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Thomas Gordon Poston (October 17, 1921 – April 30, 2007) was an American television and film actor. He starred on television in a career that began in 1950. He appeared as a comic actor, game show panelist, comedy/variety show host, film actor, television actor, and Broadway performer. According to USA Today Life editor Dennis Moore, Poston appeared in more sitcoms than any other actor. In the 1980s, he played George Utley, opposite Bob Newhart's character on Newhart.
Poston was born in Columbus, Ohio, the son of George and Margaret Poston; his father was a liquor salesman and dairy chemist. After completing high school, Tom Poston attended Bethany College in West Virginia, but did not graduate. While there, he joined Sigma Nu Fraternity.
He joined the United States Army Air Forces in 1941. Accepted to officer candidate school and then graduating from flight training, Poston served as a pilot in the European Theater in World War II; his aircraft dropped paratroopers for the Normandy invasion. Poston served in North Africa, Italy, France, and England. After his discharge, he began studying acting in New York City graduating from the American Academy for Dramatic Arts. | <urn:uuid:80717a4b-d284-4dc2-9c8d-6379d6ff0d95> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wn.com/Tom_Poston | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.983688 | 256 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Border watchdog plan greeted warily by advocates of stronger review
OTTAWA — A federally commissioned blueprint for a new watchdog to review Canada’s border agency has some worried it lacks the necessary bite to ensure true accountability.
January 4, 2018 By The Canadian Press
A report produced for Public Safety Canada says the government should establish an independent body to handle public complaints about the Canada Border Services Agency.
The report, released under the Access to Information Act, also recommends the watchdog be able to look into trends and any systemic problems at the border services agency.
The power to conduct systemic reviews would be positive, said Josh Paterson, executive director of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, which was consulted for the report.
But the suggested complaint mechanism falls short in Paterson’s eyes because the border agency itself would first investigate any complaint. Only if that investigation fails to resolve the issue would the watchdog look into the matter.
“If the federal government follows this recommendation, it would be adopting the wrong model,” Paterson said Tuesday.
The suggested new watchdog, the Canada Law Enforcement Review Commission, would keep an eye on both the border agency and the RCMP, given the frequent overlap between the two enforcement organizations.
It would be led by a chair, have four or five commissioners, and authority to compel documents and witnesses.
The report, by former Privy Council chief Mel Cappe, says the watchdog should also have power to:
• Initiate reviews and take direction from the minister to look into issues.
• Dismiss frivolous complaints.
• Share information with other review bodies and “follow the thread” of evidence.
• Issue non-binding recommendations to the RCMP and border agency — leaving it up to the agency heads to decide whether and how to adopt them, in order to preserve accountability.
Edmonton criminal lawyer Tom Engel balks at the idea of recommendations that could be ignored by the agencies.
“It is folly to suggest this will preserve accountability, as if there is any,” he said. “It will certainly not enhance it.”
The border agency collects, analyzes and distributes information concerning people and goods at border points, air terminals and seaports. Border officers can stop travellers for questioning, take blood and breath samples, and search, detain and arrest citizens and non-citizens without a warrant.
The border agency has come under pressure in recent years to be more forthcoming about its role in immigration detention following in-custody deaths.
Janet Dench, executive director of the Canadian Council for Refugees, applauded Cappe’s insistence on an independent watchdog, not an internal ombudsman.
But Dench, who was also consulted for the report, said it is important to allow third parties to make complaints, as refugees and other vulnerable people are often wary of filing grievances with officials.
Any review body must also be able to offer redress, she said, such as to someone who is wrongly removed from Canada due to border agency actions.
Dench hopes a new watchdog materializes sooner rather than later.
“We’re very anxious to see movement. We’ve been asking for this for decades.”
The government says it is working on legislation to create an “appropriate mechanism” to review CBSA officer conduct and handle complaints. Separately, it has already taken steps to bolster review of the border agency’s national security activities.
– Jim Bronskill
News from © Canadian Press Enterprises Inc., 2017
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Data in their many forms, are one of Juniata College’s most important assets. In every area, and at every level of the campus, members of the campus community are managing or using campus data. As with other assets, (i.e., financial, physical) managing data requires each of us to take responsibility for its reliability and security. The integrity of data must be protected against threats such as unauthorized intrusions, malicious misuse, or inadvertent compromise. While we cannot perfectly protect data, we can implement responsible management practices that improve both the confidentiality and accuracy of our data while reducing overall risk and liability to individuals, departments and the campus.
Data management is one of the essential areas of responsible conduct of research, as outlined in Juniata’s Responsible Conduct of Research Policy (http://services.juniata.edu/catalog/policies/?section=view&policy=1289)
The National Science Foundation now requires all proposals to include plans for data management and sharing of the products of research. Please note that a valid Data Management Plan may include only the statement that no detailed plan is needed, as long as the statement is accompanied by a clear justification. FastLane will not permit submission of a proposal that is missing a Data Management Plan. The Data Management Plan will be reviewed as part of the intellectual merit or broader impacts of the proposal, or both, as appropriate.
The information here is meant to assist PIs in developing a Data Management Plan, as required by NSF. Much of the information provided is directly from the NSFGrant Proposal Guide.
This policy applies to all Juniata College employees, students, and other members of the campus community who are performing federally funded research. Responsibility for data management resides with the office of the Vice President for Finance & Operations.
Research dataare formally defined as “the recorded factual material commonly accepted in the scientific community as necessary to validate research findings” by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (1999).
The basic level of digital data to be archived and made available includes (1) analyzed data and (2) the metadata that define how these data were generated. These are data that are or that should be published in theses, dissertations, refereed journal articles, supplemental data attachments for manuscripts, books and book chapters, and other print or electronic publication formats.
- Analyzed data are (but are not restricted to) digital information that would be published, including digital images, published tables, and tables of the numbers used for making published graphs.
- Necessary metadata are (but are not restricted to) descriptions or suitable citations of experiments, apparatuses, raw materials, computational codes, and computer-calculation input conditions.
Data not included at the basic level in the Office of Management and Budget statement (1999) is defined as “preliminary analyses, drafts of scientific papers, plans for future research, peer reviews, or communications with colleagues.” Raw data fall into the category of “preliminary analyses.”
Juniata College holds that data ownership will be determined based on conditions imposed by the funders, research institutions and data sources. Faculty and students will be held responsible to be fully aware of all provisions stated in their contracts with the funding organizations. .
Juniata College will not be held responsible for any stolen, damaged or loss data. It is the responsibility of the researcher to insure the safety of the information collected.
Data retention and data sharing depend on the funders’ preferences. Faculty and students are expected to be familiar, and abide with, Freedom of Information Act requests once their data is published. However, in practice Juniata adheres to the principles of data management consistent with and recommended by the National Institutes of Health.
For more information on this topic see:
Tutorial - Clinical Tools, Inc. - Guidelines for Responsible Data Management in Scientific Research
NSF Data Management Plan Requirements
The NSF site has full policy information on the NSF website -
The policy includes:
The plan should describe how the proposal will conform to NSF policy on the dissemination
and sharing of research results (see AAG Chapter VI.D.4), and may include:
1. the types of data, samples, physical collections, software, curriculum materials, and other materials to be produced in the course of the project;
2. the standards to be used for data and metadata format and content (where existing standards are absent or deemed inadequate, this should be documented along with any proposed solutions or remedies);
3. policies for access and sharing including provisions for appropriate protection of privacy, confidentiality, security, intellectual property, or other rights or requirements;
4. policies and provisions for re-use, re-distribution, and the production of derivatives; and
5. plans for archiving data, samples, and other research products, and for preservation of access to them.
- Data management requirements and plans specific to the Directorate, Office, Division, Program, or other NSF unit, relevant to a proposal are available at: http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/dmp.jsp. Specific plans are available for the following Directorates and Programs:
- Engineering Directorate (ENG)
- Geological Sciences Directories (GEO)
- Division of Earth Sciences
- Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
- Division of Ocean Sciences
- Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate (MPS)
- Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate (SBE)
- If guidance specific to the program is not available, then the requirements established in this document apply.
Other Items to consider:
- Simultaneously submitted collaborative proposals and proposals that include sub-awards are a single unified project and should include only one supplemental combined Data Management
- Plan, regardless of the number of non-lead collaborative proposals or sub-awards included.
- Proposals for supplementary support to an existing award are not required to include a Data Management Plan.
- A valid Data Management Plan may include only the statement that no detailed plan is needed, as long as the statement is accompanied by a clear justification.
- Proposers who feel that the plan cannot fit within the supplement limit of two pages may use part of the 15-page Project Description for additional data management information. Proposers are advised that the Data Management Plan may not be used to circumvent the 15-page Project Description limitation. The Data Management Plan will be reviewed as an integral part of the proposal, coming under Intellectual Merit or Broader Impacts or both, as appropriate for the scientific community of relevance.
Creating a Data Management Plan
Planning data management ahead of time saves time and resources in the long run and ensures that data will be usable in the future.
Topics to cover in a written plan include:
- description of the project: purpose of the research, organizations and staff involved
- name of the persons responsible for data management, during your research project and over time; how you will ensure adherence to the plan over time
- description of data to be collected, method of collection, its nature and format
- explanation of how data will be documented throughout the research project
- discussion of data quality issues
- description of your short-term and long-term storage and preservation plans, including backup procedures
- explanation of how you will make the data available for public use and potential secondary uses
- explanation of your plans to preserve the data and ensure a long-lived format
- description of any arrangements that might be needed to protect participant confidentiality or intellectual property; any other legal or ethical considerations
Links to many examples and models: http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/subjects/data-management/plans.html
NSF Data Management & Sharing Frequently Asked Questions (updated 11/30/10)
From the NSF website http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/dmpfaqs.jsp
Juniata College Record Retention and Destruction Policy
1. What constitutes “data” covered by a Data Management Plan?
What constitutes such data will be determined by the community of interest through the process of peer review and program management. This may include, but is not limited to: data, publications, samples, physical collections, software and models.
2. Is a plan for Data Management required if my project is not expected to generate data or samples?
Yes. It is acceptable to state in the Data Management Plan that the project is not anticipated to generate data or samples that require management and/or sharing. PIs should note that the statement will be subject to peer review.
3. Am I required to deposit my data in a public database?
What constitutes reasonable data management and access will be determined by the community of interest through the process of peer review and program management. In many cases, these standards already exist, but are likely to evolve as new technologies and resources become available.
4. There is no public database for my type of data. What can I do to provide data access?
Contact the cognizant NSF Program Officer for assistance in this situation.
5. Should the budget and its justification specifically address the costs of implementing the Data Management Plan?
Yes. As long as the costs are allowable in accordance with the applicable cost principles, and necessary to implement the Data Management Plan, such costs may be included (typically on Line G2) of the proposal budget, and justified in the budget justification.
6. My institution's policy is that the data and all supporting materials from all research are owned and must remain with the institution if I leave. How does this policy affect what I can say about data management and access?
Data maintenance and archieving by an institution is one avenue by which data preservation and access can be achieved. However, the data access plan must address the institutional strategy for providing access to relevant data and supporting materials.
7. Does data management and access include supporting documentation and metadata, such as validation protocols, field notebooks, etc.?
All researchers are expected to be able to explain and defend their results. Doing so usually entails maintaining complete records of how data were collected. The manner in which one maintains such records and makes them available to others will vary from project to project. What constitutes reasonable procedures will be determined by the community of interest through the process of peer review and program management. These standards are likely to evolve as new technologies and resources become available.
8. How long should data be archived and made accessible?
What constitute reasonable procedures will be determined by the community of interest through the process of peer review and program management.
9. Does this policy mean that I must make my data available immediately, even before publication?
Not necessarily. The expectation is that all data will be made available after a reasonable length of time. However, what constitutes a reasonable length of time will be determined by the community of interest through the process of peer review and program management.
10. What are NSF’s expectations regarding the release of data that include sensitive information (e.g., information about individuals or locations of endangered species)?
Such data must be maintained and released in accordance with appropriate standards for protecting privacy rights and maintaining the confidentiality of respondents. Within legal constraints, what constitutes reasonable data access will be determined by the community of interest through the process of peer review and program management.
11. My data include information of potential commercial value. Am I required to make that information available?
Not necessarily. It is NSF’s strong expectation that investigators will share with other researchers, at no more than incremental cost and within a reasonable time, the primary data, samples, physical collections and other supporting materials created or gathered in the course of work under NSF grants. However, it is also necessary to protect intellectual property rights and potential commercial value. The Data Management Plan should describe the proposed approach, which will then be subject to peer review and program management. (For example, research use of sensitive data is often allowed through reasonable binding agreements that contain confidentiality provisions.)
12. Does NSF have particular requirements for archiving and accessibility of samples, physical collections and so forth?
No. If appropriate, your Data Management Plan should describe the types of samples, and/or collections, etc., that you will use, as well as personal, institutional or other repositories for archiving and providing access to others. What constitutes reasonable archiving and accessibility will be determined by the community of interest through the process of peer review and program management.
13. Does NSF have particular requirements for what types of samples, physical collections, and so forth should be saved?
No. What constitutes reasonable requirements will be determined by the community of interest through the process of peer review and program management. These standards are likely to evolve as new technologies and resources become available.
14. If data or samples are requested before I have completed all analyses on them, must I share them?
No. The expectation is that all data will be made available after a reasonable length of time. One standard of timeliness is to make the data or samples accessible immediately after publication. However, what constitutes a reasonable length of time will be determined by the community of interest through the process of peer review and program management
15. How does this policy relate to the issue of open access publishing?
Open-access publishing (making all published articles freely available) is a separate issue that is not addressed in the implementation of the data management plan requirement.
16. If I participate in a collaborative international research project, do I need to be concerned with data management policies established by institutions outside the United States?
Yes. There may be cases where data management plans are affected by formal data protocols established by large international research consortia or set forth in formal science and technology agreements signed by the United States Government and foreign counterparts. Be sure to discuss this issue with your sponsored projects office (or equivalent) and your international research partner when first planning your collaboration.
17. My proposal is interdisciplinary and there are multiple sets of guidance to follow on NSF's website (http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/dmp.jsp), which one do I follow?
All proposals are submitted to a lead program, with the option to specify other programs that the PI would like to consider the project. If the guidance appropriate to the lead program applies, it should be followed. Otherwise, provide a clear explanation of what you would do if the project were funded. Bear in mind that the merit review is conducted by colleagues from the communities of relevance and that your plan should be convincing to them. It should also be commensurate with the level of effort requested and required, and appropriate to the long-term value and benefit to your colleagues of any generated data products. | <urn:uuid:abe9b80d-4efc-4798-a33b-9b525bc20551> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.juniata.edu/about/presidents-office/policies/instituitional/data-mgmt.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.919617 | 3,108 | 1.828125 | 2 |
William Morgan combined elements from baseball, basketball, handball, and tennis to create volleyball.
1895 - William G. Morgan invents the game of volleyball
The four sports that were brought into the case of creating volleyball were tennis and handball, basketball and baseball. Since the creation, baseball isn't as seen in the game of volleyball. When created, volleyball consisted of 9 innings with each team allowed three serves in each inning.
well... people like William g. Morgan mixed lots of sports together and the names to come up with volleyball.
Basketball - James Naismith (Canadian)Volleyball - William G. Morgan (United States American)
Volleyball was invented in 1985 by William G. Morgan. He invented it for his businessmen as a form of entertainment that was still competitive and enjoyable, but not as physically aggressive as basketball and other sports. At the time in was called mintonette, but over the years, the name volleyball was established.
WILLIAM JOHN MORGAN has written: 'WHY SPORTS MORALLY MATTER'
Football and tennis
William P. Morgan has written: 'Contemporary readings in sport psychology' -- subject(s): Psychological aspects, Psychological aspects of Sports, Sports
Prince William has played sports such as volleyball, cricket and water polo. Prince William is the son of Prince Charles and Princess Diana and is currently married to Kate Middleton.
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We measured the efficacy of an animal-activated scarecrow (AAS) and a 5-strand monofilament fence (MF) at reducing white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) use of 0.4-ha soybean plots in Missouri, USA. Our study design consisted of 9 soybean plots; 3 served as controls, 3 were surrounded by an MF, and 3 were surrounded by an AAS. Data collected for each protected plot included soybean height and weight taken from within and immediately adjacent to 10 unprotected, equally spaced 1 -m2 exclosures. A measure of deer use for each plot was collected with video cameras. A mixed-effects analysis of variance (ANOVA) indicated that heights of protected and unprotected soybean plants were significantly different for MF plots (F2 =93.6, P=0.01) and controls (F2 =47.6, P= 0.02) but not different for AAS plots (F2=2.16, P=0.272). Soybean plants in AAS plots were heavier than those from MF or control plots (F2 =10.2, P=0.01). Plant weight differences in protected and unprotected areas for AAS plots were less than those from MF plots (t6=2.55, P=0.04) or control plots (t6=4.46, P=0.004). Plant weight differences between MF and control plots were marginally significant (t6= 1.192, P=0.10). Deer spent less time in AAS plots than MF (t6=2.55, P=0.041 or control plots (t6=2.55, P= 0.01). Scarecrow activations increased over time in all 3 AAS plots (all 95% confidence intervals >0), suggesting that deer were habituating to the devices. We suggest that AAS may be useful for short-term deterrence of deer from small areas. | <urn:uuid:2e8a5ff3-eb38-49c1-9792-baeb67b650f1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/icwdm_usdanwrc/283/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.95859 | 426 | 2.328125 | 2 |
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — At a pretrial hearing in the case against the accused mastermind of the USS Cole bombing, a former Army interrogator — nicknamed the “King of Torture” — said he subjected a prisoner held at Bagram prison in Afghanistan to days of sleep deprivation and stress positions.
But prosecutors argued Friday that the treatment of the prisoner did not meet the legal threshold for torture.
The United States accuses Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi Arabian citizen, of being the mastermind behind the bombing of the USS Cole while it was refueling in the port of Aden, Yemen, in 2000. The attack killed 17 sailors and wounded close to 40. Al-Nashiri has been held at Guantanamo Bay since 2006 after being detained for several years by the CIA.
Despite over a decade of pre-trial hearings, his case has yet to reach trial.
At the heart of the case sits the evidence the government intends to use against al-Nashiri, much of which defense attorneys say is tainted because it was obtained through torture.
On Thursday, Damien Corsetti testified he was part of the interrogation team for Ahmed al-Darbi, an admitted al-Qaida terrorist, and described in detail the techniques used against him to solicit compliance in 2002. Al-Darbi later went on to give officials evidence against al-Nashiri and was eventually held at Guantanamo Bay before his release in 2018.
Al-Darbi and Corsetti first met in August 2002 when Corsetti took part in al-Darbi’s prison’s intake procedure. During the process, al-Darbi was stripped naked and subjected to a cavity search before being evaluated, Corsetti said.
At that point, Corsetti said, al-Darbi was evaluated to be “highly knowledgeable and not cooperative.” But that would soon change. After six weeks of being subjected to Corsetti’s actions, Corsetti said that it was his understanding that al-Darbi became “compliant.”
Following al-Darbi’s intake, military interrogators forced him to undergo a process called “monstering,” Corsetti said, describing a 72-hour procedure of around-the-clock stress positions and interrogations.
Although his official title was “interrogator,” Corsetti said his role in al-Darbi’s interrogations wasn’t to ask questions but to achieve compliance. Over the course of 20 to 30 sessions conducted over six weeks, Corsetti said he smashed furniture against the walls, yelled and even used al-Darbi as a human “ashtray” while he sat and read a book.
On one occasion, Corsetti said he required al-Darbi to clean up gallons of human waste and diesel fuel that had spilled from the make-shift toilet in the prisoners’ cages using two pieces of cardboard.
Throughout the later portion of Corsetti’s time with the detainee, the two agents dispatched from the FBI also began to question al-Darbi — a process that lasted several months and resulted in some of the evidence the prosecution wants to use during trial.
The two agents have since testified that al-Darbi appeared in fine condition during their interviews and did not complain about his treatment.
On Friday, prosecutors argued that while Corsetti’s treatment toward al-Darbi was “unpleasant,” it did not qualify as torture under its legal definition. Nor did the treatment qualify as cruel, inhumane or degrading, according to the prosecution.
To qualify, Corsetti’s actions would have needed to be more extreme and have a greater degree of damage, the prosecution said, citing the FBI agents’ testimony.
“They [the prosecution] are asking us to set aside what we know to be abhorrent,” said Lt. Alaric Piette, a member of al-Nashiri’s defense team.
Corsetti was initially hesitant to testify and said he planned to invoke his right against self-incrimination. However, he was ineligible for the right, according to the judge, Army Col. Lanny J. Acosta Jr., because the statute of the limitations has expired.
The former Army interrogator was previously charged with several crimes related to his treatment of detainees, although a military jury eventually cleared him of all charges
The court is expected to hear testimony next week from James Mitchell, one of the architects of the CIA’s torture program. After being taken into U.S. custody in 2002, the CIA tortured al-Nashiri through its “enhanced integration methods” at its secret black site prisons.
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This FAO regional TCP project to support the piloting of selected aquaculture planning and management tools in three selected ASEAN members was approved in 2015 and is being implemented currently in three participating countries, namely Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam. As the important activity of the Regional TCP project, regional training workshop for trainers on four aquaculture planning and management tools identified as the priority tools for piloting were organized in Bangkok in November 2016 covering: 1. Aquaculture ecological carrying capacity assessment; 2. Aquaculture feasibility study; 3. Aquaculture farm level biosecurity control; and 4. Aquaculture traceability system. | <urn:uuid:fbf68e97-0e03-44d5-90b0-f52d2f57c78b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.aets-consultants.com/projects/economic-development/piloting-of-aquaculture-planning-and-management-tools-in-selected-asean-members | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.932166 | 130 | 1.65625 | 2 |
On this day 47 years ago, ‘Sesame Street’ made TV history
5 Undefeated ‘Sesame Street’ moments
On Nov. 10, 1969, Sesame Street broke barriers by bringing diversity and inclusion to television through a mixture of actors and relatable puppets.
When the song “Sunny days sweeping the clouds away, on my way to where the air is sweet. Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street?” rang throughout households all over the world, children and adults tuned in.
On Thursday, the classic, groundbreaking, educational show turns 47 years old and the show is still going. After a long stint on PBS, Sesame Street can now be seen on HBO. Big Bird still leads the way with a cast of characters, including Bert and Ernie, Elmo, Oscar the Grouch, The Count and Grover, who dish out basic learning principles and diversity. Sesame Street can be congratulated for bringing characters of color such as Maria and Gordon into the homes of viewers all over.
Check out five of The Undefeated’s favorite Sesame Street moments.
James Earl Jones presents the alphabet
Destiny’s Child teaches Grover A New Way to Walk
Christopher Reeve and Ernie chop it up.
A pep talk from Kid President and Grover!
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Understanding this risk is the underlying philosophy of the Geotechnical Engineering degree from University of Leeds. It brings together expertise to ensure that you’ll have the understanding and skills to address a range of geotechnical problems including shallow and deep foundations, soil structure interaction, ground as a source of energy, environmental geotechnics, and slope and ground stabilisation.
Geotechnical engineers integrate the skills of investigation, characterisation, analysis and design to deal with uncertainty and risk within a business context. These skills are developed in six core modules: Geotechnical Investigation and Characterisation; Groundwater Pollution and Contaminated Land; Geotechnical Engineering; Foundation Engineering; Energy Geotechnics; and Constitutive Models and Numerical Analysis.
You will also undertake a research project and an integrated design project related to transport infrastructure, which give you the opportunity to address complex problems encountered in practice.
There is an international shortage of geotechnical engineers. The most significant risk for any construction project is the ground. Geotechnical engineers bring together the underpinning geological science and the practical engineering aspects of the ground to deal with uncertainty. These three facts mean that anyone with advanced knowledge of geotechnical engineering will have a rewarding career across a broad sector of design and construction since all civil and geotechnical engineering projects require geotechnical expertise.
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Why do we require ear wax? Ear wax is a naturally taking place substance which helps in the function and defense of the ear. Some people however, generate huge quantities which might need to be gotten rid of if it triggers troubles. What is Microsuction? This is a treatment utilizing a microscopic lense, where the expert makes use of a little steel suction tube to get rid of ear wax. It is a safer option to ear syringing.
Our advanced video otoscopy devices is made use of to directly visualise the ear wax whilst it is being gotten rid of. This is done by mild suction with a low-pressure suction machine and also fine clean and sterile probe. Micro suction is when ear wax is removed with the help of a low-pressure suction equipment. We can safely get rid of wax with using ENT micro tools (e.g. wax hook, jobson horne probe).
What Is Earwax Micro Suction?
What are the Danger and complications? Micro suction can sometimes create slight irritability or seldom bleeding or infection. To stay clear of grazing of the ear canal you need to keep as still as feasible throughout the procedure. Some people can really feel lightheaded during mini suction as cooler air is being sucked via the ear canal, but this generally works out swiftly. If this occurs let the expert understand and they will quit the treatment.
Why do we need ear wax? Ear wax is a normally occurring material which assists in the feature as well as protection of the ear. Some people however, create huge quantities which may require to be gotten rid of if it triggers troubles. What is Microsuction? This is a treatment using a microscope, where the expert utilizes a small steel suction tube to remove ear wax. It is a more secure alternative to ear syringing.
Our modern video otoscopy tools is used to directly imagine the ear wax whilst it is being eliminated. This is done by gentle suction with a low-pressure suction maker and also fine clean and sterile probe. Micro suction is when ear wax is gotten rid of with the help of a low-pressure suction device. We can securely eliminate wax with making use of ENT mini instruments (e.g. wax hook, jobson horne probe).
What Is Microsuction Earwax Removal?
Why Do We Have Earwax? Ear wax (clinical name cerumen) is made by specialist glands in the outer 2 thirds of the ear canal. It aids shield the ear by moisturising the skin in the ear canal, providing a physical barrier against infection, as well as by being acidic it has anti-bacterial homes. Due to the fact that it is sticky, it assists to capture dirt, pollen as well as small pests and also prevent them from developing themselves in your ears! The skin in your ear canal expands in a different way to the skin that covers the rest of our body, and also expands along the ear canal from the ear drum to the canal entry. It acts like a conveyor belt, bringing the ear wax, and also any dust, pollen or various other particles with it, out of the ear. By doing this, the ear canal cleans itself naturally.
Microsuction is the removal of ear wax from the ear canal making use of enlightening microscopic lens as well as mild clinical suction. At our facilities we make use of ENT-grade suction units as well as mobile convergent microscopic lens, in addition to disposable, sterilized suction suggestions. Microsuction is thought about the safest method of ear wax removal, as well as our training and also experience guarantee you will have a very secure procedure. When the ear wax is very tough, or if there is an international body in the ear canal, such as a cotton bud pointer, or an ear plug which has actually become stuck, we might use instruments, which are specially developed for removing ear wax as well as various other objects from the ear canal. Every one of our team are educated and experienced at using tools. You might likewise see tool elimination additionally called “curettage” or “acoustic toilet”, however we believe “instrument elimination” sounds nicer.
Our state-of-the-art video otoscopy equipment is used to directly imagine the ear wax whilst it is being gotten rid of. This is done by mild suction with a low-pressure suction device and penalty sterilized probe. Micro suction is when ear wax is removed with the help of a low-pressure suction maker. We can securely eliminate wax with the use of ENT mini instruments (e.g. wax hook, jobson horne probe).
What Is Micro Suction Of Earwax?
Why Do We Have Earwax? Ear wax (medical name cerumen) is made by specialised glands in the external 2 thirds of the ear canal. It assists secure the ear by moisturising the skin in the ear canal, offering a physical obstacle against infection, as well as by being acidic it has anti-bacterial residential properties. Because it is sticky, it helps to capture dirt, pollen and small bugs as well as avoid them from establishing themselves in your ears! The skin in your ear canal grows differently to the skin that covers the rest of our body, as well as grows along the ear canal from the ear drum to the canal entrance. It imitates a conveyor belt, bringing the ear wax, and any dust, plant pollen or other particles with it, out of the ear. By doing this, the ear canal cleanses itself naturally.
Microsuction is the elimination of ear wax from the ear canal using illuminating microscopes as well as mild medical suction. At our clinics we utilize ENT-grade suction systems and also portable convergent microscopes, in addition to non reusable, sterile suction suggestions. Microsuction is taken into consideration the safest technique of ear wax elimination, and our training as well as experience ensure you will have a very secure treatment. When the ear wax is extremely hard, or if there is a foreign body in the ear canal, such as a cotton swab idea, or an ear plug which has ended up being stuck, we might make use of instruments, which are specially designed for removing ear wax and other objects from the ear canal. All of our team are educated and experienced at utilizing instruments. You may also see tool elimination additionally called “curettage” or “acoustic bathroom”, but we think “instrument elimination” sounds better.
If an accumulation of ear wax, debris or a foreign body is blocking your ear causing hearing loss or discomfort your specialist might advise microsuction. What are the advantages of microsuction over watering (syringing)? Microsuction is executed under straight visualization with a multiplied photo. The procedure is not untidy and does not include water. No ear declines are called for to carry out the treatment. There is no threat if the ear has an undiagnosed perforation. There is much less threat of opening or infection.
What Is Micro Suction Ear Wax Removal?
Microsuction is a much more specialised treatment which is not widely readily available outside health centers, so we are delighted to be able to use it at our Cambridge, Newmarket and also Saffron Walden centres. Microsuction is a different to watering and also is suitable for everyone including those for whom irrigation is not an option or has proved inadequate. This highly skilled procedure entails a complete exam of the ear canal and also assessment of the condition of the wax with a video otoscope. A little speculum is after that put in to the ear canal to open it up and the wax is carefully eliminated using a small suction gadget attached to the Microsuction device. The procedure is quick, secure and also painless.
Microsuction is the elimination of ear wax from the ear canal utilizing illuminating microscopic lens and also gentle clinical suction. At our centers we use ENT-grade suction units as well as portable convergent microscopic lens, as well as disposable, sterilized suction suggestions. Microsuction is considered the best method of ear wax elimination, and also our training as well as experience ensure you will certainly have a very risk-free treatment. When the ear wax is really difficult, or if there is an international body in the ear canal, such as a cotton swab suggestion, or an ear plug which has actually come to be stuck, we might make use of instruments, which are specifically designed for removing ear wax and also various other things from the ear canal. All of our team are educated and experienced at utilizing tools. You may also see tool elimination likewise called “curettage” or “acoustic bathroom”, however we assume “tool elimination” seems better.
Ear wax is perfectly normal as well as is produced to form a protective finish over the skin in the ear canal. Ears are normally self-cleaning– the movement of your jaw whilst eating as well as talking assists to relocate the wax along the canal where it will usually befall naturally without you discovering.
Often though, you will certainly require help with removing an accumulate of ear wax and also we are certified to perform Ear Wax Removal for you promptly and also securely.
What Is Earwax Micro Suction?
Ear wax becomes part of our body’s natural protection system. It aids to prevent infections of the ear and captures international things which may get in the ear such as dirt or debris. While smaller quantities of ear wax are normally great and also maintain the ear canals healthy and balanced, bigger builds can bring about the ear being blocked, therefore minimizing hearing capacities. Some typical symptoms of too much ear wax are discomfort, itching of the ear, ringing and also listening to loss.
Why do we require ear wax? Ear wax is a naturally occurring substance which assists in the feature and defense of the ear. Some people nevertheless, produce big amounts which may need to be removed if it creates issues. What is Microsuction? This is a procedure using a microscope, where the specialist makes use of a tiny steel suction tube to remove ear wax. It is a much safer choice to ear syringing.
Ear wax is perfectly regular and also is generated to create a protective covering over the skin in the ear canal. Ears are normally self-cleaning– the motion of your jaw whilst eating as well as chatting assists to move the wax along the canal where it will typically befall naturally without you noticing.
Often however, you will certainly require assist with getting rid of a develop of ear wax as well as we are qualified to execute Ear Wax Removal for you promptly and also securely.
What Is Ear Wax Micro Suction?
Microsuction is a more specialised treatment which is not extensively offered outside healthcare facilities, so we are delighted to be able to offer it at our Cambridge, Newmarket and also Saffron Walden centres. Microsuction is a different to irrigation and appropriates for everyone including those for whom watering is not an alternative or has actually verified ineffective. This extremely experienced treatment entails a detailed evaluation of the ear canal and also assessment of the problem of the wax with a video otoscope. A tiny speculum is after that put in to the ear canal to open it up and the wax is delicately gotten rid of using a little suction device attached to the Microsuction device. The procedure fasts, risk-free as well as pain-free.
Too much ear wax in Norwich is one of the most typical resources of issue associating with inadequate hearing and also even poorer performance of hearing tools. It is the major restricting aspect to the ongoing satisfactory efficiency and procedure of a listening devices and approximately 80% of all listening to aid fixings are as a result of wax ingression to the tool. Regrettably, ear wax and its prospective affect upon an individual’s hearing ability, or the reliable use a hearing instrument is commonly seen with little importance, yet at Norwich Microsuction Centre we recognize the inconvenience as well as irritability this usual condition develops for you.
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Compared to the conventional kinds of ear wax removal— ear decreases as well as watering or “syringing”– micro suction Norwich is: much safer, quicker, neater, normally much better endured, much more reliable, doesn’t require weeks of waiting for drops to soften the wax.
WHAT TO EXPECT FROM MICRO SUCTION Norwich?
Following an initial conversation concerning your wellness and also hearing, we start by examining your ears making use of a fiber optic electronic camera. The cam sits just at the entrance of the ear, and also enables both you as well as the audiologist to view your ear canal as well as ear drum on a big screen.We will take a look at both ears, before waging any kind of wax removal required. Complying with treatment, we will certainly reveal you your ear canals and also drums once more, this time without any wax blockage. For how long does the consultation last? Visits last about 10 – 30 minutes dependent on the treatment needed. Periodically, a person may need to return for some follow-up work if there has been an ear infection or some trauma to the ear canal. Does micro suction Norwich hurt?The procedure is carried out gradually as well as must not create any discomfort. If a customer has any kind of worries throughout treatment the procedure is stopped quickly. Micro Suction Norwich offers immediate relief and also is typically a revelation!
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Excessive Earwax In The Canal Norwich
Excessive ear wax in Norwich is just one of the most usual resources of issue connecting to inadequate hearing and even poorer performance of hearing tools. It is the main limiting element to the ongoing adequate efficiency and operation of a listening devices as well as as much as 80% of all listening to aid repairs are as a result of wax ingression to the device. Sadly, earwax and also its potential affect upon a person’s hearing capacity, or the efficient use a hearing instrument is often watched with little significance, however at Norwich Microsuction Centre we recognize the nuisance and irritability this typical condition creates for you.
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Earwax is eliminated thoroughly either by dry instrument under a video-otoscope, or by gentle water watering utilizing a variable stress irrigator or by micro suction utilizing a microscope or an endoscope. One of the most ideal technique will be made use of by a qualified audiologist and they are a mild and easy method to get rid of unwanted ear wax.
WHAT TO GET OUT OF MICRO SUCTION Norwich?
Following an initial discussion concerning your wellness as well as hearing, we start by analyzing your ears making use of a fiber optic electronic camera. The electronic camera rests just at the entrance of the ear, and also enables both you and the audiologist to see your ear canal as well as ear drum on a large screen.We will check out both ears, prior to waging any wax removal called for. Adhering to treatment, we will show you your ear canals and drums again, this time around with no wax blockage. For how long does the appointment last? Appointments last approximately 10 – half an hour dependent on the therapy required. Periodically, a person might need to return for some follow-up job if there has actually been an ear infection or some injury to the ear canal. Does micro suction Norwich hurt?The procedure is carried out gradually and should not create any kind of pain. If a client has any type of worries during therapy the procedure is quit right away. Micro Suction Norwich gives instantaneous relief and also is typically a revelation!
The human ear naturally produces ear wax, a waxy oil that assists to secure the ear canal from dust, small insects and little particles that may harm the eardrum. Earwax gradually dries out trapping any dust or particles and then naturally falls out of the ear. When this process is interrupted, earwax can build up in the ear canal obstructing it and impacting your hearing. Expert wax removal safely and carefully clears the ear canals of wax, bring back hearing.
Jason Levy, Mary Levy, Breda Ryan and Raspal Kaur are approved Microsuction Ear Wax Removal Network ear wax removal professionals in London, and have actually been trained to perform ENT microscopic ear wax removal, consisting of microsuction and manual instruments, to safely tidy and clear your obstructed ear. Unlike ear syringing and syringing which attempts to eliminate ear wax blindly by pumping water in your ear, Microsuction gently vacuums ear wax out of the ear under direct vision utilizing our specially developed portable ENT microscope. This method of visualising the ear wax with an ENT microscope whilst removing it was scientifically found to be quicker, more comfy and easier to carry out compared to an operating microscopic lens frequently utilized for microsuction.
The finest method to get rid of wax and to tidy ears is to utilize micro suction which supplies an immediate, efficient wax elimination treatment in London. Unlike conventional ear cleaning utilizing syringing, which uses water, we use gentle micro suction under a microscopic lens to eliminate wax. It’s much more secure, gentle on the ear, really effective and, in the majority of cases, offers instantaneous relief and restores complete hearing immediately.
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The Microsuction Ear Wax Elimination Network more than happy for patients to schedule an visit to evaluate the need for elimination of ear wax by gentle syringing. The practice utilizes an electronic ear syringing gadget that is more comfy for patients. Clients with unexpected hearing loss or a history of ear discharge or a previous perforated eardrum should see their medical professional initially. It is typically necessary to soften ear wax by first utilizing ear drops for a week ahead of time. Chemists will be pleased to recommend you of the sort to buy though a percentage of warmed olive oil is typically adequate.
Ear Wax elimination and ear cleansing may not be the most intriguing subjects we have actually talked about, however many customers, in Hertfordshire and further afield, are now relying on the Manual Instrument Ear Wax Removal Network for exact same day assistance. So, this year the Microsuction Ear Wax Elimination. Network has turned its attention to earwax and ear cleaning! Under the National Institute of Medical Quality guidelines, lots of GP practices are no longer offering wax elimination and ear cleaning services, as syringing (particularly in inexperienced hands) can trigger injury to the ear.
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In the best of times, the daily operations of AKIM-Jerusalem requires vigilant attention to issues of health and well-being of each individual in our care. We are a community that provides comprehensive services to people with special needs, who are far more susceptible than their peers in conditions from heart conditions to high blood sugar and diabetes. And in times of emergency, interruptions in daily routines are all the more daunting for people with cognitive disabilities.
Ongoing cycle of improvement
In the seventy-plus years since AKIM-Jerusalem was founded, we have lived through the myriad challenges confronted by all citizens of Israel. Yet, nothing could have prepared us for the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although staff and residents fell ill with COVID-19, and there were many times of quarantine, the overall rates of serious illness were relatively low.
And as we reflect on our experiences of the past two years, we are heartened and reassured by the resilience, compassionate and flexible responses of our residents, staff and volunteers alike. The lessons we learned will enable us to utilize new insights that will contribute to our longstanding commitment to creating an ongoing cycle of improvement and growth.
Isabel Mikalaff, director of our independent housing program, learned that the adults who live in shared apartments proved that they were capable of adapting to new and puzzling protocols of daily hygiene and the dynamic disruptions in their cherished activities. Shahar Amit, who has been living with roommates in an AKIM-Jerusalem apartment for five years, pined for basketball, exercise in the gym and going out with friends. “All of my favorite things to do were the first to be canceled during quarantines.”
Ety Buchnic, who has been living in an AKIM-Jerusalem residence for 12 years, was blunt: “I hate Corona and I can’t wait for it to end. The rules always change. One day you are allowed to go to work and the next day you must stay at home. Who decides and how?”
Social worker Nayroz Hilo, noted that despite the frustration that overwhelmed everyone, the residents met the challenge. “Our residents proved to us that they had strengths we might otherwise not have discovered: They learned that they needed to take active responsibility for their health and well-being. It was not possible for the staff to stay on top of every aspect of daily living, and we were touched by the ways our residents took personal responsibility for themselves and their peers: They wore their masks properly, observed the rules of two meters of distance, and maintained the new protocols of daily hygiene.”
Several welcome discoveries
Before COVID-19, men and women with special needs may have been less alert to the consequences of breaches in health protocols. These unexpected and necessary demands also had a positive impact on other aspects of their self-care, as the men and women became more conscientious about their eating habits and daily exercise programs.
The professional staff affirms that these welcome discoveries will enable them to build on the adaptive skills of the men and women, and build on the momentum of this success.
Yet, alongside the new horizons for younger adults living in shared apartments and working in adapted employment, the difficulties confronted by elderly people were more unyielding. Akram Muhatadi, director of the Magen Hostel, home to aging and frail adults with cognitive disabilities, noted that it was more difficult to placate their distress and isolation from family members. The staff was also very burdened by the difficult day-to-day physical labor of helping residents (many with physical impairments) to maintain the stringent new standards of physical hygiene. Sival Yehezkel, director of Beit Yulia, another AKIM-Jerusalem hostel with elderly residents, said that regression was a natural consequence of the isolation from family members and daily routines that were, for many, inexplicable.
To help the helpers, a hostel room was transformed into a staff lounge, to enable workers to gain a bit of well-earned rest, a moment to listen to music, have a cup of coffee or call home. When staff members took on daily rituals of self-care, they return to their work refreshed and reinvigorated, and that is another important lesson that will be sustained.
Among the outstanding instances of dedication demonstrated by staff members was the decision of counselor Natalia Cohen to remain with those entrusted in her care in the apartment she oversees. When she saw the distress on the face of her clients, she asked her director if she could remain with them in their Gilo apartment during their illness and recovery: “It wasn’t easy, we were together in two bedrooms with a bathroom in between. I was grateful that my teenage daughter, at home, is very independent and she understood and accepted that my residents needed me more than she did. We spend the entire week together.”
There was distress, with residents asking if they could leave, and I did my best to distract them with games, art activities and video calls to family and friends. We spent an entire week together, as we waited for the doctor’s affirmation of our recovery.”
Natalia Cohen gave expression to the sentiment that guides the AKIM-Jerusalem mission and was brought to life during the most trying of times: “These people are my second family, and I was grateful that I was able to help and support them in this unexpected way.”
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The PEROSH joint research project that provides recommendations to measure occupational physical activity and workload has produced its second report. The report describes common methodologies to measure arm elevation at work. In the report, practitioners can read what technical assessment systems are reliable to do this.
After its award-winning publication on the assessment of sedentary behaviour at work, this is the second outcome of this joint PEROSH research project.
2nd Report Assessing Arm Elevation at Work with Technical Assessment Systems
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It is important to exercise at the right level of difficulty. You do not get as much health benefit from exercise if you do not challenge your body enough. On the other hand, you risk injury and possibly medical complications if you push yourself too hard. You can use the charts below as one way to determine how hard you should workout.
Rating of Perceived Exertion Scale (RPE)
Exercise in the 3 to 5 range.
|0||No effort at all|
Rating of Perceived Breathlessness Scale (RPB)
Some people may be limited more by shortness of breath than overall fatigue. You can use this scale to determine how hard you should work based on how much shortness of breath you have. You should exercise in the 2 to 3 range.
|0||No breathlessness at all|
|1||Very slight breathlessness|
|9||Very severe breathlessness|
You should be able to talk but not sing.
To benefit from exercise you need to work hard enough that you are breathing harder than when you are resting.
If you become very short of breath and find it difficult to say more than a few words you are working too hard. There is no advantage to training at such a high intensity that you are gasping for air. In fact, exercising at such a high intensity can be dangerous for some individuals.
Target Heart Rate
Target heart rate is one way to determine the best level of intensity for aerobic exercise for you. Target heart rate uses your resting heart rate, your maximum heart rate and a percentage of the difference between these two numbers to calculate a target number. Generally the heart rate goes up as the intensity of exercise increases. Training at a target heart rate of 40% to 80% is effective for improving and maintaining your cardiovascular health.
Many people can not use their target heart rate:
Individuals with pacemakers or implanted defibrillators generally should not use target heart rate. Check with your doctor about how your implanted device affects your heart rate and exercise response.
Many heart conditions including clogged arteries (heart disease), irregular heart beat (arrhythmias), and heart failure affect how your heart responds to exercise. Also, most people with these conditions are on medications that alter the heart’s response to exercise.
Medications for high blood pressure, irregular heart beat (arrhythmias), and heart failure slow your heart’s response to exercise. Generally the heart speeds up more slowly and is limited in its maximum rate in response to exercise. Click here for a list of common medications that have an effect on your heart’s response to exercise.
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63% believe it’s a good time to buy a home, and 34% believe that strongly. Mortgage rates are at historic lows, and NAR Economist Yun sees no sign of optimism fading, though a strong-intensity dip could indicate “concerns about the direction of the economy.”
WASHINGTON – New consumer findings from the National Association of Realtors®’ (NAR) third-quarter Housing Opportunities and Market Experience (HOME) survey find that more than half of polled Americans believe it’s a good time to buy a home.
Optimism fared well in the third quarter of 2019 as 63% of people said they believe that now is a good time for a home purchase, with 34% of those respondents saying they believe that strongly.
NAR’s Chief Economist Lawrence Yun says the favorable outlook also contains a degree of caution.
“Mortgage rates are at historically low levels, so I see no sign of the optimism about home buying fading,” he says. “However, the fact that slightly fewer (Americans) are expressing strong intensity compared to recent prior quarters is implying some would-be buyers have concerns about the direction of the economy.”
Among those that stated that now is a good time to purchase a home, the silent generation (those born between 1925 and 1945) were most likely to express that belief. Seventy-five percent from that demographic said that now is a good time to buy. They were closely followed by older boomers (those born between 1946 and 1954), as 72% from that age group agreed that now is a good time to purchase a home.
Asked whether now is a good time to purchase a home, 54% of those who have an income under $50,000 answered “yes,” and optimism increased as household incomes increased. In the $50,000 to $100,000 bracket, 64% said it’s a good time to buy a home; and among those who have an income of $100,000, 72% said that it’s a good time to buy.
“Not surprisingly, as incomes increase, the process of buying a home is less of a strain,” says Yun. “This has always been the case, but in this third quarter survey, we see it to an even greater extent – high earners are more open to buying a home.”
Selling a home
The NAR survey also asked respondents about their thoughts on selling a home in the current market: 74% said now is a good time to sell a home – a modest increase over 73% last quarter. Of those respondents, 45% said they “strongly” believe it’s a good time to sell, while the remaining 29% said they hold that belief “moderately.”
Sellers in the West region were most likely to hold this sentiment, and 81% said “now is a good time to sell.” In comparison, 67% in the Northeast said now is a good time to sell a home.
In regard to selling, the poll found that those in the higher wage brackets were more likely to state a belief that it’s a good time to sell a home: 82% of those who earn more than $100,000. However, of those who earn less than $50,000, only 64% said it’s a good time to sell.
Fifty-two percent of those surveyed said they believe the U.S. economy is improving – more than half but still a decrease from the second quarter of 2019, when 55% said they believed the economy is improving.
Millennials (those born between 1980 and 1998) were the most pessimistic. Only 49% said the economy is improving while 51% said it’s not improving. Of those in the silent generation, 54% said the economy is improving. By location, 40% of those in urban areas believe the economy is improving compared to 62% in rural areas.
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Sir David Semple
|Born||6 April 1856|
|Died||7 January 1937 (aged 80)|
Paddington, London, England
|Service/||Royal Army Medical Corps|
|Years of service||1883-|
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir David Semple (6 April 1856 – 7 January 1937) was a British Army officer who founded the Pasteur Institute at Kasauli in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. The institute later came to be known as the Central Research Institute (CRI).
Semple was born in Derry, the son of William Semple of Castlederg, County Tyrone. He was educated at Foyle College and earned his MD and MCh degrees at Queen's University Belfast, followed by his Public Health degree from Cambridge in 1892.
In 1911, he developed a nerve-tissue based rabies vaccine from the brains of sheep first made rabid and then killed. The 'Semple' vaccine however is known to have side-effects such as paralysis with high risk of other diseases, being just a crude form of churned brain-tissue. It needs administration around the stomach in a series of very painful injections administered over a period of seven to 14 days, a course that many do not complete. Moreover, it is not reliable and the World Health Organization (WHO) has been advocating its total disuse since 1993. (WHO literature ) | <urn:uuid:77031ae2-4285-4f5b-9a6c-805b2a72114c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Semple | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.967055 | 332 | 2.890625 | 3 |
BONNIGHEIM, Germany — May 11, 2012 — Nano-particles (Greek: nanos = dwarf) are now being used to
create fascinating products with totally new functionalities. These include textiles from which
dirt simply runs off or which have an anti-bacterial effect. But as is the case with every new
technology, this one must also be safe to use. It is therefore of interest to both manufacturers
and users of such high-tech products that nano-particles are harmless for both human beings and the
environment over the entire life cycle of the products.
To this end in December 2010 the “TechnoTox” research project was launched with the objective
of performing a situation-based risk assessment of textile nano-products. The project is sponsored
by the German state of Baden-Württemberg and is based on an initiative of AFBW e.V. (Allianz
Faserbasierte Werkstoffe Baden-Württemberg) and is studying in detail the questions surrounding
The German Council on the Environment (SRU) published the following statement in2011 on the
use of nano-materials: “To date there has been no scientific proof to the effect that
nano-materials, as manufactured and used today, lead to damage to the environment and to health.”
However, since an increasing use of nano-functionalised textiles is expected in the future in
addition to possible uses of new nano-materials which have not yet been considered in previous risk
assessments, there is still a need for meaningful test methods on the effects of nano-materials and
their toxicological properties.
The “TechnoTox” project is studying whether nano-functionalised textiles are safe for human
beings and the environment. Data on behaviour, retention and on the biological effect of
nano-functionalised fibre-based materials in relation to environmental conditions is being prepared
and a situation-based risk assessment is being carried out. During the project methods are also
being developed which have made possible the proof and characterisation of nano-particles alongside
the analysis of their human and eco-toxicological risk potential in relevant environmental media.
The project is being run in close cooperation between science and industry. The project
partners involved are the Institut für Textil- und Verfahrenstechnik Denkendorf (ITV), the
Hohenstein Institute for Textile Innovation and several industrial companies.
Through their participation in the project all participants want to drive forward their own
developments in nano-technologically modified textiles and ensure their safety from a risk
perspective based on the accompanying and complementary test methodology.
An interdisciplinary approach is secured through the involvement of commercial companies.
This is being implemented using the example of the textile chain of companies in Baden-Württemberg.
The objective of this project is to expand the competitiveness of the innovative companies
which are producing nano-products plus also to process nano-materials or nano-technologically
functionalised materials as well as to support the responsible utilisation of nano-technology.
The project is using a complementary solutions-based approach in which physical materials
studies on exposure are directly coupled to effect-related biological studies.The results of the
studies are aggregated and assessed for any correspondence of effects (of the effective
concentration for example).
The determination of particle properties and effects on real products enables a comprehensive
hazard and risk assessment to be made for nano-technology functionalised fibre-based materials in
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Baby Teeth Matter. Take Care of Them.
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NATO still key to US security, Secretary General tells students
On 22 February, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen addressed a crowd of students at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, presenting his views on NATO’s role in tackling today’s and tomorrow’s security challenges.
Mr Rasmussen told the students that although NATO doesn’t get the visibility it should in the US, the Alliance will, and should, play an essential role in the country’s security for the long term. He explained that today’s threats and challenges need the cooperation of likeminded and democratic nations.
“The problems of the 21st century can only be solved multilaterally,” he said. “And there is no stronger and more effective framework for that cooperation than NATO.”
To demonstrate the effectiveness of multilateral responses to new threats and challenges, the Secretary General called on the examples of terrorism, cyber defence, and nuclear proliferation and missile defence as areas where NATO activities have had a vital impact.
Mr Rasmussen also talked about the importance of partnerships with countries around the globe, and about the reasons why NATO is working on a new Strategic Concept, a document that will help the Alliance set the right priorities in addressing existing and future security challenges.
“In sum, the Atlantic Alliance squares the circle of multilateralism and effectiveness,” he said. “That is not easy to do. But today more than ever – when we are looking for security, in an age of uncertainty – it is precious. You can find it in NATO today, and you will be able to rely on NATO tomorrow as well.” | <urn:uuid:4b733632-bb4e-4af9-a552-59cd093ebff0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nato.int/cps/en/SID-2E494E78-428C515F/natolive/news_61622.htm? | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.938862 | 339 | 1.882813 | 2 |
There is an interesting report out today on the effectiveness of the Social Innovation Fund (SIF). Authored by the Social Innovation Research Center (SIRC), a nonpartisan nonprofit research organization, the new report details what has worked and what hasn’t in the six year history of the SIF.
Launched by the Obama administration in 2009, the SIF — a program within the Corporation for National and Community Service — provides significant funding to foundations that follow a venture philanthropy model by regranting that growth capital, along with technical assistance, to evidence-based nonprofits in “youth development, economic opportunity, and healthy futures” areas. In 2014, SIF expanded its efforts to include a portfolio of Pay for Success (social impact bond) grantees.
Now, 6 years on it is interesting to take a look back to understand what, if any, effect SIF has had on the nonprofit sector. The effect of the SIF is also critical given that, as of right now, the House and Senate have both defunded SIF in their respective funding bills.
To date, the SIF portfolio is made up of $241 million of federal investments and $516 million in private matching funds, which was invested in 35 intermediary grantees and 189 subgrantee nonprofits working in 37 states and D.C.
The SIRC report focuses on the current progress of SIF grants made during the first three years of the program (2010-2012). The report finds two clear positive results for the SIF so far. The SIF has:
- Added to the nonprofit sector’s evidence base about which programs work, and
- Built the capacity of nonprofit subgrantees, especially in the areas of “performance management systems, evaluations, financial management, regulatory compliance systems, and experience with replicating evidence-based models.”
On the negative side, however, the report finds that the SIF put real burdens on funders and nonprofits with its fundraising match requirements and the federal regulatory requirements. The report also finds that the SIF has had little effect on the sector as a whole because the SIF has not very broadly communicated their learnings so far.
To me, of course, most interesting are the report’s finding about capacity building at nonprofit subgrantees. There is such a need for nonprofit capacity building in the sector, and this was a clear goal of the SIF.
The SIF is one of few funders that do more than pay lip service to performance management by actually investing in building the capacity of nonprofits to do it. However, the SIF has been criticized for mostly selecting nonprofits that already had strong capacity. And indeed, the SIRC report finds that the SIF was most successful among those nonprofits that already had high capacity (in performance management, fundraising function, etc.) prior to SIF funding. Indeed, the report found that “poorly-resourced intermediaries working with less well-resourced community based organizations have been at a disadvantage.”
One SIF grantee in particular, The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky, really struggled to build the capacity of their subgrantees whose starting capacity was so low. As they put it:
During the course of participation, it became clear that…[SIF] was really better suited for replicating existing programs or, at a minimum, investing in well-established programs that had some level of sophistication around organization systems and evaluation.
This mirrors earlier criticism of the SIF that it was set up to grow only those nonprofits that were already doing well, while those nonprofits that struggled with basic capacity issues were left out. The SIF has struggled to determine whether it is funding innovation (new solutions with limited capacity), or proven solutions (with a long track record and the corresponding capacity). It seems the two are mutually exclusive.
What the SIF is trying to do is such tricky business. To identify, fund and and scale solutions that work is really the holy grail in the social change sector. Certainly there are hurdles and missteps, but I think it’s exciting when government gets in the social change game in a big way. Six years is really too soon to tell. So I hope that this brief SIF experiment is allowed to continue, and we can see what a social change public/private partnership of this scale can really do.
To read the full SIRC report go here.
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Keila is a ♀ girl’s name.
Keila is a variant of the name Kayla, which derived from the Irish surname Ó Caollaidhe, but is also of Hebrew origin.
Keila means “descendant of Caollaidhe”, “slender” or “narrow”, “crown of laurel” and “pure” (from Kayla).
The name Keila is ranked #1839 overall.
Find more beautiful first names!
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – November 2, 2021
In the week since the last press release, Haywood County Public Health has received notice of 87 new cases of COVID-19. As of 5 p.m. on November 1, 2021, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has recorded a total of 7,495 cases in Haywood County since the pandemic began.
According to the CDC, most of North Carolina is listed as an area of high community transmission. All surrounding states are also high-transmission areas. Mask-wearing indoors is highly recommended. Masks are required in Haywood County facilities, including the libraries, for employees and the public.
This week 94 percent of new COVID cases were unvaccinated. Nearly all of those who require hospitalization are unvaccinated.
COVID-19 booster shot appointments are now available for anyone 65 and up, or those 18 and up who are immune-compromised. You are eligible for a booster when you are:
6 months past the initial doses of Pfizer or Moderna, or
2 months past the initial dose of Johnson & Johnson
The health department continues to focus on the administration of booster doses ahead of the holidays.
Boosters are now available by appointment or walk-in basis. Please call the COVID helpline at 828-356-2019 to book appointments.
COVID-19 vaccinations of children ages 5 - 11 are anticipated to begin next week, pending CDC approval. The health department is planning to offer a special after-hours clinic, times and dates for which will be announced soon.
“While the number of daily positive cases is declining, the number of unvaccinated people developing serious illness resulting in hospitalization is not. Our unvaccinated population is still our most vulnerable population. COVID vaccines continue to be a priority,” said Public Health Director Sarah Henderson.
Multiple options for vaccination exist, including community partners like pharmacies and health clinics that are also providing walk-in first and second-dose vaccinations and boosters.
For more information on this or other vaccination sites visit: www.vaccines.gov
Citizens who test positive for COVID-19 are encouraged to reach out to friends or family that meet the close contact criteria, and encourage them to self-quarantine and get tested 5-6 days after their exposure to the individual who tested positive. The end goal is to reduce community spread and keep COVID numbers on the downward trend.
Businesses need to be mindful that having quarantined employees return to work too quickly could cause a cluster of cases in the workplace. We ask that employers rely on the honor system and encourage employees who have been exposed to quarantine for the recommended time frame of 14 days from the date of exposure to help reduce potential spread. | <urn:uuid:f8d00846-ec0d-484c-91e7-65461f61219c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://haywoodlibrary.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=689 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.940828 | 597 | 1.867188 | 2 |
For the first time in history, World Radio Day was observed today. The day also marks the anniversary of UN radio which was launched in 1946. It is being celebrated to create awareness on the importance of radio, facilitate access to information through radio and enhance networking among broadcasters.
Radio is a low cost medium, specifically suited to reach remote communities and vulnerable people, while offering a platform to participate in public debate. It also plays an important role as a facilitator of education and freedom of expression. It has a strong and specific role in emergency communication and disaster relief.
Radio in Bhutan continues to play an important role in educating, informing and entertaining the people especially those living in the remote areas. According to an audience survey conducted by the Bhutan Broadcasting Service in 2010 people still prefer listening to radio.
“In our survey what we found out was 63 percent in general from 6,242 sample size listen to radio and these people who listen to radio in general 93 percent listen to BBS radio. We also looked in to how many people from rural and urban listen to radio. What we have found out from the survey was that, almost the double the people from rural listen to radio than the rural,” said Damber Kumar Ghimiray, a research member of the audience survey team.
He said radio will continue to have bright future since many of the rural people are economically disadvantaged and will not be able afford another medium.
“Also what we have found from research was that they wanted to listen to radio but they are not in the position to afford to buy a set of radio. Some people say that they are not in the position to repair damaged radio, forget about buying a television set,” he said, adding that radio is not going to die and radio has the future. “Even though television comes up with new channel but radio definitely has a clear future.”
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Mishima-Kita High School wins top prize of 3-month long competition organized by The Denki Shimbun
Students taking the “STEM for SDGs” course under the WWL initiative took part in the 3rd High School Student Energy Pitch. This year’s competition was based on the theme "Solving Social Problems with Energy Planning for 2050”
Students began discussions in the first term of school to decide on the direction of their research, and to select the expert lectures to attend. With the newly gained knowledge from the various lectures, students finalized their ideas and thoughts for the selection in November.
ENERGY PITCH – SEMINAR ON THE BASICS OF ENERGY
Date: 4 September 2021 (Sat)
Lecturer: Kaneda Takeshi, President of Universal Energy Research Institute Inc.
ONLINE LECTURES BY EXPERTS
Lecture 1 Fusion Power Generation
Basics of fusion power generation, which is the dream of future energy, including current research, future prospects and possibilities, and the ITER
Date: 14 September 2021 (Tue)
Lecturer: Kasugai Atsushi, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology
Lecture 2 Hydrogen Society – Now and Future Possibilities
Date: 2 November 2021 (Tue)
Lecturer: Niizuma, ENEOS
JOINT LECTURE FOR ENERGY PITCH AND WWL
Next-generation biofuels and future possibilities from the perspective of SDGs – Current status and future possibilities
Date: 30 October 2021 (Sat)
Lecturer: Odate Korehiro, Executive Officer, Energy Company, Euglena Ltd.
Ono Hiroyuki, Director, Suzuyoshoji Ltd.
Venue: Tokoha University, Kusanagi Campus
THE 3RD HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT ENERGY PITCH (2021) PRESENTATION
Preliminary rounds, Review and Final round
Date: 20 November (Sat) – 21 November 2021 (Sun)
Venue: Parche Meeting Room, Shizuoka Station Building, Lecture Hall, University of Shizuoka
Students investigated various power generation methods to eliminate the instability of the supply of renewable energy due to varying weather conditions. Hydrogen energy was proposed as an alternative energy to promote the move toward a carbon-free society. To achieve that, the team explored the use of small modular reactions (SMR) as a means of nuclear power generation, and the use of fusion energy for hydrogen production.
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Gilles Einstein and Mark McDaniel, widely respected for their research and lectures on memory, explain how memory works and how memory processes change with age. Based on up-to-date and rigorous scientific evidence, they also offer techniques and strategies for improving memory in everyday life; alternatives to hard-to-use mnemonic techniques; physical and mental exercises that can enhance memory; a review of drugs and nutritional supplements touted to enhance memory; a complete discussion of Alzheimer's disease, its symptoms and risk factors, along with guidance for caretakersMore info →
Confronted with untreatable, early onset neurodegenerative disease and dementia, psychologist Dr. George Huba, responded by trying and evaluating many cognitive-behavioral interventions that might help to slow the progression of symptoms or at least improve quality of life. He found that the key for him was a method of visual thinking — mind mapping — that helped organize his daily life and memories and to plan for the future.More info →
Based on its author's four-year study and 15 years of experience in Alzheimer's and dementia-related care, Alzheimer's Activities That Stimulate the Mind is the only book offering exercises appropriate to each of the four stages of the diseaseMore info →
Memory is essential. We use it in our daily lives but usually we take it for granted.
Not many individuals comprehend the essential function that memory has in our lives.
But this should not be the case. Having a fantastic memory is vital to our survival.Thus, it is essential that you take steps to better your memory. In this book you will find som great tips for a better memory...
Memory loss can be frustrating to deal with. As we age it is quite natural to experience a loss in your memory. Most people start to notice subtle changes when you hit your mid 40’s. As you proceed into your 50’s things may become more noticeable and at the same time more frustrating.
The good thing is that there are some things you can do to improve your memory function at any age. These simple things include brain exercises, eating healthy, exercising and using natural supplements and remedies.
Michael explains what neuroplasticity means, and provides some low cost ways (including optimism!) to improve our brain power and resilience, and possibly prevent Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. Michael explains what neuroplasticity means, and provides some low cost ways (including optimism!) to improve our brain power and resilience, and possibly prevent Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. He describes the benefits of challenging the brain to do something new, and other brain-enhancing activities, including meditation, wine in moderation, and naps!More info →
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- Maps of Common (RunKeeper only) Running Routes : A great way to show the power of running data. Do you currently track your runs?
- Pedal Power Machines Now Shipping : Pedal Power Machines – very interesting idea.
- Sweat Glands Heal Injuries : Very interesting approach to wound repair.
- The First Flexible, Transparent, and Conductive Material : An incredible array of potential uses – inside and outside the body. Good stuff.
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The possibility of high TC superconductivity is suggested for lithium- and magnesium-doped icosahedral boron crystals, α- and β-rhombohedral boron. The doping of these elements was attempted by a vapor diffusion processing. Both lithium and magnesium are hardly doped into the α-rhombohedral boron, although small amounts of metallic parts are found in the sample. In only one Li-doped sample, the metallic part contained 0.02vol% of the superconductive phase (TC∼36K). Magnesium was successfully doped into β-rhombohedral boron homogeneously up to 4at% (Mg4.1B105), although considerable amount of impurity silicon was introduced together with magnesium. The structures of the doped samples were analyzed assuming co-doping of magnesium and silicon. The relation between the site occupancies of the dopants and the lattice expansion is discussed. The estimation of the density of states near the Fermi energy by EELS and magnetic susceptibility measurements suggested a metal transition of the β-rhombohedral boron by the doping of magnesium and silicon. The relation between the metal transition and the intrinsic acceptor level is also discussed.
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Teaching the alphabet is the core of what we do in kindergarten for many months! There are many moving parts in the classroom that work together to get kids to learn the alphabet.
How to Effectively Teach the Alphabet in Kindergarten
1. Just read! Seems silly to say but the best way to teach kids the alphabet is to just submerse them in it! As you are doing your normal read aloud, point out the letters and how you are using what is printed on the page to say the words. And then it’s also fun to read books about the alphabet; below are some of my favorites!
It’s also great to put these books into your writing lab to inspire writing! They are great jump starters for stories!
2. Teach the students the letters in their names. Children have seen the letters in their name more and heard the sounds in those letters their entire life, so it only makes sense to start there. Be sure to visit our Names Pinterest board for TONS of ideas on working with students’ names!
3. Add music and movement! So important for little learners and there are so many great videos on YouTube that do this! I also love to incorporate tunes the students already know into our learning and so the below video is perfect for daily practice!
And then as the school year goes on, you still want to continue to teach the alphabet but the kids get a little bored with the same old songs, so we sing it backward! (They can do it and so can you!)
4. Follow your curriculum (or create a map of how you want to teach the letters.) This is so important because you don’t want to confuse your students. If your district has a prescribed curriculum, embrace and make it work. Supplement it where you can with fun and engaging activities. If you don’t have curriculum, decide how you want to teach the alphabet. There are many theories on what works, but honestly you will find research that says a letter a day is appropriate and a letter a week is as well. In my perfect work, we would teach 2 letters a week but that’s a decision you will have to make if you are able to.
If you don’t have a curriculum, our Letter of the Week files can help. They are fully comprehensive units that have posters, printables, anchor charts, centers, and lots more! We call it Letter of the Week because it is literally a week worth of activities for each letter, but you don’t have to be a Letter of the Week teacher. You can definitely use whatever timeframe and all sorts of reading programs and approaches with these printable.
5. Put learning the alphabet into your centers! Centers are where the students really practice and get comfortable with the skills you are teaching! So it’s super important that all year you have the alphabet covered in your activities. One of my student’s favorite centers is our boring old flashcards on binder rings that I keep in a drawer in my writing center. (This is of course more of a spring sentence but at the beginning of the year students can draw other pictures and label them with the same letter they pick.)
6. Track your student’s growth. Another super important part of teaching the alphabet. I use Checklist Assessments to record what letters my kids can and cannot say the name, sound and write. This helps me to be able to pull targeted groups and really instruct on what my students are needing!
7. Include crafts and make it fun! So important to understand that our little learners need crafts and activities to create meaning! Again so many crafts and activities you can do, but I love Alphabet Hats because they go home with the students and the parents adore them! (Be sure to click over for a free hat!)
Making it fun does not have to mean arts and crafts either. Kids love doing Interactive Alphabet Notebooks where they can cut, glue, and assemble all sorts of little flip flaps. Can kinders do them? YES. Our Interactive Notebooks are make with easy cuts that repeat again and again. You will model the first couple times and then kids will get it. These are truly a great tool because it is fun and academic.
8. Practice for fluency! Once your students have a good basis of the letters, you will want to have them pick up the speed and create some automaticity in their knowledge! Letter cards or word searches are great resources to do this. Students can start by just identifying specific letters by circling the or dotting them with a bingo dotter. This will get them used to seeing the letter all mixed up and then as the year moves on they can read those letters for speed and fluency!
9. Keep your families well informed. We really need our families to help reinforce what we teach in the classroom and that is especially important when learning the alphabet. We need our parents to be on the same page with how to form the letters, teaching upper or lower case letters first, and etc. These Alphabet Brochures can help with that.
Alphabet Bracelets are also a great activity to do in class that lets parents know what letters we worked on in class.
When all of those elements fall into place, teaching and learning the alphabet is a lot more effective!
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If you move goods across the U.S. border, you’ve probably heard of the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) program. C-TPAT was put in place by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The program puts the onus on companies to implement security best practices across the supply chain with the goal of ensuring the safety of goods entering the country. As we mentioned in an earlier article on visitor management and compliance, C-TPAT is like TSA Precheck for containers arriving at the border. Becoming C-TPAT certified is voluntary, and depending on the security practices you already have in place, it could take several months to a couple of years to earn. Is it worth it? From the customers we’ve spoken with, the answer is yes. Read on to discover the benefits of becoming C-TPAT certified.
A dedicated supply chain security specialist plus access to educational resources
You’ll have the opportunity to work with a specialist from CBP to identify and resolve any security issues in your supply chain. You’ll also get access to a library of training materials to make sure everyone in your company follows proper security procedures. This will be especially beneficial if you’re required to comply with an industry-specific regulation, such as the Food Safety Modernization Act’s Foreign Supplier Verification Program.
Faster transport of goods across the border
The faster you can get your goods across the border, the sooner you can sell them. C-TPAT certification helps you achieve this goal in several ways:
- Shorter wait times at the border
- Access to the Free and Secure Trade (FAST) lanes at the borders with Canada and Mexico
- Fewer CBP inspections, plus the ability to skip ahead of non C-TPAT certified containers in the inspection line
- The ability to get your cargo released by CBP faster
Priority consideration following an emergency
In the event of a natural disaster or terrorist attack, C-TPAT certified companies are eligible to resume business first.
If you make a mistake and find yourself facing a penalty — for example, because of an error in your Import Security Filing — your fine will be up to 50% less than the standard rate.
Potential for more business
Many domestic companies will only do business with importers that are C-TPAT certified. This gives you a competitive edge by enhancing your brand image and providing you with an important certification to include on your marketing material.
Site, personnel, and data security
In an article published in the Journal of Commerce, Jan Raymond identified several hidden benefits of C-TPAT certification. These include site, personnel, and data security. Here’s what Raymond has to say:
- Site security. Thieves — both external and internal — generally go for the lowest-hanging fruit. By putting C-TPAT compliance practices in place, you make your company an undesirable target. This will lower your losses from theft as well as your insurance premiums.
- Personnel security. The C-TPAT security checks will “deter questionable personnel from applying” and also reduce your likelihood of hiring someone illegally. Both of these things will improve the overall integrity of your workforce.
- Data security. By securing your company’s information systems, you’ll be less likely to have your data stolen by someone who’s up to no good.
Improved internal processes
This one also comes from Jan Raymond. He notes that the process improvements required by C-TPAT will make your records more accurate, boost productivity, and improve your quality assurance (QA) process. More business, better security, lower fines — sounds pretty good, right? Begin your compliance journey today by tracking visitors to your facility using a visitor management system. Sign up now for your 14-day free trial of The Receptionist for iPad. To learn more about C-TPAT certification, visit the CBP website.
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3D Printing Filaments Materials
With the best range of commercial 3d printing technologies, my3dshoppe delivers a perfect combination of 3D printing, materials and application expertise.
About 3D Filament Materials
3D printing filament is like ink for 3D Printer to print a 3D object. There are many types of filament available with different properties, requiring different temperatures to print such as ABS, PLA, TPU and many more.
We offers the best quality products to our clients by providing premium filament suitable for any kind of 3D printers. We know that to ensure a reliable printing, the precision of the filament diameter and the roundness of the filament is vital. Our premium filaments are selected from the best quality filaments around the world, manufactured from the finest quality materials and produced to extremely tight tolerance to ensure consistent feed and stable printing. By providing all these, it helps to protect 3D printer's extruder from clogging, thus, enlengthen the life of the 3D printer. It also helps to reduce printing error which will reduce the maintenance cost.
Premium 3D Filament Brand & Type
1. Cubicon PLA Filament
Cubicon PLA filament is an environmentally friendly material made of corn and sugar cane, it generates almost no hazardous elements throughout printing. PLA has 70% - 89% strength of ABS. PLA can deform at high temperature
Color available: Aqua blue, Celosia orange, Cherry pink, Crystal white, Classic black, Dark grey, Fresh green, Lemon yellow, Metallic silver, Mint yellow, Natural, Pure green, Metallic gold, Romantic red, Sapphire blue, Snow White
2. Cubicon ABS Filament
Cubicon ABS Filament
Cubicon ABS filament is a type of filament that is used in most of the process for making commonly used plastic products. They are delivered in air-tight packages which included desiccants
Color available: Black, Blue, Gold, Green, Grey, Light Blue, Luminous, Natural, Orange, Peak Green, Pink, Purple, Red, Silver, White, Yellow
3. Cubicon TPU Filament
Cubicon TPU filament is flexible materials and can be variously utilized. TPU is a resin of the polyurethane and it will be delivered in a vacuum pack with desiccants.
Colour available: Transparent, Black, Blue, Green, Red
4. Verbatim PLA Filament
Verbatim PLA filament is made from polylactic acid, which is more pliable than ABS. PLA does not require a heated bed for printing and offers filament option with transparent qualities.
Color available: Black, White, Blue, Red, Green, Orange, Yellow, Silver, Natural Transparent
5. Verbatim ABS Filament
Verbatim ABS filament is engineered from a mix of styrene, acryl, and butadiene. This blend results in a product that is extremely durable and impact resistant, yet rigid. ABS filament required a heated bed for optimum printing.
Color available: Black, White, Blue, Red, Green, Silver, Transparent
6. Verbatim PET Filament
PET filament, crafted from polyethylene terephthalate, is a lightweight yet strong filament. With a high level of transparency, PET filament offers great layer adhesion for a good surface finish. PET filament also know as Food Grade filament but need to separate the nozzle to avoid the contaminant.
Color available: Natural
7. Verbatim PRIMALLOY™ Filament
PRIMALLOY™ Flexible 3D Filament is a high performance, polyester-based thermoplastic elastomer which consists of a mixture of a crystalline aromatic polyester block (mainly PBT) and an uncrystallize polyether block (mainly poly-tetramethylene-ether-glycol). This mixture gives objects printed with PRIMALLOY unique flexibility without sacrificing durability.
Colour available: White
Comparison between Type of Filaments
ABS vs PLA (Solid Materials)
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Check out this statement from a report on National Employability by Aspiring Minds [pdf]:
Even though India produces more than five lakh engineers annually, only 17.45% of them are employable for the IT services sector, while a dismal 3.51% are appropriately trained to be directly deployed on projects. Further, only 2.68% are employable in IT product companies, which require greater understanding of computer science and algorithms. – National Employability Report by Aspiring Minds
While on one side, there is an ever increasing demand for skilled employees in organizations, the unemployment situation is getting out of control.
Concentrating on increasing quantity of engineers has impacted quality drastically. – National Employability Report by Aspiring Minds
Here, we list the most important reasons that we believe, are causing this (a lot of this is after interviews I conducted with a series of students from various colleges in India):
- Mis-guidance/Lack of guidance: Ask a student of a Tier-2 college, why he joined Engineering and how he chose his branch or college and the answer is mostly along these lines:
- Because my parents/friends told me to
- Because my uncle said Computer Science is outdated, Mechanical Engineering is ever-green
- Computer Science is in “scope” now (another way of putting this is, I have better chances of getting a job)
- I like Computers since childhood, so my friend’s dad told me I should go for Computer Science
- This college is closest to my house
- I really don’t care about where I get a degree or in which branch, all I care about is that I am an “Engineer”
Hmm, something seems terribly wrong. The lack of counseling is apparent in the way students answer this question. Students don’t know what they are getting into when they join engineering. While many are misguided, some are even pressurized to join the branch of their parent’s choice. Most students don’t have a clue of what their career options are post engineering. While on one side there is a clear upsurge in the requirement for skilled IT force, the comparative dearth of good jobs in other fields is pushing people into IT (or related fields).
- Lack of motivation: I guess this follows the previous point. If you are not interested to do something in the first place, you cannot expect a lot of motivation or focus now, can you? Students mostly wade through the semesters and find themselves having a degree but no skills to back it. This results in a clear skill-set deficiency, but for the most parts, the industry doesn’t seem to care as they have gotten used to this (in other words the expectations are low).
- The lack of industry-institute interaction: While “Engineering” is a lot to do with “application”, students are not given the necessary context and guidance to apply what they know. It’s quite possible that students complete a course and have no idea how they are going to use this course once they are employed. While students these days have a good understanding of good apps in Facebook and Android, most have no clue what it takes to build these systems.
- Faculty quality issues: Most professors/lecturers in Tier2 colleges in India teach not because they like it, but because they have to. The low pay-scales of an engineering faculty (this is a lot better now, but not good enough) compared to an entry-level engineer makes this an unattractive proposition for many who may be interested to teach but also need to think of their cost of living. The dearth of motivated and trained faculty in engineering colleges has further aggravated the problem of student quality.
- Outdated learning/teaching models: In this day and age, with the advent of technology, the classroom teaching model seems too outdated to be relevant. Sal Khan has outlined it well in this video about Education Predictions for Year 2060. Here are some of Sal’s predictions:
- Classroom model fundamentally changes
- Instead of our credentials being seat time based and the variable being how well you actually understood the materials, the time is fixed and the variable is your level of achievement.
- Role of the teacher rather than being a lecturer, and often giving similar lecture year on year and at the same pace, the teacher will now be a coach or a mentor.
- We are going to get to a 99% global literacy rate.
These are “predictions” and is not the case right now. But we can clearly see a trend in the direction of these predictions.
- Lack of a fool-proof globally recognized metric for assessment that evaluates a person independent of the way he acquired his knowledge:
The long tail of employable engineers is getting missed out by corporations. The report found that the top 100 colleges have higher employability as compared to the rest of the colleges (as much as two to four times). Despite this, more than 70% of employable candidates for any sector are in campuses other than the top 100. It was found that 50% of employable candidates for IT services companies and 28% of employable candidates for IT product companies are not even in the top 750 colleges, and thus form invisible pool to most employers. This signals that a large proportion of employable engineers are ending up without any opportunity, which is a dangerous trend for higher education. – National Employability Report by Aspiring Minds
Organizations lack a good metric system to compare and evaluate students from different universities, so they end up relying on other signals: the marks, the degree and the college name. They then conduct their own entrance tests and interviews. Is it not possible to find a gem in a Tier2+ college? Most organizations do believe that there are gems out there, but they don’t have a process to approach them. The low conversion rate makes this a no-go. We at Jnaapti have already proven the issues with this and have successfully connected students with companies that are more aligned with their interests. Over time, we will be building an alternate metric system that is more fool-proof and reliable and there are a few companies that are solving this problem alone some with a global focus.
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MyMediabox products are software fully protected from security threats
As the week goes on, many people will be hearing about the major security bug or flaw dubbed “Heartbleed.” Heartbleed is a vulnerability causing thousands of companies, online retailers, and government agencies worldwide to scramble to fix a nearly unprecedented exposure of credit card numbers, passwords and other kinds of financial and confidential data. The flaw was discovered in code installed on over a half million servers worldwide, allowing them access to SSL or HTTPS web browser connections, the very thing that should keep our personal data and software fully protected on the Internet. Heartbleed is a flaw in the OpenSSL library used extensively on Linux servers, and occasionally in specialized applications on Windows servers, too. Heartbleed has been around for about 2 years but has only recently been discovered by researchers.
Confirmation that MyMediabox products are free of security threats came fast
Heartbleed was publicly announced early Tuesday morning, and by 2:00 pm (GMT-5) Tuesday 8-Apr-2014, MyMediabox had completed testing and confirmed that no MyMediabox software systems or servers use the OpenSSL library that contains this flaw. All Mediabox-DAM and Mediabox-PA products are software fully protected from security threats. System communications are still safe from prying eyes, and all file uploads into the Mediabox-DAM system using FTP over SSL and FileCatalyst remain secure.
If you would like more information about this security flaw that is affecting many other companies, the mainstream news outlets are already running stories on it, such as these at BBC News and the Washington Post. If you need information on testing your own web servers and systems for data vulnerability due to Heartbleed, or on the flaw itself, please visit http://filippo.io/Heartbleed/ . | <urn:uuid:65a437cb-1ba8-49d9-93a3-940c9d464089> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mymediabox.com/2014/04/10/mymediabox-software-fully-protected/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.935329 | 391 | 2.125 | 2 |
It is a truth universally acknowledged that any person who has consumed a respectable amount of mangoes, must be in want of a solution for all that acne. We all know that mangoes are heavy on your body, frequently increasing body heat. You don’t have to stop eating them, they’re excellent! Along with being loaded with nutrients like Vit A, B6 & E, beta carotene, potassium and magnesium, mangoes also have a high amount of glucose, which boosts insulin production, which causes acne.
Oh but that sweet, glorious taste of mangoes is unmatchable. How do we face the consequences that come later? Luckily, we have the best solution for you. Here’s how to get rid of acne:
1. Use a face wash with salicylic acid
Salicylic acid is a skin exfoliator which cleanses excess oil and unclogs blocked pores. It also prevents future blackheads and whiteheads. The Spawake Pimple Solution Refreshing Face Wash is a face wash that targets pimples. Rich in sea minerals and Salicylic acid and infused with menthol, it cleanses your pores from deep within and leaves it feeling clean, cool, and super refreshed.
2. Do. Not. Poke
No matter how tempting it is to explore the foreign residue inside that large zit, poking or bursting it will only make it worse. Instead, distract yourself as much as possible and let nature take its course. Drinking a lot of water will flush out the toxins from your body and quicken the healing process. Keep your skin moisturized and pimple-free with the Spawake Pimple Solution Purifying Serum which is formulated with Advance Purifying Complex consisting of sea minerals, Salicylic acid and Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate.
3. Maintain a non-sweaty, non-oily skin
Your pores get clogged when sweat or sebum gets accumulated on them. Exfoliating regularly helps to keep your face clean and sweat-free. The Spawake Pimple Solution Charcoal Clay Pack is a charcoal pack with sea minerals that unclogs your pores and removes sebum, dirt and pollutants in just three minutes.
4. Eat in moderation
Balance is the key to everything. External application will only help you to reduce your acne. The key to avoiding it is to be aware of what you’re consuming and eat mindfully. Consuming lots of dairy, fried, sugary, and high-calorie foods and drinks makes your skin acne-prone. The Japanese believe in eating until you’re about eighty percent full. Eating moderately can help you tackle several health problems and build your immunity.
If you're looking for a quick, fun fix for your acne, you can also try the Spawake Pimple Solution Intense Purifying Mask which is a refreshing sheet mask for pimple-prone skin. It unveils a clear, smoother skin in just 10 minutes. Who doesn’t love to be pampered once in a while?
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Originally reported by BleepingComputer, the malvertising group ScamClub leveraged a zero-day vulnerability in the WebKit browser engine in order to distribute payloads that redirected to gift card scams through malicious iframes. WebKit is used by Chrome and Safari browsers, and has received a patch to remove this vulnerability as of December 2, 2020. The vulnerability was assigned the identifier CVE-2021-1801. In a research report originally published by Confiant, researcher/security engineer Eliya Stein discovered that the ScamClub malvertising relied on bypassing the WebKit iframe sandboxing through a previously undiscovered vulnerability.
ScamClub Malvertising Leveraged Zero-Day Vulnerability in Browsers
As originally discussed in the Confiant writeup, this vulnerability requires no user interaction to trigger the iframe redirection URL. Due to this, Binary Defense recommends educating users on common scams, such as gift card scams. Additionally, Binary Defense recommends the use of a 24/7 SOC monitoring solution, whether that is an internal team or a managed security service provider such as Binary Defense’s own Security Operations Task Force.
More information can be found at the BleepingComputer article: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malvertisers-exploited-browser-zero-day-to-redirect-users-to-scams/
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Culinary Academy of France: The elite of the culinary world is present at the Culinary Academy of France. Founded in 1883 by Valais cook Joseph Favre (1849-1903), the Académie Culinaire de France is the oldest association of Chefs de Cuisine and Pastry Chefs in the world.
It supports all those who, through their actions, promote French cuisine while respecting its traditions and its development. It organizes or participates in competitions, exhibitions ...
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wHAT IS a certified peer specialist?
A Certified Peer Specialist (CPS) is someone who has had mental health struggles and who has undergone training to use their lived experience with intention to inspire hope and to help others with similar experiences. Peer Specialists play a vital role in changing and improving the mental health system in ways that promote equality and reduce stigma thus helping people to feel heard and be treated fairly.
Our recovery stories are one of our greatest tools to offer hope, connection, support, and to create mutuality. Peer Support is an emerging field and one in which more research needs to be completed. I’ve begun writing about my own experiences as a peer specialist and here are some of the articles.
CORE COMPETENCIES OF PEER WORK
- Human experience language
- Cross-cultural partnering
- Group facilitation and self-help skills
- Power, conflict, and integrity
- Creating the life one wants
- Dealing with fear
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Off-Broadway musical (2013)
Giant the Musical Lyrics
Giant is a musical based on the 1952 Edna Ferber novel of the same name, with music and lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa and book by Sybille Pearson. The musical premiered at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia in 2009. The story follows a ranch family in Texas over 30 years, and the effect of the oil boom.
In Texas in 1922, Jordan "Bick" Benedict, a rich cattleman, marries Leslie, from Virginia. Bick is focused on working the family ranch, Reatta, but exhibits bigotry against Mexicans. This racism is seen in his older sister, Luz, who is against outsiders. Jett Rink is a handyman but discovers oil; he is infatuated with Leslie. A neighbor and Bick's reclusive uncle, Uncle Bawley, tells the tale of the legend of the coyote. Bick ends the relationship with a girlfriend, Vashti.
As they age over the years, Leslie feels rejected by Bick and realizes that they do not really know each other. Leslie and Bick's son marries a Mexican woman as Leslie tries to help the downtrodden Mexican American workers and Bick comes to accept his son's choice.
Giant the Musical Songs with Lyrics
1. Aurelia Dolores - Full Cast
2. Did Spring Come to Texas? - Bick, Ensemble
3. Did Spring Come to Texas? (Reprise) - Bick
4. Your Texas - Bick, Leslie
5. No Time for Surprises - Luz
6. Private Property - Jett Rink
7. Lost - Leslie, Mexicans
8. Elsie Mae - Jett Rink
9. He Wanted a Girl - Vashti
10. Heartbreak Country - Bick, Leslie
11. Ruega por Nosotros
12. Look Back/Look Ahead - Bawley
13. My Texas
14. Topsy-Turvy - Bick, Leslie
15. When to Bluff/One Day
16. A Stranger
17. Act One Finale
1. Our Mornings/That Thing - Bick, Luz
2. Jump - Angel
3. There is a Child - Juana
4. Un Beso, Beso!
5. A Place in the World/Look Ahead (Reprise) - Bawley, Bick
6. Midnight Blues - Vashti, Leslie
7. The Dog is Gonna Bark - Jett
8. Juana's Prayer
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Date of Award
Master of Science in Education (MSEd)
Learner-Centered Nature Walks details the research of Heather van der Grinten in supplementing Junior Ranger Walks with a learner-centered mindset. The approach was intended to reflect her personal growth as a museum educator, demonstrate the viability of the Bank Street praxis of progressive education in an environmental education setting, and highlight potential growth for future Junior Ranger lesson-planning. The methodology involved experimenting with lesson plans, keeping a detailed reflection journal, and asking for voluntary feedback from peers, supervisors, and participants from June to September 2018. The samples of student work as shown in Appendix A and B were voluntarily given to van der Grinten to be used as part of her analysis. The research has found that asking for input as an initiation to an experience creates an immediate sense of engagement on the part of the participants. The research also concluded that inviting learners to create a visual artifact after a direct sensory experience provided an opportunity for reflection, group discussion, and an informal evaluation tool for the educator to monitor the program’s effectiveness. These findings support the ideal conclusion of a Junior Ranger Walk – an empowered youth who has the skill and desire to engage meaningfully in public lands.
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Keepers of the Wild supports many of our partner organisations to employ local men and women as rangers, straight into conservation’s frontline. Since then, they have proved themselves invaluable, facing natural and human threats head-on.
Rangers are essential to the day-to-day protection, ongoing site and species monitoring, and long-term success of the programmes. Safeguarding land is a challenge; successfully protecting these large areas of land is an arduous, unpredictable and precarious one. The on-going reserve management that each of our Keepers of the Wild provides relieves this pressure, facilitating far better care for these beautiful but vulnerable habitats.
KEEPING THE WILD, WILD
While no two days in these incredible environments could ever be the same, the discreet presence of our Keepers of the Wild is constant. Their work includes patrolling (which allows them to police illegal activities such as logging, hunting and boundary encroachment), monitoring species, assisting researchers, creating and maintaining infrastructure, guiding visitors, and working with local communities. Creating an extra level of security, their on-site presence is instrumental in deterring illegal activities. When such events occur, reserve rangers can respond rapidly to assess, respond and control the situation.
A LONG TERM RESOLUTION
Keepers of the Wild increase the quality of protection provided to these invaluable habitats. As well as human threats to these wildernesses, over the years the Keepers have faced mudslides, storm damage, and forest fires (although humans can be responsible for these – by accident and design). Their quick thinking and unrivalled understanding of the needs of the habitat creates increasingly higher standards of safeguarding, which WLT always hope to see within reserves.
However, it is not just a doom and gloom role. It would also be impossible to observe and record the species and success stories from the reserves without them. They have discovered new species, found evidence of those rarely seen in the wild, and raised environmental issues within local communities. By offering education on the importance of conservation and living sustainably alongside nature, the rangers have secured the long-term success of the programmes. Therefore, continuing to fund Keepers of the Wild is an essential part of WLT’s commitment to every acre we have helped to protect over the last 30 years.
NURTURING THE RESERVES
Days at any of our programmes can bring a range of emotions, from joy to fear. Working as a ranger is a physically demanding and emotionally challenging job. Locally, each Keeper of the Wild faces many risks. Globally, the Keepers are in the centre of a battlefield shaped by the damaging environmental and social issues that humans have caused – and now face. While some days may bring the thrill of a new sighting at a camera trap, another could start with a phone call alerting them to an animal caught in a real one. Land purchase is a prologue; the story of conservation truly starts when our partner organisations, and the Keepers of the Wild, can get to work.
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All this because when Jesus miraculously fed the 5000 and said I AM the BREAD He was saying:
- God blesses all of life. The multiplied barley loaves and fish were divinely created, and the satisfaction the people experienced must have been like no other in their lives. The food Jesus made for them was perfect, not tainted by the Fall and its consequent corruption of all the earth through sin.
- Thiswasthemostpublicofallmiracles.Thiswasoverwhelmingtoall who saw Jesus do it. Why? Because no miracle seems to have made such an impression on the disciples as this, because this is the only miracle of Jesus which is related in all four gospels.16
- Jesus offers a totally new life to all. I am all you need because a God who can feed 5000 like that can do anything! Think about it: Jesus with a word multiplied the molecular structure of those humble barley cakes and pickled fish! It is this creation power that he brings to our lives. “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” (2 Corinthians 5:17).
- Nothing is beyond Christ’s reach! And finally, nothing is impossible physically or spiritually for Jesus Christ. No one is beyond his redemption. Christian, if you are willing, there is no moral flaw in your life which God cannot heal.
Please join me in John 6:1-14; 31-35
WHAT DID GOD DO IN THE WILDERNESS!
“I am the Bread that came down from heaven” (John 6:41–51). The manna17 God provided for the Israelites during the Exodus is a picture of Jesus as the “living Bread.” When God’s people traveled through the wilderness, they had to depend on God to provide their food supernaturally. God provided the food in a way that would also teach the people something about their relationship with Him. Every day God gave enough food for that day. No one could gather more than a day’s supply. There had to be a continual, constant dependence on God; He was the only source of sustenance.
WHAT WAS IT LIKE?
Jesus transports us in His 1st I AM declaration to a spot 3,500 years ago in the Sinai Wilderness. The Camp of Israel was at least 81 square miles just for 600,000 fighting men and their families! That is the equivalent of a square camp ground containing solid rows of tents from Lewis Street on the West to Elm Street in BA on the East, from 21st street in the north to 101st street in the south. That would put us today in the tabernacle in the center of the camp! (NOTE: The Exodus march at 5 people wide would have stretched 225 miles long. If they traveled 50 wide they would have been 22.5 miles. For a missions note, our world of 6 billion would be @ 100 wide 45,000 miles long!)
HOW BIG WAS THE TASK?
Now here is the unbelievable need these people had. For nearly 40 years of their WILDERNESS WANDERINGS, ISRAEL under the leadership of MOSES wandered through the dry, sun baked arid wastelands of the Sinai. No lush green gardens, no stores and grain elevators to draw from and yet to feed three million people would take 1300 box cars of food each day or a train 9 1/2 miles long!
So what does Jesus say in John 6:48? I AM the Bread of LIFE. I am all you ever need. And, just like the bread of God that came down from heaven, I can deliver my bread of life anywhere you ever get! WOW!
Twenty-three times in all we find our Lord’s meaningful “I AM” (????????, Gr.) in the Greek text of this gospel (4:26; 6:20,35,41,48,51; 8:12,18,24,28,58; 10:7,9,11,14; 11:25; 13:19; 14:6; 15:1,5; 18:5,6,8). In several of these, He joins His “I AM” with seven tremendous metaphors which are expressive of His saving relationship toward the world. IN other words, the Christian life may be described in these seven declarations of Jesus. A believer is described by Jesus in seven profound ways. The perfection of Christ our God is seen in the seven “I AM’S” in John’s record of Christ’s life and ministry. Christ has given His own eternal life (John 17:2), but He has also given them the revelation of the Father’s name (John 17:6). The Old Testament Jew knew his God as “Jehovah,” the great I AM (Ex. 3:11–14). Jesus took this sacred name “I AM” and made it meaningful to His disciples: “I am the Bread of Life” (John 6:35); “I am the Light of the world” (John 8:12); “I am the Good Shepherd” (John 10:11); etc. In other words, Jesus revealed the Father’s gracious name by showing His disciples that He was everything they needed.
- A Believer is: HUNGERING FOR JESUS AS MY BREAD OF LIFE.“I AM the Bread of life” (6:35,41,48,51).
- A Believer is: WALKING WITH JESUS WHO LIGHTS MY PATH OF LIFE. “I AM the Light of the world” (8:12).
- A Believer is: ENTERING THROUGH JESUS WHO IS MY DOOR TO LIFE.“I AM the Door of the sheep” (10:7,9).
- A Believer is: STAYING WITH THE GOOD SHEPHERD WHO IS THE SAVIOR OF MY LIFE. “I AM the Good Shepherd” (10:11,14).
- A Believer is: RESTING IN JESUS WHOS RESURRECTION GAVE ME ENDLESS LIFE. “I AM the Resurrection and the Life” (11:25).
- A Believer is: FOLLOWING THE WAY OF JESUS, BELIEVING THE TRUTH OF JESUS, AND LIVING THE LIFE OF JESUS. “I AM the Way, the Truth, and the Life” (14:6).
- A Believer is: ABIDING IN JESUS WHO IS MY SUPPLY OF ALL I EVER NEED. “I AM the true Vine” (15:1,5). Psalm 92
I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE(6:35)-He FEEDS OUR STARVING SOULS, but apart from Him is only unsatisfied hunger. The internal gnawing pain that hunger brings is the illustration of our condition apart from Christ. He alone feeds our soul and satisfies our hungers, all else is emptiness, hopelessness and empty mirages. Jesus said I am your food that satisfies, I am the Bread you need. I have settled the longings of your soul, I can satisfy all the hungers of your life. What do you really hunger for?
I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD(8:12)-He LIGHTS OUR DARKENED SOULS, but apart from Him is only impenetrable darkness. Jesus said I am the Light, I have settled the darkness of fear, the darkness of death, the darkness of dying, it is all settled by Me!
I AM THE DOOR OF LIFE TO MY SHEEP(10:7,9)-He INVITES us lost sheep back into God’s Family, but apart from Him is only hopeless exclusion. Jesus said I am the Door of Life, all your security and access needs are settled, by Me! In the ancient world there were sheep folds built of stones or made from caves, dotting the hills and valleys of Israel. The door was made so that the shepherd himself would lay down at night and become the door so that no sheep could wander out without stumbling over him and no predator could slip in without stirring him. So Jesus says I keep you safe from harm and secure from wandering away from my salvation!
I AM THE GOOD SHEPHERD(10:11)-He LEADS US HOME, but apart from Him is only aimless wandering. Jesus said I am the Good Shepherd who died, I have settled the issue of the unknown. I am your companion through life and death. Jesus gives us the perfect example of how to live and how to die!
I AM THE RESURRECTION AND LIFE(11:25)-He pours upon US endless LIFE, but apart from Him is only endless dying. Jesus says I am the Resurrection, I am the Life. I have settled the issue of Hope, you can count on me, hope in me all through life and into death!
I AM THE WAY, TRUTH & LIFE(14:6)-He secures us in the way of endless life, but apart from Him is only endless lostness. Jesus said I am the way, I have settled the issue of your home. I am making it, your very own room, and the minute that it is ready I am coming to get you!
I AM THE TRUE VINE(15:1)-He NURTURES us through life, apart from Him is only continual withering. Jesus says I am the Vine, your source of life and health. The state of your health is all in my hands. I will provide for you living grace, enduring declining life grace, and dying grace. Each just when you need them! If the vine speaks of all of life as one growing season, then we should get more fruit filled the older we get (ala Psalm 92), if it is many seasons then life is a succession of growing /pruning /bearing /resting and then growing/pruning…
Now this morning, meet Jesus who is the great I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE!
I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE (6:35) – He FEEDS OUR STARVING SOULS, but apart from Him is only unsatisfied hunger. Our hungers and thirsts of life are settled by Jesus.The internal gnawing pain that hunger brings is the illustration of our condition apart from Christ. He alone feeds our soul and satisfies our hungers, all else is emptiness, hopelessness and empty mirages. Whatever we hunger for reveals what we are. What are your secret hungers? Do they resemble the flesh or the spirit? Jesus gave a list of what those who hunger to sow to the Spirit desire. Remember them?
WHEN JEUS CALLED HIMSELF THE BREAD OF GOD FROM HEAVEN HE WAS SAYING THAT THE MANNA EXPLAINS WHO HE IS. PLEASE TURN WITH ME TO EXODUS 16
Exodus 16 should always be read in connection18 with John 6, for the manna from heaven is a type of Jesus Christ, the Bread of Life. Jesus also noted that manna illustrates the written Word of God on which God’s pilgrim people feed from day to day
1ST JESUS WAS GREATER THAN MANNA. When Jesus called Himself “the Living Bread,” He was not claiming to be exactly like the manna. He was claiming to be even greater!
|Old Testament Manna||Jesus the Bread of Life|
|1. The manna only sustained life for the Jews||1. but Jesus gives life to the whole world.|
|2. The Jews ate the daily manna and eventually died||2. but when you receive Jesus Christ within, you live forever.|
|3. When God gave the manna, He gave only a gift||3. but when Jesus came, He gave Himself.|
|4. There was no cost to God in sending the manna each day||4. but He gave His Son at great cost.|
|5. The Jews had to eat the manna every day||5. but the sinner who trusts Christ once is given eternal life.|
|6. But those that did eat manna hungered again, died at last, and with many of them God was not well-pleased||6. whereas those that feed on Christ by faith shall never hunger, and shall die no more, and with them God will be for ever well pleased. The Lord evermore give us this bread!19|
Just noting the Hebrew word manna, we see it means “What is it?” (v. 15). This helps us realize that the Jews could not explain this new food that God had sent. What a parallel to Paul’s exclamation of Christ when he wrote ,” in 1 Tim. 3:16 “Great is the mystery of godliness, God was manifest in the flesh.” Jesus in human flesh is a mystery, but it is a beautiful mystery revealed when we stop to consider how the manna pictures Jesus Christ:
JESUS IS SO MUCH LIKE MANNA.
- GOD USED MANNA TO REFLECT Christ’s humility because it was small (v. 14), which speaks of His humility; for He became a baby, and even a servant.
- GOD USED MANNA TO REFLECT Christ’s eternal nature because it was round (v. 14), which reminds us of the circle, symbol of His eternality; for Jesus Christ is eternal God (John 8:53–59).
- GOD USED MANNA TO REFLECT Christ’s holiness, because it was white (v. 31), a reminder of His purity and sinlessness; He is the holy Son of God.
- GOD USED MANNA TO REFLECT Christ’s sweetness, because it like honey was sweet (v. 31). “Taste and see that the Lord is good” (Ps. 34:8). Note in Num. 11:4–8 that the “mixed multitude” that went with the Jews did not appreciate the taste of the manna but asked for the “leeks, onions, and garlic” of Egypt. They were not satisfied with simple manna. They “ground it, beat it, and baked it,” but then it tasted like “oil” and not like honey. There is a spiritual lesson here for us; we cannot improve upon the simple Word of God (Ps. 119:103).
- GOD USED MANNA TO REFLECT Christ’s feeding us (v. 35). It was satisfying and strengthening, for the nation lived on manna for nearly forty years. All that we need for spiritual nourishment is Jesus Christ, God’s heaven-sent Bread. We are to feast on the Bread that will never leave us hungering.
WHEN JEUS CALLED HIMSELF THE BREAD OF GOD FROM HEAVEN HE WAS SAYING THAT THE MANNA ILLUSTRATES HOW HE CAME
- Exodus16:1-3reflectsthatJESUSCAMETOAWORLDTHATDIDNOTOBEY HIM JUST LIKE Manna came to a rebellious people (vv. 1–3). What poor memories Israel had! They had been away from the bondage of Egypt only six weeks and had already forgotten God’s many mercies. They murmured against Moses and against God (see 15:22–27), and they longed for the fleshly diet of the old life; yet God in His grace and mercy supplied them with bread. Verse 4 could well have read, “I will rain fire and brimstone upon those ungrateful sinners!” But, no, God proved His love toward them by raining bread upon them. See Rom. 5:6–8. Someone has calculated that to supply six pints (an omer) of manna each for two to three million people daily would have required four freight trains of sixty cars each. How generous God is to us!
- Exodus16:4reflectsthatJESUSCAMEFROMHEAVENJUSTLIKEMANNA CAME FROM HEAVEN. It was not imported from Egypt, or manufactured in the wilderness; it was given from heaven, the gift of God’s grace. Jesus Christ came down from heaven (John 6:33) as the Father’s gift to hungry sinners. To say that Christ is “just another man” is to deny the teaching of the whole Bible that He is God’s Son sent from heaven. These come from heaven, as the manna did, and are the support and comfort of the divine life in the soul, while we are in the wilderness of this world. It is food for those only that follow the pillar of cloud and fire.
- Exodus16:13a“inthemorning”reflectsthatJESUSCAMETOASIN DARKENED WORLD JUST LIKE MANNA CAME AT NIGHT. The people gathered the manna early each morning, for the manna fell at night. This suggests the darkness of sin in this world when Jesus came. It was night when Jesus was born, for He came to be the Light of the World (John 8:12). And it is still night in the hearts of all who have rejected Him (2 Cor. 4:1–4). Also as Luke records Jesus came as the sunrise on a sin blackened world Luke 1:78-79 Through the tender mercy of our God, With which the Dayspring from on high has visited us; 79 To give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, To guide our feet into the way of peace.” NKJV
CAME BY A SUPERNATURAL BIRTH JUST LIKE MANNA CAME ON THE DEW (vv. 13–14). Just as Numbers 11:9 implies the manna lay atop the pure dews, and the dew kept the manna from being defiled by the earth, so the Virgin birth of Jesus through the Holy Spirit brought Jesus to earth, unstained by sin (Luke 1:34–35). Had Jesus not been born of the virgin, He could never be called “that Holy One.”
- Exodus16:13c“allaroundthecamp”reflectsthatJESUSCOMESTOWHERE WE ARE JUST LIKE MANNA FELL RIGHT WHERE THEY WERE. How easily accessible the manna was to the Jews! They did not have to climb a mountain or cross a deep river; the manna came where they were (see Rom. 10:6–8). Jesus Christ is not far away from sinners. They can come to Him at any time.
WHEN JEUS CALLED HIMSELF THE BREAD OF GOD FROM HEAVEN HE WAS SAYING THAT THE MANNA ILLUSTRATES WHAT WE MUST DO WITH JESUS CHRIST
- BELIEVERS FEEL THE NEED TO RECEIVE CHRIST. There is a spiritual hunger within that can be satisfied only by Christ (John 6:35). It was when the Prodigal Son said, “I perish with hunger” that he decided to go back to the father and seek forgiveness (Luke 15:17–18). Much of the unrest and sin in the world today is the result of unsatisfied spiritual hunger. People are living on substitutes and rejecting the nourishment that God freely provides (Isa. 55:1–3).
- BELIEVERS STOOP TO RECEIVE CHRIST. The manna did not fall on the tables or on the trees but on the ground, and the people had to stoop to pick it up. Many sinners will not humble themselves. They will not bend! They will not repent and turn to the Savior!
- BELIEVERSPERSONALLYTAKEJESUSFORTHEMSELVES.Thehungry Jews were not fed by looking at the manna, admiring it, or watching others eat it; they had to pick it up and eat it themselves. Christ must be received inwardly by faith if the sinner is to be saved. This is what Christ meant in John 6:51–58 by “eating His flesh and drinking His blood.” John 6:63 makes it clear that Christ was not speaking about literal flesh and blood, and John 6:68 tells us that it was His Word that He was referring to. When we receive the Word inwardly, we are feeding on Christ, the Living Word. It is to be gathered; Christ in the word is to be applied to the soul, and the means of grace are to be used.
- BELIEVERS TAKE JESUS WHILE THEY CAN. (v. 21). “Seek the Lord while He may be found!” is the warning of Isa. 55:6 (NKJV). “Today if you hear His voice…” the writer of Hebrews exhorts. The manna disappeared when the sun became hot, and this suggests that the day of judgment will arrive when it will be too late to turn to Christ (Mal. 4). It also suggests that, as believers, we must get our spiritual nourishment from the Word early in the day as we meditate on it and pray. We must every one of us gather for ourselves, and gather in the morning of our opportunities, which if we let slip, it may be too late to gather.
JESUS IS ALL I NEED: Christ My Vine from the Gospel by John
- BELIEVERSALWAYSFEEDUPONJESUS.OncewereceiveChristasSavior, we are saved eternally (John 10:27–29). It is important, however, that we feed on Christ to have the strength for our pilgrim journey, just as the Jews fed on the Passover lamb (Ex. 12:11ff). How do believers feed on Christ? By reading, studying, and meditating on His Word. God invites each of us to get up early in the day and gather from the Word the precious manna to nourish our souls. We cannot hoard God’s truth for another day (vv. 16–21); we must gather fresh food for each new day. Too many Christians mark their Bibles and fill their notebooks with outlines, yet never really feed on Christ. The manna they gathered must not be hoarded up, but eaten; those that have received Christ must by faith live upon him, and not receive his grace in vain. There was manna enough for all, enough for each, and none had too much; so in Christ there is a complete sufficiency, and no superfluity.
Note that the spiritual manna (Christ) accomplishes more than did the physical manna that God sent to the Jews.
- The OT manna sustained physical life, but Christ gives spiritual life to all who receive Him.
- The OT manna was for the Jews only, but Christ offers Himself to the whole world (John 6:51).
- It did not cost Moses anything to secure the manna for Israel, but to make Himself available to the world, Christ had to die on the cross. How sad it is that most of the people in the world walk on Christ as if he were unused manna on the ground, rather than stooping to receive Him that they might live.
The daily gathering of the manna was God’s test of Israel’s obedience (v. 4), and it is still God’s test for His people. Those Christians that begin their day with the Bible, gathering spiritual food, are the ones God can trust and use. Alas, many Christians still hunger for the carnal diet of the world! (v. 3) And many expect the pastor or the Sunday School teacher to gather the manna for them and “spoon-feed” them. The test of our spiritual walk is this: do I think enough of Christ and His Word to start my day gathering manna?
18 The manna points are adapted from Warren W. Wiersbe, Wiersbe’s Expository Outlines on the Old Testament, (Wheaton, IL:
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Earlier this year in March, it was announced that Japanese architect Toyo Ito would join the ranks of the architecture Gods and be honored with the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Last night now at a festive ceremony in Boston's John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, he finally received his coveted medal and $100,000 grant from Thomas J. Pritzker, chairman of The Hyatt Foundation which has sponsored the prize since its founding in 1979.
The ceremony was held before a black tie audience of over 300 guests of the foundation, including many of Ito’s present and past staff members, previous laureates of the prize, as well as architects and fans of architecture from around the world.
Thomas Pritzker remarked in his speech introducing Ito: "It is artistic courage that we celebrate in the works of our newest Pritzker Laureate – Toyo Ito. Architecture is the most popular of all art forms. No other art form has as much consequence, and touches, and embraces human beings as does architecture. It is the courage to aspire to affect people—physically and emotionally—that is at the basis of Toyo Ito’s work."
Following is Ito's full acceptance speech in English:
"Good evening ladies and gentlemen! I am thrilled and honored to be awarded the Pritzker Prize in the presence of so many dear friends and distinguished architects from around the world. It is also a special pleasure to be here, in the John F. Kennedy Library, on the birthday of John F. Kennedy, the 35th President. I do believe this is the best day of my life so far!
I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude first to the Pritzker Family: Mrs. Cindy Pritzker, Mr. Thomas J. Pritzker, and Mrs. Margaret Pritzker. I also thank the jury members, Lord Peter Palumbo, Mr. Alejandro Aravena, Mr. Juhani Pallasmaa, Mr. Glenn Murcutt, Mr. Stephen Breyer, Mr. Yung Ho Chang, and Ms. Martha Thorne.
At the same time, being here in Boston, I cannot help but think of the bombing that happened here last month. Please allow me to offer my condolences to the victims and to all of those whose lives were affected by those horrific events.
It has been 42 years since I first opened my studio. Making architecture is not something one does alone; one must be blessed with many good collaborators to make it happen. I would like to express my deep thanks to Mr. Mutsuro Sasaki, who is an extremely talented structural engineer, and who is here with us today. For almost twenty years now, Mr. Sasaki has provided me with a steady stream of creative structural ideas for which I am extremely grateful. I would also like to thank my staff for sticking with me and sharing so much hard work and struggle over so many years.
To make architecture is to attempt to establish order in the midst of an unstable and ceaselessly changing social and natural world. It often happens, however, that in this search for order we settle into old or conventional solutions and find ourselves boxed into restrictive frameworks. For me, the task of the architect is to release people from those restrictive frameworks by creating spaces in which they feel at ease and in which they can attain some degree of freedom.
This is why I was especially pleased to read the Jury Citation about my work. The jury members wrote that I am "seeking to extend the possibilities of architecture," and that my works, "attain a level of calmness that ultimately allows the inhabitants to freely develop their activities within them." I have always tried to push my architecture forward without allowing my style to remain static. And I have done this in the interest both of architectural "innovation" and in order to attain "a level of calmness."
The architecture of the cities we live in today had its beginnings in the early part of the twentieth century. In New York and Chicago, Mies Van der Rohe and others created skyscrapers like nothing that had ever existed before in human history. In Europe, Le Corbusier and his colleagues proposed their shiny, white living spaces in cubic form, along with many other ideas for a new urbanism. This kind of innovative architecture seemed to offer limitless possibilities for the city of the future.
These experimental and pioneering efforts brought with them a new urban age, and populations began to concentrate in the cities. Today's cities are brimming with skyscrapers and already they accommodate 50 percent of the world's population. In the near future that number will rise to 70 percent. Modernist architecture, based on the idea that quickly developing technology would allow for inexpensive mass production of the same kinds of architecture at any spot on the globe, made possible the migration of more and more people into urban areas. This same idea, however, also meant that the world's cities lost their local identities as they were reduced to a series of uniform and indistinguishable grids.
The idea of "modernity" was of course originally about the liberation of rational and autonomous individuals from traditional communities, and the formation of a civil society based on respect for the freedom of individuals. It also entailed the belief that nature could be conquered through technological innovation. I think it can be said that the twentieth century achieved this ideal of modernity and that the realization of such a civil society has created a better life for us today.
Today's cities, however, look quite different from the cities of the future imagined by our predecessors a century ago. City dwellers are too often confined within monotonous grids, their connections to other people are severed, and they are condemned to an isolated existence. By now, those who migrated to the cities dreaming of a life of freedom and abundance have lost their spirited expressions and been reduced to a crowd of alienated individuals. Modernist architecture built a wall between itself and nature and relied on technology to create artificial environments with no connection to nature. It privileged function and efficiency, and cut itself off from the unique history and culture of its local settings. This kind of isolation from nature and rejection of the local community is to blame for the uniformity of today's cities and the people who live in them.
My work has always been about tearing down this wall that separates modern architecture from nature and the local community, in order to create architecture that is open to both. I was very happy to see that the jury members took note of this aspect of my work as well. They wrote,
“Seeking freedom from the rigidity of a grid, Ito is interested in relationships – between rooms, exterior and interior, and building and surroundings. Toyo Ito’s work has drawn on inspiration from the principles of nature, as evidenced by the unity achieved between organic-like structures, surface and skin.”
I make it a point to keep visiting the site of the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan two years ago on March 11, and each time I go I am reminded of the powerlessness of technology in the face of nature's fury. This was a catastrophe brought about by human pride vis à vis nature.
I believe that the time has come for us to take back our closeness to nature, to open our humdrum city grids to nature's abundance, and to rebuild a more vibrant and human environment. I urge all of us architects to work together to send out a new message to the next century, one that is as bright and full of hope as the one transmitted by our predecessors a century ago. In order for this to happen, we architects must transform ourselves. Let us not fixate on minor differences, but rather work together to find a message for the next generation that we can all share.
In his inaugural address of 1961, John F. Kennedy said, "My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.” Even now, a half-century later, there are no words that inspire us quite like these. Now too, we are being asked: what can we ourselves do for the freedom of man?
Thank you very much."
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Evacuation of Pets Can Pose Challenges for Families Fleeing from Disasters
By David Foust, American Red Cross Southern California Region
Not everyone can say they own a dragon! Evacuating from disasters like wildfires can be challenging for families, especially when they have an assortment of pets and large animals. The Holland family, including dad Kevin, mom Rachel, and kids Abigail (12 years old) and Wyatt (7 years old) realized this when their community of Forest Falls, California came under mandatory evacuation orders as a result of the El Dorado Fire in Southern California. Packing up to leave meant transporting and finding shelter for their three horses, four dogs, two cats, 10 chickens, one snake, one bearded dragon lizard, and a guinea pig named ‘Rocky.’
After most of the Holland’s animals were sheltered in safe havens with friends, the family came to the American Red Cross Temporary Evacuation Point at Redlands East Valley High School to find shelter for themselves - their snake and dragon included!
Red Cross volunteers at the Temporary Evacuation Point were able to find a hotel room for the family to safely stay until evacuation orders are lifted.
Right now Red Cross volunteers are helping hundreds of people displaced by the El Dorado Fire and the Valley Fire in Southern California, providing emergency lodging, hydration and meals, health and wellness checks, emotional support and more for evacuees.
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While the dexterity genre can be quite diverse, one of the most popular types of dexterity games is the building game. In most of these building games the goal is to carefully add blocks or other objects to a tower trying to avoid knocking the tower down. While one of Kaboom’s major mechanics is a similar building mechanic, there is much more to worry about than just unsteady hands. While you build in Kaboom you also have to deal with dice being flung at you by the other players. Basically Kaboom is exactly what you would expect out of a tower building game where you fling dice at the other players.
How to Play Kaboom
Place the Mega Tower tile in the center of the table. Shuffle the small tower tiles and randomly place them around the Mega Tower Tile.
Players will take turns playing as the Master Builder with the youngest player being the first Master Builder. The Master Builder takes the timer and all of the building blocks. All of the other players will play as saboteurs. Each saboteur takes a launcher and a number of dice based on the number of players:
- 2 players: 8 dice
- 3 players: 4 dice
- 4 players: 3 dice
- 5 players: 2 dice
Each round begins with the Master Builder flipping over the timer. The Master Builder then begins placing blocks onto the tiles trying to recreate the towers shown on the tiles.
The Master Builder can choose to build on whichever tiles they want. They can build multiple towers but they only have two of each type of block so only a couple structures can be built on a player’s turn. Once a player builds a tower they need to keep it standing until the timer ends in order to score the points. If a structure is knocked down the player can rebuild it if time hasn’t run out.
While the Master Builder is building, the other players try to sabotage them by knocking down their structures. Players place one of their dice on their launcher. They flip their launcher in order to launch their dice into the air. A player can move their launcher around but it must remain at least a foot away from any tile. Each dice can only be launched once during a round. The Master Builder is not allowed to purposely block any saboteur shots and the saboteurs are not allowed to interfere with the Master Builder outside of launching the dice.
An optional rule in Kaboom involves dice landing on tiles. If the players choose to use this rule, the Master Builder cannot build on any tile that a die lands on. If the Master Builder has already completed a tower on the tile that the dice landed, the tower can still score points if it is not knocked over. If the tower is knocked down it cannot be rebuilt.
As soon as the timer runs out, all players immediately stop. Players check to see if any complete towers are still standing. For every complete tower still standing the Master Builder takes the corresponding tile which will count for the corresponding amount of points at the end of the game. The building blocks are given to the next Master Builder and the player who was the previous Master Builder takes a launcher and the corresponding number of dice.
When everyone has been the Master Builder, one round has been completed. The game continues until the desired number of rounds have been completed (the game recommends three rounds). Players count up the number of points on the tiles they collected during the game. The player with the most points wins the game.
The Mega Tile
If at any point a player is able to complete the Mega Tower and keep it standing until the timer runs out will automatically win the game.
My Thoughts on Kaboom
While I can see this as both a positive and a negative, Kaboom is the perfect example of a filler game. Kaboom is a game that is not meant to be taken seriously. If you are a highly competitive person and always need to try and win, Kaboom might not be for you. Kaboom is a game that you play to have fun and eventually hope to end up winning. While some players will be better at the game than others, a lot of luck goes into winning Kaboom so the game should not be taken that seriously.
The main reason why I would consider Kaboom to be a filler game is that basically anyone can easily pick it up and play it. All you have to do is build the towers on the cards and launch the dice. Kaboom is pretty short with most games taking 15-30 minutes depending on how many rounds you decide to play. Since three rounds leads to a pretty short game, I personally would recommend four or five rounds if you want the players to get more than a couple tiles each. Kaboom is a great game to play when you want a quick change of pace or don’t have a lot of time to play a game. The short length is good because while Kaboom is a fun game, it is the type of game that I would only play one or two times and then put away to play a different day. I just see Kaboom as a game that could become a little boring if you played it for more than an hour at a time.
It shouldn’t be a surprise that it is more enjoyable playing as a saboteur than it is to play as the builder. It is still fun to build the towers but there is just something satisfying about launching dice trying to knock down towers. It is really satisfying knocking down another player’s tower as soon as they finished completing it. I was actually surprised by how easy it is to knock down towers in the game. Before playing the game I thought it would be quite hard to knock down towers since how easy could it be flinging a small dice at a tower and actually hitting it since the catapults couldn’t be that accurate. Unless my group is just really good at launching the dice, at least one tower was knocked down every turn. Unless the other players have terrible aim you are lucky if you can keep more than one or possibly two towers standing in any given round. There were several turns where the builder was unable to keep any towers standing at the end of the game.
While it is an alternate rule, I would recommend playing with the rule where a player is unable to build on a tile that a dice lands on. While it doesn’t drastically change the game and saboteurs have little impact on where their dice actually land, I think it is an interesting mechanic since saboteurs can really mess with the builder by landing a dice on a tile that they wanted to build on. This can hurt even more if a player can partially destroy a tower and then keep the dice on the tile so the player can’t rebuild that tower.
The only problem I had with the saboteur role is that you are basically guaranteed to be picking blocks and dice off the floor at the end of a player’s turn. I don’t think there was a single turn in the game where all of the components stayed on the table. You will regularly have to search the floor looking for components that flew off. The pieces are large enough that you shouldn’t lose them but you probably should count up the pieces after most turns just to make sure none are still on the floor.
While I preferred the saboteur role, the builder role was also fun. Basically the builder role is similar to every other dexterity building game with the added dimension that you need to rebuild towers that are knocked down by the other players. While you aren’t going to complete many towers each turn, I think it is fun trying to build while the other players are trying to knock them down. There is also some strategy in choosing which towers to build on your turn. You only have two of every type of block so you will likely only be able to complete two or three towers in a turn. Choosing which towers to build can become important since if you don’t plan ahead you could build a tower and then be unable to find another tower that you can build with the blocks you have remaining. I would recommend coming up with your strategy ahead of time because you will have trouble forming a strategy when the dice start flying and you have to fix towers that are knocked down.
The most interesting part of playing as the builder is the Mega Tower. It is quite tempting to try and build the Mega Tower since if you are able to complete it and keep it standing you automatically win the game. There is a reason that it is an automatic win though since it is quite hard. You need to build quickly and have some luck with the saboteurs missing in order to succeed in building the Mega Tower. It actually isn’t hard to complete the tower but it is really hard keeping it upright. Unless the saboteurs do a terrible job at shooting their dice they are going to knock down the Mega Tower at least once. If the tower is knocked down near the end of your turn you basically have no chance at completing it in time since there just isn’t enough time to rebuild it a second time before time runs out.
While I liked playing as the builder there is one thing I didn’t really like. I like the idea that you have to build the towers on the tile corresponding to the tower you are trying to build. This makes it easier for the saboteurs to knock down and also adds some strategy since you might choose towers to build based on where they are located on the table. The problem with building on the tiles though is the fact that once you place the blocks on the card you cover up the picture of the tower you need to build unless you build the tower on one of the corners of the card. I really don’t know how this could have been remedied but it adversely affects the game.
If Kaboom sounds familiar to some people, the Blue Orange Games version that I am reviewing is a new version of a game released in 2013 by HUCH! & Friends called Ka-Boom. The two versions of the game share a lot in common and only have a couple slight differences. First the original version included a large dice that the Blue Orange Games version does not have. I think this is for the best since it is already quite easy to knock down the towers and a larger dice would have made it even easier. The “earthquake” rule from the original game is also eliminated in the Blue Orange Games version of the game. The “earthquake” rule allowed that saboteur players to bang on the table in certain situations. I think this was also a good change since the old rule probably made it way to easy to knock down towers.
The biggest change between the two versions is the fact that the newer version uses rounds while the original version ended when one player reached sixteen points. While I didn’t play the game with the sixteen point rule, I think the round rule is much better. By playing a certain amount of rounds all of the players get to play as the builder the same number of times so no one gets an unfair advantage. Also by using rounds you can make the game as short or as long as you want by adjusting the number of rounds.
While I seem to make this comment with every Blue Orange Games board game that I review, I have to commend Blue Orange Games for the quality components included in Kaboom. For a game that retails for around $20 you really can’t ask for higher quality components. The dice, launchers, and blocks are all made out of wood and I have always been a sucker for wood components in board games. The components appear quite sturdy and despite most of the components having to endure a lot of wear and tear, I think the components should do a good job lasting for quite a while. The tiles might have somewhat basic artwork but they work well to illustrate the towers and are quite thick.
Should You Buy Kaboom?
While not perfect Kaboom is a fun little dexterity game. Kaboom is not meant to be taken seriously and if you take that into account as you play the game you should have fun with Kaboom. While it is considerably easier than I was expecting, there is just something satisfying about launching the dice and knocking down towers that another player is trying to build. While not as fun as playing as a saboteur, it is also enjoyable trying to keep your towers standing as the other players are trying to knock them down. Add in the quality components and there is a lot to like about Kaboom. The only real complaints I have with the game is that is a game best played in short doses and it is kind of annoying building a tower on a tile and having that tower cover up the picture showing you what you are trying to build.
As far as a recommendation I leave you with this. Does a game where one player builds towers while the other players shoot dice at them sound interesting to you? If the answer is no, Kaboom probably won’t be for you. If the answer is yes though I think you will have a lot of fun with Kaboom.
If you would like to purchase Kaboom you can find it on Amazon.
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Should doctors and nurses be forced to take part in procedures that violate their conscience? It’s a timely question. New federal regulations to enforce existing conscience protection laws are being challenged in federal courts.
This question is the subject of a public opinion poll commissioned by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The survey, conducted by Heart+Mind Strategies, interviewed more than 1,000 adults in July. The results were released Sept. 18.
Ensuring that health professionals “are not forced to participate in procedures or practices to which they have moral objections” was deemed “important” by 83% of respondents (86% of women). Fifty-eight percent of respondents (62% of women) said these professionals should not be legally required to perform abortions when they have a moral objection.
After learning what the new federal regulation does, respondents supported it 59% to 21%. By a similar margin, 60% to 22%, they supported modifying the law to protect those with moral objections to “gender reassignment” procedures.
This is especially timely: A state appellate court in California is allowing a lawsuit to proceed against a Catholic hospital that declined, on religious grounds, to remove a healthy uterus from a woman seeking to identify as a man.
Finally, 41% said they would be “more likely” to vote for their current member of Congress if they knew that he or she supports conscience protections for doctors and nurses. Only 16% said this would make them less likely to vote for the member.
This message, however, is lost on many members of Congress, including some seeking higher office.
Witness a pending federal bill, the Do No Harm Act (S. 593, H.R. 1450). It would undermine protections for religious freedom by carving out exceptions to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
For example, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act would no longer apply to any case involving “access to, information about, referrals for, provision of, or coverage for, any health care item or service,” which surely encompasses abortion and other attacks on life as well as gender reassignment procedures.
The bill also states that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act should not be interpreted to exempt anyone from a “generally applicable law” when that would impose “meaningful harm, including dignitary harm,” on someone else.
The term “dignitary harm” does not appear in the U.S. Code, and this bill does not define it. But it has been used to sue bakers and others who decline on religious grounds to participate in same-sex wedding celebrations.
Plaintiffs claim that, by disagreeing with the couple’s definition of marriage, believers offend their dignity. Or as legal scholar Sherif Girgis says, they seek to “punish expressive conduct whose message they abhor, just because they abhor it.”
Under these standards, the Little Sisters of the Poor and other religious institutions, who the U.S. Supreme Court says are protected by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act from forced involvement in coverage for contraceptive and abortifacient drugs, could be put back in the cage built for them by radical secularists.
Catholic doctors, nurses and hospitals could be forced to take part in abortion and other procedures that Hippocrates condemned when he made “do no harm” a central principle of medical ethics.
Who is sponsoring this bill? One hundred and thirty-four House Democrats and 28 Senate Democrats — including four senators running for president, led by prime sponsor Sen. Kamala Harris.
When the Religious Freedom Restoration Act was enacted in 1993, all but two Senate Democrats voted for it and President Bill Clinton enthusiastically signed it into law. The party’s leaders in recent years have taken a disturbing turn against religious freedom and conscience rights. That is not a direction most Americans want to take.
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The extraordinary events of the last month have taken the most experienced Middle East watchers by surprise.
The unthinkable is at least thinkable: the murderous regime of Col. Moammar Gadhafi in Libya is tottering and may fall, and who knows what else may follow, or where?
There are two ways of understanding what is happening. The first uses the tools of sociology and politics. These tell us that even the strongest and most ruthless dictator rules only by the consent of the ruled.
If their situation becomes too desperate, and if they are given an alternative vision, then sooner or later their rejection reaches a critical mass, and they take to the streets.
Liberty may be delayed if a tyrant is prepared to “wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind,” but not forever.
The second way is to see with the eyes of faith. If we want to give thanks for the downfall of dictators, we are free to do so, but we should be careful.
They have been kept in power by the silence and often the active connivance of the West. The guns used to massacre Libya’s demonstrators have been made in the U.S.A. and the U.K.
Our faith leads us back to the Bible, though; and there we read of a God who has “brought down rulers from their thrones but has lifted up the humble” (Luke 1:51).
God does not seem to care very much about political calculations, but he does care about justice, and everyone – corrupt Arab dictators, British prime ministers and American presidents – is judged.
When Joshua was preparing to assault Jericho, he met a man “standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand.”
“Are you for us or for our enemies?” he asked.
“Neither,” was the answer of “the commander of the army of the Lord” (Joshua 5:13-14).
That “neither” is a sharp word for both East and West today.
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Obituary: Marion Miller, obstetrics and gynaecology specialist in Edinburgh hospitals
Marion Miller, doctor. Born: 16 January 1927. Died: 10 May 2019, aged 92.
Dr Marion Miller was born in Dundee in 1927 and grew up with her four sisters on Perth Road.
The sisters were all baptised in Tay Square United Free Church where their father, who was one of the first qualified and licensed chiropodists in Dundee, was also a lay preacher and superintendent of the Sunday School.
Everyone in the family played an instrument and musical evenings at home and performances at church socials and concerts were the order of the day.
Marion was educated at the Demonstration School in Park Place and then Harris Academy, where she gained dux in biology and was captain in her final year. Marion was a keen sportswoman, involved with swimming, hockey, tennis and cycling and told tales of round-Scotland youth hostelling trips during the summer holidays.Academically very able, she was third of 129 candidates in a competition for university entrance bursaries, winning the Armitstead bursary in 1945, with scholarships and other bursaries to St Andrew’s University following each year afterwards.
At St Andrews she passed many of her exams in the first rank of Honours, many with merit, collected several class medals and graduated MBChB in medicine with commendations in 1950.
Postgraduate training took place in Maryfield Hospital and Dundee Royal Infirmary, but she also worked in Fife, Edinburgh and London. In her first post in Ayrshire, she was expected to be able to drive and have a car. She succeeded in achieving both – within the fortnight before starting work!
Specialising in obstetrics and gynaecology, she trained with Professor Margaret Fairlie, and later Professor James Walker.
She became a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1956, and later a fellow of the same college and also a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
In 1962 she was appointed as a consultant to the Women’s Hospitals in Edinburgh (the now closed Elsie Inglis Memorial Maternity and Bruntsfield Hospitals) and served in that capacity for more than 17 years, retiring prematurely due to recurrent ill-health and spinal problems in 1979. She has said she owed her renewed ability to walk to Mr Ivan Jacobson, neurosurgeon at Dundee Royal Infirmary.
On retirement, her colleagues presented her with a typewriter and dictating machine.
After retiral, she was not idle, being involved with work among the disabled and elderly; taking the role of honorary treasurer with the Disability Income Group Charitable Trust (Scotland); becoming an elder with Gorgie Parish Church and, over the following 20 years or so, writing freelance articles, mainly about women’s health, for medical journals, the Scotsman, various Dundee papers and publications. Her hobby was writing bothy ballads in the local dialect.
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The 180-kilometer-long crack threatening one of Antarctica’s largest ice shelves has branched out, new satellite observations reveal. The main rift in the Larsen C ice shelf hasn’t grown longer since February. But radar mapping shows that a crack has split off from the main rupture like a snake’s forked tongue, members of Project MIDAS, an Antarctic research group, report May 1. That new branch, about 15 kilometers long, wasn’t on radar maps taken six days earlier, the team says.
If either branch makes it to the edge of Larsen C, the shelf could calve off a 5,000-square-kilometer hunk of ice (SN: 7/25/15, p. 8), creating one of the largest icebergs ever recorded, says glaciologist Adrian Luckman of Swansea University in Wales. “The new branch is heading off more toward the ice front, so it’s more dangerous and more likely to cause this calving event to occur” than the main branch, he says.
Snapping off such a large ice chunk could destabilize the entire ice shelf, Luckman warns. A similar event led to the collapse of Larsen B in 2002. Because Larsen C’s ice floats on the ocean, the loss wouldn’t directly raise sea levels. But its demise could serve as a case study of how other shelves may break apart as rising temperatures melt and weaken Antarctic ice, Luckman says. | <urn:uuid:9c420c31-fa7e-4f63-ae8c-8ee71ab7d17f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sciencenews.org/article/crack-antarcticas-larsen-c-ice-shelf-forks | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.911041 | 310 | 3.53125 | 4 |
CircleTales Storytelling Game Launched By Devon Couple
Devon couple Annie Murdock and her partner Herman Castenada have launched CircleTales, a collaborative, table-top storytelling game, via a Kickstarter campaign.
Herman and Annie’s 13-year-old daughter Lilly, has been the source of inspiration for the game as they, like many families, try to opt for tech-free households in order to promote more meaningful face-to-face interaction.
Disillusioned with the current board games on the market, Annie and Herman created CircleTales and after a year of design, development and testing, CircleTales, is set for release.
Annie, who graduated from the University of Exeter with a master’s degree in Creative Arts Education, says:
“As parents of a pre-teen daughter, we were all too aware that many board games on the market feature roles for girls that are based on appearances or are openly demeaning and competitive. We started to think about the kind of thing that we’d play together. We found very few empowering games and so set about designing one of our own.”
Annie and Herman are well qualified to design such a product, with international experience spanning 20+ years in product design, community engagement and the arts.
Annie holds a BA in Literature from Wesleyan University in the United States and a master’s degree in Creative Arts Education from the University of Exeter.
Herman received an MA in International Architecture/Regeneration and Development from Oxford Brookes University (2018) and a BFA in Design from Art Center College of Design in California.
Following a year of research, the couple has designed and created a beautiful, ecologically conscious tabletop game made of bamboo and printed with soy inks, that provides a welcome alternative to digital entertainment. The creators of CircleTales really do believe in a life lived authentically, leaving as small an impact on the world as possible but creating long lasting, genuine relationships with others. This, along with a desire to spend more time with family, led to their decision to move to Devon where CircleTales was created. Annie continues:
“This is about more than just playing a game. We have found that through storytelling, people more authentically connect to each other, giving every player the opportunity to speak and to be listened to, nurturing a feeling of empowerment, not just for children but for all ages.”
CircleTales has been tested with audiences throughout the UK and the United States and is suitable for ages nine and over. The objective of the game is to create a collective story, based on one-word responses from insightful questions combined with word prompts selected by the role of the dice. Its simplicity is part of its appeal, and Annie and Herman say that this is also something that was important to them when designing CircleTales:
“With a rising concern for the wellbeing of young people, we wanted to create something beautifully simple that could help people to more meaningfully connect with each other. The game takes about 35 minutes to play and can provide a great ice-breaker for meeting new people, an authentic opportunity to reconnect with family members and old friends, or simply a means of switching off the rational brain and letting the imagination have some fun.”
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BAMBOO AND THE TURTLE (A CHINESE WONDER BOOK) BY NORMAN HINSDALE PITMAN
A party of visitors had been seeing the sights at Hsi Ling. They had just passed down the Holy Way between the huge stone animals when Bamboo, a little boy of twelve, son of a keeper, rushed out from his father’s house to see the mandarins go by. Such a parade of great men he had never seen before, even on the feast days. There were ten sedan chairs, with bearers dressed in flaming colours, ten long-handled, red umbrellas, each carried far in front of its proud owner, and a long line of horsemen.
When this gay procession had filed past, Bamboo was almost ready to cry because he could not run after the sightseers as they went from temple to temple and from tomb to tomb. But, alas! his father had ordered him never to follow tourists. “If you do, they will take you for a beggar, Bamboo,” he had said shrewdly, “and if you’re a beggar, then your daddy’s one too. Now they don’t want any beggars around the royal tombs.” So Bamboo had never known the pleasure of pursuing the rich. Many times he had turned back to the little mud house, almost broken-hearted at seeing his playmates running, full of glee, after the great men’s chairs.
On the day when this story opens, just as the last horseman had passed out of sight among the cedars, Bamboo chanced to look up toward one of the smaller temple buildings of which his father was the keeper. It was the house through which the visitors had just been shown. Could his eyes be deceiving him? No, the great iron doors had been forgotten in the hurry of the moment, and there they stood wide open, as if inviting him to enter.
In great excitement he scurried toward the temple. How often he had pressed his head against the bars and looked into the dark room, wishing and hoping that some day he might go in. And yet, not once had he been granted this favour. Almost every day since babyhood he had gazed at the high stone shaft, or tablet, covered with Chinese writing, that stood in the centre of the lofty room, reaching almost to the roof. But with still greater surprise his eyes had feasted on the giant turtle underneath, on whose back the column rested. There are many such tablets to be seen in China, many such turtles patiently bearing their loads of stone, but this was the only sight of the kind that Bamboo had seen. He had never been outside the Hsi Ling forest, and, of course, knew very little of the great world beyond.
It is no wonder then that the turtle and the tablet had always astonished him. He had asked his father to explain the mystery. “Why do they have a turtle? Why not a lion or an elephant?” For he had seen stone figures of these animals in the park and had thought them much better able than his friend, the turtle, to carry loads on their backs. “Why it’s just the custom,” his father had replied—the answer always given when Bamboo asked a question, “just the custom.” The boy had tried to imagine it all for himself, but had never been quite sure that he was right, and now, joy of all joys, he was about to enter the very turtle-room itself. Surely, once inside, he could find some answer to this puzzle of his childhood.
Breathless, he dashed through the doorway, fearing every minute that some one would notice the open gates and close them before he could enter. Just in front of the giant turtle he fell in a little heap on the floor, which was covered inch-deep with dust. His face was streaked, his clothes were a sight to behold; but Bamboo cared nothing for such trifles. He lay there for a few moments, not daring to move. Then, hearing a noise outside, he crawled under the ugly stone beast and crouched in his narrow hiding-place, as still as a mouse.
“There, there!” said a deep voice. “See what you are doing, stirring up such a dust! Why, you will strangle me if you are not careful.”
It was the turtle speaking, and yet Bamboo’s father had often told him that it was not alive. The boy lay trembling for a minute, too much frightened to get up and run.
“No use in shaking so, my lad,” the voice continued, a little more kindly. “I suppose all boys are alike—good for nothing but kicking up a dust.” He finished this sentence with a hoarse chuckle, and the boy, seeing that he was laughing, looked up with wonder at the strange creature.
“I meant no harm in coming,” said the child finally. “I only wanted to look at you more closely.”
“Oh, that was it, hey? Well, that is strange. All the others come and stare at the tablet on my back. Sometimes they read aloud the nonsense written there about dead emperors and their titles, but they never so much as look at me, at me whose father was one of the great four who made the world.”
Bamboo’s eyes shone with wonder. “What! your father helped make the world?” he gasped.
“Well, not my father exactly, but one of my grandfathers, and it amounts to the same thing, doesn’t it. But, hark! I hear a voice. The keeper is coming back. Run up and close those doors, so he won’t notice that they have not been locked. Then you may hide in the corner there until he has passed. I have something more to tell you.”
Bamboo did as he was told. It took all his strength to swing the heavy doors into place. He felt very important to think that he was doing something for the grandson of a maker of the world, and it would have broken his heart if this visit had been ended just as it was beginning.
Sure enough, his father and the other keepers passed on, never dreaming that the heavy locks were not fastened as usual. They were talking about the great men who had just gone. They seemed very happy and were jingling some coins in their hands.
“Now, my boy,” said the stone turtle when the sound of voices had died away and Bamboo had come out from his corner, “maybe you think I’m proud of my job. Here I’ve been holding up this chunk for a hundred years, I who am fond of travel. During all this time night and day, I have been trying to think of some way to give up my position. Perhaps it’s honourable, but, you may well imagine, it’s not very pleasant.”
“I should think you would have the backache,” ventured Bamboo timidly.
“Backache! well, I think so; back, neck, legs, eyes, everything I have is aching, aching for freedom. But, you see, even if I had kicked up my heels and overthrown this monument, I had no way of getting through those iron bars,” and he nodded toward the gate.
“Yes, I understand,” agreed Bamboo, beginning to feel sorry for his old friend.
“But, now that you are here, I have a plan, and a good one it is, too, I think. The watchmen have forgotten to lock the gate. What is to prevent my getting my freedom this very night? You open the gate, I walk out, and no one the wiser.”
“But my father will lose his head if they find that he has failed to do his duty and you have escaped.”
“Oh, no; not at all. You can slip his keys to-night, lock the gates after I am gone, and no one will know just what has happened. Why it will make this building famous. It won’t hurt your father, but will do him good. So many travellers will be anxious to see the spot from which I vanished. I am too heavy for a thief to carry off, and they will be sure that it is another miracle of the gods. Oh, I shall have a good time out in the big world.”
Just here Bamboo began to cry.
“Now what is the silly boy blubbering about?” sneered the turtle. “Is he nothing but a cry-baby?”
“No, but I don’t want you to go.”
“Don’t want me to go, eh? Just like all the others. You’re a fine fellow! What reason have you for wanting to see me weighed down here all the rest of my life with a mountain on my back? Why, I thought you were sorry for me, and it turns out that you are as mean as anybody else.”
“It is so lonely here, and I have no playmates. You are the only friend I have.”
The tortoise laughed loudly. “Ho, ho! so it’s because I make you a good playmate, eh? Now, if that’s your reason, that’s another story altogether. What do you say to going with me then? I, too, need a friend, and if you help me to escape, why, you are the very friend for me.”
“But how shall you get the tablet off your back?” questioned Bamboo doubtfully. “It’s very heavy.”
“That’s easy, just walk out of the door. The tablet is too tall to go through. It will slide off and sit on the floor instead of on my shell.”
Bamboo, wild with delight at the thought of going on a journey with the turtle, promised to obey the other’s commands. After supper, when all were asleep in the little house of the keeper, he slipped from his bed, took down the heavy key from its peg, and ran pell-mell to the temple.
“Well, you didn’t forget me, did you?” asked the turtle when Bamboo swung the iron gates open.
“Oh, no, I would not break a promise. Are you ready?”
“Yes, quite ready.” So saying, the turtle took a step. The tablet swayed backward and forward, but did not fall. On walked the turtle until finally he stuck his ugly head through the doorway. “Oh, how good it looks outside,” he said. “How pleasant the fresh air feels! Is that the moon rising over yonder? It’s the first time I’ve seen it for an age. My word! just look at the trees! How they have grown since they set that tombstone on my back! There’s a regular forest outside now.”
Bamboo was delighted when he saw the turtle’s glee at escaping. “Be careful,” he cried, “not to let the tablet fall hard enough to break it.”
Even as he spoke, the awkward beast waddled through the door. The upper end of the monument struck against the wall, toppled off, and fell with a great crash to the floor. Bamboo shivered with fear. Would his father come and find out what had happened?
“Don’t be afraid, my boy. No one will come at this hour of the night to spy on us.”
Bamboo quickly locked the gates, ran back to the house, and hung the key on its peg. He took a long look at his sleeping parents, and then returned to his friend. After all, he would not be gone long and his father would surely forgive him.
Soon the comrades were walking down the broad road, very slowly, for the tortoise is not swift of foot and Bamboo’s legs were none too long.
“Where are you going?” said the boy at last, after he had begun to feel more at home with the turtle.
“Going? Where should you think I would want to go after my century in prison? Why, back to the first home of my father, back to the very spot where the great god, P’anku, and his three helpers hewed out the world.”
“And is it far?” faltered the boy, beginning to feel just the least bit tired.
“At this rate, yes, but, bless my life, you didn’t think we could travel all the way at this snail’s pace, I hope. Jump on my back, and I’ll show you how to go. Before morning we shall be at the end of the world, or rather, the beginning.”
“Where is the beginning of the world?” asked Bamboo. “I have never studied geography.”
“We must cross China, then Thibet, and at last in the mountains just beyond we shall reach the spot which P’anku made the centre of his labour.”
At that moment Bamboo felt himself being lifted from the ground. At first he thought he would slip off the turtle’s rounded shell, and he cried out in fright.
“Never fear,” said his friend. “Only sit quietly, and there will be no danger.”
They had now risen far into the air, and Bamboo could look down over the great forest of Hsi Ling all bathed in moonlight. There were the broad white roads leading up to the royal tombs, the beautiful temples, the buildings where oxen and sheep were prepared for sacrifice, the lofty towers, and the high tree-covered hills under which the emperors were buried. Until that night Bamboo had not known the size of this royal graveyard. Could it be that the turtle would carry him beyond the forest? Even as he asked himself this question he saw that they had reached a mountain, and the turtle was ascending higher, still higher, to cross the mighty wall of stone.
Bamboo grew dizzy as the turtle rose farther into the sky. He felt as he sometimes did when he played whirling games with his little friends, and got so dizzy that he tumbled over upon the ground. However, this time he knew that he must keep his head and not fall, for it must have been almost a mile to the ground below him. At last they had passed over the mountain and were flying above a great plain. Far below Bamboo could see sleeping villages and little streams of water that looked like silver in the moonlight. Now, directly beneath them was a city. A few feeble lights could be seen in the dark narrow streets, and Bamboo thought he could hear the faint cries of peddlers crying their midnight wares.
“That’s the capital of Shan-shi just below us,” said the turtle, breaking his long silence. “It is almost two hundred miles from here to your father’s house, and we have taken less than half an hour. Beyond that is the Province of the Western Valleys. In one hour we shall be above Thibet.”
On they whizzed at lightning speed. If it had not been hot summer time Bamboo would have been almost frozen. As it was, his hands and feet were cold and stiff. The turtle, as if knowing how chilly he was, flew nearer to the ground where it was warmer. How pleasant for Bamboo! He was so tired that he could keep his eyes open no longer and he was soon soaring in the land of dreams.
When he waked up it was morning. He was lying on the ground in a wild, rocky region. Not far away burned a great wood fire, and the turtle was watching some food that was cooking in a pot.
“Ho, ho, my lad! so you have at last waked up after your long ride. You see we are a little early. No matter if the dragon does think he can fly faster, I beat him, didn’t I? Why, even the phoenix laughs at me and says I am slow, but the phoenix has not come yet either. Yes, I have clearly broken the record for speed, and I had a load to carry too, which neither of the others had, I am sure.”
“Where are we?” questioned Bamboo.
“In the land of the beginning,” said the other wisely. “We flew over Thibet, and then went northwest for two hours. If you haven’t studied geography you won’t know the name of the country. But, here we are, and that is enough, isn’t it, enough for any one? And to-day is the yearly feast-day in honour of the making of the world. It was very fortunate for me that the gates were left open yesterday. I am afraid my old friends, the dragon and the phoenix, have almost forgotten what I look like. It is so long since they saw me. Lucky beasts they are, not to be loaded down under an emperor’s tablet. Hello! I hear the dragon coming now, if I am not mistaken. Yes, here he is. How glad I am to see him!”
Bamboo heard a great noise like the whirr of enormous wings, and then, looking up, saw a huge dragon just in front of him. He knew it was a dragon from the pictures he had seen and the carvings in the temples.
The dragon and the turtle had no sooner greeted each other, both very happy at the meeting, than they were joined by a queer-looking bird, unlike any that Bamboo had ever seen, but which he knew was the phœnix. This phœnix looked somewhat like a wild swan, but it had the bill of a cock, the neck of a snake, the tail of a fish and the stripes of a dragon. Its feathers were of five colours.
When the three friends had chatted merrily for a few minutes, the turtle told them how Bamboo had helped him to escape from the temple.
“A clever boy,” said the dragon, patting Bamboo gently on the back.
“Yes, yes, a clever boy indeed,” echoed the phœnix.
“Ah,” sighed the turtle, “if only the good god, P’anku, were here, shouldn’t we be happy! But, I fear he will never come to this meeting-place. No doubt he is off in some distant spot, cutting out another world. If I could only see him once more, I feel that I should die in peace.”
“Just listen!” laughed the dragon. “As if one of us could die! Why, you talk like a mere mortal.”
All day long the three friends chatted, feasted, and had a good time looking round at the places where they had lived so happily when P’anku had been cutting out the world. They were good to Bamboo also and showed him many wonderful things of which he had never dreamed.
“You are not half so mean-looking and so fierce as they paint you on the flags,” said Bamboo in a friendly voice to the dragon just as they were about to separate.
The three friends laughed heartily.
“Oh, no, he’s a very decent sort of fellow, even if he is covered with fish-scales,” joked the phœnix.
Just before they bade each other good-bye, the phœnix gave Bamboo a long scarlet tail-feather for a keepsake, and the dragon gave him a large scale which turned to gold as soon as the boy took it into his hand.
“Come, come, we must hurry,” said the turtle. “I am afraid your father will think you are lost.” So Bamboo, after having spent the happiest day of his life, mounted the turtle’s back, and they rose once more above the clouds. Back they flew even faster than they had come. Bamboo had so many things to talk about that he did not once think of going to sleep, for he had really seen the dragon and the phœnix, and if he never were to see anything else in his life, he would always be happy.
Suddenly the turtle stopped short in his swift flight, and Bamboo felt himself slipping. Too late he screamed for help, too late he tried to save himself. Down, down from that dizzy height he tumbled, turning, twisting, thinking of the awful death that was surely coming. Swish! he shot through the tree tops trying vainly to clutch the friendly branches. Then with a loud scream he struck the ground, and his long journey was ended.
‘AH,’ SIGHED THE TURTLE, ‘IF ONLY THE GOOD GOD, P’ANKU, WERE HERE.’
“Come out from under that turtle, boy! What are you doing inside the temple in the dirt? Don’t you know this is not the proper place for you?”
Bamboo rubbed his eyes. Though only half awake, he knew it was his father’s voice.
“But didn’t it kill me?” he said as his father pulled him out by the heel from under the great stone turtle.
“What killed you, foolish boy? What can you be talking about? But I’ll half-kill you if you don’t hurry out of this and come to your supper. Really I believe you are getting too lazy to eat. The idea of sleeping the whole afternoon under that turtle’s belly!”
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Stainless steel may be a type of metallic Extra resources that is highly anti-corrosive and can be molded into a variety of shapes. This steel is widely used with respect to surgical musical instruments, home appliances, silverware, and external surfaces cladding of buildings. Iron and steel are also used in development and system. They are also employed for building and reinforcing cement structures. These steels could be recycled without having to lose any of their very own properties. The types of steel materials are the following. | <urn:uuid:3446b896-db29-4030-897d-fd99593317ac> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.physiquebodyshop.com/types-of-metallic-materials/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.947947 | 329 | 3.25 | 3 |
The Network Common Data Form (netCDF) is a long-lived set of file formats and associated APIs designed by UCAR for multi-dimensional datasets. (Though its name resembles that of CDF, and their original designs were similar, the two products have greatly diverged.) The various versions are widely used in environmental science, especially atmospheric and oceanographic research. Currently it has two main versions, netCDF-3 and netCDF-4, which are quite different in implementation, and moderately different in API. There are also "subversions" of netCDF-3, notably "netCDF Classic." Tool support for netCDF-3 continues to exceed that for netCDF-4; but the latter, based on HDF5, is generally considered technically superior, so its tool support is increasing rapidly.
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- incorporation of metadata. netCDF is said to be "self-describing," in that the file format provides for a header describing the structure of the data. In practice, the utility of its metadata depends on the extent to which the data author provides and maintains it.
- platform independence via API: provided the user manipulates netCDF files via supported APIs (which are numerous), the user can effectively ignore issues such as endianness.
- backward compatibility. Software and API capable of manipulating netCDF-4 is also capable of manipulating netCDF-3, though of course advanced features of the later version are not accessible to files written for the earlier version.
According to the FAQ,there are 4 main versions of NetCDF:
- the classic format
- the 64-bit offset format
- the netCDF-4 format
- the netCDF-4 classic model format
Either of the first two may be referred to as NetCDF-3.
The format is referenced in the Wikipedia page on NetCDF.
NetCDF claims full backwards compatibility.
There is a wide range of software available to create and process NetCDF files. The Wikipedia article mentioned above has a starter list.
Sample NetCDF files are available on the Unidata web site.
The magic number is CDF\001 .
The file extension is .nc (originally .cdf) and the MIME Type is application/netcdf or application/x-netcdf.
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Large companies and financial institutes often need to hedge currency exchange risks, invest in foreign markets, and settle payments abroad. One way of entering an overseas market is to issue bonds in that country’s local market.
Samurai bonds are Japanese Yen denominated bonds that are issued in Tokyo by foreign entities. Samurai bonds are regulated by Japanese regulation as these are Yen denominated bonds. Japanese companies and financial institutes do also issue Yen denominated bonds in foreign markets such as EuroYen Bond.
Important: Foreign Bond issuers may offer bonds in other currencies than Yen, for example, Shogun Bonds are issued in foreign currencies.
Why Foreign Institutes Issue Samurai Bonds In Japan?
Bond issuers’ prime reason for issuing bonds is raising finance in any market not just in Japan. Financial institutes or Governments Treasuries from around the world seek diversification and risk hedging against currency exchange and interest rates. Likewise, many important factors attract foreign bond issuers to the Japanese market.
- Foreign companies issue Samurai bonds to take advantage of low-interest rates in Japan financial market
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How do Samurai Bonds Work?
Entry to foreign financial markets is subject to currency exchange and interest rate risks. Samurai bonds offer a hedge against both risks to foreign issuers. The same hedge attracts the local investors as they do not face any currency translation risks, and receive gains in Yen.
Large corporations and financial institutes need to fund their foreign operations, make profits, and hedge against currency exchange risks. They issue Samurai bonds to take advantage of a stable Japanese local market with stable interest rates. They can then use the borrowed funds to hedge against currency swaps or fund the local expansion in the Japanese market.
In simpler terms, foreign borrowers seek investment from local Japanese investors in the local market. Samurai bonds offer a liquid and currency exchange risk-free investment option to local investors.
Local investors may be attracted to Samurai bonds with an intention of capital gains on maturity or selling the bonds in the market above par value. The secondary market plays an important role in bond demand, where investors often look to make quick gains.
Benefits of Samurai Bonds for Investors and Issuers:
Bond issuers’ prime objective with Samurai bonds can be raising capital in a foreign market. Investors as usual look for steady coupon and yield on maturity with these bonds. Both parties look to capitalize gains on these foreign issuers’ local currency bonds.
- Issuers look to capitalize on stable Japanese economic markets with low-interest rates
- Issuers look to diversify borrowings with foreign bonds
- Access to the local market and hedge against interest rate or currency exchange rate also attract the foreign issuers
- Investors look to make investments in Samurai bonds offering regular coupon payments and make capital gains on the sale of bonds in the secondary market
- Investors face no currency exchange rate risks as bonds are issued in Yen
- Investors also feel the investment secure as the bonds are regulated with Japanese local regulation and compliance
Bond issuers also look for quick currency swap contracts benefiting from lower costs with Samurai bonds. The cost of raising capital may be higher in the local market such as in the US or European markets for the borrowers.
Risks with Samurai Bonds for Investors and Issuers:
Few risks are common for Samurai bonds such as issuer default risk or interest rate risk. However, as the issuers are foreign and bonds are denominated in the local currency, these bonds also some other risk factors.
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- Samurai bonds may also face currency exchange risk due to changes in Japanese economic conditions
- Lack of flexibility in Samurai bonds may hold investors back from investing in these bonds
The traditional Samurai bond market is considered a liquid and flexible bond market. New entrants with European and US currency-denominated bonds are changing the perceptions.
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Act II - Act II, Scene 3
Scaena 3. (The country near Athens.)
Banishd the kingdome? tis a benefit,
A mercy I must thanke 'em for, but banishd
The free enjoying of that face I die for,
Oh twas a studdied punishment, a death
Beyond Imagination: Such a vengeance
That, were I old and wicked, all my sins
Could never plucke upon me. Palamon,
Thou ha'st the Start now, thou shalt stay and see
Her bright eyes breake each morning gainst thy window,
And let in life into thee; thou shalt feede
Vpon the sweetenes of a noble beauty,
That nature nev'r exceeded, nor nev'r shall:
Good gods! what happines has Palamon!
Twenty to one, hee'le come to speake to her,
And if she be as gentle as she's faire,
I know she's his; he has a Tongue will tame
Tempests, and make the wild Rockes wanton.
Come what can come,
The worst is death; I will not leave the Kingdome.
I know mine owne is but a heape of ruins,
And no redresse there; if I goe, he has her.
I am resolu'd an other shape shall make me,
Or end my fortunes. Either way, I am happy:
Ile see her, and be neere her, or no more.
[Enter 4. Country people, & one with a garlond before them.]
My Masters, ile be there, that's certaine
And Ile be there.
Why, then, have with ye, Boyes; Tis but a chiding.
Let the plough play to day, ile tick'lt out
Of the Iades tailes to morrow.
I am sure
To have my wife as jealous as a Turkey:
But that's all one; ile goe through, let her mumble.
Clap her aboard to morrow night, and stoa her,
And all's made up againe.
I, doe but put a feskue in her fist, and you shall see her
Take a new lesson out, and be a good wench.
Doe we all hold against the Maying?
Hold? what should aile us?
Arcas will be there.
And Rycas, and 3. better lads nev'r dancd
Under green Tree. And yee know what wenches: ha?
But will the dainty Domine, the Schoolemaster,
Keep touch, doe you thinke? for he do's all, ye know.
Hee'l eate a hornebooke ere he faile: goe too, the matter's too
farre driven betweene him and the Tanners daughter, to let slip
now, and she must see the Duke, and she must daunce too.
Shall we be lusty?
All the Boyes in Athens blow wind i'th breech on's, and heere ile
be and there ile be, for our Towne, and here againe, and there
ha, Boyes, heigh for the weavers.
This must be done i'th woods.
O, pardon me.
By any meanes, our thing of learning saies so:
Where he himselfe will edifie the Duke
Most parlously in our behalfes: hees excellent i'th woods;
Bring him to'th plaines, his learning makes no cry.
Weele see the sports, then; every man to's Tackle:
And, Sweete Companions, lets rehearse by any meanes,
Before the Ladies see us, and doe sweetly,
And God knows what May come on't.
Content; the sports once ended, wee'l performe.
Away, Boyes and hold.
By your leaves, honest friends: pray you, whither goe you?
Whither? why, what a question's that?
Yes, tis a question, to me that know not.
To the Games, my Friend.
Where were you bred, you know it not?
Not farre, Sir,
Are there such Games to day?
Yes, marry, are there:
And such as you neuer saw; The Duke himselfe
Will be in person there.
What pastimes are they?
Wrastling, and Running.--Tis a pretty Fellow.
Thou wilt not goe along?
Not yet, Sir.
Take your owne time: come, Boyes.
My minde misgives me;
This fellow has a veng'ance tricke o'th hip:
Marke how his Bodi's made for't
Ile be hangd, though,
If he dare venture; hang him, plumb porredge,
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This is an offerd oportunity
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The best men calld it excellent, and run--
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(Curling the wealthy eares) never flew: Ile venture,
And in some poore disguize be there; who knowes
Whether my browes may not be girt with garlands?
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Aesculus Glabra is a homeopathic remedy that has been repeatedly proven to be effective on the digestive sphere. It is prepared from a plant commonly known as Chic buckeye.
AESCULUS GLABRA USES:
The remedy has its chief sphere of action centered on the digestive tract. It is particularly prescribed for complaints of hemorrhoids. Following are some symptoms covered under this remedy:
- Portal congestion and hemorrhoids as well as proctitis find their cure in this remedy.
- Detention and fullness of abdomen, nausea, and vomiting.
- Knotty and painful stools.
- Hemorrhoids, with weakness and backache.
- This remedy is also beneficial for sudden and irritating cough and raising of mucus.
- Weakness of back and trembling of legs.
The remedy is taken internally as pills or in liquid form. Low potencies are repeated frequently while a high potency may be given for prolonged periods. The choice of potency and dosage rests with the homeopathic physician and depends on age, sensitivity, and complaints of the patient. This is why it is best not to self-medicate.
No side effects of homeopathic remedies are observed.
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- Vertigo, with unconsciousness
- Aggravated in the evening
- Dim sight with fixed and expressionless eyes.?
- The speech is thick and unclear as the tongue feels lame.
- Nausea and vomiting with disgust for food
- Distention and fullness of abdomen with cramp like pains
- Hard, knotty painful stools.
- Dilatation of rectal vessels, with weakness in back and lower limbs.?
- head feels heavy and full without pain
- Cough and sensation as of a feather tickling the throat
- Sudden irritation causing hacking and raising of mucus
- Mucus streaked with blood
- Great weakness of back.
- Trembling of legs
Dosage: Please note that the dosage of single homoeopathic medicines varies from drug to drug depending upon the condition, age, sensitivity and other things. In some cases they are given as regular doses as 3-5 drops 2-3 times a day whereas in other cases they are given only once in a week, month or even in a longer period. We strongly recommend that the medication should be taken as per the physician’s advice.
What is Aesculus glabra CH?
Aesculus glabra CH is a Homoeopathic Dilution made from Chic buckeye. It is reported to be useful in proctitis, portal congestion, sore throat, haemorrhoids, etc.
What are uses/benefits of Aesculus glabra CH?
Very painful, dark purple, external haemorrhoids, with constipation and vertigo and portal congestion. Speech thick, tickling in throat, impaired vision, paresis.
How to use Aesculus glabra CH?
It is to be taken as an internal medicine. Please note that the dosage of single homoeopathic medicines varies from drug to drug depending upon the condition, age, sensitivity and other things. In some cases they are given as regular doses as 3-5 drops 2-3 times a day whereas in other cases they are given only once a week, month or even in a longer period. We strongly recommend that the medication should be taken as per the physician?s advice.
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How long should I take Aesculus glabra CH?
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Is Aesculus glabra CH safe for children?
Is it safe to use Aesculus glabra CH during pregnancy?
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OPINION: AI Ethics Are Not Optional09.12.2019
Ethical artificial intelligence and machine learning may sound like an undergraduate elective, but it is a topic that financial institutions need to address urgently.
Firms are exposing themselves to a new type of risk as they either develop AI and machine-learning models or rely on the growing number of third-party model providers.
Do these new models harm a specific subset of the population or unintentionally use practices that market regulators have deemed illegal?
It can be hard to tell since AI and machine learning engines are good at dealing with black and white, but are horrible when it comes to shades of gray.
These engines are only as good as the data that feeds them.
Most of the data sets used to train instances of AI and machine learning are so incredibly large that individuals cannot comprehend everything that might be in those data sets. If some or all of the training data is the result of previously biased behavior, it shouldn’t be surprising that the resulting models include a portion of that biased behavior.
However, making sure that AI and machine learning engines color within the ethical lines is exceedingly tricky when developers have to hardcode an abstract concept of “fairness” in precise mathematical terms.
When working on a paper regarding this topic, Natalia Bailey, associate policy advisor, digital finance at the Institute of International Finance, found approximately 50 definitions for fairness, she said during a recent AI summit in Midtown Manhattan.
Firms may think they have some time to sort this out as they did with data privacy issues before various states enacting their data-privacy regimes and the EU rolling out it General Data Privacy Regulation, they do not.
As Emma Maconick, a partner at the law practice of Shearman & Sterling and who spoke on the same panel noted, the law is ahead of the game respecting the liability a firm faces from a misbehaving AI. The well-trodden laws that address misbehaving children or employees, known as vicarious liability, also cover supervised and non-supervised AI engines.
If financial institutions have not incorporated an ethical analysis as part of their AI development process, there is no time to wait to do so.
OSCAR reduces the time to set up and negotiate an individual collateral basket from weeks to hours.
Mizuho Americas won Best in Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the 2022 Markets Choice Awards.
Arteria uses artificial intelligence and a data-first approach to make documentation processes frictionless.
The AI-powered corporate bond trading platform's tech is becoming more valuable as rates rise.
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A reduction in the mortgage payment made by a homebuyer in the early years of the loan in exchange for an upfront cash deposit provided by the buyer, the seller, or both.
How Temporary Buydowns Work: Temporary buydowns are a tool for borrowers purchasing a home who don't have enough income, relative to their monthly mortgage payment and other expenses, to meet lender requirements. To use a temporary buydown, the borrower must have access to extra cash. The cash can be the borrower's or it can be contributed by a home seller anxious to complete a sale. The cash funds an escrow account from which the payments that supplement the borrower's payments are drawn.
While the borrower's payments are reduced in the early years, the payments received by the lender are the same as they would have been without the buydown. The shortfalls from the borrower are offset by withdrawals from the escrow account.
Temporary buydowns are not a type of mortgage. They are an option that can be attached to any type. Most temporary buydowns, however, are attached to fixed-rate mortgages.
Temporary Versus Permanent Buydowns: Another way in which borrowers with excess cash can reduce their mortgage payment is by paying additional points in order to reduce the interest rate. This is sometimes called a “permanent buydown” because the reduced payment holds for the life of the loan. For the same number of dollars invested, however, temporary buydowns reduce the monthly payment in the first year, which is the payment used to qualify the borrower, by a larger amount than a permanent buydown. This reflects the concentration of the payment reduction in the early years of the loan.
The table illustrates the three most common temporary buydowns. On a 3-2-1 buydown, the mortgage payment in years one,
two, and three is calculated at rates 3%, 2%, and 1%, respectively, below the rate on the loan. On a 2-1 buydown, the payment in years one and two is calculated at rates 2% and 1% below the loan rate. And on a 1-0 buydown, the payment in year one is calculated at 1% below the loan rate.
The 3-2-1 buydown involves the largest reduction in the borrower's payment in the first year, but also requires the largest amount placed in escrow, as shown on the bottom line.
The required escrow shown in the table assumes that no interest is paid on the account. If the borrower were credited with 4% interest on the 3-2-1 illustrated above, the required deposit to the buydown account would fall from $4,586 to $4,369. Only a few lenders credit interest, however.
Some lenders not only do not pay interest on the buydown account, but dispense with the account altogether, replacing it with additional points equal to the sum of the buydown digits. That is, they charge an additional 6 points for a 3-2-1, 3 points for a 2-1, and 1 point for a 1-0. This is a ripoff.
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About the Project
The Mid-Career Workers with Disabilities (MCWD) project, operating with grant funding from Canada’s Future Skills Centre (FSC), addresses career adaptability by targeting the adaptive response skills development needs of MCWD. Through fostering and strengthening career adaptability, the project aims to potentiate other work underway to lessen the barriers MCWD and other disability cohorts face in the Canadian labour market.
Our team consists of researchers from 4 post-secondary institutions (Ontario Tech University, Nipissing University, Durham College, and York University) and 4 not-for-profit provincial and national organization (Quebec Association for Equity and Inclusion in Post-Secondary Education [AQEIPS], Council of Canadians with Disabilities [CCD], Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities [MLPD], National Educational Association of Disabled Students [NEADS]). The project is led by Dr. Sue Coffey.
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Supporting Mid-Career Workers with Disabilities through Community-building, Education, and Career-Progression Resources (MCWD) Project Update – March 2020 MCWD Project Background Information The Challenge Today’s changing labour market necessitates that all workers constantly adopt new roles and therefore, readily adapt in their careers. Yet to achieve such an adaptation requires a skill set that imbues an individual with career adaptive responses –… Continue Reading March 2020 Project Update
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When it pertains to soundproofing doors, most suggestions assume that the doors will certainly be maintained closed. But some doors might need soundproofing also once they’re open; particularly those that have actually a tendency to unexpectedly slam shut.
For instance, a door that’s left open up catches a breeze – probably from an open window, an HVAC vent, a draft that comes in from underneath another door, or also just the faint amount of wind that occurs as soon as someone walks past it – and also suddenly slams closed.
When doors unpurposely slam closed, it can be a very jarring experience. The unsupposed slamming sound have the right to be quit startling. If it keeps happening, you may have actually come to be desensitized to surpclimb, and also instead, find that slamming sound rather irritating.
Acomponent from rerelocating the door from its hinges, lets take a look at methods to proccasion a door from slamming shut.
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Why execute Doors Slam Shut?
Most world associate a slamming door through someone applying also much force once closing a door. While heavy-handedness deserve to absolutely reason slamming, what if the door is gently closed and also it still slams, or what if it simply slams shut as soon as nobody is there?
There are a couple of reasons why a door may be inadvertentlyslamming closed:The door is out of plumb; that is, it isn’t perfectly vertical. Therefore, the unevenness can lead to a swing as an outcome of the weight of the door or a current on air, which have the right to cause the door to slam shut. Changes in push can likewise cause a door to slam closed. If an additional door or a window is open, air relocating from a space of high push can pass to a room of low pressure, creating movement in the air. While the movement may not be solid sufficient for you to feel, it could be effective enough to slam a door closed.Tbelow can be a problem with the hinges. They might be installed wrongly or they may be warped, which could reason an imbalance and also reason it to slam shut.
How to Soptimal a Door from Slamming
So, how do you soptimal a door from unexpectedly slammingclosed? Tbelow are a variety of straightforward methods that you have the right to attempt.
Inspect the Hinges
First, examine the hinges. As stated, if the hinges aren’tappropriately set up or if they’re worn, the door might be imwell balanced, and also thatimbalance could lead to slamming.
To check the hinges, open up the door to a 90-degree angle and also location a level on the peak of the door. If the door isn’t level, attempt tightening up the hinges.
If that doesn’t job-related, the hinges can be worn and also replacing them might solve the problem. You don’t need to entirely remove the door to change the hinges. Replace the top hinge initially. Using a level, tighten the screws in the hinge till the door is entirely vertical. Once the new top hinge is mounted, replace the bottom one, aacquire, utilizing a level and tightening the screws until the door is entirely level.
Install an Automatic Door Closer
Anvarious other choice is to install an automatic door closer. Thesetools are designed to cshed a door instantly after it has been opened.Tbelow are several different kinds obtainable, however we recommend surface-mounted,as they tfinish to be the most basic to install. We likewise imply using one that’screated of steel or aluminum rather of plastic for magnified durability andreliability.
The speed and push of an automatic door closer can be adjusted, which indicates that you have the right to manage the rate at which the door will close, thus avoiding it from slamming shut.
To counteract the slamming problem, change the device to a rate and push setting that’s correct for your particular needs.
This approach is really simple and affordable, and it’s likewise rather efficient. Place self-adhesive felt pads along the edges of the door structure. We likewise suggest placing a couple of smaller sized pads on the door’s strike plates.
The felt pads act as cushions. They slow down the rate of rate at which the door closes, thereby avoiding it from slamming. They also absorb the sound that the door provides once it slams shut.
Apply Weather Stripping
While traditionally provided to seal up gaps roughly doors and home windows to proccasion air from blowing with, weather stripping have the right to also be provided to speak a door from slamming shut.
Like the felt pads discussed over, weather stripping gives cushioning, which helps to slow-moving the speed at which the door results with the structure, hence minimizing slamming. It additionally helps to absorb sound once the door comes in call with the structure.
To use this method, use weather stripping along the interior of the door structure. Make certain to wipe dvery own the door structure initially to encertain that you have actually a clean surconfront to use the product to.
Remove the backing from the adhesive and also use the weather stripping alengthy the inside of the door’s structure.
Try a Pinch Guard
A pinch guard have the right to additionally aid to prevent a door from slamming.This device is designed to be positioned over the door hinges, staying clear of thedoor from cshedding. While it’s intfinished to safeguard fingers from obtaining pinchedif they’re in the way of the framework as soon as the door closes, it have the right to aid through aslamming problem, also.
Place the pinch guard on the optimal of the door so that it’s a minimum of 6 inches from the exterior edge. The nice point around this choice is that it have the right to be easily removed once you don’t desire to use it.
Doors that unexpectedly slam shut are even more than just a nuisance; they have the potential to be dangerous. By using one of the tactics listed over, you deserve to put a halt to your door slamming problems.
James is a self-employed writer and also editor and has the privilege of functioning from residence. However before, he quickly discovered exactly how undesirable noise can disturb both work and sleep. Over the years he"s efficiently soundproofed his entire occupational room and a variety of rooms in his home. Needless to say he have the right to job-related and also sleep a lot even more peacecompletely.
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Approximately 2457 research articles were published with burns in the title, abstract, and/or keyword in 2012. This number continues to rise through the years; this article reviews those selected by the Editor of one of the major journals in the field (Burns) and his colleague that are most likely to have the greatest likelihood of affecting burn care treatment and understanding. As done previously, articles were found and divided into these topic areas: epidemiology of injury and burn prevention, wound and scar characterization, acute care and critical care, inhalation injury, infection, psychological considerations, pain and itching management, rehabilitation, long-term outcomes, and burn reconstruction. Each selected article is mentioned briefly with comment from the authors; readers are referred to the full papers for further details.
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The Sphinx Complex
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The Sphinx Complex includes The Great Sphinx, the Valley Temple, and the Sphinx Temple.
It is not known when they were built with certainty, but we can safely say that they were built with the same materials.
As a matter of fact, the Sphinx Temple was built with the limestone blocks that were carved out of the Sphinx enclosure.
Therefore, if the Great Sphinx is older than previously thought as Dr. Robert Schoch from the Boston University maintains, the temples must be older too.
The Great Sphinx
The Great Sphinx is a limestone sculpture located in the Sphinx Complex within the Giza Plateau, depicting a lying sphinx, or a mythological figure with the head of a man and the body of a lion (specifically it is called androsphinx).
Obtained from a rocky substrate, it is the largest monolithic statue among the Egyptian sphinxes: it is 73 meters long (from the tail to the front legs), 20 meters high (from the base to the tip of the head), and 6 meters wide; the head alone has a height of 4 meters.
The Great Sphinx is also one of the largest and oldest statues in the whole world, but basic facts about it are still subject to debate, such as when it was built, by whom, and for what purpose.
The main hypothesis is that it was likely built by Khafre in ca. 2500 BCE, who is also linked to the building of the Second Pyramid at Giza, because of its location in the same complex. However, Selim Hassan, who worked at more recent excavations of the Sphinx enclosure in 1949, said:
“there is not one single contemporary inscription which connects the Sphinx with Khafre; so, sound as it may appear, we must treat the evidence as circumstantial, until such time as a lucky turn of the spade of the excavator will reveal to the world a definite reference to the erection of the Sphinx”
The Water Erosion Hypothesis
This hypothesis would place the original construction of the Sphinx Complex to a bygone age, between 12.000 BCE and 10.000 BCE.
This dating refers to the “Geological Theory”, made considering the signs of vertical erosion present on the body of the statue, which typically is the result of long exposure to very heavy rains, and starting from the fact that the last rains in the desert region of Giza date back with geological evidence to the end of the last glaciation, to the period of the “Younger Dryas”.
In particular, the studies and evidence brought by many academics and especially by dr. Robert Schoch (a geophysical geologist, and Yale graduate anthropologist now professor of Natural Sciences at Boston University) proposed the explanation that the drastic climatic changes of the Younger Dryas, possibly caused by an astrophysical or planetary phenomenon, favored a long period of heavy rainfall and thunderstorms.
According to this theory, the heavy precipitations have unmistakably marked with the typical vertical percolations, resulting from very strong rains lasting for perhaps a millennium or more, both the base of the sphinx (but not the head) and the material with which the whole Sphinx Complex was built, Valley Temple included.
The material geologically consists of parallelepiped blocks of tens of tons excavated within the same block from which the sphinx was sculpted and therefore both the sphinx and the cut blocks would have been obtained internally to the original mass and therefore it is not possible that they were exposed to bad weather before construction.
To use his words: “If the granite facing is covering deeply weathered limestone, the original limestone structures must predate by a considerable degree the granite facing. Obviously, if the limestone cores (originating from the Sphinx ditch) of the temples predate the granite ashlars (granite facings), and the granite ashlars are attributable to Khafre of the Fourth Dynasty, then the Sphinx Complex was built before the reign of Khafre.”
The theory was carried forward by John Anthony West and Robert M. Schoch starting in 1992, assuming that the erosion of rain fell in times much wetter than those of the Old Kingdom between 7000 BCE and 5000 BCE.
According to the two scholars, only heavy and abundant rains could have caused the state of erosion, characterized by a wavy and arched course.
In support of their hypothesis, they compared the state of erosion of the Sphinx with some tombs of the Old Kingdom, which, despite having a poor quality rock, have not suffered such deterioration due to the sand carried by the sand wind.
Furthermore, they stated that the severe erosion of the Sphinx, still in progress today, had only begun for two hundred years and that the phenomenon of nocturnal condensation, also present in other rocky structures of Giza, could not be the main cause.
If the serious damage to the monument was due to rainwater, it was evident that it was older than the beginnings of Egyptian civilization, as only before 5000 BCE the rains in Egypt were regular, but not persistent and strong.
Schoch and West presented their work to the Geological Society of America in 1992. The geologists present were very surprised at the evidence they collected. No one thought it possible that for nearly two hundred years no Egyptologist had realized that the erosion on the body of the Sphinx is due to water, even if the Egyptologists are in fact not also geologists or geophysicists.
Schoch did not doubt that the head was from the Old Kingdom, but he believed that a pharaoh of the 4th dynasty of Egypt, if not Khafre himself, had ordered to carve his face again and restore his body by covering it with new blocks of stone.
British geologist Colin Reader, who studied the erosion patterns, noticed that they are mostly found on the western enclosure wall and less on the Sphinx itself. Thus, he proposed the rainfall water runoff hypothesis, which also takes into account climate change transitions in the area that occurred long before Khafre’s time.
Reader and Schoch also agree on the fact that the disproportionate size of the head compared to the body suggests the head of the Sphinx was originally that of a lion and recarved sometime later in the likeness of a pharaoh.
Also to be considered is the fact that, due to the earth’s precession, in 10500 BCE the Sphinx was facing the constellation of Leo (the day of the spring equinox at sunrise) and according to some scholars it was its representation.
Only later, in fact, would the lion’s head be sculpted again to represent the pharaoh: in fact, we can detect an evident disproportion between the dimensions of the sphinx’s body and those of its head and the difference in vertical erosion from rainfalls absent in the head and present on the base.
To support these statements, there is also an important archaeological find, the Stele of the Inventory.
According to what is reported on it, the pharaoh Cheops carried out important restoration work on the Sphinx.
Since Cheops was the father of the pharaoh Khafre, the original builder of the Sphinx according to the Egyptologists, we are faced with an evident paradox: how could Cheops have carried out restoration on a monument that had not yet been built during his reign?
Astronomical Correlation Of The Sphinx
The astronomical correlation theory was first maintained by authors Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval, who logically based their theory on the exact correlation of the three pyramids at Giza with the three stars forming Orion’s Belt, namely Zeta Orionis, Epsilon Orionis, and Delta Orionis, showing that these stars occupied those positions in 10.500 BCE.
It is certain that the Sphinx faces east, while the pyramids of Giza are arranged precisely according to the cardinal points.
Some scholars have focused their research on this particular arrangement, and in the 19th century, they reconstructed astronomical alignments that could have occurred in former times.
With the help of computers from the 1960s onwards the calculations were more precise. According to the astronomical hypothesis, the Sphinx would be connected to the other pyramids, and therefore built in the same period, also anticipated to 10.500 BCE.
The Sphinx, facing east, sees the sunrise every day, while only twice a year does it see the sunrise directly; it was certainly thought of as a solar monument.
Considering its divine name Horemakhet, the Sphinx would incarnate the god Horus in the form of the Sun at dawn and at sunset, thus protecting the Giza Plateau.
If over the centuries the monument has always looked towards the sun, it has not been so for the stars in the background, which have moved due to the precession of the equinoxes.
Thanks to computer calculations it was possible to reconstruct on which background of stars the sun rose over the centuries, and it is interesting to note that in 10.500 BCE it was precisely the constellation of Leo.
The supporters of this theory hypothesized that the ancient Egyptians, observing this constellation, in which we want to see a lion lying on its side, associated it with the Sphinx.
Despite the objections, this theory was carried forward taking into account the arrangement of the pyramids at Giza, which would be arranged like the stars of the Orion belt.
To reinforce this hypothesis in 10500 BC the imaginary line connecting the three pyramids from north to south pointed directly towards the celestial meridian intersecting with the constellation of Orion.
Hidden Passages Under The Sphinx Complex
One of the mysteries of the Sphinx, fueled by popular legends, is certainly the presence of hidden passages inside.
So far, the latest excavations have revealed the presence of three other tunnels in the body of the statue.
The first tunnel is located in the front, behind the stele placed by pharaoh Tuthmosis IV between the legs of the Sphinx.
The second tunnel is located on the north side (on the right for those looking at the face of the statue): its existence had long been hypothesized by observing the yellowed photos of Émile Baraize, a pioneer of Egyptology, which show workers in the act of removing sand from a tunnel.
The third tunnel was recently identified (the Egyptian archaeologist and Egyptologist Hawass entered it for the first time during the recently completed restoration of the structure); it is located near the tail and would have a depth of 15 meters.
Surprisingly, this would prove that the three monuments are in fact connected and that they might’ve been built during the same period of time. Therefore, if the Sphinx was built in 11.500 BCE, the Osireion and the Great Pyramids were also built in 11.500 BCE.
Last but not least, according to some (starting with the American occultist and psychic Edgar Cayce) there’s a hidden room beneath the Sphinx, called the Registry Room, that would contain all the knowledge of the ancient Egyptians fixed on papyrus scrolls, in addition to the history of the lost continent of Atlantis. We know that the Egyptians themselves considered their civilization linked to Atlantis from the testimony of Plato. | <urn:uuid:ba6af447-02ac-48ea-b448-6fc084c3c7b6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theancientconnection.com/megaliths/egypt/sphinx-complex/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.97162 | 2,362 | 3.8125 | 4 |
Winter in New England means short days, cold weather, dormant plants, changes in animal behavior, and snow – yes, more snow! This season also offers a distinctive and very beautiful night sky. I know winter has arrived when Orion reappears in the heavens.
Orion Over Oakes Ames Hall, February 23, 2022
Obviously, the stars in this constellation don’t disappear from the universe during other seasons. It is our perspective from earth that changes. In summer, the constellation is in line with the sun whose light obscures our view. In autumn, its pattern can be seen by late-night stargazers. Towards the beginning of December, though, Orion becomes prominent in the evening when people in the northeastern U.S. are most likely to observe it. When the winter solstice arrives on December 21, Orion can be seen all night, from dusk to dawn.
The view in the above image is from the Ames Free Library’s second floor, looking south towards Oakes Ames Hall. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the constellation, the main outline looks like this:
Bright stars mark the shoulders and feet of the hunter, while a three-star belt denotes his waist. Depictions of Orion often include one arm wielding a club and the other holding a shield. Note, also, the row of stars below his belt which form a sword. Artistic renderings vary as do the myths surrounding Orion’s birth, life, and death. The only constant is that he was a strong and skilled hunter - before becoming a constellation! One version with contemporary appeal is that Orion boasted that he would hunt every wild animal on earth. This displeased the earth goddess, Gaia, who sent a giant scorpion to keep him in check. Subsequently, both the hunter and the scorpion became constellations, though they never appear in the sky together.
The science and nature website, EarthSky, calls Orion “the world’s most recognizable constellation,” partly because it can be seen by people in both the northern and southern hemispheres (at different times of the year). What’s more, its abundance of bright stars and recognizable shape make it easy to spot and to remember. Let’s take a brief look at a few of its features.
First there’s the prominent star in the upper left: Betelgeuse, a red supergiant. The enormity of this star tests our imagination. Sky and Telescope tells us, “Betelgeuse has an estimated diameter around a thousand times that of the Sun, with an estimated absolute luminosity of 100,000 times the Sun.” Even the naked eye can detect its red/gold glow.
Opposite to Betelgeuse, on the lower right, is another impressive star: Rigel, a blue-white giant. The two form a nice color contrast which can be emphasized by viewing through slightly out-of-focus binoculars. The blurred image below accentuates their respective colors.
Orion’s three-star belt sets it apart in the night sky, and the constellation’s sword includes several extraordinary features including the magnificent Orion nebula. Images of this cloud of interstellar dust and gas delighted me as a child - and still do.
Hubble’s Sharpest View of the Orion Nebula, circa 2004
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Your viewing experience will improve if you can apply low magnification through binoculars or a small telescope. Don’t forget that the Ames Free Library lends its telescope to patrons. As you can see, a simple point-and-shoot camera can reveal the difference between the nebula and stars.
To learn more about viewing Orion’s nebula, double stars, and clusters, see “A Quick Tour of Orion, The Hunter.”
At this stage of winter, Orion is visible for only a few hours per evening, so don’t delay your stargazing! Few nights offer the best conditions, that is, clear skies with little or no moonlight.
During the coming week, Orion could be visible between 7 and 11 p.m. Saturday night might offer your best opportunity: there is a forecast of clear skies, and the crescent moon won’t be visible until close to dawn. Go out at 7:00 p.m., face south, and look for the pattern shown above. As the evening progresses, shift your view towards the southwest/west to follow Orion’s “path” across the sky. If possible, choose a viewing location with little light pollution, the darker the better. The yellow glow of Oakes Ames Hall in our lead photo was created by one bright light in The Hall’s parking lot.
Once you start looking, you may not want to stop with Orion. Sirius and Aldebaran are two bright stars on either side of “the hunter.” If you turn around, you will see the Big Dipper, Cassiopeia, and other circumpolar constellations. I’d recommend that you review Sky & Telescope’s interactive sky charts before heading out, or print a copy to take with you. They are a great resource to guide your explorations. After a little practice, Orion will jump out of the starry sky and guide you through all your winters. | <urn:uuid:c798f43a-e352-419c-afb4-05318a9b5dab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://amesfreelibrary.org/blog/staff-picks/glimpse-nature/glimpse-nature-hunter | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.934835 | 1,114 | 3.359375 | 3 |
In 1823, a suggestion was raised by the mayor of Strängnäs to reintroduce women’s suffrage for taxpaying women of legal majority (single, divorced and widowed women) in the mayoral elections, and this right was reintroduced in 1858. San Marino introduced women’s suffrage in 1959, following the 1957 constitutional disaster generally known as Fatti di Rovereta. It was nevertheless solely in 1973 that women obtained the right to face for election. Women have been granted the right to vote in the Netherlands on August 9, 1919. In 1917, a constitutional reform already allowed women to be electable.
However, the final common election was in 2006; there was alleged to be one other in 2014 however elections have been delayed indefinitely. Pakistan1947In 1947, on its creation at the partition of India, Pakistan granted full voting rights to men and women.
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On the opposite hand, illiterate whites have been typically allowed to vote through a “grandfather clause,” which waived literacy necessities if one’s grandfather had been a qualified voter before 1866, or had served as a soldier, or was from a international nation. As most blacks had grandfathers who had been slaves before 1866 and couldn’t have fulfilled any of these circumstances, they may not use the grandfather clause exemption. Selective enforcement of the ballot tax was regularly also used to disqualify black and poor white voters.
Local elections limped on in some neighborhoods, till 1871, when native elections were additionally forbidden by the U.S. Under Article I, Section eight, Clause 17, Congress has the only authority to exercise “Exclusive Legislature in all cases whatsoever” over the nation’s capital and over federal military bases.
It sought votes for girls and the proper to hold legislative office on the identical basis as men. These positions had been endorsed by the primary political groupings, the Indian National Congress.
This may be attributable to genetic variations, childhood way of life differences (diet, sleep patterns, bodily labor), or both. A examine by South Korean anthropologists of North Korean kids who had defected to China found that eighteen-yr-previous males were 5 inches (13 cm) shorter than South Koreans their age as a result of malnutrition. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, individuals of European descent in North America had been far taller than those in Europe and were the tallest in the world. The unique indigenous population of Plains Native Americans was also among the tallest populations of the world at the time. In the 150 years for the reason that mid-nineteenth century, the common human height in industrialised nations has increased by up to 10 centimetres (three.9 in).
Norway thus turned the primary impartial country to introduce women’s suffrage. In the former Bohemia, taxpaying women and women in “realized profession[s]” were allowed to vote by proxy and made eligible to the legislative body in 1864. The first Czech female MP was elected to the Diet of Bohemia in 1912. The Declaration of Independence of the Czechoslovak Nation from 18 October 1918 declared that “our democracy shall relaxation on universal suffrage.
Other states by which it was used had to retract their laws as nicely. Prospective voters had to prove the ability to learn and write the English language to white voter registrars, who in practice applied subjective necessities. Even nicely-educated blacks have been typically advised they had “failed” such a test, if in fact, it had been administered.
In 1909, the proper to vote in municipal elections have been extended to also include married women. The same year, women had been granted eligibility for election to municipal councils, and within the following 1910–eleven municipal elections, forty women had been elected to completely different municipal councils, Gertrud Månsson being the primary. In 1914 Emilia Broomé turned the first lady finnish girls within the legislative meeting. In Europe, the last international locations to enact women’s suffrage were Switzerland and Liechtenstein. In Switzerland, women gained the right to vote in federal elections in 1971; but in the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden women obtained the proper to vote on native issues only in 1991, when the canton was pressured to take action by the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland.
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‘Must be nice’: De Blasio sparks outrage when he says pandemic taught him value of sleep
New York City Mayor de Blasio stated on Wednesday that one of the main lessons he’s taken from the pandemic that’s killed more than 24,000 residents, closed down countless small businesses, and left his budget in tatters is the importance of sleep. Many of his critics accused de Blasio immediately of being asleep on the job since day one. He was nearly 30 minutes late to his briefing.
His remarks were in response to a question from a reporter about what he has learned about himself and how he has led the city through the 10 months of turmoil following the outbreak of COVID-19.
“One thing, I’ll tell you that I’ve learned — this is something that [first lady] Chirlane [McCray] used to lecture me on all the time — that sleep really matters,” de Blasio said during his daily virtual press briefing from City Hall. “I’ve not been someone who’s traditionally gotten enough sleep.”
“In the beginning of this crisis, it was crazy for all of us; I mean we were working every single day, very long hours, and no one was getting enough sleep,” he continued. “I really saw that it had an impact, I mean, it makes it harder to fully think through things and, obviously, we all get more emotional when we’re tired. So, I learned the value of sleep for sure.”
De Blasio also thanked city employees who labored through the pandemic to keep the five boroughs running, spoke about the frustrations that came with rapidly changing guidance from the federal government about the disease, and his optimism for how the arrival of vaccines may allow the city to begin a slow recovery in 2021.
A City Hall spokeswoman later hotly defended his remarks, saying: “After such a hellish year, all New Yorkers deserve to get some sleep.”
At his Wednesday press conference, de Blasio reflected on how he communicated to the public about the virus, and how his job “requires so much detail work.”
“In the beginning, I was trying to communicate, I now realize I wish I had been able to communicate this better … this job requires so much detail work,” the mayor said.
De Blasio has infamously been late throughout his tenure frustrating his staff since he first came to office in 2014. It has made him the subject of ridicule.
Just days after taking office, on Jan. 14, 2014, his staffers were already shopping for an alarm clock to try to get de Blasio out of bed.
Staffers even included potential models of clocks in their communications, under the subject line “Visible Clock For Mayor.” A spokesman later confirmed that one was purchased.
That did not change de Blasio’s penchant for tardiness.
De Blasio arrived so late to the annual memorial for those who died in the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 that he missed the tolling of the bell and the moment of silence.
His staff initially blamed fog for delaying the police boat the mayor was riding to the event, but the mayor eventually backtracked and chalked up the lateness to “a very rough night” and waking up “sluggish.”
The New York Post bought and gave him an alarm clock afterward. It still made no difference.
“I learned the value of sleep,” @NYCMayor says when asked to reflect back on this year and what he’s learned about himself. “In the beginning I was trying to communicate, I now realize I wish I had been able to communicate this better.. this job requires so much detail work”
— Gloria Pazmino (@GloriaPazmino) December 23, 2020
De Blasio is notorious for rarely arriving at City Hall before 10 a.m. even when he is running on time.
He regularly starts his day late and takes off frequently to work out at the YMCA’s Prospect Park facility in Brooklyn, which is miles from the mayoral residence.
Those workouts which were often limited to exercising on stationary bikes while watching cable television often left the mayor so exhausted that he began taking midday naps in his downtown offices.
De Blasio is also known for taking midday strolls through Prospect Park along with other scenic areas during the pandemic and catnaps between meetings.
Must be nice. As a FDNY ems paramedic sleep is something we don’t get a lot of. Not only cause of pandemic but the fact that most of us work 2/3 jobs just to survive. #cluelessmayor @UEMSO_FDNY @NYCEMSwatch
— Anthony Almojera 🚑✈️🕉 (@AnthonyAlmojera) December 24, 2020
In 2019, de Blasio showed up almost an hour late for a live television interview on WPIX Channel 11’s morning show, even though the station’s studios are just a short drive from Gracie Mansion.
He told one of the show’s anchors, Dan Mannarino, that he set his alarm clock for the wrong time.
Mannarino graciously shouldered a bit of the blame as the interview wrapped up, telling de Blasio, “We dragged you out of bed early, I appreciate it.”
“Thank you, man,” de Blasio replied.
The mayor sparked the outrage of many online who saw his comments as “out of touch” and “tone deaf.”
He’s been sleeping since he got in office
— ALLJS Sneakers (@jamescoolj23) December 24, 2020
This guy couldn’t be more tone deaf if he tried.
— Brooklyn (@Brklynguy347) December 24, 2020
Must be nice to not miss a cent of pay and to be able to sleep like a baby while you and Cuomo are ruining peoples livelihoods and killing small business. I’ve slept horribly since my business has been crushed since March, and I know I’m not alone in that.
— Ol’ Saint NiKohlas (@JGK_1) December 24, 2020
de Blasio unites the left, right, and center: everyone hates him!
— Jesse Ayala (@FordhamLawTX) December 24, 2020
Big Bird has been asleep his entire term! Virtual narcoleptic!!!
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Pursue advanced study in computing or take part in fashionable software program improvement. To meet this requirement, two utilized educational experiences are woven into the most important.
Per SBE policy SCOS-012, the revision course of is suggestions-based mostly, analysis informed, enchancment oriented, and process driven. All selections informing the standards are made in alignment with the policy and informed by stakeholders and analysis. NC Stakeholders are critical and integral to the draft, evaluate and revision course of. The NCDPI computer science & technology education staff has supplied enter to the standards, formally and informally, since the onset of this initiative, which began in January 2019. Teams of writers and reviewers have been working with the draft requirements, processing feedback from stakeholders, researching other states’ efforts and collaborating with professional organizations to research educational trends.
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As a outcome, they put an enormous emphasis on the physics and manufacturing of bodily gadgets and built-in circuits. Computer engineering college students study to master robotics, sample recognition, speech processing and so much extra. Both majors have a standard set of core programs for the primary two years of study, preparing students with a robust basis in software programming and application development. Sampled seniors in the 4 countries all took a 2-h, computer-primarily based, standardized CS examination from the “Major Field Test” suite of assessments designed by Educational Testing Service (ETS). The examination assesses how properly CS seniors grasp CS-associated ideas, ideas, and data.
Students learn to make use of formal methods and concentrate on verifiable properties of software and software methods. Software engineering is the computer science discipline associated to the application of engineering rules to the creation and growth of laptop software program. Software engineering is carefully related to pc programming and the two phrases are often used interchangeably. Software engineers focus more on the general design of software program, while programmers give attention to turning an engineer’s design into a usable kind by writing the code that a pc can perceive.
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Thomas J. "Sailor" Doyle had to take some ribbing for serving aboard a wooden minesweeper during the Korean War.
But he didn't mind. He knew that the sturdy 136-foot ships, known simply as the "YMS," served a vital role in keeping the coastal waters clear of mines in whatever theater they operated.
Tom, a Marine at the end of World War II who then served 16 years in the Navy, an active member of veterans organizations who enjoyed playing Santa Claus for an annual VFW Christmas party, died Tuesday. He was 78 and lived in Ridley Park.
He was born in the Bronx, and entered the Marine Corps in 1945. He served with the 1st Marine Division as World War II was ending.
He enlisted in the Navy in 1950 and served until 1966. In addition to the YMS, he served as a bosun's mate on the attack transport USS Telfair during the Korean War.
Tom settled in Chester after his Navy service, and worked for the A.J. West Co. and Teledyne Corp. in Chester before his retirement.
He was a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1521 in Chester; the American Legion posts in Newtown Square, Crum Lynne and Morton; and other veterans organizations.
He is survived by his wife, the former Roseanne Huhn; two daughters, Mary Fields and Kathleen Thomas; stepchildren Christopher, Kevin and Robert Zurlo, and Kimberly Zagami; a sister, Maureen Wilson; and 15 grandchildren.
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Seven Ways to Use Herbs
June 15, 2020
By: Duke Health and Well-Being Nutrition Team
Make herbs the highlight of your next dish! Add fresh or dried savory leafy herbs to elevate the flavor and appeal of the most basic of dishes. Combine fresh basil with grilled vegetables, cilantro with mixed salad greens, or chives into a favorite dip.
The Duke Health and Well-Being Nutrition team created the Seven Ways series to share the many ways to utilize herbs to transform your next dish at home.
How to get started? Check out our Get Comfortable Cooking with Herbs and Spices Basics Guide.
Seven ways to use Basil and/or Oregano
- Breakfast: Add to scrambled eggs with mozzarella; top with fresh tomato. Spread pesto on toast and top with shredded parmesan cheese.
- Blended: Add to sundried tomato or roasted red pepper hummus. Blend fresh basil into a classic pesto.
- Combination: Stir into cooked whole-wheat pasta, tomato sauce with meat, white beans or tofu; or use basil pesto.
- Cooked: Brush roasted or grilled vegetables (squash, zucchini, and peppers) with olive oil, basil, salt, and pepper.
- Sandwich or Wrap: Layer fresh basil leaves with cooked chicken or a bean burger, cheese, and sliced tomato; garnish lettuce wraps with fresh basil.
- Salad: Create an Italian chicken salad with the flavors of basil and oregano, add olives and grape tomatoes, and serve over a bed of fresh greens. Basil complements watermelon or strawberries in salads.
- Soup or Stew: Garnish a hot bowl of minestrone, tomato, or Italian Wedding soup just before serving.
Seven ways to Use Cilantro
- Breakfast: Sprinkle fresh cilantro over a plate of eggs, beans, and salsa for “Huevos Rancheros”.
- Blended: Mash with avocado, garlic, lime, salt, and pepper to dip veggies or spread on whole-grain toast or crackers.
- Combination: Top your Latin or Asian-inspired grain, bean, and veggie bowl with cilantro.
- Cooked: Garnish chicken, garbanzo, or veggie curry with chopped cilantro.
- Sandwich or Wrap: Sprinkle on your favorite tacos.
- Salad: Include in a bean, corn, avocado, and tomato salad or combine with mint in a refreshing cabbage, radish, and shredded carrot salad.
- Soup or Stew: Freshen up a black bean soup with a generous handful of chopped cilantro.
Seven ways to use Chives
- Breakfast: Scramble eggs with chives and a little cream cheese whisked in, or sprinkle chives over smoked salmon and cream cheese on whole-grain toast.
- Blended: Whip up a creamy dip with chives, goat or feta cheese, Greek yogurt, and a dash of black or cayenne pepper.
- Combination: A topping of chopped chives is a simple way to add subtle onion flavor to rice and beans, poultry, and pasta or lackluster frozen or canned vegetables.
- Cooked: Bake any type of fish with chives and lemon, save some to sprinkle fresh before serving.
- Sandwich or Wrap: Use that creamy chive dip as a layer on your sandwich or veggie wrap.
- Salad: Toss chives into the bowl of greens or shredded slaw. Mix into a chicken, tuna, bean, tofu, or egg salad.
- Soup or Stew: Enhance the flavor and presentation by garnishing any bowl of soup with chopped chives right before serving.
Seven ways to use Parsley
- Breakfast: Chop a handful to mix into a morning egg, tofu, or potato scramble. Use in a smoothie instead of spinach or kale.
- Blended: Blend into hummus or combine with other stronger herbs like oregano or rosemary for a special pesto.
- Combination: Consider parsley as a leafy green vegetable. Add generous amounts to stir-fries or rice dishes.
- Cooked: Add chopped parsley to meatloaf, meatballs, and meat or bean burgers.
- Sandwich or Wrap: Add chopped parsley to mayonnaise, hummus, or guacamole and spread on your bread. Sprinkle a layer of chopped parsley before rolling up your wrap.
- Salad: Toss chopped parsley with other salad greens. Mix into a chicken, tuna, egg, or bean salad.
- Soup or Stew: Add chopped parsley during the last few minutes of simmering soup. Garnish each bowl with another tablespoon.
Seven ways to use Rosemary and/or Thyme
- Breakfast: Cook eggs or scrambled tofu with a tsp of herb butter, made with finely chopped rosemary, thyme, and garlic. Add to pan-fried white or sweet potatoes.
- Blended: Whirl into a savory white bean dip.
- Combination: Add chopped leaves to baby potatoes, cubed sweet potatoes, or cornbread stuffing before roasting.
- Cooked: Layer whole sprigs under poultry, pork chops, tempeh, or tofu pieces before baking. Baste with rosemary and thyme stirred into olive oil or butter.
- Sandwich or Wrap: Use that leftover herb-seasoned cooked protein or white bean dip in a lettuce wrap.
- Salad: Add a teaspoon or two of chopped herbs to tossed salad greens, or garnish strawberries with honey and chopped thyme.
- Soup or Stew: Flavor stews made with garbanzo beans, navy beans, chicken, beef, or pork with onions, garlic, carrots, and these fragrant herbs.
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by Tommaso Campanella
To Annibale Caraccioli,
_A WRITER OF ECLOGUES._
_Non Licida, ne Driope._
Lycoris, Lycidas, and Dryope
Cannot, dear Niblo, save thy name from death;
Shadows that fleet, and flowers that yield their breath,
Match not the Love that craves infinity.
The beauty thou dost worship dwells in thee:
Within thy soul divine it harboureth:
This also bids my spirit soar, and saith
Words that unsphere for me heaven's harmony.
Make then thine inborn lustre beam and shine
With love of goodness; goodness cannot fail:
From God alone let praise immense be thine.
My soul is tired of telling o'er the tale
With men: she calls on thine: she bids thee go
Into God's school with tablets white as snow.
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(WWTI) — The American Heart Association is encouraging people to learn hand-only CPR in honor of National CPR and AED Awareness Week.
The Association warned that the summer heat can cause an increase in cardiac arrest incidents. Each year, more than 350,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur in the United States and fewer than half of those people receive the immediate help that they need before professional help arrives. Additionally, 33 drownings occur in the U.S. each day, one-third of which are fatal, according to the Association.
The American Heart Association stressed the importance of knowing how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation in order to save lives. The Association stated that CPR could be the key to saving someone from cardiac arrest or drowning. More specifically, receiving CPR could double or triple a cardiac arrest victim’s chance of survival.
The Association provided the public with a training video explaining how to perform hands-only CPR. The Association also recommended incorporating rescue breaths into the compressions for drowning victims.
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Best For The World? Why, thank you! (Plus - 4 other BFTW companies you need to know about)
Have you heard of B Lab’s annual Best For The World designation? It’s an honour bestowed unto Certified B Corporations who rank in the top 5% of all B Corps for their impact in one of five areas: community, customers, workers, environment, and governance.
Becoming a Certified B Corp in 2015 was a big deal for us. We were Alberta’s first apparel-industry B Corp, and it put us among a global community that’s now 5,000 businesses strong. We operate across several industries, but we’ve got a mission in common: using business as a force for good, being third-party assessed for making real social and environmental impact, and pursuing economic interdependence instead of keeping resources to ourselves.
To score among the top 5% of already-impactful organizations in the Community Impact category… well, it’s a big achievement for a small team, and we’re proud.
[The Community category] evaluates a company’s engagement with and impact on the communities in which it operates, hires from, and sources from. Topics include diversity, equity & inclusion, economic impact, civic engagement, charitable giving, and supply chain management. -B Lab
How did we earn our score? Here are a few of our Community initiatives (you can download our Sustainability Report for a deeper dive):
- We’ve got a built-in giving model of donating 5% of our annual inventory to community closets and individuals in need.
- During the pandemic, we upped this give to nearly 20% to supply schools and community organizations with Unbelts cloth masks.
- We’ve chosen gradual, intentional growth so we can build and maintain a supply chain that relies on close, transparent relationships with small first- and second-tier suppliers who pay living wages to their small teams
- We pay living wages to our own sewing and admin staff
- Advocating for regenerative business models and recruiting other businesses into the sustainability movement has become a key part of my role as Unbelts’ CEO, which I love
We haven’t crossed any finish lines here. We’ve of course got a ton of work left to do, and we look to our fellow BFTW B Corps for inspiration on what to take on next. Here are a few we think deserve your attention, love, and dollars:
Toronto-based KOTN, makers of beautiful cotton basics ethically made in Egypt: https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/find-a-b-corp/company/kotn
tentree, fellow Prairie folx and sustainable apparel advocates we’ve admired for a long time: https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/find-a-b-corp/company/tentree-international
UnCommon Goods, an online marketplace with all the purpose-driven gifts you’ll ever need: https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/find-a-b-corp/company/uncommongoods
The friends who help us through our 2 p.m. slumps: Salt Spring Coffee https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/find-a-b-corp/company/salt-spring-coffeeCurious about how your business can adopt a B Corp-ish mindset? Read this excellent report, Leading Regenerative Brands.
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Ms. Mack from Wasilla AK is requesting Books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.
Help me give my students books to read about Shackleton's legendary Antarctic adventure.
I teach Advanced Language Arts to 7th graders and Language Arts to 8th graders in Wasilla, Alaska. They are kind and compassionate, as our school is trauma sensitive.
My students are so eager to learn and absolutely love a good story.
They are getting ready to be successful in high school and in life, and this unit is unforgettable. I have former students tell me that this unit is one of the only units they remember from middle school.
They make me laugh every day. I truly love my job!
My students need the books for this unit. We have used our books for so many years that the pages are falling out. I am asking for library grade, hardback and sewn books that will last forever!
We spend an entire quarter with this amazing story of heroic adventure.
Each week the students read from the book and compete to be classroom captains in activities that mimic the challenges the men faced over 100 years ago. One week they save the ponies. The next they have an ice-water challenge. Then they man-haul in sleds outside (remember we live in Alaska and it's cold in January!) so we have hot chocolate afterward.
The culminating activity is an Antarctic Fear Factor!! The students compete to answer trivia questions about the novel and eat foods from the time period (or as close as I can get). They eat Pilot Bread, sardines, pemmican, hoosh, and liver, and drink Tang and shelf milk. It is so much fun.
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|Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance • Amazon Business||$21.95||30||$658.50|
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A viral video of two black children being ignored at a “Sesame Street” theme park by Rosita’s character has sparked outrage and allegations of racism. Since then, there have been a series of other videos of black parents sharing the discrimination their children have experienced at the hands of different “Sesame Street” characters. The administration of Lyndon B. Johnson advanced a series of programs to address poverty and racial injustice and “Sesame Street” was created to close that gap. A 2019 Smithsonian Magazine The article written by Bryan Greene states that “‘Sesame Street’ has been rooted in African-American culture, more specifically in Harlem’s historically black community.” The roots and origin of “Sesame Street” make the treatment of these black children at Sesame Place theme park all the more egregious. This article seeks to highlight why Sesame Place’s bias training solution does not address the root cause of this problem. This article also describes three ways that Place Sésame and other organizations can adopt anti-racist and anti-oppressive practices based on equity and justice.
1. Anti-Racist Hiring Practices. Before hiring anyone at Sesame Place or any other workplace, there should be anti-racist hiring practices built into the hiring process. Where do the employees come from? What are their experiences, especially with people of different racial backgrounds? It’s also important to understand that being from a racially marginalized background doesn’t prevent someone from embracing oppressive systems like colorism and anti-blackness. What experience do employees have of working with the different communities that represent customers? Who assesses job candidates? Is there a diverse panel of people evaluating candidates? Having more people helping in the decision-making process can mitigate potential biases, but it is imperative that those involved in the process are from diverse communities. Are employees evaluated on diversity, equity and inclusion indicators? Consider including questions in job interviews to assess candidates’ awareness of diversity, equity and inclusion. Consider introducing policies that make it clear that racist behavior will not be tolerated and that discrimination will have quick and immediate consequences.
2. Continuous and continuous training. Organizations and institutions must provide continuous and ongoing training to employees, especially those who work with marginalized communities. Does Sesame Place, for example, provide employees with training on adulteification bias? Adultification bias is a widespread problem within the black community and anyone working with and around black children and children from other racially marginalized backgrounds should have an understanding of this type of bias and other types prejudices that have an impact and affect decision-making. What training do you provide to employees? What are the gaps in understanding? Where do employees lack understanding and what ongoing programs will help fill those gaps? Employees working with minority populations also need to take the initiative and learn about different populations. When evaluating job candidates during the job interview, ask candidates what lifelong learning looks like to them and how they learn about groups and communities outside of their own.
3. Customer ratings and reviews. Customers should be given the opportunity to rate and review any employee with whom they interact within an organization, institution or facility. After the aforementioned Sesame Place viral video was released, other black parents began sharing similar experiences they had witnessed, indicating a pervasive problem that persists. While Sesame Place makes it easy for customers to leave detailed, in-depth reviews and is Actually by taking these comments into account, issues of racism are easier to spot and address before they manifest into larger issues. Many organizations have a standard practice where customers can provide feedback, but that feedback is invited as a cosmetic measure and not analyzed or considered. Within many organizations and institutions, the process for providing feedback is complex and convoluted, making the average customer or consumer less likely to do so. Every workplace where employees interact with customers should ensure that feedback is measured on an ongoing and continuous basis and that strategies are developed to respond to feedback given. | <urn:uuid:6ce4a7fd-9172-4532-adc4-cf24c6f2a288> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://watthai.net/here-are-three-ways-to-fight-against-racist-practices/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.95848 | 800 | 3.78125 | 4 |
If you want to be certain that the existing use or the construction of a building is lawful for planning purposes or that your completed project does / did not require planning permission, you can apply for a Lawful Development Certificate (LDC).
A LDC is a legal document which proves the lawfulness of past, present or future building uses or construction. It's not compulsory to have an LDC but there may be times when you need one to confirm that the use, operation, construction or activity named in it is lawful for planning purposes.
Types of lawful development certificates (LDC)
There are two types of LDC:
Existing use or development
This type of certificate provides legal proof that an existing use of land, or some development that has already taken place, or some activity being carried out in breach of a planning condition, is lawful for planning purposes under Section 191 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.
An extension that was built without planning permission and has now become lawful in planning terms due to the amount of time that has lapsed since it was built, would also be an example of when this type of certificate could be applied for.
Proposed use or development
This type of certificate provides legal proof that a proposed use of buildings or other land, or some operations proposed to be carried out in, on, over or under land, would be lawful for planning purposes under Section 192 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.
The planning law which sets out what can be built without planning permission under permitted development rights can be quite complex. It’s also possible that some properties have had their permitted development rights removed.
To be certain if you need planning permission or not before you start work, whether it’s for the construction of an extension or the change of use of a property for example, you can apply for a Proposed Use or Development LDC. If the LDC is granted, this provides you with a legal document that planning permission is not required.
If you think the development you are going to carry out does not need planning permission or falls under permitted development, it’s not compulsory to have a LDC before you start work. You may however wish to have one in case you come to sell your property in the future or to give you peace of mind before you start work on an expensive project.
What to do before you apply
Your LDC application must provide sufficient information for the Local Planning Authority (LPA) to make a decision. Before you apply, you need to:
If you’re proposing to undertake works through permitted development rights, and are considering submitting a Proposed Use or Development LDC, then you should also check out the following guidance:
Often the issues involved in an LDC can be complex, so before you apply, you may also benefit from:
- Obtaining advice from a suitably qualified planning professional
- Requesting pre-application advice from an LPA Officer to guide you on the information needed to support your application
Important - It’s not possible for the LPA to seek modifications to a proposal already submitted under a LDC. So if the proposal is not lawful, the LPA must refuse the application and suggest that the applicant amends the proposed development in a new application. You must ensure that the proposal is described in detail, with precision and, where applicable, with all permitted development criteria being relied on referenced in full.
How to apply
You can apply for either an Existing Use or Development, or Proposed Use or Development LDC on the government's Planning Portal.
LDC applications are not generally subject to public consultation and the fee is normally half the current application fee for the equivalent full application (as long as the application is not retrospective).
What happens next?
After receiving a valid application, the LPA will check whether what you are wanting to do / have already undertaken meets the requirements of planning law so that they can confirm that planning permission isn't needed. The LDC will then either be granted or refused.
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In this modern era, a constructor or a builder faces many challenges when planning and building the houses. Construction of a building is a significant, complex, and rewarding process. It would be best to make plans to construct a building that is energy-saving, lost cost, and environment friendly. The materials’ cost is rising day by day, so you need to fix a certain amount for buying the materials.
When you develop a building, you should search for modern materials to create it properly. Sometimes for saving cost, builders use low standard materials. But you need to check the quality of raw materials before buying those. You should have a trade license before starting your construction business. If you understand the basics of building construction, it will help you to construct the project successfully.
Why do you need a construction license in Michigan?
Michigan is a state of the USA. If you want to build modern homes or buildings in Michigan, you have to get a Michigan contractor license before doing so. If you have a proper builder license, you can proceed with your construction project. In Michigan, a license matters a lot. If you are going to build residential houses, you need to make it very safe and secure.
Because the residents will check whether the buildings are unshakable or not, if you have a verified license, the people of Michigan will hire you as an efficient builder. Before hiring you as a contractor, people can verify your license through the webpage of LARA or the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs of Michigan.
They can easily check your every detail to know whether you are a reliable and potential builder or not. If you do not have a verified and current contractor license, nobody will hire you to develop your project.
How will you get a builder license in Michigan?
If you are interested in building construction in Michigan State, you need to have a verified contractor license. If you want to get a license, you need to remember a few things. Before getting a builder license, you need to complete your pre licensure training from a LARA verified institute. Because Michigan State accepts the courses from LARA approved institutes.
You have to research properly to get an admission in LARA verified institutes to complete your pre licensure courses. There you have to complete a 60 hours building license course. This 60-hours course includes Michigan residential codes, business management, job costing and estimating, MIOSHA construction safety standard, design, building science, sales and marketing, project management and scheduling, risk management, contracts, and liability.
After completion of the license course in Michigan, you can send an application to the state government. They can ask you some questions to verify whether you are honest or not. They will check if you have any previous criminal record or not, and after that, they will capture your details.
After submitting the necessary documents, LARA will allow you to attend an examination. If you pass the exam, you will get your license for constructing a project. People will hire you to make buildings in Michigan. You have to renew your license every three years so that your license is marked as current.
How can you grow your business as a builder?
Choosing building construction has good career opportunities nowadays. If you have a verified license, finance, permission, knowledge about construction, you can choose it as a good business option.
First, you need to research the competitors and markets. Then you should check whether you have a stable financial status or not. If you do not have enough money, you need to find investors. You have to talk to them and convince them to invest in your business.
If you have enough money, you can start your business. You need to buy land for construction. You need permission from the government. If you have a valid license, you can get permission to make residential houses.
If you have all those things, you can plan or make designs for the buildings. Planning and development are the two most important parts of a construction project. You should design it according to the size of the land, and you need to contact the construction team. You need to calculate the expense that includes labor cost, material cost, construction cost, and miscellaneous cost. After all those expenses, you should calculate your profit and loss.
The Bottom Line
In countries, the number of builders is increasing day by day. People are earning enough profit when they are making homes or buildings. If your projects give better results, people will hire you to build homes for them. Not only homes, but you will also get projects of building offices for various multinational companies. You will become popular as a constructor. | <urn:uuid:81e3a34c-fdd8-4901-aa7c-10d4f70bac2a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nuwireinvestor.com/need-know-starting-construction-project/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.946939 | 944 | 1.828125 | 2 |
A thermoelectric actuator uses a PTC resistor-heated thermal element. When operating voltage is applied, the PTC warms up and heats the thermal element, therefore switch the valve open and close.
Thermostatic radiator valves are typically used for regulating liquid flow of heating systems (e.g. floor heating, heated ceiling or fancoil).
The radiator contains a thermal element can automatically control the opening of the valve to keep room temperature at the set value. This avoids temperature fluctuations and achieves considerable energy saving.
The thermostatic mixing valve is used for hot water systems for domestic applications, hotel and leisure facilities.
Its function is to maintain and limit mixed hot water to a desired, selectable temperature, in the event of water pressure or temperature vary suddenly, the mixing valve automatically adjusts water flow until the set temperature is reached, this reduces the risk of emitting water at an unsafe temperature.
Thermostatic elements for use in industrial system of oil cooling, air intake and fuel injection.
The thermostat remains closed until the coolant reaches the opening point. The thermostat then progressively opens as the coolant increases to the optimum operating temperature, increasing the coolant flow to the radiator. Once the optimum operating temperature is reached, the thermostat progressively increases or decreases its opening in response to temperature changes, dynamically balancing the recirculation and coolant flow, to maintain the engine in the optimum temperature range as engine heat output, and ambient temperature change.
The freeze protection valve is designed to preventing from freezing when the air temperature falls, avoiding possible damage to water pipes, solar, etc.
Thermal actuator inside the valve automatically opens when the ambient temperature dropped 3 °C, then causing minimum quantity of relatively warmer water flow toward the drain, reducing the chance of water freezing. Once ambient temperature rises up to 4 °C, the thermal actuator will shut the valve and stop flowing.
Thermostatic diffusers are energy-saving system, working as individual control without electrical connections.
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The term resilience came up in one of Erica Diamond’s posts on her blog, Women on the Fence. A guest blogger talked about her cancers – two bouts with two different cancers – and the strengths she discovered while fighting for her life.
The CEO of the company that oversees my teaching job is showing her resilience against cancer – also for the second time.
The first time I heard about resilience was in a training for teachers. We were learning about families with drug and alcohol problems, how to recognize the problems, and how to help the children get the help they needed. Our training showed that resilience comes in many forms and it can be developed and strengthened.
Resilience is a strength, the strength to hold on and survive. It’s more than recovering from influenza, although influenza can knock even the strongest person off her feet for a while. It’s more than getting through that last class for the advanced degree, although that certainly takes strength and endurance.
People who are resilient are not the ones who win all the time. Those folks on the top have strengths, too, but they haven’t been tested. Those who show resilience get tested and come up and out of the test stronger than before. And somehow, resilient people keep a sense of humor.
What doesn’t kill me may make me stronger, but even more than that, every time I find humor in a difficult situation, I win a small battle.
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Fire at old Holiday Inn thus why abandoned building property owners must be held accountable
and yet another building goes up in flames because of homeless encampments and the city not holding building owners accountable. It’s a matter of time before more buildings burn as the result of building owner neglecting the upkeep of buildings. It’s time the city of Alamogordo enact a tax for losses revenues for holding building vacant and not enhancing the buildings. New York Avenue, 10th Street, White Sand Blvd is host to multiple vacant buildings not maintained by owners and the city turns a blind eye and looses tax dollars. It’s time time the city enact legislation that penalizes land owners for vacant unkempt buildings. Ownership means responsibility to not endanger surrounding business interests.
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The European Union appears to be abandoning plans for a tax on digital services, which at one point would have impacted Apple’s sales along with the likes of Amazon, Google, and Facebook.
“A number of delegations continue to have fundamental objections,” the E.U. presidency explained in a document seen by Reuters. The last chance to reach a deal was seen as a March 12 finance ministers’ meeting.
In 2018 in the European Commission proposed a tax affecting data sales, online marketplaces, and targeted ads. That idea was blocked by several E.U. member states — among them Ireland, where Apple bases its European operations and funnels much of its international revenue for tax purposes. Apple would likely have had to pay taxes on App Store, iTunes, Apple Music, and Apple.com transactions.
France and Germany attempted to rescue the tax in December by scaling it back to advertising. That continued to generate resistance in some countries, and indeed Austria, France, Italy, and Spain began working on national taxes instead.
At the March 15 meeting, ministers are instead expected to work towards global tax reform proposed by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. That could encounter its own problems given the stakes held by various countries.
The pressure to change how tech companies are taxed has increased for several reasons. Many of those businesses have enjoyed light or even non-existent taxes for some products, which has put a crunch on governments trying to support social services. Companies including Apple have exploited tax havens to minimize what they do pay — something that has only intensified anger about discrepancies in global wealth that leave billions poor.
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It’s Easy to Play George Gershwin
It’s Easy to Play George Gershwin PDF download. Simplified piano solo arrangements of sixteen great Gershwin songs. Includes I Got Rhythm, Swanee and Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off. With chord symbols. The “It’s easy to play” series is an entirely new departure in music publishing. The music is newly engraved and includes chord symbols and lyrics where appropriate. These fine arrangements are so easy even beginners can play them.
- But Not For Me
- Embraceable You
- Fascinating Rhythm
- A Foggy Day
- I Got Rhythm
- I’ll Build A Stairway To Paradise
- Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off
- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- Oh, Lady, Be Good!
- ‘s Wonderful
- Somebody Loves Me
- Someone To Watch Over Me
- Summertime (from ‘Porgy And Bess’)
- They All Laughed
- They Can’t Take That Away From Me
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Denmark has made a political commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 70 percent, and has thus set one of the most ambitious climate goals in the world. Furthermore, Denmark and Europe has made a commitment to be independent of coal, oil and gas by 2050.
Decreasing emissions and committing to independence from fossil fuels means committing to increasing production and consumption of renewable energy. In addition, our electricity consumption is increasing, the impact of digitalization is surging, and new products and markets, such as flexibility services, are introduced. Changes, which increases the complexity of the energy system and challenges the goal of maintaining a high level of supply security.
Denmark strives to ensure a continuous high level of supply security by means of the energy structure.
Since 1990 electricity and district heating has become significantly greener, as CO2 emissions per produced KWh has fallen steadily.
Denmark is connected with gas pipelines and power lines and cables that transport energy from the production sites to the consumption sites in the same way as our road network brings us across the country. Just as Denmark is connected to its neighboring countries by roads and bridges, our electricity and gas markets are connected to our neighbors through international interconnections.
As the electrification increases in Denmark, we continuously have to expand, renovate and adapt our energy infrastructure to maintain a high security of supply and ensure efficient integration of renewable energy. Today an integrated infrastructure and international interconnections to our neighboring countries contribute to high security of supply.
Cooperation with our Nordic neighbors and an efficient EU-regulation is crucial to ensure and maintain a high security of supply. The international interconnections are of vital importance to Denmark. They ensure a cost-efficient usage of production capacity in Denmark and abroad, and they reduce costs related to ensuring sufficient supply of energy to Danish consumers. | <urn:uuid:febfe0a6-c408-4e9d-a479-282b138e2cd2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://en.kefm.dk/energy/the-energy-system | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.956035 | 368 | 3.140625 | 3 |
A sprawling network of more than 350 fake social media profiles is pushing pro-China narratives and attempting to discredit those seen as opponents of China’s government, according to a new study.
The aim is to delegitimize the West and boost China’s influence and image overseas, the report by the Centre for Information Resilience (CIR) suggests.
The study, shared with the BBC, found that the network of fake profiles circulated garish cartoons depicting, among others, exiled Chinese tycoon Guo Wengui, an outspoken critic of China.
Other controversial figures featured in the cartoons included “whistleblower” scientist Li-Meng Yan, and Steve Bannon, a former political strategist for Donald Trump.
Each of these individuals has been accused of spreading disinformation, including false information about Covid-19.
Some of the accounts – spread across Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube – use fake AI-generated profile pictures, while others appear to have been hijacked after previously posting in other languages.
There is no concrete evidence that the network is linked to the Chinese government, but according to the CIR, a non-profit group that works to counter disinformation, it resembles pro-China networks previously taken down by Twitter and Facebook.
These networks amplified pro-China narratives similar to those promoted by Chinese state representatives and state media.
Much of the content shared by the network focuses on the US, and in particular on divisive issues like gun laws and race politics.
One of the narratives pushed by the network paints the US as having a poor human rights record. Posts from the fake accounts cite the murder of George Floyd among examples, as well as discrimination against Asians.
Some accounts repeatedly deny human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region, where experts say China has detained at least a million Muslims against their will, calling the allegations “lies fabricated by the United States and the West”.
“The aim of the network appears to be to delegitimise the West by amplifying pro-Chinese narratives,” said Benjamin Strick, the author of the CIR report.
There are strong similarities between this network and the so-called “Spamouflage Dragon” propaganda network identified by social analytics firm Graphika.
Commenting on the new study Ira Hubert, a senior investigative analyst at Graphika, said: “The report shows that on US platforms, there was no ‘honeymoon’ in the first months of the Biden administration.
“The network put out a steady mix of anti-US content, for example cheering US ‘defeat’ ahead of its withdrawal from Afghanistan and painting the US as a poor ally whose aid to India was inadequate during some of its worst months battling Covid.”
How was the network uncovered?
The CIR mapped hashtags favoured by previously identified networks, unearthing more accounts that showed signs of being part of an influence operation.
Tell-tale signs included high levels of activity pushing propaganda narratives and repeated use of the same hashtags. Newly created accounts accounts with usernames that appeared to be randomly generated, and accounts with very few followers also raised red flags.
- The foreigners in China’s disinformation drive
- Inside the pro-China network targeting the US, Hong Kong and an exiled tycoon
- Going undercover to infiltrate Chinese-American far-right networks
Some profiles were created to post original content, while others only shared, liked and commented on those original posts, to help them reach a wider audience.
This kind of activity is often referred to as “astroturfing” because it is designed to create the appearance of a grass-roots campaign.
Many of the fake profiles used AI generated photos – a relatively new phenomenon that allows computers to create realistic-looking images of people who don’t exist. Unlike stolen profile images of real people, the AI-generated images, which are created by a type of machine learning framework called StyleGAN, cannot be tracked using a reverse image search.
The use of fake profile pictures in disinformation campaigns is becoming more common as users and platforms become warier of suspicious accounts.
The CIR used various techniques to identify fake profile pictures in the network. The synthetic images always put the eyes in the same location, so lining them all up can help identify a collection of fake profile pictures.
Normally, a random collection of profile pictures would display much more variety in the cropping and the alignment of the eyes.
Other signs include blurred edges around the hair, teeth at strange angles, and blurred objects around the face.
Many of the Facebook accounts believed to be part of the network appeared to have Turkish names. These accounts may once have belonged to real people but were later hijacked or sold and given new profile pictures.
Hijacked accounts also spread the network’s pro-China narratives on YouTube. Accounts that had previously been posted in English or German and then lain dormant for years suddenly started posting Chinese language content from official Chinese state broadcasters.
The CIR shared its research with the social media platforms involved.
Facebook has removed the accounts on its platform highlighted in the study.
A Facebook spokesman said: “In September 2019, we removed a network of spam activity that posted lifestyle and political clickbait, primarily in Chinese. This network had almost no engagement on our platform, and we continue to work with researchers and our industry peers to detect and block their attempts to come back, like those accounts mentioned in this report.”
YouTube also terminated accounts in the network for violating YouTube’s community guidelines.
Twitter said it had also now removed almost all of the accounts identified by CIR, as well as a number of others engaged in similar behaviour. It said its investigations are still ongoing.
“When we identify information operation campaigns that we can reliably attribute to state-linked activity – either domestic or foreign-led – we disclose them to our public archive.”
Analysis – Kerry Allen, BBC Monitoring China media analyst
Over the past decade, billions of dollars have gone into funding the growth of China’s presence on international platforms.
But with Facebook, Twitter and YouTube blocked in the mainland, and only accessible via a VPN, the country has struggled to get such platforms recognised as viable competitors to Western juggernauts. It has needed not only Chinese voices, but foreign voices, to show that the country has “arrived”.
“Wolf warrior diplomacy” has emerged, with officials using Twitter accounts to fly the flag for Communist Party rhetoric. China wants to portray itself as a friend to the world – and not a repressive, authoritarian state, as it perceives Western nations make it out to be.
With more than one billion internet users, China certainly has the capability to orchestrate large-scale social media campaigns and target what it sees as anti-China voices with a wealth of opposing opinions.
But with English-language skills limited in China, there are often clumsy tell-tale signs that a Chinese troll is behind such accounts. Many rely on automatic translation software to turn Chinese messages into English, meaning such messages are riddled with typos or contain clumsy grammatical structures.
And with many Western outlets inaccessible to them within China, users generally have very little knowledge of who they are meant to be targeting, so they simply piggyback off the replies of others from within the same network.
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Below you’ll find our selection of the top 10 ways you can prevent identity theft. Make sure you read them all and try to remember and apply these tips in your everyday life.
1. Don’t give out your social security number
This is the most basic thing: you never want to give out your social security number to anyone you don’t trust. And you should always assume the person you’re giving it to is not to be trusted.
2. Request a copy of your credit report at least once a year
You can easily get a free credit report, so request it at least once a year to make sure everything’s in order.
3. Buy a small safe or lock box
Keeping your personal information, financial records and similar locked away is always a smart decision. A lockbox with a simple key is very cheap to buy and will provide at least a basic protection. A quality safe is always a better option though so if your budget allows for it get one. Also make sure nobody except you has access to the key or code required to open it!
A simple lock box like the one displayed on the image here can be purchased on Amazon for as little as $30 and it will keep your documents from easy access by anyone. If someone does tamper with it and try to get access at least you’ll know about it.
4. Don’t ignore any missing bills
If you’re missing bills it is always possible someone stole them from your mailbox. Make sure that’s not what happened!
5. Purchase a shredder
Most identity thieves often won’t go through the trouble if you use a shredder to destroy your financial and other documents. It also means you are actively trying to prevent your identity from being stolen which send a clear message to any potential ID thieves: you may be too much trouble. You can get a simple USB shredder like this for your PC for around $13 so it’s not much of an expense.
6. Don’t give out your personal details or account numbers over phone
Your personal details, account and credit card numbers, addresses, and any other information should never be given out over a phone. You never know who’s on the other end of the line.
7. Safeguard your PC
Online identity theft is becoming increasingly popular and easier due to the wealth of personal details people post on social networks such as Facebook as well as other sites. Make sure you protect your PC with the latest and updated anti-spyware and anti-virus software and learn as much as you can about it. Additionally, make sure you protect your PC with a decent hard to guess password so anyone with physical access to it can’t easily get your information. There are good free solutions for protecting your PC so you don’t have to spend any money for it if you don’t want to.
8. Ignore links in emails
Make sure you always triple-check a link in a received email before you click it! The best way to do it is to actually type the URL of your bank or whatever directly in the address bar of your browser, thus making sure you’re actually going to the right website. Even if the website looks as the official one it may only be a phishing site, so always make sure you are at the right one by looking at the URL, or simply don’t ever click links in emails.
9. Don’t ignore letter concerning purchases you didn’t make
Clearly if you’re getting notifications on purchases you know nothing about it is not to be ignored. Even if it’s only pennies, it means someone else is using your credit cards or bank accounts and it can often lead to more serious spending.
10. Notify the authorities if you suspect you’ve been a victim of ID theft
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COMMISSIONED INSTALLATIONS The ten pieces of commissioned artwork at Union Depot were created by renowned local, national and international artists. The commissioned works are comprised of large-scale pieces and more approachable pieces—all created to surprise, delight, educate and inspire Union Depot visitors. TWIN WAVES Internationally renowned Pennsylvania native Ray King uses glass, metals, laminating films and other materials to create shifting, dynamic light sculptures that play on concepts of ritual, geometry, technology and color. The two “floating waves in space,” at Union Depot have different personalities by day and by night. At night, the sculptures are illuminated by a computer-controlled system creating an aerial dance of light, color and shadow. By day, natural light and pedestrian movement transform the sculpture’s colors and shape, creating an undulating appearance as if the “front of the station is breathing.” The suspended sculptures, a $200,000 commission, hang in the Head House atrium. TRAINSCAPE Minnesota artists Amy Baur and Brian Bolton of InPlainSight Art studio created a 146-foot ceramic tile and glass prism mural. Trainscape” welcomes visitors in the Carriageway and engages them with the history of Minnesota and Union Depot. Each digitally printed ceramic tile contains a center glass prism to capture and reflect light. “Trainscape” is a $150,000 commission. SIDE TRACK From West Cornwall, Connecticut, Tim Prentice’s delicate and ephemeral wire and metal sculpture was the first major art piece to be installed at Union Depot. It hangs in the newly built Kellogg Entry, where visitors ascend from street level to the historic waiting room. “Side Track”, installed in four 12 X 4 feet sections, is a $200,000 commission. 6 HISTORICAL AND MULTICULTURAL MURALS Ralph Gilbert, a figurative muralist, experienced in painting narratives dealing with diverse cultures and history, completed six separate historic murals for the Waiting Room in late 2014. Topics of the murals include wartime, immigration, orphan train, mail delivery, early settlement and railroad service workers. A $150,000 commission, Gilbert’s murals were chosen from a pool of 69 submissions. INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA ART PLATFORM (IMAP) This commission is organized by Twin Cities-based Northern Lights.mn, and is comprised of a suspended, three dimensional, light animation, 8 1/2 x11 by Jim Campbell (San Francisco), and a participatory story project with custom furniture and Amateur Intelligence Radio (AIR), by Daily tous les jours (Montreal). This $500,000 commission was completed in early 2014. ODE TO MINNESOTA A large collage and resin table, Josie Lewis’ piece features an “all-Minnesota” theme, with a brilliant blue Mississippi River curving through the hundreds of thumb-size images relating to Minnesota history, time, art and culture. This $7,000 commission creates a functional meeting place in Union Depot’s Waiting Room. UNION TABLE Andrew MacGuffie, Noah Keesecker and Peter Haakon Thompson’s “Union Table.” A regulation-size Ping-Pong® table, this creation combines structural steel with artistic elements to present a unique interactive and community art experience. This $13,000 sculpture is equipped with paddles and balls so that any visitors to the Union Depot Waiting Room may enjoy a game, further enhancing the uniqueness of this space. A DREAM OF THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILROAD Lowertown artist Michael Bahl received an $8,000 grant to create mythical “paleo-osteological” creatures that will be displayed in the Concourse. These fantastical creatures have an elaborate story that is unique to the history of Union Depot. TRAIN SEQUENCE Kyle Fokken’s train sequence. This $14,000 commission combines folk-art and toy imagery to create a sequence of three train sculptures for Union Depot’s Waiting Room, depicting a stylized echo of the existing historic terracotta frieze encircling the Waiting Room as well as a look to the future. CAPITAL STORIES Aldo Moroni’s “Capital Stories” is a series of four ceramic sculptures that portray four time periods in St. Paul’s and Union Depot’s history: “Pig’s Eye,” “Jim Hill,” “Cass Gilbert” and “Immigrants.” The sculptures depict development from the original settlement at Pig’s Eye and the railroad days of James J. Hill through the architecture of Cass Gilbert and St. Paul becoming the gateway city for newcomers to this country. Displayed in the concourse, these sculptures were created with an $8,000 public arts grant. OTHER INSTALLATIONS All created by local artists, these colorful artworks add wonder and a sense of playfulness to every Union Depot visit. They’re delightful to look at, engage with and have even turned out to be crowd-pleasing backdrops for selfies and group photos. LITE-BRITE MURAL This larger than life mural lights up Union Depot with over 600,000 Lite-Brite bulbs—making it the largest Lite-Brite in the world, according to Guinness World Records. It took hundreds of volunteers around a month to assemble the Lite-Brite, which stretches 24 feet wide and 9 feet tall. “Forever St. Paul” is lit up within a colorful and bold pattern designed by Ta-coumba T. Aiken, a local Saint Paul artist. This unique art piece started with one big idea and came together thanks to help from the community. The Lite-Brite Mural now hangs in Union Depot’s concourse. SELFIE WALL MURAL This eye-catching mural spans a whopping 80-feet and greets visitors of Union Depot by the entrance in parking lot B near Sibley Street. This bright pop of color completely transformed the parking garage and now provides guests four fun photo backdrops. The mural wall was designed in partnership with marketing and design agency SPOT Creates. This unique piece includes a nod to Saint Paul native, F. Scott Fitzgerald, as well as an omage to travel and Minnesota pride. | <urn:uuid:7e9e5811-fc5d-4806-8445-f0921596658f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.uniondepot.org/about/public-art/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.919435 | 1,328 | 1.625 | 2 |
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- Honorary Degree (1937)
- Doctor of Laws
- Bloomington, Indiana
- Presenter: William Lowe Bryan
- Rhodes Scholar (1905)
Franklin Ridgeway Aydelotte's dedicated service and advocacy to American higher education resulted in the creation of one of America's first honors programs at Swarthmore College. He is known for redefining Swarthmore College as an institution while he was president between 1921 and 1940; he was also the director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.
In 1930, Frank said, "Our university faculties and our university student bodies contain a great many men and women who are in earnest about the intellectual life. The only thing they need is an opportunity." Seven years later, he was awarded an honorary degree from Indiana University for his service. His visionary spirit has been celebrated across the country many times, as countless other institutions have implemented various honors programs.
Frank was born in a small town in Gibson County, Indiana, and attended Indiana University where he was an English major, a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity, earned a varsity letter in football and became one of the first Rhodes Scholars, choosing to study at Brasenose College, Oxford University. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1911, he became an English professor first at a teaching college in California, Pennsylvania, then at Vincennes University and Louisville Male High School in Louisville, Kentucky. | <urn:uuid:a37f8f26-f288-4736-a88e-7e6ca3eafc1b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://honorsandawards.iu.edu/awards/honoree/566.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.97608 | 302 | 2.4375 | 2 |
To achieve success in incorporating a fitness routine into your lifestyle, you should first determine what activities you want to incorporate into your schedule. This can help you to plan your activities, including intensity, frequency, and motivation. Here are a few tips to get started with a fitness routine. Once you know what your goals are, you can set aside time each day to focus on exercise. To avoid burnout, consider doing the same exercise routine three times a week.
Activities to include in a fitness routine
The first step in creating a fitness routine is to figure out which activities you actually enjoy doing. While CrossFit may seem like a great idea, not everyone enjoys spinning, rowing, or other extreme sports. For this reason, you should take some time to consider which activities appeal to your interests. If you enjoy working out in groups, nature, or in a quiet place, try to find something that fits these criteria.
Aerobic activities will work your heart and lungs and improve circulation, making it easier for you to perform physical tasks and face unexpected challenges. Some examples of aerobic activities include brisk walking, jogging, swimming, and cycling. Alternatively, you can do some yard work or perform other simple activities that use your muscles. Try something new. For example, if you’re new to aerobics, try a class that combines aerobic exercises with yoga.
Once you’ve figured out your preferred physical activity, find some ways to incorporate it into your daily schedule. Don’t push yourself too hard – try to get as many minutes of moderate activity as possible each day. Even if it’s only for ten minutes a day, it’ll still benefit your health and boost your mood. By using activity trackers and using your creativity, you can incorporate a variety of activities into your fitness routine.
For strength training, you can combine aerobic exercise and resistance exercises. By strengthening your muscles, you can burn more calories, prevent injuries, and build stronger bones. You can do weight machines, hand-held equipment, and push-ups to strengthen your muscles. For best results, rest between strength workouts and make sure to include all major muscle groups. Incorporate strength training into your fitness routine for maximum results. If you’re a beginner, start slow and work up gradually. If you have a medical condition or are recovering from an injury, start slow and gradually.
One of the most important parts of any workout routine is increasing training intensity. It may seem counterintuitive, but increasing intensity is actually quite simple. First, you need to know exactly what training intensity is and then increase it accordingly. This is because the amount of exertion a workout requires is directly related to the intensity of the exercise. Often, a workout is too high or too low. In this case, you can decrease the weights or increase the intensity by reducing the rest time.
Intensity increases are also a great way to boost the amount of calories you burn during exercise. They can also increase the amount of muscle you build, making your workout more effective and efficient. But before you begin boosting the intensity of your workout, it’s important to consult a healthcare professional or an exercise physiologist to avoid any risks. Increasing the intensity of your exercise routine is a good idea for the sake of fat loss and muscle building, so consult a fitness professional to ensure your safety.
One of the most effective ways to increase training intensity is to perform drop sets. This technique helps you to work out your muscles more intensely by allowing you to lift more weight than usual. With this method, you can do several repetitions of a single exercise with heavy weights and only perform two or three sets. Using this technique can allow you to make epic gains in a shorter period of time.
Increasing training intensity is an excellent way to break out of a fitness rut and make your regular workouts seem easier. Increasing workout intensity can lead to dramatic improvements in fitness and strength. A few simple ways to increase workout intensity include adding weight or running longer distances. But there are also many other, more interesting methods that can make your workouts more interesting and challenging. Remember to include easy days for recovery.
While the frequency of workouts varies from individual to individual, it’s important to remember that training for an athletic event has its own demands on the body. Unlike other forms of physical activity, working out five to six times per week can cause the body to experience some unpleasant side effects. The frequency at which an athlete should exercise depends on several factors, including the type of exercise and the goal of the workout. Athletes should aim for a minimum of two workouts per week.
The frequency of a fitness routine refers to the number of times the person performs a specific exercise. For example, a person who trains with weights will generally work out three times a week. If a client is new to weight training, they should record their exercise frequency for the first few weeks. While this may be tempting, it’s important to remember that a person’s training frequency should be based on their goals and current fitness level.
Training volume and frequency must be carefully monitored and adjusted to avoid overtraining and overuse injuries. If too much effort is put into too few workouts, overtraining or injury can occur. In addition, a client may limit their goals by overtraining. A balance of intensity and frequency can help maximize results. When choosing exercise frequency, consult a professional fitness expert or a personal trainer to help you develop a routine for your client.
For the intermediate client, a three-day split routine with specific workouts on two days and one day off is beneficial. This routine targets specific muscle groups and ensures adequate recovery between workouts. Using the split routine structure allows the client to target a specific muscle group, movement pattern, or exercise zone during a workout period while providing sufficient time for recovery. Increasing the frequency of a fitness routine helps increase muscular strength without depleting muscle mass or reducing overall strength.
Motivation for starting a fitness routine
Understanding why you want to start a fitness routine can help you stay motivated when unexpected barriers come up. Before you begin, identify the most important reason you have for exercising. Remind yourself of this reason every time you feel like quitting. The more you love what you’re doing, the more likely you are to stick with it. For example, you might want to reward yourself for a great workout by taking a relaxing hot bath afterward, or having your favorite cup of coffee.
Setting unrealistic goals can be discouraging, so start small and keep things realistic. Set your goal for 30 minutes a day at first and gradually work your way up. Once you reach that goal, you can begin working on longer workouts. Eventually, you’ll be able to exercise for more time and increase your intensity. Ultimately, it will be up to you. You can’t expect to see results overnight, so keep your expectations low.
Finding your motivation can be tricky, but you can make it easier for yourself. Try different kinds of exercises to start with. Some people prefer dancing, rock climbing, or biking. Others choose yoga or pilates. Whether you prefer to exercise at home or in a gym, make sure you have a dedicated space where you can workout. Then, make a plan, and stick to it. It’s much easier to stick to a fitness routine when it’s fun!
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BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore school system is testing the use of filters that could allow the system to reopen water fountains that have been shut down for a decade because of fear of lead contamination.
The Baltimore Sun reports (http://bsun.md/2sEfRHP ) that filters will be installed this summer at school district headquarters and at two schools. The water will be tested before staff or students will be allowed to drink the water.
The city school system has shut off all water fountains since 2007 after testing found widespread lead contamination. The district now spends about $500,000 annually on water jugs and coolers.
If the filters are deemed a success, it would cost about $3.3 million to install them throughout the district.
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Bombing Raid and Air Sea Rescue
Cost: FREE. As the Air Force Museum is a registered charitable trust, koha (donations) are gladly accepted.
Programme duration: 60 minutes
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Phone: (03) 343 9517
STEP BACK IN TIME TO 1943 AND DISCOVER WORLD WAR TWO IN THE PACIFIC
Suitable for Y4-8 students
Learn about the jobs that Royal New Zealand Air Force personnel undertook and the risks they faced, before experiencing a simulated bombing raid. Then, jump into a life raft and learn about the Air Force’s present-day role in Search and Rescue.
A very interactive programme that will have students so engrossed that they won’t even realise they’re learning!
- Social Sciences: Identity, Culture, and Organisation, Place and Environment, Continuity and Change
- Technology: Technological Knowledge
- English: Listening, Reading, and Viewing
- Key Competencies: All
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The Bond's Work Index equation is: W=WI* (10/√P80 -10/√F80) where W= the energy input (Work input) per ton, kwh/metric ton WI= Work Index= specific energy per ton, kwh/metric ton (characterizes the ore) F80 = 80% passing size of the circuit feed, in microns P80 = 80% passing size of the circuit product, in microns
See thisuseful summaryTable of Bond Work Index by Minerals
For any circuit, whether a crushing circuit, a rod mill, or a closed ball mill circuit, the Work Index always means the equivalent amount of energy to reduce one ton of the ore from a very large size to 100 um. The sample was received crushed appropriately for the ball mill test.
The Bond Work Index Equation is as follows: If the power draw on a ball mill is 2,750 kW, what is the Bond work index for the following charge: Throughput = 950 t h-1 80 % passing size of the feed = 650 μm 80 % passing size of the output from the mill = 75 μm Sketch an approximation of the particle size distribution you might expect for the
Bond Price is calculated using the formula given below Bond Price = C * [ (1 – (1 + r / n )-n*t ) / (r/n) ] + [F / (1 + r / n) n*t] Bond Price = $30 * [ (1 – (1 + (4% / 2) ) -2*10 ) / (4% / 2) ] + [$1,000 / (1 + (4% / 2) ) 2*10] Bond Price = $1,163.51 Therefore, the price of each coupon bond is expected to be $$1,163.51
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Okay, so now there's good spam and bad spam.
Time Consumer Marketing Inc. this week completed a test of a new "trusted" email certification service that lets advertisers bypass Internet service providers' spam filters for a fee.
In a three-month test, Time used Goodmail Systems' CertifiedEmail service, in which accredited senders with good email practices can choose to send their marketing messages with a cryptographically-secure "token." The token enables the messages to be delivered directly to the service provider customer's mailbox intact, without being filtered or stripped of key content by anti-phishing tools.
Eventually, CertifiedEmail might become a "class of service" that enterprises can purchase on a per-message basis to help ensure the intact delivery of their marketing materials.
Interestingly, Time executives said they did not see much difference in the rate of successful delivery via the Goodmail service during the trial. However, the customers who received the Goodmail messages, which are marked with a "certified" tag, were about 30 percent more likely to click on them and follow the links inside.
"CertifedEmail messages resulted in higher click-throughs and improved response rates," said Ernie Vickroy, a marketing director at Time Consumer Marketing.
Proponents of "Net neutrality," however, cited the service as another example in which senders with deep pockets will enjoy different treatment of their Internet traffic than everyday senders. A spokesman from MoveOn.org Civic Action said his organization opposes the new service.
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Dr. Elaine Aron is one of the world’s foremost experts on the highly sensitive person. She ought to be – she was its first researcher! In this episode, we cover this fascinating concept as it relates to a broad swath of psychological concepts like self-esteem, gender, love, leadership, personality, genetics and more. Roughly 20% of the population can be classified as highly sensitive, so all of us likely know someone (or are someone) with this trait. Also, Scott performs a statistical analysis live on air – it’s a first and a lot of fun!
“Dr. Aron earned her M.A. from York University in Toronto in clinical psychology and her Ph.D. at Pacifica Graduate Institute in clinical depth psychology as well as interning at the C. G. Jung Institute in San Francisco. Besides beginning the study of the innate temperament trait of high sensitivity in 1991, she, along with her husband Dr. Arthur Aron, are two of the leading scientists studying the psychology of love and close relationships. They are also pioneers in studying both sensitivity and love using functional magnetic resonance imaging. She maintains a small psychotherapy practice in Mill Valley, CA.” –Blurb taken from http://hsperson.com/ | <urn:uuid:637e6366-d7e5-4bdf-b586-b316f15a280f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scottbarrykaufman.com/podcast/dr-elaine-aron-on-the-highly-sensitive-person/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.950193 | 260 | 1.96875 | 2 |
Climate Change Act Gets Royal Assent
Legislation committing the Isle of Man to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 has received Royal Assent.
The 2021 Climate Change Act sets out the legal framework for planning, monitoring and reporting the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions needed to achieve net zero.
This is the time when emissions from human activity are maintained at levels absorbed by the natural world around us.
Reaching the goal will require renewable electricity, low carbon heating, more electric cars and many other changes that will affect life on the island.
The law also requires decision-makers to ensure that the impacts on the entire community are reasonable and not unfair.
Passing the latest legislative hurdle means that a five-year rolling action plan is expected to come into effect by April 1, 2022, and interim emission reduction targets will be set to ensure the island stays on track. way to achieve its ultimate goal by 2050.
Legislation will provide certainty about goals, but not policies.
Daphne Caine MHK, Chair of the Climate Change Transformation Board, said: “This is an important step in the Island’s net zero journey.
“This important legislation commits us to take important action against climate change, which influences our economic growth and will help maintain our reputation as an internationally responsible and credible nation.
“It also protects the most vulnerable in our society as we move towards a low carbon society. “
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Sunday 7 August 2022
How does Scripture define prayer?
I think the general answer to this broad question is that prayer is a line of communication between our Lord and us. Typically, communication should involve both listening and talking. He is the Shepherd, and we are the sheep. He is the great King, and we are the people who are dependent upon Him.
Yet there is a great variation in prayer style and substance. Sometimes prayer is a time of meditation or reflection. A lot of people enjoy reading Scripture and then pondering it. Many times, prayer involves being thankful and grateful. Then, of course, another part of the communication is supplication where we ask the Lord for our needs and for others’ needs.
What’s interesting is that Paul talks about praying without ceasing. That doesn’t mean spending 24/7 on our knees. It means that we live with an attitude of prayer. We live with a regular time of communicating with the Lord.
I sometimes wonder if it’s easy for people to develop a fixed idea of what prayer is supposed to “look like.” How important are things like fervency, tone of voice, vocabulary, and so on?
Scripture is very clear that the condition of a person’s heart is an important factor. You can have all the right words and a particular demeanour, but the Lord is looking for contrite hearts. He’s looking for hearts that are grateful, thankful, and joyful.
Now, having said all of that, I think Christian history has produced many formal prayers that believers have memorized, recited, and passed along from generation to generation. The Lord’s Prayer comes to mind.
At the end of the day, the condition of a person’s heart is the primary reason.
The pro of being casual is that people feel at home with God. They can talk with Him. He’s not only their Lord and Creator and Sovereign King, but also someone they can have a relationship of friendliness with, one that reflects personal connection. I think that’s very positive. There is the potential for some people to always have formal prayers to God, but to never talk to God from their heart.
The con might be that too casual a prayer style does not necessarily recognize the appropriate form of prayer. As I said, I like to read formal prayers. It helps me to think about what goes into a good prayer. Believers need to consider what kinds of things should be part of our prayer life, beyond just our own personal issues and needs. We need to also be praying in a broader way about things that are important to the church and to the Triune God.
I think formal prayer’s positive is that it often has a theological sophistication to it. There’s recognition of biblical categories. It can involve a doxology and various other structures. Of course, these shouldn’t be just other people’s words. They should be words that we embrace.
I think you can have all of it, the best of both worlds. There are times when I have very candid, private, casual discussions with God. There are other times I try to mode prayer. For example, I like to encourage people to prayer to the Trinity: to the Father, in the name of the Son, and through the Holy Spirit. I hope that when I model that it encourages others to try doing the same in their own prayer time.
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Mount Adams' Holy Cross-Immaculata Church has announced the return of a beloved Holy Week tradition: The Praying of the Steps.
Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley gave the parish the OK to move ahead with the annual ascent, which typically draws a large crowd. (Holy Cross-Immaculata does note that those with a compromised immune system — or those who want to avoid crowds — may wish to visit earlier in the week and conduct their prayers then.)
The practice of "praying the steps" is a Cincinnati tradition that started in the 1850s, "when Archbishop Purcell asked people to climb the hillside, praying that enough money would be raised to build Immaculata Church," says a release from the church.
The pilgrimage up the hillside begins at 12:01 a.m. on Good Friday, with Catholics (or anyone of any religion — or non-religion) reciting a "Hail Mary," praying the rosary, saying "Lord Jesus, thank you for your most holy sacrifice" or reflecting on their own while making their way up the 100ish steps from St. Gregory Street to the church.
Due to COVID restrictions, the church canceled the praying of the steps and all other associated Good Friday events last year.
This year, Holy Cross-Immaculata will be open for prayer 9 a.m.-6 p.m. March 29-April 1. Volunteers will be present to help light votive candles or to help the public "spend time in adoration of the relic of the cross that will be on display," says the church.
And then the church will stay open from the Mass of the Lord's Supper on Holy Thursday through 11 p.m. Friday.
Good Friday services will be held at 7 p.m.; there will not be afternoon service or food and drink. Those who wish to dine before or after are encouraged to visit Mount Adams eateries.
Social distancing and occupancy restrictions will be in place in Holy Cross-Immaculata and masks are required,
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- President Trump on Monday drew criticism when he said he was at Ground Zero with first responders on 9/11, a claim that does not stand up to scrutiny.
- On Twitter, the #TrumpLostHistory hashtag gained traction, with people mocking Trump’s claim by editing him into photos of historical events like the lunar landing and the sinking of the Titanic.
- Scroll down to see some examples.
- Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories.
People on Twitter are mocking President Donald Trump’s groundless claim Monday that he joined first responders at Ground Zero on 9/11.
“I was down there also, but I’m not considering myself a first responder,” Trump told 9/11 first responders and others who had lost friends and colleagues in the attacks. “But I was down there. I spent a lot of time down there with you.”
Trump’s claim drew criticism and incredulity. There is no evidence to support the assertion that he was among first responders at the scene of the attack.
We do know that on 9/11 he spoke to a WWOR-TV reporter by phone, and falsely claimed that, with the World Trade Center gone, a buidling he owned nearby had just become the tallest in the area.
Many people on Twitter responded with humor, posting images on Twitter under the hashtag #LostTrumpHistory which insert Trump into events from history:
First Responder at the Delaware.#LostTrumpHistory pic.twitter.com/qiMvBT8bqQ
— Eric Wolfson (@EricWolfson) July 29, 2019
The One where Trump Saved the Day at the Bowling Green Massacre. pic.twitter.com/qV1lCswOaO
— View from my Office (@viewfrommyoffic) July 29, 2019
Trump was a first responder at the Chernobyl disaster site. Saved the world, probably.
Ok, definitely…#TrumpLostHistory pic.twitter.com/BfHGixj5m2
— Mike (@FantomSolace) July 30, 2019
If your lips are moving, you are lying. We all know that. You can’t help yourself. You have achieved nothing by yourself. You hang on the coattails of others and try to steal their thunder. You are utterly shameless!#TrumpLostHistory pic.twitter.com/wvKkpDTqhQ
— AliD (@Vetinari3) July 30, 2019
I don’t think this happened… But who am i to doubt the third man to walk on the moon? #trumplosthistory pic.twitter.com/DgLgucqhgq
— Cody (@JagsFanCody) July 29, 2019
Others pointed to Trump’s long history of dubious claims about 9/11, including the debunked claim that Muslims in New Jersey celebrated when the Twin Towers collapsed.
Trump said he was at Ground Zero on 9/11. Don’t forget his other lie about seeing Muslims dancing on rooftops celebrating the disaster. This guy will lie about one of our nation’s most tragic events to make himself look good or further a point, whether legit or not. pic.twitter.com/k41RvlHsWA
— Red Hot Chili Eyes (@RedHotChiliEyes) July 29, 2019
It’s not the first time in recent weeks that the president’s take on history has been mocked.
On July 4, a speech he gave in Washington, D.C., claimed that the 18th century American army in the Revolutionary War “seized airports” from the British.
He later blamed the mistake on his teleprompter.
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Caring at the End of Life
Available on DVD with related Study Films
Discussing Advance Directives
By Ben Achtenberg
with Christine Mitchell, RN, FAAN
Discussing Advance Directives is part of the three-part Caring at the End of Life series which also includes the films Caring at the End of Life (45 minutes, $199) and Stanley (15 Minutes, $99). Save 35% by purchasing the complete series on a single DVD for only $249: click here.
Two nurses and a physician, part of a foundation study on patient communication, meet to discuss the difficulties they encounter in working with other staff and patients on advance directives. Among these are misunderstandings, among both patients and staff, about the differing roles of living wills, durable powers of attorney, and "do not resuscitate" orders; confusion about how to interpret these documents in the light of changing medical circumstances; and the ambivalence of some patients about having to make such decisions at all. This thoughtful and sometimes amusing discussion expands a sequence seen in the longer film, Caring at the End of Life.
This film was partially supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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ISBN (VHS) 1-57295-358-6
FROM REVIEWS OF CARING AT THE END OF LIFE:
"Ben Achtenberg and Christine Mitchell have captured the complexity of end-of-life decision making. Health care professionals may see themselves and their colleagues in new ways that will, hopefully, encourage self-scrutiny and behavior change." Mildred Z. Solomon, EdD, Center for Applied Ethics & Professional Practice
"Many of the situations illustrate the effects of changing situations and medical uncertainties, the burden of making care decisions for both the family and the caregivers, and the importance of communication." Elizabeth F. Hiltunen, MS, RN, CS
Awards & Conference Screenings
Association for Gerontology in Higher Education
The Support Project: Documents an effort to improve end-of-life care in hospitals through encouraging better patient, family, and physician communication.
Code Gray: Academy Award nominee for Best Short Documentary. Explores four open-ended cases in which nurses confront serious ethical dilemmas in their day-to-day work.
More than a Failing Heart: Family members describe examples of the best of end-of-life care, and of the worst, and reveal how competent and compassionate physicians and nurses can change the end-of-life experience.
Common Heroes: Follows the nurses, physicians, social workers and clergy who make up the hospice team, and demonstrates the ways they collaborate to help patients and families.
The Journey Home: The candid stories of five patients exemplify the unique gifts of hope, relief, and dignity that hospice care programs offer to thousands of terminally ill patients each year.
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The Raven Addressing the Assembled Animals
- Subject: Mughal Miniature Painting
- Paint Material: Opaque watercolors
- Base Material: Paper (unframed)
- Size: 7.5 in. wide and 11 in. tall. (19 cms X 28 cms)
- Age: Modern Handmade Art
- Country of origin: India
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Presenting a superb handmade Mughal miniature painting featuring the famous Indo Persian artwork of "The Raven Addressing the Assembled Animals".
This delightful rendering of the story can be ascribed to Miskin, one of the greatest painters in the workshop of the Mughal emperor Akbar (r. 1556-1605). An expert draftsman and colorist, Miskin was best known for his skilled and whimsical depictions of animals and birds. The modern artist has captured Miskin’s unmistakable style which comprised of organic compositions against a subdued palette with bight accents.
In this painting we see a gathering of several animals. Up in the peak, we find a raven, almost imperceptible at first look. The animal, symbolically associated with death at the same time with wisdom, addresses to the rest of the creatures.
The Mughal emperors were very into knowing exotic animals through painting, such is the case here through the inclusion of foreign animals from outside the Indian subcontinent, like the cheetahs on the left. They also included mythical creatures such as the dragon and the phoenix on the right.
There is a strong upward directionality in the painting, which creates movement towards the raven standing on the rock. This painting does have a very crowded composition, there is very little negative space throughout the painting; almost the entire paper is occupied. Overall, the painting is an extremely detailed and intricate piece, consisting of a wide array of colors and subject matter. It has a perfect coordination of feeling, insight, and technical refinement.
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