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The latest and greatest NVIDIA GPU architecture has been enabling our data center needs for quite a while now, and the power these accelerators deliver have solved some of the world’s biggest scientific, industrial, and big data challenges using high-performance computing. Since the release of the NVIDIA Volta architecture in 2017 and Turing architecture in August 2018, we’ve been awaiting the launch of the next generation. This year, at its annual GTC Digital conference, NVIDIA announced its A100 Tensor Core GPU, based on the new NVIDIA Ampere architecture.
The NVIDIA A100 GPU features third-generation Tensor Core technology with up to 20x higher compute performance over the previous generation (V100 GPU) to accelerate diverse workloads. Scaling applications across multiple GPUs, the A100 is available in 4-GPU and 8-GPU HGX configurations, and a scalable PCIe form factor, that provides QCT servers with unprecedented acceleration. It builds on an ecosystem of deep learning frameworks and development tools: CUDA-X libraries, over 700 HPC applications, and over 1.8 million developers. The NGC-Ready systems and NGC software repository round out the data center platform with containerized software stacks, so that developers can achieve optimized performance at scale and accelerate deployment. The NGC-Ready systems undergo extensive AI software testing, ensuring that these servers are capable of deep learning and machine learning workloads. We will expand our NGC-Ready system offering with the A100 GPUs.
The NVIDIA A100 includes new multi-instance GPU (MIG) technology, and NVIDIA NVLink – which offers 600GB/sec of GPU-to-GPU interconnect. This versatile NVIDIA data center platform can enable AI inference and training in a broad range of fields, including healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and retail, which are key elements in the global HPC market. Prior to this announcement, QCT had announced it would be offering the NVIDIA HGX A100 8-GPU to expand and accelerate hyperscale data centers. QuantaGrid server systems (D52BV-2U, D43KQ, and D52G-4U) supporting up to eight NVIDIA A100 PCIe GPUs are also available from QCT to isolate GPU instances in truly elastic data centers for workloads of all sizes.
Additionally, QCT plans to add the new NVIDIA EGX A100 configuration to its edge server portfolio to deliver enhanced security and unprecedented performance at the edge. The EGX A100 converged accelerator combines NVIDIA Mellanox SmartNICs with A100 GPUs powered by the new NVIDIA Ampere architecture, so enterprises can run AI at the edge more securely. | <urn:uuid:6111a9e0-f266-4b4f-b499-4fb9a8ca908f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.qct.io/the-nvidia-next-gen-gpu-for-data-centers-has-arrived/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.893501 | 542 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Below, I have included a couple of translations of the only poem ever to have been found attributed to Hadrian (A.D. 76-138). The first word in the original Latin, animula, translates to little soul or small soul.
These first three photographs capture the relatively hard-to-find Pheonix Book Shop chapbook, Three Poems. I have a copy (only 100 were ever made, and it is signed by the author in 1968). The second poem is Animula. This was a kind of translation, I believe. But, it was more of Merwin’s work than an actual translation of the original.
The fourth photograph is from Merwin’s Selected Translations (2013, Copper Canyon Press) and includes a small bit of description about the origin and attempt to truly provide an adequate translation of Hadrian’s work. This is also included at the end of Merwin’s 2009 collection, The Shadow of Sirius (also Copper Canyon Press), which won the author his second Pulitzer Prize. His first Pulitzer was for the collection, The Carrier of Ladders (Atheneum), in 1971.
These variations on the poem are vastly different from one another in content, form, and intent. You can read a little about Merwin’s thoughts on translation and the impact of this act on the rest of his learning in his interview with Paul HoldenGräber in 2010 (here), or watch his discussion with Michael Silverblatt in 2012 (here). A nice, printable pdf version can be found at the Poetry Society website (here). The first version included here is probably (since it was published in The Carrier of Ladders as well as the chapbook) an attempt to create anew from the inspiration drawn from the original Hadrian poem. However, it could be the lifelong pursuit of understanding that sometimes takes the form of endless revisions. This is what I would like to believe.
Language, in one description, is a temporary attempt to articulate this experience of being alive and being human. Language may attempt to communicate; however, The most important things in this life are not easily communicated in any form (including verbal and written languages, visual representations in paint or sculpture or architecture, music, etc.). Language is temporal at best. It “works” well enough for a time. Then, it must evolve to something new. Sometimes, this can mean an entire language changing or being lost. With spoken and written languages disappearing at an alarming rate, we are reminded of the temporal nature of everything. Language, like our individual lives, does not last forever (here is a list of extinct languages).
This small poem that has interested Merwin for a good portion of his life could be symbolic of humankind’s attempts to grapple with larger meaning. But, it is only a poem, a short verse. How could it convey so much? I am reminded of Adrienne Rich’s (a friend of Merwin) title for her final book, Tonight No Poetry Will Serve (2011). Poetry can be fawlty. It can evolve. It is indicative of what it conveys. It is temporary. For me, this poem (and this author) are reminders to keep searching, to not completely become comfortable with what I believe I know. Merwin wrote (in “The Nomad Flute,”another poem from The Shadow of Sirius), “I have with me / all that I do not know / I have lost none of it.” Merwin reflects often on the limits of memory and language. The Shadow of Sirius is probably the collection which captures this so starkly throughout its poems. Here is the complete text of “Going” from the same collection:
Only humans believe
there is a word for goodbye
we have one in every language
one of the first words we learn
it is made out of greeting
but they are going away
the raised hand waiving
the face the person the place
the animal the day
leaving the word behind
and what it was meant to say
There is a constant wrestling with the limits of communication. These very brief poems carry the weight of the world, prophetic and powerful, not unlike traditional religious texts. This is probably not accidental. Merwin wrote hymns as a young boy. His father, a Presbyterian minister, would have probably remarked on the following passage from Corinthians (King James Bible): While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. (2 Corinthians 4:18).
Even as language is a temporal excercise, Merwin describes the thumbing through pages of his father’s 1922 copy of Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language “in search of meaning” (from the poem “Inheritence,” The Shadow of Sirius, p. 32). In one of his three “forwards” to each section of the Selected Translations, Merwin admits that this practice of translation (and, maybe all writing) has “evolved” and is essentially an “unfinished art” (2013, p. 281).
Maybe, I am rambling beyond what I attempted to describe in the beginning, which was just the dissimilarity of two translations by the same author. Maybe I’m searching for something that’s not in these texts, something that is just beyond them. Maybe it’s in the past, and I am wrestling with some existential questions that one of my favorite poets can’t help me resolve.
These “eternal” things (2 Corinthians 4:18) are perhaps the mysteries that will keep us pursuing clearer understanding…although Joseph Joubert (as translated by Paul Auster) warns that in some cases, it may “rob them of their illusions.” Of course, Joubert is referring to one of man’s symbolic preoccupations, looking at the stars. Merwin continues to search, not worrying of the loss of mystery. He knows that his attempts to capture the uncapturable are futile, but they are attempts nonetheless. Perception changes as we age, as we experience new things. We attempt to hold experiences, thoughts, and create things from these elements. They may not be good forever. But, as John Berryman told Merwin (and Merwin passed on to the reader in the poem, “Berryman”:
I had hardly begun to read
I asked how can you ever be sure
that what you write is really
any good at all and he said you can’t
you can’t you can never be sure
you die without knowing
whether anything you wrote was any good
if you have to be sure don’t write
Knowing we may fail is not an excuse to try to communicate, to connect with others. That is where the magic is- in the trying. Maybe this is what Merwin meant when he admits in yet another poem from the life-changing volume that won him the second Pulitzer,”from what we cannot hold the stars are made” (from “Youth,” The Shadow of Sirius, p. 39).
Auster, P. (1997). Translations (Selection of Joseph Joubert’s Notebooks). Marsilio Publishers.
Merwin, W.S. (2013). Selected translations. Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press.
Merwin, W. S. (2012). Interviewed by Michael Silverblatt on April 18, 2012. Retrieved from https://vimeo.com/41266851
Merwin, W. S. (2010). Interviewed by Paul Holdengräber on October 22, 2010 at NYPL. Retrieved from http://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/av/transcripts/merwin_transcript.pdf
Merwin, W. S. (2009). The shadow of Sirius. Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press.
Merwin, W. S. (1997) Flower and hand: Poems 1977-1983. Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press.
Merwin, W. S. (1970). The carrier of ladders. New York: Atheneum.
Vidal, J. (2014). As forests are cleared and species vanish, there’s one other loss: a world of languages. The Guardian (US Edition). Retrieved on April 28, 2016 from http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/08/why-we-are-losing-a-world-of-languages | <urn:uuid:8680739f-16e7-407c-a48c-ad4c00a32218> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jasondeanarnold.com/2016/04/28/searching-through-language-translations-of-hadrian-w-s-merwin-limits-of-human-perception/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.954896 | 1,825 | 2.234375 | 2 |
No refusal law allows law enforcement to crack down on repeat DWI offenders
CALCASIEU PARISH, LA (KPLC) - Dartez says the man who killed her grandson received probation for the accident.
"It gives me chills," said Dartez. "Devastating. It's hard to talk about it. But Ryan was my only grandson. He was my daughter's only child. We lost our child."
But a few years ago, Calcasieu Parish District Attorney John DeRosier enacted a law to make it easier for law enforcement agencies to deal with drunk drivers.
"The implied consent law is designed to help law enforcement, not only state police but all jurisdictions with offenders who have multiple DWI arrests or involved in a crash and refuse," said Commander Chris Guillory with Louisiana State Police, Troop D.
If a drunk driver is involved in a fatal collision, implied consent doesn't apply. But if it's a minor accident, drunk drivers are asked to submit to a breathalyzer. If they refuse, any law enforcement agency in Calcasieu Parish can request a warrant for blood to be drawn for a toxicology test.
"All it is, is another tool to help us be more effective in making the roadways safer within this state," said Guillory.
Local agencies bring their suspects to moss regional hospitals. Nurses in the ER draw the blood at no cost, just to help out law enforcement.
"It's targeted really towards the offenders who have multiple offenses on their records," said Guillory. "We get people that have been arrested four or five times almost every day for DWI."
"We want everybody to have a good time," said Guillory. "A lot of people think that many of the troopers are very stern, and we are in a way, but it's only to ensure the safety of the public. Get a designated driver."
These are just some of the faces of drunk driving accidents. And the holidays prove to be a tough time for these families.
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Yala National Park is Sri Lanka's most popular wildlife safari. Situated in the south-eastern corner of the island, it is famous for its high density of leopards, perhaps the highest in the world. You are also sure to see elephants – grumpy lone males during the dry months and large herds in the wet season. Sloth bears are also a big draw. You will also see mammals such as wild boars, several species of deer and wild buffalo.
Yala is also home to a plethora of reptilian species and platoons of crocodiles. Common in Sri Lanka, there is a huge diversity of spectacular birdlife, including migratory species such as the flamingo. It is also one of the few places in the world where you can still see the severely endangered black-necked stork. The park's uniqueness is the sheer diversity of the habitat: dense jungles suddenly give way to lagoons and open plain areas, and the park has a simply beautiful seafront. Huge, stark boulders dominate the horizon, and the elegant, languorous leopard can often be seen basking atop the sun-baked rock.
The best months to visit the Yala National Park are between January and May when the vegetation is most lush. From June to October, the dry season offers a different view of the scenery as the waterholes dry up and the land takes on a parched, dry appearance. The park has been divided into different blocks, and you will need to camp to visit more than one section a day. Most visitors hire jeeps for the day and venture in for both morning and afternoon drives.
As a result of its incredible natural beauty and plentiful wildlife, Yala gets quite busy during the peak months, and you will likely share your viewing time with many other jeeps. If the chance of spotting animals in a wilder and less visited setting sounds better to you, we would recommend trying Wilpattu or Wasgamuwa National Park.
There are luxury camping options in the 'buffer zones around the park, which are an amazing way to experience the park. You will be on a safari drive long before and after all the other jeeps have left, giving you the massive park to yourself.
Accommodation around the park is wide and varied and ranges from super top-end luxury to a couple of glorious but simple jungle lodges. Talk to our specialists to find out which place might suit you.
Selected Wildlife Holiday Ideas:
Birdlife and Natural Wealth of Sri Lanka
This holiday is ideal for those who love nature, especially birdlife. Visit the beautiful rainforests, coast, and wetlands of Sri Lanka.
Nature & Wildlife Explorer
Gorgeous scenery, birdlife, and the varied animal population that Sri Lanka has to offer, staying in tucked away hotels.
Natural & Wild Sri Lanka
Enjoy the incredible wildlife of animals without missing the astonishing scenery, glorious beaches and local life.
Sri Lanka's Big Mammals
Calling wildlife enthusiasts. Travel off-the-beaten-track with expert guides in search of elephants, leopards, whales and far more. | <urn:uuid:d5ac1be3-80da-43a4-a40f-a8046a5b3dea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://tour-lombok.com/yala-national-park.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.950751 | 646 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Solving the mystery of lung infections in people with cystic fibrosis
Researchers have wondered for years why the lungs of people who have cystic fibrosis are so vulnerable to infection. Our 18-person team spent seven years working on their solution to this challenge, and the results have been published in Nature Communications journal. Cystic Fibrosis Canada funded the project.
Our team used X-rays at the Canadian Light Source to produce an image of the air-mucous layer in a sedated pig, then made it inhale bacteria relevant to cystic fibrosis and saw that triggered a strong production of mucous. The same test was done on pigs genetically modified to be missing the same gene, CFTR, as people with cystic fibrosis. These pigs were completely unable to respond to the bacteria, proving the hypothesis of interference from the disease. We believe the same result will be found in humans. | <urn:uuid:a6757f2f-35cc-4e28-9878-848f7efe24ef> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://research-groups.usask.ca/ianowskilab/news-articles/solving-the-mystery-of-lung-infections-in-people-with-cystic-fibrosis.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.953302 | 184 | 3.15625 | 3 |
What is Bluetooth Communication?
Bluetooth wireless technology allows you to wirelessly connect compatible digital devices such as personal computers, digital cameras, mobile phones, and headsets. Communication is established by connecting two devices together, or sometimes simultaneously connecting multiple devices to one device. Depending on the power class used by the Bluetooth device the maximum range can be from 10-100 meters. However, most Bluetooth devices will have a range of up to 10 meters.
Before buying a new Bluetooth wireless technology enabled device, be sure to verify the compatibility with your existing Bluetooth wireless technology enabled devices. The devices to be connected must have the same Bluetooth communication profile. For detailed information on the connectivity of Sony® products, see the Sony online support page for each product.
Bluetooth Communication Ease of Use
In a few easy steps, you can connect compatible digital devices using Bluetooth wireless technology. Pair the devices to register and recognize each other. Some devices require a passkey input. Connect the devices for communication using Bluetooth wireless technology. Begin wireless communication between your equipment using Bluetooth wireless technology.
Bluetooth Communication Advantages
Communication using Bluetooth wireless technology uses less power than a traditional wireless LAN connection. Because it requires low voltages, it is suitable for mobile devices that operate on batteries.
Communication using Bluetooth wireless technology has its own system of authentication and encryption to provide high levels of security for communication between connected devices. This helps prevent information from leaking to unconnected devices and establishes safe communication.
NOTE: Sony cannot guarantee the security of wireless communication.
When using Bluetooth wireless technology, the devices connect directly to each other. Unlike wireless LAN, there is no need to set-up a network.
Profile - A standard defining the specification of devices and the protocols for communication using Bluetooth wireless technology. The devices to be connected must have the same profile. Click here for a list of Bluetooth communication profiles.
Paring (registration of devices) - Prior to communication using Bluetooth wireless technology, the devices must be registered to enable connection.
Passkey - A number used for identifying a Bluetooth wireless technology enabled device and authenticating a connection. This may also be called a passcode, PIN code, PIN number, password, or authentication code.
Notes on using Bluetooth wireless technology enabled devices
The 2.4 GHz band used by Bluetooth wireless technology, is a band shared by various devices including wireless LAN devices IEEE802.11b/g. Bluetooth wireless technology enabled devices are designed to keep the influence of other devices in the same spectrum to a minimum. However, the influence of other devices may cause the communication distance and/or communication speed to be reduced, or communication to be cut off.
In the following cases, the communication distance may be reduced:
- When there is an obstacle such as a human body or a wall between the devices connected by Bluetooth wireless technology.
- In a location where a wireless LAN is established.
- Near an operating microwave oven.
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This course is designed for ‘Data Stewards’ or ‘Data Flow Managers’ who are looking forward to automate the flow of data between systems. Topics Include Introduction to NiFi, Installing and Configuring NiFi, Detail explanation of NiFi User Interface, Explanation of its components and Elements associated with each. How to Build a dataflow, NiFi Expression Language, Understanding NiFi Clustering, Data Provenance, Security around NiFi, Monitoring Tools and HDF Best practices.
Data Engineers, Integration Engineers and Architects who are looking to automate Data flow between systems.
Join our public courses in our Istanbul, London and Ankara facilities. Private class trainings will be organized at the location of your preference, according to your schedule. | <urn:uuid:1a01268b-ed47-4f62-8edc-c6ee27df92f1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bilginc.com/en/training/hdf-nifi-flow-management-792-training/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.903447 | 156 | 1.632813 | 2 |
How do I Dispose of a Car? There comes a point with every vehicle when it’s no longer practical or safe to use on the road. What’s more, if it’s not roadworthy you could end up with points on your driving licence or a fine. So if your car’s reaching the end of life, read on to find out how you can dispose of a vehicle?
- Avoiding common car scrapping pitfalls
- Scrapping a car
- Selling your roadworthy car
Avoiding common car scrapping pitfalls
- Present your photo ID. When a car is scrapped the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) needs to be notified using an Application to cancel registration form (MR15). The registration can only be cancelled at authorised registration agents. If you don’t, then you’re still responsible for the vehicle and could end up being fined.
- Give the registration number plates to the authorised registration agents (if you don’t hand in the plates you may not get a refund of any unused licence fees & RUC).
- If the licence for the vehicle has already expired you will be required to pay licence fees from the date the licence expired up to the date of cancellation. To avoid any future fine or charges.
- If your vehicle is subject to road user charges (RUC), you must ensure that all RUC is up to date before you cancel the vehicle. If there is any outstanding RUC, you may be invoiced for the outstanding amount.
Find out more information on NZTA.
Scrapping a car
People usually scrap their cars if they break down, fail a WOF, deregistered, damaged, require expensive repairs, or they can’t find a buyer. Scrapping your car should be the last option you might choose to do if it’s damaged beyond repair or you can’t find anyone prepared to buy it.
Remember, unless your car is a complete wreck, it might still be worth something, so you shouldn’t have to pay to get it towed away. Bear in mind, the vehicle recycler (otherwise known as wreckers, breaker, dismantler or scrapyard) we remove your vehicle for free and pay instant top dollars for your motor vehicle. Scrapping your car will ensure it’s properly recycled without damaging the environment.
Scrap car prices vary depending on the make/model of vehicle, the area it’s collected in, whether it has any re-saleable parts, the condition of the vehicle and current market rates.
Selling your roadworthy car
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Unit 20. The International Safety Management Code
This module is intended to prepare the marine surveyor to comprehend the implementation and assessment of the International Safety Management Code.
It is designed to help surveyors having sufficient understanding of the ISM Code so they may act as internal auditors and/or as ISM compliance officers, or train consultants acting as ISM specialists and/or internal auditors and/or ISM compliance officers. The course is aimed also at external auditors from a flag administration or a certification body. You will find that each lesson starts with the official text of the code (2010 text).
An excellent introduction to the ISM Code is given by the former Secretary General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), Mr William O’Neil:
“The ISM Code is one of two features that have been designed specifically to address the human element in safety at sea – which continues to be cited as a causal factor in the majority of all transport accidents. The other ‘human element’ measure is the STCW Convention, which tackles the training, education and certification of members of the crew. The mandatory ISM Code provides an international standard for the safe management and operation of ships and for pollution prevention. It places direct responsibility on shore side management to ensure that its ships operate to the prescribed level of safety. Evidence so far suggests that the impact of ISM implementation has had a positive effect and is beginning to achieve its aim of creating a culture of safety within shipping companies throughout the world. Indeed, the reduction of accidents and incidents following ISM Code implementation reported by some companies and the encouraging results reported by port state control authorities with respect to ISM Code implementation on the phase one ships, both point to the positive effect of the code on operational standards.”
By choosing to buy this Unit you are not entering into the full educational programme but you can complete an assignment for this Unit and receive an IIMS Certificate on successful assessment. Further details of this will be sent to you when you make your purchase. If you decide to take the full Educational Course at a later date you may be able to use your successful pass to make up part of your qualification. Please be reminded that this cost covers one download of a .pdf document, there is NO hard copy. There is no refund available. Please call the Education Team direct if you have any queries: 023 92 313012 or 023 92 313015 | <urn:uuid:52b6579d-1936-4162-acf9-13a051597187> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.iims.org.uk/product/unit-20-international-safety-management-code/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.943384 | 501 | 2.375 | 2 |
I had a need to validate an XML file against a schema file (XSD) in VB.NET. So I wrote a simple app that could do this validation. While I was at it I decided it might be nice to validate the schema file all by itself. The basic core functions could be reused in your code to validate XML files against a schema, or just validate the schema file by itself. So I spent an hour or two to put this SimpleXMLValidator together. Most of the code can be found in partial form in the Visual Studio help files.
I started working on a project where I had the option to use a flat file fixed length format or XML file with a schema. Since there was the need to verify that we didn't lose any data on the transfer of the file to our system, I decided on the XML file with schema (not that I would ever choose a flat file over XML). I figured this would also help catch any changes to the XML format. You know how vendors change their format and don't tell you. Then it is a big guessing game to what changed. This little app helps you identify what is wrong, so you know where to look for, to fix the problem.
There are two functions and one sub that do the real work. Each of the functions calls a delegate (which is the one sub) if a validation error occurs. Note that the signature of the sub is important, (that is, the input variables to the procedure must match the delegate signature). All I am really doing in this sub is setting a variable to mark the file as failed validation and displaying the error in a
RichTextBox. Here's the code:
Private Sub ValidationCallBack(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal args As _
m_Success = False
writertbox("Validation error: " + args.Message)
private void ValidationCallBack(Object sender, ValidationEventArgs args)
m_Success = false;
writertbox("Validation error: " + args.Message);
Next we have the XML validation code. Really the only important prerequisite is that the XML file should point to the correct schema file (XSD) inside the XML file on the XSI tag.
Here is an example:
Here is the code for the XML validation function:
Private Function validatexml(ByVal infile As String) As Boolean
Dim xmlr As New XmlTextReader(infile)
Dim xmlvread As New XmlValidatingReader(xmlr)
AddHandler xmlvread.ValidationEventHandler, _
m_Success = True
private bool validateXml(String infile)
XmlTextReader xmlr = new XmlTextReader(infile);
XmlValidatingReader xmlvread = new XmlValidatingReader(xmlr);
new ValidationEventHandler (ValidationCallBack);
m_Success = true;
Finally, we have the code to validate the schema (XSD) file directly. As mentioned before, this function has a callback to the same on validation event as the XML validation function did.
Here is the code:
Private Function validateSchema(ByVal infilename As String) As Boolean
Dim sr As StreamReader
Dim myschema As XmlSchema
m_Success = True
sr = New StreamReader(infilename)
myschema = XmlSchema.Read(sr, AddressOf ValidationCallBack)
private bool validateSchema(String infilename)
m_Success = true;
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(infilename);
myschema = XmlSchema.Read(sr,
new ValidationEventHandler (ValidationCallBack));
myschema.Compile(new ValidationEventHandler (ValidationCallBack));
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Nation by nation, the world watches Election Day in the US
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For four years, the world’s nations have watched as a very different American president engages with the international community — or doesn’t.
Longtime alliances have been strained, agreements wiped away, tariffs erected, funding withdrawn. Some nations have been the objects of presidential derision. Others, like North Korea, have been on the receiving end of diplomatic overtures once considered unthinkable.
For countries around the planet, the presidency of Donald Trump in its first term has been, it is safe to say, a singular experience to watch. Now that an inflection point in Trump’s time in office is at hand with Tuesday’s U.S. election, what’s at stake if his presidency ends — or if it continues? Nation by nation, how is Election Day in the United States being watched, considered, assessed?
Ukraine, which has played an unwitting backstage role in American political battles of late, is walking a thin line: trying to avoid being drawn into U.S. election drama, while also not being forgotten by the powers in Washington.
The former Soviet nation badly needs strong bipartisan U.S. support amid a tug-of-war with Russia, which annexed Ukraine’s Crimea in 2014 and has backed a separatist insurgency in eastern Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a sitcom star elected by a landslide in 2019, has tried to play to both sides of the American political divide to ensure U.S. financial and military aid keeps flowing no matter who comes out the winner.
Last year, Zelenskiy carefully stayed on the sidelines as U.S. lawmakers launched an impeachment inquiry against Trump. At the heart of that probe were Trump’s efforts to get Ukraine to investigate the son of his rival Joe Biden. Hunter Biden was on the board of a Ukrainian energy company.
Ukrainian prosecutors promised to revisit past investigations into the gas company executive who recruited Biden’s son to its board but took no visible action.
“Zelenskiy has done his best to maintain neutrality during the U.S. election campaign,” said Volodymyr Fesenko, head of the Kyiv-based Penta think tank. “That guarantees bonuses to Zelenskiy and his administration under any outcome.”
— Yuras Karmanau in Kyiv, Ukraine
The United Kingdom
If you’re the leader of an increasingly isolated country, what’s better — to keep an unreliable friend or gain a dependable critic?
That’s the dilemma facing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson over a U.S. election taking place weeks before the U.K. makes an economic split from the European Union at year’s end and seeks new trade and diplomatic partners.
Johnson has cultivated close ties with Trump, who has returned the affection, praising the Conservative leader as “Britain Trump.”
But Johnson has received little reward for his efforts. Work on a sought-after U.K.-U.S. trade deal is advancing slowly. And while Britain’s leader shares some of Trump’s populist instincts, there are important differences. Johnson supports international institutions and is committed to fighting climate change.
Leading Conservative lawmaker Tobias Ellwood expressed a widely held frustration that the Trump administration had “not read the unwritten rules that come with being the United States president: that there is a sense of duty to lead the West.”
Many British politicians, diplomats and citizens at large crave the return to relative normality promised by a Biden victory.
But Johnson’s embrace of Trump complicates things. Many Democrats mistrust Johnson and see Brexit as an error that echoes Trump’s “America First” isolationism. Some observers think a Biden administration would prioritize strong ties with the EU over nurturing a relationship with Britain.
Peter Westmacott, a former British ambassador to Washington, said recently that “it’ll be a little bit of a bumpy ride at the beginning” if Biden wins. But he acknowledged it would hold “lots of potential.”
— Jill Lawless in London
Mexico’s economy is forecast to contract nearly 10% this year — the biggest decline in the region — and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador knows any chance of climbing out of that hole will depend greatly on a rapid U.S. economic recovery.
Perhaps more important than who wins the White House will be a clear result and stability for its neighbor to the north, since the U.S. and Mexico are each other’s biggest trade partners.
López Obrador has shown a surprising ability to get along with Trump, who as a candidate four years ago famously said Mexico was sending rapists and criminals to the U.S. The two leaders see themselves as outsiders and are fond of populist rhetoric, despite coming from opposite ends of the political spectrum.
Raymundo Barraza Gómez, who owns and runs a jewelry shop in the border city of Tijuana, recalls the concern and uncertainty business owners felt when Trump was elected four years ago.
“At the beginning of his administration, we expected economic matters toward Mexico to be a lot tougher,” Barraza said. “However, throughout all this time, it hasn’t been that bad.”
A Biden administration could offer more certainty to young Mexicans who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children and received protection from the Obama administration. Biden also has promised to end Trump’s Migrant Protection Protocols, commonly known as “Remain in Mexico,” which forced thousands of asylum seekers to wait in Tijuana and other Mexican border cities while their asylum cases were processed in the U.S.
— Jordi Lebrija in Tijuana, Mexico
From Moscow, the U.S. election looks like a contest between “who dislikes Russia most,” according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is frustrated with Trump’s failure to deliver on his promise to fix ties between the countries. But Democratic challenger Joe Biden does not offer the Kremlin much hope either.
U.S. officials say Russia interfered in the 2016 election in an effort to help Trump beat Democrat Hillary Clinton. But the Kremlin has been bitterly disappointed with Trump’s tenure, which saw multiple rounds of bruising sanctions against Moscow.
Still, American intelligence officials believe Russia is using a variety of measures to denigrate Biden and that individuals linked to the Kremlin are boosting Trump’s reelection bid — though Putin has repeatedly denied meddling.
Putin has tried to hedge his bets. Bemoaning what he called Biden’s “sharp anti-Russian rhetoric,” the Russian leader has praised the nominee’s promise to extend the last remaining U.S.-Russian nuclear arms control pact, something that Trump’s administration has been reluctant to do.
In another sign of flirting with the Democratic camp, Putin also said he didn’t see “anything criminal” about Biden’s son’s business dealings in Ukraine, refusing to back Trump’s favorite line of attack against his opponent.
“Biden’s chances of winning look strong enough for Russia to start preparing for that,” Tatiana Stanovaya, a political scholar with the Carnegie Moscow Center, said in a recent commentary. “The negative consequences of the Trump presidency and disappointment in him have led to a more sober and pragmatic approach.”
— Vladimir Isachenkov in Moscow
Video: FBI: Evidence that Russia, Iran are interfering with election
On the eve of the U.S. presidential election, leaders of Israeli settlers in the West Bank gathered in the biblical city of Hebron to pray for victory for Trump.
It was a highly symbolic move by the settlers, who have been among the biggest beneficiaries of the president’s Mideast policies.
Monday’s gathering took place in front of a holy site revered by Jews and Muslims as the burial place of the biblical patriarch Abraham, a gesture to the Trump-brokered deals between Israel and Arab countries known as the “Abraham Accords.”
“We are grateful for his first term, and we pray that he may be elected for another four years of blessed endeavors,” said Rabbi Hillel Horowitz, mayor of Hebron’s ultranationalist Jewish community.
It was almost certainly the first time settler leaders, long ostracized by the U.S., have publicly prayed for victory for a sitting American president.
But Trump is unlike any of his predecessors. He has embraced Israel’s religious and nationalist right wing and showered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a string of diplomatic gifts: withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal, recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, offering a Mideast plan that would allow Israel to annex large swaths of the West Bank, including all of its settlements.
Netanyahu, while careful not to openly take sides, made little secret of his preference when he said this week he hopes Trump’s policies “will continue in the coming years.” The Palestinians, sidelined and humiliated by Trump, have been even clearer that they are pulling for Biden.
The Democratic challenger has already signaled he will scrap Trump’s approach toward Iran and the Palestinians. That has raised concerns in Israel, especially on the right.
Elie Pieprz, an American-Israeli consultant who lives in the Karnei Shomron settlement, said Trump has been a “tremendous success” by rejecting policies of the past. He said, if Biden wins, he hopes he will “learn the proper lessons.”
— Josef Federman in Jerusalem
In Iran, everything feels up in the air ahead of the U.S. election.
Currency markets have frozen awaiting the vote, though the damage has been done already by Trump’s maximum pressure sanctions campaign. For $1, you can get 276,500 rials.
When Trump was inaugurated in 2017, it was around 37,000 rials to $1.
While the currency collapse has pressured Iran’s government, it’s also destroyed people’s life savings. Goods like medicine, diapers and car parts are difficult to come by — and very expensive when found.
Iran also cannot sell crude oil openly abroad because of sanctions, and jobs remain scarce for its youth. The economic problems have led to nationwide protests in recent years.
Meanwhile, Iran faces what appears to be the Mideast’s worst outbreak of the coronavirus. It has reported some 35,000 deaths, and officials acknowledge the true toll is likely far higher.
Hossein Kanani Moghadam, a former commander in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard who now works as an analyst, insists America will “continue its hostile behavior” no matter who is elected.
But he acknowledged that he thought Democratic challenger Joe Biden would try to come back to the negotiation table if elected — and that prospect is keeping Iranians glued to the results of the vote.
A music video by an Iranian band called “Dasandaz” ricocheted around the internet in recent days.
“Know that who you vote for changes our lives,” the band sings. “Hey, Joseph, Thomas, Laura, we don’t know why this affects us more than it does you.”
— Amir Vahdat in Tehran, Iran
For many Indians, the American election is personal.
The prospect that vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris — who has Indian origins — could occupy the second-highest political office in the U.S. has caught the imagination of millions of ordinary people in the world’s largest democracy.
But for their government, the election is all about the recent military and diplomatic convergence between the two countries to counter their shared rival China.
Despite some friction over trade issues, the India-U.S. relationship has steadily strengthened in security and defense cooperation in the last four years. It has largely been defined by public displays of bonhomie between Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, both seen as populists.
Modi’s second term has been marked by many convulsions at home: widening social strife, policies that discriminate against Muslims and the rising intolerance against minorities. Trump has mostly chosen to ignore them, partly as an effort to woo Indian American voters.
By contrast, Biden and running mate Harris have been vocal about Modi’s hardline Hindu-nationalist policies, including his administration’s decision to revoke disputed Kashmir’s semiautonomous powers. Should they win, India might expect to come under more pressure internationally for such policies.
But India might not see as big a difference between the candidates as other countries do.
“No matter who wins the election, the trajectory of the U.S.-India relationship will remain favorable,” said Michael Kugelman, deputy director of the Asia Program at the Washington-based Wilson Center. “There’s not much that Trump and Biden agree on, but India policy is one of the rare convergences.”
— Sheikh Saaliq in New Delhi
For both North and South Korea, the fate of nuclear negotiations is top of mind as the two countries look at the U.S. election.
With the talks in disarray, the election could have serious implications for North Korea’s relentless pursuit of an arsenal capable of targeting U.S. allies and the American homeland.
Trump’s three summits with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un since 2018 — which South Korea helped set up — brought a temporary lull to tensions.
But negotiations — which seek to exchange an easing of crippling U.S.-led sanctions for disarmament steps by the North — have now stalled.
If Trump is reelected, some experts say the North would try to resume the summits. North Korea prefers a summit-driven process, which gives it a better shot at winning instant concessions, such as Trump’s surprise agreement to cease major U.S. military exercises with South Korea after his first meeting with Kim.
Biden, whom North Korea’s state media has called a “rabid dog” after he accused Trump of cozying up to dictators, has endorsed an approach that starts with meetings between lower-level officials. He has also demanded that the North show genuine willingness to abandon its nuclear weapons and missiles.
Some analysts say the North could try to pressure a Biden administration by resuming tests of nuclear warheads and long-range missiles it halted during its diplomacy with Trump. In a recent military parade in Pyongyang, Kim revealed a slew of new weapons, including what appeared to be North Korea’s biggest intercontinental ballistic missile yet.
South Korea, meanwhile, has struggled to deal with Trump, who has been less wedded to historic alliances than his predecessors. Trump has constantly complained about the cost of having 28,500 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea. A cost-sharing agreement expired in 2019, and the two sides have failed to agree on a replacement.
In an op-ed to South Korea’s Yonhap News last week, Biden vowed to strengthen the alliance.
But Biden would also be much more willing than Trump to strengthen sanctions and pressure North Korea.
“This could possibly force Seoul to choose between denuclearization and inter-Korean relations,” said Moon Seong Mook, an analyst for the Seoul-based Korea Research Institute for National Strategy.
— Kim Tong-hyung in Seoul, South Korea
It’s all about trade for China — and trade is about hitting economic growth targets at home and being a technology leader abroad.
The stormy commercial relationship between the world’s two biggest economies since Trump took office is front and center in China’s view of the U.S. election. While a win for Biden offers no guarantee of relief, Beijing hopes to avoid a further deterioration and see negotiations put on an even keel.
“People are concerned. They want to know what their future is to be,” said investor and prominent blogger Ding Chenling. “Whoever is the U.S. president has no choice: They will have to do business with China.”
Trump seized on longstanding concerns about Chinese commercial espionage, the forced handover of technology, and state subsidies for Chinese companies. He elevated them into a high-stakes tariff war launched in 2018, and last year tightened controls on Chinese purchases of computer chips and other high-tech components.
That could place a drag on China’s ambitions to be a global leader in cutting edge technologies and build, as it calls it, a “moderately prosperous society” at home, although the loss of access to U.S. technology is also motivating a drive for self-sufficiency.
Meanwhile, Trump’s vow that China would pay for allegedly cheating the U.S. consumer has yet to yield more balanced trade.
September exports to the U.S. rose 20.5% over a year ago to $44 billion as China’s factories continued to assemble most of the world’s smartphones, personal computers and consumer electronics, along with much of the clothing, housewares and toys sold in the U.S.
That means that, despite disruptions from trade tension and the pandemic, the ruling Communist Party is likely to hit its economic targets for the time being. Still, calming the stormy seas of trade could provide the long-term assurance Beijing’s leaders seek.
“I believe Joe Biden would ease relations,” said Qu Zhan, a Beijing health care worker.
The next U.S. president could reshape the country’s relationship with President Rodrigo Duterte, who leads a key American treaty ally in Asia — but presents a dilemma.
Duterte has been regarded by international watchdogs as a human rights calamity for his notorious anti-drug crackdown that has left thousands of mostly poor suspects dead. He has been accused of undermining one of Asia’s most vibrant democracies — an American legacy.
Known for his expletive-laced outbursts, the 75-year-old leader is hypersensitive to criticism of his so-called war on drugs. He once told then-President Barack Obama in a speech to “go to hell.”
Unlike his predecessor, Trump has not publicly raised red flags over Duterte’s brutal campaign. Trump’s gambit won him cozier ties with Duterte, who called on Filipino Americans in March to vote Republican, saying, “you are getting the best deal with Trump.”
But the Filipino leader has pressed on with his anti-U.S. broadsides while nurturing ties with China and Russia. In February, his government notified Washington of its intent to terminate a key security pact, although he later delayed the effect of that decision.
“Do we need America to survive as a nation?” he asked. He essentially said, no.
While a Trump reelection would likely mean business as usual for Duterte, a Biden presidency carries the prospect of a stronger U.S. pushback against Duterte at the risk of further alienating the leader of a crucial ally with less than two years left in office.
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Control the same hardware as used in space...build your very own Astro Pi with the new Raspberry Pi Sense HAT! The Raspberry Pi Sense HAT is attached on top of the Raspberry Pi via the 40 GPIO pins to create an 'Astro Pi'. The Sense HAT has several integrated circuit-based sensors that can be used for many different types of experiments, applications, and even games. And it's being used in conjunction with the Raspberry Pi Foundation to perform science experiments aboard the International Space Station (ISS)!
The sensors enable you to read
- Orientation (yaw, pitch & roll) via an accelerometer, 3D gyroscope, and magnetometer
The Sense HAT supports a whole host of projects for the Raspberry Pi, it can measure how fast is the Pi itself traveling (i.e. measure your speed), how hot is it? how humid is it? (air humidity), which direction is the Raspberry Pi facing? And more.
The 8x8 LED Matrix enables you to display the data from the various sensors, it can show you which way is geomagnetic North by programming a compass using the magnetometer or simply be used to play games like Tetris, Pong, and Snake with the joystick. The joystick can also be used to enable a human user to interact with the programs running on the Raspberry Pi Sense HAT.
Writing programs for the Sense HAT are very simple with a Python library available to get started quickly and easily. For truly out-of-world projects check out the AstroPi website, containing a host of ideas and instructions.
- Gyroscope – angular rate sensor: +/-245/500/2000dps
- Accelerometer - Linear acceleration sensor: +/-2/4/8/16 g
- Magnetometer - Magnetic Sensor: +/- 4/8/12/16 gauss
- Barometer: 260 – 1260 hPa absolute range (accuracy depends on the temperature and pressure, +/- 0.1 hPa under normal conditions)
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- 8x8 LED matrix display
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- Raspberry Pi Sense hat x 1
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Excellent news for kids of OFWs. The Abroad Employees Welfare Administration (OWWA) has established the Abroad Filipino Employee Youngsters’s Circle (OCC) to safeguard the well-being of descendants of migrant staff.
Additionally Learn: OWWA Presents Livelihood Program for Returning OFWs
The OCC undertaking will present complete companies and packages for OFW kids with the help of the Division of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and the Division of Migrant Employees (DMW). OWWA will even collaborate with different stakeholders to ensure that OFW youngsters’ wants are met.
OWWA Launches OFW Youngsters’s Circle Mission
Many kids of OFWs are left behind as their dad and mom work overseas. A few of them are in a position to see their dad and mom regularly, whereas others solely get to see them a couple of times a 12 months. This may be tough for kids, as they could really feel uncared for or deserted.
This new initiative was approved by Board Decision No. 7 with the target of the OCC is to help OFW kids in growing their full potential in neighborhood and nation-building, in addition to addressing the societal penalties of labor migration, resembling separation from an OFW dad or mum and numerous points affecting their psychological well being.
The Philippine authorities will help kids dependents in growing their talents and skills, in addition to giving them the chance to comprehend their full potential, underneath this initiative. It is going to additionally give safety towards medicine and unlawful substances.
Aims of OFW Youngsters’s Circle
Right here’s an inventory of aims and mission of this newly-created undertaking for teenagers of OFWs:
- To showcase the inventive expertise and skills of OFW kids;
- To enhance socialization expertise and harness coping mechanisms of OFW kids;
- To foster consciousness in youth-centered and civic advocacies resembling surroundings and local weather change, values reorientation, digital literacy and anti-drugs and substance abuse;
- To construct camaraderie amongst OFW kids, develop potential leaders amongst them and encourage the formation of OFW Youngsters’s Circles;
- To encourage OFW kids’s participation in coverage and program growth.
Packages and Initiatives
Packages and actions are designed to help kids deal with the adversarial penalties and social penalties of immigration, in addition to the coronavirus epidemic and different worldwide crises.
It is going to be a platform for OFWs to exhibit their creative skills and expertise, in addition to improve socialization expertise and apply coping mechanisms.
It is going to additionally encourage consciousness of youth-centered and civic points resembling reorientation of values, digital literacy,and substance abuse prevention.
The Board of Trustees has put aside PHP 15 million for working administrative prices. OWWA additionally stated that it is going to be applied by its Regional Welfare Workplaces within the Nationwide Capital Area, Ilocos Area, Calabarzon, Central Visayas, and Davao Area.
Video: OFW Youngsters’s Circle to Information Youngsters of OFWs
Try this video clip under which options the announcement of the brand new OFW Youngsters’s Circle neighborhood by OWWA:
The OFW Youngsters’s Circle undertaking goals to assist these kids by offering them with companies and packages that can tackle their wants. OWWA shall be working with the DOLE and DMW to implement this undertaking. They will even be partnering with different stakeholders, resembling NGOs, faculties, and authorities companies, to ensure that all the youngsters’s wants are met.
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"“Home Depot™ Presents the Police!®” I said, flashing my badge and my gun and a small picture of Ron Paul. “Nobody move unless you want to!” They didn’t."
This is great.
"After a couple of appearances on the interview program “Donahue,” in 1979 and 1980, the author and philosopher Ayn Rand enjoyed something of a renaissance in popular culture, including a week as a panelist on “Match Game” and a guest appearance on “Fantasy Island” as the Spirit of Capitalism. In 1980, two years before her death, she was offered a short column in “Parade.” Here are some excerpts." Snorting with laughter a bit.
12 January 2012
Adam Gopnik’s “How The Internet Gets Inside Us“, in last year’s New Yorker, is a remarkable read. This leapt out:
…at any given moment, our most complicated machine will be taken as a model of human intelligence, and whatever media kids favor will be identified as the cause of our stupidity. When there were automatic looms, the mind was like an automatic loom; and, since young people in the loom period liked novels, it was the cheap novel that was degrading our minds. When there were telephone exchanges, the mind was like a telephone exchange, and, in the same period, since the nickelodeon reigned, moving pictures were making us dumb. When mainframe computers arrived and television was what kids liked, the mind was like a mainframe and television was the engine of our idiocy. Some machine is always showing us Mind; some entertainment derived from the machine is always showing us Non-Mind.
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Bernard Tyson, the Chief Executive Officer of Kaiser Permanente and an advocate for racial justice and workplace diversity has died. He was 60.
Tyson died in his sleep on Sunday morning, the company confirmed. But the company did not disclose the cause of his death
Tyson had served as chief executive since 2013 and chairman since 2014 after a more than 30-year career with the company.
“A light unto this world has gone out,” Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, tweeted Sunday. “He always did so much for others & the world. One of the world’s greatest CEOs. I will always remember him with LOVE in my heart.”
A light unto this world has gone out. Bernard Tyson our loving friend & board member has passed away. He always did so much for others & the world. One of the world’s greatest CEOs. I will always remember him with L❤️VE in my heart. My prayers are with his family for peace. pic.twitter.com/ALg6gYOVNm
— Marc Benioff (@Benioff) November 10, 2019
In addition to leading one of America’s largest nonprofit health plans, Tyson was the first black person to become the CEO of Kaiser. He promoted racial justice and workplace diversity. In 2017, Time Magazine listed him among “100 Most Influential People” and included him in its list of 50 top leaders in healthcare in 2018.
“An outstanding leader, visionary and champion for high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans, Bernard was a tireless advocate for Kaiser Permanente, our members and the communities we serve,” the company said in a statement Sunday.
During his tenure at Kaiser, the company grew its workforce of 174,000 to 218,000 people, and its annual revenue from $53 billion to nearly $83 billion, CNN business reported. Tyson also served on the board of directors for the American Heart Association and Salesforce and was a member of the Business Council, a group of the United States’ 200 leading CEOs.
The day before his death, Tyson spoke at a conference on equity in healthcare and technology. Earlier that week, Tyson spoke on a panel at the AT&T Business Summit, where he discussed the need for companies to be both diverse and inclusive of diverse workforces.
“What I’m after is bringing the most diverse populations inside of my organization and tapping into the brilliant minds that come from a universe of experiences that are very different depending on how you grew up, your community, your neighborhood, how you solve problems,” Tyson said at the AT&T event Tuesday.
“Inclusiveness is very important to me and that means when I step into the room — yes, I may be different from everybody at the table — but I don’t have to ‘fit in.’ I get to come in and be who I am and I create a different organism inside of that group dynamic for us to take performance to the next level,” he said.
California Governor Gavin Newsom issued the following statement after learning of the passing of Bernard J. Tyson, chairman and CEO of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Kaiser Hospitals.
“Jennifer and I are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of health care pioneer and our dear friend Bernard Tyson. Bernard’s vision and influence made an impact at home and abroad, and he led with excellence on behalf of millions of Kaiser patients and thousands of employees. We will always remember how he made health care accessible for so many while paving the way for countless professionals of color to pursue leadership roles in health care and corporate America.
“Our thoughts are with Denise, the Tyson family, and all at Kaiser Permanente who were inspired by Bernard’s leadership and example.”
Based in Oakland, California, Kaiser Permanente is a not-for-profit hospital and health insurance system serving 12.3 million people in eight states and the District of Columbia. Executive Vice President and Group President Gregory Adams has been named as interim chairman and CEO, the company said Sunday.
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Anubhava Mantapa (Anubhavamantapa)
Source: Appendix-II, Lingayat Bibliography
From the inscriptions available in Karnataka and elsewhere, it is fairly established that Basava, the reformer, in the real sense the founder of Lingayat religion, lived at about 1160A.d. it is known from these as well as the early literary sources that he was the Prime minister of the financial secretary of a Shaiva king named Bijjala (1157-1167A.D.) who usurped the Chalukyan throne and ruled in Kalyana, a city of historic importance, about 60 miles from Gulbarga, in the Karnataka State. One of the main works he did was the formation of an institution that went by the name of ‘Anubhava mantapa” “the Institution of Religious Experience”. That this rare but monumental institution in religious history of India was founded by him and is corroborated by the sayings of Saranas-technically known as “Vachana Shastra” as well as the earliest records of his life written about thirty years of his death. The former sources, the Vachanas being composed by eye witness may be relied upon s authentic. Hence there is no doubt as to the historicity of ‘Anubhavamantapa’ being founded by Basava.
The main intention of the great reformer in arising an institution of this type was to give a new life to the dying religion. It may be said that he gave heart to it rather than intellect. Buddhism, Brahmanism and Jainism, which had cultivated especially the intellectual and the moral side of Indian society, he had deplorably degenerated in his days and were unable to help humanity in its dying moments. To remedy this he ought for the living element in religion, which led him to construct the same (religion) on the basis of experience and which eventually resulted in the formation of Anubhavamantapa. In other words, it may be said that he struggled to rescue religion from the heavy mechanism of rituals on the one hand, and impractical idealism on the other, which taught much but did very little in helping the people to bring those high ideals into practice. However, the living religion of Basava found its day, and the so called scriptures sere replaced by men of religious experience and character. In short, it may be said that he constructed religion entirely on an experiential and pragmatic basis. This may be corroborated by one of the sayings of his contemporaries, which runs thus; ‘Knowledge is action; action is Knowledge.’ To differentiate them is to end in theory, since one knows more exactly by doing alone. To know that one should not covet his neighbor’s wife is knowledge, true; to translate that into action is knowledge complete; but to know it and to act otherwise, behold! The same is ignorance (Ajnana) Oh! Lord Kudala Chennasangamadeva.
The religion thus built, less on reason and more on a pragmatic basis had its deep foundation in action which very soon became the acid test of conduct of all the members of the Mantapa in their every day life.
Anubhavamantapa of the Institution of Religious Experience which came into existence by the great reformer was a nucleus, around which gathered men of religious experiences who were known as Lingayat saints. The first and the foremost among those who helped the institution in general and Basava in particular were perhaps Madara Chennayya and Dohara Kakkayya, who had come from the lowest class and who were his senior contemporaries. They were endowed with high spiritual qualities and the great reformer was pleased to call the one, his spiritual father and other, his great grand-father. The burning zeal of Basava for putting religion on a democratic basis, his passionate love for God, his untiring energy in serving humanity which made him consider himself lower than lowest among the devotees of Siva, his guileless heart, his readiness for open confession, his exemplary life of self sacrifice, added to the glory of the Mantapa. The whole edifice rested chiefly on the three great personalities, Basava, Channabasava and Prabhudeva who may be compared to the three apostles or pillars of the early Christian church.
In a short time the fame of the institution spred all over India and men and women of various faiths joined his flag, we learn from the early Lingaya works that the devotees of Siva flocked in from countries like Pandya, Chola, Chera, Gujarat, Orissa, Bengal, Kashmir and Nepal. The King of Kashmir attracted by this new revival is laid fo have abandoned his kingdom and become a member of this academy and led the life of poverty in his later days and supported his family by selling fuel(burning wood). This remote member, once the ruler of Kashmir, was known during his stay at Kalyan as Molige Marayya. “the faggot seller” and the queen who had followed him known by name Mahadevi “The great Mother”. In this Anubhava Mantapa the flower garden of spiritual experience, the royal pair represented the specimens of the violet plant, the flowers of which are known for their hidden appearance and sweet smell. Likewise these two members made the Mantapa attractive not by their outward appearance and royal habis or by the meritorious renunciation they had already achieved, but by fragrance of their inner life and simplicity. The queen whose short biography in Lingayat literature stands as a model for feminne boldness and morl courae, mingled with all gentleness and modesty, was his constant friend, dviser and guide. With this rare combination of opposite virtues, she very often shines as a critic of her master in whom she had the keenness to detect the spiritual pride of which he ws quite unaware and which at times was the real use of keeping him away from the goal he was ever struggling to reach.
Not unlike the king from the North, there came from the South, a ruler named Sakalesha Madarasa, who not only had renounced his kingdom but also adopted the life of an ascetic to help Basava in his movement as instructed by his father. Likewise we hear Adayya, a wealth merchant from Gujarat, Marulashankaradeva from Kalinga, (Orissa) Maiduna Ramayya, from Andhra. Ekant Ramayya, from Kuntala, an extreme devotee of Siva, who is said to have been miraculously restored to life which he had voluntarily offered in his zeal for the new faith, as evidenced by the Abalur inscription. A batch of ladies consisting of Hahadeviyakka, Satyakka, Muktayakka under the leadership of Ajaganna is said to have marched from the surroundings of Ballegavi, a city of Historic importance in the old Mysore State. From Banavasi (Karwar) came Prabhudeva who was elected the president of the assembly. From Hipparige (Bijapur) came Madival Machayya. And Siddarama from Sonnalapura, modern Sholapur.
There come men not only from high circles but also from various professions. So we meet with Jedara Dasimayya, a weaver, Sankara Dasimayya, a tailor, Madivala Machayya, a washerman, Medara Ketayya, a basket maker, Ambigara Coudayya, a ferryman, Hadapada Appann, a barber. Dakkeya Bamann, drummer, Turugahi Ramanna, a cowherd, Sunkad Bankanna, a tax gatherer, Kinnari Bomanna, a goldsmith, Okkal Muddayya, a farmer, Jodara Madanna, a soldier, Dohara Kakkayya, a tanner, Madara Chennayya, a Cobbler. Talavara Kamideva, a petty officer under the village headman, Ganada Kannappa, a oil miller, Vaidya Sanganna, a physician, Kirata Sangayya, a hunter, Nuliya Chandayya, a grass rope maker, Suji Kayakada Ramitande, a linen draper, Malhara Kayakada Chikkadevayya, a dealer in and repairer of second hand articles, Bachikayakada Basavappa, carpenter. Sattige Kayakada Ramitande, an umbrella holder, Kannadiya Kayakada Ammidevayya, mirror manufacturer, Kadira Kaykada Remmavve, s spinner (woman), Kottanada Remmavve, a rice pounder(woman), Aydakiya Marayya who lived by gleaning rice grains dropped in the field, while gathering crops.
An assembly of this nature, very often an ideal of many modern social and political reformer, stands unparalleled in the religious history of India, since it adopted as its creed interdining, intermarriage and spiritual intercourse, irrespective of caste, color, creed, sex, age, rank, position and profession among its followers.
To hold the meetings of this assembly, a part of Basava’s palace – an open hall-was set a part and it got the name of Mahamane or Anubhava mantapa later. In this Church of Religious Experience, every member considered his brethren greater than himself. For the residence of these members, caves cut in hillocks were constructed within the radius of a few miles from the Mantapa and the ruins of which are still found within the precincts of Kalyana.
These stars of the first magnitude that were shining in firmament of Lingayatism, in the 12th century may be approximately counted up to 300.
At the meetings of this assembly were discussed the theoretical and the practical sides of Lingayatism. The points and the nature of these debates may be found in a work called ‘Shunya Sampadane’ a compilation of the 16th century. These discussions remind us of the “Dialogues of Plato” the Greek philosopher. To illustrate the various stages of spiritual life in mystic experience a staircase or a throne of six steps was erected by the great reformer, each step being represented by a person or persons recognized by the assembly to have attained that stage in spiritual life. The persons, who gave a living presentation of a particular stage were appointed masters of that stage in spiritual attainment, and every bit of spiritual advancement was regarded as a means to the progress of spiritual life. Thus Basava was known for devotion, Chenna Basava, for knowledge Madivalayya, for purity of heart, Siddarama for ecstasy, Ajaganna, for spiritual union etc. Of those dignitaries Prabhudeva, who was regarded by his colleagues to have attained the last stage of spiritual experience, technically called ‘Aikya Sthala’ or ‘Linganga Samarasya’ the unity of the individual soul with the universal spirit, held the highest rank. The seat or the throne from which he spoke was called “Shunya Simhasana”.
1. It revolutionized the idea and the method of worshipping God in idolatrous Indian by introducing a method of its own which was perhaps not in vogue many centuries before the institution came into existence. If Agamic religion had improved upon the sacrificial religion of the Vedas by substituting image worship in the temples etc,. this institution superseded both by its particular “Ista Linga” worship and proclaimed its first commandment under the polytheistic sky that God is one and He should be worshipped in one and one form alone, viz. the formless one. By bringing into practice this new mode of worship which was rather a physical representation of the Absolute of the Upanishadas, it made a remarkable change in the image worship of India which is supposed to be one of the essential elements of popular Hinduism, so deeply ingrained in the Indian mind.
2. By the introduction of the ceremony of “Linga Diksa” it threw open doors of the new faith to men and women of all castes and creeds and put its follower’s high and low on equal status and infused northerly feelings into the new community which resulted in creating brotherhood and sisterhoods. In sort, it built the new society on democratic basis in which every individual had the right to enjoy full liberty in social and religious matters. The “Istalinga,” is called by someone a “universal Leveller”.
3. B means of Satshala philosophy it weakened the theory of transmigration and destroyed the roots of rebirth. Although there is a way in Hinduism for emancipation through Jnana Marga it is extremely difficult to secure, as it is meant only for the select few. For an ordinary family man there is no certainty as to when he will attain to this final goal though he seeks for it in earnest and does all that the scriptures demand for him. But this institution removed the uncertainty by ensuring the attainment of the final goal in this very life to every individual who accepted its faith. In Vedic literature we find no such hopeful promises being made except to the Sannyasis.
4. It regarded the gentle sex as in no way inferior to men in spiritual matters. Consequently the contributions in religious experience from the gentle sex were not only heartily welcomed but also more highly appreciated then of men. The exceptional attitude of the institution towards the gentle sex exchanged, so to say, the destiny of Indian women as opposed to Jainism and Brahmanism in which the one denied the right of salvation and the other the right of studying scriptures except Puranas, to the fair sex. It produced personalities like Mahadeviyakka, Satyakka and Muktayakka, women of sterling character and remarkable independence of thought and action and was also the cause of a valuable production of Vachanas by many authoresses whose religious experience some times far surpassed that of men.
Such representative women or sisters were afterwards called “the gentle sex-saints of Lyngayatism” and they may be numbered about 30.
5. It became the power-house of the dynamo of Lyngayatism which kindled many a cold soul and brought a miraculous change in the lives of the most sinful men and women.
6. It searched for the crystalline purity of heart and the more deeply the members of the Mantapa examined their inner-life the more defective it was found and the certainty of attaining perfection in the present life seemed almost impossible and something against human experience. The saint who took delight in conversing about the progress of his spiritual life and was conscious of its growth was onsidered as an unworthy child of God, as they soon arrived at the conclusion that the law of unconscious growth in the physical world should hold good also in the life of the spiritual world. Consequently the Siddhas and Buddhas who professed to have attained perfection here and now were set aside and o longer admired. In all controversial points concerning mystic experience, action and not reason, was its final criterion.
7. It gave full liberty of thought and action and a free scope for discussion in religious matters. As a result of this every man nd woman brought his or her share of experience and laid it at the foot of “Shunya Simhasana” which Prabhdeva, the prince of the saints adorned at times by his presence. The share of experience thus brought forth by any member in great humility was called his “Sampadane” hence the word “Shunya Sampadane”.
8. It enriched the Kannada language and literature by new style of expressing its independent thought and experience. It breathed life into the dead bones of the spoken Kannada, which was looked down upon by the classical writers of the pre-Basava period.
9. It taught the dignity and love of labor by giving it religious significance. Every kind of manual work that was considered degrading by the so-called high caste persons was looked upon s blessed and holy, as it was done in the spirit of service both to God and man. Thus it laid a new foundation in the history of the economics of the land.
10. It liberated the new community from the evils of superstitions and irrational fears of religious pollution to which the sister communities in India were subjected and which stand even today as the veritable impediments to the progress of any reforming cult.
11. It was a small museum in which one could find beautiful specimens of religious experience, which modern psychology has classified into various types of mysticism.
12. It was also a cleansing fountain in which every member washed himself clean of the slightest tinge of egotism very often detected and pointed out by his brethren, instances of which are scattered over the pages of “Sunya Sampadane”.
13. It ended the struggle for supremacy between Jnana, Bhakti and Karrm, by giving them equal importance which according to Lingayat tenants are physically represented by Guru, Linga and Jangama. The Bhagavad-gita which typically represents the same sympathetic view may be said to be wanting in Lyngayat interpretation.
14. It laid stress upon family life which in its opinion was in no way a disqualification to salvation as opposed to Buddhism and Jainism which closed their doors of salvation against the householder unless he abandoned his family and become a Sanyasi or member of the Sangha. Lyngayat saints of the 2th century re the living examples of the above mentioned principle and even the great reformer who is believed to be the incarnation of the sacred bull or Siva was not n exception to this. Thus the majority of the apprentices that joined the Mantapa or Spiritual Academy were family men and the names of the successful candidates who obtained salvation in this very life are published in a booklet called Gana-Sahasra and they are popularly known as 770 Amaraganas meaning hosts of immortals.
15. It experimented on a small scale and solved the problem of uplifting and educating the untouchables who stand even today outside the pale of Hinduism, destitute of the sense of human rights. Lingayatism of the day gave them education in the true sense of the term enabling them to express their feelings and thoughts in their mother tongue. In consequence we find every one of them an author of Vachanas in which he skillfully allegorizes his professions illustrating the spiritual truths he has found.
16. Last but not least was the method of “standing on wooden sandals with Pointed-Nails” practiced by a class of men pointed for the purpose of church-discipline whose duty or profession was called “Mullavigeya Kayaka” by which the innocent had to to suffer for the delinquent in calling him to repentances a method which seems to be absent in the disciplinary means of any civilized society either in the East or West and which is sad to have been adopted by the great reformer, who is often called the Luther of Karnataka, or the Buddha of south India. It anticipates the self-imposed spirit of suffering which has been widely infused into the mind of the public by mahatma Gandhi.(Satyagraha)
This institution reminds one of the early councils of Ashoka, or the Sangam of the Tamilians. Or the parliament of religions of Janaka of the Upanishadic days, or the later parliament of religions of Akbar. But unlike these it inverted the order a procedure of the theory and practice of religion. In short this movement may be said to be somewhat unique in the religious history of India.
It might seem to the reader that Lyngayatism has certain features in common with Vira Vaisnavism and other Agamic schools. But the credit of bringing into practice the above mentioned principles goes to the Lingayats rather than Vira Vaishnavas.
The origin of the expression Shunya Sampadane is given in Para no 7. There are other explanations also worth considering. At the first sight, the word “Shunya” seems to have been borrowed from Buddhistic literature which advocates an idea more or less negative or nihilistic nature, often illustrated by the extinction of fire. But in Lingayat literature it has different connotation which differs from the Dwaita conception, in which the individual soul though eternal as the universal soul is need expected to become perfect as the latter. The Advaita conception is rejected as well for the reason that it denies the reality of the individual soul and material world and holds the identity of the individual and the cosmic soul. But in Saktivishisthadvait philosophy of Lingayatism, it is held that the material world and the individual soul have a reality in God and these could not be distinguished, in the Avyakta of unmanifested state called Niskal in Lingayat literature. This mysterious union is very often illustrated either by the magnet and its power or matter and energy of the sun and its rays. It has all the negative aspects that can be had from the Buddhistic of Vedic conception and the positive aspects that can be fund in mysticism. Practically Shunay Sampadane is somewhat akin to St. Paul’s interpretation of his spiritual experience which is worded as follows:- ‘It is no longer I that live, but Christ live thin me”. To use here the Lingayat terminology again, it is the transformation of Anganga into Linganga, which modern psychology is pleased to call ‘Sublimation’.
To speak in language of Biblical theology it is a state in which ones own self is found its grave and to reach the state of sublimation the regenerate man struggles his utmost by submitting himself to the Divine will.
In other words, it is a kind of complete self-abnegation of reducing the “Flesh” or the: Lower self to zero point. In terms of Mystics psychology, it is the merging of the individual consciousness into universal consciousness which cannot be expressed in terms of any school of philosophy.
Page no 170-181 from Lingayat Bibliography (A Comprehensive Source book), Editor: Dr. S.R. Gunjal, Pub: Sri Basavalinga Pattaddevaru, M.A., Hiremuth Samsthan, Bhalki, Dt Bidar (1989)
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If it walks like a human, talks like a human, and looks like a human, should it be considered human? This is a question that has been trending in the late years of computer and machine evolution even in the world of robots. Indeed, the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and robotics have been a growing topic and concern for many years now. Especially since as humans we keep continuing to push boundaries of technological progress and innovation which ultimately touches upon questions such as ethics, morals, and rights. That cannot be overlooked at this stage in time in the technological evolution process. When should we start to consider ethics in AI, and where do we draw the line? Indeed, one could ask himself a daring question.
What May Be The Major Difference Between Human Mind and AI?
What is the fundamental difference between the human mind and psyche, and a top of the line future AI? Is it the soul? And if so, what would the soul be considered to be? Or would it be the fact that we, as humans, have a complex network of biological ‘God made’ set up known as neurons while machines only have a man-made synthetical, mechanical hardware? But what is then the difference? Certainly, an individual only thinking out of logic and without any theological thought could advance in all rights that the only difference between us and a futuristic, sentient AI, would be that we human process data in a greater quantity and on biological hardware.
While machines process somewhat less data at the moment on a mechanical one. Something that could eventually change with futuristic advances and technology and even develop into a semi-biological AI. Presenting the features of both worlds. But then one question emerges? What would be too far gone? When the AI starts becoming sentient? And how do you even define the limit between advanced AI and a sentient one? Even further, what could be the risks? And as Nietzsche saying goes.
Could AI as Its Creator Before Him kill its Own Maker?
Would it be at all possible that we as a species would recreate this pattern and lose control over our own creation and be eventually destroyed by it? This is perhaps one of the most pressing issues of AI today, and there lies a fundamental fear that somewhere on the line, robots will be superior to humans and we might lose control of our own makings; as dramatic as it may sound, some would argue that this is not only a possibility but a matter of time – and if so, could these technological advances be reversible or stopped before they become a reality?
When we speak of robots and rights, the specifics for this paper will relate to the legal person status as well as citizenship given to robots. By clarification, legal person status can be a human and a non-human entity that is treated as a person in limited legal purposes, such as owning property, being able to sue or be sued. (Legal Person status, Cornell Law Legal Information Institute), basic rights such as the right to live and not be harmed, etc.
It will be argued that neither should be applied to robots at this very point in time, but for different reasons, and could evolve rather greatly in a mid to far future. Point that would be made and demonstrated in the second part of this paper.
This is a critical paper where we argue against the fact that robots should be given the same rights as humans as of now, based on the premise that robots are not able to develop the capability to be self-aware on their own, and do not yet possess the ability of full consciousness like humans at this point in time. Meaning, they are not yet able to feel fear or love or any other feeling without being programmed to do so, and the ethics of robotics and AI is as such not relevant as of yet. A robot would be able to say “I love you”, but it would not actually “feel” that it does. By directly contradicting the core of humanity, robots should not be elevated to the equal status of human beings as they lack any true emotion. The international community has shown to be divided on these issues and we are far from reaching a universal agreement that would be legislating robotic rights equal to human rights.
However, the need to establish a set of generally accepted guidelines and laws to govern the ethical, moral, technical, and legal aspects of robotics and Artificial Intelligence is very much needed in order to safeguard future innovations and the impact they would have on our society at large. And therefore, by understanding the risks and potential consequences of going too far, agree on a clear set of ‘red-lines’ not to be crossed in order to always be able to consider robotics and AI as programmed machines and not sentient ones.
Before we go deeper into the philosophical concepts of ‘free-will’ and ‘consciousness’ of robots, it is important to understand where we are today technically and what robotics and AI can or cannot do. Artificial intelligence (AI) by definition is the capability of a machine to imitate intelligent human behavior. It may not be the best definition, as it is a quite comprehensive term that includes many forms of computer science such as Deep Learning, Machine Learning, and Image Processing, and they can be interrelated as well. AI can be used for improving work and processes in many different sectors such as medicine and Security, but it is also an integrated part of our personal lives where it can give us personal assistance in our phone from instance through ‘Siri’, or by Apple’s iPhone facial recognition, or again from self-driving cars. The sophistication of robots and their capabilities varies as they are intended for different purposes, recently the world’s first robotic kitchen hit the market, although this robot is limited to certain types of food such as hamburgers and pizza, it demonstrates the leap made from “one-robot one-operation” to robots that are able to perform “sequences of operations”. This robot is now available in limited stock, but it gives us an idea of what impact these innovations will have in the future on a socioeconomic scale by taking on typical low wage jobs, it might make millions of people unemployed.
There is no doubt that the capabilities of robotics and AI have rapidly been improved over the years as the drive for pushing new limits is constant. However, the capabilities of robotics and AI as of today are not measured up to the conception of creating truly conscious, sentient machines in the future, which only then would we have a basis for giving robots rights as humans, and bring the need to consider ethics as part of the Artificial intelligence equation.
One of the biggest contributors to the somewhat confusion and concerns over the future of robotics has been long brought to us by Hollywood science fiction series and movies, like Ex-Machina a story about a programmer that takes part in a scientific experiment where he is expected to assess artificial intelligence by interacting with a female robot. The robot named Ava, manipulates the programmer into helping her escape the experiment when she finds out that she is being ‘switched off’. Ex Machina demonstrates the capability of future AI to produce robots with the ability to deceit and manipulate its surroundings to its own advantage, it questions whether or not robots can exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from that of a human being. In other words, it predicts a scenario where we have robots that can think.
The Turing Test
This experiment could be based on The Turing test, originally called the imitation game by Alan Turing in 1950. The Turing test does exactly that, it attempts to see if a computer can exhibit behavior indistinguishable from a human. Back then, it was done by having one person chat over a computer – sometimes it would speak to a human and sometimes it would speak to a robot – the question was if the computer could successfully imitate a human. In the framework of his experiment, for a system/robot to prove itself to be intelligent, a certain amount of deceit is implicitly required. The Turing test is a psychological assessment of the robot where we test what it says or does in order to establish its intelligence, but the test would need to be upgraded to match the criteria of today. The robot is designed by machine learning to imitate human beings whether that is by action or ‘emotion’, we write the algorithms that enable the robot to respond accordingly. By using strategic Artificial Intelligence, the robot is able to make strategic decisions, however, the decisions are still inherently decided in one way or another by a code and not human emotions. The ability of the robot to convince us otherwise is the capability to show deceit.
Distinguish Capabilities of AI of Today and Predicted AI
By distinguishing the capabilities of AI as we know it today, from the ones we predict, we challenge the direction of policymaking around these innovations as to what extent they are also fulfilling a purpose and not just a cause. Just because they can have rights, it does not mean that they should. Industry leaders and experts in fields of Law, Science, Digital Science, Robotics & Ethics and more, have gone together to warn decision-makers and politicians in the EU against giving robots rights. They do so in an open letter to the European Commission after The European parliament passed a resolution in 2017 that envisioned a special legal status of “Electronic persons”, which is aimed at the most sophisticated autonomous robots.
In the letter that was sent, the experts explain that the arguments of giving legal status to robots give a lot of bias that is based on – “An over-evaluation of the actual capabilities of even the most advanced robots, a superficial understanding of unpredictability and self-learning capacities and a robot perception distorted by science fiction”. They all agree upon the fact that applying a legal personality to a robot is inappropriate, both from a legal and ethical standpoint, whatever the legal status might be. We can conclude that an intelligent robot would have to be revolutionary in nature in order to be considered indistinguishable to a human, i.e it would have to be able to develop biological emotions such as reasoning and sanity, concepts that are not deriving from an algorithm.
And therefore, it would contradict the argument of giving a robot Legal Person status deriving from the Natural Person Model, which would give them human rights such as freedom of speech, Integrity, etc. And on the other hand, robots should not be given rights in terms of Legal person status as a non-human entity model as the robot would then be accountable for its actions, the liability would be difficult to assess in terms of responsibility in potential damages made by the robot. This again implies that the robot would have either the conscious capability to act on rights and obligations, or that a human person is behind the legal person to represent and direct it, which is not the case. The questions surrounding the legal status of robots create an unnecessary grey zone that could easily be abused, especially in terms of liability and damages.
The Future of AI: Where Are We Going, and Should Ethics Come Into Consideration Further Down The Line?
On the other hand, even though as of now, giving rights to robots and thinking about the ethics of AI is still a far-fetched scenario. It is still open to questioning when it comes to future innovation. And even though, the sentence ‘the future is now’ is quite a cliché in the world of new technology, it has never been so right as of now. Especially when thinking about human consciousness in machines and machine learning.
Indeed, for now, a human-like artificial intelligence is not quite possible, neither from a technological perspective nor an ethical one. But when would it be?
In order to understand this, one needs to think about the current and traditional approaches to the process of building an AI. Or the top-down approach, symbolic approach. Mainly meaning the process of creating an AI by starting to encode it with behavioral actions and patterns of thinking and therefore in this way artificially replicating intelligence by analyzing and mimicking the biological structure of the brain. In other words, analyzing and processing the symbols given to the program as a human would. Hence the wording of the symbolic approach to AI building. When thinking about it that way, the keyword of the sentence is indeed mimicking, and therefore would support the premise that AI and therefore by extension robots should and would not be able to be considered as sentient and be given rights as Humans would. Limiting the machine’s mind to be only a simile of the human mind, only capable of copying and showing patterns that it has been encoded to do, and no matter how good it is at it, it would never be able to evolve passed it by itself.
The Symbolic Approach: Second Approach To AI Building
But here comes the second and new approach to AI building, the one that changes the game. The bottom-up approach. Whereas the symbolic approach would associate symbols to a meaning, through a computerized program, its counterpart would instead be built by first creating, a ‘neural network’ by studying the neurons inside the human mind, therefore giving it the possibility to learn by being exposed to things. And therefore, instead of telling it, this is what it is, showing it and progressively teaching it what things are. Exactly as human consciousness does while growing up and being educated. Since indeed, what is human learning but the unknown property of connections between neurons in the brain? And therefore, even though this process is still not yet technologically possible, and far from reality, what is to say that a future AI built in such a way, would not be capable of developing morale, conscience, and instead of following its rigid code, be able to learn and write its own code? As the human does, in a biological rather than mechanical manner. Opening the door to a computerized program, that would potentially be able to learn how to feel, ‘love’, and what sadness means, as any human being does while growing up. Maybe even giving it instincts.
Why Should Robots & AI Not Eventually Be Entitled To Rights?
So in the end, why should such artificial intelligence, an intelligence that would be able to grow itself through ‘biological like’ patterns of evolution, from the bottom up, not be entitled to rights that would then be the difference between it and a human being? Apart from the fact that the human being does not know its creator, is working out of biological hardware, and is able to live in 4D due to its greater ability to process a vast amount of data at the same time. The last point that is likely to change in the close to mid-term future also can possibility for a computerized program to understand the d itself in space would it be uploaded to a mechanical body.
In fact, such projects of self-aware, sentient and sapient AIs, that would be able of human interactions, self-adaptative/modifiable code and thought, reasoning as well as learning how to interact and change depending on its environment, have already been developed. Even if it failed due to an even narrowing lack of technological advancements. And are still being developed as of today in order to better enhanced the possibility of AI assistance to human life and Machine to Machine as well as Human to Machine communication. To a point that thinkers and technological scholars and philosophers are already starting to think about this matter and how one should consider an ethic of robotics, and even consider rights for future AIs
What Can Stop AI-Powered Robots From OverPowering Humanity
But this brings an even greater question. If the AI will have instincts, such as the survival one, a mind of its own, and greater processing power than the Human, what would then stop it from overpowering it -humanity-? What would stop it from taking over, and going over and beyond its goal and become the Human race doom? These are questions that are worth mentioning. Especially since the occurrence of one of Facebook AIs that suddenly decided that in order to speak with connected computers, it was way more efficient to create an integrated computerized totally new language than using the one it was ordered to used and programmed to use. Indeed, what would stop such a next-gen intelligence, to create a catastrophic scenario? Would it feel threatened to be shut down? Or even only tasked by a future government to come up with a solution to climate change and spontaneously decided that the problem was the human race and therefore tasked itself to remedy it. By removing the problem as a whole from the equation. This might seem farfetched and coming out of a sci-fi movie, but should not, ever, be out of consideration, especially seeing how back-then science fiction things such as automated drones and cars are coming to reality rather quickly following the past decades.
Therefore, even though it has been proven that Sentient AIs could rather well be a possibility in the future. Some other approach needs to be taken. Indeed, as the human sentient being, is bound by morality and the social contract in order to allow human society to blossom, such consideration should also be taken when building the AI and before giving it rights. And integrate during its building process some kind of ethical knowledge or bound, to safeguard humanity from an artificial intelligence going out of bounds and threaten us as a whole. Indeed, think of the possibilities of a malevolent program with a mind of its own, when most of the modern world is already working on programs and algorisms working on their own without almost any human knowing what they exactly do any more. What would then stop a machine of taking them over and reprogramming them with malicious intents?
Robots Rights: Conclusion
To conclude, and as shown during this article. Even though, as of now Robots and AI should not have rights or even ethical considerations made toward them. It is not to say that this would still be the case in the near future. And as the changes and evolution in AI technology are picking up in pace, one might want to consider thinking about these topics right now before it actually becomes a must-do in order to get ahead and prepare the population for sentient programs. But seeing where such evolution could lead, the real question might not be should AI and therefore Robots have rights. But instead be, should we give an AI the possibility to become sentient? Is it really worth the risk? And instead of thinking of guidelines to prevent AI to become a danger to humanity, it might be smarter to establish red lines not to be crossed to avoid even before arriving at this possibility and keep the technology under control before it potentially overwhelms us. Indeed, even we Human have duties alongside our rights. And one would definitely not want to be murdered by its own creation, as from Nietzsche saying on humanity murdering ‘God’.
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Zambia Set To Introduce Laws That Regulate Social Media Use
Zambia is now the latest African country that is contemplating a social media shutdown with the government hanging on problem of porn and cybercrime.
According to a report by the Monitor, Zambia’s Communication Minister, Brian Mushimba, told parliament that some Zambians were using social media to send pornographic images, spread hate speech and to commit identity theft.
“Prior to the proliferation of social media, people in Zambia behaved and communicated within acceptable and expected cultural boundaries,†he said.
“Incidents of impersonations, people being insulted, abused, falsely accused or defrauded on social media platforms have reached an alarming state.â€
He said that these new laws that are yet to be drafted will introduce penalties for those abusing social media although he didn’t clarify on how the laws would be enforced.
Another report from Lusaka Times, stated that Zambia will not introduce tax on social media, as what we have seen in Uganda. The minister said they will not copy Uganda but they will work in conjunction with the Zambia Information and Communication Authority (ZICTA) and will continue sensitizing the productive usage of the platform.
One still wonders what African governments thinking that leads to this caging of social media against their citizens by introducing laws to regulate its use. Uganda recently introduced a social media tax which was not well received and also blocked VPNs to discourage tax dodgers.
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Meter readings and energy rates are the two most important elements that make up energy bills.
Giving meter readings to your supplier is the only way to be sure you just pay for what you use. Without them your supplier will guess how much energy you’re using and charge you based on that.
Energy rates on the other hand are how much your supplier charges for each unit of energy that you use.
In this guide, we’ll explain how to give a meter reading but also how to make sure you’re on the best deal.
How do you read an electricity meter?
Single rate meters
Two rate meters
For instance the electricity meter above would be recorded as:
Low (night): 80506
Normal (day): 97192
Two rate meter on one display (digital meter)
The readings may be labelled as RATE 1 (R1) and RATE 2 (R2). You may also have other rates or readings on the meter which could be the live usage or the total usage.
The rate number and its correlation to day or night depends on how the meter was set up. For example RATE 1 could mean ‘day’ for one meter but ‘night’ for another.
To figure out which is which, make a note of the readings in the morning and see which reading has advanced by midday.
The dials go around in alternating clockwise and anti-clockwise directions. You read the meter from left to right. Similarly to single rate meters, ignore any numbers in red.
When the pointer is between two numbers, record the lower number. If it’s between 9 and 0, record 9.
When the pointer is directly on a number, first check the next dial to the right. If the dial on the right reads 8 or 9, then lower the reading for the dial with the pointer directly on the number.
For example the reading for this dial meter would be 60168.
How do you read a gas meter?
Gas meters look similar to electricity meters and can be read in the same way. You can identify the type of meter by the units.
Gas meters are always in ‘m3’ or ‘ft’, although suppliers convert this into kWh on your energy bills (electricity is always in kWh).
You can multiply by 11.2 in order to calculate the kWh yourself.
To read your gas meter, the instructions are the same as for reading an electricity meter, so check out our guidance above.
How do you read a smart meter?
Most modern smart meters will send meter readings to your supplier automatically, so you won’t need to do a thing.
If you’ve recently switched supplier or have a first generation smart meter, you’ll need to give the meter readings to your supplier.
Smart meters with a Keypad
Press 9 on the keypad to see your reading.
Your electricity reading will be followed by ‘kWh’ and your gas reading will be a number followed by ‘m3’.
Similarly to standard meters, ignore the numbers after the decimal point.
If you have a two rate meter or economy 7 meter then press 6 on the keypad until you see ‘IMP R01’ followed by 8 digits. This is your first reading.
For your second reading press 6 again until you see ‘IMP R02’ followed by 8 digits.
The readings can also be listed as Rate 1 and Rate 2, or Rate 1 and Rate 4. To find out which is day and night, record which number advances during the day/night.
Smart meters with a Green button labelled ‘A’
Press the green button until you see ‘Total Act Import’. A reading should appear followed by ‘kWh’.
For two rate meters or Economy 7 meters your meter will have a ’01’ and a ’02’ reading, which you’ll find by pressing the ‘A’ button. You should record both numbers.
Smart meters with 'A' and 'B' buttons
Press the ‘A’ button until you see ‘Credit On’, then press it again to show ‘Meter Index’, and again to show your readings. Remember not to include any numbers after the decimal point.
Meter readings for electricity will show in ‘kWh’, for gas readings it will be in ‘m3’.
Smart meters with no buttons
How to read a prepayment meter
To get your electricity usage on a prepayment meter, press the blue button to cycle through the screens. Each screen is labelled with a letter. To find your meter reading you need to cycle to screen ‘H’.
If you pay different rates for day and night then these will be on screen ‘H’ and ‘J’.
To see your gas reading press the red button or the ‘A’ button and cycle through to the ‘meter index’ screen. This is your gas usage.
What do my meter readings mean?
Meter readings tell energy suppliers how much gas and electricity you’re using. If you don’t give your supplier meter readings they will have to guess your usage.
You usually end up paying too much or too little when this happens. This means you could be building up credit or slipping into debt accordingly.
If you’re in credit, great! You can reduce your monthly payments and put the extra money back in your pocket.
If you’re in debt you could be hit with a steep payment increase and be prevented from switching supplier. Safe to say, it’s better to pay for your exact usage by giving meter readings.
The energy regulator, Ofgem, has classified usage into a low, medium or high. They calculate these figures from the median usage of dual fuel customers paying direct debit.
Do you know if you’re a low, medium or high user?
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What are energy rates and how do they affect the cost of my energy bill?
Energy rates are the defining factor in energy deals. The rates are what you use to compare tariffs to make sure you’re not paying over the odds for your energy.
There can be two energy rates applied to your energy bills.
First there is a daily cost called the standing charge. This is not affected by how much energy you use. Secondly, there is the cost of the unit rate per kWh which is applied to your usage.
24 hour energy usage (kWh) x unit rate cost per kWh + daily standing charge
= the price you pay
There are two main types of tariff:
- A fixed rate tariff – the unit rate is fixed for a period of time, usually one year.
- A standard variable tariff (SVT) – these tariffs vary because they react to wholesale energy costs. This means your costs are likely to go up and down.
How do you know if your energy rates are expensive?
Generally the most expensive rates are on standard variable tariffs, however suppliers give these tariffs different names so they are not always easy to spot on your bill.
For example, someone who uses a small amount of energy, but is on their supplier’s standard variable tariff could be paying more than a medium user on a great fixed energy deal.
One indication is whether you have exit fees on your bill because standard variable tariffs do not have exit fees.
You can also compare your energy rates on a recent bill with the rates of cheap deals on comparison sites.
Our service finds you great energy rates and we’ll send you a reminder before your fixed deal ends. As a result you’ll always be on a great tariff! Find out how it works.
How to get a good deal
If you haven’t changed your energy deal in the last 12 to 18 months then it’s highly likely you are on your supplier’s standard variable tariff – usually the most expensive option.
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There are 4 ways to switch energy supplier, but the most important thing to remember is that you need to stay on top of switching.
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Possible Causes :
Oxygen sensors signal the engine management computer the amount of oxygen present in the exhaust, which is used in determining and controlling the fuel ratio. Look for missing ground strap or a rusty ground where the fuel tank is grounded to the frame. Check for damage to the wiring harness connector. Once located, visually inspect the connectors and wiring. Look for rubbing, scraping, bare wires, worn spots or melted plastic connectors.
Diagnostic trouble code B2122 Osca S is not difficult to diagnose and repair. Thus, it always pays to have a qualified technician to look after your vehicle should this error code arise.
Diagnosing this code requires the engine to be in good running shape, without unmetered air entering the engine. If other codes that relates to misfiring condition, lean running or air entering the engine is present, then you must first fix those error codes before B2122 Osca S.
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Connecting state and local government leaders
Community groups raced to get more people to complete census questionnaires before the count ended Friday, but they still believe many were missed after the deadline was pushed up.
The abrupt halt of the 2020 Census count this week ended with a flurry of last-minute phone calls and text messages from outreach workers in California, desperate to connect with residents who hadn’t yet completed the questionnaire.
Over the last two months, the Los Angeles-based Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights ran a phone banking operation that made more than 50,000 calls and sent more than 280,000 texts to residents in immigrant communities to encourage them to complete the 2020 questionnaire, said Esperanza Guevara, the organization’s census campaign manager. Those efforts continued in earnest through the last day of the census count, with advocates reaching several families who had still not completed the forms.
“There are still so many more neighbors that we have to call and text who unfortunately we are not going to have time to reach,” Guevara said, speaking with reporters on a call Thursday.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week that the Trump administration could stop the decennial count, halting the Census Bureau’s enumeration activities more than two weeks before its previously scheduled deadline. Counting operations came to a close at 6 a.m. Friday EST.
This year’s census count has been fraught with complications that advocates fear could result in an incomplete enumeration of the U.S. population. The Trump administration fought unsuccessfully to include a citizenship question, which immigrants’ rights groups said led to fear and mistrust among immigrant communities and the coronavirus pandemic delayed in-person efforts to encourage people to participate.
Further threatening to complicate this year’s count, the Supreme Court on Friday said it would review the Trump administration’s plan to exclude undocumented immigrants from the census count used to divvy up the House of Representatives seats given to each state. A lower court previously ruled that the president cannot leave undocumented immigrants out of this count. Arguments in the case will be heard Nov. 30.
The 2020 census will be crucial in determining how hundreds of billions of federal dollars are divided among states and localities in the years ahead for programs that help provide money for highway construction, food stamps and health care for the elderly and the poor. Census data is also used for political redistricting at all levels of government.
“One of the biggest concerns with the census shutting down operations earlier is that millions of people may be left uncounted,” said Keshia Morris-Desir, the census project manager for Common Cause.
In California, Guevara estimates that some 580,000 Latinos are at risk of not being counted and the state could lose $1.5 billion in federal funding as a result of an undercount of the state’s population.
The Census Bureau said more than 99.9% of housing units have been accounted for in this year’s census, but experts caution the figure can be misleading. Census takers who are unable to make contact with residents may conduct a proxy interview with a neighbor or landlord to account for a household, or may check building addresses but not individual apartment units.
“They are making fairly extravagant claims about how good it is, but they haven’t put out any data about what that is based on,” said Andrew Beveridge, a sociologist and demographics expert and retired Queens College, City University of New York professor.
The national self-response rate, or people who completed the census questionnaire online, by mail or by phone before interaction with enumerators, is 66.9%.
While this year’s census enabled residents to respond online, making it easier to count some parts of the country, hard-to-count communities have not been responding at higher rates, said Beth Lynk, the Census Counts campaign director at the Leadership Conference for Civil Rights.
“As of today, we know that the percentage of tracts that are predominantly people of color are behind where they were in terms of self-response in 2010,” Lynk said.
Specifically, 68% of predominantly Black census tracts, 67% of predominantly Hispanic tracts, and 80% of predominantly Native American and Alaskan Native tracts have lower self-response rates than in 2010, she said.
Door-to-door enumeration efforts had boosted response rates, Lynk said. But Friday’s cut off put an end to that.
“That disparity was going down and it was our hope with more time we and advocates could have gotten that number and that disparity down further,” she said.
Even though the census count is over, experts say litigation over the Trump administration’s handling of the census is likely to continue.
On one hand, challenges by local governments are nothing new. State and local governments have traditionally been able to challenge census population counts after they are complete, Margo Anderson, a retired University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee professor who has extensively studied the U.S. Census.
“The state and local governments have been challenging the competence of the federal government to count the population since the mid-19th century,” Anderson said.
But some may seek to challenge other aspects of how the data is used, such as in election redistricting, or to ensure the Trumpadministration is transparent about the final data it turns over to Congress, Beveridge said.
“I think we are heading into a massive period of litigation or an attempt to fix it if there is a new administration,” he said, adding that if former Vice President Joe Biden wins the election next month a new administration could go as far as to push for another census count.
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Market orders are orders to buy or sell at the best possible prices as soon as possible. They are the first orders to be filled at any given price, and are used to enter or exit the market quickly, regardless of the current market price.
Example: Buy 1 March S&P 500 at the market
Market orders are generally not used in thin markets, where the fill could be substantially different from the last-trade price.
Market on Open orders are orders to buy or sell in the opening range; i.e.: within the range of prices traded during the opening period of trading.
If an order is placed "on the opening" with no stated price, it will be filled within the opening range. Example: Buy 1 March S&P 500 market on open
Market on Close orders are orders to buy or sell in the closing range; i.e.: within the range of prices trading during the closing period, anywhere from 30 seconds to 1 minute long.
Example: Buy 1 March S&P market on close
GTC orders remain on the books until cancelled.
Example: Buy 1 March S&P at 1220.00 GTC
One executed order cancels an alternate order. These orders often are used when a price breakout is expected, but the direction of the breakout is uncertain.
Example: Buy 1 March S&P 500 at 1240.00 OCO 1250.00 Stop
An entry order is an order used to enter a trade once a currency pair hits a pre-determined price level.
An entry limit order is an order initiating an open position to sell as the market rises, or to buy as the market falls. The client placing an entry limit order generally believes the market will reverse direction at the level of the order.
An entry stop order is an order initiating an open position to sell as the market falls, or buy as the market rises. The client placing an entry stop order generally believes that prices will continue to move in the same direction as the previous momentum after reaching the order level.
A limit order is an order linked to a specific position for the purpose of locking in the gains from that position, while a limit order placed on a buy position is an order to sell. A limit order placed on a sell position is an order to buy. All limit orders remain in effect until the position is liquidated or cancelled by the client.
A market order is an order to buy or sell which is to be filled immediately at the prevailing currency price.
A stop-loss order is an order linked to a specific position to close that position and prevent additional losses. A stop-loss order will be executed when the displayed price on the platform touches the order price. The executed price will be the order price or in the case of a fast market the order will be executed at the next displayed price. When a stop-loss order is placed on a buy position it is an order to sell that position. While a stop-loss order on a sell position is an order to buy that position. All stop-loss orders remain in effect until the position is liquidated or cancelled by the client.
Stop orders are not executed until the market reaches a given price, at which time they become market orders. They are normally used to liquidate earlier positions.
Stop orders can be used to enter the market. Suppose you expect a bull market (rising market) only if the price passes through a specified level. In this case, you could enter a buy-stop order to be executed if the market reached this point.
Stop orders may be inappropriate in very thin or choppy markets, and in any case, placement must be varied depending on price volatility.
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- 1 Was the Notre Dame painted?
- 2 What are the sculptures on Notre Dame?
- 3 What materials were used in Notre Dame?
- 4 What is Notre Dame famous for?
- 5 Why did Notre Dame burn?
- 6 Is Notre Dame being rebuilt?
- 7 What is the most famous gargoyle?
- 8 How did Notre Dame get the crown of thorns?
- 9 Did the gargoyles of Notre Dame survive?
- 10 Did Notre Dame burn down?
- 11 What stone is used in Paris buildings?
- 12 What is the meaning of Notre Dame?
- 13 Can you go inside Notre Dame?
- 14 Why are there gargoyles on Notre Dame?
- 15 Was there a real Hunchback of Notre Dame?
Was the Notre Dame painted?
In 1911, shortly before the start of the First World War, artist Dora Altounyan (1886–1964) painted Notre Dame. In 1913, the Scottish-British artist Herbert James Gunn (1893–1964) also painted the cathedral, and ten years later Leonard Squirrell (1893–1979) would visit Paris to paint the Gothic landmark.
What are the sculptures on Notre Dame?
Sculptures in Notre-Dame de Paris
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What materials were used in Notre Dame?
Construction Materials of Notre Dame The church itself was built mainly from limestone, wood, iron and lead. The limestone was Lutetian Limestone – the same type that was used to build the Chateau of Versailles.
What is Notre Dame famous for?
Notre – Dame de Paris, also called Notre – Dame Cathedral, cathedral church in Paris. It is the most famous of the Gothic cathedrals of the Middle Ages and is distinguished for its size, antiquity, and architectural interest.
Why did Notre Dame burn?
After a two-month investigation that included the testimony of 100 witnesses, the Paris public prosecutor’s office announced in June that the leading theory was that the sparks that ignited the fire must have come from either an electrical short circuit or an improperly extinguished cigarette.
Is Notre Dame being rebuilt?
Work to restore the cathedral is not expected to begin until the beginning of 2022. Carpentry experts say rebuilding Notre Dame as it was will take 2,000 cubic metres of wood, requiring about 1,500 oaks to be cut down. The cathedral’s roof contained so many wooden beams it was called la forêt (the forest).
What is the most famous gargoyle?
Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris Perhaps the most well-known gargoyles in the world hover on Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Technically known as grotesques (true gargoyles have waterspouts as mouths), these monstrous creatures glare ominously down on the City of Light.
How did Notre Dame get the crown of thorns?
France: Notre – Dame de Paris: The crown of thorns brought from the Holy Land by Louis IX in the 12th century, from which individual thorns have been given by the French monarchs to other European royals; it is displayed the first Friday of each month and all Fridays in Lent (including Good Friday)
Did the gargoyles of Notre Dame survive?
Viollet-le-Duc was a Gothic Revival architect who was famous for his own creative restorations, introducing the gargoyles, which served as rain spouts from the roof and appeared to have survived the fire. Viollet-le-Duc restored the facade of Notre – Dame, inside and out, including replacing 60 statues.
Did Notre Dame burn down?
The Notre – Dame de Paris fire broke out on 15 April 2019, just before 18:20 CEST, beneath the roof of Notre – Dame de Paris cathedral in Paris. By the time the structure fire was extinguished, the building’s spire had collapsed and most of its roof had been destroyed and its upper walls were severely damaged.
What stone is used in Paris buildings?
Lutetian limestone (in French, calcaire lutécien, and formerly calcaire grossier) — also known as “ Paris stone ” — is a variety of limestone particular to the Paris, France, area.
What is the meaning of Notre Dame?
: Our Lady (the Virgin Mary)
Can you go inside Notre Dame?
What are the restrictions around the cathedral? While tourists can ‘t go inside the site itself, the area may still prove popular to those looking to pay their respects. Parisians and visitors are welcome to write messages of support in both the main and local city halls.
Why are there gargoyles on Notre Dame?
The gargoyles ‘ main purpose is very practical. As rain water runs down the roofs of Notre – Dame de Paris, it needs to drain off without dripping down the walls and potentially damaging them. By evacuating rain water, the gargoyles protect the cathedral and protect the stone from damage caused by excessive runoff.
Was there a real Hunchback of Notre Dame?
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beat bars is a place for musicians, producers and DJs.
Archive of posts with tag 'music theory'
“Improvising itself is essentially about breaking the rules of music, and once you know the rules and the concepts involved in music, with improvising you can then start to break...
Rhythm is the sequence of sounds in time.
In other common musical terms, it is also referred to as ritmo (Italian), rythme (French) and Rhythmus (German).
The semitone is the smallest interval between sounds.
The time signature refers to regularly recurring accents (e.g. beats and bars), organising the rhythm.
Musical pieces are made up of notes.
Strictly speaking, notes are marks placed on the staff, which provide information about the pitch and duration of the sound.
This is the difference between the pitch of two sounds, the distance between them.
“All musicians practice ear training constantly, whether or not they are cognizant of it. If, when listening to a piece of music, a musician is envisioning how to play it...
The only background knowledge you need when learning how to read music is a basic understanding of the fact that some notes sound higher than others — this difference is called pitch....
Before we start on the basics of reading drum music, being able to read drum notation isn’t mandatory! Plenty of great drummers can’t read drum music at all and play...
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Broadband in rural communities key to economic development
COVID-19 brings rural-urban digital divide into stark contrast, highlighting the challenges faced by more than two million Canadians without reliable internet
Rural, northern and remote communities are essential to Canada’s economy and quality of life. They are home to key industries – from agriculture and natural resources to manufacturing and tourism – and they represent the very fabric of this country. Together, they drive nearly one-third of Canada’s economy and play a crucial role in nation building. Fostering strong, thriving rural communities builds better lives for millions of Canadians and contributes to the prosperity of the entire country.
However, as Canada entered the “Digital Age,” these communities faced distinct challenges that arose from their geography, climate, demographics and more. Right now, two million Canadian households still can’t access a reliable internet connection, which is vital to our economy and quality of life.
Connectivity is now as important as roads and bridges to the success and economic health of every community. It is for these reasons that the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) has been working with successive federal governments to close the rural-urban digital divide we see in Canada – the so-called “broadband gap.”
These disparities between rural, northern and remote areas and urban centres have only been heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic: more and more people need to work remotely, access educational content, apply for federal aid programs, and stay connected with friends and family. This is easier said than done in many areas where there is no guarantee of a reliable internet connection.
This crisis underscores that we need to rapidly address the digital divide within Canada, not only for today, but also for tomorrow; broadband will play a key role in Canada’s economic future and recovery post-COVID-19.
An essential economic driver
It is no secret that the internet is now driving social and economic progress on a scale comparable to the arrival of electricity in the early 20th century. Being connected has rapidly become essential to our prosperity, and Canadians ubiquitously rely on the internet and wireless connectivity for their personal and professional lives. Students need it for homework, entrepreneurs need it to grow their business, and healthcare workers in rural and remote areas need it to communicate with specialists, to access patient data and to provide comprehensive care in harder-to-reach areas.
It is no surprise then, that rural, northern and remote communities overwhelmingly “identified challenges accessing affordable, high-speed internet as the number one issue impeding their economic growth” in a recent Government of Canada report (ISED, 2019).
Connectivity is one of the first things businesses consider when deciding to establish themselves in a community. Consequently, low-quality and high-cost internet can seriously hamper the economic development of rural, northern and remote regions. Furthermore, internet access not only dictates where businesses are established, but also how they are operated. As most local businesses shift to online-only in response to COVID-19, those with limited or no internet access are at a serious disadvantage that could affect their viability.
“Being connected has rapidly become essential to our prosperity.”
While consulting Canadians ahead of presenting the federal government’s connectivity strategy, Canadian officials heard from small businesses being forced to operate on a “cash-only” basis because their internet service was not powerful enough to allow Interac debit payment. They also heard about some farm operations that tried to connect to global markets using fax machines (ISED, 2019).
Expanding internet access for rural, northern and remote communities is a necessity. It means more local entrepreneurs can access broader markets, which is vital to Canada’s economy in today’s global marketplace.
With FCM’s support, rural, northern and remote communities across Canada brought national attention to this critical issue. The federal government has since recognized the importance of federal investments to improve broadband coverage and capacity.
Significant investments have been made in recent years: Since 2009, rural municipal leaders from every corner of the country helped secure over $1 billion in federal broadband funding and played a central role in convincing the CRTC to declare universal access to high-speed internet an essential service. Municipalities developed unique partnerships with provincial governments and internet service providers.
Pictou County takes internet access into its own hands
Among the 11,000 households in Pictou County, NS, not everyone has access to internet. For those who do, internet can be slow or unreliable. Some families have to drive to the library or Tim Horton’s so that their kids can submit their homework. The development of a high-speed broadband network accessible to everyone is a priority for the community.
Tired of waiting for industry or government to bridge the gap, the Municipality of Pictou County (MOPC) is undertaking a project to build the backbone infrastructure of a broadband network. Once the network is constructed, internet service providers can lease the network from the MOPC, which will generate revenue for the municipality and provide high-speed internet to all residents and business. It’s like a toll highway; the municipality will build the road, but charge others to use the service. Not only is the network self-sustaining, but telecom spend is kept in the community, which enables new services to be delivered. The have partnered with Nova Communications, a division of ROCK Networks, and Nova’s consortium of best-in-class partners to build the network.
Municipalities across Canada are complaining about a lack of funding for community projects including broadband services. The Pictou County model of a community-owned network offers a potential way forward. Empowering rural communities like Pictou County to be able to close the broadband gap will also allow them to grow and prosper. Widely accessible high-speed internet will promote job creation, allow for increased abilities in smart agriculture, create new tourism opportunities and allow businesses to compete in the digital economy without leaving their community.
– Courtesy of Joe Hickey, President and CEO of ROCK Networks, and Nova Communications, a division of ROCK Networks
They used this federal funding to attract private investment, making every dollar go further. In addition, the 2019 federal budget committed unprecedented new funding – $2.7 billion over a decade including a $1 billion Universal Broadband Fund – to help achieve the goal of universal high-speed internet access.
Nevertheless, as technological advances bring a net benefit in communities from coast to coast to coast, they also bring incessant change. Governments and municipalities across the country need to constantly adapt and innovate.
- How to create effective online career workshops
- How COVID-19 is affecting rural communities across Canada
To close the internet access gap, we need novel approaches to existing policies and investment strategies. We need to look at rural, northern and remote communities in a way that will define and nurture economic potential, drive innovation and build better lives for all Canadians.
In order to succeed, we must apply a rural lens to federal programs and policies. In practice, that might mean adapting funding eligibility criteria or streamlining processes to account for local realities. Fundamentally, it means bringing rural expertise to the table as national solutions are developed. With flexible tools at their disposal and a voice at the decision-making table, local leaders will help deliver tailored, cost-effective solutions that work.
Moving forward, the federal government needs to maintain or exceed recent federal broadband investments, and must also commit long-term, predictable federal funding to expand broadband internet access. Quickly launching the new Universal Broadband Fund will ensure that municipalities struggling to get online during the pandemic are positioned for economic recovery. Co-ordination between federal and provincial/territorial governments and agencies delivering broadband funding will help maximize capital for broader internet access.
If federal policies, programs and funding tools are built around the knowledge, expertise and input of local municipalities, and if they reflect regional priorities, they will more efficiently maintain the competitiveness of communities across the country. Rural municipalities are – and must be – key partners to the federal government in managing and growing the full suite of telecommunications infrastructure that underpins Canada’s economy.
Ray Orb was born in Regina and was raised on a farm in the Markinch district. He entered the world of municipal politics in 1985. He was first elected as a councillor in the Rural Municipality of Cupar, and then Reeve in 1995, a position he currently holds. He is now Chair of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ Rural Forum and President of the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM).
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Milano da Vedere has instituted its first day dedicated to the Milanese dialect: “fà ballà l’oeugg!,” which we could roughly translate as “Look sharp!”
The web site, called “This is Milan” in its English version, is dedicated to highlighting beautiful Milan and the great things to see and do, here,
The event consists in a kit in Italian and the Milanese dialect, which will test the participants’ dialect skills. The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum room custodians will help anyone in difficulty, as the point is to explore, remember and have fun.
The price of participating is included in the museum entrance fee, there is no extra charge.
For more information, you’ll have to refer to the version in Italian: http://www.milanodavedere.it/events/festa-del-dialetto-milanese/
Museo Bagatti Valsecchi
Via Gesù 5 – 20121 Milano
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Museums Are Not Neutral: A Discussion on Why There is No Museum Neutrality in Museum Education
Throughout the conference sessions I have attended and the social media discussions I participated in, the topic of museum neutrality has been discussed among myself and many other museum professionals. Questions we should start with when discussing museum neutrality are: What does museum neutrality mean? If we should claim we are neutral, how can we claim to be relevant in current events in our society and in the future? If we claim we are not neutral, how do we move forward in our practices at museums and what are the best approaches in moving forward? In recent years, I began to hear more about the Museums Are Not Neutral movement which addresses how museums should be spaces that allow museum professionals and visitors to express their concerns for social justice. These discussions also included how we in the museum field interpret the term “neutral”.
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the word neutral means not engaged on either side, or not decided or pronounced as to characteristics. Neutrality, however, means different things to different people, and depend on perspectives. There has been a notion that museums do not take sides on political and social issues since in the past museums focused their missions on collecting and preserving items without considering the visitors’ capabilities of understanding the significance of preserved items on display. Anabel Roque Rodríguez discussed the myth of museum neutrality in her blog post about it. She stated that
In the past, museums were temples where knowledge was preserved and education was the highest value. This might still be a big asset, but with this purpose comes the voice of institutional authority, that does not facilitate a dialogue with the people visiting the museum. A collection can be used as a tool to start visitor’s engagement, but knowledge works two-ways. How much space is there for the own experiences of the public and in which ways are museums still able to transport the research and knowledge behind the exhibition? Museums are facing a shift and need to open up in order to remain relevant in the future.
As our society continues to work on changing these issues, museums need to remain relevant by knowing and figuring out what they stand for. We as museum professionals can connect with our visitors by providing the space to express their concerns with our society. The topic of museum neutrality is a lengthy conversation we need to continue discussing because there are a lot of concerns about museums not taking action and concerns about what if museums do take action. In other words, when we talk about taking action instead of remaining neutral we need to be prepared to take action on many issues.
Museums should find out how they should approach taking action because there are individuals that believe museums are not doing enough to show museums are not neutral. In the post “Changing the Things I Cannot Accept: Museums Are Not Neutral” the writer expressed their concerns about museums’ lack of actions on political and social issues:
I have always known that museums are not neutral. They have never have been neutral. I would hope that our colleagues know that museums originate from colonialist endeavors. They are about power. As I have shared on social media networks, if anyone comes as me with that neutrality mess, I will take them down. I have had it with that narrow-minded perspective that ignores history and enables museums to operate as racist, sexist, and classist spaces.
While finding the balance between incorporating visitor input and utilizing research and knowledge in our institutions can be a challenge, it is a challenge worth pursuing to remain relevant in our community now and in the future.
Some museum professionals pointed out the evidence that museums should not be neutral. Mike Murawski, founding author and editor of ArtMuseumTeaching.com, museum educator, and the Director of Education & Public Programs for the Portland Art Museum, stated in his post
Museums have the potential to be relevant, socially-engaged spaces in our communities, acting as agents of positive change. Yet, too often, they strive to remain “above” the political and social issues that affect our lives — embracing a myth of neutrality.
Well, MUSEUMS ARE NOT NEUTRAL, plain and simple.
In other words, we have the potential to set examples within our communities on how every individual can create positive change. One of the examples I have found in my research shows positive impact on going beyond neutrality and incorporating issues previously difficult to discuss in the museum.
In Elizabeth Merritt’s Center for the Future of Museums blog post “Beyond Neutrality”, she pointed out the reasons Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia are moving away from using the word neutral:
We believe that the bedrock value that many of us brought into this field — that museums should strive for neutrality — has held us back more than it has helped us. Neutrality is, after all, in the eye of the beholder. At Eastern State, more often than not, the word provided us an excuse for simply avoiding thorny issues of race, poverty and policy that we weren’t ready to address.
By moving away from using the word, and making different approaches in discussion about tough issues, the Eastern State Penitentiary saw significant positive change in the amount of visitors learning something thought-provoking and an increase in attendance at the Penitentiary. Each museum is different so no one way would be effective for all museums but by looking into their own organizations and the communities they serve museums could potentially work towards addressing the issues. Other museum professionals expressed concern about how we can be agents of positive change while finding out how we define museums in the process.
Rebecca Hertz reflected on what has been discussed about museum neutrality and brought up concerns she has on the possibility of museums being neutral. In her blog post, Can Museums Be Neutral?, Hertz stated there are two problems that concern her: first, the assumption that museums or any other institutions can be “neutral,” and second, the places that political engagement on a larger scale might take us. She discussed that museums being neutral or not neutral is more complicated than previous museum professionals have suggested; Hertz pointed out
Museums implicitly support systems of hierarchy through their funding structure, which makes museums highly dependent upon the support of the 1%, the “winners” in our capitalist system. Racism, sexism, and injustice of many kinds in the contemporary world are entangled in a system which equates merit with money, and confers advantages to the rich that keep them rich. So museums are not neutral, but instead bulwarks of the system that the “Museums are not neutral” campaign asks us to lobby against.
A lot of museums depend on donors with significant amounts of financial support to keep its doors open, and unfortunately the issues we face are intertwined with financial dependency. What seems to be suggested is we should also tackle on economic issues as well when we move forward to untangle the complicated weave. Hertz’s blog post described further detail about each of the problems she is concerned about such as opening up the possibility of continuing to widen the gap within already divided communities as museums begin to take sides of the political spectrum.
Leadership Matters blog expressed their support for museums not being neutral and they also pointed out concerns museum leaders face. In their blog post “Museums Are Not Neutral”, they summarized their thoughts on museum neutrality by stating
We believe first and foremost that museums have to understand their communities, and their entire community, not just the largely white, heterosexual, wealthy community who wanders their galleries and attends openings. But how do museums decide when and how to take a stand? Is what’s relevant to the director important to the community? And how about the board? As a director, if you take a stand will it matter to the people you’re trying to support? Does not being neutral mean being a good citizen, and how should an organization be a good citizen? How do museums engage their communities while being transparent?
All museum professionals should be able to understand and have knowledge of the community surrounding their museum. We also should be asking ourselves questions, especially the previously listed questions, about what it means to not be neutral.
Each museum is different, and each community is different so therefore all museums would have to answer similar questions differently and sometimes ask different questions. What we all could agree on is we cannot go backwards in our progress as a field. Our museum field talks about what our role should be in the community, and by stating that museums should be neutral we would be taking steps backward in trying to be relevant in our society.
What does museum neutrality mean to you? When was the first time you began to see the “Museums Are Not Neutral” phrase, and how do you respond to it?
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Bio-assay-Guided Isolated Compounds from Morinda Citrifolia Inhibit Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) Pathologies
Due to the serious and multiple side effects of synthetic or chemical drugs, the therapeutic potential of natural products especially medicinal mushrooms for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has gained interest. Morinda Citrifolia has demonstrated and also clearly exhibited inhibitory effects on geriatric diseases, such as bone loss and osteoporosis. However, although AD is a geriatric disease, Morinda Citrifolia has not been evaluated in an AD bioassay. Therefore, Morinda Citrifolia extracts and fractions were tested for AD-related activity, including inhibition of acetylcholinesterase (AChE), butyrylcholinesterase (BChE), β-site amyloid precursor protein cleaving enzyme 1 (BACE1), and advanced glycation end-product (AGE) formation. A bio-assay-guided approach led to isolation of 10 active compounds, eight anthraquinones (1–8), one coumarin (9), and one phytosterol (10), from n-hexane and ethyl acetate fractions of M. officinalis. The five anthraquinones (4–8) were stronger inhibitors of AChE than the other compounds. Compounds 3 and 9 were good inhibitors of BChE, and compounds 3 and 8 were good inhibitors of BACE1. Compounds 1–5 and 7–9 were more active than the positive control in inhibiting AGE formation. Additionally, we first suggested a structure-activity relationship by which anthraquinones inhibit AChE and BACE1. Our findings demonstrate the preventive and therapeutic efficacy of Morinda Citrifolia for AD and its potential use as a natural alternative medicine. | <urn:uuid:5d180f3f-6159-437c-894f-ffad3f28ab7b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://anushveda.com/fruttamed-clinical-study-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.929064 | 422 | 1.789063 | 2 |
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|Native to||Hungary and areas of east Austria, Croatia, Romania, northern Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, western Ukraine|
|17 million (2003–2014)|
Official language in
|Regulated by||Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences|
Map of regions where those whose native language is Hungarian represent a majority (dark blue) or a substantial minority (light blue). Based on recent censuses and on the CIA World Factbook 2014
|Hungarian and English|
Hungarian (magyar nyelv (help·info)) is a Uralic language spoken in Hungary and parts of several neighbouring countries. It is the official language of Hungary and one of the 24 official languages of the European Union. Outside Hungary, it is also spoken by communities of Hungarians in southern Slovakia, western Ukraine (Subcarpathia), central and western Romania (Transylvania), northern Serbia (Vojvodina), northern Croatia, northeastern Slovenia (Prekmurje), and eastern Austria.
It is also spoken by Hungarian diaspora communities worldwide, especially in North America (particularly the United States and Canada) and Israel. With 13 million speakers, it is the Uralic family's largest member by number of speakers.
Hungarian is a member of the Uralic language family. Linguistic connections between Hungarian and other Uralic languages were noticed in the 1670s, and the family itself (then called Finno-Ugric) was established in 1717. Hungarian has traditionally been assigned to the Ugric branch within the Finno-Ugric group, along with the Mansi and Khanty languages of western Siberia (Khanty–Mansia region), but it is no longer clear that it is a valid group. When the Samoyed languages were determined to be part of the family, it was thought at first that Finnic and Ugric (Finno-Ugric) were closer to each other than to the Samoyed branch of the family, but that is now frequently questioned.
The name of Hungary could be a result of regular sound changes of Ungrian/Ugrian, and the fact that the Eastern Slavs referred to Hungarians as Ǫgry/Ǫgrove (sg. Ǫgrinŭ) seemed to confirm that. Current literature favors the hypothesis that it comes from the name of the Turkic tribe Onoğur (which means "ten arrows" or "ten tribes").
There are numerous regular sound correspondences between Hungarian and the other Ugric languages. For example, Hungarian /aː/ corresponds to Khanty /o/ in certain positions, and Hungarian /h/ corresponds to Khanty /x/, while Hungarian final /z/ corresponds to Khanty final /t/. For example, Hungarian ház [haːz] "house" vs. Khanty xot [xot] "house", and Hungarian száz [saːz] "hundred" vs. Khanty sot [sot] "hundred". The distance between the Ugric and Finnic languages is greater, but the correspondences are also regular.
The traditional view holds that the Hungarian language diverged from its Ugric relatives in the first half of the 1st millennium BC, in western Siberia east of the southern Urals. The Hungarians gradually changed their lifestyle from being settled hunters to being nomadic pastoralists, probably as a result of early contacts with Iranian nomads (Scythians and Sarmatians) or Turkic nomads. In Hungarian, Iranian loanwords date back to the time immediately following the breakup of Ugric and probably span well over a millennium. Among these include tehén ‘cow’ (cf. Avestan daénu); tíz ‘ten’ (cf. Avestan dasa); tej ‘milk’ (cf. Persian dáje ‘wet nurse’); and nád ‘reed’ (from late Middle Iranian; cf. Middle Persian nāy and Modern Persian ney).
Archaeological evidence from present-day southern Bashkortostan confirms the existence of Hungarian settlements between the Volga River and the Ural Mountains. The Onoğurs (and Bulgars) later had a great influence on the language, especially between the 5th and 9th centuries. This layer of Turkic loans is large and varied (e.g. szó "word", from Turkic; and daru "crane", from the related Permic languages), and includes words borrowed from Oghur Turkic; e.g. borjú "calf" (cf. Chuvash păru, părăv vs. Turkish buzağı); dél ‘noon; south’ (cf. Chuvash tĕl vs. Turkish dial. düš). Many words related to agriculture, state administration and even family relationships show evidence of such backgrounds. Hungarian syntax and grammar were not influenced in a similarly dramatic way over these three centuries.
After the arrival of the Hungarians in the Carpathian Basin, the language came into contact with a variety of speech communities, among them Slavic, Turkic, and German. Turkic loans from this period come mainly from the Pechenegs and Cumanians, who settled in Hungary during the 12th and 13th centuries: e.g. koboz "cobza" (cf. Turkish kopuz ‘lute’); komondor "mop dog" (< *kumandur < Cuman). Hungarian borrowed 20% of words from neighbouring Slavic languages: e.g. tégla ‘brick’; mák ‘poppy seed’; szerda ‘Wednesday’; csütörtök ‘Thursday’...; karácsony ‘Christmas’. These languages in turn borrowed words from Hungarian: e.g. Serbo-Croatian ašov from Hungarian ásó ‘spade’. About 1.6 percent of the Romanian lexicon is of Hungarian origin.
In the 21st century, studies support an origin of the Uralic languages, including early Hungarian, in eastern or central Siberia, somewhere between the Ob and Yenisei river or near the Sayan mountains in the Russian–Mongolian border region. A 2019 study based on genetics, archaeology and linguistics, found that early Uralic speakers arrived in Europe from the east, specifically from eastern Siberia.
There have been attempts to show that Hungarian is related to other languages, such as Hebrew, Hunnic, Sumerian, Egyptian, Etruscan, Basque, Persian, Pelasgian, Greek, Chinese, Sanskrit, English, Tibetan, Magar, Quechua, Armenian, Japanese, and at least 40 other languages.
Historical controversy over origins
The classification of Hungarian as a Uralic/Finno-Ugric rather than a Turkic language continued to be a matter of impassioned political controversy throughout the 18th and into the 19th centuries. During the latter half of the 19th century, a competing hypothesis proposed a Turkic affinity of Hungarian, or, alternatively, that both the Uralic and the Turkic families formed part of a superfamily of Ural–Altaic languages. Following an academic debate known as Az ugor-török háború ("the Ugric-Turkic war"), the Finno-Ugric hypothesis was concluded the sounder of the two, mainly based on work by the German linguist Josef Budenz.
Hungarians did, in fact, absorb some Turkic influences during several centuries of cohabitation. The influence on Hungarians was mainly from the Turkic Oghur speakers such as Sabirs, Bulgars of Atil, Kabars and Khazars. The Oghur tribes are often connected with the Hungarians whose exoethnonym is usually derived from Onogurs (> (H)ungars), a Turkic tribal confederation. The similarity between customs of Hungarians and the Chuvash people, the only surviving member of the Oghur tribes, is visible. For example, the Hungarians appear to have learned animal husbandry techniques from the Oghur speaking Chuvash people (or historically Suvar people), as a high proportion of words specific to agriculture and livestock are of Chuvash origin. A strong Chuvash influence was also apparent in Hungarian burial customs. Some scholars are sceptical towards the idea that the conqueror tribes of prince Árpád spoke the ancestor of the Hungarian language, because the conquerors rather spoke a Turkic language. According to a supporter of this view, the conventional theory is nothing more than a widespread nationalist concept without any reliable proofs or logical reasoning, which was invented in the era of national awakening.
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The first written accounts of Hungarian date to the 10th century, such as mostly Hungarian personal names and place names in De Administrando Imperio, written in Greek by Eastern Roman Emperor Constantine VII. No significant texts written in Old Hungarian script have survived, because the medium of writing used at the time, wood, is perishable.
The Kingdom of Hungary was founded in 1000 by Stephen I. The country became a Western-styled Christian (Roman Catholic) state, with Latin script replacing Hungarian runes. The earliest remaining fragments of the language are found in the establishing charter of the abbey of Tihany from 1055, intermingled with Latin text. The first extant text fully written in Hungarian is the Funeral Sermon and Prayer, which dates to the 1190s. Although the orthography of these early texts differed considerably from that used today, contemporary Hungarians can still understand a great deal of the reconstructed spoken language, despite changes in grammar and vocabulary.
A more extensive body of Hungarian literature arose after 1300. The earliest known example of Hungarian religious poetry is the 14th-century Lamentations of Mary. The first Bible translation was the Hussite Bible in the 1430s.
The standard language lost its diphthongs, and several postpositions transformed into suffixes, including reá "onto" (the phrase utu rea "onto the way" found in the 1055 text would later become útra). There were also changes in the system of vowel harmony. At one time, Hungarian used six verb tenses, while today only two or three are used.[note 1]
In 1533, Kraków printer Benedek Komjáti published Letters of St. Paul in Hungarian [hu] (modern orthography: A Szent Pál levelei magyar nyelven), the first Hungarian-language book set in movable type.
By the 17th century, the language already closely resembled its present-day form, although two of the past tenses remained in use. German, Italian and French loans also began to appear. Further Turkish words were borrowed during the period of Ottoman rule (1541 to 1699).
In the 19th century, a group of writers, most notably Ferenc Kazinczy, spearheaded a process of nyelvújítás (language revitalization). Some words were shortened (győzedelem > győzelem, 'victory' or 'triumph'); a number of dialectal words spread nationally (e.g., cselleng 'dawdle'); extinct words were reintroduced (dísz, 'décor'); a wide range of expressions were coined using the various derivative suffixes; and some other, less frequently used methods of expanding the language were utilized. This movement produced more than ten thousand words, most of which are used actively today.
In 1920, Hungary signed the Treaty of Trianon, losing 71 percent of its territory and one-third of the ethnic Hungarian population along with it.
|Romania (mainly Transylvania)||1,268,444||2011|
|Serbia (mainly Vojvodina)||241,164||2011|
|Ukraine (mainly Zakarpattia)||149,400||2001|
|Austria (mainly Burgenland)||22,000|
|Slovenia (mainly Prekmurje)||9,240|
- Source: National censuses, Ethnologue
Hungarian has about 13 million native speakers, of whom more than 9.8 million live in Hungary. According to the 2011 Hungarian census, 9,896,333 people (99.6% of the total population) speak Hungarian, of whom 9,827,875 people (98.9%) speak it as a first language, while 68,458 people (0.7%) speak it as a second language. About 2.2 million speakers live in other areas that were part of the Kingdom of Hungary before the Treaty of Trianon (1920). Of these, the largest group lives in Transylvania, the western half of present-day Romania, where there are approximately 1.25 million Hungarians. There are large Hungarian communities also in Slovakia, Serbia and Ukraine, and Hungarians can also be found in Austria, Croatia, and Slovenia, as well as about a million additional people scattered in other parts of the world. For example, there are more than one hundred thousand Hungarian speakers in the Hungarian American community and 1.5 million with Hungarian ancestry in the United States.
Hungarian is the official language of Hungary, and thus an official language of the European Union. Hungarian is also one of the official languages of Serbian province of Vojvodina and an official language of three municipalities in Slovenia: Hodoš, Dobrovnik and Lendava, along with Slovene. Hungarian is officially recognized as a minority or regional language in Austria, Croatia, Romania, Zakarpattia in Ukraine, and Slovakia. In Romania it is a recognized minority language used at local level in communes, towns and municipalities with an ethnic Hungarian population of over 20%.
The dialects of Hungarian identified by Ethnologue are: Alföld, West Danube, Danube-Tisza, King's Pass Hungarian, Northeast Hungarian, Northwest Hungarian, Székely and West Hungarian. These dialects are, for the most part, mutually intelligible. The Hungarian Csángó dialect, which is mentioned but not listed separately by Ethnologue, is spoken primarily in Bacău County in eastern Romania. The Csángó Hungarian group has been largely isolated from other Hungarian people, and therefore preserved features that closely resemble earlier forms of Hungarian.
Hungarian has 14 vowel phonemes and 25 consonant phonemes. The vowel phonemes can be grouped as pairs of short and long vowels such as o and ó. Most of the pairs have an almost similar pronunciation and vary significantly only in their duration. However, pairs a/á and e/é differ both in closedness and length.
The sound voiced palatal plosive /ɟ/, written ⟨gy⟩, sounds similar to 'd' in British English 'duty'. It occurs in the name of the country, "Magyarország" (Hungary), pronounced /ˈmɒɟɒrorsaːɡ/. It is one of three palatal consonants, the others being ⟨ty⟩ and ⟨ny⟩. Historically a fourth palatalized consonant ʎ existed, still written ⟨ly⟩.
Primary stress is always on the first syllable of a word, as in Finnish and the neighbouring Slovak and Czech. There is a secondary stress on other syllables in compounds: viszontlátásra ("goodbye") is pronounced /ˈvisontˌlaːtaːʃrɒ/. Elongated vowels in non-initial syllables may seem to be stressed to an English-speaker, as length and stress correlate in English.
Hungarian uses vowel harmony to attach suffixes to words. That means that most suffixes have two or three different forms, and the choice between them depends on the vowels of the head word. There are some minor and unpredictable exceptions to the rule.
Nouns have 18 cases, which are formed regularly with suffixes. The nominative case is unmarked (az alma 'the apple') and, for example, the accusative is marked with the suffix –t (az almát '[I eat] the apple'). Half of the cases express a combination of the source-location-target and surface-inside-proximity ternary distinctions (three times three cases); there is a separate case ending –ból / –ből meaning a combination of source and insideness: 'from inside of'.
Possession is expressed by a possessive suffix on the possessed object, rather than the possessor as in English (Peter's apple becomes Péter almája, literally 'Peter apple-his'). Noun plurals are formed with –k (az almák ‘the apples’), but after a numeral, the singular is used (két alma ‘two apples’, literally ‘two apple’; not *két almák).
Unlike English, Hungarian uses case suffixes and nearly always postpositions instead of prepositions.
There are two types of articles in Hungarian, definite and indefinite, which roughly correspond to the equivalents in English.
Adjectives precede nouns (a piros alma 'the red apple') and have three degrees: positive (piros 'red'), comparative (pirosabb 'redder') and superlative (a legpirosabb 'the reddest').
If the noun takes the plural or a case, an attributive adjective is invariable: a piros almák 'the red apples'. However, a predicative adjective agrees with the noun: az almák pirosak 'the apples are red'. Adjectives by themselves can behave as nouns (and so can take case suffixes): Melyik almát kéred? – A pirosat. 'Which apple would you like? – The red one'.
The neutral word order is subject–verb–object (SVO). However, Hungarian is a topic-prominent language, and so has a word order that depends not only on syntax but also on the topic–comment structure of the sentence (for example, what aspect is assumed to be known and what is emphasized).
A Hungarian sentence generally has the following order: topic, comment (or focus), verb and the rest.
The topic shows that the proposition is only for that particular thing or aspect, and it implies that the proposition is not true for some others. For example, in "Az almát János látja". ('It is John who sees the apple'. Literally 'The apple John sees.'), the apple is in the topic, implying that other objects may be seen by not him but other people (the pear may be seen by Peter). The topic part may be empty.
The focus shows the new information for the listeners that may not have been known or that their knowledge must be corrected. For example, "Én vagyok az apád". ('I am your father'. Literally, 'It is I who am your father'.), from the movie The Empire Strikes Back, the pronoun I (én) is in the focus and implies that it is new information, and the listener thought that someone else is his father.
Although Hungarian is sometimes described as having free word order, different word orders are generally not interchangeable, and the neutral order is not always correct to use. Also, the intonation is also different with different topic-comment structures. The topic usually has a rising intonation, the focus having a falling intonation. In the following examples, the topic is marked with italics, and the focus (comment) is marked with boldface.
- János látja az almát. - 'John sees the apple'. Neutral sentence.
- János látja az almát. - 'John sees the apple'. (Peter may not see the apple.)
- János látja az almát. - 'It is John who sees the apple'. (The listener may have thought that it is Peter.)
- Látja János az almát. - 'John does see the apple'. (The listener may have thought that John does not see the apple.)
- János az almát látja. - 'What John sees is the apple'. (It is the apple, not the pear, that John specifically sees. However, Peter may see the pear.)
- Az almát látja János. - 'It is the apple that is seen by John'. (The pear may not be seen by John, but it may be smelled, for example.)
- Az almát János látja. - 'It is by John that the apple is seen'. (It is not seen by Peter, but the pear may be seen by Peter, for example.)
Hungarian has a four-tiered system for expressing levels of politeness. From highest to lowest:
- Ön (önözés): Use of this form in speech shows respect towards the person addressed, but it is also the common way of speaking in official texts and business communications. Here "you", the second person, is grammatically addressed in the third person.
- Maga (magázás, magázódás): Use of this form serves to show that the speakers wish to distance themselves from the person they address. A boss could also address a subordinate as maga. Aside from the different pronoun it is grammatically the same as "önözés".
- Néni/bácsi (tetszikezés): This is a somewhat affectionate way of expressing politeness and is grammatically the same as "önözés" or "magázódás", but adds a certain verb in auxiliary role "tetszik" ("like") to support the main verb of the sentence. For example, children are supposed to address adults who are not parents, close friends or close relatives by using "tetszik" ("you like"): "Hogy vagy?" ("How are you?") here becomes "Hogy tetszik lenni?" ("How do you like to be?"). The elderly, especially women, are generally addressed this way, even by adults.
- Te (tegezés, tegeződés or pertu, per tu from Latin): Used generally, i.e. with persons with whom none of the above forms of politeness is required, and, in religious contexts, to address God. The highest rank, the king, was traditionally addressed "per tu" by all, peasants and noblemen alike, though with Hungary not having had any crowned king since 1918, this practice survives only in folk tales and children's stories. Use of "tegezés" in the media and advertisements has become more frequent since the early 1990s. It is informal and is normally used in families, among friends, colleagues, among young people, and by adults speaking to children; it can be compared to addressing somebody by their first name in English. Perhaps prompted by the widespread use of English (a language without T–V distinction in most contemporary dialects) on the Internet, "tegezés" is also becoming the standard way to address people over the Internet, regardless of politeness.
The four-tiered system has somewhat been eroded due to the recent expansion of "tegeződés" and "önözés".
Some anomalies emerged with the arrival of multinational companies who have addressed their customers in the te (least polite) form right from the beginning of their presence in Hungary. A typical example is the Swedish furniture shop IKEA, whose web site and other publications address the customers in te form. When a news site asked IKEA—using the te form—why they address their customers this way, IKEA's PR Manager explained in his answer—using the ön form—that their way of communication reflects IKEA's open-mindedness and the Swedish culture. However IKEA in France uses the polite (vous) form. Another example is the communication of Telenor (a mobile network operator) towards its customers. Telenor chose to communicate towards business customers in the polite ön form while all other customers are addressed in the less polite te form.
|Derived terms with suffixes|
|adó||tax or transmitter|
|adózik||to pay tax|
|adakozik||to give (practise charity)|
|With verbal prefixes|
|átad||to hand over|
|bead||to hand in|
|felad||to give up, to mail|
|hozzáad||to augment, to add to|
|kiad||to rent out, to publish, to extradite|
|lead||to lose weight, to deposit (an object)|
|megad||to repay (debt), to call (poker),|
to grant (permission)
|összead||to add (to do mathematical addition)|
During the first early phase of Hungarian language reforms (late 18th and early 19th centuries) more than ten thousand words were coined, several thousand of which are still actively used today (see also Ferenc Kazinczy, the leading figure of the Hungarian language reforms.) Kazinczy's chief goal was to replace existing words of German and Latin origins with newly created Hungarian words. As a result, Kazinczy and his later followers (the reformers) significantly reduced the formerly high ratio of words of Latin and German origins in the Hungarian language, which were related to social sciences, natural sciences, politics and economics, institutional names, fashion etc. Giving an accurate estimate for the total word count is difficult, since it is hard to define a "word" in agglutinating languages, due to the existence of affixed words and compound words. To obtain a meaningful definition of compound words, it is necessary to exclude compounds whose meaning is the mere sum of its elements. The largest dictionaries giving translations from Hungarian to another language contain 120,000 words and phrases (but this may include redundant phrases as well, because of translation issues)[clarification needed]. The new desk lexicon of the Hungarian language contains 75,000 words, and the Comprehensive Dictionary of Hungarian Language (to be published in 18 volumes in the next[clarification needed] twenty years) is planned to contain 110,000 words. The default Hungarian lexicon is usually estimated to comprise 60,000 to 100,000 words. (Independently of specific languages, speakers actively use at most 10,000 to 20,000 words, with an average intellectual using 25,000 to 30,000 words.) However, all the Hungarian lexemes collected from technical texts, dialects etc. would total up to 1,000,000 words.
Parts of the lexicon can be organized using word-bushes[clarification needed] (see an example on the right). The words in these bushes share a common root, are related through inflection, derivation and compounding, and are usually broadly related in meaning.
The basic vocabulary shares several hundred word roots with other Uralic languages like Finnish, Estonian, Mansi and Khanty. Examples are the verb él "live" (Finnish elää), the numbers kettő (2), három (3), négy (4) (cf. Mansi китыг kitig, хурум khurum, нила nila, Finnish kaksi, kolme, neljä, Estonian kaks, kolm, neli), as well as víz 'water', kéz 'hand', vér 'blood', fej 'head' (cf. Finnish and Estonian vesi, käsi, veri, Finnish pää, Estonian pea or pää).
Words for elementary kinship and nature are more Ugric, less r-Turkic and less Slavic. Agricultural words are about 50% r-Turkic and 50% Slavic; pastoral terms are more r-Turkic, less Ugric and less Slavic. Finally, Christian and state terminology is more Slavic and less r-Turkic. The Slavic is most probably proto-Slovakian and/or -Slovenian. This is easily understood in the Uralic paradigm, proto-Magyars were first similar to Ob-Ugors, who were mainly hunters, fishers and gatherers, but with some horses too. Then they accultured to Bulgarian r-Turks, so the older layer of agriculture words (wine, beer, wheat, barley etc.) are purely r-Turkic, and many terms of statesmanship and religion were, too.
Except for a few Latin and Greek loanwords, these differences are unnoticed even by native speakers; the words have been entirely adopted into the Hungarian lexicon. There are an increasing number of English loanwords, especially in technical fields.
Another source differs in that loanwords in Hungarian are held to constitute about 45% of bases in the language. Although the lexical fraction of native words in Hungarian is 55%, their use accounts for 88.4% of all words used (the fraction of loanwords used being just 11.6%). Therefore, the history of Hungarian has come, especially since the 19th century, to favor neologisms from original bases, whilst still having developed as many terms from neighboring languages in the lexicon.
Words can be compounds or derived. Most derivation is with suffixes, but there is a small set of derivational prefixes as well.
Compounds have been present in the language since the Proto-Uralic era. Numerous ancient compounds transformed to base words during the centuries. Today, compounds play an important role in vocabulary.
A good example is the word arc:
- orr (nose) + száj (mouth) → orca (face) (colloquial until the end of the 19th century and still in use in some dialects) > arc (face)
Compounds are made up of two base words: the first is the prefix, the latter is the suffix. A compound can be subordinative: the prefix is in logical connection with the suffix. If the prefix is the subject of the suffix, the compound is generally classified as a subjective one. There are objective, determinative, and adjunctive compounds as well. Some examples are given below:
- menny (heaven) + dörgés (rumbling) → mennydörgés (thundering)
- Nap (Sun) + sütötte (lit by) → napsütötte (sunlit)
- fa (tree, wood) + vágó (cutter) → favágó (lumberjack, literally "woodcutter")
- új (new) + já (modification of -vá, -vé a suffix meaning "making it to something") + építés (construction) → újjáépítés (reconstruction, literally "making something to be new by construction")
- sárga (yellow) + réz (copper) → sárgaréz (brass)
According to current orthographic rules, a subordinative compound word has to be written as a single word, without spaces; however, if a compound of three or more words (not counting one-syllable verbal prefixes) is seven or more syllables long (not counting case suffixes), a hyphen must be inserted at the appropriate boundary to ease the determination of word boundaries for the reader.
Other compound words are coordinatives: there is no concrete relation between the prefix and the suffix. Subcategories include reduplication (to emphasise the meaning; olykor-olykor 'really occasionally'), twin words (where a base word and a distorted form of it makes up a compound: gizgaz, where the suffix 'gaz' means 'weed' and the prefix giz is the distorted form; the compound itself means 'inconsiderable weed'), and such compounds which have meanings, but neither their prefixes, nor their suffixes make sense (for example, hercehurca 'complex, obsolete procedures').
A compound also can be made up by multiple (i.e., more than two) base words: in this case, at least one word element, or even both the prefix and the suffix, is a compound. Some examples:
- elme [mind; standalone base] + (gyógy [medical] + intézet [institute]) → elmegyógyintézet (asylum)
- (hadi [militarian] + fogoly [prisoner]) + (munka [work] + tábor [camp]) → hadifogoly-munkatábor (work camp of prisoners of war)
Noteworthy lexical items
Points of the compass
Hungarian words for the points of the compass are directly derived from the position of the Sun during the day in the Northern Hemisphere.
- North = észak (from "éj(szaka)", 'night'), as the Sun never shines from the north
- South = dél ('noon'), as the Sun shines from the south at noon
- East = kelet ('rising'), as the Sun rises in the east
- West = nyugat ('setting'), as the Sun sets in the west
Two words for "red"
There are two basic words for "red" in Hungarian: "piros" and "vörös" (variant: "veres"; compare with Estonian "verev" or Finnish "punainen"). (They are basic in the sense that one is not a sub-type of the other, as the English "scarlet" is of "red".) The word "vörös" is related to "vér", meaning "blood" (Finnish and Estonian "veri"). When they refer to an actual difference in colour (as on a colour chart), "vörös" usually refers to the deeper (darker and/or more red and less orange) hue of red. In English similar differences exist between "scarlet" and "red". While many languages have multiple names for this colour, often Hungarian scholars assume that this is unique in recognizing two shades of red as separate and distinct "folk colours".
However, the two words are also used independently of the above in collocations. "Piros" is learned by children first, as it is generally used to describe inanimate, artificial things, or things seen as cheerful or neutral, while "vörös" typically refers to animate or natural things (biological, geological, physical and astronomical objects), as well as serious or emotionally charged subjects.
When the rules outlined above are in contradiction, typical collocations usually prevail. In some cases where a typical collocation does not exist, the use of either of the two words may be equally adequate.
- Expressions where "red" typically translates to "piros": a red road sign, red traffic lights, the red line of Budapest Metro, red (now called express) bus lines in Budapest, a holiday shown in red in the calendar, ruddy complexion, the red nose of a clown, some red flowers (those of a neutral nature, e.g. tulips), red peppers and paprika, red card suits (hearts and diamonds), red stripes on a flag (but the red flag and its variants translate to "vörös"), etc.
- Expressions where "red" typically translates to "vörös": a red railway signal (unlike traffic lights, see above), Red Sea, Red Square, Red Army, Red Baron, Erik the Red, red wine, red carpet (for receiving important guests), red hair or beard, red lion (the mythical animal), the Red Cross, the novel The Red and the Black, redshift, red giant, red blood cells, red oak, some red flowers (those with passionate connotations, e.g. roses), red fox, names of ferric and other red minerals, red copper, rust, red phosphorus, the colour of blushing with anger or shame, the red nose of an alcoholic (in contrast with that of a clown, see above), the red posterior of a baboon, red meat, regular onion (not the red onion, which is "lila"), litmus paper (in acid), cities, countries, or other political entities associated with leftist movements (e.g. Red Vienna, Red Russia), etc.
The Hungarian words for brothers and sisters are differentiated based upon relative age. There is also a general word for "sibling": testvér, from test "body" and vér "blood"; i.e., originating from the same body and blood.
(There used to be a separate word for "elder sister", néne, but it has become obsolete [except to mean "aunt" in some dialects] and has been replaced by the generic word for "sister".)
In addition, there are separate prefixes for several ancestors and descendants:
The words for "boy" and "girl" are applied with possessive suffixes. Nevertheless, the terms are differentiated with different declension or lexemes:
Fia is only used in this, irregular possessive form; it has no nominative on its own (see inalienable possession). However, the word fiú can also take the regular suffix, in which case the resulting word (fiúja) will refer to a lover or partner (boyfriend), rather than a male offspring.
The word fiú (boy) is also often noted as an extreme example of the ability of the language to add suffixes to a word, by forming fiaiéi, adding vowel-form suffixes only, where the result is quite a frequently used word:
|fiáé||his/her son's (singular object)|
|fiáéi||his/her son's (plural object)|
|fiaié||his/her sons' (singular object)|
|fiaiéi||his/her sons' (plural object)|
Extremely long words
- Partition to root and suffixes with explanations:
|meg-||verb prefix; in this case, it means "completed"|
|szent||holy (the word root)|
|-ség||like English "-ness", as in "holiness"|
|-t(e)len||variant of "-tlen", noun suffix expressing the lack of something; like English "-less", as in "useless"|
|-ít||constitutes a transitive verb from an adjective|
|-het||expresses possibility; somewhat similar to the English modal verbs "may" or "can"|
|-(e)tlen||another variant of "-tlen"|
|-es||constitutes an adjective from a noun; like English "-y" as in "witty"|
|-ked||attached to an adjective (e.g. "strong"), produces the verb "to pretend to be (strong)"|
|-és||constitutes a noun from a verb; there are various ways this is done in English, e.g. "-ance" in "acceptance"|
|-eitek||plural possessive suffix, second-person plural (e.g. "apple" → "your apples", where "your" refers to multiple people)|
|-ért||approximately translates to "because of", or in this case simply "for"|
- Translation: "for your [plural] repeated pretending to be indesecrable"
The above word is often considered to be the longest word in Hungarian, although there are longer words like:
- "like those of you that are the very least possible to get desecrated"
Words of such length are not used in practice and are difficult to understand even for natives. They were invented to show, in a somewhat facetious way, the ability of the language to form long words (see agglutinative language). They are not compound words but are formed by adding a series of one- and two-syllable suffixes (and a few prefixes) to a simple root ("szent", saint or holy). There is virtually no limit for the length of words, but when too many suffixes are added, the meaning of the word becomes less clear, and the word becomes hard to understand and will work like a riddle even for native speakers.
Hungarian words in English
The English word best known as being of Hungarian origin is probably paprika, from Serbo-Croatian papar "pepper" and the Hungarian diminutive -ka. The most common, however, is coach, from kocsi, originally kocsi szekér "car from/in the style of Kocs". Others are:
- shako, from csákó, from csákósüveg "peaked cap"
- sabre, from szablya
- heyduck, from hajdúk, plural of hajdú "brigand"
- tolpatch, from talpas "foot-soldier", apparently derived from talp "sole".
The Hungarian language was originally written in right-to-left Old Hungarian runes, superficially similar in appearance to the better-known futhark runes but unrelated. After Stephen I of Hungary established the Kingdom of Hungary in the year 1000, the old system was gradually discarded in favour of the Latin alphabet and left-to-right order. Although now not used at all in everyday life, the old script is still known and practised by some enthusiasts.
Modern Hungarian is written using an expanded Latin alphabet and has a phonemic orthography, i.e. pronunciation can generally be predicted from the written language. In addition to the standard letters of the Latin alphabet, Hungarian uses several modified Latin characters to represent the additional vowel sounds of the language. These include letters with acute accents (á, é, í, ó, ú) to represent long vowels, and umlauts (ö and ü) and their long counterparts ő and ű to represent front vowels. Sometimes (usually as a result of a technical glitch on a computer) ⟨ô⟩ or ⟨õ⟩ is used for ⟨ő⟩, and ⟨û⟩ for ⟨ű⟩. This is often due to the limitations of the Latin-1 / ISO-8859-1 code page. These letters are not part of the Hungarian language and are considered misprints. Hungarian can be properly represented with the Latin-2 / ISO-8859-2 code page, but this code page is not always available. (Hungarian is the only language using both ⟨ő⟩ and ⟨ű⟩.) Unicode includes them, and so they can be used on the Internet.
Additionally, the letter pairs ⟨ny⟩, ⟨ty⟩, and ⟨gy⟩ represent the palatal consonants /ɲ/, /c/, and /ɟ/ (roughly analogous to the "d+y" sounds in British "duke" or American "would you")—produced using a similar mechanism as the letter "d" when pronounced with the tongue pointing to the palate.
Hungarian uses ⟨s⟩ for /ʃ/ and ⟨sz⟩ for /s/, which is the reverse of Polish usage. The letter ⟨zs⟩ is /ʒ/ and ⟨cs⟩ is /t͡ʃ/. These digraphs are considered single letters in the alphabet. The letter ⟨ly⟩ is also a "single letter digraph", but is pronounced like /j/ (English ⟨y⟩) and appears mostly in old words. The letters ⟨dz⟩ and ⟨dzs⟩ /d͡ʒ/ are exotic remnants and are hard to find even in longer texts. Some examples still in common use are madzag ("string"), edzeni ("to train (athletically)") and dzsungel ("jungle").
Sometimes additional information is required for partitioning words with digraphs: házszám ("street number") = ház ("house") + szám ("number"), not an unintelligible házs + zám.
Hungarian distinguishes between long and short vowels, with long vowels written with acutes. It also distinguishes between long and short consonants, with long consonants being doubled. For example, lenni ("to be"), hozzászólás ("comment"). The digraphs, when doubled, become trigraphs: ⟨sz⟩ + ⟨sz⟩ = ⟨ssz⟩, e.g. művésszel ("with an artist"). But when the digraph occurs at the end of a line, all of the letters are written out. For example, ("with a bus"):
- ... busz-
When the first lexeme of a compound ends in a digraph and the second lexeme starts with the same digraph, both digraphs are written out: jegy + gyűrű = jegygyűrű ("engagement/wedding ring", jegy means "sign", "mark". The term jegyben lenni/járni means "to be engaged"; gyűrű means "ring").
Usually a trigraph is a double digraph, but there are a few exceptions: tizennyolc ("eighteen") is a concatenation of tizen + nyolc. There are doubling minimal pairs: tol ("push") vs. toll ("feather" or "pen").
While to English speakers they may seem unusual at first, once the new orthography and pronunciation are learned, written Hungarian is almost completely phonemic (except for etymological spellings and "ly, j" representing /j/).
The word order is basically from general to specific. This is a typical analytical approach and is used generally in Hungarian.
The Hungarian language uses the so-called eastern name order, in which the surname (general, deriving from the family) comes first and the given name comes last. If a second given name is used, this follows the first given name.
Hungarian names in foreign languages
For clarity, in foreign languages Hungarian names are usually represented in the western name order. Sometimes, however, especially in the neighbouring countries of Hungary – where there is a significant Hungarian population – the Hungarian name order is retained, as it causes less confusion there.
For an example of foreign use, the birth name of the Hungarian-born physicist called the "father of the hydrogen bomb" was Teller Ede, but he immigrated to the United States in the 1930s and thus became known as Edward Teller. Prior to the mid-20th century, given names were usually translated along with the name order; this is no longer as common. For example, the pianist uses András Schiff when abroad, not Andrew Schiff (in Hungarian Schiff András). If a second given name is present, it becomes a middle name and is usually written out in full, rather than truncated to an initial.
Foreign names in Hungarian
In modern usage, foreign names retain their order when used in Hungarian. Therefore:
- Amikor Kiss János Los Angelesben volt, látta John Travoltát. (means: When János Kiss was in Los Angeles he saw John Travolta.)
- The Hungarian name Kiss János is in the Hungarian name order (János is equivalent to John), but the foreign name John Travolta remains in the western name order.
Before the 20th century, not only was it common to reverse the order of foreign personalities, they were also "Hungarianised": Goethe János Farkas (originally Johann Wolfgang Goethe). This usage sounds odd today, when only a few well-known personalities are referred to using their Hungarianised names, including Verne Gyula (Jules Verne), Marx Károly (Karl Marx), Kolumbusz Kristóf (Christopher Columbus; note that the last of these is also translated in English from the original Italian or possibly Ligurian).
Some native speakers disapprove of this usage; the names of certain historical religious personalities (including popes), however, are always Hungarianised by practically all speakers, such as Luther Márton (Martin Luther), Husz János (Jan Hus), Kálvin János (John Calvin); just like the names of monarchs, for example the king of Spain, Juan Carlos I is referred to as I. János Károly or the queen of the UK, Elizabeth II is referred to as II. Erzsébet.
Date and time
The Hungarian convention for date and time is to go from the generic to the specific: 1. year, 2. month, 3. day, 4. hour, 5. minute, (6. second)
The year and day are always written in Arabic numerals, followed by a full stop. The month can be written by its full name or can be abbreviated, or even denoted by Roman or Arabic numerals. Except for the first case (month written by its full name), the month is followed by a full stop. Usually, when the month is written in letters, there is no leading zero before the day. On the other hand, when the month is written in Arabic numerals, a leading zero is common, but not obligatory. Except at the beginning of a sentence, the name of the month always begins with a lower-case letter.
Hours, minutes, and seconds are separated by a colon (H:m:s). Fractions of a second are separated by a full stop from the rest of the time. Hungary generally uses the 24-hour clock format, but in verbal (and written) communication 12-hour clock format can also be used. See below for usage examples.
Date and time may be separated by a comma or simply written one after the other.
- 2020. február 9. 16:23:42 or 2020. február 9., 16:23:42
- 2020. febr. 9.
- 2020. 02. 09. or 2020. 2. 9. (rarely)
- 2020. II. 9.
Date separated by hyphen is also spreading, especially on datestamps. Here – just like the version separated by full stops – leading zeros are in use.
When only hours and minutes are written in a sentence (so not only "displaying" time), these parts can be separated by a full stop (e.g. "Találkozzunk 10.35-kor." – "Let's meet at 10.35."), or it is also regular to write hours in normal size, and minutes put in superscript (and not necessarily) underlined (e.g. "A találkozó 1035-kor kezdődik." or "A találkozó 1035-kor kezdődik." – "The meeting begins at 10.35.").
Also, in verbal and written communication it is common to use "délelőtt" (literally "before noon") and "délután" (lit. "after noon") abbreviated as "de." and "du." respectively. Délelőtt and délután is said or written before the time, e.g. "Délután 4 óra van." – "It's 4 p.m.". However e.g. "délelőtt 5 óra" (should mean "5 a.m.") or "délután 10 óra" (should mean "10 p.m.") are never used, because at these times the sun is not up, instead "hajnal" ("dawn"), "reggel" ("morning"), "este" ("evening") and "éjjel" ("night") is used, however there are no exact rules for the use of these, as everybody uses them according to their habits (e.g. somebody may have woken up at 5 a.m. so he/she says "Reggel 6-kor ettem." – "I had food at *morning 6.", and somebody woke up at 11 a.m. so he/she says "Hajnali 6-kor még aludtam." – "I was still sleeping at *dawn 6."). Roughly, these expressions mean these times:
|Délelőtt (de.)||9 a.m. – 12 p.m.|
|Dél*||=12 p.m. (="noon")|
|Délután (du.)||12–6 p.m.|
|Éjjel||11 p.m. – 4 a.m.|
|Éjfél*||=12 a.m. (="midnight")|
- * "Dél" and "éjfél" mean these exact times, so using time after them is incorrect. So there is no "Éjfél 0-kor még buliztunk" ("We were still partying at *midnight 0.") or "Dél 12-kor süt a nap." ("The sun shines at *noon 12."). Instead "Éjfélkor még buliztunk." and "Délben süt a nap." is correct. (More confusingly, one can say "Déli 12-kor süt a nap.", meaning "The sun shines at 12 of noon.", i.e. "The sun shines at 12, which is the 12 of daytime.") "Délen süt a nap" on the other hand means "The sun shines in the south", as Dél means both noon and south.
Although address formatting is increasingly being influenced by standard European conventions, the traditional Hungarian style is:
Budapest, Deák Ferenc tér 1. 1052
So the order is: 1) settlement (most general), 2) street/square/etc. (more specific), 3) house number (most specific) 4)(HU-)postcode. The house number may be followed by the storey and door numbers. The HU- part before the postcode is only for incoming postal traffic from foreign countries. Addresses on envelopes and postal parcels should be formatted and placed on the right side as follows:
Name of the recipient
Street address (up to door number if necessary)
Note: The stress is always placed on the first syllable of each word. The remaining syllables all receive an equal, lesser stress. All syllables are pronounced clearly and evenly, even at the end of a sentence, unlike in English.
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Hungarian:
- Minden emberi lény szabadon születik és egyenlő méltósága és joga van. Az emberek, ésszel és lelkiismerettel bírván, egymással szemben testvéri szellemben kell hogy viseltessenek.
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in English:
- All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
|two thousand (and) nineteen (2019)||kétezer-tizenkilenc
- Hungarian (person, language): magyar [mɒɟɒr]
- Good-bye!: Viszontlátásra! [visontlaːtaːʃrɒ] (formal) (see above), Viszlát! [vislaːt] (semi-informal), Szia! (informal: same stylistic remark as for "Hello!" )
- Excuse me: Elnézést! [ɛlneːzeːʃt]
- Kérem (szépen) [keːrɛm seːpɛn] (This literally means "I'm asking (it/you) nicely", as in German Bitte schön. See next for a more common form of the polite request.)
- Legyen szíves! [lɛɟɛn sivɛʃ] (literally: "Be (so) kind!")
- I would like ____, please: Szeretnék ____ [sɛrɛtneːk] (this example illustrates the use of the conditional tense, as a common form of a polite request; it literally means "I would like".)
- Sorry!: Bocsánat! [botʃaːnɒt]
- Thank you: Köszönöm [køsønøm]
- that/this: az [ɒz], ez [ɛz]
- How much?: Mennyi? [mɛɲːi]
- How much does it cost?: Mennyibe kerül? [mɛɲːibɛ kɛryl]
- Yes: Igen [iɡɛn]
- No: Nem [nɛm]
- I do not understand: Nem értem [nɛm eːrtɛm]
- I do not know: Nem tudom [nɛm tudom]
- Where's the toilet?:
- Hol (van) a vécé? [hol vɒn ɒ veːtseː] (vécé/veːtseː is the Hungarian pronunciation of the English abbreviation of "Water Closet")
- Hol (van) a mosdó? [hol vɒn ɒ moʒdoː] – more polite (and word-for-word) version
- generic toast: Egészségünkre! [ɛɡeːʃːeːɡyŋkrɛ] (literally: "To our health!")
- juice: gyümölcslé [ɟymøltʃleː]
- water: víz [viːz]
- wine: bor [bor]
- beer: sör [ʃør]
- tea: tea [tɛɒ]
- milk: tej [tɛj]
- Do you speak English?: Beszél(sz) angolul? [bɛseːl / bɛseːls ɒŋɡolul] Note that the fact of asking is only shown by the proper intonation: continually rising until the penultimate syllable, then falling for the last one.
- I love you: Szeretlek [sɛrɛtlɛk]
- Help!: Segítség! [ʃɛɡiːtʃeːɡ]
- It is needed: kell
- I need to go: Mennem kell
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- Hungarian dialects
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Medication Compliance: It’s a pretty big deal
Prescription medications have been linked to keeping individuals in their home longer through the prevention of complications from chronic illnesses, such as a stroke; however, many still do not take them as directed by their physician. In fact, a recent study showed that in heart attack patients there was a 25% increased risk of death if the individual was not taking their statin medication, which is used to reduce bad cholesterol1. This non-compliance has become a problem that has affected the western world, especially as new technology is developed to treat the acute process of disease. For example, a patient who is suffering from a stroke due to a blood clot can receive a clot busting drug called tPA. This will dissolve the clot and restore blood flow to the brain, but the medication does not treat the underlying reason for the clot entering the brain. At this time, physicians may need to resort to long-term medication therapy.
Chronic diseases such as a stroke, heart failure or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have been shown to require an increased use of prescribed medication. In fact, 9 out of 10 of these patients are prescribed at least one medication2. However it is estimated that only 50% of all individuals take the medications as prescribed3. Medication education for the stroke patients is of fundamental importance as the goal in acute care is to have them discharged to an appropriate care area within 5 days. Furthermore, stroke survivors can often have difficulty with memory, which can cause further issues with medication compliance.
Prescription medications may not always be covered by Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP), provincial drug benefit coverage varies across provinces. Prescriptions may need to be paid for out-of-pocket if the patient does not have adequate insurance for drug coverage or the medication is not covered by OHIP. In fact, 1 in 10 Canadians state that they cannot take their medications as prescribed due to the costs associated with prescriptions4. This is a rising issue in rural areas, such as Northwestern Ontario, as many individuals have difficulties with rising costs of living. Individuals were placed at a higher risk for not taking their medications if 5% of their household income went to prescription medications5. Therefore, it is important that the patient, physician and health care team discuss the cost of medications and the patient’s comfort with paying for their prescriptions.
Another issue with prescribed medications is the patient’s belief regarding the medication itself. In patients who have suffered a transient ischemic attack (TIA), 1 out of 4 patients who are not taking their medications as prescribed state that they feel concerned about becoming dependent on the medication or they worry about long-term consequences6. Other studies have shown that patients do not feel that they require the drug7. Therefore, patient education on medications becomes a vital component to helping patients after discharge. Benefits of education have been shown especially with stroke survivors as 1 out of 4 had stopped taking their oral anticoagulant, such as warfarin, due to non-medical reasons8.
Studies have shown that almost 1 out of every 4 patients who have had a stroke, stopped taking their oral anticoagulant.
Major Predictors of Poor medication Adherence can be linked to:
|Patient related limitations||Barriers to Care or Medicine|
|Psychological problems, particularly depression||Poor relationship between patient and provider|
|Cognitive impairment||Missed appointments|
|Asymptomatic disease||Lack of health insurance|
|Inadequate follow-up or discharge planning||Cost of copayment or coinsurance|
|Side effects of medicine||Complexity of treatment|
|Patient lacks belief in benefit of treatment||Access restrictions|
|Patient lacks insight into the illness||Poor relationship between patient and provider|
|Oslerberg, L., & Blaschke, T. (2005) Adherence to medicine. New England Journal of Medicine.|
The question remains, what can health care providers do to help patients understand the requirements of following the medications as prescribed? MedsCheck is a program that allows individuals to set up a meeting with their pharmacist in the community or possibly at home, if they are taking three or more prescription medications for ongoing chronic conditions, are diagnosed with diabetes, or are a resident of a long-term care home and can be done once a year9.
Patient education by a hospital pharmacists prior to discharge regarding new medications prescribed post-stroke or TIA, increases the likelihood that the patient will remain adherent to the medication regimen. This can be seen in the vital work by Gilmer, Sweeney & Nakajima (2016) that showed the importance of the pharmacist role in hospital initiative to becoming a stroke centre10.
|Enabling strategies – Equip the patient to be compliant|
|· Counseling on social issues
· Patient education
|Consequence Strategies – reinforcing compliant behaviour|
|· Record when pills were taken|
|Stimulant strategies – Prompt pill taking|
|· Taking medications with daily rituals
· Drug packaging (e.g., blister packs)
|· Addressing issues such as one-sided weakness when patient is required to use vials that have screw tops or locking mechanisms|
|Coleman, D. J. (2005) Medication compliance in the elderly. Journal of Community Nursing. 19(8). 4-6|
Medication compliance and adherence is a hallmark to providing patient care while the patient is in an acute care setting as well as the community. It is important that the patient and healthcare provider have a discussion regarding prescribed medications and the need for continuing therapy. This can lead to the prevention of complications from a disease, such as stroke, and improved quality of life.
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Summary: Examining the impact of eight types of early life stress on the onset of youth-onset depression, researchers found some had little impact on the development of the psychological disorder. Emotional abuse was more strongly associated with the development of major depressive disorder than other early stressors, such as poverty.
A study in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP), reports that individuals exposed to early life stress (ELS) were more likely to develop a major depressive disorder (MDD) in childhood or adolescence than individuals who had not been exposed to ELS.
Examining the association between eight different types of ELS and youth-onset depression, the authors found that while some types of ELS (e.g., poverty) were not associated with MDD, other types of stress, including emotional abuse, were associated more strongly with MDD than a broader assessment of ELS.
“Researchers have documented that early life stress increases the risk for developing depression in adulthood. We wanted to know the degree to which it was associated with depression earlier in life–specifically during childhood or adolescence,” said lead author Joelle LeMoult, PhD, a researcher at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. “Given that earlier onsets of depression often mean a more recurrent course across the lifespan. We found that exposure to early life stress more than doubled the likelihood someone will develop youth-onset depression.
“These findings indicate that there is a narrow window between adversity and depression during which we have the opportunity to intervene.”
The findings are based on a meta-analysis of data from 62 journal articles and over 44,000 unique participants. Studies that assessed early life stress and the presence or absence of MDD before the age of 18 years were also included.
Compared to youth who were not exposed to ELS, youth who were exposed to ELS were 2.5 times more likely to develop MDD (OR=2.50; 95% CI [2.08, 3.00]).
The authors also conducted eight additional meta-analyses to examine the association between different types of ELS and a diagnosis of MDD during childhood or adolescence. Sexual abuse, physical abuse, death of a family member, domestic violence, and emotional abuse were associated with significantly higher risk for youth-onset MDD; in contrast, poverty, illness/injury, and exposure to a natural disaster were not.
Several variables moderated the association between ELS and youth-onset MDD. For example, studies that used interview-based assessments or included larger sample sizes reported stronger associations between ELS and depression.
Taken together, findings provide evidence that the adverse effects of ELS on risk for MDD manifests early in development, before adulthood, and varies by type of ELS. Further, findings support recommendations to use best-practice methods in early life stress research.
About this psychology research article
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Meta-analysis: Exposure to Early Life Stress and Risk for Depression in Childhood and Adolescence
Objective Early life stress (ELS) is associated with increased risk for the development of major depressive disorder (MDD) in adulthood; however, the degree to which ELS is associated with an early onset of MDD (ie, during childhood or adolescence) is not known. In this meta-analysis, we estimated the associations between ELS and the risk for onset of MDD before age 18 years. In addition, we examined the associations between eight specific forms of ELS (ie, sexual abuse, physical abuse, poverty, physical illness/injury, death of a family member, domestic violence, natural disaster, and emotional abuse) and risk for youth-onset MDD.
Method We conducted a systematic search in scientific databases for studies that assessed both ELS and the presence or absence of MDD before age 18 years. We identified 62 journal articles with a total of 44,066 unique participants. We assessed study quality using the Newcastle−Ottawa Scale. When heterogeneous effect sizes were detected, we tested whether demographic and/or methodological factors moderated the association between ELS and MDD.
Results Using a random-effects meta-analysis, we found that individuals who experienced ELS were more likely to develop MDD before the age of 18 years than were individuals without a history of ELS (odds ratio = 2.50; 95% confidence interval 2.08, 3.00). Separate meta-analyses revealed a range of associations with MDD: whereas some types of ELS (eg, poverty) were not associated with MDD, other types (eg, emotional abuse) were associated more strongly with MDD than was ELS considered more broadly.
Conclusion These findings provide important evidence that the adverse effect of ELS on MDD risk manifests early in development, prior to adulthood, and varies by type of ELS. | <urn:uuid:8c07dbb3-f9ef-41e6-a739-2b64834463a3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://neurosciencenews.com/stress-youth-depression-16646/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.961381 | 1,039 | 2.640625 | 3 |
The following information was shared by The Multifaith Initiative to End Mass Incarceration (EMI) Network in the December 2020 Network Update. You can download the original PDF here.
The Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta is a participant in the EMI network. If you have any questions about the EMI network, please email Don Plummer at [email protected].
Faith and Redemption
Holiday Traditions Bring Families together to uphold their deep-rooted beliefs. We praise, we decorate, we sing, we eat, and we give. We share stories of an era gone by and remind ourselves of Corinthians 13:13
“Three things will last forever –faith, hope, and love – and the greatest of these is love.”
We enjoy all the blessings we have been given and we promise ourselves to be good to our fellow human beings.
Unless that person is incarcerated. For decades Americans have been able to ignore men and women who are locked up. We have purposely put prisons in remote areas, kept loved ones silent with fear of retaliation, and imagined a guard as nothing more than a lazy person who cannot get a job at Walmart.
We have allowed ourselves to create a narrative about these human beings that is far from what faith leaders preach every weekend and far from what the Bible states.
Matthew 7:1 “Judge not, that ye be not judged”
Matthew 25:43-44 “Then they will reply, ‘Lord, when did we ever see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and not help you?’ And he will answer, ‘I tell you the truth, when you refused to help the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were refusing to help me.”
Or perhaps the verse I recited every Sunday as a child, Matthew 6:12 “And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us.”
These simple verses should help us all understand how we should reshape our beliefs and do what is expected of us. I encourage each of you, especially during this holiday season, to reflect on your faith and begin the journey of redeeming the 2.2 million Americans that live in our jails and prisons.
Kate Boccia is the Founder and CEO of the National Incarceration Association and has a son who lived in prison for 6 years.
From all of our families to all of yours, the EMI National Strategy team sends seasons greetings. We pray that this becomes a season of light for you and your communities, as we see a future where WE ARE THE LIGHT for one another. Together, we will listen and heal, organize and apply pressure, break down the system and build something holy in its stead. We are grateful to you for all that you do, across the country, for the sake of the people who live inside of prisons and for the sake of the soul of this country in need of redemption.
Critical Acclaim for new Odyssey-Impact Film
Core Partner for the National Multi-Faith Initiative to End Mass Incarceration
The new documentary, Trapped: Cash Bail in America explores the growing movement to end the inherent economic and racial inequalities of cash bail while highlighting victims impacted by an unjust system, the tireless campaigners fighting for criminal justice reform, and a bail industry lobbying to maintain the status quo. The documentary highlights the fact that every year, millions of American men and women are incarcerated before even being convicted of a crime – all because they can’t afford to post bail. Trapped: Cash Bail in America shines a light on the flawed criminal justice system and the activists working to reform it. Trapped: Cash Bail in America also gives a face to those who are forgotten behind bars and spotlights the human impact on the individuals stuck in jail before their trial. The harsh repercussions this has on the accused and their families is outlined through the story of a single mother separated from her children for a non-violent felony. Trapped: Cash Bail in America is produced and written by Chris L. Jenkins and directed and edited by Garrett Hubbard. The documentary won the Social Impact Award at the A Show For A Change Film Festival and is also opening the (In)Justice For All Film Festival on December 10, 2020.
(Source for article: https://www.vimooz.com/2020/10/13/youtube-documentary-trapped-cash-bail-in-america/)
Pipeline to Possibilities: Policing and Public Safety
Tuesday, January 26th | 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Join us for the third in our series of “Pipeline to Possibilities” as we hear from experts and officials about the
alternatives to policing that we could be advancing. More information to follow.
If you are able, and your heart is so moved, please consider supporting our National Multi-Faith Initiative to End Mass Incarceration in your end of year giving. Our volunteers work tirelessly to build this network, and we are on the verge of making an even bigger impact. But we need your help. Visit our website for the link to donate: http://www.endingmassincarceration.com. | <urn:uuid:328fc460-0ef5-4740-8944-8e2975a4d86e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://episcopalatlanta.org/news/the-multifaith-initiative-to-end-mass-incarceration-emi-network-december-2020-network-update/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.941372 | 1,108 | 1.796875 | 2 |
This module aims to enhance students’ ability to define and describe the various types of tourism and understand the overall context and importance of Tourism and Hospitality. Moreover, to cultivate the necessary skills and competencies that would allow students to understand, describe and evaluate the factors affecting Tourism Development. Furthermore, to recognize and illustrate the hospitality and tourism industry’s current trends and challenges.
Also, the students will be able to identify and demonstrate the different hotel types (i.e. boutique hotel, resort, etc.), the hotel classification and ranking scheme (i.e. hotel star rating system), the different types of hotel ownership, and the main divisions of hotel operation. Moreover, the students will be able to determine and understand the various abbreviations used in the hospitality industry.
Finally, the students will be able to define the various stakeholders’ roles and expectations and the importance and impact of each stakeholder. | <urn:uuid:cf158f83-e635-4b5e-9cae-6d4450de185e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bca.edu.gr/en/course/introduction-to-tourism-industry-and-hotel-operation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.903876 | 184 | 3.015625 | 3 |
National Seed Initiative Launched
9th May, 2020: Minister of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries (MALF), Clarence Rambharat earlier today launched the Grow Trinbago Seed Initiative, #plantsomething at the First People Heritage Site off Blanchisseuse Road, Arima.
The initiative objectives will be to encourage households get more involved into home gardening and “Plant Something”. Over 50, 000 seeds are expected to be distributed over the next couple of weeks to the national community via their respective Member of Parliament (MP) and Local Government Councillor.
Speaking at the event, the Agriculture Minister said, that the reason for selecting the proposed site of First People Heritage Village for the launch of this programme, was due to the fact that they were the first farmers in the country, and that their the group have maintained the tradition of farming during their existence. He added, that the First People were also the first Agro-Processors in this part of the world, having taken their primary produce and made value added produce for production. If ever there was model for farming, they are an excellent example, the Minister said.
Also present were, the Minister of Education and Member of Parliament for the area Mr. Anthony Garcia, the Mayor of Arima, her Worship, Mrs. Lisa Morris-Julien and Ricardo Bharath Hernandez, Carib Chief of the Santa Rosa Community.
Minister Garcia said he was very appreciative of the efforts of the Agriculture Ministry on this initiative and gave his assurance that the seeds will be put to great use for the benefit of the country by the various communities. Commenting also were the Mayor of Arima, Mrs. Morris-Julien who praised the initiative and thanked the Minister of Agriculture for selecting Arima as the first point for the national distribution, which is significant, based on the constituency’s history.
The Mayor said, that the Arima Borough Corporation has already initiated a programme with persons who are interested in home gardening. The Corporation has assisted these individuals with the supply of dirt, manure and also with planting containers for those who don’t have enough yard space. She added that with inclusion of the seeds, distribution will start soon, but persons are invited to register first with their Local Government Councillor.
Mrs Morris-Julian said that technical assistance will be provided for interested persons and that the Corporation will also be implementing a check and balance system to ensure the programme’s long-term viability.
Speaking on behalf of the First People, their Chief, Ricardo Bharath Hernandez said, that today marks thirty (30) years to the day, that the Santa Rosa First People community was recognized by the Government as the representative voice of all first people in the country. He said he is very grateful for the launch of this programme, since agriculture has always been part of their culture, and it will continue to be an integral part of the Heritage Village and other areas occupied by the First People for generations to come.
At today’s event over 1000 packets of seeds were distributed from the MALFs National Seed Bank in Chagaramas, they included, pigeon pea, melongene, bodi, corn, pumpkin and ochro. Along with the seeds, there were instructional, nutritional and cooking information for the ‘soon to be’ home gardeners.
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Dyslexic Vs Dyslectic: What’s The Difference?
Dyslexia is a neurological disorder that affects reading skills. Dyslectic is a term used to describe someone who has symptoms of dyslexia, but does not have a full-blown diagnosis. In this article, we will explore the difference between dyslexic and dyslectic, as well as give some tips on how to identify if you might be experiencing these symptoms.
What Is Dyslexic ?
Dyslexia is a specific reading disorder that can make it difficult for someone to read accurately. Dyslectic is a term often used to describe people who have dyslexia, but do not have the typical severity of the disorder.
What Is Dyslectic?
Dyslectic is a term used to describe someone who has difficulty with spelling and pronouncing words the same way everyone else does. Dyslectic people may also have difficulties with grammar and vocabulary. Dyslectics are often referred to as dyslexic, dyslexic-like, or dyslecticism. Dyslectic people can be any age, but are more likely to be found in younger populations.
What is Dyslexia?
Dyslexia is a disorder that affects how a person reads and writes. There are three main types of dyslexia: reading dyslexia, writing dyslexia, and phonological dyslexia.
Reading dyslexia is the most common type and it involves difficulty decoding letters from print. People with this type of dyslexia usually have trouble learning to read accurately and fluently. They may also have problems with word recognition, recognizing words by their sound, and understanding what words look like.
Writing dyslexia is the second most common type and it involves difficulty with accurate spelling and poor grammar. People with this type of dyslexia often have trouble seeing the relationship between letters and words, so they often make mistakes when they write.
They may also have difficulty remembering how to spell words correctly. Phonological dyslexia is the third most common type of dyslexia and it involves difficulty with pronouncing words correctly. People with this type of dyslexia often have trouble breaking down sounds into individual letter symbols. This can lead to problems with spelling and vocabulary.
Dyslexia is a Reading Disorder
There is a lot of misconception and misunderstanding about dyslexia. So what is dyslexia, really? Dyslexia is a reading disorder that affects how someone reads and processes written language.
Dyslexia can be characterized by problems with phonemic awareness (understanding how individual letters sound), phonology (the rules governing the sounds that words make), and word decoding (being able to understand the meaning of individual words). In other words, dyslexics have trouble with some of the basic skills necessary for reading.
Despite its name, dyslexia is not simply a matter of poor reading skills; it is also associated with difficulties in other areas of cognitive function, such as memory and attention. Dyslexics often have difficulty with both verbal and nonverbal tests of intelligence.
The best way to learn more about dyslexia is to read about it on this website. We have written many articles about dyslexia that will give you a better understanding of this disorder.
Dyslexics Have Trouble with many Areas of Learning
Many people who are dyslexic have difficulty in many areas of learning. Dyslexia is not a single disorder, but a group of related difficulties with reading and spelling. People with dyslexia can have a difficult time learning to read quickly and accurately, recognizing common words, sequencing letters correctly, and decoding what they see on a page.
Dyslexics often have a harder time than other people when it comes to retaining information learned. They may find it harder to remember the sequence of events or the names of people and things. For this reason, dyslexics may have a harder time in school because they are often not able to keep up with the demands of regular classroom work.
Dyslexics also tend to have problems with non-verbal skills such as mathematics and spatial awareness. These difficulties can make it especially hard for dyslexics to succeed in occupations that require good problem-solving skills or good coordination.
They Experience Difficulty with Reading, Writing, and Mathematics
Dyslexia is a neurological disorder that affects how someone reads, writes, and understands spoken words. Dyslexics experience difficulty with these basic skills because their brain’s reading mechanism is not working correctly. Dyslexics are not simply slow readers; they have trouble with all types of reading materials.
Dyslectics also experience difficulty with mathematics because they have trouble with the concepts of numbers, operations, and fractions. While dyslexia is not a catch-all term for all difficulties in learning to read and write, it can be a useful umbrella term because it includes many different types of learning disabilities.
Dyslexics tend to Struggle in Academics
Dyslexics are people who have difficulty reading and pronouncing words correctly. Dyslectic is a term used to describe someone who has difficulty with both reading and spelling. Dyslexics often struggle in academics because they need to learn how to read carefully, understand what they are reading, and spell words correctly.
There is No Cure for Dyslexia
Dyslexia is a developmental reading disorder that affects around 5-7% of the population. Dyslectic is an umbrella term that describes people who have dyslexia but also has other specific reading disorders. Dyslexia is a specific reading disorder that affects the ability to read accurately and fluently. Dyslectic individuals can have difficulty with single words, syllables, letter sequencing, or word decoding.
The main difference between dyslexia and dyslectic is that dyslexia is a specific disorder that affects reading accuracy and fluency. Dyslectic individuals can also have other specific reading disorders, such as phonological or orthographic dyslexia. However, the majority of dyslectics do not have any other specific disorder.
There is no cure for dyslexia, but there are treatments that can help improve reading skills. Treatment options include special education programs, accommodations in the classroom, and instructional materials designed specifically for dyslectics.
Adults Who Have Dyslexia Usually Recover Fully
Dyslexia is a neurological disorder that affects reading skills. Dyslexia is generally characterized by difficulty with phonemic awareness, phonology, and decoding skills. Dyslexics often have trouble with the sequencing of sounds in words and difficulties with word-level decoding.
Dyslexia can affect any reading skill, but it is most commonly seen in readers who struggle with decoding words that are visually similar.
The vast majority of dyslexics (90%) recover fully or significantly improve their reading skills with appropriate instruction and intervention. However, 20% to 30% of dyslexics continue to experience difficulty reading even after they have received appropriate instruction and intervention.
There are a few key differences between dyslexia and dyslecticism. Dyslexia is a specific disorder that affects reading skills, while dyslectic refers to a general difficulty with learning. Dyslecticism is not associated with any specific disorder and can be seen in people who do not have dyslexia.
Most adults who have dyslexia usually recover fully or significantly improve their reading skills with appropriate instruction and intervention. However, 20% to 30% of dyslexics continue to experience difficulty reading even after they have received appropriate instruction and intervention.
What are the Signs and Symptoms of Dyslexia?
Dyslexia is a learning disorder that affects reading skills. Dyslexia is a neurological disorder that affects the way the brain processes language.
There are many signs and symptoms of dyslexia, but some of the most common include difficulty reading fluently, confusion over word order, and a reduced ability to read quickly. Dyslexia can be difficult to diagnose, but there are several tests that can help identify it.
How Does dyslexia Affect a Person’s Life?
Dyslexia is a common reading disorder that affects the ability to read accurately and fluently. People with dyslexia often have difficulty with phonemic awareness and phonology, which are two key components of reading.
People with dyslexia often have difficulty with letter-sound relationships and may also have trouble decoding words because they may not be able to identify the letters that makeup words. Dyslexia can significantly affect a person’s life in a number of ways.
For example, people with dyslexia may have difficulty finding jobs because they can’t read texts or documents easily. They may also struggle to graduate from high school or college because they can’t read quickly enough to keep up with the pace of the class.
There is no one-size-fits-all answer to how dyslexia affects a person’s life, but it is often a challenge for people with the disorder to live normal, productive lives.
What are the Types of Dyslexia?
Dyslexia is a neurological disorder that affects reading skills. Dyslexia can be classified into three types: classic dyslexia, developmental dyslexia, and specific dyslexia.
Classic dyslexia is the most common type of dyslexia and is characterized by difficulty with phonemic decoding (the ability to identify and decode the sounds of words), word decoding (the ability to identify and decode the meaning of words), and reading fluency (the ability to read quickly and without errors).
Developmental dyslexia is a type of dyslexia that develops during early childhood and occurs when there is a discrepancy between a person’s abilities in reading and writing.
Specific dyslexia is a rare type of dyslexia that is characterized by difficulty with one or more specific areas of reading, such as letters, numbers, or words.
How Is dyslexia Treated?
The neurodevelopmental disorder dyslexia is characterized by difficulty reading and writing. Dyslexia occurs in individuals of all races and socioeconomic backgrounds but is more common among individuals who are dyslectic. Dyslexia is thought to be caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors.
Treatment typically focuses on remedying the underlying issues that contribute to dyslexia, such as poor vision or hearing, inadequate instruction, or weak phonemic awareness.
A dyslexic is someone who has difficulty with reading and spelling, while a dyslectic is someone who also has difficulty with other cognitive abilities, like problem-solving.
Both terms are generally used to describe people who have specific difficulties with literacy skills but not others.
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Background: We have shown recently that read-through of a normal stop codon by a suppressor tRNA in specific genes possessing a Rho-independent terminator leads to SsrA-mediated tagging of extended proteins in Escherichia coli cells. Miscoding antibiotics such as kanamycin and streptomycin reduce translational fidelity by binding to the 30S ribosomal subunit. The aim of the present study was to address how miscoding antibiotics affect the read-through of stop codons and SsrA-mediated protein tagging. Results: Miscoding antibiotics caused translational read-through of stop codons when added to the culture medium at sublethal concentrations. Under the same conditions, the drugs enhanced SsrA-mediated tagging of bulk cellular proteins, as observed in cells carrying an ochre suppressor tRNA. Translational read-through products generated from the crp gene in the presence of the antibiotics was efficiently tagged by the SsrA system, presumably because the ribosome reached the 3′ end of the mRNA defined by the terminator hairpin. The SsrA-defective cells were more sensitive to the miscoding antibiotics compared to the wild-type cells. Conclusion: We conclude that the SsrA system contributes to the survival of cells by dealing with translational errors in the presence of low concentrations of miscoding antibiotics.
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15 Nov Rational Exuberance
The obverse of “Rational Exuberance” is “Irrational Exuberance,” a phrase popularized in December 1996 by then-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan when he warned investors that unjustified internet optimism had crept into stock market valuations. As a consequence, he warned, soaring valuation assumptions based on rosy projections of future profitability inevitably would prove excessive. Chairman Greenspan understood that disproportionate enthusiasm for the dot coms would end in disproportionate disappointment … with the absence of profits ultimately prevailing over the pursuit of pie-in-the-sky possibilities. Greenspan’s 1996 warning was ignored …, rightly as it turned out. It came too early in the cycle. The market had more climbing to do before the inevitable triumph of reality over fantasy, which did not occur for three more years. Stock market values continued to levitate until March 2000 …, when the dot com bubble burst and they fell back to earth … hard.
The late 1990s marked the internet bubble era when U.S. stock valuations grew exponentially – reflected in the technology-powered Nasdaq index that rose from under 1,000 in the early 1990s to more than 5,000 by March 2000 – grounded on fad-based investing that was fueled by an abundance of venture capital made available by a robust American economy. That robust dot com bubble world of early 2000 is markedly different from today’s … where America’s and the world’s economies are hobbled by Covid-19, lockdowns, trade wars and political, social and economic disruption … a far-from-optimal economic environment. Today’s markets also are not being driven by fads or excitingly new, but untested, technologies. The technology leaders of 2020 are mature monopolists with enormous market power. Their stock valuations are not driven by Irrational Exuberance but by market supremacy and ever-increasing profitability. The warning that Chairman Greenspan gave in 1996 is inapt today when the market’s highfliers are firmly grounded multi-nationals with rock-solid, widely diversified businesses. Although the S&P 500’s trailing 12-month price-to-earnings ratio is at a heightened elevation, it has reached its level for arguably valid economic reasons and still falls short of PE ratios in 2000 … and far short of those in 1996. The U.S. stock market therefore is may be said to be enjoying a Rational Exuberance. It has been posting appropriately enthusiastic gains with
reasonable projections of higher prices to come. It is doing so for reasons that, contrary to those in the 1990s, are appear to be reality-based.
The fact is that stock markets this past week reached new all-time highs following the announcement of favorable Covid-19 vaccine news, an apparently economically-bullish resolution of America’s election complications, upbeat third quarter corporate revenue and profits, a third quarter GDP increase of more than 30%, and a comforting presentation from the Federal Reserve.
Pfizer announced on Monday that in a trial of 44,000 volunteers its vaccine was “90% effective in preventing cases of Covid-19.” Pfizer and its partner, BioNTech SE, indicated their strong belief that the vaccine would soon be approved by America’s FDA and that the vaccination process could begin as soon as December. That news animated the stock market’s animal spirits! The pall of Covid-19 that had been hanging over the American economy and, more importantly, over Americans, suddenly seemed to have lifted … and on Monday the Dow Jones Industrial Average exploded over 1,500 points (5.4%) and the S&P 500 Index rose by 3.8%! Pfizer’s announcement followed hard on the heels of the welcome weekend news that America’s suspenseful election outcome had finally been resolved. The media agreed that Joe Biden had become President-Elect Biden and that government would be divided between the Democrats – holding the Presidency and a reduced majority in the House of Representatives – and the Senate – which is likely to remain in the hands of Mitch McConnell the Republican Party. A divided government is viewed by most analysts as ideal for stocks because it enables businesses to plan for a stable legal and regulatory environment. Change, if there is to be any, is likely to be incremental. A divided U.S. government reduces domestic and global risk and thereby makes the US Dollar less attractive as a safe-haven currency, decreasing its value and, consequently, increasing the attraction of U.S.-listed stocks (which has potential adverse consequences as well – see https://blog.thelonelyrealist.com/the-fracturing-us-dollar/). The election outcome and the Pfizer news followed shortly after the Federal Reserve confirmed that it would continue into the very far distant future its $120 billion/month (over $1.4 trillion/yr.) of Quantitative Easing-bond buying … and would be amenable to increasing that amount should circumstances warrant – that is, the Federal Reserve confirmed that it will continue to serve as the fiscal backstop for economic weakness and Federal government laxity. That, too, is bullish for stocks since the Fed’s QE actions inject liquidity into the U.S. economy, liquidity that boosts asset prices …, and especially the prices of stocks and bonds (see https://blog.thelonelyrealist.com/japans-economic-wormhole/ – as TLR noted, “We today are living in a world in which there is spiraling asset inflation in stock and bond prices”). Although both Democrats and Republicans seem committed to enacting further Federal stimulus measures, disagreeing only over the amount, if Federal stimulus ultimately proves a bridge too far or inadequate, the Federal Reserve has vowed to over-fill the breach, which would provide just the type of economic stimulus that would power stock prices: “Is monetary policy out of power or out of ammunition?” Fed Chairman Powell asked. “The answer to that is no, I don’t think that. I think that we’re strongly committed to using these powerful tools for as long as needed.”
The promise of “whatever it takes” Federal Reserve QE means that the stock market has an impenetrable safety net. Rational Exuberance indeed!
A degree of economic, social and political stability also is likely to be created by the Biden Administration’s efforts to (1) create a national Covid-19 policy and (2) reduce trade tensions with both America’s European allies and China, which have caused economic disruptions without discernable benefit to America. Domestic economic stability could be further enhanced should the Biden Administration find common cause with Senate Republicans in pursuing legislation to repair America’s crumbling infrastructure. Both Political Parties agree that roads, bridges, airports, ports, mass transit, the electrical grid, etc., are in dire need of updating. The Biden platform called for a $2 trillion infrastructure spending plan designed in part to overhaul roads, bridges, trains, the auto industry and the broadband system. Those projects could create desperately-needed jobs and, together with expected Republican Party modifications, be just the sort of economic stimulus that could excite bipartisan agreement … and Rational Exuberance.
The Pfizer vaccine news, the election outcome, third quarter economic reports, the Fed’s money-printing, and bipartisan economic and medical stimulus all point in the direction of an improving American economy and higher stock market prices. However, their success is far from guaranteed.
Insofar as a Covid-19 vaccine is concerned, the Pfizer product is costly, its components are unstable and require ultra-cold-chain transportation, it can only be produced in quantity over numbers of months, and it has a short shelf-life. Pfizer has not released demographic data so that the age composition of its recipients is unknown, which means that it is not clear whether the vaccine will be efficacious for those in the most threatened age groups. Pfizer also hasn’t released data on the severity of the Covid-19 infections suffered by those in its test groups, which could either make it more-than-90% effective … or less. Moreover, it is unclear whether those people who enrolled in the study changed their behavior and thereby made the results look rosier than reality. Perhaps most significantly, however, the Pfizer study necessarily was a short-term one. Never before has a vaccine been tested and rolled out in a matter of months rather than over many years. One consequence is that there is no data on how long-lasting the immunity will be. Celebrating medical science and the end of the pandemic therefore may be premature … and portend continued suffering well into 2021 …, with negative health and economic consequences. Viruses also have been known to mutate, sometimes in dangerously adverse ways. There is no way of knowing whether the Pfizer vaccine will continue to be effective should such mutations occur.
The Federal Reserve undoubtedly will not let up on its QE money-printing because any reduction in the demand for fixed income securities would cause interest rates to rise, which would be disastrous for America’s fiscal health. The hope expectation is that such money-printing will continue to positively power the American economy as it has done for the past decade … and, yet, there are questions of how long such limitless money creation can continue without creating fiscal fission. For example, on January 20, 2017, President Trump’s inauguration day, U.S. debt stood at 19.6 trillion. It now exceeds $27 trillion. For the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, the U.S. deficit was 3.1 trillion, which was the largest ever and more than 16% of GDP … when a 3% deficit ordinarily has been considered the limits of prudence. The August trade deficit exceeded $67 billion, the highest since 2006 … and for good reason. With U.S. production shut down and consumers no longer traveling or paying for entertainment, the government’s printing of Dollars was used to purchase foreign cars, TVs, electronics, etc. The US Dollar Index peaked at 120 in 2015 and is now below 93. A weaker Dollar may be good for stock prices, but it can become extremely unhealthy for America (as TLR first discussed in https://blog.thelonelyrealist.com/be-careful-what-you-wish-for-the-trade-war-with-china/). It goes without saying that with global bonds worth over $17 trillion having negative interest rates – which means that they are guaranteed to make a loss if held to maturity –, investors have few options other than to continue piling into equities, creating a most Rational Exuberance for stock prices. Yet these are not good statistics. They tell a tale of economic weakness.
On the political front, although markets generally prefer a divided government because the presence of disparate goals means that there is little risk of radical changes that could cause significant damage to the economy, that predisposition works poorly when action is necessary. Today’s economy is in desperate need of help. The fact that the House and the Trump Administration were unable to reach agreement on an economic stimulus package prior to the election is not a hopeful sign. If the Federal government continues its failure to act, there is no historical precedent for the Fed alone to carry the economy on its back. The fact that President Trump will continue to wield real political power means that there is likely to be an obstructive opposition to all Biden Administration initiatives …, including stimulus spending. Additional disruptions will include Republicans politicking to take control of the House at the 2022 mid-terms and Democrats jockeying for Party leadership roles, Senate seats, and to succeed President Biden in four years … all of which will be occurring while State legislatures are busy gerrymandering voting districts. The political climate isn’t likely to be friendly to the sorts of fiscal and economic law-making that America is likely to need to recover from the pandemic and its resulting recession, yet alone repair the divisions that have created America’s partisan divide. Oh, and let’s not overlook the possibilities for divisiveness that could be created by precedent-breaking Supreme Court decisions.
2020 has been a bad year from almost every perspective …, including economically, health-wise, weather-wise and politically. One can only hope that the Rational Exuberance evident in today’s events will carry forward into 2021.
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It was the 196th Saturday of 2028. If you were born on this date your birthday numbers 7, 14 and 2028 reveal that your life path number is 6. Your zodiac sign is Cancer with a ruling planet Moon, your birthstone is the Ruby, and your birth flower is the Larkspur. You are 5 old, and were born in 2020s, in the middle of Generation Alpha. The generation you are born into makes an impact on your life. Swipe up to find out what it all means.
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You were born on a Friday
July 14, 2028 was the 196th Saturday of that year. It was also the 196th day and 7th month of 2028 in the Georgian calendar. The next time you can reuse 2028 calendar will be in 2056. Both calendars will be exactly the same.
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You’ve slept 33% of your life!
Assuming you’ve been sleeping 8 hours daily since birth. Here is how much time you’ve spent sleeping so far:
You’ve slept 1.98 years of your life.
You’ve slept 24 month of your life.
You’ve slept 103 week of your life.
You’ve slept 721 days of your life.
Did you know you have taken approximately 43,606,080 breaths since your birth? Moreover, using 80 beats per minute as average, your heart has beaten over 249,177,600 times. You have also blinked over 52,950,240 times in your lifetime.
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What happened on July 14th
Below are some of the most important historical events that happened on 14 July 2028.
1789 – Bastille Day - the French Revolution begins with the fall of the Bastille Prison.
1798 – US Sedition Act prohibits "false, scandalous & malicious" writing against government.
1850 – 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration by Florida physician John Gorrie.
1933 – All non-Nazi parties are banned in Germany.
1941 – 6,000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp.
Sports in 2028
NBA – to win the NBA Finals.
NHL – to win the Stanley Cup.
MLB – to win the World Series.
Your life path number is 6
So what does your birthday really say about you and what does your life path number mean? On the next page, we’ll explain what your birth sign, ruling planet, age generation, birthstone, and birth flower mean — and more!
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Where to Find an “Easter Egg Plant,” the Mini Eggplant That’s Perfect for Spring
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The mini "Easter eggplants" are too cute!
When spring rolls around—especially in anticipation of Easter—tulips, daffodils and irises make colorful appearances in and around many homes. You can be sure to find these classic flowers in Easter bouquets near the grocery store checkout. But if you’re looking to add something different (and humorous) to your spring plant lineup, look for an Easter egg plant.
The name is slightly misleading—this plant doesn’t grow eggs for you to pluck come Easter morning. However, it might as well!
Learn more about early-blooming flowers for spring.
What Is the Easter Egg Plant?
This Easter egg plant, or Solanum ovigerum, is actually a miniature type of eggplant. It’s not the deep purple color we’re familiar with, but there are still a handful of similarities to the fruit we use in eggplant Parmesan.
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For starters, not all types of eggplant are a royal purple hue. Some are bright white, striped or pastel purple. The fruits that grow from the “Easter egg” plant start off white, but ripen to shades of yellow, orange, cream and green, says Park Seed. And, you guessed it, their shape closely resembles that of an actual egg, versus the oblong purple fruit we’re used to picking up in the produce section.
Can You Eat the Easter Eggplants?
You can, but you probably don’t want to. The ornamental fruit doesn’t taste much like the eggplant you’re used to cooking with. Stick to traditional globe eggplants when it comes to preparing eggplant recipes.
Where to Find an Easter Egg Plant
Look on Etsy! You can find a small plant that’s ready for the garden or start with a packet of seeds.
Your best bet is to grow this plant outdoors to meet sunlight and temperature requirements, but you can start seedlings indoors. The growing plant will need about six hours of sunlight each day, meaning that you need to situate it comfortably by a window or under a grow light.
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Monica Miller Marsh, Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education and Director of the Child Development Center at Kent State University
Adonia Porto, Lead Preschool Teacher at the Child Development Center
Robyn Brookshire, Director of the Early Learning Center for Research and Practice at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Kathryn Humber, Demonstration Teacher at the Early Learning Center for Research and Practice at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Kathryn Kidd, Associate Director at the Early Learning Center for Research and Practice at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Katie Pollock, Nature Preschool Teacher at the University of Delaware Lab School
Dorit Radnai-Griffin, Director of the University of Delaware Lab School
Jennifer Gallo-Fox, Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Delaware
As the novel coronavirus of 2020 started moving across the globe, it left teacher education programs in challenging situations. One of the critical concerns for prospective teachers has been completing field experience requirements to become certified teachers (Nuland et al., 2020). Pre-service teacher education programs worldwide were forced to create innovative, remote teaching strategies that would maintain the integrity of their programs (Keefe, 2020). The following vignettes illustrate examples of how three laboratory schools continued to support early childhood teacher preparation programs when prospective teachers could not complete their field experiences in schools.
At the Kent State University Child Development Center, one lead preschool teacher opened her classroom to undergraduate students by agreeing to be videotaped each day and leading weekly discussions about her pedagogy. The preschool videos supported assignments across multiple teacher education courses. At the Early Learning Center at the University of Tennessee – Knoxville, personnel shifts allowed one teacher to primarily lead student debriefings, allowing other lead teachers to manage increased classroom health and safety responsibilities. Previous documentation resources were pooled to create a video library that was used in multiple courses to present behavior guidance strategies and interactions. At the University of Delaware Lab School, undergraduate early field placements were remote. Student observation and participation in activities with children inside classrooms and outside in the woods was supported by enhanced wifi and iPads, and pre-session and post-session meetings with in-person teachers and student teachers.
Kent State University Child Development Center
Our school is an International Baccalaureate early years program that serves Kent State faculty, staff, students, and the greater Kent community. Children attend our school from 18 months of age through kindergarten. The Covid-19 pandemic directly affected the number of children and undergraduate students we could serve this year. To accommodate as many undergraduate students as possible, we video recorded the same classroom community throughout the school day four days a week and hosted weekly reflection meetings to debrief observations on Fridays. During this time, we developed knowledge and understandings of the Child Development Center’s mission, philosophy, and examples of best practices. The videos were stored on our protected online platform, Blackboard, to be accessible for unlimited viewing opportunities for students. Early Childhood instructors were able to modify assignments to meet the needs of our virtual field placement.
Below are undergraduate reflections from collaborating regional campuses:
“Even though we have not met these students in person, watching these video clips each week and reflecting on what we have seen, definitely makes me feel as if I have…Another thing that I noticed this week was that the teacher gathered a few of the students to participate in a farewell video to us. This was absolutely awesome to watch, it was interesting to see what some of them wanted to say to us!”
“I also noticed that during their morning meeting, the students were very cooperative with listening and waiting their turn to speak. The children in my opinion have shown improvement from the first weeks of watching the videos. It was fun to see and notice little improvements with the students as time had passed.”
The University of Tennessee Early Learning Center for Research and Practice
The UT Early Learning Center, like lab schools across the country, shut down mid-Spring semester and had to pivot immediately to provide a very different experience for our practicum students. As Summer semester approached and we recognized that students would this time begin a practicum course with no field placement site, we again had to pivot…reimagining and redesigning our plan in order to support students, so that they could gain the insight and experience to come to know and understand young children. Our first reimagining was structural, what could we do to at least have the hope of some classroom, hands-on experiences for these students? Garnering the support of our department head and our college advising center, we reached out to each student to determine the possibility of splitting the course into a Summer semester section and a Fall semester section. With revised schedules generated by the advising center, we were fortunate each student was able to accommodate this alternate arrangement. This was the critical framework we needed to begin our new journey.
Starting the summer semester with remote engagement gave us the chance to utilize the collective strengths and resources of our mentoring teachers. However, we needed to return in person to our early childhood classrooms in July, and, unfortunately, we did not feel we could introduce the practicum students into the classrooms when our focus was on establishing the safest environments for our young and vulnerable population. With our staffing resources soon to be refocused to returning safely under pandemic protocols, we now had to consider how support and engagement with the practicum students could continue.
With the pandemic came many challenges and necessary shifts in our daily operations at the UT Early Learning Center. An early challenge that we encountered was how to support the practicum students we had over the summer semester. Since we were not operating in person at that time and knew that their practicum experience would be split to span two semesters, we chose to spend the summer focusing on content that is relevant to the early years of their birth to third grade licensure. This gave us the time to emphasize the importance of taking care of yourself as a teacher, explore trauma informed teaching practices, and go in depth with understanding the developmental needs of children birth to six years old.
Kathryn Humber, a demonstration teacher, took on the role of leading virtual mentoring with practicum students, to replace some of the work that on-site demonstration teachers would typically do as mentors: “While many of our regular staff prepared to return in July, we were not ready for our practicum students to join us in person until the middle of the fall semester. Teaching in the middle of a pandemic was both physically and emotionally taxing, and adding in many of our mentoring tasks was more than we, as a staff, could handle. This presented us with a need to redistribute the roles and responsibilities of the mentoring teachers. In some ways, we were fortunate that I needed to stay home longer as this allowed me to become the mentoring teacher who could take on many of the tasks that were too much for the other demonstration teachers to manage. I was able to take on leading our content discussions on teacher self-care and trauma informed practices, guidance, and preschool and kindergarten development. During the fall semester, I was able to support the practicum students by leading biweekly content discussions on trauma informed practices, guidance, and teacher decision making. I was also able to support the other seven mentoring teachers by meeting with each student to review video observations together and by providing feedback on the students’ written observations, reflections, and documentation. By managing the feedback and suggestions for these assignments, it allowed the other demonstration teachers to focus on the classroom needs and in the moment feedback for our student teachers.” | <urn:uuid:5c4a67e6-b0f8-4554-b88b-1e3b33505e83> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.labschool.udel.edu/2021/07/09/pandemic-pivoting-in-teacher-preparation-lab-school-settings/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.967405 | 1,557 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Stock photography and the need for stock photos isn’t slowing down any.
Larger, more common stock image websites have grown and notice that the more people use their images, the more common it is for people to see the same image used in different ways. Pair this with the needs of customers wanting more variety in the stock photos they can choose from, and we start to see stock imagery in general heading more toward high quality, artistic, and unique photographs that utilize different angles, lighting, scenery, subject matter, and style.
With more variety and options in terms of the style and design aesthetic of photographs, stock photography in general is moving more and more toward hosting images that are taken by anyone and everyone in hopes to have different types of images that can be bought and used in different ways. Larger stock image sites are turning toward curating more artistic and high quality images from other photographers to offer these different kinds of high-quality, custom-looking, and natural images to their customers.
It’s also becoming more affordable to shoot quality photos, which allows more people to photograph and upload stock photography on different stock photography sites. Camera technology has come a long way and equipment is becoming more affordable that even ameture photographers can shoot high-quality images and share those images through stock image sites.
Stock photography hasn’t eliminated the need for photoshoots altogether, however. Photoshoots still take place for different needs and for different reasons. However, instead of choosing either stock photography or custom photography, both are often blended to achieve the final result.
Photoshoots today are likely being directed using current stock photography as examples or models, and it’s likely that unused images from present-day photoshoots make their way to stock images sites as well. Not to mention, in most final pieces of work, there is often a blend of custom photography and stock photography thought pieces such as magazines and print catalogues.
While the larger stock photography websites online still have a wide selection of stock photography, in recent years more smaller stock photography websites have emerged. These smaller stock sites aim to provide stock photography based around a particular style, look, subject matter, or theme.
These smaller sites have a limited catalogue of images, but they showcase images that feel more like custom, natural, and overall more artistic photos that anyone can purchase and use. Their focus is more toward filling specific needs of stock photography with high quality photos than providing images that fit every need.
With these smaller stock photography websites becoming popular, the larger players in the stock photography industry are also finding innovative ways to disrupt the stock photography industry.
For instance, Adobe offers Adobe Stock which tightly integrates with Creative Cloud to allow access to images inside of apps such as Photoshop and Illustrato. These larger players are looking at how images are used, who’s buying the images, and how the process of finding and using stock photography can be better, and in turn helping their customers use their stock imagery better. | <urn:uuid:9c208b7c-3220-465d-b525-6226d0970736> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://cheekyphotography.co.za/201508the-future-of-stock-photography.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.965523 | 610 | 1.851563 | 2 |
First time mothers may sometimes be astonished by the rate at which boys grow. They may ask themselves questions such as, when do they stop growing? A parent to a boy and a girl twins may see significant differences between the two children by the age of 17. However, boys will stop growing at around age 17.
But why are there differences between the growth rate of boys and girls? Which are these height and age factors that make up the difference between the boys and girls?
We’ve put together some information that will help you (source: https://www.heightgrowthclub.com)
The onset of puberty is one of the main factors that contribute to the differences between boys and girls. They experience puberty differently. So for boys, the start of puberty may not determine how tall they’ll eventually be. However, puberty is a significant factor that determines when height growth starts and ends.
During puberty, boys may grow an average of 9.5 centimeters. Essentially, they can be divided into two categories; the early maturers and late maturers.
The boys that start puberty as early as 11 are the early matures. The late maturers start puberty at around the age of 13. And even though both categories may gain the same height, the late maturers may grow at a faster rate to make up for the lost time.
The average height for boys is around 5 feet 10 inches tall. That is by the age of 20.
Research shows that the period at which the boys are the girls experience puberty determines how tall they become. For example, girls that experience puberty at an early age and develop breasts will generally be shorter. In contrast, boys that experience puberty at an early age will be taller.
There are also other factors that will affect the height of both boys and girls. For example, the diet that a mother maintains during pregnancy may play an important role. Other factors like the activity level of the birth mother will also determine how tall they become. A particular study shows that if a mother smoked during pregnancy, the girl may be shorter by as much as two centimeters.
Medical conditions may also play a role and they may slow down the growth process. That is for both boys and girls.
Furthermore, boys tend to grow faster than girls from childhood. That is why a parent to both a boy and a girl may get worried when the girl seems not to catch up with the boy. But it is natural.
The height of the mother may also determine the height of the girls. And as such, the taller the mother, the taller the girl will be.
In that regard, you will notice that the doctors use different chats for both boys and girls.
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How to Use a Sharper Image Steamer
Sharper Image steamers make it possible to remove wrinkles from your clothing or other fabrics, but if not used properly, the steamer can cause damage to them instead. By first filling the water reservoir, then lightly steaming the fabric, you can remove wrinkles in only a matter of minutes. If you haven't ever used your Sharper Image steamer before, or have lost the manual, you are in luck. The company has made operation of their steamers simple enough that anyone can use the device without hassle.
Fill the water reservoir and make sure that the "Rubber Accessory Housing" and "Fabric Brush/Lint Remover" are connected as well. This keeps excess water from spilling out of the steam nozzle.
Plug the steamer's AC cable into an available three-pronged power outlet that has been properly grounded. Do not use an outlet that only has two prongs without grounding. The "Heat Indicator" light will become illuminated.
Let the steamer heat up for two minutes. It will begin emitting steam once it is heated.
Point the steamer, and any attachments, towards the fabric that you wish to use it on. Keep the steamer pointed away from your face, plants and any people or pets that may be in close proximity.
Move the steamer back and forth over the fabric slowly. For optimal results, keep the flow of steam concentrated over the section of material that you are steaming.
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Since the beginning of times humans have known that cats love to hate water: they hate touching it and bathing in it, but at the same time they love the sound that water makes and, most of all, watching it gurgle from creeks and faucets.
Kittens are not particularly fond of water; they don’t drink a lot of it, either. This bad habit can become a health hazard, however. The first undesired effect is dehydration, which can lead to renal insufficiency in the long run, a very serious condition that can’t always be reverted.
There’s no scientifically proven reason to explain this dislike for water, but the most solid theory states that felines drink little because their kidneys normally retain more water than they actually need because their ancestors lived in desert areas, where water is scarce.
Domestic cats eat mostly dry food, with low water contents. For this reason, they absolutely need to hydrate with a certain frequency: ideally, they need between 50 and 100 ml of water per kg of body weight per day, to help their kidneys eliminate waste products and therefore preserve their urinary tract from infections and disease.
There are a few simple ideas you can use to make your cat drink more. First of all, remember to keep her water bowl away from her litter box and her food bowl: we all know that cats are finicky when it comes to cleanliness. Their water must always be fresh and clear. We can’t always be home to change the water, and after a few hours sitting there it can look unpleasant to your cat. Ferplast has a simple solution for this: a water fountain, such as its Vega model.
The particular feature of this water fountain is its “spring” effect: on the one hand it ensures continuous water recirculation, while on the other it draws your cat’s curiosity, as we know that felines love bubbles and water in motion. Its ergonomic handles make it easier to move around the house, and the non-slip rubber feet keep it stable so that even when hit by your cat’s paws, it won’t topple or slid.
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Below are six of the most common tendencies in relationships that many couples think are healthy and normal, but are actually toxic and destroying everything you hold dear. Get the tissues ready ...
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The spiraling success of eCommerce over the years has made it a lucrative space full of new business opportunities, waiting to be discovered. The evolution of the overall digital infrastructure has brought improved technologies, better connectivity, and wider adoption, among other key drivers fostering accelerated growth of the industry. The success of behemoths like Amazon, and Alibaba, further continues to inspire investors, entrepreneurs, and businesses to gain a share of the successful eCommerce market.
One such success story has been Lazada, a B2B2C marketplace operating in six countries in the South East Asia market ― Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
Launched in 2012, by Maximilian Bittner with the backing of Rocket Internet, based on the identified opportunity to fill the market gap of such a platform in the region.
By 2022, in just 10 years of operations, the online marketplace is owned by the Alibaba group, operates in six countries with 130 million active annual user-base, and generated $21 bn in GMV, making it an inspirational success story in itself for startups to analyze and adopt.
In this blog, let’s analyze the underlying factors that have propelled the marketplace to success, and how launching a hybrid marketplace like Lazada in 2022 is much easier than before.
In the west, eCommerce gained traction in the 90’s and the industry witnessed accelerated development in the early 2000’s and beyond. By contrast, in South East Asia the development of the sector has started only in the last decade. In fact, to this day, Amazon does not have a presence in the region excluding Singapore and India.
The major determiners for this have been a lack of internet penetration and infrastructure, less consumer awareness and acceptance of online commerce, and economies that don’t rely on digital payments as primary payment modes.
But that scenario started to evolve in the decade after ― opening up possibilities for eCommerce startups to flourish.
The opportunity for favoring circumstances in the region was identified miles away ― in Germany. Maximillian Bittner, an eCommerce pioneer of our times, was working with McKinsey & Company when he chanced upon the idea of launching an eCommerce marketplace.
At that time, Amazon was doing well but it wasn’t the force it is today. Nevertheless, its business model was a successful template that could be adopted in emerging markets, where Amazon and other popular marketplaces of the time didn’t have a significant presence.
Max Bittnell identified the growing opportunity in the SEA region as the ideal location for an eCommerce startup. His business idea gained the trust and backing of Rocket Internet, a Berlin-based company that helps build startups.
Headquartered in Singapore, Lazada soon took the shape of an eCommerce inventory-based store and commenced operations in 2012. Subsequently, by 2013, Lazada transitioned into an online retail marketplace by onboarding sellers to sell on the platform.
The marketplace was able to gain traction amongst the consumers, albeit with initial challenges. Nevertheless, the company successfully navigated through the impediments to post an annual GMV amounting to $1.36 billion across six countries in Southeast Asia, which essentially meant that it was the largest eCommerce player in the region.
Thereafter, in 2016, Lazada was acquired by the Alibaba group in a series of investments. The move extended Alibaba’s ecosystem and eCommerce expertise to Lazada, further propelling its competitiveness and popularity in the region
Let’s analyze how the marketplace operates, earns revenue, and the series of initiatives introduced by it, to achieve desired objectives.
The Evolving Business Model of Lazada
Lazada has not stuck to one functioning model, rather it has evolved to adopt varying business strategies with time to navigate through eCommerce complexities in the region it operates.
Being a pioneer of eCommerce marketplaces in the SEA region, it had an early mover advantage. No competition from the likes of Amazon, or Alibaba gave time to the company to establish itself on similar operative mechanisms as these companies. And in time, add unique initiatives to carve a distinct identity for itself.
As mentioned above, the marketplace started by selling its own inventory to establish its brand and gain a loyal customer base, thus evading the chicken-egg conundrum in marketplaces. To elaborate a little more on the paradox ― online marketplaces have to find a way to onboard sellers or customers first, since both are interdependent on the flow of transactions on the marketplace.
Within a year sellers were onboarded to sell to the established customer base ― effectively transitioning from a B2C to a B2B2C marketplace business model like Amazon, Alibaba, and other similar marketplaces. Its start as an inventory-based eCommerce store had meant that it could establish an eCommerce ecosystem, which it further extended to the sellers.
The functioning of a B2B2C business model is discussed in detail below.
The B2B2C business model in detail
A B2B2C model works when B2B companies partner B2C companies to sell directly to the customers. Let’s delve further into the mechanisms of the model and the benefits it extends to all stakeholders.
From The Sellers’ Perspective:
Legacy brick-and-mortar businesses, which have operated via B2B channels exclusively ― have based their sales, pricing, and other business strategies around the same. This has worked well in the past, but the evolving digital age has put newer imperatives in place.
Consumers are now more aware of product prices, making it harder for traditional sales channels to justify costs involved in the process ― impacting the prices and eventually, sales. eCommerce has been the biggest driver of this change.
Thus, such businesses understand that they can no more be oblivious to this shift and need to devise a direct-to-customer sales channel.
By partnering with a B2C eCommerce undertaking, they get access directly to the customer base of the business, along with the ecosystem of the undertaking that supports online commerce operations.
This is different from the offline distributor sales channel since there is control over the pricing, wherein the business can offer more value to the customer. Moreover, the business is retailing directly to the customer and skipping the distributor involved in the sales process. Moreover, eCommerce is generating additional sales and revenue for the business, which is in addition to the offline sales channels.
From The Online Marketplace Owner’s Perspective:
With multiple sellers onboard, online marketplaces tend to scale. Their business model primarily works by establishing a customer base and giving them value by connecting them directly to such businesses. This happens by digitizing the middleman, handling supply chains, and managing transactions via their eCommerce marketplace.
A B2B2C online marketplace leverages its services and extends its customer base to the sellers. Thus bridging the B2C partnership component for B2B sellers to make the B2B2C model function.
With the understanding of the B2B2C marketplace business model, let’s see what Lazada has to offer to make the B2B2C machinery work for all the stakeholders involved.
Lazada’s services for the B2B2C model
Let’s have a look at the services that Lazada offers to its sellers
A Digital Platform: Sellers get to reach their customers on Lazada’s online website and mobile apps. Personalized individual storefronts facilitate the setting up of online storefronts fostering their brand image.
Global operations: Lazada ships globally through its LazGlobal venture. It serves around 200+countries and regions around the world. Sellers on the eCommerce marketplace get access to a global customer base. And sellers globally get access to consumers in the SEA region.
Lazada eLogistics: Lazada works with third-party logistics providers to offer delivery services to the sellers.
Payment solutions: Customers on the eMarketplace get to pay via multiple payment methods like cash on delivery, card payments, and eWallets including Lazada’s own wallet. This payment ecosystem allows sellers to sell on the platform.
Marketing Strategies: Lazada has been implementing key marketing strategies (discussed later in the article) to assist in higher sales on the platform. The sellers benefit from these strategies.
Advertisement Platform: The eMarketplace allows sellers to display advertisements on the platform to enhance the visibility of their brands and offers. An affiliate program further allows sellers to gain traction on their products.
Lazada’s initiatives: A number of initiatives (discussed later in the article) like Lazmall, LazGlobal, availability of downloadable digital products, and more have been introduced ― that have enhanced the versatility of the eCommerce multivendor store.
Lazada’s Business Model, Strategies and Revenue Streams
Lazada has introduced multiple business strategies to navigate complexities in the region, gain traction amongst sellers and buyers, and add opportunities to generate revenue.
Through its multi-pronged approach for revenue generation, it has propelled the business undertaking to encompass multiple niches across the eCommerce space. Discussed below are Lazada’s business strategies, launched intermittently over a period of time.
Revenue generated on Lazada Marketplace.
What Lazada Offer Through This Activity
Encourages MSMEs and sellers that are not brands, to sell on the marketplace. (Levies 0% sale commission from local sellers)
To broaden the scope of the marketplace, allow sellers with lesser working capital to be involved, allowing C2C operations.Key to counter competition from Shopee
Commissions on each sale.The percentage is subjective to parameters.
Exclusive shopping microcosm within Lazada for authorized branded products ― Both local and international. For Certified Retailers, Authorized Stores , and Flagship Stores
Online sales channel for Wholesalers and distributors for reputed brands. Crucially, Lazada extends its eCommerce infrastructure to B2B businesses primarily via the Lazmall channel
Commissions on each sale.The percentage is subjective to parameters. The commissions are higher.
Lazada Global Shipping – LazGlobe
The marketplace’s cross-border operations is called the LGS. Overseas sellers ship to Hong-Kong based Lazada fullfillment center.to be further shipped by Lazada
Consumers can buy global products, while overseas sellers can access one of the largest growing eCommerce markets spread across six countries
Commissions on each sale.The percentage is subjective to parameters.
Top-up and eStore
For the top-up of mobile and gaming credits; sale of downloadable digital products like eBooks; and deal vouchers for restaurants, travel, transport, entertainment, and more
With the Top Up & eStore, Lazada has ventured into the digital commodities niche
Online Grocery Delivery – LazMart
By acquiring Redmart, Lazada entered the online grocery delivery niche. It continues to operate exclusively in the country for online grocery operations
Part of its business expansion plans. Lazada has leveraged its infrastructure to catalyze growth in this niche ― in a country (Singapore) with the best internet penetration, higher per capita income, and metropolitan lifestyles
A fixed fee for each successful order. Additionally, a percentage-based commission is charged as well.
In partnership with FinAxar, Lazada extends financial assistance with a credit line option to the sellers. The services are tailored to meet the requirements of eCommerce sellers
With these services, Lazada can catalyze its expansion by attracting more sellers to the marketplace
The Fintech services charge 0.7-1.5 % with a cycle of 30 days. The rate is pro-rated.
A monthly membership that offers benefits to the customers
Such memberships foster customer loyalty to the brand and also encourages higher sales by offering discounts
A fixed cost is billed periodically.
In a nutshell, Lazada Group is an example of how eCommerce operations can be scaled up to achieve revenue streams from multiple sources. The industry offers innumerable opportunities for startups, leveraged by technology solutions, industry tie-ups, and more.
Learn How Marketplaces Allow Businesses to Earn from Multiple Revenue Streams
“You can be prepared for a certain aspect of entrepreneurship, but in the end, what it really comes down to on a day-to-day basis is trial and error. Constantly improving and adjusting what you’re trying to achieve, and having a flexible approach in the way you fulfill your vision,” Max Bittner in an interview on CNBC.com
A sound marketing strategy that balances long-term goals with short-term objectives is key to the success of any business ― eCommerce is no different, and Lazada sets a precedent of effective marketing channels that have propelled the marketplace to a leading force in the SEA region.
Broadly, like Lazada’s business model, its marketing strategies are primarily based on Amazon. But coming down to the specificities, the marketplace has introduced strategies and initiatives and formed alliances & mergers that have helped its growth and rise in popularity over the years.
Key highlights are discussed below.
Strategic use of Google Adwords
With the objective of customer acquisition and to be competitive in key product categories, Lazada implemented the use of programmatic Google Ads flexible bid. Specifically, it outranked its competitors on key keyword searches by a strategy known as target outranking share. It helped the online marketplace to optimize ROI on the budget for its cost-to-click campaign while maximizing ROI.
As a result of the strategy, Lazada’s market share within specific product categories accelerated. Ad impression share increased by 50% in new market endeavors, thereby increasing traffic on the website by around 30%.
Limited period discount offers have been a tested marketing strategy for marketplaces of larger scope. Lazada has implemented these strategies by hosting 24-hour shopping festivals on the website.
Hype is built prior to these festivals by effective social media marketing, marketing on the platform itself, and offline marketing channels.
The events draw in traffic to the website. This allows sellers to generate higher revenue and enhance their brand awareness.
LazLive ― Fostering buyer-seller interaction with live streaming
Lazada has consistently worked towards creating a favorable business playing field that aids in conducting its business operations.
Creating a seller base for its platform is one such activity that Lazada has worked upon. LazLive is another such initiative by the SEA marketplace.
LazLive is an in-app tool that sellers can use to live stream content to interact with their customers. This enables them to interact in real-time opening up multiple marketing possibilities.
Sellers can use the tool to announce marketing schemes, conduct new product launches, or simply work towards increasing their brand awareness with real-time customer interactions.
Industry Tie-ups and alliances
Symbiotic industry tie-ups and alliances can be beneficial to all stakeholders involved. Lazada has implemented this strategy to good effect ― implementing multiple strategic partnerships, and in the process, enhancing the scope of their business.
A list of some significant tie-ups is discussed below:
Strategic Partner: Unilever
Partnership objective for Lazada: Offline Channels, Shipment infrastructure development
Partnership Outcome for both parties
To work closely and foster category development, supply chain and fulfillment, data and marketing, social commerce, and talent development.
Launch of a Singapore-based offline store.
Strategic Partner: Taobao
Partnership objective for Lazada: Taobao is Alibaba’s C2C marketplace with an extensive seller base from China. Competitive pricing and a wide variety of products are key traction points for the marketplace. The marketplace already had a presence in the region. Preexisting impediments of language, higher shipping charges, and other factors made it an opportunity for Lazada.
Through the partnership, Lazada’s scope, and business appeal broadens.
Partnership Outcome for both parties:
TaoBao is also part of the Alibaba group. Via Lazada the website gets access to the SEA market.
Lazada extends services of the renowned shopping site to its customer base in SEA
Strategic Partner: Johnson & Johnson Consumer Health (J&J)
Partnership objective for Lazada: Offline Distribution Channels and better opportunities for sellers on Lazada’s platform with the J&J ecosystem in China. Partnership Outcome for both parties: In a symbiotic partnership, sellers from China gain access to the SEA market and sellers from the SEA region gain access to consumers in China.
These partnerships also elucidate the possibilities in the eCommerce space. The evolution of the sector encompasses not just the popular players like Amazon, Alibaba, or even Lazada. Rather the whole ecosystem is evolving ― enhancing capabilities by way of business alliances, and opening up greater possibilities for businesses to thrive.
Competitors in the Domain for Lazada
Given the ease of launching a multivendor marketplace, (especially when turnkey marketplace solutions are used to build one) ― an online marketplace can be up and running in less than a month.
The result of short go-to-market times is that competition in the space is intense, even for businesses like Lazada, which have an early mover advantage. Some of its key competitors are discussed below.
Since Lazada operates in a vast region, spanning six countries ― Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Competition to Lazada comes from both, marketplaces that have a presence throughout the region & beyond; and online businesses that have a region-specific presence.
Shopee stands out as the biggest competitor with a business model very similar to that of Lazada. It has based its operations around C2C operations and gradually transitioned to include B2C sales as well. Low prices and a wide assortment of products remain its primary USP
It is active in multiple countries ― Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Poland, and Spain.
Tokopedia & Bukalakapak: Both these websites feature consistently in the top 5 when the average visits are taken into consideration. Although active primarily in Indonesia, these sell general merchandise on their platform. Based on similar parameters, these are followed by Bibli.
Amazon: The eCommerce giant has ventured into the region as well. Currently, it operates in Singapore, where internet connectivity and infrastructure development are most supportive of eCommerce operations. It plans to extend operations to Vietnam in the near future.
What Does it Mean for eCommerce in SEA
Lazada forayed a region where the time was opportune for eCommerce to grow, yet in order to build a favorable ecosystem it had to navigate impediments. In doing so, it has paved the way for the growth of eCommerce in the region.
The development of its supply chain has led to overall infrastructure development in the region. Moreover, apart from offering digital payment solutions, the introduction of Cash On Delivery gave a boost to building trust and prepared the groundwork for future eCommerce operations.
Marketing initiatives like 24-hour sales, technology-driven initiatives like Lazlive, vendor-building steps such as Fintech, and other steps have further accelerated eCommerce.
Additionally, competitors such as Shopee have enhanced traction of eCommerce for consumers.
Undeniably, eCommerce has fostered the growth of internet penetration and has also encouraged the sale of mobile devices leading to a cyclic growth of online retail by way of m-commerce.
According to Temasek and Google, the digital economy in the SEA region is expected to grow to US $200 Bn within the decade (published in 2017).
And given the growth rate, the SEA Internet economy is estimated to cross $300 billion by 2025. This figure is at least five times than the growth estimated earlier.
What this means is that Lazada has in effect laid the foundation for eCommerce to flourish in the region.
Opportunities for Startups
The foundation laid by Lazada opens up eCommerce opportunities for startups. Not just players of the scale of Lazada, but the overall development of the ecosystem brings startups of lesser scope into the picture as well.
eCommerce is still a broad term that includes retail, B2B wholesale, rental, online learning, and a lot more online commerce niches. With Lazada-fostered ― enhanced consumer acceptance of commerce through online channels, the region is now open for startups to explore the viability of more industry niches in the region.
A straightforward approach is building a website from the ground up. A process that requires significant time and resources.
Alternatively, a faster, and less resource-intensive method is choosing the best multi-vendor turnkey solution for your business idea, customizing upon it (if needed) from a team with eCommerce expertise, and capturing the eCommerce opportunity while it presents itself.
A platform that catalyzes success for startups would need to have tools that have been used by a marketplace website like Lazada.
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Analyzing Underpinnings that have made Lazada successful
Lazada is essentially an eCommerce marketplace at its core. Marketplace features and functionalities that help buyers to experience eCommerce intuitively, sellers to sell, and the admin to manage the business operations efficiently make up for the underpinnings of the online marketplace.
Moreover, scalability has played an integral role in letting Lazada start with an inventory-based business model to a mega eCommerce platform that is inclusive of multiple undertakings extending across numerous activities.
Lazada has consistently introduced technology-driven initiatives on the platform, which has meant tweaking the platform with customizations. This has allowed the marketplace to stay one step ahead of the competition.
Moreover, alliances formed within the eCommerce ecosystem and outside of it ― have made it possible to expand the business to the scope it is today.
Yo!Kart – Tailormade for ecommerce marketplace success
Yo!Kart is a customizable multivendor marketplace solution that has been purpose-built from the ground up by an Agile team with functionalities from the perspective of all stakeholders in a multivendor platform ― consumers, sellers, and the admin.
The solution has an intuitive UI/UX that makes the shopping experience of consumers memorable. Moreover, conversions are encouraged due to the ease of shopping and features like multicart checkout, elastic search, and more.
Sellers on the platform have individual storefronts that can be personalized to foster their branding objectives. Rich-featured product catalog, capable CMS, robust product management, and more enhance sales.
The admin of the marketplace gets features to manage eCommerce operations, market the website, scale transcend language barriers, and more.
The software comes with multiple business APIs pre-integrated that allows leveraging tie-ups with third-party service providers from within the eCommerce ecosystem. Shipping fulfillment, automated tax management, and accounting are some examples of eCommerce imperatives that can be eased and automated by these services.
Marketplace owners can earn via sale commissions, subscription packages, monetizing advertisements, PPC module, and more.
Significantly, Yo!Kart is backed by an experienced, trusted, and proven team for end-to-end customizations.
The software is offered along with the source code with a one-time payment. There are no recurring or transactional charges. This reduces overheads and allows businesses to stay competitive. Free Technical support for Upto 1-year allows businesses to settle in with their venture.
Yo!kart has powered multiple eCommerce businesses in the South East Asia region as well.
For instance, Indonesia based Halalpedia is an eCommerce marketplace for Halal products. It facilitates the sale of halal products.
Lazada entered a market where eCommerce opportunities were growing, but significantly, it also meant that it had to work towards creating a favorable ecosystem to conduct its business activities.
The Max Bittner founded marketplace braved through the challenges with strategies and technology-driven initiatives that propelled them to pioneer eCommerce in a region that was preparing itself for such a business.
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Due to a lack of regulation and the inexperience of the crypto market, the decade prior to the age of digital commodities saw a major rise in cryptocurrency frauds. On the other hand, because they require authorisation, new markets present a wealth of opportunity but also carry a built-in risk. Crypto trading robots are computer programmes that have grown in popularity among traders and investors in recent years.
One of the top bitcoin trading robots now on the market, The Bitcoin Sucker, will be examined in this study. Along with its track record and reputation, we’ll investigate the robot’s skills, costs, trading methods, and outcomes.
What Is Bitcoin Sucker?
In order to find potential trade opportunities in the bitcoin market, Bitcoin Sucker promises to use artificial intelligence (AI). The robot, which is fully automated, can manage all trading tasks. According to Bitcoin Sucker, robot brokers connected to bitcoin exchanges can fill orders generated by the software.
The robot’s website claims that it was designed to be as user-friendly as possible so that both new and seasoned traders can take advantage of it. Despite the fact that the technology substantially replaces the need for human involvement, it does so by asking users to spend 15 minutes each day analysing signals and making necessary changes to the automatic settings.
Bitcoin Sucker’s team claims to have created a high-end AI trade algorithm over time in order to perform these strategies efficiently in the market. Some of those users, according to the robot, have made hundreds of dollars in a single trading day. As a result, Bitcoin Sucker says that the software is free and has no hidden costs.
How Does Bitcoin Sucker Perform Trade?
The automatic trading algorithm used by Bitcoin Sucker is unique. The business created eight sophisticated pattern recognition algorithms to uncover trading strategies in the bitcoin market. As a result of a sophisticated AI-driven algorithm, the programme is said to be able to monitor and analyze the crypto market, create effective trading suggestions, and then execute those recommendations simultaneously for all of its customers.
Investors who invest in the AI Matrix Professional platform stand to profit in the long term due to the software’s high accuracy. Bitcoin Sucker promises to be able to undertake market research and analyze trade charts because it uses cutting-edge trading technologies.
How Do You Create A Bitcoin Sucker Trading Account?
To get started, simply visit the Bitcoin Sucker website and fill out the sign-up form with your personal information. Your very last name and email address are requested by the robot. After that, you must create a password and provide a phone number before selecting “join now.” Simply choose Start Trading to be led to a regulated broker in your area.
Make contact with a properly licensed broker
After you complete the sign-up process, Bitcoin Sucker will connect you with one of its regulated broker partners. Investors’ deposits can be collected by the robot broker, and their money is secure. Bitcoin Sucker, unlike other trading robots on the market, allows you to trade on a demo account.
Set money aside in a savings account.
Now that you’ve been acquainted with the platform, it’s time to begin trading. We’d like to remind you that at Bitcoin Sucker, the minimum deposit is $250, and we encourage that you start there. The individual to whom you’ve been assigned may require you to give more identifying documentation. You can make a deposit using a credit card, a debit card, or a bank account.
Bitcoin Sucker: Is it a Scam?
This platform’s authenticity is unknown to us. Many additional Bitcoin Sucker Profit reviews, on the other hand, have suggested that the platform is legitimate. The trading bot’s artificial intelligence-based platform and broker network indicate that it is genuine.
Of course, this does not eliminate the risk of the market. Traders should be aware that the crypto market is highly volatile, and coin prices can vary dramatically. Take the necessary precautions to protect yourself when trading.
Can I put my faith in Bitcoin Sucker with my personal data?
According to publications about Bitcoin Sucker, an SSL certificate is an online security mechanism that encrypts personal information on the site.
What is the cost of opening a new bank account?
It is completely free to create a second Bitcoin Sucker profile. It’s unlimited in every way.
Is it possible to reclaim your Bitcoins if you make a profit in the trading app?
Unfortunately, this isn’t possible. Your winnings are converted to domestic currency and paid into the bank account associated with your Bitcoin Sucker profile when you use the trading app.
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Systems Design and Architecture for Robotics
The software that drives robots is typically distributed and asynchronous. Numerous frameworks exist, and this course will provide a practical introduction to these frameworks, discuss the underlying design and architectural patterns, and examine how to build complex software systems in a distributed environment.
At the end of the course, students will be able to:
Be able to break a complex software implementation problem by recognizing common design/architectural patterns
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LessIsMore - Energy efficient human centric lighting by innovative components and daylight integration
Starting point / motivation
In the last years the interest in Human Centric Lighting (HCL) has grown substantially, it is estimated that the European HCL-market will have increased ten-fold by 2020.
These illuminations focus on the positive visual and biological effects of light on human beings and hence influence the human health positively in the long term.
Ordinarily, HCL illuminations include complex artificial lighting control mechanisms including sensors, which vary the light colour and the intensity dynamically dependent on the time of day. However, up to this day HCL illuminations are solely focused on the generation of biological effects, energy efficiency is generally neglected.
Contents and goals
Due to the expected increase of HCL illuminations a great part of energy saving achieved through the use of LEDs is equalized and unnecessary new energy losses will arise. And yet the high energy consumption of such lighting installations can primarily be attributed to the ignorant and inefficient usage of the individual constituents of the lighting constituents (concepts of illumination, optics, LED-drivers, sensors, control algorithms) and the lack of effective daylight integration.
The goal of the research project LessIsMore is therefore to develop a biodynamic lighting installation with utilization of daylight where the optimized use of the lighting constituents is tested and the flaws of the present HCL illuminations will be eradicated. The developed lighting installation is expected to have a positive biological effect on humans and at the same time should be as energy-efficient as possible.
To develop an optimized lighting concept for energy efficient HCL illuminations, LessIsMore aims to efficiently combine, optimize and evaluate the constituents of illumination in a test installation.
Different lighting concepts will be investigated in regard to their biological efficacy and their energy consumption, subsequently a functional model of a HCL luminaire will be developed containing controllable direct and diffuse optical components, lighting constituents (illuminants, optical components, LED-drivers, sensors) will be selected and installed deliberately and connected through an intelligent, integral control algorithms including the use of a daylighting system.
In such an optimized lighting installation about 62% of the total energy consumption of artificial lighting could be conserved.
After the end of the project a functioning lighting installation including the functional model of a new HCL luminaire, optimized lighting constituents and a daylight system should exist with an intelligent control mechanism in a test room.
The best strategy for illumination and lighting control, respectively, to couple energy efficiency and HCL was researched and developed as well as evaluated and optimized in a yearlong trial installation according to their effects onto humans and energy efficiency.
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When a property is to be included in the income tax return, its cadastral reference, According to the website of the Ministry of Finance: «Thanks for the cadastre reference, it is actually known what real estate It is considered in legal transactions (purchase, inheritance, donation, etc.), not to confuse some goods with others». Thus, the cadastral reference Provides legal certaintyAnd there are many ways to find it.
how to view cadastral reference
- 1. Through the Electronic Headquarters of the Cadastre: Through the locator enabled on its page Web, To do this, you can enter the address of the property, or search for it using the interactive map.
- 2. Final Receipt of Payment of Tax on Real Estate (IBI).
- 3. Through a certificate issued by the Municipal Council.
- 4. In public works in which cadastral reference is made.
Importance of cadastral price
tax rate There is a valuation of the property done by the cadastre, which depends on the Ministry of Finance. Its location is taken into account to calculate it, ancient time of the cost of the building or land. In addition, the cadastral value, which is highly relevant in the income statement, cannot exceed the market value, and is normally around half,
Capital yield in immovable property—when a house or premises is let out—the owner can pay off debts (ie, reducing expenses for several years) 3% of the cadastral value of the building, which includes only “flying”. it is considered significant discount in the statement.
On the other hand, in case of income in kind, when the employer provides a house owned by him to the employee, he has to declare only personal income tax. 5% of the tax value of the asset, or 10% in the event that the value has not been reviewed in the last 10 years.
Personal income tax is taxed in case of vacant urban house. The so-called charge of income—which happens when you have an urban property it is not habitual residencewhich is not subject to economic activity, and is not rented – is calculated by multiplying by the number of days the property has been vacated tax rateBy 2% (or 1.1% if the price has not been reviewed by the autonomous community), and these are all divided by 12.
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Do you start your math block with a quick warm up?! I loved to kick off my math block in first grade with a fast and fun activity to get students thinking. I loved this time for spiral review so students can continue practicing skills they’ve already learned throughout the year! The math warm up I am sharing today reviews both addition and subtraction.
It’s called “How Many Equations?!” and all you need to play is some dice! I explain in the video below that I have done this in the past with 3, 4, and 5 dice at a time. I also like to play this game whole group first.
See how to play below:
As I mentioned in the video, you can also do this in small group or individual math centers once students know how to play. To help with that, I created this recording sheet you can grab here >> recording sheet!
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February 5, 2020
Mental Health Benefits of Camping for Veterans
Mental health issues have afflicted many members of our armed forces while in the course of serving our country. While most of us were sheltered from the brutalities of war, these brave men and women were sent to foreign war zones and constantly faced the threat of death. They engaged the enemy in combat, watched their comrades get injured or killed, suffered injuries themselves, and witnessed carnages and brutalities that continue to haunt them even now.
These challenges, coupled with long periods of separation from their families, loss of control, and a sense of uncertainty about what the future holds, have left our nation’s heroes broken—in their minds, bodies, and spirits.
Did you know that as many as two million veterans are struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)? In fact, about half of them have either dropped out of formal treatment or are not interested in seeking treatment at all. These numbers have led to the growth of alternative treatments for mental health disorders among veterans. Some of these alternatives involve outdoor programs that include camping.
What Are the Mental Health Benefits of Camping for Veterans?
Veterans who’ve decided to pursue inner healing by embracing nature have attested that camping in the great outdoors has given them the freedom to appreciate and explore the beauty of the world around them without external distractions. Furthermore, studies show that this activity has contributed much to their mental health and psychological well-being by helping them combat stress and experience tranquility while enhancing their mental functions. To give you an idea about this, Veteran Car Donations gives you a lowdown on the mental health benefits of camping for veterans:
- Nature is an effective stress-reliever.
Unlike the stress-stimulating urban environment where the constant buzzing of people and cars never seems to stop, nature presents itself without snatching your attention and frazzling your nerves. A good dose of nature boosts the body’s production of endorphin and dopamine. These are chemicals that trigger happiness and other positive emotions while reducing the production of cortisol, which is a stress hormone. Furthermore, studies show that stress is significantly reduced within minutes of exposure to nature as measured by brain activity, muscle tension, and blood pressure.
- The physical exertion works out a lot of built-up anxious energy.
Aside from the fact that camping gives you a chance to savor the healing powers of nature for an extended period of time, it also offers you a way to focus on outdoor activities that include hiking, running, and biking. In case you’re not aware, one of the most effective anxiety busters and mood enhancers is exercise. Doing exercise amid the splendor of nature offers extra benefits.
- It gives you a sense of control.
Camping gives you a sense of freedom, which is one of the basic needs for well-being. Rarely found in your daily grind, this sense of freedom enables you to find your own adventures without limits. When you sleep under the stars, you’re pressing your reset button and you begin to be more aware of the here and now.
Help Needy Veterans Today!
While you can find many ways to lend a helping hand to those needy veterans and their families in your community, the most effective way to do so is to donate any type of vehicle to Veteran Car Donations. Your donation will help our IRS-certified charity partners provide them with free mental health care, housing benefits, transitioning assistance, job training, educational scholarships, employment opportunities, and other benefits.
As a donor, you’ll enjoy free towing from any location of your choice in the country. Your donation also gives you the opportunity to trim down your taxable income in the next tax season courtesy of the 100% tax-deductible sales receipt that we will deliver to you following the auction sale of your donated vehicle.
To get started, simply fill out our online donation form or call us at 877-594-5822. Give us your contact details and your car’s year, make, model, mileage, and VIN.
Re-purpose Your Old Clunker Today!
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I have an electronics question. I am no electrician and am trying to build an alarm pi Mark2. Currently I have a 12v power supply running through a relay which the pi turns on and off to trigger my 12v RGB led strip. Along side this I have a standard micro usb powering the raspberry pi. What I would like to know is A) would it be possible to leech power from the 12v power supply using a t-joint solder into the power cable, and a 12v-5v buck converter, and still run both systems? Further to this, in the next generation of my project I would like to include a wireless charging dock and a set of USBs so that the Alarmpi could become an all in one bedside alarm and charge station. So B) how do I figure out the required power supply for 4 charging USBs, 1 5v qi mod, 1 5v pi cable and the 12v rgb leds? Please as for clarification if needed I know this is a little garbled but any advice would greatly help! Just to note the pi in turn will be running a 20x4 rgb LCD screen, 2 small adafruit speakers and an led clock screen as well as a luminosity sensor and a small amplifier
A) would it be possible to leech power from the 12v power supply using a t-joint solder into the power cable, and a 12v-5v buck converter,
Yes, absolutely possible. However, it must be a switching mode DC-DC converter, linear regulators like the hearty
7805 have too much loss for this application
B) how do I figure out the required power supply for 4 charging USBs, 1 5v qi mod, 1 5v pi cable and the 12v rgb leds?
Add up their power by multiplying
current draw x operating voltage
Simple Estimate, we will build the margin into the initial estimates
- Raspberry Pi with Hat and peripherals
2A @ 5V = 10W
- USB Charging
2A @ 5V = 10W x 4 = 40W
The unknown is the LED current, which you have not provided. However our simple estimate says we need about an extra
50W above the power consumption of the LED strip.
50W @ 12V ~ 4.25A , that is the extra current overhead you need from the 12V supply.
I would estimate that a reasonable LED strip is itself another 2A, so using typical grades I would pick a
10A @ 12V supply for your test. One such turnkey option for reasonable scratch is in the Mean-well series of power supplies (Vendor Link )
If you relax the charging requirements to
1A or fewer devices, or for your initial test, a
5A supply would probably work for most situations. But it will likely be starved if the lights are on and all four charging ports are bing used
The problem with this setup is that you have quite a high current draw at your system supply voltage. This is probably reasonably OK for most users, but there are things to keep in mind, like the gauge of the wire used for the main supply hookup (at full current draw).
There are a few things to consider
- Use a
24Vvoltage at a more reasonable
12VLED strips in series with one another.
- Use independent
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According to government forecasts, Mozambique is expected to be mining 50 million tonnes of coking and thermal coal annually by 2020. This will place the country amongst the world’s five largest exporters for coking coal. Andrew Woodley, Managing Director at Rio Tinto Coal in Mozambique spoke to us about the company’s current projects and what it takes to establish an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable mining industry in Mozambique.
IMM Events:Rio Tinto Coal Mozambique manages 100% of the Zambeze project. Can you give us a status update on the project progress?
Andrew Woodley: We are currently finalising the Zambeze mining contract with the Government. Development of Zambeze will be dependent on an internationally-competitive coal chain capacity becoming available, and global economic conditions improving.
Andrew Woodley: It is widely recognised that the availability of rail and port capacity is a critical issue. I acknowledge that there is much effort being put to this task at the present time by Government and various industry participants and developers. Rio Tinto is continuing to engage with Government and industry partners to identify a long-term infrastructure solution to move the coal from the mine to port, that will deliver sufficient capacity and globally competitive outcomes.
Without such an outcome, much of the coal in the Moatize basin will remain in the ground. That would mean the benefits to Mozambique would be missed. It will be important to ensure that the coal chain solution is developed together with a realistic view of the coal production volumes that will come from the basin.
IMM Events:What are the key factors that will determine a sustainable and globally competitive coal business in Mozambique?
It is critical that we build a sustainable and well respected industry made up of globally competitive mining and associated businesses. We must have the full support of our host government and communities. This only comes if we earn this respect and support. To achieve this we need to achieve:
Health, safety and environment practices that ensure our people are remain safe and that presence of mining activity is supported by regulators and communities.
Positive community engagement delivering operations that exist with the support of, and benefit from mining activity.
Strong stakeholder relationships to ensure:
Economically viable long-term infrastructure solutions to get coal to market.
Local capability building (human resources and companies) that leverage the opportunities associated with mining for the benefit of regional development.
The development of globally efficient mines that are profitable and sustainable to ensure the products are competitively placed in the global market
An efficient coal chain solution that delivers reliable capacity at globally competitive rates, again to ensure the coal products delivered to market are attractive to customers and survive all phases of the commodity price cycle
Knowledge of the coal resource potential in the basin and volumes that can meet commercial and quality expectations in a global market
A supportive investment environment in a global and regional sense.
These factors must be balanced with shareholders earning a positive return on the capital they invest, as well as ensuring that long term benefits flow to the people of Mozambique.
IMM Events:Rio Tinto is working closely with host communities as part of establishing your business in the region. Can you tell us about your activities? Do you see a growing importance for effective community relations when it comes to sustainable project delivery?
Andrew Woodley: We aim to establish a safe and globally competitive coal industry which can contribute to the prosperity of Mozambique. We aim to do this by building effective and sustainable community development opportunities. For example, our Local Business Centre in Tete aims to create links between RTCM and local suppliers, provide training to build capacity for local SMEs, and establish partnerships to achieve sustainable community projects.
Training and education are also very important to this approach. The mining industry needs a skilled and diverse workforce, yet given the relative newness of large scale mining in Mozambique we can’t expect that it exists already. It is therefore up to all of us, as an industry, to build the skills and capabilities needed locally – and in doing so, build community skills and capacity for other types of work. We need to invest in people’s employability so that communities are well-positioned into the future, long after mines have come to the end of their life. Our Training Centre in Tete has to date trained more than 2450 professionals in general civil construction courses, while we have higher education partnerships that are enabling us to train and award scholarships to technical professionals including geologists and mining engineers.
Andrew Woodley: Mining is still a relatively new industry to this country. Rio Tinto hopes that our participation and discussion of establishing a coal mining operation in Mozambique can help promote awareness of not just the challenges, but the achievements that we are making, especially where these align with the Mozambican Government’s own objectives in areas such as social development and education. | <urn:uuid:bd524d37-86fe-447f-a854-a26545fcf85f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.informa.com.au/insight/rio-tinto-interview-building-sustainable-mining-industry-mozambique/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.947646 | 1,121 | 1.8125 | 2 |
The New York-based Human Rights Watch is accusing Thailand’s junta of gutting an already weak National Human Rights Commission by combining it with the country’s ombudsman’s office. In truth, the Commission has never been very effective. It has been filled with members selected by non-democratic institutions and cowed by a long succession of military governments and advocates from the palace. Whatever Human Rights Watch’s concerns, it was even less likely that the new constitution would provide additional protections.
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The concept of Lean User Experience (UX) is to do more with less. It's a philosophy that focuses on maximizing the value of design through the creation of quick and inexpensive prototypes that are tested on real users. The main focus of Lean UX is to produce a minimum viable product (MVP), which is a quick and inexpensive prototype that can be tested on real users.
The lean UX approach is an experimental way of designing products that focuses on generating feedback from users early and often. Design in an agile way, drawing inspiration from customers.
It is a process that focuses on the user experience, enabling the user-centered design process to be expedited. The central idea behind Lean UX is that a product can be both elegant and intuitive.
Lean UX is a new approach to design that has been in the spotlight for the past few years. It is a process of designing software products and features based on what people want and need instead of focusing on what they think they want or need.
It is a design process that helps teams deliver the right product, at the right time, in the right way. It emphasizes teamwork, collaboration, and continuous feedback to find and validate problems and solutions.
Lean UX is based on the lean startup movement and agile software development. Lean UX has been defined by Simon Sinek in his book "Start with Why" (2010). It is also described in the book "Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience" (2015) by Josh Seiden. According to Seiden, this book is the "first comprehensive guidebook for using lean UX principles to create products and services that delight customers".
Lean UX is a methodology that emphasizes efficiency and optimization, often through iterative design. Whereas traditional UX design uses broad strokes to create one cohesive product, Lean UX begins with an understanding of the customer and then shifts focus to small-scale solutions. In doing so, the team can gather a clear understanding of the problem and the solution at hand, allowing for more efficient and effective iterations.
Most notably, Lean UX is used to create digital products and features on platforms such as websites, mobile apps, and software applications.
Lean UX should start from the conceptual idea of a solution that could fulfil a customers need. After a team has a backlog, Lean UX is then used to streamline the backlog into shaping the next best feature to focus on.
The goal of Lean UX is to make design decisions as quickly as possible. This methodology is based on the idea that the best design decision is the one that is implemented first. What is Lean UX? Lean UX is a small, yet powerful methodology that can be applied to the development of any digital product or feature. It enables creative and innovative design decisions to be made quickly and efficiently, and generates concepts that are easy to understand, test, and iterate upon.
For many designers, building a wireframe is a long, tedious process. Lean UX introduces the concept of designing and prototyping quickly and testing early and often in order to save time and minimize the risks involved in the design process.
Create a User Personas A user persona is a fictitious character that serves as a representation of the end user. Because users are not always the same, we need to create personas that reflect their different characteristics, behaviors, and needs. The persona is used to determine the audience's goals and needs, as well as the features that the product must have in order to meet those needs.
With Lean UX, designers use rapid prototyping tools to create a working version of their design in the shortest time possible. Based in CX Research, known UX research, Personas and testing methods. The UX Designer then collaborates with tech teams, product owners and other teams to map out the best possible experience to move forward with. | <urn:uuid:c76eea4a-47a9-4038-9b58-2bbd28c435ec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.redpandadesigns.com.au/post/lean-ux | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.959575 | 773 | 2.4375 | 2 |
You have de cided to sell your house and your first thought is: “How much is it worth?” You know what you paid for it and how much you owe on the loan. You remodeled a bathroom and finished the basement. You want to buy a new home across town and need $25,000 for the down payment and closing costs. You decide $195,000 sounds like a good price. That figure seems to pop up a lot lately when you check out other homes for sale.
Sound anything like your initial thoughts when you decided to sell your house? This kind of information will definitely affect your final decision to sell, and it should be considered before selling. But, does it affect the value of your house?
Let’s look at five mistakes home owner’s make when pricing their house.
You know what you paid for your house.
Whether you inherited the house outright or paid $300,000 for it does not affect the current value of the house. Owning a house you did not pay for does not mean it’s worthless. Paying $300,000 for your house last year or 10 years ago does not mean it’s worth $300,000 today, however it’s not worthless.
House prices fluctuate over time for many reasons. The general state of the economy affects house prices. The condition of the neighborhood where the house is located becomes more desirable or less over time. The overall condition of the home is a consideration. This is not a viable method for determining a price.
You know how much is owed on the loan.
You may have an extremely low balance remaining on the loan. On the other hand, you purchased the house in the last year. Nearly the whole loan payment has been for interest meaning you practically owe what you paid for it. Does that mean the payoff of the loan is the value of your house?
No, this method assumes your house will always depreciate in value rather than appreciating. You will always lose with this strategy. However, house values do fluctuate with the economy and can go down. Homes bought before a drop in the economy, or in a dropping situation, may be worth less than when you bought it. In that case, your home would be overpriced in that type of market and will not command the original price or more.
However, if the economy is picking up, the supply of homes for sale in your area are down, and there are more home buyers in the market than before, the value of your home can increase. Basing the value of your home on the remaining balance of the loan will cost you hard earned equity.
You remodeled your house.
You bought a home and decided to remodel a bathroom, or finish in the basement, or add a larger deck. Remodeling costs money. Surely, you can add at minimum what was spent for the remodel to the original cost of the home to get its latest value. Can’t you?
No, it’s not that simple. Most improvements will not recuperate the original expenditure. Moreover, it depends on what was done and the quality of the work. High quality kitchen remodels for example may very well make your home worth more than the cost of the remodel.
However, adding an addition that does not fit the architectural style of your home and does not flow with the current floorplan probably will only return a small portion of your investment.
Do not error on pricing your house by adding the remodel cost to the original price of the home to calculate the sales price. Chances are great that formula will over price your house for the market. However, you don’t want to lose money using that formula if your remodel does add real value to the price.
The amount of cash you need to buy your next home.
So you have decided to move. You have already picked out a new house and know how much money you need for a down payment and closing costs in order to buy it. Can you add the amount you need to have for the new home to how much you owe on your current home to determine your old home’s value?
No. This is a simple formula, but flawed. That’s like trying to make your home into a money press. Just decide how much you need, add it to the price, and walah…got what you need.
What you want for your house.
You decide to sell and you think $195,000 sounds reasonable. Based on what? This is similar to the above example.
Pricing a home requires investigation, research, and knowledge of the local market. Look at your county tax appraisal website to see what homes sold for in the last six months around your home. Ask several real estate agents to do a comparative market analysis and give you a price. Check out home selling websites as well. Then you can make an educated choice on a price.
Each of the above pricing formulas are simple and easy, which makes them appealing to use. Unfortunately, pricing your home incorrectly will have one of two results. 1) You underprice the house and lose hard earned money. 2) You overprice it and it never sells.
However, three of the five formulas discussed are pertinent factors for determining if you should sell. It does matter how much you paid for and owe on your home once you have determined its value. It will help you evaluate if the home is worth more or less than you owe on the loan. Then you can make an educated decision based on that information as to whether you want to sell the house or not.
Likewise, the balance of what you owe and what you will net from the sale may or may not be the amount you need to make the move to that new house you want.
I advise due diligence when pricing your house. Have several real estate agents do a comparative market analysis on your house and see what value they give. Get an appraisal from a licensed real estate appraiser. Look at the county tax appraiser’s website to see what similar homes have sold for as well. Then you can make an educated decision on what to price your house. Sorry, this is not a simple formula and requires some effort. However, you will have a competitive price for your home that will not cost you thousands in lost profit. It doesn’t cost being diligent pricing your house, it pays.
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Bishop Kwabena Asiamah popularly call Ajagurajah has made some statement I would like to share in this article. In his recent post on social media, he has said that it is a taboo for any person who was born on wednesday to get married to a saturday born.
Both male and female were created at the same time from the first narrative of the creation of mankind in the Bible. Genesis 2 provides the 2nd story of creation. Before Eve is created from Adam's rib, she predates him. A male is created from the dirt and thereafter a female is created from him.
Lilith was considered to be a completely wrong package, since a woman would normally follow her commander's husband and be subject to them.She was regarded as a woman who caused the forbidden apple to be committed by Adam and Even in great sin.This means that it is of their own shortcoming to released the edited version of Genesis 1:27, which says, "God created man in his own image, so he created men and women in his own image."
I'm probably guessing you opened this article because it contradicts all you've ever known before now. But yes, this is not any ordinary conspiracy theory without serious basis. It is a fact hidden from many. The Bible, which is our very credible source of reference for the issue of creation of man gives an account of the creation of everything, up to human beings. It records that God created Adam, and then took his rib and created Eve. This is what we all know till now. But there was another woman in Adam's
Lilith was Adam's first wife, not Eve, but the Bible Kept It Secret. The Bible tells the story of how Earth was created and the start of humanity. In the text, it says that man was created in the image of God, and then after finding that man was lonely, he took a rib from Adam and created Eve. However, it has been suggested that there is a part of the story that was not told in the Bible and this is that the first woman was Lilith, not Eve. Lilith was banished by God for being more willful. Lilith is said to
Lilith is a female figure in Mesopotamian and Judaic mythology, alternatively the first wife of Adam and supposedly the primordial she-demon. Lilith is cited as having been "banished" from the Garden of Eden for not complying and obeying Adam. 1.a woman who in rabbinic legend is Adam's first wife, is supplanted by Eve, and becomes an evil spirit.
There are various books in the world for different religions and their feelings.
This comes as an astonishment in light of the fact that the vast majority accept that Eve was the primary lady to be made.Be that as it may, as per Jewish folklore, Lilith is the principal lady made and spouse to Adam.
There are many books in the world for different religions and their beliefs.
The current Bible doesn't make reference to Lilith regardless of she being the first spouse of Adam who was made simultaneously and also from a similar mud with Adam and not eve who was subsequently made by Adam's rib Genesis 1:27 just as Genesis 2:22 clarifies their two individual manifestations and their relationship to Adam.
There are numerous books on the planet for various religions and their convictions.
The current Bible does not mention Lilith despite she being the original wife of Adam who was created at the same time and from the same clay with Adam and not eve who was later created by Adam’s rib.Genesis 1:27 as well as Genesis 2:22 explains their two respective creations and their relationship to Adam. | <urn:uuid:569e63f3-1bd2-4b8b-834f-34efb9d4ab7e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gh.opera.news/tags/lilith | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.990609 | 757 | 2.15625 | 2 |
It lay low down in a hollow, rich with fine old timber and luxuriant pastures; and you came upon it through an avenue of limes, bordered on either side by meadows, over the high hedges of which the cattle looked inquisitively at you as you passed, wondering, perhaps, what you wanted; for there was no thoroughfare, and unless you were going to the Court you had no business there at all.
At the end of this avenue there was an old arch and a clock-tower, with a stupid, bewildering clock, which had only one hand; and which jumped straight from one hour to the next, and was therefore always in extremes. Through this arch you walked straight into the gardens of Audley Court.
A smooth lawn lay before you, dotted with groups of rhododendrons, which grew in more perfection here than anywhere else in the county. To the right there were the kitchen gardens, the fish-pond, and an orchard bordered by a dry moat, and a broken ruin of a wall, in some places thicker than it was high, and everywhere overgrown with trailing ivy, yellow stonecrop, and dark moss. To the left there was a broad gravelled walk, down which, years ago, when the place had been a convent, the quiet nuns had walked hand in hand; a wall bordered with espaliers, and shadowed on one side by goodly oaks, which shut out the flat landscape, and circled in the house and gardens with a darkening shelter.
The house faced the arch, and occupied three sides of a quadrangle. It was very old, and very irregular and rambling. The windows were uneven; some small, some large, some with heavy stone mullions and rich stained glass; others with frail lattices that rattled in every breeze; others so modern that they might have been added only yesterday. Great piles of chimneys rose up here and there behind the pointed gables, and seemed as if they were so broken down by age and long service, that they must have fallen but for the straggling ivy which, crawling up the walls and trailing even over the roof, wound itself about them and supported them. The principal door was squeezed into a corner of a turret at one angle of the building, as if it was in hiding from dangerous visitors, and wished to keep itself a secret—a noble door for all that—old oak, and studded with great square-headed iron nails, and so thick that the sharp iron knocker struck upon it with a muffled sound; and the visitor rang a clanging bell that dangled in a corner amongst the ivy, lest the noise of the knocking should never penetrate the stronghold.
A glorious old place—a place that visitors fell into raptures with; feeling a yearning wish to have done with life, and to stay there for ever, staring into the cool fish-ponds, and counting the bubbles as the roach and carp rose to the surface of the water— a spot in which Peace seemed to have taken up her abode, setting her soothing hand on every tree and flower; on the still ponds and quiet alleys; the shady corners of the old-fashioned rooms; the deep window-seats behind the painted glass; the low meadows and the stately avenues—ay, even upon the stagnant well, which, cool and sheltered as all else in the old place, hid itself away in a shrubbery behind the gardens, with an idle handle that was never turned, and a lazy rope so rotten that the pail had broken away from it, and had fallen into the water.
A noble place; inside as well as out, a noble place—a house in which you incontinently lost yourself if ever you were so rash as to go about it alone; a house in which no one room had any sympathy with another, every chamber running off at a tangent into an inner chamber, and through that down some narrow staircase leading to a door which, in its turn, led back into that very part of the house from which you thought yourself the farthest; a house that could never have been planned by any mortal architect, but must have been the handiwork of that good old builder—Time, who, adding a room one year, and knocking down a room another year, toppling over now a chimney coeval with the Plantagenets, and setting up one in the style of the Tudors; shaking down a bit of Saxon wall there, and allowing a Norman arch to stand here; throwing in a row of high narrow windows in the reign of Queen Anne, and joining on a dining-room after the fashion of the time of Hanoverian George I to a refectory that had been standing since the Conquest, had contrived, in some eleven centuries, to run up such a mansion as was not elsewhere to be met with throughout the county of Essex. Of course, in such a house, there were secret chambers: the little daughter of the present owner, Sir Michael Audley, had fallen by accident upon the discovery of one. A board had rattled under her feet in the great nursery where she played, and on attention being drawn to it, it was found to be loose, and so removed, revealing a ladder leading to a hiding-place between the floor of the nursery and the ceiling of the room below—a hiding-place so small that he who hid there must have crouched on his hands and knees or lain at full length, and yet large enough to contain a quaint old carved oak chest half filled with priests’ vestments which had been hidden away, no doubt, in those cruel days when the life of a man was in danger if he was discovered to have harboured a Roman Catholic priest, or to have had mass said in his house.
The broad outer moat was dry and grass-grown, and the laden trees of the orchard hung over it with snarled straggling branches that drew fantastical patterns upon the green slope. Within this moat there was, as I have said, the fish-pond—a sheet of water that extended the whole length of the garden, and bordering which there was an avenue called the lime-tree walk; an avenue so shaded from the sun and sky, so screened from observation by the thick shelter of the over-arching trees, that it seemed a chosen place for secret meetings or for stolen interviews; a place in which a conspiracy might have been planned or a lover’s vow registered with equal safety; and yet it was scarcely twenty paces from the house.
At the end of this dark arcade there was the shrubbery, where, half buried amongst the tangled branches and the neglected weeds, stood the rusty wheel of that old well of which I have spoken. It had been of good service in its time, no doubt; and busy nuns have perhaps drawn the cool water with their own fair hands; but it had fallen with disuse now, and scarcely any one at Audley Court knew whether the spring had dried up or not. But sheltered as was the solitude of this lime-tree walk, I doubt very much if it was ever put to any romantic uses. Often in the cool of the evening Sir Michael Audley would stroll up and down smoking his cigar, with his dog at his heels, and his pretty young wife dawdling by his side; but in about ten minutes the baronet and his companion would grow tired of the rustling limes and the still water, hidden under the spreading leaves of the water-lilies, and the long green vista with the broken well at the end, and would stroll back to the white drawing-room, where my lady played dreamy melodies by Beethoven and Mendelssohn till her husband fell asleep in his easy chair.
Sir Michael Audley was fifty-six years of age, and he had married a second wife three months after his fifty-fifth birthday. He was a big man, tall and stout, with a deep sonorous voice, handsome black eyes, and a white beard—a white beard which made him look venerable against his will, for he was as active as a boy, and one of the hardest riders in the county. For seventeen years he had been a widower with an only child, a daughter, Alicia Audley, now eighteen, and by no means too well pleased at having a step-mother brought home to the Court; for Miss Alicia had reigned supreme in her father’s house since her earliest childhood, and had carried the keys, and jingled them in the pockets of her silk aprons, and lost them in the shrubbery, and dropped them into the pond, and given all manner of trouble about them from the hour in which she entered her teens, and had on that account deluded herself into the sincere belief that for the whole of that period she had been keeping house.
But Miss Alicia’s day was over; and now, when she asked anything of the housekeeper, the housekeeper would tell her that she would speak to my lady, or she would consult my lady, and if my lady pleased it should be done. So the baronet’s daughter, who was an excellent horsewoman and a very clever artist, spent most of her time out of doors, riding about the green lanes, and sketching the cottage children, and the ploughboys, and the cattle, and all manner of animal life that came in her way. She set her face with a sulky determination against any intimacy between herself and the baronet’s young wife; and amiable as that lady was, she found it quite impossible to overcome Miss Alicia’s prejudices and dislike; or to convince the spoiled girl that she had not done her a cruel injury in marrying Sir Michael Audley. | <urn:uuid:a6b4c709-4baf-48c1-bede-27bc80eb893c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.randomhousebooks.com/books/602605/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.984455 | 2,045 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Is Roe v Wade only about abortion?
Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protects a pregnant woman’s liberty to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction.
What was the legal issue in Roe v Wade?
Wade, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on January 22, 1973, ruled (7–2) that unduly restrictive state regulation of abortion is unconstitutional.
Why is Roe v Wade important?
Wade was a 1971 – 1973 landmark decision by the US Supreme Court. The court ruled that a state law that banned abortions (except to save the life of the mother) was unconstitutional. The ruling made abortion legal in many circumstances.
What are the three guidelines of Roe v Wade 1973?
Abortion in the Supreme Court Post-Roe The Casey court kept three finding made in Roe: Women have the right to abort pre-viability without undue interference from the state. The state may restrict abortion post-viability. The state has a legitimate interest in protecting woman’s health and life of the fetus.
What is the basis of Roe v Wade?
Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that established a woman’s legal right to an abortion, is decided on January 22, 1973. The Court ruled, in a 7-2 decision, that a woman’s right to choose an abortion was protected by the privacy rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
What right was Roe’s argument based on?
The case eventually reached the Supreme Court, where Roe argued that a woman’s right to privacy in having an abortion is protected by the Constitution. In a 7-2 decision, the Court ruled the right to an abortion fell within the right to privacy protected by the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause.
Is Henry Wade still alive?
How was the 14th Amendment challenged?
In Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in 1954, the court decided that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal,” and thus violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. The ruling overturned Plessy and forced desegregation.
Can you sue the government for violating the Constitution?
United States law allows an individual who believes that his or her constitutional rights have been violated to bring a civil action against the government to recover the damages sustained as a result of that violation.
WHO declares laws unconstitutional?
Madison, the first Supreme Court decision to strike down the act of Congress as unconstitutional, with the famous line from Chief Justice John Marshall: “It is emphatically the duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is. | <urn:uuid:b5c53512-a9d6-4aff-bdea-396003140aeb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://color-newyork.com/is-roe-v-wade-only-about-abortion/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.958239 | 592 | 3.21875 | 3 |
Germany’s Diabetes market size stood at around USD XX.X billion in 2019 and is projected to reach USD XX billion by 2028, exhibiting a CAGR of around XX.X% during the forecast period.
According to the International Diabetes Federation, diabetes is one of the most prevalent chronic diseases in Germany, with 9.5 million recorded incidences in 2019 and the market is expected to be an opportunity of USD 12 Billion by 2025.
Germany has a 7 Million known diabetes population, but according to estimates, about 1.3 million people are expected to be living with undetected diabetes. According to the German Diabetes Centre (DDZ), type 2 diabetes patients are expected to increase in Germany for 20 years. As per their estimate diabetes will affect 12 Million in Germany by the end of the year 2040.
The major factors attributing to the growth of the market are:
- Growing Disposable Income
- Increasing Geriatric Population
- Technological Advancement
- Surging Number of Diabetes Population
- Increasing Healthcare Spending
The prevalence of known type 1 & 2 diabetes in the German adult population is very high; also, it is considered that a high number of patients are not yet diagnosed with the disease. Due to an aging population and unhealthy lifestyle, the prevalence of type 2 diabetes is expected to increase steadily over the next few years. High-quality care, including adequate monitoring, control of risk factors, and active self-management are the key factors for preventing costly and burdensome micro-and macrovascular complications in German patients with type 2 diabetes. | <urn:uuid:9167bd2d-df50-4b26-8c2f-06fea9615b1c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://insights10.com/product/germany-diabetes-market-analysis/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.937407 | 328 | 2.21875 | 2 |
According to the UN organization, each year, a special day (June 27e) is reserved to celebrate micro, small and medium-sized enterprises to highlight their enormous contributions (MSMEs) to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as well as their tremendous ability to improve the world.
SMEs are considered the backbone of global society and running a small business can be complex. Accurate financial reports are essential for managing, organizing and understanding small business finances.
One of the most common mistakes made by small business owners and a leading cause of small business failure is failure to keep proper financial records. The success of a business is greatly influenced by the information disclosed by a good financial report.
In this article, financial reporting will be covered from the bottom up, including its definition, the financial information it generally covers, and the benefits.
What is financial information?
A financial report is a statement that discloses a company’s financial information and performance over a period of time, such as quarterly, half-yearly or annually. It helps you understand your financial situation, including how much money you have, where it came from, and where it needs to go. The financial report is like a medical report that gives you insight into the financial health of your business.
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To accurately describe a company’s financial condition, financial reports must adhere to accepted accounting principles, such as:
- profit or loss
- Assets and liabilities (third party debtor in the company)
There are three key financial statements you need to be aware of as a small business owner. These financial statements can be found in the financial report. These are the income statement, the balance sheet (statement of financial position) and the cash flow statement.
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- Income statement: A company’s revenues, costs and profits are summarized in an income statement, sometimes called an income statement. The income statement effectively calculates a company’s net profit (income minus cost) by displaying how much the company has earned or lost in a specific period.
- Balance Sheet: A balance sheet gives a picture of a company’s assets, liabilities and equity/capital at a given time. This statement helps to show the financial situation of the company where the assets are equal to the liabilities plus the shares.
ASSETS = LIABILITIES + EQUITY
Assets: Anything of value owned by your business, including machinery, real estate, structures, and intellectual property, is considered an asset. Examples: Cash, Accounts Receivable, Equipment and Inventory
Liabilities: Liabilities include all outstanding obligations, including bank loans, mortgages, unpaid accounts and other amounts due to third parties.
Equity: Equity is the amount of capital invested or owned by the owner of a business.
- Cash Flow Statement: It shows the movement of money in and out of a business. It helps business owners understand how much money a business is making and spending.
Benefits of Financial Reporting
A representation of the actual financial situation of a business is necessary for any business or corporation. The importance of a company’s financial statements is best understood when the company is trying to attract new investors. Financial reports are required for many purposes and according to generally accepted accounting principles, in addition to being essential for management and investors to assess the financial strength of a business. Here are the main benefits of financial reports for small businesses:
1. Better decision making
Financial reports allow business owners to see trends and potential issues, and closely monitor their cash flow in real time. Keeping track of your financial statements will provide you with the framework to make quick and sound financial decisions when needed. You won’t be able to make critical decisions, the majority of which will likely impact the way you do business, objectively if your financial reports aren’t accurate.
2. Industry Compliance
An accurate financial report ensures that your business complies with the law and regulations required by government agencies. Government agencies ensure that the company complies with all laws, regulations and ethical standards. What if the numbers in your financial accounts don’t match or seem wrong? You could be penalized, which would affect your business. Therefore, an accurate financial report will save you from all that stress.
3. Trust and financial transparency
Small businesses have been selected and estimated to grow organically which will give a good financial reporting system to the business. It takes more than an income statement or balance sheet to show the performance of a business. Many businesses have been built on creative accounting, thereby masking their losses. Before making a formal investment, external stakeholders should investigate the financial health of the organization. Building trust with potential investors and creditors through financial reporting is a fantastic approach to demonstrating a company’s financial transparency. Accurate financial reports help build trust between investors, clients, customers, suppliers, lenders and other users of financial information.
A company’s ability to control its debt depends on its financial information. Financial statements provide you with information about the history and present of your business so that you can make future plans.
5. Financial planning
Business owners can use a financial report to review past expenses and make changes for the future as well as prepare for urgent expenses. Without the need for emergency credit or loans, you can budget for future financial demands like emergencies and growth if you keep accurate financial records.
6. Loan requirement
Nothing is ever assured when it comes to your business finances. You may need to seek help from funding sources if your cash flow is not as consistent as you would like. These funding sources would ask your financials to check if the business is strong enough to repay the loan. Therefore, it is imperative that you maintain accurate and up-to-date financial reports.
In conclusion, one of the most important parts of every business is its financial reporting. When a company has significant achievements or unforeseen setbacks, it is easier to illustrate the importance of its financial statements.
As a small business owner, with your finances well organized i.e. there should be a system that is in place in your business environment to ensure an accurate financial reporting system, this will help your company to grow and in return gives a good view to the stakeholders.
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On 20 June 1977, Anglia TV in England caused a nationwide stir when it aired a ‘documentary’ called Alternative Three as part of the station’s Science Report programme.
The power elite in the USSR, the US, and Great Britain had in fact been working together on a secret project – “Alternative Three” – that had established bases on the moon and on Mars so that they could escape the coming ecological nightmare on earth.
Insiders who were deemed a security risk were callously murdered. Scientists had been abducted to do experiments in the space colonies. Even ordinary folks had been snatched and forced into slave labour on the moon and on the red planet.
It was, of course, all a hoax, made clear by the closing credits that listed the actors on the show and contained a copyright notice dated 1 April. 1977. It was written by David Ambrose and directed by Christopher Miles.
Nonetheless, Anglia was flooded with calls, and newspaper headlines reported “shock” and “panic.”
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Over 50% of college interns are given full-time employment offers by the companies where they intern. Additionally, hundreds of college graduates are offered employment based on volunteer work they’ve done, their part-time employment during college, and other networking opportunities. If you want to start your career running, take advantage of these extracurriculars to get a leg up on the competition, and situate yourself for future success.
Internships: Test The Waters
An internship is a great way to gain experience and get a “real job” line on your CV. The experience you gain in an internship can be career-specific, or just general knowledge of how an office operates and how work projects flow. Working in an office and dealing with coworkers is different than going to class and dealing with classmates, and the only way to learn how to navigate office culture is to immerse yourself in it. Being an intern gives you a pass while you learn, so it’s the perfect way to learn.
One of the greatest advantages of interning is to figure out what you like. If you are considering going to law school after university, interning at a law firm can give you a feel for what being a lawyer would be like. Conversely, an internship can also show you what you don’t want to do. Maybe what you thought you wanted to do isn’t actually your cup of tea, or maybe it’s just sitting in an office all day that doesn’t suit you. Upon graduation, you can make a more informed decision.
Volunteer Work: Make Connections
Perhaps you’d like to do something in your summers off that gives back. Volunteer work is a great way to advance your career and to make a difference. There are many opportunities to volunteer, both local and far from home. If you choose to travel to volunteer, you may make lasting friendships with people who then become part of your network, which can lead to new opportunities in the future.
Volunteering is also a great way to make connections with people who may later give you a reference for a job. College is time-consuming and demanding; showing that you are able to juggle the demands of school in addition to the responsibilities of a volunteer position shows dedication and time-management abilities. Similarly to interning, volunteering may help you realise what it is you really want to do.
Part-Time Employment: Gain Skills
Working part time during school is often a necessity for students to earn money to cover their expenses. But part-time work has additional benefits as well. The same as volunteering, balancing part-time work and studies shows that you have time-management skills. If your part-time employment is in an office setting, just as with an internship, you are learning to navigate the corporate world and work in an office with others.
While you have likely sought part-time work as a way to pay your bills, never underestimate the training you are getting (while being paid!) and how that training may be applicable in other environments. If you are taking orders at a fast-food restaurant, you are gaining experience working with the public, which is a highly valued skill in a multitude of careers. Much of what you learn can be applied elsewhere, and it is those skills, rather than the duties of your college job, that you should highlight on your CV.
Gap Year: Search Your Soul
If all of this sounds far too overwhelming, as you are not even yet sure of where to apply for college, a gap year may be just the thing for you. Rather than having to decide what you hope to do for the rest of your life coming out of high school, you may benefit from a year of travel and soul searching to decide. You can take a gap year to volunteer, work part-time, and even complete an internship, reaping all the benefits those offer before you decide on college.
Whether you choose to do one, two, or maybe even all of these things during or before your college experience, know that any one of them will benefit your career in the long run. Keep in mind that how you present these on your CV can make a difference, but that the skills you learn are the most relevant, regardless of the industry you choose to pursue. If you are able to find a mentor in your field, ask that person for advice in pursuing these endeavours, as they can be tailored to set you up for even greater success if you can plan them all in such fashion. | <urn:uuid:7facb171-5d03-45dd-b429-d27f43b5a890> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://praxisnetwork.eu/news/32/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.97262 | 932 | 2.125 | 2 |
July 20, 2012. The month of May was a bit kinder for the economy in Western North Carolina. Economic activity, as measured by the Western North Carolina Economic Index, increased by 0.4 points in May, halting three consecutive months of decreases in the index.
The index, compiled by the Center for Economic Research and Policy Analysis (CERPA) at Appalachian State University, tracks the level of economic activity in 25 western North Carolina counties.
“The latest index shows a jump in regional economic activity, but the numbers are mixed in the labor market. Overall, the numbers indicate the recovery continues to be slow and bumpy,” said Dr. Todd Cherry, CERPA director. “Job growth was flat but there were gains concentrated in the High Country in Northwest North Carolina and the Asheville metro areas.”
Variability remains the theme for the 25-county region.
“Conditions vary dramatically across the region, which is highlighted by county-level unemployment rates ranging from 7.1 to 17.1 percent,” Cherry said.
Seasonally adjusted employment for WNC decreased slightly—by less than 0.1 percent in May, providing the third consecutive month of decreases. Statewide adjusted employment decreased by 0.1 percent.
Mapping the growth in employment over the preceding month provides a county-level account of job creation. Changes in seasonally adjusted county-level employment during the month remains mixed across the region, rising in 16 of the 25 counties. Alleghany, Yancey and Graham counties had the largest employment gains (with 1.0, 1.0 and 0.9 percent increases, respectively), while Alexander, Transylvania and Catawba had the largest losses (with 0.5, 0.4 and 0.3 percent decreases, respectively).
Seasonally adjusted WNC unemployment registered 9.8 percent in May – up 0.2 points from April. The state unemployment rate remained at 9.4 percent, while the national unemployment rate increased by 0.1 point to 8.2 percent.
The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate within the region’s rural counties increased by 0.2 points to 11.1 percent in May. In the region’s metro areas, unemployment increased by 0.2 points in both Asheville and Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir to 7.6 and 10.9 percent, respectively.
County-level seasonally adjusted unemployment rates were highest in Graham, Rutherford and Swain counties (with rates at 17.1, 14.1 and 13.7 percent, respectively). Rates were lowest in Henderson, Buncombe and Polk counties (at 7.1, 7.5 and 7.9 percent, respectively).
Seasonally adjusted unemployment rates increased in 22 of the 25 WNC counties. Yancey, Graham and Ashe counties recorded the only decreases in unemployment rates (with a 1.3, 0.4 and 0.3 point decrease, respectively). Alexander, Cherokee and Caldwell had the largest increases (with a 0.6, 0.4 and 0.4 point gain, respectively).
During the past 12-month period, all but seven WNC counties experienced decreases in unemployment. Unemployment rates in Burke, McDowell and Catawba decreased the most over this period (by 2.2, 1.6 and 1.6 points, respectively) while rates in Transylvania, Avery and Madison all increased (by 0.3 points).
Seasonally adjusted initial claims for unemployment insurance in the region, a leading indicator of unemployment, decreased by 1.0 percent in May. Initial claims increased 8.0 percent in Asheville and 6.2 percent in Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir.
The full WNC Index and Report for May is online at http://cerpa.appstate.edu.
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Sometimes I have anxiety about Mother’s Day. One reason is that I am really not good at giving gifts. I really don’t like the empty accolades, generic gift cards, flowers at three times the normal cost. I prefer a miss-spelled note with poor handwriting, a mysterious hand drawn picture on a not-so-professional looking piece of paper coming from my kids. I also prefer two sincere sentences from my husband with tears in his eyes, meaning every word he says, even though he struggles to verbalize his feelings. I like it when I can see they mean it, and it is not something they feel they HAVE to do. But I don’t think one day, one card, one meal can ever thank a woman enough for her role as mother. And that is where part of my anxiety comes from. How do I express my appreciation for my mom? Often I will feel how inadequate I am in honoring her enough throughout the year. Therefore I decided to dedicate this episode specific to my mom, Wilma Jansen, as a BIG thank you for being who you are.
Anna Jarvis initiated the modern version of Mother’s Day in the USA during the early 20th century as a memorial to honor her mom Ann Reeves Jarvis, who was a peace activist during the American Civil War. Living out her belief that a mom is “the person who has done more for you than anyone in the world.” Even though she was delighted with her success of creating a special day celebrating moms, she was resentful of the commercialization of the day. This is a sentiment I share. Anna Jarvis believed a handwritten card, which expressed love and gratitude is much more significant than spending money on something. Vehemently she wavered lawsuits and boycotts against Hallmark and other companies to express her views.
Mother’s, ranging from a CEO to a full time mom, are great role models for nurturing and protecting life. You have a gift the world needs for nurturing and protecting life, even though you are not a biological mother.
Remembering an old saying, “mothers write on the hearts of their children what the world’s rough hand cannot erase”, inspires me to keep on believing in my children and their future. Being a career woman, a full time mom, or like me, a mix of the two, will have a guilt ridden aspect with it. Do I spend enough time with them? Do I do too much for my children? Should I rather work in order to give them more opportunities? One thing I remember my mother telling me is that the feeling of guilt becomes born with the birth of your first child, and while you still feel guilty, you are on the right track with your conscience. Some millennial moms say it is a privilege to be a mom. It is central to their identity. While mothers can hear the sentences in the silence of their children, their sixth sense, it acts as a Jewish proverb states, “A mother understands what a child does not say”. A mom teaches confidence and makes her children believe in themselves.
And a few final pieces of advice from my mom:
- Remember, your child did not read all the parenting books out there.
- If you are looking for something you misplaced, start cleaning up
- Be careful of the thoughts you are cherishing as it will determine the path of your life
- Stay at God’s feet and under His hand – that is the safest place to be
- Listen to your mom J
- Forgive 70 x 7
Make this Mother’s Day an extra special one, celebrating the woman in your life, who nurtured and protected you as well as those who are currently motivating you, encouraging you and believe in you.
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Does this mean no more "duck prints" on flight decks?
There are certain things that keep sailors happy, liberty, a good meal, payday, and mail call! Of course in this day and age we have e-mail. But nothing can compare to a letter from a girlfriend or that care package chock full of goodies and pictures from home. Predictable the flight deck team usually has a little more kick on those days. It's amazing how fast the flight deck moves for the Desert Duck. The Desert Ducks are not only famous for their world class service, they have a somewhat dubious signature trademark. They are notorious for "stamping the flight deck." Upon completion of their mission aboard a vessel, the air crewman will run out of the helo at the last minute with a giant stamping device attached to a three-foot pole and stamp several large yellow duck footprints on the flight deck.Hate to see a great tradition go away... What kind of print will a Desert Hawk leave?
By the way, I have it on good authority that many ships begged the Ducks to stamp their decks...
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Metaphorical interpretation of the novel – 1984
1984 is a remarkable political novel written by George Orwell which conveys many significant messages to the society. The novel is a highly symbolic novel and possesses many literary devices like allusion, metaphors, and similes. Similes are basically an illustration of point through different concepts. Unlike similes, metaphors are a direct comparison of two separate ideas without using “as” or “like”. Though the list of metaphors in the novel 1984 is not exhaustive but they have multiple interpretations. Here are some of the metaphors discussed below.
Proles: Proletariat or the lowest working class of a society is represented by proles in the novel 1984. Like Marx, George Orwell also thought that these proles can wake up, unite and stand tall against the Party to snatch the freedom for every citizen. However, these proles are used to live savage life and they are unable to acknowledge their nature of oppression. They are huge in numbers, they fight against the Party but still, they are powerless. So in the novel of 1984, these proles are represented as the “hopeless” mass.
Rat: It represents fear and depravity. Though rats are small in size, they are considered as one of the most “beastlike” creatures. They bring curse as the form of disease like the plague. According to the 1984 novel, in society, there are humans who act beastlike. They can become the big brother of a society. These men will multiply their force like rats, which ultimately will make society full of human garbage.
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A Low-Cost Analytical Method for the Morris Water Maze Task using ImageJ
Keywords:Morris water maze task, ImageJ, Low-cost analysis method, Learning and memory impairment
The Morris water maze, which has been used for more than 30 years, is one of the most famous learning and memory tasks among animals. This method is robust and reliable, and it can be carried out anywhere with little effort. Nowadays, there are many companies creating analysis software to easily analyze the Morris water maze results. However, these softwares are costly and may be difficult for researchers in developing countries especially with limited research funds. Only escape latency and time spent in the target quadrant can be manually obtained after video review. To resolve this problem and to extend the ability to detect learning and memory impairment in the Morris water maze, we provide a novel low-cost analysis method using common office tools combined with ImageJ software to analyze learning and memory impairment in rat or mouse models. In this study, we used the 2-vessel occlusion (2VO) rats and sham-operated control rats as learning and memory deficit rats and normal rats, respectively. Taken together, travel distance, swimming speed, and swimming traces can be acquired from this method, which will help researchers to investigate further impairment of learning and memory in animal models.
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Rotterdam uses underground car park to increase accessibility and provide flood defense
City of Rotterdam
With 90% of the city below sea level, Rotterdam is particularly vulnerable to sudden flooding events. With their city center being no exception, the city created an underground car park that not only provides more parking, but also functions as a cistern that provides flood protection.
General Fund/Existing Public Funds
Taxes & User Fees
Operational since 2011
Rotterdam is the Netherlands' second-biggest city, located in a delta of the Rhine and Meuse rivers.
Around 90% of the city is below sea level, making it particularly vulnerable to threatening flood events.
The Museumpark and adjoining event area are important to Rotterdam's city center, meaning that it attracts a lot of citizens and tourists alike. This means that the city ultimately needed more parking in the area; however, the city did not want to sacrifice aesthetic in order to create more parking.
To address potential flooding, lack of parking, and overall city center aesthetic, Rotterdam pursued a unique solution.
Rotterdam decided to fix up its museumpark because of its importance to the community.
The park got a greener character and the romantic garden was restored. This has increased the park's aesthetic appearance for park attendees.
To accommodate more visitors, the city created a 3-story underground car park that accommodates 1,150 cars. With pedestrian interests in mind, the car park added to the new park's aesthetic. To further meet pedestrian needs, two 'daylight zones' were placed around pedestrian entrances and exits to illuminate all levels of the car park. These zones provided pedestrian zones with extra lighting and safe crossing places.
The underground car park also offers a solution for flooding prevention in the city center. With a capacity of 10 million litres of water, the content of four Olympic swimming pools, this storage ensures that in the case of heavy rainfall flooding is kept to a minimum in the city center. As soon as the sewer system threatens to overflow, the hatch of the underground water reservoir is opened. Within half an hour, the reservoir, which measures 60 by 35 meters, fills. When there is space in the sewer system, the water in the reservoir is pumped into the sewer. In addition, there is a three-floor void on two sides with a glazed ceiling and a glass void cap that was specifically designed using safety glass that offers protection from the spread of fire, radiant heat and temperature insulation to provide safe exit routes in the case of fire.
Increased parking for visitors and citizens with 1,150 new parking spots provided by the car park
Stormwater capture of 10,000m³, protecting the vulnerable city of Rotterdam in the case of a sudden flooding event
Saved Rotterdam several million euros by combining the car park and water storage.
Project also included the development of nearby "water plazas" that under normal conditions are playgrounds but that temporarily hold water during heavy rain, then slowly release it to the drainage system.
Who Should Consider
Communities looking for unique solutions in the case of a sudden flooding event.
Last UpdatedMar 18th, 2022
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|DAWSON-HUGHES, BESS - Jean Mayer Human Nutrition Research Center On Aging At Tufts University|
|BISCHOFF-FERRARI, HEIKE - University Hospital Zurich|
Submitted to: Nutrional Aspects of Osteoporosis
Publication Type: Proceedings
Publication Acceptance Date: 7/1/2016
Publication Date: 8/2/2016
Citation: Dawson-Hughes, B., Bischoff-Ferrari, H. 2016. Defining sarcopenia. Nutrional Aspects of Osteoporosis. Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Nutritional Aspects of Osteoporosis. 13-20.
Technical Abstract: Currently there is no standardized definition of sarcopenia. This hampers the clinical management of sarcopenia and retards the development and regulatory approval of interventions to reduce the progression of this common and debilitating condition in the elderly. Nine definitions of sarcopenia have been put forward by different individuals and working groups, but these definitions have not been examined or compared with respect to their ability to predict the rate of falling. Reduced lower extremity lean tissue mass and function characterize sarcopenia, and they are known risk factors for falling. The purpose of this chapter is to describe the nine operational definitions of sarcopenia proposed in recent years, to describe the prevalence of sarcopenia by each definition, and to describe the degree to which each definition predicted incident falls over a 3-year period in a cohort of 455 community-dwelling men and women age 65 years and older. We also comment on the need for further research and the importance of reaching consensus on a globally accepted definition of sarcopenia. | <urn:uuid:1d0a9b16-ea78-44c9-a353-97f4a7a35b56> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publication/?seqNo115=348116 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.893025 | 369 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Asexual doesn’t mean “lack”, it’s not a *lack* of sexual interest, it’s just *little to no* sexual interest. It’s not missing, it’s just insignificant to the person who identifies as asexual. Asexuals aren’t broken. Asexuals aren’t missing parts. Asexuals can have sex lives, and still not have sexual attracted to anyone.
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there are multiple things in this ask that i’d like to point out, so i’m going to use bullet points for the sake of clarity and ease.
- the whole point of that post was to say that there is more than one valid definition of what it means to be asexual.
- among those valid definitions is asexuality being a lack of sexual attraction.
- another valid definition is asexuality being little to no sexual attraction.
- some people in the asexual community do define asexuality in relation to sexual interest or desire. this is also valid, as the links in the post in question point out.
- no where was it said that asexuals are broken.
- a lack of something is not necessarily synonymous with something being missing. this is a matter of semantics.
- no one is denying the fact that asexuals can have sex lives.
anon, i think you’ve missed the point of the post in question as it’s not disagreeing with anything that you’ve said. your main issue seems to be with the usage of “lack”, but this is a commonly used word to define and describe asexuality. at the same time, it’s a fact that some people such as yourself do not care for that word and that’s 100% okay! no one is disagreeing with you.
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Iranians Are Being Questioned And Detained By US Border Patrol In What Appears To Be Racial Profiling
Iranian-Americans were held by U.S. immigration agents at the Canadian border over the weekend, following escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran. Traveling Iranian Americans now fear being racially profiled by Customs and Border Protection as they re-enter the county.
CBP says they have enhanced security at ports of entry, according to NPR. Homeland Security is also on high alert as Iran’s leaders vowed they would retaliate for the U.S. airstrike that killed the military leader Qassem Soleimani. The country kept its promise yesterday when it fired over a dozen ballistic missiles at American bases in Iraq.
Today President Donald Trump announced an increase in sanctions on Iran, rather than using military force (right now), as a response.
Iranian Americans pay the price for U.S. conflicts in the middle east.
Roughly 200 Iranian Americans were held for up to 12 hours at the Peace Arch Border Crossing last weekend.
“I’ve heard from people who are saying they’re going to cancel their vacations,” said Jamal Abdi, president of the National Iranian American Council in Washington, D.C., told NPR. “They had planned to travel abroad or, you know, leave the country for spring break. And people are already saying we’re going to cancel those trips because we don’t know what we’re supposed to do.”
Travelers were detained and questioned, while some were denied re-entry into the U.S. The New York Times reported that a detained Iranian family told Masih Fouladi, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), that an agent told them: “This is a bad time to be an Iranian.”
“Those detained reported that their passports were confiscated and they were questioned about their political views and allegiances. CBP officials contacted at the Blaine Port of Entry provided no comment or reasons for the detentions,” Fouladi said in a statement. “We are working to verify reports of a broad nationwide directive to detain Iranian-Americans at ports of entry so that we can provide community members with accurate travel guidance.”
CBP denies that Iranian Americans were held and questioned at all.
“Social media posts that CBP is detaining Iranian Americans and refusing their entry into the U.S. because of their country of origin are false,” said Matt Leas, a spokesperson for CBP.
CBP instead claims that security has increased at ports of entry overall and that processing times at some ports had increased due to the holiday seasons. According to the New York Times, border officers are not allowed to refer someone to a secondary screening based on their national origin alone, but it is one of many factors. In fact, agents may place extra emphasis on the country of origin if it is one that can pose an alleged national security threat.
“If you were an Iranian citizen returning from the British Columbia, you would be sent to secondary as a result of the increased tension with that country,” Girl Kerlikowske, former commissioner of CBP, told the paper. “It wouldn’t be the main factor in many cases, but certainly in this particular instance the country of origin would be the determining factor.”
While CBP denied any wrongdoing, immigrants’ rights advocates and attorneys begged to differ. Representative Pramila Jayapal and Representative Adam Smith expressed their concerns about the matter.
“Let me be clear: Instituting xenophobic, shameful and unconstitutional policies that discriminate against innocent people, trample over basic civil rights, and put fear in the hearts of millions do not make us safer,” Jayapal said in a statement.
Many feel the treatment of Iranians is mimicking the circumstances that eventually led to Japanese internment during World War II.
The kind of racial targeting evokes the same sense of American racial paranoia that resulted in Japanese internment and rampant Islamophobia following the September 11, 2001 attack of the world trade center.
“It doesn’t make any sense, because these are individuals who are U.S. citizens and don’t have any individualized suspicion associated with them, other than the fact that they’re Iranian or of Iranian heritage,” Matt Adams, legal director of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project’s Seattle office, told Politico. “What’s clear is that they are being targeted for the secondary inspection because of their Iranian background, and there must be some kind of directive” to CBP officers to pull them over, he added.
Attorneys say detained Iranians were questioned about where they traveled in recent years, their work and education history, and were asked if they had family in the Iranian military. Iranian American historian John Ghazvinian was one of the 200 who was taken in for secondary questioning when he landed in JFK.
“Well, just landed at JFK and — no surprise — got taken to the special side room and got asked (among other things) how I feel about the situation with Iran,” Ghazvinian wrote in a tweet. “I wanted to be like: my book comes out in September, preorder now on amazon.”
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Political Wings (Kindle)
William Wedgwood Benn, first Viscount Stansgate
This is the first biography of Rt. Hon. William Wedgwood Benn DSO, DFC, first Viscount Stansgate, cabinet minister under MacDonald and Attlee, Air Commodore with active service in both World Wars, defector from the Liberals to Labour over his dispute with Lloyd George, and father of Tony Benn. Benn served in the army and RAF during the First World War (when he took part in the first parachute drop behind enemy lines at night) and in the Second World War he reached the rank of acting Air Commodore). His eldest son Michael, heir to the viscountcy, died on active service with the RAF, leaving his second son Tony to inherit the title and a seat in the House of Lords.
Before his death, Tony Benn gave extensive interviews for this book. His brother, David has also provided interviews and material, as have other members of the family including Stephen Benn (now the third Viscount Stansgate). Extensive paperwork left by William Wedgwood Benn (now in the Parliamentary Archives) including his diary and unfinished, unpublished autobiography were all utilised in the construction of this biography. Alun Wyburn-Powell has managed to construct a biographical study of real force, weaving together snippets from Benn's own private papers with insights from his family and colleagues in order to create an authentic impression of Benn and the times in which he lived.
Benefiting from the reminiscences of members of the Benn family, including the late Tony Benn, Wyburn-Powell draws a convincing picture of this, in some ways, rather eccentric individual.Journal of Liberal History 90
This is a fascinating book about a fascinating subject. Quite why William Wedgwood Benn has received little recognition is one of life's mysteries, but the author has done a good job of correcting this omission. P&S readers who have a strong military history interests will find this a very interesting book for the military experiences of Viscount Stansgate. Those interested in politics will find it one of the most fascinating books about a political figure. Those who have neither interests will still find this a very interesting biography and an illumination of some of the mysteries of left-wing politics in Britain.Firetrench
As a primer on the parliamentary system, this book shines, especially to a non-British readers.Over The Front - James Streckfuss
A stunning biography of William Wedgewood Benn, better known as the father of the veteran Labour politician, the late Tony Benn. Following his distinguished war record and many honours such as the DSO, DFG and Croix de Guerre.The Bulletin of The Military Historical Society
The in depth story of William Wedgewood Benn's real stature both as a serviceman and a politician in this book which spans both World Wars and beyond. It is written by a distinguished political historian and is particularly interesting and highly revealing and sure to appeal to both the historian and the student of political leadership.Pennant
The reader is left in little doubt that Tony Benn's father, who was awarded the DSO, DFC and Croix de Guerre, was a very special individual indeed. Above all, he was evidently an exceptionally decent man who successfully combined the qualities of both physical and moral courage. This is an unusual book that will appeal to both the military historian and student of political leadership.Pennant Magazine
Wyburn-Powell has written an important contribution to not only the history of the Liberal Party in England but also to the political life of the country more generally.LibraryThing
Most people will be far more familiar with the later generations of the Benn political dynasty including Tony Benn and his son Hilary. This book explores precisely how that dynasty was created and the formidable man behind it.
One is struck how far to the left the First Viscount Stansgate was on many issues and it certainly sheds light on Tony Benn’s later unflagging support of various underdog causes in a type of emulation of his father.
Overall one is left wanting to read more about the fascinating history of British politics in the interwar years where elections happened much more frequently and politicians were far more likely to cross the floor – in some cases back again not long after. As much as a personal history of William Wedgwood Benn, this book is also a history of the fall of the Liberal Party and the rise of the Labour Party with Benn as a participant and, at times, unsung catalyst.
Alun Wynburn-Powell has done an extraordinary job of research on William Wedgwood Benn who unlike his son Tony, did not publish extensive diaries in his lifetime. The writer also assumes the reader has some knowledge of the workings of parliament and the British political system. However, even with a rudimentary understanding and interest in Benn it should provide and enjoyable and informative read.
When anyone thinks of the British political dynasty they always start with Tony Benn the Second Viscount Stansgate, the man who disclaimed his title so he could sit in the House of Commons. The forgotten member of that dynasty is often William Wedgwood Benn, the first member of the family to be elected to Parliament then raised to the Lords. To many he is just the father of Tony not the beginning of a Political Dynasty.Amazon Reviewer - Paul Diggett
Political Wings by Alun Wyburn-Powell is one of the shortest political biographies of the year but also one of the most interesting, no wasted words here. This is one of the most well researched and engrossing reads that charts his rise from the East End to Parliament as well as becoming an Air Commodore to being a member of the government.
Like many Members of Parliament, he won and lost Parliamentary seats at elections but unlike many he went from the Liberal Party to the Labour Party when it really was new. How he represented two Scottish and two English Parliamentary seats, was offered a post by Lloyd George but went on to sit in a Labour Government. Benn at this time helped to enhance the Labour Party’s reputation, and was well known for his efficiency at attacking the Party’s opponents.
Benn, like his son would do to Chesterfield, lost Aberdeen due to neglecting the constituency work, but he had the excuse of a very heavy workload as a Cabinet Minister and Aberdeen not being easy to reach from London. In 1931 when he did lose the seat it could also be blamed on the very poor electoral showing of the Labour Party across the country, similar to that in 2015.
What I do like and that has been mentioned often even in recent times is where the Stansgate name came from, a flat pack home they built in Essex. The book tells of the career of William Benn’s father and how it had an impact upon William and some of the most interesting passages are the early years. There are also interesting passages concerning the First World War and very much the lack of accountability to Parliament then is very much the same as today.
One thing that both William had in common with his son Tony, is evident in this book in that they were both workaholics and neither ever really retired from the political sphere to take a backseat. What this book did do is remind me that Winston Churchill only ever did win one election that of 1951 but also he became a grandfather.
Political Wings is one of the most interesting reads about the start of a political dynasty that I have read in a long time. This book is clearly written and researched which makes it a pleasure to read without the padding of other books about the Benns. An important book from both a political and historical period when there was so much confusion in the early twentieth century, read and enjoy.
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Awarded the Best of British 'Book of the Month', August 2015.Best of British Magazine
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' With carefully researched detail Norfolk writer Alun Wyburn-Powell traces Benn's career through the roller-coaster politics of the first half of the twentieth century.'Norwich Evening News
An excellent job of weaving together the many strands of a complex life…as well as filling in the background of the Benn family.Richard Doherty, military historian
This brilliant biography casts light on an important overlooked figure. A must read for anyone wanting to understand British politics in the 20th century…wonderful reading about the father and in doing so discovering more about the son.Steve Richards, The Independent
The descriptions of his flying activities in seaplanes and later land planes over Egypt and Italy gives the reader a real insight into what it was like. There is no question of his bravery and 'press on' attitude…full of Boy's Own adventures.Norman Franks, aviation historian
William Wedgwood Benn, first Viscount Stansgate, was an important figure in the politics of the Left…casts much light on the evolution of British radicalism, and on the legacy which he bequeathed to his son, Tony.Professor Vernon Bogdanor, King's College, London
Sparkles with fascinating detail…a remarkable story of Liberal and Labour politics in the first half of the twentieth century.Michael Crick, Political Correspondent, Channel 4 News
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This name generator will give you 10 random names that closely resemble those of Aboriginal Australian town and place names today.
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The Polygon network announced on Tuesday its commitment to going carbon neutral and climate positive this year by releasing their “Green Manifesto: A Smart Contract with Planet Earth.” They also made a $20 million pledge to offset their carbon footprints, and buy extra credits to eventually become carbon negative.
— Polygon (@0xPolygon) April 12, 2022
Part of the Ethereum scaling solution’s plan for a more sustainable future includes providing resources for ecosystem partners who also want to offset their carbon footprint. Additionally, they hope to facilitate NGOs to make donations that go towards fighting climate change.
According to the company, the Green Manifesto places freedom “at the center of the Web3 ethos” and climate change as the biggest threat to that liberty. Going carbon neutral means that every NFT minted, token bridged or DeFi trade made on Polygon will be accounted for and its environmental impact is offset. Their long term vision is for the ecosystem to become the first blockchain to be what they call climate positive.
Polygon is collaborating with KlimaDAO, an organization of developers that provides on-chain carbon offsetting technology as well as Offsetra that provides Polygon with an analysis tool that gauges the network’s carbon intensity. By analyzing emissions from staking node hardware or bridging activities and the energy consumption from interacting with Ethereum Mainnet, the can better form a management strategy.
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Using Asbestos Soil Sample Testing in Queensland to Determine How to Proceed With a Project
The easiest safety threats to nullify are the ones that are easy to identify. Unfortunately, when it comes to asbestos, it is often not as easy to determine whether this dangerous material is present without testing a sample. You may already know that some old building materials are on site and are likely to contain asbestos, but a positive confirmation is necessary before you can make proper arrangements for removal. That’s simple enough — but what about when there are concerns asbestos may lurk elsewhere, like in the soil? Improper disposal or demolition in the past, or incidental contamination from work with asbestos that took place nearby, can trap fibres in the ground.
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Wind turbines promise to save our planet through free, clean energy.
But our wind is intermittent, seasonal and at best unreliable. GE, a major manufacturer of industrial scale turbines, has reported “the effective capacity of wind turbines in New York is 10 percent due to seasonal and daily patterns of wind generation being largely out of phase with New York electrical grid requirements.”
In Central New York, it is not likely our air conditioners will ever be run by electricity produced by wind power. To add insult to injury, grid managers need to keep a “hot backup” generator spinning to fill in electricity when the wind isn’t blowing. These backup generators run on fossil fuel and produce CO2 pollution. There is virtually no CO2 displacement by wind turbines.
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This spring, when I was teaching with Petar and Justin in Stockholm, I painted a dragon head. The figure was chosen to show the wide range of tricks and tools I use when illustrating.
In the sketching step I went for the clearest image I could: A profile/silhouette against a flat background. No nonsense and nothing to fuss up the reading. That is very graphically speaking because I did not do that completely, but that was the idea. A figure seen directly from the side is really boring and not very dramatic, so I lowered the angle bit so that we see the head from below thus looking up into the mouth. Also I turned the head of the dragon towards us giving the head structure a depth and a foreshortening that makes the image interesting. We are looking into the face rather than at it, if you know what I mean?
All the horns form arrow like lines into the face and the circle shapes in the scales and neck helps to emphasise shape and to further frame the face.
Inking and grey tones:
Next step for me is to draw the sketch more precise on a board and inking it. If I do not ink it I am afraid the pencil will be covered up to fast since I tend to work very opaque right from the beginning. I use the grey tones to add the value and create a guideline for light. I use black acrylics. I try to fill in all the darkest areas with total black, knowing that it will be toned later on.
In this case I was using an old board that had some scratches so I had to repair it with gesso and some other strange medium I found at a friends table right next to me.
I used a copy of the grey tone step for a colour test. I kind of new I was going to do a red dragon, and I kind of wanted to make a warmish rim light. that almost filled in the rest of the decisions. if the light from the side woul be warm I almost always use a cold colour for the parts in shadow. By choosing this temperature difference you get the most contrast and the best 3dimentionality, I think.
So the main colour would be Magenta and pink. The background should be in the same family as the figure to make the rim light stand out the most, so, once again, I smeared it with purple and some cobalt blue into it at the top. Well…all these colour match very well. For the eye I chose a sickly cold yellow to make it stand out the most. that particular colour has no place in here and acts as a splash and a very uneasy element. kind of what I needed. It could have been turquoise or orange, but I didn’t want to add any “new” colour and I already used yellow for the rim light.
I had only about 3 to 4 hours to paint the figure and I never reached the same level of contrast and kick that the rough has. I think I could have managed that with a couple of hours more.
what I tried to do was show how to make texture by simply letting the brush dance randomly over the face of the dragon and afterwards picking up on elements that could be dents or scales or scratches. also I tried to use many different colours within the red skin to make it seem alive instead of just red. I achieved that by dotting grey and purple and warm red into it.
One more thing I did very deliberate was to use different size of brushes. A flat size 16 for the blocking in colours, a round 12 for most of the rest of the painting, and a round size 2 for details like the eye and the highlights in the gum. the different size of strokes adds to the focus, since I used only the small brush in the most important areas and went more and more rough the further away from the eye and teeth.
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The sites shaped these buildings. Footprints are small to keep site excavation and foundation costs low. Rammed earth retaining walls create stability and yield access through the site ravine, complete with a natural creek and dense tree coverage.
To create the area required for four separate dwelling units, the buildings are maximum three stories tall. The central stairway doubles as both a light well and a play space below.
At only 20' wide, the south-facing buildings allow passive and active solar strategies to achieve the goal of net-zero energy usage.
The 4' on-center Tight Frame forms a cadence of space and light, with large venting picture glazing framing connections between interior and exterior. View-facing decks terrace up the site on top of circulation spaces.
Inside, the top floors opens up to the surrounding tree canopy and views beyond to Lake Washington, with glimpses of Mt. Baker.
Rammed earth retaining walls enhance the feeling of natural groundedness in this nature-rich site. As a material, rammed earth is locally sourced, renewable, and durable.
An attached ADU and a detached ADU help to increase lot density within Zoning allowances. The Environmentally Critical Area restrictions yielded very specific access opportunities and building locations.
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Format of Original
Taylor & Francis
Journal of Gerontological Social Work
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doi: 10.1080/01634372.2013.777684; PubMed Central: PMCID 4036675
Mediation is a process through which a third party facilitates discussion among disputing parties to help them identify interests and ideally reach an amicable solution. Elder mediation is a growing subspecialty to address conflicts involving older adults, primarily involving caregiving or finances. Mediation is theorized to empower participants but critics argue that it can exacerbate power imbalances among parties and coerce consensus. These contested claims are examined through study of a national caregiver mediation demonstration project. Study implications underscore the importance of gerontological social work expertise to ensure the empowerment of vulnerable older adults in mediation sessions.
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Bringing Physical Infrastructure Online for Energy Optimization
The phrase of the day used to be climate crisis. What we’re hearing now is climate action.
This is a promising transition that recognizes the need for us to act now. Solutions that can be implemented quickly and cost-effectively are required to ensure an energy future that is more sustainable, resilient, and equitable – one that creates jobs and opens doors in America’s new green economy.
While we know we can turn off the lights when not using them, for example, or even retrofit buildings and systems to reduce emissions, with the advancement of technologies we have available today, there’s even more we can do to achieve energy efficiency. This is the era of Active Efficiency.
By combining the digital and physical worlds, we can make our factories more agile and productive, we can make our buildings and grids more intelligent and efficient, and we can make our transportation more reliable and sustainable. With the Alliance to Save Energy and its Active Efficiency Collaborative, we’re working collectively to bring the physical world online and take advantage of the new technologies that are available to us now for a brighter energy future.
BUILDING INTEGRATION IN ACTION
Think about the transformation that’s happening in our built infrastructure as we connect it and bring it online: buildings are becoming smarter and more interconnected with distributed energy systems deployed onsite. With these technologies, we can both decarbonize our built environment and make it less expensive to operate and maintain.
This transition carries with it enormous opportunities for energy efficiency, which remains the most powerful, versatile, cost-effective, and bipartisan tool for meeting our energy needs. And with energy efficiency and renewables working together via clean buildings, we can unleash the full potential of Active Efficiency on the grid.
Therefore, at Siemens, we’re deploying and investing in technologies and services that intelligently connect energy systems to buildings and industry, with an eye toward reliability and smaller carbon footprints.
One area of focus is our work with cities, schools and campus environments, hospitals, etc., to install onsite energy efficiency solutions and renewable power systems. As one example, Siemens is working with the Javits Center in New York City, the busiest convention center in the U.S., to retrofit and re-engineer the campus to combine renewable energy solutions with both building management and energy management solutions. The result will be the largest rooftop solar installation in New York City, with nearly 3,000 solar panels and an energy storage system. By integrating energy efficiency approaches with the capabilities of smart and connected technologies and distributed energy resources, the Javits Center and Siemens are creating a model for an equitable, adaptable, decarbonized energy system that others can follow.
During Climate Week NYC, representatives from the Alliance to Save Energy, the Javits Center, Siemens and the New York Power Authority came together at The Nest Summit to discuss how can we ensure that buildings are not just sustainable, but that they are optimized to be resilient, hyper-efficient, people-centric and continue to be engines of our economy. You can view the panel, Building Back Better Starts with our Buildings, on-demand here.
TRANSPORTATION INTEGRATION IN ACTION
In the U.S., we’re seeing exponential growth of the electric vehicle market. Ford and SK Innovation, for example, recently committed to invest $11 billion in electric vehicle manufacturing plants in the U.S. This is Ford’s largest-ever single manufacturing investment in its 118-year history. As the transition to electrified transportation continues, we’ll see a dramatic reduction in carbon emissions. But those vehicles aren’t going anywhere unless they are charged – and we’re seeing increasingly innovative ways that EV charging infrastructure can impact the buildings in which it’s located.
Advanced EV chargers can interact with buildings via tools for monitoring and adjusting power demand, metering energy usage, and expanding network connectivity to electric vehicle service providers, buildings, and automation systems. This integration enables building managers to control the chargers and ensure they do not exceed building capacity and load management targets. The connectivity also provides data through a reporting dashboard to understand and monitor energy usage over time. And once electric vehicles have a real mass on the grid, we’ll reach a tipping point where there will be two-way flow of electricity – meaning electric vehicles could help power buildings during times of peak demand or outages.
The convergence of the virtual with the physical world is happening at the beginning of this decade of change. But it’s important to note: Active Efficiency is about integration – it’s not just clean transportation or clean buildings, but how those are interacting and bringing together technologies and practices to achieve a greater optimization of energy. At Siemens, we’re proud to partner with the Alliance to Save Energy to together work to achieve a healthier economy, a cleaner environment, and greater energy security. | <urn:uuid:96c01af8-8501-469e-ab5f-921a6a30ff4c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://activeefficiency.org/bringing-physical-infrastructure-online-energy-optimization/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.919312 | 1,038 | 2.328125 | 2 |
While the Internet of Things has had more than its share of hype, it's already having an impact on businesses large and small by providing immediate access to observable data.
Light Reading Editor-in-Chief Ray Le Maistre reported for Telco Transformation earlier this year from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, about WEF discussion on the coming industrial revolution -- driven by the Internet of Things.
"One of the really big… transformations going on in the [telco] industry at the moment…is around the business case around the Internet of Things -- and the next industrial revolution," related Le Maistre. "So at the World Economic Forum, that next industrial revolution was one of the big talking points."
Of course, "revolution" is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot as evangelists turn up the hype on whatever the digital-technology flavor of the month is. IoT is no stranger to this phenomenon, but "revolution" may well be the WEF's most apt term for it in this case because of what IoT technology is accomplishing now – and what it stands to accomplish in the future.
"The WEF calls this period a cyber-physical revolution [because] the proliferation of IoT devices, especially the ones with sensors, will allow for the digitalization of physical information," Lucy Lombardi, Telecom Italia's senior vice president of Innovation and Industry Relations, explained to Telco Transformation in an email interview on her company's IoT philosophy. "Once it is digitalized, it is not geolocalized; it is transferrable to any part of the globe [and] it is easy and cheap to copy."
The revolution, in this case, is thereby about the democratization of access to physically observable data. As such, it is completely changing the way large enterprises and small startups alike do business.
"We are at a point now where we can enable better consumer experiences without actually building anything," Kyle Seaman, director of Farm Technology for Freight Farms, told a nearly full audience at a breakout session during this month's Massachusetts Technology Council's Internet of Things Conference.
Seaman should know. Freight Farms, a barely six-year-old Boston startup, relies heavily on IoT technology to provide the foundation to the service element of its product: hydroponic farms -- yielding the equivalent of an acre and a half of crops --
housed inside of pharmaceutical-grade shipping containers. Freight Farms is partnered with Xively -- a division of LogMeIn that provides PaaS-enabled IoT solutions for enterprises, including a variety of web-based tools and developer resources, directory services for search accessibility and permission management, and data services for advanced analytics, reporting and resultant automation.
"I built all of our apps [on] our stack [and] it was only possible because I was consuming every API I could," said Seaman, all thanks to the DevOps resources available to him in the public cloud.
"You basically become a software-as-a-service company," observed Jeff Kaplan, managing director of cloud and IoT consultancy THINKstrategies, as he moderated the conference panel in which Seaman participated. "What the premise has been over the past few years is that the world is moving from products to services -- [and] the power of the cloud is making IoT bigger and better."
Physical data -- lots and lots of data -- lie at the heart of this cloud- and IoT-fueled market shift. The revolutionary part, for Kaplan, is that tangible, consumable products are not only generating this information treasure trove in real-time but also becoming redefined by it. Hence, explained Kaplan, IoT turns products into services -- services that have the potential for new, recurring revenue models.
"You start thinking about other business opportunities [with IoT]," said Kaplan.
For Paddy Srinivasan, general manager and vice president of Xively IoT (and another of Kaplan's panelists), IoT itself and the business opportunities it offers are no longer optional.
"The expectations are changing, [and] devices are now expected to be connected," noted Srinivasan, arguing that today's end user fully expects and demands connectivity for anything that costs $100 or more.
Accordingly, finding the right service provider and the right platform that can best self-actualize the business user through open APIs, web portals and other tools is vital to modern business agility.
"IoT especially is uncharted. We don't know [the] best... protocols. It's always messy," said Seaman. "By trying to go it alone, you're just disadvantaging yourself."
Ward Bowman, a principal software architect at General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) and Kaplan's third panelist, joined Seaman in emphasizing these points.
"You don't build anything yourself anymore; it's just impossible," said Bowman. "We work with IBM and Intel and say, 'Hey, come in and help us.' "
Srinivasan conceded that while IoT may still be a few years from maturity, the technology has grown by leaps and bounds over the past few years. Using Xively as an example, Srinivasan pointed out that his company is now able to measure progress for it customers -- something that used to take months -- within eight days.
"We can figure this out fast because this is what we do," said Srinivasan. "We are a software company, while hardware companies build other things."
"It would be totally different five years ago," agreed Bowman on the matter of heightened IoT and software-driven agility. "We actually see the platform as very important, [and] we are trying to build our platform to predict [user needs]."
In this way, noted Bowman, GE's focus is to empower its platform users. For startup technologists like Seaman, then, IoT is truly revolutionary because it puts the power in their hands -- providing the cloud- and web-based tools necessary to customize to their business needs on their own.
"I like to think of myself as a mechanic and not an engineer," quipped Seaman.
Bowman summed up the situation yet more succinctly: "You can't build it if you can't do it yourself."
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People are tripping on raised paving slabs, brickettes and infill repairs, some have been seriously injured and need care and expensive treatment in hospital.
Some visitors, residents, elderly, and disabled are deterred from using some streets as the risk of injury is very high.
East Sussex County Council is entrusted by us to provide a safe environment for us all to live in, and that includes sound pavements.
We call upon East Sussex County Council to allocate funding for a planned programme of improvements to Eastbourne pavements which are currently in a neglected condition and getting worse.
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Cryptocurrency has quickly grown in popularity, with 16% of Americans reporting they have used or invested in it, according to research by Pew. While fortunes have been made over the last several years by investing in cryptocurrencies, recent declines in the market have cost investors hundreds of billions of dollars. If you are looking to invest in crypto and don’t have the cash, can you borrow against your home’s equity to do it? Yes, but read this first.
- You can use money from a home equity loan for any purpose you wish, including investing.
- For borrowing to invest to make sense, your investment needs to grow at any interest rate greater than the one you’re paying on the loan.
- Cryptocurrencies are an extremely volatile asset class and gains aren’t guaranteed.
- If you can’t pay back your home equity loan, you could lose your home to foreclosure.
How Home Equity Loans Work
A home equity loan allows you to borrow against the equity you’ve accumulated in your home. You pay back the loan with fixed monthly payments over a set period of time, such as 10 or 20 years. By using your home as collateral you can benefit from a much lower interest rate than you’d get with unsecured debt like a credit card or personal loan.
However, because the loan is secured by your home, you run the risk that if you can’t keep up with the payments, the lender could foreclose and you could lose your home. In addition, if home prices fall and your home’s value decreases to the point where you owe more money on it than it is worth, you will be “underwater” on it. That can make it difficult or impossible to sell your home unless you can come up with additional money to pay off your lenders. This situation happened to thousands of Americans during the financial crisis of 2007-2008.
To qualify for a home equity loan, you will need to have at least 10% equity in your home (and often 15% or 20%), a good credit score, and proof of income sufficient to pay back the loan. The maximum you can borrow will be a percentage (such as 80%) of your equity.
How Investing in Cryptocurrencies With a Home Equity Loan Works
Lenders generally place no restrictions on how borrowers can use their home equity loan proceeds. So there is technically nothing stopping you from wagering a large chunk of the equity you’ve built in your family’s home on the cryptocurrency of your choice.
There are thousands of cryptocurrencies to choose from on cryptocurrency exchanges. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tether are a few of the best known, and new ones seem to come along every day.
Initial coin offerings (ICOs) can be especially risky. One recent academic study looked at nearly 6,000 of them and estimated that 40% were scams.
The Risks of Investing in Cryptocurrency
For investing in crypto (or anything else) with a home equity loan to make financial sense, you need, at a minimum, for your investment to increase in value by more than the interest rate you’re paying on the loan, after accounting for the relevant taxes on any investment gain. Under current rules, cryptocurrency gains are taxed at the same rate as other capital gains.
Let’s say you borrow $40,000 to invest in cryptocurrency and you are in the 15% capital gains tax bracket. If you take out a loan at 6% interest with no fees or closing costs, you will need your crypto investment to grow at an average annual rate of at least 7.06% to break even. That’s after accounting for interest on the home equity loan and capital gains tax on your crypto profits.
If you’re lucky, your crypto investment will grow at a rate many times that. But don’t count on it. While cryptocurrencies have delivered spectacular returns over certain periods, they are also exceptionally volatile, prone to large ups and downs. As of mid June 2022, for example, Bitcoin was down about 50% year to date. Other cryptocurrencies have fared worse. During that same time frame, TerraUSD, a so-called stablecoin, lost close to 99% of its value.
Can I Use a Home Equity Loan to Invest in Stocks?
Yes, you can use a home equity loan to invest in stocks or anything else. Stocks are also volatile but not to the same extent as cryptocurrency.
Can I Use a Home Equity Loan to Invest in Real Estate?
Yes, you can also use a home equity loan to invest in real estate. But, as with taking out a home equity loan for any other purpose, you’ll be putting your home at risk. While real estate may seem a safer and less exotic investment than crypto or stocks, it is rarely a sure thing, as many Americans learned when the housing bubble of the early 2000s burst in 2007.
Can I Get a Tax Deduction With My Home Equity Loan?
Under current law, you can get a tax deduction for the interest payments on a home equity loan only if you use the money to “buy, build, or substantially improve” the home that secures the loan. For people using a home equity loan to invest in cryptocurrency, no tax deduction applies.
The Bottom Line
You can use a home equity loan to buy cryptocurrency, but it is extraordinarily risky and could leave you out on the street. While the gains with some cryptocurrencies have been significant (at least in years past), the losses can be devastating—and have been quite recently. If you wouldn’t borrow against your home to bet on black at your local roulette table, you shouldn’t do it to buy crypto. | <urn:uuid:20f7ac03-a6dc-4171-84ce-da9e738cc00a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://amazinginformation.xyz/can-i-use-a-home-equity-loan-to-buy-crypto/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.962335 | 1,196 | 1.90625 | 2 |
While the big National HIV Prevention Conference in July sounded the alarm over last year’s 7.1 percent rise in new gay HIV cases, a recent University of California, San Diego study accentuated the positive—387 positive gay men, that is. UCSD researchers found that one-on-one behavioral counseling reduced HIVers’ risky rides with neg or unknown-status partners by 71 percent. “Safer sex is a social skill,” says Jim Zians of the university’s Edge Research Project. “We want to help people bring health into their social world.” Busting out of the generic use-a-condom-every-time box, the shrink sessions role-played HIV disclosure and condom negotiation (two distinct processes, Zians says) while helping guys eroticize safe sex. “We use a list of foreplay things that don’t involve penetration—strip poker, licking testicles, toe sucking—if you don’t have a condom,” Zians says. Helping HIVers keep their partners negative benefits everyone, says Columbia University psychologist Robert Remien. “We must involve HIVers in prevention efforts for their own well-being and that of the whole community, treating them as a whole person, with a need for sex and intimacy.”
Zians’ 5 tips for saying “I’m positive”:
- KEEP IT PERSONAL: Try “I like to be up-front about things….”
- DON’T APOLOGIZE: Be honest—but not sorry—for having HIV.
- DO DESIRE: Stress how attractive you find your partner. It’s about sex!
- KEEP IT UP: Stay, er, positive. Save your seroconversion story for later.
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Walking on Ocean Plastic
Adidas is stepping up the game in the shoe industry by upcycling plastic in the ocean. They are turning this plastic into yarn that in 2018, they were able to create over 5 million pairs of shoes with. Their goal in 2019 has increased to 11 million pairs due to an incredible consumer demand.
Adidas hasn’t stopped there. They are the first to use recycled plastic to make football jerseys that the 2018 University of Miami Hurricanes wore. The yarn used for their jerseys came from fishing nets and other plastic pollutants in the ocean.
As the temperature gets warmer and one of my favorite holidays nears (more on Earth Day here), it’s even easier to get outside and do well for the environment. Whether you are individually doing something (trying zero-waste or simply picking up trash on your walk during lunch) or setting goals for your company to be environmentally sustainable, thinkspace would like to hear about it! Let’s celebrate all we do for the earth and share it so others can be inspired. It’s easy to forget that a lot of little small things add up to make a big difference. | <urn:uuid:73f462b9-765f-47f6-badf-9f1991ec4ce6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thinkspace.com/walking-on-ocean-plastic/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.94693 | 239 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Google seeks to position the results that coincide with the search intention of users , so if your great mission is to be on the first page of the search engine , you must convince them that you really answer people’s questions and deliver valuable content. And this can only be achieved if you are willing to write correctly and extensively on the subject in which you want to classify, since if you have thin content, it is very possible that your content will not be exposed as the best result in the search engine .
But what is this content about and how does it negatively affect your search ranking? Find out these Antarctica Email Lists and more by reading this article to the end! What is thin content? The thin content is that content of a web page that does not add any value to the reader .
Being, in short, one of the actions opposed to SEO strategies. Google measures the qualities of the text according to the published content, the links and the structure, and if it finds something wrong and unethical, it lists it as “thin content”. However, it is important to mention that short-length content is not necessarily thin content . That is, if your content is 200 words and according to Google’s algorithms, it meets the expectations of the reader, it will be valid, only that its probability of positioning will be much lower than that of a longer one.
Tips de thin content There are a number of patterns that allow us to identify and classify “thin content.” And these are: Duplicate or stolen content If a content does not provide information that is different or relevant to that provided by your competitors, it will not be recognized by Google and, in most cases, you will be penalized by search engines . But this is not the only duplicate content that Google considers, it also includes: Those that are copied and rewritten with slight adaptations. Those translated from another language and included directly to your website, without a link to the original post to reference it.
Content lacking in depth or usefulness It’s one thing to talk about a product review in 200-word content, and it’s another to write an article whose keyword is ” content marketing ” and whose length is the same. In the second case, Google will perceive that the content is scarce and that it barely skims the surface of the important topic. Content flooded with ads They are those articles that only show ads and calls to action, and that do not have useful information. In this case the ads cover the content, appear in the upper half of the page and / or require user actions to discard them.
To avoid being sanctioned by Google make sure that these are secondary to the content. Low-quality affiliate content They are contents that only offer affiliate links and do not provide relevant or useful information for the end user. And, to avoid falling into this thin content, we must ensure that the content has a greater purpose than the affiliate offer and focuses on giving affiliate opportunities that coincide with the sector of the web. Empty or semi-empty pages Not only are they pages with little content but also it does not contribute anything, they have few filters worked and / or tags generated with little care and without following SEO strategies. | <urn:uuid:e61b5fd8-e278-4a67-a0df-a7fe4accef2b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.agbdirectory.com/seo-for-fintechs-how-to-position-your-brand-at-the-top-of-google/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.939544 | 656 | 1.828125 | 2 |
By Brandon Walker EBS COMMUNITY EDITOR
BIG SKY – As the looming May 5 vote for a 1 percent increase in resort tax approaches, two Bozeman-based engineering groups recently presented the findings of a feasibility study regarding the financial and environmental impact of a possible canyon water and sewer district.
The Gallatin River Task Force contracted the study, funding research by engineering firms WGM Group and AE2S, with resort tax dollars.
On the evening of March 5 at Buck’s T-4 Lodge, representatives Mace Mangold of WGM Group, and Scott Buecker from AE2S, presented two different avenues that the theoretical canyon water and sewer district could take. The glaring difference between the two was from a cost standpoint.
The first scenario, entitled ‘Go it alone’ in Buecker and Mangold’s presentation, detailed the formation of the new district with no assistance or collaboration with the existing Big Sky County Water and Sewer District. In this instance, the new district would not benefit from the $12 million allocated to the construction of a lift station, which would be funded by the proposed resort tax increase, if passed. Instead, that cost, as well as all other necessary expenditures, would fall onto the shoulders of canyon district homeowners alone.
The second scenario, entitled ‘Co-Solution’ in the presentation, covered how everything could unfold if the new district worked in collaboration with the BSCWSD. In addition to covering the $12 million lift station price tag, a portion of the financial load would also be dispersed between BSCWSD clients as well as those in the new canyon district.
In total, if the proposed canyon water and sewer district were to proceed without the assistance of BSCWSD, it would be saddled with a nearly $30 million bill, according to the Buecker and Mangold’s presentation. That number is just shy of a $3 million difference in total cost, between the more expensive ‘Go it alone’ scenario and the ‘Co-Solution’ scenario, which totals $26.2 million. Aside from the larger overall price tag, if the new canyon district didn’t work in conjunction with BSCWSD, they would also miss out on benefitting from the $12 million dollars set aside for the aforementioned lift station, if the resort tax increase passes.
“I think, in a traditional setting where resort tax isn’t available, these projects would stall in the feasibility phase, and they wouldn’t move forward,” Mangold said. “In the resort tax setting, they’re already showing support with this $12 million option to voters. I sense they are behind this effort in terms of…looking to motivate it.”
Currently, Mangold said the general public in the canyon is tasked with the process of the formation of their own water and sewer district. “There’s no entity right now to steer it. It has to be a general public within this potential service area,” Mangold said. | <urn:uuid:4d832a7d-9fc4-405c-b9f3-1044217f1ea7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.explorebigsky.com/canyon-wastewater-feasibility-study-results-are-in/33297 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.957746 | 638 | 1.664063 | 2 |
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Author Bio for Oxley, James Macdonald
James MacDonald Oxley (1855-1907) was a Canadian author of juvenile fiction. Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, he attended Dalhousie University and Harvard. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1878. He ended up working for the Sun Life Assurance Company and spent the remainder of his life working for them in Toronto. He started writing in 1889 and wrote 31 books for boys - adventure tales centered around the theme of a boy whose courage is tested in the wilderness. Many of his books have remote settings but some of them featured his native Nova Scotia such as "The Wreckers of Sable Island" and "In Paths of Peril" both of which are available on Faded Page. (Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature)
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