains of bacteria are more prevalent in the gut. Irritable bowel occurs about twice as often in women as in men. According to the current state of gastroenterological research, it is not yet possible to say why this is so. In general, the exact causes for the occurrence of this disease are still relatively unclear. However, connections between food intolerances, infections and stress have been scientifically proven. Nowadays, scientists are increasingly assuming that there is not just one, but several "reozguts". This is because researchers have now been able to identify different subspecies, which differ mainly in the symptoms or discomfort they cause. In addition, science assumes that irritable bowel syndrome can be caused by interactions between the brain, the psyche and the gastrointestinal tract. This happens via the gut-brain axis. This is because the central and enteric nervous systems are in close contact via nerves, messenger substances and hormones. Experts now suspect that the intestinal nervous system - also known as the abdominal brain - is overactive in people suffering from irritable bowel syndrome. This can cause problems in the digestive tract and can affect the psyche. Some studies have been able to scientifically prove that irritable bowel syndrome is often associated with depression, chronic stress, mental trauma and anxiety disorders. In principle, however, this disease cannot be described as a mental illness.
2. What are typical symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome?
An estimated four to ten percent of all Germans suffer from recurring diarrhea, abdominal cramps, constipation or flatulence. Due to the still unexplained causes of this disease, treatment is made more difficult and is often unsatisfactory. The symptoms are incredibly varied and usually occur in combination with each other. These include nausea, heartburn, flatulence, abdominal pain, diarrhea or constipation.
3. What causes this intestinal disease?
Now comes bad news, because irritable bowel syndrome can have a wide variety of causes and has only been around for about a year. 10 years, which is very little time from a scientific point of view. Accordingly, there is relatively little information about this disease. If symptoms such as frequent diarrhea, flatulence or abdominal pain occur, the affected person usually goes to the family doctor first. If he does not know what to do, he refers to a specialist in the field - an internist or gastroenterologist. Normally, they then carry out a gastrointestinal examination or an ultrasound examination. But here, too, the doctors usually do not find an answer to all the problems, because irritable bowel syndrome occurs in very different ways and can manifest itself in various ways. Here we have listed important factors that can influence the occurrence of irritable bowel syndrome:
Nutrition: It is well known that nutrition can have a significant impact on our health. It also plays an important role in the occurrence of irritable bowel syndrome. Because patients who have an irritated bowel can usually report a connection between certain foods and reduced well-being. These are usually certain carbohydrates, sugar alcohols and types of sugar, such as lactose or fructose. Gluten, gluten proteins and other substances contained in wheat can also cause problems.
Genetics: Studies show that people who suffer from irritable bowel syndrome usually have genetic changes. This seems to be the reason why either the number or the structure of the so-called receptor molecules is changed. By the way, these are located in the cell wall of the intestine. This in turn leads to the fact that the transmission of stimuli in the intestine is impaired and results in overstimulation of the digestive tract.
Intestinal flora: Researchers have found that the composition of the gut microbiome and gut flora is different in people with IBS compared to healthy people. This is reflected in the fact that certain bacterial strains occur more frequently. On the other hand, the number of bacterial species present is usually reduced. Taking antibiotics, the influence of chronic stress and gastrointestinal infections also have strong negative effects on the composition of the intestinal microbiome and thus also on intestinal health.
Inflammation: Chronic, subliminal inflammation of the intestinal mucosa can be one of the reasons for the development of irritable bowel syndrome. This is mostly the case in patients who suffer from frequent diarrhea.
Intestinal movements: Normally, the situation in a healthy intestine looks like this: the intestine moves regularly and rhythmically. But the gut doesn't make these movements without a reason. No, he does this to move the intestinal contents, i.e. pre-digested food, and thus transport it through the body. However, if the intestine is not healthy, this can result in the intestinal movements changing, slowing down or speeding up considerably. If the bowel moves much more slowly, this can result in constipation. If the muscles move faster than average, this has the opposite effect. As you can probably guess, the result is a very uncomfortable symptom, which is diarrhea. In addition, cramps in the intestinal tract can lead to severe and uncomfortable abdominal pain.
So one thing is already certain: there are many different factors that have an impact on the probability of contracting the disease. Irritable bowel patients need patience, because both the precise investigation of the causes and the healing and treatment of an irritable bowel require close observation and time. Some doctors then advise not only to change your diet and find out which foods you feel the symptoms after. More and more it is also strongly recommended to take good bacteria, i.e. probiotics, which should bring the intestines back into balance.
4. Are intestinal flora and irritable bowel related?
The causes of irritable bowel mentioned above sometimes have a strong and sometimes less strong effect on the intestinal flora. From this it can be deduced that the irritable bowel is directly related to a changed intestinal flora. The reverse conclusion is that with a positive change in the intestinal microbiome, the symptoms of an irritable bowel can disappear. However, this has not yet been fully clarified scientifically. However, many gastroenterologists and doctors see significant improvements in symptoms in the positive change in the intestinal microbiome.
5. What can I do about it?
The most effective methods to date for rebuilding your gut flora are changing your diet, taking pro- & prebiotics and avoiding excessive, chronic stress. Of course, the best thing to do is to pay attention to all of these things and improve them if necessary in order to strive for long-term improvement. Nevertheless, everything starts small - our little helpers in the intestines would also agree. In general, if the intestinal flora is out of balance, this has negative effects on human health. It is interesting to know that studies have shown that the stool of people with a healthy intestinal microbiome differs significantly from that of the sick person. This in turn suggests a disruption in the intestinal microbiome. To bring this back into balance - to "fix" it - taking probiotics can help. Because these contribute to strengthening the intestinal barrier and thus help to ward off pathogenic substances. They also inhibit the growth of harmful germs and prevent them from settling on the intestinal mucosa. But that's not all, because they can strengthen the immune system and also stimulate intestinal movements!
6. DIY – home remedies to strengthen your intestinal flora
We believe that the most underestimated factor in relation to the influence of the intestinal flora is stress. Physical and mental stress has a direct impact on the variety and number of bacterial strains in our intestines due to the release of stress hormones. To keep your intestines healthy and in balance, we have put together a small collection of tips that we are completely convinced of:
Take a phone-and-laptop-free break and focus on the here and now.
Prepare a cup of your favorite tea or hot chocolate. (however, these are best without sugar or sweetened cocoa, since sugar does nothing to help with stress)
Practice in your favorite sport or replace it with some stretching exercises, which have a calming effect on our nervous system.
A walk in the fresh air (without a cell phone) or just open the window and breathe in and out deeply.
15 minutes of yoga with the appropriate breathing exercises (pranayama) also help significantly to minimize the perceived stress.
Saunas and sun also have stress-reducing effects. (just pick what appeals to you the most)
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Tech for Good: The Role of ICT in Achieving the SDGs
Tech for Good was developed by UNESCO and Cetic.br/NIC.br, the Brazilian Network Information Center's Regional Center for Studies on the Development of the Information Society. It brings together thought leaders and changemakers in the fields of information and communication technologies (ICT) and sustainable development to show how digital technologies are empowering billions of people around the world by providing access to education, healthcare, banking, and government services; and how "big data" is being used to inform smarter, evidence-based policies to improve people's lives in fundamental ways.
It also addresses the new challenges that technology can introduce, such as privacy, data management, risks to cybersecurity, e-waste, and the widening of social divides. Ultimately,Tech for Good looks at the ways in which stakeholders are coming together to answer big questions about what our future will look like in a hyper-digitizedWelcome to the Digital Age
Introduction to the Course
Bridging the Digital Divide
Three Approaches to ICT for the SDGs
Technology for Governmentsand Citizens
Equity and Access to Services
User-Driven Public Administration
It's All About the Data
TheOpen Government Approach
Case Study: Aadhaar in India
The Challenges of Digital Government
ICT Infrastructure
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Innovations in Infrastructure
Building Smart Sustainable Cities
ICT as Infrastructure: A Look at Societal Platforms
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Rethinking ICT for Education Policies
Promoting Financial Inclusion
An Introduction to Financial Services
The Potential of Digital Platforms
Mobile Payments for Marginalized Communities
ICT for Enabling Access to Credit
Replacing the Cash Economy
The Challenges of ICT-enabled Financial Inclusion
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Who Drives the Agenda on "AI for Good"?
Implications for Discrimination and Exclusion
The Human Side of AI: Risks and Ethics
Concerns for our Digital Future
Privacyandthe Importance of Trust
Knowing your Data Rights
Cybersecurity
Combatting Disinformation
The Downsides of Digital
The Way Forward
The New Workforce:Six Points about the Future of Work
The Meaning of Work in the Digital Era
The Open Movement
Closing Thoughts on ICT for the SDGsICT can improve access to knowledge and services, promote transparency, and encourage collaboration
Responsible collection and use of data requires governance, security, and trust
ICT projects should be contextualized and inclusive
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Were does Paris Jacksons birth mother live?
Deborah Jeanne Rowe, or Debbie Rowe-Jackson, Michael's second
wife, was Prince and Paris' birth mother. She lives in Palmdale,
Calif, in a ranch she bought for 1.3 million after selling the
house that Michael bought her in Beverley Hills. | eng | dc7559f0-76f7-4672-87c0-df64ab4422e5 | https://qa.answers.com/entertainment/Who_is_the_birth_mother_of_prince_and_Paris |
Photo radar violations do not apply to all drivers equally and here's why. When you get flashed by a photo radar camera, the government initially mails you a sternly worded notice asking you to voluntarily pay a fine. If you ignore the initial notice of... | eng | 5ff1d7fd-2473-44d4-9553-fd0bfca1774d | https://trafficlawguys.com/tag/traffic-violations-2/ |
How do i make so when the enemy comes within a attack radius its damaging the target there is 2 different targets there is a building and there is a player so how do i make it attack the target there is within attack radius this is the script
Hi, one of the problems may be that your top two if statements do not have curly brackets. However, I would recommend a different approach to the whole thing. I would put a collider on your player (you can change the size to your liking) as the radius. Make sure it is checked as a trigger, and then use | eng | 5fcb1306-3112-4c98-add5-a11073f0f790 | https://discussions.unity.com/t/enemy-attack-target/224651 |